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Show CATHOLICPINION The Pall MallluTsays that President Presi-dent Rossevelts message will . win i tne praises of all except the Fenian clubs Fo which Mr. Redmond is spout.ng sedition." se-dition." The London tory paper s owI by Willie Waldorf Astor, the denationai- . ized American who left his nat country coun-try to become a British subject a ;nd ea- : cape taxation of personal property, ine son of the dealer in pelts may not have read that President Roosevelt entertained I Redmond. McHugh and O'Donnell at trie White House and wished them success in their mission to America. Irish btandaru. When Catholics realize that every orie io matter how humble his position is, tas the opportunity and power to influ-nce influ-nce some one else in the way of truth, t will not be difficult to predict the peedy Influx of non-Catholics into the hurch. The first Influence to move men o the truth is seldom abstract argument, t Is example personal contact with the ally. It is safe to say that not one conversion con-version in a thousand ever had its in-itiatlve in-itiatlve in listening to sermons or doctrinal doc-trinal discussion. The first iniluence ; svas personal contact with the laity some one who by word or example set in motion a train of thought and reflection reflec-tion that became irresistible. When non Catholics are ready to come to the clergy for instruction, they are already more than half converted. Catholic Universe. i If enlightened action In worldly mat ters be accepted as the criterion of true superiority, the Anglo-Saxon has to give way to what he calls "the Latin race." By a curious process of argument this term is made to Include the Hispano-In-dian of South America. Peru is one of the foremost nations of this offshoot, and she has just taken an Immense stri-ie ahead. Henceforth, by a law just passed in the legislature, the newspaper press shall be carried free all over the country, by rail, road and river. No public benefit bene-fit like this was ever yet dreamed of in the most advanced country of "the Imperial Im-perial race." In this country there are constant grumblings over the deficit in postal revenue caused by the carriage of "second-class mail matter" at a cent a pound. Yet the newspapers which grumble grum-ble most are those which constantly advocate ad-vocate enormous subsidies for ocean lines, to enrich corporations already grown fat i at the public expense. If little Peru can ; make a sacrifice for the sake of the ! spread of knowledge, surely the enormous enorm-ous United States might be a little generous gen-erous "pro bono publico." Standard and Times. A confessed briber of juries made the statement in Chicago laBt Friday that his employer instructed him to try always al-ways to bribe an Irish Catholic whenever hi could, by making him believe that the client of hla adversary was an A. P. A. find actively engaged In working against Catholics and the Church. He doesn't say he succeeded, but if he did. the Catholic Cath-olic Jurors In Chicago are bigger fools than they ought to be. Of all fools, the biggest Is he who breaks the Commandments, Command-ments, insults his Maker and risks his salvation for the honor and glory of God! That there are such tools we have no doubt, and they represent the present condition of American courts. It Is only a short time since an eminent judge stated stat-ed that an experience of over thirty years on the bench had convinced him that 75 per cent of all testimony given in courts of justice was perjured testimony. When the whole atmosphere is charred with ir- religion and immorality. It Is not strange that good-for-nothing Catholics can be bought for a price. But they are not In i harmony with the teaching of the Church i which teaches "Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not bear false witness a.gainst thy neighbor." If man do- what the Church forbids them to do. It is not fair to charge the Church with their misdemeanors. mis-demeanors. Catholic Universe. Many false charges, says the Catholic Times, die hard, and evidently one of the very toughest of them all is the accusation accusa-tion that the Catholic clergy endeavor to prevent the circulation of the Sacred Writ. Imagine a gentleman such as the Protestant Bishop ' of Manchester, who ouR-ht to be fairly well informed on the subject, saylnar the other day at a meeting meet-ing of the British and Foreign Bible so- ciety that he "found from this year s report that many of the Roman priests still oppose the circulation of the Scriptures." Scrip-tures." A correspondent of the Manchester Manches-ter Guardian Informs the bishop that the Gospels are published at a penny each by the Catholic Truth society, and kept in bookcases of that society at the doors of many churches In England, Ireland and Scotland. But the. correspondent mteht have reminded re-minded the lying bishop that only for "Roman priests" he and his "Foreign Bible Society" would have no Bible to i circulate; Freeman's Journal. |