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Show CATHOLIC OPINION j Taffs little game of bluff didn't work on the Vatican, and when it was called Secretary Root hastened to explain that t was uui me government tnat was insisting in-sisting on the removal of the friars. Another An-other case of "Go 'way back." Catholic Progress, Seattle. A cable dispatch, describing the enforcement en-forcement of the anti-religious laws in France tells that "when the Sisters were leaving the schools at Morsvillais, near Belfort. they were accompanied to the railway station by a majority of the inhabitants, in-habitants, and the uniformed customs officials of-ficials were stoned." It would have been better if the majorities ma-jorities in France had fought the church persecutors at the ballot boxes at the late elections. Freeman's Journal. There are those who even at this day hisist that the Catholic church is the exponent ex-ponent of ignorance and the enemy of education. The conclusion is drawn from the fact that Catholics are not in sympathy sym-pathy with the system of public instruction. instruc-tion. How true the charge is shown bv the fact that Catholics exnend almost $100,000,000 annually to support a system that is in keeping with their conscience Church Progress. 5 The cause of labor will materially advance ad-vance in the sympathy of others, if more bodies will follow the example of the North Carolina State Federation of Labor, La-bor, which, has just issued a notice that no swearing will be allowed at future conventions. Profanity, drink and anarchy an-archy are tnree objectionable associates for any cause. Pittsburg Observer & One of the anthracite "coal barons" an proached by a Catholic Driest In behalf of the striking miners refused to have Lv dealings with an Intermediary .Ingested .In-gested that "outsiders" should keen thHr hands entirely off. and let the operators attead. to the operatives in thSx o a wly |
