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Show CATHOLIC OPINION It is one thing to inquire into the question ques-tion as to whether socialism is. after all. a practical danger. It is yet another thing to inquire whether the socialism we have in this country is not largely an importation: and whether it may not expire, ex-pire, or be greatly modified as the German Ger-man workingman passes on the sta?e and leaves the problem of labor to his children and the second generation. Catholic Citizen. S The long winter evenings have come again and the question in every family is how to pass them pleasantly and well. i The young people are attractel to parties, par-ties, to theatres, to saloons. What can keep them at home? If the old custom j of having a chapter or two of a nice book read out every evening were revived, re-vived, a common entertainment could be had. a topic for conversation would be furnished and an antidote to outside attractions at-tractions would be furnished. Try it. I Get a good book and have it read out in the family circle after the evening meal. You'll he glad of the suggestion. Catholic Cath-olic Columbian. The English Catholics, who are vehemently vehe-mently opposed to home rule for frelaml an'l who helped the tories to defeat Mr. Gladstone's great measure of justice .are denouncing the Irish nationalist party in : parliament for not supporting the gov- ! ernment education bill. How morlost and j reasonable those English Catholics arr to be sure. Ireland emancipated them and got little gratitude for it. They ! want and ask something else now from Ireland, while still taking sides with her oppressors.- Perhaps the Irish members may come to the common-sense conclu- : sion to attend lirst and last to the business busi-ness of their own country and leave English Eng-lish Catholics to take care of themselves. . Freeman's Journal. In a lecture in Chicago John F. Finerty ' explained as follows why the Irish do not rise in arms against England "The Irish people are the only people In Europe Eu-rope who are not allowe! to possess arms. They cannot even drill. The whole country is so thoroughly patroled by British police and soldiery that it would be impossible to secretly organize a single sin-gle regiment. The possession of a gun in Ireland means a ttrm of two years in prison." And yet there are Irishmen in this countrv who know all this and blame the people at home for not resorting resort-ing to arms. Irish Standard. Mother Mary Katherine Drexel is about to establish a mission school for the members of the Navajo tribe in Arizona. She will spend more than $100,000 on the main building of the institution. Where is there greater charity than this? An humble Catholic nun proving herself a greater benefactor of the Indian than even the great American government itself. it-self. Church Progress. Boris Sarafoff. the leader of the Macedonian Mace-donian revolution, is only 30 years of age. but. as an avenger of the cruelties practiced prac-ticed by the Turks on the people of the Balkan peninsula, he has a record which tad inspire! Byron with a new "Giaour." Indeed, in his reprisals on the Turks, he seems to have outdone their example. Even though he fall short of his ambition to seize Constantinople, dethrone the sultan sul-tan and become, the dictator of a new Macedonian state, he is still likely to make more trouble for the "unspfikable Turk" than any man since, the daysTTTr that redoubtable Christian warrior, John Sobieski. Pilot. I A topic now exciting the cheap scien- I tists up east is the return of Professor Garner from central Africa with alleged phonographic records of the language spoken by the monkeys of that portion of the Dark Continent. This time the professor is certain he has the language hard and fast. He is even confident that he has made some progress in it himself. Perhaps he has: and perhaps, also, a time, may come when chimpanzee as well as botany shall be taught the pupils of our public schools. Advancel educators ought neglect no opportunity of making monkevs of the people. New World. -i In condemning the unfair and unjust utterances of President Eliot of Harvard, as inimical to the rights of man: and in refusing to commit the. organization to tne policies of socialism, the Federation of Labor has commended itself to the American people as a body of men dedicated dedi-cated to the principles of fair play a applied ap-plied to themselves and to othe:. Catholic Cath-olic Light, Scranton. |