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Show CATHOLIC OPINION Father O'Reilly of Shenandoah, Pa., said in a "sermon" in his church on Sunday Sun-day last that "Mitchellites and dynamiters dynamit-ers mean the same thing." No wonder he is "charged with being in sympathy with the operators," of which he complains com-plains as if he felt aggrieved thereby, nor would it be any wonder if the "Mitchellites" "Mitchell-ites" charged him with violating a certain divine command which it is his duty to obey as well as to teach. Freeman's Journal. While the Methodist papers are warning warn-ing the president not to ask for a red hat for Archbishop Ireland, some Catholic Cath-olic papers are informing him that such action would not be without .venerable and respected precedent. The president does not need either the warning or the information. He is just now busy nursing nurs-ing a sore leg and has no time to study questions of religio-political etiquette. Western Watchman. Who is this man Mitchell who rides to the executive residence in a street car to meet the railway presidents cominjj in barouches from their private palace cars, and exhibits forbearance and courtesy, cour-tesy, while the millionaires read out columns col-umns of abuse ? Fourteen years a miner in the' pits of Illinois, up from poverty, up from ignorance, self-taught, self-made, self-made, he goes into the conference of men who have enjoyed all the advantages ol travel, luxury and those associations which give the wealthy an opportunity to become cultivated gentlemen almost whether they want to or not he meets these men and so bears himself in a most difficult and trying position that the president of the United States, himself him-self born and bred to the ways of the gentle, cannot restrain a desire to grasp his hand and thank him for his patience! pa-tience! The Republic. A new writer on socialism is about to enter the field. McCiure & Co. of Chicago Chi-cago last Sunday announced "Socialism and Labor and Other Arcruments," bv no less a writer than Right Rev. John Lancaster Spalding. Bishop of Peoria. What position will Bishop Spalding take? Prominent socialists have been claiming him at heart a socalist. In a few days we will see. The publishers state that the book will excite wide attention. We do not believe socialists will be pleased with it. Cathoiic Union and Times. There has just died over in Indiana a man who had not spoken a single word to a human being for the past, fortv years. And all because a woman jilted him and married another. Sad case indeed. in-deed. But had he married her, perhaps, his condition would have been worse. 1 though he might have died thirty-nine years sooner. Church Progress. Better late than never Is the most j fitting thing to say about the new Philippine Phil-ippine commissioner. General J. F. Smith. He is a Catholic and he takes the place of Mr. Bernard Moses, who is, we believe, be-lieve, a member of the Hebrew community. commun-ity. Had such an appointment been made at the beginning, much trouble i must have been saved' the administration. Bearing in mind that the people over whose destinies this commission was to have control for a long period are nearly all Catholics, it is not easy to see why the necessity of recognizing the fact in the personnel of the commission could have been overlooked by any sensible statesman. The services of General Smith could probably have been as procurable pro-curable then as they were later on, or those of other Catholic gentlemen, had they been sought for. Were it not for the agitation of the grievance by the Cathoiic press, it is not unlikely that the anomalous character of the commission commis-sion would still have remained unaltered. Standard and Times. Edward V. Murphy, chief of the staff of reporters in the United States senate, recently visited Philadelphia (his native city) to see about the erection of a memorial me-morial to Thomas Lloyd, who was official stenographer of the senate a century and more ago. Lloyd was a captain in the revolutionary war and is known as "the father of American shorthand." He was an exemplary Catholic, as is. Mr. Murphy, Mur-phy, and write among other things a book entitled "The Unerring Authority of the Catholic Church." Irish Standard. Alluding to the outcry of the W. C. T. U. provoked by Funston's appeal for the army canteen, the Cincinnati Enquirer recalls the fact that "The ladier bless 'em! never whimpered about the lying and forgery used by the diminutive hero to capture Aguinaldo." Monitor. |
