OCR Text |
Show CATHOLIC OPINION Dublin Castle, proclaiming uubiin under coercion law is good proof that it cannot reckon on "loyalty," even in its own home town, to say nothing of the rest of the country. Freeman's Journal. Labor is allowed to parade through the streets one day during the year. On other occasions she is expected to march to the polls and vote against her own interests. This fact shows there are injustices in-justices and persecutions and bigotries. Still, the United States 4s not a Catholic country. Pittsburg Observer. Many papers are deriding the Rev. Sam Small because he .fell got drunk. Mr. Small has preached and practiced temperance tem-perance for many years. Manv men who would today, perhaps, be filling drunkards' drunk-ards' graves were Induced to quit drinking drink-ing by Mr. Small. We should have only pity for him and hope that he will be able to overcome his weakness and again become a power for good on the temperance tem-perance platform. Catholic Register. Over 5,000 Americans fought for the British in the South African war. So says the London correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, who also tells us that "these Americans carried the stars and stripes often under Boer fire." This is a little bit of history that cannot can-not fail to be edifying for our American boys of the future, particularly after reading the story of George Washington. Freeman's Journal. It seems Father"o'SulIivan has been actually elected a member of the Vermont Ver-mont legislature, beating ex-Mayor Fuller, Ful-ler, whose fathers came over in the Mayflower, May-flower, by 254 votes. Thousands in the Green Mountain state will lament that Pelee is so far away. Western Watchman. Watch-man. It is not always the pious editor who brings out the most timely and attractive papers. Piety is a most excellent thing, but frequently it is not ability. Pittsburg Observer. A book bearing "the title of "Stanhope Burleigh, the Jesuit in Our Homes," has been thrown out of the Brooklyn public library. The author of it is a woman. Members of the International Catholic Truth society made Its offensive character charac-ter known to the library authorities, who were not only willing, but eager, to have their attention drawn to such bigoted publications. The book is similar to Coffin Cof-fin s "Story of Liberty," which was thrown out of the Minneapolis public library li-brary a few years ago. Irish Standard. This is the hope for the- future enter-Jain.ed enter-Jain.ed K, John iIitchelI, president of the United Mine Workers of America, as expressed ex-pressed by himself in a speech in Philadelphia Phila-delphia on Labor day: "I look forward to the time when thoe who build the mansions will not have to live in hovels. I Ipok forward to the time when the men who build the llo-ht-ning express and the men who build "h beautiful Pullman palace cars will not have to walk from station to station, looking for work. I look forward to the the time when those whose labor builds beautiful edifices, whose spires point heavenward, will not have to walk past them, too ragged to enter." .. If the men who do ail this building and all the other labor of the country would do their voting as sensibly and honestly, they would not have long to wait for the coming of the time loosed for by Mr. Mitchell. Freeman's Journal. The Hooligans are at it again in London. Lon-don. There is an impression abroad that Hooiiean is an Irish name and that or' course the Hooligans must be Irish. As a matter of fact Hoolisran and Hooliganism Hooligan-ism ia a pure Anglo-Saxon production. Some years azo whe n Ernest Lerah Hoolev had scandalized the Knglish conscience con-science by being lound out. a gang of east end hoodlums were brought up before be-fore a certain London magistrate. This magistrate it was who named them Hoolevgans as a tribute to their rapacity. The name became oooular among the Knglish because it was so like Irish and suggested so delicately that Knglish brutality was of Irish origin. It has thus passed Into the language with hoodlum, i-irrikin and words of thai - class. Tne Leader. A year ago, and the country was standing stand-ing expectantly beside the dying couch of its stricken president. For a tew brief davs the columns of the press were elo-auent elo-auent in praise of the virtues and public services -of the "martvred" dead. He was set beside Lincoln and Washington, and the world was assured that America would never forget her fallen leader. He would live forever in the memories and in the hearts of a grateful and admiring admir-ing people. One brief vcar. and the real value of these nerverid protestations is embodied in this paragraph of sober prose: "The promoters of the McKinley Eiemorial have abandoned the hoe of raising the amount originally fixed as the cost of the monument to be erected to the memory of the dead president." Are republics ungrateful ? in otner words are men men? Catholio Transcript. . j An account of a temperance lecture by John Burns is printed on our front page and we would call to our readers' attention atten-tion the following words addressed to tn laboring men: "When vou hxve a spare hour, take the missus out." That's an idea which, if practiced, would cure saloon sa-loon and street corner bumming ;miong married men and. make their home live3 happier. Catholic Lisht. |