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Show J CATHOLIC OPINION j Some time ajo President George F. Baer informed the country that "Christian "Chris-tian men" would settle the great strike, and Kettle it with justice to all. Nearly every member of. the arbitration board professes Christianity, and one is a Catholic Cath-olic bishop. We hope President Baer may be pleased with the decision. New World. There are 10,000 Italians to every Italian priest in this country. Yet there are priests to spare in Italy. And throughout through-out parts of the west there are clusters of Poles, Hungarians and others without church or. priests, whose children will be lost to religion. Can nothing be done for them? Columbian. PeopJ" who are seeking a solution for the d . . ,-vity of youth and the increase of crU. without result must be looking In the wrong direction. They might be greatly aided in their purpose bv a care-iul care-iul perusal of the daily press. What else can result from these budgets of filth and infidelity. Church Progress. "Why is a negro black?" asks an exchange. ex-change. Mr. Charles Carroll, in a book recently published in St. Louis, answers, Because he is a beast, not a man a beast of the ape family, created prior to Adam. If cruelty and the spirit of torture be bestial qualities, then the 'white mobs who burn negroes at the stake belong to the race of lower animals rather than the pegroes. The Catholic church, at all events, will never subscribe to the dis graceful .tneory propounded bv the author au-thor of such a work as this. Men of every ev-ery hue belong to her fold and she teaches in the face of the whole world that Christ came to the earth and died to save both black and white and what is more, gives the most practical effect to what she so teaches. Standard and Times. '. ' ' , The Bible is being torn to shred3 in the houses of its reputed friends everywhere. The other day the inspiration of the book was openly ' attacked in the English church congress. It was not a Kinsit or any low church parson who attacked the sacred volume. The bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Wordsworth, declared that all parts of the Bible were not equally Infallible; whatever he meant by that. The king's chaplain in ordinary. Rev. Edgar Gibson, says the book has about as much historic value as Shakespeare; Sir S. Short, the master of Harron. said that there was too much insincerity, if not downright hypocrisy, in the orthodox attitude towards to-wards the Sacred Scriptures. The poor tattered prodigal will soon return to his Father's house. Western Watchman. A member of the National Manufacturers Manufac-turers association committee, which recently re-cently conferred with President Mitchell, suggested that the anthracite operators could pay the miners 10 per cent advance on wasps and charge it to the consumer, who would "cheerfully" pay it. There is no need to bother about who will ultimately ulti-mately reimburse the operators for the cost of the strike, and whatever additional addi-tional increase to the miners' pittance, if any, may be wrung from them by the commission, with a liberal allowance besides be-sides for the inconvenience and annoyance annoy-ance to which they have' been subjected. Cheerfully or not, the helpless consumer will have to shoulder the whole burden. Monitor. |
