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Show JCATHCJNJON j CATHOLIC EDITORIAL COMMENT. ' A local revivalist sayg that shouting to I tha Methodist is what the exhaust is to i the locomotive. He would have been more correct had he said that It Is what the bass drum is to the Salvation Army. f Prosress. i Mr. Carnegie's, desire t" die poor i3 somewhat saddened by the fact that h has not always given enough. We arf not surprised. Many of us remember tht time when a little of his present penor-osity penor-osity would have prevented much blood- letflntr Prmri-aa J ? "There will always, of cour?r." remark j the Ave Maria In a note 011 public sentiment senti-ment and the governmental policy In the l Orient, "he a few 'leading' Catholics tj r practice the virtue of prudence in a heroic he-roic degree. If these men do not actually shout with the mob, they at least do rot strain their lungs shouting against it; they get the name of 'broad minded' and 'safe' men. and are never accused of sore-headedness sore-headedness or of shrieking against destiny. des-tiny. But to plain, blunt men these prudent pru-dent ones very often seem wanting In ' courage and independence: they lead public pub-lic opinion very much as the wheelbarrow leads the workingmen who push it." Protestant inconsistency forms a never- falling text for controversialist and commentator. The Catholic Mirror notes that at Brooklrn last week Rev. Dr. Newell Dwleht Hillls. a noted divine of a denomination which has never manifested mani-fested any "Roman" tendencies, prayed without arousing comment for the survivors sur-vivors and victims of the St. Pierre catastrophe. ca-tastrophe. Special prayers were also offered of-fered for ono of the young men of th church who Is thought to have lost his lite at St. Pierre. Protestants, of course, believe in prayer, but prayer only for the living. What means this praying for the dead? It Is not for their material welfare, not for their bodies. Then it must be for their souls and implies a belief in purgatory. purga-tory. Tip T-Tlllt.o mitvl- asmwintd this. ' X H Catholic boys and young men who co ' to low variety theatres, where suggestivj I songs are sung, lewd jokes are cracked and indecent dresses are worn, cannot I expect to preserve their innocence. Par- t ents should keep them out of these hell- holes. j 1 Professor Starr of tha University or Chicago savs the wooding ring Is a mere relic of barbarism. ' All right. Professor Starr may fire away at the wedding run; all he pleases, but Ui him make no effort to abolish the engagement ring if ha wishes to stand well with the girls. Chrvago Western Catholic. Australia, which counirj hn outlined bo many practical reforms, is just now discussing the "living wage" question, or the establishment by law of a national minimum. The subject is one that may force itself upon the attention of other countries. That is one way of meeting the menace, of socialism. Fall River Catholic Advocate. The Messenger Monthly Macazine for-June, for-June, published bv the New York Jesuit , Fathers, at 27 West' Sixteenth street, is replete with thoughtful and entertaining matter. Its leading articles are: "lrio Sacring of a King." "Three British Abbeys." Ab-beys." "Rome and the Temporal Pow-er. "The t'niversitv of the State of Nev York." "Pilgrim-Walks in Home." "Poisoning "Poi-soning the Wells," "Similarity Itween the Languages." "Editorial," "Chroni- cle," etc. Record. The Catholic press cannot live except J continually pushing onward and onward j The true friend of Catholic literature wl U never stop his paper, but will ratner seeK I for the Catholic journal new subscribers j . In his vicinity. And the true friend oC f the Catholic paper will pay up his sub- scription without hesitation. The Free- , man would, like to hear from hundreds or. 1 : Its subscribers who imagine the man- I ment live on air. Canadian Fryman, ' |