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VOL. XV. PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBIUR 1, 1887. NO. 223
ae fi ye ¥ without representation in the work, and|out which virtue we are bat tinkling Declaration of Independence.” —Catho-| our correspondent don’t speld d strenath i in
i nD i URAL other portions of the country are without | cymbals.’ "Catholic. Colum lie Citizen, Milwaul this State. Priests don’
o Yo Mo Yo MAAMs adequate representation, ome 50,| “Some of our exchanges nd "our clergy| —The Knights of 8. Malachi, of | few are active in helping tise Unions
PUBLISHED SEMLMONTHLY B’ 000 members more than half are Penn- might once in a while, just as an wo, Cleveland, has. cease 0 be a ab. | Most of them indifferent and some
MARTIN I. J. GRIFFIN. sylvanians and scarcely one tenth are couragement,” you know, tell Rum stinence society, and ee @ 8 tots i ab are hostile. The Irish ure indeed a great
71 Saxsou Sree ’ Westerners,’ —Cuatholie Citizen. tinkers, whether regular or moderates, rom the roll of the Union of toate ey are all our friend says but
* —The Catholic of Pittsburg | having | that it is a violation of charity to belittle oe 0. lon’t they require 1 of lecturing .
spoken of the recent Convention of the|the total abstainers, n_ their rain, Sandusky, Cleveland, Fre-|1" order to keep them right. Other na-
oted to the advancement . A. U, as voting down a resolution | motives and to lie about thelr fidelity. |. t, New Straitsville, Shawnee, "Sten- tions seem to not need or not heed so
AE TRAD THOLIG OENEVOLENT UNION in favor of “Peoiblon, a correspon- |. The total abstainers have got lecturing | P mont. N Marion and Corning, are much.
)F THE UNITED STATES, dent wrote to ing: “This is}enough, ’Pon our word tt looks asif| pisces in Ohio, that have oarengy en. when a man becomes a total
not so.” He gives the now famous reso Popes and Councils and many good abstainer and s0 follows Popes an‘ un
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50 Cents a Year in advance,
TOTAL ABSTINENCE, _
'Prrtspuren, Sept. 4, 1887
‘The criticism of voting at Total Ab-
tinence Conventions is all right as far
2s it exposes what, to us who are batter
ng the evil, seems to be wrong, b
. there must be something more substan-
jal to do away with the system. Well
now, has the National Executive Board
ower, outside of the Convention, to in-
struct the National Secretary to issue
circulars in blank form, send to
each enrolled society asking that a special
poet ing of all societies be held for the
voting on the system com-
vaned of, that the votes we recorded on
two di ferent Ines against, one
circular to be sent the National Secre-
ary, the other to be retained by the so-
gy. calling a special meeting a full vote
is almost certain, , at a regular
meeting you may have about one- “fourth
sometimes,
At the present it looks like Jay Gould’s
Stock, ata Chris. McGee’s packed con-
vention.
Has not some of those Brothers been
atthe I. CG. B. Conventions? Why | ¢
don’t they try and bring it down to the
practical work and vote only by societies
represented by delegates, can
yote for a society but its accredited dele-
gate, o delegate shall represent but
one society. This is simple and just.
. Martin GAVIN, *'
* Member of Father Lambing’s T, A.
B. Society, and Pres. Brotherhood of St
Mary of Consolations No,.123,1.C.
Suntan in, Pa: 1887.
i the courage and
candor with whieh ‘youve handled the
gibect of the system of voting, 3 a the,
. A. U. of A. convention, I t the
opportunity of telling you so. es
falieve that a priest should be permitted
to vote ata T. A. B. vention, unless
Ike. Fathers Cleary, C
and a number of other good priests who
were there, he is a practical temperance
man himself. F, X. CANNon.
West Grove, Pa,
I endorse your, attention to thet pad
system of yoting by Unions in the Ci
yention, Ithink aiitie attention by sub.
ordinate Unions to this matter would
avoid trouble in the future, I diss:
y ‘ove of one man voting for another or
ie man voting twice pimply because he
is a representative of two or more so-
cietie . F, Browne
lt | is time that our people, Our Tem-
perance People, should unite in opposi-
tion to the saloon poWer.. That portion
of our people who favor the saloon are
thoroughly united. They will work for
the rum power and in some places are
willing to fight for their worst enemy the
liquor seller, So metimes he is put at the
head of the procession on St, Patrick's
day. What care they i i ‘brings disgrace
© are counselled nob to be radical.
Very good, but we should be consistent
When we are we will not vote for officials
that are nominated at saloon caucus. Ofli-
cers are blind to all violation of temper-
ance laws, nm you will hear those
very voters, that are largely responsible
for the failure of such laws exclaim, Oh!
I would vote for prohibition if I thought
it would ve enforced. I know what I
write is true. In a town just over the
line in R. 1, which State has a prohibi-
tion law e Democratic Party, four-
fifths of ‘whom. in that town, are our ele-
ticket. They never make a mistake as
temperance men sometimes do, They
know their men every time.
less to say there is free ram in that. town.
Iwill ask any fair minded man_ who is
When dealers get 24 hours
Not adding insult to injury for the peo-
ble behind such officials to call the Law
nd Order loving people, fanatics, and
blame them for not enforceing the law.
Would that God the gift will give us lo
See ourselves as others seeu
ne who voted for 5th ‘Resolution.
“Upon the whole the Union is grow-
log, Great territories like New York,
Michigan, California, are practically
lution No. 5, andadds, ‘Now it will
the most keen-witted anti- Prohibitions
find Prohibition in this resolutio1
Father McKenna, who wrote it, declared
hat he never thougt of Prohibition when
writing it. Somebody cried ‘wolf,’
the strange sight was given of a Catholic
Total Abstinence body voting down a
kind word for Legislatures that had
passed laws to punish crimes caused by
ut | Intemperance,”
—Not Generosity ALONE,
Boston Pilot notes the following facts
‘to the honor of Total Abstinence.” The
Archdiocese bf Philadelphia, which has
nearly one-third of the 50,000 Catholic
total abstainers of the United Stat
made the largest contribution—$13,740—
to the relief of the Charleston earth-
quake sufferers; the largest, $11,000, to
the Negro and Indian Misslons, leading
even generous Boston by a few hundred
of dollars, The total abstinence socie-
ties of the same place gave, not long ago,
s their own especial offering to the
cause of Irish national independence, the
substantial sum of $8,! After all,’
concludes the Pilot, ‘total ‘abstinence is
net. necessarily a parsimonious virtue,”
@ facts at with reason and
general observati fon
Only those who can deny themselves
can save, and those only who can save
an give. The free handed drinking man
is usually selfish in his generosit;
stints his unfortunate family to illustrate
his own mun:
An ine! ident, ‘hic illustrates the Style
of Catholic wi ners
makes, was related recently,ina bulletin
of the Indiana Union. A total abstin-
ence society, consisting of thirteen mem-
bers, had existed for sometime in a large
parish of that State. ‘The priest w shied
v have a meeting of the men of his con*
gregation to assist him in some work he
proposed to undertake, Although be
gave notice at all the masses on the
ceeding two Sundays, and although there
were some three hundred men in the par-
of these wer
stinence society and three others joined
it at a subsequent meeting.
It isn not generosity in giving altogether
but public spirit in acting, that charac-
terizes the desirable Catholte citizen.
idence above
duced is quite favorable to the total ab-
stinence clement.”—Cuatholic Citizen,
—The total abstinence societies of
- | Youngstown, Ohio., held a pic-nic on
August. 13th, the proceeds of which
amounted to $250,00. This. amount
will pe used for the benefit of a library,
which is to be placed in the Knights of
Father ‘Mathew Hall, and also to defra:
the expense of a series of lectares which
the. Youngstown total abstainers con-
template having. te Rev. F. CG,
Weichmann, jana, delivered
the first lecture Se ane in the Opera
se, The Youngstown societies are
all in ‘i flourishivg nBondition, which is
due to the fact that they possess and
have in thelr ranks as fine a selection of
young men as Youngtown ai ‘ords,
—St. ‘Thom as of Aquino, the great
Doctor of Catholic Theology, in his
immortal worl, the * Summa Theolog-
ica,” | says: “As temperance disposes a
man to a certain moderation (or means
between extremes), which is in accord
with reason, therefore it is a virtue.
|. That has the nature of virtue which
inclines man to good; it is good for man
to act according to reason ; temperance
or moderation jeads man to act accord-
ing to reason ; therefore temperance is
ng? therefore it isa virtue, for virtue
is a habit of good action, Nature in-
clines man towards that which suits
him; hence man naturally Gesizes that
pleasure which suits him ;
such, is a rational being,
those pleasures which cord with
reason are suitable to him ; temperance
or moderation will not deprive man of
those Suitable and proper pleasures,
rather of those which are oppose
Temperance is not opposed.
an nature,
tneetore only
on. to
the inclinations nature, “s irrational.”
antes Me tevchtag of the Chureh con-
“ea snes is advisable for
a ery ‘ho wa ny} Gaorefore, ‘those
who practice it must be careful not to
oc
e
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“The | sal
as|and he said $2
0 |ities—all on an
so, are far off
the right track, and that these lecturers
may be right. fellow who don’t join
eT, A. B.'s
advice,
and | Spises corrective lectures, .
—In old times a man had either to
work or to beg. Nowadays a man can
slip in between and open a saloon.”’—
Bishop, fr land,
re is Sunday, and the Catholic
oon. eee ers sell liquor and think it is
all right if they renta pew. They think
they are the pillars of the Church; but
they are mistaken if they think they can
buy the silence of the Church, They
control t i politics of the country. You
will find them at every Democratic cau-
cus,” 7 shop Ireland.
Ten years ago the canse of temper-
ance was not so respectable as it is to-
day, because they were nof so many Te-
pectable men an
ing of Bese 0 or serpents, nor the throwing
of rotten eggs has or even
delayed the march of temperance among
ne workers.”’—Powderly,
—‘‘ Father Cleary retires as President
after a tactful and progressive adminis- | ™
tration of five years, Ile is succeeded by
v. T. J, Conaty, of Worcester, who
was once treasurer of the American
Land League, and who has much ¢:
the East as an able speaker and an ‘ideal
presiding officer. Massachusetts isdoing
well, but we would like to, see the new
president carry the war i into New Yo: ork,
while Father Clesry is - stirring up, be
West. or Cathele Citizen.
3OrBeen-ot Minnesota begin
he @ Winter campaign by eeting al
Suiwaten Wis. He and Secretary Fat
rere gathered in about 40 members, The
Gazeltesays: ‘‘A very gratifying feature
of the meeting was the num f Cath-
olic business men, leading lumbermen,
ete,, that sent in their names as candi-
for membership in the two socie-
ties.”
father of a family, or an adult addicted
habitually to intemperance, let the mem-
bers'of the temperance society have a
guardian appointed by the local court,
and his earnings applied to the support
of f his. wife and tl dependent upon
him.”— Father Fanning.
My would save Catholics from keep-
ing gsaloons for the damnation of our
‘ellow men, Our record has not been
honorable in this respect.
grace to our religion. That liquor trafic
has alm: le the Church powerless,
¥ | What force has the Catholic Church
whenin acity we fin members sell-
ing liquor and selling it on sunday too e”
—Bishop Ireland.
—* Outside of hell there is nothing so
hideous as a home where the father and
mother both drink.”—Bishop Ireland.
‘The landlords in the saloons are
moe heartless “ ivjsh landlords ever
ave been or wil '—Bishop Ireland,
—‘The ‘tichuond session of the Gen-
eral Assembly voted $50,000 to purchase
headquarters | fer the Order, $45,000
went to buy the building on Broad SI
Philadelphia. For complying with the
order of the General’ Assembly, the
General Officers have been abu:
slandered most. villainously, principally
by men who never contribu
toward the purchase of
The enemies of the Order, or of the
officers of the Order, have styled the
headquarters ‘* The Palace.” On another
street in the city of Philadelphia there
isa saloon called ‘*The Palace,” Lin-
quired of the proprietor what it cost him
20,000. Nine years ago he
began business, selling ru, on a capital
of $73, and in that time he has acquire
the money with
building ‘and the lot on which it stands,
He also owns $50,000 in railroads secur-
origiual cash capital of
$73. Tlis patrons are chiefly rea
Why do we not hear a protest
against the means by which that palace
was erected ? —Powderly.
—** The saving principles of total ab-
nence are deeply implanted in the
Catholie heart of the * City ‘of brother-
and, of all our great Ameri-
can oie in none does the beautiful
virtue of temperance thrive more vig-
orously or shine nspicu-
rudely oppose the convictions of others.
This js a violation of that charity, with-
ut ec
ously than in ‘the birthplace of the
e- | it deserves to be anta;
—‘* Whenever and wherever there isa}!
which to purchase the | hi
gaged Bather Cleary, to lecture on Total
Abstin
The ‘caloon is the chief of school
improvidence among the people. Assuch
onized from the
ourset, as Mr. Powderly seems disposed
to do.” Catholic Citizen.
—‘‘All over the country there has been
in late years a remarkable quickening of
the moral sense of Catholic congregations
on the subject o , or rather
of total fabstinence, There, perhaps, has
never je in the history of he
Roman Catholic ¢ Church when its youn;
men have practiced total abstinence te
in.
—The Chicago Archdiocesan Union
has resolved: ,*that the time has arrived,
when it
Tt respective par-
ishes a Cadet Society, feeling as we do,
called upon to carry on 6 great and
holy cause of total abstinence.”
~The Catholic total abstinence Union
country, and it is to be hoped that its
powers and influence will be increased,
and that every Irish Catholic will be en-
rolled beneath its banner. Then what
race can equal ours? This idea may
chimerical, but the Catholic dotal Ab
stinence Union is doing much to
areality.’’—Scranton (a ) Chuthotie 1 Reoord
The influence of the Church in behalf
of sobriety has been powerful amon;
ple of. all nationalities, but its most
marked achievements have been among
the Irish. Considering the great number
of them in this country, and the passion-
ate earnestness-with which-they-do all
they undertake, it is a triumph of the
Church that it has established among
em so Vigorous a temperance sentiment,
The sentiment is steadily growing, and
it is not imagination to conceive of
the time when the Irish ot America will
be one of the greatest of the temperance
It is worth attention that the
surprise the public if the facts were
fully known.—Pittsburg (Pa.) Times,
WHY IT IS 80?
“Temperance is one of the Cardinal
virtues. The Catholic Church through
her ministers inculeates virtue, leads the
way in virtue, sacrifices everything for
virtue’s sake. Therefore the priests of
the Catholic Church lead and sbould
in the cane Total Abstinence
movement—t un ap sacri-
co. therefore, rehdy the chief vofiers
of ‘fhe Cat! nion are priests.
As to the. Trish being guided in the
poanner referred to; the Irish are a vir-
tuous people;
such love for ‘dete ministers of religion,
Therefore they display their love of their
priests, their love of liberty, their love
of God by submitting to the guidance
of their priests, that having these in the
vanguard of the fight against unmanning
alcohol they may elevate society from its
filthy intemperance toa degree whence,
as from a lofty mountain top, it may dis-
to its en
No wonder, ‘then, ‘at such a state of
things is my answer to you interrogatory
of last issue. na hy is it 80?”
NITAS,
MEYERSDALE, Pa,
This is _a reply to our article of Sept.
Ast, in which we referred to the correct-
ing and restraining advice given those
0 unite with Total Abstinence .so-
tieties They seem by many to get in
spiritual danger by doing so. The:
apt to fall into heresy, become tanatis
Prohibitionists, Som
become lax in prac.
ticing their religious du
ur correspondent indeed views things
“from a lofty mountain top” not from
life about us. The clergy Tat lead
as he says but they don’t, everybod:
knows and some of them have said so.
father Fanning has just shown how they
don’t Jead out in Mlinois and that section
of the country, If they did Catholic
America would be changed for the better,
tside of Pennsylvania the Union of
Amer ica must count all the country in
order to equal the members in our State.
The three Unions within it are all offi-
such an extent as they do to-day,’”~Phila.
Bullet "
that soon will the children of to-day bé| ja
people in this Taboo 1
has ever shown | Wl
cern everywhere and Practice its means se
YY | movement he
cils, he might be regarded as striving to
jo better and less in nee looked |
on as more likely to get off the Church’s
track than when he drank rum.
The step towards perfection but puts
him in other danger, Ie may not die a
drunkard but he may die in heresy. ~
THE POWDERLE ADEA,
on. rrence V, rly, the
General Master Workinan oft the Knights
of Labor of. America, was one of the
old workers of the Diocesan Union, and
is still with usin the cause. Althot
abstairers,”? says Powderly, **and I will
do more for the cause of labor than I
d with ten million men who drink
intoxicating liquors.” And again he
said: ‘The worst enemy which the
‘workingman has is that which gurgles
from the neck of a bottle.” Thisfrom |
the great captain of the great army of
Brother Powderly is_nobabbler, and
ean ill afford to speak in ‘dle words.
These declarations are forced
—wrung o! shat bitter oa tenn of
care and toil. an trouble which his ar-
duous position has laid upon him, and
€ it} which, in its stress and strain, has turn-
ed his. head prematurely grey. Labor
cannot trust the man who ftinks, gud
well does he know it who has stood -
long at the . The Knights ot
Labor when they proscribed the saloon
keeper would have done well to have
proscribed, the saloon Toater as well.
But it is- coming - to~ that-———Mark- you,- ——
the day 's almost at hand,
These things are but the signs of the
z have no
place in the glory of the deeds that shall
n be done. must suppress
rum or never realize its dream of a bet- -
Rum is the curse of the world, and un-
less strong minds and hearts grapple it
fearlessly and crush it in its hellish.
power, it willsap the life of men, and
here shall be no goodinanything. The
un seller menaces the sod towne fer
he traffics in infancy, and tempts his
brother into utter and pitiful degra
tion. iret of all, then, let there be no”
Tum se
It is with no little pride that we be-
hold the part which our own people are
taking in this struggle. We
he backbone of the Knights of Lal
organizations in these upper coal fields
are Father Mathew men.
chief of all is a Father Mathew man, and
y wins every ~
time, and in sobriety alone lies the single
chance of victory use of our
fod, our country or our fellow man,—
Ducesan Index
THE TOTAL ABSTINENCE CAUSE,
“The Catholic Total Abstinence
Union of America, did honor to itself
and made sure of splendid " executive
than Father Conaty, and no more intelli-
nest exponent of the princi-
ples and virtues of total setinen nce,
his voice, by his pen, an his personal
example he has lent strength tothe cause,
enthusiasm to its ocates, and perm:
nency and stability to the great moves
ment of which he is to be, for the next,
year, the honore
Father Copaty_ believes in total absti-
nence, because he has seen the evils of
excessive indulgence, especially among
Whenever humanity suffers, . .
whether the cause be national or social,
then this zealous priest lifts up his voice
and arm in protest: In the Irish national
potential laborer,
for the best, the highest and the safest
policies, In the world of labor his
counsel is ever regarded as wise and con-
servative. In all his ministrations and
an
steadfast friend ot the lowly and the
cered by laymen, So the virtue point of
suffering."—Doston Republic.