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VOL. XV.
“IMMACULATE VIRGIN, PRAY FOR US.”
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 1, 1887.
NO. 225
TOR, 0. Bo SOUR,
PUBLISHED "en ‘MONTHLY B
MARTIN IJ. GRIFFIN,
711SANsom STREET,
PHILADELPHI:
voted to the advancement of
THE IRISHCATHOLIC BENEVOLENT UNION
‘HE UNITED STAT!
TERMS:
50 Cents a Year in advance.
_ A LOOK AT THE ABSTAINERS,
—The Philadelphia Total Abstainers
gave $5,628. for the reception of the Con-
vention of Union of America. The com
mittee could not spend over $4,302. and
so the $1,300. had to be returned to con-
iributors :
—Rev. A. A. Lambing;
burg, Pa., has organized the temperance
Cadets composed of 49 boys of the church
to promote the temperance cause among
themselves as well as among all those
with whom they come in contact,
—Prof. Edwards of Notre Dame Uni-
versity, has sent three gold badges to
Philadelphia, to be contested for by the
mem! t. Paul's, and St. Charles’
Pioneer ‘Corps and St. Michael’s Juuior
Pioneer Corps.
« John H. Griffin, of Middletown,
mn who has been delegate from St.
John’s society of that town to Total
stinence conventions is one of the signers
to the public protest against the ‘tirade’
of Father Kinnery of Pawtucket,
spoken at the la of the corner stone
of the parochial school at Middletown,
—Father Walsh, Vice Precident of C.
AL . said he was told a vice
president had nothing to do but to
nothing, look pretty” sand dress well, bat
we note that ke is acting as if
were-not the reason ofhis election, On 2d
Qctober he spoke at
‘otal Abstainers and to those
en snot, Many took the pledge and 21
of the number joined the society.
Haggerty, the. pastor, had giv
= people two weeks notice
- Walsh's coming, and so had their minds
= well disposed to receive his words.
_—That’s an unkind cut of the Catholic
men art
S-
=
&
would lead us to believe.
Total avstainess ought to get silence or
approving wor pe and
Council of ‘Baltimore gave them words
of cheer. ‘Temperance men,” if they
are ‘‘temperance men,” are as “staid”
as their sentiments would make sensible
and well disposed Catholics believe.
Surely a Catholic paper might not join
with the Tummmies In sneering at “tem|
ance men.” e are unfaithful ones
but even they are less censurable than
those who make no effort to reform. The
just moan falls often and the “temperance
ae no exceptioi
ip A. Nolan,
and Matrimony.
announced that tell that Phil, has aban:
doned the restriction that debarred his
partaking of the exhiliarating enjoyment
ofthe latter, and so, he that bas been
urging union for so man. rs and
uniting so many total abstainers, will
‘himself become a practical unionist.
We trust his efforts in the new union
measures will, to a degree, be as sucgess-
ful in aaaitions as his labors in_the
cause oft tal Abstinence from Rum
have b “The JOURNAL congratulates
St. Elizabeth's Ladies Total Abstinence
Society upon the success of one of its
members jn subduing the heart of one
o had, to the grief of his friends, so
tong resisted the fair sex’s charm:
1.C. B. U.S Secretary congratulates (he
WAL of A, Secretary upon t!
evidence of! ne possessions of the Taltvat
store of good sen:
—A
Meanensnt?. — “The
RGE
Philadelphia Union has 16,000 members; | passe
the Scranton Union bas 8,000, and the
50, 000'in the C. T. A. U, of
all three of the Pennsyl-
yania Unions have had lay officers, who
have had the training and the time and
the local
ipeieties and build them up into great
Unio Our good priests have been the] as
Spiritual Directors, not mixing in the
routine and de tail of society work, that
action wherever nece: —an
firm belief that the © Pennsylvania system
of having laymen fill lay positions and
the reverend clergy co-operate with them
end, Ind, | i
who
‘the General Secre- for
‘| mean nothing
as priests and not as society or Union
officers, is the cause of such large mem-
bership atd such apbstantiol progre3s,””
—John H. Campbell, in C. T, A. News.
So this JouRNAL has for years been de-
elaring, but. Pulest-policy Tackeys would
not heed the lesson, [Ep. JOURNAL.]
—The Louisville Total Abstinence
Union now has 12 societies and 444 mi
bers, again of 38 ina year. John Barr,
e C.K. of A, secretary, is the Presi-
dents Tie advised the Union to admit
women into the societies but the Conven-
- pressed his thanks ‘to the good women,
without whose influence our Jabors would
be in vain, an i
while the gentle hands which accomplish
‘ lesty so be-
coming in the devout female sex.”
s the Committee on Resolution was
made up of five priests, they appear not
to have seen the “propriety of admitting
of Wilkins- | women
‘ N. Jac
Has bh
left the “dosent
Father Steshorty was We acted delegate
to the Boston Convention of the General
ues, wasagain elected Secre-
yet that. labor paper he
aq
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—The Brooklyn Cc. T. A, Mutual Aid
Association which was . organized one
id death benefits amounting
to $250. it to each member was
eighty cents for the year. This associa-
tion was first iutroduced by Mr. Downes
and wi ance of Mr. FA.
Morris, ‘ot St. Charles Borromeo’s T, A,
B. society the organization has flourished.
When the association numbers 1,
a per capita of 25c. it ean pay a death
benefit of $250. on the death of a mem-
ber and ona per capita tax ot 10 cents
g
“there is always an assessment on hand
to meet a death, so that no trouble arises | ©’
when collecting. The Mutual Aid meets
on the third aes, of every month ‘
St. James’ Hall, . Each sor
ya sf
Treas, T. F. “vallon. (sh Charl ee
—There is universal regret percaboute
over the circumstances which have com-
after all its years of fidelity to the princi-
ples of public morals, to wit! draw fro
the State Union. When Father Conaty
, came e, a few weeks since, he
endeavored to have the society sign cer-
tain articles of submission to the local
pastor, who for a {considerable time had
not held the organization in friendship.
Had the terms at ime suggeste
been agreed to,.the society would be still
in its place in “the union:
enter into the agreement, however, on
the ground that it thought it did not
deserve that such humiliation should be
fineing evidence of strong common 8
Pa in writing a statement that it ‘had
loing wron;
reality it had all the time conscientiously
and from careful resoning believed thal
it had been doing right. Even though a
withdrawal from the union was necessar;
the society will not disband, but will gon
tinue the commendable work which it
s
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‘Neil, as president of the State
union may occasion a call
be no trouble from the want of a presid-
ing bead. It is to be hoped that the dis.
turbing faction maj
utit is more than probable that ‘abso:
day to come.’?—Conn, Catholic.
list’s I. A. B. y, of Philadelpiia
held on Sunday evening Oct. 16t!
2
egolution, were unanimously adop
ved, That we the St. John the
panes T. A. B. Society, in accor-
dance with the spirit of the resolution
a by the T. A. B. societies of this
city and "Sate ting the struggle for a
Iligh License law last Winter, pledge
ourselves te oppose the license of any
brewer or wholesale or retail liquor deal-
er who contributed funds for the defeat
of said law or who now contributes funds
for the corruption of the ballot.
“The organization of brewers and
other liquor leagues for the purpose’ 0
‘ore Bs brazen and as public
was never
‘hey have even establish-
as it is to-day,
ed political “headquarters and assess
their membersh ip in amounts which
Tu en fund:
purest pealing the High License
and, ip doing this, not eae threaten
it the
ihe e am, but the good e ofa Ticense granted
by the courts to sell malt or spirituous
-| such conduct not only the mem!
n | State to thi
pelled the St. Mary’s T.-A- & L. society;
of Worcester, president of the National | y
It refused to} the
complishing. The resignation of Chas. u
oOo
for another |®
state convention in order that there may | *
lute harmony will not rejgn for many a Cr
—At a meeting of S John the Evange- | Bro
Societ;
basement of the church, the folowing or the labo:
influencing legislation and the election | h:
ssed | nected with it.
liquors, either wholesale or retail, are
good Citizenship and moral character,
In our view anyone 6 who embarks in suc’
an orga nization, or who contributes
money to it, established the fact that he
is nota good citizen and is not. possesse
of that good moral character made essen-
tial toa license, and upon evidence of
bers
this society, but all good citizens, should
be invited to join i" remonstrance against | st
the licensing of any member or contri-
butor to the leagues now attempting the
corrupt control of pol
“Resolved, That Wve ately eall the
attention of the T. A, B. and other tem-
perance societies throughout the city and
ct, an voke their
aid to the end that there may, be speed;
an eneral resistance to he political
action of the leagues referred t
Reilly, th writes
relative to the sovereign power t!
ple are everywhere gaining, and ey the
Church isthe highest, best, and most
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a
ests us Americans, and the masses among
us now 80 passionately moved by the
labor question, is ‘0 I know how thorough-
ly, how cordial, IIL uses at this
moment, all the Thilaenee of his office and
is great character, all the activity of
his Bishops and his priests in benefiting
all over the world the children of toil.
ead the proceedings of the great Con-
vention of the League of the Cross just
held in Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Septem-
ber 14th and 15th instant, This great
temperance crusade was
Cardinal Manning. the man, + nt in the
whole Church of Christ most resembles
Leo XLII in saintliness of life as well in
the gifts of intellect and heart. Its chief
promoter bas en another apostolic
priest, that devoted Father James Nugent
who is the living providence of the la-
boring poor of Liverpool, and of their
homeless children, The great Catholic
weekly established by this good man at
his own expense and risk, aud carried on
in the face of dificulties seemingly in-
‘| surmountable, has now the largest circu-
; | lation of any Catholic newspaper in the
English language. As the organ of the
League of the Cross, as the advocate of
charity and temperance, and as the fear-
Jess champion of Home Rule, the Liver-
pool Catholia’ Ttines deserves theunboun-
ded gratitude of the laboring classes
every where, of all Irishmen in particular. | rp,
Men like Cardinal Manning and Father
from the lives and the homes of the la-
boring poor the blight and curse of in-
perance, The warm letter of appro
val which the Pope addressed lately to
the American apostle of intemperance.
Bishop Ireland was intended to encourage
se not only in the United
States, but wherever the English lan-
guage is spoken, leed, ‘the social
congresses lately Od a Liege and else-
where, make o! i
ge | BONE working!
moral T agencies destined to sanctify their
lives wprove their condition,
The letter to Bishop Ireland is mentioned
as the 8% n and encouragement given
the head of the Church to all com-
bined efforts to do away with the abuse
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and the use even of alcoholic stimulants, | ¢
As the success of this crusade depe
judge of the prospect nce,
when I tell them that within the last
two years the students of Maynooth Col-
lege, the great nursery of the Irish priest
ood, have joined the League of t)
ross, stimulated by the example of |e
their President, the Very Rey. Dr.
e.
In removing intemperance totally and
forever from the hearth, and the habits
oring man, the Church is
Z away With one great cause 0}
eee and implanting in the toiler’s home
the blessed germ of thrift, well-doing,
and more than godly vir
BrookiyN bo 14, 1887,
Bailor I. @ B. U. Journal.
the issue at
that Ihave antagonized the oriests iar
Brooklyn, to the extent, that the Union spec
cannot get permission from the priests
to org: I can assure you, that my
of presence at the Union as its ‘president sui
such opposition
dates back, long
iter "members than I
am can test! that. You say, that
the layman must do the work. All right.
Where will we commerce? We were
always ready to work, but it would not
bein keeping with the constitution of
our union to go into a parish and organ-
ize without the consent of the priests.
‘Then how will we organize
d | hand in that work.
g
Pa
n foot by} A. U.
d impossibility to perform contr:
In an editoral which appears i in ae
con-| Lif
‘Then again what fault was found with
8
pleties, was disba:
bat or at Teast “dispossessed by the
priests of the Star of the Sea. I bad n
We don’t want the
priests to engage in the work to any
great extent. Their approval was all
best mas requested and not
hat of course the Union had tu stand
respect for priests, and there are many
priests, not only in Brooklyn, butin New
York. ‘and elsewhere, who can be foun
Rather, m.
even think of insulting a clergyman.
was not brought up in that manner.
Every breath of mine was educat
espect priests,. If in making an effort
to induce the priests to permit us to or-
anize I have offended, then nothing re-
mains for me to do but to relinquish the
position which makes that cffense neces-
sary. Imay hereadd, that Fr. Mealia, al-
he has not time to attend to the Union,
but could not an opportunity be given
Father Mealia to give a little time to the
Union, This is what was stated in my
letter. Because: Father Mealia could not
attend to it was not his fault. It is not
necessary for you to ure ‘e me to resign,
as you say ‘the priests will make Downes
and his supporters tired.”? Thatsentence
sounds queer in connection with a C, T.
lieve me when I say, that I have no
desire to cause trouble and for fear, that
I might be the means of any dissatisfac- | ©
tion I have, on re-eonsideration made u}
my mind, resign at next meeting.
Again eirlog'te express my apprecia-
tion of the I, C. B. U. Journat, I re-
main respectfully yor yours,
W. IL. Downes.
———-
SICKNESS NO EXCUSE FOR NON-
PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENTS,
A party whose life was insured
been duly notified as to the time when
his dues were payable, but before such
date was attacked with fever, and was
unable to attend to busi:
such payment on account of hi
condition up to the time of hie death,
be beneficiary, a few days after the
ant on whieh | dues were payable,
and as soon as as learned that they
bad not been a ia" "tende! red the amount
due. Ileld, that this did not prevent the
forfeiture of the policy.
In this case it was urged that the obli-
gation of the assured to pay the assess-
ment was a condition Subsequent, the
non-performance of which was excused |™
by the unconsciousness and delirium of
the assured, which is to be regarded as
the act of God, and that as it becam
impossibility forthe assured to pay his in-
surance by reason of the visitation of
Goa the policy was not forfeited.
udge, in delivering his opinion,
said that it ‘8 a familiar rule that when
he performance of a contract become:
impossible by the act of God, the obligor
becomes excused, and his rights under
the contract are not forfeited; but that
e rule contemplates cases of absolute
acts, as in
e case of the destruction of property
which the obligor undertook to deliver,
or the closing of a river by ice upon
h the obligor undertook to saila
‘n such cases the obligors could
not have performed the conditions of the
contract, nor could others have performed
them for the obligors, nor would: the
exercise of foresi; ie and care have pro-
vided against the effects of the acts of
|. ut in this case there was no suc
eee ssitiity for the assured at the
equired therein to perform the contract
but he could have provided for its per-
formance beforehand, and those of his
family about him could e@ performed
-lit forhim. The factthat the beneficiary
did not know of the existence of the
policy before the death of the assured,
the case, prudence
beneficiary of bis contract, and his obli-
gation to perform it at the time therein
pecified. The facts of the case do not
constitute grounds for excusing the non-
Tformant nee, of the ract of the as-
and do not prese on
possibility of Syerformance caused by the
act of God.—(Carpenter vs. Centennia 1
ife Ass’n., la. S, C. April
Fraternal Record.
—The Catholic News has 100,000 sub-
seribers and we are glad it has.» But it
ought not to print advertisement ofa
medicine no Catholic mother would use,
It surely cannot n the money, It
insults the mothers,
being able to | ;
a
examples. To commerce at hom
had | their h
g| the oppressed. We
6, 1886.]—~| fo
HOW THE IRISH WILL REGAIN
THEIR INDEPENDENCE,
BLOOD, NOT BY LOUD TALEING—
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH'S VIEWS.
w York, Sept. 10.—The Sun to-
aay published the following | interview of
ts correspondent with His Grace Arch-
bishop Lyne!
“Your Grate has written many strong
letters on trish id the Sux
corresponden’
t I as!
q | you think of the present prospect of Tish
affairs’
The. road to victory,’’ said the vener-
able prelate, ‘is bloody but short. No
tyranny ever yielded except by bloodlet-
ting. Wehave patriot martyrs, as well
as, eign martyr
“What es aur Grace mean by the
road bein ‘blood
me
“Itis this,” he replied, + ‘that govern-
ments never change their plans without
exceedingly heavy presure,
Duke of Wellington, and we have many
me in
‘anada, petitions were frequently sent to
the Drowning Street Government. In
Lower Canada a 80-cal rebellion was
gotten up, and after much blood-spilling,
hanging and banishing, Home Rule was
ranted. ofortunate half-breeds
of the Northwest Territories frequently
petitioned the Government at Ottawa
or redress of their grievances. The
Archbishop and Bishop of the North-
rovinces also petitioned, but no
grievances were redressed. lon lowed;
millions were spent, and the half-breeds
1m:
ed by
Wellington, the Prime Minister’s
words were: ‘It iscivil war oreman-
cipation.? At that time, bowever, blood
was averted. The most iniquitous tithe
tax forced by English Jaw to be paid by
Catholic to Protestant ministers for not
caring for their immortal souls, was not
mitigated till a number of men, women
and children, trying to rescue t!
ere shot down.
fied all Europe. tithes were then
exacted from the landlords, and the land-
INCREASED THE RENTS
on the tenants, but this was the com:
mencement of the total abolition of tithes,
‘he most foolish of all foolish risings
was a handful of Fenians against all the ~
power of Lritish bayonets, etc., etc.
The Eenians were shot down, imprisoned
and banged, but the disestablishment of
the Protestant Church in Ireland follow-
er, The course of resistance
to tyranny still continued, and imprison-
ment followed in due time.
over many other similar instances and
come to the Mitchelstown massacre,
me | Which continues the road of
“What does Your Grace think of Wm.
Oo Brien ‘8 imprisonment "
? said the Archbishop, with
emilee nee the old story, and it will have
the same results—victory inthe end for
must have martyrs.
See the great armies there are ready to
shed ther blood and lay down their lives
for the country. They are to be found
the world over. We deprecate war, but
war is inevitable as long as the people
do not keep the commandments of God.
Individuals ofa corporation or govern-
nt doing wrong will have to account
for their votes as strictly 2 ns private indi-
viduals.
n ace Says
to victory fur Ireland is short and bloody,
do you mean there will be muc! 1 blood.
shen he replied. ‘‘Not sa much as
in the rebellion of ‘98. ‘he English
people will restore Gladstone to power
before the present Government 1 w iw have
time to do much more bloody w ”
—P. of O’Rourke, Vice President of
Wa i Ind. Mr.
great deal of logic, made a forcible ex-
position of the relation of the Catholic
d its communicants to the
overnment and institutions of America,
conveys, Ilis arraignment of socialism
and the commune was decidely forcible,
as was bis explanation oof the equality of
mankind. mn to puncture
the vices of the rich, the ‘social cravings
ra position in society,
is res! modern aristocracy, closing
witha eet iment to honest toil, clean
character and self sustaining intelligence
three gifts that give any man or woman
a place in society that gold cannot buy.
. of A., took part and
t. O’Rourke took occasion to commend
the Order in the highest terms,