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“IMMACULATE VIRGIN, PRAY FOR US.”
VOL, XXII
PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 1, 1893.
NO. 348
GRUPTES JOUR
POBLISHED SEMI-MONTHLY BY
MARTIN I.J. GRIFFIN,
711 Sansom STREET,
PAILADELPHIA,
Devoted to
Church and Country.
TERMS:
50 Centsa Year in
GOINGS ON IN THEI. 0. B. U.
John Mulkern appointed Organizer at
St, Louis Convention for Dubuque and
vicinity has organiz-d a Women’s branch.
It has been enrolled in the National
Union as No. 583 Has 61 members.
The first Organizer to receive the $20
fee for organizing a new Branch is M. F.
Kane Organizer ot the Shamokin Branch
who organized one ot. ‘Trevorton Pa It
was admitted with 38 mem|
I represented No. 94 at Toledo,
reporting I urged it to organize «a
’ ’s Branch in St. Philip’s parish
afler the "presidantial election, At No
vember meeting it appointed a Com.
mittee to form one and it will do it,
dThe wotber of J. J. Murphy of Toledo
ied lately. May she rest in peat
ont Women’s Rane will be formed at
den N, J., an organizing Com-
mittes of No. SOL
Doylestown Pa., is to have a Women’s
Branch.
St. Patrick’s Branch of West Phila-
In
delphia appointed President Coughlan, |™™
asurer Donovan and Steward Brady
mittee,
mittee to fill up all vacant places,
to his elevation to the chancellorsbip and
consequent removal Rev. oughlin
gave me permission to form a branch in
Holy Rosary Parish, Father Lynch | ™
might give permission to the Committee
of the neighboring parish lo so,
Women’s Branch has been formed
at MeSherrytown Pa,
John .Mulkhern who formed ‘the
Wowen’s Branch .at Dubuque writes
‘After several failures within the last
. two years I have at last succeeded, by
authority of commission issued me at St.
Louis Convention, to organize a ladies
benevolent society here, tried in
mapy waysall of which failed until I
adopted the plan suggested in Vice Pres-
ident Mrs. Reilly’s circular,””
So away off in Iowa the influence of
Mrs. Reilly has been made evident.
‘Many a Catholic home in that city will
for many years to come have blessings
in it without knowing the source which
brought it there. ‘any a distressed
Catholic mother will be relieved and her
distress lightened without knowing the
that to a zealous and enthusiastic Cath-
olic women away off in Olio is due the
cause Mm the relief.
Mr. Mulkern too it will be a source
f great gratification to witness the
progress of the society and to see the
good results of his endeavor. Persever-
ance isrewarded. If one plan dont doseek
another. I congratulate Brother Mul-
Kern. May the new Branch
strong in numbers and in money as No.
se of which he is President.
‘be Chattanooga Times had a contest
to ‘tiscover the 100 men who had done
In the list of 100
city is Rey.
ish and he is the only clergy.
December meeting of No. 90 of
Philadelphia was the completion of its
twenty one years of existence and useful-
ness. It has 456 members and $5100.
During its career it has paid over $50,000
in benefits. It wasthe first Branch of
the Union I organized nearly a year be-
ry.
Being called to address No. 90 I e:
pressed my thankfulness to God at being
permitted to see the end of its twenty
first year and my gratfication that my
endeavor of 1872 had brought out such
great results as came from the formation
e firet Branch of the
t soon became the strong-
hold of the I. C, B: U. L told the | mem-
TE ad the past to look un} with
gratification and pride knowit iz the great
usefulness the societies
following it in ¢ nion,
The whole te afton ot Catholic society
to faith and the people had come about
by the formation of No. 90 was certainly
a cause of gratitude to God and to all
who had assisted me in bringing about
snch a change.
. 59 the E. J. Sourin Society of
Philadelphia at its December meeting
was addres
i sident Tierney
and Brothers Wall and Dimond of the
Local Executive Committee and m
Next June it will 4 years since a few
young Philopatrians formed the Soutin
in honor of the first President of the Ins-
stitute. 100
members, Itis the richest Society in the
Unien in Philadelphia. Out: of. the
Sourin has come most of the progressive
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1871, and found it worthy, 4 asked ‘the
Sourin, of which L was one of the found
ers, to join the Union. It at once didso
and sent the late George J. White (may
his soul rest in peace) the Louisville
onvention, It also called a Convention
of all the societies commonly
Catholic Beneticial societies and got
them to consider the claims of the Union.
That resulted in nearly all the societies
changing their laws and_ restricting
membership only to pract ieal Catholies.
The Sourin directed its delegate
Louisville to invite the Union to meet
in Philadelphia in 1872, It came aud the
biggest Convention ever held resulied.
Sourin men were the active ones
in forming Branches U Union
throughout the City. “Chey filed the
Philopatran Hall with spcieties, They
labored to build up other Branches but
de no exertion to increase the mem-
bership of the Sourin. Its membership
were generally young men engaged in
professional or mercantile lite and so
not so much exposed to illness or accident | me:
_ | and so its benefit list was not
Last month it paid but $6 or one
week’s benefits, Some years the
ses exceed the amount paid for benelits,
he Sourin makes profitable invest-
Tt Ted off in taking shares in Building
Societies and in loaning money to these
societies. At last meeting I asked it to
loan $2000 to the Combination No. 5 of
which I am Secretary. In about two
minutes the money was Vi
This was a lesson io. the leaders pres-
ent at the whose societies
haven’t yet got to thet point of even tak-
ing stock in Building Societies which
they are managers of, jope to
see Philopatrian ideas on that matter
get into the Aivieaiicd as they have on
othe
the past month Philopatrian
Hall societies have loaned to puilding
Societies as follows; No, 155 Cc .
U. loaned $1500 to No. 155 building
Society. The St. Elizabeth loan $1o00| we
to Combination No, 5 and $1100 No. 155
The Sourin $2000 to No. 5 Combination.
All get 6 per cent.
Any society willing to get in that kind
ofa Zombine ought to let me know.
Borrowing thousands of dollars is but an
amusement to myself and friends. We
laugh at the leaders down in St, Charles
who dont eyen invest in shares of the
societies they are managers of and hav-
ing beneficial society members for stock-
holders,
beneficial “societies and grandfather. of
as|the Building associations I guess they
will ere long put beneficial society mone:
where they pat their own and getfriends
to do likew!
The Sourit “has started a Building
Society among its friends and societies
not yet shareholders in any Building
society ought to take shares. in the Sour-
in. ition of that society is a
guarantee of ie exeellence oft the Sourin
Building Societ;
Delegate: ice ‘c. U. Convention
will regret ‘to hear that W alter Walsh of
St. Louis lost, by death, a daughter aged
24 years. May she rest in peace,
PERSONAL,
I. A. Goul laden ex-Secretary and Presi-
dent Emerald Beneficial Association and
editor The Vindicator n chosen
one of the Public Stool Commissioners
of New York.
Maurice F. Wilhere married Miss
O’Gormon of the Thirteenth ward lately.
The ward Democratic Committee pro-
poses him for Post Master of Philadel-
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A war on prostitatot in Pittsburgh,
hop Phelan is ted disapproving
of the order &) turn the women into the
By
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am father of the} is:
FRATERNAL CORRECTION.
Griffin’s Journal continues to wage
war against Catholi¢ bewspapers which
publish advertisemen 8 of saloons. These
papers cannot answer the Journal. The
balling of a saloonkeeper is recognized as
dishonorable, The Council df Baltimore
has set it down as such. The spirit of
the United States is antagonistic to the
business of the saloon keeper. — Still
Catholic papers coutinua to advertise a
business which the country frowns upon
and which their own Church officially
direlares to be dishonorable. The Cath-
olic paper which has no higher mission
than the’ advertising ofa Dot reputable
business has noright to exist. 1f Chureh | se
papers cannot be snsta’ ined without dis-
graceful or even doubtful transactions,
whether in their editorial or business,
they should suspend publtcation. Their
continued existence under cloudy con-
ditions is hurtful to Christianity
So 1 . W. Chronicle says.
But the Mirror “under the jurisdiction
of the Cardinal’? sets the example for all
others by publishing a Whiskey Distil
le
‘y ad,
If the Mirror had an editorial not in
accord with his views it would get its
elbow pulled but it prints Rum ads of a
business the ,, Charo officialiy declared
dishonorable.”
The Western Recorder sharply rebukes
a “stop the paper”? subscriber who thinks
that Catholics have generally been on
the wrong side in American affairs,
says to him; we wonder if the wise and
worthy Mr McCarthy ever heard of the
revolutionary war? That was one of the
great questions that ag{ftated this coun-
try and if our critic can read English
and will refer to the history of that event-
ful epoch he will find to bis utter amaze-
nt the name of Barry, the first com-
modore of the American Navy; who un-
mercifully fl .gged the English fleet; he
will fiud the names La Fa ‘ayetle,
DeKalb, DeGrasse, Dahlgreen, Pulaski,
Kosciusko and scores of other leaders
who were Catholics, and he will find also
to his astonishment that they were fight
ing Protestants, . ‘So auch for that part
of giperican history.”? .
~ Phe Western Recorder-eXnriot read “in
any eat history in English or other
ae. that in that ‘eventful epoch”
Barry e first commodore of the
Ameican nay nor that he ever unmerci-
fully flogged any English fleet or that
Dekalb or Pulaski were Catholics and
cannot mention even one of the other
leaders who were Catholies and it can-
not show one Catholic act of LaFayette
or DeGrasse nor can it show a Catholic
leader named Dahlgreen during that
“eventful epoch” nor can it show that
those who did fight then ‘‘were fighting
Protestants” only and not Catholics as
well, for man, f the Hesssians were
Catholics, It was the Catholic Langrave
of Hesse who hired over 16,000 of them
0 England and got back 10,000 and was
paid for the dead and missin;
“So much for that part of American
history” en this JOURNAL tells the
Recorder that ocr people were generally
Doyalists during othat, ee epoch”
but I dont say the: The
Recorder is fighting the antl ( Catholics of
Omaha and Catholics out there have
ued an appe: alt to the. community’ pro-
testing against the insults and odium
with which they are regarded.
Why dont they take sides with the
bigots? That was just what the Ameri-
can Revolution “rebels” were doing in
1775-6 and yet it and other Catholic
papers and authorities want to make out
that Catholics were ‘‘universally” on the
side of the colonies, Well they were not
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am glad to say, They regarded their
fauth as much as the Cutholic Recorder
HOW OAN SHE.
Tere isa serious thought from the
address of the St, Paul T. A. Uni
To 0 speal ‘ak of the direct consequences 0 of
intemperance amon, Catholice, to the
home ‘and to religion, is to tou
part of the evil. The Catl bolic Church
born of the divine love of God, is sent
forth to win men for the kingdom of
Heaven by the loveliness of her
ren’s lives,
enter upon the work of evangelizing
the Ameriean people in any locality
where intemperance is prevalent among
Catholit
FATAL PASSION.
Is it, indeed, not a hopeless task to try
to persuade men that ours is the only
way of raising fallen ten nto aunion with
Divine nature in a nei; hood where
m
beastly of all vices? And how peculiar];
the | unfortunate this is jast now when the
rs the House of
Good ‘Shepard t to them the evil could not
be destroyed when not License it for
money? Its twin Rum is:
breaking up of Protestantism has cast
many thousands of earnest souls adrift
in
search of the true religion.
child-
as oda
STANDARD. SUFFICIENT. SOULS.
“IT wonder the » Archbishop doesn’t advise
The Catholic Standard to take out iw
um ads” said a priest to m
“The ‘Standard men world answer
him that they were only advertising a
tratfic he declared High License was
sufficient for,’? f replied.
Was that, Suficlent? “The plese pace
no reply, 80 ‘ness it was,
I think ee if Cardinal ‘Gitbons
would get that Distillery ad out of the
Mirror the Standard and all others would
follow suit aud clean their colum:
erhaps there are priest's brothers in
that distillery. you that’s the
cret of most of the Rum ads, Soul
Savers and Soul Slayers.
Concerning indecent posters the N. I.
Catholic says Bishop Bradley was a pro-
tester against them:
We may remark here what was recent-
ly remarked by a worthy priest in a
lecture ‘before a Catholic society in Bos-
ton about this very application: we be-
lieve it was Father Charles H. McKenna.
He called the attention of his bearers to
the fact that the petitioners against these
disgraceful posters were all non-Catho-
ics; and complimented the Protestant
laymen upon their action in this regard,
which was indeed an example to their
Catholie brethren. It does frequently
seem as if Catholics generally telt in
cliued to leave matters ae ne, public
morality altogether to the c!
even acting as
business, but belonged exclusively to the
clergy. Whether the clergy may not
have themselves to thank for this bene
of things, where it exists, has bee!
matter of discuseion.
Our brother of the hills of New Hamp-
shire ought to haye said itis a fact that
all these things Catholics leave to their
pastors; that’s the way they are brought),
up, that’s the way pastors want the peo
ple to be—they would soon rush things
to the devil, you know, if they were en-
couraged to be public spirited and to be
active in goods --
It is a mighty strange thing that after
instructing laymen in their religion in
our schovls and colleges they cant be
trusted.
The laity know their business is to say
their prayers, do their religious duties
and to contribute according to their
means; everything else is the priests, If
all is not right blame them.
JUSTICE AT LAST.
The Paulists Calendar is gleeful that
“justice has been done at last’? after
twenty years and freedom of worship
bill signed by the worthy Governor of
New Yor!
came, we may add the very
year the Catholics of New York reelected
President one who once prevented that
bill passing as it ‘‘would embarass‘him.””
At election time Catholics are first for
party and not against their party leader
even if he has denied ‘‘justice” but they
fowl at tre ier partymen who block
ts way
But for ‘Cleveland freedom cf worship
would have Dp had years ago, You
dont like to hear that,
a
An Ohio priest writes: ‘I read your
JOURNAL with a great deal of interest
and bope it will make all the priests who
1 abstainers; since apart alto-
gether from the gi mple ws will
thus give our peop le ‘tt il protect
priests themselves from what is more
dangerous for us than for lay people—
liquor.”
“Tam not a Prohibitionist nor even
an abstainer”™ but the first thing I:did
when I got the Gatholic ae imes was to see
if it advertised Rum and I was disgusted
Bhan tt I found it did” said a well known
ratholi
This “souraal is making Rum ads
The United States Supreme Court on
Nov. 7, decided against the free entry of
tained Blase windows—so in:
ported windows are subjected to pay t!
du laty by this decision, This is a heavy
blow against the Catholic Church of the
United ites, which the greatest
consumer of stained glass windows,
Morning Star.
Iam glad at that “heavy blow”, it was
simply religious robbery to gather money
here to buy glass windows abroad. It is
fanity and worldlines and not piety to
10 80.
T |) ety of our wise form
SPEAK THE TRUTH.
WHAT CARDINAL GIBBONS SAYS,
“Unfortunately, there are many who
are unwilling to overlook the great good
@ paper may be doing, but are quick to
point out some slight error which can
saisly be Femedied.
n who enters the Catholic edi-
torial ebair and is afraid to risk an occa-
sional blunder has mistahen his calling
and is of but little use in the battle of
ruth.”’—Cardinal Gibbons.
So The Catholic Knight? frelates. It
may be but a “slight error’? and not so
grievous as I imagine it to be, hence it
“can be easily remedied” but the Mirror
“under the jurisdiction of the Cardinal’?
prints rum ads and the Knight follows
its example and Catholics drink the rum
* | advertised thus keeping Catholics in the
traffic the Church has declared she wants
them out of.
“The interests of the Church and the
Mustration and defense of her principles
be the leading thought of this jour-
We ave profoundly convinced that
on the principles and influence of the
Catholic Church depend social order and
the perpetuity of our wise form of
renente
‘0 the new Catholic Times says—
tells where. whiskey suld by “the trot
of a priest’? may be had so that “the
principles and influence” of this new
defender of the social order and perpetui-
of government ‘tare
to be belpful” to the traffic the Church
has declared dishonoratle and dont want
even the brothers of priests in.
hind 4
dotal life ougtt not be held as ashield by
any manager. I prefer.the asserter o!
“Tam for the dueats every time’’ princi-
ple than the whiners of “it isa priest’s
WHO ELEOTED CLEVELAND.
“The esteemed Recorder, in commenting
on the demand of the liquor dealers that
Mr. Croker have the naming of the Col-
lector and Postmaster of this city,
moved to fo say: “Surely some one should
Cleveland from hi:
d from his friends,
He knows he cou
been elected without their active support,
and if he is wise he must know that the
success of hfs administration depends
upon recognizing Tammnny Hall, whose
main strength the liquor dealers are, as
the e only Democrai.c urgnization of this
cit: ve”
Referred to Father McKenna;
—_-___
WHO ROBS THE CATHOLIOS?
Lewis Towey, the eloquent Catholic
of Lawrence, thrilled bis audience at the
Academy of Music when he said:
bave worked for total abstinence for the
last twenty years and I rejoice in the
good which our total abstinence societies
five times more than we have gained!’
Marlboro Star.
—= +
It is astonishing how much afraid of
ism. There is
danger from either, for the tendency of
he day is quite in anotber direction,—
Yes and. "they dont know who the-
Puritans were or where they located nor
what they did. Most of our Catholic
E,ditors are as ignorant of the Puritans
as Bob Ingersol is of Catholicity.
Most of our Prelates are pursued by
Puritan ghosts and get as terrified as
babies at boogie men.
Unfortanately some Catholics are too
fave addicted to drinking and this
per has frequently denounced the hate>
fal b habit, but how much worse are they
in that respect than non.Catholics,
So the Western Recorder says but “this
paper’? prints Rum ads to tell where the
@ | dtinking habit can be indulged and that
is much worse than non Catholic papers
do,
Mr. Cleveland could not have carried
personal liberty,—From Editorjal in the
New York Wine ahd Spirit” Gazette
Nov. 15. 1892
ferred to Father McKenna.
[rom Wine and Spirit Gazette, Nov. 20)... ees
