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payabis in advance.
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either aw» it«a» «» bttsi;^* inat-
ters shottid b»6 wi*trdsfiei to TUc Statd ^ j. -u •
liiipatch PuWU:u.-ig Co., anil not t® self a Preabytemn, a great sehoi-
a-.y oo:uaecttid with th« pa- has chosen that very. practice as
per. , - a means of givi:i(r thanks to God on
tior/^ “S?or^n“ , the ordy day whi.h the Ameriean na-
bv lHb writer. . . tion as such worships God?' To at-
■\V; are not responsible for | tend r^ass .it some other time might
govern?n«Tit must no be Ronuii^ized.
We hoped with the retirement ot
Taft the peril would have passed; but
official Washington is afinud to lift
its voice. The pastors of the city
■were right. They advised the Presi
dent to stay aviray from the Thanks-
giring ma.?s; and they had the best
of reasons for their waminy.—Char
ity and Children,
We clip the folloNving, extract from
a sermoji preached by a Catholic
priest iii Sts Louis, named D. S. Phe
lan, and published ia the Weston
Watchman, a Roman Ciatholic paper
of St. Louis, which has a large cir
culation:
Priest Phelan said:
‘‘.A.nd why is it the Church is strong;
why is it ev;erybody is afraid of the
Catholic church? And the American
people are more afraid of her than
any people in the world. Why are
they afraid of thfe Catholic Church?
They know what the Catholic church
means. We of the Catholic church
are ready to go to death for the
ii.:»i«r«d as »eco*i-ciaa» n«».«r ' tairi from the .'?tAte officials recoe- chuirh. b nder Go'l she ia the su-
Muy 10, 19W, M tie post at i pjtion as .-i church. If our President preme object of our worshp. Tel! us
Bwrnngtan, North ! would read a certain document of
A.I of C0i.ec?es of Atarek 8, WJ3. ; American Catholics.
geuoal Protestants, on the contrary,
believe that the “K Oman Catholic mass
' is. the most suj'?rstitious and idolat-
Irous practricc of Eomanism. Now,
! our Presideiity being a Presbyterian
! and a scholar, has given, unconscious-
jly and unwillingly, I grant, the beat
■ piaetical- .illustration to make believe
! that . Roman Catholics are right and
ievavgeiieal Protestants wrong. The
'Roman Catholic Heirarchy at hom^e
and abroad will lejcice at this jind
wiU say, “If the P.oman Catholic mass
is a siipeJ-.stitioui! and idolatrous prac
tice, can you ex; t.iin that the Presi-
derit of the United States, being bim-
of th3 r.orrespocdents.
' be an act of politeness and courtesy.
Subscribers ’will tAKe aotico tkftt n« ibut to atte.^d :nass on. Thahksgi\ ing
jC'-ciiri for sifclsacnjtion. for Th« State i Day as the nation*s President, is an-
Iii.;;>a«* is-iU ba honowd at tkis I other ar.d very different matter.
it is numb*»sd wit* «»»»>•« 1 the main contention of Rom-
ianism in the United States is to ob-
^^ ; he would realize at once that the pa-
What The President Does Not Know. ^ pacy advises as the best poliej’ even
The daily papers have reported that | United States u;;ion between
on our national Thanksgiving Day, j Church and State. The Roman Cath-
President Wilson, in order to iexpress I Heirai-chy will consider the atti-
hia thanks to God, attended a Cath-' tude of our President as a good step
oUc mass. Everyone well acquainted | toward the policy. They will say,
■with the importance and significanse | and they ^1 be correct in saying so,
■which the Roman Catholic Heirarchy |‘"fiiere jg but one day on ■which the
will at once attach to such an act • United States, ss a nation, worships,
cannot tut consider the conduct of ; ^^d on that day we as a church gath-
our admired Preside.it as undise for i gj-ed together to worship publicly,
the interests of his party, as unbe-' the President as such, came to
coming to his office, as inconsistent ug pu'olidy in spite of the fact that
with his past—yea, es greatly mis- he is n Presbyterian. At last we are
leading American people at home and yiuted on some public and official
truly misrepresenting Americal ideals gj.oynd.”
abroad. And t& begin with, it is but Finally, tb.e open favoritism to Rom-
fair to state that I liu not cnticisc shown by our last Fresidant,
the President’s act of yesterday from Taft, has over j^cneroas conces-
th« standpoint of some Protestants : to the affairs of the Philippeans,
■who believe that he began to make attitude in regard to the Indian
concessions to Romanism when he as- g^hools affairs, his practical recogni-
Bumsd his office as President by re- *ion of Cardinal O’Conneil, of Boston,
taining his former private secretary,! princc of the blood, and so on,
TumUlty, a Cailiyiic. No; I am not' the sus^iciors
the man who has gone so far as to qj> millioi^s^ of patriots. To see
praise both in private and in yiablic . truth of this one has but to con-
his American policy in that. I am tj-,g appearance and growth of
a man who believes that true separa- j societies like the Guaraidns of
tion of Church and State and^ Jionest '■ £,;ijerty, the Knights of Luther, and
I so on, and especially the astonishing
i increase in circulation and popularity
. !
fair-play strongly demand that wo 1
choose the fittest men for pifbJic of
fice regardless of any religious con-
siderationa. To exclude !i capable Jew
or an able Catholic, and so on, on
account of his religion, is plainly un-
of “The JiSenace." It would bea pity
to arouse more the suspicions and to
provoke more the sensitiveness of
that large number of Americans, and
fair, sectarian and un-American. And ^
I will say in passing to my protestan- reassure them. The
more so because many of Uiem were
brethren who in this respect differ
from me, that I know as well, if not
better, than many Protestants, the
real doctrines of Roinanism and the
plans and policy of the Roman Cath
olic Heirarchy, as I know also that
a CathoHch as to stand—in case of
conflict—rather with his church than
his country, rather with the ecclesi
astical lavr than the civil law. But
at the same time I know from long
experience and many historical in
stances that the best means of check
ing the encroachment of Eomanism is
not by excluding able and patriotic
Catholics from public ofiiee. On the
contrary, when many truly patriotic
Catholics arc put in responsible pub
lic offices, they will realize by them
selves that thei’e is absolutely incois;-
patatiJity between Romanism and
Americanism, and then they will
speak out and expose the abusing
claims of their own church, as has
hiipperied in Italy, France and Spain.
To believe that patriotic native Amer
ican Catholics—and there are many
such—^will endure the yoke of priest
hood in public affairs, when Spanish,
Italian and French laymen have be
come emancipated from that priestly
tutelage, is to forget that we live in
America and in the twentieth cen
tury.
Nevertheless I repeat that the con
duct of our President on Thanksgiv
ing Day ■was unwise for the interests
of his party, unbecoming to his of
fice, and inconsistent with his past.
The only public and ofiicial religi
ous observance prescribed by a na
tional custom ia our country is
Thanksgiving Day. When the Presi
dent of the Unit^ States on such a
day, being as he is a Protestant and
a Presbyterian, leaves his own church
and attends service in a Catholic
chaffch, his attitude -wiil unquestion
ably be interpreted both by the Rom
an Catholic Heirarchy and by many
Americens as indicating favoritism to
Romanism. I know that many Pro
testants who know our President •will
see in that act only hia ■willingness to
disappointed in his choice of a private
secretary.
I truly believe that in all situations
there is no other way to follow wor
thy of at rue American statesman
than tha one taken by ex-President
Roosevelt in Home—to appear neither
as Catholic nor Protestant, but as
American.
The above statements were made
by a man who believes in fair piay,
who Icves the Reman Catholic people
and who greatly admires and trusts
our President.—I'rasbytcrian Stand
ard.
that we think more of the church
than we do of the United States; of
course we do. Tell us -w- are Catholics
first and Americans or Englishipen
afterwards; of course we are. Tell us,
in the conflict between the Church and
the civil government we talce the side
of the church; of course we do. Why,
if the government of the United
States \vere at war with the Church
we would say tomorrow
“TO HELL WITH THE GOVERN
MENT OP THE UNITED STATES,
and if the Church and all the govern
ments of the world were at ■war we
would say, to hell ■with all the gov
ernments of the world. They say we
are Catholics first and Americans de
cidedly afterwards. There is no doubt
about it. We are Catholics first and
Tx'e }f>vn the iwore than we
love any and all the governments of
the world. Let the governments of
the world steer clear of the Catholic
church; lei the emperors, let the kings,
and the presidents not come into con
flict with the head of the Catholic
Church. Because the Catholic Church
is everything to the Catholic? of the
world; they renounce all nationalities
where thsre is a question of loyalty
to her. And why is it the Pope is
WHAT THE PRE GALLEY THREE
so strong? Why is it that this coun
try, where we have only seven per
cent of the population, the Catholic
Church is sc much fiiared? She. is lov-
I ed by all her children and tp^ed by
everybody. Why is it the Pope is such
a tremendous power? Why, the Pope
is the ruler of the world. AH the
emperors, ail the kinds, anil the
prices, all the presidents of the world
today are as these altar obys of mine.
The pope is the ruler of the .world.
Why? Because he is the ruler of the
Catholics of the world;;and the Cath
olics of all the world would die for the
rights of the pope."
C.4.TH0LIC AGGRESSION.
This paper does not believe in the
methods of The Menace. It has no
liking wh.itever for men like J. J.
Crowly, who run around the country
and band out hot words about the
riests—words that are not only hot
but coarse and obscei'.e. It does not
believe that the best way to advocate
the truth is by abuse of other people.
But while all this is true vre are
alarmed at the constant encroach
ments the Catholics are mal.ing
hrough governmental favors and in
fluence. There is no danger whatever
that the Catholics will ever make
•■ubstantial headway through the
methods emnloyed by other denomi
nations. They tried to evangelize
Wake county, and faiied. Catholics
■annot compete with Protestants in
winning; adherents. They cannot stand
the light.
But they can gain a foothold
through governmental influence. With
Washington as their center they can
reach the States, and this is that
hope. We admir« the President of the
United States for his wisdom, tact
and great common sense. He hss
made fewer mistakes perhaps than
any President of this generation.
But he made one. The Presbyter
ian Standard apologij^es for his at
tending the Catholic mass on Thanks-
eivirg on the ground that as he is a
Presbyterian and also a Scotch Irish-
promote good-wDI and mutual under-jnian he became stubborn and did as
standing between all American repub- he pleased. This may be an excuse
lies; bat many others, and especiali, * hut it ts not a reason. This act of
the Roman Catholic Heirarchy, ■will the President opened tlie road for the
give to his act another and very dlf- Catholics toward their goal,
ferent meaning. The more so i,,. Tumulty, the President's secretary,
canse the service attended ■was a Caui-1 is an intense Catholic, and he is busy
olic maos. One of the main conten- j placinir men of hia faith 'wherever
tions between Romanism and Pro- they can serve Gatholici^. H« ia in
testanUwH is practice of the mass. I favor x»ith ,h«j: Chi«f,' aB4 Ms
Cathoiies say that Protestantism is * position enables him to help his church
not » Real religion becausc it lacks' toward the place of power in oar po-
the offering of any real sacrifice it Utical life toward which it is bending
has no mass. Far Roman Catholics every .energy,
thw# is in fact no other sseriflce' Protart«it»
of God bat tii« mM«. ETaa- w»re waking up to &e situation. Tbit
The Scramble.
When the pie is opened ths birds
begin to sing, whether they are Dem
ocratic or Republican birds; and it is
the same old song. The vwjrds are
different but the music is the same.
The scramble that has bee.n going o.i
about Washington and the scrapping
i.hat has filled the air at home for the
past six months, are familiar, but dis
gusting. The President, great and
strong as he is, has yielded to the
ressure from without and has vicla-
ed his purpose not to remove any
•iTice holder for political reasons. We
:jink it would Jiave teen a great deal
uore seemly not so s y prudent, foi
he administration to have allowed
Messrs. Logan, Seawell and Dockery
o have served out their terms. They
-■id held their offices and discharged
their duties under this administration
for nine months and only about 60
iays remained to them. But little
time has been saved to the Democrats
and a great deal of just criticism has
been passed; nor is this the Iswt of
this matter. The people of the Unit
ed States are not particularly inter
ested in providing places for politi-
;ians; what they are interested in
is efficient and capable service on the
part of officer holders. Mr. Wilson is
too big and broad a man to allow a
few partisans to discredit the great
work of his administration by involv
ing: a lot of hungry wire ptillers in a
tow over the distributior. of the of
fice.';. It was Cleveland who made
the wise remark that “public office
is a public trust.” It seems to be
:oramonly regarded around Washing
ton ds a private snap. The wonderful
thing about the whole business is the
strange fascination there is about a
public office for the average man.
Some people will abandon a good bus
iness that furnishes an ample incoase
for a precarious period of office hold
ing that does not yi^d a competency
for the present and promises nothing
for the future. Happy the man i^o
enters the new year with no bee bazz-
ing in his bonnet.—Charity abd C3iil-
dren.
Aa AppMl for Hel|i M Bahatf ot Ja-
puu
Washington, Jan. IS.—Prosidsnt
Wilson ai the head ot the Aaiariaan
Red Cross, late today issu*d an appaal
to the American pwpl« for foi^ to
assist the people ot Japan, mz*
suffering not only from earthqaakes,
hilt from failure ot enpt.
The President’s appeal follows:
“Our sistor nation of Japan to «nf-
fering from two v&ry serious disas
ters. The failure of crops in the
nf'rthe.n.'itern part of that country has
brought hundreds of thbusanda of per>
sons face to faro with the terrible
misery of slow starvation, and in the
soiithivestern island of Kiushu, a sud
den great volcanic eruption has car
ried death and desolation to lart>e
nninbers in a thickly populated dis
trict.
“I apepal to the humanity of our
American people that they may give
e.xpression of their sympathy for the
suffering and distress of so many of
their fellowiiien by geneMus contri
butions for their aid. SuA eontriba-
tions can be made to the local Red
Cross treasurers or sent dii^tly to
the American Red Cross, Washington,
D. C."
Red Cross headquarters announced
tonight that an appeal had been sent
out to all State chapters asking local
chapters to gther the funds.
Pete Crafti, a Pet Dog, Baa FaQea
B.
Big loventory Sale of
Men’s and Boy’s Cloth
ing, Beginning
Perhaps
your boy or gir! is in need of
a new pair of shoes these
cold days, if so we have a
good selection of sturdy, S!>1-
jd leather shoes made ex
pressly for the boy or girl
that demands only the best of
leather.s to withstand the
many hard knocks of tbe sids
walks and other rough uses
that they are expected to go
up against.
Oar shoes ■will come as
nearly meeting these require
ments as it is possible to
make a shoe.
FOSTER SHOE COMPANY,
Buriington. N. C.
Pain Fill.
Dr. Miles*
Anii-Fam Pills
will ymsp &s th«y
!)«▼« hftlped others.
Good for sK kinds ot ptui.
ITsed to rellevs Heeialgia, Baad-
SKihek NervoasBess, RhcametisaB,
Scia£tc«i Kidney Pains, I innfcajffi,
Losomotw AianAa, SwdneiMt
3taa«ac6ache, C&rsiokn«9^ Stti-
labiU^ and for pain in asy past
ilie bodlr.
*1 Save ared far. MlSss' JMS-PmIb
P*» •*«« -srtA
ami fiari tim oae pBI InftiKM))
T^lef fn a very gitoTt Slua
t jtn tottsUersJ^ «tth nea-
atgla to «W! »ea» at tiffiqs, tnS
fkiS tfia AntS'PaiRL off
Tie Du. saw Btnmttw
*«• tKxaxt s»n^rtne «ad ! tatma-
mmta tb*m to f^JVnaK*’
eat»jo3K
ta eaOuoA St. Sm AnOneiaw To*.
At cK (Sfvcaim. 2S dMsa asa «
wti.es MKBtOAI. eo.. aitttart. SM.
Before taking Stock it ia our purpose to imtnediately nct,ce
our iarjfe sifcck of Men’s and Boy’s CJpthiiijr. ^
This is your opportunity to buy Suita and Ovtrcoata at a g
great saving in price. The worst of the winter is yet to s
some, why not take advantage of ihe low prices we are I
offering and save money on the appearel jou must have for
comfort and good diess?
HOW THE PRIC ES ARE CUT
$25.00 Suits at .. $16.50
$20.00 Saits at $13.50
$18.00 Suits at $12.00
$15.00 Siuts at $ 9.50
$12.50 Saits at $ 8.00
This Inventory Sale means Ftir.fthiiig to \tu. You krow
we never advertise arythirg wf ptt j^rd Vf-alMsjs
m ke goou every promise. Cn;e and see for jtuiftlf.
k GOODMAN
TBE HOME OF GOOD (lOlI.ES
Bujlingtoji NoilhCaroiHa
One
r
Will bring The Twice-
A-Week Dispatch to
your door twice-a-
week twelve mntbs.
Buchan’s 5-10 & 25 t ent Stoic.
We have decided to put ia t
line of dry goods which ^iii be
sold at popu.’ar prices.
Come in and let us show >ou
the goods and giv*“, you the price,
BUCHANAN’S
5-1® & 25 Ceat Store
Eurliogton - - Nofth Caro’ina
Sna.pp—Well, ell the fools ar« not
dead yet.
Mrs. Snapp—I’m glad of it. 1 nw-
er did look wall in black.—EMtm
Tnuucript.
■Woman-l,lke.
“Judge,” said the forewoman of
the jury of ladies, “we want to sp«ak
to you aboiJt that ses^ad verdict we
just rendered."
“WdK Sadies?"
"Can we nnasftl h waA »d^ a pMt-
•eript?~-1V*diington
Play No Favorites.
Hostess (gushingly)—^Theytell me,
doctor, you are a perfect lady-killer.
Doctor (modestly)—assure you,
my dear madam, I make no distinc
tion whatever between the sexes.—
Tattler.
w,“^J2dFpto1oVelac, etaoin shrdluln
Vasaei,
Mlinist^—I* ybar jMJor fathra* any
better »y d^?
yes. He is so much
b«t^ti#'iSltUt^s stopped prayin'
■ ^ "r-J •
What Did Mr. Bryea Mean?
WwHngton, Jan. 2S.~Vemaerxts
m the capital were gossiping today
ovffi- whether Secretary Bryan wear.t
to launch a senatorial boom when at
a Dem^ratic dinner last night he de-
clarfcd it had been hia ambition si ce
boyhood to sit in the United States
Senate. His owa lyj-esr, ha said, nil
through his earlier ^ears had been
oased on a hope difet he eventually
woi^d go to the Sonata. «
Prfees cit hislf at Ralph's Place..