CATHOLIC NEWS AND THE DAILIES.
THE Catholic Mirror, of August 4, has the following: At the closing meeting of the Catholic Education Congress, recently held in Cleveland, Rev. Francis T. Moran, local chairman, in his address to the assembled audience of three thousand or more, took occasion to protest against the attitude of the daily press, as quoted in the Catholic Standard and Times. The Catholic Educational Association, said Father Moran, was a national movement. Its sessions had been of the deepest and most general interest. Yet it had been most inadequately reported by the local papers in a city of 150,000 Catholics. He declared that this discrimination in regard to Catholic events, far from being singular in this instance, seemed to be the settled policy of the secular newspapers. The Editor of the Mirror, admitting that this may be true of the Cleveland papers, suggests that the statement is "a little broad" in general, "is a little bit too sweeping," and continues: It is well to give credit where credit is due, and to certain of our great dailies Father Moran's declarations can not apply at all. We make this statement without reservation, and in extenuation of our standpoint we cite the conduct of the Baltimore papers on the occasion of the centenary of our Cathedral. With possibly one exception the newspapers of Baltimore took a livelier interest in that great affair, than in any other one occurrence in this city. For many days in advance of the celebration they gave careful accounts of the preparations under way; cuts and sketches of the different prelates who were to be in attendance lent almost a Catholic appearance to their pages, and, apparently no effort was spared to be up-to-date and accurate in this regard. Few who were in Baltimore at that time can forget the appearance of the Sun paper the day after the ceremonies. Page after page was devoted entirely to the magnificent sermons of those famous prelates who spoke to the assembled thousands. Photographs of the leading dignitaries were reproduced with lavish carelessness as to space consumed, and every little detail was given a position of prominence. In fact the news of the outside world was subservient to the interests and the doings of Catholic Baltimore and her visitors. Indeed, this desire to report everything in any way connected with the celebration continued until the last prelate was well on his homeward way, and even then the echoes of the great gathering, in the form of anecdotes, pleasant tales of the visitors, and "sidelights" of the whole affair appeared from time to time. Had they been Protestants, or a strictly non-sectarian body, more space and attention could not have been given them—perhaps not quite so much. And what the Mirror says of Baltimore papers is generally true. Catholic doings, so far as we have observed, get more notice in description and illustration than all the Protestant doings combined. The daily press is under the influence of the Roman Catholic Church.