The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-09-20

anu ule III tue CnuECn. 1nc history u
his lie shows that he rendered servicei
to the church that had endeared him t
some OF It's most active missionarywOrkers
The Fre0aaR's Journal ignores this view OI
his status altogether, and speaks OF hi'
case as ifthc real issue was whether non
Catholic should be forced into a Catholic
cemetery for burial. The Privy Council
did not make decree that anybody
might he buried in n Catholic cemetery
regardless Of his or her religious status
when they died, but simply that Guibord
upon the basis oEthe facts proved in re-
gard TO him, should be thus buried
What were these facts?
They were, SO far as made public, thai
Guibord belonged to an Institute-a sort
Of Catholic Library Association-on
whose shelves were certain books Of a
character displcasing to the Bishop oi
"uulICHlF lHt HlubculGht VI " ltAuluH
member Of the Institute is in these words
Gle (the Bishop objected to our insti-
"tute because there were certain volumes
"in / that Catholics should not read. We
"at once assured him Of our ignorance Of
"the fact, aud sent him one Of our cata.
"logues with the request that he would
"crOss out the names Of all books that
"werc Objectionable. lie refused to do
this, When GuibOrd died the Bishop
refused to bury him because he was q
"membcr OF the Canadien Institute but
"wlry did he not refuse to bury many
"Othcr members Of the society who have
"sncc died, and whose bodies now rest in
"consccratcd ground under the holy shad-
COW Of the cross
From this il seems that Guibord was
singled out for some reason from among
the other members Of the institute and
refused burial. Why this was the case
does not appear Nor does it Oppearthat
any member Of the institute knew any
reason why he should be made an exam.
pie. Ills friends seem to have been sur.
prised at the Bishops refusal to bury
him in the Catholic cemetery, and to have
been so confident that injustice and wrong
had been done to him that they at once
took steps to vindicate hi' rights by an ap.
peal to the courts. They were 80 conf.
dent Of the Justice Of their cause that
they carried it up to the Privy Council
and there obtained not only an order fOr
permission to bury Guibord in the Gem.
etcry from which he had been excluded,
but II was further ordered TINT the de.
"iendants do pay to the Canalicn Insti.
"tutc all the costs Of the widow in all the
clover courts, except such costs rs were
accustomed by the plea Of rccusaiiO juiiciS,
(which should be borne by the appellants
"Nnd Likewise the sum Of Cl,070 ls4 4d
Sterling for the costs Of this appeal"
These premises, which are notso much
rs alluded To by the FrccmdR's Journal, go
to show that the act Of the Bishop Of
Montreal in refusing burial to Guibord
was altogether arbitrary. And yet these
premises only present the case, to borrow
one Of that papers phrases, in its "owcst
plane" Ahigher plane presents it some
what in this wise
Here is an institute founded for the
purpose Of mental culture and general
Improvement. II is composed Of respect
able nnd responsible citizens against
whom no charge is laid other than that
their institute has some hooks on its
shelves Objectionable to the Bishop Of the
church TO which they belong. lie, the
Bishop, undertakes to say what books
these respectable and responsible citizens
shall read. IN other words, he under
takcs to set bounds TO their knowledge
their intelllgence-to put their intellects
in clamp, just as the Chinese put ulo feet
Of their children in an iron shoe, in order
to mould and dwarf them and make them
conform to their ideas Of proportion in
stead Of allowing them their natural
growth. Because these gentlemen refuse to
disconncct themselves with their institute
the Bishop places ii under ecclesiastical
ban aud refuses to allow a certain ono Of
its members Christian burial when dead.
The Ftceman's Journal sees nothing to
deprecate or tcplore in this view Of the
case. All that II sees and deploreS is the
refusal Of a Catholic TO submit himself
into the hands Of his Bishop, to have his
intellectual faculties, like clay in the
hands Of the potter, moulded outside Of
his own free agency. II affects TO see IN
the decision Of the Privy Council Of Eng
land "prOgress" toward n condition Of
things that will finally evcntuate in the
privacy Of Catholic homes being invaded,
us II there was any possible relation be-
tween decree enforcing II right to burial
In n cemetery and M unlawful invasion
Of 4 citizens household.
People who are not under the mental
and spiritual vassnlgc Of which the Free
m0n's journal is the.cllOmpion, can afford
to smile inpity at its dcprecatory apology
fort the mob and its expression Of prefer.
ence for the course proposed 10 he pnr-
sucd by the bishop Of Montreal toward
the remains Of CiuiboFh. What the JOurn.
al would prefer to see would be the Bish-
ops programme carried out, viz n line oi
tlennrcalion drawn around Gdibofd's
grave in the process Of recommending
the cemclcry-leaving the "liOle in
which the body Of unibOrd had
been deposited to be forever All
accnrscd spot. "Therc would be some