The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-04
ARCHBISHOP ,MccABEs pAsro RAJ.
He Argues Against the cnmmunistic Spirit
thu" No Rent Proclamation,

He Argues Against the cnmmunissic Spirit Of
thu" No Rent " Proclamation.
DUBLIN, Oct. 3O.-Archhishop McCabe
delivered an important pastoral to-day. The
following Is an extract referring to the pres
ent crisis, kindly furnished me by His
Grace: 1.-THE condition Of our dear country
calls for our bitterest tears. Only little
while ago our own city presented scenes Of
lawlessness which might Disgrace IN un-
christian rabble. 1t is true the evil doors
were but handful Of Misguided youths, but
1t is nevertheless true that evil doors are in
our midst, and that the youthful culprits Of
to-day may become the hardened pro1igste.
Society fails In Its duties TO the rising gener-
alton. We feel ourselves Is Very Reverend
Fathers imperatively called on to enter our
most solemn protest against another indig-
nifty which has been offered to the moral
sense Of our people in this city-the center
of Catholic ireland.
"Only few days ago over-confding men
were startled from their dream of security
by the publication Of . manifesto which at
once assaulted the eternal law Of God and
struck at the foundation on which society
rests. Passing over oil other cases In which
these rights are threatened, let US confine
ourselves to one particular class Of the CON-
munity. There are hundreds of honest, in
dustrious men among US, who, trusting to
their faith in public conscience and calcu-
lating on the security which a duly consti-
tuted government is expected to give, have
invested the fruits Of their years Of toll and
self-sacrifice in property from which they
hoped they and theirs might draw the means
of an honorable subsistence. But all this
must be swept away by the breath of hand
full Of men, the bulk Of whom have neither
stake nor interest In the country. We dis
regarded the warning which cautioned us
against the danger that lurked in the spe-
cious programmes pretending to aim at
naught save the redress of the wrongs of an
oppressed people. But now Gods provi-
dence has forced from the lips of the unsafe
guides an ayowal Of their aims, and II the
notice to pay no rents be not the teaching of
communism, communism Is yet to be de-
fined. Let no one suppose, Very Reverend
Fathers, that we have word to say In de-
Tense Of the oppressors Of the poor. We
feel as keenly as the most outspoken of our
brethren, inspired by the ministration Of
cruel injuries, the evils worked by bad laws
ON the defenseless tenants Of Ireland. But
we must not allow our adherence of injus-
tice to betray us into q reputation of the
claims Of justice. II to-day my landlords
claim to his just rent be questioned, who
will guarantee the tenants right to his out
lay Of money and toll tomorrow? Injas-
tice will repay injustice, and in the day Of
retribution the wrong doer will be laughed
at when he seeks for sympathy in his
troubles. The issue Is now plainly put to
our people, which of two paths they will
follow: the men who have marked out the
road that must lead to anger with God and
disgrace before the Christian world, or that
pointed out by the Bishops Of Ireland, who,
through glorious and unbroken succession
Of fourteen centuries are heirs of those who
encountered poverty and exile and dared
death In Its most terrible form for the people
with whom their lives are irrevocably bound
up"