Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-28
BISHOP VS.. POLES.
A Powerful Congregation Able Il
Tell Right From Wrong Wants
Justice.
The purity Of tho Altar. the sncredncss
OF Home, tho Cause Of Religion
Defended.

DETROIT, MIcn., Dec. "a. Trouble
was anticipated by the police
among the Poles this morning,
and force was on hand TO
duell any outbreak. The crowd was on
hand all day, and once or twice there
were mutterings as OF n coming uproar,
but the people were kept moving, and
nothing serious resulted. A few arrests
were made for drunkenness or rough be-
havior, but there was no sharp contest
between the officers Of the l8w and the
dissatisfied church people. The crowd
was composed largely of sight-seers,
who had no interest In the church
troubles. This evening the police
are on duty, but lind little to be feared
from the mob, 1t seeming TO have spent
its force. No outbreak rs now looked Tor
before New Years day. In regard to the
disturbances and the charges against
Father Kolasinski, Bishop Borgess. OBJ
iects TO being called despot, and says IN
explanation Of his actions "Ordinarily
when charges are preferred against
priest he is allowed TO continue In the
performance OF his pastoral duties, since
70 suspend him instanter might work great
Injustice. These are charges, howeverot
such q serious character for which the
good Of religion and the salvation OF souls
REQUIRE immediate suspension, IL the owl
dence sustaining them Is OF a
proper character. Such charges
were preferred against Koasnski
and the evidence in support of them II
overwhelming. He has been charged
with immortality of such character that
he should not be allowed TO stand as
Catholic altar for single hour, and no
pure home should permit him TO cross its
thresbhold." Under these circumstances
the bishop deemed it his duty to religion,
10 the community and TO family purity to
suspend his functions. While ondeayor-
ing TO find suitable successor, he re-
questcd Father Dombrowskl, q worthy
priest, TO act as temporary pastor, and the
latter consented to do SO, but with great
reluctance, as he knew from Kolasinskl's
character what treatment might be eX-
pected from him. He Immediately began
10 pose as a martyr and stir
up rebellion among the peo-
pie. The bishop did not address
them Christmas day, because he had no
reliable interpreter, and also because the
whole object OF the demonstration was
bulldozing of the worst type, and Kola-
siuski was at the bottom OF II. The
bishop sincerely desires that the people
will abandon a man who Is misleading
them for his own purposes, and that
they will believe he has their interests
sincerely at heart, and that at the first
opportunity they win allow him to do so
he viii supply them with pastor worthy
of them and of the altar TO which they
are so much attached Father Kola-
sinski also stated his position in
an interview, In which he states
that he believes that the bishop Is
wrong and that he - right, and that
he should not have been removed until
the bishop publicly announced his reasons
therefor. He believes the trouble win
not be ended until he Is relnstated as
pastor Of the church, and says lie was
convicted without Il hearing He proposed
to stay in the city until he gets what he
considers is due him. The reverend gem
tleman grew warm in the protest that he
was innocent, and said, IN conclusion,
that the ouly way to solve the difficulty
was for the bishop to listen to the prayers
Of a powerful congregation, which is able
10 Judge wrong from right. "Closing
their church against them on one of the
most important holy days in the year ~
painful TO them, and it cannot be won
dered at that they desire to worship in
their own ediilce with one whom they
want as their pastor.n