The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-11-14
CATHOLIC CONGRESS.
Yesterday the Last Day of the
Catholic Convention.
Important Addresses Made by
Prominent Men.
A Complete Report Of the Com.
mittee on Resolutions.
Joseph HilIerman Hanged for
the Murder OF a PeddIer.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Nov. 12.-The con-
Guiding session of the great Congress
of Catholic Lsymen was held to-day
with all the enthusiasm and crush of
spectators that characterized the open
ing meetings. Hon. Honore Mercier,
prime minister of Quebec. made an
address to the congress that was in
many respectsOn one of the most rousing
to the delegates heard this week in
Baltimore.
Delegate Fagin, of New York, Of
fered a resolution which was adopted
with rush rendering, on behalf of the
congress, the most cordial greetings to
the people Of Canada and acknowledge
ing their warm sentiments of regard
as expressed by Premier MERCER and
MonsignOr G4dd, of England. The
special representative of Cardinal
Manning briefly congratulated the
congress on its success, and following
him came long paper on philan-
thropy by Peter l.. FOy, of st. Louis,
Edmund L. Dunn, of Florida,
treated eXtempoTaneously his subject
The Right OF the State in Educa-
tiOn.'
Religion and education was treated
at length by tue paper of w. l.. J.elly,
of st. Paul. He took the ground that
the reasons why questions relating to
this subject had yet no solution abso-
lutely satisfactory to the Christian peo-
pie of the country as whole, and one
tending to the good of the nation,
were the absence of fairness on each
side of the discussion, in the prejudice
against the Catholic church honestly
entertained by many Protestants, and
third, the ictivity or infidels and So
called lndifferentistS in using that
prejudice to create division among the
Christian church, Catholic and Pro
testant. He declared that no one but
mailman would advocate the deStruc-
ton of the magnificent system of
American public schools. Bring back
TO their teaching positive relig-
ion so that the children may
appreciate the fatherhood of GOD
and we have aperfect school.
The paper of II. j. Spanhorst of st.
Louis dealt with the subject of ''SocIe-
ties" The bulk of the paper was de-
voted to organizations which are char
liable and benevolent in character.
He urged all Catholics to join some
society, arguing that in our time unless
one is member of some organization
he is virtually isolated from his fellow
men. The speaker thought Catholics
should have in congress and state leg
islatureS there legitimate member or
representative men, that the number
at present is very small compared to
what the proportion of the population
would justify.
The paper of Condo r. Palm of st.
Louis was on Catholic American litera-
ture. He pointed out that peculiar
and undue influences had retarded
Catholic literature here. But the times
have changed and the achievements of
Brownson and Hecker pointed out the
possibilities of the future.
Sunday Observance, was the title
of a paper by Manly b. Tello of Cleve-
land, He took the ground that in
dealing with the question the Catholic
mas to do with the rights of others and
has to take into practical consideration
the state of American society in which
he lives. The prevailing manners of
our county in kind, though not alway S
in degree, are to be supported. The
dominant manners of our country are
the manners of Americans. and we are
Americans. | advocate. then. that
Catholics despite rebuff and injustice,
overlooking ZealOtry, SEEK alliance with
Protestant Christians for proper Sun
Nf1 OOSOA
The next paper was Labor and
Capital" by Mr.. William Richards, of
WaShinton. He announced its pur-
pose as being to contrast the social
condition of times when the mission
of charity w9s acknowledged and ac-
cepted by all and present where free
competition has been substituted for
charity. The speaker unhesitatingly
asserted that Notwithstanding sophis-
tical callocation of facts and figures
the comparatively few rich are getting
richer, the multitudinous poor are get
ting more numerous and poorer, and
that pauperism is more general, more
Wretched and more rapidly increasing,
than in any prior age of the world.
there can be no real mitigation of pau
peTlSm until the whole system of mod
ern thought Is reconstructed and we
come to some sense of what the eter-
nal VeritieS really are and on the
Catholic church, the speaker declared.
can teach those verities and solve the
problems that are perpieXing the souls
OF men. Thank Col. the iHdiciuus.
eaEDest and sympathiZing efforts of
Cardinal Gibbons ar Rome i'll behalf of
the knights of Labor and the cause OF
freedom i'll our glorious country and
the magnificent efforts of Cardinal
Manning in his recent grand work of
rPconciling the rich and baughty en-
ployers and the poor laborers in Lon
don have lifted UP the hearts aud the
hones OF the waiting and despaiIing
millions.
After recess a committee cn future
congresses was appointed.
Joseph j. O'Donohue Of New York,
chairman of the committee to wait
upon President Harrison at Washing
ton and invite him to be present, le-
ported that the committee had Just re-
turned from Washington and were
proud to say that they had been re-
ceiYed cordially and handsomely by the
president lCheers President Harri-
son had said that were it not that be
was preparing his message he would
accept the invitation gladly and in any
event he would be With the delegates
IN w aShlpgtOn t. morrow at the dedi-
cation OF the great new university.
The request was enthusiastically re-
ceived and the obligations of the con-
gTess to the president and the commit
tee was expressed by more cheering and
rising vote. The reading Of the pa
per was then resumed.
Tonight the net result of the pio-
ceedngs of the first congress of the
Catholic Laymen of the United States
was made manifest in pl.tft rm
adopted with enthusiastic unanimity.
The committee having in charge the
preparation OF the platform was in
nearly continuous session last evening
and through to-day until almost the
moment the report was submitted to
the congress. Judge Morgan Of the
New York supreme court presented
the document before tho assembled
spectators and delegates.
The platform states that it is fitting
that delegates should show their fellow
countreymen the true relations tina.
exist between the church they obey and
love and the government of their
choice. The document then declares
In substance as follows: We rejoice in
the marvellous growth of our country
and claim that there is no antagonisn
between the laws of our church and
the laws of our land; we repudiate