Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-11-14


their lights shone. In all thirty. six
churches, score of schools and ssyiums
and 10000 Catholic homes were illumi.
mated, and the general effect was novel
I and pleasing.
/ The reception tonight at the Con-
cordia Opera House was notable gath
erins. The cardinals, all the archbishops
and the most prominent Catholic laymen
OF the country were in attendance. Hon
Charles b. Roberts of Westminster, Nd,
delivered the address of welcome, and
Arch bishop Rider OF Cincinnati, re-
sponded. There were also several other
addresses.
At ILoyols College to night Premier
hercier was given dinner by the
presiden: and faculty. Among the guests
was Cardinal Tascheresu. number OF
the lsity met at this college and
organized National Alumni Association
Of graduates of Jesuit colleges in the
United States.
NOTABLE PAPERS BEAD.
BALTIMORE Nov. l2.-The concluding
Sessions OF the great congress OF Catho.
lie lsymen were held to-day with all the
enlhusiasm and crush OF spectators that
characterized the opening meetings.
Hen. Honore Mercier. prime minister
of Quebec, made an address to the con.
gress that vas in many respects ons OF
tbs most rousing the delegates heard this
week in Baltimore.
Mr.. Mercier declared he regarded the
special invitation extended to him to
speak an honor to himself and to the
neighboring country from which he csms.
His reference to ''the recently repaired
despoilment OF the Jesuits By the same
George III. who had despoiled the Amer.
lean revolutionary fathers OF their liber
ties and rights was oheered again and
I again. The restitution set BY the Cana
/ dian government, he said, will long stand
an honorable act before mankind. AS
\ to the status of Catholics, whether
\ in CaLads or the Cnited States, the
world should know that loyalty 10 God
means loyalty TO the state. Cheers. I
/ To the American poet Longteliow and
his pathetic allusicns to Catholics and
Canadians Mr.. Mercer paid tribute Of
noble eloquence, concluding with
quotation from the poets Snip Of State
which the premier so used as to imply
that it expressed the feelings of Quebec
to the American Union. Wild applause. |
( Delegate Fa2in Of New York offered a
resolution which was adopted with
rush, rendering on behalf OF the congress
the most cordial greetings 20 the people
OF Canada and acknowledging their warm
sentiments OF regard as expressed By
Premier Mercier.
Mgr. Gadd OF England, the representa-
tive Of Cardinal Manning, briefly con.
graduated the congress on its success
and following him came a long paper on
Philanthropy By Peter L. Foy Of St.
Louis.
SHOULD HAVE LEGISLATIVE REPREsEETA rIoS
The paper of Il. }. Spaunhorstt OF ST.
Louis dealt with the sGbject OF 'Socie.
ties" The bulk Of the paper was de.
voted TO organizations which are chart.
table and benevolent IN character. He
urged all Catholics to join some society,
arguing that in cur time unless one is a
member OF some organization he is yir-
tually isolated from his fellow. men. A
plan OF organizing limited numbers of
representative Catholic men in diocesan
and parish societ!es was suggested as
guards OF the great boon OF civil and re-
llgious liberty. In addition such orRan-
izations could hold annual state diocesan
conventions and submit matters for
Catholic congresses to act upon. The
speaker thought Catholics should have
in Congress and state Legislatures their
legitimate number of representative men.
That the number at present is very small
compared to what tue proportion OF pop
ulation would justify.
CATHOLIC AMERICAN LITERATURE.
The paper OF Oonde B. Pallin Of St.
Louis was on Catholic American Lltera.
tura." He pointed out that the national
literature had been Strengthened in its
growth by the absenca Of favo.ing condi.
tons, and that peculiar and unique in.
huences had retarded Catholic literature
here. But the times have changed, and
the achievements OF Brownson and
Hecker pointed ont the possibilities OF
the future.
THE BIcH RICHER THE POOR PooERR.
The next paper was Labor and Oapi.
tal by Mr.. william Richards OF Wash.
ington. He announced its purpoge az
being to contrast the social condition OF
times, when the mission of charity wal
acknowledged and accepted by all, and
tue present when free competition has
been substituted for charity. Antwerp
when that city was the commercial cap.
ia! Of the world and the Catholic religion
held sway with its great safe. guerdB, the
confessional AID charity was inhtanceC
as an illustration, and dweit upon siab
oratsly. The speaker unhesitAtinRlN
asserted notwithstanding aophistica
co!location of facts and figures that tbt
comparatively rich are getting richer, IL,
mnitltudlnous poor are getting more
numerous and poorer, and that pauperisu
is more general, more wretched and NOR,
rapidly increasing than in any prior 40.
OF the world. Thank God, however
there is to day hope for bettsrment o.
our condition, it is In the tendency to re
combine the Isolated particles into con
solldgted union, cooperating harmoni
ousiy once more on the primoriial prin
cipe OF the brotherhood Of man. as 10
example in the powerful organization O
the knights of Lsbos. But such yolun
tary associations are only partial RENE
dies. They do not include all tn,
people, and they as well as the brillian
/ schemes for the state assumption o
], all industrial enterprises and publi
establishments calculated by EdWar,
Bellemy must fail to accomplish III
: great end Of human society simply be
:. cause they do not embcdy or make plac
: for the divine principle of charity
= There can be no real mitigation o
pauperlsm until the whole system O
. modern thought is reconstructed and "
come to some sense OF what the eterna
= ve.!tie7 really are. Only the Catholi
!, church, the speaker declsred, Can teacl
, those yerities and solve the problem
q that are perplexing the souls of men. Fl
asked; "Hhve You forgotten the vas
crowds OF epthusiastic men and woroel
a who not long ago imagined that tn
Z hooed.iOr IneRHenper had nnnaara