Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-06-27

ing in trade or industry. They
are mostly cooks, walters, factory
hands, cheap carpeuters- indiferen
tradesmen and so on. There are NJ
colonies Of them settled on lands, ana
that is why rs a race they VIII fads
away and become absorbed As u
the Irish Catholic he has got 50 much
in the habit Of being abused thai
like Pat Ford OF the Irish World he
looks around for somebody else %
abuse in turn aud thus give himself
a status. He, too, ike the French
man, viii disappear as race because
he Rugged the city and the gin-milli
instead Of spreading OF the land.
ws.h such el-nlsnts 70 contend with
IN the Eastern States II Is little
wonder that the Republican party
gained partial victory.
In Illinois and Wisconsin the
dominant foreign race is German.
Unlike the Others, the German,
though largely represented in cities
and towns, Is s.il more
30 in agriculture. The fact IS the
German Catholics were, until forced
into it, REMARKABLY nou-aggrcssive.
One might mix 4 whole year with
4 community OF them and not know
they were Catholics. The writer Is
personally coEuizsut OF cases where
irish Catholics were discharged
from shops purely on sectarian
grounds. and Germans hired Ia
lhelr place, on the belief that those
Germans were Pro.estants, when
the fact was and IS they are better
Catholics from Church and doctrin-
al views than the Irish. The worst
rice in the world TO support the
Catholic press IS the Irish ia AmeTi-
-, the Germans the best. Ii is 4
rare thing 10 find q purely church
newspaper in an Irish Catholic
home; It is as rare 10 find a German
Catholic home without one.
And u is the race which
supports its press and is literature
that finally makes It's religion and
lis people effective and In the end
dominant. For by this means and
by this encouragement the best
brains Of the race are brought 10 the
service Of the church anu people.
Il Is true the iri-h Catholic viii
fight in defense Of the Pope, or II an
insult is offered 20 the priest the
Irishman takes il up,and entirely on
sentimental grounds IL will in-
yariably be found that this militant
Irishman i not y practical Catholic.
de may not have entered a church
TOR % years, he is sure 20 be as iguO-
can't OF his catechism rs he j. Of Chi
uese, and yet he fights for the Pope
and the priest. Why? Simply be-
cause nationality. race ana religion
are 50 mixed up in the history Of bis .
own country that sueer a one in /
cludes all. Give Ireland Home /
Rule and the pope's power in Ire |
hand would be considerably dim I
But | an slraying away from the I
Germans. To ignore this race rs a
factor in religious development !
would be 4 great mistake. With 1
he history OF Martin Luther the
world is familiar. In the early
lays Of the present century German
were divided into two -.
and Reformed /
.utherans-in other words Evan
,elical and CIvauis,ic. OF course /
he Luthera1s prgtOminated, but
lie HOhenZolllrus Of Prussia and
.ther ruling families were Calvan-
site. In 1877, Frederic William |
H., il was, I believe, who issued a
oval mandate 10 the two sgcts TO
mite in his dominiOns. Saxony, |
Baden anu Hesse adopted the
russian Kings plan, but the Luz
hcIans would not obey royal orders
'hUugh Obedieut 20 their kings in !
II secular affairs, the sturJy Luz
lerans drew the line al conscience. {
'Or twenty years these Luthgrans
experienced insult and OblOquy from
lots Of Calvinists and freethiukers, /
nj persecution from royal miuIOus,
ntil in 1885 the Lutheran synod at
,reslau declared itself an indeuend
Mt and separate communion. Then .
anne persecution in earnest. Every !
hing short Of death was hurled at {
rem. In 1910 old Frederic died, {
nd the new king let the Luiherans q
lone He found that 4 victory A.,
yer such sturiy subjects would be :
,tually a defeat for himself and his I
Juse.
During their LAY Of trouble large
lmbers Of Lu.herlus came 70 the
nited States. Missouri and Hi
Dis received most Of them. ST.
ouis holds their greatest theOlO- I
cal seminary. COncOriia College.
[ present Illinois has a large
Imber Of thesesame LuIheFaus and :
.eir children. When the Reuub q.
ian PARTY struck these Lutherans,
snSg was struck. Thee brave
=UtgBs who boldly deliei the
Onarchical absOlutism o. Eu-
pc, We're not To he tramp =
i by oppressive enactments. q
was Luther opened the door Of {
ligiOuS liberty in Europe, his fol- s.
wers may help 20 keep it oren in y
msriCa. In Rome Luther has had a
bad ally, and one that inspires uis- I
ust. Ina political sense Mormon II
n Is the natural ally Of Lutheran /
N. Both are for conscience free, a
ifettered and absolute. Of
JUSICs. !
CHICAGO. Jane ., 1890. j.