Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1891-08-13
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Ces luttes que la presse Grange
re, (nous ne voulors pas dire par
Ia la presse irlanda1se qui bien
ellie soft r6dig6e en- angzaas men
reste pas moins la plus 6trangere,
la plus intransigeante ct la plus "a
natique de toutes) c'est-a-dire la
presse FRANCHISE, allemande, ita-
iienne soutient contre l'envahisse-
ment des droits de So nationalite
respe Give ont leur echo, aux Etats-
Unis, au Canada, Oh France, en-
Allemegns, en- Italie.
ct les ennemis de notre religion
dams ces divers pays, les protes-
tants, les tiedes, les libres-pen.
seurs ct les ath6es y trouvent am
pie pature pour s'6lever contre
ellie.
QUAINT aux catalogues pratt
quants, ces luttes r6coeurent ct &C.
ment le doute dams ses rangs.
Et pour fpir. nous vous dlrons
ceci: !,
Les prosecutions, au Canada, ont
plus fait pour la conservation de
la langue FRANCHISE, que les ecoles
ct les p~aroisses CT. car Ia fonda
ton de ces d%ernieres, ma etc qu'une
consequence des premieres.
Or, &c nest pas au moment Oh
la langue francaiee est de plus en-
plus en- honneur aux Etats- Unis,
que nj vous, nj les v0tres, vous
nous la ferez abandonner.
Plus vous la pers6cuterez, plus
ellie nous sera chere, plus nous la
parlerons, plus ellie vivra
Et 81 nos peres qui n'6taient que
soixante mile, FONT c%onserv6e NAL
gre ranglais protestant, leur mai
tire; soyez bien assure Mgr Shan
ley, que nous, qui sommes huit
cent mile aux Etats- Unls, nous ne
e6derons pas q l'am6ricain catho-
lique GU plutot, disons lie mot,
a lIrlandais catholic ne, qui nest
que notre egal.
JAMESTOWN, N. D., Aug. 6, 1891.
Dear Sir:
find in your esteemed journal
of the 23rd ult., that, according to
statistics gathered by you, the
Canadian French population-in in
Guiding half breeds-of the diocese
of Jamestown, Is 9.472. Your es-
innate is much below the $4,000 of
rEsperumce. And still, your num-
Der is too high, your correspon.
dents have evidently been the eau.
sc of the mistake, for which l
therefore, hold you blameless. Per:
NIT me to throw some additional
light on the matter.
On my alleged report, you g i've
the number of half. breeds at Tur-
tie Mountain as 1900, and in addi-
ton to that number you credit the
same territory with 1867 French
Canadian souls, thus making the
French-C Canadian and half breeds
Catholic population of the Turtle
Mountain 5,467. Now the facts are
these: I never reported 1900 half.
breeds at the Turtle Mountain, /
did assert in March 1890 that the
names Of 1000 Indians, wards Of
the United States, were on the
hooks of the sub agent at Belcourt.
Those people were starving at that
time, apd l was in search of bread
for them. They got the bread. In
the Indian Department at Wash
ington, half. breeds are Indians. In
the beginning of September 1890,
therewere 303 white families IN the
Turtle Mountain under the juris-
diction of the Bishop of James
town, of whom at least fifty of them
are not French Canadian. Instead
of your us French Canadian fami-
lies we therefore have about $50.
l subjoin the reports of the mis-.
slonaries as they were given to me
last September.
Father Malo, pastor of st. John,
Rolla, Belcourt and st. Anthony,
reports.
st. John, White families, 60
Indian 70
Rolla, White IL
Belcourt, ~
Indian l5O
ST. Anthony, White Al
Indian liz
Total families. 1873 1886
White families, 1895: 665 souls.
Indian 335x5: 1876.
Dean L'hiver, pastor of Dun
seth and Butte St. Paul, (Tarsus)
reports:
Number of families in. Dun
seth ana around it........ 10
Number of families in Tarsus. 100
Total. lilo
Father Pouliot, then in charge of
Willow CITY and missions, reports: