Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-06-01
BISHOP IRELAND
Says Cohenslcy wanis to Harness The
American Catholics iut1 the
Service of Gcrmals.
THE impUorHer or rHr tUerRHr
MOVEMENT.
The Foreign Agitation Confined 10 a
Comparatively small Number
in America.
ny Telegraph TO toe SEwsI
CATHOLIC TgIGHArIoN.


Abe Heccnt Memorial Attracts Groat
Attention.
ST. PAUL, May 8D.-Thc recent me.
mortal Ut the Catholic emigration 20.
CLOTHES ~ tho Pope requesting MIN 70
follow national liuos ia tie WORK
among Immigrants iu America, has a.
tuictri great attention. The Fouccr
Irrss today Cnl..t on ArChhhh0p ltc.
land and askod statement regarding
the matter.
The archbishop said: $50 far " Mr..
Cohousloy aud his friends and co.
lnblfuu uro concerned, they have a
well defined object In view. They
moan 10 work for II with might AMI
main. 10 IL 10 harness the church Ia
America Into the service " recently
arrived immigrants from Germany,
other Catholic Interests IN the country
being apparently looked upon ng quite
secondary. Their demands are Based
on the suppOsition that tie bishOp- ami
priests OF America are Irish ami NO
elect the Germans. We have 10 note
here the actual Ut assumed Ignorance "
Cohunslcy ~ 10 thr condition Oi the
8vfman-spoaklng Catholics Ia Amerl'
ca, Ia asserting that they nrc me-
elected, lie does most positive iiJus'
ticy IN TIL bishops ut the county,
whose constant efforts have been aud
are % provide for all the Catholics Of
foreign tongue priests Of their own ma
tiUnnlity.
There Il a singular malice, too, In
his attempt - represent tho Catholic
Church la America ns Irish. ~ n
matter ~ fact, bishops born In Ireland
arr fuw la the American hierarchy,
and those few have spent nearly all
/ their lives In America aud are thor
oughiy Identified with the country and
I IT, Institutions. The bishops u AmUfi-
% arc In heart and soul American.
/ They have no mora Idea VI making the
church irish than they have % ailsw.
/ INK u ~ be- made German. The mas
/ of our Catholic. today have been hIfn
in America and, whether their lAihUr4
were ttifh or G. rmau, they are clti.
I a.ns. ami they resent with Indignation
any ,librt to elias, them ~ lrish VI
German, VI foreigners u any stflpo.
"Nhat l. - most strange feature IN
this whole l4ucrrnv movement 10
riG nWupESCE OF TrE NEH
ia undertaking 10 muddlc, uuiur any
prrtrxt, IA tho Catholic gnaius Of
America. This ~ simply uuprdun.
ahir, and All American Caih0li viii
treasure 40 the olifont forfulufrncilon.
We acknowledge the Pops Of Rome ~
our ch.citain IN spiritual matters, aud
Wp are glad 70 receive directions from
him. but men GA Germany of Swiitcr,
land Ur lTelfud must mind their own
buslnrss anu bn stiil ~ 10 uuns.
"Nor is this the most Irritating mCl
in thls movement. The inspiration Of
the work In Europe Gomez, the DIS
patches tell ~, from u clique iu
America. Even 10 the dlspnt hes had
been silunt on this matter, We would
have known that this IL the truth,
For tho lAsl i've or ok years there has
been % determined effort ON the part Of
certain i1rrisu.born Catholics ~
America, priests and lnymeu, 90 OLD
tain control u Catholic matters lr
America,
The P5lcs in the West, the French
| Canadians la tie East, and the Ger
mans Wet and East, hAy,
been ut work In this direction.
Tho German. sent IN 1883 a repre-
sentative 10 Rome tD obtain pro Ger
man legislation. They have siuc,
formed societies, notably the Dcutch
Amprlknnl-cho pripstcr Ncrolu, fJ
the same purpose. am quite sure
that am rlght when bring homo 10
this voroln the whole prompting OF th'
Luucrne proceedings.
TINS FoRElGN MOVEMENT
! IN America, Il must be well understood
4 confined 10 n comparatively small
| number. The great mass VI German
spending Catholics, Aymen and priests
ATE totally opposed 10 all plans and In
tfiguca 20 retain foreign ascnudancy
and are most heartily In sympathy
with everything that IL American,
We have catholics from all cOuntrlvi
| OF Europe, yet they all work tagvthc
with signal unRnimily and are Rl
united In patriotism, Us they arc In TIT
faith.
"rhe promoters Of German foreign
lam In America Are certain Journalist
Whose trade II gone II the German Ian
guage loses it, hold, and certain priests
who, coming 10 America In advanced
years, never learn much English aud
scarcely know that there " In Amer
lea n country outside the German
village or quarter surrounding thgl
pnrrounge. OF course, where tht-i
men are allowed 10 work they have !
following who, misguided and mlslei
clamor against fincied inferiorlty and
iancied persecution, ~
There Is not the sllghtest possibillt,
that any result will come from thi
Lucerne conference, except II be I,
lead 10 the utter extinction OF al
foreign animoslly among ~. Tn
I bishops Of America are fully able I,
ward oti all foreign invasions and L
maintain tho church on thorough
American lines"
After speaking Of foreign domination
In civil affairs as an excuse for thi
patitlon, the archbishop concludes
"When We are mora American In ciyi
and political matters there VIII hl
fewer petitions from verulns II
a mrrlca and conferences In Lucern
for the fofeisnizlng Of the Catholics o
America"
4 sleek SwindieT.