The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-31
GENUINE CATHOLICS
Archbishop Ireland on the In
cerne Movement.
HE SOUNDS A PATRIOTIC NOTE
Inc Impudence OF the Promoters The
Bishops are Able to Ward off All
Foreign Invasion.

oT- PAUL, May 30.-The recent memorial
OF Catholic emigration societies to the Pope
requesting the following of national lines
IN the work among immigrants in America
mas attracted great attention. The Pfonser-
fTesS to-day called on Archbishop Ireland
and asked for a statement regarding the
matter. After indorsing the statement in
the Associated Press dispatches from
Rome, the archbishop said $50 far as Mr.
Cahensley, the bar of Lucerne petitions and
| DEGREES TO the Vatican and his friends and
co-Iaoorers are concerned, they have a well
defined object in view; they meau 10 work
Tor 1t with might and main. It ia
10 harness the church in America into the
service OF recently arrived immigrants from
Germany, other Catholic interests in the
country being apparently looked upon as
quite secondary. Their demands are based
on the supposition that the bishops and
priests of America are Irish and neglect
the Germans. We have to note here tine
actual or assumed injustice of CahensIev
as TO the condition of German sDea11nQ,
Catholics in America. In assnnine,
Ihat they are neglected he does
a. most positive injustice to the
Dishops OF the country, whose constant
/ 49, ~ AA1fO DCOl duu are 10 provide Tor all
Catnolc5 OF foreign tongue priests of their
own nationality. There is singular malice.
TOO, Ia MS attempt to represent the Catho-
| TIC church IN America as Irish As mat
ter OF fact the bishops born III Ireland are
rev IN the American hierarchy and those
lew nave spent nearly all their lives in
| America and are thoroughly identified with
the country and it's institutions. The
/ Dlsnops IN America are in heart and soul
Americans. They have no more idea of
making the church Irish than they have of
allowing 1t to be made German. The mass
OF our Catholics to-day have been born in
America and whether their fathers were
Irish or German, they are citizens and they
I resent with Indignation any effort to class
them into Irish or German or foreigners OF
any stripe.
What is the most strange feature in
/ this whole Lucerne movement is the impu-
dence OF the men in undertaking to meddle,
under any pretext, in The Catholic affairs
or America. This is simply objectionable
and all American Catholics will treasure
UP the atfront for future action. We ac-
knowledge the Pope of Rome as our chief
tain IN spiritual matters, and we are glad
TO receive direction from him but men in
Germany or Switzerland or Ireland must
mind their own business and be still as 10
ours. Nor is this the most irritating fact
In this movement. The inspiration of the
word IN Europe comes, the dispatches tell
US, from a CLIQUE in America Even if the
dispatches had been silent on the
matter, we would have known that
this is the truth For the last five or sir
years there has been determined effort
on the part of certain foreign born Catho-
hcs IN America, priests and laymen, to
obtain control of Catholic matters in
America. The Poles in the west. the
French Canadians in the east, and
the Germans in the west and
azt how hoo
ton. The Germans sent in 1856 a represen-
tetlve to Rome, to obtain pro- German
legislation; they have since formed socie-
ties notably the Detusch- Ameriksuiscber
Priester Verein for this purpose. I am
quite sure 1 am right when | bring
nome to this vereln the whole prompting
OF the Lucerne proceedings. This foreign
movement in America, it must be well un-
derstood, is confined to a comparatively
small number. The great mass of the
German speaking Catholics, laymen and
priests, are totally opposed to all plans
and lntrlgues to retain foreign ascend
ancy and are most heartily in syrnDatbv
with everything that is American We
have Catholics from all countries of En-
rope, yet they all work together with sig
nal unanimlty and all are united in patriot
ism as they are in faith Catholics
The promoters of German fore1qnisn
IN America are certain journalists whose
its hold, and certain priests who. coming 10
America in advanced years, never learn
much English aud scarcely know that there
is in America a country outside the Ger
man village or quarter surrounding their
parsonage. OF course, where these men
are allowed TO work they have a following
who, misguided and misled, clamor against
fancied inferiority and fancied persecu-
tionS.
''There is not the slightest possibility that
any result will come from this Lueerne
conference except that 1t be this result to
lead to the utter extinction of all foreign
animus among US. The bishops of Amer
lea are fully able to ward off all foreign in
vasions and to maintain the church on
thorough American ines.''
After speaking of foreign domination in
civil affairs as an excuse for this petition,
the archbishop concludes: when we are
more American in civil and political mat
tiers there will be fewer petitions from
vereins in America and conferences in
Lucerne for the foreignizing of the Cath
olics of America"
The Bogus Elks Refused an Injunction.
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