The Irish standard., 1891-04-18
DIR. BURRELL'S JEALOUSY.

Westminster, took parting shot at
Archbishop ireland last Tuesday which
was in keeping with his bigoted ideas,
Archbishop Ireland had occasion to go
East last week. and while in Washington
called on the secretary Of the interior rel
ative to the educational facilities afforded
!! Catholic teachers on the Indian re serva-
| lons IN the Northwest. The Washing.
ton correspondents OF the Minneapolis
papers furnished their papers with wild
accounts of how the Archbishop had
called on the secretary and demanded
the removal of Commissioner Morgan,
threatening at the same time to renol1nce
republicanism and embrace democracy
unless his request was complied with i.
This, according to the correspondents,
meant a large falling off Of Catholic sup,
port which the party in power could not
afford to lose, etc. Armed as he thought
with the best of ammunition, DR.. Bur-
rell starts out after the Archbishop, and
accuses him Of carrying the Catholic vote
Ill his fob pocket, and says that the
Archbishop is like one we read Of s'that
makes merchandise of his faith and
forces lis to pay" AS to the statement
that the Archbishop carries the Catholic
vote in his pocket, We will here quote
from an interview with Roger Vail in
Tuesday mornings Tribune:
'*The Archbishop, says Mr. Vail, .sno
more carries the Catholic vote in his fob
pocket than the late pastor of Westmin.
ster carries the Presbyterian vote in his.
DR.. Burrell, during his brief stay III our
midst, has meddled more in poIitlcal
matters than Archbishop ireland has
done during his whole lifetime. There
Is no such thing as a Catholic vote in
this country. despite all the talk of such
fellows as Burrell. Neither in the pull
pit nor In the confessional does Catho-
lie priest or bishop talk politics. They
leave that to Protestant clergymeu of
DR., Burrell's stamp + remember that
on one occasion Archbishop Ireland and
Bishop McGolrick addressed a Republi-
can MAJ s meeting at Armory hall IN ad-
vocacy of high license. They may have
influenced the voting members of the
Catholic total abstinence societies in ia.
vor of the high license party, but the ef-
feet on the great mass of Catholics in the
Democratic party IN this city was to
make them more steadfast in their polit-
ical faith.''
AS to DR.. Burrell's charge that Arch
bishop Ireland is like one we read of
t'that makes merchandise of his faith
and forces us to paY'' we will again
quote from Mr.. Wallis interview, which
to our minds strikes the point exactly,
and rather turns the tsbIes on Mr.. Bur
rel): 'Dr. Burrell IN his TRADE against
the Archbishop says he is like the one
we read of that makes merchandise of
his faith and forces us to pay DR.. Bur-
rell must have been thinking OF himself
when be used the foregoing quotation
He is making merchandise OF his Pres
byterian faith when he resigns the pas
torate of Westminster for the Du. ch Re-
formed church of Gotham for an in
crease in salary of 81, 600 year. He
speaks Of the Archbishop as mitred
mendicant whose church demands for
Indian schools three times as much
money as it is entitled TO- He is jealous
of the missionary work of the Catholic
church among our aborjgines. Out of
the entire Indlan population Of 277 600
there are 1886 of them Catholics Last
year the number baptized in the Catho-
lie church was 1907. There are 3.096