The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-05-28
Catholic Plan to Preserve Races
in This Country.
NATIONS TO FLOCK TOGETHER,
To Keep in Memory the Fatherland.
From Which the Emigrants Fled.
The Presbyterian Assembly Owns st6
100000 Worth of Property and Is
Acquiring More-The Old School
Reformed Presbyterians Split Again.

herr Canensly IS the principal mover in
the efforts Of European Catholic emigra-
ton societies to induce the pope to follow
distinct national lines in fostering church
work among Catholic emigrants in Amer
lea. This subject was referred to in recent
dispatches. Cahensly's championship of
the interests of Germans in America has
borne fruit in frequent instructions to
Her Won Schloeser, German representative
at the Vatican, TO use his influence when
ever he could. The Austro-Hungarian
ambassador, 1T is understood, has similar in
structions, and Cahensly, when he went TO
Rome to present the memorial of the con-
ference, was armed with letters OF ap-
proyal from many prominent European
and Canadian Catholics. Speaking of the
nomination of kanseow as archbishop in
America, Ambassador Won Schloeser said
to Cahensly: This is an important act
that will interest all Prussia" He added
that he would warmly congratulate and
thank the cardinal secretary of state for
this choice, so favorable to German inter-
ests
NJ. Mercier, of Quebec, warmly recon-
mended the plan to the pope, saying that
when he assisted at the Baltimore GEN.
tenary he felt acute regret on finding
there We're no Canadians among Ameri-
can bishops, Notwithstanding there are
more than a million Canadians in the
United States.
1t Is significant that this whole business
has been conducted so far without the
knowledge or advice of the American hier-
archy. The campaign has been directed
solely by committee in Germany, which
bv itS activity n ooourad ba ounporf or1
appreciation of other European countries.
There will be great curiosity to know the
view American bishops take of the matter.
The plan proposed in the memorial seems
to be peculiarly adapted for the preserva-
ton in America of the language and race
distinction of immigrants. 1t has been
impossible to secure list of the signatures
to this memorial, but the body of the
document itself has been OBJ
tanned. 1t speaks of the Iucerne
congress as meeting to consider the best
means of procuring the spiritual and tenn
poral welfare of their Catholic fellow coun-
trymen, who are emigrating to America at
the rate of upward of 100000 year. These
numerous emigrants, says the memorial,
could constitute great power and mighty
factor in the development Of Catholicism in
different parts of America.
1t then goes on to detail the plans nee
essary to carry out its views. First of all,
it would be necessary to form into sepa-
rate parishes or missions different groups
of emigrants of different nationalities
where numbers and resources so allow, and
the parishes should be confined to priests
of the same nationality. ''In this way"
says the memorial, "the cherished recol-
lections of the fatherland would be con-
stantly brought back to the immigrants"
Where the limited number of different ma
tionalities will not permit of separate par
ishes, the priest directing such groups
should be conversant with their different
languages and should be obliged to give
instructions to all the different groups in
their language. Where there are
no Christian public schools, paro-
chial schools are to be established.
The list of studies for these schools should
always comprise the national language of
the different races of emigrants, as well as
the language and history of their adopted
country Catholic associations of different
kinds should be formed to preserve Catho-
lies from wicked societies of Free Masonry,
etc. As often as feasible Catholics of
every nationality should have one bishop
of their own race in all Catholic countries
from which emigration is taking place.
The holy see should favor and shelter SEM
lnaries and schools instituted for the edu-
cation of missionaries for emigrants. A
number of Italian missionaries have al
ready gone to America, and others of
other nations are waiting for the pope to
guarantee them ''untrammeled exercise of
the ministry by decree of his infallible
wisdom" Thus, provided the holy see
lend its indispensable cooperation, mar
velous results will be obtained. Poor emf
grants will find again in America their
own parishes, their own schools, their own
societies, their own language, and they
will prove the means of extending the
limits of Iesus Christ's kingdom on earth