The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1891-06-19
BISHOP IRELAND VS.. BISHOP
KAISER.

The infamous audacity Of the
Luzerne convention of Catholic bish-
ops who petition the Pope to sanction
their scheme and settling all Catholics
in settlement by nationality, where
they have priests of their own nation
ality and their children be taught in
their native language and methods
without regard to the American laws
or system of government, was fitting
ly rebuked by Bishop Ireland in his
Interview with a press reporter not
long since, in which he tittingly char
acteriZed the LuZerne movement as an
insult to the American Catholics as
well as the people of America, and
warns the European brethren that the
success of Catholicism in the United
States can best and most readily be
secured by Catholic emigrants becom-
ing Americanized and citizens as ear
ly as possible. But Archbishop Kaiser
of Wisconsin, made drunken by the
success which attended his and his
servile priests, who marshalled their
fiocks at their churches and marched
them under the banner of the dema-
gOgues banner in military array to the
polls and voted them like well trained
ours to down the "little red school
house" in Wisconsin and performing
the miracle of filing an honest mans
seat in the Senate with Villas, and a
bushel chair in the governors office
with scant peck, where they were
certain of official aid in all their fu-
ture efforts to denationalize American
citizens and destroy the bulwark of
our national liberties and prosperity,
our free school system, just as long as
these worthless could be kept in power
by the votes of this species of Catho-
lies. This wonderful Archbishop Kai-
ser is unlike, we are glad to say, Bish-
OPP Ireland of Minnesota, who recogn-
ICES the existence and authority of the
United States government, and be-
lieyeS it is the first duty of emigrantS
from foreign countries to- obey the
laws in existence therein on their ar
rival and become American citizens as
soon as possible, while the Wisconsin
Kaiser reioices in the LuZerne plan of
settling the waste places with colonies
of European bandits, paupers and ig-
norant serfs, with bigoted priests Of
their own nationality, to ignore lam
guage, laws and customs, trample our
school system under their feet and
treat the Americans as heather bar
barians. and that it is his Archbishop
| Kaiser'sl mission with his priest-rid-
| den followers of Wisconsin and his
new colonies to civiliZe, educate and
bring into his fold Bishop Ireland's
| sort of Catholics are of course included
in his estimate of American heathenS,
as the Bishop believes in maintaining
American nationality, American civil
| iZatiOn and American schools. and has
never yet complaint of finding too
much American Christianity for the
good of the people Bishop Kaiser
has made very disgusting display OF
his bigotry, want Of common sense and
loyalty to the country in which he is
kindly permitted to enjoy the rights
and privileges of citizenship. Such
an insult to any Of the governments
from which he would bring cOlonistS
to teach us Americans our duty to
God and country would cost him who
gave it his head or Punishment to
some foreign land in a very short time
and the Wisconsin Bishop should in
sert in his meeting song and evening
veSper clause thanking God that the
American people will stand more of
that sort of insult and trea son from
an ignorant old bigot like himself
than any other people on earth with
out visiting condign punishment upon
the offender. The Pope may approve
the LuZerne policy and the Wisconsin
Archbishop, but it will be the biggest
mistake of his life since he has as
sumed the role of the Almighty in the
Roman vatican. 1t will be perhaps
the shortest way to the inevitable
separation of the Roman Catholic
churches in America from the Roman
Hierarchy in Italy. Intelligent Cath
olics must from the actions of that
conference and Bishop Kaiser open
their eyes to the fact that if they
would prosper in America they must
sever their allegiance from power
claiming such superiority over our
own government, and take their stand
upon their own merits. Other churches
or sects pass under the same public
condemnation with Kaiser and his
followers.
1t certainly will open the eyes of the
American people still wider to the ne
cessity of a finer sieve through which
foreign immigration must be strained
before landing upon our shores. If we
are not old enough and big enough to
dare to say we have no longer room
or means to waste on your lepers, your
paupers, your criminals, your Neapol-
itan bandits, Malta or common socie-
ties of murderers, robbers or midnight
assassins must be punished at home,
not turned loose upon us for support
or commit crimes and punished here;
better war with Italy than the adj
mission of another cargo of dagoes on
American soil or another bishop OF
/ the Kaiser sort. b.
i IN order to sustain the official Dig