Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-08-15

contfOl,-BISnOp MARTY, Pres. Kew. L.
L. Chapelle, V. p; Rev. J. A, Stephan,
director; Rev. j. A. Walter, Treas;
with two agents or secretaries. Under
the Hayes administration, SO much ma
ligned by the Catholic writers, the Bu
reau claimed its greatest triumph, re-
establishing old missions and founding
new ones, and succeeding in procuring
| for the Indian Catholic Schools the larg-
er share of money the Government APP
propriates for such institutions. The
artical says, quoting from the National
| Democrat of Washington, that in 1889
when the Morgan administration came
! in after the Cleveland management, the
Protestants had 1873 Indian School
employees and the Catholics 6, and in
other Indian Schools visited by Dr. Dor
chester the Protestants had 6S and the
Catholics 8. The question here arises,
where was there room for the clean
sweep" of the Catholics and the demon
alizing influence of bigotry that were
to wipe out Catholic rights and control.
If the Catholics ever had the majority of
employees, then the Cleveland rule must
have wiped them out and left only a
paltry IA out of several hundred for its
successor. 1t this is wrong, and it is be-
cause the. Catholics haye the great ma
jority of scholars and schools, then why
hound the republican administration of
Indian Affairs to the lowest defamatory
depths for the actions Of former adj
ministration. The article very honestly
admits that aseUer before has any In
dian Commissioner been subject to such
persistent attacks as the Bureau has
made upon Gen. Morgan and openly
admits the source of these malicious at
ha IF tho
tons and some of them seem to have
been well founded while others were ap-
parently baseless and not few of them
Unexpectedly made,-against the pres
ent management of Indian Affairs, have
either emanated from, or been inspired
by, this Catholic Bureau"
THE END JUsTIFIEs THE MEANS.
Not since the days of Lincoln and
Grant was a public man SO abused,
slandered, derided, denounced, as Com
missioner Morgan has been by the
Catholic press. DIR. McGlynn was lied
about, blackguarded and blackened by
ecclesiastics and the religious press, but
hardly any more so than Mr.. Morgan
1t was a systematized onslaught from
pulpit and press, high and low, and in
all kind Of literature, even the Sisters
writing of the Indian Missions (see he
Maria had to have their shot at
Morgan. Every indication points
to the Catholic Indian Bureau as the
source of unity of thought and actions.
When we come to study the great labor
that required the heads and secretaries
and clerks of the Indian Bureau to alb
sorb $4,000 of the collections for the In
dian and co1ored missions, we don't
find them teaching the Indians or
converting the colored people, but lob
bying around the departments and the
halls of Congress to defeat Mr.. Morgan
and get appropriations, and writing
abusive and denunciatory articles for
the press like the martyr German did,
in which the Indian department and
the Republican administration were
the targets No wonder Cardinal Glib
bons as much as said that the Catholic
Indian Bureau had outlined its useful
ness and that the Commissioner could
lust as well deal with the heads Of
schools direct. Cardinal Gibbons and
Archbishop Ireland spoke of the head
of Indian Affairs as Commissioner Nor
gan, and gave him the right and liber-
ties due his office. The Catholic press
and pulpit called him Morgan" the
bigot, the anti Catholic tool of the adj
ministration, said he had registered a
VOW " to clean out all Catholic influen-
ces from the Indian management, &c.
When called upon for proof they had
none and blamed it on the bigoted
subordinates Of the Commissioner
When falsehoods are circulated about
Rome or the Church through the AS
sociate press dispatches, do these au-
thorities blame it on their own bigot-
ed subordinates or on their enemies
Why then blame Mr.. Morgan's friends
when ever petty religious or politician
who could WELD a tongue or pen was
engaged in the holy cause Of running
down the Bureau of Indian Affairs
The great religious and moral light,
the Boston Pilot, Aug. S, when called
upon for proof of its ISLANDERS against
the Indian Commissioner, creeps out
of it this way -
Last week, private letter of Com
missioner Morgan to Archbishop Ire
ldIlO, Vi Ols dul, AIlbll.s DNdAl III Int
date of July IS, was made public. 1t
sets forth Enthusiastically Commissioner
Morgan s attitude on the question of
Indian Education. 1t IS impossible
that the man who writes this honora-
bic letter, which in justice to him we
} append should have made the declara-
ton of hostility to Catholics attributed
to him a few days previous. Commits
sioner Morgan has had to suffer undu-
", no doubt, for the indiscretions of
bigoted subordinates. He writes to
Archbishop Ireland -
81 beg to inclose for your informa-
ton copies of a correspondence which
explains itself, but desire to repeat to
you personally that you have from the
outset completely misunderstood me
in my spirit and my methods. You
know my views on the public school
question-views which will never be
changed-some of which at least ac-
cord with your own, and I share your
views on many other public questions.
That we differ OH others is no reason to
mind why we may not work in harmo-
ny along certain lines, one of which is
certainly the elevation and christianiz-
ing of the Indians, The Indian office
is prepared to do for the Catholic
contract schools, as we'll as other con-
tract schools now existing, all within
its power and believes that this can be
more officially done with the schools
themselves than through the Catholic
Bureau. We want to advance all along
the line-better schools, more efficient
teachers-and to this end 1 desire
your cooperation. Again assuring
you of your mistaken judgment of
me and of my earnest wishes for the
best interest of the Indian schools,
; am yours respectfully,
r ]. MORGAN"
THE FOREIGN AND THE AMERICAN
COURSE.
What surprises us is that a public
spirited man like DR.. Chapelle, the
friend and associate of Cardinal Glib
bons, should lend himself i'll silent as
sent to the uuchristian and detamatory
cause of rampant -Morganism that
has followed him from the Catholic In
dian bureau to the secret chambers of
Congress and throughout the whole re-
ligious press, assailing his motives
! IL, II,