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

world to the discovery and settlement /
of America and the declaration of re-
ligious liberty on the soil Of the new
world. For them and theirs God ere
ated and redeemed the world and made
heaven. " There is no Salvation 2
outside Of their narrow vision of mind /
and soul. Down with societies and |
sects and governments that do not sur
render Internationally to their way of
thinking and acting. The sweetest
morsel in christianity is the word
hereto on their tonges as pillar of
fire by day and night That is the course
that has made Europe the hot-bed of
prejudice and persecution for ages -
money and political power, not faith or
religion, have been the greatest caus-
es Of oppression and expulsion and war
in every country and age in which they
ever dominated. This rule or ruin
policy is now being waged in America,
and of their own household every man
is hereto who does not enter into
their extremes. That is one reason
why women fill their front seats while
the intelligent laymen are standing at
the back door of indifference
They called Archbishop Ireland a
crank" and secretly hint that Car
dina1 Gibbons is too liberal and will
wreck their little car ofprejudice The
future of religious peace and liberty lies
with the success of his broad and liberal
American views. He will make the
church a great American institution, a
bulwark for the country. They would
make the church foreign power ard
money grabber and if all else would go
into chaos, Christ's mission would be
perpetuated if their narrow views sue
ceeded and their foreign power grew
Their greatest allies now as in the
past are England and Bourborism,-
ignorance and prejudice.
BISHOP kahn AND THE INTELLIGENcER
Bishop Kahn made a bitter fight in
the Wheeling Intelligence against Com
missioner Morgan and the Catholic In
dian Bureau, but Cardinal Gibbons
knocked the very foundation away
when he declared the Catholic Indian
Bureau was not necessary to the sue
cess of the Catholic Indian Schools.
The Bishop became very critical with
the LntelligeRGer and talked as if nobody
understood the Indian question but
himself, from the Cardinal down. The
Bishops main spite seems to be against
Dr. Dorchester and his wife, and blames
Mr. Morgan " anti Catholic bigotry ="
for the appointment, when it was made
two months before Commissioner Nor
gan's. The Bishop deals with good
many variations in figures, and no
doubt is good financier for his repu-
tation in that direction has gone be-
yond the borders of his jurisdiction and
caused not a little anxiety to some
when the boundary line was thought to
no longer separate them.
I. Bishop Kahn showed an uneasiness
about free discussion. AS the civil
law is based on the moral or divine, let
me ask whether the Bishop ever heard
a free discussion or petition OF
any sanction in his own church. Shea's
vol. 5 gives some interesting points
in the settlement of the peoples rights
with church authority. Here again it
is Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishops Ire
land and Ryan who first declared the
priests and bishops actions were open
to criticism by the people. not Bish-
op Kahn.
?. Bishop Kahn introduces politics
and says: IF the administration con-
tinues to sustain the bigotry ofMorgan
and Dorchester ecclesiastical non-
1nft \ - "A
its course when the Catholic voters are
heard from next fall year"
The Bishop probably wants to intro
duce the Canadian plan, (see article in
Eoyum) What evidence we have of the
political liberality of himself or his own
is not very favorable to a " change
in politics His endorsements of the
Cleveland administration in this State
as far as have come to our knowledge
were all partisans the appointments
of the Baltimore Catholic Congress
from W. Va, were Cleveland's ex-of-
flee holders. When vice and immor-
ality held sway in his own city,, and
charges of debauchery and violation Of
all law, decency and respect were made
by the press and the people, we have no
evidence of his cooperation or the vote
of his people against the success of the
rotten ring rule, the low, debasing re-
suits of which were shown in Wheel
ing this week when the chief of police
was under suspension, and charges
were made that the worst and most
dissolute female characters were pro-
tected and patronized by men high in
authority. In New York the religious
element in politics and the saloons
controls the city and never waivers in
Philadelphia able Catholic historian
has repeatedly declared that that class
would sooner give up its religion than
its party The good Bishop must have
been studying up lately on events
That Made Possible The Late Balti-
more Congress, 2" in which it is shown
that Henry Watterson, Grover C1eve-
land and the Democratic party obtain
ed all the great social. political and
religious rights his people are enjoying
i'll Wheeling and New York, and that
Hon. Daniel Dougherty was chosen to
nominate Mr.. Cleveland in order to
secure for him the solid Catholic vote,
but it failed, though this liberal politi-
cal class allowed the free circulation OF
anti-Blaine documents at the church
doors
3. III Bishop claims that the intel
HgeAcej' las called my veracity into
questio." After all the prayers for
humility, ?: y and patient suffering
after all the ,nciation of everyone
entering in, * discussion, it seems
such a littl., weak, and last resort
point Of order, to worry over veracity
that was never verified.
:. The Bishop says of Mr.. Morgan
reported trip to Europe: GAS our
Commissioner of Indian Affairs can
hardly have official business across the
ocean, he is only going, perhaps, for
the benefit of his health and the health
Of his party Gratuitous christian
reflection from holy mother Church
representatives.. AS the incense as
cends, and the soft music, dim lights,
holy prayers, devout practices, carry
men heavenward, the sacerdotal pol
itician with his three pronged pitch
fork hurls the unbe1iever in himself
hellWard Does Mr.. MORGAN nav his