Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-28
ROMAN CATHOLICISM IN THE
EAST.

DISPATCHES from eastern cities con.
tain particulars Of a rather Sensational
character In relation TO 70 liglon. a
few days ago a riot Of n ser ious nature
was recipilated In Cheyenne, wyom-
ing, because Of religious ill-feeiing. a
lecturer, named Lyons, engaged hall
to discuss on the onormities Of Roman
Catholicism. Members Of that creed
attended and succeeded In breaking up
the meeting. phe lecturer was
armed with two revolycrs. He used
one, and WOUNDED three persons.
The situation there Ia described as a
sort Of miniature civil war.
Public opinion will certainly 20
against tho Catholics In this instance.
In the United states every citizen has
right to the free expression
Of thought. II anything libellous,
Indecent or rlbalf IL said there
Ia civilized T. 81. II false
statements are maze, meet them
in the preoa, or on the forum. So Mr..
Lyons, who, 1t is said, is an npostate
Romanist, ought 10 DO let alone, and
the Catholics Of Cheyenne have done
themselves n greater injury by thelr
own rash and ill.considered action,
than ever Lyons could do them by his
American T. roIgctiye Association
rubbish.
The Catholic church il, however,
assuming quiten formidable front in
the East. Foo the past week dis.
patches relating to German Catholic
conventions, conferences, and con-
crosses contain indications Of Gggres-
siveness ON numerous questions. The
Iowa Congress censured Senator Davis
Of Minnesota for his speech In the
United States Senate on the occasion
Of the Chinese exclusion bill. The
senator then stated that there was
more danger 10 American institutions
from such projects as the Cahensly
idea--which mad for its object the
Germsnizing Of American schools aud
the suppression OF the English Ian.
guage-than there was in the Intro.
ductlon OF Chinese.
The German Catholics are numerous
in Minnesota, and It appears their
Lutheran countrymen endorse them In
every particular. Bishop Ireland, who
though Roman Catholic OF the rigid
kind, Is an American fret. condemned
the Germans, and told Senator Davis
that he would support him against tine
Cahensly men.
DIR. Conway, editor OF the Catholic
Chronicle, published at 81. Louis, also
supports Senator Davis, and says that
the Cahenely idea Is down right trea-
son 10 the United States. He was sur
prlsed that the Catholics at Dubuque
should offer the resolution relating to
Davis.
The German Catholics now assem-.
bled In congress at Newark, n. j., are
quite pronounced In their attitude on
the school question. A dispatch In
this issue OF the DEsERET NEWS gives
fair idea OF the stand they
have taken. But what seems
anomalous In the present attitude OF
the Catholic church, is the fact that
Germans are becoming lls'cbsmpionp,
defenders and propagators. The more
orthodox OF the Irish.A m erican Cath
ollcs are also siding with them. But
tho school question will ultimately
cause n slight schism In the church.
II cannot DO much, for the Germans,
by reason OF their capacity for organic.
ton, and their systematic method OF
working, will ultimately absorb the
Bohemian, Austlan, Hungarian and
Polish Catholics, and possibly make
the German tho language OF the
church.