The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1893-09-30
A PREJ1JDIcED CRITIC.

body, says it is the gem of has depart
! ment, and other Protestant critics have
| said that had it not been for the Catho'
lie exhibit there would be, practically
! no educational exhibit at the Worlds
Fair. Even the Protestant special cor.
respondent of the Minneapolis Evening
Journal, who is more competent to pro-
nounce upon educational work than
Luther Jaeger, bears testimony to the
superiority of the Catholic exhibit.
Seventeen Of the leading dioceses Of the
Un,ted States, he says, have exhibits,
and though none of them equals the
French exhibit, which excels those of the
United States, there is one exhibit, that
of the New York Catholic Protectory,
equally noteworthy from an industrial
standpoint. He says that ''wonderful' is
too mild term to use in characterizing
such display of juvenile clevernesss In
painting and crayon work the Catholic
Church takes the lead, according to the
same writer. We refer Luther Jaeger to
the files of the Journal for the month of
June where he will find what We give
here substantially. He ridicules The
IRISH STANDARD for saying the Catholic
exhibit is "the wonder of the world" but
the Journal correspondent employs the
word "wonderful' when describing it.
We claim that Mr.. Jaegers brief expert
ence as one of the members of tho board
of education does not entit'e his opinion to
the same consideration as Prof. Peabody's
or Mr.. E. B. Barnes. Again, his eyes
are blinded by sectarian prejudice and
he is therefore incapacited to pronounce
Judgment upon anything Catholic. We
presume Mr. Jaeger considers the art
productions of the Scandinavian coun-
tries superior to those of France, Spain
and Italy. There is about as much dis
parity between the exhibits of the public
and parochial schools as between the art
exhibits of the north and south of
Europe. Catholic art is acknowledged
by every unbiased person to be superior
to Protestant art, and though we cheer
fully admit that Mr.. Jaeger is an intel
ligent man in many ways we have yet to
learn that he is recognized connoisseur
in artistic or educational work.
The galvanized American who edits
The North is also shocked at the recent
utterances of Archbishop Ireland when
he said that call power is from God, given
first to the people and by them dele
gated" and that "the abuse Of delegated
power creates the right to REBEL These
are democratic axioms first enunciated
on this continent by Thomas Jefferson,
but long before the Declaration of Inde-
pendence was penned by the great
American, the same sentiments were ut
tered by St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope
Gregory VII. OF course, Luther Jaeger
is in blissful ignorance Of that fact, and
is Mortified that Archbishop Ireland
should repeat substantially the exalted
ideas found in the writings of the Church
and in the Declaration OF Independence.
The North cannot relish such democratic
principles when they emanste from q
Catholic prelate who was chaplain in
the Union army when Luther Jaeger was
enjoying the mild rays of the midnight
sun in the frigid regions of Norway.
This foreign-born citizen pretends to see
danger to American institutions in every
thing Catholics say or do, forgetting that
Catholics are not here on suferance but
are on an equality with the rest Of their
fellow citizens under the law of the land
for which they have shed their blood on
every battle field from Bunker Hill to
Appomattcx. When foreigner like The
North editor pirates continuously OF his
loyalty to American institutions, without
ever endangering life or limb in their de-
tense, and casts reflections on citizens by
their motives and principles
because they do not kneel at the same
shrine with him, it shows that he is act
uated more by bigotry than patriotism.
We are getting sick Of this blatant
Lutheran. With only 100000 people
OF his religious belief in this country he
Is continually attacking Catholics who
are eight times as numerous and eight
times as patriotic. Even natiye-born
Americans reprimand HIM and say he
bears an unappeasable hostility to the |
Catholic Church. The able editor Of the