New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-19

although an American is It's general. All new
England Is another camp, whose movements aIe
controlled 10y e bishops Of Quebec and their agents
with Bishop leay. of Portland chief sympnthner
But there is 10 leader there. nor is there likely I"
be, and abuses have sprung up in New-Enclhhd
from the very recent Introduction Of the CahenSy
spirit. In the West the Of individual hard-
ship and injustice are hnumer;blc and these VIII Gull
for the prompt action Of The Delegate. The hrsi SET
Of abuses sprang from the attempt to make the
German Language the popular language OF Inc o''
,ricts inhabited by German Catholics. The present
Archbishop Of Milwaukee when occupying the see vi
Green Bay mad German the official languas" Of MS
cathedral ana diocese. IL Lis were In germany
If such Il custom prevails In any diocese 'o-uAS INC
Delegate will abolish II on the instant Inc ieitioS
orders made up OF Germans have always Niue "ei'"'
their Official Ian suagc, although English Is the Tongue
Of the majority. They VIII he instructor ny A'
saoln 10 make English the official language
1T has been the great claim Of the Cahenslyites mat
each parish should governed by priest OF the race
dominant they have been the last TO foo" 'heir
own principles: over every English-spcahng parish
they placed German pastors. and TIE bishops utterly
ged the training OF Young men not German lor
the priesthood All this will be abolished. as BiShop
RYAN OF Alton abolished 4, in his diocese by strict
application Of Cahcnslyite methods. When parents
would not send their children TO paroc'aal SCHOOLS
taught almost entirely in German, but sent ulch IN
stead TO the public schools, they were denounced by
the priest from the altar. That practice mas already
been abolished The clerical society known as the
PriestcrVcrein will get its quictus in all probability
II is ostensiby pous and benevolent society bu'
really II is intended 10 band together the priests &"
German blood 10 strengthen the umid. make III"
young Americans entirely German; ovcrnwc and "'-
tracize even the priests who make stand ior u"
English language II Is sort A. trust, ana very
powerful. 1t has succeeded in Withdrawing the ter
man priesthood from American life and from otl"r
than accidental association with thcir EnglisllSpeakns
brethren II must go. and no doubt II Will be very
summar!ly dealt with"
This is a mcacrc outline OF the work which the
delegate must do. 4 beginning was made when IN
Irish Delegate Bishop Conroy thirteen years ago adr
English the official language oi the MILWAUKEE, >chi
nary. In directing that parents VINO S"ild .h',r
children to public schools without danger !" tl'd'
religious belief he neither hindcred nor condemnod
The Iopc inauguracd the present campaign. lh'i'
viii be- some intense but Suppressed eroaning ron
Inc German press when the Delegate gets down 10
work With the decline of the language The papers
must be printed in English or go into hanfrup,cy'
There may vet he a newspaper storm In TINS country,
beside which the recent tornado will be a. morning
zephyr II will be strengthened from Rome. where
he chief Cahensyite agents are active ana hopeful