The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-09-06

fss3. destroyed colored orphan asylum
and hung negroes 20 trees on Grove street
The anti-cashoiic "Lord George Cor
don riot Is one OF the nest brutal pages
In she history Of London. and Jet nobody
believes that william Pitt and ais ministry
were in sympathy with that anti-Catholie
mob. Since the old stupid Native Amer
ican" and know Nothing mobs Of hfty
years ago in Boston, PhiIadeiphia. Brook
Ign and Baltimore the American people
have risen SO completely above this kind
of brutal, intoIerant, mobocratic violence
thai we do not think the Roman Catholics
can justly plead that We are bigoied
people.
Bishop Keane, Of the Roman Cacholic
church, breaches on invitation before the
Harvard divinity school and before Yale
college. Why should he not2 The ko-
man Catholic churches Of Boston all paid
public honors 70 the memory of the great
Unitarian preacher, DR.. Charming, when
he was borne to the tomb In ls43. DR..
Claiming was as large, swee. and tolerant
man as FeneIon, and the Catholic
church rang out their funeral bells 20 con-
fess il.
The eloquent Archbishop Ryan, OF Phil
adelphia. was the honored guest of the
descendants of the Pnritans in Scranton,
Pa. on last "Forefathers' day." and in
his address be uttered a great truth when.
referring to the wide field of benefcencs
in which the sacred virtue of charity and
mutual liberation may be exercised for the
advantage Of the country and of civiliza-
ton, he said that herein lay the unit OF
power to bring capital and labor to-
gether. "Christ," said his grace, Tex
enpIifed in His own person the
union Of both. Being God. the owner
of all things. lie was the great capitalist
of the universe, and yet, the reputed son
OF poor carpenter, He labored at the
bench" Bishop Ryan is right; socialism
will not solve our quarrel of labor and
capital; the only thing that will ever solve
il; the only thing in fact that ever does
solve 10 when violence has been exhausted
on both sides is compromise that IS
framed in the spirit of Christ's immortal
Golden Rule" which urges you to do
unto others as you would be done by,
rule. however, that needs to be enforced
by those who have risen to the level of
imagination that enables O man TO put
himself in the other mans place."
The trouble with all the great auarrels
between capital and labor is that the
leaders on both sides seem to have no
moral vision: they are the ''one-eyed mon
archs Of the blind. " and so both fall into a
ditch of vain squabbling and useless vio-
lence.
Bishop Ryan, in his address to the
Protestant descendants of the Puritan
founders of New England, and the bigotry
they manifested toward the Catholic
church, says:
.They did not hate the Catholic church,
but they hated monster which they be-
lieved to be the Catholic church. They
hated treachery and tyranny and persecu-
ton and the inquisition and deception aud
superstition which they believed to be the
Catholic church, and they were right to
hate It,"
Bishop Ryan here rose to the level of
Christian liberation even as did Rev. DIR.
Lyman Abbott when he said to Protestant
Plymouth church in Brooklyn:
I'VE can't afford while looking forward
to the future Of this country and looking
TO the elements in it, TO disregard any
power that stands strongly and loyalty for
God and law and order. The Catholic
church is steadily getting nearer TO the
common people, and Pope Leo possesses
the character and qualification of q states
man."
DIR. Abbott was right. for when Pope Leo
listened to Cardinal Gibbons, Bishops Ire
land, Keane and Spaulding and forbade
the persecution or accommodation of
any Catholic parent who chose to send his
children to the American common school
rather than the parochial school. he did
rise to the level of craftsmanship.