The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1893-01-12

BISHOP MKssMER came to the Green
Bay diocese with reputation for
scholarship which he well sustains.
Coupled with that reputation, and in
deed because of it, he was credited with
breadth of view which would not per-
NIT him to confound expectancy and its
quick but trsnsitory results, with the
mature fruItage of adherence to line OF
policy based on reason. That scholar
and a man OF affairs should favor Cahen-
slyism, even in the form it is made to
assume under the skillful manipulation
| Of Bishop Messner is cause for genuine
| surprise.
The Immediate purpose of the Cahen-
sly scheme is that to which the Bishop
directs attention, but the ultimate re-
| suits of the means employed seeming
Iy escape his attention, or else he argu IS
as a special pleader for CahenslyIsm and
does violence to his own intelligence
| The expedient which the Cahensly policy
contemplates and which Bishop Messmer
approves, continues indefinitely, and is an
approval of the condition, which gives the
expedient any warrant for being. 1t ls
argued that the movement had reference
to all foreigners; that it applied only to
Catholics; that religious welfare was the
end in view; that religious and not politi-
cal measures were 10 be used and that
the Holy See, not any foreign govern
ment was asked to cooperate.
1t is true that all foreigners were to
have clergymen familiar with their Ian
guage. How little words mean under GER
tain conditions may be determined from
their connection IN this sense. The Nor
wegian people are not Catholics hence
they were not to be affected by this re-
ligious movement. The Irish people are
Catholics, but their mother tongue is
English and they were not within the pale
Of the Cahensley movement The French
are Catholics but they do not form dis
tinct communicable movement is i'm
practicable SO far as they are concerned.
What nationality then was to be wrong
ed by this policy which had in mind only
! The religious well being OF the people
affected, in mind?
The same line of argument is ap-
plicable to the secular instruction of
foreigners, their intellectual welfare
may not, perhaps, merit the same degree
OF attention that their spiritual needs
should demand. and still 1t should not be
ignored. But teachers should Be put in
charge In communities with due regard to
identity of language and nationality,
otherwise there is danger of q cessation
OF intellectual activity just as there would
be diminut1on of religious furvor And
OF course the means employed would per-
petuate the very condition which made
proper at the outset the selection OF the
teacher.
The "object to be attaIred," with the
means employed, has resultant which
was the real object carefully disguised.
If this could be secured under the gulse of
religion, wouldE the result be any the less
welcome? Indeed, would political means
have the potency of, and command the
obedience that waits upon, religion? Ca
hensly worked shrewdly and made relig-
Ion the handmade of political movement.
The plan was perfect in conception,
shrewd IN the means it employed as well
as In the purpose it concealed. Those who
would fight it as colonization scheme,
would countenance and abet it in the
name of religion, and even the people
whose rights it transgressed would bear
the affection because of Its source. And
the Holy See could secure acqu1escence
when the mandate of the foreign govern
ment would provoke opposition.