St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-17
FATHER CLEARY's REPLY
To Gen. Morgan, Who Whites the
Catholics

On several occasions during the past
two weeks Gen. Morgan has delivered
so-called lectures in various OF the city
churches. The burden of his discourse
OIL each occasion was the vileness of the
teachers. Rev. Father Cleary, of this
city, who is we'll known among the
Catholic clergy. has formulated reply
to Gen. Morgan which will be read with
interest by people who are not bigOted.
He says:
"The American Baptist Missionary
society Is not In very reliable hands, II
Its secretary is not more faithful to the
truth in the performance of his duties
than he is when making statements
about Catholics and the Catholic church.
He is reported to have stated in his
llbelous TRADE at the First Baptist
church last Sunday night that the
Jesuits stole coal from the government
agency at DEVILS Lake, and that the
Jesuit mission was in close proximity to
the agency. There never was a Jesuit
mission at Devils Lake; there never
were any Jesuits there: SO Mr.. Morgan's
statement about the stealing of the co al
was "a barefaced lie. Mr.. Morgan. as
Indian commissioner, must have known
that no Jesuit mission ever existed at
Devils Lake; he is too we'll Informed to
make mistake in the matter, but evil
IDENTIFY it suited his purpose to make
that false statement, and he had no
more respect for the intelligence Of his
audience than to attempt to palm off
such yarn upon them.
I'm tact, this eX-lndian commissioner
seems to have taken it for granted that
his Minneapolis audience did not
possess ordinary intelligence or good
Judgment. On no other hypothesis can
one account for the absurd and utterly
improbable versions that he has given
OF the relations of the Catholic church
influence of Catholic missionaries and
schools upon the North Am ericaD In
dams.
I'm his pretended exposure of Rome
in Politics this disappointed and dis
gruntled pet of Ben amin Harrison gave
a rare exhibition of bitter fanaticism,
intOlerant hate and biased prejudice
against Catholics or anything friendly
to the Catholic religion. Gen. Morgan's
most bitter enemy could not possibly
have offered better proofs of his utter
unfitnesS for the position in which MT.
Harrison had the misfortune to place
him. Amy man, no matter what his
religion may be, who is constantly sus-
piciOus of his fellow men and ever ready
to accuse them of had motives and
sinister designs. simply because their
motives are unknown to him. or not
understood by him. is certainly unfit 10
perform the delicate duties of an Office
involving such responsibility as that Of
Indian commissioner.
In his unchriStian and most dis
honest attack upon his Catholic fellow
citizens last Friday night at the I'M
manuel Baptist church, Mr.. Morgan
seemed to assume that everything that
he did not clearly understand or that
had not been fully explained to him,
must of necessity be either bad or at
least very suspicious. A mind constant
ly distrustful of other mems motives
betrays its own untrustworthihess. No
man, except knave, a dishonest man
or fool will persist in attributlng bad
motives to his fellow men when he has
no means of knowing what these
motives are.
"Whatever opinion men may ensar-
tain of MIR. Harrson's unhappy Indian
commissioner. | do not believe that he
has been generally regarded as fool.
Time and space do not permit a more
extended notice of Gen. MOrgan's
fanatical vagaries. shall paw my re-
Spects more at length to Mr.. Morgan
next Sunday evening i'll st. Charles
church, and hereby extend cordial i'll
vitatiOn to the public to attend"