St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-19
The ."lOYAL AMERICAN"
TIE SUBJECT or AN ADDRESS By
FATHER CLEARLY
BOB INGERsOLL's MoUTHHNGs.

Rev. Hoyt Expatiares on Lincoln
as a Christian-A Itefutation
of an ignostic's Statements
Louis +. Post Discourses on
Gods Gifts to eloquent
Pulpit Orators.
The big hall in Labor Temple was
crowded to the doors last night, the oc-
casion being an address by Father
Cieary on the subject, 1.-The Loyal
American" 1t is suspected that 4 large
portion of the crowd went to the hall
expecting to hear the eloquent priest
eXpatiate on the A. P. A. paper OF the
same title as his subject, and whose at
lacks on the Catholic church have occa-
stoned much unfavorable comment on all
SIDES. If such were their expectations,
they went away disappointed. for Father
Cleary never so much as referred to the
anti-Catholic society. He spoke OF
American citizenship, and maintained
that loyal American was one whose
religion did not interfere with his
loyalty to the government, aud whose
partiSanship and bigotry did not prevent
him from being fair and just and allow
ing his neighbor to believe and practice
whatever religion his conscience die
tated.
In spite of what certain bigoted and
un-American people said, Father Cleary
maintained that the Catholic church had
no political intrigueS. The Catholics
were by no means all JesuitS. If. as
was said, the Jesuits were bringing
harm to the country, the speaker said
he would be one of the first to get out
anu fight them. There was much about
the Jesuits he did not like, and yet
there were certain traits in them he
admred-the traits they evinced when
doing good. 1t was all balderdaSh to say
that any church could operate against
American institutions. Such a thing
would never be tolerated, and there was
no danger OF any church ever trying lie,
Tor American Institutions were too
fair.
This is not country of the Catholic
church," said the speaker; neither is
1t country of the Protestant church.
This country is free for any and all re-
ligiOnS. There is no distinction so far
as the government is concerned. 1t has
been said that the Catholic church is
one of secret doctrines and intrigues.
This is not true. The Catholic church
is as free as the Protestant. Nothing is
done in the dark. There is nothing un-
loyal about it, as certain mountebanks
say. The remarkable growth in
dence enough that it is pop
ular and that it is the church of the
people and of the heart. The democracy
of the American government is like the
democracy of the Catholic church. Any
man, no matter now humbly born, if
born Oh American soil, can aspire to
the highest position in the gift of the
people. Any man, no matter how hum
bic his origin, may aspire to the highest
position in the gift of the Catholic
church. American Catholics do not
grant the pope any right to interfere in
their political concerns, and they will
not brook any interference on his part
in such matters. We owe him merely
our spiritual allegiance, because he is
the head of our church."
AT this point of his discourse Father
Cleary remarked that he would take
ings of Ingersoll, who held forth at the
Lyceum theater last Thursday evening.
The people went there, he said. to
listen to an elocutionist pronounce a
eulogy on Abraham Lincoln, the mar.
tyred president, and not disouisition
on the Catholic church. In his usual
vulgar way. Ingersoll took occasion to
libel the church and show his Ignor-
ance OH matters perteining to it.
He said that the pOpe-whom he char
acterlzed as Gods agent -cOuntenanced
the rebellion, and held correspondence
with jefferson Davis in reference 10 it.
There was not word of truth in such
statements. the speaker said, and then
he referred to the October number of
the North American Review, in which
was printed this famous correspond
ence. 1t was England which had coun-
tenanced the rebellion. and it was
England which sent aid to the Confed-
eracy. lngersoll never referred to this
fact, however, for the reason that the
country was not Catholic country.
England, however. is worse" said
the speaker, "for she is dominated over
by female pope"
Ingersoll demonstrated in his dis
course at the theater that his ignorance
and bigotry were very dense. There
was nothing of the deep thinking man
about him, for had there been. he would
not have delivered himself of Such ar