Katolik. (Winona, Minn.) 1893-1895, 1894-04-12

the other in Detroit sympathise
most vehemently with the Polish
National Alliance, and it is an
open fact that the Chicago sopposi-
ton has already furnished three,
and the other (of Detroit has furni-
shed four groups to the Alliance.
The Polish National Alliance
having collected this motley crowd
of liberal Catholics, of non-Catho-
lies, of members of secret societies
and of malcontents who publicly
disobey their priests in defiance of
all ecclesiastical authority, and ha-
wing with haste and without proper
deliberation, organized them into 50
called ,,groups'' have at last dis
graced itself, by arbitrality assuming
through it's leaders, who constitute
the alleged ,,central government of
the Alliance, the supreme and alb
solute power ard authority over all
the Polish population in the United
States.
They also desire to assume the
power of naming national objects
for Polish moneyis to be collected
from the Polish people, receiving
that money in their own hands, and
under their own control without
furnishing any bond OF security
therefor. = In the, eventof opposi-
ton to their schemes and desires,
by honest meE, by members of the
Polish Roman Catholic Union, or
by true and exemplary Polish Ca
tholic priests In this country, the
leaders of the Polish National ALI
ance will Immediately make use Of
heirassume supremed authority by
slandering and eliminating those.
who attempt to oppose them, calling
them traitors to their country, to
the nation, and%to true patriotism.
We. have already had seVesa
riences Of their impolite and shame
full treatment of us in the columns
of their liberal Polish newspapers.
We solemnly protest against the
actions, purposes and objects of
;, the Polish National Alliance in
the United States of North Ameri-
ca" - which is nothing else than
a motley crowd of liberal Catholics,
non Catholics, members of secret
societies, and malcontents in catho-
lie parishes.
III. The ssocia tion Of P O.
lish priests in the U IL
ted States Of N ort h A m e.
AS we have already said in the
second part of this memorial, the
Polish National Alliance found,
after the warning appeal issued by
the conference of Polish Catho-
lie priests assembled in Buffa-
10 in 1882, that their former
efforts and experiments would not
succeed again, unless they had gained
over to their side at least one, or
few Polish Catholic priests, who
would assist them i'll approaching
and reaching the Polish Catholic
people in this country. = 1t took
them almost four years to find an
assistance of this kind; but they
succeeded eventually in securing Rev.
Dominic Majer, pastor of the Polish
Catholic parish in St. Paul, Mimi,
as friend and an active partisan of
their organization. Rev. D. Majer
embraced the cause of the Polish
National Alliance and appeared as
a delegate of their convention called
on the ninth day of July 1886 at
Bay City, Mich, taking an active
part in all it's deliberations. After
his return from the convention
Father Majer went to other Polish
priests, and induced them to join
him, and the Polish National Ali
ance = In this manner new pc
culiar organisation, auxiliary to the
1rrellglous, has spring into exlste-
nee, under the title The Associa-
ton of Pol1Af Priests in the United
States of North America = Its
objects are set forth in the thirteen
paragraphs, which we give in their
literal translation, as Document 4.
We are astonished at the posi-
tion taken by the associated Polish
priests, and we personally accuse
them, by the fifth paragraph of their
statutes, of approving and encoura-
ging 1.-THE central government" of
the Polish Alliance to establish ma
tional taxes; this is to say, to col
lect and receive money contributed |
by every Pole in America, without
offering any adequate security there
for, and without stating what dis
position will be finally made Of the
funds so collected.