St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-09-04

organizations, all doing excellent work.
do not expect to stay a great while
in the United States on this trip. 1t
was taken by me solely to attend the
seminary opening tomorrow, when
your munificent townsman, Mr.. Hill,
and his friend, Archbishop Ireland, will
receive public recognition of the great
work they have done in the cause of
education.
Among the interesting perscnages
who are here is Rev. Sylvester Ma
lone, state regent of New York, whose
appointment to that position has been
largely attributed to Archbishop Ire
lands influence. But Father Malone
has
AN IMPRESSIVE PERSONALITY
and an intellectual mould of character
which are sufficient guarantees of
his fitness for the Office of state re-
gent, He is very genial and approach
able and quite ready to give his views
on the topics of the day. Father Ma
lone is Republican according to his
own statement, though not very vir-
ulent one, it would appear, from the
fact that he came West wearing the
badge of the Brooklyn Eagle Demo-
cratic excursion.
''They are am advanced sort of DEM
ocrats," he explained laughingly. ''I
said that 1 would wear any badge that
repre- esented Brooklyn and good gov
ernment and so I have it on my lapel
yet. Do you know that we are having
a root and branch test of municipal re-
form going on down there in New
York? 1 tell you thac the great ques-
ton of municipal reform and good gov
ernment for cities is not to be deter
mined on party lines. The Platt Re-
publicans and the Tammany Demo-
Gratis are thorns in the sides of the
progressive elements of both parties IN
Gotham. 1 speak as a Republican,
mind you, and perhaps my talk may
not altogether suit a Democratic pa
per. But 1 am giving my conscien-
tious convictions, none the less.
Roosevelt is making a splendid fight
for law and order and 1 look to see the
people support him in his crusade
against law-breakers.
Although the papal delegate does
not like to be quoted Oil political Ques-
tions pertaining to this country, I know
that he takes great interest in all
movements that tend to the betterment
of government affairs here and he ex-
pressed himself to me as greatly
pleased at the recent utterances of Mr..
Roosevelt on this subject. Mgr Sa-
tolli regards the New York reform
er's article in the Forum as among the
most statesmanlike papers that have
been given to the press for some time.
We have considerable to contend with
in such measures of progression, from
the opposition of q certain class of for
eigners who are slow to grasp or un-
derstand our American institutions.
But they yield to pressure and educa-
ton in time.
81 suppose you have had some spos-
adic cases of A. P. Aism in the West
here. We have had a showing of the
disease in the East, too, but it is
rapidly dying away. What's the use
of showing fight to such a. crowd?
They can have no standing here, for
the very groundwork of their organt-
Zation is un-Amer.can. / would SOON
er go among these people and show
them how foolish they are than light
them That is the way we dispose of
them in New York and we did it very
effectually. Any movement which has
bigotry for its foundation is not worth
a moments thought. Such a thing
would stif1e of itself in the free and
enlightened air Of the United States.
I am, of course, greatly interested in
educational affairs and take special in
terest in the event which has brought
us here. ALI honor to Mr.. Hill, whose
generosity has made the building OF
your great seminary possible, and to
your archbishop, who has been so po-
tent a factor in the upbuilding OF your
Catholic educational interests. The
St. Paul seminary is the pride Of the
church of the United States"