The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-29

| sovereignty for the pope would not in
| terefere with italian unity. What OF
| it, even if the people Of Rome did vote
| not to have the pope for. their ruler
| We American Catholics accept the doc
trine Of the sovereignty of the people
| only so far as it is consistent with the
| principles of right and Justice"
| All of the other speeches were in Ger
/ man. Among the speakers were the
| Rev. Henry ". Wolf. the Rev. A. B..
| Schwenniger and H. j. Spaunhort, ex-
| president of the German Catholic Cen
| trail union of the United States.
The address of the German Catholics
| of New York TO the pope was adopted
| by rising vote. The address is as
| follows:
Mot Holy Father: More than a thous-
and years have passed since the union
was established by which all Catholic
Germans are bound to the See OF Rome;
that divinity ordained union from
which have sprung their Catholic usa-
ges and traditions. Whether We have
thus inherited of Catholic spirit and sa-
cred tradition has become with us
second nature, and we have kept It
faithfully in our adopted fatherland,
which has become for US fatheriand
indeed, because in it we enjoy the liber-
ty to profess and practice, without let
or finderance, the principles of Catholic
faith and the manifestatio of Catho-
lie life which from our forefathers were
handed down to US.
These happy privileges we German
Catholics of the Archdiocese of New
York enjoy to the fullest extent because
Of the loving and fatherly care of our
jealous and devoted chief pastor. our
beloved archbishop, and of the prudent
administration Of the delegate, whom
the wisdom Of the Holy See has sent to
this country. 1t is our most fervent
PRAYER that God may preserve these pre-
la ties.
While we have every reason as faith
full Catholics and as loyal citizens of the
United States to thank God for these
liberal favors, we witness with deep
sorrow and sadness of heart the de-
plora BILE condition brought upon Rome,
the capital of Christendom. The parti-
mony of Peter and been wrenched from
his successors, and we see you, Most
Holy Father, deprived of that liberty
which is becoming of the vicar of God
and necessary for the administrati ton Of
Holy Church.
We, therefore, renew, before the face
of the whole world, our most solemn
protest against the sacrilegious viola
ton done to the partimony of st. Peter
in September, 1870; we protest against
it in unison with the entire Catholic
world, but more especially in cOnnec-
ton with similar demonstrations in
the United States, the general conven-
ton of German Catholics in Munich,
and the Roman Catholic Central Nerein
in Albany. We demand with them the
restoration of the sovereignty of the
papcy by territorial independence of the
Holy See.
Seeing at the present time the enc
mics of the church on the occasion of
the twenty-fifth anniversary Of of those
days Of shameful deeds rejoicing in
ubiquitous triumph, filling our hearts
wit sorrow by their impious cries of
victory, we feel compelled within our
Utmost hearts to unite with the million
of your faithful children gathered in
spirit around your throne in order to
sare with you your sorrow, and i'm
plore, united with you in prayer aid
and consola ton from the high-priestly
heart of him with whom you, Holy Fa-
Their, are called upon to share sorrows
and triumphs. May God hear these
our prayers,
Before your feet, most Holy Father,
We lay the assurance of our most re-
veretiai love and affection.
The mass meeting closed with a sing
ing by the audience of the Leo Hymn
composed by Joseph Brener of Bonn,
Germany, to the air of America"
EPoCHs of faith are epochs of fruitful
ness; but epochs of unbelief, however gilt
teriug. are barren of all permanent good
Goethe. s'r
A NOTED scholar has found that sspos-
sesses" possesses more double SIS than any
other common word possesses.