The Irish standard., 1896-03-28
Work of the Catholic rlissiona-
ries in Exploring the
Wilderness.
Historian Bancroft Contributes
Valuable Information on
the Subject.
Father rlarquette Made the First
White Settlement in
Michigan.


propriation bill in the House OF Repre-
sentatives, on February "a, Mr. Linton, a
Republican Representative from Michi-
gan, and the spokesman Of the American
quoted as having referred Indignantly to
a statute of Pere Marquette which the
state of Wisconsin had presented to Con-
gress and which was soon to be unveiled
in Statuary Hall of the Capitol-the first
"churchman' to be placed there, ''clothed
in the coWl and gown Of a Jesuit, with
crucifix, rosary beads and other para
pierlalia of his church, to be erected
in the nations sanctuary says the Phila-
delphia Catholic Standard and Times. The
| A. P. A. of the state of Illinois passed a
resolution the same week, protesting 3
against the placing of the statute in the
Capitol, and on February 20 Mr.. Linton
| introduced resolution reciting that there
has been placed in the Capitol a statute
| said statute being that Of a Jesuit priest
named Marquette;;' that "said Marquette
never was citizen of amy state nor Of the
United States, nor performed any civic or
military duty therefor, and directing that
the statue be removed and returned to its
| donors. To carry this resolution the or
ganizat:on was said to have pledged to its
support eighty votes Republicans, repre-
senting the strength of the A. P. A. in the
| House of Representatives.
| On March Senator Frye, Republican,
of Maine, presented in the Senate pc
tition from the American Protective AS
ociation of Maine protesting against plac-
ing the statue in the capitol
i AS a result of the agitation some Of
the more violent members of the order or
sympathizers with it began to make
threats to destroy the statue, and one of
them had to be placed under arrest for
an attempt to smash it with a broad axe
and another wanted to blow it ZIP with
bomb. A special guard had to be placed
over the statue to protect it day and night
Little has been heard of the matter since
them until Tuesday of this week, the 18th
instant, when it was again brought to
public notice by the introduction in the
House by Representatives Linton and J. J.
Jenkins, Republican, of Wisconsin, OF
more petitions asking for the removal Of
the statue According to the newspaper
report, 1.-THE most remarkable OF these
was that drafted by a joint committee of
the A. P. A. councils of Nebraska. They
have examined, it is stated, several rec
ords of the so-caleld discoveries Of Father
Marquette, and on careful examination OF
the statements made believe them to be
Incredible and unworthy of belief. The
story of Marquette's death is recited and
the protest continues that it is nothing
but an old minnesinger knights story re-
yamped to express the meaning of Mar
quette, term in tourney. There is not
enough truth in the yarn to make pro-
test against it. the protest says. We be-
[lieve that the whole story as to Marquette
is a fabrication of the Jesuits for the pur-
pose of laying claim to a large extent of
American territory already claimed by
Great Britain
The A. P. A. must. have discovered
something new in the way of records.
The authenticity of the accepted account
of Maruuette's discoveries is fully vouched
for by the following authorities, most Of
them Protestant, consulted in the prepar-
alton Of this article:
History OF the United States George
Bancroft.
The Mississippi Basin, Justin Winsor.
Narrative and Critical History of Amer
lea, Justin Winsor.
Pioneers of France in the New World,
Francis Parkman.
Discovery Of the Great West, Francis
Parkman.
Our Country, Benson J. Losing. LII, j..
The Discovery of America, John Fisl1e.
History Of the people of the United
States. John Bach McMaster.
Tho Colonies, Reuben Gold ThWaites.
History of the Discovery of the Valley
of the Mississippi, Hart.
History of the United States, w. H
Bartlett.
Barnes Centenary History of the United
States.
|. Life of Marquette Jared SPARKS.
DlSGOSeIy duu EAUlOl cttlOAA VI 1AiC
issippi Valley, John Culinary Shea.
History of Catholic Missions, John Gill
mary Shea.
History and General Description of New
France, Charlevoix
Devotion Of the Blessed Virgin Mary in
North America, Rev. Xavier Donald Nc
LeDd. 5
New American Gyclopaedia.
E1cyclopa paedfa Britannica.
All the historians mentioned and the
writers Of ali our. school histories. it ap
pears, nave been sadly hoodwinked in in-s
5nocentIy accepting the fabrication of the
Jesuits. and 1t has remained for the joint
scommitte Of the 4 p. a. councils of Ne
braska to set history Alright.
The Representative from Michigan
seems to be ignorant Of the fact that
Father Marquette was the founder of
Michigan; that 4 he establ lishsd the first
european ssettl ii that state, at the