The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-28


of the Commissioners in Alaska in the employ of the
heavily interested stockholders of the old company the very
time when the question being considered and that when he
returned the whole question had to be gone again for his
benefit 1t made difference in the Commissions decision that
Mr. Pratt absent in Alaska, but made great difference
the peoples opinion of the Commission that lie absent the
business of company practically Identical in its shareholders
with the local street railway company The street company
fortunate having the cooperation Of the Street and Sewer de-
partnet but the people Of Wilmington remarked above
growing dsrustful the department. They prefer to do
direct Whether elective board would be better
only be conectued 1t would probably show discretion if it
were directly responsible to the people.
often that appeal Rome has created interest
than does the which its the Eternal
which German college professor in the Catholic University takes
with the directory which composed Of the leading Bishops
and Archbishops of the Union
The question which lies behind this contention which
laes policy rather than doctrine and yet in which the
policy may affect the doctrine for good ILL., Owing the
liar organization of the Catholic Church. and the large numbr
of Foreigners who its midst almost century before
began take what be called American
sections settled exclusively by Irish Catholics others by
Germans and on, and in the appointment of Bishops the
various docese the national complexion the people taken
into consideration The which led to this perfectly
natural these people strangers in strange land and de-
sired the guidance and companionsp of whose national
brotherhood made them welcome at the fesde Then again. the
native population being largely Protestant the wealth and the
Glass;
the college training and to enter the Catholic
epscopates became necessary to appoint who
only foreign but whose education obtained in foreign ns
tutons.
During the last twenty-five thirty years the American Catho
lies of the second third and fourth generations having acquired
wealth education and position began take charge matters
for themselves and the foreign element looked upon
of PROBATION waiting to its American character in
the second generation To further this idea it urged that the
English language used possible wherever the vcr
severely, before the people whom it intended to affect had
thrown off the old and taken the and the result al
strong protest by German Catholics against the dscadg
language in the interest of this country This the question
which developed in the Cahensly movement
1t while that movement in its height that the Catholic
University into being. 1t given strong American
character and the effort of the peates who connected with
its organization not to seek difficulties but rather discover
modes of accommodation by which unnecessary controversies
might be stopped and American Catholicism built upot
Catholicism different from that which exists anywhere else but
simply taking American PATRIOTISM does that of France
Ireland This naturally brought in the question education
which involved the public school, against which certain bishops
had spoken strongly in times past The leader of what might
be called this American school easily Archbishop Ireland
whose idea to foster the national life the country and to
make its patriotism part Of the religion ofeChuc About this
period great deal of controversy arose more indeed than people
have time study life Short but resulted in the de-
pare of Bishop Keane from the University the retention of
Mo1signor Shredder in the chair Of dogmac theology The CALL
ing of Dr. Conaty the head the University was still triumph
for the American dea which brings the story up the recent
meeting of the directory from these dispatches lust
printed that the directory prepared dispense with the ser
vices of Mongno Shredder when he suddenly unexpectedly
exhibited documents from the Pope which suc character
that the question of his leaving the University was postponed for
another and the meantime the whole matter will he re-
ferred to Rome for settlement
Among the Archbsop and Bishops there is course consid
cradle surprise that Mongnor Shredder should have had such
documents and that he should have kept them till the last
moment One of the charges brought against the Monsig
o1,
to those who know that the Professor thorough German having
the German ideas of what he should and drink will be
readily seen that while the offence might be one in man
of another nationality it just natural i'll German it
Chinese drinking tea The whole question is of much
greater importance and involves the settlement of the policy
which is the church in regard the State in this
country Policies which govern in monarc suitable for
Republics and some latitude required education
in order to bring about perfect understanding The public
therefore, will watch the further progress of the movement with
great interest