The Irish standard., 1897-12-11
THE BISHOP OF ALBANY.


| remarkable pastoral letter recently ad-
dressed to his clergy by Rt. Rev. Viii
! liam CrCsswell Doane, the Episcopal
/ bishop of Albany, N. Y. in which he
declared that England is most patient
with us and that Americans in order
to win the esteem and friendship Of the
| mother country must not mpant
! rrejudices against her in the minds of
their children by placing in their hands
+; certain school histories which describe
| the injustice and cruelty of Great Brit
ain toward the colonists TO give his
exact words we quote as follows: The
| theory that the old revolutionary spirit
| which regarded England as tyrant is
''ept alive ny the study Of our school
books of history may have some weight.
| If 1t has, then it is time that the scho.A
books We're corrected so that children
shall be taught that the England of a
| hundred years ago is as different from
| the England of today as the America OF
| this century is different from the Amer
lea of the Revolution" Or course. Birr
op Doane would not like the American
children to read the Declaration of In
dependence drafted by Thomas Jefferson
III Arrangement of King George and his
parliament. The charges therein made
are Offensive to the English of today,
and therefore the document should no
longer be read by Young America" or
perused by patriotic citizens on the
Fourth of July.
AS might naturally BIO expected Bish-
op Doanc has been criticised for his I'M
American utterances. A Chicago paper
refers to him as wearing "kunc
braechss' and the title of My Lord
Bishop, while travelling in Europe, and
says he is mad because Bishop McI.ar.3
came back from the Lambeth conference
with the Stars and Stripes flying. IF
ne wishes to know about the causes OF
our prejudice against England" says
the Inter Ocean. "lct him subscribe for
the London Globe, Standard, ST. James
Gazette and Saturday Review. and read
a
leans" =
A. Oakley Hall. who says he is the
grandson Of an English subject. get,
back at the bishop in the following
manner; 1T is not unnatural that the
bishop of a church which is an olishoo,
OF the church founded on the lust @:
Henry tho Eighth as we'll as of a rec
rcant monk Luther. and an apostatn
nun. Catherine Won Born should have
q great love for the state which is con-
stitutionally annexed to that church
But il seems Il sad fact that any Amer.
lchn should recommend an excelsior
from our chldren's books Of her opprcs-
sion Of the colonies, or of her insults
that led to the naval war, or her an
tagoniSm to the Union cause during the
sixties. No schooImaster could ever
teach an American child who reads
about the greed and oppression of the
various English governments for the last
ten centuries to live otherwise than rs
dctcstng them"
INC Enllauellfnla presbyterian ana
other papers of the East and West ex-
press their opinions G this pseudo
American prclate' and haul him over the
Goals for his Ango-maniacal utterances.
and inc lud' replies to their structures
by attacking the Pope, the Catholics and
the Irish to prove his loyalty to Amcri-
can institutions. He knows that any
scoundrel who casts aspersious upon
these has proved his patriotism beyond
doubt. He got rrtatcd because Hon.
John +. Fincrty, of Chicago. had 1:
wack at him and said Queen Victoria
was the ''shc pope" Of his church. This
he vchcmcntly denies, and TO get even
with Fincrty he lmblushingly asserts
that Roman Catholics cove absolute
allegiance to a foreign bishop, not only
In spiritual but temporal Sovereignty
tic knows he is lying. If he knows any
thing about Catholic doctrine. He has
nothing to say about the Protestant crit
les who assaulted him moro strongly than
the Catholics of Irish ancestry. He is
evidently IL renegade in race. for the
name Dome" is modification of the
ancient Irish name duane" The
bishop OF Albany ought to cross the
ocean to reside permanently in Eng
land. This country is too vulgar, too
democratic and too American for him.