Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-14

cause they necessary SAVIOR of party diff
| was to symbolic tie union of all parties
for the general oFeq And. therefore. lit
| tie by little, just az sectionalism became
an impossibility for Re. SO did partisanship.
The force of my environment naturally
made me not a9party man, but a patriot.
Great applausel n.
This is not meant; to be any disparage-
ment Of parties and party men and poll
and strife Of opieiona, Of convictions as to
the best lines Of public action, of plans for
the promotion OK public and private inter-
ests: this is Inevitable; nay. even desirable.
1t is a symptom Of healthful vigor in the
nation. 1t is an.evidence of intelligent and
active interest in the public welfare. To
feel that interest and exert that activity
for the advancement of local and national
prosperity Is the bounden duty of every
worthy citizen. And If. as rejecting men
declare, this can best be done through par
ty organization, then every good citizen
should see to It that party organization
may mean intelligent, Conscientious hon
orable cooperation for what the members
of the organization believe to be for the
public good
But while seeing that all this is I'M
questionably true. l. was none the less
grateful that my Identification with the
naional capital lifted me to what could
not but consider a higher level than the
party arena, made me sincere friend and
upholder of what is true and right in each
OF the parties. and. far as might be- a
counsellor Of that unselhsh patriotism
which makes the interaction Of the differ
ent parties cooperate for the promotion of
public nnindedness, and for the symmetri-
cal. harmonious, Justly balanced and safe
advance OF our country in her march of
onward progress. applause long contin-
Ued.)
influence ON the Old World.
Next came to appreciate the place and
the influence Of our country in the politics
of the world and the social advance of man
kind And then I saw how wisely Wash
ington had been placed here on our At
lantic coast, as a link between the old
world and the new, gladly receiving from
the old world the results of it's hoary wis
dom and long experience for our country's
safe guidance IL, her new pathway and
then reciprocally waiting back to the old
Worlo Whatever IN our fresh and eager and
untrammeled experience might rebound to
the welfare Of the older peoples And thus
l came to recognize that our country. in
being, as Leo XIII called her, the land of
nope: the land of the future was destined
by Providence to be such not only for her
own welfare. but for the welfare of all the
upward struggling races of mankind And
thus, with the heart not only of a patriot
put OF priest l came to love America
ever more and more, and the conviction
grew to be very part Of me that Ameri-
cas- influence in the world was meant to
be for the worlds good. and that 1t was her
world upward-not, indeed, as the old world
demagogues imagine, by methods of revo-
lutionism and upheaval, but by the gradu-
al leavenins of the world with just IDEAS
and by calm, orderly, peaceful, Irresistible
advance toward fairer and freer and hap
pier human conditions"
The effect of these words was shown in
the outburst that greeted them.
Harmony of Church and Country.
Continuing. Archbishop Keane said:
In so very important and so every way
desirable a work, it was manifest to Ire
that the old Church of Christ, the mother
of Christian civilization, ought to have a
potent and even principal part. And ds 1
advanced in age and influence 1 considered
it my bounden duty to impress this convic-
ton on all whom 1t concerned. Tie more
fully l came to appreciate both the spirit
Of the church and the genius Of America,
the more profoundly did 1 become con-
WINGED Of the essential harmony between
them and of their heaven-imposed duty to
cooperate with each, other for the welfare
of America and of the world. If there has
been anything specially characteristic in
my career, it Is to this conviction that it is
due, and 1 am deeply grateful to Provi-
dence that SO it mas been.
For the realizationJof SO vast and noble
a purpose, l have been not only anxious to
do conscientiouSly- my own humble part, hut
ready to give just recognition to whatever
any believer in Christ. or even any believer
in God, might be striving to do toward the
same great end. = Capping critics have as
serted that in this / minimiZed Catholic
truth and dragged 1t down to the level of
man-made and imperfect Christian systems,
or even of heather unbelief. In saying so
they have totally. and, cannot but fear,
wilifully misrepresented me. have always
been glad, and even proud to utter the full
ness of truth in any assemblage OF human
beings who care for the truth; for 1 hold
with St. Paul that TO believers and unbe-
liayarc n GentilPS and to Jews. the Clurch
of Christ is still debtor. But have never
forgotten that the power of the truth con-
ssts in it's presentation in all its symmetry
and beauty and fullness; have never sac
rificed Or compromised one little or iota of
it: and they who assert that I have as
sert what is false. May God forgive them;
l have no controversy with them
The Effect Upon the Assemblnge.
There was nobility and loftiness in the
superb eloauence with which the speaker
uttered these sentences, and the broad
charity of the views he expressed so ear
nestly had tremendous effect upon his lis
teners. There was spontaneous ebuliit1on
of applause, in which sympathy deep and
sincere was evident as admiration Tor
the exquisite beauty of the language with
which he embellished his ideas, and rs he
stood awaiting the cessation of the tribute,
he was the ideal representative or the pro-
gressive in religion, to whom and his col
to owe much.
Especially entertaining were the remarks
which followed.
Divine Providence, and the wisdom of
our holy father, the pope" he said, were
pleased that my career in Washington
should be crowned by the part which
have had in the establishment of the Cath
Ole University of America here in our ma
tional capital Reflection and experience
had made it clear both to our holy father
and to the bishops of the United States
that an essential need of our age is an eff
cent antdote for the erroneous philoso-
phies the mistaken science, and the merely
secular instruction, which are leading men
astray from the truth of Christ: They
were persuaded that this antidote is to be
found in Christian knowledge-that is, in
the totality of knowledge with God and
Christ for it's very heart and animating
principle. and therefore in Christian edu-
cation, from its lowest grades to it's high
est and most scientific advances. They
were convinced that the crown of the
Christian educational system must be
university, distinct from and superior to
all the schools and all the colleges, yet
allied to them ALL linked with them all,
locked up to and co-operated with by them
all, the center and summit of them all.
They located it, as to them seemed WiSeSt