The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-23
patches, but you ought to see the
other fellow
Let 1t Be Cardinal, No Longer Arch
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bishop, Ireland.
Archbishop John Ireland talks with
his usual directness and frankness in
discussing the affairs of his church and
their relation to the new government
of Cuba and Porto Rico. His is the
free and robust American spirit which
permeates the Northwest and so differ
entiates it from other and less favored
sections of the Union. The liberality
of his Views has ever been their dis
tinction, and his conclusions, presented
to The G ! o b e readers on Sunday,
WILL we doubt not, rob religionists
generally of their fears, and receive
the approval Of American citizens. The
archbishop had this to say concerning
the interests of the Catholic church in
the two islands destined to come I'M
der American influence:
Two principles are already settled
by the constitution and laws Of Amer
lea.
There will be no union of state and
church, such as is established by GUS
tom or otherwise in certain Catholic
countries of Europe.
There will be complete protection Of
Suoh principles.
The people of our new possessions
will soon realize that it is their duty
to support religion by voluntary and
personal contributions.
In the greater number Of parishes,
moreover, church properties yield am
pie revenues to meet all expenses.
THE church everywhere in our new
possessions is thoroughly organized
and is well prepared to care for
all her interests without the help Of
state or charitable aid.
1T demands no favor, no privilege
naught but liberty and the legal pro-
lection of the natural and civil rights
of its members.
How different from the views of that
other member Of the church, the Rev.
John 7. Murphy president of the Holy
Ghost College Of Pittsburg. whose be-
lief 1t is that:
1.-THE, United States will find it wise
to adopt a liberal policy toward the
islanders and assume all the obliga-
lions that obtained between the church
and her colonies.
'In other words, endow the churches
and provide for their maintenance as
has been done for the past 300 years. .
The contrast between the utterances
Of these two prelates is indeed marked.
The one man, proud of the fact that
his church occupies position of dig
rity and strength r5 sents the idea that
It shall be supported by other contribu-
items than those Of it's own children,
or receive other protection than what
properly should be given to the natural
and civil rights Of it's members. The
az cE 10 nc
alent to some extent perhaps, in car-
tain Eastern quarters, that the church
is privileged to pass up and down the
aisleS of earth, hat i'll hand, like any
meIrdicant, seeking aims from every
conceivable source. Herein lies the diff
ference between the ST. Paul and the
Pittsburg idea. In the latter turks a
suggestion of the murk of the manu-
featuring center and of the contracted
thought that better BELTS New York
and Quebec than Baltimore and st.
Paul.
The archbishop felicitates himself, as
a Catholic and an American citizen,
upon the way things are going in con-
nection with the settlement Of the war.
He sees that the American hierarchy
is enriched by the addition to our
Catholic population of two millions and
a half of people in Cuba and Porto
Rico, and he Is aware that in the
Philippines and the other islands of
the Pacific, which our Imperialists have
captured and are holding by the SUI
preme power of lungs, are fully as
many more Of the same religious faith.
To he
transferred from dying nation
to the protection Of liv-
ing republic, their substance unimpair-
ed, their religious rights guaranteed,
their creed completely protected, and,
as an American, he realizes the especial
significance of each of these conditions
and is naturally and properly satisfied
Minnesota has the honor of having
contributed two prominent American
actors in the making Of the history of
this wal and of it's settlement-Ireland
and Davis, the one representing the
church, the other the state in it's broad
er significance. Distinctions like this
are satisfactory to contemplate, for
they reflect. the robust spirit of the
Northwest. When to them is added
some special mark of honor, then is
81 qualification complete.
Whether the archbishop Of St. Paul
shall become the Ignis Ardens, the
Burning Flame, the successor Of Leo
XIII, as suggested from ST. Louis, or
whether he shall rank with Gibbons
in the cardinalate and bring to ST. Paul
the Red Hat, are questions which time
will press for an early settlement