The Irish standard., 1898-09-17

handfuls to the troops with the remark:
Here are cartridges for you, boys" and
then turned away to continue his min
istrations to the wounded and dying.
Chaplain ireland remained in service
with his regiment for 15 months, when
the condition of his health necessitated
his return to Minnesota. Going back to
the cathedral, he soon found a new vent
for his tireless energy in the Catholic
colonization movement; and he sue
ceeded in inducing a number Of Catho-
lies to locate in the Northwest. Even
today there are flourishing settlements
in Minnesota whose distinctively Irish
names, Avoca, Lismore, Kilkenny, etc.,
attest the success of his labors in the
colonization line. The temperance cause
had always appealed to Father Ireland,
and his endeavors to promote it and to
lessen the evils of drunkenness are too
we'll known to need telling here. "The
Father Mathew of the Northwest" is
one Of his best known sobriquets, and
1t was Cardinal Gibbons who named him,
because of his bustling activity, "the
consecrated blizzard" With all his other
works, though, Father Ireland never
neglected his sacerdotal labors, and so
faithfully and zealously did he discharge
those that when, in 1875, Bishop Grace
applied for a coadjutor, Father Ireland
was appointed auxiliary, and conse-
Grated with the title of bishop of Maro-
nea on Dec. 21, 1876, the fourteenth an
niversary of his ordination. st. Paul, it
is said, came very near losing DR.. Ire
land at that time. There was a vacancy
in the Nebraska vicariate, occasioned by
the death of Bishop O'Gorman; and
Rome, it was reported, contemplated
naming Father Ireland for that vacancy.
In order to save him for st. Paul, Bishop
Grace went to Rome and personally re-
quested Plus TX. to name Father Ireland
his coadjutor; and the Pope graciously
did so.
Bishop Grace resigned the St. Paul
title in 1884, and Bishop Ireland then
succeeded to the see. st. Paul then
ranked as a bishopric; but four years
later Rome made it an archdiocese, and
the following year saw five new sees
erected in the province, at Duluth, Wi
mona, st. Cloud, Sioux Falls and James,
town. These new sees called for the
conservation of four new prelates-Bish-
op Marty, who was named for Sioux
Falls, was already in episcopal orders
and on Dec. q, 1889, Archbishop Ireland
pontificated at the third triple consecra-
tion of bishops in the United States.
Bishop zardetti, the incumbent of St.
Cloud, chanced to be in Europe at the
time, and he received his mitre from
the hands of Archbishop Gross in Swift
zerland. Bishops Stanley, Cotter and
McGolrick were, however, consecrated
together at st. Paul by Archbishop Ire
land, and, as already intimated, this was
the third time for such ceremony to
take place in the United States, The
first triple conservation occurred in 1914.
when Archbishop Hughes mitred Bish-
ops Quarter, McCloskey and Byrne for
Chicago, Albany and Little Rock re-
spectively; and the second in 1853, when
Mgr. Bedini consecrated Bishops Goes
BRAND, Loughlin and Bayley for Bur-
lington, Brooklyn and Newark.
To mention even briefly the important
events that have marked Archbishop
Irelands career would require more
space than the limits of any article like
this. He is seldom out of the public
eye for any length of time. His latest
efforts were directed towards preventing
hostilities with Spain last spring. and
when those failed he made the charac-
teristic declaration that Spain, once war
was declared, had no deadlier enemy
than himself. During the continuance
of war he eXerted himself to secure the
appointment of more Catholic army and
naval chaplains, and with the close of
hostilities, he came to the front anew.
asking that Catholic representative
should be put on the peace commission
that is to meet at Paris and arrange a
treaty with Spain. The old rumor, often
circulated before, that Archbishop Ire
land will be created a cardinal at the
next conslstory, is again going the
rounds; and perhaps it will prove true
this time, provided Leo Kill, who holds
Mgr. Ireland in the highest esteem.
lives to hold another consistory. Wheth-
er he be destined to wear a red hat or
not, though, Archbishop Ireland has
written his name indelibly upon many
pages of American Catholic history: and
on our national annals, too, his name
and his deeds will have ar abiding
place among those of the best deserving
OF this republics citizens.
The following silly stuff comes from
the pen of the Anglicized Harold Fred
eric, who acts as London correspondent
of the New York Times: 1.-TWO men
of nations of that breed (the Anglo
Saxon), are capable of slanging each
other with mighty words and telling
each other their faults in blunt English.
for that is one of the most striking