The Irish standard., 1898-05-21
bishop Ireland means that Catholics
have not attained to positions in the
control of material affairs in tho great

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have not attained to positions in the
control Of material affairs in the great
finances Of the country. Yet the Have
meyers are Catholics, controlling the
sugar trust. The president Of the New
York Life Insurance Co., John A. Nc
Call, is Catholic. So are Patrick
Farrelly, of New York, and John R.
Walsh, Of Chicago, who organized the
American News Co., end developed It's
tremendous business. So is John D.
Crimmins, the greatest contractor of
New York. The Graces, Michael P. and
William R., whose commercial inter-
ests are so great that they practically
own Peru and Chile, in commercial
sense, are Catholics. Giovanni P. Mor1-
sini, the financial confidant and ad-
wiser of Jay Gould, was Catholic. The
Iselin family, the Rhinelanders, some
of the Van Rensselaers, all prominent
in New York financial circles, are
Catholics. The same Harity, whom
we mentioned as politician, is at the
head Of trust company in Philadel-
phia, and the founder of the rubber
trust. Joseph Banigan, Of Rhode Is
land, is not only a Catholic, but one of
the greatest benefactors of the Catho-
lie University at Washington. The
greatest printing house in the country
is Rand-McNally & Co.'s owned by
Catholics and one of the greatest coal
producers is William P. Rend, another
Catholic. At the south one of the
greatest newspapers, the Baltimore
Sun, is owned by the Abells, some Of
them Catholics. At the west among
the merchant princes of Chicago are
the Cudahys, men whose commercial
enterprise bids fair to control the
trade Of Alaska, even as the Graces do,
the trade of Peru and Chile. Surely
these men are men Of power.
The very mark and sign Of power
is the profession Of arms, and in this
critical hour, the first brigadier ap-
pointed to the command of division
in the impending conflict with Spain,
General Coppinger, is not only Cath
olic, but an Irish Catholic and a Papal
zouave to the back of that regular
three-ply Catholic. The chaplain Of
the Maine was Catholic priest and
the gunner that fired the first shot
that brought in the first prize in the
present conflict was Patrick Mullen,
and we will allow something more
than dollar as a wager that he
doesn't belong to the Greek church.
In the politer fields Of letters, Cath
olics can refer to Francis Marion
Crawford, to George Parsons Lath-
rop, to st. George Mivart, to James
Jeffery Roche, to jeremiah Curtin, Nc
translator, and to a horde of lesser
writer's. Certainly there is no greater
power than the power of the pulpit,
and in that field, Cardinal Gibbons
may be classed as man of strength,
and in the great mission bands of all
the churches, there are to be found no
stronger names, nor stronger men, than
Walter Elliott and Thomas Ewing
sherman, and Austin p. Doyle, and
Robert Fulton and William O'Brien
Pardow, all of them our own. From
the profession of the law, it was a
Catholic, Frederick R. Coudert, who
was sent to an International tribunal
to defend the interests of the United
States before the representatives Of
the president of France sittipu in a
court of arbitration.
The recital grows tedious, there are
so many Of them. 1t is more profitable
however, to continue to pick them out
and hold them up to our college stu
dents as spurs to their ambition, than
to regret that there are no Catholics
men of power in this country, when
there are so many to be proud of.