The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1898-02-19
CENSoRIOUS CRITICISM.

last century. Tho Yankee editor says
| that ito promote Il spirit of hostility to
church authority is IL crime on the part
of Il Catholic editor" and adds that
the Irish people have learned that their
bishops have ever been in the front
ranks of lrcland's patriots Such
| clap-trap as the foregoing may satisfy
| the readers of a Catholic sheet. which
dishes up news from Ireland from our
| special correspondent" whit the clo-
quent scissors Of the editor in his
| sanctum.
We desire to inform our Eastern con-
temporary that when Cardinal Moran
or any other eminent dignitary of the
| church NEEDLES in secular or political
affairs and dictates what a nation shall
or Shall not do in a matter outside of his
, ecclesiastical jurisdiction, he becomes Il
fit subject for criticism by an indepcnd-
ent paper like the Irish Standard. When
Catholic preate in n British colony
throws cold water on the '9S movement
which has created Il wave of enthusiasm
all over the earth among men Of The
Irish race. 1t is entirely proper that he
should be criticised for his uttcrances
He has no authority from the church to
antagonizo Irish national sentiment
among the Irish in their native land, WHO
consider it their duty on this annivcr-
sary to honor the memory of Wolfe
Tone by the erection Of Il monument in
| Dublin and to visit the battlcficlds of
Wexford, where their forefatEcrs died
in defense of their affairs and their
homes.
The Irish Standard knows of Cardinal
Moran as The nephew of the late Car
dinal Cullen of Fenan days, and if
there is anything in hcreditv he must
be an Anglicized lrishman as stated
Tho British government seemed to have
been OF the same opinion when it asked
the Vatican to appoint him as the castle,
archbishop of Dublin to succeed Cardi-
nal McCAbe in that capacity. The ed-
tor of the Connecticut Catholic has an
edge in Irish Catholic affairs, but lie
does not know every thing by "a long
shot 1t may be of interest to him TO
know on the authority of the Irish
Standard that Cardinal Moran was on
his way from Australia to Ireland to
fill the rchicpiscUpal chair made va
cant by the death of Cardinal McCaDe
when the Gladstone ministry, which had
asked for his appointment. was turned
out OF Office. As the incoming Tory
ministry had asked nothing from the
Vatican it was deemed advisable by the
diplomats at Rome to accede to the
wishes Of the Irish hierarchy and pcd-
pie and give the seat to the present In
cumbcnt, Most. Rev. Archbishop Walsh,
tho patriot and scholar Had Gladstone
remained at the helm Of the British
ship Of state the Sydney prclatn would
now be occupying the chair filled by
tho pro-Brltish cardinals, Cullen and
McCabe. The Australian dgnitary was
disappointed, and to soothc his feelings
he was summoned to Rome and raised
to the cardinalate. AS Archbishop
Walsh is an Irish Nationalist the Brit
ish government, through the instrument
tality of English and Irish "Cawtholes, -
who are opposed to Irish sclf-govcrn-
mcnt, induced the Vatican to confer the
dignity of cardinal upon a worthy man.
who was mildcr in his opposition to
British rascality in Ireland than the
great metropolitan of Dublin.
The Connecticut sheet states that
1.-The Irish people have learned that their
bishops have ever been in the front
ranks of lreland's patriots" They have
also learned that some Irish bishops and
heightened Catholics have been the SUBJ
scrvlent tools of the British government
from away back"
What about Cullen, McCabe and MORT
arty in recent times? How many Irish
Catholics pray for the release OF their
souls from purgatory. except it be the
Catholic aristocrats of Ireland. who pc
titioned the British parliament against
passing n home rule bill: Did not the
British government at the time OF the
union succeed in hoodwinking Most
Rev. DR.. Troy, of Dublin, and Cath
Ole aristocrats, like Lord Fingal, with
| pledges which it never kept? Many
Catholics in tho higher walks of life
supported the abominable act OF union
and tho bishops kept quiescent and
never as body uttered word against
the destruction Of the Irish parliament.
Tho Irish church has always had pa
triots among the bishops, but they have
been like angels visits. For genera
tions the Vatican and the British min
istry had made shuttlecock of Ireland
1t was never the popular, patriotic
priest who was promoted to hishopri:
If the British agents at Rome could help
It, 1t is folly to deny the fact. The
Irish people have learned lot which
has never found lodgment in the ca
pacious head of the Yankee editor.
What has Cardinal Moran done at the