The Irish standard., 1900-06-30
AcK1NLEY SEVERELY ARRA1GNED.


NcK1NLEY SEVERELY ARRAIGNED.
The Catholic Union and Times, of
Buffalo, N. Y, which is ably edited by
Rev. Father Cronin, contained the fol-
lowing arraignment of William McKin-
ley in its issue Of June FL:
The administration ofice-holders in
convention at Philadelphia assembled
have renominated Mckinley as their
presidential candidate. The formal pre-
sentation of McKinley's name through
out the country for four years more of
imperialism, and from the viewpoint Of
his second term OF irresponsible power,
raises question of vast importance,
not only to the people of the United
States generally, but especially to those
of the Catholic faith. With the stock
jobbing scandal, the saturnalia of loot
and plumber, with the defalcations in
Cuba, the famine in Porto Rico, the
wholesale slaughter in the Philippines,
this paper has no opinion to express ex-
cept regret, which all right-minded peo-
pie feel, that such could be permitted in
the name OF liberty and civilization.
With the merely political aspects Of
the situation we do not desire to par
ticularly deal 1t is against the contin-
ual, shameless outrages on the Catholic
church that this paper lifts its voice of
protest and condemnation Greater
space than the columns OF the Union
and Times afford would be necessary to
describe adequately the countless Of
lenses committed by McKinley's policy
of benevolent assimilation against the
Catholic peoples of Our new possessions.
Following the example OF the outspoken
bishop of Trenton, this paper issues an
urgent appeal to the Catholic press OF
this enlightened land to acquaint their
readers with the record of Mckinley S
treachery and hostility to our faith
He has VIGOROUSLY ignored Catholics
in his appointments to the various COM
missions which lie has sent to rule these
Catholic lands.
He has permitted his appointees in
their public and official reports to insult
the clerical and cloister celibacy pre-
scribed by the Catholic church.
He has countenanced those officials
in recommending that marriage as per-
formed by the church shall not be legal
unless ratified by the civil authority, al
though no such rule prevails in the
United States.
He has not appointed single Catho-
lie to any foreign mission or consulate.
He has, with full knowledge and with
out rebuke, allowed his soldiery in the
Philippines to plumber and desecratc
churches, to use the sacred vessels OF
the altar for unnamable purposes, to
masquerade in priestly vestments, to ex-
pose the same for sale, to despoil the
sanctuary of gold and silver ornaments,
to turn the churches themselves into
barracks and telegraph stations, and
finally and worst Of ALTO scatter the
sacred hosts upon the floor and trample
them under defiling feet.
He has committed the punishment OF
every convicted soldier when the Of
fence was directed against the Catholic
church.
He has modified or abrogated the sem
tence in every case where his ruffian
soldicry have violated native women.
He has, through his creatures in the
United States senate and in the house
of representatives blocked every appro-
priation for institutions with which
Catholics had anything to do, in the
District OF Columbia, in the territories
OF the United States and wherever the
federal government extends.
He has, by the foregoing offenses, in
suited every Catholic in the Republican
party-notably the archbishop of St.
Paul, who did so much to place him in
TIC ShoH VI POWCA WHICH TIC Has uScu
for Catholic undoing.
What Catholic, worthy of the name,
cognizant of these facts, but must feel
his soul big with the indignation which
inspired Thomas Jefferson to arraign
George III. in the immortal words OF
the Declaration of Independence; which
impelled Edmund Burke to pillory War
rem Hastings, the oppressor OF India,
and which has inspired all later histori-
ans to cover with infamy the name of
Nero, who, in his day, turned his drunk
en- soldiery loose upon the infant
church. But the church which has out
lived the Neros will survive the McKin-
leys. Yet every Catholic owes it as
duty to himself to cooperate in the
movement inaugurated by the bishop Of
Trenton to hurl from power the little
canting Methodist lay deacon Of the
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