New Iberia enterprise. (New Iberia, La.) 1885-1902, 1900-01-20
TRIBUTE TO A COURAGEOUS
CATHOLIC PRIEST.
RN HENRY GEORGE. ~

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words, "Jesus, have mercy on me -
passed the great soul of DR. Edward
McGlynn, in the sixty second year
of his age and the fortieth of his
ministry of Christ's gospel.
Born in New York, he took an
intense interest in her welfare, eve,
contending that while a priest he
was also citizen. In 1896 he was
appointed to the rectorship of the
great St. Stephens parish and be
came the "soggarth aroon" Of the
poor, giving even his personal ap-
parel to the needy.
In 1881 he antagonized Arch
bishop Corrigan, of New York
Diocese, who urged him to estab-
lish a parochial school. DR. Nc
Glynn refused on the ground that
children who are to be citizens of
the Republic should be reared in
the common public schools.
In 1882 he angered the English
and Irish landlord class, who had
him reprimanded from Rome for
publicly announcing himself in
favor of the Irish Land League
movement and declaring that the
land of Ireland. the land of every
country, belongs to all the people
of that country, and that they have
the right to assume ownership Of it
by putting all taxation on rents.
But seeing that he could do little
more for the movement at that time
and fearing that he might be de-
prived of his privilege to follow
the ministry to which he had dedi-
Gated his life, he promised to take
no further part in the Land League
movement, though he did subse-
quently take part to raise fund
for the starving peasants in the
west of Ireland and was repriman-
ded for that too.
HIS DEFIANCE OF CORRIGAN.
In 1886 my father became can
didate of the trade and labor unions
for Mayor of New York, and DR..
McGlynn, among clergymen of
various denominations, was an-
nounced to make an address in
behalf Of the candidacy. Archbi-
him to do SO, saying that a priest
should not appear in politics; not
withstanding the fact that DR.. Nc
Glynn had, in 1884, without word
of opposition, made one or two
speeches in support Of Mr.. Cleve-
land for the Presidency, and after
ward went to Washington, at the
expressed wish of the Archbishop,
to obtain an appointment from the
President for New York man.
DR.. McGlynn now said that hav-
ing been advertised to speak it
would make public scandal for
him to refuse. So he spoke, and
next day was suspended tempo
rarily, ostensibly for contumacious
conduct, but really for taking the
side in politics opposed to Archbi-
shop Corrigan, who supported the
Tammauy candidate for Mayor, and
who, among other things, allowed
Vicar General Preston to write
letter to the chairman Of one OF the
important Tammany committees
declaring the George principles to
be "unsound, unsafe and contrary
to the teachings Of the Church,"
averring that if ''logically carried
out, they would prove the ruin OF
the working men, whom he pro-
fessed to befriend, and concluding
that although we never interfere
directly in elections, we would not
wish now to be misunderstood at q
time when the best interests of
society may be in danger.
Without the least expostulation,
the Archbishop allowed this letter
in printed form to be distributed
before most or all of the Catholic
churches in New York the Sunday
preceding the election.
ATTACKED SINGLE TAX.
Following the election the Arch
bishop, in a pastoral letter that
was read in all the Catholic churches
Of the diocese, denounced the single
tax doctrine as being composed Of
"certain unsound principles and
theories which assailed the rights
Of property" A few days later
DR.. McGlynn made a defence
Of these principles in an interview
in the New York Tribune. For
this the Archbishop suspended
DR.. McGlynn for the remainder of
the year 1886 and then procured
through the Project Of the Propa-
ganda, Cardinal SimsOni, cable
message ordering the Doctor to go
to Rome.
| In letter to the Archbishop DR..
McGlynn gave various good reasons
why he could not comply, and
further said:
UAa cannot On to Rome to give