The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-07-21

martyrdom" sby warriors, painted as
were their forefathers in battle. Last
Sunday in the Walled City beautiful
mestiza was the victim, while her cap
tors were natives of full blood, and the
executioner was tot of two years, car
rying a paper axe. Behind the captive
came 'native angels" bearing the palm
of martyrdom, while aloft before her
eyes-devoutly raised tfereto-was the
image of her Redeemer crucifed. In
passing, natives reverently uncovered
heads, while American spectators-wo-
men, officers and men.-flled the air
with even worse remarks about the prin-
cipal figures in the procession. But
on Decoration Day an American fiesta
is held by order of the military COVER
nor. The Protestant press every other
day in the year rants against the Catho-
lie custom of praying for the dead,
but today, with solemn tread, our men
march under scorciing sun to where
our comrades were once buried, and
there long Grafton is made anent the
sacred ground. Our honored dead have
all been taken from this tropical cline
not one remains in the national cene-
terry where the services were held. The
natives are asking: Why does the Anae-
rican nation urge to emulate the heroic
deeds of martial men and laugh at them
for honoring spiritual heroes? But per-
haps Dean Worcester may enlighten the
benighted people. The official program
contained the names of all the Protest
ant ministers, but not Catholic chap
lain. Where is there one of the official
orators who has seen as much of the
field as Raney-even though his terri
tory was Dewey with brine-or Nc
Kinnon, the first to enter Manila?
Which of them compares with Fitz
Gerald under fire? How many of them
would be here working for nothing as
is Gleason, the volunteer priest of Cali
fornia? No; heroes do the work, cold
feet get the glory. Yet all these priests
were on hand and none was even asked
to participate.
The cry may be free religion" or
anything else, but it is notorious fact
that Professionalism and unbelief in one
form or another are forced upon the
children attending the public schools
With graduate OF lunatic asylum at
their head and well-known anti-Catll-
olic acting superintendent, American
Catholics can form an idea how things
are run. Anybody connected with the
Y. NJ. c. A. or anybody recommended
by that organization, can get any prvi..
lcge and go anywhere at government
expense. Officers all along the line are
instructed to extend courtesies (Which
means house and food), and all "mis-
sionaries" and the members of those
living on government grub, would feed
small regiment. From barrio to barrio
they go, distributing Bibles and tracts,
cajoling the natives and, failing to make
an impression, do not hesitate to publish
stories about the immortality and licen-
tiousness Of these proteges of the friars.
Day after day the newspapers are
yelling at the apostolic delegate that
the people do not want the friars-and
on the same page or issue are several
articles figuring the friars as instigators
of the rebellion.
The Times, Freedom and the Ameri-
can are alike in this. Chaplain Pierce,
before he went away, was very active in
procuring jobs for his perverts. He
comes back here with wife and daughter,
plus bag of money, from New York,
to build up an Anglican mission. This
religious chameleon is generally to be
found on the side of the fence with the
money, and there are not few who
think-with good reason-that certain
nurse did not know that he had wife
and child in the States.
A beautiful specimens to talk about
friars! He has been tapping around the
Jesuits and other religious orders since
he first came here. For effect, he went
to the Jesuit observatory several times
to bring Father Doyle, S. J., to the bed
side of dying Catholic soldiers-and
then has been heard to jeer because
Catholic soldiers did not think himself
good enough to confess to. I know of
his tricky actions around the First Re-
serve hospital; his morality is not above
par, and at times his conversation re-
garding the Tenderloin districts has
been anything but edifying. From what
he spoke OF he did not gain his infor-
nation from a motive as laudable or
questionable as did Parkhurst, in New
York.
w. j. Bryan's Ability.