The Irish standard., 1900-07-07
THE PREACHERS AND 1ABoRERs.

In Tuesdays Minneapolis Journal,
DR.. Marion D. Shutter, of the Church
of the Redeemer, has communication
on the labor meeting held at the Bijou
tleater last Saturday evening. He says
he accepted the general invitation given
by the labor unions to be present, but as
he was not invited to speak like other
clergymen-Fr. Cleary, DR.. Montgom-
cry and DR.. Sample-he appears to be
in splenetic humor. He says: II have
nothing but praise for the speeches Of
those who represented the labor unions.
They were calm and considerable; they
were fair and just They contained not
sentiment or sentence that could give
offense to any fairminded listener"
Not so, however, with his clerical
brethren. He has no praise for them
The only sensational expressions used
at the meeting emanated from them,
he says, and the only references to po-
litical matters were made by the men Of
his own cloth. II do not object to
such references" he goes on to say.
81 make them myself, and I do not be-
lieve in calling clergyman a political
preacher for such reasons"
That is what the Irish Standard called
DR.. Shutter because of his utter
ances to the Grand Army Post on
Memorial Sunday and the reverend
gentleman is somewhat sore over our
gentle criticism. "If any one" he pro-
ceeds, chad made respectful reference
to President Mckinley, or had express
ed doubt as to the kind of liberty in
vogue among the Beers, the Irish
Standard, the Minneapolis Democrat
and certain contingent of the country
press would have thrown dozen diff
fercnt kinds of commissions over the po-
litical preacher and confederate OF Eng
land. 1t all depends upon the kind Of
politics you preach, whether the COM
munity is blessed or cursed by your
, presence"
The quoted words used by DR.. Shut
ter are those applied to him by the
Irish Standard in its issues of June 2
and 9, because in his address to the old
soldiers he endorsed the policy of Will
liam Mckinley in the Philippines, refer
red to Aguinaldo as "a half-breed BAN
dit who sold himself and his cause for
Spanish gold" and told the veterans
that the mercenaries of Mckinley, who
are benevolently slaughtering foreign
people struggling for liberty, are en-
gagged in the same noble work they par
ticipated in on Southern battle6elds for
the preservation Of the Union and the
abolition OF slavery.
The reverend gentleman not only mis-
represented the Filipino rebel chief and
his cause, but he also attacked the char
acter of the Beers and lauded British
civilization in extravagant terms. Why
he did so is conundrum to us, unless
he was prompted to do so by the impe-
rialist members of his aristocratic con-
gregation. The Beers have conducted
a civilized warfare against their in
vaders and have not been guilty OF
"pick-sticking" as the British Lancers
were at Elandslaagte and other places.
They are fighting for their country and
their homes with a gallantry that has
won the admiration and sympathy of
the world, including o5 per cent Of the
American people; and we believe that
on such an occasion DR.. Shutter should
have refrained from eliminating such
champions of liberty and independ-
ence. Hence it is that the Irish Stand
ard stigmatized him as an Anglomaniac,