The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-30
FATHER MALoNE'S LETTER
FROM PARIS.

Editorial Correspondence
Paris, France, June 12.-Archbishop
Ireland win soon arrive in Paris to
deliver the address on the occasion of
the unwilling of the statue to Lafa-
yette. Already the ecclesiastical des-
peradoes. who have been busy malign-
ing the Archbishop of st. Paul for
years have commenced to villify the
distinguished American Prelate, in or
der, if possible, to discount the effect
which his forthcoming address will IN
doubtedly produce This time, the
Journal de Geneve is the medium
through which the Archbishop is at
tackled, and his recent letter to the
Duke of Norfolk made the occasion.
A dispatch to the Paris edition of
the New York Times tonight states
that the Osservatore Romano today
published a letter from Archbishop
ireland, vigorously protesting against
the affirmations of the schemers here
on the continent that the Archbishop
in his communication to the Duke of
Norfolk denied the temporal power of
the Pope. and I believe other dOgmas
of the church too numerous to men
ton.
1 am not. as the Colorado read
ers of The Intermountain Catholic
know, an apologist for Archbish-
op Ireland. 1 have had occasion
to differ from him more than once.
1t seems to me, however, that it
is high time for him to stoop
down like the mastiff and take
the little ours, who are barking at his
heels. and shake them until they cried
for mercy.
In the judgment of many people, he
has remained silent too long in the
face Of groundless charges concerning
his loyalty to the Church OF which he
is a most distinguished Prelate.
cannot understand why Archbishop
ireland whenever these attacks appear,
renews and reiterates his fealty and
devotion to the Church and its supreme
head, for by so doing, he fails to con-
found his enemies, but rather plays into
their hands. From what have seen
and learned of the sources from which
emanate these periodical attacks on the
al OilbiSLlDp VI 81 duly 1dIQltidl AICn-
bishop of Baltimore, Archbishop Keane
and others, it seems to me that the
wisest course to pursue would be to
protest against the attacks. and ask,
yes, demand the protection of the Holy
See. John Ireland has heart and cour-
age enough to force his slanderers here
in Europe to silence, but until he shows
them the true Americanism, which
brooks no insult, he may expect to find
himself villiied, by men whose sole
object Of existence is the "pourboire
which is the measure of their service
to God and man. Temporizing and half l
way measures will not answer in deal
ing with such men. They must be
taught a salutary lesson. When once
it is made apparent that in attacking
representative American churchmen
the faith and fealty of American Cath
olics themselves are called into ques-
ton, then such a spirit of resentment
wiz be aroused that will end once and
for all the occupation of villiication in
which some men are engaged at Rome,
Paris and elsewhere on this side of the
Atlantic
I take it that the Cardinal Secretary
OF State viii see to it that men who
attack the faith of nation will not be
given caste and standing, even though
: actlons be disguised in individual