The Irish standard., 1901-04-20
ARCHBISHOP OF DUBUQUE.
Pallium is Conferred on Him by
Cardinal Gibbons.

presence of princes and high priests of
his church and before an audience that
occupied every foot of space in st.
Rapharl'S cathedral and overflowe,l
into the surrounding streets. Archbish-
OPP John J. keane was today invested
with the palliun. the insignia of the
high position he occupies in the Roman
Catholic church.
The scene was one of great brillian-
ry and the ceremonies characteristic of
that splendor and magnifccnce for
Which the Catholic church is noted.
While the absence of Mgr. Martinelli
was marked. it detracted none from
the grandeur of the scene, which was
far beyond that occasion of Sept. IL.
1893. when Mgr. Satolli, now men,
her of the sacred congregation OF
Rome. conferred the pallium upon the
late Archbishop Iennessy in the same
cathedral. Cardinal Gibbons was
here today, as he was then, and con-
ferred the pallium: archbishops and
bishops from all parts of the United
States We're here again, and the num-
Der of priests present was full double
that on the other occasion. The at
tendance of laymen from abroad was
very large and but few states in the
Union were unrepresented. 1t was
remarkable tribute to Archbishop
Keane.
The great feature of the day was the
installation address by Archbishop Ire
land of st. Paul. He regarded the in
stallation as one of the most important
events in the Catholic church in recent
years. Archbishop Keane representing
the forward movement of the church.
Archbishop Ireland's subject was
''Thc Church in America; It's Yester-
day and It's Tomorrow" He said that
there We're fourteen or fifteen million
Catholics in the United States, and he
challenged the most Catholic lands to
show men Catholics more courageous
in the profession of their faith and
more consistent in bringing it's prin-
ciples into their daily manner of life,
He continues:
''Three-qnarters Of a century, half d
century ago, antiCatholic prejudice
was dominant in the land. Our nom
Catholic fellow citizens were not to
blame: they had not known Catholics
as Catholics are, and they treated
them according to what they believed
of them. But today in America the
reign of ill-feeling and animosity has
passed away. In America Catholics
and non-Catholics differ from one an
other. in creets and spiritual allegi-
ance but. as true Americans, they re-
spect one another and accord to one
another their civil and religious free
dom. all working together in peace
and harmony for the greater veal of
society and of country.
"In my earnest desire that the Cath
Ollie church in America be all that God
intends her to be, all that her oppor-
tunities propel her to be, may be al
lowed to say to Catholics of America.
he you. in the truest and best sense
of the word. Americans, loving Amer
lea. loving it's institutions, devoted to
it's interests. chary in blaming it, ar
dent in defending it. There is among
some of us. l am not afraid to say.
a disposition to criticise at every mo-
ment. to rejoice in criticising, to exag-
gerate faults. to minimize virtues, to
pile up grievances, to grumble perpet
ually. Such a disposition is unpatriot-
ic and does most serious harm to the
Catholic faith in the eyes of intelligent
and earnest Americans. Let it disap-
pear for good. Surely the time has
come to leave off the old spirit which
days of real persecution in olden times
did beget, to live of the present and
future: to reach courageously but hon.
crably forward toward the elevation
of our people to the character as well
as to the condition of free men. Let
us be just to America, and know and
proclaim that nowhere, all things duly
considered is the church freer than in
America, is she allowed to live in I'M
trammeled freedom and to prosper as.
her forces and the zeal of her sons per-
nit
He closed with words of praise and
congratulations for Archbishop Keane.
In the afternoon the visiting clergy
men were banqueted at the Hotel
Julien, where covers We're laid for four
hundred. Archbishop Keane was
POSTMASTER. Cardinal Gibbons re-
sponded to the toast, GAIL Hail to the
Great Leo Kill, Pastor of the Uni
versal Church" Among the other
toasts were "God Bless Our Country.
the Home of Civil and Religious Free
DOM" by Bishop spalding of Peoria:
"Welcome to Our Cardinal, to Our
Archbishop and Bishops, and to All
Our Honored Guests" Archbishop
Elder of Cincinnati; 1.-THE Church in
the Great Northwest" Bishop O'Gor-
man of Sioux Falls, S. D.