The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-22

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outside the Catholic church strong and
willing men to take up their interests.
Let us take for example, the fight that
was taken in the senate of the United
States at Washington. Look at the
cause itself and the men engaged in
the fight Up to few years ago the
Catholic authorities had been at work
for the Indian tribes in the West. You
know the United States government
has not been a success as a civilizer of
the Indians. Our neighbor, Mexico, has
100000 Indians vet, and after 125
years the United States has 100000,
and the worst of it is that over half of
them ut the present time are pagans.
These Indians We're taught by the
Catholic missions, which succeeded in
bringing them together, were leading
them to give up warlike pursuits and
We're making such success of it that
SOlliC pCOplC WHY uCSolIlihS, alstk A1Su
that these Indians were becoming
Catholics. 1t is easy to say that it is
wrong to have organization. But when
this question came up in the United
States senate, what was it showed its
hand in different parts of the country
and sent forth men to make this fight
against the Catholic Indian schools?
1t was organization. Now look at the
men who made that fight. One of
them is Il man Of alien birth, and | say
that in no disparagins sense, but to
intensity my point, representing a New
England state or rather misreprcsert.
ing it. Il man who stands for everything
that is antagonistic from a Catholic
standpoint, and back of him these Sc
Get organizations, on the floor of the
senate this man headed the fight
against Catholic schools. On the other
hand, one of them, Southern man,
and the other Northern man, IL Unit
ed States senator, from a Northern
state, q man who for 80 years has
stood forth for justice and right re-
member that man, even as a boy, max
ing fight for the negro slaves, and
who when it came to prove his hon
esty Of conviction, bucklcd on Il sword
and laid down only at the final sur
render at AppomatoN, when he laid it
down as Il Encouragement, the perfect
type of the American soldier. He was
the man who carried on the fight for
the Catholic Indian schools, and am
proud to say that he represents in
Washington this grand old state of
Connecticut, Joseph r. Hawlcy.'
Father Slocum then went on to tell
of an occurrence in the legislature at
Hartford, when the bill for sending
Catholic orphans to Catholic institu-
tions was up, how he went to repro
sentative ard found Il ready response
to his request that he work for the
bill. The representative acknowledged
it's justice, but strange to say, when
the matter came up the same wide
spread mysterious influence was at
work, and even the representatives felt
its influence and could no nothing.
He said that if there should be no Or
ganIzaton among Catholics, these or.
CARNATIONS should be disbandcl and
thus max" a federation unnecessary.
He went on to speak of the patriotism
and work of the Catholics as Il whole.
inst:ncing acts of valor in different
wars. ut times of crisis. us for instance
In Chicago and New York riots, and
how Catholic bishops. soldiers, and
others were always found ready to do
their duty. calling to mind the words
of the Catholic bishop of New York,
who said, mo matter what foreign
power should invade our shore, should
that foreign power be the Pope of
Rome himself, who would come as a
monarch against the government of the
United States, he would land upon the
threshold only over my dead body"
He asked IL in the late war the Cath
Ollie soldiers of America aimed less true
at the Catholic Spaniards, whose king
was godson of the Pope himself and
mentioned Riley and other Catholic Of
ticcrs at pekim, who showed the spirit
that is taught in the doctrine of the
Catholic church. concluding: "The
Catholic church holds them to that.
They are ready mt all times to make
tic utmost sacrifice, and if tlcy are
false to tho church at any time, they
are false to their God and to their
country. This is what I call your at
trlltion to today. We are all working
In tho same cause to do tire best we
can. to save our souls and to make our
country the grantlest ever SEEM