The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1901-10-12
NOT AN ANGLO SAXON.
Mckinley Was of Irish Lineage, and
of the Blood of 'oS.


Father Cronin, the gifted editor of
the Buffalo Catholic Union and Times.
sometimes uses his pen as a spit upon
which to roast the bigots who abound
in the Exposition city. This is the way
he burns 10 the Methodist bishop OF
that pace:
Some things were said by the Meth,
odlst Bishop Fowler in his Mckinley
! memorial address. this city. that were
IN shocking taste, considering the SOL
emnlty OF the occasion and other at
| tending circumstances. We submit
herewith certain of his utterances in
justification of what we have said. and
then our readers viii judge. We in
stance the following:
The home is an Anglo-Saxon insti-
tuition. 1t is eminently an American
institution. The home is the unit of
our government We are not nation
of tramps, but of families. 1t is in
our blood to make a home We will
go out and settle anywhere on the land
where we can make a home. The
F'renchman must live in cities, in
gangs. With a chair on the broad
sidewalk of the capitol and a closet on
some fifth floor where he can sleep, the
Frenchman is happy No wonder the
counting all in wedlock and all out of
it. Not so with the Saxon, and espe-
cially the American. We stick to the
soil and make a home. We leave the
offices to the Irish and French and the
offices from the south of Europe
The question that naturally arises to
the ordinary mind is Why should this
unctious man of God thus go out of
his way to wantonly insult peoples not
of Anglo-Saxon blood? Was the meet
ing an Anglo-SaXon jollification, or was
it one of sorrow, when, amid the tears
of those present the Christian life and
civic virtues of the nations fallen
chief were to be commemorated? We
again insist that those irrelevant is
sues were in horrible taste-even for
a Methodist bishop, and we hereby
stigmatize them as a gross outrage or
such an occasion.
Why drag in Anglo-Saxonism on
that day of mourning? William Nc
Kinley was not an Anglo Saxon. He
was of Irish lineage, and one of his
name and blood was hanged in '9S by
Anglo Saxon civilization" for carry
ing a pike in behalf of Irish liberty.
You say Bishop, that the home is
peculiarly an Anglo-SaXon institution
Why. right reverend sir, the Irish and
the French-whom you sheer at-had
homes with peace and plenty when
your SaXons were bowling savages
roaming the wilderness clad in the
skins of wild beasts.
Your implied comparison between
the families of the Anglo-Saxon AMI
those Of the Irish and French are I'M
fortunate for you. Neither of the two
latter races is quite up-or. rather,
doWn--to the Anglo-SaXOn standard of
about two for the family maximum.
In proof we would instance Upper and
Lower Canada for comparison. Are
not French Canadians, with their pro-
life families, masters of the Domin-
ion. is not a French Canadian today
practically king of Canada?
AS for the Irish-whom you so honor
with your Christian hatred-have they
not. because of like family plethora,
practically turned New England into q
New Ireland? And have not their rec |
ords in all the wars of the republic |
proved them loyal and brave to the |
land of their adoption? Are there any |
anarchists among them? Rather, who |
was it that crushed the anarchist reign |
of terror in Chicago at the peril and at |
the cost of their lives, but Irish police |
men?
And instead of feeling grateful for |
such service of courage and patriot |
ism. you come in with your little |
musty joke on SO solemn an occasion, |
u the disgust of your hearers.
You should, right reverend sir. be |
heartily ashamed of such wanton filings |
al racial bloods that have given to civ
ilization its most noted personages in |
peace and. in war; and that discovered, !
explored and gave this dazzling New |
World to the children OF men.