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IRELAND TALKS TO CATHOLICS.

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IRELAND TALKS TO CATHOLICS.
Prelate Counsels Moderation in Phil
ippine Discussion.
] G 7. PAUL, MINI, Aug. 3.--Arch-
bishop Ireland, preaching today
in the cathedral, said in part:
The Apostle Paul gives this coun-
sci, not to be more wise than it be-
hooveth to be wise; but to be wise unto
sobrlety and according as God hath
divided to everyone the measure of
/ faith. In the mind of the apostle
/ things most excellent, if made use Of
| IN undue measure and without proper
! regard to circumstances or time and
| place, change into things perilous and
| huruul. And this is undoubtedly what
IS happening in the case of the fiery
zeal. in defense Of Catholic interests
which seems to be coveting an explo-
sion at the present time among GER
tam classes of American Catholics
Inc interests of the church, it is said,
are made to suffer at the hands of the
government in its newly acquired de-
pendencies, and the call to arms is
sounded from the rostrums of Cath
Ole societies, and through the columns
Of Catholic papers to the perturbation
OF the Whole Catholic body, and, in
deed, of the whole country. The mo-
/ ment has come to say to Catholics: Be
wise; be jealous unto sobriety, and ac-
cording as God hath divided to every
one the measure of faith and such
counsel / take liberty to give to my
hearers.
who are they who complain and
protest and call upon Catholics to be
up and doing? Are they those who
might claim to represent the church
in its general or even local interests?
Has the sovereign pontiff spoken? Ger
tainly he has not complained; rather
has he been heard from in very diff
ferent tones. Have the ecclesiastical
authorities in the dependencies invoked
our aid? In no instance have they so
acted; where they have been heard
from, as in the case of Porto Rico and
of Cuba, it was to tell US in plainest
words that they had no grievance, al
though from irresponsible sources it
had been on several previous occasions
dinned into our ears that the church
was robbed and prosecuted in both
those islands.
Whatever complaints have been
heard come from individual Catholics
or from societies of Catholics; in
neither case is there warrant to rep
resent others than the men themselves,
or the societies themselves who do
speak.
Most cautious at all times must
Catholics in America be not to stir up
latent prejudice and smothered ami
mosities of which, as experience
teaches, there is no small Share here
and there in the community and which
&c dnl m ia
into fire and flame. Better often it is
to endure some suffering than to give
a pretext for opposition and social
turmoil. Nothing is to be more dread,
ed in America than hatred and war
ring among citizens in the name of re-
ligion, and 1t beh0oves all classes of
the population to. do their utmost to
nurture and maintain peace and har- 4
nor1y:s it behooves Catholics even more
than others to be models of prudence
and good viii in this regard. The sim
plest approach among them to form
political party on the basis of re-
ligious interests would be fatal to
those interests and fatal to- public
peace. 1T is quite easy for q few to
kindIe a fire which will threaten raw
age to a whole. community, and which
a whole community will find it an ar
duous task to extinguish.
Nor is the public agitation neces-
sary in America to redress grievances,
if grievances do exist, whether such
grievances have origin, as is more often
the case, from mere inadvertence, or, as
it more rarely happens, from malice
aforethought on the part of Individual
officials of the government. L say 1t
advisedly, as I am prepared. to stand
by what 1 here say, there is always
surcease from grievances, so tar as CIR
clnstances may allow, if it is sought
through quiet and reasonable methods,
from the high representatives OF the
government. Let Justice be done to
America; in no other country is there
government so fair-minded, so impair
tial. so willing to treat all classes with
absolute Justice, as that with which we
are blessed in America.
"And let Catholics be careful lest by
imprudent agitation and repeated mis-
trust of the government of America
they instill into the minds of many OF
their fellow citizens the notion that as
Catholics they are disposed to form
themselves into a people apart ever
dissatisfied with America and it's 1nsti-
tutfons. ever ready to complain, ever
anxious to find plea upon which to
rest their murmurings. The Catholic
body will never prosper in America un-
less If be thoroughly imbued with the
shirt of the country and with deep
love for its welfare. To be one with
he countrv is the lesson which Pope
leo IS ceaselessly teaching Catholics
in every country: it is the lesson which
I am confident he would wish Catholics
in America to take to heart and to
n,.actice. even were there in so doing
some sacrifice to be made.
"As to matters in the Phlllpplne
islands. we cannot discuss them. They |
are for the time being, put beyond our
reach. since they are the subject of
between the government |
Of America and the sovereign pontiff. |
To take. at the present, such matters |
into orr own hands would be to mis- |
t,,1st the wisdom and the good will of |
the sovereign pontiff, and of this loyal !
catholics should not be capable; it |
would he to treat with discourteous in |
gratitude the administration IN wash |
ingtorl. and this, as true Americans, |
Catholics will not permit themselves TO
..The logic of the situation, in the |
,,,a.a,oca IF strange complications for |
church and state, arising from change |
of sovereignty in the Philippine islands, |
nointed TO a mutual conference between |
the head of the church and represent |
alive Of the state as the proper and dig |
nified way to a final and peaceful soiu-
tion. Leo took the initiative, proposed
the conference, and asked the govern
ment to expose frankly and thoroughly |
its views: the president and his advls-
erss accepted the proposal. Nhat more
conld nave been done by the admins !
ration to prove its good will and sense
of iustjce?I Ifsthe administration had
refused to send a. representative tot
Rome. verify what clamorings there /
would have. been and now, when 1t has |
sent a representative to Rome ana
agrees to the further proposal OF the
vatican to transfer negotiations TO I
Manila, clanorings are still raised.
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