The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-08-08
ASK CATHOLICS To HALT
IRELAND SAYS FRIARS' CUES
TON is DANGEROUS.
Congress of Federated Societies is
Warned That Attacks on President
Roosevelt and the American Gov
ernment's Program in the Philip
pines arc Not Sanctioned by the
Pope or by Church Authorities.

st. Paul, Mimi. Aug. Archbishop
Ireland yesterday denounced the efforts
of an element in the Catholic church to
impugn the good faith of President
Roosevelt and Governor Taft in dealing
with the church question in the Phil
ippines.
The archbishop's sermon was a point
ed warning to the congress of the Amer
lean Federation of Catholic Societies,
which meets in Chicago on Tuesday. to
keep hanus off the friars question.
Without openly referring to the Chi
cago convention, he denounced what he
called the fiery zeal in defense of Cath
Ollie interests which seems to be covet-
ing an explosion at the present time
among certain classes of American
Catholics" He continues:
The interests of the church, it is
said, are made to suffer at the hands of
the government in it's newly acquired
dependencies, and the call to arms is
sounded from the rostrums of Catholic
societies and through the columns of
Catholic papers. to the perturbation of
the whole Catholic body and, indeed, of
the whole country"
Arch bishop Ireland in plain, vigorous
language denounced these charges as
false. He asserted that the American
government is not the enemy of the
Catholic church in the new colonies.
1T has been dinned into our ears that
the church is being robbed in both of
those islands," said the archbishop, re-
ferring to Porto Rico and Cuba. In
reply he continued:
Bishop Blenck of Porto Rico openly
r%eioices that the American flag rather
than the Spanish guards his diocese;
and the hierarchy in Cuba are thanking
God hat church interests there were
settled by the government of Washing
ton before a Cuban parliament was al
lowed to sit down in Havana"
Continuing in even more vigorous
language the arch bishop said:
Let justice be done to America; in
no other country is there a government
so fair minded, so impartial. so willing
to treat all classes Of citizens with alb
solute 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 fcllow-citiZens the notion that as
Catholics they are disposed to form
themselves into a people apart, aver
| dissatisfied with America and its insti-
buttons, ever ready to complain, ever
anxious to find a plea upon which to
rest their murmurings.
The Catholic body will never pros
per in America unless it be thoroughly
imbued with the shirt of the country
and with the deep love for it's welfare.
To be one with the country is the les
son which Pope Leo is ceaSeleSSly teach
ing Catholics in every country: it is the
lesson which ! am confident he would
wish Catholics in America to take to
heart, and to practice, even were there
in so doing some sacrifice to be made.
LAS to matters in the Philippine ISL
| ands, we cannot discuss them. They
are for the time being put beyond our
reach, since they are the subject of ne
gotiations between the government Of
America and the sovereign pontiff.
ITO lake at the present such matters
into Jul own hands would be to mistrust
the wisdom and the good will of the
sovereign pontiff, and of this loyal
Catholics should not be capable; it
would be to treat with discourteOus in
gratitude the administration in Wash
ington. and this, as true Americans,
Catholics will not permit themselves to
do. ...
'The logic of the situation, in pres
ence of strange complications for
church and state arising from a change
of sovereignty in the Philippine islands,
pointed to a mutual conference between
the head of the church and a repre-
sentative of the state as the proper and
dignified way to a final and peaceful
solution.
Leo XIII. saw this; Theodore Roose-
welt saw this. Leo took the initiative,
proposed the conference, and asked the
government to expose frankly and thor.
oughly its views; the president and his
advisers accepted the proposal.
What more could have been done by
the administration to prove it's good
will and sense of justice?
IF the administration had refused to
send a representative to Rome, verify
what clamorings there would have
been, and now when it has sent a rep
resentative to Rome and agrees to the
further proposal of the vatican to trans
fer negotiations to Manila clamorings
are still raised.
well, some people are born to clam
OF, anu privilege 10 CldlnOI HlusJ Ut al
lowed to them. Be it so; but we shall
insist hat they clamor in their own
name and not in the name of the church
in America, and for our own part We
shall hold our souls in peace, leaving
church interests in the Philippines, to
one who understands them at least rs
we'll as we do, and who will be rs wise
in disposing of them as we could well
bona To ha-T on VIII
Archbishop Ireland's sermon was
called out by the disposition to raise the
issues he denounces at the national
congress of the American Federation of
Catholic Societies. which meets at Chi
cago this week. The archbishop made
his meaning perfectly clear and lie
warned the societies that they were go
ing too far. He said:
Societies of Catholics are organized
for purposes of their own, usually with
an intent to secure special aid or COM
fort to such as are members thereof.
Restricted to those purposes they are
within their sphere and are entitled to
respect. To venture beyond those pur-