The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-04

nurture and maintain peace and har- mony; 1t behooves Catholics even more than others to be models of prudence and good will in this regard. The simplest approach among them to form a political party on the basis of religious interests would be fatal to those interests and fatal to public peace.
 Government Is Impartial.
 'Nor is public agitation necessary in America to redress grievances, If griev- ances do exist, whether such grievances have origin, as is more often the case, from mere inadvertence, or as 1t more rarely happens, from malace afore- thought on the part of individual officials of the government. say 1t advisedly, and l am prepared to stand by what I here say. there Is always redress from grfey- ances so far as circumstances may allow If 1t is sought through quiet and reason able methods from the high representa- tives of the government Let justice be done to America; ir no other country Is there government so fair minded, so impartial so willing to treat all classes of citizens 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 still into the minds of many of their fellow citizens the notion that as Cath olics they are disposed to form them selves into a people apart ever dfssatis- fled with America and It's institutions, ever ready to complain, ever anxious to find plea upon which to rest their mur- murings. The Catholic body will never prosper in America unless 1t be thorough ly imbued with the spirit of the coun- try and with deep love for it's welfare. To be one with the country is the lesson which Pope Leo Is ceaseiessly teaching Catholics in every country; it is the lesson which l 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.
 Leaves Philippines With Pope.
 "As to matters in the Philippine islands we cannot discuss. They are for the time beyond our reach since they are the subject of negotiations between the government of America and the sover- eign pontin. To take at the present such matters in our 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 ingrati- tude the administration in Washington and this with true Americans. Catholics will not permit themselves to do. The logic of the situation in the presence of strange complications for church and state arising from change of sovereign ty in the Philippine islands. pointed to a mutual conference between the head of the church and representative of the state as the proper and dignified way to final and peaceful solution. Leo XIII. saw this; Theodore Roosevelt saw this. Leo took the initiative. proposed the conference and asked the government to expose frankly and thoroughly it's 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 jus tice? If the administration had refused to send a representative to Rome, verify what clamorings there would have been, and now when 1t has sent a representa- tive to Rome and agrees to the further proposal of the vatican to transfer ne- gotiations to Manila, clamorings are still raised. We'll, some people are born to clamor; and privilege to clanor must be allowed to them. Be it so, but we shall insist that they clanor in their name and not in the name of the church fin 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 as well as we do and who will be as wise in disposing of them as we could well hone to be-I.eo XIII"