Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-07-31
TAFT'S WORK IN ROME.
chbishoP Ireland Says It Payes the
Why To an Agreement As 90 Philip
Dine ErIurs.

pine Friars.
st. Paul, July 23.-ArchbishOp Ire
land, in an interview yesterday re-
viewed the progress of the negotia-
tions conducted between Judge Taft
and the Vatican, and took to task GER
tain Catholic organizations that had
assumed to question the fairness of
the administration toward their CO.
religionists. The archbishop said:
Yes, the news from Rome is quite
satisfactory, and, | am sure, quite
correct. Private adyices coming to
me from the most reliable source
confirm, in all respects, the dispatches
given by the press. The sovereign
pontiff and other Roman authorities
are delighted with Gov. Taft person.
ally and with the negotiations in
progress between him and the Nati-
can. Reports sent out by the corre-
spondents of certain London papers
to the effect that the pontitf was dis
pleased with the commission of cardi-
mails appointed to treat with Gov. Taft
were unfOunded. The pOntitf assure |
Gov. Taft that he was happy at the
results so far obtained, and that he
was confident the negotiations begun
in Rome would be the starting point
of a complete and satisfactory solu-
tion of the question under discussion.
"There can be no doubt that the
active cooperation of the Vatican is
now secured to the American govern
ment in its task of pacficauon in tho
Philippines, and that in the results
to come the administration a Wash
ington will have ample reason to fe-
licitate itself for having sent Gov.
Taft to Rome.
And now it is to be hoped there
will be among certain class of
Catholics in America "A cessation of
declarations such as we have had re-
cent occasion to hear of regarding re
ligiouS matters in the Philippines.
The pope teaches these Catholics to
trust the American government, as
they seemingly have been heretofore
unwilling to do. In his conversation
with GOV. Taft he expressed the high
est esteem for American methods of
treating church matters, and re-
marked that he had more than once
pointed towards the United States as
setting an example well worth copy
| ing.
The agitation, such as it was, IN
certain Catholic quarters did no
| honor to those who participated in ii.
As is now proven, they spoke and
acted without due knowledge, and,
certainly, without proper regard for
! the government of their country.
They should first have been absolute
| ly certain that injustices had been
done to their co-religionists and,
next, if iniustices had been done,
they should have sought remedy
for them by appeal to the proper Of
ficials before raising in public irritat-
ing clamors.
His words ought to signify some-
thing to those who profess To take
him as their guide. At any rate the
direction of Catholic affairs is his
| business, not that of irresponsible
church societies or newspaper edi-
| tors; and when he informs Catholics
that any one matter is in his honds.
they ought promptly to step aside,
and allow him to have charge of it,.
The question of religion in the Phil
ippines is now his own, ana it should
be considered as such.
There should have been no haste
to lay blame upon the government
which has been doing its best to
bring order out of chaos. and. above
all. no charges should have been
made against the intentions of the
| government. 1t was ranllest. rashness
and rankest injustice to intimate
| that the government intended to
| prOselyte in the Philippines. or to do
aught to detach the inhabitants from
| the Catholic faith