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civic virtue, the life blood of national
life and security. 49,
Caution Is Expedient. s2f7
Catholics have in the past suffered
much from calumny and distrust; and
in their defense their appeal has been
to fair play and to honest Judgment
of the equitable treatment which
they claim for themselves and their
religious faith from their fellow citi-
zens and for the country, let them
IN their turn be high exemplars in their
own dealings with their fellow citi-
zens and with the country.
Most cautious at all times must
Catholics in America be not to stir up
latent prejudices and smothered ami
mos1tles, of which, as experience teach,
es, there is no small share here and
there in the community and which but
little provocation is needed to fan in
to fire and fame. Better often it is to
endure some suffering than to give
pretext for opposition and social tur-
moil. Nothing is to be more dreaded
in America than hatred and warning
among citizens in the name of religion,
and it behooves all classes of the pop
ulation to do their utmost to nurture
and maintain peace and harmony; it
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 poIit-
zeal party on the basis of religious
interests would be fatal to those in
terests and fatal to public peace.
Few Can KindIe a Fire.
ut is quite easy for a few to kim
die fire, which will threaten rayage
to whole community, and which a
whole community will find it an ar
duouS task to extinguish.
Nor is public agitation necessity in
America to redress grievances, if griev-
ances~do exist, whether such grievances
have origin, as is the more often the
case. from mere inadvertence or, as
1t more rarely happens, from malice
aforethought on the part of Individual
officials of the government. I say it
advlsedly and l am prepared to stand
by what [ here say, there is always
redress from grievances so far as cir
cumstances may allow, if it is sought
through quiet and reasonable methods
from the high representatives of the
government.
Do Justice to America.
LET justice be done to America; in
no other country is there a govern
ment so fair minded, SO impartial. SO
with absolute justice as that with
which we are blessed in America
And let Catholics be careful lest by
1mprudent agitation and repeated mis-
trust of the goT-~rnment 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 in
situations, ever ready to complain, ever
anxious to find a plea upon which to
rest their murmurings. The Catholic
body will never prosper in America
unless it be thoroughly imbued with
the spirit of the country, and with
deep love for it's welfare. To be one
with the country is the lesson which
Pope Leo is ceaselessly teaching Cath
olics 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.
CAS- 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
negotiations between the government
of America and the sovereign pontiff.
To take at the present such matters
into our own hands would be to mis-
trust 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.
Conference Is Logical.
"The logic of the situation in the
presence of strange complications for
church and state, arising from the
change of sovereignty in the Philip
pine islands, pointed to a mutual con-
ference between the head of the church