New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-07-23
THE TAFT NEGOTIATIONS.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND DEFENDS THE
ADMINISTRATION.
NO INJUSTICE TO CATHOLICS CoNTEM-
PLATED-CRITICs OF THE GOVERN
MENT REBUKED.

MEM hEbOhED.
st. Paul July 22.-Archbshop Ireland to-day
reviewed at some length the progress OF the
negotiations between Judge Taft and the Nau-
can. and took to task certain Catholic organiza-
tions which had assumed to question the far
of the administration toward their CO.
religionsts. The Archbishop said:
Yes. the news from Rome is quite satisfactory.
Coming to me from the most reliable source con-
firm in all respects the dispatches given by Inc
Roman authores are delighted WITH Governor
Taft personally and with the negotiations In prog
out by the correspondents of certain London papers
the manner of acting of the Commission Of Car
dinals appointed to treat with Governor Taft were
Rome dispatches the Pontif aSD assured Governor
results so far obtaned and that a he WAS Confident
the negotiations begun in Rome would be the START
the question under discussion. This statement
sums up in the most exact manner the situation as
That the negotiations have not yet reached final
S and 6, are 70 be 5ae o @
the beginning Governor Taft is in a hurry TO re-
stay in Rome aP9 on he other SG hand the prob
lens TO be solved are complicated. especially
Of Prime necessity The Vatican and Governor
aIs came easily and quickly 70 Is a
practical methods are 10 be adopted to put tne
tain matters seeming offer great difficutieS
will be made. by quiet skilful touches OF PonSneaI
diplomacy, to work themselves out without Irlctloh
or excitement; and so. when in Manila fnai con,
clusions are to be reached things Will have oeen
This is the Vatican method Of R-oeeedng; il is a
the matter, and leaves Rome thoroughly satisfied
f e h9PetS he Sarries away %n fo n begun s in
Rome NH prove to have been the starting point I. OF
lions at issue, and that much he considers 20 be
quite SUFFICIENT for the moment There can De no
now ssoured to the GmeTicsn t
in the results TO come the administrat ton Wash;
ington will have ample reason 10 felictate Itself
Tor having sent Governor Taft TO Rome
AGITATION HERE DEPRECATED.
And now IT is TO be hoped there win be among
OF movements and declarations such as we have
matters in the Philippines The Pope teaches these
Catholics to trust the American government as
do In his Conversation With Governor Taft he ex
pressed the highes esteem for Amsrcans m 1s
had more than once pointed toward the United
as words S ougst az 10 signfy Something to those
who profess 70 take him as their leader and guide
business not that Of irresponsible church societies
or newspaper editors. and when ne informs CatnSS,
promptly 10 step aside and allow him 20 have
ippines is now formally and oricisy his own, and
Ten ssGad w be @ @ IS bseT that they he
better Of 5 ~ 1hqn handle az mas bu such
that they hold no brief whatever from the Cathohc
The agitation such as IT was. in certain cath9lic
dG no tSR eoSe hd acted With
out due knowledge. and certainly without proper
should iirst have been absolutely certain that in
Justice had been done n to t sen. SeH have
sought remedy for them 6y sPRea 10 she
Thst n 1 the vast aeraons made Philip
pines by the transfer Of the islands from spain to
sure 20 arise in religious matters as tney ald IL
social and Giv a 70 "s bs e2pecteG that time
would be required 70 regulate things properly and
was 20 come 10 interests most secret and vital
PRESIDENTS COURSE PRAISED
Patience. then. having been had. no haste should
there have been TO lay blame upon the Ess on ~
chaos; and. above all no charges should have been
% Was sss ahG
mate that the government intended TO pToselytize
Sm the caS f1 Root w or S she
could have been thought OF or could have been
Never did there. reside in the White House man
more fair minded and Impartial IN rehsious mat
the religious rights grated them by the constitu
SH R1d f. P fSH his It
unqualihedy absurd TO imagine thai govern T5o
seligOqs rights OF any people or tribe over "nOm
AS 10 Mr. Taft. quote from letter which re-
eeiyed but yesterday from CathGne priest Hvins
B. Nc McKinnoh: I can assure YOU 3othing could Be
Unjust 5 6an h %oe 81 T
has not a particle OF bigotry in his makeup. In
s al his b fGSs fG5S nn the 9 ne
All this does not mean that, here and there. IN
the government Of the Islands did not say or
p tse kind rs may aVe been FOUND did not IN what
hsy an sanF G5 f'R
repoT.eq 10 rnT What stronger proof of
farmindedness in the settlement Of the religious
ton have given than TO respond sraciously 10 the
wishes Of the San =" to Rome @ ds
cuss matters directly with the Pope and his s ad-
mest grateful to Mr. Roosevelt for his noble ac
ton In this regard and should see me he pb AS
ppines. spirit OF hghmindedness and justice is
ernments would have gone e, work in their own
way without word being SAID 10 the mead OF the
SHOULD TRUST THE GOVERNMENT
II the American Government sincerely believed
that the four landlord religious orders OF the Philip
pines-those that had been for centuries intimately
representatives-were an obstacle. 70 the pacifca
to the whole Church? As If those four orders were
the chgrSh and the w Native priests
ernment does not disturb. did not also represent H.
an OF he opinion p & the Of the
would be much enhanced by the absence OF the
And as 10 schools in the Philippines. why not.
When the press s OF teachers s
teachers thirty-rye hundred are Filipino Catholics?
Der OF the school board OF Manila? And why when
mention is made OF non-Catholic teachers allow the
Ministers and active % % And %hy
So tn T by tne law of the Ia
ganized congregations may three times a week
dtion that they be ministers Of organized eongTe
yTSag fSnRps the opsege 70 the
more might be desired; but the conditions within