The Irish standard., 1902-01-11
ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN:
The Patriotic Prelats Receives
Lot Of Advice.

The Patriotic Prelats Receives q
Lot Of Advice.
In little address delivered at the
opening of new institution in Dublin
recently, Archbishop Walsh showed
that he was, in about the same position
as the editor who was the only man In
the world who didn't know 3 how to
run his newspaper. =
81 may tell you," said his, grace,
that l have more than once, had let
ters from persons Of that always nu-
merous class who are most enthusi-
astically energetic in doing good by
proxy Qaughter), calling on me to get
up home such as this, to get it up
and, presumably, to undertake the
management of it, including, as a mat
ter of course, the superintendent of
all those interesting features of it's
work that l find enumerated in the
prospectus-the music and the dancing
of the young ladies here, and their oc-
casional garden parties in pleasant
places by the seaside, cycling excur-
sions to places of interest in the coun-
try. and so forth (renewed laughter).
1T is wonderful how many things
find people lamenting that 1 do not
undertake the establishment of.
"One of the latest communications
of the sort that came to me was
signed merely "A Mother of Six
Qaughter). And it was an earnest ap-
peal to me, coupled with a sort of re-
proach that l had nots done so long
ago, an appeal to me to start in vari-
ots places through the city, a num-
Der of respectable public houses
l(aughter). Another idea recently put
before the public, 1 see, is that 1
should take up the responsible office
Of censor of stage plays renewed
laughter).
ut is amazing what little notion
people have Of the work a bishop in a
place like Dublin has to get through.
l heard an amusing illustration of
this not long ago. A very Jealous
and Woodworking priest was ap-
pointed parish priest of large and
important parish, and before he had
left his old quarters good woman
who met him in the street one day
came up to him and said: We're
sorry to lose you, Father, but we are
all saying it was time for you to get
a rest Qaughter). That was her idea
of the cares and responsibilities of the
pastoral office. Well, the newly pro-
NOTED parish priest though it no harm
to enlighten her little, and he told
what he was going to get was any
thing but rest, as the Archbishop had
already charged him with the duty of
taking in hand n very difficult and
troublesome work. In her SIMPLICITY
she then said: It's pity, Father,
they didn't make Bishop out Of you,
and then you'd have nothing at all
to do cloud laughter).
Il dare say that my correspondent,
the Mother Of Six had somewhat
similar idea Of the time at the disposal
of the Archbishop of Dublin. The
idea, in fact, seems to be that it is a
sort of friendly aid to me to suggest
some way Of spending all the spare
time that must hang so heavily upon
my hands. A recent suggestion, going
much farther even than the interest
ing censorship proposal, was that I
should start theater Qaughter).
This came from gentleman who
gave me the important information
that his motto was, Deeds, not words
"A motto, l must say, that 1 have
never yet seen paraded by any one
Boosting of it as his principle of action
without being struck by the fact,
usually notorious enough in such
cases, that in the particular case un-
der observation that motto is a most
fantastically inappropriate one. It is,
as we must all know by experience,
the favorite motto Of the very people
who in reality spend all their time in
pouring forth torrents of words telling
other people what they ought to do"
Mpplause).