The Irish standard., 1902-09-27
PRESIDENT AND ARCHBISHOP.

The pous and patriotic Methotlists
have not vet received any reply from
President Roosevelt anent his alleged
intinMtion to the Pope that he would
be plelsed to see Archbishop Ireland
raised to the rank of cardinal. Per-
haps the president may conlescend to
reply to the followers OF John Wesley
after his political tour is over, and per-
lmlps he may not. Even if he is guilty
of the "atrucious crime" of requesting
ecclesiastical promotion for Il distin-
guiShrGl Catholic clulrcllman who has
rendered valuable service to the state,
it is within his official province to do
so.
Perhaps the followers of Wesley,
who, by the way, was Il royalist and Il
Tory, are not aware of the fact thai
President Roosevelt is only following
precedent if he has asked Tire Pope to
elevate the Archbishop of ST. Paul t.
the cardinalate.. Toward the close OF
the Civil Wan the great Abraham Lin
coin and his great Secretary of State,
William III. Seward, intimatcd to Pope
Plus IN. that in consequence Of the
successful mission of Archbishop
Hughes of New York to Europe in the
interest of the North, the administTa
ton would like to see him created Il
cardinal. The supreme pOntitf would
have probably complied with the wish
of Lincoln and his abe secretary had
not Archbishop Hughes died on Jan
uary 3, 1864.
II the pious and patriotic followers
of Wesley, who appear TO be so alarm
el at any union of church and state,
only take up Appleton's Cyclopcdia of
Biography and read therein a sketch Of
John Hughes, they will discover that
President Roosevelt is following precc-
dent in intimating to Pope Leo NIlI.
the promiety Of making a cardinal Of
Archbishop Ireland for his distin-
guislped services to the republic.
10 go back further into American
history for Il precedent, it may be
stated that in the days Of the Revou-
ton Il noted Catholic priest named
Rev. John Carroll accompanied Frank
| lin and Chase us Il delegate to Canada
to win the cooperation. or at least, neu
tlvllity, of the Catholic population OF
that British province, but bigotry in
the Continental Congress defeated the.r
mission. Because Of his patriotic eff
| forts in the cause OF American lib
erty, Rev. John Carroll was strongly
recommended for ecclesiastical promo
ton by Benjamin Franklin Mt Paris to
the papal luncio in that city; and in
J June Of 1884, Pope Plus vi. appointed
him prefect apostolic in the United
States Nhe patriotic priest afterwar.l
became the first bishop and first arch
bishop Of Baltimore.
The Irish Standard holds no brief
for Archbishop Ireland and has never
endorsed his politics, but it esteems
him highly us a churchman and as
citizen. He is Il great American
whose patriotism was demonstrated on
the hattletields of the South, and Ire
is a great prelate who has cast l,lstrc
on the Catholic Church in the United
States. He has been a friend OF the
Roosevelt administration in it's deal
ing with Catholic colonists, and his
services ARE evidently recognized ey
the head Of the nation.
II Theodore Roosevelt, as president,
sees tit to request promotion for the
archbishop, he is only manifesting his
4s s;tude for services rendered to the
count. t a critical period i'll it's his,
tory. The president is Il broad and
liberal man in his religious views, and
had the FilipinCs been Mctllodists in
stead of Catholics, lie would most prob
ably have called on a Methodist digni-