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ADVICE TO CATHOLICS
archbishop IRELAND HEARD
FROM AGAIN.
HAVE NO CAUSE TO COMPLAIN.
ROTH POPE AND PRESIDENT CAN
BE TRUSTED.

The Archbishop ArraiSns Catholics
and Church Societies Who Have
complained of the Course of the
Government in the New Dependent
cies-CathoIics in Cuba and Porto
Rico Have Made No Complaint-Not
TO the Interest of Catholics to
Arouse Agitation of This SOrt-Says
Pope Leo Took Initiative and Pro-
posed Vatican Negotiations.
st. Paul. MINI, Aug. 3.-Archbishop
ireland, in his sermon at the Cathe-
dral this morning, adverted to the dis
cussion now going on among certain
classes of American Catholics who
complain that the interests of the
church are made to suffer at the hands
of the government in the newly ac-
CURED dependencies.
who are they who complain and
protest and call upon Catholics to be
up and doing? Are they those who
might claim to represent the church
in it's general, or even To-
cal, interests? Has the sover-
eign pontiff spoken? Certainly
he has not complained; rather, has
he been heard from in very different
tones. Have the ecclesiastical author
tiles in the dependencies invoked our
aid? In no instance have they so act
ed; where they have been heard from,
as in the case of Porto Rico and of
Cuba, it was to tell us in plainest
words that they had no grievances,
although from irresponsible sources it
had been, on several previous occa-
sions, dinned into our ears that the
church was robbed and prosecuted in
both these islands. Whatever COM
plants have been heard come from in
dividual Catholics or from SOCIETIES of
Catholics; in neither case is this war
rant to represent others than the men
themselves, or the societies them
selves, who do speak"
The archbishop urged that Catholics
be careful lest by imprudent agitation
and repeated mistrust of the govern
ment 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 peo-
pie apart, ever dissatisfied with Ameri-
ca and it's institutions, ever ready to
complain ever anxious to find a plea
upon which to rest their murmurings.
The Catholic body, he said, would
never prosper in America, unless it be
thoroughly imbued with the spirit of
the country and with a deep love for
its welfare.
Catholics in Philippines.
He added:
I'm the matters in the Philippine
Islands we cannot discuss them. They
are for the time being beyond our
reach since they are subject of nego-
tiations between the government of
Amrica and the sovereign pontiff. To
take at present such matter in our
hands would be to mistrust the wis
dom and the good will of the sovereign
pontiff and of this, loyal Catholics
should not be capable 1t would
be to treat with discourteous
ingratitude the administration in
Washington, and this as true Ameri-
cans, Catholics would not permit them
selves to do. The logic of the stu
alton in presence of strange complica-
tons for church and state, arising
from a change of sovereignty in the
Philippine Islands, pointed to a mutual
conference between the head of the
church and a representative of the
state as the proper and dignified way
to final and peaceful solution Leo
XIII saw this; Theodore Roosevelt saw
this. Leo took the initiative, proposed
the conference and asked the govern
ment to expose frankly and thoroughly
its views. The President and his adj
Nlsers accepted the proposal. what
more could have been done by the adj
ministration to prove it's good will and
sense of justice?"