Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-07-23
Archbishop Scores Catholics
Who Criticize American
Government.
POPE KNOWS HIS BUSINESS.
re Is Pleased With Negotiations With
Tsft-P6esident Secretary of War
and Philippines Governor Net
Bieots--charges unwarranted.

ST Paul. Mimi July 23.-Arch.
b;shop John Ireland, in an Interview
with a representative CT the Associat-
ed Press yesterday. said in part:
Yes. the news from Rome is quite
satisfactory and, | am sure. quite
+ correct. Private advices coming to
me from the most reliable source
confirm, in all respects, the dis
f PATCHES given by the Associated
Press. The sovereign pontiff and
other Roman authorities are delight
> with Governor Taft personally,
End with the negotiations in course of
+ + rogress between him and the vati-
can.
THAT the negotiations have not
/ vet reached final conclusions. and are
to be transferred from Rome to Man
IA is what night have been expected
from the beginning. Governor Taft
/ Is in hurry to return to the Philip
+ lines and could not prolong his stay
ia Rome. and on the other hand. the
! fT0blems TO be solved are SO eompn
Gated especially from the vatican
/ standpoint. that time in the work is
# prime necessity.
viii Have Vasican's Cooperation.
There can be no doubt that the act
4 i've cooperation Of the vatican is now
secured to the American government
in its task of paeifeation in the Phil.
t iopines. and that in the results to
cone the administration at Washing
ton will have ample reason to feliei-
tate Itself for having sent Governor
"aft to Rome.
And Low it is to be hoped there
viii be among certain classes of Cath
olics in America a cessation of move
laents ard declarations we have had
recent occasion to hear of, regarding
religious matters in the Philippines.
The pope teaches those Catholics to
trust the American government, as
they seemingly have been heretofore
unwilling to do. In his conversation
with Governor Taft, he expressed the
highest esteem for American meth
eds of treating church matters, and
remarked that he had more than
enee pointed towards the United
States as setting an example we'll
worth copying"
His words ought to signify some
thing to those who profess to take
him as Their leader and guide. At
any rate. the direction OF Catholic af
fairs is his business not that of IT.
responsible church societies or news
papers; and when he informs Catho-
lies that auy one matter is in his
hands. they ought promptly to step
aside and allow him to have charge
e it. The question of religion in the
Philippines IS now officially and form
ally his own and it should be consid-
ored as such. A few there may be
who think they have better under
standing eff il than he has aad Will
insist in telling him how to handle it;
bpt such ~ those are few and at least
it viii be clear that they hold no brief
what ever from the Catholic body at
large.
Did No Honor to the Agitators.
The agitation in certain Catholic
quarters. such as it was, did no honor
to these who participated in it. AsI
Il now proven theY spoke and acted
without due knowledge, and certain
" without proper regard for the gov
egnment OF their country. They first
Mould have been absolutely certain
that injustice had been done their
co-Ieligionists and, next If Injustice
had been done, they should have
sought remedy for them by appeal
. the proper authorities before rails
ing in public Irritating elamors. That
in the vast alterations made in the
Philippines by the transfer of the is
lands from Spanish to American SOW
ereignty serious complications were
sure to arise in religious matters as
they did in social and civil matters,
was naturally to be expected; as it |
vas also to be expected that time I
would be required to regulate things |
properly and that meanwhile lffer-
ing in one form or another was to
come to interests most secret and vi. |
tai Patience then having been had, I
70 haste should there have been to /
lay blame upon the government which I
was doing its best to bring order out |
of chaos, and above all, no charges
should have been made against the
intentions of the government 1t was
rankest rashness and rankest inius
tice to intimate that the government
intended to proselyte in the Philip
pines, or do aught to detach the ma
tives from the Catholic faith To
know in the slightest degree Mr. Roose-
yelt, Mr.. Root or Mr.. Taft. is to be Ger
tain nothing of the kind could have
been thought of or could have been toll
Grated. Never did there reside in the
White House a man more fairminded
CT impartial in religious matters, more
resolute to give all classes of citizens
religious rights guaranteed by the
constitution and to protect them in
those rights than Theodore Roose-
Welt. During his administration it is
unqualifiedly absurd to imagine that
governmental acts could be such as
to deny or impair the religious rights
of any people or tribe over whom
float the American flag
AS to Mr. Taft quote from let
ter which l received but yesterday
Cramps, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus.
and, indeed, all bowel
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