The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-10-04

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lord and Catholic tenant, alike, will al
ways command the assent of every
Catholic Irishman, but morality
which is only preached for rent pay
ers, and is intended to do moral police
duty for English law in Ireland, will
not beget either respect or obedience
from the right thinking men, no mat
ter who proclaims such onesiled
complacent doctrine. We may be per-
mitted, hope, to ask will the pending
evictions on the De Freyne estate be
denounced as wrong or immoral by
those who can denounce league organ
izers, even when they are undergoing
imprisonment for trying to serve and
save the people"
Not a single word of this do l with
draw, and challenge DR.. Clancy to
point out where doctrines at variance
with the teachings of the Catholic
Church" lie concealed in these sen
fences.
I spoke these words as is plainly
manifested from THE context, not in
criticism of the Bishop of Elphin, nor
his right to teach Christian doctrine,
but of Dr.. Clancy, the friend and
hacker of Lord De Freyne, the assail-
ant of the United Irish League, and
the defender of the rent system, which
is RESPONSIBLE for ''the devn S work
now going on in Roscommon. Ii,
therefore, the Bishop Of Elphin is Of
Tended at my remarks, let him advise
DR., Clancy to find occupation more
congenial to the sacred duty OF an au-
thorized teacher of the church than
that of interfering in a Land League
fight between tenants and Il landlord,
and taking sides With the landlord in
the contest.
uttered no word of any kind upon
the fight on the DE Freyne estate I'M
til month after DR.. Clancy's attack
upon tire United Irish League had been
endorsed and repeated. by Orange lead
ers in South Dublin, quoted by Mr..
George Wyndham in parliament, and
copied into every anti-Irish paper i'll
Great Britain. That attack was gross
ly unfair, and was founded upon lying
statements made to DR.. Clancy about
"organizers and strangers and re-
peated by him without an effort to dis
cover whether they were true or false
and repeated, too, from the altar of
q church which expects it's authorized
pastors, as well us its "socalled Cath
olics," to remember and to obey the
Divine Commandment, Thou shalt
not bear false witness against THY
neighbor." And if DR.. Clancy has inn
mediate difficulty in finding out who his
neighbor is in the contest OH the De
Freyne estate, let him refer to the
Gospel which, presumably, was read
at the Mass after which his sermon
was preached last Sunday in the Holy
Gross Church, Sligo and he may, per-
haps, learn to speak with more charity
about strangers and Sanarituns.
The charge of "attacking Il distin-
guished Jesuit" is without any founda-
tion Of any kind, unless a controvcr-
sial reply to some arguments used by
Father Finlay at Il recent meeting in
Cork is considered an attack The al
fusion to the "bruther of an illustriOuS
cardinal has reference to Il letter of
mine in which 4 took the strongest pos
sible exception to the language of
Father Vaughan, which declared that
Irish as well as English Catholics
lowed the homage of their hearts and
tine service of their lives to the throne
Of England, where they recognized the
majesty Of an authority which came
from God. e. . Judging from the
brave Catholic men who in the recent
war had rushed in their thousands to
the front, it did not look as il Cath
olics We're every lil1al" to forget their
time-honored tradition of love and 10y
atty to England and it's throne"
Now, if it was the brother Of st.
Michael the Arclwnrel on of the Pope
Of Rome who uttered these words,
would tell him, without the slightest
hesitation, that lie was talking cant
and repulsivc rubbish ill., the spirit of
an English turnkey and not in the char
ncter Of Il bishop, or pastor, or lay
man of q religion which the same
throne of England brutally and con-
temptuously declares to be 'supcrsti-
tious and idolatrOus." These are slay-
ish sentiments Of loyalty to English
and not Catholic doctrines, which the
Bishop of Elphin would not have the
temerty to utter in the Catholic Ca
thedrul of Sligo.
Y The first count in Dr. Clancys
charges have already dealt with. 1t
alleges that have attacked "a bishop
of the Catholic Church. who, follow
ing the dictates of his conscience, ell
deavors to do his duty to his people,"
Let us see what the facts are upon
which this allegation is founded. DIR
Clancy preached Il sermon in one Of
the churches in Roscommon in the ear
ner stages Of the De Freync fight. He
attacked league organizers, and cll:lrg-
{ ed them with spending the peoples
money in piling up huge hotel bills;
he denounced these organizers as