The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1903-07-18
T. P. O'Connor, the Brilliant Irish Writer,
Gives Interesting Account of Events
in Career of Both Men.
Cardinal Manning Spent His Entire Income
in Behalf of the Poor and at His
Death was Penniless..

i, Of the word-not. indeed, in anything
"a fanatic.
He deplored drunkenness, and made
many violent indictments of it as the
greatest Of national curses, but he
was incapable of thinking, as did
Manning, that legislation could des-
troy it, and always gave rather the
cold shoulder to schemes of coerciye
teetotalism. Similarly though he did
great deal of good work among the
poor, Cardinal Vaughan would never
have taken such an advanced position
on labor difficulties as Manning did.
Though Manning had been brought
up a Protestant and all Cardinal
Vaughan's ancestors for generations
had been Catholics, Cardinal Vaughan
was the more thoroughly, had al
most said narrowly, English of the
two. In politics, in social questions,
on almost any subject you could men,
tion, you could tell beforehand that
Cardinal Vaughan would take the
view of the typical English squire Of
kindly sympathies and of practical
and unimaginative judgment. He
was, though he never interfered di-
rectly in elections and never gave a
vote, a thorough Conservative, eau
tious, distrustful of enthusiasm and
panaceas, and profoundly convinced
that the progress of the world is nec-
cssarily slow. One Of the points in
which he most differed from Manning,
for instance, was as to the Irish ques-
ton. He had no anti-Irish bias-in-
deed Irish priests, have been told,
were treated with exceptional kind
ness by him in his diocese-but he
nevertheless had no love for the polit-
ical opinions or aspirations Of Irish
men; and occasionally this brought
him into somewhat sharp conflict
with them. During the recent war he
was as much opposed to Irishmen as
to what used to be called pro-Boers;
and these opinions of his he expressed
with his characteristic courage. For
lie was a man who had all an Eng
lishman's courage Of conviction. Dip
lolnatic circumlocutions were not in
the least in his line. Indeed, some of
the more cautious OF his clergy often
were aghast at the John Bull down
rightness with which their great chief
expressed himself on questions, such
as the education question, for in
stance, which go to the roots Of mems
most vehement and most susceptible
emotions. 1t was characteristic Of
this somewhat combatative temper
that Cardinal Vaughan almost went
to meet enmity and misunderstanding
by becoming the proprietor Of two
periodicals-the Tablet, weekly
journal, and the Dublin Review, a
quarterly. The Tablet at one time
was the journal which 1rishmen, and
even Irish ecclesiastics, hated more
than any other journal in the world
not even the Times excepted. Arch
bishop Croke, who was a fiery Ma.
tionalist, wrote a public letter at one
time to the Irish newspapers, in which
he stated that he would not permit the
Tablet to enter his house. But Car
dinal Vaughan went calmly on his
way, faced what unpopularity either
his paper or his opinions brought him,
and remained the same dogged, down.
right, outspoken Englishman, not to
be stirred from his racial or political
convictions. For all these reasons
there was never that warm and cor
dial feeling between him and the
Irish in England which existed be-
tween them and Cardinal Manning.
Indeed, Cardinal Vaughan was a man
who was, 1 think, respected, and per-
haps even feared, more than he was
loved. There was a certain iciness
in his courtesy that seemed to make
warmth of feeling impossible toward
him.
But he was very high.minded and
single-minded man, worked for his
faith and with an energy that shorten.