The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-20
CATHOLIC WOMEN
OPEN CONVENTION
Are Addressed by Archbishops
Ireland and Redwood and
Bishop McQuaid

The Ladies Catholic Benevolent as
ISOLATION opened it's eighth annual con-
vention yesterday afternoon at the
Peoples church. Seated on the rostrum
with the supreme president, Mrs. E. b.
MCGOWAN, of Buffalo, N. Y, and other
supreme officers, were Right Rev. B. j.
McQuaid, bishop of Rochester, and
supreme spiritual adviser of the organ
iZation; Archbishop Ireland, Archbish-
op Redwood, of Wellington, New Zea-
land, the guest of Archbishop Ireland;
City Clerk George Redington, Mayor
Smiths representative; Rev. ]. J. Law
Ter, of the cathedral parish, and other
members of the local clergy, and Mr..
Wood, of Union City, Pa, husband of
one of the two supreme senators of the
association, and the man who first sug-
gested the organization.
When Bishop McQuaid rose to pro-
nounce an invocation there were at
least thousand delegates and visitors
in the church, and this number was
largely added to before the session was
over. Mrs. MCGOWAN, the supreme
president, read a number of congratu-
latory kilograms, among them one from
President Roosevelt, which wished the
association success in it's deliberations
and congratulated it upon the strength
of its organization.
Mr.. Redington, on behalf Of the may
or, welcomed the delegates to ST. Paul.
He said that the city was glad to ex-
tend its hospitality to an organization
of representative Catholic women who
were accomplishing so much both as
individuals and as a society for the ad-
Vancement of humanity. He called at
tention to the fact that fully as many
young women as young men were aid
ing in the support of relatives too
young or too old to care for themselves.
He admitted that a business life had
its temptation for women as well as
for men, but he said that Christian
women out in the world had already
proven that such temptation could not
affect them. He expressed the hope
that the delegates would visit the city
parks and public institutions before
their return, and added that the city
was especially proud of its Catholic in
StituuOnS
Bishop McQuaid Speaks
Bishop McQuaid, the supreme spirit
ual adviser, spoke briefly but eloquent
ly, congratulating the delegates on the
success that had attended their efforts
to make the organization a strong and
was capable, he said, of accomplishing
an immense amount of good. 1t was his
duty as spiritual adviser, he. reminded
them, to tender them advice and he
cautioned them against letting a self
seeking spirit narrow their influence or
mar their work he expressed on be-
half of himself and the delegates pleas
ure at being in st. Paul and paid a
graceful tribute to Archbishop Ireland
who was, he declared, head and Shoul-
ders above the majority of his fellow
men.
The archbishop of the st. Paul do
cese in replying declared that he had
frequently extended an invitation to
Bishop McQuaid to visit st. Paul, but
all in vain, so that he, the archbishop,
now felt profoundly grateful to the
delegates who had brought him with
them. Archbishop Ireland said that he
firmly believed in encouraging civic ac-
tivity among Catholic women and that
he was always pleased to learn that
the women of his church We're inter-
eSting themselves in philanthropy, in
social advancement and in every move
ment that broadened them mentally and
stimulated them spiritually.
History of City and Church Linked
He declared that the history of st.
Paul and the history of Catholicity in
the Northwest were closely interviewer.
The first Catholic chapel built by Faith
er Galtier was named ST. Paul and he
added that it was a Catholic priest who
first gave a name to any portion of
che Northwest. He did this when he
flamed the falls above Fort Smelling, ST.
Anthony The archbishop also ex-
pressed the hope that before the dele
gates. returned to their homes they
would become thoroughly acquainted
with st. Paul and its suburbs and that
they would visit the various public,
and especially the Catholic, institu-
lions.
He then introduced Archbishop Red
wood, of Wellington, New Zealand, say
ing that years ago when both were
studying in France, they had been
friends and that ever since, though
great distance divided them, they
had kept up that friendship.
Archbishop Redwood, after congratu-
lating the association on Its size and
apparent strength, told something of
the political success of women in the
country from which he came. He SAID
that the women when, they obtained
the privilege of the ballot made no at
tempt to revolutionize society, that, on
the contrary, they acted with great
conservatism, devoting themselves
more to matters that concerned society
generally than to matters purely politi-