New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-03-09
BIGOTRY IN IRELAND.
THE ATTITUDE or TRINITY COLLEGE
TOWARD THE CHURCH.

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A Proposition That was Promptly
and Curtly Negattved by Cardinal
LoEue-A striking Sample Of Intol-
erance In County Cork.
The authorities OF Trinity college,
Dublin, have at various times taken
steps that were either amusing or
amazing. The board Of college has
now performed an act productive at
once Of both amazement and amuse-
| ment. The members have had the cool
ness to propose to Cardinal Logue as
the representative of the Irish bishops
and the vast majority of the Irish peo-
pie that the Catholics should give I'D
their agitation for equal university
rights with Protestants-nay, should
even fortify the Protestants in their po-
sition of superiority by humbly accept.
Ing the boon of Catholic chapel at
Trinity college,
This exhibition Of what is nothing
less than insolence, conscious or uncon.
scious, to which Cardinal Logue prop,
erly replied with curt negative, is one
phase Of the spirit of Trinity college,
Another phase has just been exhibit
! ed by DR.. r. Tyrrell, one Of the fell
lows. In a sonnet which he recently
| contributed to college magazine he
referred to Catholic ecclesiastical build
ings in Ireland as monuments of ''cold
observance, this incestuous mate of SUI
perstition.''
When called to task for the express
sion he defends himself by saying he is
an admirer of the historic position and
boundless capacity for well doing of
the Catholic Church, but he hates 'sto
see her dignity belittled by this i'll con-
sidered zeal Of the rank and file of an
INSCRIPTIONS priesthood practicing on
the ignorance and superstition of an il
literate peasantry" That is sort of
Admiration which has been common
to Trinity college men since the days
Of Queen Elizabeth, and the Tyrrell cpl
sode shows that no advance may be ex-
pected. -...-
The whole affair is simply scandal
GUS, but is only sample of the bigotry
and intolerance Of the place. What a
pity that even few Catholic parents
should neglect the advice Of the Church
and send their children to such an in
stitution! The practice, too, of ''boom-
ing" Catholic students who have made
mark there is very questionable in
deed. 1t can only be an incentive to
others to go and do likewise.
Speaking at a bazaar in aid Of the
Methodist church in Abbey street recent
ly, his excellency the lord lieutenant
said he was anxious to take up an at
titude of perfect impartiality toward
all sections of religious creeds through
out the country, as, in his opinion, Ire
land had suffered very much in the
past from religious strife. Ireland
would never really be in a position to
press forward her demands for inn
provement until she could convince
England that all religious sections in
the country could live in amity with
one another.
1t seems pity that Lord Dudley did
not seek another audience to which he
could deliver his homily. An address
on religious federation would be far
more appropriate in the strongholds of
Orangeism, where bigotry is ever ram
pant, than in Catholic Dublin, which
every year places in public Office many
of her Protestant sons.
Speaking Of bigotry, permit me to
T draw attention to case that recently
occurred in County Cork. The Right
Pow IlT Moa6a prntoSta nj 11iehor, of
Cork; Lord Justice Holmes, and Mr..
Savage French, J. P, constituted
diocesan court of inquiry which sat in
Cork to hear an appeal Of Mrs. AFFORD,
wife of staff surgeon in the royal
navy, for permission to re-erect cross
over her brothers grave in Kilbrogan
cemetery. From the evidence it ap.
peared that the lady had caused
plain Celtic cross to be erected over
the grave in April last, but it had been
removed. and thrown on the roadside
by the Rev. B. G. Fawcett, b. A., in
cumbent, and two churchwardens.
Mr.. Samuels, K. c., who appeared
for Mrs. AFFORD, urged her case In
vigorous language. He could not see
w AdC oOJCSI1Ou tuC1C WAS W luC CIOSS,
which was the emblem of the common
faith. Evidence was then given as to
the strong feeling which existed among
the Protestants Of the parish against
the cross. The judgment Of the court
was that it declined to interfere with
the refusal of the defendants to per-
nit the erection of the monument, al
though the bishop said that there could
be no more appropriate emblem put
over the grave of Christian man or
woman than the cross. What a pre-
cious Judgment! It should be treas
ured up by opponents of the cross ev-
erywhere. Strong feeling against the
'emblem of the common faith" is all
that is necessary in order to have it
banished or thrown on the roadside
Gantly Meagher in Philadelphia North
American.