The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-11
BANQUET GIVEN
BY ARCHBISHOP
Taft Party Finds Life One Continual
Round of Pleasure.
TOASTS AND RESPONSES
ROOSEVELT'S ATTITUDE TO-
WARD ROMAN CHURCH.

Manila, Aug. 10.-A dinner was given
tonight by Archbishop Harry to the
gentlemen members of the Taft party
Toasts were responded to as follows:
welcome by Archbishop HsFty;
Pope Plus X" by Apostolic Delegate
Agius. The President" by Secretary
Taft and The Philippines" by Repre-
sentative Cochran.
Secretary Taft in his address said:
at is a great pleasure to respond to
the toast his grace. the archbishop, has
done me the honor to propose. The
changes effected by the Spanish war,
bringing the United States for a time
into Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philip
pines, brought about a more necessary
association between the government of
the United states and the church of
Rome than had ever heretofore eX-
listed. II was not that the constitution
of the United states was changed
thereby; IL was not that under the
constitution any particular religion or
church was 20 be recognized, but il was
that in taking over from Spain the
responsibility of government i'm these
new dependencies what was almost a
single tie under the Spanish regime,
the government and the church had to
be separated into two.
Precedent Established.
Under the just auspices of the
United States government and in bring
ing about that change it became neces-
sary that an association should be
established which under the circum-
stances prevailing in the United States
proper had never before been neces-
sary. It required a visit by an agent
of the United States to Rome itself that
there might be a conference between
those who could speak authoritatively
for the Roman church and one ep-
pointed to represent for a time the gov
eminent OF the United States to aid in
solving the intricate problems that
were presented by the transfer OF
sovereignty from a government in
which the church and government were
common, into one in which the church
and the government were entirely
separated.
This produced an association for
some OF us that I may say has been
exceedingly, pleasant. I have almost an
episcopal feeling, so agreeable has the
association been made while trying to
solve the difficulties presented by the
situation.
Cheers For Roosevelt.
Now the toast to which 1 am to
respond is a toast TO the president OF
the United States. That office is now
occupied by Theodore Roosevelt
Ccheers). Theodore Roosevelt is not
member of the Roman Catholic church.
He is a member of the Dutch Reformed
church and is a Protestant but his
principal rule I'm the administration OF
his great office, so far as IL affects
churches, has been announced by him
self in this wise, and I do not think at
this hour that l can do better. to
Illustrate his character than to say
what he has said:
That he wishes, as the president of
the United States, TO act toward the
Roman Catholic church as he would
have a president, IL a Catholic. act to-
ward the Protestant church"
Representative Cochran, in his
response, pointed out TO the Filipinos
that by honest, hard labor, they would
uplift themselves. From the soil must
come their greatness and fitness and he
assured them that they would be pro-
tected IL il took the last dollar in the
treasury and the last soul in the army.
Rear Admiral Train entertained
Secretary Taft and Miss Alice Roose-
welt this afternoon at a luncheon perty.
This evening they were given = recep-
ton by the English club.