Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-10
PRESIDENT SCORES MR.. sToRER.
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was the proper position, with which
absolutely agreed
| 'Fnllowin@ this conversation. in nv
letter Ia Mrs. Storer of Nov -. 1900.
! quoted by Mr.. Storer in his pamphlet.
| stated with absolute clcarncsS my po-
| Sition and why il was out Of the qurS-
! ton for the President 10 try to get any
! archbishop made a cardinal and al the
, letters quoted by Mr.. Stoier as having
| been subsequently written by me 10
! him or TO his wife take precisely the
same position.
| II cxpl:: med repeatedly that my friend
! ship and admiration for Bishop Ireland
nv friendship and admiration for Bishop.
! Iawrenc" of the Episcopal church and
, Bishop Cranstcn of the Methodist church.
| IKE my Friendship ana admiration fO.'
many clergvmen Of many denominations
Baptists, Lutherans. Congre gationalists.
F., Prcsbyterans and othcrs-'aould make
| me- pleased to see any good fortune for
. him. or any churchmar like him, Of any
| crc ed brt that | could not interfere for
! his PROMOTION, or indeed in any way, ir
| the ecclesastic affairs of any church.
! previous conversations and assertions.
i that in any private conversation l took
! an opposite position from that which I
! repeatedly placed in writing is not only
an untruth but an absurd untruth; for I
would of course, rot say privately 20
anyone the opposite OF what ] was re-
peatcdly writing that Same person.
Mr.. Storer asserts that he and Mrs.
Storer and various other people after
conversations with me put down memo
randa as to what they remembered | had
, said. If such action was taken il was.
of course, simply dishonorabie. No one
of them ever showed me or would have
ventured to show me any such memoir
anda, and it is nonsense 10 expect to bind
me by memorandum the existence of
which was concealed from me. The Stor-
ers were my guests ut the time when. as
they assert they made these memoranda
of private conversations with me. As 4
matter of fact the statements they allege
me to have made were not made. save
insofar as what they alleGc me to have
said agreed with what. before and af
ter, wrote to them.
Mrs. Storer wrote with great free
dom and sometimes it was difficult to
quite know how to answer her. She
continually made attacks upon all
sorts of people. especially dignitarie:'
of her own character. At one time she
wrote me with great bitterness against
the Protestant missionaries who We're
being sent to the Philippines at the
same time requesting me to champion
Archbishop Ireland because nc had
been loyal to the United States during
the war with Spain. Which she assert
ell. was not true as to another Catho-
lie archbishop whom she named. While
| was always reluctant To write in Il
WY that would hurt the feelings of
either Of the StCrers. on this occasion
l thought it necessary to write Just
what my position was, and according
|! replied us follows:
"'My Dear Mrs. Storer: Your letter
of the 4th just came 10 hand: also that
Of the 9th. l am very. very fond of
you. and that is the reason Your letters
put me in q uIandary. You want me 10
do all kinds Of things that cannot pos
sibly do. and that l ought not Ia do:
and YOU say things which do not
want tn contradict and yet il makes
ne feel hypocritical if l seem to ac-
uuiesc in them. You must remember
, that are many ether people who feel
about their religion just as you feel
about yours They can no more under
stand your turning Catholic than you
can understand Catholics turning Prot
estant Some of the best people | have
ever met We're Professionals. who had
originally been Catholics l cannot stop
and I cannot urge the stopping of mis-
sionarics going anywhere they choose.
81 emphatically feel, as | have al
ways told you. that the chance for bet
tering the Catholic inhabitants of the
tropic islands lies by bringing them
up to the highest standard Of American
Catholicism. The worst thing that
could happen, both for them and the
Catholic church. would be for the Cath
Ole church to champion the iniquities
that have undoubtedly been committed.
not only by lay, but by clerical. should
be leaders in the Philippines and else
where. one incident which I actually
cannot put on paper, come to my per-
sonaI knowledge in connection with
high Catholic ecclestiastic in Cupa
which was of a character so revolving
and bestial that it made one feel that
the whole literary in the island needed
drastic changes.
mo, I very earnestly wish that ARCH
bishop Ireland and those who are rnos'
advanced among our Catholic priests ike
the Paulist fathers, for instance, should
he given a free hand in the Islands, anu
should be advanced in every way. but you
must remember how hampered / am III
writing from the fact that / do not ike
, to see anyone admit for moment the
right of a foreign potentate to interfere
in American public affairs. For Instance.
YOU speak of the Pope being angry with
Archbishop Ireland for not stopping the
war with Spain. No pretension Of this
kind should be admitted for one moment
If any man. clerical or lay, bishop, arch
bishop, priest or civilian, was in any way
guilty of reasonable practices with Spain
during cur war ne should be shot or
hung, and it is an outrage on justice that
he should be at large. But I cannot write
in way that will seem to defend Il man
for not averting war with Spain. for l
cannot recognize for 4 single moment thu
right of any European to so much as
think that there is need of defence or