The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1908-09-19
nesota. Mr.. onahan says of this as.

nesota. Mr.. Onahan says of this as.
sociation:
I'm the Board Of Directors were in
cluded His Eminence, Cardinal Glib
bons, the late Archbishop Williams Of
Boston and Archbishop Feehan Of Chi
cago. Bishop Ireland, and other we'll
known bishops and priests. Among
the laynen was General Lawler. John
Boyle O'Reilly, John Fitzgerald Of
Lincoln, Nebraska. It was organized
OH business basis as a stock COM
pany, with capital Of 100000. There
was no purpose of profit or specula-
ton in it beyond the assurance given
to the stockholders that the shares
would be ultimately redeemed and s
per cent annual interest returned to
the investors. Every dollar so in
vested was after some years paid
back. The interest was also paid an
nually. The colonies established, one
in Greeley county. Nebraska, the
other in Mobiles county. Minnesota,
were both successful. and people who
had the sagacity and good fortune to
avail Of the opportunity offered by the
colonization association are now pros
porous and in many instances opulent
farmers. Farms which they purchased
for five an acre are now worth fifty
or seventy five. The initiative in this
movement was first due to Bishop
Ireland, who had demonstrated its
practicability in Minnesota, where he
had dotted the state with Catholic
settlements formed under his lead and
guidance"
OF Bishop Spalding's work in refer
ence to the Catholic University, Mr..
onahan says:
The other great and important I'M
dertaking that Bishop spalding had
deeply at heart was higher education,
especially the higher education Of the
clergy, which lead him to plan the
much needed Catholic University. His
ripe scholarship, his interest in and
sympathy for the highest ideals and
all that makes for the elevation Of
mankind his knowledge Of and init
mate familiarity with conditions Of
the church and society. naturally
spurred him on to the university idea.
Eo first tn P,,J
sermon in Milwaukee and followed this
by, speeches, and writing on different
occasions, until he had aroused the
interest and stirred the sympathy of
ecclesiastics and laymen. BY the gen.
erous munificence Of great hearted
woman, Bishop Spalding was enabled
to see the foundations laid and ma
jestic university reared to fair proper
tions in the Capital Of the nation
Bishop Spalding created and not only
made possible the Catholic University
Of America, he made of a theoretical
idea, living and splendid fact 1t is
perhaps worth while to recall that,
when the university was first organ
lied, the board Of trustees unani-
r,ously offered to Bishop Spalding the
rectorship, but the bishops heart was
iii his diocese and he was deeply at
tached to Peoria and to his friends
there"
1t is worthy of note, in speaking of
this really great man, to recall how
persistently. notwithstanding his
many activities, he chung to the work
connected with the rather unimportant
diocese of Peoria. Time and again he
has been urged for promotion to more
important Sees but he preferred to
remain at Peoria. Certainly, from the
standpoint of the general public. no
churchman in America has better
qualifications for high and important
duties than Bishop Spalding. 1t has
often been matter Of wonderment to
the Catholic laity that Bishop Spalding
has not been elevated to a higher po-
sition in the church. The explanation
OF this is to be found in his own atti-
tude. He is greatly attached to lit
erary pursuits and to these he gave
the time which he would not have pos
sessed had he been made the head Of
an archdiocese. To non-C Catholics.
perhaps, no Catholic churchman in the
United States. with the single excep-
tions of Cardinal Gibbons and Arch
bishop Ireland is better or more wide
ly known.
MAINE AND ARKANSAS.