The Irish standard., 1908-06-13
on HIS WAY HOME
Cardinal Logue's Impressions
OF America.
Regrets His Inability to See the
Great West.

weeks stay in this country. During
hls visit he has seen the eastern por-
ton of the country pretty thoroughly.
and as he is a shrewd observer of
men and institutions. his impressions
are of more than passing interest. In
an interview before leaving he said
1T is almost with the wonderment
OF pleased child that have viewed
the blessings that have been showered
upon this favored land
Il came here just to attend the CEN
tenary of the diocese of New York.
just to come here and go back, and
now, observe. can't get away. l am
asked to go see this and that wonder
full thing, and the trouble with me is
l want to go and see them.
my only regret ie," continued the
Cardinal, that will be unable to see
the great West. Of which l have heard
and read so much. 1 would like to see
Chicago. st. Louis, San Francisco, the
Rocky Mountains, the Yosemite. yell
lowstone Park, all the wonders of this
great country, but I have overstayed
my time as it is, and my duties at
home call for me. 1t has been ar
ranged that I shall go from Philadel-
phia to Scranton and Wilkes Barre, I
believe, where I snail see some very
beautiful American mountain scenery
and with this and your beautiful Hud-
son river and magnificent port Of New
York must be content, and it is
plenty to content any one who loves
grand and impressive scenery.
Il have nothing to criticise in
America but this, that you of America
do not realize fully the. advantages you
enjoy. am told that there is much
protest here over this and that and the
other. Not that protests against what
is not right are not healthy and help
full; but while would not gainsay the
protest against what may be wrong
and harmful, still with the protest
there should be no pessimism.
1T Is an imperfect world. and the
wrongs Of centuries cannot be righted
in the reform of day, and, to my
r:ind, with the resolve for civic and
Industrial betterment there should be
an appreciation of the blessings that
have been given this new. strong,
wonderful country Of yours.
Think of a land that gives equal
opportunity to all! Where no caste or
class distinction. no religious intoler-
ance holds back or differentiates
against the man or woman who is in
dustrious, thrifty, God-fearing and re-
solved to rise.
''That is wonderful heritage for
those born here, q glorious opportun-
ity for the poor immigrant who makes
America his Land of Hope.
IF. as 1 say, have been happy here
on this visit. why should I not be?
come from land that is old and has
known many privations and SORROWS.
I see a land that is progressive, where
every man has an equal chance; a land
that grows greater and goes forward.
Some will say that there are not the
opportunities for the young man and
the newcomer there once were. But
this is a mistake. Some of the old op-
portunities may have passed, but as
they passed there have come oppor-
tunities that are new. To one old op-
portunity that has passed there have
in the growth of this great nation
been substituted ten new opportunities
that await upon the newer, greater
developments.
There is freedom here Of thought
and freedom of expression and free
dom of action. Last Tuesday I attend
ed the commencement exercises at the
beautiful College of st. Angela, in
New Rochelle, when Archbishop Far
ley conferred degrees upon nine fair
young women graduates.
"The thought occurred to me then
that country is truly great because
it encourages higher ideals when it
makes the intellectual advancement
of its women so important a part of its
national life.
THE Catholic Church has always
consistently advocated the higher edu-
cation of women. and it is this ad-
vocacy that finds its highest realiza-
ton in such institutions as the great
woman's college at New Rochelle.
"a land is what its women makes
it's men. The virtue and piety of the
Irish women have been proverbial. It
Is that virtue and piety impressed up
or Irish sons by Irish mothers that
has held this one small island in a
foremost place among those lands that
furnish men to do the worlds work
for the worlds hettorn,ant Ts IL ,,,o,,,