The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1909-10-09

~ az was not q NdtNOllC priest.
He was obliged to relate what he was
told and he did 80 to escape punish
inent at the hands OF the court. A
Catholic priest would never be asked
by an English Judge to reveal anything
confded tc him sacramentally.
eoYcorTlNG HEARsT's PAPERS
In consequence Of offensive articl..A
and cartoons which have appeared IA
the Evening Journal Of New York AMI
the Examiner OF San Francisco, the
Catholics Of those cities are beginning
10 get aroused at the gratuitous in
suits offered to their religion. On the
Pacific coast, where Irish Catholics are
numerous. they have resolved to with
draw their patronage from William
Randolph Hearst's yellow sheet AMI
teach him lesson which he shall
never forget. In New York the Cath
olics are too timid and good-natured
to bear insults which they ought to
resent. In the West the Catholics are
not such good Christians as to turn
the other cheek when smited by big
OTIS. They are more likely to roll up
their sleeves and punish their insult
ers.
That was the case in Minneapolis
fifty years ago, when the Knownoth-
ings outraged the feelings of Irish
Catholics by hanging ST. Patrick in
ef1gy to lamppost on his sacred an
niversary. 1t was the case twenty.
five years ago when local paper was
boycotted throughout the entire North
west for one year for its continuous
attacks on the Irish race The argu-
mentum ad crumenam, or the appeal
TO the purse, produced an excellent
effect, and from chat day to this no
race or nationality has been singled
out for attack sbyi any newspaper in
the Flour City. Why not try the same
argument with Kearst's papers In New
York and San Francisco?
We are glad to see in the Leader
that Archbishop Riordan has taken
cognizance of Hearst's Examiner. TIL. I
paper has been grossly insulting the
Catholics Of the Pacific coast with
apparent impunitt.' Father Yorke,
the terror Of bigots, has frequently
hit 1t back with sledgehammer blows,
but notwithstanding his opposition,
many Catholics still continue to pat
ronize it, especially the professions
and business men who are afraid of
antagonizing it for selfish reasons. The
only way to bring such cowardly
Catholics to a sense of their duty ID
to deal with others and withhold So
cial and business relations from them,
That is what the Irish of Minneapolis
did in. 1884 and it worked like I,
charm.
Boycotting Is not so sinful as many
people suppose. Mgr. Persico found
that out in Ireland on a memorable
occasion when he was the guest Of
Bishop O'Dwyer Of Limerick The
Archbishop of San Francisco under
stands Catholic theology pretty well,
and this is what his grace says:
to go into any Catholic home. 1 am
surprised that any Catholic could IL,
found subscribing to that sheet. The
Catholic people Of this city should
unite in movement having for rs
object the stopping Of the Examiner
In all Catholic families. Not alone
should they stop subscribing for it,
but they should not purchase 1t on tn.
streets or at the news-stands. catho-
lies have it in their power to drive a
filthy paper like the Examiner out Of
business"
How is it with Hearst's New York
Journal? That vile sheet has been
more offensive in its editorials and
Illustrations than the San Francisco
Examiner. but no prelate Of the church
in the East has seen At to condemn
1t In the interest Of religion and NOR
atty. Rev. John Talbot Smith wrote
n scathing criticism of the Journal
for the Catholic News, but the latter
has a libel suit on its hands for
publishing 1t. Father Smith stated
that certain cartoon in the Journal
caricatured the Pope. Thomas r.
Powers. the artist, says that the hs.