The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-22
Mayor Cleveland Address

Mayor Charles S. Cleveland paid
handsome tribute to the Catholic
religion, and its followers in Ply.
mouth, in the following words:
Reverend Prelates and Members OF
the Catholic Church:
1t has been made my pleasant
duty on behalf of the citizens of
Plymouth, to congratulate you upon
the dawning of that lOng-awaited and
auspicious time when you shall see
the fruition of your hopes in the
erection of Temple suitable for the
worship of Almighty God.
For more than generation You
have planned and labOred and ecOno-
mized for this great enterprise. Your
rich men have lavishly poured out
their wealth; your poor men have
frightened the belt of poverty that
they might share in the glory of the
work; your women have bent their
social influences toward this great
end; your young men and maidens
have remembered this work in all
their amusements and your children
have added their mites so that from
all, old and young, there comes-t"-
day united exultation that now a
new era opens for a greater field and
wider opportunity.
Nor can we forget the noble pion-
eers who by wise forecast and a
devoted sacrifice made possible this
glad OCCASION, but who have passed
away and like Moses, were not pre-
mittcd TO enter into the glorious ac-
eomplishment.
Mems conceptions of the truth are
as variant as the stars of heaven;
but all observing men unite i'll the
verdict that among the forces that
make for the preservation of liberty,
the perpetuity of good government
and the fair recognition of one an
others rights. the most benefcent
and kindly are the institutions of
religion. Your Church today stands
as bulwark for the defense of
vested rights and at the same time
OF the rights of the individual. 1t
shows a wise recognition of the re-
lations existing between the two.
Ii would conserve the one while it
would encourage the other. In the
tumult of conflicting opinions and
plans and theories of government
and society, that RACES like storm
to-day, the Catholic Church stands
for the security of life and property
and the just recognition OF the right
of all. I'm our own town, your IN
fiuence has ever been felt for good
order, industrious lives and secure
government. And SO, today, the en-
tire population of Plymouth joins
with you in the joy of the moment
as well as in the anticipation of the
completion of the noble and glorious
undertaking of building the house of
the Lord. You could not truthfully
call us all "good Catholics, either
in belief or practice, but we believe
that we have so much in common
with yen in all of moral uplift, the
extention of civilization and right
eous living, that we all may join as
one people in the honor and glory
of this glad occasion.
Upon lower plane of thought
and feeling, We may find another
source of qualification. SO generous
are your plans and so prudently
have you husbaned your resources,
that vixen the towers of this build
inc shall point heavenward in its
grand completion, if any one there
be who is at all insensible to the
benefits | have mentioned, his civic
pride at least will be stirred in the
contemplation of an edifice no whit
behind In architectural beauty, the
best and noblest in our city.
And now let me conclude my few
words OF congratulation and of fel-
lowship by expressing the earnest
wish of every citizen of Plymouth
Tor the happy completion of this
edifiee, unmarried by accident or any
uniowar,! event, and that il may
stand in its sublime beauty sti-
mutation TO good living and happy
lives until when generation after
generation IN the long lapse of time
shall have passed away, and this
day S events shall have become but
a tradition OF antiquity, untold
multitudes shall still find here their
spiritual home.
Atty. McInerney's Address.
Attorney W. A. McInemy, of
South Bend spoke on '.Catholic Cit
lzenshlp." tie began by congretulat-
ing the local congregation upon the
occasion of laying the cornerstone
to It's new church, and said that the