The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-01-28

in st. Paul to protest against the in
vasion of the City of Rome by the
Piedmontese army, and the consequent
loss to the Holy Father of his tenn
poral independence. We take much
pleasure in giving to this narrative a
place in the columns of "The Catholic
Bulletin 1t is voice from the past,
quite honorable to the st. Paul Cath
olics of forty years ago, most of whom,
we regret, are no longer among us.
YESTERDAYS CATHOLIC
EMONsTRATIoN"
Yesterday was great day in st.
Paul 1t was the day set apart for a
grand demonstration in favor of his
holiness, Pope Plus the Ninth, the
great head of the Catholic church
throughout the Christian world, the
object of the demonstration being to
protest against the interference with
the pope's temporal power by Victor
Emmanuel. The morning opened dark
and gloomy, with northeastern snow
storm prevailing, and the general opin-
ion among non-Catholics was that the
demonstration would be failure. But
those people knew very little of the
deep religious feeling pervading the
Catholic breast. Notwithstanding the
driving snowstorm, which increased
every minute, the members of the
various religious and temperance So
cieties turned out with full ranks, and
marched to the levee to meet the
trains on the various roads which
brought great hosts of Catholics from
all parts of the state, the train on the
Sioux road having thirteen cars, all
filed. When the grand procession was
at last formed it was found to number
more than 1000 men, being by far the
largest which ever took place in Min
nesota The Sodality, Great Western,
st. Cloud and other brass bands fur
| nished the music.
"Owing to the depth of the snow and
the continuous and at times almost
binding vigor of the storm, the march
was necessarily slow, tedious and ex-
hausting, but nothing daunted the de-
voted spirit of those who had turned
out to exhibit their fealty tosthe faith
and their firm sympathy with the OBJ
ject of the manifestation. Perhaps no
other religious denomination in our
state could furnish such demonstra-
ton as those Catholics showed to a
wondering community. It was COM
posed of men of various nationalities,
men who do not always pull together
on political matters, but when any
thing transpires touching their relig-
ious opinions or the supremacy of the
great spiritual head of their church,
they are prepared to stand shoulder to
shoulder in defense of those opinions.
'The procession marched up Jackson
street to Seventh, up Seventh to the
Eight corners, with drums beating and
colors flying, and thence down Third
to Wabashaw, and up Wabashaw to the
Cathedral, from which hundreds were
turned away, not being able to get
even standing room. Alderman Thorn
as Grace was chief marshal, with
Messrs. A. Durfresne and N. Wagner
assistant marshals.
cat the Cathedral an organization
was effected and the following Off
GERS chosen: President, Colonel John
| S. Prince; vice presidents, Major W.
H. Forbes, c.. NJ. Boyle, Charles H.
| Williams, G. F. Larned, John Grace,
P. R. L. Hardenbergh, T. Reardon, F.
| w. Sheehy, Major r. C. Walker, Mark
| Costello, NJ J. O'Connor, ]. G.. DON
nelly, P. H. Heffernan, William Mar
koe, A. l.. Larpenteur, George Mitsch,
| M. Koch, George Reis, F. J. Metzger,
| H. Timme, B. Beaupre, P. F. McQui1-
Ian and S. Richette.
William Markoe, chairman of the
committee on resolutions read the re-
port which styled, the ruler of Italy,
| "Victor Emmanuel, king of SARDINIA,
unjust1y styled king of Italy, who pro-
fesses to be a Catholic and at the
same time, not content with his for
mer robberies of the states of the
church, has, with an invading army of
$4,000 men, violently seized the city of
Rome and the small remnant of ter
ritory left to the holy father, Plus TX,
holding the latter a prisoner within
the Vatican. We denounce with feel
ings of unexpressible adherence the
monster who in his treatment of Plus
TX. has combined in his own person at
once the hypocrisy Of Judas, the cow
ardice and blood guiltness of PLATE
and the brutality of the executioners
of the Son of God; and we pledge
ourselves to contribute, as opportunity
may offer, both men and money to de-
feat the vile plots of the sacreligious
robber, Victor Emmanuel
Rev. John Ireland, in a thrilling ad-
dress, likened this outpouring of de,
voted Catholics to the crusaders of the
Middle Ages, which indeed it was. In
his argument as to why the pope
should be an Independent power, Fa-
ther Ireland said: will you place
him under the sway of an earthly pow
er, be it that of monarch or of SOW
ereign people? The result-frame the
/ OrieS as YOU may-practically he will
not be free. 1t may be his duty to
denounce as wrong and immoral the
acts of that power; as in times gone
by he may have to hurl the thunder
bolts of accommodation in defense
of the people against a tyrant-in de-
Tense of the weakened poor against
adulterous monarchs and royal rob-
bers. Were they above him would
they not seek to stifie his voice? What
efforts have not princes and powers
made in the past to keep the voice
of the Vatican from resounding within