The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-06-01

based his charge on so-called en-
cyclical of Leo XIII. which he was
finally forced to admit was forgery.
The Archbishop's statement con-
tinues:
CDR. Speer's 'encyclical is an cpl
sode in the present controversy. Our
immediate concern is with Bishop
Bristol and DR.. Rice.
Zone need not read very long the
addresses of the two Methodist mis-
sionaries' before coming to under
stand the peculiar psychology from
Which those addresses are born. First,
there is here the intense pre-existing
hatred Of Catholicism, and because of
this the readiness to seize upon every
straw that seems to tell against the
detested foe and quickly develop into
a weighty sheaf Next there is the
absolute color-blindness, the deter
mination to see only what is black,
the inability to discern in men and
conditions color of whatever other
kind, however much this color be
bright and shining. And, then, owing
to overmastering anxiety to condemn
what is hated, there Is the utter alb
sence Of logic, Of power to connect
cause with effect, to free conclusions
from incidents and circumstances that
give to them no support whatever.
AssaiIs Their Reasoning.
- This Is the Bristol-Rice process of
reasoning; Catholicism predominates
In South America; therefore nothing
there is good; therefore what there is
bad is the direct result of Catholicism.
Thus conclusions are formed, conclu-
sions all the more readily formed,
that, it is foreseen they are such as
will win applause at Methodist quad
rennial conferences, and draw from
Methodist treasures the silver and
gold wherewith to replenish the local
commissary departments.
"Delinquencies there are in South
America-cases of neglect of religious
observances, of unbelief in all reli-
gion, of breaches of the moral law.
The order Of the day is: See those.
see nothing else; report those, report
nothing else. Let us imagine for a
moment similar methods applied by
missionaries from South America to
our own fair portion of the western
hemisphere; what awful tales those
missionaries could bear back to their
homes, with which there to regale
those men and women who stand by
breathless, hungering. and thirsting
for evil sayings from the cities and
fields Of Yankeedom! fT
"Delinduencies there are in South
America. The Methodist command is:
put all those to the count of Catho-
licist no matter how much Catho-
licism Condemns them. or labors to
eradicate them. Imagine South
Americas. enemy Of the several Pro-
testant bodies of North America,
Methodism included, using similar
logic in making up his reports of the
whitening influences Of Professionalism
under the starry banner; easily would
the reports equal the f1ery TRADES
poured out in Minneapolis against
Catholicism in South America.
Conditions That Battle Church.
''In parts Of South America there
are situations, political and racial,
tnat. have held in check the best eff
aurrs of the Catholic Church in the
work. of sancti1cation and civilization.
A large portion of the population Is
aboriginal: to have brought this por-
ton to its present level of morality
and religion was a huge task. The
Methodist command is: this sadder
portion of the population you must
particularly observe-forgetful of the
good done among them with eye
single to what has not yet been done
and report its condition as that of the
whole population. Pay no attention
to impedments put in the church's
way by political and civic strifes; for
the harm done, no matter how or by
whom, blame the church. calling 1t
the foe of all progress, the author and
ally of all decay.
What Catholics Might Do.
Catholic using similar tactics in
studying the Protestant religions Of
North America - seeing our Indian
tribes, our newly-liberated negroes,
passing by as unseen the best in our
population: what a terrifying tab
leau of uselessness and prevarication
on the part Of North American Pro-
testantism should his book be, par
ticularly SO. were the tablea, traced