The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-11-15
SOUTH AMERICA.

SOUTH AMERICA.
We have been led to believe that our
neighbors to the south have been any.
thing but desirable citizens.
The Monroe Doctrine has been pro-
mulgated by Uncle Sam and defended
from entertainments. During this
semi protectorate we have done little
or nothing to promote friendly or COM
mercial relations while we have per-
mitted every shyster politician and lee
turer to malign the South American
people.
Those who listened to John Barrett
last Sunday evening at the Pro.
Cathedral learned from man who can
speak with authority upon South Am
erica that the country is far from what
it is pictured to be. We have neglected
to cultivate South America much to
our shame and have listened to lee
grace.
The people OF Latin America are
Catholics. our treatment of them has
led to the belief among them that the
United States is Protestant as it is too
often advertised to be. Ministers who
are not successful in making converts
among them came back filled with de-
nunciation and the truth was not in
them
The matinee minister who returned
Wednesday evening and in an in
terview stated that South America
was synonymous with Shermans def
milton OF war. Moral conditions wero
described as being shocking. he
learned something about some girls
who We're lured to South America. The
Rev. Go Lightly missed the sensa-
tional meeting of this life in missing
the purity congress and learning about
American conditions. What would
citizens Of Rio de Janeiro think of the
reports of conditions published dur
ing the congress?
If this Reverend o-Lightly. this
matinee minister" is to be believed,
South America is Sodom and Gomor-
rah affair, nothing good can be said
about it. EX-President Roosevelt had
the extreme pleasure CD of meeting
the Mlnneapolitan in Rio de Janeiro.
The Ex-President has this to say
about Latin America in an address In
Rio de Janeiro:
II believe that in the era which is
| now opening the republics of Latin
America will be able to teach much to
Latin American people possess many
qualities which it would be we'll for
( us in the North to develop. Their un-
questioned superiority in intellectual
| brilliancy and logic will enable them,
when once they have secured Internal
peace and governmental stability, 20
| achieve better solution of some Of
the most vital problems OF popular
government than any that has yet been
reached in any part of the world.'I,
/ How refreshing the contrast to the
{ usual bigoted reports about the peo-
pie Of South America. The repor:
made by Dr. Rosalie Morton of the
Polytechnic Hospital staff of New York
confirms Roosevelts tribute to South
America in the following:
| II was very pleasantly surprised to
find such excellent work being done in
the hospitals of the countries l visited,
Most of us have an idea that il we
were In South America and needed an
operation we would have to come to
this country, but this Is not so.
| was particularly anxious to see what
philanthropic work was being done Tor
the blind, deaf and dumb and orphans.
Naturally could not visit every city,
but in Buenos Aires found some very
excellent treatment Of the blind, and
in Lima splendid work is being done
for children. There they have nurser-
les such as exist here, where mothers
1 who work during the day may leave
their babies. knowing that they will
receive proper care"
i The southern Cross" a Catholic
paper Of Buenos Aires offers Colonel
Roosevelt "the welcome that is always
extended to distinguished visitor