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failure of England to hold America by
menace of France, placed Ireland in
peril. Few troops remained there, and
all her coast was open to a French
attack. Then it was that Ireland her
self supplied forty thousand volun-
teers, who organized themselves in her
defence. The majority were Protes-
tants, and for once Protestant and
Catholic stood together on patriotic
grounds. First they defended their
country, and then they demanded the
restoration of her ancient liberties. 1t
is most important to remember that
the PrOtestants, with Grattan as lead
er, were every whit as resolute as the
Catholics in fighting for Parliamen-
tary freedom. England was not in a
position to refuse. She was distracted
and almost desperate. What she gave
back to Ireland she gave rather out of
necessity than from any sense of JUS
tice. In 1888 it was declared by Act
''that the right of Ireland to be gov
erned solely by the King and the Par
lament of Ireland is now established
and ascertained, and shall never again
be questioned or questionable"
The Shadow of a Parliament.
According to our modern ideals it
was but the shadow of Parliament.
1t was representative of the landlord
class, but so in the main was the un-
reformed Parliament of England. No
Catholic might sit in it, but the Eng
lish Parliament was similarly impov-
erished by disabilities. The one sig
nificant fact was that it met in Ire
land, and that men sat in it who knew
the land for which they legislated.
Unrepresentative as it was, it fought
brave battle for civil, religious, and
commercial freedom; and there is no
doubt that it's enterprise in promoting
the trade of Ireland, which had been
so largely destroyed, was a principal
factor in provoking the conspiracy
which resulted finally in the Act Of
Union, and the destruction of Par
lament which for centuries had held
it's place in Irish life as the best be-
loved of the national institutions Of
the country. How the Irish landlords
| who had seats in that Parliament
we're bought, one by one, with titles
and English gold, until at last they
consented to sell their countrys birth
right, is written by the pens of all
our historians. The story is of series
of transactions so sordfd and so
shameful that the pages on which it
viler, if possible, than those which
record the tragedy of the Settlements
or the infamy of the Penal Code
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K. OF c. FESTIVAL
ST. PAUL COUNCIL WILL HOLD A
GRAND BAZAAR DURING THE
WEEK OF MAY Han AUTOMO-
BILE AND OTHER VALUABLE
PRIZES WILL BE DISPOSED OF.

The members of st. Paul Council,
Knights of Columbus, are busily en-
gagged in completing the final arrange
ments for the grand bazaar or festival
which is to take place during the
week of May II. Part of the proceeds
will be used to defray the expense in
cident to the entertainment of the
delegates to the National Convention
of the Knights of Columbus which will
open in ST. Paul on August 4, and the
remainder will be applied to reduce
the Indebtedness on their magnificent
home on Smith Avenue.
A number of committees have been
formed to take charge of the various
departments of the festival, and the
cooperation of the wives and daugh-
ters of the Knights have been secured
to make the affair a success. The
booths and other features of the festi-
val will be located in the large gym
nasium in the K. of G. building which
has just been made ready for that
purpose by the addition of new floor
and other furnishings. The festival
will open on the evening of Monday,
May II, and will continue each even
ing during the week. 1t will close on
Saturday evening, May 16, when the
prizes will be awarded to the success.
full competitors.
The most valuable prize to be com.
peted for during the festival is five.
passenger Kissel Kar, 1914 model, with
all the latest Improvements and equip
ment, and costing $3.50. This car
is on exhibition in the K. of G. build
ing. In addition to this, other valu
able prizes will be disposed of during
the festival.
This is the first time the st. Paul
Council has undertaken to hold q
grand bazaar and the promoters Of
the project are already convinced that
it will attract large crowds and be an
artistic and financial success.
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COMMERCIAL ALUMNI BANQUET
GRADUATES OF ST. THOMAS COL
LEGE COMMERCIAL DEPART
MENT WILL ATTEND A BAN
oUETIN K,!oF C. HALL ON MAY
2a-TWELVE HUNDRED NAMES
ON ROLL SINCE 1891.

The Commercial Alumni of the Col
lege of st. Thomas will hold their
second banquet in the K. of G. Hall,
Smith Avenue and Fifth Street, st.
Paul, Saturday evening, May %.
According to present indications
this will be the largest reunion of the
Commercial Alumni since the found
ing of the organization about year
ago. Since the Commercial Depart
ment was organized at the College of
st. Thomas in 1891, it has on it's roster
twelve hundred graduates prominent
in commercial life in all parts of the
United States and particularly
throughout the Northwest. More than
one thousand of these have been COM
municated with and it is expected
that at least six hundred will be pres
ent at the banquet The responses
from those who have already accepted
the invitation indicate unusual inter-
est in the forthcoming reunion. There
are over four hundred alumni in the
Twin Cities alone. The Rev. Michael
A. Ryan, Director of the Commercial
Department of the College of ST..
Thomas, is Secretary of the Alumni
Committee which is in charge of the
arrangements for the banquet.
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HONORED IN ENGLAND
FRANCISCAN MADE FELLOW OF
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Rev. Paschal Robinson, o. F. M, a
former professor of st. Bonaventure's
Monastery at Paterson, N. J., has been
honored by election as fellow of the
Royal Historical Society of England.
Father Paschal is now a member of
the faculty of the Catholic University
at Washington.
Father Paschal inherits much of
his literary ability from his father,
who was distinguished journalist,
and he himself did considerable news
paper and magazine writing before
entering the order. He was born in
Dublin, Ireland, in 1870, and perfected
his college education with view of
entering the law. In 1895, he was
possessed of the desire to enter the
Franciscan Order and finished his
theological studies in st. Anthony's
International College, Rome, being
ordained December 81, 1901, five
years after entering the order. In
1902 he received the degree of Doctor
of Sacred Theology.
Al 1OUG uC WdS u IAduS1CEICu " 0L.
Bonaventure's College in Florence,
Italy, as associate editor of the
"Archivas Franciscanum Historicum /"
Later he went to Oxford and there be-
came familiar with the life, literature,
manners and institutions of the Mid
die Ages
BY special permission of the Holy
See, Father Paschal spent a consider
able time with the contemplative
monks in Italy, devoting his research
to the rare manuscripts and books
hitherto inaccessible to students. In
1909 he made an extensive journey to
the East and while at Jerusalem in
stituted research into the historical
origin of the Way of the Cross. For
several years he has been compiling a
new biography of the life of st.
Francis.
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GAELIC IN UNIVERSITY
DR.. O'BYRNE WILL GIVE COURSE
IN MODERN IRISH IN CO.
LUMBIA.

Gaelic leaguers and lovers of the
Irish language in general will be
pleased to know that course in mod
ern Irish is to be introduced in Co.
lumbia University, New York, the
coming year. The lecturer in this
course will be no other than the loyal
supporter and scholar of the Gaelic
tongue, NJ. A. O'Byrne, Phi. B. There
are only two universities in America
which at the present time teach mod
ern Irish, Notre Dame University, In
diana, and the Catholic University,
Washington, D. c. The opening of
the course at Columbia University is
an indication of progress for the
Gaelic tongue and we sincerely hope
that the lecturer and the course will
attract enough pupils from the Irish
of New York City to make it well
worth while. Mr.. O'Byrne is a man
of wide education and we'll qualified
to teach the Irish language.
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NEW SISTERS HOSPITAL
CORNERSTONE OF NEW INSTITU-
TON AT TACOMA LAID BY
BISHOP o'DEA OF SEATTLE.

On Sunday afternoon, April 10, the
cornerstone of St. Joseph's Hospital,
Tacoma, Wash, was laid by the Right
Rev. Edward J. O'Dea, Bishop of Seat
tie. Many of the clergy of the dio-
cese were present at the ceremony.
The different Catholic societies Of Ia
coma, such as the Knights of Colum-
bus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
and the Foresters attended in large
numbers, as we'll as all the prominent
physicians and other citizens of the
city.
The occasion was also honored by
the presence of Mother Mary Aloysia,
perior-General of the Sisters Of st.
Francis, who came from Glen Riddle,
Penn, to witness the auspicious event.
st. Joseph's Hospital will be mag
nificent structure of reinforced con-
crete, artistically faced on the outside
with brick, stone, and terracotta.
Phillip A. Baillargeon, who planned
the great Providence Hospital of Seat
tie, is the architect and builder Of the
new Tacoma structure.
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NINE NUNS IN FAMILY
CONVENT IN MADRAS, INDIA, HAS
NINE IRISH NUNS BELONG
ING TO THE SAME FAMILY.

An English Catholic paper reporting
lecture on the foreign missions Civ
en- recently in London by Father
Farmer, rector of st. Peters College,
Freshfeld, says that the lecturer told
of convent in Madras, India, in which
the reverend mother has eight
of her own sisters as nuns un-
der her charge. These nine
nuns, sisters in blood as in re-
ligion, are members of family named
Murphy, belonging to Newmarket,
County Clare, Ireland. This is per-
haps the most remarkable case on
record. There is another Irish fam
fly name Rogan which has supplied
five priests to the st. Joseph's For
eign Missionary Order, and has also
given daughter to religious order
In Dublin. The Irish are certainly
missionary race.
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There are 16,067, 1886 Catholics in the
United States, according to the ad
vance sheets of the 1914 edition of
The Official Catholic Directory" pub
lished and copyrighted by P J. Kene-
dy & Sons of Barclay Street, New
York
The 1914 edition will be ready in
few days. The publishers assert that
the late appearance of the volume was
caused by the unusual delay in the re-
ports of twenty-four archdiocese and
dioceses. The publishers also say that
this delay will not occur again, as a
new policy will be adopted as to the
closing of the forms Hereafter a GER
tain closing date will be announced,
and after that date no reports will be
accepted. Statistics of the preceding
year will be reprinted in cases where
the reports are not on hand.
Nearly a Million Increase.
The most important feature of the
1914 volume is the new population fig
ure, showing as it does an increase
of 913,827 Catholics for the year 1913.
This increase, which amounts to
nearly a million souls, is, according to
the Directory editor, no exaggeration,
and is accounted for principally by the
complete reports of the Ruthenian-
Greek Bishop. For the first time all
of the Ruthenian Catholics are includ-
ed in the census.
This remarkable increase of 913, 1927
souls is shown despite the fact that
thirty-one dioceses made no changes
in the population figures, and despite
the fact that eight dioceses show a
decrease in the number of Catholics
over the 1912 reports.
According to Joseph H. Meier, the
editor of the Kennedy Directory, who
has been studying the population fig
ures for ten years, the total-16,0 ,067,-
985-is a very low and a very conser-
vative figure. according to Mr.. Meier
at least 10 per cent should be added
for floating population
Priests and Churches.
THE Official Catholic Directory fo1
1914 is replete with interesting figures
According to it's summary there are
1868 Catholic priests in the United
States, an increase of 623 for the year
Among these 1858 clergymen there
are 1864 priests of religious orders.
The new Directory further shows
that 339 churches were established in
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-25
CATHOLIC STATISTICS

1913, the total number of Catholic
Churches in this country being 1861.
Of these 9,74O have resident pastors,
and 4,911 are churches, attended from
neighboring parishes.
The Directory gives list of 80 SEM
inaries; 1862 seminarians; 230 col
leges for boys; $50 academies for girls
and 5,4O3 parochial schools. In these
5,403 parochial schools 1,429,859 chill
dren are receiving an education which
will fit them for the world and give
them the religious instruction which
is so necessary under present-day con-
ditions.
1t must not be overlooked that in
addition to these 1,429,859 parochial
school children there are also young
men in colleges, academies and uni
versities, young ladies in boarding
schools and academies, girls and boys
in orphan asylums. Adding all these
it will be found that 1,669,391 young
people are receiving Catholic instruc-
ton from competent teachers.
The 1914 edition of this Directory
also shows that there are 24,224,609
Catholics under the protection of the
Stars and Stripes. This figure is de.
rived by adding the Catholics in Alas
ka, the Canal Zone, Guam, the Ha-
waiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the
Philippines to the total number OF
Catholics in the United States proper
Most Catholic States.
AS the population figures are the
most interesting the Directory editor
has prepared for the Catholic press a
list of the twenty-five states having
the largest number of Catholics. The
banner states are as follows:
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-25
CATHOLICISM NO MENACE

would by no means mean church
domination.
No Fear of Domination.
But there is little fear that Cath
olicism will at any time outnumber
the remainder of the population. It,
indeed, increases rapidly in this coun-
try by immigration, but the church
does not report the many who have
lost all interest in their inherited
faith. nor those who have fallen away
entirely or joined other churches.
But, whatever may be the future
of Catholicism in our land, no matter
if it increase tenfold, it behooves the
rational man to meet the issue in a
rational, calm and Christian way.
Certainly, there is no more foolish
way than to fight the progress of the
church by lying and vituperation.
NO greater helper to the Catholic
Church in the long run is there than
the orator who INDUCES in gross mis-
representation. He may tickle the
ears of certain foolish people, but he
will disgust the thinking men and
women and he will, by his action, only
arouse sympathy for the church and
excite loyalty in the hearts of the luke
warm Catholic.
mo greater Stiffness is there than
to rant about an institution like the
confessional, which fails to appeal to
hut xryhio hoc -e
comfort to millions, and that in spite
of the fact that it has occasionally
been misused.
I'VE must judge institutions not by
the abuse or misuse, but by their
normal usefulness. Certainly as long
as Catholics are willing to give in
the keeping of their priests the Sc
crets of their souls, it is no concern
of ours. And so, too, it is foolish to
attack Catholic asceticism.
Men and women have a perfect
right to withdraw from the world if
so they wish. True enough it is that
many a young woman may, by doing
so, destroy her life's happiness, but
after all many a young woman falls
into greater misery by getting mar
ried. And, as for men, the fellow
who wants to withdraw from the
temptations of life, is perhaps best
taken care of in monastery. 1t
might be good thing if we Protest
ants had some kindly institutions for
| the worldly unfit.
Spirit of Hatred Real Menace.
'The great menace of the country
is not the Catholic Church, nor the
Menace for its days are counted,
but the spirit of ignorance, fear and
Continued on Pages
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RUTHENIAN PRIEST DEAF
FATHER BARTISH OF MINNEAPO-
LIS SUCCUMBS AFTER BRIEF
ILLNESS-PASTo OF ST. CON-
STANTINE'S CHI U r C H-OR-
DAlNED IN LEMBURG-INTER-
MENT AT ST. MARY'S GENE
Terry.

The Reverend Emile J. Bartish,
pastor of the Greek-Ruthenian Cath
olic Church of ST. Constantine, Min
neapolis, died on April Is, after brief
illness. The remains lay in state in
the pastoral residence until the even
ing of April 20 when they were re-
moved to the Church of st. Constan-
tine, where a Solemn Mass of Requiem
was celebrated the following morning
at ten o'clock. The celebrant of the
Mass was a Ruthenian priest from
Chicago, who was assisted by the Rev.
erend Eugene Bartish of Detroit,
Mich, brother of the deceased, and
the Reverend Jazon Kovacs, pastor of
ST. John Baptist Ruthenian Church
of Minneapolis. The sermon was
preached by the celebrant of the Mass
after which the remains were inferred
in st. Mary's cemetery. The funeral
service was attended by several
priests from the neighboring parishes,
and the church was crowded with the
Ruthenian Catholics of that city.
Father Bartish was native of Cali
cia, where he was born twenty-nine
years ago. He made his theological
studies in the seminary at Lemburg
in Austria where he was ordained to
the priesthood about seven years ago.
He came to America and, under the
jurisdiction of Bishop Ortynsky of
Philadelphia, labored among his coun-
trymen in many parts of the East. He
was pastor of the Ruthenian Church
at Watervliet, N. Y, before coming to
Minneapolis and assuming charge of
ST. Constantine's Church three months
ago.
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MINISTER OF DU-
LUTH FLAYS SPIRIT OF HATRED
OF CATHOLIC FAITH-No FEAR
THAT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
WILL DOMINATE AMERICA.

Catholicism, it's effect on the lives
of its adherents and some of the er-
roneous beliefs that have grown cur
rent in regard to it, were discussed
last Sunday by the Rev. George R.
Gebauer, pastor of the First Unitarian
Church, Duluth, Mimi, who talked on
THE Roman Catholic Church-Is 1t a
Menace?'
He said, in part:
Without doubt, an all-dominant
Roman Catholic Church might be
menace, as also might be a menace
Calvinistic church with a Billy Sun
day at the head of it. For myself l
should prefer Catholic rule and l
should rather have lived in the Rome
of Clement VII than in the Geneva of
Calvin
But, after all, the Catholic Church
is not the Catholic people and even
an absolute and infallible church is
Influenced in its decisions by the tenn
per and spirits of it's constituency.
Even if Rome desired the domination
of our social and political affairs,
something quite absurd, it is quite GER
tain that such an attempt would be
resisted within the church ITSELF
I'VE Protestants are apt to have a
rather exaggerated notion of the
power of the priesthood outside the
walls of the church l believe that no
intelligent Catholic would permit any
priestly dictation in matters of strictly
secular life. Yes, and in the Roman
Catholic Church in America itself
would arise Bishops in protest in case
His Holiness in Rome were to meddle
with American political life.
Indeed, it is preposterous to fear
the domination of the Catholic Church
in our land imbued with ideals of
freedom, when the same church finds
itself hard pressed and shorn of its
power in strictly Catholic lands. I
am, of course, thinking here of Italy
and France and the republics of South
America. Even Spain today is trying
to take the power out of the hands
of Rome.
There is, therefore, no good reason
to believe that Rome will gradually
become the capital de facto of the
United States, as some fearful souls
seem to believe Even if in time to
come Catholics were to outnumber the
remainder of the population, this
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-25
CHINESE CONVERTS
THREE RECEIVED INTO THE
CHURCH IN 5osToN-1oo CATH
oLIc cHINAMEN IN THAT CITY.

At the close the session of the Sun
day school for the Catholic Chinese
of Greater Boston held in st. James
School, South End, on Easter Sunday,
three men were baptized and received
into the Church. The ceremony took
place in st. james Rectory and was
conducted by Rev. Philip J. O'Donnell,
pastor of st. James Church. Rev.
James J. Redican of the Cathedral
who has charge of the Sunday school,
was present.
The Catholic Chinese community in
Boston now numbers nearly one hun
dred persons.
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ANGLICAN VICAR CONVERTED
GRADUATE OF TRINITY COLLEGE
RECEIVED INTO THE CHURCH..

The Rev. J. K. Mcdowell, B. A., un-
til recently Vicar of Darlington, Eng
land, has just been received into the
Catholic Church at the Church of Our
Lady and the English Martyrs, Cam
bridge, by the Very Rev. Monsignor
Barnes. Mr.. Mcdowell was educated
at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at
Ely Theological College. He was or
dained in 1894 by the Protestant Bish-
op of Liverpool
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-04-25
CHAPLAIN FOR PRESIDE
ARCHBISHOP RIoRDAN REQUESTS
WAR DEPARTMENT TO AP-
POINT ONE.

The Most Reverend Archbishop
Riordan of San Francisco has request
ed the War Department to have a
Catholic chaplain assigned to the
Presidio at San Francisco, California.
There are about five hundred Cath
olic soldiers at that post, and, while
their spiritual needs are administered
to by priests of that diocese, the neces-
sity of resident chaplain is very
evident.
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FUND FOR IRISH CHURCH
DR.. CAMPBELL OF DUBLIN
LEAVES $4,000 FOR MULLIN-
GAR CHURCH.

At Mullingar, in the Diocese of
Meath, Ireland, new church is to be
erected through the generosity of the
late Professor Campbell, M. D., of
Dublin, who left $4,000 for this pur-
pose. The rest of Professor Camp
bells fortune, amounting to about
$4,000, was left to be distributed
among various Irish charities.
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N EN- 0RIAL TO
CARDINAL RAM P0LLA
MARBLE TABLET RECORDS HIS
GIFTS TO ST. PETERS.

The members of the Chapter of st.
Peters have placed in the corridor
leading to the sacristy a marble tab
let commemorative of the late Card
inal Rampolla, recording his many
munificent gifts to the basilica while
he was it's Archpriest.
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The 1914 volume is the most COM
plete Church Directory published in
the world, comprising as it does 1881
text pages. In addition to this there
are the usual number of advertising
pages.
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GOD IS
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
James c. Nolan.)

written for The Catholic Bulletin by
James c. Nolan.)
God is: or the grass would not grow,
The stars would not shine in the sky;
God is: or the streams would not flow;
The wells and the springs would go
dry.
God is: and He careth for you;
Remember the sparrow-its fall;
God is: and His love doth pursue;
That great love that yearns for us all.
God is-as He is-Three in One
God is: and He ever will be,
The Father, the Spirit, the Son;
Not God, but God, one in Three.
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I6,o67, 1886 CATHOLICS In THE
UNITED STATES-INCREA OF
NEARLY A MILLION LAST YEAR
papa, ,6oe UNDER THE STARS
AND STRIPEs-oFFIcIAL cATHo-
Lie DIRECTORY GIVES INTER
ESTING DATA ABOUT GROWTH
OF THE CHURCH IN AMERICA.
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A PROTESTANT MINISTER GIVES
THE HISTORY OF IRELAND'S
STRUGGLE FOR HOME RULE
WHICH HE SAYS DOES NOT
MEAN ROME RULE-ENGLISH
NoN-C oNFO MISTS SYMPA-
THIZE WITH THE MOVEMENT.