The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-01-15

IL can't be possible that
the bankers and monopolistic powers
nave, or are trying to capture, the
Catholic Church in the interest of
the gold bugs. Yet, it has mighty
suspicious look about it. The past
week the plutocratic papers of the
country eulogized Archbishop Ire
land for his utterances on the gold
standard and against the silver ques-
ton. We have always thought Arch
bishop Ireland a broad and liberal
minded man, with his heart wrapped
up in the interest Of the great COM
mon people, but his stand at this
time makes us believe that almost
every man has his price, however
much we do not wish to entertain
the thought. The utteran ues of Arch
bishop Ireland are antagonistic to
the ideas of Archbishop Walsh of
Ireland, who is an out-and-Out silver
man, and who is credited with say
ing that the curse of the laboring
classes of England and Ireland to-
day was the nOn-use of silver as a
money circulating medium. Last
fall Archbishop ireland was in New
York city-as it afterward leaked
QUITO negotiate a loan of some
100000 to save the pastoral prop
erty in Minnesota. The loan was
made by New York bankers with that
prince of fakes-Chauncey Depew,
mixed up in the deal. Can it be that
Prelate Ireland is looking through
the bankers loan spectacles at this
time in consideration Of favors re-
ceiVed in the recent past?'
Yes, that is just what's the mat
ter.
The Catholic church in Colorado,
up to Saturday before the last State
election, was actively at work for
the Populist party. The reason as
signed was the fact that the A. P. A.
dictated the nomination of the Re-
publican ticket, and would control
its policy. But at the election almost
the entire Catholic vote of Denver.
and the east half Of the State, was
transferred to the Republican party.
In the mining regions of the State
the attempt to transfer the Populist-
Catholic vote to the Republicans was
a failure. This was soon after the
time that Archbishop Ireland made
his loan Of the Wall Street Republi-
cans through that eminent lobbyist,
Chauncey Dopew, and sent out all
over the United States confidential
circulars ordering the Catholics to
support the Republican ticket. 1t is
claimed that Arch bishop Ireland had
entered into an immense real estate
speculation at Minneapolis, invo1v-
ing not only the private means of
the archbishop and his friends, but
the resources of his church as we'll.
No doubt all this was done with the
best Of motives, and the archbishop
honestly supposed he had "a dead
sure thing" both for himself and the
church.
In the late panic, the bottom
dropped out of real estate values at
Minneapolis, as at almost every 9TH
er place, and bankruptcy threat
ened the diocese of the archbishop
as complete and hopeless as years
ago overwhelmed Bishop Purcell, of
Cincinnati. The Wall Street money
power came to the rescue of Arch
bishop ireland, not from any good
motives, and, as usual, they exacted
their pound of flesh" No doubt
there was ample real estate security,
but as a collateral the arch bishop
was to throw the vote of the Catho-
lies in the United States for the Re-
publican party.
This contract was carried out in
New York, in Pennsylvania, in ILL
nois, in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado,
Minnesota, and probably other
States. In Denver, 5000 Catholic