The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-02-08
AMERICANS UNITED
SAYS Archbishop
NATION LOYAL AND READY FOX
ANY SACRIFICE DECLARES
NOTED PRELATE
ONE FLAG FOR AMERICANS
A BIG MAN STANDS FOR BIG
THINGS IN A PATRIOTIC
MANNER

Archbishop John ireland, in an ad-
dress on Patriotism" N the st. Pau
Cathedral Sunday, said that while
hope is strong that the crisis facing
the United States may go no farther,
eve are ready for any sacrifice"
"When America sounds its bugle
call ve.are all of US Americans
Americans by birth or Americans By
the sacred oath we one day pronounc-
ed" said the archbishop.
years ago we were Irishmen, Ger
mans, and Frenchmen; today we are
Americans, and Americans we are re
solved to be fcrevalmore.
"The president Of the United States
believes that the honor of the natiol
has been challenged. That tn crisis W.
now with SIS NAV go no further, We
hope and pray. We covet no holocaust
of human lives; we fain would repcI
the advancing shades of war. But, #
the worst does come, if the leaders of
the nations decide that it must come,
then we are ready for every sacrifice
apart from the dictates Of solemn
duty, should we not cherish America
live for America, and die for America
America is the guardian of our veal
and Of our life.
'The words Of st. Paul, LET every
one be subject to higher powers tell
us Of our duties to the country. The
Individual requires for his life and
welfare the protecting hand Of civil
society; to civil society, therefore, we
must be subject; for its life, integrity
and honor we must be ready to make
sacrifices, even Of life.
."Our social family, our country, is
the United States Of America. Amer
lea is speaking, we listen as to the
voice of God; we obey, we follow,
gladsomly, and for conscience's sake
among the Catholics of America,
many there are, who, if not themselves
born in other countries, trace back
their lineage to not remote foreign
ancestry. l am not Of those who deem
it crime to revert in pleasing mem
DRY to scenes of childhood, to cherish
the ground that covers the graves of
our fathers.
"But when it is the question of So
cial allegiance, of civil loyalty, for all
there is but one country, and that is
America, but one flag, and that is the
Star Spangled Banner. When Ameri-
ca sounds its bugle call we are, all Of
us, Americans"
Turning to the large audience, Arch
bishop Ireland said:
"In your cathedral on each Sunday,
at the close of mass, you chant in i'm
pressive tones the prayers for the re-
public. The PRAYER is the sincere voice
of the official church. Today, when
there is connection in the land, whon
the president of the United States
speaks and acts amid grace happen
ings and calls upon US to believe in
him, with more than usual fervor, we
should intone the anthem.
Here and there in America in dark
some corners some few have dared to
say that Catholics are not loyal to
America, that America cannot afford
to give itself in trust to them. The
calumny has been again and again puF
to shame by the quick and ready sac
rifices made by Catholics on the altar
OF America. Today we defy-the men
who belle us, and challenge them to
equal us in sacrifice, to be as quick as
we arc to rally to the voice Of the
president of the United States
SCREPES GATHER ON FEB. 1917,
The 51st annual convention of the
Minnesota Editorial Association will
be held at St. Paul Friday and Sat
urday Of next week, Feb. 1917. Fer
the first 4 days of the week an ed
ltors' Short Course" will be held at the