Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1918-09-28

to-hut visits to st. Paul's shanty-
town, throwing whisky bottles out
of the squalid doorways. The
work he thus began he extended
throughout the Northwest and trav-
eled the whole country preaching
temperance. He even carried the
battle back to Ireland and Great
Britain. His energy was so album
dant and his zeal for work such
that the term "consecrated bliz-
gard" as applied to him by one of
his admirers was accepted by many
others as a peculiarly happy express
sion.
He at one time conceived the
Idea of consolidating the Catholic
parochial schools and the public
schools. The. plan was tried at
Fairabault and saltwater, MINI,
but friction which the Archbishop
could not relieve arose and the
scheme was dropped. He was
founder of the Hill Seminary on
the Minnesota side of the MISSISSIPPI
river. To this he gave his highly
priced private library, one of the
most comprehensive in the North
west One of his early works was
the founding of a colony of 900
Catholic farmers in Western Min
nesota in 1876. He became Bishop
in 1875 and Archbishop in 1886.
He received support from many of
his admirers for appointment as
the fourth American Cardinal.
Celebrating his golden jubilee a
few years ago, the priests of his
diocese presented him with a purse
of 100000. AS a speaker Arch
bishop Ireland was direct and
magnetic, with sense of humor.
One of the phrases which has often
been quoted as Characteristic of his
particular endeavor in life is this:
1.-The watchwords of the age are
reason, education, liberty. the
amelioration of the masses"
Archbishop Ireland's strong
Americanism, first put to the test
when the civil war began, was
manifested afresh when the United
States entered the world conflict.
No sooner had Congress formally
declared war on Germany than the
Archbishop called upon people of
his faith to remember that they
were Americans above all other ties
and declared it their duty to help
in every way. Later when occasion
he advocated purchases
of Liberty bonds and contributions
to the Red Cross and to various
relief funds. In this course he fol-
lowed consistently a part he took
In a famous controversy which ante
dated his "Faribault plan" 1t re-
suited from a petition made to
Rome to create in the United States
German parishes with parochial
schools with orders that the Ger
man language be taught in these
Institutions. It's sponsors sought to
conceal the purpose of the plan by
also that it be followed
by other nationalities, but the
idea and fastened to Rome. where
he successfully combatted it. "The
mass of our Catholics are Ameri- |
cans" he argued "They resent |
any attempt to make them Irishmen |
DIT German or any other kind of
foreigner. The Bishops of America |
ire fully able to ward off any for
eign invasion in the church and to |
maintain 1t on thoroughly American |
ines" Later on the same pro-
)osal he said: "Our country is not |
/ Poland to be partitioned at the
rood pleasure of foreigners. We |
rave, under Peters successor, our |
and for the sake of the
American church and the American
'epublic we will retain autonomy"
AS a monument to Archbishop
Ireland stands the beautiful Cathe
lral of st. Paul on the brow of st.
anthony Hill 1t overlooks the val
ey of the Mississippi and the thriv-
ng city whose growth from
ough pioneer trading post syn
hronized with the attainment Of
anne by its founder.
The remains will lie in State in
he Cathedral until Wednesday
morning, when the final funeral
ervices will be held. The funeral
will be one of the largest and most
ever witnessed in the
Western States.