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ISSUED SEMI-MONTHLY
ILL IRISH CLERGY
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FOR BELFAST PEACE
Catholic and Protestant
Bishops Act to End Mur
ders Which Call on City
“Just Judgment of Heaven’’
Dublin.—A joint appeal lias been
issued by Catholic and Protestant
bishops, including the heads of the
Presbyterian and Methodist churches
urging all classes to unite in an ef
fort to restore peace in Belfast. The
signatories of the letter say in their
appeal:
“We condemn in the strongest
terms the murders and other forms
of violence that have taken place
and which are a disgrace to any civi
lized community. We would point
out that they cannot be of any pos
sible advantage to any cause or to
any section of the people. But
we are chiefly anxious to draw at
tention to the moral aspect of the
situation. No matter what provo
cation may lie given, nothing can
make the outrages that are taking
ilacc right. They are not only of-
enscs against the law of the land;
'ey are grievous sinct against Al-
ighty God. God’s blessing can
ver rest on a community where
hey are practiced; they necessar-
!y call down upon it the just judg
ment of Heaven.”
Meanwhile tile persecution of
Catholics in Belfast has not yet
abated. An official statement is
sued last Friday gives the number of
those killed since July, 11120, as 125
Catholics and 42 Protestants. Even
British soldiers of certain regiments
are being shot at sight as allies of
the Pope. Catholic members of the
constabulary are exposed to the same
danger. Some fifty Catholic ex-
soldiers in a neurasthenia hospital
received notices of an obscene char
acter ordering them out of the hos
pital. One of the passages in this
notice was:
“Go, or we will riddle everv rotten
Papist.”
CALLOUS METHODS USED.
Two cases which occurred during
the week are typical of the deliber
ation and callousness shown in
tracking down Catholics.
James Keilly, a Catholic storekeep
er, had closed his premises, arid,
accompanied by his assistant, was
on his way home. The two were
attacked by an Orange gang at a
point where the street light was ex
tinguished. Reilly was fired at and
fell. When on the ground several
bullets were poured into his body.
He died five minutes after admission
into a hospital. It was only two
years ago that Reilly’s store had
been burned to the ground by an
Orange mob and he had since had it
rebuilt.
Within one week three attempts
were made to shoot Mrs. Goldsmith,
a Catholic, whose husband served
eighteen years in the British army,
and in the last attempt she was
shot in the right arm.
Mr. M. Connor-Plummer, a Protest
ant living in Newcastle-West, County
Limerick, writes to the press call
ing attention to the “brutal murd
ers so rampant in the North which
have outraged common Christian
ity by their callousness.”
Yet not one word of protest, he
complains, has been uttered by the
Southern Protestants. He asks that
a protest should at once he made
as “these worse than Turkish out
rages nullify tuiy attempt at freedom
within the four shores of Erin.”
Mr. Connor-Plummer suggests that
all Protestants in theu-south of Ire
land voice their feelings at public
meetings to be held in Dublin. Cork,
Limerick and elsewhere and send
representatives to the Ulster leaders
asserting that it was incumbent on
Protestants in the south, who lived
in the greatest harmony with their
Catholic neighbors to make a clear
and stern condemnation of the “un
christian form of intolerance which
is scarcely equalled in the darkest
days of persecution in any pagan
ountry.”
Noted Orator To
Speak In Three
Georgia Cities
Hon. Joseph Scott of Califor
nia to Deliver Addresses in
Augusta, Atlanta and Au
gusta After Easter.
NATIONALLY KNOWN AS
APOSTLE OF PATRIOTISM
Is a Leading Layman—Seve
ral Times President of Los
Angeles School Board and
Chamber of Commerce.
Augusta, Ga.—Hon. Joseph Scott,
one of the leading Catholic laymen
of the United States and the orator
of the Pacific Coast, is to journey
HON. JOSEPH SCOTT
to Georgia from his Los Angeies
home to deliver addresses in At
lanta, Augusta and Savannah late
in April, according to announce
ments made by State Deputy John
R. McCallum of the Knights of Co
lumbus and President P. H. Rice, K.
S. G., of the Catholic Laymen’s As
sociation of Georgia, the heads of
the organizations under the auspices
of which the addresses are to he
made. Mr. Scott’s subject will he
“Patriotism.”
Mr. Scott will speak in Savannah
Friday evening, April 23. The fol
lowing evening he will deliver an
address in Atlanta, and Sunday' af
ternoon the people of Augusta will
have the opportunity to hear him,
according to the tentative schedule
already arranged.
The purpose of Mr. Scott’s visit
and addresses will be to further the
work of bringing about a better
feeling among Georgians, irrespec
tive of creed. He has a message
for the Catholics of the state, but
he has an even greater one for the
non-Catholics, and it is hoped he
will he able” to deliver it to them
in large numbers.
To say that Mr. Scott is one of
leading Catholic laymen in liie coun
try is to understate the truth, if any
thing. In addition to being knighted
by the late Pontiff, Pope Benedict
XV, he was awarded the Laetare
Medal in 191!) by Notre Dame Uni
versity, an honor bestowed each
year on the American Catholic lay
man or woman deemed to have made
the best contribution during the year
to the world of art, letters, states
manship, education, or along simi
lar lines.
Mr. Scott was educated at St. Cutli-
bert College, Exhaw, England, where
he had for one of his professors
Cardinal Merry del Val, later Papal
Secretary of State, a warm personal
friend of his. For three years he
was professor of rhetoric and Eng
lish at St. Bonaventure College, Al
legheny, N. Y., where he was award
ed the honorary degree of Master of
Arts in 1892. He later went to Los
Angeles, where he entered the prac
tice of law. In 1903 lie received
Continued on Page Three,
T1 RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
CONDEMNED B Y HA RDING
ACCEPTED BY BORAH AS MENACE TO COUNTRY
Succeeds Former Senator
Kenyon—Credited with Be
ing Opposed to Paternalis
tic Tendencies.
BENNING SOLDIERS
Replace Sisters’ Flag Pole
Anti-Catholics Destroyed,
Washington, D. C.—Senator Wil
liam E. Borah’s acceptance of the
chairmanship of the Senate Com
mittee on Education and Labor as
the successor of former Senator
William S. Kenyon, of Iowa, has
given little comfort to the advocates
of the Sterling-Towner bill which
would created a Department of Edu
cation, with a secretary in the Pres
ident's Cabinet, .-nd appropriate
8100,000,000 annually as subsidies
to the educational budgets of the
several States.
Whatever Senator Borah’s ulti
mate attitude may be on the Ster
ling Towner bill, he has not Here
tofore shown sympathy with pro
posals to commit the Federal Gov
ernment to vast annual outlays,
likely to grow larger with the years,
and to an assumption of duties and
functions which belong, to the in
dividual States.
With a congressional campaign
only a few weeks distant, and an
election half a year in the future,
the leaders of the big parties in
Congress and outside of it are not
likely to press the Sterling-Towner
hill to a vote. They prefer to add
nothing to the complications which
already exist for the Representa
tives and Senators who are to seek
election to the next Congress. The
general belief—based in large part j
on the admissions of the leaders of
the Republican majority—is that
there will be no legislative consider
ation of the Sterling-Towner bill
until after the election next Novem
ber.
Committe’s Report.
One factor which is certain to af
fect if not wholly to alter the pros
pects of the Sterling-Towner bill is
the forthcoming report of the Con
gressional Joint Reorganization
Committee appointed to consolidate
the bureaus and departments and
redistribute the official duties of
the Government. This committee
has not indicated its deposition to
accept tlie scheme of reorganization
outlined in the hill of the establish
ment of a 'Department of Public
Welfare drafted by General Sawyer
President Harding’s physician, hut
this later measure is likely to have
considerable support among the re
organizers.
Until a scheme of reorganization
has been devised for all the execu
tive departments, it is doubtful if
the Sterling-Towner bill, which
would erect another large unit of
governmental machinery, will be ap
proved by the Reorganization Com
mittee. There is still less likeli
hood that the powers, functions am
appropriations which the Sterling-
Towner measure would give the De
partment of Education it contem
plates would be sanctioned by the
Reorganization Committee’s bill.
Those familiar with Senator Bor
ah’s views on “paternalism” believe
that even if the friends of the Ster
ling-Towner bill on the Committee
on Education and Labor should be
strong enough to force a favorable
report on it lie would not champion
the measure on the floor of the
Senate but would leave that task to
some of its advocates.
The vacancy created by the resig
nation of Senator Kenyon and
Senator Borah’s advancement to the
chairmanship has been filled by the
appointment of Senator Rawson,
Senator Kenyon’s successor. Sena
tor Rawson has not given any clue
to his position with reference to the
Sterling-Towner bill. Representative
Towner, one of the co-sponsors of
the measure, is from Iowa.
BISHOP FOGARTY SUES.
Dublin.—Most Rev. Dr. Forgarty,
Bishop of Killaloe, has lodged a
claim for compensation for damage
to his property by masked and armed
men who raided his house in De
cember 1920.
Columbus, Ga.—-Soldiers sta
tioned at Camp Benning, near
here, many of them veterans of
the fighting in France, have re
placed the flag .pole which anti-
Calholics removed from in front
of St. Patrick’s School in Phenix
City, opposite Columbus, several
weeks ago, and have supplied a
.new flag.
The soldiers bought the pole
and flag with their own money
and then hoisted the American
colors with impressive ceremon
ies.
After the soldiers had reared
tlie*pole and raised the flag, they
visited the Sisters in charge of
the school and asked to he in
formed if there was any further
attempt to show disrespect to
Old Glory or to annoy them.
St. Patrick’s school is conduct
ed by the Missionary Sisters of
tlie Holy I rinity. These Sisters
have been in Phenix City for sev-
u-al years during which they have
provided education for the white
children of the community, nurs
ed the sick and helped the poor,
practically without compensation
of* any kind. Most of the resi
dents of Phenix City, Girard and
Columbus are friendly to the Sis
ters and have shown disgust and
resentment at the persecution
that has been practiced on them
by a small minority of fanatics.
The flag pole which the soldiers
have replaced was cut down and
ruined two weeks ago. The flag
was destroyed some time prior
to the wrecking of the pole.
Warning was previously given to
the Sisters that unless they re
moved a cross from the flag
pole the flag would he hauled
down.
Thousands Welcome Cardinal
Dougherty on His Arrival in
Philadelphia After Trip to
Rome.
Ok
Philadelphia—Philadelphia’s pride
n Cardinal Dougherty and pleasure
at his safe return were impressively
manifested by the great welcome
which he received from thousands
of citizens. Catholics and non-
Catholics, on his arrival from Rome
last Wednesday evening. The greet
ing which awaited him in his
episcopal city was the culmination
of almost continuous demonstra
tion which were accorded him from
the moment he left the ship in New
York till he found himself once
more among his own people.
Cardinal Dougherty made the trip
from New York to Philadelphia in
a special train, accompanied by a
large delegation of clergy and laity
l)y whom lie had been received in
the former city. Right Rev. M. J.
Crane, Auxiliary Bishop of Phila
delphia, headed the reception com
mittee of two hundred in New work.
Cardinal Greets Home Folks.
Thousands of Philadelphians of
both sexes, all ages and of various
religious faiths thronged Broad
street station and lined the streets
as the Cardinal’s train came to a
standstill. Preceded by a host of
priests and distinguished laymen,
Cardinal Dougherty was escorted
through tin* concourse to the auto-
Says the Bigotry Existing
Among Many of Our Citi
zens Threatens the Liber
ties of Which We Boast.
ChuiWi.
Expresses His Views at
Calvary Baptist Church
Asserts That in Spite of Di
vorcement of Church and
State Nation Must Remem
ber God in Order to Prosper
Washington, D. C.—“In the ex
periences of a year in the presiden
cy, there has come to me no other
such unwelcome impression as the
manifest religious intolerance which
exists among many of our citizens.
I hold it to be a menace to the very
liberties we boast and cherish.”
President Warren G. I,
speaking before the Vaughn
Class of the Calvary Baptist Chml
made this striking allusion to the
spirit of religious bigotry that pre
vails in part of America to-day ami
one of the sources of which is
known to be in the nation’s capi
tal. Religious reverence, said the
Chief Executive, has played an im
portant part in American achieve
ment.
Declaring that if “I were to niter
a prayer for the Republic to-night
it would he to reconsecrate us in re
ligious devotion and make us abid
ingly a God-fearing, God-loving
people,” President Harding urged
“a frank and willing obedience to
the law of the land” and decried
“the very apparent tendency to a
lighter and more frivolous view of
the citizen’s relations to both the
State and the Church.”
i resident Harding spoke in part
as follows:
Church and State.
“There is no relationship here be
tween Church and State. Religious
liberty has its unalterable place,
along with civil and human liberty'
in the very foundation of the Re
public wherein is shown the far
seeing vision of the immortal
founders, and we are a better peo
ple and a better Republic because
there is that freedom.
“I fear it is forgotten sometimes.
In the experiences of a year in the
presidency there has come to me
no other such unwelcome iinnres-
sion as the manifest among manv
ol our citizens. I hold it to he a
menace to the very liberties we
boast and cherish.
“In spite of our complete divorce
ment of Church and State quite in
harmony with our religious free
dom, there is an important relation
ship between Church and nation, be
cause no nation can prosper, no n;U
tion can survive if it ever forgets
Almighty God. I have believed
that religious reverence lias played
a very influential and helpful part
in (he matchless American achieve
ment, and I wish it ever to abide.
It I were to utter a prayer for the
Republic to-night, it would he lu
reconsecrate us in religious devo-
tion, and make us abidingly a God
fearing Cod-loving people.
“} do not fail to recall that tlie
religious life makes for the simple
life, and it would he like a divine
benediction to restore the simpler
life in this Republic.”
ft ’T j
(Continued on page ten.)
TWO MILLION CHINESE CATKC
UCS.
Paris.—According to an arfiel
published by La Croix, based on in
formation contained in the Yea
Book of the Religious Observatory o
Zi-Ka-Wei, it appears that the nun,
her of Catholics in China has no
only reached the number of two mil
Hons hut has even exceeded thj
number. As a matter of fact, a
the beginning of the present yea
there were 2,050,000 baptized Cat ho
lies in the Chinese Repuhlic.and th
annual increase is estimated at (il
800.