| Show CRONIN CASE AND CA CATHOLICISM J JA A gentleman residing in Chicago writes thus to a friend in this city The Cronin case cas still stUl holds the boards In tn Chicago It is to me still stilla stilla a mystery Of course I must admit that Dr Cronin has i been killed and probably by hIs own clansmen If the true 1 history of the case were known it 1 w would ulu make an Instructive lesson The only beneficiary of the murder J at the present time is the Catholic church That church is at last laRt I openly antagonized by a large ele ele- elemente element element I ment mente Several papers specially de- de devoted dey devoted de devoted y voted to opposing Rome Borne are pub pub- published published i We have in Chicago three such and ably conducted The church has taken up the gauntlet y yand and in her publications hits back A Athe every time But the he church realizes the fact fat that to meet the growing opposition unity is required of the different ra races that compose it Everything is being done to bring brine about this unity It is now proposed that an amalgamation mation of all Catho Catho- Catholic lie lic societies be made into one gr great t u body und under r church control or direction direction direction tion The congress of Catholics 1 which takes place in Baltimore next 4 n month has this object in view c Strange to say the great obstruction obstruction obstruction tion to unity is the Irish Society It is exclusive i ve and has Ireland first last and all the time The Irishman doesn't doesn t fraternize with Frenchman French man Pole Bohemian Ger Ger- German German German 1 man or Italian Upon all these he looks as apologies for or Catholics and doesn't conceal his thoughts f the a Irish Society could be broken tn then tIen n Jt Irishmen would join Catholic so- so societies so societies composed of of all races and ami the priests know that in these so- so societies societies so societies the various nations affiliate fraternize and even intermarry The Cronin murder has helped to drive hu hundreds of Irishmen to do the Catho Catho- Catholic Catholic i lic lie Knights and Foresters Forestel In Chicago we have about forty Roman congregations Ten of these are German two Polish two Bohe Bohe- Bohemian Bohemian Bohemian mian two French and two Italian The church invites opposition It II knows that opposition from outside will dri drive ve all aU these into one solid body and aud the priests know that t with the Irish and German solid soUd at atone atone atone one side an impregnable fortress t was established I In n my opinion a arace arace race derived from the Celtic Vel tic and andt t Saxon or races rates mixed would be the highest type of humanity The ardor impetuosity reckless reckless- recklessness recklessness ness nef'S and pugnacity of the Irishman mingled with the plodding method method- methodical methodical ical prosaic systematic German 1 would certainly produce good We mi a 1 few instances t of f good 2 criminals where the vicious of both sides Bides would intermarry but that would be counterbalanced by the issues of the better with it kind |
