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Show THE PUBCELL FAILURE. The Parcel! brothers of Cincinnati tho archbishop and the bishop have finally made an assignment of nil their proporty for the benefit of their creditora. This Btep was caused by tho institution ol numerous suits, which threatened to consume everything every-thing and yet leave many cl&inis unprovided for, Wheu the annouce-nient annouce-nient was first made that the distinguished dis-tinguished prelate was financially embarrassed, tho sum total of bis liabilities was placed at $00,000. He suspended payment and olaims mul-tiplitd mul-tiplitd within a few weeks, until it is now said the indebtedness amounts to nearly $0,000,000, and bills are BliU coming in. Various plans for arranging matters and adjusting the difficulties have been suggested, but all have fallen through, and now the law must take its coursa and deal with the debtors. It was thought that tho Caiholio church would go to tho relief of the old mtn, aid with its abundance help him out of hia troubles. That would bavu prevented a religious scandal, for Bcaudal it certainly cer-tainly is, and one that attaches to tho church at Urge. No one will dare uay Archbishop Pureell is dis-bouest, dis-bouest, or that be baa dono anything that ho did not consider for the best, but tho condition of bis nflaira shows gross imprudence, and a wouderfuj degrco of financial ignorance. No crimo is laid at bis dcor, but the heavy tiu of losing millions ofdollara belonging to hia people, must be borno by him. The church should atone f. r that sin by seeing that tbe po.ir and deceived Catholics who placed their money in tho banda of tho prelate for safe-keeping, are not tho loeers; for it in tho faiae system, countenanced, if not encourageJ by the church, that iuduces the faithful to deposit their little savings with the prieata. If the church permits these poor people, tho majority of whom are day laborers, to lose tbo money they deposited with the archbishop because they believed him to bd in- ituiio.o, tneu ins (jalhoho religion must suffer in the eyes ot the world, and not a lew of its own people wil! look upon il with distru-t. The Catholio workimtrneu and even tho servant girls of Cmcinuati have been putting their savings into the custody of PurceHs, fur more than thirty years. They regarded it as absolutely secure, for they did not understand how men of such bich mora! characters, aid of such scrupulous scrupu-lous and religious honesty, cvu'd lose money intrusted with them. Tha discovery that, altluuh hij religion may be iufaiiib'o, the archbishop is as fallible as other men in financial i matters, is a terrible blow to the tjo- trusting people. Ouo would think lLatJ( the policy of Icq church would bo lo'i re: tore the waning coi.tiJ.juoe oi' the ' 1 members in the priests by promptly i" going to the relief of the dib'.iuguished , orchbUiicp, imd seeing that the peoj. U were not suflercrs by bis indiscretiou t an.l reck!cc'snes. ft! |
