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Show RESENT.ED BY AMERICAN CATHOLICS. Arehblahop Ir.laail Tola. Plainly lTpoa the Cube. sly Movement. St. Pai x, June 0. Siuco the publication publi-cation of his interview a few days ago regarding Cohensly's lucerne memorial Archbishop Ireland has had many telegrams tele-grams and letters of indorsement of his views. Yesterday in an interview ho talked further upon tha subject, lie says as the details of the plot are unfolded un-folded the iudignation of Americans Catholics and Protestants cannot but grow In intensity. The whole proceeding pro-ceeding is an Insult to American nationalism, na-tionalism, and reveals the fact that certain cer-tain Europeans imagine America to be a sort of African Congo, without autonomy auton-omy of its own, incapable of life without with-out tho constant application of European Euro-pean galvanic batteries. Catholics are mortitied that their religion is made tho occasion and the pretense of this insolent foreign intermeddling. "Strange news, Indeed, fur American ears to hear that the Austrian and Prussian Prus-sian ambassadors in Home have been instructed by their home governments to bring to bear upou the Vatican their influence in aid of llerr Cohensky's plan of campaign," indignautly ex claimed tho archbishop. Tho contagion conta-gion spreads to an extent that compels a smile of amusement in the midst of our anger. We ti mi Monsieur Mercier, ! minister of tho prowoce of Quebec, a colony of England, running to the Vatican and praying iu the uame of his little constituency that a Canadian Cana-dian bishop bo named for the see of Ogdetisbmg iu the state of New York. We can ea.-ily picture a further extension exten-sion of this foreign ambition to rule the Catholic ail airs in America, and in a few years the ecclesiastical map of the country would show the lingeriogs of every foreign principality whoso immigrants im-migrants choose to touch our sbores. This attack of foreigiiisra upon the church in America, however, is kilied from its own audacity. So long as it was worked stealthily by the secret embassies em-bassies aud te 1 aek door entrances, it was dangerous and doing harm. It has now entered into an open combat and the outcome will be most favorable to the church and the country. I have seen tha official denial of the Doutseh-Amerikanisehur.Prieater Doutseh-Amerikanisehur.Prieater Veriou. or German Ger-man clerical society, disclaiming all kuowledtro of the Cobeusly memorial. memo-rial. What ho will not deny is that the Cohensly memorial is nearly word for word a document which the Carman priests of St. Louis, founders of the Verein, sent to Home in lt8i); nor will he deny that a few days ago Amer-iks, Amer-iks, a paper which is fed ou Vereiu food, declared openly that it would ceaselessly ceaseless-ly work forCohensly'a plan. The spirit of the Cohensly movement thrives in the halls of the Verein, and tho Verein is an exotic to which American air is most uncongenial." |