Show S CATHOLICS NOT TO BLAME I Cardinal Gibbons Denies Church is Responsible for Trouble SL JPttul Minn July 2G Cardinal Gibbons who has boon visiting In tho Northwest spent today In this city and was entertained at a luncheon at the residence of J J Hill Besides Cardinal Car-dinal Gibbons Mr and Mrs HIs guests included Senator Davis GOY John Lnd Bishop John Foley of Detroit De-troit Bishop John Shanley of North Dakota and J Schaub of Pittsburg who Is traveling with Cardinal Gibbons Gib-bons and others Asked for his views on expansion the cardinal said = Of course we cannot can-not abandon the islands we have acquired ac-quired at least not until a sufficiently powerful home government has been established In each of our new possessions posses-sions slonsle thought the duty of America was most emphatically that of teaching the newly acquired possessions to govern themselves A question In regard to the allegations allega-tions that the Catholic missionaries were largely to blame for the pnrsecu JClsecu lon of forelgncra In China brought from the cardinal an emphatic denial There were he said about half a million native Catholics In China Whllo the Catholic prelates had been granted some judicial authority by the Emperor Em-peror and mandarins this was because by far the greater number of Christians In China were Catholics and It had been found helpful to both the church and Government to glvo bishops and others some judicial authority The present troubles could not fall said Cardinal Gibbons to have a deteriorating deterior-ating China effect upon tho work of ChrIstianizing |