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Show K011.N CAIIIIl.llli.I IV lilt: I.VST. DufATCltrs from eastern cities contain con-tain particulars of a rather tensatlonil charactur In relation to religion. A few days ago a riot of a serious nature ai reolpllate.1 In Cheiounc, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, becauto of religious Ill-feeling. A lecturer, named Lyons, engaged a hall to discuss on tho enormities of Itoman Catholicism. Member! of that erred attended andsucceodel In breaking up tho meeting. Tho lecturer woa arinwl vlth two revolvers. Ho Uael one, mid wounded three rsont. The situation there Is described res a toil of miniature civil war. I'uhlia opinion will certainly go agalnat the Catholics In this instance. In the United rllalei every citizen has a right to tho free expression of thwght. If anything lltwllout, Indeceut or rlbal' It (aid there la a clvlllrod r . If false statements are mi.. meet them Inthepresa, oronlhu lorum. Bo Mr. Lyons, who, It Is laid, It an apostate Humanist, ought to bo let alone, and the Catholics ufCboyenno havo dono themselves a greater Iijury by their own raali and Ill-considered action, than ever Lyons could do them by hli American l'rottctlio Association rubbish. The Catholic church Is, however, assuming iiulton formidable front In the r.aat. 1'eO the fast week dispatches dis-patches relating to German Catholic conventions, conforeuces, and oon-greseea oon-greseea contain Indications of crgres slvcnets on numerous questions. Thu Iowa Congress censured Henator Duvlt of Minnesota for his speech In tho United UtateiHenate on the occasion of tho Chlqcwe exclusion hill. The senator then ataled that there was moro danger lo American Institutions from such project! ai theCaheusly Idea which had for Its object the (lermaolilng of American schools aud the suppression of the LugUsli languagethan lan-guagethan thero was in tho Introduction Intro-duction of Chinese, The German Catholics are numerous In Minnesota, and It a; pears their Lutheran couutre men endorse them til every particular. Illshop Ireland, who though a Itoman Catholic of the rigid kind, Is an American first, rondcnii.vO tho Germain, and told Henator Davis that he would tupport him against the Cahently men. Dr. Conway, editor of the t'eiiWio Chronicle, (ublished at Bt. Louis, also supports Henator Davit, and tays that the Cahertly Idea It down right Irca-ton Irca-ton to the United Btatet. Ho was surprised sur-prised that the Catholics at Dubuque should oiler Iho resolution relating to Davit. The German Catholics now assembled assem-bled In congiosa at Nownik, IS', J., aro quite pronounced lu their attitude on thu school question. A ellspntih In this Isiueof the DhSFiirrXims gives a fair Idea of the aland they have taken. Hut what letms nnomolous lu tho present attitude of the Cathollo church, Is tho fact that Germans aro becoming Ita'chamr lonp, deftndera and propagators. Tho moro orthodox of the Iritti-Amerlcau Catholics Cath-olics aro also tiding with them. Hut the school question will ultimately cause ntllght schism In Iho church. Itcaauotbu much, for the German, by reason of their to; oclly for organ!:-lion, organ!:-lion, and their systematic method of working, will ultimately absorb the llohemlan, Austlan, Hungarian and I'olUli Catholics, and possibly make the German tho language of the church. |