| Show ALL ARE ABE AMERICANS THERE was recently held in chicago a convention of german catholics which seems to have been an important gathering gat nering and to have represented the sentiments of many thousands of people in the united states natives oolf of german Ua fiolic regions in europe and their descend descendants ants and sympathizers while no DO one will question the ati legal right of the german catholics to mett meet in convention the propriety ot 01 some ot of tae me doings of that which was lately held la in chicago is being widely criticised criticized resolutions were adopted calling upon catholic attio Uc workingmen working meu to entrust we solution of the labor problem to the catholic Jai bolic dichurch lc hurch and others antagonizing tile the knights of labor were introduced but tabled apparently for tae reason that the tim enad not come for such utterances to 10 be made by the body represented by the convention in some of its proceedings the latter manifested manifest eda a marked anti anaf irish teel feel ing calculated to increase the exi existing stink sentiments of animosity between germans and irishmen the convention showed great jealousy in regard to keeping alive the german language making that object and the teaching of the true religion the ground on an which to base a resolution in support of parish or church schools so far was the sentiment in favor of the german language laa las guage carried that the convention ws on the point of rejecting a report for the reason that it was written in daglish Ea glish and a proposition tion was made though not acted upon to amend the constitution of the organization in such a manner as to prohibit the acceptance cep tance of all communications not fiot written in german As a matter of education it to is well trell enough to teach the german language to the rising generation but national 1 denominational and sectional strafes ought to be buried among those who intend or expect to become american citizens the strength prosperity and endurance of ibis country depear a upon p the of its inhabitants in the language of the new york chris tian dan union in reference to this convention wherever we come from we are all ail americans here |
