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Show Do Catholics Help You? . (Our Dumb Animals.) V.' This was a question put to us by a gentleman' calling at our oiticcs a few days since. ' . We answer that among our best, friends, .now dead, were John Boyle O'Reilly' and Patrick Dona-hoe. Dona-hoe. Shortly before O'Reilly's death-he came to the Boston theatre to hear our address to some three thousand Boston drivers. The last time we remember seeing him was at his office, when he took down our "Autobiographical Sketches" from a shelf over his table and said, "Angell, I always keep that here and sometimes when I get a little time I like to fake it down and read it.!' . Among living Catholics we have long reckoned Archbishop Williams and our Boston mayor, .'Patrick .'Pat-rick A. Collins, with some others, as among our good friends. At the great celebration of Archbishop Williams' Wil-liams' eightieth birthday, when he was receiving the kind words of hundreds of priests and thousands thou-sands of Catholic friends, wc wrote him that we were glad he had lived so long and hoped he would . live a good deal longer, and were surprised to receive re-ceive from him a kind letter, written with'his.own hand, which we have carefully preserved. To Pope Leo at Rome wc sent our publications and plans asking his aid in carrying our Work into Catholic countries, and received a most kind and cheering reply.' But how do they aid you? -' .; Archbishop Williams ordered one of our first ''Bands of Mercy" established in his cathedral, and he with other Catholic clergy have been, liberal contributors of gifts. In many ways the Archbishop Arch-bishop has aided us. ' Through the influence of one," CafholieTady five thousand dollars was paid at one time to: our Mass- ' achusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. When we established the . Illinois Humane society so-ciety (which cost us, by the way, about six hundred hun-dred dollars in money and about six months' time) no Protestant clergyman in Chicago rendered greater aitt than the Catholic bishop. The same might be said of the Catholic priest at. Jacksonville, Florida, when we established the Florida Humane society. When we addressed a union meeting of all the churches of Dover, Xew Hampshire, in the city hall: the Catholic priest, Father Murphy (now a Monsignor) so filled the hall from his parish in advance of the time of meeting that it was estimated esti-mated that about fifteen hundred Protestants could not get in. If we had more space we might write more in answer to the question: "Do the Catholics help you : . It is no small help that ou.r "Bands of Mercy" are being formed in all the parochial schools of I Massachusetts, and that the Catholic Archbishop of -Mexico is taking active interest in. that .Catholic country to aid the humane society. recently formed there. .' " - . . . Archbishop Williams is one of our vice, prcsi-1 prcsi-1 dents, and Mayor Patrick A. Collins is one of our ' dire--vs. , GEORGE T. ANGELL. : |