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Show FATHER MALONE DEFENDS ARCHBISHOP IRELAND. (Editorial Correspondence.) Paris, France, July 8th, 1900. Truly there are none so blind as those who will not see. During the coming week the president of France will formally receive Archbishop Ireland. This signal mark of resneet will hardly be lost on those who have been rejoicing in the hope that Archbishop Ireland's influence influ-ence had practically passed away. ! As I pointed out before his arrival the Americans in Europe were quick to appreciatoe the exact position of the St. Paul prelate and the reception which they accorded him has been a most emphatic protest against the'atti-tude the'atti-tude of certain ecclesiastics in Paris and Rome who live in deadly peril lest, some day, the vigorous Archbishop of the northwest may become a Cardinal. I said, in former letters to The Intermountain In-termountain Catholie, that in attacking Archbishop Ireland his culmniators on this sode of the Atlantic should be considered simply as villifiers of the American people. The French government quickly realized this. For from the moment that General Horace Porter, the United States ambassador to France, read the letter from President McKinley eulogistic eulo-gistic of Archbishop Ireland and constituting con-stituting him his personal representative, representa-tive, it has been clear that honors conferred con-ferred on Archbishop Ireland would receive grateful acknowledgment from the president and people of the United States. In receiving the St. Paul prelate, the president of France, not only extends a COlirfPStv tri tha TTr.ito1 Cto(n5 K,,f fittingly rebukes the clique of French ecclesiastics, whose principal occupation occupa-tion for the past four years has been, maligning the American people. It is to be hoped that an end has come to the career of the men who have delighted in belittling American Catholics, Catho-lics, and it is likewise to be hoped, that the eyes of some people outside of France, will be opened by President Loubet's mark of distinction. I leave Paris in the morning for London Lon-don where I have made arrangements to deliver a series of eight lectures on Denver and Colorado. THOMAS H. MALONE. |