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Show ! BUTTE, MONT. j Irrespective of rar:e or creed, an audience au-dience that taxed the capacity of the Broadway theatre, Sunday. Jan. 6, listened to a remarkably able address by Bishop John C. Carroll of Helena relative lo the situation in France with regard to the church, and applauded J'l'ii to the echo, other speeches were heard on the subject, and the meeting culminated in a motion being carried to have suitable resolution: drafted voicing me protest of Rutte citizens against the action of the French government. gov-ernment. From ihp convening of the meeting J'aJ'or John MacGinniss, until Amtr.e-a ' was sung by the audience iJV.i . 1 nunib'. scarcely a person e.t the theatre. If was a splendid trib-u'e trib-u'e to the broad-mindedness of Butte's i'7fnp'.;VUl i,,dif''ve of (he high re--gm1 with which justice. iborty and the proper protection of religious sentiment sen-timent is .tgardpd in the greatest o?01 l',Itv on oarth- " th stage w.lli J;shop Carroll and Mayor Mac-Gmn Mac-Gmn ss were all the Catholic citrgy of tin rity ano ma;,y prominent citizens After calling the meeting to order. Mayor Mac Jimiiss sa;,: "i havo be(. honorwi ,iy havinjf bten &sk t( j "me at a m?ting called, without re-1 f-peet to race or creed, to express d'- I approval of actions m France which! tnreaten i0 impede the wheels (Jf p--og- ! res.-: in their eiviiizinc co-ire ari.un I ! the world. This nieeti-ig will hf :ol-1 aressed by a speaker who knows ihor- oughly what has been and is iv-in-done in France, and b- a:iv lavman in i the audience who detire .-. voice -,,! opinions. Later, if is e::pe-:---l nt vou ! wd. Pin. your sPniimf, ;n tangible I I or m bv dra'ting resolution in b(. -.on. ' to the French minister at Wellington.! he American ambar'sador in Tr.-is and to other authorities to whom - e particularly par-ticularly wish to imniri l-iowledce of I the sentiment in Butte, r now 'pre-! fent one who needs no introduction of i Butte, John P. Carroll " The mayor's words were arreted j with ringing applause, which waje- doubled when Bishop Carroll arose to sp'-ilc. TV; bishop said, in pirt: "It is a greu nleisurc to me." said Bishop CarroM m bes-innlng. "to appear ap-pear before this magnificent audience on behalf or liberty, common humanity, human-ity, our elviHzaMo,, and our Christian-it Christian-it v. for these and th-se alone are the j reasons lhat. i"'ncl us to meet in this y.ublic place. If the injustice that has bom done by ihe French government were aimed only at the Catholic church - n.i its reverend head, v.-e misrht have voiee.i our sentiments in otn- churches, and--there might have mivrled our j tears and our prayers. But the French I p-oyc'-ppicif not only aim to destroy 'ihe Catholic church, but has confisca!-! confisca!-! ed the n-opetv of a nriva'e corpora - 'on. ti-'vus aimed a blow at commo-i C''"ip;?.ri;v nnd common Ivianlty. ind is s'-ivjilP f0 '.-Tailzie the vrry hnec which gave France l-.tr ft-ie. Tb'-refore. our revUest must be jvibhc, -nd most, sro forth to the world, sho.--in-r -b"t v.e. as Weno-Mi citizens, will . no'.pllov f''e nht- of our humanity p.nl rlphts of ah humanity to be tr e-v.ie, 10-ion." Hi hoi Carroll closed hi nnsterly effort with "n a repeal for- tb- American peep!--- to rie up --"-linst th Tavcstv on Fovevi-in-(. 'Ti,e pope" he ;aid. "siiould b- rriven all svm"ithv and cn-conr""ej-;ient in his stand against 00-pi 00-pi es-'-ion. - :"Fraii'-e ha t --v to right her wrones." be oid. "rhonsh the ballot' boy. ond in the F-iited States." be declared, de-clared, "everv citizen shou'd a'wevs nroo-riy exercise hi right 1 of suffrage, "o that gtori jpen rnibt co-itinoe at the he-ri 0f the sow-irent." He inke t,w(!s o" nraise for President Poor-e-velt. and said h was greatlv nlespd th.-t Mvor Ma-Glnniss and Butt--- clt?-zeps clt?-zeps had ueiemineri to expose and root out everv T-estise of corruption. "Let all know that we demand that all (he ooTesved under heaven be giv en the "fr.bt fo wo'-shin as h---'' ep fit, according 10 the dictate' of thejv co--scienee. L'-t i send our prote.e to the American embassador in Paris, the French niin'sf-- iri Waslrinton. to the president of Mie TTnifed States, tb.e president o' the French republic, and I to the miiiis'ee of public worshin in France. Let bim know what we 'bin'; of -ds assaults on on- common Chris-ti,tn;ir Chris-ti,tn;ir nm! -o"i!-on h.umanitv." "It must ' e - ploa-nro to all as it is to me." said Mayor MacGinniss in introducing in-troducing the net snekrr, "o note ihaf f'c saie spirit which took fom to utter . nro'tst in hehah of the downtrodden 'cv.-s of Kussia nt a. meetin- ! -on"" five oco. life w. ca?'oied thio meeting to utter another nrote-it against, the action rif the French government and to demons trate what a great force has been put into operation in the United Ptates to ; protest acainst injustice. Public opinion opin-ion is a great thinr and. remote though we may be from 'France and her government, gov-ernment, still our r-rotest may be a f-ic- to" in the general protest agr.int the ', inlustices there." Rev. S. C. Blackiston of St. John's Episcopal church was next introduced. ' He stated that he had studied the situ- at ion in France, but was deeuly indebt- , ed to Bishop Carroll for giving him so much more information concerning it. Every honest man. he said, protested ' against the confiscation of property of J tht church by the French government. 4 "Let honesty, justice and fraternity be meted out, and let American princi- pies be practiced so that every man may worship God according to the die- tates of his conscience." Mr. Blackiston's remarks were hear- tilv applauded. Various citizens present were asked if they wished to speak, and able re- sponses were made by P. J. Brophy and 4 P. J. Geraghty. Both voiced sentiments 4 that met with the hearty approval of 4 all present. Following their remarks J a motion was made by J. H. Lynch that j a committee of nine be appointed, of 4 which the mayor was to be chairman, 4 to draft resolutions of protest. The mo- 4 tion Was unanimously carried. The J mayor then asked that "America" be 1 sung before the. meeting adjourned, and 4 his request was complied with by every 4 person present. 4 In consequence of the mass meeting i held aet the Broadway theatre a com- mittee composed of Mayor John Mac- 4 Ginniss. Judge J. J. McHatton.' D. J. 4 Hennessy, P. J. Brophy. James H. Lynch, P. J. Geraghty, Rev. Father Batens. Rev. Father Barry. Rev. S. C. Blackiston and Dr. T. 'A. Griggs was j" appointed to draft resolutions voicing a I protest against the action of the J French government m its aititucie toward to-ward the Catholic church and its confiscation con-fiscation of church property. Copies of the resolutions will be forwarded as soon as formulated to Pope Pius at Rome, President Fallleres of France, the French ambassador at Washington, D. C, and to the American ambassador ambassa-dor at Paris. John F. McDonough, aged forty-eight forty-eight years, a resident of Butte for twenty years, died Wednesday of last week at. 121 West Woolman street. The body was taken to the Duggan undertaking under-taking rooms, but later was removed to the home of Officer T..J. Gilmdre, " 1 I ' 12S West Silver street, a brother-in-law of the deceased. Mr. McDonough was a miner and enjoyed the respect of all who knew him. Recently he went to Arizona in sarch of health, but returned return-ed to Butte about ten days ago. lie leaves a widow. R. P. Shields, one of the best known printers of Butte, received a telegram from St. Joseph. Mo., where his wife is visiting her mother, telling of the glad news that he is the father of twins, a boy and girl, born yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hennessy have taken possession of their elegant new home on the corner of Park and Excelsior Ex-celsior streets. It is one of the most) spacious and comfortable homes in the Avest, and combines luxury, convenience conveni-ence and beauty In its makeup. The view is magnificent, and it is se constructed con-structed that light and sun come from every side. Ap elaborate dinner was given last Sunday by Masters Arthur and Sam StHiibury at their home on West Silver Sil-ver street, as a farewell compliment to Masters Phillip and Will O'Brien, who left for Gonzaeu college. Spokane, a few days later. Pink and green were the dominant colors in the dining room. Creightor. Lsrgey was the host at a dinner Thursday evening of last week al Ihe The rnton hotel. Covers were laid for thirty,, the party being joined at coflee by .). P.. TCiemer. Harry Bur-mr-ster and .Air. Young. Several toasts v. ere responded to. The guests were: Howard Mclntyre. Ju!u!: Eckles. Lew Kane. J. Fitzpatrick. Jack Cristy. I George Grey. Jack Kelly. Harry Ham- I mon. Joe Karly. Raleigh Strali. Gar-j field Tonkin. Millard Curtis. Ed Kvans. Fred McQueeny. Ciem Hines. John J Mulvey of Salt Lake City. Clark John-; stone. Horace Merkle. Jack Ha.nguar. Will Shields, Hansom Rice, Charles' Suiiivan. Will Kirkpntnck. Jack Du-: San. Will Gre'i'ie. Less Kr!y. Arthur j Meikle, Kay McDonald. Mark Hardy, i Jack Bartlctt. Dan Hanly and Mer-1 rill Richards. j H. B. Byrne. Butte manager for' Paine. Weber and oumntmv. h. left- I for Houghton. Mich., where on January Janu-ary 2S he will marry Mis Alice B. Ryan. The wedding will take place at ihe home- of the bride's parents, in Houghton. Miss Ryan Is a niece of Mr. John D. Ityan of Butte and visited in the city four years ago. Arthur O'Leary, son of Col. and Mrs. T. O'Leary of Anaconda. . and first lieutenant of marines, was a visitor in Butte last week. Lieutenant O'Leary has been enjoying a month's furlough, and ho will leave today for Washington. D. C. where he has been ordered to report for duly. Lieutenant O'Leaiy haa no idea where he will b sent. H may be kept In the national capital. He may bo detailed at some point on the Pacific coast, or he may be attached to one e,r Uncle Sam's big battleships, and spend much of his time oil the deep blue sea. |