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Show UNION N IRELAND ''NEEDED Cardinal Logue, the Holy Archbishop of Armagh, Talks About the Irish Party.. j - Cardinal Logue. Archbishop of 'Armagh. Ireland, Ire-land, was the first of the speakers at the great annual an-nual meeting of the Maynooth Union or. June 27. at the famous ecclesiastical college; and although expressing his dislike to meddle with 'politics, he improved the occasion to discountenance all attempts at-tempts to divide the people, no matter what the pretext. His Eminence said, among other things: We, Irish people T suppose it is something in our character, perhaps part of that original sin that we never seem to have got rid of ye have had more or less a tendency to let the centrifugal force overbalance the centripetal force. We have a tendency, ten-dency, more or less, to split up and divide, and sometimes, if that tendency is yielded to. it. is bad for the interests of religion, and certainly bad for the interests of the country; and generally the occasions oc-casions of any manifestations of want of unity and want of a common purpose arise from something that is done to us, or done for us, by those to whom our destinies are committed by the government of the country (hear. hear). They treat us very much like overgrown children, here in Ireland, and they dandle things before our eyes, and when they think they have pleased us sufficiently, stopped us from crying out. they withdraw these toys that they have dandled before us (hear, hear), for when the toys are presented to us, and when we have an. opportunity oppor-tunity of examining them, they are worthless. Th:y are made in Germany, most of them (hear, hear), and even the Germans themselves would be ashamed to put their stamp on some of these toys by which they endeavor to amuse us Irish people. It seems, as far as I can gather from the general gen-eral reading in the public press, it has often seemed to me that English statesmen look upon it as the highest effort of statesmanship to hoodwink the Irish (hear. hear). , Well, now what suggests these thoughts to me ir lomethiiigthat happened lately. There was a bill presented to us for the regeneration regenera-tion of Ireland bless the mark! and it appears it was not satisfactory. I don't know much about bills. I only know what I read in the summaries of the press; but it appears "it 'was not satisfactory -to the country, and it was rejected, and I think justly rejected. Xow. that is all right so far, but I am sorry to find that it has set in motion this exuberance of centrifueal force from which this country suffers from time to time. I find that it has set fault-finding in motion, and that there are signs of a break-up and a want of unity. Xow. I think that is a verv lamentable thine, and I think it is a thinfr which the clergy should j endeavor by their example to put an end to. They j should be united and teach the people to be united. It always occurred to me that whenever we are deceived de-ceived by our masters over the; water, or whenever we are harshly treated, instead of beginning to find fault with each other we should draw niore closely together and strengthen our determination to be resolved to keep hammerinsr away. Even if we fail for a time, perseverance will crown the work in the end. Bufwhat. generally happens reminds me of a scene described in Manzoni in his romessi Sposi. He represents his Teat hero as carrying four popr chickens holdin-- them by the feet with their heads pendant, as he describes it. and waving them about, and he says, like all companions in misfortune, these four .birds began to peck at each other, as if each was the cause of the misery of the others. Well. I think that is what happens in Ireland very often (hear, hear). If anything goes astray in the general management of the country the sole thing some people look for is a scapegoat to make a victim of someone. I don't believe that is fair. I believe those who are trying to manage our temporal affairs in this country are doing their best (hear, hear), and I think we should stand by them. I think we should not only stand by them, but stand as one man behind their backs (applause), and I think this is a matter on which the clergy of the country should give an example, and I think there cannot' be a better means of getting the clergy to do this than by coming together from time to time to meet each other, and having a common cause. The heads of dioceses present besides the Caiv dinal were the Most Revs. Dr. Ilealy. Archbishop of Tuam: Dr. Browne. Bishop of Cloyne; Dr. O'Xeill, Bishop of Dromore: Dr. O'Dea, Bishop of Clonfert; Dr. Boylau. Bishop of Tvilmore ; . Dr. Donnelly. Bishop of Canea. Among the American priests were the Revs. H. P. Smyth. J. "McXamee, P. McTnerney, F. Smith and M. Martin, besides several from South Africa and Australia. The Rev. F. Smith of Chicago, the last speaker, speak-er, had no aversion to a word on Irish politics. We quote: His Grace, the Archbishop of Tuam. had said many kind thinp,3 about those who migrated across the water. They crossed it with full and heavy hearts, and sonae of them had come back with full hands (applause). They loved the old land with intense enthusiasm, and they, hated the oppressor. They hated ormression. because they lived in a land of freedom, accustomed to rule themselves; thev hated any foreie-n nower designing to rule another neople (applause). They had been told how cordially cordial-ly they, had received him and the other visitors. That cordiality was more than expected, great though his expectations were. It was a genuine Irish welcome, Irish hospitality hospital-ity from the very beginning to that moment. They regarded that day as the best day of an eventful trip. It stood out above all the rest, because they were in. their native land in that great institutiou. ' They found there the representatives of the Irish people. In America their representatives represented repre-sented majorities, but they in Maynooth represented represent-ed all. They had seen there what they came to see the giant intellects which the Irish church had reason to be proud of. the great Irish bishops, men of the noblest aspirations, who were true not only to faith, but to fatherland. Ireland had reason to be proud of her Episcopate. Episco-pate. They listened to what the speakers at the Union had to say. Thy were much edified. They had met the people and they found the attitude at-titude of the peonle very much changed in the seven sev-en years or so that he. had been absent from he country. For instance, they were far more intelligent intelli-gent in their criticism so far as they could judse. They knew where to draw the line. But they (the visitors) found very little of the constructive ability. abil-ity. The people had not the means of construction, and they did not know much about construction. There that day they had come into contact with construction (applause), and the construction that would begin there would spread, and it was already spreading from that place. They were very much interested in the papers. He had been accustomed to hear statements about cruelty and injustice in Ireland, but he had no idea that the cruelty and injustice were such as he had heard, when he listened to the facts in one of the papers that day. It was most extraordinary, it was almost incredible, he could hardly believe that anywhere ia the world such a thing was possible, pos-sible, but it was. they found, possible under British rule. They had. he understood, a Catholic Defense-association. What was wanted, he would say, was a Catholic Aggression association (laushtpr and applause), and let the other side defend themselves. them-selves. He would not parley with a thief until he got his property back from him. |