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Show ARCHBISHOP RYAN Has Ever Been the Especial Friend of Indians and Negroes. President Roosevelt has appointed the Most. Rev. Patrick J. Ryan. D. D.. archbishop of Philadelphia, Pa., to the vacancy on the board of the Indian commission, caused by the death of the Protestant Bishop Whipple. This is . ' the first recognition of Catholics In connection with the national adminis- ' ' : i tration of Indian affairs, although J Catholics have been by far the most ; f numerous and successful agents In I Christianizing and civilizing these ; I wards of the nation. President Roosevelt, Roose-velt, however, is to be congratulated on making even this eleventh hour recognition. rec-ognition. A Philadelphia Protestant ' ' thus expresses the general sentiment ; on the appointment in the appended ' letter to the New York Sun: "Permit a Protestant to offer congratulations con-gratulations to the president of the United States and the citizens of the ' . United States, irrespective of politics, creeds or colors, on the appointment i of Archbishop Ryan ot Philadelphia on the board of Indian commission. No i man ever lived in Philadelphia that i was more loved and respected than the t great and good Catholic bishop. Jew 5 and Gentile. Protestant and Catholic, believer and agnostic, men of all political po-litical parties, of all colors and races, unite in praise of this good man. "On the occasion of the President McKinley memorial meeting our Academy Acad-emy of Music was packed with the ' . leading men of every class and every ' creed. Several statesmen and jurists i spoke with uncommon eloquence. ex-Attorney ex-Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh ! among them, but it is the speech of the archbishop of Philadelphia that will ? ' -longest be remembered by all who ! heard It on that lamentable day when ' . our beloved president was buried. ' ' "Not only is Archbishop Ryan ' the i most eloquent orator I ever heard, and ' ; I have heard many such, both here and ; in England, but he is one of the saint-liest saint-liest and wisest of men in the City of Brotherly Love. BIDDLE." Archbishop Ryan has long been known as an especial friend of the Indians In-dians and negroes. He was the guide ; : and co-operator of Miss Katherine , Drexel in the foundation of the Order of the Blessed Sacrament, which i3 de- j voted exclusively to educational and j . charitable work among the Indians and ' negroes. l: The impression which he made on an j ,' observant colored man as the friend of j 1 these neglected races, was strikingly ; shown in the will of Colonel John Mc- f Kee. on which the Pilot commented ed- i itorially last week. This great arch- t bishop is further commending himself to the confidence of the colored people . by his disinterested attitude in the mat- ter of the McKe millions, and his consideration con-sideration for the claims of the rela- '' tives whom the will almost ignores. (i Boston Pilot, |