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Show ; -v' . PRESERVE THE CATHOLIC INDIAN. One of the most important -addresses delivered , before' the convention "of the American Federation of Catholic Societies was that of Kev. H.'G. Gauss, financial agent of the Catholic Indian Bureau. Setting forth the fruit of missionary zeal an: the past, midst obstacles physical and political, he concluded con-cluded with this appeal: "But what of the Catholic laity and the Catholic Indians' fulurc Out of two hundred and seventy 11 ousand Indians in the United States, one hundred 'nd six thousand are Catholics-sincere, practical, I voted Catholics. It should not only be our nriv-e nriv-e 'e as n mpulse of human feeling, .as a claim o fraternal charity, but as n irnrat u to national rcparat on, to preserve the Lathonc Jn u.ir .moss r ; o -ly! tV o;,. is this to be acccomplishecH It is bj ( a -n,1-tllllV r.,,1,nlie crusade, whose battle-cry Preservation of the a 0f our missionaries thp tion is found the trodJcn lmHans j supported tlprajers o heard and the 00.un" , f t of the Great Judcrc and reparation laid at Gentlemen of the. atcd on t he J te tone vTito unfurl this banner and fnllow its lead ?" ' i |
