The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 9, 1903, Page 6

[ : THE SUNDAY CALL. \ T i P s, o ""LEO XII AN F the twenty odd Popes who have filled the chair of Peter since Columbus discovered America none have possessed more interest for the American people, irrespective of their reli- gious views, than Leo XTII. Although he never visited this country, and knew it consequently only by what he read and what he heard: although he was an Italian by.birth and a European by education and experience, Cardinal Gibbons, a native-born American, could not have better understood the spirit of the constitution or the temper of the American people than he did. Leo not only understood the government and people of this country better than any European ruler il Wl it fibiil ] Vypt? MEF was the first delegate and was evidently directed by the Pope to carry out the same American policy, because he decided every case brought before him against Cahensleyism and forced Bishop Wigger of New Jersey and other Ger- man prelates to cease propagating those ideas and to re-establish English-speaking churches, which they had closed in order to strengthen neighboring German congregations. 3 £ Very few Protestant Americans know anything of this Cahensley movement, and many were the criticisms _of the Pope when he appointed a resident delegate in the United States, yet it is easy to see what an important service to the social and political interests of the country the Pope performed when he insisted that all foreigners who came here to live must be loyal, true, patriotic Amerigans, and must not attempt to introduce European languages and ideas in i ‘i““-‘ i i has ever done, but he so completely absorbed its ideas, its sentiments and its principles that his administration of his high office, even in dealing with European powers, was along American rather than Ijlumpcan_lmes. In reviewing his pontificate from an American standpoint three principal events in his reign at oncehsug:e§t themselves as of vital importance to the United States: His refusal to inderse racial distinctions in the church in this country; his definition of true and false Americanism in the Father Hecker case; and his hearty co-operation with the American Government in the reconstruction of the old Spanish colonies on American lines. 3 There were many other and almost as important matters for America settled satisfactorily by Leo; as for in- stance his moderation in handling the school question, always a delicate matter; -his establishment of a, systgm for the settling of disputes between the priests and Bishops, and his creation_of a permanent legation in this country, which in no way interferes with our policy of recognizing only de facto civil governments. 5 g But the three first points are of particular importance, because if they had not been wisely, decisively and quickly adjusted the results would not only have been disastrous for the church in this country, but -would have proven a very serious impediment to the state in its complete assimulation of its foreign population—an assimilation so necessary to its continued progress. ; The first of these difficulties arose in this way: One Herr Cahensley, a German living in Geymany, concc|\~qd the idea, presumably, that that country had a corner on salvation and that the Lord would listen to no prayers said in the English language if the prayer was by birth or descent not of an English-speaking nation. Accordingly he sent a petition to the Pope asking him to order all Catholics in this country of European birth or parentage to attend only those churches where the sermons and instructions are in the native language of the immigrant, and that, fur- thermore, the children of immigrants should be forced to attend only schools taught in the foreign tongue of the parents; and that consequently so far as possible the new comer and his offspring be prevented from becoming Ameri- can in either sentiment, language or ideas. .,\m;,'ulgarl_\' as it . may seem, that foreign scheme‘ was indorsed by some of the foreign clergy in this country, but to their credit be it said by very few. The vast majority of the clergy, both native and foreign, with Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland at their head, opposed it violently. The plan of course was absurd on its face. It would have been impracticable, because the jurisdiction of each Bishop (the Bishops were to be appointed according te Cahensley’s idea by natiomality and not by geographical lo- cation, and were to have jurisdiction only over tho: i their own nationality) would have extended from New York to San Francisco. There would have been as many dioceses in a given community as there were nationalities. In New York or Chicago, for instance, there would have been English, Irish, French, German, Italian, etc., Bishops, each of whom would have beén kept busy rushing from one end of the country to the other hunting up his flock. If there were a marriage of two, different nationalities it would have required a judgment of Solomon to have decided the claims of the rival Bishops to the spiritual control of the children. The Pope at once considered the Cahensley petition and treated it with less consideration than any petition had ever received at the hands of the Papacy. He declared that the church knew no races; that it was the duty of Catholics to be true and loyal citizens of the country where they lived, abiding by its laws, supporting its govern- ment and speaking its tongue. He praised America and its constitution, and intimated very clearly that the foreigner who came here to live and was not in thought and deed loyal to the republic was not a good Catholic, whatever else he might be. More than that—he had already indorsed and approved the regulations of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, which directed that every Catholic should be taught the catechism in English, and that as speedily as pos- sible that language should be used for sermons and instructions in this country. The Pope furthermore appointed a the United States. In the Father Hecker case the attack on American Catholics was made by Frenchmen instead of Germans. Father Hecker was one of the celebrated Bound Brook colonists, who. it will be remembered, included among their members George William Curtis and Charles Dana. He was a Protestant, but became a Catholic and a priest and founded the order of Paulists, whose house in this city is connected with old St. Mary’s Charch on California street. A life of Father Hecker had been written by one of his brethren and a copy of it fell into the hands of some French clergy- man, who evidently had not a very clear knowledge of the English language, but who. nevertheless undertook to translate the work into French. The French version was very violently attacked by some French writers for its unsound theological theories, which they denounced as “Americanisms.” The matter was called to the attention of the Pope, who in a letter on the subject condemned the views as set forth in the French book, but intimated that they were not to be considered in any way Americanisms, since the American Catholics were as sound and orthodox as their critics. Ie took occasion to praise America and her institutions at the same time. Of the assistance which the Pope gave this Government in the adjusting of numerous difficulties in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines little need be said, since it is too recent to nesd repetition. It is worthy of remark, however, that one of the last things he did was to appoint American-born Bishops as the successors to the Spanish Bishops in the islands, and his representative is now busy adjusting the friar and church land difficulty at Manila. It may also be mentioned in this connection that a special college is to be—and perhaps has been—established at New Orleans especially to train American priests for the missions in the new possessions of the United Stotes. 4 Besides these more important matters Leo XIIT has shown on numerous occasions his admiration for America and Americans. One of his first pontifical acts was to establish through the Propaganda a system for the trial of cases arising between the clergy and their Bishops. In order that there might be no need to appeal to Rome, an expensive and slow process, he created, as has been said, a resident delegate in this country, who resides at Wash- ington, and who is practically in many respects an American Pope. In school matters, while he has never ceased to insist on the importance of a Christian education, he has never indorsed, either personally or through his delegate, the extremists, but has declared that church and state should aid each other in the education of youth, and that a way can be found to satisfy the demands of both. Mgr. Satolli, for instance, it may be mentioned, visited the schools in Minnesota which were under the so-called Faribault system—that is to say, which were owned and built by the Catho- lics, but were under the control of the public school authorities, religious instruction being given after school hours. The papal delegate approved the plan, and as all his acts were indorsed by the Pope, Leo evidently approved of the scheme also. The Cathdlic University at ‘Washington, one of the great institutions of learning in the country, owes much to his encouragement and approval. 4 At the World’s Fair of 1893 no exhibit attracted more attention than that sent at the special request of this Gov- ernment by the Pope, replete as it was with historical souvenirs of priceless value. To an American, Dr. Frank G. Dossert, was accorded during the papal jubilee ten years ago the unique honor of having a mass composed by him sung in St. Peter's on St. Joseph's day before a vast congregation. In the whole history of the church such an honor had never been accorded any one except Italian composers. It was also the first recognition of American musical genius in Europe. In congratulating the doctor after the services the Pope said to him: “My love for America has grown with years. I hope to see Italy equally free and happy. I desire to emphasize the fact that the church has been and is the patron of art and music and to encourage their growth in the legate or apostolic delegate to personally represent him in this country. The famous Mgr. Satolli, now a Cardinal, FOOLISH By Nicholas_ Nemo. FABLES FOR THE"’[' | % % Henry Benedict en- o what the ministers and di vorce lawyers agree in calling the holy but uncertain state of matrimony was fully prepared to deal with the sit- A long course of study of the works of Lillian Bell, the late Mary Jane Xanthippe and other classic authors had fitted ) her to deal with the common or garden in a manner that should be an example to all her suffering sisters. In the first place her husband should have no secrets from her; that was the first and great commandment. In the second pl; he should be culy landed at the family fireside by 6 o'clock every evening; a special dispensation for a run around the block after dinner might be granted in case of unusual need, but of his own vine and hat tree. If he desired amusement a simple little game of back- gammon with a smail lunch of €hocclate and wajers recommended by the best authorities as calculated to an- swer all requirements. If he yearned for more elaborate dissipation an occasional icecream jag at a Sunday-school sociable or a street car ride into the country on a Sunday afternoon might be allowed, but never without his running uation. She would be gentle, but firm. { was / By this time Mrs. J. H. was convinced that she had him properly roped and branded. With a little care she would soon have him so domesticated that he could tell the differ- ence between a lambrequin and an ordinary tidy, and he might even become able to detect slight differences in dress goods. In the course of time he might be real use- ful round the house. hassock—whatever that is—and an adult copy of “American Commonwealth” under his nose. For it was in the plot that a part of each evening should be given up to mutual improvement. Hubby was inclined to the belief that ten hours a day in an office with a typewriter at one hand and a telephone at the other and the head of the firm yelling at him every fifteen minutes because he couldn’t occupy two positions in space at the same time was about all the im- she ) provement thag one man was entitled to, but being fairly wise and likewise passing patient he held his peace in boih hands and said nothing. ( As the days passed Mrs. J. H. noticed that John Henry was not quite so appreciative of new gowns and fancy din ners and other choice blessings of Providence as he had been in the first blush of wedded bliss. At times he mani- husband ) fested a desire to make suggestions as to the proper way to broil a steak, and even showed symptoms of an idea about the correct way to trim a hat or to perform the toilet for a lettuce salad. Then she lifted her eyes and cast them carefully around the neighborhood to see how other women were solving the puzzle. Much to her surprise she discovered that the pres- ident of the Association for the Suppression of Husbands allowed her hetter half to go to the club whenever the fit 10 o'clock at the outside should see him sitting in the shade ( seized him. and if it didn't seize him often enough she was likely to do something to bring it on. Other women whom she knew to be possessed of very advanced views on the care of husbands seemed perfectly content to let the partners Every night she wouid trip him up and tie him in a large Morris chair with his feet on a Bryce's United States.” JOHN F. CARRERE. of their joys and sorrows go out ever and anon, if not oftener, and mingle with their fellow-men without being chaperoned by an alarm clock or a pedometer. When she had looked her fill she went home and took two or three long thinks. Could she have been playing a lone hand against the universe in her treatment of John Henry? Just as a flyer she suggested one night that he seemed to be in nced of fresh air. When the aforesaid John Henry recovered from the shock he gathered in his hat with the faraway expression of a man who has found a pocket- book on the street and wants to make every one believe that he dropped it himself and sneaked out into the circumam- bient atmosphere. When he came down late to breakfast the next morning carrying his head as though it contained something valuable she smiled sweetly and remarked that it was a very warm morning. A few days later she cheer- fully agreed with him that he was looking run down and that a fishing trip was what he needed to put him on his feet again. In divers and other ways he paid out the line so fast that he actually began to wonder if he were really hooked. Ii he wanted to stay at home of an evening she was sure to think of a place just around the corner where there was something on the ice, and he generally went out to help take it off. For six thirsty, headachy months Mres. J. H. made the poor man go the rounds so often that he hardly knew how his own home looked. Strong drink be- came a drug on the market with him and he would bolt at the sight of a pile of chips in a lumber-yard. The old days of backgammon and icecream dcbauches seemed like a dream of vouthful innocence. Meanwhile Mrs. J. H. has discovered the happy truth. which all wise women tumble over in the fullness of time. that the way to show a husband that there is no place like home is te let him go round to some of the other places. ~-Copyright, 1903, by Albert Britt. SR R I | IF PEOPLE WERE DIFFERENT | : By the Parson. ——— F we could only round off the corners and smooth down the protuberances of our fellow-men what a nice, easy world this wonuld be to live in. So many of our companions and acquain- tances are so delightful up to a certain point that we grieve because they lack the one thing more that would make them entirely satisfactory and congenial. That minister who preaches such superb sermons—if he only would come out of his shell when he is in society and show us the human side that we know he has. That neighbor who drops in every day or two—she's a very intelligent and interesting woman, but if she only wouldn’t stay quite so long. That grocery clerk who persists in whistling “Mr. Dooley” every time he comes up the walk to take the daily order—why can’t he be a little less boisterous? Behind all this sort of criticism of those with whom we have to do more or less constantly there is a fair measure of justice and often of righteous indignation. But there are certain counter considerations. In the first place it is selfish and risky business to erect one’s own tastes and preferences as the standard to which one would have all his fellow mor- tals in their various spheres of activity attain. Who are you that you should aspire to be the norm for your equals, not to say your betters? If you could once succeed in inducing those about you to cherish exactly the same feelings and interests which you cultivate, what a monotonous world you would live in forever afterward. I can’t imagine anything much more trying, not to say nau- seating, than to find duplicates of myseli wherever I went. One such parson as I is amply sufficient for my community, The charm and the zest of life arise from the fact that no two persons are cast in the same mold. I know some peo- ple who tire occasionally of their children because they mate to set the pace for him. Her idea of the management of the exchequer was that John Henry should turn over his little yellow envelope to her every Saturday night, with | a rebate of $3 75 for carfare and lunch. I For the first month or two aiter the setting of the hon- | eymoon John -Henry showed no signs of kickiug over the traces or even puliing on the bit. In fact, he was abcut the [} most docile family animal that could have been found in CL CTHES--This Is the Sixth of These Famous ‘“Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son.” PASTELS IN PORK. | gom . S—gEAR PIERREPONT: ~ That, order for a carload of Spotless Snow Leaf from old Shorter is the kind of back talk I like I have told like a certain individual if he were just a little different in il | b i 7 . . . L i i l‘\“;‘ any stable. Mrs. J. H. was sure that she had struck pay- R k We can stand a little more of the same kind of sassing. L told ( are so much like themselves, because they see in them the I i‘ il \ [ dirt on the first try, and she even began to block out an [ the cashier that you will draw thirty a week after this, and I want you to have a nice suit of ) reappearance of their own weaknesses and foibles. So when “ ! | { I i essay for the next meeting of the Association for the Sup- 1) clothes made and send the bill to the old man. Get something that won’t keep people guess- ) you are prone to lament the defects of others just analyze ‘ “lrl i i |h pression of Hushlands showing how she did the trick. But )/ ing whether you foilow the horses or do buck and wing dancing for a living. Your taste in sharplfi %ogr desire to have them different from what they l‘ (U0 “ }’l I oze S‘g day :" P wd"(e badl;;]m%:x_gledh; -1101"1" He"‘d")' tele- clothes seems to be lasting longer than the rest of your college education. You looked like a Mc'la‘l':en - 0_]:‘ if it L not at bot:om ahselfish_yeammg__ R | |i i ! J phoned up that a {riend from the West had dropped in on young widow who had raised the sccond crop of daisies over the deceased when you were again we must rememler that while we might i him and that he would be at the office late talking business. | é( ! The friend from the West was a new card to her, and s]ué in here last week. this particular or that. other people may like him just be- faintly suspected a cold deck, especially when hubby trun- Of course clothes don’t make the man, but they nmke_ all of hm\_ except his hands and face during 4bus|ness cause of this peculiarity. Not everybody likes to have his hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal. A dirty shirt may hide a pure heart, but it seldom minister come up and slap him on the back and say, covers a clean skin. If you look as if you slept in your clothes, most people will jump at the conclusion that you “Hullo, old man.” That whistling of your grocer’s clerk have, and you will never get to know them well enough to explain that your head is so full of noble thoughts that that bores you so may be to some otl.cr housewives on the you haven't time to bother with the dandruff on your shoulders. And if you wear blue and white striped pants {Street a pleasant bugle call to the duties of the day. Of and a red necktie you will find it difficult to get close enough to a deacon to be invited to say grace at his table, c?ur;e I am ’;"" talking now about radical faults and vices even if you never play for anything except coffee or beans. gmcao:iflnc::)r' ut ?b'-)“‘ l:dyms)'fl"ailefl and mannerisms of Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there’s nothing like having them deceive for us Probably yafle?’?ee“:fi‘eno:‘; are wishing that Joh instead of against us. I've seen a ten-cent shave and a five-cent shine get a thousand-dollar job, and a cigarette Jane were just a little diflgyrgn( John or Ja‘ne or so;e'éo&" and a pint of champagne knock the bottom out of a million-dollar pork corner. Four or five years ago little Jim else iy wishing that you were different, too. The truth uy Jackson had the bears in provision pit hibernating and living on their own fat till one morning, the day after he had ) you would be 2 more admirable person. In fact, you would run the prite’ of mess pork up to twenty dollars and nailed it there, some one saw him drinking a small bottle be almost perfect if you would overcome that little habit just before he went on ’Change, and told it round among the brokers on the floor. The bears thought { of forgetfulness or cynicism or vanity or if you would take Jima_must have had bad news to be bracing up at that time in the morning, so they perked up and everlastingly yourself seriously in hand at some other weak point of your sold_the mess pork market down through the bottom of the pit to solid earth. There wasn't even a grease spot left | dled in about an hour on the wrong side of midnight and \ tried to bring the banisters upstairs with him. After the friend from the West had evaporated John Henry staved quietly on the reservation for a few weeks i until the longing came upon him once more for the festive i highball when it is high, and even for a certain festive little [ game that is also likely to be high, and he prepared to sally I forth to meet another friend at the club. This time Mrs J. H. put her foot down and J. H. was under it. He was informed in accents that were calm but painfuily firm {h that the modern conception of a happy home required that i the alleged head of the house should be making glad the | household with his presence every blessed evening. ' Being a man and therefore of a sweet, reasonable disposi- | I\ tion—also realizing that the only way to avoid being beaten v y life. in an argument with a woman is to keep out of the argu- . Meanwhile the simple lesson for this Sunday morning is this: Let us value our friends and acquaintances for what & they are and not be f Towin; hat the: From ‘‘Letters fro; 11 " : lorever sor g over what they are lishers: B tont sers, {rom a Self-Made Merchant to His Son,” by George Horace Lorimer. By permission of Small, Maynard & Co., Pub- ook A ment—John Henry surrendered with all on board and swore) ©f that corner when they got through. As it happened, Jim hadn’t had any bad ncws'; he just took the drink because he felt pretty good and things were coming his way. ] that he would never venture outside the house without a | nurse, so help him, Brigham Young. | ‘1 { l Hil (i NIy