resident of the city of Chicago
would speak at that meeting. All the honors will be given, as they ought
to be, to the governor of the State, the Irish leader and his
lieutenants, and to distinguished Irish-Americans from outside cities as
may desire to address the people of Chicago.

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PRIESTS IN POLITICS.--_Montreal True Witness:_ There are those who
object, with all generosity, to the clergy taking part in political
movements. There could be no more illogical cry. It has been the too
great severance of religion from the affairs of the public that has
enabled so many unfit persons to obtain parliamentary election and
tended to degrade politics. These people go to make laws affecting
morality, education, and the conditions of social existence too often
without the slightest fitness for that great duty and task. The clergy
are the spiritual guides of the people, the custodians of the most
important influences which affect humanity. To say that they should
abstain from endeavoring to affect administration in a beneficial
manner, is to say not only that they should de-citizenize themselves,
but that they should violate their pledges and abandon their sworn duty.
Those who think the clergy are not doing honor to their office by
participating in politics take a very narrow view of the case. Without,
perhaps, intending to do so, they play into the hands and promote the
ends of those conspirators who are endeavoring to destroy Christianity
and the moral system based upon it.

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In reply to a letter, calling Cardinal Newman's attention to the recent
revival of the vigorous old lie which attributes to him the statement
that he regarded the Established Church as the great bulwark against
atheism in England, his Eminence has written as follows: My dear ----.
Thank you for your letter. I know by experience how difficult it is,
when once a statement gets into the papers, to get it out of them. What
more can I do than deny it? And this I have done. I always refer
inquirers to what I have said in my "Apologia." The Anglican bishops say
that Disestablishment would be a "national crime," but Catholics will
say that the national crime was committed three hundred years ago. Yours
most truly,--

J. H. CARDINAL NEWMAN.

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