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DENVER CATHOLIC REGISTJ^R VOL. III. NO 31. DEXVKK, COLORADO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1908. $1.50 l L?'® jar Archbishop Farley’s Story His Grace of New YorK Illustrates the Great Power of Personal Sympathy—Employer and Employee o f F a t K e r An "Industrial Peace Evening,” feeling between master and mai>» was the pleasing title given to a since each depends on the other. Th® gathering of prominent men at the capitalist depends a.-< much on the la residence of Andrew Carnegie in borer as the laborer on the capitalist. I New York not long since. The con He should, therefore, have a paternal Pastor of St. Elizabeth’s Church, Denver, Slain at Com ference was held under the auspices interest in all his employes, in sick of the National Civic Federation. ness, in health, in death and in life. munion Rail by Italian Anarchist The gathering of nearly four hun He should be his men's friend. That dred representatives employers, la was th« case in the instance I cited a Perhaps the most appalling crime in Bey, Dec'^mber 4, 1886, and entored the ’ si>Ue of the many cares usual In a n:uch time in mill towns of Massachu-I body; the nuns of the city, the school bor leaders, professional men, edu moment ago. That gentleman was a the history of the Catholic Church in Franciscan college, whore he com large parish his gentleness never left setts and some in Chicago, and came M^^Hdren. the i>eopIe of the parish and cators and publicists under Mr. Car father to all bis workmen, and hence America was committed at the six pleted his studies and was ordained a him. Moreover, he was untiring in his to Denver two weeks before Christmas | gener.il public, until the church was negie's hospitable roof was in itself he had their confidence, love and af o'clock mass in St. Elizabeth s Church, priest by the late Bishop Wlggor, July effortn for the betterment of his pea- with Miho Bnmetti, » recent inimtsrant, HHed to Its capacity. A crowd number- a striking illustration of the progress fection. He was willing to make Denver, on Sunday. February the 23rd, 26. 1891. pie, and his zeal, rather than his au-|from1 - -Italy. - He gives---- so-called- . ...------"home ing many thousands, unable to gain ad- that has been made in recent years any sacrifice, and they were willing when the paslor. Rev. Fr. Leo Hein Father Ix o labored for many years thorlty, irsplrcd his co-workers. A l address" 10 Wallez ]>lace, Wake mlssicn during the .Mass, stcxxl in the toward conditions in the industrial to make one which he would not ac richs, O. F. M., was shot down In cold as assistant pastor of St. Bonaventures, though h3 bad been in our midst only field, Massachusetts. s'reet. th _■ men with heads bared. world. cept from them. blood by an Italian anarchist to whom saying Mass at Uockaway, New Jer- five months be bad endeared himself His crime had be<'n evidently pre° (he hour appoin:ed. be- Archbishop Farley w*as present and "Now, I have thought over thie he was aCmlnlaterliig Holy Commun soy. on Sundays. From 1897 till 1902 j to all. The i>oor, especially, have lost meditated, as tlie bullets he used were i Procession of fifty acolytes, when asked to give his views spoke problem from time to time, and it ion. Fathei Leo was officiating In he ministered to the parish of Slngnc, In him a true friend. He fed many s..arpcnod to needle iwints. He ar-1 ^’hlte surplices over black cas as follows: curs to me that the great drawback place of Father Wulstan. who Is the a suburb of Paters.n; at the same time I daily at his dcor; he visited the sick rived iwent minutes before the Mass socks. followed by fifty visiting priests " I am delighted to see the trend of the system of corporations is this usual celebrant of the mass at that he was raised to the office of vicar of and secured for them in case of need began and took his position three pews of the Fitnclscan. Dominican, Jesuit, that labor and capital arp taking, as — that those employed by them never evidenced in the union oere, under time. St. Bonaventures. and made a director the medical and other necessary alien from the front and directly In front of Redemptorist, Marist. Servite and Ben’ can get at the employer. A corpora The Italian had taken his position in of the third order. In the autumn of I the puL'ut. He expresseil no repent- edlctlne orders and secular priests. the roof of one of our most hospit tion has no soul— so it is said, at front of the pulpit, where he evidently 1902 he was sent to be pastor of St. "Only true men can wdn the ronfi- ance for his deed, but on the contrary Finally the celebrant of the Mass and able and leading capitalists of the least— and when a man, or a body of expected the preacher to make his ap- Stephen's church. Croghan. New York. his (leaccns filed into the sanctuary to United States. It augurs well. Mr. men, have a grievance, they cannot X>earance. Foiled here, there being There he erected a subMantial church begin the celebration of the Solemn Carnegie saM a few moments ago. in get at the owner, whom they think DO sermon at the six o'clock mass, he and school, l>oth cf which were de High Ma.ss of Requiem^ The choir, aug speaking of labor and capital, that should feel for them and meet with iwrslsted In his baleful purpose and as stroyed by Are. together wpli other mented to seventy voices, accompanied much of the trouble comes from lack them. He will always say: T cannot the time for giving communion ap- Church property, but so well did he la by a full crehestra, began the singing of recognition on the part c f the cap do anything in the matter unless it imoached, walked up with the com bor that within three years he had ro- of Schmidt’s Requiem Mass. Miss Jo italist. Bearing on that, let me take is laid before the board.' municants to the alu r railing, where built the Church property at a cost of sephine M oeber directed the choir and a tale for my text which will perhaps "Now, I hold that if some persoh he knelt at the end nearest the altar $200,000, every cent of which was paid. her sister. Miss Clara Woeber, pre convey to you what Mr. Carnegie and in power were given authority, some of the Blersed Virgin. Father I-eo had After leaving Croghan he «'as re sided at the organ. myself have In our minds as the best man with a big heart and a sympai- solution of these vexed relations be thetic nature, to deal with the mem reached him. he raised his head, re turned to Paterson, where he remained The celebrant of the Mass'was Rev. tween labor and capital. When I as that gentleman I spoke of in the ceived the Sacred Host upon his until five months ago. when ho was as Frank O'Neil, O. P., pastor of St. Dcmi- was a young man in college a com beginning dealt with his men, show tongue, and heard from the man whom signed to Denver. F'ather Leo left Pat nlc s, representing the Dominican or panion o f mine told me this story; ing them that he was flesh of their be Intended to send to death: "May erson September 23. 1907, exactly five der; the deacon was Rev. Eklward His father was the employer of some flesh and bone of their bone, that he the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ months before the date of his death. Barry, S. J., pastor of Sacred Heart 500 or 1,000 men. Dull times came recognized in them and in their souls preserve thy soul to life everlsstlng- , church, representing the Jesuits, and In this short pastoiate at St. Eliza on. the market was stagnant, ma the image of God, the same as was It was a solemn moment. Every other the sub-deacon was Rev. Stephen Eis- beth's the martyred prt<*Bt wound terial was being turned out by this stamped upon his own soul, you head was bowed In silent absorption ler, C. S. S. R., pastor of St. Joseph's, closely about him the affections of bis large body of men and no sales were would hear less of discontent and les.^ and adoration. Scarcely had the words representing the Redemptorists. Rev. people. Kindliness toward everyone made. Month after m.onth passed of the problems that are vexing the died away than the man. with a vio Father Wulstan, O. F. M., assistant pas was bis chief characteristic, kiadllness. and the conditions promised no im- nations today between capital and lent exclamation, spat the sacred tor cf St. Elizabeth's, acted as master human cheer, brotherly love and char proveui^Dt. One day the employer labor. siH>clos from his mouth, and snatching ity. .People living in the vicinity of the of CCr®ffioni?3. Rev. wniiarc O'Ryanj a revolver from bis hip i»ocket, shot [ trai .waited Oh 1>>' k delegation of the "J feel that I have a right to speak friary tell the ston' that every morning pastor o f Si.