. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. y planned tenement houses, as theyare not only dangerous to public health, bufc are m
. Three Catholic Afro-American congresses [electronic resource]: a short resume of the work that has been done since the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, letters of the hierarchy, clergy and prominent laymen to the congresses, the sermons of Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Elder, Archbishop Ryan and Father Mackey, speeches and portraits of prominent colored Catholics, their friends and institutions, the public addresses of the three most remarkable gatherings of Negroes in America : all nicely bound in cloth. y planned tenement houses, as theyare not only dangerous to public health, bufc are more-over hot beds of vice and a standingmenace to morality. In this connection we desire to draw attentionto the discrimination practiced by real estate ownersand agents against respectable Colored people in to rent them desirable property because of their?color, or, when renting to them, of charging a higherrate of rental than would be charged other people un->der similar circumstance3. Having learned it* this Congress the admirable and remarkabe efforts thus far accomplished for the-benefit of the African race, either in this country oron tbe African continent, by the various religious or*-ders of the Catholic Church, we tender these zealousand noble hearted pioneers of the Gospel the express-ion of our admiration and gratitude, and trust theywill continue the work of devotion thus done for the-regeneratiou of our people. It is, too, a pleasu e to us to endorse the noblet. JOHN R. RUDD, OHIO. stand which the American Catholic Tribune, to>which this Congress owes so much, ha? from the starttaken to furnish our people with useful and entanwing reading. In conclusion, after pledging ourselves to carryout to the full extent of our ability the solemn wishses of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore, we ex-press a hope that the fruits of this Convention willbe far reaching and lasting and that our Catholic;brethren throughout the land will generously h
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