The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-03-03


Committee Of the Union League Club in re-
gard to appropriations of public moneys for
sectaran purposes has created quite lively
sensation among our brethren OF the religious
press. The Freem0n's Journal (Catholic)
takes up the cudges in behalf of the Roman
Catholic interest," and shows where the Union
Leaguers have committed some errors in their
report For example, in assuming that GER
tain appropriations were made for Roman
Catholic institutions, when the fact, it seems,
is that they were made to Protestant benevo-
| lent societies bearing names similar to those
adopted by the Roman Catholics in christen-
ing their charitable asylums. Very naturally
ten-dollar Hawkins, as the foster father of the
Union League statement, comes in for his
share in the responsibility of uttering these
blunders-these counterfeits Of the true coin.
Says the Journal in this connect ion =
Mr.. Dexter Hawkins has put down Protestant and
1nnue institutions and schools in the list as CathO-
lie. A correspondent In last Sundays HERALD has
opposite OF Catholic, to which over Sixty seven
Thousand five hundred dollars were granted. and
which the ambl Dexter0us Mr.. Hawkins Jumps in as
Catholic. Nor has this HERALD correspondent ex-
hausted the list He does note that the "Sisers
testant community, TO whom fifteen thousand dol
las were granted. There yet Others the list
that we gravely doubt OF, but these enough to
snow Inat no reliance is to be placed the accu-
racy OF this report.
The EoGngeIist-Presbyteria the other
hand, is equally Outspoken, taking grounds in
support of the truth Of the Union Leaguer's re-
port. After recting the statement in that re-
port that single sect-the Roman Catholic
during the last three years, by allying itself
to the Tammany Ring, has drawn from the
public treasury of the city and county of New
York, in cash, for the support of its converts,
churches, cathedrals, church schools and asy-
lums the sum of nearly million and a half Of
dollars; and, eff to this be added the present
value of real estate transferred to this same
sect by the public authorities for nominal
consideration, the aggregate mounts up to be-
tween four and five millions of dollars" The
Evangelist goes on to say =
Such statements would appear incredible If 1t
were not for the evidence afforded by the specific
Items. Under u sense or the gross outrage thus
committed upon The community, and the insult to
OverDurdened taxpayers OF calling 1t by the name
OF CHARITY, 1t will be difficult for persons accustomed
to calm tone to speak OF II as 1t deserves. IL Is
violation OF the spirit If of the letter. of the
stltution. 1t Is public robbery, veled under legal
as the enormous steallngs or che Tammany Ring. 1t
brings In upon us surreptitiousy what the very
established Church. And when the act Is done
under the gulse OF cnarlty II adds hypocrisy to
the insult which 1t oilers both TO our rights and our
common sense.
Dexter is we'll known "two-sixteen"
horse; but this ten-dollar Dexter seems to
be able to come down to q simple "one-ten"
without an effort.
The O6seroer (Presbyterian) quotes Hosea
Bigelow, when he wrote:-
John p.
Robinson, he
says they didn't know anything
down In JUDGE.
and makes this the text for an article upon
the woman preaching question. The Observer
frightened at the apparition of pretty and
eloquent Quakeress in a Presbyterian pulpit"
and proceeds
No. not frightened. We are just of the opinion Of
we read with attention us camness rests u.s. ana
we enjoy It. Now, TINS paper speaks out on the
tirely OF quaker persuasion on the subject 1t says
shat voluntary speechmaklng ION the part OF
womenj and other attriton with the public may de-
veop masculine habits and lessen the gentle fem
nlneness which we love to contemplate" but It
S9es no. 70 S
The Observer concludes -
The modern crusade for the overthrow OF the
Scriptural and beautiful harmonies OF social life IS
a rebellion against the nature OF wOmanhOod, and
the refined feminine soul cries out against It, She
Is right God made her SO. May God forbid shat
the weakness Of men, the folly Of men or ambition
that sin by which the angels fel or women should
seek to make her otherwise.
But 'the world moves" and Quakeresses
and other gifted women will preach or lecture,
.kosr ot1.o H.
moveth them.
The Independent (Congregationalist, if any
thng) fires broadside into ''sectarian pilfer-
ing" as developed in the Union League re-
port, and utters some words of truth and
common sense when it says:-
the time has come for a kind OF action that will
teach all religious scots to be content with the
rights and protection of citizenship, and not ask
expect the state to contribute g dollar for their
support This Is the true ground 10 be taken and
there should be no delay In taking It,
The Tablet (Roman Catholic) denies that
republcanism is anti-Catholic and necessarily
heterodox or infidel, and believes that when
Christie ndom-
Is once reconstructed on a republican basis the
Church VIII see brighter and more glorious days
than she has ever yet seen though her life In this
MI as easS to educate the people as It to educate
the heir OF a throne. Let the people be well and
thoroughly educated In Catholic principles In the
law or God, the teachings ana precepts OF Chris
tanity, and they will offer no collective hostility to
Catholiclty, and Church and state Will cooperate
for the good OF society and the salvation OF souls
The Church, in educating her own children In her
faith and discipline is taking the very course neces
sary TO save repubcanism from perverslOn and de-
struc'l0n and secure the stability and perpetuy OF
the republic, and hence the madness and peryersity
OF those journals that oppose Catholic schools and
seek force goddess education upon all the chill
dren Of the land.
The Methodist says it speaks advisedly when
it refers 70 what it calls "Our Established
Church." and asserts that Gin New York city
that Church is the Roman Catholic" Con-