The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-26

sylvania town "tho Roman Catholics
formed plot to murder" Q school-teacb cher
. The priest aided in encouraging The
dangerous spirit of the people, and the
assaseins seem to have been urged on Ed
their dreadful deed by tho open oounte n
ance or the Romish Church." Tho writer
is any longer safe who ventures to doubt
INC divinity of Mary or the supreme pre-
rosative of the Pope" This is only sam i.
PIE OF many similar ISLANDERS which the nm
prlnclpled publishing firm Of the Harpers
are spreading all over the country. What
are we doing to counteract them Surely,
we cannot afford to let them 60 unanswer-
cd, and we leave it to any Catholic to say
whether there is a single publication Of
our creed in the United States which we
can depend upon for prompt and thorough
reply TO such falsehoods, in such form and
manner as to convince not merely the Ca
tholic, but the Protestant public. We
must confront our assailants on their own
ground. If they tell US that priest and
MS patishioncrs in an obscure Pennsyl-
Vanla town have conspired to murder Pro.
ees'ahe schooi teachers, we must be able to
snow, and to show ut once, that the Incl
dents never occurred, or that the interpre-
We ought to have oar sources of informa-
tlon as wen as our enemies. We need our
news 'gatherers and Investigators, who
shaii answer falsehood not with, fndig.
nant invective, but with fact. This Is
for a much prompter publication. Long
before the true story of such an affair could
be told In The Catholic World, it would
nave been succeeded by q new Islander.
The poison would have run through the |
public veins, and it would be too late for |
the antidote to overtake it. Newspapers |
n n lin IL -
would do it fthey had the money but in
vestIgations are expensive, and when the
force OF aCatholic organ consists of nobody
but the editor, who wri ties all the fourth page,
and the assistant, who makes up the rest of
the forms with paste-pot aud pair Of
shears, there is OF course no reporter who can
be sent away on excursions. The New York
Times, which has long rivaled Uarpers +
Weekly in 1bigotry and anti Catholic malice,
allows correspondent to take up this story,
repeat 1t as well asceItaincd truth, and
enforce tho lesson that ga faithful son of !
the RomIsh Church cannot be . law abiding
citizen OF this free Republic" We dare say
scores VI Union newspapers will follow the
example of the Ts,nes and, mean while, IL
a few weekly Catholic papers succeed in
getting at the truth of the incident, we may !
depend upon it their refutation of the false
hood will never reach Protestant ears. 1t
is time for CO to understand that caiumny I
cannot be conquered by such means as we
uow employ, and that practically our ene-
mice are having everything their own way. |
Catholic questions of the most moment
GUS character are now agitating the whole
continent of Europe. Germany is shaken I,
by the problem of education; italy,, by |
the contest between the rights of the Vicar |
Of Christ and the usurpations of the god |
less Sarslinihn monarchy. The Dollinger
party are encouraged by some of the |
"a cusar A uttpntt n hpreSV.i