The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-03-31

their ilk, have become noisy nuisances in
the land it is time they were hushed aud
abated. or at least rejected by the thous.
ands of Catholics, who help to support and
publications.
There is not numberof Ha,pc,s' or Lee.
Ices Weeklies . Catholic can pick up and
read, without having bis feelings outraged
by the slanderous insults to his religion
that invariably crowd their columns; and
torials, teeming, as they are, with carica-
lures of our Holy Father and of the
Church-with ridicule of ireland and the
Irish, and SANDERS of their faith-how Of
ten, l say, do we find those same pictorials
in the hands of Catholics, purchased and
WorkshoPs-the adornment ~ of their
oook. shelves and par1Or tables at home,
apd finally the play pictures for their little
cnildren Can We have the faith and spirit
of>true Catholics, and ye: thus openly and
knowingly arm our enemies against US
and feel not their fangs Can we drink in
deadly poison, and yet live untainted by it
and unframed IMPOSSIBLE; but even
could 700, the matured ones, whose minds
and hearts education, Knowledge and faith
have rendered impervious to the sting and
proof against the poison, we should re-
member the tender little ones around the
tireside, with whom ''eariy Impressions are
lasting )" We should remember the older
ones, whose minds are but bursting into,
intellects, and whose hearts are beating
wild with life in its realms of fancy-to
them every verse is vile, every page is
poison. every picture is pollution.
Let Catholic parents and guardians think
of this, and those who have harbored the
Harpers and the Leslies, Danish them for
ever from their thresholds, no matter in
what form they come, whether as pictori-
ais, journals or Lady's Books they are the
same poison, only put up in different doses
and packages, to be taken in different
ways-and their purchase money goes to
fill the same enemies Golfers. Let every
young Catholic, who has his Faith and his
Church at all at heart, remember this and
give no countenance or encouragement to
such publications, and pay no premiums
be finds in them. 1t is enough to have
unprovoked insult Haunted at US; we Ger
tainly- should not be willing to pay for
and encourage it. A Catholic should blush
to be seen with q Harper or q Leslie in his
hand. A Catholic news-deater should scOrn
duct his business successfully without
vending such publications as those, better
for him to change his business or beg his
bread, rather than live by buying, selling
and disseminating such vile ISLANDERS and
libels on his Church, the Faith of his ia
must keep up my stock! it is policy to keep
them for my customers !" Perhaps so F; but
bemeaDing, suicidal policy, which no
Catholic should adopt; and one that will
avail you little in the end were you to re-
fuse to keep such papers, your Catholic
and your Protestant customers think none
the less, because, knowing your reasons,
they would zee and appreciate yonr con-
sistency. The gains made by the sale of
! such papers are too ill-gotten to prove of
much profit; you are bartering away your
the thirty pieces of silver" about it, to
prove other than self-destroying.
In the Boeton Pilot of MARCH, 2, Messrs
Editors, is an able article headed, "Who
are the Robbers Z" in which the writer
comments at length on the article 1 have
referred to in the Catholic World heart
lily agree with the Pilot, that the said
article I" should be reprinted in every Ca
-tholic and Irish-American journal in the
Union, and should be circulated as extern
siyely as possible" trust 1t will be DONE
Tho Notre Dame Scholastic, a collegiate
paper widely known and justly Influential
in the North and West, contains in it's
issue of September Is, 1871, an able |
and spirited leader, headed "Text- Books |
Again." which certainly has the clear and |
true ring-and could have naught else,
emanating from such a source.
The writer begins as follows:
We wrote last year concerning the textbooks
used in Catholic colleges and schools, and |
maintained that Catholic colleges and schools
would be direlct to duty, would be counteract-
ing the object for which they were established,
and would manifest sordid and contemptible
spirit by patronizing, or buying books of those
publishing houses from which are issued
publications in which the Catholic religion is
msrepresented ard foully illuminated, the
Catholics themselves held up to ridicule, the
Catholic clergy malgned, and the Head Of the
Catholic Church, the Pope. the Vicar of Christ,
treated with the same contumely as was his
Divine Master by the rabble that finally cruc-
fed Him.
He then states that many papers had re-
published the article that he had received
many letters coinciding with him in his
views, and that very many colleges had
acted on his suggestions. He concludes
his article as follows:
We are in earnest about this /; and we intend
to do our utmost to exclude the publications
Of these scandalous houses from colleges in
which We have any influence. Of course we
,ave none except in those of the United States,
md perhaps Canada, which are conducted by
hose who think as we do on this subject, But