Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-19

Catholic Fanatics.
WASHINGTON, September II.

delivered q lcCturc III MoooHAS AAoiS
Manayunk, on the Roman Church as
it is as present, and from the begin
ming until his exit from that village
there seemed to be disposition OF
the part of the natives to treat him
with anything else but courtesy.
Upon concluding, Gerdemann placei
himself under escort and left the
building, proceeding to the railroad
station, while a mob collected and
continued in close proximity to the
party until they reached that place.
He was placed in smoking car and
both doors locked, while the crowd
remained outside. The mob, num-
boring almost one thousand, was a
dangerous one. Suddenly they raj
lied, beat the officers out of the way,
captured the car, broke in the door
and commenced an assault IN the ex-
priest. He was protected, however,
from serious injury by the police, re-
ceiving only few bruises. Gerde-
mann escaped finally to a rear car,
and under care of the officers was
brought to this city.
In this age of free speech and a
free press, no one can read the above
without q feeling of alarm and ap-
prehension for the future pace of
the country. Unimportant as this
occurrence may seem to some,
thoughtful readers cannot but realize
that it is an outrage upon civiliza-
ton and disgrace to Republican
Government. Such demonstrations
IS occurred at Manayunk are the
germs that, unchecked in their in
cipiency, lead to religious strifes at
arms and the plunging of a nation
into internecine wars. The question
naturally arises: Whittier are we
drifting9" Does the tide of years
that is flowing on and recording his
tory for free America bear upon its
bosom the fruits of civil liberty, or
is the undertow of religious serf-
dom from another cline and time
still rolling beneath the fair waters
upon which our ship of State has
been launched2 Does that undertow
of bigotry and superstition carry
with its unseen surges the beginning
Of an element that shall plunge our
nation into blood and strife? Proud,
free America has opened its broad
arms to the oppressed of every
nation, bidding them cheer and well
come to land whose air savors but
Of freedom and whose skies cover no
despot, religious or civil; whose
fields are bounteous and give back
undivided tithing to the laborer
whose brow has sweated in their cul-
tivation. She has opened the doors
of her schoolhouses to the children
Of those whose footsteps have been
harassed by the edict Of tyrant on
. foreign shore, and babe them share
equally the fruits Of her system Of
free and general education. She
has thrown open wide the portals Of
her Legislative halls, executive man.
sions, and Offices of emolument and
trust, to those who have fled OPP
pressed from the thraldom Of a Die
tator, and babe them help to hold the
mild reins Of just government over
a willing and grateful people, whose
only legacy is Freedom, and whose
only hope of security is the exercise
of Liberty by the press and the citi-
zen. Does the disgraceful scene a
Manayunk foretell . method by
which that debt of gratitude is to bt
paid by those whom we have given
an asylum Of safetya Does the SER
whose Bonded knees have knelt at Z
tyrant's beck in a foreign Land de
sire to stab his deliverer and protec
tort II it proposed to build upor
our free soil the Inquisition Chamber
and rack of forced confession
Verify, it would Seem to have thai
complexion. IT. isShigh time tina
such manifestations as that which VI
have recorded in the dispatch at thu
had Of this article, should receive ,
check and rebuke that will forever
warn these religion crazed fanatics
that they are not living beneath ths
shadows of the Vatican of Rome, bn
in . free land, where every religion
and the expression of it is protectet
by law; and where no sect or creet
will be permitted to prescribe o.
limit the freedom. Of another. W
write this a. an attack ON. no church
or religious belief, and believe tina
there will be found fewwho will no
equally condemn the mob-proceed
ing instituted against the expires
0erdenann. csti
Tar ALLEGED REGULATIONS II
TIE NEVADA STATE PsIsoN. While
In Carson yesterday, we took partic
ular pains to thoroughly investigate
the alleged 4peculations in the con
duct Of the Nevada State Prison at