St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-02
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A Morning Paper Taken to Task
by Father McGOlrick.

The "anti-Catholic" question, as it is
called, has amounted to a religious war
fare in a small way i'll Minneapolis. 1t
appeared in the last political campaign
and had an influence. The feeling be-
tween Protestants and Catholics has
cropped out in the police and
fire departments, and there are
other evidences that bitter feeling has
been awakened that BODIES no good.
Sensible people of all beliefs agree that
no good can come from such antagon-
ism. and that its encouragement is dan
gerons. Several papers, while profess
ing to decry the impending con-
fiict, have been adding fuel
to the flames by publishing bit
ter pulpit denunciations OF Catholicism
from the most rabid of Protestants. One
paper, the Tribune, has gone further,
and some of its editorial utterances
have had a decidedly anti-Cathollc tone.
Rev. James McGoirick, of the lmmac-
culate Conception church. in protest
against this sort of crusade yesterday
addressed the following letter to the
Tribune, which smackS considerably OF
spirited Indignation:
81 900 REWARD.
To the Editor of the Tribune-Slr: 1t be-
comes nv painful duty to call your attention
to the fact that at various times for several
months past the editorial matter of the Trib-.
une has assumed a tone distinctly antl-Cath-
Ole. Whether this is due 10 a clear and set
tied purpose on the part of the managers or
arises from misunderstanding OF Catholic
doctrines is not for me to determine; chow
ever. there is scarcely well-lnformed Cath
olic in the city who has not felt the
change. l am aware that some big
oted and badly-educated men in this
CITY. and indeed, in many large
cities of the Union, are engaged in the foolish
work of exciting division and encouraging
opposition to Catholics. but l would not
look for any special aId TO them III Journai
of the Tribune standing. That the minis
tiers of the various Protestant churches
should protest against the Catholic church
is only natural. AS Cardinal Newman says:
Their business is to blacken her. to make
her Cinderella i'll the ashes; not TO hear
word she SAYS Their rule is: do not look
at her, but doubt her in your own way;
keep up the good old sign-post representa-
ton of her. She shall be always worsted
in the warfare with ProestantiSm; ever I'M
horsed and disarmed, ever running away,
ever Frustrated, ever smashed and pounded,
ever diving, ever dead And the ouly wonder
is that she has TO be killed SO often. And the
life so often trodden out of her. and her
priests and doctors to be so often put down,
and her monks and nuns to be exposed so
often. aud such millions of tracts to be writ
ten. i'm order thoroughly. and once for all,
and for the very last lime, and for ever and
ever to annihilate her once more. In pur-
suance of this sort of warfare, | find i'll your
edition OF Sunday morning, Dec. 80, under
the heading. sabbath Rest and Recreation
an assertion made by you, not for
the first time, namely, 'The Jesuits
say: do evil that good may come" ] will
take I'D this explicit statement and challenge
you TO the proof, offering here and now, one