The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-09-14
CRANKY RELIGIOUS BIGOTs.
4 Few Graphic characteristics Of
Three Distinct Types Of
Them.
ROMANlSM AND THE JESUlTS.

Opinions Of the Historian, the Gentle
man and the LAWYER
Editor.
BIGOT NO. /.
IA group of bright little children seat
ed on the porch Of q New England
summer hotel lntently studying . book
attracted the attention Of one Of the
guests. He looked and saw that they
were gazing at a picture in the book.
The picture represented four or five
monks, some dressed like Dominicans,
others like Franciscans, engaged in
torturing with pincers, roasting alive
beautiful woman half naked. "What
is that pictures" said the guest. ut is
Romish priests burning Protestant!'
replied the eldest of the children, a
flaxen haired boy. Are there more
pictures like that in the book?' said the
guest. 'Oh yes!" replied the boy it is
full Of them. And sure enough it was
full of illustrations, all calculated to IN
spire the youth with hatred of the Cath
Ole Church or cover it with ridicule.
The pictured matter was as full of false
hoods as Redpath' s history. Yet 1t was
written in plain, simple style in good
English adapted to the minds OF chill
dren. 1t was published by respectable
publishing house, which yearly sends
out thousands of copies OF books Of a
similar character to poison the mind of
the young against the faith and prac-
tice Of Catholics. The1e is hardly one
of our readers who has not come across
some Of these bigoted publications.
They produce the child bigot. The
little mind is 6lled with lies about
Popes. bishops, priests and nuns. and
the doctrines Of the church are ridiculed
and travestied. Even writer's as dis
tinguished as Charles Dickens did not
hesitate to stooD to this vile task Of
irving to lnhame the passions of the
Young against ''Popery." His child's
history Of England is proof. One of
the most prominent American writer's
who have devoted themselves to this ne
fariOus purpose is Goodrich or ''Peter
ParleY," whose histories, lacking in
truth as the inscription on tombstones,
are in the hands of all American child
rem. These books fill the country an
nually with copy OF young bigots, and
of course very few of these young minds
are able to get over their early preju-
dices in later life.
is there remedy for this evil? Yes;
it is to produce number of elementary
!. histories, we'll illustrated to make them
interested written by competent Catho-
lies for the benefit of the young. One
OF the best things the late Father
Hecker ever did was to publish the
pamphlet, s'Is it honest?" and scatter it
broadcast over the land. 1t was an
appeal to the sense Of fair play in every
honest mans breast, against the COM
mon calumnies against the Catholic
Church. IF it did not always make
converts, it certainly killed prejudice
in many minds Our Catholic colleges
have clever professors of English lit
erature and history. Will not some of
them write truthful histories for the
young, to counteract the fairy tales, but
called histories of ''Parley'' and Red.
path? The late John Hassard and John
Mccarthy did something in this line.
But much yet remains to be done by our
Catholic literateurs and our Catholic
publishers to stem the tide of Juvenile
bigotry set in motion by attractive but
false histories.
BIGoT NO. 2.
Here is a gentleman from Boston,
polite, educated and cultured. His
wife goes to the Catholic Church to hear
the music. He himself, possessed of a
sweet tenor, being acquainted with some
Catholic musician, sometimes sings in
a Catholic choir, or at a concert for the
benefit Of a Catholic charity. He is the
most amiable of men. He is "a merchant,
keeps Catholic help and clerks, and
chides them if they do not go TO their
own church on Sunday. He will even
invite the priest to dinner and doH his
I hat to him in the street. In fact he
/ thinks Father a. the incest man. he
knows, so when both happen to meet
atthe seashore in summer he will Invite
Father A to q sail, or to his house for
8 game of chess. Butour Boston friend
is like some of those lunatics one meets
at Bedlamf or Black we'll s. Island, same
iii everything but one. His crazy point
comes out after the first cameo chess,
especially if he loses it. Do You
know hs SAYS 4 ather A., &, have
1 great respect for the Catholic Church
would not object to.s nv
ghtels mar 4 yIng Catholics and turn