The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-08-30
MAI WARNER ON CATHOLICISM


1888, embodying the protest Of the
Presbyterians Of New Mexico agains,
the attack made on the Catholic dem
ocrats of that territ,ry in the report
signed and approved by Maj. Warner,
the present nominee of the republican
party for governor of Missouri. The
article referred to Is as follows:
Delegate joseph of New Mexico
has presented to congress plumber OF
documents retutiug the charges
against the people Of the territory
made by Hon. William Warner u
Missouri and other republican men,
bers OF the committee on territories in
their minority report. The charges
made ia this minority report were
that the New Mexic ms were mostly
Roman Catholics. dlssolute, ignorant,
vicious, viO.ent and supersritiOus.
Congressman Warner and bis asso.
, cIate republicans supported these
charges with quotations, the general
tenor of which may be judged By the
folio wing:
In times gone by the church con-
duced much to this state Of things; a
majority OF the priests themselves
lived in open prostitution, and the
most alb ,ndoned characters retained
the standing in the church if they
were regular at the confess onsl and
paid the customary dues without fail.
As race the people Of New Next.
Co are extremely superstitiOus, and
which prevails to greater or less
degree among al classes. the intelli-
gent a. we'll as the most ignorant.
They have an abiding fai h in ints
and i'm sges, and with The mass Of the
inhabitants their worship appears no
more th. IN a blind sduration OF these
insensibie objects. The second sum-
mer of my residence there there Was
a severe hails,nrm in the month OF
June, when the people. in order to
protect their Crops, stuck up crosses
in their fields, and it is no uncommon
thing for them to have their field
BLESSED by a priest after the seed is pur
into the ground, in order that they
may bring forth gooi crops.
The public alton of this report caus d
NJ small excitement in New Mexico
as well it might, fer more extra
ordinary document WAS never submit
ted 10 congress since congress was or
ganized under the constitution which
guarantees religious liberty. Indig-
naut protests were adopted and among
the number of these which Delegate
joseph has read 10 congress is one
tr I'm The SAINT. Fe Presbytery, con-
tie Warner report at all
points. TIE resolutions OF the pres
bytery bearing on the repu 6licdn OBJ
jecsion to adm ting the Territory on
account of the prevalence in it Of the
Catholic religion is as fol-
lows:
Resolved, That we s,lemrly de-
clare that such state of aft airs, or
approaching it. does not ex-
st in our Territory now, nor do we
believe that such state of affairs eyer
did exist in said Territory since lis
,rganiz alton, unless, possibly, in small
and isolated spots, and in our opinion,
'ucb statement originated in the fer.
Tile but sensational brain of some
person who Was probably never nearer
The Territory of New Mexico than his
are to the truth.
Resolved, That, as a refutetion of
'uch statements, we, as presbytery,
leclare that the Presbyterian Church
s making rapid progress in said Ter
.itory, churches have been and are
,eing erected in ell paris Of the Ter
'ilory,; and the membership rapidly
Increasing, both from our American
md native population that it is our;
,elief that other denominations of the :
hurch are making rapid progress also ,
o that all Christians coming to said +.
'erritory can find a home in the !
;hurch of Christ, and be as free from '
arm or moIestation IS in any state in l
he Union; that the cause Of educa il
ion is making rapid progress every
here, and tat the majority of our =
eople will compare favorsbly in point q
morals with those Of any other Ter +
tory, and many. if no. all. of the e
ates. g
Another charge of the report was u
lat when a certain New Mexican was y
cry i'll his family brought a small
tar into his room and performed
me ceremony" which the minority's A
illness did not understand, but which K
emed to him to be "a semi-heathen n
This was perhaps m
citation of the prayers for the dying, q,
the administration of the com. =,
union. The resolutions of the fr