The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1892-09-24
Seventh-Eight per cent of the desert
ers from our armies in war OF peace were

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one-third of the army is Romanists-th
Yankee patriot proves that by far a les
number of Catholic soldiers desert thar
others do, and it also proves that Catho
! lies fight for America as we'll as other'
| do.
Eighth schools do not
make moral men.
I simply deny it.
Ninth-Nearly all murderers are at.
| tended by Catholic priests.
That proves that when man, Catho-
lie or non Catholic, faces death he wants
to make his peace with God. Many non
Catholics embrace the faith before crimi-
nal execution.
Tenth-The text books in Catholic
schools are not fit for American citizens.
I answer, they have all that are worth
having to inform the American mind.
They leave nothing out that is most in
terestipg, even should that tend to the
gltrifcation of Christianity.
Eleventh-Catholics believe in a Pope
as civil ruler in Rome
Answer~Has the Pope less right than
any other man?
Twelfth-A Catholic knows not Amer
ican history.
Answer-General Sherman and Phil
Sheridan, both Catholics, did not only
know it but made it, And what about
Barry, the father of the American navy,
and what about the Jesuits, who dis
covered the sources of our great rivers?
Thirteenth-Priests denounce public
schools.
Answer They do not condemn school
ing but the defects OF the public school
system, and 80 does every honest Ameri-
can who wants good schools.
Fourteenth A Catholic cannot serve
his Church and the Republic.
I auswer-Leo XIII, the present Pope,
teaches the whole Christian world that
Catholics accept any form of lawful gov
ment,monarcbical and representative.
Fifteenth-That Church is arrayed
against modern progress, intelligence
and liberty.
I answer-The history of the world
proves the contrary. No church has mere
schools. The medieval word, clerk,
which means writer, comes from the
word clergyman, as Catholic churchmen
were theJmen of letters in the past. AS
for liberty, people would not know what
it is were it not for the teachings of the
Catholic Church. But the same Church
opposes retrogression, misguided intelli-
gence and license whose advocates claim
beautiful names.
Sixteentb-That Church controls the
education of it's children
Answer-She has right to that as
we'll as you have to control the education
of yours.
Seventeenth-The Roman school
teaches submission; the American, indie
pendence
Answer-Hence the Romans, as you
call them, educate citizens submissive to
law; the public school, as you want it,
trains anarchists.
Eighteenth-The Roman Church has
most criminals
[ deny it.
Nineteenth That Church is not patri-
otic.
You cannot mention the name of one
Catholic who was q traitor. as Arnold
was. But the late war had many thou
sands of patriotic Catholic defenders OF
the union in the rank and file, and such
Grams.
Twentieth Romanists are under the
control of the Jesuits, who are the enc
mics of liberty
+ answer-The Jesuits teach true
liberty everywhere, and therefore tyrants
have fought them everywhere, and no
Catholic, as citizen, is controlled either
by Jesuit or any other priest.
Twenty -irst-Romanists want fat Of
fees.
Romanists as we'll as anybody else are
subjects of the Democratic or Republi-
can party, which they are pleased to
choose.
Twenty -second-They choose politi-
cal Office for chnrch purpose.
Catholics are like other people: and
when they think themselves fit for office
they choose, as other mortals do, what
they like best without consideration
whether clergyman fancies it or not.
Twenty third Catholics will change
our representative form Of government.
/ have answered, my friends.as shortly
as possible, every one of the attacks
made on the Catholic American citizen.
Each answer could give subject for q
whole lecture, but We are living IN fast
age, we must go with the current be
quick, short and to the point. The patri-
otic American, who signs his name under
the nom de plume Of Live Yankee is
not, I think, very active and intelligent,
otherwise he would not have made these
charges. He would have taken pains
to know the Catholic Church. not by the
speeches and ritings Of those who we're
as ignorant lot The Church rs himself, or
who Willingly and knowingly maligned