The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-04-05
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LITHUANIAN AGAIN


AAAAH o. III AAN AAAhAhD ~ r.
March Both l endeavored to direct the item
ton Of liberty loving people to the danger
which, in my opinion, menaces to overthrow
the existence of this Republic. To-day ] add
a few reflections on matters which interest
our immigrant population.
1 wish there could be created an American
Protective Association even in this anthracite
coal region there would be plenty Of work
for same If catholicism strives to get
superiority at present in Columbus, Ohio, we
can be assured that at the next election we
will be obliged-noIens Uoiens-to fight
against the Catholic church in this place
either. Preparations are being made, at least
among the immigrant population, Poles,
Lithuanians, etc. The Lithuanian priests at
present are occupied not with the moral
correction of w~ickedness of their sheep
you know there are many trespassers among
the uneducatcd people, drinking and fighting
and other vices are the rule, not the eXcep.
tion-but they animate their believers against
the free institutions of this country. If
illiteracy is common among my couutrymen,
if lack Of knowledge is felt everywhere, who
should be made responsible for it2 Our
moral and mental proceptors, who mislead
the simple man, who saw into his soul
aversion to learning, aversion to freedom.
Science, in the opinion OF the Lithuanian
priests, is ouly good for the devil. Science
opened the ways to knowledge, to invention,
to relief and amelioration in the hardships Of
life, and all progress of mankind is de-
nouuced as the broadening Of ways leading
into the hell
If there had not been a Gutenberg the
world would remain obedient to the Pope!
If not the mariners compass, the earth
would retain its quadrangular shape las
taught by ST. Augustine, etc. and remain
without the damned antipodes in the new
world If Franklin had not brought down
the lightning from the clouds the Pope and
his clergy would govern the heavens,
the rain and the snow Electricity,
the mighty implement of God to punish the
misdoer, became an instrument Of the human
bee. Physics and astronomy, geology and
biology, evolution and progress, are the most
abominable things in the world because they
do not afford any rest to our panic. stricken
priests.
Our clergy curses science and damns its
bearers and propagators. You cannot pro-
%nounce the name of Darwin, Spencer,
Tyndall, Huxley, Helmholtz, even Galilei
and C~opernicus, without provoking a reverent
shudder on the part of our priests. Every
Sunday you win hear them preach against
scientific truth; against schools freed from
the influence of the Catholic church; against
freedom! Seryitude and submissiveness is
the ideal proclaimed and celebrated by our
moral preceptors. Our priests desire and
admonish that all L|ithuanians should join
the Catholic Alliance, whose aim is to secure
the superiority Of the Catholic church over
other forms of religious confession.
1 think that a helping hand of Americans
g is needed for the success Of the Lithuanian
Educational Society in the fight against the
vile aims OF our priesthood. The Lithuanian
priests care for nothing but money. Few of
them become citizens of the United States,
although they receive all the benefits which
this country can afford them. The parishiouers
are obliged to pay thcir parson every month
so cents as a remuneration fee for the services
of the priest and the same faithful parish
toners must pay for confession from So to SIS ;
r for christening, from SO to 50 for the mass,
from 81 to So for funerals, from $40 to S25;
for the marriage ceremony, from Sl5 to so,
and so on.
Imagine if it is possible for a laboring man
to save anything to pay the p~riestly taxes?
Our priests collect in a year thousands of
, dollsrs besides their agreed fees.
For instance, the parson in this town has a
monthly income Of between 81, 500 and
: SszOOOl
And yet nothing is being done for the
education of the Lithuanian people!
If children are sometimes instructed in a
basement by uevout sisters to pray the usual
prayers, nobody will find this an education
. leading to Independent thinking.
Lectures and addresses, organized by the
Lithuanian Society, are denounced shame
n fully. Therefore you ought not wonder If
our fellow brothers find relish in liquors
besides our priests themselves, lBey. Polu-
, Iiauski encouraged drinking by keeping
saloons iu The same building where Jheil
chapel has been establish dJ-4nd i'm q~uarrels
&c the courts have always snparluous work
with our unfortunate know uothiues,
If the English speaking public would Civ,
n more interest to the matters of educating the
foreign population, 90 check Jhe influence o
deprayed Catholic priests, 20 tame the mpacity
Of our spiritual pqdroui a great change fol
the better can be expected i'm q short time
If instead OF sustaining missions to the DarB
Continent the English race would be willing
to support the educational work among our
r. own oppressed and exploited fellow citizens
a great and solemn step would be made fo
the cause of justice, of morals, Of knowledge
But is this not a vain hope, is this not a to,
o. bold intimation on my part2
LITHUANIAN,
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