St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-07
THE OHIO DOC UMENT
Which Strikes Terror Into the
Oath-Bound A. Il. A IS.

HHS AOeSoeuuu VI
D., came out few days ago with the
following manly rebuke of the Infamous
methods of the A. p A.
The undersigned have learned through
various sources of state of anxiety,
amounting almost to panic in many OF
the communities of this region. over al
apprehended uprising of the Roman
| Catholics to ravage the land. The fol-
lowing extracts from letter written by
a reputable physician living near the
center OF Ohio, will give some idea of
the state of feeling existing in many
places:
1--WE have been. and are still, having
an excitement in our usually quiet town,
IN regard to the Catholic question.
There is not a Catholic in the entire
tOWnShlp; but a large number of our
people are intensely stirred up. some
almost Frustrated with fear, afraid that
the Catholics are about making a whole
sale attack upon Protestants, killing
and plundering and destroying our
schools and churches. OF course, 1t
OBTAINS the strongest foothOld among
the ignorant and unthinking, yet il
seems to cause great uneasiness and
iear among many of the more intel
!lgent. Copies of the Columbus
record have been distributed here,
with its alleged letter of Pope
Leo. of 1891, and with the other
statements, with which. of course, you
are ecqualnted.. In what way can this
feeling be allayed? Will you kindly aid
| me? is not that alleged letter of Pope
| Leo's, which is continually paraded in
| the Columbus Record, bare-faced
forgery? Is it true that every teacher
III The Columbus schools was a Catholic,
a year ago, until the A. 2. A. took it in
hand? In your opinion are the Catholics
armlng and contemplating war with
ProteStantS?".
Thus appealed to, we should be false
to every impulse of justice and manli-
hess If VIC did not promptly and un.
equivocally respond. We are not in
sympathy with Roman Catholicism, as a
system. Doctrinally and enthusiastically,
we are ProteStants in our deepest con-
yctlOnS: it is because we are Protest.
ants that we are ashamed and hu mill
ated by the llind Of warfare described in
thls letter. In reply to its questions,
and to the many similar INQUIRIES, we
wish therefore explicitly to say:
l. The alleged letter of the pope, to
which reference is made, which calls
upon the faithful to rise and exterm-
mate the Protestants. and which has
been kept standing in many. newspa-
pers, and scattered broadcast through
the community by means of leaflets and
handsbills, is a forgery.
:. The documents entitled ''Instruc
tions to Catholics" also widely pub
lished ard disseminated, is another STU
pid forgery.
3. From the clerk of the Columbus
board of education we have the infor-
nation tnat at present there are in the
schools of Columbus $40 teachers; that
OF these l3 are Catholics; that not one
Catholic has been removed during the
past year; that there may be one or two
more pow than there were year ago.
4. 1t has also been currently reported
that 95 per cent of the Columbus DO
licemen were Roman Catholics. A year
ago, when this report was first put in
circulation, tnere were 112 men on the
force, of whom 45 were Roman Cath
olics. We have this information from
the former clerk of the police commits
sion, who is Protestant. There are
now probably few more Protestants
on the force than there were a year
ago.
5. The statement has been freely
made that all the county officers of
Franklin county have long bean Roman
Catholics. The truth is, that of the
twenty county officials whose names
are in our city directory, there are three
Roman Catholics. One year ago there
were five. The statement that the
schools and the Offices have been over
run by Roman Catholics does not seem
to be based upon facts.
6. The stories everywhere current
about warlke preparations of the
Roman Catholics are also baseleSs fabri-
cations. Everywhere the most alarming
tales are told about conSignments of
rifles to priests; about the storage of
arms in churches; about the drilling of
troops in the easements of churches. For
all these stories there is not solitary
fact to show. We cannot find particle
of evidence that any such preparations
for war have been made or even thought
of by Roman Catholics. If any such
evidence existed, it would surely be
produced. Several churches thus sus-
pccted, in other places, have been
searched with the hearty cooperation
OF the priests in charge, and not sign
OF warlike Implement has been found.
Our Roman Catholic neighhors, though
suffering gcioyously under these wicked
ISLANDERS. arc quietly going about their
n ", or fl,i, nf
prejudice and passion to abate. 1t is
aot likely that their love for Protes-
tan;s will ne Increased by the expert
erce through which they are now pass
ing; but theis patience 'Ii,Ier this trial
has been exemplary.
May we not venture 20 add that this
anti -pupai panic ls utterly unmanly?
Out of the 100000 of our population,
the Roman Catholics CLAIM! only 100000
or 10,000,000. The capital OF the country
is in far larger proportion in Protestant
hands. Is there any danger that Co.
000,000 Of Protestants, with most Of the
offices in their hands, with the bulk Of
the wealth of the nation in their hands,
are going to be oyerrun and exter-
minated by l0,000,000 Roman Catholics
whose resources are &C small? We
trust that The Protestan;s Of this coun-
try are not such a weak and cowardly
generation that one Roman Catholic can
put six of them to eight.
We make these statements, let us re-
peat. not only in the interest ri truth
and decency and common Humanity,
but also in the Interest OF Professionalism.
And we call upon ali Protestant gentle
men. in every cS.c;naui!y, 20 acquaint
with the litsra.nra which is
being secretly disseminated among the
ignorant Pro;e..ants Gf their meighbor-
hood, and tG speak cut about it as every
man of honor is bound 10 dc. II tie
purposes Of He:nan Catholics need fer