St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-27

the Great Exposure-Proposi
ton TO Gather Some Religious
statis;ics-EiIl the 4. z. 4.
Supply the Money?-CoInments
OF the Papers.
To the Editor of the Globe.
a week ago your paper had several
columns of communications concerning
an alleged exposure of reported secret
society whose sole aim is said to be that
of arTaying themselves "agin" the
pope OF Rome and his followers.
Now. am not a member of said a. P.
society, and know nothing more of it
than creeps into the public prints once
in a while, or did, in the shape of items
showing how the society quietly
CLEANED OUT Roman Catholic appii-
cants Tor office in Detroit. Duluth, etc,
ana OH the other hand The statements in
the papers concerning the horrid and
unpatrintic and totally un-,Ameriean
aims of the mysterious body referred TO.
& But III these communications to
your paper l can see no moth
ing but verbiage; no attempt
to analyZe the charges of undue
prominence on the part OF the Roman
Catholics. or other close reasoning An
old pruverb says that there is no smoke
without fire. Can it be possible that
this expused society, Orange, or what
ever color il may, has been making all
the fuss and doing all the mischief
without any reasonable excuse? That
the Roman Catholics hold no more
Offices cor receive no more money for
other public Work than other religious
SectS Go in proportion to their number?
Why not test the matter right here in
St. Paul 10y actual figures taken from
the Ofileial pay. oils? The question or
nationality need not be entertained.
though Il Is WeIl-known that but for the
influx OF people from Two or three cOun-
tries OF Europe during the first half or
three-quarters OF The century, the Ro-
man Catholic church would never have
been exposed 10 the treatment com
planned OF.
The Information as 10 actual number
Of people OF that religion who Work for
public money or placeholders would
not be hard 10 obtain by two or three
competent and impaTtia! clerks. In de-
tail it Should show:
Eirst-Ihe total number OF men or
the police force. divided into two bodies,
OF which the number of each should be
given-Rumau Catholics and all others.
SeCond-Ihe same Iacts as To the fire
men.
Third-IEe same facts as TO the alder
men.
Fourth-The same facts as TO the pub
lie school teachers.
\. B.-AayOrs not to be considered in
the case. not being numerous enough.
Tho ggx-ar.nH ro1iUhr hp
and each years work should be tabu-
lated separately by departments. 1t
may be objected that it would be diff
cult to ascertain which of the SAID en-
ployeS OF UfnceholdeTs were Roman
Catholics, but such objection is moi Of
much force. The members Of The church
referred 10 have never been accused or
keeping their religion IN the back
ground, and. indeed, II inclined to deny
il. a little inquiry would soon show
what cOnventicle any one frequented.
As Tor expense, Such WOrK ought
not to cost much if done by competent
men. and IN these hard times able men
are but too easily to be obtained for
small wages. The source of the funds
should Ue The \. =. y, the men now
accused OF lying, etc, and II they feel
that they have not lied they can, and
should gladly. send money secretly to
care of some bank or of the may or for
the purpose, and no one cOnld tell
what particular st. Paul man had for
varied it.
This Is very narrow investigation.
but would be an interesting one, and
could, if necessary. be extended 10 as
certaining The proportion or Roman
Catholics to the whole population and
consequent deduction OF proportions IN
view Of entire numbers could be made.
Cannot the members OF the A. Z. \.
be persuaded to send in this cash mot
checks. OF cUurse) Tor such an interest
ing sociological Investigation? A.
win cur correspondent, VINO gives US
name which We recognize as that OF an
old and reputable citizen, explain why
he should single out one religion for his
proposed statistics? Why not inquire
how many Methodists, EpiscOpalianS.
Baptists. PresbyteTianS, Congregations
alists. etc. there are OF have been IN
public positions. If he wishes 10 ascer-
tain the point as to how many Protes-
tants and how many Catholics are in
public piace,the different denominations
could be aggregated. In the meantime
II might be proven that the Methodists
CT the Baprists, or some other religious
Denomination, had too many offices, and
IN that case some one could start an
0ther society TO extermiuate with fire
ana sword that religious element. If a
religious war is TO be invoked, let 1t be
followed 10 its logical conclusion. Il
might esuit i'll returning TO first prin-
ciples. when the original red American
citizen was in charge, and allow no one
10 hold az Office who had any religion
at all.-ED. GLOBE.