The Irish standard., 1893-04-15
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Hays. editor sof the Sleepy Eye
Dispatch. il q member in good standing
sof the Episcopal church, and despite the
TACT that he lives in town bearing 9
5somnolent appellation, he is. withal, q
wide-awake, intelligent man who is not
easily bamboozled by pretended patriots
of the Orange stripe. He slow to be-
lleve that his Catholic fellow citizens are
blood thirsty assassins as they are
painted by thelr malignant foes. Hav-
ing seen in the Loyal American, OF this
city, q communication under the sigma
ture Of Pope Leo XIII. calling upon
American Catholics to massacre their
Protestant neighbors in September next,
the editor Of the Sleepy Eye paper
rubbed his eyes and pondered. He
could not imagine that the head of the
Catholic Church, though an Italian,
could be suoh ssnguinary monster as to
issue such 'bull." He had not seen any
refer nee to the document in the Ameri-
can dailies, magazines and reviews, and
he sensibly bethought him that if there
was any cause for alarm, the enterpris-
ing press Of the country would draw at
tentlon to the papal edict. He noticed
that there was but one class of papers-the
Orange organs-publishing the Pope's
letter, and that fact led him to doubt it's
authenticity. He had not seen any
proof of the letter being genuine and so
he calls upon e. J. Doyle, of the Loyal
American, to inform him how, when, and
by whom the document was published,
and how Doyle knows it to be what he
represents it to be in his paper.
We may be permitted to tell Mr.. Hays
that E. J. Doyle knows that the letter
ascribed to the Pope, is clumsy fabrica-
ton conceived in the brain of some anti
Catholic fanatic, and that it's publication
is designed to impose on the credulity of
ignorant people who entertain prejudices
against the Catholic Church and it's adj
herents. I'VE venture to say that Doyle
is not an American citizen at all and
that instead of calling his paper the
Loyal American he should have called it
the Loyal Briton, what it really and
truly is. Doyle is the head of an Orange
lodge in this city and worshipper of
King William iii. on horseback whose
effigy is carried in Orange parades in
stead of the American banner. The tin
horn patriots who edit Orange papers in
various parts of the country have been
frequently asked to prove the genuine
ness of the Pope's letter and other spuri-
GUS documents rejecting on Catholics,
but instead of furnishing proof they
have accused their anterrogators of be-
ing Jesuits in disguise. The Rev. DIR.
Williams, pastor of ST. Barnabas' Epis-
copal church, Omaha, Neb., was recently
called Jesuit by the American. of that
city for demanding proof Of the vile
charges against Catholics, and in dis
course from hie pulpit he said: IF Ro-
man Catholics are plotting. 100000 of
them, to destroy the civil and religious
liberty OF the other 100000 of us, that
should be susceptible of proof. It needs
no secret oaths, no slanderous cenclaves,
to put real Americans on guard.
If the Jesuits are plotting, and the
Irish are armins, and the priests and
monks are making ready to exchange the
surplice and the cowl for the sword and
the rifle; if the Roman Catholic hierarchy
are assassins and traitors, and the oath
bound patriots who tell us ell this, know
il, let them come out like men and de-
clare the proof. Ii they have proof OF
Roman Catholic treason in the assassina-
ton of Lincoln and Garfield, the courts
are open and American juries can be
readily found, without remotest faint Of
sympathy with Rome, to convict the
priestly assassins. But If this new race
Of Americans, with an Orange hue, have
10 such proof to offer, then let them
and their abettors stand convicted of in
famous SANDER and falsehood, OF unlaw-
full conspiracy against the reputation
and liberty of citizens, and against the
peace of the Republic"
PINE DEPREDATIONS.