The Irish standard., 1893-09-16
A REJO1NDER.

Inc pachyder naCOus scrlDe lron ene
gloomy regions of the midnight sun who
writes the lucubrations IN The North Of
this city must have felt the sharp point
of our Faber pencil penetrating his sem
sitive epidermis if We may judge so from
the fact that he devotes an entire col
umn of his valuable editorial space in at
tempting to show that The IRISH STAN
+! DARD has done him an injustice by
stigmatizing him as political renegade
and venomous anti Catholic of the first
| water. A simple denial on his part will
not satisfy us that he is neither bigot
nor political turn coat. We have no
desire to misrepresent the gentleman.
He says he has not changed his polite :,
but facts are against him and he will
fiud that facts are stubborn things if he
ever comes up again as a candidate for
office in Democratic convention. He
certainly will not deny that during the
late national election he handed over
| The North to his father-in-]aw and
I
publican ticket. He did all he could to
elect Knute Nelson as governor of this
state because 'sthe little Norwegian" was
a countryman of his own, while his OPP
ponent was an American Catholic Of
Irish ancestry. Had Dan. w. Lawler
been Norwegian, would Luth Jaeger
hn hoo 0ff ho
State democracy? He would do moth
ing of the kind. He worked and voted
| against the Democratic nominee because
of his creed and nationality, and yet be
has not changed his politics, and denies
he is bigot! He recently accused Cath
olics of scheming to proselytize the Prot
estant pupils in the public schools
through the fundamentally Of Catholic
tteachers and based his charge upon some
| thing inadvertently said by nominal
Catholic paper in an adjoining state.
| The editor of that paper says that The
North has misrepreee-ted him but The
North in it's usu.l style does not make
any correction. That is not it's policy.
Its policy is to place Catholics in false
| light before it's Lutheran readers and to
hold them up to Reproduction. 1t
says the most outrageous things Of
Catholics but never gives a word in re-
futation of it's false charges. It delights
it's heart to bear false testimony against
Catholic citizens, and it copies with
avidity everything rejecting on their
loyalty to the State. 1t enters into a
combination with the Loyal American"
to besmirch aud nisrepresent the Cath
Ole name, and vet the editor gets into
Mysteries when he is accused of bigotry
and foreign knownothingism. He pro-
tests that he is not opposed to the EN-
pioyment OF Catholic teachers in the
public schools of Minneapolis, but eff
ever an effort should be made to appoint
the teachers as and because of their be-
ing Roman Catholics, he would most
certainly do his best to fight and defeat
it, Well, why does he not wait till the
effort has been first made before he ut
ters such threats? The bigoted editor
of The North admits that Catholic
teachers have not tried to force their re-
ligious views on the pupils of this city.
but he sees nothing in that to thank
them for, because the schools are nom
sectarian. With charming Inconsistency
he then adds: "We know at least from
personal knowledge of Catholic teacher
in one of our public schools who had her
Roman Catholic Sunday school class
stay after school for instruction. But
We are not aware of any similar proceed
ing by Protestants.'' -;
The IRISH STANDARD calls upon Luth
Jaeger as mem Der of the board of edu-
cation to give the name of the Catholic
teacher referred to, and If he refuses to
give it we shall brand him as fanatical
fabricator. If any Catholic teacher in
the public schools of this city has been
guilty of the charge imputed to her by
the editor of The North, she deserves to
lose her position instanter. It is the
duty of the editor Of The North to report
the matter to the board of education at
once and to define his charge in specl-
ic manner. Ii he does so, The IRISH
STANDARD will applaud him and sustain
him in the investigation. If, on the con-
trary, he does not report the matter, The
IRISH STANDARD will be convinced that
he is only romaHciDg and does not know
sfrom. personal knowledge that any
Catholic lady in this city anywhere
else is guilty Of such an act. The Cath
olics OF this city would be the first to de-
mand the discharge of any Catholic
teacher who would introduce religious
exercises INTO the public schools. They
are opposed to anything Of the kind,