The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-01

last acGion was, INK all otHerS coul-
mitted by him while in office, true
to the party which elected him.
Last Saturday afternoon he wound
up his career in the Board of Finance,
and his voice and vote in that body
were like those in the Board of Alder
men, true to the party he repre-
sented.
1t was by his fundamentally that
the long ''nung up" claims and pay
rolls were put through, and that all
the old City Hall employees under Dem
ocratic rule were reinstated. Mr.. Al
lens adieu was a quiet one. He said
nothing, but his actions speak louder
than words. 1t is the concensus of
opinion that a good and faithful pub
lie servant has retired to private life.
DR.. Lowrie'on h Catholic Church.
We confess to being amazed at the
onslaught made by DIR. Lowrie upon
the Roman Catholic Church, from his
pulpit, yesterday. If anything could
justify the opposition of the Catholic
priesthood to the public schools, it
certainly would be the public utter
ance of such Incorporate and Absurd
~ untrue dicta by their defenders.
1t is natural for Roman Catholics to
argue that, if the public schools stand
for such doctrines as these; if these
libels are the sincere beliefs of their
hackers; il they are conducted in any
such ~atrocious spirit of unchristian
charity, then indeed they are danger
u to Catholic youth and subversive
of Catholic faith-indeed, they are
subversive OF true Christianity alto
gether.
But, fortunately, this is not the
case. Assuming that DR.. Lowrie be-
lieves all that he says, he does not
speak for a corporal's guard Of the
whole Protestant community. In this
enlightened age, the vast majority of
people have got over the Cromwellian
era. Every Protestant thinks his sect
vastly better than the Roman Catho-
lie Church; but probably about in the
same degree that he thinks it better
than all other Protestant sects. This
is natural and human.
But the notion that the Pope has a
design to become Emperor of Every
where and the Adjacent Islands has
gone out OF fashion with the notion
that the Jews eat little children at the
Passover feast. The latter supersti-
ton of the dark ages once in a while
instigates a riot in Dimbrowitzka or
Rutschuck or some other outland-
ish corner of Christendom, just az
the former every once in a while in
spires an anti-Roman frenzy like that
of DIR. Lowrie.
TO accuse the Catholic Church of
fostering Ignorance, of retarding the
progress of the world, is certainly a
strange perversion of intellect. While
the world joins in the celebration of
the immortal feat of Christopher
Columbus, who voyaged in the ships
and with the forces of Their Most
Catholic Majesties. the King and
Queen of CASTLE and Arragon, it is
something of a blot on the learning
and enlightenment of the country
that one of its ecclesiastics, presuma-
bly, a learned and thoughtful man,
should arise and proclaim such glar-
ing untruths for the misguidance OF
the people.
We are heartily opposed to any in
reference whatever with the public
schools. We are sorry to see Roman
Catholic clergymen making the mis-
take of proposing such bills as that
introduced in the New Jersey Legisla-
ture this year. They a never be-
come law. They should never become
law. Even Roman Catholics will OPP
pose them. Their only effect is to
stir up trouble. But the fact that we
are against interference with the pub
lie schools, the fact that We are op-
posed to giving public money to the
parochiaI ones-there a be no
reasonable objection to parochial
schools privately Observation-Disclosures
not create in US the least sympathy in
foolish, un%historic, unphilosophic.
and uncharitable attacks upon the
Church and its priests, vino, taken
broadly as a class, are the equal in
w~eII-doing of any equal number OF
men in the universe.
We are especially panied at the
present attack, because it comes from
DR.. Lowrie. This excellent gentle
man. is. as q rule, wise and conservative.
This. it occurs to us, is the first tine
he has given way to any impulses to-
wards sensationalism. We had learned
to regard him as a very pillar OF
charity and a tower Of good sense IN
his communion, and our best hope
for him is that it will be long before
he again suffers a similar lapse from
his " high standard of peace ano
good will
IN reading all the tinsel talk thai i
being lavished on the big show at