The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-02

What proves to you. my friends. that slho
is found wanting? Why, look at Wiscon-
SIN, a week ago last Tuesday; look at
Illinois; look at Michigan. The American
| people are arousing, and the American peo-
| pie are watching their liberties, and their
| hearts are full and overlooking with patriot.
ISM and they are bound to protect those
! liberties, which they think you ought to
have as well as themselves, for there is no
selfish motive in this protection of Ameri-
| can interests. When We protect the public
school We. protect that school for
p tne tatholc as well as for the
| Protestant When we protect the Ameri-
| can constitution we protect that constitu-
ton for all the people. For there can DO
no difference-all the people have equal
rights That is what the declaration Of
! ana equal" We purpose to perpetuate the
declaration Of independence and to keep all
the people free and equal. (Applause.)
In politics the church is inseparably
bound up with the laws of moral and re-
| llglous duties Men ought always In the
| first place to serve, as far as possible the
| interests of the church. AS soon as they
| are seen to be in danger there must be no
| separation or advice. For instance, to IL
| lustrate. Here are Republican Roman
Catholics and Democratic Roman Catholics
The time comes when the faith Of the
cnurch or something in connection with the
church Is in danger. These people come
together but they are no more playing in
usual thing they are taught. The Ro-
man Catholic church, when she doesn't
know just which party is going to be de-
feated, stands on both sides. In other
| words, she backs UP on her own decks, she
backs against herself. So when the Re
| publicans come in the Republican Catholics
| say, Hip, hip, hurrah," and when the
Democrats come in the Democratic Roman
Catholics say: I'VE did it, give us the Of
! fees and SO she has continued to be in
| power and to drink milk from the govern
| ment bottle for the last twenty years in
| the United States. (Applause)
Now, find here another statement: 1.-The
| Roman pontif is the supreme ruler of the
| church. 1t requires perfect submission CT
| will to the church and the sovereign pontiff
| as to God himself" Now, how can a Ro-
| man Catholic American citizen who has
| come to this country and taken the oath of
| allegiance which declares that he has sepa-
| rated and absolves himself from all allegi-
| ance to every prince, potentate and power,
| and yet here is
| A PLAIN STATEMENT BY THE POPE
| which compels that individual after
that oath has been taken, to admit that he.
| is to be to that individual citizen as the
very voice of God Almighty-he is to be
| obeyed The sovereign pontiff requires
| perfect submission of will to the church
| and to the sovereign pontiff as to God him.
! self" 1t does not belong to any individual
| to arrogate to himself his own rights to
| think-it is committed to the pontiff from
| the Lord Jesus Christ the pastor and
| sheep.
| Now. let me go to education I stated to
| you in my affirmations that the Roman
| Catholic church does not believe in educa-
| tion Neither does she (applause) and the
| evidences that she does not are around us.
| When she ruled and governed Mexico
| Qlisses) SO out of every 100 (deafening APP
plauSe)-Wilen she controlled MeXicO-Qong
| and continued applause and hissng)
The Chairman must request that this
| Kissing cease; a gentleman would not do it.
| Applause)
| Mr.. Donnelly-The followers of the A. P.
| A. have treated me tonight with the great
| est kindness and courtesy. (Applause)
| There has not been a single interruption.
l hope for the credit of Minneapolis and
the Catholics who are present that they
| will give my distinguished friend an
equally courteous hearing. Gong and con-
| tinued applause.)
| Mr.. Sims (continuing)-I stated to you
! that in Mexico when the Roman Catholics
| controlled there, SO persons out of every 100
| could neither read nor write. When she
| controlled the Argentine Republic the same
| condition existed In Poland, where she is
| controlling, 81 out of every 100 can neither
| read nor write and so on through the long
! list of statistics which proves to us that
| whether the church is right in her adopted
| course, she has adopted the course which
| declares that the best and safest plan is to
| keep the common people in ignorance and
! only educate a few.
| Let me read here another statement from
| the Catholic World, magazine edited and
| published by eminent Roman Catholic
| bishops and priests; a publication that is
| obligated to speak nothing but the truth
| regarding the church and teach nothing but
| that which the church accord with and
indorse, for such has been the binding obli-
| cation of all the Roman Catholics in Amer
| lea, and their obligations sent over to the
pope only few weeks ago obligated them
| selves to say nothing except it had the in
| dorSement of an ecclesiastical authority,
| Here is this ma gaZine which says: I'VE are
| opposed to the common schools as they are
| because church condemns them. Tho
| best ordered and administered state is that
| in which the few are well educated and the
| many are trained to be obedient and will
| ing to be directed; are content to follow.
| and do not aspire to be the leaders, So,
| there are to be few educated to be this
| leaders, and the rest are to be left in ig-
| norance that they can be led without
| having to be reasoned with
The next statement that / will read from
| that magazine will surprise you: I'VE be-
| lieve the peasantry in Catholic countries
| two centuries ago were better educated
| although for the most part they could
| neither read nor write, than the great body
Of the American people today" So much
for the idea Of Roman Catholic education.
| Now, here is the opposition to our school
| system. Opposition that comes from Arch
|
state? In certain propositions in connec-
| ton with the school question he says,
This is my grievance, the state school is
| not religious, there can be no positive re-
| lfgious teaching where the idea of non-sec-
| tarianism rules" The school is non-re-
| lgious Who has driven away the utter
ances of Professionalism and Protestant re-
| ligion out of our public schools? The Ro-
man Catholic church. And why has she
| done so? Because in her judgment Protest
| antism with all the denominations and sects
| is simply
THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.
| a wicked institution and thing; therefore,
she drives it out of the public schools, and
| then she turns around and says Our
| grievance is that there is no religion in the
| public schools proposition is then
| made, as the archbishop admits, which says.
! well meaning people have proposed a
| remedy that there be taught in connection
| common Christianity. This will not suit
| Catholics; in fidelity to their principles
| they cannot accept the common Christian
ity. Here, now, you are getting the situa-
tion We are not separating from the Ro-
man catholic church, but she has been and
| Is separating from all Professionals She is
| distinct factor. She builds up her paro-
| chial schools and brings her children up in
| separation from all Protestant institutions.
She fears liberal Professionalism the
! minds Of her young children. The priest
| says "Give me the child from to IA, and
! you can take afterwards that child" Why?
| Because l have sown the seed, and the seed
Will remain there; and that is of the
| principles of the Roman Catholic church.
| that man that begins a Roman Catholic
| is Roman Catholic, no matter where you
| find him. I found illustration of this
| once at a lecture 1 a drunken man
| who sat down in the audience. l went to
| him and said, my man, are you Chris-