St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-15

prescription" He added. twill you
persecute an Irlshman because his
father was Catholic and had inner
tied his religion. and thus prevent him
from earning his bread? You would
give him freedom of conscience. but he
,Eust starve for 1t. This is not justice.
Suppose poor woman went to an A.
z. A. for washing to do to support
her seven children. IT. she admit
ted that her ancestors were Catholic
the A. p. A. member would tell her that
he had taken an oath not 10 give her
work, and her children must starve. be-
cause he could not violate his oath.
Suffer little children to come unto
me-" said Christ, "for of such is. the
kingdom of heaven" 'Snffer the chill
dren to Starve, for of such is the king
dom of he'll" say the A. P. A.
Applause lasting several minutes
mingled with laughter greeted this an
nouncement.
Mr.. Donnelly alluded to the fact that
the Presbyt, -rians and the Episcopalians
have parochial schools, and told an
they were not able to eradicate the
devil from the children. He asked if
Christ had on the cross advised the
formation of secret sociey like
the a. P. A. He alluded to the fact
that the country was building up i'll
prosperity and all living together i'll
fellowship until the A. PA. came along
with its leaders, principally from Can
ada, to preach dissensions, hatred and
prescription. The riots In other cities
were alluded to as tending TO a
time when there will be burning at
the stake. This is turning back the
dials of time. In place of living to-
gether in harmony we are becoming two
nations living side by side and hating
each other. The Catholic church pre-
served the literature and civilization of
the country. The church liberated the
serfs and rescued the world from bar
barism.
don't believe the people of st. Paul
can come down SO far as to believe the
darned nonsense that the A. P. AS are
preaching. When my friend says the
Catholics cannot be good citizens. L
ask him to read our history. l don't
believe he read our history until
he entered this debate" Later on
Mr.. Donnelly alluded to Prof. Sims
recent coming to this country from
Canada. Replying to the statements
that the Catholics gave their sympathies
to the COufederacy and were not good
citizens, Mr.. DonneIly alluded to the
deeds of Gen. Mead, Catholic of
Catholics; to Gen. Sheridan and to
Gen. Sherman and asked why the pope
had not directed them to let the re-
bellion succeed if he wanted the Union
to fail. AS to the statement that the
assassination of Lincoln was due to a
Catholic conspiracy, Mr.. Donneliy
proved that John Wilkes Booth was an
EpiScopalian. and the man who tried to
assassinate Secretary Stanton was the
son of Baptist minister.
Mr.. Donnelly declared that at the ir.
ception of the A. P. A. some scamps
had gathered together some bogus state
mentS which have been used since to
carry out purpose. Mr.. Donnelly
rlddled communication said to have
emanated from Catholic authority
which was claimed to have been
published in 1852. claiming that an Or
ganlzatioh had been formed to control
pOpulouS cities, among them being
Washington, San Francisco and Kansas
City, as well as others which were not
populous cities in 1852. Mr.. Donnelly
declared the publication a forgery. and
| with having emanated from A. p A.
| sources at much later date than 1852.
He declared that the A. p. A. was
gotten up by England to disturb our
currency, and by the capitalists to de.
stroy our commodities and to reduce
the wages of the working people.
An A. Z. A. Is required to swear not
| to go in strike with Catholic. This
would prevent strike ever occurring,
| and suit the English aud capitalists,
who would rub their hands in glee and
say: Look at them fighting like devils
for the good of the nation and murder
ing each other for the love of God"
In his concluding speech of twenty
minutes Mr.. D0nnelly made some hard
hits at the A. F. A. He declared that
some of the documents alluded to by
Prof Sims were forgeries, and were as
ridiculous as the statement in the a. 2.
A. papers that the Catholics were to
rise up last August and murder all the
ProteStants. He told of the burn
Ing Of two Catholic churches in
Philadelphia where lie was living as a
boy, and the killing of Catholics in a
riot, and added no protestant church
was ever burned by Catholic. He
said the people of Dublin elected a
protestant mayor, and that the chosen
leader of the Irish, Mr.. Parnell, was a
| protestant. If, as claimed by Mr..
| Sims, that the Catholics would prescribe
| Catholics, he wanted to know WHY they
don't do il in Italy and other Catholic
countries.
The A. P. AS talk of the bishops con.
trolling the politics of their people,
Archbishop Ireland is Republican,
and he can't get one-tenth Of the Cath
Olics to go with him. 1t was the Cath
oics that defeated Democratic candi-
date for governor named Biermann.
Who is it that organizes for proscrip-
ton? 1t is the A. p. AS.
Mr.. DOnnelly was greeted with Kisses
at this point. Mr.. Donnelly referred to
the fact that President Lincoln sent
| Archbishop Hughes to ask that Cath.
olics do not aid the South in the re-
bellioD. He declared that majority OF
tho Catholic men i'll the country were in
the Union army during the rebellion.
| Mr.. Dopnelly said it was Bauer, a
German Catholic, who organized the
| A. z. A. and who changed his name to
| Bowers. and he is Il railroad attorney.
| With one OF his Impressive gestures
MIR. Donnelly said: Don't you see that
they are playing you for suckers?"
AT the conclusion the audience gave
vent to rounds OF applause and reluct-
antly left the hall.