The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-17
CATHOLICS ARE LOYAL
The Rev. Father Tighe Elo-
quently Denounees the A.
P. A. -Commends DR..
Stoddard.

h Rev. Father Tighe of Boonton de-
liyered an eloquent sermon at st.
Michaers R. C. Church last evening,
on the attitude of "A. P. A.-ism To
ward Catholicism in the United States"
The big auditorium of the church was
crowded to it's very doors. The choir
gallery was filled with eager listeners,
many, unable to gain admission to the
auditorium, stood throughout the SER
mon in the vestibule.
During the discourse Father Tighe de-
scribed the A. P. A. as a politico-re-
ligious organization, with one fixed aim,
to do injury because of difference in re-
ligious belief to a class of people who
have to labor in order to live; an or
g~aniDltion which teaches one class of
tradesmen to not even trade with those
engaged in commercial enterprises who
may adhere ito the Roman Catholic
faith.
CANNOT STAND THE LIGHT.
mo party he declared, 'can live
whose transactions cannot bear the light
Of day. The Catholics hav never asked
for political preferment for any national
fty. We nave never voted for any man
because he is an ~Irishma1n, a Scotch
man or a German. The test is simply
that we shall be convinced that he is
a conscientious, loyal American citizen
Father Tighe called attention to the
1act that a certain Mr.. Flagg, in an
article in yesterdays New York Sum-
claimed that the A. P. A. does not per-
secute Catholics. Almost in the same
breath he CITED the fact that the Rev.
DR.. Stoddard of St. Johns Free Church
of this city had publicly said it did, and
Furthermore, that it did SO simply be-
added a fervent God bless him" The
speaker paused in the mids of his dis
course and asked, rs the Constitution
of the United States a dead letter, or is
the A. p. A. had simply revived the cry
of Knownothingism. 1t aimed its shafts
1t foreigners.
ITS MAIN DESIGN.
Its main design was to prescribe Cath
olics, He ~repudiated the idea that Hor-
ace Greeley was the author of the song,
mo Irish Need Apply" and sarcastic
ally mentioned the fact that through
in the locality in which he is at pres
ent stationed he had been informed
that Pope Plus TX. was a friend of the
which laid low Abraham Lincoln was
cast in a Jesuit mould, tlsat Cleveland
was a tool of the present Pope, and that
the present Pope was a member of Tam
many Hall.
As to Catholicism being incompatible
with American citizenship, that, hi
said, had been refuted ten thousand
times. Gladstone, who, as Premier of
England, had made similar charges, was
manly and honest enough to withdraw
them after thorough personal investiga-
ton. The Catholic Church taught loyal
ty and obedience to civilized govern
ment, and 1T was no pant of Catholic
theology that man should rise up against
civil power constitutionally founded.
Father Tfghe paid his respects to
President Traynor of the A. P. A, who
was born in Bnntford, near Toronto,
the very citadel of ~Orangemen in Amer
lca, ana he added that it was not alone
the Coxeys, the Fryes, the Mosts and
the Goldmans that this country need
to fear. The A. P. A, he declared, WINS
composed of the very stuff of which
Anarchists and Socialists were made.