The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-20
CAPITAL AND CREED.
The Poor Should Not Fight Over He
IigiOus Disngreements.

IigiOus DisnGreements.
DOVER June 10, 1S4.-To the Represen-
tative: For many years the English lord
has held his power over Ireland, largely
through the church factions that they have
been able to keep up through the organiza-
tons of the Orangemen and the Catholic
church The hatred that has been kept
alive between those two factions has done
more to hold that people in subsection than
any other one cause. If the poor can be
kept quarreling over church matters they
can be kept from uniting and capital Will
be able to control all both can produce.
The organization of Protestants against the
Catholic church of Ireland has worked so
we'll for the English, lords, that they are
trying it in America. Capital reasons that
if labor can be divided church matters
in America, where all laws made by re-
presentatives elected by the people, CEN
tralized capital can control all. The A. P.
a. organization is the darkest cloud can
now see on the reform horizon; when the
Professionals join that society and agree not
to strike with a Catholic or unite with him
in any way that is now followed by labor
to right their wrongs, they start wedge
in society that will surely divide and scat
ter all chance of reform. for this prejudice
will surely be carried into politics. We
can't expect the Catholic to vote for the
Protestant if the Protestant organizes to de-
feat the Catholic. Capital understands
this, and by the judicous use of money
they stir up the factions and elect or
defeat any man they wish to. Our fore
fathers thought they had organized a gov
eminent that could never go to pieces over
church Quarrels, by giving the right to
every man or woman to worship or not to
worship God. just as they saw fit according
to the dictates of their own conscience. But
it has come up in form that our fore
fathers had never thought Of, church fac
tons at the ballot box will ruin a republic
much quicker than it can a monarchy I
believe the reform papers should raise the
warning cry, let all reformers understand
how this church prejudice can be used and
how it will be used. l think there are very
few that really understand this power of
church prejudice. Take our coming cleo
lions where the three parties are nearly
equally divided, If the Peoples Party should
nominate Catholic, the money power
through the A. P. A. would warn the people
not to vote for a Catholic. and that Mr.. Peo-
pies Party man was a Catholic. Through
this prejudice the money power calculates to
elect or defeat as they choose. Should the
Peoples Party nominate a Protestant then
this same old Shiny monster plutocracy
would warn the Catholics not to vote for an
A. p. A. sympathiZer. In this way they
have to defeat every true refofmer. They
don't care rap for either side, money is
their God, labor is their slave, church pre-
judice is the lash by which they hope to
keep the slave in subsection. Friends of re-
form, when you hear any one using church
prejudice to elect or defeat any man, mark
that person as the agent of plutocracy and
the enemy of the great mass of mankind.
I sometimes hear it said that certain school
teachers were not hired because they be-
long to a certain church. This is wrong,
our common schools don't belong to any
church, and when people attempt to use it
in this way they start q bitterness that
is not Christ like, yes it is more than that,
it must make all the little imps of hell
chatter with glee.
J. l. VERMILYEA,