The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-30

Was it the wholesome life blood of Cath
olic wisdom and virtue being introduced
into municipal affairs when Croker ana
Tammany, stimulated and pandered 70
and fattened on the vice OF New YORK?
When Davis and Mclaughlin bossed
a shame and a byword? That Church
has had centuries of opportunity; we
would like for our comfort and encour-
instance on a large scale where the
wholesome life blood Of her wisdom and
virtue had done anything respectable,
anything worth initiating, anything not
deserving of adherence?
RELIGION INTO POLITICS
"a second respect in which the Romish
principles are un-American is that they
carry religion into politics. The mem
bers of the Catholic body in this country
are commanded to work together in poll
tics. And Catholics are commanded to
from their bishops and priests and to
implicitly obey them. These commands
have been obeyed, and we have the spec
tacle of a church compacted together for
tests to public men and public policies
and not religious tests even, but the
test of acceptability to a particular sect.
1--WE may judge how righteous is the
Indignation and how sincere Is the Offend
ed patriotism of members or that COM
munion when they cry out against the
Producing religion into politics. All may
freely grant that the purposes n
methods of that association are incOn-
sistent with the spirit OF our liberties,
but reproach does not come gracefully
from those who a been long guilty
of the same crime, and threats that the
Catholics will retaliate by banding to-
gether for political self-proteetion fails
naturally to terrify those who know that
they have already been doing that large
ly for years.
lest safeguards of the commonwealth,
one of the noblest. wisest and most
| equitable of our institutions, the great
nursery of patriotism, and the ~unequalled
morality of the brotherhood of man.
The public school is established in this
land, and is the settled policy of our
people and our laws, bur the hierarchy
Of Rome refuse to consider it settled,
and disturb our peace and threaten our
rights by their persistent and relentless
licly said in Washington:-"The more
| public opinion and the Government will
favor the Catholic schools, the more win
the welfare of the commonwealth be adj
safest safeguard of the permanence.
throughout the centuries, Of the Consti-
tuition, and the best guide of the repub-
of a church whose policy in every land
1t controls is to keep the people in men
tai and moral ignorance; this from an
luminous and Industrious land which has
been under the tutelage and instruc-
ton of the Papacy for 1900 years, and is
today the most illiterate, the most i'm
moral, the most criminal of civilized
countries. Satolli has to get away fr,m
home to say that, and he must count
enormously, upon the credulity and ig-
norance of the people of the United
States if he expects them to believe so
monumental a falsehood.
CATHOLIC GREED FOR MONEY.
Il might also speak or the Catholic
greed for public moneys and their or
ganized, fragrant, determined, indecent
violations of our characteristic and uni
| versal. If not absolutely Constitutional
ment and support OF Sectarian institu-
tons by means of public funds. You arc
no doubt familiar with this crying and
enormous abuse.
But the two points which l lave made
that Catholic doctrines are destructive
of the liberties of our country and that
the Catholic Church is compacted and
organized and directed to turn the doe
trines into effect among us-these points
are sufficient for my purpose, which Is
to show that Roman Catholicism is d
great, a standing, an onlinous, an inccn.
vertible menace to our institutions. and
to prove what Lafayette said, that If
the liberties Of the American people arc
hands Of the Ro'mish clergy
"Patriotism in America is facing q
| peril today compared with which the
dangers of the past have been as nothing,
n is advancing toward a conflict mot
necessarily physicaD which will exceed
the intensities and bitterness of the CON
hict with slavery. What shall the pat
riot do?
THE AmeritSn Protective Association,
which is generally understood to have
grown into great power ana proportions,
n which, no doubt, counts its member
both wrong in principle, impolitic and
inadequate. 1t is wrong in principle.
because it is equally un-American with
that which it opposes; that is, it dis
| eliminates against map hnpaJJEa of their
religion. 1t is impolitic, because fair
ness is a virtue dear to the American
heart and essential in the American
spirit, and to refuse to give a man work
or to support him for office simply be
cause he is a Catholic is unfair. This
association is inadequate, too, because
an enemy to our political integrity n
peace is not to be successfully fought
In any secret way. The mighty ally
of truth is the light, and If the A. p. A.
can only 40 Its work in the 1t
THE A. P. A. CONDEMNED.
mo, our methods must be open, and
our principles and objects such as viii
commend themselves to the conscience
and intelligence of the body of the peo-
pie. Let us bear in mind that this is
no religious war. Let us keep separate
in our minds the Catholic Church as q
religious body and as a political organi-
cation. For the former, there is the full
est freedom here; the broad land well
comes it with the same hospitality that
1 Id OpCh ~ OIL wv RSd4d bC iii LILY
of our name If we did not sincerely re-
| joice that the Catholic may enjoy here
equal civil rights and privileges with us
all, and we would be both ungrateful n
bigoted If we could forget the great ser
vices rendered by members Of that com
nlunion to the establishment of our Gov
eminent and its preservation since.
But the Catholic Church as a political
organization is another matter, and for
that there is no right and lawful place
In our wide borders. TIL opposition
which we make to it's pretensions is not
religious but a patriotic opposition. 1t is
not a narrow sentiment against the Ro-
man Catholic faith which animates US
it is no desire to persecute them or to
curtail their liberties; but the righteous
determination that they shall not have
more thar their due share as citizens
with the rest of US: that they shall not
subvert the cherished and sacred institu-
lions of this land which our forefathers
achieved as the glory of the earth, and
which the last generation fought a holy
and bloody war to preserve. 1t is not as
communicating the blessings of piety to
the people that they are rendered OBJ
noxious to our patriotism and sense of
| justice, but as violating our written and
unwritten laws and grasping at political
power that they may remodel this Gov
eminent according to the will of the
Papacy.
ITO fight against such Vaccinations
and intolerant and despotIc pretensions
| is to fight in a holy war, and to embrace
open, patriotic and righteous methods in
resistance to the Romish endeavor will
generate an overwhelming force of pub
Tic opinion in loyalty to our precious civic
itols and to Washington men pledged to
/ tho rigid restriction of mm1Urafi0n To