The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-15
RAKlHG PONDER.

! ought 10 learn something of these awful
Jesuits, and put ourselves in q better
position to compete. It is not politics
that has given the Catholics these advant-
ages OF US. 1t is doing our Fathers
business in a more business-like way"
Another fact, he said, on which the
movement was based, was that the Cath
olcs are said to vote together. This is
assured; I cannot disprove it. I know,
however, that l read of Eagan being
power in the Republican party ard
BourRe Cochran as leader among the
democrats. I know that Messrs. Cou-
dert and Grace are leaders of the anti
snappers and anti-Tcmmany, while Gill
roy, Cummings and others run the ma
chine They are all Catholics
he said he had no doubt that the Meth
odists of the north came nearer ali voting
together than aid the Catholics, and that
such course was natural. It is natural
for men to vote as they affiliate. lie told
story Of one of Zeb Vance's campaigns
in the backwOods where the question was
put to him as 10 what were his religious
opinions, which Vance was politician
enough to answer by going through the
category of religions and saying different
members of his family belonged to them,
until ne finally hit upon baptist" and
caught the vote Of the crowd.
lie came to the question Of the al
legged conspiracy on the part of the Cath
ohcs to get control of the government
AS to this, he said, no case had been
made out By q comparison of the doc
trines of different beliefs he built up
an argument to the effect that no log
zeal sequence Of facts, such as are given
in this connection, could justify the
adoption of a proscriptive policy.
"On grounds similar to those given"
he said, Il can, to a willing mind, prove
that the Methodists have formed a con-
spiracy TO take possession of the pub
lie schools and eleemosynary institutions
of Georgia. For are not the superinten-
dents of education in Atlanta, Augusta,
Macon, Columbus, Americus, Athens,
and Dawson Methodists? So it is in
Sumpter and most of the counties I
know throughout the state Then the
MethOdists are in charge of the lunatics
in Milledgeville, the blind at Macon, the
deaf and dumb at Cave Spring, and the
Techs in Atlanta.
Had not our Baptist, Presbyterian
and Catholic friends better band together
to put down these pestiferous Methodists
who in a generation will mold the thought
of the whole state? This is absurd. 1t
happens that the boards of education
find the members equipped for the work
they have to 90 Methodists.
The Catholics, he said disclaimed the
logic and deny the conspiracy, and prom
inent ministers of the church had stated
that they did not want to see church and
state in any closer union than now.
Washington GLADDEN., one of the
bravest and most independent protestants
| thus speaks after an intelligent study of
the course of Pope Leo XIII: The whole
policy of the church under his admins
tration has been tending to a reconcile
alton with modern civilization And mod
ern civilization means separation of
church and state.
He said the methods adopted by the
! a. +. A. for the propagation of it's theories
| do not commend it to the man desiring to
| execute true judgment He alluded to the
| forgeries with which the order is charged.
of course it is not necessary for me to
| say that l am not defending or apologize
| ing for the Catholics. l am only trying to
! execute true judgment / am on the other
! side of the pole of thought from them
l am anti-ritualist, and in word, I think
! there are more errors in their TEACHINGS
! than all other classes of religious think
! ers. There is much more attractiveness
! to me in the scientific skeptcism of the
! DAY than in the ancient ecclesiaStiCism
! of these people l am opposed to both
| and as much as in ME lies l shall fight the
| falsehoodAOf both as long as / live, when
| ever 1t is proper But 1 want to make
| truth my motto. I will take no stock in
the slanderous way Catholicism is fought
! 1t is unmanly; will never win noble minds
! to the truth When they have so much
| that is Objectionable on the plains of
| truth to fight l cannot descend into the
/ quagmires of suspicion to attack them
! l hope God will also always give me grace
/ to recognize the true and the good when
/ ever 1 see it.
'Of course. there are some principles of
the American Protective Association we
| can indorse. No public money should be
| given to sectaran schools or charities
and the state should run it's own schools
sand charities. But the methods of the
! American Protective Association are in
! furious to both politices and religion. 1t
| gives the control of the government to
| the demagogues. 1t loads up the churches
| with hypoCrites and bigots. The duty
of the Christian is to execute true judg-
/ rGent"