The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-02
DONNELLY'S CLOSING.

Mr.. Donnelly closed the debate as fol-
lows:
1 am much gratifled that this discussion
although dealing with exciting topics, has
passed off so pleasantly and harmoniously
/ hope we will all of US be the better for
1t. 1t Ia, Of course. difficult In rs minutes
to reply to an argument that covers IS
minutes. 1 can only touch here and there
upon a point.
The great grievance Of the professor, as
It seems to ne. after all. is the question
Of offices. Qaughter) 1 think he could
forgive the Catholic Church all its past
errors the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
the gunpowder plot, and everything else II
II was not for the Internal tendencies OF
the Catholic Church to monopolize all the
Offices WE'LL l can sympathize with him.
daughter and applause) I have been try
ing myself to get into office and have
failed, and can appreciate the feelings of
the man who is left out. The great princi-
pie of an American citizen is embraced in
the proverbial phrase Get there, Eli"
and this life Of ours Is all scramble.
Now, If 1t be true that the Catholics have
got more than their share Of the Offices
why, l would make fight on it. Try and
get more offices for non-Catholics
Now, l have understood at our debate in
Milwaukee, that there was a possibility of
our friend going to congress, and I would
recommend to him when he gets there
that the first bill he introduces should be
as, the ordinary non-Cathoic is no match
for the Roman Catholic for getting fat Of
Aces; therefore, be 1t enacted that to equal
lee the difference no Roman Catholic shall
run for any office in this country without
first having a half ton of bricks carefully
attached to his coat tails" daughter
This. 1t seems to me- would carry comfort
and consolation to my friends mind. In the
next place he tells something that is per-
fectly astounding He says that that en-
nYfntod p
A papers last year directing the Catholics
Of the United States to rise up and slaugh-
ter all Protestants was forgery, was bo-
gus and really was issued by the pope to
humbug the people of this country and to
create prejudice against the APP. A.
Now, my friends just think of that. The
pope Of Rome issues a proclamation to his
subjects and followers in America to murder
all Protestants, but he does it to hurt the
A. P. AS. Why, it is something like the
defense l heard, Of in the case in Texas,
where two men got into a fist fight, and one
OF them bit the other mans nose off. The
party was brought to court and tried for
mayhem. He had q shrewd lawyer, and
when he got before the jury he proceeded
to prove that in the struggle between the
two men, they had got so intertwined and
twisted, one with the other, that the COM
plainant bit his own nose off. DAUGHTER
And here we have the head Of a great
Christian church 1900 years old directina
his followers to kill all their fellow citizens
and doing 1t to hurt the A. p. AS! Oh.
my friends, 1 can't understand how any
body-and I say 1t with all respect to the
professor cannot understand how any
body can stomach such stuff as that
daughter and applause.) Then he says
what were they doing when CHRISTOPHER
Columbus discovered America? Why. thev
were burning heretics." Yes, but he forgets
that the men who discovered America
Christopher Columbus. John Cabot and
Americas Vespucci and all the rest Of those
navigators Of the time Of Henry VII. were
every mothers son of them, Catholics. and
that the queen who pawned her Jewels Ia
get the money to equip Columbus with his
three little ships was Queen Isabella. OF
CASTLE and Arragon, q most devoted and
devout Catholic. Applause.) He forgets
that while It was true that the Catholics
were burning heretics-and 1t was an awful
hrime. the mind can scarcely conceive q