St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-29

Ole valOr. the brave missionaries Of the
Catholic church were penetrating our
trackless wllds. rescuing from savage
barbarism and redeeming to Christian
civilization the rude and degraded red
men Ut this Western world. PrivatiOn
and suffering had no terrors for these
intrepid soldiers Of the cross.
There were no well-paid Indian COM
missioners in those days, and no rivalry
among Earring sects for establishing
schools among the Indian tribes. The
Catholic missionaries had the field Alto
themselves, and Baptist. Methodist and
Presbyterian alike are not Oh record as
having been at all envious of the suc-
cess of these Christ.like men, in
exerting wholesome influence over
the Indian in his native wilds. There
was spirit of JeSuitism absut their
work, which had ID it no attractions for
the ordinary modern maligner of heroic
motives and sanity men. When such
mischievous traducers of honest men as
this mendaciOus Mr.. Morgan. and the
venerable pastor of the First Baptist
church. venture to tell their people
what the Catholic church does
when it gets the chance. and
what the Jesuits do when opportunity
offers, why will they not refer to the
of the edifying deeds of Catholic valOr,
glowing beneath the pen of the Profess
tant historian, recording with honest
and burning enthusiasm the zeal and
the fortitude and the unrivaled devo-
tlon of the Jesuit missionary in
the cause of uplifting degrad-
ed humanity. While their dis
honored ancestors were hang
ing Quakers and burning witches, and
driving into forlorn exile the members
of the fanatical Plymouth colony that
ventured to express an opinion of their
own. the fearless and undaunted Jesuit
missionaries were tIvillZing the savage
and planting the knowledge of the lIv-
ing God in the hearts of
His unhappy and Unframed chill
misguided men. with narrow souls and
morbid imaglnations, seem to prefer to
hatch bogus papal letters. to resurrect
mythical documents from Rome to
Mexico, and to rsvel in the alarm they
may excite in the minds of hysteri, al
women and children over what some
emissary Of the American Baptist Mis-
sionary society has related about ignO-
rant Spain or benighted Italy. The
Jesuits had plenty of chance to show
their trickery In this fair land 200 years
ago. They have left to the world
brilliant record of the cunning designs
of the Jesuits and of the church of
Rome in seeking to save the I'M
mortal souls of the most Wretched
and the most needy of human
kind. Their tradueers might, with
profit. study the edifying story OF their
tives which can prompt noble souls to
sacrifice human ambition. to forsake
home and native land, to forfeit golden
opportunities of honor and ease, and to
dedicate all their days amid unspeak-
able trial and privation to the discour-
aging work of clvilizing savage men.
what the Republicans Did.
'It was the now well-known contract
system against which Mr.. Morgan so
savagely inveighs that was called into
operation by Republican administra-
tration without any suggestion from
our Catholic people, and without any
dictation from Rome. After ). lisr
tening to the secretary of the
American Baptist Missionary society
proclaiming with alarm the danger
to our American institutions because
the Catholics had drawn from the ma
tlOnal treasury such enc nous sums Of
money III the past ten years. and, the
Baptists had not gotten fair chance
to get even with the Catholics, one
would imagine that this whole contract
system was most cunningly planned
scheme of Rome to take Uncle
Sam's money and give him nothing
in return. He emphasizes the startling
fact that the, Catholics have received
100000 in ten years, while the good,
loyal Baptists and the various Protes-
tant denominations, all classed together,
have not been so generously remem.
bered by the general government in, the
support of what he terms sectarian
schools. This surely seems to be great
injustice. and it would appear that
somebody has been guilty of great
wrong.
During Mr.. Morgan's term of Office
under President Harrison, he, as the
commissioner for Indian affairs, was re-
sponsibe for the payment of a large
portion of this sum. If it were not Just
and proper to pay these sums of money
for Indian education; if the payment of
such sums was i'll any way Illegal or
unjust, why did not this gUou consci-
entiOus Baptist protect the SACRED inter-
ests of his country, and refuse to permit
these disloyal Papists to fatten at the
public crib?
''Mr. Morgan has very carefully omit
ted one most important item in his
efforts to alarm the people over the
schemes of Rome. He has never once
mentioned the very valid reason why
The government, or the contract schools
In charge of Catholics, received
larger appropriations than the
schools under Protestant or nom
Catholic control. He is consistent in
dishonest methods throughout. Why
did this disgruntled ex-lndian commits
sioner not frankly, like an honest man,
tell his audience how the money for In
dian schools was expended, and the
reason why so much more happened to
be paid out to the Catholics? He leaves
his hearers to INFER that the
Catholics are pillaging the national
treasury and fraudulenhy obtain
Ing public money, simply because they
are more Inscriptions and betthr po-
litical wirepullerS than the Baptists.
True, he does not say this out plainly,
but by so strongly insisting that the
Catholics receive so much more than
the others. he does not MAKE the matter
clear, but p1rmitS the Inference
to be- drawn that at least,
it is question simply of
equally portioning out the public funds
among the different religious denomin-
allOnS without any regard TO the service
rendered. Our general government is
not engaged In distributing the public
funds on basis of sectacian dis
tlnctiOn, but pays out Its money
for some duty done or service rendered,
not 70 some particular sect or de,
nomination. but to the people to whom
the public funds belong. II the Cath
olics who are, aud have been engaged
i'll teaching tue Indians, have not faith.
fully performed their duty, OF tave not
rendered a service to the nation in acs
cordance with stipulated contracts, they
are not entitled to compensation and
those who award it to them, under such
circumstances. are false to their duty. I
Educating the Indians.
IfCatholics have received more money
from the general government, as sthey
have, for Indian education, it is simply
because they have done the most work,
and educated the greatest number of
Indian children. The policy ofYthe
general government. set on foot iby a
Republican administration, has been to
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