St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-13
4. p. A. CONDEMNED
SENATOR HOAR ATTACKS THE
ORDER In AN OPEN LET
TER.
ITS METHODS DENOUNCED.
NOT FOR THE BENEFITOF PROT
ESTANTS OR THE
STATE.
IT'S MEMBERS ASHAMED OF 1T.
The Bay State Senator Replies to
Statements Uttered by Il
Critic.

WORCESTER, Mass, Aug. r.
Senator Hoar has written an open
letter upon the A. P. A. to Thomas
G. Evans, of Boston, in response to
letter from the latter expressing
surprise at statements made by the
senator in a speech that it (the A. p.
A. movement is an attempt to recall,
on one side, the cruelties of the Cath
Ole church and to frighten old wom-
en- of both sexes, and on the other
side, to band the men Of the Catholic
church together for political action,
both of which attempts would fail
Senator Hoar writes in part as fol-
lows:
There is no more jealous believer
in the principles of the New England
Puritans, and no more jealous ad-
vocate if them than 1 am. There is
not a man in Massachusetts who has
more at heart the welfare and per-
petuity of our system of free COM
mon schools than 1 have. The diff
ference between you and me is a
difference of method. 1 want to get
the 100000 Catholics in Massachusetts
on our side. 1 want them to send
their children to the public schools,
to pay their share of the cost, and
when their young men and young
women are suitable, are intelligent,
liberal persons, attached to the
school system, I want some of them
to be employed as teachers. do not
wish to exclude them from my DO
litical support when they are Re-
publicans, and agree with me in
other matters, because of their re-
ligious faith. You want to join an
association whose members are
ashamed to confess they belong to it;
many of whom, without apparently
FORGETTING the respect of their fell
lows, lie about their membership in
it, when they are asked about it,
You want to mass together the
whole Catholic population of Massa-
chusetts to the support of their eX-
IRENE and wrong-headed priests, if
any such can be found.
TEAR DOWN THE WALLS.
81 think your method would over
throw the common school system,
would overthrow the Republican
party, and would, by massing to-
gether all the Catholic voters, as
prescription always does mass men
together, increase and strengthen
that political power which you pro-
| fess so much to dread The time
| has come to throw down the walls
| between Christians, and not to build
new ones. 1 think the time has
| come to inculcate harmony and good
will between all American citizens,
especially between all citizens of the
| commonwealth of Massachusetts. !
want the whole 100000 Catholics of
| Massachusetts to believe what John
| Boyle O'Reilly believed, and to love
| and reverence the Puritan founders
! of Massachusetts as he did. You
| think the way to make good citizens
| and good men Of them, and to at
| tract them to Professionalism, is to
exclude them, their sons and daugh-
| tiers from all public employment, and
| to go yourself in a dark cellar and
curse at them through the gratings
| of the windows"
| In conclusion Senator Hoar asks
certain questions concerning the A
| P. A.-whether it is a secret organ
ization; whether it's opponents have
| an opportunity to know it's pur-
poses, and be convinced by it's ar
| guments; whether Italy and France
are not as free from temporal con-
troll by the pope as Massachusetts,;
whether Gen. Sheridan, if he was liv-
| ing, would be unfit to hold office,
and whether his daughter, if she
entertained her fathers religious be-
| lief, would be unfit to teach in a
| public school.