The San Francisco call., 1895-12-18

mind devoid of prejudice and passion. Our
cause is not so weak that we have ever found it
necessary to bolster it up with lies and misrep-
resentations. We might, TO aid our cause, imi-
tate the tactics of our enemfes-distort facts,
deal in diatribe, invent charges and circulate
gross libels about them. That We cannot do.
In this contest with bigotry we will win by
fair means or we will not win at all.
One of their leaders, when the spurious
character OF their encyclical was exposed, de-
clared that there was nothing wrong In such
action, and endeavored to justify it by claim
ing that all was fair in love or war. Catholics,
he asserted, had an equal right to do the same.
Washington GLADDEN., the eminent Ohio di-
vine. pointed out the unique villainy of this
subterfuge. There was he said, no provocation
fed in waging it, and it was the most cruelty
unjust and infamous of all wars. But it is not
by employing means of this kind that we look
for the success OF our cause. The opprobrious
terms they have seen fit to apply to everything
Catholic would perhaps justify similar style
of rejoinder, but they shall be treated with
consideration they don't deserve. The plain,
unyarnished truth must be our only weapon.
There was politician running for Congress
down South just after the close of the war.
He addressed large number of his constitu-
ents one evening and pointed out to them the
great benefits that not only that particular dis
trlct, but the State in general, would derive If
ne were chosen to represent them. The bene-
hc1al effects that were to follow his successful
election were many and great. But he WAS in
terrupted by a voter who cried out: "Look
here, you. We heard you prophesy before.
we remember you; you were down here just
before the war and didn't you say then on
that very platform, that If we went to War we
would lick the burned Northerners with pop
guns? Your no prophet"
Things looked very bad for the politician but
he was equal to the occasion, and gained his
election when he said: "Well, admit did
say we could lick the burned Northerners with
popguhs, but hang them, they wouldn't fight
that way" Nor will we fight the A. P. A. that
way. We have an abiding faith in the justice
of our cause; an equal confidence i'll the final
triumph of more enlightened and liberal
spirit, and the complete overthrow in the
future of fanaticism and intolerance.
This Government, as you know, was founded
by men who experienced the evil effects of in
tolerance To escaDe it many of them fed to
this country. That persecution from which
they fled was not Catholic. The Puritan of
Massachusetts, the Catholic of Maryland and
the Quaker OF Pennsylvania. sitting side by
shores of the New World freedom of worship
and liberty of conscience should find perma-
nent home. They declared in language plain.
strong and unmistakable that no one should be
Disseminated against because of his religious
belief. You know vel. how they mbodied that
principle of religious liberty in the Nations
laws. No religious test should be required as
a qualification for holding office in the Re-
public. You know how Congress still further
accentuated this principle by adding the four
teenth amendment at the close of the Civil
War: mo State shall make or enforce any
law which shall abridge the privileges or i'm
mun1ties OF any citizen of the United States"
You know furthermore that the first article
adopted by the Legislature of the great
State of New York as early as the wear
1777, and which is the organic law OF all
the other States, declared 1.-The free exercise
and enjoyment OF religious profession and
worship without discrimination or preferences
shall forever be allowed in this State to all
mankind" These extracts from the Federal
ana state constitutions prove how hostile to
the American idea of justice and liberty is the
proscrlptiye policy of these self-constituted
protectors.
These lodgeroom patriots ignore altogether
the constitution OF the United States. That
constitution was drawn up by men whose
patriotism was unquestioned, a patriotism
mat was tried In time of need and not found
drawn up by men whose claims to exalted
patriotism are the subjects OF ridicule and lest
TO all intelligent Americans.
Deaf to all cries of distress that go up from
one emo OF the country to another, unmoved
by the misery which meets his gaze whichever
way he turns. the A. P. A. raised q religions
Issue and klndles again in hitherto happy and
peaceful communities the fires of sectarian hate
and discord.
The A. P. A. would have the Amer lean people
turn from the consideration OF financial prob
lens ana join with him in a crusade against
ms fellow citizens. The orator of the A. P.
A. DDS the American people turn from the
discussion OF the tariff, the silver question,
the labor problem, and listen till he tells them
something about Rome's red hand and the
dreadful plots of the Jesuits
VINO are those men who now arropa ate to them
serves the responsibility of saving the American
people from evils which even they themselves
90 not pelleve to exist? For the most part North