The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-23
WHAT THOSE PAPISTS DID
Rspublies throughout ths World Formed
BY People Of Catholic
Faith:
faEY WERE PloIEERs OF FaE WEST.
Early Puritans We're Fond of Liberty
Only For Them.
selves.

Eon Henry D. Estabrook, a distin-
euished citizen CT Omaha, Neb.. Repub-
lican Protestant and thorough Amer
lean, recently said:
Since when have Catholics been foes
to liberty or a republican form of govern
ment? You cannot name republic on
the earth today. including the republic OF
these United States, whose existence is not
wholly due to the Catholics or Catholic
assist iuce. One thing is certain, Protest
altisn as such never gave birth to a re-
publ.
catholicism alone stood out against the
tyranny OF the middle ages. Who re-
buked the atrocities of the Emperor
Th sodosius? Ambrose, Catholic. Who
hurled his anathemas against the Ibid
iRoCs empress Of the East? Chrysostom
a Catholic. Who whung Magma Carta
the paidiIm Of English liberties from
the tyranny OF King John, backed as he
Tss by Pope Innocent of Rome? Go read
the eleventh chapter Of 'Hume's History
Of Engiand'-thsy were Catholic barons,
with Bishop Langton at their head. And
DC you ioEdly believe thar Catholics
would destroy or suffer others to destroy
this American republic, which, except for
them. would never have existed? Why,
America was discovered by Catholic
Christopher Columbus. II you say that
Columbus was rot its discoverer, then
Il nat was the late Columbian exposition
Intended 20 commemorate? Did Ericsson
discover America2 Be it SO. Ericsson
was a Catholic But Columbus and
Ericsson only touched upon our borders
L was left for other Catholic mission
aries and explorers, to press onward to-
TIE interior The northern lakes were
discovered aid made known by Cham
psaIn-a Catholic.
The Mississippi valley and all this fer
tile Western country might not even yet,
have been opened to you and me and chill,
cTen after rs were il not for the intrepid
IT. and seif-sscTifice CT such men as Hen
oeoln, Duluth, Joliet, Marquette, La
Sei.e-Catholics every one of them One
O. the greatest Republican clubs in this
Country, the Marquette club of Chicago
was named after Marquette, the Catholic
missionary and explorer. Catholic mis-
Ssona:-.es were preaching to the American
Indians as early as 1926, long before a
Protestant had ever SET his foot on Amer.
lean soil. It was a fnii 100 years later
that our pilgrim fathers landed in the
MayaoWer-honeSt, hard-headed obsti-
nate. opinionated. uncomfortable old buff
e.s. frc;n whose lcins l nave the honor to.
6e descended. They were constitutional,
~ opposed II being happy themselves or
permitting anybody else to be happy.
You remember Macauley said that the
PuEitans objected to I,aear-baiting, not Oil
account OF the pain it gave to the bear,
Dat for the pleasure it gave to the specta-
tors. Roger Williams the most liberal
By all odds of the Protes ants of his day,
could not stand the genuine round-head,
SO he moved ever into Rhode Island and
started A little colony of his own where
oil men were equal before the law-that is
. say, all men except Catholics. He drew
TIE line at them. This dear, genial, an
gelic A. p a. actuliay cut the heart out of
the British fag because it represented
Roman cross