The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-18

1s INC son OF veteran; as one who
never crossed the threshold of any but a
public school-let me say to these self.
styled political patriots, who cry protec.
ton to American Institutions TO Ameri.
can trusts, to these heroes and valiant de.
tenders of the public school system who
nave loved their country ever since their
eye teeth filled their sockets, and who
reverence Uncle Sam at least so long as
he mis- their pockets, let me say to them
what l said in answer 10 a letter sent be.
fore lecture i delivered one night. The
letter inquired the belief of Catholics as
20 the public schools.
II asserted that not only are we, as
Catholics, not opposed to the public school
system, but we hold and maintain that il
must be preserved At all hazards. To the
charge that we owe allegiance TO foreign
powers / would say that, in spiritual mat
tiers, we give allegiance to our church. In
political matters We give allegiance to no
one outside of the constitution of the
United States and the duly elected officers
thereof. In matters spiritual we take our
faith from the church. In political mat
| tors wo take our faith from ourselves
| alone. lrishmen and Catholics, in all
states, belong to different political parties
ana contend with each other for suprem-
acy. The leaders in our church are iden-
tlhed with all political parties, each striv-
| ing Tor the mastery.
| WHO are the enemies of the public
school system? Only the men who deny
| 20 their fellow citizens the rights guaran-
| tecd them by the American constitution.
| lhese men are indeed enemies of our
public school system. We Catholics are
not enemies of education. The state
must preserve itself. Education is
| necessary for the preservation of the
| state and hence the state has the inherent
right to educate its own citizens and
maintain its own school system.
asking your pardon for this depression
| 4 to fhaG ~ H.
OF Irish Catholics in American patriotism
Inc Irish Catholics were not the pioneers
on this continent. The new world had
been discovered under the banner of the
cross. The early work was done by the
Spanish and the French. In the 18th CEN
fury the colonies were settled by settlers
from other lands, fugitives from religious
persecution, who had not learned the les
son of liberation, and their attitude to-
ward the papists was not calculated TO
encourage the immigration of Irish Cath
ones: yet some names appear. Mary
Grover, an Irish Catholic, appears promi-
nent in New England early history. and
was executed as n witch. Hence Irish
Catholics must have been on the soil
early, but they were few and scattered"
rather Malone continued giving in de-
tail the history of the part played by Irish
Catholics before and during the revolu-
ton. In number of the colonies, the
history of the Catholics begins only with
the close of the revolution, owing TO the
intolerance in those colonies. In some
states Catholics were DISTINGUISHED and it
was made an otfense for a Catholic priest
TO say mass and any Catholic teacher was
liable TO transportation to England
Laws were once passed in this country to
regulate immigration. and while the soil
OF Maryland was open to branded Grimm |
ais from English jails. Irish Catholic imi-
grants were taxed so much per head, |
Yet before the revolution there were a |
number of patriots among the Irish |
Catholics of Maryland.
The speaker told of the part played in |
those days by Charles Carroll of Carroll |
ton, Father John Carroll and others, and |
asked "How long would the patriots of |
to-day, who claim we are disloyal, remain
patriots If they were DISTINGUISHED and |
disqualified from holding office, as were
the catholics of that time like John Car
roll9" He related the deeds of Meade,
Moylan. Dillon, Brown.
Lynch, Jasper and others. John Barry,
he said, was the first naval commander to
fling the stars and stripes to the breezes
OF the ocean, and the first to compel a
British mau-of-war to lower the colors of
the mistress of the seas, and the first man
who was raised to be commodore IN our
navy. He quoted the words of Washing
ton TO Irish Catholics at the close of the
war. He then told of the Know-nothinO
riots in Philadelphia and elsewhere, when
the houses of Catholics were burned and
81. Mlchaels church torn down to the
music of Orange airs. He inquired when
Orange airs became the national hymns
Of American patriots. He told of the Sis
ters OF Charity, who, n short time before,
had nursed Protestants and Catholics
alike in the cholera stricken city, now
1riyen naked into the streets to die.
From such patriot S." exclaimed he,
good God deliver us in America, for
ever and forever. These DAYS can never
n IIva q b,ar, h., a |
lot be convinced that the pope, with an
army of Jesuits, was on the high seas fiy-
ng the black flag and might land on our
shores at any minute and destroy our
iation. In these days fanatical success
IAN only be partial and temporarily kent !
Up by second and third rate politicians
md third and fourth rate ministers. Epi- i
Iemlcs must run their course. This one |
nay have some truth and honest bgotry
Jack of IT. Some will use il to ride into
'fiice and that will be the end of it, But
I Will not be the END OF 1t for the indi- !
idual. As a man in New York said who
vas asked to join the movement No,
hank you. i was Vaccinated with know ]
othngism 40 years ago and il Took" :
The speaker then told of the patriotic
eeds of Irish Catholics in later periods of :
american history. including the rebellion. I
lie then said on the second general SUBJ L
ect of his address: Q
citizenship is the state of being vested !
nth the privileges and duties of the citi- :
en-. We have that privilege as Ameri- 4
ans, and speak to Americans. We have I
rivlleges under our government that are !
eldom given TO men under any form of
overnment. We have the freedom for {
hich other nations have longed in vain a
Dr. centuries. These privileges entail du- Il
es which are placed on us TO maintain q
5 nviolabie as we would our own con- j
,.ence. These duties we will have TO an p
YER for at the throne of the living God. y
o has destined America TO lead the ma "
ons of the world to greater, better. more d
od-like. more Christ-Iike life, and if we b
Ill of the mission God will demand a u
ewardship as a stewardship of our own e
'uls. The nations of the world look TO q,
merica, not the rulers. but the people, n
no have the same hopes. lougings. aspi- d
Awarded ri
Highest HonorS-World's Fair,