The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-06-29
TBRRIBLE ARRAIGNM[BNl
ATexan Editor Handles Ex-Priest
Slattery and His a.. P. A.
Abettors Without Gloves.
He Defends the Catholic Church
and Shows What It Has Done
for Civilization.
sHncle Sam Needs Not the Protec.
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!: tion of a Wretch Whom His
Own nother Cursed.

Own nother Cursed.
{! While !ecturing in Texas against Cath
I! olic priests and nuns, Slattery, the apos-
! tate drew hot fire from the editor of the
, 'sIconoclast'' of Waco City, Mr.. w. G.
Braun, as follows: W
was raised Protestant. learned
Professionalism from my mothers knee and
from my fathers pulpit but did not
learn there that nuns were unclean crea-
lures and priests the sworn enemies Of my
country. | learned that but for the
! Church Of Rome the ''glad tiding Of great
!4ssoy," which Christ brought to q dying
: world would have been irrelnediably lost
In that dismal intellectual night known
= as the Dark Ages. I was. taught that for
centuries the church Of Rome was the re
pository not only Of the Christian faith,
but Of civilization itself.
And while being taught my duty as a
Protestant, my education as an American
citizen was not neglected.
That is why am the uncompr romising
enemy Of the A. r. A..
ANY attempt to debar an American citi-
zen from the honors and emoiuments of a
public office because of his religious faith,
or non faith, is fragrant violation Of a
fundamental principle ot this republic.
And no patriot, no man in whose veins
there pulses one drop Of the blood OF the
conscript fathers, or who would recognize
the Goddess of Liberty If he met her in
the road; no man imbued with the toler-
ant spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ will
aid or abet such an unC Christian and un-
American movement. The A. F. A. is the
bastard spawn Of ignorance and intoler-
ance. 80
There may be some honest men connec-
ted with the movement; but it honest they
should get their heads trepanned to give
their brains room to grow. They are as
unable as mule-eared rabbit to compre-
bend either the broad principles upon
which this government Is grounded, or its
political and religious history. No man is
TO blame for his ignorance. Nor is the
church of Rome responsible for the
shameless ,apostate's lack ofsinformation.
1t did all that itcould ito transform him
from an ignorant little beggar Into an, ed
ucated gentleman, but even the pope cam
not make silk purse Of a sow's ear:
American Protective Association, eh ?
That signifies that Uncle Sam is in need
of protection. II had hitherto supposed
that the gentlemars in the high-water
pants and star -bespengled cutaway was
able to protect himself; but it now ap-
pears that unless he crawls under the
segis Of the redoubtable Slattery he is
to borrow from the most popular of all
Protestant divines "a gone. sucker !
Think OF placing Uncle Sam under the
protection of a man who is an 2apostate
in religion and renegade in politics
Of an Irishmam who apostrophizes the
British flag! Think Of that Kind of a
bird prssuming to tell the grandsons OF
Revolutionary soldiers their duties as
American citizens! s
Slattery assures us that we need pro-
lection from the Pope. The Pope, 1t ap-
pears is veritable Guy Fawkes, who is
tunneling beneath our national capitol
with q keg of giant powder in one hand
and g. box Of lucifer matches in the other.
What's the evidence? Why, out in San
Francisco, SO Slattery says, but as Slat-
tery's been convicted Of lying it were
we'll to call for papers-a Catholic school
board was elected and employed only
Catholic teachers. The same awful thing
happened in Detroit, if Slat1ery's telling
the truth, which is doubtful in the ex-
treme Then what? With a pride WORTH.
d more American act, this illogical idiot
informs us that when the Protestants
csntured the school boards OF those
cities they discharged every one of the
Catholic teachers and put only good
. Protestants on guard" And at that the
Baptist brethren who boast of Roger
Williams, cheered so loudly as to be in
danger of lockjaw. In the exuberant
imagiation OF Slattasy and his dupes
there appears to be great difference
between tweedledum and tweedledee.
1t doesn't seem to have occurred to them
that what is sauce for the Protestant
goose should be sauce for the Catholic
gander. They damn the Catholics for
doing the very thing for which they
commend the Protestants. That's the
logic of the A.YP. A.---tfe Aggregation
of Pusllanimous Asses.
Slattery would have you believe that
our Catholic fellow citizens are simply
elnmissaries Of the Pope, to whom they
owe allegiance both spiritual and tenn
porni, and that they will, at the iirst
opportunity, subvert American institu-
tions aud make this mighty nation sim
ply q satrapy of the Vatican.
That there can be no Catholic con
spiracy against the; free institutions of
IlllS COuIllE! IluSL i3e SVlQe0L TO every
man Of common sense from the simple
fact that the Catholics are divided
among all the political parties are CON
| tinually voting against each other. Now
I appeal TO your judgment-lay aside
your religious prejndices for the moment
End look at the matter from q non-parti-
san, non n-sectarian standpoint: If our
/ Catholic fellow citizens be under the
+ thumb of the Pope politically, as the
+ apostates now eyangelizing for the A. p.
q IA would have us believe; and if the
n Pope desires to make himself temporal
u ruler OF this land or in any manner dis
rect Its affairs would they not be found
voting as a unit--a mighty political
smachane instead OF being badly divid-
q ed on secular questions as the Baptists
L themselves. San Antonio is q Catholic
/. stronghold, vet prominent Roman
& Catholic was Whelmingl defeated
saln the last mayoralty election. And SI
could cite you hundreds Of Instances
u \ u here Catholics have voted against
& s5I,en OF their own religious faith and
elected Proteatants.
rding to the story off
stdtnted protectnr OF tae Ns Epy.s
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