Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-05-05
AN OPEN LETTER.
Addressed to Father Lucey By the Hon.
 ". l. Sorre.ss.
PINE BLUFF. ARK. May 3. 1895

J A1, LIGlsY,
 DEAR SIB:-Yon doubtless posses a speHdid education, but Rhetoric, and not logic. seems to have been your fayorite study, Farmers. mechanics, drummers. apes and tails dance through your letter to the Press Eagle and GRAPHIC in ali the maZes of metaphorieal confusion. Your powers are the more wonderful in that Suu are able to dress up weak sic1liy thought in embroidery and broeade and make 1t appear respect able. Knowledge seems to be the instrument with which YOU decap- itate, dissenting opinion and no doubt you thought when you poured those gigantic thoughts upon An other Parallel that You had con Yiuctd every one of the correctness Of Your assertions But 1 am very dull q comprehensian, and can't under stand principles when they consist ia cold, ilat, deuials and therefore beg of you to be explicit ia your an- sWers. Since knowledge is the best weapon to Wieid against pePnfeiOus errors. l beg of you to try it against questions. Considering your Rhetorical powers, and your ca- paeity ia putting aside authority, and Youe extensive learHiHg and the opportunity afforded you by the Press Eagle, suppose you answer a few questions and explain few quotations and thus may be able to lead many Of Us from "darkues into light. But you deserve iDytthauks fer enc expression in yoar letter to the Press-EaGie, and l take this up- p8rtnait4 to aXffress them. The eX- peessioa referrct! to, reads as fellows. Father Felan is the editor of the \ estera V atehlnan at St. Louis. He is able and fearless in his state ments and experience seems to have proven to iliM the folly of arguing with certain class of people. The Western Wateaman. edired by Father FeIan had this to say The following are extracts from the editorial:
 The associations ef Christian Endeavor aud Epworth League number over l9,W0 men and wameu. Every one 0f them eX- pects hopes aud labors to get married. Gneyare actually engaged in eourting when not most actively engaged in singing and pray tng. These yorng people are very much in eaeh others company. There is. perhaps, not one of the young women who has not one CT more beaBX Under such circumstances
 it would be the simple dictates of everyday prudence to keep these people under sGrveil- lance. Catholics are terribly alive to the importance CT marrying wisely and well; hence the care of the church for the young, her awful rggor iB respect to the marriage tie. But outside the Catholic Church the business of marrying and giving in marriage is thing of haphazard These two associa tions go eff from homf thousands of 'fnlles and stay weeks away rom the parental roof with no one 10 protect them from the wiles of the vicious. Last summer o0,tG9 people met in large city in the East and stayed huddled together in hotels and private houses for two whole weeks. These 1000 people were actu- ally courting, and they were thrown into promiscuous company and free to roam at thelr own sweet will whithersoeyer their pas sion might lead. The corrupting tendency of such heterogeneous gatherings of young people cannot be overestimated, and for downright viciousness and depravity they have never been equalled since the horrld saturnaiia Of Greece and Rome. The history of these general conventions will never be told, but chapters without end could be writ ten in the hearts blood of afflicted mothers. A doube-murder trial that will soon take place in San Francisco will disclose some of the traps and Snares that are set for poor unwary giAs in these promiscuous assem- plies of young church worke CTS Purity is little more than q medical term amoUg our Protestant friends now, but will unehastity become synonymous with wholesale suicide and murderf God help the poor girls who nave no mother to advise them and father cohtessor to warn.
 After reading this 1 was impressed with the idea that this editor was an infamous sconntlrel. and I thank you for correcting me in wrong opiai0n Now Sir. "one good turn deserves another,2 suppose you ex- plain what you meantb by the expres- sion, Experience seems to have proven to him the folly of arguing with a certain class Of people, and each request in the beginning, we will pass Co the questions referred to.
 l. How can you exhibit ..holy unbrokea chain Of apostolic success sion, without including Pope John X. the paramoug Of the harlot Theo- dora, Pope John XI. .tlleillegitamate son of his holiness, Pope Sergius H.. Pope John XII. ho WAS drunk ard and notoFiously licentious?
 2. How about this holy unbroken chain, when the Catholic historian