New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-03-06

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'Fhe boys need protection from the.
wlles Of vile women quite as much as
girls need protection from the swiiles ofi
vile men Z 8 law which Furnishes the
boy who has been tempted ts his ruin
should punish the woman who has led
him b astray ard if both are equal partii-
cipants in the otfense bot should share
! il the resp possibility and penalty Pho.
neer Press.
slattsry
lust what were thesubjects Of the lee
lures OF Slattery and his wife which
callcd forth the riotous demonstration
of the mob of excited Catholics at Saw.
annah and made il necessary to call out
tn the police and the military TO protect
them from assault, we do not know. The
Same Y, man was in this city two or three
years ago, and it was said that his lee
lures were made up chiefly Of SANDER
Gus attacks upon the chastity Of the
Catholic sisterhoods and priests, Wheth-
er this ia the burden Of his-song at Saw
annah, we do not know; hut we do know
that nothing he could say against the
Catholic religion and no calumnies he
could utter against its ministers and SER
wants could do a thousanlth. part as
much harm to Catholicism in this coun-
try as the exhibition Of fanatical fury
with which this mob of its adherents at
Savannah dertook to silence the offend
ing speaker. There is nothing in Slat-
tery's antecedents orcareert to give weight
or credibility TO his accusations. He was
indicted in Pittsburg some years ago
for selling obscene literature. His mis-
sion IS to stir up sectarian rancor and
bitterness. All he is after is the motor
iety which his crusadeagainst the priests
and nuns will give him, and the money
which notoriety will enable him to pro-
cure. The Catholics of Savannah have
done all they could to help him to both.
If he had been allowed to say his say
and go his way, all he would have left
behind him would have been the con-
tempt Of the community. But they chose
to dignity him by making martyr of
him; to assail the sacred rights Of free
speech IN his person; to make it neces-
sary to call to his aid the forces of the
law and order to protect him from vio-
lence, and to arouse sentiment of in
dignation among the Protestant portion
Of the community, and have thus sue
ceeded in exalting him for the moment
to the character Of a champion of AM
erican liberty. Narrow zealots on the
Protestant side have seized upon the mis-
takes of the narrow zealots on the other.
and it is not surprising to learn that the
first fruits of this outbreak of Catholic
wrath against their deneuncer is the Or
ganization Of the A. p, Ain Savannah
under the leadership of this emissary of
that secret anti Catholic society.
A Catholic correspondent, while not
justifying the outbreak of mob violence
against this man in Savannah, seems to
think it a quite natural and excusable
manifestation of resentment in view OF
the nature of the proyocation and the
hot Southern temper which it excited.
If he had said, that, in the South, the
rights of free discussion had been so Of
ten outraged in political matters, it was
natural that violence should be reso1ted
to to suppress it in religious controver-
sizes, the argument would be ineligible.
But no provocation can excuse the at
tempt to suppress free speech on Ameri-
can soil. The proper and only effectual
answer to SANDER and falsehood, when
they Cannot be reached by legal process,
is to expose and denounce them on the
same arena where their weapons are en-
ployed. To silence the speaker by force
is the remedy only Of the ignorance and
brutality which cannot answer his
charges. English history has hardly
produced a greater scoundrel and llbcf-
tine than John Wilkes. But around his
person. and in causes in which he was q
defendant against the whole power Of the
crown, was fought the great battle for
the liberty of the press in England. This
man slattery might be even a less re-
putable character than he is said to be.
but the Catholics of Savannah have
clothed him with the dignity of repre-
senting one Of the most precious rights
of American citizenship. And we be-
I lieve that their course in this matter will
be as generally condemned by the intel