The record-union., 1896-07-30
SACRAMENTO DAILY RECORD UNION, THURSDAY july So 1885,

the President of the evening" the name
of Adams against that of Devine. Here
the crowd yelled "Give it to him.! and
great deal of applause followed.
Continuing, the speaker said the
American Protective Association stood
for certain principles, and attacked
neither individual nor church unless
that individual or church first attacked
those same principles, when 1t would
come in for it's share of censure; and II
any religious organization conf1icted
with the great principles, or any of
them, of this Republic, it was only fair
that these principles should be upheld
by the people, and such was the object
of the American Protective Association.
If the Methodist or any other religious
denomination confiicted with American
principles it would meet with the disap-
proval of the association just as surely
as did the Roman Catholics, all other
things being equal.
The speaker told how he had recently
visited Castle Garden in New York and
watched the pauper labor OF the old
countries land in America. This was
one of the things the A. p. AS. did
battle against. They proposed to restrict
this great influx of pauperism into the
United States. Since 1861 pauper i'm
migration had increased 40 per cent,
while that of the better classes had
cOrreSpondingly decreased. There was
| but one settlement or solution for the
great labor problem of to-day, and that
was to haul up the gang-plank at Cas-
tie Garden and other ports and refuse
the pauper labor of Europe admittance.
Here Mr.. Hudelson read statistics to
prove that pauper labor immigration
was increasing monthly, and that a.
per cent. was being located in the four
great strategic States of the Union,
namely, New York, Illinois, PennSylva-
MIA and MassachusettS-in other words,
were settling in the half-dozen large
cities of the Union They were passing
into citizenship by thousands daily and
the best principles of the nation were
being threatened thereby.
Congress had not taken up the i'm
migration question until it had long
been agitated by the American Protect
i've Association, and the Congressman
who stood in the legislative halls and
denounced the immigration bill as an
A. P. A. measure told the exact truth.
It was an A. P. A. measure, and the
A P. AS were proud of it.
The American Protective Association
believed in the public school system of
America, and had proved it by sending
their children to those same schools.
No question was dearer or nearer to
him, the speaker continued, than the
public school system, and SO it would
continue to be until something better
was brought forward. He then went
back to the days of his childhood and
recalled the time when he trudged to
school on an exact equality with the
rich mans son, and declared that no
one should be allowed to become a citi-
zen of the United States until he took
the oath on the doorstep of the little
red schoolhouse on the hill.
The speaker sarcastically quoted
Father Yorke when he said the parochial
schools We're entirely in accord with
the public school system. Father Glynn
had once said the same thing, but he
sings a different song now. Here he
told a dog story about a canine that
showed its teeth at the same time it
wagged its tail, and pointed out that
it was hard to determine which end Of
the dog to believe.
The speaker then read from a speech
delivered by Monsignor Satolli, in which
it was claimed that the Catholic educa-
ton was the surest and best adapted
to uphold the Constitution throughout
the centuries to follow.
Selections were read from addresses
delivered by number of prominent
Catholics to show that each of them
openly preferred the Catholic educa-
ton because it gave broader fields for
moral and religious training. This, the
speaker claimed, was really an indict-
ment by the Catholics of the public
school system of America. Each of the
other religious denominations approved
of the public school system by sending
their children to them, while the Cath
olics alone stood upon the question.
Every educational institution in the
land, the speaker contended, should be
open to official examination by the pub
lie, and if everything were right in
side it's walls it would be. Every school
in the land was open to such eXamina-
tion except the institutions of the Cath
olic Church. and if, as they claimed, the