The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-08-14
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only about 100000 Catholics in
this country, every woman, child
and cripple, as we'll as every man,
would have to kill six Protestants.
tLaughter.) Isn't that the climax
OF stupidity2
ut is sad commentary on our
reputation for common sense that
the distribution of this absurd and
ridiculous document caused many
Professionals to arm themselves with
Winchester rifles to protect them
selves against the terrible Papists.'
"There in that heap of lies and
scandal was the American Protective
Association begotten. This is the
food and meat on which it has
grown great - this society. that
should make every decent man hang
his head in shame.
"This pretended encyclical, Of
course, was distributed in Califor-
MIA, and in Oakland, and, although
| am forced to confess it, right here
in this intelligent city many people
believed it. 1 know that's hard to
take seriously, but it's fact.
"It was useless for us to deny all
this. 1t bobbed up like a rubber
ball again and again, for if there's
anything that has more lives than a
cat, it's patriotic lie, and we may
continue to deny it had not the pro-
moters of that calumny began to
disagree among themselves. You
know the old adage-when thieves
fall out honest men may have hope.
"And so it happens that these
men, who have felt called upon to
defend the country against the
Pope, have now taken to falling out
among themselves. The ex-priests
have turned upon their lords in the
American Protective Association.
One of them Slattery, whose wife
organized the Woman's American
Protective Association in this State,
has denounced, in public letter,
former leader Of the order, "Whisky
Bill' Trainor, and through this we
learn that this forged encyclical
came out of the Office of the su-
preme president of the order; it
never saw Rome; it never saw a
Catholic; it was written with flow
ing pen, and now one of the men
who did most to distribute it has
pronounced it forgery-ex-Pries
Slattery.
"Of course, il the Papists were to
get up in the night and cut the
Threats of the Professionals they must
have carving knives, and so con-
comitantly with the encyclical we
find that report was spread that
Catholic churches were stocked with
rifles for this purpose. Do you
know that this report was believed
here in Oakland? Do you remember
the time when st. Mary's College
was burned and those arms that
were found in the ruins? You know
there was cadet company at the
college which drilled with a lot of
old muskets. These were the arms
they found and held up to the pub
lie gaze saying: 'Lo and behold, the
truth of our testimony"
Here Father Yorke read clippings
from various papers relative to the
finding of the muskets in the ruins.
"And at the risk of being tedious, 1
would say that this was not spors-
die break of old womanishness, but
the deliberate plan OF propaganda
used by an association organized to
protect American institution" he
continued.
"Let me pass on to another state
ment of the association condemning
the loyalty of Catholics when they
were carrying arms in defense of
the country 1t was said that at the
time OF the war with Mexico Irish
Catholics refused to fight with a
nation OF their own faith in defense
Of flag that Aoated over Protestant
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