The Portland daily press., 1896-06-26
PRESIDENT HYDE AND THE A. P. A.
L. b. bennett Replies to His Recent At
tack Upon Them in His Baccalaureate.

A~CSCAAO
tack Upon Them in His Baccalaureate.
Mr.. L. B. Dennett In speech
before the Portland council No. /,
of Maine A. P. A, said IN part:
President Hyde in his baccalaureate
sermon last Sunday is reported in the
PRESS as saying of the A. P. A,
1t attacks Catholicism in the spirit of
Jesuitism; proposes to protect free insti-
tutions by tyranny's worst engine OF OPP
preston, the secret conclave, etc.
"Secret conclave OF what ia the &C.
clesiastic speaking? For he speaks as an
ecclesiastic and like an ecolesiastio, and
in the spirit of an ecclesiastio ard ao-
cordilg to the manner of Roman &C.
clesiastic rather than an American.
Secret conclavei Does the president of
Bowdoin know of any secret action OF
the A. z. "A. which has not been for the
public good? Have not its efforts to re-
strict immigration been in the interest OF
true American policy, and has not that
policy OF the a. P. A. been recently en-
dorsed by the National House of Repre-
sentative by the passage of the Mccall
bill by the extraordinary vote of 1876 to
90?
Does he think his mere sarcasm aimed
at the A. P. A. of the United States,
whose republican and democratic in
situations, this great national assooia-
tlon, which he assails. has sprung into
existence to defend and preserve against
the greatest enemy they ever had, will
pass current in New England, where the
people have the same sources of informa-
ton that President Hyde has, and the
advantage OF having capacity of sound
thinking?
"Secret oonclave % This is the pitiful
and querulOus outory of papacy itself,
which is the greatest secret oonolave in
all the world
Does the President Of Bowdoin chan It
the chorus for that church? Says Presi-
Don't hyde: 1.-THE A. P. A. fans the dy-
ing embers of religious strife into the
fiickering semblanoe of the flame of per-
seoution and calls the resulting glow pa
triotism. Such is the language of the
President of Bowdoin in bacoalaureate
discourse! Was there eyer truer spec
linen of priestly insolence hurled by a
Papist at Protestant head?
Dying embers of religious strife 70
When did the Roman church ever cease
her religious strife with Protestant
churches? Has she in Manitoba, or Next
90, or France, or Germany, or in the
United States. or in the world2 Is the
President Of Bowdoln ignorant Of the
very subject he assumes to discuss as an
instructor in an honored Maine college.
which has seen. and let it he hoped will
see again, better times? "flaine Of per-
secution!' Has the word persecution
during the last five hundred years had
any primary and emphatic meaning in
any large connection, except as express
ing the cruel tyranny of the Roman
church towards all whom it regards as
heretics?
Have the Inauisitions of that church
been suppressed in any Catholic country
except by the war power? Snail not the
A. +. A. oppose the supremacy OF Papal
power in our country by the constitu-
tional and legal American method of
bob public and priyate discussion and
action2
exclaims against infusing into Alneri-
can politics 'the poison of prescription
of candidates for political Office on
grounds of religious faith. -
Prescription thy name Is papacy! This
allegation proves itself in any competent
tribunal, which will, as a matter of
course, and without other evidence take
JUQlClttl ABOWlouSc Va VIC ldCbS Vi ulbbuEy
relating to the Roman church.
Do | make myself understood? "Pros-
criptionl'' The church which is aiming
at and striving for supremacy in our
beloved country has ever prescribed all
mankind who did not agree with it.
This is well known to all students of
the history of papaoy. A Sopohinore can
satisfy himself OF this by the books in
any good college library.
The y a n 70
the extent of denying him the privilege
of his own manner of religious worship
1t will protect him in the proper exgr-
else Of that privilege under our national
constitution. Disagreemensts as to re-
ligious views have been tolerated in this
country since an enlightened public con
science and public opinion among the
people have rightly compelled it.
No, the A. p. A. do not proscribs the
Roman religion as such. Ii is the polit-
ioal tyranny OF the Roman ehuerh ex-
ercised over its Iaity which complies the
patriotic societies of the country (for
there are many besides the A. 2. A.) to
oppose any man for office whose first al
ieeianoe is to the Roman Pontiff.
This is the precise point. Romanism
is in direct conflict with republicanism
everywhere, even in this country. There
is just as truly a clerical party here, as
in Italy, France or Germany. It Is the
clerical partysain our country which op-
poses our public schools, our Protestant
churches, our free press, our free speech
and every other American Institution.
and because they are not founded on the
pretensions of the Roman church, which
the A. z. A. proscribes.
should MT have made the effort TO
thus advertise the baoealaureate of Bow
doin's President had I not felt compelled
to as President Of the Maine State Coun-
Gil A. p. A. Hence this brief and hasty
notice of it tonight. There was nothing
else in it to attract attention. His evil
dent limitations of Haryard's President
Eliot were much inferior to the Harvard
specimens.
Maine State Epworth League.