The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-03-07
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Protestant Irish-American Protests
Against the Doctrines and Methods
of A. p. Aism and Defies 1t


Against the Doctrines and Methods
of A. p. Aism and Defies 1t
to "Lay ON McDun"
| The following newspaper article has
been printed in the form of small
poster and is being secretly circulated
| in this city by the members of the A.
P. A. It is precisely what they say it
is. 1t was written by me and pub
lished as an editorial in my own paper,
under my own signature. have never
been ashamed of it, believing when I
wrote it and believing still that it is
a timely, truthful and manly protest
against the methods and doctrines of a
most pernicious' brood of religio-polit-
ical jackals who delight in moral car
| rion and darkness. The article has,
| at least, one virtue which these "Pro.
fessional American Citizens" as some
one has facetitiously dubbed them,
have never learned; it is American in
every dot and syllable. What The
Dalles A. p. AS hope to accomplish
by its circulation is, am sure, more
than 1 can tell; but presuming that, as
usual, they are inspired by proscrip-
tive bigotry against any one who has
the temerity to oppose them and that
the intent is to work me personal in
jury, request the publication of the
article in the TIMES-MoUNTAINEE in
something of the spirit of the old-time
knight-errant when he threw his
gauntlet at the feet of his assailant and
defed him to clay on" However
crude and feeble the article may be,
the principles that inspired its compo-
sition will exist as long as the cousti-
tuition of the United State, nay, as long
as Christianity itself. They will be
honored and respected when A. P.
Aism, like its know-nothing ancestor,
shall have perished in its own putrid-
ity and been consigned to a forgotten
and dishonored grave.
HUGH GoURLAY
THE A. P. A. PROPAGANDA.
Two missionaries of the A. P. A.
propaganda are billed to speak in this
county within the next few days, one
in this city and the other in Center
Vile. The one who lectures here an
nounces himself as the state organizer
of the A. P. A. his subject is Religi-
GUS Liberty vs.. Romanism, and he raj
lies his hearers by four line slogan
that intimates that the wicked Catho-
lies are conspiring to tear to the
ground "the little red school house,
the gift of nation 80 grand and SO
true" metaphorica1ly tearing his hair
the while and vowing before high
heaven that he is going to ''sta nd by" :"
and spray" and flight" with his
mouth), for this little piece of red
architecture presumably as long as the
A. P. A. funds hold, out or a fat fee is
in prospect for organizing lodge of
charter members, or the ancient order
of damphools continue to attend and ap-
plaud his efforts to beget strife and
hatred among the members of one COM
mon political and national brother
hood.
The gentleman who lectures at Gem
terville is less fastidious in the title of
his lecture. It is in fact obscene,
blackguard. OF course american
Free Schools are threatened" and
Startling Facts" are promised that
will show that the whole Catholic
hierarchy and people spend their lime
in nothing else but Matching hellish
schemes for wiping our entire educa,,
tional system out Of existence; that
the pope, who seems to be minding his
own business about as well as anybody
we wot Of, is actually conspiring to be
president of the United States, or
something, and worse still, that the
great and good Grover himself is either
Catholic in disguise or in the pay of
the pope, for 'eighty per cent Of the
employees of the White House are
Catholics" Maliciously and villain
ously false as all this is it might
pass as the vaporings Of a diseased
Imagination were it not that
this reverend brother promises to
become the very gutter-snipe and ped
dler of salacity by dragging from the
nasty depths of his lecherous imagina-
tion 10000 infant skulls" as silent Wit
nesses of priestly concupisence and "a
priest who destroyed the purity of 95
girls.' And these are the dirty wares
that this Oregon adventurer would
peddle before the decent people of
Centerville at the price of a 25 cent adj
mission fee. Let him speak by all
means, for the law guarantees him this
right, but let it be to empty benches.
No decent self-respecting American
citizen ought to encourage propa-
ganda that has for its sole OBJ
ject the deprivation of worthy
and loyal body of fellow citizens of
the rights guaranteed by the constitu-
ton. No intelligent person believes
that Catholicism is seeking the over
throw of our free school. system. It is
a base, lying fabrication. No intelli-
gent person believes that the pope is
seeking to rule this country. His
mission is religious, not political.
Whatever other popes might have
done in an age when Protestants and
Catholics alike were given to religious
thespresent pope and the
whole American Catholic hierarchy
have proven. by every reasonable test
that they are friendly to American in
If it were otherwise there
are tens of thousands of American |
Catholics who would not hesitate for a
to tell them as the great o. Com
nell did: "We take our religion from
Rome but we allow no pope or priest
to dictate our politics"
The editor of the Republican is not
, Catholic and never expects to be. If
he writes strongly on this subject it is
only because he has seen with his own
eyes for many years the miserable
effect of religious hate and bigotry in
MS native land. Born and reared to
nature manhood in the very heart and
notbed Of Orangeism in the north of
ireland, he has had opportunities such
ls fall to the lot of few American citi-
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