San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-03-31
ED. SMITH REPLIES

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In reference to communications
Of Messrs. Wahrenberger and
O'Callaghan, would ask either OF
the gentlemen or both, who have
charged the A. P. A. with bigotry,
to answer a few Of the following
questions:
When has the American Protec-
tive association ever interfered
with freedom of speech or press?
When has it assailed with guns,
clubs and stones any procession in
the United States?
When has it cast insults and
mud at the Stars and Stripes?
When has its members by intim-
idation, fraud or force, sought to
rob the people by thwarting their
will at the ballot box?
When have they ever stirred up
strife, melted riot, inaugurated
strikes, burned property, and
jeopardized lives to gain their
ends?
Are its members not peaceable,
law abiding citizens who only seek
by the American method, the
ballot, to right wrongs as they
see them, and is not this the
right, and duty Of every Ameri-
can citizen?
When has the American Pro-
tective association, or any OF it's
members sought by word or act
to belittle, besmirch, defame or
destroy that purely American in
stitution known as the free public
school?
What people and what religious
sect is it which in the year 1895 in
Boston and st. Louis, in Buffalo and
Savannah murderously assaulted
speakers whose views failed to
coincide with their own? Were
they Professionals or A. p. AS?
What church dignstaries through
out this land have forbidden
veterans Of the war to enter their
churches with the flag OF this ma
ton? To what church do those
preachers belong, who have de-
nounced, time and again, the
little red school house, and
forbidden on pain Of priestly an
ger, churchly anger, churchly dis
cipline, the children of their par
ishioners to attend school provided
by people? Who are these, may
l ask? Are they A. P. A.'s?
To what particular sect (religions
l mean did the fiendish Molly
Maguires, of Pennsylvania, belong?
At what shrine do the MUIR
derers of DR.. Cronin bow?
To what church do the thugs and
pugilists, thieves and murderers,
of all our large cities; nine-tenths
of the keepers of dives and saloons
belong? Are they A.P. AS?
The A. P. A. needs no apology for
its existence. Its enemies furnish
that in abundance.
Mr.. Wahrenberger takes pride in
pointing to the discovery Of Amer
lea by Catholics. Let me inform
him l believe there are still few
countries in America still under
the swing OF Rome, notably: Ecua.
dor; as proof of this will cite
few articles OF the concordat
which Rome made in 1868 with
that republic:
Article 1.-The Catholic religion
is the religion of the state. No
other worship is to Re permitted in
the republic.
Article 3-Every book prohibited
by a bishop is to be confiscated
by the republic. bibles come IN
der that head.)
Article 6-The government is to
lend the bishop a strong hand in
the suppression Of any who may
try and lead estray the true be-
lever.
Article San ecclesiastic can
only be held responsible before an
ecclesiastic tribunal, even in cases
of misdemeanor, which fall under
the common law.
Article 9-The holy father per-
mits ecclesiastics to pay taxes.
But in case they do not, they can
only be persuaded by the church
authorities.
Article l0-Every church and
every convent shall be empowered
to offer asylum, and no criminal
shall be seized therein without the
express consent Of the ecclesiastical
authorities.
Peru / believe has been COM
PEELED within the past month to
recognize Protestant marriages.
think there is some difference
in Protestant England and Ameri-