The San Francisco call., 1896-01-22

peaceable City, but all can easily see that he
has not been loosed by Catholics, and that they
are now driving him back to MS dark. loath-
some dungeon.
Calumnies against the nuns or sisters-From
the first appearance OF our enemies until this
moment they have been heaping calumnies
upon the heads of the nuns sisters of the
Catholic church. The latest calumny that
nave seen against the sisters comes from the
Bowman, who writes that the offices in
washington are overrun by begging
nuns who eXtort money from the employees.
Most of the calumnies, however, are SO grossI V
obscure, so shocking to the moral sense, that
they could only be repeated by Henry or
Hubbell, q Bowman or a Brown. But we must
remember that this war upon the sisters is not
made on account of their religion, for the
A. L. A. s respect every form of religion, par
tlcularly the Catholic. 1t is waged against
them on account of their In reference in politics
and their voting at elections at the dictation
OF the Pope. / feel, ladies and gentlemen, that
| should make public defense, fee BILE though
1t be, OF class of Catholics who cannot de-
1end themselves. There are no more defense
less persons in creation than those nuns or
sisters. They can use neither voice nor pen,
hand nor loot in their defense, and the ruffian
that would assail their virtue, whether he be
minister or q layman, should have the flesh
torn off his filthy carcass by the cat-o'-ninc-
tans Catholic sisters are respected on account
OF their purity and self-sacrifice by the Turks
the Arabs, the Hindoos and the pagans OF
every nation, and only DETAINED by your
spurious A. z. A. s. Our sisters are not only the
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among the greatest benefactors OF society.
Their schools and academies are not only seats
OF learning, but also nurseries of virtue, where
many OF our best non-Catholic ladies have re-
ceived their mental and moral training
They take the place of mothers toward
orphans and waits of society, and
clothe, feed and educate them with trif1ing
expense to the State. They receive with
open arms the exposed, famishing founding
and warm it into life with mothers tender
care. These sisters so foullv DETAINED by the
A. A. pm n
beetle-browed Scandinavian Mormans devote
their lives in hospitals pesthouses, tents and
quarantlnes, to the sick ana suffering, the
plague-stricken and incurabie, and many of
them perish at their posts of duty.
When this Nation was divided into two hos
tile camps, and its lifeblood was flowing like
water, our sisters were to be found upon the
battlefield binding up the bleeding wounds of
the soldier and cooling his parched. feverish
up, lips, with water, amid the bursting of
shells and the whizzing of bullets. With
the sound OF the tocsin of war was heard
the call, not for Protestant nurses,
put for Catholic sisters. who went forth
eral, and not only did they sweeten the last
moments OF thousands who are now in eter-
nifty, but they saved the lives of thou
sands who are living to-day. Listen to
the testimony OF the ,poet-scout Captain Jack
Crawford: "On all Gods green and
beautiful earth there are no purer,
self-sacrifcing women than those who
wear the sombcr garb of the Catholic
sisters. During the war had many oppor-
tunities for observing them While convales-
cling at the Latterlee Hospital, Pa, having
been seriously wounded at Spottsylvania Sis
ter Valencia taught me TO read and write and
to her owe the foundation on which l have
built the education | now possess. / am
not Catholic, but i stand ready
at any and ali times to defend
these noble women, even with my life, for l
owe that lie to them" If there be in this
vast assemblage tonight any of the war vet
Grams that followed either the Federal or Con-
iederate standard they can testify to the hero
ism and self-sacrifce of our sisters during the
war; and appealing now TO the manhood and
chlvalry OF those veterans / ask them if they
VIII stand by in the future they have done
In the past with folded arms and muzzled
mouths whilst the stainless character OF the
sisters is attacked by moral assassins.
Calnmnies against priest, sisters and nuns
Inc hrst to bear the brunt of calumny in the
present unhoiy war are the Catholic priests.
politics. with being traitors to our republican
form OF government and with every villainy
imaginable.
Who are they who charge priests with undue