The Irish standard., 1896-05-30


month after month IS equal to any crime
requiring no physical courage. Instead Of
being incarcerated IN a we'll regulated pen
itentiary, he should have been hanged in
a hair halter and his foul carcass left to
tfattsn kites.
Doubtless some honest and earnest r5ople
| identity themselves with the A. P. A.-ig-
norance IS easily m:sled by designing DEM
agogues; but ! have yet to learn Of an Ape
leader in whom cathode ray would dis
cover a good moral character. Warren E.
Price and Ex-Priest slattery are fair sam
pies Of the fellows who make A. p. Apeism
a profession and fatten at the expense OF
fools. S,attery didn't get into the pen!-
tertiary; but he got out of Waco p. d. O.
and he'll never come back. He came as the
ayowed exponent Of muscular Christian
ity,'' and promised a congregation
posed chiefly of women-that he'd do some
thing awfully awful to any editor who
dared assail his mora, character" Then he
undertook to make the same kind of play
at a stag party, but didn't succeed. Ellis
coward Fps did from their color fly" He
merely: took the fighting lie and canine
epithet, then folded his tent like the Arab
and made an :ngiorious sneak.
The Apes must indeed be proud Of their
spokesman. An American Protective AS
ISOLATION" with Price bearing aloft its gon-
Talon and Slattery enunc.ating its princi-
ples! Think Of men, born IN Old Glory's
sacred shadow, trailing in the wake of d
brace of hebawds who peddle obscene lit
erature to babes and seek to corral the
dirty dollar by defaming 1.-THE Angels Of
Buena V;sta"-those heroic women who are
ever ready to do battle to the death with
''the pestilence that walketh in darkness. D
Nor are these bipedal brutes, these profess
sional panderers to the prurient, these as
sassins OF reputation, these highbinders In
the world Of morals, the exception to the
rule,-the black sheep Of the A. P. A. HER
arehy. Every professional exponent of A.
P. Apeism is either shameless political
adventurer or graceless mountebank whd
IS in the unclean business for Doodle.
Pick up any paper published in the in
terest Of the catacombers and you'll flnd
the same base inuendoes aimed at sac
redotal order that has been glor:1ed by
Pere Marquette and hallowed by Father
Damien,--the same coward,y and unclean
filings at consecrated women who would go
to Price himself, and minister to him with
more than motherly tenderness, were he
stricken with the black death and deserted
by those to his heart most dear "By their
fruits We shall know Them The fruits of
A. P. Apeism are hate and discord that
may yet flame forth IN civil strife and DESC
late the land. The fruits of the Catholic
orders are love and charity to all, regardless
Of race or creed, glory or shame. Even a
Slattery cannot fall so low that the Sisters
Of charity would decline to succor him
in his hour of distress. I am no sectarian;
Itcare naught for the Catholic creed. Nor
Am fighting the battles OF the priesthood
lifts members are usually able to give "a
good account of themselves; but when men
protesting to be counrtymen of mine
guardians of the flag of my fathers-assail
with v;ndictive calumny women whose mis-
sion is one Of mercy, I long for the power
to transform the English tongue into the
written bolts Of Jove and hurl the coward
~ and unc.ean ours to the profoundest
depths of hell" -