Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-08-17
An Exception We'll Taken.

The following item appeared re-
 gently in the Nogales Oasis:
 "In Arizona there are DO priests
 who dare to tell native born Ameri-
 can citizens whether to enlist or
 not"
 Replying to this, T. F. GaIligan,
 of Chicago, wrote as follows, which
 was also published in the Oasis:
 "Well, Jupiter Tonansl Have you
 the priests of Arizona so we'll in
 Sand, so we'll cowed, that without
 your permission they dare not open
 their mouths-not even so much as
 to tell men to enlist7 By this time,
 1t must be quite evident to the
 priests of Arizona, that all the Ari>
 zona law abiding heroes did not die
 in their boots at Charleston and Tombstone.
 "Your editorial snarl at the priest
 Of Arizona seems to have been
 prompted by an article, which you
 have been pleased to copy from a
 New Mexico newspaper, which states
 that a priest of Santa Cruz, New
 Mexico, dissuaded native born Amer jeans from enllstIng in the present
 war.
 Whilst the article in the New Mexico newspaper bears the ear marks of an 4. P. A pole cat. and is redolent with the stench of an A. P. A. kennel, still, let us for the mo ment, assume that it is true, hoy will that justify the editor of The Oasis in shaking hIs head and talk ing through his teeth at the priests of Arizona who are not offenders. ] and who certainly do not bear the ! editor of The Oasis or their country 1 any ill will. The hardships borne, Tn the most laudable of causes. by ] the priests of Arizona. standing aside from all political preferment and emOlument of every kind, should merit for them, at least, courteous public allusions. Would it not have been more to the point to have shook your threatening finger at the offending priest or priests of Santa CTuzi If, indeed, there be offenders there. At the present moment we have two very distinguished profes- sors of notable institutions, who have the courage to publicly pro claim, Tn this land of free speech [ and free press, that this is an unjust war and that our soldiers are 6ghts 1 ing an unjust cause. Charles F. Norton, of Harvard University, says: The war with Spain is inglorious. s and that for the accomplishment of : ,he ends which, as a nation, we pro pose to seek by its means, 1t is need l ess and consequently criminal t Now then, have not as yet learned a hat any editor has shaken his hoary [ nane at the professors of other e universities. Such comments as a lave been made, have been directed. a 's they should be, to the offending t gentlemen themselves. To refer D ontemptuously to the professors of il 'ther universities would be ill-man- cred as is your reference to the 'rlests of Arizona, because some 'riest or priests of New Mexico have sl ispleased you. le
 Because New Mexico is slow in c Hing her quota, our New Mexico u ditor says she should never be ad- st litted to statehood To be con o stent then with himself, he will fl ave to read several of the southern " tates out of the statehood state Sl p to this that have been enjoying SC U the privileges of 'statehood.' b. he deficiency in furnishing quotas W over 10000 men, mostly charged st southern states. These southern sl 'ates, like New Mexico, are long on or 0lonels and editors, but short on oI rivates. North CaroIina's quota al slls for 7S3 men: she succeeded in SC llisting 60. Of Mississippi's 600, in linois has furnished 400. Capt. T. of . McGee, who has had a recruiting OC hce at the corner of Dearborn and fo arlington streets, in this city, bC arted last week for the south with company of men.
 at "lt IS stated in our city papers of sn day that our officers are on their ih sy now from Louisiana and Ala co una and other Southern States to pc ek recruits here. So you see, NIT. SC ditor, there are others The poor pr ative Americans of New Mexico gs ed not be lonely. If the Santa iI rug priest IS to blame in New 1 exico, who is to blame in the De 'uthern States? Why, the same yo Id man, the Santa Cruz priest: I "a ard him wink the other eye at Iu @ people of the Southern States: co sounded just like 8 growing tur- tn l p. . ''Now, Mir. Editor, if have read on to your editorial a meaning for 'h gn to your mind, no one would be 70 ore pleased than myself to stand so rrected. My personal acquaint- Sn ce with you resulted in my coming m' the conclusion that you are a gen en 'man of honor and consequently p!i se from bigotry and contemptible hli ejudices; priests of Arizona so sur ised me, that felt constrained to la, ite the above" m,
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