The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-13
ACCUSES THE PHILIPPINES
FRIARS.

MY DEAR PEOPLE,:
You, no doubt, read in the Record
Union of last Sunday vile attack upon
the monks or friars of the Philippine
Islands. 1t would be cowardly to let
this Shiny thing, born of a bigot-mad
brain, go on it's filthy way, unhindered.
We Catholics are, in this city of Sac
ramento victims of an unmannerly
Press. Every morning and evening We
are in danger of finding our religion,
persons, places and things most sacred
to US, made objects of public scorn. We
pay twice sixty-fve cents each month
for the privilege of learning what fools
and how contemplate we are in Nhe
eyes of our neighbors.
The writer in the Record Union has
exhausted our patience. He is
IGNORANT,
FOOLHARDY,
BIGOTED,
DISHONEST.
Ignorant, because he knows nothing
about the friars.
Foolhardy, because he adopts blinIly
the sayings of men who hate the friars
or their religion.
Bigoted, because, in his spiteful COM
him to hurt the feelings of all Catho-
lies.
Dishonest, because he makes a case"
against the friars and condemns them
unheard.
1t is the grossest ignorance not to
know that the friars found the Philip
pinos, savages and have made them
Christians. 1t is stupidity unqualified
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hundred years the priests, unstigmatiz-
ed, governed and guided the vast ma
jority of the islanders. Six millions of
the people at this moment reverently
hear few hundred friars, whilst the
others, who hate the fTars. keep thirty
thousand United States soldiers busy
playing Jack and Gill;" A knave, in
deed, is he who bows the knee before
st. Aguinaldo, the friar hunter, and,
from safe distance, shakes his fist at
Aguinaldo, the vagabond rebel niger.
Every friar vows himself to obedi-
ence, poverty and chastity. He obeys
superiors whom he never sees; he does
not own the shoes on his feet, and
breath of scandal causes his removal to
another monastery. The Fathers at
st. Francis Church are members of the
most maligned Order, and what these
men are to our people, their brethren
in Manila are to the Philippines.
The Record Union specialist is fool
hardy, because he fathers the ISLANDERS
of renegade Catholics, over-zealous
Protestant missionaries and secret So
ciety men, who love to revile the
Church that denounces them. Agui-
naldo says he is an Episcopalian: Stew
ems was a Mason and not a Catholic
The others quoted are not worthy of
consideration. But many men, wise in
their own conceit, have before this, shut
their eyes and opened their mouths to
receive a dose of vileness which was
elected to the disgust and injury of in
nocent parties. It is to be hoped that
the Record Union repository of slush
has had enough of that game. Bigotry
bristles on him like the needles on a
hedgehog. Every word of his own
prods purposely everything Catholic.
Captain Leary and the friars furnish a
cue, and he catches on with an ortho
dox yell-rushes, pen in hand, like a
cowboy, to stir up the Romish cattle.
What bird of evil whispered to him that
the monks were exiled because i'm
moral? The foul carrion crow would
not lend itself to such fetid delight
What familiar devil so deftly expanded
an hybrid imagination from Gaum to
the Philippines? LIDO not know his
name, but he is sharp one; for rarely
on the holy Sabbath day have decent