The Irish standard., 1901-04-27

Sacrifice Of the Mass over the relics of
q saint. The names of saints are
spread from one end of our country to
the other, and the Catholic religion
gave it's nomenclature to the rivers
and lakes and cities. This country
was baptized with Roman Catholic
blood before the religion of the Pill
grim fathers had been eNcogitated
from the brains of it's inceptors And.
after all that, l am a foreigner.
You read in the editorials of some
of your papers, Don't we want an
Angles Saxon alliance?' Not on your
life. We are opposed to the English
in the Inheritance of our principles.
Lake George was not always Lake
George. 1t was discovered by jesuit,
Father Jogues. who called it the Lake
of the Blessed Sacrament, and so it
was called on all the old maps of this
country until the real American got it,
and in honor of a great big, bloated,
drunken foolish man, they gave it the
name of Lake George.
"rhey say the narrow spirit of the
Catholic church is not i'll favor of our
broad American ideas; that we are
making a new experiment in govern
ment, the fundamental principle of
which is the right of every man to
live, to think, to speak and to act as
he pleascS The foundation of our
government is the right of every man
to live. The only people who have
been true and loyal from the start are
the Roman Catholics. Lots of people
landed i'll this country in the early
days, and they found other people
here. These other people had red
skins. and tho Catholics thought they
had right to live. Look ut the case
of Father JogucS, who, when he was
being tortured by these red men, held
aloft his cruciliN and prayed to God,
Father, forgive them. for they know
net what they do Down in Mexico
we find these rcd men now living on
their farms, more temperate than the
people Of Worcester, more cic;n thali
the people of Massachusetts. They
Catholic church, and wherever this i'll
fluencc has been undisturbed you will
find the people more temperate, more
clean in heart and more upright in
every way than in any other section
'When the people of other religions
came to this country they had Il Bible
here and Il blundcrbuss over here to
shoot off the head of the first red man
that showed himself The most dis
graceful blot on the escutcheon Of Un-
Gle Sam is his treatment of the Indian
1--WE have lied to him, we have
killed him, we have eXterminated him.
Coming higher to the glories of civ
il and religious liberty, from whom did
we learn that? Not here in Massa-
chusetts. You couldn't own land here
unless you paid taxes to the Congrc-
gationalists, and if they found Bap-
tiSI IEIC tlty tloIJpcNl olL HIS tiiIS. III
they found Quaker they put brass
ring through his nose, and if, per-
uhancc, an old woman made the milk
turn sour Ivy winking at it they gave
the children in the little red school
house half holiday to see her burn
Rampant bigotry in those days was
such that Il Catholic was shot down
like dog. and there was n premium
on a priests head.
"In Rhode Island you had to be Il
Baptist. and a Catholic could not hold
property there. Connecticut was even
worse than Massachusetts. and the
Dutchmrn in New York made YOU be-
long to the Dutch Reformed church.
In Virginia You had to be Il high
church Episcopnlan.
"Thcre was only one colony that did
not insist on one form of religion for
all its inhabitants. There was only
one colony that laid down as it's plank
that every man shall have Il right to
WI snip Sou itS llc CHOSE i lil WAS
the Roman Catholic colony of Mary
land, and that plank was written by
Catholics. The first expression for
civil and religious liberty in this
country was by Catholics. and from
that day to this they are the only
ones who have stood by that principle.
The y. y. a.. and before it the Know
nothing movement, had for it's whole
animus the restriction of Roman Cath
olics in their civil and religious liber-
ties. 1t does seem strange that we
Catholics are foreigners and only here
on tolerance
when the Revolution was started,
what a great opportunity it was for
the wires and the Jes,lits. who had
only to say Knife it. What splcn-
did chance for the Catholic church to
stop this young republic. Go back.
Protestant and Catholic, to those days
and YOU will find the Catholic will not
have to blush. Fifty-two per cent of
the men enlisted in the American
army of the Revolution were Irisllmen.
Father Carroll, of Baltimore, later
bishop, begged his people in the name
of God to take up arms for tire cause
of freedom. He was Il cousin of that
Charles Carroll. the richest man in the