The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-04-06
ANr1-cArHoL1c TENDENCIES.
A Letter to New York Pager BY
Henry Austin Adams.


The following spirited protest against
bigotry was recently written by DR.
Horny Austin Adams to the Brooklyn
Eagle:
The Institute of Arts and Sciences
of which you are the distinguished and
interchangeable head. has among it's per
manent patrons Il very considerable
number of Roman Catholics.
Connected with the institute official
ly is a popular and able Roman Catho
lie priest.
The institute appeals to the public
for support and offers it's various and
interesting courses TO all persons (hav
ing the pricc), entirely irrespective OF
religious or other differences.
The facts warrant mc. Roman
Catholic citizen of this borough in
asking YOU. the responsible head OF
the institute. a few plain questions sug
2estcd by some recent events. l have
singular opportunities of rcaclling tho
educated Catholics of the country, and
shall make it my duty to try to make
them aware that this institute which
takes their money so eagerly and offers
them, as sop. Il priest in it's dircc
tory. is like other ''non-sectarian'' insti
buttons. essentially nnti-Catholic-un
less, as | hope, your answers are frank
and convincing. 1t has always amazed
thc Catholics of Brooklyn that unde,
the gulse Of :'hist0ry' such persistent
Misrepresentation of facts bearing
on that church which was the master
and mistress OF education should he
tolerated in an institution claiming tc
offer a truly liberal curriculum-made
largely possible by Catholic support.
Two or three times prelatcs (sclccted
because of their supposed "libcralism"
were permitted to give lectures or
safe" subjects, and Il priest thought
to be the least obnoxious to Protest
ants is kept like n standing bid 70,
Catholic dollars on the governing
board.
But for years the Church of Rome
and her all-dominating influence in art
letters and life for nineteen centuries
has been alluded to only with thinly
yelled contempt, or even with an un
blushing repetition of those thread
hrpn n,,in whit "a.
genuine culture Qike DIR. Starbuck OF
Andover and William II. Mallock
have long since laughed out of tn,
courts of thought.
Fancy these lofty little lecturer:
pooh-poohing the sublime preceptres.
OF the ages! A cute little committee OF
public school sages sitting in iudg
ment on the spiritual mother OF Dant,
and st. Thomas, of Raphael and Caldc
ron, of Mozart and Michael Angelo. o.
Chaucer and Copernicus, of Pasteu
and John Henry Newman!
Naturally educated men wonder n
the course Of your supposedly liberia
and non-sectarian Institute, of Art
and Sciences.
Now, sir, recent events give me til,
opportunity to voice the growing won
der OF Brooklyn Catholics at these re
curing evidences Of the uApleasan
fact that they are helping to support
bigotcd and narrow propaganda Of ig
Moran e and lies. In the progress of
course of lectures now being given IL,
opportunity has been overlooked b,
the plausible and pleasing speaker o
maligning the church, even when glar
ing misstatcments of easily determine,
historical facts were required in max
ing his points,
This popular gentleman seems t.
have been endowed with so nue.
gracefnlness and cloqucncr that he ar
parcntly relies upon these fctchin
qualities rather than on mere scholar
ship and logic. Of which he seems t
have preserved his natal Innocence.
The otln1 night in his absurd dis
course on Martin Luther this lecture
departed so flagrantly from fact tina
an educated gentleman felt constraine
at the end Of the lecture to COURTHOUSE
suggest some notifications.
We all know the result. No retrat
ton has appeared, and no less an al