The Irish standard., 1901-04-27

son, Lincoln and the Adamses. Were
they not good Americans? First-rnte
But, Notwithstanding, l could add the
names of thousands whom you would
at once recognize as good Americans
who hated the Catholic church. Hold
up your heads, young Catholics. The
only church that has never failed
America is your own. Whatever 9th.
or church you name, Episcopulian,
Congregational or Baptist, by the de
crces of their synods at one time or
another in their history have not
stood by the principles Of this country.
'Thc average educated Protestant
seems to think that back or every
priest is a wire that leads directly to
a vault in the Vatican, and in that
vault is Il hooded Jesuit who dictates
the actions of the priest. When they
see priest standing for the principles
of this republic, they say: Don't fool
yourselves; the wire is doing that. The
far-sccing eye that controls him sees
that so long as the Catholics are in the
minority they will be on their good
behavior, but wait until they get In
the majority, and then you will see
how quickly they will put the Spanish
1nquisition on Boston Common and
send this republic down to the condi-
tiOn of mummilicd SPAIN
"This idea, drip by drip, finally gets
Its way into the skulls of some of our
growing generation, and instead of the
grand old Catholics who stood for the
faith through thick and thin, we are
getting these little Catholics who take
off their hats and say to the great pub
lie opinion: let us stay in our corner
and say our prayers. Please don't
kill u.s.
"Uslng your knowledge Of history
for the past 400 years, see how utterly
plcpostcrous Is this idea. The time has
come for the Catholic to throw off this
apologetic attitude and come out into
the open to throw the burden of proof
on the other side.
I'VE are foreigners, are we? If you
have watched children, and heaven
help you If you haven't any to watch,
although 1t is un-American to have
any, you must have noticed how
strongly they have confidcd the laws
Of little republic, and how one of the
chief Of their laws is findings is keep
ms The Catholics discovered this
country. Oh, but some of our oppo-
nents may say that was IN accident.
OF course it may have been an acci-
dent America need not have had It,
self discovered in 1902. 1t may have
got itself discovered earlier in the time
of the Caesars, for instance, and now
we would be ruins and history. Or it
might have waited awhile and lseen
discovered by gentleman from Bos-
ton. But If America had to be dis
covered in 1902, it had to be discov-
cred by Catholic, because the other
forms Of Christianity had not been dis
covered then.
"When the Catholic Columbus was
explaining that this earth is round and
It might be navigatcd in circle, the
learned professors in the universities
where President Elliot would go for his
information laughed at him. At last,
hungry and almost broken hearted, he
knocked ut the door of monastery.
and here it was that his theory was
by the monks as having n
of truth. 1t was priest
who recognized the plausibility and
feasibility of his theory, and that
priest was the confessor Of the queen,
who pledged her jewels in her Catholic
zeal to fit out the expedition which
was to bring so many souls to the true
church.
columbus and his sailors went on
their trip with the blessings of the
and with Mary, the Star of
the Sea, as their guide, to drop them
off on the other side of the world, as
scientific Europe thought. Eleven of
those 60 sailors who accompanied Co.
lumbus were Irishmen.
'"The map of your country represents
an altar on which is offered the Holy