Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
"INJUSTICE" AND "AMEN.'

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pen TO answer the ISLANDERS and false
hoods uttered by "Iojustice". We
know at last the source from which
he has drawn the stream of his
yenemous TRADE against nuns, the
confessional, etc, for he says in his
latest 1nimical-"Have not some of
those unfortunate wretches (nuns)
escaped, and don't they all tell the
same tales?" Impregnated with the
instincts of the rag-picker, "Injus-
tice" has gone on the dump-pile Of
obscene literature and hooked out the
dirty leaves of "The Escaped Nun,
a book that no self-respeciing gentle
man or lady would dare to give a
place in their library-a book
enjoined from publication by the
supreme court of New York and
book the authoress of which few
weeks ago (according to the Times
Dispatch was dying in poor house
in Richmond. No wonder, then, that
a gelatinous brain after coming in
contact with such miserable microbes
should have been so diseased and
poisoned! Surely this village "In-
justice" must be disciple of Dowie,
and commissioned by him to enter
the peaceful fields of the Northern
Neck and start propaganda of
slander and yilliication against an
intelligent press, Catholics and liberal
protestant ministers. Talk about
lodging! Why, this modern emissary
of the pseudo Zion hosts would make
fortune If he would hire himself
to the Fakirs as chief sctor in the
attraction known as "The Coon
Dodger." When, after his o,Cn invi.
tation, he was smothered with Prot
estant testimony mot Catholic) in
defense of Pope Leo XIII's character,
he whiniugly cried out "Why does
'Amen' persist in quoting from maga-
zines, preachers and presldents"!
Simply to cure your ignorence, and
if the medicine WAS administered in
doses other than homeopathetic,
you should have taken. it like a man
and not done the "baby act" Shut
out by Protestant press and preachers
In his puerile attack on the Pope's
character, he began side stepping
performance and attacked 81. Al.
phonsus tie Jesuit and his moral
theology. Finding out that st. AL
phonsus was not a Jesuit, and that
he was haunted by st. Aloysius, he
went to his corner for rest. His
next assault was on the nuns, and by
the way this was the most dastardly
attack of all; for his assault was on
women and not on men. Right here
we will ask "Injustice" a question
bearing on nuns. Whom did Martin
Luther marry? AS it is possible that
he may be as ignorant on church
history, in reference to Luther, as he
was about st. Alphonsus the Jesuit
we will answer for him: Martin
Luther married nun; so according
to "Injustice's" statements Luther
must have married harlof. Did he
or did he rot? If you answer in the
negative and to the effect that his
wife was not harlot, but virtuous
woman, your detestable assertions in
reference to nuns in general and par
ticular must fall to the ground. If
you answer in the affirmative we will
commit you to the tender mercies of
our Protestant friends for treatment.
BY the way, "Injustice" asked us this
foolish question, to wit: "Didn't the
Pope bless the Spanish troops when
they went to fight the Americans in
Cuba and the Philippines" Why
certainly he did. If you ever have
the good fortune to be pastor of a
church, wouldn't you at the close of
services ask spiritual blessing on
the congregation, whether they were
members of your own faith or not?
1.-The Pope is the spiritual father of a
Ichurch embracing 240,OOO,000 of
people; church which has planted
the Cross of Christ In every land,
including the far off PHILIPPINES and
the nearby Cuba. He blessed the
Catholics in both the German and
French armies in the Franco German
war, and he blessed the Catholic
Americans and Spaniards both in
the Spanish-American war, but he
did not furnish cartridges to either.
If you appreciated the catholic (uni-
versaD charity of the Pope, you
would know that he daily asks Gods
blessing on the syhole aoorM and en-
braces even you in his benediction.
Injustice" asks us why confessions
are alwags held Saturday nights.
We hardly expected him to display
such an utter ignorance of Catholic
customs, especially as he boasts of
having been about and spent dozen
years in the largest cities of the
United States. Some men go dowr
life's highway and see the Shiny toad
but never the rose. the glow worn