Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-28
lie church have lived; in the Cath
Ollie church will die.
Objects of Crusade

loll us oSOPC 10 UOulluSu NY llO udI-
row limits. 1t is here to stay as long
as God permits me to live. Its objec-
tives are the wide. ramifications of an
ecclesiastical corruption which is de-
stroying the sheep for whom Christ
died, and undermining the foundations
of free government.
Catholic ecclesiastical corruption
ramparts itself in the ignorance of the
people and fattens on their credulity;
it gathers strength from the apathy of
its opposers. There is but one wea-
pom that will destroy its power, and
that weapon is truth. There is but
one way in which this weapon can be
welded successfully. and that way is
publicity. Even Catholic ecclesiastical
corruption cannot withstand the uni
versal uncompromising, unceasing
publicity of truth.
The ParochiaI School.
II am not unmindfnl of the serious.
ness of the position I take in openly
opposing the parochial school, indirect
ly championing the American public
school, and in boldly assailing ecclesi-
astical wickedness in high and low
places. I know full well the greatness
of the powers oppose. But also
know that God lives. ! know that the
genius of his church isNagainst ecclesi-
astical corruption of every kind. |
know that the honest Catholic people
of America are crying out for deliver
ance from ecclesiastical tyranny, i'm
morality and grating know that
the masses of the American people are
lovers of purity, peace and Justice, and
hot orr To No
"The Catholic bishops and priests
are the ones who seized on the idea
of the parochial school. The Catholic
people did not want the Earochial
school. Why did the priests and pre-
lates adopt it and why do they cham
pion it today? The answer is fourfold.
First: because they saw and see that
there can never be any union of church
and state in this republic as long as
its citizens are the product of the pub
| lie schools. Second: they see that the
| differentiation of Catholic children
with liberal and progressive ideas is
impossible in schools wholly under
Catholic clerical influence Third !:
they see that the parochiaI school
gives ample opportunity to train Cath
Ollie children to close their eyes, ears
and mouths to clerical drunkenness
grating and immortality. Fourth: they
see in the parochial school on immense
opportunity for graft The Catholic
parochial school in the United States
is not founded on loyalty to the repub
lie, and the ecclesiastics who control
is would throttle if they could the lib
critics of the American people.
/ Oppose Public School.
There is an open, notorious and
virulent hostility of priests and pre-
| lates at home and abroad, toward the
are filled with articles and editorials
which show most malignant hatred O
the public school. 1t is charged by The
ecclesiastical enemies of the public
school that the frivolity and depravit.
of the present day in America are al
most entirely due to the goddess pub
lie school," Rev. Crowley read
number Of extracts from editorials IL
Catholic journals attributing socialism
anarchy and lynchings to the goodies
school system" He spoke at lengtl
regarding graft in the parochia
schools and continuing, said:
There should be an AUTHORITATIVE
national supervision of the education
Of children Of the nation both in pub
lie and non,public schools. Certain
standards should be fixed and the ns
, ton should insist on their maintenance
If any denomination prefers to educat
, the children, of it's adherents in school
, of it's own, let there be insistence upol
the maintenance of the nations star
dards regardless of whatever else ma
, be in the curriculum No ism shout
: be allowed to inculcate in the mind
of prospective citizens teaching
which trend to the overthrow of tn
republic,
( 'The American people should sc
: themselves as a wall Of granite agains
, even the shadow of sectarian inte'
I ference with the bulwark of their libe
: ties, the public school The parochit
! school. as tits, is o curse to the churc
! and menace to the nation"
Report on Negro Wrok.
+ Rev. G. H. Mendenhall in his repo1
on negro work in Iowa said:
!. "It is with profound modesty that
a have attempted to fill my number u
, on the program For indeed, bret
rem in this twentieth century one mu
/ not only be accurate in his utteranc
J. but logical. l have listened with i
a tent interest at most Of the speeche
d and sermons which have been mac
: since the opening of the conventio
/ From them have arrived at the fc
) lowing conclusion. If what has bee
: said be true Of your advanced rae
what must you expect of my unfort
nate race. For indeed, | heard b'
yesterday one OF the leading foreie
missionaries of your race state that
required fifteen hundred years to pr
duce the present high quality of bra
which yousnow boast of. Now let
reason little. for if this statement
true and it is, and if it did require f
teen hundred years to develop yo1
race, is there sufficient language to e
press the difference which will natu
ally be between the advancement OF
race that has only had half centur!
Why then expect so much OF
in SO short a timer. Al
3 vet in thic chnrt time | am made Z