The Irish standard., 1906-10-13
GETS A ':JUMP OFF"
slattery's Experiences in Ire
land and America
Properly Exposed Recently by
-; a Protestant Editor.

reading tlfe denunciation of his mis-
cradle fife which recently appeared in
..Brann's Iconoclast." The Iconoclast
is not published in the interests of
Eatholicity, or in fact of any religion,
for its editor holds views ON Christian
dty that are singularly eccentric. But
while the Rrann organ of popularity
ra6t be radical ii rakes with vigor and
truthfulness the character, of religious
fakirs of the class to which the ma
ligner Slattery belongs. Writing of
slatterys methods of obtaining living
since he was driven from the ranks
OF Gods anointed, the Iconoclast editor
says:
."Slattery would have you believe that
our Catholic citizens are simply ennis
saries OF the Pope, to whom they owe
allegiance, both spiritual and temporal.
tunity. subvert American institutions,
and make this nation simply satrapy of
the Vatican. According to the story
of this self constituted protector of the
American government, he studied 2o-
n1an Catholic theology for years, then
oficiated as a priest for eight more
before discovering anything immoral
in the teachings of the Mother Church,
when it suddenly occurred to him that
1t was but a tissue of falsehoods, a
veritahln cesspool of rottenness. Ills
Transformation appears to have been
almost as sudden rs that Of Saul OF
Tarsus-or that of Judas Iscariot. I
have no objections TO his leaving The
Catholic priesthood-his Bishop stopped
his pay. Like the servant maid caught
pilferng he gave notice pintin at .he
door II slattery believes that the
I; Protestant Through Line runs more
comfortable cars to the great hereafter,
he's welcome to- take his ticket over
that route: but I would have thought
better Of him had he made the change
quietly and refrhined from assaulting
with the vintlictiveness of a renegade
that Church to which he owes his edu-
cation, such as it is; had he treated the
religion of his mother with decency
. If not with respect. / thought l lad
met all manner of men-men hardened
I'm crime-men destitute Of even
senblance of shame; but never before
did / behold one with the I1ardihood
to stand up before American women
and boast that he had incurred a
mothers CURSE
Slattery and others of his brand are
but little respected by broad -lninded,
Liberal Christian people. The bigots
!, of A. p. A.-ism, and other spawn of
,Slattery and his kind to malign Cath
olicity. 1t is through falsehoods that
such characters make a living. 1t is
through scurrility ingrates. whom the
Catholic Church educated, live in lux
t1lry and ease because their glib tongue
and smooth manner enable them to
feol their dupes.
Slattery's endeavors to warn parents
against sending their children to Cath
olic schools are cowardly, but it is
said when. an Irishman falls he tum-
bles into the lowest pit of degradation.
The 1conoclast vigorously denouncas
his efforts to libel the noble daughters
4f tos~ a.
rthe education of Catholic youth when
1T says:
-'"Slattery cautions you not to send
your children to Convent schools, de-
ciaring that he never saw Nun wins
,;was an educated woman That state
ment starding alone. ought to convince
everyone blessed with thinking np-
lparatus that Slattery is. n. fraud. Some
; of the best educated women in the
World have entered Converts. Women
,upon whose tuition fortunes have besn
expended arc now making Convent
schools Geservedly popular with the
Intelligent people. ~
There are three kinds of liars in the
land: The harmless Munchausen who
romances for amusement. and whose
.falsehoods do no harm; the Mach,a-
vellian liar whose mendacity bears the
stamp OF original genius. and the stu
pid prevdricator who rechews the fetid
vomit of other villains simply, because
he may play the Father. And sl.t-
tery's a rank specimen of the latter
class. When he attempts to branch
out. for himself he invariably comes to
grief. After giving q dreadful account
Of how Catholics persecute those VINO
renounce the faith. declaring that they
were disgrace to the Church while
within it's pale, he produced a certifi-
cate from a Philadelphia minister to
the effect that he--the Philadelphia
had visited Slatterys old parish in
Ireland and the Catholics there de-
ciared that he was good and faith
fl1l nriacf What Slo%%>r,, e...>.z -