Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-10
CATHOLICS SAY CABLE WAS
 FALSE
!, P, Connolly Protests Against Special Cable Letter from France in Sunday Review, Declaring it All Untrue.

The following communication isl given place in our columns this morn ing because members of the Catholic| rellSS here feel aSSrieved over an article appearing in our special cable from Paris, published Sunday morn ing
 Editor Bisbee Daily Review:
 "Sir:-In your issue of Sunday, Sth inst. appeared an exceedingly scurri- lOus article purporting to be written by your special correspOndent in Paris, which was neither more nor less than a part of the carefully or ganized propaganda of falsehOOd and misrepresentation by which certain enemies to religion in Europe are at tempting to justify their treatment of the representatives and property of the Catholic Church. We had thought tha5 the day had passed when any American paper would al low its columns to be used by the Slatterys and Maria Monks and others of their ilk. but it seems that in this We have been mistaken We are inclined to believe that the Bis bee Daily Review belongs to that class of respectable journals which would not knowingly islander any. body of men or women no matter their race, nationality or religious be liefs. We are rather inclined to thinI that the Review depends for it's in formation anent foreign affairs upon certain press association which is largely under the influence and con- trOl of those who are actively hostile 10 all things Catholic, or even Christian
 However this may be. We do know that considerable number of your readers do feel aggrieved that you have permitted your columns to be the vehicle of this scandalous attack upon the Church of which the are members.
 We desire ito place before your readers some facts bearing upon the matters involved in the article in question, and in that connection would like to be advised how the "impetuOus advisers of the Pope" are largely re- spOnsible for the "debacle" of the Catholic Church in France. Such an explanation will make interesting reading. The Special Correspondent of the New York Evening Mail, who was recently sent by his paper to in vestigate the situation in France takes issue sharply with the state ment above quoted. 50 do many other unbiased non Catholic ministers and laymen who can see what lies behind the present attack upon the Catholic Church in France
 The article might be passed in cal haI print the old islanders about the Cc- vents of Italy. They remind us cf the salaciOus Maria Monk. and the unutterably foul Slattery. The ''Tribuna from which your correspond ent purpOrts to obtain his infoTmaJlu:i is known as one of the most intense ly anti-CathOlic journals in the world. Not even our own A. P. A organs of unhappy memory can vie with it in malignity. The charges re ferred to appear in the columns of that paper not last week, as a reader of your article would suppose, but no less than several months ago. In the case of the so-called Convent at Mon- ga, it has been shown that the women who ran it were not nuns at all {: that the ecclestiacal authorities had denounced them to the police: had publicly refused them the Eucharist: {: but that the police had protected them until the time came when the anLI-cIencaIs coUIQ use Tnem IU maH' uiaCture d scandal in the case Te- ferred to, namely, that of the Silesian Convent at Verraze the facts are as follows: Among the boys at Varazze is a youth of fifteen named Bisson, the son of a French father (dead some years) and an Italian mother According to her story at the be ginning of the present year her son told her of abominable secret orgies which used to be held night and day in the Salesian institute. Instead of denouncing the affair at once to the police she instructed Cshe says) her son to attend them all and to write diary of everything that happened This went on (she says) for months and certain it is that the diary is in evidence. In fact, it is the ONLY evidence of tany kind whatever against the institute. Some of 1t has already been printed in, Italian papers and itsconstitutes the most impossible rigmarole of foetid nonsense ever printed. It is too utterly beastly and absurd to be taken seriously even for ss moment Tke boy has already contradicted himself several times and the aDticlerical papers have al ready dropped the whole thing.
 But such stories are cabled to this country in hopes that many who read them will not trouble to inquire into the real facts ''Falsehood travels post haste, while truth comes behind or foot"
 Regarding the note of protest to the powers. We submit that it Is in order that when in spite of the guar antees given to the Pope at the session of Rome. membars Of his household are daily insulted by enc mics in the streets of Rome, it is time to take action. You would noI permit yourself to be insulted on the streets of Bisbee without word of protest. Can you not grant to the Pope some of the rights you demand for yourself? Or does a man lose his rights by being a Catholic priest The American people are not proper CT take this position; neither do we think you are