The Irish standard., 1910-05-07

ever unless they can pay the priest
enough money to pray them out of
punishment.
IL. Are the priests kind to the peo-
pie? Ans. No; the priests are for the
most part greedy and cruel and wicked.
Is. What must we do to help those
poor islanders? Ans. Send them kind,
loving men and women to teach them
out of the Bible that God is Love.
What can be thought of men and
women who, under the specious garb
of religion, fill the tender minds of
innocent children, even very little
Ones" with such vile calumnies as
these? And what but a harvest Of
bigots can be looked for from such
sowing?
"The Waterman" another Protest.
ant organ, had the following to say
concerning the Barcelona riots:
GAS we, with our neighbors, many
of whom are devout Catholics. sat
watching these great fires, many Of
the most pious continued saying in
great sadness: Alas, what a pity!
What pity! Such great wealth and
so many sacred things destroyed in
one moment 1t called to our minds
the words of the beloved disciple when
he predicted what the people would
say at the time of the final destruc-
ton of this fallen Church.
MAY it not be that this is another
struction is not far distant?
zone strange thing about the burn
ing of these buildings is that scarcely
any one tried to hinder their being set
on fire, and it is reported that many Of
the nuns said as they went out of the
door, Thank God, we are free at last!'
Eye witnesses testify that some of
the things found in, several of the
monasteries and converts We're simply
horrifying. For years it has been con-
trary to the law of the land to bury
the dead within the converts. When
these buildings were burned, and thus
left open to the public, they were
visited by thousands who were anxious
to see what ttheEg mysterious houses
contained. In many of the converts, in
certain underground apartments,
scores of the bodies of monks and nuns
were found chained and strapped to
the walls These were brought out into
the street, where every one might see
them. From every indication they had
died the most horrible death imagin-
able, many of them undoubtedly hav-
ing suffered there for long periods of
time before they were relieved by
death. The finger nails of many of
| those thus found were more than two
inches long, which would indicate that
they had long been deprived of even
the liberty of moving their hands. 1t
was found on close examination that
the tongues of many of these martyrs
| (either voluntary or forced) had been
torn out by the roots. There were also
the cadavers of many tiny infants.
"In one convent they found a ma
chine for making false money. In an
other a bomb factory was discovered.
And right here I might add that the
Jesuits were able to defend their large
buildings by the use Of bombs and
modern firearms
And these are only specimens of
what is published daily, what is given
to the innocent little children in the
! Sunday school lessons and to grown
people from the pulpits, remarks 1.-THE
Morning STAR" Scandal! Calumny!
Everlasting scandal and calumny and
libel of the vilest and most atrocious
character is their stock in trade And
Catholics are expected to submit to
all this campaign of detraction and not
open their mouths.
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