The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-12

schtermann y--of PaleStrlna, Oflahdt
ia Lassa, Of d Hayden? say it with
out fear that the world would rathea
miss all the art treasures OF Illinois
nay Of the United States, than those
Icnshrined in the Vatican, tine home Of
| the Popes. ask you Socialists, what
rave you done in turtherance OF the
liberal arts9 You answer: Nothing
we are too young. Ii that be so, be
good boys, sit down and respect your
elders.
The Catholic church fostered the
| culture OF the masses by fostering
literature and the arts. She did
more. she fostered EDUCATION
since she entered the world
You claim that ii is the aim of the
Catholic church and has been to keep
the people in ignorance, but that YOU
Socialists will bring them enlighten-
ment Let me tell you if the Catholic
priest had not brought your ancestor
I'm Germany education and civilizG-
ton, YOU would very likely toda,
roam the forests of that country a
lhalf clad. unlettered barbarian The
first schools in Northern Europe were
| Catholic, monastic schools. These
schools under the loving care of the
monks so hourished that they finally
hloomed into ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ties that We're the pride Of the mid
| die ages.
Do you know that before Martin
Luther had learned his a, b, c, fifty
universities had been established?
And what schools we're they? II
Cairo had the population OF the Uni.
Tersity Of Paris founded A. d. 1900
you would contentedly lay away your
Booster Button" as it counted at a
time 10000 students, twice the popu
lation of this city. The Universities
Of Oxford and Cambridge are Catholic
foundations. 1t seems the Catholic
church did something ror education
The University of Paris exists today
under the name of Sorbonne. A
Father Sorbonne endowed the school,
hence the change OF name. The
learned professors of that school to-
ay are OF the same opinion as the
Socialists, they enjoy Catholic founda
lions, but you think that Catholics are
very ignorant. Any traveller in Ere
.ormed" lands OF Europe will find
many structures that We're once Cath.
|olic seats of learning, but which are
today state property used as bar
racks, as insane asylums or as pms
.ons. Also monuments of progress ana
enlightenment, my dear friends.
TO come to modern times, and our
own section, let me remind you that
he University of Manila was founded
20 years before Harvard The *
outs University IS the Oldest west of
the Mississippi, It's medical depart
ment holds it's own in competition
with Harvard or any school in the
United states. We Catholics in the
United States have zen universities,
colleges for boys, I'll; academies tor.
girls, roo parish schools, 1915, vita
pupils l,23I250 orphanages, ESQ with
a1,541 inmates Total number Of
children in Catholic institutions j..
'5044S; Catholic charitable institl
ions 1904.
The Catholic church saves the gen
aral tax payers OF the United States
20 million dollars annually by main
tanning her parochlal schools-and a
Socialist has the audacity to sa5
that she fosters the ignorance of the
masses. We are at present in build
ing erected for school purposes
which cost St Joseph parish about
SIS, 600 We maintain four teachers,
janitor, and thus save the city about
1000 annually, but a local Socialist
repeats: The Catholic church wants
0 keep the masses in ignorance.
where are your schools, your acaf
emies and colleges? Where are yonr
orphan asyiums and charitable inst
tuuons? What have you ever done
10 help such institutions?
You say we have none, we are too
Dung we are planning Then SIT
own and respect those that 10
things.
The Socialist says The condition
# working men In civilized countries
s never so wretched as in Catholic
ountries, look at ireland, at Italy
spain, Portugal Mexico"
Yes, let us lock at these countries
rot with a iaundiced, Dui with a clear
eye. Labor in these countries is al
most exclusively rural There are mol
nanulaetories to speak OF and why
my dear friend? Because that cruel
Catholic church has put no coal be-
meath the soilbut Socialism, glory
oe to God, Socialism will put III
coal there and then there win be new
avenues opened for labor, and higher
wages paid
You blame the Catholic church for
he poverty of ireland, when a school
boy knows that her very soil was
taken from beneath her feet byl
protestant England, and that the
Catholic church in chains bore all the