Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-15
CATHOLICS SHORT
ON PUBLIC JOBS?
President Feeney Says Members Of
Church Not sufficiently Repre-
sented in office.
DENOUNCES QUESTIONABLE PLAY
Drama Scoffs at Sanotity of the Mar
riage Relation.
MOTION PICTURE SHOW AN EVIL
Fight for Morality Goes on As It Did
One Hundred Years Ago,
T1ON PICTURE SHOW AN EVIL
RELIGION NEEDED FOR SAFETY
Speaker Hopes that RiotOus Living
and Irreligious Actions of some
of the People May Not EN-
danger Republic,

NEW ORLEANS. Nov 1L-Protests
against the proportlonately small number
OF Catholics holding federal and state Of
fices In this country and the failure Of the
state to pay for secular education IN
Catholic schools, denunciation OF question
able plays and the 'fmmoral and pernlc-
ious motion picture shows" and an earn
est entreaty TO Catholics TO combat So
cialism, featured the annual report OF
President Edward Feeney, OF Brooklyn, n
Y. at today's session Of the ninth annual
convention OF the American Federation OF
Catholic Societies
"The federation has no candidate for
public place" he said. but IL seema that
in proportion to the number OF Catholics
under the flag here and In our insular
possessions we have by no means suf-
ficient representation In the public service
Further, those selected by our government
for responsible public positions should be
real and not nominal Catholics"
An indignant Catholic protests that
devotees OF the so-called advanced
! school in the last few years have de-
luged the United States with a question
able drama. which scoffs at marriage,
and ms n result this element OF social
purity has become the target for the
shafts OF the voluptuary, a fertile source
VI AAboAA just " Alle vulgar nuulOllaL ana
a never falling mine Of indelicate in
uendo to the dramatist The play has
been supplemented by the immoral and
pernicious motion picture show, which de-
bauches young children"
Feeney urges the suppression by the
civil authorities of the objectionable
films displayed in picture shows.
"Extravagance, he said, rules among
many OF our people, and, sad to relate. in
i proportion as some of them prosper their
love of gold increases. The fight for mo-
relity goes on today as it did 100 years
ago.
I'VE pray that the ri6tous living and
irreligious actions Of some OF our people
may not endanger tho life OF the repub-
lie. We believe that without religion the
lost enlightened government OF today
would drift into the decay and chaos that
overwhelmed Greece and Rome"
/ He commended the efforts Of the Indi-
vidual and Social Justice league to combat
socialism. The leagues purpose. he said,
was to make clear the principles at issue
between American thought and life and the
economic and political revolution proposed
by socialism, TO uphold the American ideal
OF home, the integrity OF the family, the
love Of country and TO maintain the ever
lasting reality OF religion as the founda-
ton Of our civilization"
The president paid his respects to Mayor
Nathan OF Rome for his attacks upon the
pope and the Catholic church and urged
the federation to add it's protest against
the insults hoped upon the sovereign
ponhff by the jakals who find the lion OF
the fold hemmed within the walls OF the
; Vatican"
He gave parting shot TO the 'scurri-
lous' newspaper writer and the muck
raker' Of the magazines, and said in this
day Of universal reading the faith OF the
Catholic must be vlgilant In controvartlng
the Misrepresentation in print of the catho-
lie religion and the defamation OF its mem
bers.