The Nome daily nugget., 1911-08-19
Editor of the Nugget:


 In the stimation of Nomes socialist champion, my letter of Tuesday SUE. gests the squealing of a rat. This and other like specimens of grog- shop literature suggest an unpleas- ant frame of mind. Manifestly our collectivist editor is in bad humor-the reason whereof a critical public may suspect Anent the Jesuits' supposed guilt, however in teaching the justifi- cation of unlawful means. our curiosity remains ungratified. rambling dis sertation, it is true, Wednesdays article regales us with, about Jesuitism chained and trained:" we are caught 'in the deadly grip of facts" the mili- tant religious banded together by Loy- ola-ugly customers and. somehow. hard to squelch-Dr. Littledale has ex- posed to the bathing of the world. 2" etc. Father John Gerard, <. j.. is accused of indulging in "imbecillities. % Our socialist actually calls him names -eschatologist and things like that. Occasionally, bits of Wednesdays composition suggest" the remcm- brance of that lady who threw a saucepan at the liberator
 With a total forgetfulncss of the fitness of things" We unguardedlv quoted F. Gerard. $. l.. as admitting the means-in certain harmless" cases to be justified by the end Exactly: indifferent" means. the end may justify, elevate and ennoble: no end. however can justify unjust means intrinsically bad. But Dr Littledale. his Nome disciple and others of the same calibre." declare our theologians to have taught illicit means unlawful means-to be justified. There's the rub. With regard to that indictment. however-an indictment which the public anXiously waits to see proved no proofs are forthcoming. Probably because long ago. for reasons known
 
 put off to the Greek Kalends. Not a comfortable position that of the scrih- bier. who suddenly finds himself help lessly blocked. when called upon to sub stantiate an impudent lie which he has been zealously defending! But the Jesuits. of course. are a had lot any way; theirs is a history of "deciet. cum ming, falsehood. and double dealing" their infamous" order would shackle the whole church to it's own aggrand- izement. nt.'-Dr. Littledale's scholarly article. conjointly with our scribe's. has proved it eonclusively. Sure Mike"
 Queer, isn't it, this irreconcilahle opposition of our free-thinking polemic to everything associated with monas- tieism! The story is told of a remark ably patient historical parsonage. whose ga den a hog broke into one day. savagely nosed at. and ruined utterly Well" said the gentleman mildly. on discovering the destruction of his fiower-beds, you can't lay out gar den to please a hog.' Neither can you found a religious order to suit an apostate! Metaphorically. he roots.
 Rather a wretched equipment for the logieian. that provided by socialistic fanaticisml Hatred must always put up a halting fight of it in pOlemics; prejudice blinds. Just think of the enormities attributed to Busenbaum. wagemann. Laymann. and others. through pure. pig-headed. unreasoning animosity. "when the end is lawful" one theologian explains. "so are the means likewise" Therefore" cries the scholarly" Doctor LittledaIe. -Busenbaum justifies unlawful means." The doctors argument, any schoor-boy versed in the elements of Minor Logic could dispose of triumphantly: between the premises of it and the conclusion. there Is total lack of sequence. a'