The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-08-17

gives names of persons that do not
exist, or gives addresses that are
vague and untrue, or places that are
not on the map;. gives names Of no
taries before whom sworn testimonies
We're made, notaries not listed by the
state; or he takes the testimony If
depraved women whom the courts
had committed to reformatories, and
makes their testimonies read as
though the writer's had been "con-
fined in convents," and sells these lies
for the nominal sum ,qf soc a year.
Let US ILLUSTRATED In one of his is
sues he cites a Father O'Donnell of
Huntingdon, La, who was caught
drinking with one OF the telephone
girls. But there is no Father O'Don-
nell of Louisiana. He may have been
visiting? Why, there is no such place
as Huntingdon in the whole state. In
the issue of January 9th, Agnes
Vaughn deposes on oath that Father
field, Ohio, placed her in the convent
of st. Aloysius Industrial School of
Columbus, Ohio, where she was made
to perform the filthiest tasks and hal
the flesh torn from, her arms, etc. But
there is no ST. Aloysius Industrial
School of Columbus Ohio and there
is no Father Silley in the whole
United States. In tie issue of March
9th, Florence Carey deposes before
Salome b. Weaver, notary public in
the County of Philadelphia Ono town,
or p. o. address given) that she had
been sent to the House of Good Shep-
herd in Washington. D. c., REFORM
atory school for WaNward girls. The
Sisters Of the Good Shepherd conduct,
1 suppose, over a hundred of these in
stitutions Throughout the country.
They also conduct p'otectories, where
orphan girls, or girls of dissolutc par
ents find safe hone, learn a trade
and fit themselves, when they shall
have attained their majority. for re-
spectacle women pri'tiss world. tThc
reformatortes, s¬ tine, protector1es,,
are sometimes called Magdalene
homes.) She likewise dcposed that
she now lives at the Magdalene Homo,
213 N. 21st street, Philadelphia; that
while in the House of the Good Shep-
herd the Sisters knocked down a
May Barnhouser, tore her hair, kicked
her in the stomach, etc. Now here
was a case with particular names,
particular address. The chief thing
about it was the misty address of the
notary public-the county Of Phi!a
delphia. We wrote to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth in Pennsyl-
postofflce address of Salome, and on
June 5th received the answer that ~
hasty examination covering nearly
1000 names of notaries in the county
of Philadelphia failed to show the
name of Saome B. Weaver" So all
the testimony goes for nothing. More
over. inquiry at 213 N. 21st street,
Philadelphia, revealed that Florence
Carey does not live there, that it is
not a House of the Good Shepherd
Gas you would he led to infer from
the article); but that it is a Protest.
ant institution.
If the converts be such things Of
horror as The Menace would have you
| believe, how comes it that $4,000 of
| the purest of American women will
! ingly stay there. would rather die than
| leave there? Why is that so many
/ Protestant parents send their children
| to be educated there? Why did even
! Tom Watson, with all his hatred for
| the Catholic Church, when he wished
his daughter to have the best training
| possible, send her to convent school
| and write many commendatory let
ters to the Sisters, thanking them for
| what they had done for his child?
In this country there are 15.000,00O
Catholics. Divide the whole popula-
tion of the country into bands OF
! eighteen. In each band ten go to nc
church at all; five attend Protestant
Jewish or other churches: three at
tend Catholic churches. Thirty thou
sand every year leave their forine.
faith and join the Catholic ranks. !,
! few days before last Christmas two
| former Protestant ministers. aftel
several years study in Catholic semi
naries were ordained Catholic priest S
five more were ordained deacons, ant
three Protestant scminarians left the
prospect of the ministry to enter tht
Catholic Church.
We do not know at the present
writing the exact number, but VI
should judge that in the last tf
| yaor, fort,, protaStant ministers In