Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1912-09-28
Their Proper Place Among the
Still Uncivilized
Races.
catholic Lives Freely Given i'm
Defense of American
Liberty.
PITY FOR THEIR SAD STATE

A writer in the New York Irish
american Advocate handles witbout
gloves ex-Congressman Haines ana
the so-called Guardians of Iihertv
ana tells them some things that nuts
them TO shame. His article was fine
outcome of the denunciation given
Haines, Miles and their following at
meeting held in a Methodist
church, and follows:
EX-Congressman Haines chief
guardian of mongrel band of fire.
eaters named the Guardians of lin
erty (God bless the mark). showed
plainly in his speech at ST Jobn's
Methodist church the brand ~ IjhD
erJy TINS band of fanatical fossils
Deheve IN. His vile attack on the
church OF Rome was, to say the
ieast OF 1t, worthy of the bitterest
adherent of the Papist hating Crom-
wei, or the latter day fanatical fol-
lowers of the Prince of Orange. On
reading 1t one would imagine himself
living in other days, and that fine
spirit or Observation-Disclosures of which
we so loudly and proudly boast.
were yet struggling in the darkness
of far-off future, held in the grin
OF bigotry and trying to push its wav
through the centuries of Ignorance
and hatred, superstition and preiu-
dice, which our advanced ana
scholarly theorists would have ms
believe are forever left behind among
the dark and gruesome relics of by
gone ages. Where is the boast of
our American civilization when men
supposedly possessing a superior
quality of education and intelligence
and Wanting in loud mouthed
phrases of the glory and grandeur of
American liberty sit and listen to
such bitter diatribe venomously
launched against their fellow citi-
zens of the Catholic faith. Shame,
-oh>.sheUe- -1l.s2 -thoss hl@sSeSsu,uS
factionism and disturbance. "Colum-
bia, the land of the free and the
home of the brave" is not where
they are adapted for. No; rather is
their proper place among the still
uncivilized races of Africa's unex-
plored interior, where they could
give full play to their savage in
stincts. What fiend incarnate pos
sessed the man, II man he be, who
in the sacred name of liberty attacks
the church whose children have so
valiantly shed their blood and freely
gave their lives in defense of Ameri-
can freedom? Let us but take, for
instance, the days of the civil war,
when the priests and Bishops of the
Roman Catholic church in this coun-
try, from off the altar and the pulpit,
preached to the manhood of their
congregations that II was their
bounden duty to take up arms to
uphold the Union, and IL necessary
to die in its defense, and how nobly
and we'll did the thousands of Cath
Ollie men and boys answer the sacred
call of liberty. Their bones have
bleached upon every battlefield from
Fort Sumpter to Richmond Their
blood has enriched the soil wherever
the opposing armies met, whether on
Virginian fields or among the dismal
swamps of the Carolinas and the
cotton fields of Georgia, at Antietam,
Malvern Hill and Charlottesville, in
the valley of Shenandoah, before the
walls of Charleston, Atlanta and
Aye, from Bunker Hill
to San Juan Catholic blood has been
spilled and Catnonc lives lTeely
given in defense of American liberty,
and II wasn't for the base, narrow,
vile brand that those so-called
Guardians of Liberty advocate but
a liberty of love, honor and civiliza-
tion that had shed its light wherever
man has set his foot Yea, in every
part of the habitable globe. Let us
Catholics take the vile rawlings OF
this fanatic as compliment rather
than an insult to our beloved church.
II is proof positive that her great
strength is a thorn that rankles In
the side of those bigoted factionists
calling themselves the Guardians
of Liberty" without being cognizant
OF the fact that they are living
centuries behind the time wherein
they and their brand OF liberty
would find more fruitful soil and
more congenial surroundings. In all
pity for their sad state we will now
consign them to the bowels OF
oblivion with their long defunct
brethren Of the A. P. A., and all
joining in Wen loudly sing Onward,
Soldiers" Amen.