Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1913-07-23
WHAT PRIEST PnElln SAID.

Pfotestints Have No Church and Mort
CirolInIans Arc Notorious ulbertIass.
Priest Phelam, editor of tn
Western Watchmsn, q Catholic
paper published in st. Louis, I'M
der date of June 26. 1918, q Ieoog
nized authority among Catholics
the fellow who said, ITO hell Will
the constitution of the United
States" has arose aud published
the following sypical specimen Of
Catholic ignorance and fslshood
1t very plainly indicates wha'
would become of protestants anG
American institutions should
Catholicism he allowed to get fur
ther hold of public affairs in thi,
country of freedom, free speech
and enlightenment, established
and maintained in spite of Cathol
ocism by Protestsnts. Such re-
marks by Priest Phelsn voices the
sentiments of priests and Catho-
lies everywhere aud will material.
ly aid in awakening and uniting
Protestants to the necessity of de.
Tense if not aggression. Phelsn
said:
1.-THE church Of God 10 is q per.
foot society and she car adopt her
own methods of preserving dis.
oiplins. But Protestsnts do not
believe IN q church of God. They
think that all seots are of human
origin and sll churches man-made.
They. therefore, have no right to
lnflict any punishment except our
tailment of corporate privileges OF
expulsion.
"But in the United States,
whore all churches are equal be-.
fore the law, and DO citizen can
be made to suffer because of his
religion, nothing can explain the
action Of those civic bodies in in.
flicting disabilities on Oathlics
but the old anti.Osthoiio devil
that abides in them. Protestsnts
do not know the meaning of civi!
and religious liberty. and they
never will.
"Thsre may be another and q
more serious reason for the dis.
missal of those Catholic teachers
by the school board of Charlotte.
North Carolina and Tennessee are
the two most benighted, and st
the same time, the two most
Protestant States in the Union.
The men have neither religion nor
morality. We were sstounded
q short time ago to learn from .
prominet lady of North Carolina,
who is q convert of some years,
that the men of that State are no.
torious libertines. She told us
the wealthier class of male whites
did little but drink whiskey on
the sly and multiply mulsttoes.
God help poor girls who depend
for their Livelihood on these I'M
moral watches. We know Q time
in this city when promotion in the
public schools went by favors that
dscenoy forbade oataloging. 1t
may be that q similar state of af.
fairs obtains in Charlotte. If 10,
we can see. if not . good reason,
At least q very strong motive for
the action of the school board of
that city. The ten men who could
publicly confess that they had os.
tracized from the schools of Char
lotts two ladies on the sole ground
that they we're members of the
Catholic church, have already
fallen to the lowest depths of tur.
pituds and immortality. They
| have no use for Catholics in the
schools or out of them, In their
eyes 9 pure Catholic girl 10 . men.
ace to . religion that sins bravely
that it may believe still more
bravely. It was always disgrace
TO belong to North Carolina, and
its unfortunate people used to pal
late the ignominy by saying they
lived near the Virginia line. The
poor Tar Heels will now have to
add: and very far from Char.
lotte."
This all goes to show that
these infslibls priests lie, lie de-
liberately and mallciously.
For Cuts, Burns and Bruises
In every home there should be 9
hax of Rnnklan'a Arnina Salxe