Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-07-24
ACTION OF THE CHARLOTTE
SCHOOL BOARD DENOUNCED.

Ill 100G(E
nouncing the refusal Of those in
authority to employ two young
lady teachers in the Charlotte city
schools, ON the ground that they.
were Catholics and, by nature and
training, enemies Of the American
public schools. There was mild
criticism Of the boards action In
la number Of papers at the time,
hut it remained for a Catholic
priest, Father" Phelan, who
edits the Western Watchman, pub
iished In st. Louis to shock the
sensibilities of all decent people
with a most infamous diatribe re-
lating to the Charlotte incident
and slandering the good people Of
TIVE great states. According 10
the Menace, a Protestant publica-
ton by Rev. Theo. G. Walker at
Aurora, Mo-; Priest D. S. Phelan
has thus delivered himself:
"The church of God is a perfect
society and she can adopt her own
methods of preserving discipline.
But Protestants do not believe
in a church Of God. They do not
believe that Jesus Christ establish
ed a church. They think that all
sects are of human origin and all
churches man-made. They, there
fore, have no right to infict any
punishment except curtailment Of
corporate privileges or expulsion.
"But in the United States,
where all churches are equal be-
fore the law, and no citizen can be
made to suffer because of his re-
ligin, nothing can explain the ac-
ton of thse civic bodies in infict-
ing disabilities on Catholics but the
old anti-C Catholic devil that abides
IN them. Protestants do not
know the meaning of civil and re-
ligious liberty, and they never
will.
"There 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 TEN
NESSEE ARE THE TWO MOST
RENIGHTED, AND AT THE
SAME INF THE TWO MOST
PROTESTANT STATES IN THE
UNION. THE MEN HAVE
NEITHER RELIGION NOR MO
.RALITY. We we're astounded a
short time ago to learn from a
prominent lady of North Carolina,
who is a convert of some years,
that THE MEN OF, THAT TAT
ARE NOTORIOUS LIBERTINES.
She told us THE WEALTHIER
CLASS OF MALE WHITES DID
LITTLE BUT DRINK WHISKEY
ON THE SLY AND MULTIPLY
MULATTOES. God help poor
girls who depend for their hveli-
hood on the immoral wretches.
We know a time in this city when
promotion In the public schools
went by favors that decency for
babe catalogng. 1t may be that a
similar state of affairs obtains in
Charlotte. If so, we can see, if
not a good reason. at least a very
strong motive for the action of the
school board of that city. The ten
men who could publicly confess
that they had ostracized from the
schools of Charlotte two ladies on
the sole ground that they were.
members Of the Catholic church.
have already fallen to the lowest
depths Of turpitnde and immoral
ity. They have nc use for Catho-
lies in the schools or out OF them.
In their eyes a ptfFe Catholic girl
a menace to a religion that sins
bravely that it may believe still
more bravely. 1t was always a.
disgrace to belong to North Caro-
Ina, and it's unfortunate people
used to palliate-the ignominy by
they lived near the Virgin
line. The poor Tar Heels will
row have to add: and very far
from Charlotte"
1t is uncomfortable that the feel
-ng which prompted such an ut
'erance, as that above quoted,
in the breast of any citizen
+ America, regardless of class,
or religious belief. If
his vi1o STandaror ravro