Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1913-02-08
Are Not i'm Sympathy With Out
rageOus AWar Upon
Catholics. - =
Reminds Jews Too Much of Per-
seeutiOn They Have
Suffered.
SET EXAMPLE FOR OTHERS

II is indeed pleasant to chronicle
that some of the non-CatholiC re-
ligious organs of the country are not
in sympathy with the outrageous
war being made upon Catholics by
Gen. Miles, his Guardians of Liberty,
their organs, The Menace, etc. The
Jewish Voice, of st. Louis, in a re-
cent issue contains the following:
"The Menace, the anti-Roman
Catholic paper, of Aurora, Mo-, does
not meet with our approval of oppo-
sition to any church. Emanuel,
Of San Francisco, calls a spade a
spade, for which fact we have naught
but our unqualified approval. We
most cordially endorse our con-
temporary on the following de-
nunciation-for such il is-of an at
tempt to arouse prejudice and ILL
feeling between man and man. That
concern sent us also a printed slip
for publication at regular space
rates. and we, too, of course de-
clined it. Every word of Emanuel
in the following clipping finds an
echo in our own heart and mind:
The Menace, a publication in
Aurora, Mo-, devoted to the interests
of anti-Catholicism, has forwarded
us an article containing an attack on
Catholic institutions, requesting its
publication in Emanuel at our reg
ular space rates. We have no desire
to earn money that way and do not
intend to lend ourselves to such dirty
business. Catholicism in America
has done much for philanthropy and
education, and its elemosynary in
stitutions are admirably conducted.
The A. P. A. movement reminded us
Jews too much of our own persecu-
tions to give It much comfort. The
Menace, rather than Catholicism, is
a menace to freedom of conscience
and the principle of religion
The American Israelite says:
"The Menace, an outspoken and
vehemently bitter anti-Catholic pa
per, and a large part Of the Prot
estant religious press, vociferously
proclaim Roman Catholicism men
ace to our free institutions. They
claim that gross partiality and
fayoritism is shown Catholic pre-
1ates by high officials and that the
Papal hierarchy is resorting to petty
prosecutions, boycotts, prosecutions
and threats in order to subjugate the
country. It is quite possible that
this may be true, although the
Israelite does not believe 1t, but II
Il were no more than fight OF the
outs against the ins, for surely, as
far as lies in their power, the Prot
estant churches control the country,
and a great many of them even as
sert that the right of Protestants to
rule the United States in the interest
of Protestant Christianity is a right
divine given of God, not direct, but
through Jesus, the mediator. There
is, however, a large body OF intelli-
gent, thinking citizens, Protestant,
Catholic, Jews, Scientists, Agnostics,
Infidels and Atheists, who believe
that this is neither a Protestant
country nor a Catholic country, but
a country of equality before the law
OF all religions, the interests Of each
one of which would be best con-
served by an absolutely secular gov
ernment and absolutely secular COM
mon schools, and that is what we
are going to have in the very near
future"
The expression OF these two fear
less Hebrew organs is OF special In
terest to Catholics. They not only
declare the general attitude OF our
Jewish brethren as regards religious
prosecutions, but they disclose the
methods employed in the A. P. A.
propaganda. All honor to the Jew
ish organs in refusing even for the
money paid down to publish the vile
filth emanating from Aurora. The
example set is one that should bring
the blush of shame TO the many
Protestant sheets which are at pres
ent concerned in aiding in stirring up
this religious war against the church.