The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-04-05
The Central Verein to be Applauded
in the Issuance of a Wig
orous Refutation
Of the ISLANDERS and Calumnies of
the Most Disreputable Sheet
in America.
Some Quotations From the Pam
phlet Entitled Slime of
the Serpent"

The German. Catholic Union called
the Central Verein has produced a
notable pamphlet entitled The Slime
OF the Serpent"
1t is intended to serve as an anti
dote to some of the venomous poison
distilled into the public mind by the
vile sheet, called THE Menace" The
Central Verein and the author of the
leafet, Rev. J. p. Mckay, G. NJ, are
to be congratulated upon the excel
lence of the antidote. In the hands
of fair-minded readers, whether Cath
olic or non Catholic, it ought to prove
an effective remedy. The following
quotation from the leaflet will be
heartily applauded, we are sure, by
all our readers:
I'm the face of this testimony. or if
YOU WILL disrcgarding all the testi-
mony, can you reasonably fathom how
it is. possible that the Catholic Church
could be as it is pictured in such pa
pers as The Menace? There are &c.
600 nuns in the United States. They
conduct 200 academies, nearly 800 or
phan asylums, 800 hospitals, 100 homes
for the aged poor, several hundred
asylums for the sfo,,ntllings, the insane,
or the reclamation of fallen women.
These nuns work for no wages. They
tAn;, Z 11o
world at any time they wish. They
stay there because they wish to stay
there. No bars but their love of God
and neigl1bor keep them in the class
room, at the cradle of the founding,
by the bed Of the fever stricken or at
the death of the pest-ridden.
They Tend Lepers.
THE Sisters OF Charity that have
left their homes to tend the ulcerous
lepers on the island near New Orleans
that live there and die there-can you
imagine them sacrificing all that the
world holds dear for anything else
but love for God and suffering hui
manity? Can you imagine any other
cause that could induce Miss Mary
Rutftn, the young lady Of Mobile, the
daughter of the authoress, the des-
cendant of Thomas Jefferson-can you
imagine that any other cause could
induce her to leave the world for the
cloister? Can YOU imagine the daugh-
ter of Nathaniel Hawthorne leaving
the faith of her father to become a
Sister in the faith of her forefathers,
and to nurse the cancer patients in
the paupcr wards of New York city
can you imagine her leaving the per-
fume of society for the cancer r-stench
of the pauper if her pure soul now
hreathes but the worse stencil of an
Immoral Church?
''If converts be such things Of hor-
yor, as The Menace would have you
believe, how comes it that $4,000 of
the purest American women willingly
stay there, would rather die than
leave there?
why is it that so many Protestant
parents send their children to be edu-
Gated there? Why did even Tom
Watson, with all his hatred for the
Catholic Church, when he wished his
daughter to have the best training pos
sible. why did he send her to a con.
vent school, and write many com
mandatory letters to the Sisters
thanking them for what they had done
for his child? BE a mans heart as
black as Satan, he would not have
his daughter so.
The Case Of cIsnnsneeau.
"Clemenceau, the former Premier OF
France, drove the Sisters from Paris
But when he fell dangerously sick a
short time ago. he. demanded to be
carried to the Sisters. I don't care
what may be said of it, he declared
I want good nursing
i Lives Without eIsmi.h.
To-day the Catholic Sisters are te
him the ideal of all that is pure anG
noble in womanhood. He looks into
the souls OF thousands of the Sisters,
| and can say what, on Oct. 2, 1912. DIR.
William f. Quine, Dean of the Col
Ase Of Physicians and Surgeons, said