The Irish standard., 1913-02-08
In a Well Prepared Article the
Editor of the Wellsville,
N. T., Democrat
Severely Arraigns Socialists For
Their Attacks on
Catholicity.
The Church Has Furnished America
With No Benedict Arnolds,
No Gitteaus.

There is considerable agitation and
undue criticism of the Catholic peo-
ple, their religion and the ancient his.
tory of that Church, going on in this
country, even in this immediate vi
cinity, at the present time. The
source of this un-Christian movement
Is of the most questionable character.
It was conceived in sin and brought
forth in general cussedness. Its un-
scrupulous projectors are profiting
immeasurably through hysterical
and timorous clientele, who have hast
lily and unwittingly subscribed for the
Menace, the organ and mouthpiece of
the unsavory agitators, published at
Aurora, Missouri. 1t is an unpromis-
ing scion of the Appeal to Reason, the
official organ of the Socialists of this
country. OF this weekly religious dis.
turbers, more anon.
We as Americans owe something to
the Catholics. Let us not forget that
it was Catholic brains and Catholic
enterprises and Catholic sacrifices
that discovered this continent and
made our splendid civilization pos.
[,h,. Many Of our. best soldiers and
s.3 accomplished and successful
Ieommanders on land and sea- Amer
.tcans tried and true, were in and Of
the Catholic faith. The Catholic
church has furnished America with
no Benedict Arnolds, no Aaron Burrs,
no Booths, no Gitteaus. 1t was, how.
ever, the noble sisters of that faith
who heard the heart-rending cry of
the stricken fever sufferers in New
orleans and promptly responded to
the call of humanity and Christian
duty. Many of them hastened to the
relief of the afflicted in the Crescent
City. Ninety per cent of that devoted
band of Christian martyrs now sleep
near the Mississippi Delta. History
furnishes innumerable instances of
such timely devotion. such self-sacri-
flee to Christian duty, as outlined by
Him who taught us to say: Our
Father who art in heaven"
Why this present untimely intolcr.
ance of the catholics and their faith?
Why this untoward and severe criti.
cism of the Mother Church? Where
and what is the source of this .ln.
seemly agitation that is likely to
breed dissention and foment strife
which are so much to be deplorcd?
Let us see # we cannot locate the fly
in the honey and then dispense with
its unwelcome and disturbing pres.
ence.
Socialism with it's varied schemes,
its abhorent teachings and disgusting
attributes is as old, perhaps, as the
pyramids. Its doctrines have been
preached and practiced in its varied
and Objectionable forms during past
centuries. 1t has been known to the
world under it's present ZANE of $50
cialism'' plus anarchy since 1880,
when promulgated and practiced at
that time by Robert Owen and his de-
luded followers. Its growth has been
slow but gradual; it's teachings per-
nicious, many Of its converts and de-
votees criminalized thereby. It's rep
resentatives have rioted and murdered
In Chicago, dynamited buildings in
Los Angeles. blown up viaducts and
other property in Buffalo, committed
murder indirectly IN Lawrence. In
fact wherever there have been mob
violence, ruin a.,d death, there has
appeared the black hand CT Social
ism and the red flag of anarchy.
The Catholic church took up the
gauntlet thrown down by Socialism
and the growing tendencies of an
archy, denounced the accursed doc
trines in thunder tones, ar-aigned the
leaders Of this baleful movement, the
advocates Of social, financial and reli-
gious death at the bar of public opin
ion and they were found guilty as
Indicted.
Did or has any other religious de.
nomination of this country given aid
comfort or assistance to the Catholic
church in this righteous battle for re:
ligious life. modern domesticity an