Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1914-03-06

rant and rave so if this is not tru,
or any part of it is not true? Why
don't you say so and be satisfied Mt
that? lit is true stop the aggita
ton and let it rest. AS to the bless
ed candles and cruci6x and othel
essentials in administering som,
kind OF anti deluvian sacrament, -on
of the Priests sent here from New
York said that we had quoted Thu
item correctly.
As to the Advocate being Republic
can, you are correct; it is Repub Ii
can to the core, a yard wide and a
foot thick, double dyed and war
ranted not to rub off or fade; and
we go you one better, Mr.: Irish
American, the Advocate stands for
morals, education and religion, and
you may search it from one side to
the other and you will not find an
advertisement offering for sale spir-
ituous, vinous or malt liquors; the
Advocate will not accept this kind
IF advertisements Look opposite
your editorial page of date January
l4th which contained the vile Sian.
ders that you shoot at the Advocate
md its editors. After you have pa
raded as one who is a standby OF
the Catholic church, and having
taken so much pains to show how
mean we are and how good you are,
and counting the liquor advertise
ments that you find on this page,
opposite your editorial, you have 10
advertisements offering liquors for
sale; you certainly are nice bunch
Of fellows, and this shows that you
blow hot and cold at the same time.
Then you say, after having reprint
cd the poem, prominent state edu'
Gators have bemoaned the fact that
Kentucky, as a state, ranks very low
m education in the United States,
heir offers to establish even a
school in the very district
rom which the above sheet is issued,
lut it can be seen that education
and ignorance are travelling under a
severe handicap when opposed by
such direct appeals to Ignoranne as
contained in the above. Barbour
lille and Knox County have the
of all fair minded people"
70 this we beg to say to you, our ,
IRISH Brother, that Barbourville will
MEASURE swords in education, in
ommon chivalry, intelligence,
wealth aud true American patriotism
nth your whole bdnch. Barbour y
lille and Knox County does not
SIX your sympathy; we do not need
our sympathy; all we want and all .
e ask is to be let alone; our schools a
re equal, if not superior to the ma. i
rity of schools in Kentucky. We
ave good houses in which to teach Q
nd qualify teachers to govern these g
hools, and as far as ignorance is "
'ncerned, as a rule, not only in ir
nox County but in the whole q
eventh District, our ignorance is
agreeable to, and it is a fact. that
e most ignorant people that we
we, and about all the ignorant are
e criminals and hordes from for.
n lands, all of whom are members
the Catholic church, and worship
it's shrine. We have no moon
hit schools, we don't need any;
, Great Moonlight school that
re is so much talk of is not even
he 18th Congressional district.
We regret that we have been ~
ought into this controversy, we
re heretofore explained from hSS S
ence the article came, we do not we we
denim any man for being a Cath fec
if he wants to risk this religion, mi
up to him; all Catholics are not m, ml
people, for some Catholics that an,
know are the best men on earth, 70,
some of the women are as good 20!
IN angel, but as the Irish Ameri- sr,
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