Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-03-07
BARNETT
Again on A. p. A. Rampage
in the City of Phila-
deIphia.
Shown Up i'm Bad Light By
Catholic Standard and
Times.
Official Statistics Practically
shatter His Whole Argu-
ment.
he DELIVERED LECTURE HERE

readers will recall the A. p. A. meet
ing in 1912, when the Rev. DR..
Barnett was the principal speaker
and delivered a bitter TRADE against
the Roman Catholic Church, fol-
lowed by Lieut.-Gen. Nelson A. Miles
(who afterwards tried to crawl out
of it) and one or two speakers Of
lesser fame, stage seats being occu-
pied by former Postmaster Woods,
Assistant Postmaster Morey, ex-
Mayor Weaver, Fillmore Tyson and
others. Now our old friend Barnett
has again broke out in his home
town, the following being an ac-
count in part of his ramblings:
"hs the goddess public school re-
sponsible for bad citizenship" He
was more excited than usual, at
times almost incoherent, and occa-
snonally he clutched at the flag so
recently placed beside the pulpit.
DR.. Barnett found that bad citizen
ship consisted of bad politics, and
found Tammany Hall the worst spec
linen of it. The saloons, ninety per
cent of which he said are kept by
Catholics, he found responsible for
more of it. Illiteracy he charged as
another factor. He spoke of the
large percentage of Catholics in pris-
ons, and of the bad record of Cath
Ollie countries in regard to illegit-
imacy, and then reeled off some gilt
tering generalities as to corruption
among the priests of South America.
He gave statistice to support the jail
records, the charge of illiteracy and
of illegitimacy. He did not say who
or what was back of the statistics,
He gave alleged quotations from
Catholic sources in opposition to the
public schools, some few of which
were probably authentic, others false
on their face. Some were from pa
pers that never existed, and one
from the Shepherd of the Valley
unfortunate reference, for this is the
paper that was charged falsely fifty
five years ago with an intolerant ut
terance which DR.. Barnett recently
falsely attributed to Archbishop
Ryan.
Ignorant of the results of open
competition, he spoke of the ''ineffi-
cheney" of parish schools, and
among other things he suggested for
the preservation of the Republic was
the prohibition of immigration-this
from a man who was twenty-one
years of age before he came here.
He spoke of the assassins of Lin
coin, Garfield and Mckinley as grad
yates of the parish schools. He
made all the nominal Catholics fig
ure in his criminal statistics, and
ninety per cent of saloon-keepers
graduates of the parish schools. DR..
Barnett said that a column and
half would probably appear in The
Catholic Standard and Times, and he
challenged it to publish his figures.
The Catholic Standard and Times
accepted his challenge, and furnished
him with the following facts and
figures:
"Dr. Barnett. is reckless in the
handling of truth. Booth was a
Mason, which Barnett characterizes
ASA patriotic order. Guiteau was a
member of the Oneida community,
and afterwards a Second Adventist
preacher. According to one of DR..
Barnett's official organs, this Demon
ination has recently denounced the
Catholic Church. Czolgosz was an
anarchist with no religion.
I'VE did not take DR.. Barnett's
figures. Roughly speaking. they pur-
ported to show that everything good
exists to about ten per cent among
Catholics and ninety per cent among
Protestants. Father Young's Cath
Ollie and Protestant Countries Com
pared from figures of non-Cath-
olics, is an all-sufflcient answer.
"Mulhall and Webb-Mulhall are
recognized authorities on statistics.
Any bias is against Catholics. Null
hall, D. 92. gives these percentages
of illegitimate births: Average per
1,00O-Ireland, 23, best showing.
and would be even better we're 1t not
for the Orange section; Holland. So;
Switzerland, as; Canada, so; Eng
land. 81; Spain. 55; United States,
20; France, "a; Norway, So; Ger
many, 81; Scotland. SO; Sweden,
102; Denmark, III; Austria. 1875
"As to crimes, Mulhall gives the
D. 1853: Per million-Ire-
land, ZIG; England, 450; Holland,
4s4; Austria. $40; Denmark, SIS;
France. 612; saxony, 914; Prussia,
952; Sweden. 9S3; Italy. 1,010.
Prison population, per 10000
Opp. 70-71)-Ireland, 81; England
and Wales. 100; Switzerland, 11.5;;
Spain. 1872; Belgium, 17.s; Italy,
IT'S; Scotland. 1874; Norway 1877;
Germany. 27.7; Denmark, 1915;
500; Austria, A.
THE special reports OF the United
States Census Bureau for 1904, pub
lished In 1907. show, despite Eng
lish-born Barnett's desire to shut out
now that he is in, that
(p. 400 among white major Offend
ers the proportion of foreign born
Is considerably lower
"ln the crimes OF foreign born CPD. |
as, 46) the percentage OF crimes
against chastity among English-born |
is 0.06; Irish. 0.05; OF
crimes against nature, England and
Wales. IL; Irish, o; OF homicide, |
Sweden. 10; Germany. s; Ireland,