Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-01-03
Displayed by the Melting Pot and
Correspondent II. George
Buss.
To Refute Their Misstatements
and Inaccuracies Almost
Endless Task.
Ridiculous Manner i'm Which
They Endeavor to support
Their Contentious.
SINGING MUD AT The CHURCH

To refute all the misstatements
and historical Inaccuracies of those
papers which are now so diligently
engaged in Singing mud" at the
church would be an endless task, as
every issue of these publications
teens with such falsehoods. AS an
example, however, of the crudity of
their arguments and of the weak
and ridiculous manner in which
they endeavor to support their con-
tentions by statements of supposed
facts, certain reputed quotations
from we'll known Catholics on the
school question, appearing in the
December issue of the Melting Pot,
are worthy of attention. Bats
Hate the Light" is the appropriate
heading which the Melting Pot has
given to these quotations. The
very first presented runs as fol-
lows: Education must be con-
trolled by Catholic authority, even
to war and bloodshed.-Catholic
World"
The particular issue of the Cath
Ollie World from which this is sup
posed to have been taken is not
given-it is a peculiar feature of
such papers that they often suffer a
lapse of memory as to dates and
pages. OF course the Catholic
World has never given out any such
statement as an editorial express
sion. The concluding quotation
(who would believe it?) is sup
posed to be a declaration by prof.
Dune, of the Jesuit University Of
Washington, d. c." and reads:
"The time is not far off when the
Roman Catholics of the republic OF
the United States, by the order OF
the Pope, will refuse to pay our
school taxes, and will send bullets
to the breasts of the Government
agents rather than pay 1t. 1t will
come as click of a trigger and 1t
will be obeyed at once. We will
take this country and build our in
stitutions over the graves OF
Professionalism"
But the crowning error of all is
the statement laid to the door of
Cardinal Manning, the noted con-
vert from Anglicanism, in which
the Cardinal is made to say: 81 do
not consider we are doing our duty
as American citizens in permitting
such a system of public schools to
exist as we have today" We are
not informed as to when or where
the English Cardinal made this
startling declaration. Nor are we
10 xxfhn hn ahQnOa1
his citizenship. II must have been
done In one of those secret, hidden
ways, in which the "Roman priest
hood" were we to believe the
Menace and the Melting Pot, is so
fond of indulging. Any one who is
at all acquainted with "the Car
dinal-Democrat" knows he not alone
was not an American citizen but
that he never touched foot on
American soil.
In this connection 1t might be in
teresting to know that H. George
Buss, former correspondent of the
Menace" has just issued a collec-
tion OF his writings which ap-
peared in that paper, with few
additions, in the form of booklet.
In this cheaply gotten up booklet
he rehashes many of the stories re-
futed by Father Mickey In the
pamphlet "Slime of the Serpent,
published by the Central Bureau Of
Central Verein. He devotes a page
70 a statement by Patriot Wash
lngton," in which the Father Of his
Country" says that he would never
have signed the constitution II he
entertained the slightest apprehen-
sion that it might possibly en-
danger the religious rights of any
ecclesiastical society,"" and that "itI
could now conceive that the Gen
eral Government might ever be so
administered as to render the lib
erty OF conscience insecure, ! beg
you will be persuaded that no one
would be more jealous than myself
10 establish effectful barriers
against the horrors of spiritual
tyranny and every species of relig-
ious persecution"
All OF which is very good (if
Washington really said it), but Buss
evidently forgets that II was this
same Washington who rebuked the
bigots In his army for burning the
efigy OF the Pope on Guy Fawkes'
day, praising the patriotism of the
Catholic soldiers. particularly dur
ing 1.-The late campaign" In Canada.
These few facts show that the
Melting Pot and the former Men
ace correspondent" either show but
little regard for historical accuracy
or are very pitifully Ignorant. In
charity. although II is most difhculi
70 do so, we would like to believe
that the latter Is the case. g. b.