The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1914-07-18

"loathing" for the Catholics of
Ireland is the deepest emotion in
spring it. 1t is only human for
the robber and the assassin to
hate the very thought of his vic
tim, just as he always must dread
retribution for his misdeeds. Then
again the infinite patience and
tolerance of the Irish Catholics
have been misunderstood; it was
thought that they were simply
afraid when they were only
ashamed of the cowardly dishonor
of those they were compelled to
call fellow countrymen. A Catho-
lie is always boycotted by the
covenanters, and for the reason,
avowed explicitly, that he is a
Catholic. Should Catholic en-
ployers in turn give preference to
Catholic employees, the fact is
blazoned all over England as a
sample Of "Romish" bigotry. The
game is too transparent. Decent
Protestants protest against it.
They also protest against the
stream of brutal blasphemy and
SANDER which militant Protestants
pretend to mistake for religion to-
day. 1t is not merely stain upon
Christian civilization: it would
be disgrace to ordinarily decent
paganism.
Here is an article Of faith de-
fined at the reformed Presby-
terrain Synod of Ulster in 1913
eve regard the so-called Catho-
lie emancipation as the first
plague spot. From the time Of the
passing of that Act, which gave to
the Romanists the franchise, dates
the beginning of their power to
threaten the liberties of the Prot
estants of Ireland" That is like
what our American bigots would
say. This bitterness Of hate is a
measure Of the success of the
Church in her sacred work. The
sects cannot hold the respect Of
intelligent men; they cannot get
their members to come to Church
even once in the year; to the
handful that do come they have
nothing solid or reasonable to
offer. Jealousy Of the one Church
that is true to her calling natur-
ally degenerates into sourness and
hate, and thus in hatred Of the
Church of Christ the sects have
their one bond of union, the com
mon brand of their origin. So it
is in a corner of Ulster; so it is in
the more ignorant and less civil
lized sections Of this country.
Suppose one Of the great par
ties in this country were to iden-
tify itself openly with the miser-
able crew whose only notion Of
religion is SANDER and blasphemy !;
suppose political funds were used
to propagate all the vilest and
most brutal lies Of the bigots, and
to arm and drill the benighted
rabble in order to intimidate the
Government and compel the
abandonment Of remedial legisla-
ton which the nation cries for
with the united voice of all it's
enlightened citizens. Suppose in
a word that the Rockefellers and
the Morgans were to arm the l.
W. w. and the Guardians of
Liberty against the administers
ton, and use their hireling press
to say that they did it for the
sake of religion. Doubtless there
would be ministers of religion"
to applaud the unholy alliance
merely as a novelty that might
help to fill their empty pews for a
short while. But decent men
would know what to say and to
think and to do, just as the Ma
tional Volunteers Of Ireland
know. And in that state of
things, which will never come
about in this enlightened land,
men would realize quite accur-
ately the meaning of the Ulster
situation, and would be in no dan
ger of deception by the Orange
ranters and the imaginative press
agents Of Sir Edward Carson. Yet
even then there might be an Eng
lish Herbert Corey getting in
formation" from the wrong par
ties in America for the readers of
some English "Pioneer Press"