Kentucky Irish American., 1914-04-11
A. y. A.iRevival a Reminder of
Locust and Periodical
Pest.
Promoters of Ex-Priests Later
Complain About Empty
Churches.
OPPOSED TO COMMON DECENCY

The daily press during the past
week has been carrying sensational
descriptions of the trial of one DR.
Jacob Price, of the Methodist
church, who is being tried by a
conference of that church for i'm
proper conduct with some of his
women parishioners, and the ques-
tion has been raised, what howl
would 90 up if some Catholic paper
conducted along the lines of the
filthy A. p. A. Menace would con-
demn the entire ministry and laity
of the Methodist church for the
actions of the above clergyman.
Along this line the following
article by a writer in Brann's Icono-
clast seems to be appropriate for the
occasion:
About every fifteen years the
venemous viper of bigotry raises its
fat repulsive head up out of the
steaming swamp of ignorance and
hatred, where it has gorged itself
with falsehood, calumny and slander,
and vomits it's malodorous slime out
over the land. 1t reminds one OF
the thirteen-year locusts, the Kan
sas grasshoppers and other periodi-
cal pests. The buzzards catch the
we'll known scent, flock around the
nauseating banquet and scream with
10y and delight over the palatable
treat.
Now let me give you a fictitious
case and ask you a question. Sup
pose that among the Catholic cler-
SO degenerate and shameless, so FOR
getful of duty and decency. so de-
void of all sentiments of honor and
self-respect, 90 stripped of all sense
of right, justice, virtue and liberty,
so lacking in principle and honesty,
SO ignorant and brutal as to edit a
sheet of the color of some edited in
Missouri and Georgia. He would
call 1t "The Danger, or some other
suggestive and scary name. The
sheet would steam, reek, drip and
sizzle up with lurid lies, Shiny SLAM
ders and caustic calumnies about
Protestant ministers and Bishops,
about Protestant history and insti-
tutions, the good name, honor and
reputation of Protestant women
would be dragged into the mire,
especially of such as are engaged In
religious and charitable work, who
teach the children, care for the
founding and the orphan, nurse the
sick and the wounded, help the aged
and the infirm, reclaim the fallen
and the wayward, etc.
Now the question: What - would
happen to this vile rag? Let me tell
you. Not only would the Arch
bishops, Bishops and priests, but
every Catholic layman in the coun-
try, raise his voice and close his
purse against this un-Christian, un-
Scriptural, un-American and un-
civilized buzzard sheet 1t would
never boast of a million, or a half
million subscribers, for the simple
reason that it would not survive its
first issue on account of the total
lack of support. The ir-Rev. Editor
would be commanded by his Bishop
not only to discontinue his un-Chris-
tian doings, but to publicly recall
his lies, calumnies and slanders,
publicly apologize for the heinous
scandal, and would be suspended till
he did. Then what? Having gone
as far as he did, he will most
probably be too proud and self-con-
ceited, and too far gone, to submit,
will leave the church and throw him
self into the willing and loving arms
of some of his moral equals, who
will receive him with Joy, ignore his
antecedents and announce with
hallelujah expression apologies to
Hashimura Togo) that another poor,
prosecuted victim of tyrannical
Popish Bishop, another inoffensive.
innocent lamb, with fleece as white
as snow" has been happily snatched
from the inquisitorial fangs of the
Romish wolf. The dear lamb will
be petted; in fact, lionized; he will
be led upon the stage and will be
urged mot only with thirty pieces
of silver) TO enlighten and regale a
select CD and credulous audience
with the filthy droppings of his
putrid imagination.
II any Catholic, whose most sacred
sentiments have brutishly and SLAM
derously been trampled into the dirt,
dares to resent the outrage with
even a single word of protest, all
the vipers of the swamp pop up
their hate-glittering heads and hiss
in unison chorus about a Romish or
Popish plot to assassinate this ex-
emplary, law-abiding citizen. who
has found in their serpentine COM
pany the peace of mind aud the
freedom OF conscience, after which
he strove in vain In the Jesult-ridden
church OF Rome.
Such is the stuff of which ex-
priests are made. They are poor,
pitiful specimens of men, who on
account of their irregular, scan
dalous or immoral lives had to be
suspended by their Bishop. and who
were too far gone and too self-con-
ceited TO submit. Some minister
with a brain-stormy case OF Romo
phobia will invite him to occupy his
pulpit on a Sunday. where instead
OF preaching the gospel OF Christ he
will neatly and deftly expose his