The menace., 1914-09-26


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0T WAS written By no less a per.
sonaEe than Dr Washington
x GLADDEN.. and itr boz sas made
u Harpcrs wcckiy-issue Of July n.
1914
This article abounds IN general
statements. and is IN no wise argu.
meniative. A reply 10 Il is. therefore.
dinicult Nevertheless. there are mil
lions Of thinking people In our country
who would say u should not 40 IN.
ohallenEcd. The writer 10 almost
daily requested-in person. over the
/ phone. and by mail-to answer the
article In question. and he is perhaps
the logical man 20 make the reply. as
Il vas his series of lectures the author
Of The Anti Papal Panic attacked.
To begin with. the article is mlslead.
/ ing. IN that Il proceeds upon the theory
tfat. In the anti papal campaign, Prot.
estants are attacking Catholics. nj
this IL 20 be the Interpretation Of the
hght that is on. Il is logical 70 conclude
that when a Democrat speaks or writes
against the Republican party he is az.
tacking Republicans And when Dr.
GLADDEN. lifts his voice against n ridi.
culous religious or scientific theory, as
he sometimes does, he 10 attacking the
people who advocate a.
The brainy anti papal agitators-l
and they are leading the movement
now 30 patent that even the most con.
seryative theoloEians can not help see
Ing it-are not attacking Roman Cath.
olics. They are speaking and writing
against Roman Catholicism-the sys.
TEN. And one wonders az this lack
OF discrimination upon the part OF our
distinguished author. For once. he did
not write with his we'll known hair
splitting pen.
But his emphatic reference 70 the |
insanity" Of the campaign would In
dicate that, from his viewpoint. Il has
not yet enlisted the counsel and sup.
port OF brainy men.
Our most spectacular citizen has
been accused OF consigning people who |
do not agree with him to the Ananias .
Club. DR.. GLADDEN. goes this Goth Cen. /
tury Human Cyclone one better In
that he consigns anti papal agitators
to the insanity club"
And. by the way, this Is a club .
worthy the attention OF our most celc. .
brnted alienists. Should all the die. .
tlnguished men who have spoken IN .
no uncertain terms against Roman .
Catholicism be pointed out. their
names would preempt the space allot .
ted to this writing Hence, mention ,
can be made OF only a few.
And here are the names. iotted /,
down at random: Milton, Wesley. Nc. /
Cauley. Froude. Hugo. Joseph Parker, /
Beecher. Canon Ferrer. Bishop New
ton, Philip Schafi. Joseph Cook, Tai
mage. Colonel Edwin A. Sherman. DR. .
Macarthur, 4. G. Dixon, Josiah Strong. |
Bishop Mcintyre. Bishop Burt. Bishop
Hartzell. Blsmark. Gladstone. l.afay.
cite, Garfield, General Grant and Abra
ham Lincoln. quite a jolly lot Of lun-
atics!
These men have each delivered ut
terances upon the Roman Catholic
question as emphatic as any that have
been delivered by the leaders Of the
"panics" through which Dr. GLADDEN.
has passed or that will be delivered
I'm the "panic" he now prophesies.
II see a very dark cloud on our hor
iyop And that dark cloud is coming
from Rome. Il is filled with tears OF
blood. II viii rise and increase till
its tanks will be torn by a flash OF
lightning. followed by fearful peal OF
thunder. Then a cyclone such as the
world has never seen, VIII pass over
this country. spreading ruin and desc
lation from North to South. AFTER II Is
over, there will be long days OF peace
and prosperity. for popery, with It's
Jesuits and merciless lnquisition, VIII
have been forever swept away from
our country"
Where were the conservators OF pub
lie safety when Lincoln sent forth
this and other insane blasts 10
frighten the peaceful communities
and array Christians against Chris
tlans"3 The present defender. Of our
national sanity was then m. young
manhoods prime, but IL is evidsnt that
he was not yet on his job.
And when Gladstone said; the IN
nuence OF the Roman Catholic church
A adverse TO freedom In the state, the
family, and the individual" Englands
insane asylums must have been too
crowded 20 admit another patient
DR.. GLADDEN. prophesies that old
bulls and decretals OF the dark ages
will be dug up and exploited. He evi'
IDENTIFY intended this for a joke. For
he is a scholar OF renoun and Is sup
posed 20 know that papal DEGREES are
infaIlible, and therefore irreyocable,
indestructable. II would
be impossible TO dig up something
that has never been buried. IL the
author OF The Anti-Papal Panic" will
produce evidence that even the de.
crees demanding the extirpation OF
heretics have been rescinded, this
scribe will guarantee that the present
"panic" shall be speedily called on.
Medieval teaching is prevalent today
In Catholic seminaries. Catholic peri
odicals, and Catholic pulpits-the
Western Waterman Of St. Louis and
Father Phelan's pulpit are prominent
The extended reference TO the Toledo
episode and the ''hysterical fears" upon
the part OF unthinking people is
toy-shot at little game. Why did our
sportsman Ere on a pop-gun instead
OF the rife with which he usually