The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-06

sis means that twelve per cent. of the
people of North Carolina are still in
the illiterate columns, while three per
cent, just one-fourth of this, is the
average Of the entire country.
The Worlds" 1914 Almanac shows
Con page 594) percentages of litter
ates in population ten years of age
and over, in 1910, as follows: North
Carolina, 1856; Virginia, 15.2; South
Carolina, 25.7. These States have very
few Catholics comparatively, the State
of North Carolina having about the
smallest number of any State in the
Union.
Another slanderous charge" by the
anti-Catholic sheets, repeated over
and over again to their dupes, is that
the parochial schools are breeding
places for criminals and that you will
find the largest percentages of crimi-
nails in Catholic communities.
What are the facts concerning Pro
testant North Carolina, the mother of
SO many organs of patriotism and
purity?
Here is news dispatch taken from
the daily papers:
Raleigh, N. c., December %, 1914
Attorney General T. w. Beckett filed
with Governor Craig today his bi-en-
NAL report, which shows 23,509 Grim
inal cases prosecuted in the courts of
the State the past two years-an in
crease of 1854 over the report two
years ago, and of 855 over the report
four years ago. OF the cases report
ed, 1876 were actually tried, with
the result Of 16,45S convictions and
2,707 acquittals.
There were 522 homicides, compar-
ed with 367 two years ago increase
of 1859 and 329 four years ago.
This from the home of ''The Peril"
"The Yellow Jacket" and "The indie
pendent" from State where Protes-
tantism is at it's height, where you will
find either a Baptist or Methodist
meeting house every few miles and
where the little red schoolhouse looms
at every crossroads! /!
This bit of news comes from a great
and glorious State where the few
Catholics residing therein live in the
cities and where the patriots only
a few months ago refused to allow
two Catholic young ladies to teach in
the public schools of Charlotte on ac-
count of their religious faith-just be-
cause they had the courage to wor-
chin Gnd nRanr6inr M I1n infa rs
their conscience.
What sad spectacle this great
State of North Carolina presents to
her sister States of the Union, over
ridden with religious bigotry, fed with
lies and SANDER by scurrilous sheets
and heavily laden with an increasing
criminal record!
But" say the anti-Catholic sheets
of North Carolina and their poor
dupes, "you should not blame the Prot
estant churches and members for the
illiterate condition of our State, as
that is a strictly State affair, and we,
as Professionals, do not believe in in
terfering in such matters, but, on the
contrary, believe in strict separation
of Church and State
While not discussing in this article
the Prohibition cause, for or against,
let us see if the above will bear in
vestigation.
The Rev. X. L. Davis, a Protestant
minister and superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League of North Carroll
ma, delivered speech on Commercial
Place, Norfolk, Va, July 4, 1914, and
the following quotation of his remarks
appeared in the Norfolk "Virginian-
Pilot" issue of July 5:
Prohibition means not only self
government, but better government,
and for an example you could take,
no better State than that of North
Carolina, right here at your door. In
the last Legislature of our State over
ninety per cent of the members of
both houses were active members of
the Church and over fifty per cent.
were officials in their respective
churches. They included preachers,
Sunday school teachers and superin-
tendents and elders and deacons."
On their own testimony, therefore,
the Professionals of North Carolina
with the unenviable records cited
aboye), State in which Catholics
are practically barred from public Of
fee, have "self-government," are, in
fact thn povnrnment