Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1915-05-12
Where is Schmidt?
Can Catholics be Loyal Ameriaans2 Can
They Serve Two Mastsrs2

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They Serve Two Mastsrs2
From The Menace.
| Who knows what disposition
has been made of Hans Schmidt
perhaps We should say Father
Schmidt. who killed and cut ur
Anna Aumuller in New York some
time agof It was q mean trick he
played on the girl, cut her down in
the bloom of youth and then cut
her up, and he should be suffering
pangs of remorse, if he is not suf-
fering in other ways. We are in
formed that his sentence of death
was commuted to life imprison.
mont. but instead of being inoar.
cerated in fslon's cell he is said
to be willing away the time in an
insane asylum, taking life easy at
government expense, and waiting
for the time to come when he m AZ
be quietly removed and set up in
some distant and secluded spot
for q season in preparation for she
restoration of his right to do as be
pleases.
1t is hard to put the legal thumb b
upon a "Fasier" with sufficieps
force to hold him still for any
great length of time. Priest Mul.
len, of Hillside fame, is outside
the pale of the law. though mur.
dsrer. "Father" Fitzpatrick,
once of Portland, Ore is at large
though confessed forger. These
holy remegades have ways of get
ting behind the law ahd winking
at justice, which, if they had been
known and understood by the
Terre Hause crooks, might have
bs-n used to their personal advan.
saga. As the secret seems to be
the private property of the holy
Ro mish ruffians the Ierre Haute
crowd had to submit to the law and
are now doing time at the Leaven.
worth prison. They are only hu-
man and must suffer for their
weakness. Schmidt. Mullen and
Fitzpatrick are gods. or at least
seml-gods. and to them favcrs
must be extended even though
they make of themselves q public
menace.
This one faculty of the papal
power, the power to secure elem.
ENJOY, no matter what the crime,
is in itself a danger to society
which should be reckoned with
when considering the msnaoe of
Catholicism to our nation, since
its possession removes much of
the fear of consciences when overt
acts are contemplated. As long
as the priest feels secure in his
"Holier than Thou" relation to
the rest of the word, his arrogance
will be assertive in forwarding
papal interests with Jesuitical
cunning, Iuquisitional cruelty,
legislative intrigue, K, G. mob
rule and the bullet or bludgeon.
Until the priestly degeherates
and criminals are treated as other
humans are treased when they
trangress the moral and criminal
code, we can hard ~ feel the re-
spect one should feel toward a re-
lIgion, there is not enough saneti-
ty in their acts to base q human
faith upon.
ARE THEY LOYAL?
According to a Roman Catholic
paper, the papists are in politics
to the following extent, it says:
Very slowly. but, let us devout.
ly hope, mono the less surely,
Catholics are coming in to their
own so far as adequate representa-.
tion in public lite is concerned.
There are now, for the first time,
six Catholic members of the Unit
ed States Senate, Mess.s. Ashurst
of Arizona, Borasssrd and Raus-
dell of Louisiana, O'Goeman of
New York, Phelan of California,
and Walsh of Montana, all clever
and creditable representatives of
of our faith.
How can these men be loyal
representatives of the people and
the pope at one and the same time?
The pr pc says Roman Cathollc au.
thorltv is superior and above that
of state, and when in conflict: {:
"To hell with the government :"
How can these men vote for free
press, free speech and free schools,
when they bear first allegiance to
the pope who is absolutely opp os-
ed TO these constitutional guaran-
tees? These senator's have placed
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