The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-09-04

this convention of the National Edu-
cation Association were being paid by
Catholic society in New York.
To this l submit that it is false, as
all the rest of the above stories used
to injure my chances of being elected
President of the National Education
Association.
submit also, with regret, that Miss
Elizabeth Sherman of Oakland, Cali
fornia's member of the Committee on
Nominations, never asked me to &C.
knowledge or deny the truth of any
of the above stories.
The matter contained in the above
statement made by Miss Strachan,
and the incidents connected with her
defeat threw forth strong protests
from those who saw in the N. E. A.
the possibilities for the developments
of an Anti-Catholic machine to be
used against Catholic teachers under
the pretext that their allegiance can
not be commanded because of their
interests in the parochial schools.
Along this line Father Yorke calls the
attention of the public and of the
Catholics generally to the bigotry un-
earthed at the National Educational
Association.
Bigotry ruled the convention held
last week in Oakland by the National
Educational Association.
A candidate for the presidency of
that body was defeated solely because
she was Catholic. This statement
was publicly made, published exclus.
lively in last weeks issue of The Lead.
er. An opportunity was afforded the
smirking lowbrows who appear to
dominate affairs in the N. E. A. to
give their version of the controversy
but no explanation has been forth.
coming.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young of Chicago,
the chief leader of the anti Catholic
forces, suddenly discovered that she
had an important engagement in Chi
cago, when The Leaders expose was
made.
Not one of the elected officers Of
the National Educational Association
was man or woman enough to atand.
up and face the question: els your as
sociation controlled by bigots?"
Let the record of the N. E. A. speak
for itself. The defunct session held
in Oakland last week marked the fifty
third gathering of the school clans.
Not once in that half century has a
Catholic occupied the presidency of
the society.
When in this enlightened age a
Catholic decided to aspire to that Of
flee, the buzzards gathered from far
and near, and with menacing voices
and pharisaical, rolling eyes, declared
it would be calamity.
Indeed, it is a calamity. 1t is cal.
amity for the N. E. A. that it's bigoted
delegates, forgetting the purposes for.
which they were banded, voted to
down candidate solely because of
Catholic Church affiliations.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, the leader,
according to reliable accounts, in this
anti Catholic movement in the N. E.
A., has already fed from the scene
of action.
The Leader is sincerely sorry for
that.
The Leader would like Ella to an
swer question or two.
We are given to understand on re-
liable authority that the late Arch
bishop Quigley of Chicago stated that
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young was not only
"non-C Catholic, but anti Catholic"
If the sentiments of Ella Young
are the sentiments of the N. E. A.,
then the sooner that ignorant, frog
aping association goes into oblivion
the better.
To the Catholic teachers who may
be members of the National Educa-
tional Association-aye, to the fair
minded non.C Catholic members as we'll
The Leader puts this question: "Why
pay your money into an association
that makes religion a test of merit?"
If the sneaking, Shiny skunks from
the backwoods want to dominate you,
then the quicker you get away from
their pestiferous presence the sooner
you will be breathing a purer and
more wholesome air.
Nineteen hundred fifteen will 60
down in N. E. A. history as the down.
fall of that beetle.browed society.
That a particular candidate was de-
feated for office doesn't concern The
Leader.
What does concern US is, that the
reason that candidate was downed
was because of her Catholicity.
And The Leader dares the officers
of the N. E. A. to prove the contrary.
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