The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-07-21
Communications.
Montevideo, Mimi, July Is, 1.

MOutoSIuoOS M1uu.s July LEI, 101Os
! note in this weeks Advance that
Mr.. ONe'll has answered my letter,
or more properly speaking, has writ
ten another letter. He has not an
swered even one of the questions
which | asked. He says II see MOTH
ing in the letter but the insane raw
ings of diseased minds" Is it not
fact Mr.. O'Neill that everything that
is anti-catholic is cravings Of diseas-
ed minds" in your opinion? You ac-
cuse me of q lack Of good manners.
Is it because | did not call you
Father" If you will show me any
bible authority for it, or il you will
prove to me that you have any claim
to the title I will be pleased to ad-
dress you SO. In the very next sem
tence you tell an Irish story which IS
suggestive to say the least, and is 9
very poor example of good manners. |
accept your correction OF misprint,
and will ask you where the Catholics
ever fought for any one who hates
them? There is absolutely no COM
mention and the Catholic schools.
These denomination colleges Ike the
young American boys and girls
dltcI tHcy nave PoooCu UATOuSA Vic
public schools. Your Catholic
schools are cunningly devised to
keep them out of the free air of the
teaches un-American principles, while
try. The Catholic school teaches that
''All human power is from evil. and
must therefore be standing under the
Thn oth nh hot S6slI
men are born free and equal and
Further than this the schools you re-
from public funds, while the Catholics
do everything in their power, by foul
means or fair, to get their hands in
the public funds.
You say that my letter shows that
prive Catholics of their civil rights.
rights unless they owe their first al
live. Read the above quotation from
the canon law and answer me, do
Catholics owe their first allegiance TO
the United States?
You say, II wish to assure them
that Catholic priests vii! be around
to protest injustice long after their
names will be but unholy memories.
May be they will, but II they are l
can assure they will b keeping them-
selves out Of our .sGodle8s public
school" Affairs.
So YOU think ~ ought to 20 down
and help punish poor Mexico for
kicking the political priests out of
n r0
ing these same priests out OF our pub
lie affairs on this side of the line.
Mexico is today the ripe fruit OF your
parochial school.
You say we twill never get chance
to fight under the conditions placed
in the letter. One would Judge from
the riots such as took place in Haver.
hill, Mass, recently that the time is
near when VIC will have to fight or
forfeit our rights of free speech. |
am now going TO ask Mr.. O'Neill to
acknowledge that am in the right or
cease answering, which will amount
to the same thing. If he refuses TO DO
one or the other l will show up the
whole rotten hierarchy from Pope
Syiverster the first TO the present
ssman made God on the Tiber."
In closing would like to ask the
editor Of the Herald-Advance to re-
frS.n from making any comment thrQ
his paper which might be construed
to be favorable to the author. This
request 10 made because it 10 obvious
from Mr.. O'Neill's letter that he il
trying to draw the editor out to take
his stand on one side or the other,
which would be hardly fair to the edi-
tor. Let me thank you for the posi-
ton IL which you placed the letters
last week, Mr.. O'Neill's above mine,
for the higher he 10 the greater the
fall when 1t comes. | thank you for
~ open press for the discussion Of
public interests.
HANS 81. SORRY.