Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-08-23
COULDN'T BLUFF The MlLLBANKERS.
A Specimen Of Romish Arrogance and How
It Was SquelChed.

It Was Squelched.
: The Menace
Pope Benedict's local agent
Priest O'Neill, having d hare
time trying to browbeat the peo
pie Of Millbank S. D. 1t seems
that the Millbank board of educa.
tlon, in selecting teachers for the
coming year, had given favorable
consideration to Roma Catholic
applicant; but afterwards thoug ht
better of it and hired another
teacher
Priest O'Neill then appeared
before the board, accompanied by
a parishoner, and demanded that
paplst teachers be represented in
the teaching force of the school;
and that the public schools manu-.
al trs ming department be opened
to the pupils of his parochial
school during certain hours of the
day.
The board very sensibly declin
ed to take any action whatever
IN response to these arrogant de-
mands, with the result that at
the school election Priest O'Nyi!l
had two candidates in the running
to defeat the ''bigots." However,
the old members of the board
tound such favor with the electors
that they each received about six
hundred votes while the pro. pal
candidates received about one
third as many.
This was too hard a blow to
ignore, and Priest O'Neill got
into the local paper with a COM.
mulcation airing grievances ga
lore and reciting the superior
qualifications of papists for all
public employment from teaching
to soldering. But getting into
print was even more damaging to
paplst prospects than breaking
into. school politics; for one Mr..
Il. H. Sorby had the patriotism
and courage to take up the ex-
travagant assertions of the priest
and tear them to tatters in a most
dlgnified and gentlemarly way.
And so it goes, with O'Neill
peeved because Sorby fails to
father him; and Sorby serene
in the impregnable position that
O'Neill has no right to the title.
priestly arrogance
is dragging O'Neill deeper into
the real merits of the difference
between American patriotism and
Romish popery; and Sorby has
him on the hip at every turn.
The Millbank priest cuts a
sorry figure in argument. He
should have followed the clerical
custom of organizing a mob of
wild parishioners who might have
settled the question for all time
by heaving rocks through the
school-house windows. That
would have been a real demon
strat1on of muscular Christian
itv,' such as Rome delights in
and in which parochial school
pupils are eloquent.
O'Neill has yet to learn that
the attempt to maintain the ex-|
travagant claims of Rome by|
means of open argument is a fatal
but let the good work go
on with fair field and the open
field of ideas. The spectacle of
a priest in open discussion of
Romanism and the public school
is so rare as to be priced privi-
lege; and the good people of Mill
bank should feel favored of for
tune by the entertainment and
it affords.
If these matters could be thresh-
ed out in the local papers of every
community, the attempt of papists
to dominate educational boards
and force papist teachers into the
they call Goddess" would
soon come to an end. 1t is to be
hoped that the school officers of
Millbank will continue to employ
efficient teachers uninhuenced BY
O Neill and his noise.
Just the Thing for Diarrhoea.
GO A ho,1+ fnn I'D i,