The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-05


try, by the Knights OF COLUMBUS,
whose underlying principle is pa
| triotism.' Is that not the most m
sidious use of the press to boost the
Catholics? They could not serve
themselves so effectively through pub
! locations owned and run by the
church. When the Dispatch appears
some morning with an editorial ecriti-
cislng the hierarchy, / will abaolve
| 1t from bias.
| Hysterfa an Anliction Of Women.
TT is merely an outcropping Of
brand of hysteria now endemic in
| this land of the free" That word
| endemic" sounds big and makes
show OF learning: hut what IS there
IN free land that makes hysi erta
habitually present? I did not know
that hysteria was confined to free
countries. but since the Dispatch tells
us that 1t is, had rather be m hys-
teric and be free. than he an apathetic
and be slave. HySteria Is an qfflic-
ton of women, and this is the first
ume in my life ! was called woman,
3, TN Virginia, newspapers in the
honest expression OF honest conviC-
tons opposed prohibition and are
called the slaves of demon rum.
That sentence caused keen disap-
pointment. because thought the Dis
patch had professed conversion since
September %, 1919. was mistaken.
,, Ephriam Is still Joined to his idols
| The prohibition campaign is over. and
the ants were buried under a ma
jority OF 10000, and no disrespect
should be shown the dead. But since
the Dispatch Tugs In this question. II
is not amiss to say that 1t is sYll he
Iteved by many that the liquor traihc
oougnt the news space and editoflal
coinmhs Oh more than one pane III
1873 Inc Dispatch selected an IN
happy Illustration to prove mat the
press cannot be purchased II news
papers can be bought for the liquor
traffc can they not he bought for
the church?
1. American Journalism
IN accuracy of statement compares
very favorably with the
prea cheers OF the land" Let US see.
One who read nothing but the Times
Dispatch in August and September.
1914. would have concluded that Viz
GINA was going Wei bv a large ma
jority Their editorials urged il. and
their news columns indicated it. On
September Il an editorial said The
only question that will he decided to-
morrow is whether or not in their
own OPINION, the me 10 a NlFsiuIa are
capable of managing their local at
fairs themselves The Vir-
ginians of today are as determined as
they ever were to maintain their right
to govern themselves" Though
scores of loyal Virginiaus urged sub
mission before the legislature and
worked for prohibition in the state.
the Dispatch said. on the very day
of the election The agitation has
come from without" A preacher
who tried to he inaccurate could hard
| " succeed better than the Dispatch
did in that election. We need not
wonder that large business men, who
were antis. abused the wet papers
after the election as misleading. and
I said they had deceived their readers,
| So much for accuracy
| Order Confined TO Catholics.
! Evidence weighed In the last two
weeks convinces me that that alleged
Knights OF Columbus oath is not
genuine. but when I am told that the
Knights of Columbus are not an order
| Of the Catholic church. ! cannot ac-
cept the statement. 1t Is matter of
court record from their own witnesses
that they take an obligation always TO
live in and support that church and
! no one but a Romanist IS elegfhle 10
I
] limiting the members to Catholics,
and pledging the members TO support
! that church, II Il is not an order OF
| the church? why is II necessary to
organize their members for patriotic
purposes? what would you think Of
a secret order OF Presbyters II lay
men, claiming that their funda mental
principle was patriotism Should not
we all be patriots. irrespective OF our
denomination. and Is any denomina-
| TONS patriotism so weak thsk II must
be bolstered up by certain Of It's lay
men banding themselves together in
secret order of that denomination?
Since the sermon two weeks ago,
their so-called patriotic stunt has
been pulled Off in the John Marshall
! high school A Catholic United States
senator spoke at a Washington birth
dav celebration and apparently said
more about the Catholics than about
Washington. He ran true TO prediC-
ton and made a frst-Class Catholic
speech which unpreiudiced people
| recognized as a Romanist propag anda
under the disguise of patriotisZ The
vocabulary Of Amusement is enlarged
| nv his astounding statements. For