The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-01-20
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Reply to Rev. Mr.. Robertson

Reply to Rev. Mr.. Robertson
| quire a large army and an immense
sacrifice of blood and treasure; but he
argued that if Washington and his as
sociates had reflected upon the sacri-
| flee of men and money which would
| be required to make America free,
and had then declined to go on with
l the conflict against George the Third,
| they would have assumed the same at
| titude as is maintained by those citi-
zens of the United States who oppose
armed Intervention in Mexico.
Contrary Evidence.
1t would require too much space to
review the overwhelming evidence
which could be adduced from authori-
| ties of the highest character in refuta-
| ton of the malicious aspersions re-
garding the religious and moral char
acteristics of the Mexican people which
were made by this Congregational
essentially, religious. They have all
received the Sacrament of Baptism and
are enthusiastic in their attendance
upon religious services. 1t must be re-
membered that three-fourths of the
population of Mexico are members of
the race known as, "The American
Indian" A noticeable fact in the his
| tory of North America and of South
America is that, wherever a Catholic
population has been dominant, whether
in Canada where the French ruled for
over hundred years, or in the Latin
| American countries of the Western
Hemisphere, the native races have
been preserved and have received
certain amount of culture and have all
been Christianized Whether or not
| they have advanced to high degree
of prosperity in trade and manufac-
lures and in the better processes of
agriculture, they have received the in
estimable boon of reception into the
Kingdom of Christ through the Sacra-
ment of Baptism, and have ben taught
the value and benefit of the other Sac
raments. The reports of the War De-
partment showing the countless bat
| ties with the Indians by the armed
| forces of the United States, the re-
ports of the various Commissioners of
| Indian Affairs and the famous story
Ramona" form a record of the man
ner in which a non-Catholic people has
dealt with the American Indian. On
| the other hand, the beautiful history
| of California in the days of Father
Junipero Sierra and his pious success
sors, speaks, with trumpet tongues"
in favor of the Catholic system in deal
| ing with the aborignes.
Guernsey on Mexico.
| For many years, the Boston Herald
had a resident correspondent in the
| City of Mexico who wrote under the
nom de plume, "Guernsey.' This &C
complished gentleman travelled through
Mexico constantly, roaming the vast
country from end to end and from
coast to coast, describing what he saw
and his impressions of the people. He
was intelligent, impartial, judicial as
! well as being literary man endowed
with wonderfully descriptive talent.
He told us, as other just and truthful
writer's have told us, that the Mexican
people are a gentle, happy, polite, folk
with generous impulses and possessing
| an ardent and devoted attachment to
the Christian religion. He rated their
morality very high. Of course, the
white people of Mexico (one-fifth of
the population), have been the con-
trolling element as is always the case
with the militant and triumphant eau
casian Notwithstanding this fact,
they have zealously fostered religious
spirit among the Indian population,
and have made more out of them than
has been done with any similar popu-
lation controlled by non-Catholics. I'm
der the auspices of the Catholic Span
lard, the Indian race has been pre-
served and has increased in numbers
while the influence and domination of
non-Catholcs upon the natives of the
Hawaiian group of islands, has result
ed in the almost total destruction of
population through the diseases of
vice and the beverages which intoXi-
cate
1t may we'll be that, since the Rever-
end Clergy have been driven out of
Mexico by the bandit, "Revolutionist,"
it has been somewhat difficult to Sc
cure the regular solemnization of mar
riage. Prior to that time, the clergy
of Mexico made every possible effort
to teach and to secure the sanctity of
the marriage tie and to build up family
boanerges. The Mexican people are,
life upon the best models. The sociol-
ogist will tell us that if immortality
were rife in Mexico, as is described
by this Congregational minister, the
population would decline instead of ad-
vancing. In music, literature and the
other arts, Mexico has won high
place. That Republic is in advance of
our own in having a National School of
Art. 1t possesses many universities
at which the highest literary and artis-
tic culture are afforded. Prior to the
disorders of recent years, schools were
scattered throughout the Republic
managed under the auspices of that
imperishable institution to which was
committed by Divine mandate, the
commission, go teach all nations
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