Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-05-09
ROME MAKES. ANOTHER RECORD
Some Interesting Statistics th&t4ndltats Tho
Result Of Rome's Teachings:

| i. =.
The Menace. 4 - ~. ~,
Rome's. campaigns,ttoe makf n (.
3America dominantty III Roinsf
Catholic seems es:fenaafk ably
successful: among a certain e1e-
ment of tie population. This re,
Election is inspired by recent
report rendered by the sheriff ;aa
Schenectady, MY, and publish
ed in the Schenectady Gazette ;oa
Nov. Is. 1916.
Sheriff. Welch seems to. sbe
quite statisticisn; and .classifes
the 9S4 prisoners, that have.b been
under his care for the past year,
with references to offenses com
mitted, nativity, age, etc. 'Their
classifcations, as to religious
faith is strikiugly... illuthinative.
OF the 984, prisoners, $50 were
Roman Catholic. 800 Protestants
II Hebrews. 2 pagans, and. II
with no religious faith.
Of these $50 Roman Catholic
prisoners, 5s3 were men, and 81
were women. Of, the 309 Prot
estant prisoners, 2s9 were men
and 20 were women. And Sche-:
nectady is what commonly known
as Protestant city in which the
Roman Catholic. population is
but fraction of the whole.
Notwithstanding the superior
-,ty of the Protestants population,
Rome's parochial, schools and re-
ligious training supplies the
county Jail at. Schenectady" with
more than twice as many in
mates as are furnished by the
Goddess public SCHOOL, and it's
patrons. More than three times
as many Roman Catholic wo-
men were locked up for the public
good than there were of female
Protestants prisoners.
And we are told by the ,.brazen
spokesmen of popery that the
Roman Catholic So called church
is the hope and only possible
salvation of this country. Does
the Schenectady Jail record indi-.
cate it? Does it not warrsut a
conclusion decidedly to the con-
trary. >;
With references to morality,
there are three classes OF persons:
the moral, and the: immoral, and
the anti-moral. Some are def:
cient in moral quality :because.
they know nothing about morals:
Their are others who know what
is moral and what's not moral,
but who deliberately defy moral
ity and act inS opposition :*to1.. it:
They may be lledzin1moral, and
the third class are of: those who
are actively engaged in the re-
bellion' against. the moral senti-.
.ments of the country or commun.
ity in which they. live: They
are So superlatively. immoral as
.to*be anti-immoral. :
Worse than these=immora1 pap.
lists who crowd the Schenectady
Jail are their anti-moral religious
teachers who are doing all in
their power to break down Ameri-
can civilization and destroy its
morals in order: to- set up their
own peculiar and impossible
standards of right and: wrong.
It is these foreign thinking lead
ers of the blind who have most
to do with the excess of Roman
Catholic criminals in the Schenec
tady Jail and in jails and penitent.
iaries generally. -.
Rome, like any other yielder. Of
a product, may be known, by its
fruits. If Roman Catholic
parish Schools, Roman Catholic
.iterature, Roman Catholic teach
ing, aud Roman Catholic infuen-
ce put more thanstwice> as, many
OF their product il = prison: thar
Protestant teaching, and the pub
lie school send there, there shoull