The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-03-24

dpouJ papal uoMnAncy ol tne lnStiVu-
ton In such q manner that the opera
tion should fall largely under papal
influence. How successful this has
been was easily discernable In an in
terview which your commissioner held
with the responsible head Of one of
the most important departments Of
the city Of Pittsburgh. Upon being
taken to task by the writer for hav-
ing girls sent to the House of the
Good Shepherd, this official said: "My
God, man, tell me what I am to dol
Where will / send them? What will
I do with these girls" Upon 1t be-
ing suggested that he send them to
the Industrial School for Girls he
made the astounding answer-T
would as soon take one Of them out
and back her up against a stone wall
and have her shot to DEATH" Elab-
Grating upon this he said among other
things that he had never known any
girl who spent any length Of time in
the State Industrial School but that
she invariably turned out a public
prostitute. He explained to me that
in such a place girls young and in
nocent were often compelled to asso-
ciate with vicious, immoral and scar
let characters to the ruination Of the
former. In preference to this, the
official said that he had, very much
to his regret and against his train
ing for generations, sent some girls
to the above described House Of the
Good Shepherd, but had never per-
mitted one Of them to remain any
great length Of time, having had them
probated to him after a short time in
carcerated.
The Psychology Of Rome
Whether or not the conditions in
the State Industrial School are as de-
scribed by this official we do not know,
but we do know that whether he is or
is not victim of the psychology of
Rome, his answer is indicative of the
frame of mind in which we find many
officials who are ready and willing to
believe just such things as Rome de-
sires they should in order that her
own institutions may profit thereby.
Granting that this officials descrip-
ton of conditions is absolutely true,
yet no fair-minded American citizen
will for one moment question the con-
stitutionality and desirability, as well
as the imperative demand for state
institutions, equipped and so con-
Quoted as to provide mental, physical
and moral development, as we'll as
ideal surroundings in which to rear
unfortunates who, because of poverty
or some blight Of parentage, must
needs become the charges Of the state,
1t Is the duty as well as to the best
interests Of the state, that provisions
be made to rear her helpless wards
IN manner calculated to produce the
best citizens. And aside from all con-
stitutional questions, nothing could be
more inhumane than to place such
wards in the care Of profit seeking
sectarian institutions. which have for
their purpose the promoting Of the
campaign to make America Catholic
by coming dollars from the bodies Of
these poor victims, not to mention
giving them nothing in return in the
way of knowledge, strength Of char
acter or means with which to earn
livelihood except by slavish toll.
Why Rome Is Alert
Doubtless It was keen realization
Of this urgent and imperative demand
for just such an institution, that lead
the enlightened representatives Of the
great Protestant state of Pennsyl-
vania to frame and pass the legis-
lation referred to at the beginning Of
i
this paper, and which Rome, In her
war against the enlightened and pro.
gressiYe demands Of our liberal Prot