The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-30


ing dissenters of all civil rights, 1t
was the Catholic colony of Maryland
which enacted in 1649, that no persons
protesting a belief in Jesus Christ
should be molested in their religion
There were still limits to this tolera-
ton; it did not embrace the Jews.
Still there was no oppression and we
ought all TO remember, when we con-
denim Catholic prosecutions in other
lands that here in America they were
the first apostles of federation.
Goes Still Further.
"a few years later Roger Williams
in Rhode Island went further and de-
clared that no persons within the col
ony should be called in question for
any difference of opinion in matters
of religion who did not actually dis
turb the peace of the colony. Thir-
teen years later the planters of west
New Jersey declared that no men on
earth had the power to rule mems con-
sciences in religious matters, and in
the code prepared by Penn for Penn
sylvania it was provided that no per-
sons acknowledging the deity and liv-
ing peaceably and justly in society
should be prejudiced for their religious
persuasion or practices. Even Penn,
however, required an acknowledgment
of the deity. But when the constitu-
ton was adopted there was no limit,
it was provided in its first amendment
that congress should make no law re-
specting the establishment of religion
or limiting the free exercise thereof
and in Indiana, our constitution re-
quires that no law shall in any case
whatever control the free exercise and
enjoyment of religious opinion and
that no religious test shall be required
as qualification for any office.
Khan Gives Another Picture.
But now the Ku KluX Khan is Civ
ing us quite another picture Of our
country. In the paper called Fact"
which they publish here in Indianap-
oils, they speak of the faith of our
Pilgrim Fathers who dedicated to us
a Protestant country conceived in the
Protestant faith. If they did that in
Massachusetts then the colonists OF
Maryland must have dedicated to US a
Catholic country conceived in the
Catholic faith and in this case it was
a more tolerant faith than that of the
Pilgrim fathers. The greater part of
our territory, the enormous Louisiana
purchase, Florida and the vast terri
tory acquired from Mexico were Cath
Ole and were first settled even before
the Pilgrim fathers came. How then
can Protestants establish a monopoly
in great republic that was settled by
both? Even Indiana was first Cath
Ollie. What right has this Indiana
newspaper to declare that we are a
Protestant country when the constitu-
ton of our state provides No prefer
ence shall be given by law to any
creed, religious society or mode of
worship Is such a doctrine 100 per-
cent American? This gospel of intol-
erance seems to be spreading all over
America.
Pass Amendment.
I'm Oregon, owing largely to Ku
KluX . propa ganda, a constitutional
amendment has been passed that no
man, except in his own home, can even
educate his children unless he sends
them to the public schools. No church
even at its own. expense can undertake
this task of education. This is meas
ure to destroy the Catholic parochial
schools but it invades one of the most
precious rights of the family, the right
of the parents to prescribe what kind
of religious education shall be given
to their children How far are We to
i go along the pathway of bigotry and
| hatred? The one thing in which
America was the happiest-the religi-
Gus federation and harmony of its Cit
zens of whatever beliefs this thing
now to be thrown to the winds and are
we to enter upon the mad struggles OF
| fanaticism which have cursed every
other land since the beginning of his
tory? Henry Ford would stir up oul
hatred against all the Jews of Amer
lea because he believes a few individ
uals tried to overreach him in bust
ness. The Ku Klux Khan would wider
the prescription to shut out all but
Protestants. And they call this, Chris
tianity.
7. r. Calls in Catholic.
Theodore Roosevelt, the, Creates
and most patriotic American president
since Abraham Lincoln, was not afraid
to call into his cabinet Charles J Bon
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