Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-02-01
A REPLY TO THE REVEREND
HOWARD SCOTT ON HIS AR
TICLE "a CLANDESTINE CON-
VENT,s


Dear Editor: Recently there ap
peared in your paper an article b,
the above title, written by Rev. Dr.
Scott l wish to take issue witt
some of the statements made, no.
out of desire to start contro
versy, for there will be none, but II
order to make clear some state
ments, which are liable to misleac
the public.
It is we'll for a person when writ
ing upon such matters as history, tc
be familiar with and have sufficien1
knowledge of the history of the peo-
pie or nation in question. One can
not take a Tourist Trip which
consists of two or three weeks
something very popular among high
school teachers, to our neighboring
South American countries, and
think that they can learn enough to
enable them to come back and be
an authority on the lives, customs,
traditions, loves, hatreds and traits
of century old standing and the
causes leading to the domestic wars
and blood shed of those peoples.
Deducting the time going and COM
ing-but few days are left for study
and meditation while there.
DR.. Scott says: "Who would think
that innocent nuns would disobey
and carry on in secret what was
prohibited by the Indian Patriot
Juarez, who framed the law in
1857"
First of all who was Benito
Juarez? He was an ex-seminarian,
student for the priesthood, who
had been expelled from the semi
nary, and ever after nursed in his
heart grudge and revenge against
the church. His true character was
manifested by the ruthlessness and
savagery, murder, theft, and blood
shed with which he ploughed his
way through human slaughter to
power Mexico's Judases will be
found in the long line of disturbers
and thieves, who, for selfish ends,
have made mock of the power of
ballot. while they appealed to the
power of the sword. Two will stand
conspicuous at the head of the line:
Juarez and Gales. Another thief
and bandit who plundered and rob-
bed the church for his military en-
terprises was Gomez Farias, who en-
acted federal DEGREES calculated to
bring about union of church and
state, and thus enslave the church
This gave such thieves the oppor-
tunity to appoint politically minded
clericals, who were more politicians
than they were priests. and in col
lusion with the radicals making it
possible for them to interfere with
the work of the church. Religious
1nr, fnAn 1,os,
clergy were barred from all edu-
cational work-all church proper
ties and buildings and funds seized
Ga polite word used by historians
for ''stolen"O Under such "pa-
triots," the famous University Of
Mexico was closed and saloon was
opened in the university chapel by
the patriots. Many of these anti
clerical laws were handed down to
Juarez and his henchmen. and en-
forced by them with relish.
When JuareZ came to power with
the ousting of Santa Anna. the os-
tensible leader of the radicals who
seized the capitol was bandit nam
ed Juan Alvarez, but the intellec-
tual leader behind the scenes was
Juarez 1t was Juarez who ap-
pointed the llllterate bandit leader
as military commander. Alvarez
had a long list of murders and
crimes to his credit. He had learn
ed the trade of blood and loot in
the revolt of the priest Hidalgo. At
Teloloapan, he murdered all the
men and distributed the women
among his men This is one sample
of some of the patriots. Another
will suffice. A young woman who
repulsed his advances was stripped
naked and tied to a tree. Alvarez
amused himself lashing her at odd
intervals This was the monster
Bonita Juarez made president of
Mexico when Santa Anna was GUST
ed in 1855. Alvarez in turn ap-
pointed JuareZ. Minister of Justice
and Ecclesiastical Affairs. When
the clergy appealed from the injus-
tices of robbery and plunder under