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Show SLANDERING THE CATHOLICS. t From the Deeret Evening News, organ or-gan of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Reliigious bigotry take-3 various forms. In some parts of the country Roman Catholics are subject to attacks similar sim-ilar to those directed agalinat the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dav Saints in other parts. The Pa.wtuckct, R. I., Tribune cf Sept. 29, a Catholic paper, in strong terms resents the slander and abuse heaped upon the pries.s, and rm re especially upon the Sisters of Charity of that denomination. de-nomination. ' The paper says in part: "We know that our schools and our teachers are creditable and trustworthy and our just indignation would incite us to almost anv extremes at the infamous in-famous slander. Yet here comes " a loathsome, vile creature, who has bean exposed time and again as an imposter and characterless wretch, who proposes to charge crimes and sans against the teachers whom we Catholics choose for our boys and girls, and we are expected to sit down meekly and bear the insults to our intelligence and to the virtue of our children and their teachers. If a prize fight is advertised for the city it is soon put down. If there is to be a dog fight at which the tough element desires to assist, it is hunted out and stopped, but a fire-brand who lives upon up-on the excitement she can create by her vile attacks on moral people comes Into town no one can get a single person per-son in authority to interfere and stop It. Mn who pretend to be Christians will let themt halls, and newspapers which go into Christian homes will advertise ad-vertise them. Is it not about time for the Catholics and decent Protestants to call a halt?" Speaking of the slanderous reports about the nuns, the journal Quoted savs: "But bad as it is to be obliged to stand insults about our priests, what words can properly express the intensity inten-sity of our anger and bitterness towards to-wards those who would asperse the characters of that gentle band of women wo-men who have given up all that is joyful joy-ful and pleasant in this world to devote de-vote their lives to our children, and to our unfortunate poor and sick ones? And these Sisters who teach our schools . axe not strangers to us. Many of the'mi have parents and brothers and sisters ! and ether relativea living around us. We know their families, their parents. Some are the daughters of the poor, some of the well-to-do. That piety and that grace of God which has led the priest to devote his life and talents to the service cf his Master in heaven, has also moved .their lender hearts to I draw nearer to' their celestial model, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to devote themselves to her service." We reproduce this, because it proves that in this country, where political liberty is so extensively enjoyed, on the religious field their is still much bigotry bigo-try and hatred. Freedom of conscience has not held pace with progress In oth- er respects. This is deplorable. For history teaches plainly the evil consequences of religious intolerance, particularly when it does not hesitate at despicable means of gaining an end. At the bottom of it ail is the desire to force on others a pretense, a falsehood. "Believe not the thing that you find true, but the thing that I find, or pretend to find, true," if? the underlying principle, and that falsehood was largely responsible for the French revolution. It has been the soul of many TevDlts among the nations na-tions of the earth, and is in our very-day very-day driving numbers out of the churches church-es and into the ranks of anarchists. |