Show Disgracing the Catholics The Kearns Party Steals Its From the A. P A and Makes Them Thomas Salt Dear How plain it is that jour Tribune and the Presbyterians work hand in hand when it comes to fighting the I showed you two weeks in my how the Presbyterian Articles of slandered the The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions publish two stereopticon One is Mexicans in the United the other is A Despotism Within a These lectures are false and The entitled Mexicans in the United has sixty-seven most of them slanders the with each illustration have a descriptive 18 pictures a Penitents' It represents some half ignorant Catholics carrying heavy wooden The reading matter explaining the picture reads as In the procession the devotees stagger along under the heavy wooden often falling the while others lash themselves on their naked till lacerated and the blood marking their trail behind Frequently the devotee suffers permanent injury and even dies from this voluntary torture and All this horror takes place in the name of and in our The church is whether these practices are endorsed by all Romanists or The San church at Santa Fe is the oldest church in the United and it is still in For years the Catholic church dominated New and yet when Protestant entered their valleys it was to find the people living in degradation and Even now you see heathen dances at the door of the Catholic and firing of guns to drive away evil Of the few remaining old Spanish missions of the Pa coast we now look upon San Gabriel with its chime of Though it was built in the eighteenth wo find about it only a low state of devoid of We are surprised and aud ask how can this be in the land of But the reason is not far to It is the same which accounts for the backwardness of development in New Mexico papist you can now see how the Presbyterians knife and slander your own It is my belief that you are the only Catholic in America who is fool enough lo join in with a known enemy of your religion to fight an imaginary I have before mo greatest trump card the played against the Catholics in It is Popish Bull or The claimed that it was pronounced on formerly a papal priest in Whether curse is true or not I cannot but I am inclined to think it an absolute There may have been a who deserved a and your party may have manufactured ono suit the You will remember the column after column of ribald falsehoods your Tribune published about Senator Governor Spry and President Taft at the Unitarian There was a Unitarian hall and a Senator Smoot and a Governor Spry and ft President Taft for a foundation from which your Tribune built the most monumental falsehood ever before put in Your party undoubtedly manufactured Jho curse in the same man- This curse was printed in pamphlet and in nearly all of the It reads as the authority of God the Son and the undefiled Virgin mother and patroness of our and of all celestial Cherubim and and of all the Holy and of all the Apostles and of the Holy who in the sight of Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song of the Holy Martyrs and Holy and of all the Holy and of all together with the Holy Elect of may William be We excommunicate and anathematize him from the threshold of the Holy Church of God We sequester him that he may be disposed and he delivered over with Da-than and and with those who say the from we desire none of thy as a fire is quenched with so let the light of him be put out for unless it shall repent him and make the who creates curse May the suffered for eurse May the Holy who is poured out in curse May the Holy which Christ for our triumphing over His curse May the Holy ever Virgin and Mother of curse May St. the advocate of the Holy curse May all the Principalities and and all Heavenly curse May the glorious band of Patriarchs and Prophets curse St. John the Precursor and St. John the and St. Peter and St. and St. and all other of Christ's Apostles curse And may the rest of the Disciples and who by their preaching converted the universe and the holy and wonderful company of Martyrs and who by their works are found pleasing to God may the holy choir of the Holy who for the honor of Christ have despised the things of the damn May all saints from the beginning of the world to everlasting who are found to be beloved of damn he be damned wherever he whether in the house or in the in the woods or in the or in the May he cursed in living and he be cursed in eating and in being in being in fasting and in slumbering and in in in in and May he be cursed in all the faculties of his May he be cursed inwardly and May he be cursed in his cursed be he in his brains and his in his in his in his in his in his in his teeth and in his in his in his in his fingers May he be damned in his in his in his heart and down to the very passage belonging here is too obscene to he be cursed in all his joints and articulation of the from the crown of his head to the Soles' of his feet may there the Son of the Living with all the glory of his curse And may Heaven with all the powers that move rise up against him and curse and damn unless he repent and make Amen So he Be it you being a how do you like It is no worse than your Tribune has stated of the Your I Tribune editors and writers have scavenged the cesspools of Utah and the anti-Catholic excretions of the years gone and have poured forth the conglomerate filth on the people of Is it not time for you to stop I Yours V. 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