Show IS THE CHURCH responsible I 1 IN the western watchman appears so an article vErI critien tien by fattier father phelan en aled ilir deep disgrace dis race la in which thi the bollow admissions are avide respecting spec ting tins a class of catholics that do to BO credit to the religion aj people eop leare are remarking every everywhere re and they are not all enemies that nearly all the men who are being tried for ballot stuffing and kindred crimes iu in different parts of the country are irish catholics or bear irbe catholic names in this city citi eyer every Y man to go tried has haa belonged bb longed to that t at I 1 class clans in chicago and N new ew york nearly nearly all the bood lers are arlah catholics it is shameful but what are we going to do about it we must put in a wild mild disclaimer light here toese ballot stuffing and boo dlinn irish never so go to gour gourch cb the ballot burglars la in st are our parish pariah boo hoodlums amo tibey they never go to church and their Sup dayis are in the saloons or ur diug their bloated molls along the frequented thoroughfares tue tae ballok bur bug a wore more cowardly and dirtier geee racoon of penitentiary birds nothing more the priests do not speak of the he a rime line of ballot any more than N t they ey bilof burglary for the ver very good reason that the ballot stuffers stuff em isike like the burglars never come car shot ahot of the pulpit Accor according dingi to anti IMor mormon logic the catholic to is responsible for the ballot stuffing and bo of those irish catholics who act in the disgraceful manner described anything wrong done by a person io in any way connected with the mormon church is debited to mormonism even though the system to dead against it and its ministers denounce the wrong tv in unqualified terms A son or daughter ot mormon I 1 parents who is not act recognized as a member of the churche is reckoned a 1 mormon by its enemies it if he be disgraces disa dial himself in any way and should the erring utie cue h have aab been baptized in his childhood and never ewh formally excommunicated all his practices are attributed to and pointed out auti as its maturah fruits though they are utterly foreign to its and spirit the class ot of cormons mormons Mor mons who do things abines that bring a reproach upon the church to which they belong like the catholics that father phelan complains ot do not attend public chip and are not lot guided bythe preceptor audi audre e quire ments tk H their religion what they do is in spite of these tio manor man or woman ever performed erl ormed a wicked act under the instructions and nat tenets of mormonism sonic borne ob ecklon may be made to this thin by persons who think plural marriage wicked we are not referring to that feature of our faith and do not wish here to fj question ok of its morality we are am speaking of conduct lu ia ge general gereral ueral apart from that debated how unfair it is id then to charge all tae improprieties of erring cormons mormons Mor mons or sinful persons remotely connected with that people to a system that Aen denounces ounces evil 0 of every kind and provides strict and kiss for the good conduct of all its adherents I 1 such flaurant fla graat krant wickedness as father phelan confesses is common in many irish catholics would not be tolerated in the mormon church for a moment after it was wag ascertained and proven oven excommunication would certainly follow but those dissolute and lawless persons are still held in fellowship th hi the CAt catholic casholle holle church notwithstanding the wrongs they commit should the church to which they belong be held responsible ible for their crimes certainly not unless it ih or api approves roves of them we might condemn the crumb tor for net severing them from its communion but the catholic church has its owl methods anait dealing with its ande e do not to interfere with or denounce its action or non action it will attend to tolls its own ou affairs ecclesiastical without any meddling on our part pan but bat it if the catholic church as a whole should not be condemned tor for the acts ot 01 its individual members member when those these acts ara contrary to its ito teachings neither should the church of et jesus christ of latter day saints be condemned for the wrongdoing wrong doing of professed mormons cormons Mor mons when it is in actual violation of the covenants and of the church if all catholics were to observe the teach of the church there would be no uch such ballot stuffing and bo catholics as father phelan denounces and it if all latter day saints won ve according to the spirit and letter of their religion they would be without spot or blemish in the sight of earah earh or of heaven |