| Show ITHE CATHOLIC PROBLEM the anti catholic agitation seems to be growing in this country A canadian mr cluff la in organizing organic ng protective 11 associations in the beat for tie ti e purpose if he be Is ia quoted correctly of fighting papacy with anything from ballots to bullets bullet catholics are to be ousted from the schools and from a ai I 1 public offices tue the army and navy are to be estai 1 I f need be by men who are ready to use the musket and who have sworn to be loyal until death to justify the organization rumors are spread that the catholics are forming secret military companies and that the pope has edicts to the effect tha it to is no sin to kill an american and similar alarming and absurd representations all of which indicates that the spirit of evil is abroad plotting Dg mischief on a large scale in our midst the NEWS has already plainly expressed its views on the catholic prot lem and can only reiterate its forms former statements it to is to be not only regretted it is a crying sin that thai agitators there are who do not dot shrink brink from suggesting bullets and muskets as proper arms in a warfare which should be of a purely spiritual bpi ritual and intellectual nature mature it Is equally regrettable to rod find the name of a religious denoel denomination nation used as a war cry by political demagogues it to is high time to protest against such proceedings all who still revere the fundamental principles of the teachings of the great nazarene and all who love the constitution ution of this free country should unite in frustrating in its ancil an effort to boycott american citizens because they belong to a certain church if the catholics hold erroneous doctrines arid and as is supposed aim at supremacy they should be mot met by truth the pulpit the sunday school the prow press theological institutes of learn log ing these theae are the fields where the bat tle tie should be fought if protestantism must discard these as inefficient and fight catholicism with brutal force and the tactics of demagogues and this in a country like ours where the liberty of speech and press is ie almost unlimited then lot let protestants hide bide their facts faces in shame and the spirits of luther melanchton calvin wesley weeley and roger williams weep to in sorrow borrow for one thing to la su sure re it ir error cannot be overcome by truth it can never be beup suppressed pressed beforce by force thatis that is to substitute error for error there was a time when similar tactics were adopted against the mormon church in vain the persecuted saints appealed to the country hardly a voice was raised in protest against the cruel proceedings ot of mobs led by un scrupulous agitators shall history be repeated this time in the case of another religious body the count rys leading men may have erred in not declaring years ago when the mormon problem presented itself that in the tb united jaitt d states nobody shall be allowed to suffer on account of his bis religious belief and errors are always likely to bear fruit but wisdom would seem to cry out against the repetition of an error the consequence of which if the catholics are involved no DO one ORD can easily foretell |
