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Show PROTESTANT LAWNS AND CATHOLIC WEEDS A traveling faker, masquerading in the collar of a Catholic priest, is telling. the good people of Panguitch, south Utah, and its neighborhood some terrible things about Catholics and their Church. This fellow King, who claims to be an ex-priest, is the same scalawag that toured Kansas last year, depicting Catholics and the Catholic Church m somber and obscene hues. It will soon be time for the excommunicated priest Ryan, now a familiar figure in the Ogden police courts, to take the pulpit and platform in denunciation of the "horrors of Romanism." From rural pulpits, in denominational and Socialist So-cialist newspapers, and on certain political platforms, plat-forms, denunciation of the Catholic Church, its polity and doctrines, has become of such frequent occurrence as to have ceased to be a novelty and no longer attracts the attention of men of common com-mon sense. It may be only a coincidence, but it is passing strange, that when any community is attacked at-tacked by the prohibition fever a revival of anti-Romanism anti-Romanism is sure to follow. It is a notorious fact that prohibition states and prohibition communities communi-ties are infamous for their intolerance and virulent viru-lent bigotry. Catholic doctrine in these districts has been so grossly misrepresented, and Catholic priests so shamefully caricatured that, on occasions, Catholic Cath-olic organizations have been compelled, in self-defense, self-defense, to demand a retraction from the scoundrels scoun-drels or make them prove their charges in a criminal crim-inal court. Catholic 'convents have been time and again denounced de-nounced by ex-priests and so-called ex-priests, by local preachers and clerical scavengers as hotbeds hot-beds of immorality, and our nuns and sisters have been pilloried, before ignorant and lecherous crowds of both sexes, as women who lead lives of the most foul and infamous character. The shameful list of names including the Chini-guys, Chini-guys, Delaneys, Ruthvens, Segtms, Bluetts, McNa-maras, McNa-maras, not to mention a host of less notorious "slingers of filth," is a disgrace to our national education and an insult to our vaunted civilization. |