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Show In remarking upon the fact that the French republic, with which our Protestant Pro-testant friends would have us believe the Catholic Church was in league to condemn Dreyfus, taxes even the Little Sisters of the Poor, of whom the Jews in this country are generous friends, the Ave Maria says: "This is the way the third republic prefers to pay the debt contracted by the maladministration maladministra-tion or misapprcpriatio of its atheist rulers. We- wonder iv.hy- England and America, which made such a passionate outcry against France for her supposed injustice to one man who may or may not have been guilty of treason, cannot be aroused even to feeble protest , against France for systematic and long ' continued injustice ti these women, whose one crime is that they desire to fellow the evangelical counsels and serve the poor, the'-' ignorant and the friendless? Alas! the cause of the nuns is not one to ap-peaf tc ribald newspapers newspa-pers and a sensational pulpit." ' Professor Schurmnn declares that we must not undertake to modify the conditions arranged' by General Bates with the Sultan cf Sulii. To do so ' ! would "rile" his -serene highness and we should have on our hands one of,! the "bloodiest wars 'in our history." It is true polygamy and slavery under the stars and stripes are sanctioned , and protected, says - the San ' Francisco Monitor, but we must remember lutat England also , tolerates these things in furtherance of her imperialistic designs.. de-signs.. Polygamy and slavery are fea-tiuvs fea-tiuvs of the religion, and- customs of the .Sulus. end we- are morally bound to respect this religion and these cus- terns. It is- wey "enough to disregard 1 the religion and customs of mere papistical pap-istical Filipinos, but our Mohammedan subjects must not be molested in the exercise and enjoyment of theirs. This is the substance of Professor Schur-mans Schur-mans -defense of .our Sulu treaty. , ' |