| Show ANTI CATHOLIC the san francisco alia lias discovered that the reason for the opposition to new medicos cos admission as a state lies in the lica that I 1 lie vast majority of her people are catholics so tho alta claims and if the claim be basol upon truth the politics and statesmanship of this country are indeed in a bad way that the general government should condescend to bubli bigotry is a miserable commentary upon our boasted enlightenment and our professed universal freedom and equal rights what if by actual count the or presbyterians rians were found to be the dominating religious class in dakota would any man in congress dare to whisper an objection upon such a ground to that Terri torys admission we think not what is 1 which solidifies the religions element it is more often than otherwise because of external reasons persecution peise cution or at least opposition by the rest of the world while it ia arna that no man dare proclaim such opposition to alie belh melh odiste presbyterians rians or today to day it is not the less true eliat alie mania of fanaticism ros fast and spreads wide yesterday it was tho cormons mormons Mor mons today to day it is the catholics tomorrow to morrow it may bo any other religious sect which incited alie jealousy of rival priests or the dislike and fear of politicians new mexico very likely is not yet entitled to statehood alie reason tor her incapacity does not lie in any such fact as tint which the alia lias discovered the real reason ia her lack of population and material development not in alie religious corn of lier citizens if the sorry lot of statesmen who are engaged in the work of bigotry will but panso for a moment and view their action in alie light of centuries of experience they nill know that far more dangerous than church ambition Is the external intolerance which gives a church internal power and union |
