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ilH'ttplthle of Sel(-Upl'l. II)' till' last
census tho jmt cent, of poron Um n in
foreign countries I 1 1,77 ht ci ih., ami
UiO Ct'USUB alfO shows lllttt L'li pel frill
if tho white prisoners routined In jiiiln
and ntuto prisons are of fntvlfru birth
I ho total number of white convicts in
our ienltcntlaries In 2,4I0, coiuiOM'd
of 1.1,715 mitlvo Ixirn and 1 1,725 foreign
born. Our iR'iievolcnt institutions con
tain tM,Ui2 inmates, of which tho for
eign born compose 21 per cent. Tho
total nnnibcr of wliito inmates of our
IKior-houHOB Is i:i,(l!MI, of wtilou 27,048,
or a little over SI per cent, were born
In foreign countries. These statistics,
WDlon are taKen from the taut govern
ment census, show that with a foreign
population of 14.77 per cent, more than
half of our white penitentiary convicts
and more than half of the white In
mates of our poor-houses are foreigners,
and prove that of the immigrants com
ing here during the last few years too
many of them are deficient in morals
and are incapable, physically, of self
support. Foreign countries not only
encourage immigration of criminals
and paupers, but uso public money to
pay their expenses here. This lsjthe
reason why so largo a percentage of
immigrants so soon find themselves in
cur prisons and charitable institutions.
The present means adopted by ctlie
government have been found wholly in
adequate to keep out of the country
those really included in the present
excluded list, The superintendent of
immigration statos, in his last report,
that during the six months ending
December 31, 18li:i, 11,028 Immigrants
arrived, and 1,2.18 were debarred as
falling within tho list excluded by law
less than 1 per cent. This proposed
change strikes at no nationality, but
simply at the class of lncapabloe of all
nations who can bo only a burden, and
whoso moral and social influences can
do us much harm.
According to tho census statistics
published by tho government, an aston
ishlngly largo proXrtion of tho crlm
inals and pauicrs in this country arc
drawn from our Irish Koman Catholic
population. According to Census Uul
letin No. 857 tho foreign born popula
tlon is composed of Irish 22 per cent.
Germans 80 per cent., English JO per
cent., Scandinavians 10 per cent.
Scotch 2J per cent., and Italians i per
cent., while tho foreign born criminals
according to Consul') Hullotln No. 352,
is divided as follows: Irish 85 per cent
Germans 18 per cent., English li per
cent., Scandinavians 21 per cent.,
Scotch 3 per cent., and Italians 2 per
cent. Of the foreign born paupers, ac
cording to the same bulletin, the Irish
contribute 51 per cent., Germans 21 per
cent., English 7 per cent., Scandlnav
ians 4 per cent, Hootch 2J per cent.
In condensed form, tho Irish, while
forming but 22 per cent, of the foreign
born population, furnish .'15 per cent, of
the foreign born criminals, and 51 per
cent, of tho foreign born paupers; In
eluding tho population of foreign born
parentage, though forming but 10 per
cent, of tho population, furnish 4H per
cent, of the criminals. According to
the report of tho United States bureau
of education, published last year, M per
cent, of tho inmates of prltfons and re
ormatorles of this couutry In 1HD2
wero Kouiari Catholics. According to
tho census of 100 tho Koman Catholics
formed 11 per cent, of the population
and 42 per cent, of tho criminals.
lie Warned In Time
Wo learn from good authority that
there are some twenty children of l'ro-
testunt parents in tho town of Clear
field, attending tho parochial school,
What Is the matter with tho parents?
Do they want their children taught
abridged Amorlean history? Do they
propose to give Itomo an opjKirtunlty
to warp their minds in favor of image
worship and tho naming of beads, or
are tho public schools over there "hot
beds of vice and Immorality?" Wo
speak to them asar Amorlean citizen
when we say: Get your children out
of tho treason-breeding Institution,
which has cast a miasma over thou
sands of young lives and caused count
less parents to curse tho day they evoi
gave way to tho seductive wiles of
Home sufficiently to permit their chil
dren to enter their cursed schools. Ho
grots may come lute to these parents,
1887
but they will come none tho less surely
if they sacrlllce their little ones to the
"Scarlet Woman." Ho Americans and
support tho public schools Instead of as
sisting tho alien horde who would drug
our country to , ruln.V'wfawtfc Ob
cerver, I O.N VENT 1,1 Fi;
In America IN Ilcgiiiiiliig anil Hm Vnsf
licK'liipmi'iif
In 18.'15 Joseph Flaget, Ulshop of
Hardstown, tho first Catholic See In
KentucKy, visited rranoo, and soon
thereafter began a eorrositondetieo
which resulted In bringing four Sister
of tho Good Shepherd Into America,
and the establishment of tho first con
vent In this country In this city,
Ground was purchased at Eighth and
Madison streets, and work was 1m. gun
In tho spring of 181.1, and on September
14th of that year tho Sisters of the
Good Shepherd wero Installed within
the building. Now they have two con
vents In Louisville, one at Twenty-third
and Hank streets, and the other at 728
Eighth street. .
At tho Hank Street Convent there
aro thlrty-flvo sisters, and l.'IO other In
mates. At the Eighth street house
there Is a Girl's School, a Mugdalouo
Asylum, and an Industrial School.
The Hank Street Convent Is built
ujxin a lot containing eleven and oi,y
half acres, beautifully laid out with
regular walks, and adorned with shrubs
and flower gardens; many fruit trees,
some varieties of rare shade and arbors
aro seen, with two chapels convenient
for prlvato devotions, Here, and at
tho Eighth Street Convent, the Sisters
have a graveyard of their own, only
used for tho Sisters, and these graves
aro visited every day, and prayers said
for the departed.
When tho Hlghth Street Convent
was 0Kined, Mother Marie des Angus,
the founder of tho order In America,
had no Ink and no money to buy it,
She wrote her letter homo with the
juice of polk-berrles found In tho gar
den, Now tho Hank Street Convent
has a laundry attachment, which cost
$21,000, besides a largo building devoted
to tallorlngand sewing of various kinds,
Tho Sisters and their put lent or
prisoners do all tho work, even to firing
tho furnaces.
After tho house on Eighth street had
been well established, other houses
wero built successively In St. Louis, In
1810; Philadelphia, 150; Cincinnati
and Now York, 1807; New Orleans and
Chicago, 1858; llaltlmore, 1801; Colu tu
bus, Ohio, and Newport, Ky,, 1805, and
In July, 1800, tho present largo estab
lishment at Twenty-third and Hank
streets, was opined, and then followed
convents In Hoston, St. I'aul, Memphis,
Washington, Kansas City, and other
places.
Thus tho work began In Louisville,
and hus slnoo extended to forty-two
other cities In tho United States,
All of tho Institutions In tho United
States havo received 02,000 Inmates of
all classes. About 2,000 of the women
havo become Magdalens.
Up to last year 1,508 Inmates wero
received at tho Eighth Street, and Oll.'l
at tho Hank Street Convents. Of this
number 11(1 entered tho Magdalens at
Eighth street and twenty-four at Hank
street. Hundreds wore con II r mod and I
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discharged, and eighty-two havo died,
llesldes this number, 2,250 wero com
mitted to tho Hank street Institution
by order of tho court,
Although tho Sisters of tho Good
Shepherd aro entirely shut off from the
outsldo world, they occasionally admit
visitors, but these havo to be well
known to the Mother Superior. There
aro four classes within the convent
walls, First aro tho Misters of tho
Good Shepherd, Tho majority are
cloistered, that Is they never leave the
convent walls, except It lie absolutely
necessary, or on rare occasions, Tho
Magdalens are those who havo been
reformed In tho Institution, and have
resolved to remain for llfu, Tho third
class Is tho penl tents, who aro received
without regard to their religious bull
When they havo reformed to a point
where they may bo trusted they may
become Magdalens, Tho fourth class
Is made up of children whoso parents
aro largely criminals or drunkards.
k'vmhin'n Jfanticr, Louisville, Ky,
FDK ATIO.N,
Tim l ulled Hfalc Itceognle (lie Itfglit
" of Efrrj C'lillil t It.
Every child born In tho United Stati
has an inherent and Inalienable right
toagissl and liberal education, This
Is the law of tho land, The states of
tho union, In recognition of this law
have provided free publla schools where
children can obtain both a good and
liberal education, Various prlvato and
seml-publlo school havo been estab
lished, of which tho greater fiumlwr
lire erected and maintained by the Ho
man Catholic church and are known as
parochial schools. I claim that these
schools do not give the pupils attend
Ing them a liberal education and that
welng this the parents of the children
havo no right to send them to such
schools. In answer to this It Is said
the parents have a right to send their
children to whatever school they may
choose, In order to answer this It be
comes necessary for us to settle these
fundamental questions, What Is per
serial freedom In Its true and complete
significance? What aro tho rights of
the parent? In answering tho first
question, let us remember that might
Is not right, nor license liberty, The
fact that the parent has tho power to
send tho child to any school ho may
choose does not glvo him a right to do
0, The great nrlnclnle. 'Each and
everyone must exercise his rights as
not to Interfere with the rights of any
one else' must govern us In the discus
sion of this question, In savage society
ami in ancient forms of government
might and right were synonymous,
Hut we, In this ago of liberty, aro not
such barbarians as to any longer en
dorse such a doetrlno, We must and
dorecognlo tho fact that every child
born hero has an inherent and Inalien
able right to a good and lllieral educa
tion. After admitting this wo will
further consider this right to an educa
tion, what such an education should be,
can these parochial school give such
an education and, If they can, do they?
An education is tho process of awaking,
arousing, drawlng-out, developing,
cultivating anddlsclpllng every power
of the Isidy, soul, and spirit, so as tn
secure a complete and harmonious do-
vclopmcritof thcentlro man.physically,
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OF THE A, r. A.
mentally and morally. Every child
has a right to such an education as this
and It Is tho duty of the government to
secure this right to tho child. Tho
question now comes; Can the pa
roc lilul schools established by the Ho'
man Catholic church provide tho child
with such an education as this? Let
us consider each of the elements of an
education as given in the above defini
tion, Does the pureed lal school furnish
such an education as will awake, arouse,
draw-out, develop, cultivate and dlsclp
line every power of tho body, soul, and
spirit, so as to secure a complete and
harmonious development of the entire
man, physlcally.mentally.and morally?
Tho parochial school docs nothing of
the sort. It develops and educates tho
child In such a manner as to make a
good Koman Catholic out of him when
ho grows up, Tho very fact that they
educate him to boa Korean Catholic
shows that they neither educate him
mentally nor develop him morally for,
If they did either, they would never
make a Koman Catholic out of him.
From this it apficari that the children
aro being deprived of their right to an
education and are being kept Ignorant
In order to swell the ranks of tho Ko
man Catholics, If this lie so tho duty
of the government is plain; they must
compel attendance at tho public schools
arid havo tho children educated. The
greatest enemy Homo has to fear Is tho
compulsory education of children at
American schools, JmihvO, Mack,
AI101MKD OI'I'Osn iON.
rroposlffim to Ta Church rrojii-rfy
.Net Well Ilecelvcil.
MavVAUKKK, Wis,, Juno 10, Tho
new city attorney has rendered several
decisions relative to the taxation of
certain properties which subject him
to pretty s.jvere criticism in some
quarters,
The decision which has arouse J the
most discussion is that affecting the
residence property of Archbishop
... t
KaUor. Tho archbishop owns a valu
able piece of property In tho western
irtlon of tho city, worth, perhaps,
100,000, A portion of this, nine lots,
has been ftsseised since It came Into
tho hands of the archbishop, and the
city attorney now decides tnal the en-
tiro priisirty should bo assessed, be
cause the title of It rests In tho arch
bishop and not In the church, Many
good lawyers take Issue with the city
attorney, and It is quite likely a test
ase will bo made of this decision to
iavo tho matter definitely settled by
tho courts.
The discussion has brought to light
tho fact that the church taxation senti
ment Is a great deal stronger In Mil
waukee than It was ten years ago, Tho
Lutheran denomination, which stands
second In Wisconsin In tho value of Its
hurch property, the Catholic church
being first, Is said to be In favor of tax
Ing church properly; that is, the ma-
ority of Lutheran communicants favor
This Is true also, It Is believed, of
the Methmllsls and others ift the evan-
jllcal denominations. This sentiment
favor of church taxation In tho
churches themselves does not grow out
of iho belief that to exempt church
projierty U unjust, but Is rather a feel
Ing that it would bo better to pay taxes
'on all church property than that those
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1891
who have no sympathy with churches
should feel that they aro burdened un
fairly for tho churches,
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IT IIO.N'T UO.
Xi tor,' ""Mo M'-MHfj H"
I A tVllli (lie Reform Miiicincnl In
.New link,
It Is an open secret Unit tho Croker
Mcguade-Gllroy plan of campaign is to
t.i'Vlirid linn . fir Mm A I' A . ullli ll,,.
,
municipal reform movement, so that Jn
the c.mlng contest lammany can claim
it u l.nit in fij..f..ut 41... I..
.. K. ...., win .oMoum.u.m
m pjilUHtiiu It, ui 1m i.illtli- "Lu
j r"
migni s,.ecoce.i n oouiu no Kept
sueruii, inn i no cav is airea jy 0111 or mo
bag, When the hue and cry Is raised
tho people, being forewarned, will
understand that It is a Tammany trick
Among tho leader s of the reform move
meet, us among the followers, there are
Protestants as well as Catholics. There
Is nothing sectarian In tho desire tor
good government. A'. I', World.
This effort Is not to bo confined to
New York City, for evidences of It
havo appeared in the constitutional
convention at Albany, Tammany's
organ In this cltv has deliberately
sought to Impress upon the people the
fear that a sectarian amendment to the
constitution is to be projioscd. The
only amendment that could be thus
misconstrued Is that of the National
League for the Protection of American
Institutions, which mentions no church
or denomination, but simply forbids
appropr iations of public funds to any
sectarian institution.
The attempt of tho machine press to
pervert this Into a declaration In favor
of or against any church or denomina
tion will prove as futile as the effort to
make the republican party In this city
responsible for the A, 1', A. -A. 1'
Mail ami Msjri ,
A WOI IJMIi; ( I'.NSOR.
A ifhiwafhu, kns., I.illler I'lcsnmc
I'iii JiiilKiiifiit on (lie A, V, At
i here is a deal or manufactured rot
In the secular pr.-ss, Just now, in regard
to Koman Catholics bt'ir.ur loyal Amei 1
can citizens, which Indicate a distress-
Ing lack of ' gray matter" of the brain
-or an epidemic of strabismus m tl.(.
ranks of the UvtrUbfuta, who q ( ,j
public opinion" (?) on ninety-nine per
cent of the newspaper today.
I ho editor of the Jliiunthit Vorll
presumes to "sit In judgment on the
alleged organization of i- council of tho
American Protective Association In his
town. With owlish wisdom, this edl
torlal "Dogberry," passes sentence,
assuming tho role of censor, to hi
fellow-townsmen, many of whom were
fighting an armed IMsillion, (a Kornlsh
Inspiration), while ho was yet in
"swaddling clothes! "
Mr. Herbert mean well, no doubt,
but It Is "currently reported," that
"Hell i paved with good Intentions'"
He still mistakes "the murmur of his
burg for tho rumble of Ihc world," else
he would have learned that although
the platform of tho American Pro
tective A ssiK'lation i brow! tmmjh for
tho sixty millions of true American
citizens in tho United States, there is
notono Inch of room for whomsoever is
"a Catholic first, and citizen after
wards!" It Is somewhat surprising that Mr.
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t ill) Ii.i1:.iH..h ll.m ) iviif, ll,l
lim m. I I hi H'liitnt I In l.i, , , mi
rftw ii.f Iriin piiii uiar f,rm
of fill, , lhi nu U iUI, ttikl moti.
of Hiii lhnleii hIith on I hi. il, t,ul.l.
fin in of I i-1 Dial MM in in m U
iu,,. ttii.ng M in h Uml Uu iHinupl
ll luitvli of tliiiiin U ll,inir t,in
luwll ll ImUy. I lie n tl.l Hie "S.m t-t
of Ihc lllMek NuiiiH iv lii'iialml." I,v
Mai In Moiih, an imm ., timi, Uml
n plmvtl l.fnii I lie piihlli'Miini.w ,.ro
In tlie Uilrtli'M, Iml whs not glleli Did
en .III .lm-ll until I ln HkIiI of miliwc
ijiii ht I'vcnto lirtve pruvi'tl Its truth. I
liaio ivml i lm Tliinliigy of lVt r lN ns
- a ll oiiiiin ( ailiolle, ami olher works
lif HlftMiMtiliii. Win n Um Italian eon-
lent were 0hmii.iI In Um world by
h.uniliiilill, all ili mi lit as to tlui Irulh of
I he statements of ox-lnniiintl ex-prlests
must have Ikm-ii swept away. J ml In
putiiblo I'vlilmieii tiKiu liiillHpulablo
eylileiieo has been added, until It is
proved lieyoinl the shadow of a doubl
that the grossest Immorality exists be
hind tint bolted ami burred doors of
those, so called holy edlllces, Can wo
fee) for a moment that eases of this
kind are Isolated and unsane' toned by
the church, or must we feel in the light
of so much evidence that priestly
adultery Is as much an Institution In
tho Church of Homo, as polygamy was
In the Mormon church. Itomu has
been rocked in the cradle of American
liberty for over a century, and still she
Is not an American citizen now, Tho
rod should not bo spared; whip hor at
tho primaries, whip her at the con
vention, whip her at tho polls.
Lyman Mooiie,
"Holy IVlcr" CmiiaskiMl.
A short tl mo ago, says tho Konlgs-
burger Allgemelno Zeltung, there died
in tho neighborhood of Kontifshcrg a
worthy man. Soon after hU death his
wldiiW Warn in if Mint jiiitntmr Vttr a inuiyin
I dressed In a loni white Uah,.rdl.,. hi-
face partly hidden by a mask, Ho said
his name was "l'oter Holy 1'eter"
that he had been sent by her husband
fop , m nmrkH oUlf.,.wiHO ,iIh limny
I . .... .
sins prevented nim from entering tho
,,.(4IllM)f eU.rnal bliss. Tho frightened
w(0w tremblingly assured tho "Holy
" " "
un tmt she had but 00 marks In
I . .
tw house, Would ho call tho next
dtty? Htj0 wou)d lf t,J0 IIMjanUlIM,
HO
to tho bank and get the balance, At
tho bank the next day tho official was
surprised she should want to withdraw
so largo an amount, and told her so.
The widow told him tho reason and re
tired. The official forthwith communi
cated with the police, In the evening
'Tcter'' again apjioared in tho same
costume, and while in tho act of receiv
ing the balance of tho 1,000 was sud
denly pounced upon by two police
officers. With tho query, "Do they
really want money In heaven?" the
mask was torn from I'eter's face. The
rftN,'ttl wt" discovered to lie tho priest
" lu,) village.
The A, I'. A. Discussed.
Wawu.vuton, Juno 11. A slight
diversion was caused In tho house today
by Mr. Linton, of Michigan, who re
plied to the charges against him with
tho A. I', A., contained In Mr. Wea-
dock's speech a few days ago. Ho de
nied all tho allegations made and as
serted they wero utterly untrue. He
declared the decrees of a church were
net to lie made paramount to the de
mands of a political party,
Mr. Weadis k, replying to tho re
marks of Mr. Linton, and desiring to
prove the accuracy of one of hi
charges, viz; That Mr Linton was a
member of tho A, 1'. A,, asked him tho
direct question whether he was a mem
her of that organization.
I do not projioso to be catechled,"
replied Mr. Linton
,Vl' Are W"1' Von.
v hen a man has thrown off all al
"' to every foreign power and
hsik - ntaU', can read, write and speak
lh" '''a'""'' language, and Is willing
that bis children shall bo educated In
our free, non-sectarian public schools,
then, and not till then, ua he a right
to become a voter or to aspire to hold
any office under the stars and stripes of
America. IM u-n uimil muhh.), (JazcHe,
A IMsi laliiMTi
A note to the New York Sun reads as
follow;
"In tho Sun of May lith you say, In
answer to correspondents, that one-half
the tnsips in our ((evolutionary war
wero Irish. If you had ald they were
I'Utcrmcn you would have la;en rlirht.
The North of Ireland Ulstermen never
received or earned tho name of Irish.
They aro Ulstermen, and scorn to bo
classed with the Irish.
L'LHTKKMAN OK 1770."
G. Ai It. Should Investigate.
Kobert Abernethy, an inmate of tho
Soldiers' Home at Minnehaha, Minn.,
has, after many months of persecution,
at last been discharged by the execut
ive committee of tho Isiard of trustees.
I'he charire Is "gross insubordination."
Tho fact is that Ahernethy was turned
out because he left the c hurch of Homo.
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