Taft and all his Cabinet diked themselves out
in splendor, and officially represented the
Federal Government at the pagan perform
ance in St. Matthews' Ghur ch!
Who could have dreamed, twenty years
ago, that the President of the United States
would, in his official capacity, ever give public
sanction to the heathenish belief in purga
tory ?
Have the daily papers had anything to say
about this amazing incident? Not a word.
Pappy's hierarchy has put the spell of deadly
fear upon the secular press.
Have the Protestant religious papers com
mented on this last stride of Roman Catholi
cism in this country?
No: the Protestant denominational papers
have their rapt gaze glued to China, Japan,
Korea, India, Africa and Oceanica. The Dr.
Lovetts, Bell and Grahams, W. E. Towsons,
S. J. Crumptons, etc., can’t see anything that
isn’t a thousand miles off. They can see little
nigger girls, such as “Dear little Dora”, if
they happen to be in Africa, but they can’t
see any sort of suffering humanity, here at
home.
And they can roar like the bulls of Bashan
about convent brothels in Europe, and about
the ruinous influence of Roman Catholicism
in Mexico, the Antilles, Central and South
America; but you can’t arouse them to a sense
of the danger attending the same system
among ourselves.
Don’t you wish you could have seen your
President and his official family, sitting up
there, while Pappy''s hypocrites were praying
old Leopold out of the refrigerator?
Stand by Charles Barrett and the
Union!
I
given for this proposed action is, that the
Birmingham Convention increased the salary
of President Charles Barrett from $1,500 to
$3,000. If I know those big-hearted people,
they are perfectly willing to pay their na
tional chief a decent amount for his services.
