The Catholic Home (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Saturday, August 19, 1922 Page: 4 of 8
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‘ THE CATHOLIC HOME PUBLISHING CO
OP OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA
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TIIE CATHOLIC HOME is the only official organ of the
Diocese of Oklahoma We heartily commend it to all and particularly
to friends of St Joseph’s Orphanage It is our earnest desire to see it
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THEOPHILE MEERSCHAERT
Bishop of Oklahoma
STATES THAT
Oklahoma and Oregon must fight to save their schools
They stand alone among the enlightened States of the Union
as the antagonists of liberty the would-be robbers of rights and
pirates u ho would cut adrift from the United Sfatcs Constitution
Michigan won its battle with the bigots while California was
unable to secure a sufficient number of signatures to place the
amendment calling for a change of the Constitution granting liberty
of education before the electorate in November Thus the country
centers its eyes upon two States Oregon and Oklahoma
The outeropping of intensive bigotry in these States is hut a
breaking out of the bad blood that at present runs through the sys-
tem of the country to anything that opposes the spirit of the world
We must remember that the church is the only visible antagonist
and the only possible antagonist to the spirit of the world which
attempts to pull God down from Ilis place It is this attempt to
dethrone God and bar Him from the school room that has opened
the great national campaign to root out the Catholic school In
sections w here Catholicity is weaker it being the tissue that holds
the nation to moral standards bigotry has broken loose and run
amuck
The Catholic Church is the undaunted defender of spiritual
truth of the being of God the certainty of future retribution the
claims of the moral law the reality of sin and the hope of super-
natural help
Catholics are few in Oklahoma but they must remember that
the minority lias inalienable rights just as well as the majority
Years ago only a handful believed the earth was round The
majority of peoples scoffed at the idea Today one would
laugh at the person who declares the world flat When the present
wave of bigotry subsides and Catholicity continues to grow but in
greater strides in Oklahoma one shall look back upon the reign
of bigotry mid declare it the proper spawn of the ignorance that
unfortunately reigns down in the hills and in the minds of some
willfully blind citizens of the metropolis
A DANGEROUS BILL
It is safe to say that if the provisions of the Tow-ner-Sterling
educational bill become the law of the land the era of bureaucratic
government will have been well begun The paternalistic character
of recent legislation centralizing authority in the Federal govern-
ment and in consequence lessening in some measure the sovereignty
of the individual State points the way to the present tendency
which is to go the whole length by limiting individual liberty and
initiative
Power once possessed is difficult to relinquish During the war
the power given the Federal government was all embracing and
unlimited The exigency of the time required that the central and
directing force of the nation be untramellcd by any other sovereignty
State or individual Hut that crisis no longer exists The retention
of such nst powers does not rise beyond the realm of party poli-
tics wherein lies t lie danger of such legislation as is embodied in
the Towner-Sterling educational bill
The education of the young is primarily a duty of the parents
It is a domestic matter in the sense that it is intimate and per-
sonal Parents ought so to say to be standing over the teachers
of their children They ought to have a voice in the choice of
those who will direct the schools of their town or city They would
be helpless with a far way bureaucratic system which inevitably
would think more of party than of parents
In this connection it is of interest to read the words of the
superintendent of schools of Boston addressed to the National Edu-
cational Association of Faneuil Ilall: “Prussian militarists dis
regarded the lessons of Alexander Hannibal Caesar and Napoleon
They would establish an absoluto state Bismark proclaimed that
the schoolmaster was abroad in tho land but the schoolmaster was
not free lie was an office? of the State obedient to the State com-
pelled to do tho bidding of the State What he should teach and
how he should teach was prescribed by the State All the agencies
within tho State bcenme subservient to the military clique Gov-
ernment existed for tho favored few In fifty years the thought
of tho people was distorted and malformed in conformity with des-
potic theories The State was apotheosized The German people
came to nssoeiato tho Kaiser with Deity they were led to believe
that militarism was a blessing that the hands of all tho world were
raised against them All this willful perversion of a people mcn-
' tally and morally was manifently the result of a false system of
education'
The Boston Herald commenting on this warning declares:
STAND ALONE
“These are words which every American should take to heart The
Towner educational bills under consideration however modified
propose to bring within the scope of the Federal government all edu-
cational activities through the allurement of great appropriations for
Federal aid to State however innocent they may seem in purpose
however progressive they may look to those who advocate them
however modified they may be in transition through the legislative
body they contain within themselves the germs of supreme govern-
mental control just as truly as the system which in fifty years lured
Germany into a condition where her' entire people were convinced
that the welfare of the world depended upon the universal accept-
ance of Prussian ideals”
FEARLESS CATHOLIC MEN
What we Catholics' in America mostly need in our day is fear-
less outspoken Catholic men who are' ‘proud of the Faith of their
Fathers” and not afraid to defend it
We have enough of Catholic politicians Catholic place-hunters
and Catholic trimmers These are the greatest load to the Church
the fellows who use their religion as a political lever to pry them-
selves into power and place The Catholic place-hunter will deny
his religion for place and pelf and will permit the violation of the
things we Catholics hold dearest to bring about his own advance-
ment He is the type who will say to the Catholic editor: You must
not say anything against my party no matter what it does because
it keeps me and others in position”
Was there ever a more treasonable utterance against our faith
than the foregoing T But thank God we have in America great
Catholic men who are not place-hunters or self-seeking heelers Some
of them are converts to the Fajih Notable among these is Admiral
Benson
Prominent Catholics there are who are prominent Catholics be
cause it pays well in political preferment or in business Then
again there are those who hide their Catholicity under a bushel or
broad-mindedly compromise in their lives and dealings with others
their membership in the Church Their faith they feel may be
handicap in business
THE ROOTS OF BIGOTRY
(From The Catholic Standard and Times)
There are indications that we are on the eve of a new outburst
of bigotry This was to have been expected The great war re-
vealed the growing power of the Catholic Church It has been
shown to be a youthful power Mere statistics do not give the full
measure of its strength for it may be judged by the large proportion
of young men of Catholic parentage who were available for active
service that the generation that is coming into mature manhood is
more Catholic than that which is passing away It eould doubtless
be shown that amongst children of school age the Catholic pro-
portion is still higher
Opposition to the Catholic Church may be divided into several
distinct forces
First there is the honest bigotry of sectarian prejudice Tins
is the remains of centuries of ignorance of Catholic practice This
opposition is not directed against realities but rather against imagi-
nary evils that are supposed to be 'part of the Catholic faith
Then there’ is the ill-will of those who have adopted a pagan
or worse than pagan standard of ethics This ill-will js not excliv
sively directed against the Church All religious bodies must ex
pect to be the object of its dislike It is the (same influence that
east the martyrs of the infant Church to the lions The moral
standards of Catholicity are a standing rebuke to it
Then again we have the professional bigotry of the vote catcher
who is particularly active in democratic countries lie tries to gain
power by controlling and using for his own ends the influences that
we have mentioned above
Last of all there is the hatred of the social revolutionist who
finds in the Church a conservative regard for the traditions of hu-
man civilization that is a most effective check on his programme of
political economic subversion
All these anti-Catholic forces are active at the present moment
in a particularly threatening way They have opportunities at their
command that were not given to their predecessors There is the
power of the press free from the slightest sort of censorship There
is the universal intercourse of humanity There is the widespread
adoption of secular education divorced from any training of the
moral faculties There is the pride of personal opinion that con-
siders itself able to discuss all things and to know all things and
that looks with suspicion on any custom that is old and well estab-
lished There is the lack of habits of obedience and self-restraint
which causes the average man to rebel against every kind of au-
thority Humanly speaking the Church is doomed Certainly it
would seem that sectarian forms of Christianity are doomed even
if they join in the war on the Church
The so-called Reformation came from within the Church The
foes were those of her own household It as far otherwise now
The bigotry of sectarianism is a product of centuries of ignorance
of Catholicism It is hard for a Catholic to realize how little is
known of his religion outside of the Clnireh Even those who are
well informed otherwise have the very crudest ideas of the Church
An honest Protestant is always a possible convert That he com-
bats us is at least a proof that he is not indifferent to our claims
Be is at least interested There must be interest before there can
ho investigation And when an honest man fully investigates some-
thing that arouses his prejudices the chances are that he will be
convinced of the truth if he is in error To turn sectarian enemies
into friends needs continual and patient teaching It will be our
Catholic laity who must do this great work as it was the work of
tho faithful servant and even Rlave in the early days of the Church
which broke down the prejudices of the Roman world The Cath-
olic priest being the most conspicuous object of contempt and dis-
like will have few opportunities of approaching this class of bigots
Our Apostolic missionary priests both secular and religious have
done great work by their preaching The number of our converts
is however ridiculously small This is largely due to “nationalism”
which has always been the greatest hindrance to the spread of the
Faith It is certain that no American will consent to become in-
terested in a religion that would put European politics and racial
distinctions above the concerns of the salvation of men’s souls No
Catholic consciously does so That Is true enough But there Is
a tendency to use the Catholic Church to promote national interests
that creates a very misleading impression
It will bo found that the religious antagonist has more 4n com-
mon with us than have our other opponents In England the Cath-
olic schools have been preserved by tho co-operation of Anglicans
and Catholics There is a growing sentiment in this country in
favor of religion being taught in tho schools Surely this is a
wholesome sentiment We may entrench our position if wo get
honest Protestants to understand that our schools aro not built in
order to attack them but rather to conserve high ideals of life Let
us preserve our traditional charity towards those who disagree
with us
Washington Aug 14 — The procla-
mation of Governor Baxter of Maine
in which he rejected recently federal
aid proffered his State under the pro-
visions of the Sheppard-Towner ma-
ternity law has attracted considerable
interest here among those concerned
with the administration of this par-
ticular law and with the broad general
principles governing the relationship
between the States and the federal
government While admitting that
authority for final decision rests with
the State legislature Governor Bax-
ter clearly indicated that in his opin-
ion and that of his executive council
the maternity law constitutes an en-
croachment of doubtful constitution-
ality upon the rights 'of the States
and as he expresses it “is but an en-
tering wedge for more radical legisl-
lation” He declared in substance that
the State government of Maine feels
that the problem of caring for its
mothers and children is one that can
properly be left to the State itself
to solve The proclamation rejecting
monetary assistance from the federal
government also announced the ap-
propriation of $5000 from the State
contingent fund for the purpose of ex-
tending maternity and child welfare
work in Maine
Referring to hearings held before
the decision of the Maine executive
was announced the proclamation
reads: “At the hearing on June 23
the advocates of the Sheppard-Towner
bill admitted that the United States
Supreme Court might declare the bill
unconstitutional thus making the $5-
000 ‘gift’ to the State an unlawful use
of the public funds by Congress Not-
withstanding this these advocates
urged the State to accept the money
‘because other States have done so’
The weakness of this argument is ap-
parent and the State of Maine will
take no money unless it has a clear
title to it
“I believe the time has come for the
States of the Union to hold to a prin-
ciple and to carefully scrutinize all
offers of ‘Federal aid’ before accept-
ing them Having no doubt as to
what my duty is in this matter I de-
cline to accept the Sheppard-Towner
bill and this State for the time being
will stand with New York Massachu-
setts and Rhode Island the three
States that 'have rejected it The
State of Maine will not sell its birth-
right and principle not expediency
has been the determining factor with
me in the solution of this problem”
Doubt as to whether the proffered
“Federal aid” is rightly so-called is
expressed by Governor Baxter as fol-
lows: “The financial aspect of Fed-
eral aid is interesting The proffered
$5000 has been referred to as a ‘free
gift to the State of Maine while in
reality the Federal Govrnment is tax-
ing the State to raise this money and
now in order to help our mothers and
children offers to pay back to the
State the trivial sum of less than two-
thirds of 1 cent for each inhabitant
At the present time over $18000000
is annually taken in taxes by the FedJ
eral government from the people of
Maine and less than $1250000 is re-1
turned to the State in the form of
Federal aid This $18000000 of
Maine money is paid into the Federal
treasury at Washington a large por-
tion being absorbed in heavy admin-
istration expenses at the Federal cap-
itol and a small fraction being re-
turned to the State”
Anti-Saloon Forces
To Back Mayfield
In Texas Primary
(Continued from Page 1)
cast their influence against Ferguson
and in favor of Mayfield
Senator Sheppard has wired the
Houston Post as follows:
“I favor Mayfield because I believe
his election would be in the best in-
terests of prohibition enforcement
the Eighteenth Amendment and pro-
gressive Democratic legislation in
general” Senator Sheppard has ex-
pressed himself as opposed to the
Klan
Wheeler in his statement declared
that with only two men in the field
one or the other had to be voted for
and while admitting that it was pe-j
culiar that the Anti-Saloon forces
should be linked with the Klan he be-
lieved that“Mayfield is a high-class
man”
Senator Culberson of Texas who
ran third in the July primary and'
was thereby eliminated will take no
further part in the campaign he has
announced He has told his friends
to exercise their own judgment in the
matter and indications are said to be
that in the election his followers will
be found fighting against Mayfield
Senator Culberson was outspoken in
his denunciation of the Klan during
the primary fight in which however
ho aid not take a very active part
If Mayfield is elected jt is almost
certain that his right to a seat in the
Senate will be attacked on the ground
that allegiance to the Klan and to the
Klan oath is superior to and in direct
conflict with the oath of a United
States Senator and that therefore ho
could not qualify
It ia pointed out that a Klan can-
didate for sheriff elected at Beau-
mont Texas was removed from office
a month ago by a district attorney
on the ground that his Klan oath
conflicted with his oath as prescrib-
ed by the Texas statutes
Oklahoma Klansman s
Charges Answered
By Chicago Editor
(Continued from Page 1)
is opposed to the Roman Catholic re-
ligion as a religion that the devotees
of His Highness the Little Papa on
the Tiber are aroused about No not
on your life It is because the Ku
Klux Klan is an exclusively American
organization in which the member-
ship is limited to native born White
Gentil6 PROTESTANT American
citizens that has gotten under the
skin of the fanatical element in the
Roman Catholic Church This howl
they are putting up about the Klan
being opposed to their religion is pure
tommyrot and you know it or if
you don’t you should The Klan is nei
ther partial nor antagonistic to any
sect or creed as such No it is not
because the Klan would deny them
their religion and the inalienable
right to worship as their own convic-
tions or consciences dictate that a-
roused and engendered the hatred and
opposition of the leaders in the Cath-
olic Church But it IS due to the
fact that the Klan is pledged to main-
tain inviolate and perpetuate forever
the principle of complete separation of
Church and State and the Roman
Catholics fight this because no sincere
and devout Roman Catholic does or
is permitted to believe in the separa-
tion of Church and State The Ro-
man Catholic Church is first last
and forever opposed to the separation
of Church and State and in favor of
the absolute control and domniation
of the State by the Roman Catholic
Church
You say the Klan is anti-Catholic
and I respond by saying what every
person of intelligence and fairness
knows is an aboslute irrefragable
fact that the Catholic Church is un-
American and that the opposition
between the two organizations there-
fore hinges on this one fact the
Klan being a benevolent patriotic ex-
clusively American institution and
the Roman Catholic Church a foreign-
dominated intolerant tyrannical pol-
itical institution which utilizes cer-
tain superstitious forms and ceremon-
ies which it terms “religion” for the
purpose of deceiving and subjugating
and enslaving the minds and bodies
and souls of its hordes of ignorant
credulous adherents in order to por-
mote the temporal power and en-
chance the economic and political
prestige of an experienced and un-
scrupulous priesthood
This is the issue — the irreconcilable
antagonism that exists and will for-
ever exist between the Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan and the Roman
Catholic Church and Klansmen do
not desire to mitigate or apologize
for any anti-Catholic propensities
that have been attributed to them so
far as the stand the Klan has taken
on this paramount question is con-
cerned We are unqualifidely opposed
and will fight with every ounce of
our power and strength any attempt
openly or covertly to "Make America
Catholic” and the sooner you Cath-
olics and K C’s realize this fact and
know what a man-sized job you really
have on your hands the better it will
be for you
You talk about “Ulsterizing” A-
merlca but let me tell you that the
Ku Klux Klan will see to it that no
such conditions ever exist here as
those which the Roman Catholic
Church has produced in Ireland Ire-
land is a Catholic country and what
do we find? A nation of narrow pre-
judiced bigoted blood-thirsty Pope-
worshipping Protestant-hating heretic-persecuting
ignoramuses and fan-
atics with two dominant passions a
love for gore and subservience to the
Pope — each the necessary correlative
of tho other
Now Windle let me give you a
li tie advice You are not a bad boy
at heart and your sense of humor is
not entirely defunct You personslly
don’t believe the Catholic supersition
at least I don’t see how you can but
anyway one thing is certain and that
is that you nor no other man or set
of men or organization can kill the
KLAN! It is here for a purpose and
it is going to remain until that pur-
pose is accomplished and in such a
manner that it will never require do-
ing over again The idea your Papes
have that the Klan is already in
operation and effect is only partly
true The Klan is yet in its incipiency
remember and has not yet begun to
fight All the Catholics and Jews
on earth can’t stifle or defeat the
ends we have in view “America for
Americans” that is our slogan Too
long have the liberty-loving sacri-
ficing Protestant Americans in this
country suffered at the hand of Kike
and Catholic and we are going to put
an end to It — peacefully if you will
permit but if not then we are go-
ing to end it so don’t think we don’t
mean business or that we will be de-
terred by such childish and fatuous
deceptions as you Papes and Kike
have concoted for our downfall The
free advertising the Klan received in
the New York World (Jew owned and
controlled) and the Hearet papers
(which Upton Sinclair has so freely
and unsophistlcatedly (?) exposed In
the “Brass Check” In which he also
pays his respects to the Catholie
Church and its power over the rotten
crooked Jew-owned Catholic-coerced
American press) has helped tremen-
dously and if you birds will only ex-
poso” us again it will be very great-
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