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Danger in the Dark - ZseZse

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280 DANGER IN TilE DARK.<br />

ant sects are heretical, and can never be right; that<br />

<strong>the</strong> latter are hated of God, and should be despised<br />

and persecuted by all true believers."<br />

"Because <strong>the</strong> Pope and his Hierarchy have trampled<br />

down <strong>the</strong> masses <strong>in</strong> Europe, that is no' evidence<br />

that Americans have anyth<strong>in</strong>g to fear from Papal<br />

power and <strong>in</strong>trigue."<br />

" Why not ~"<br />

" Weare a great and mighty nation, feared and<br />

envied by all <strong>the</strong> world, and still a bright and gloriouB<br />

future opens before us."<br />

"Yes, but if we cont<strong>in</strong>ue, as we have been do<strong>in</strong>g,<br />

tamely to yield and uncompla<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>gly submit to <strong>the</strong><br />

encroachments of Romanism, and allow a bigoted<br />

priesthood to <strong>in</strong>fr<strong>in</strong>ge our rights with impunity, disregard<br />

and trample upon constitutional law, as <strong>the</strong>y<br />

are now do<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir assaults upon <strong>the</strong> common<br />

schools of this conntry, we ma:r soon surrender our<br />

liberties, abandon onr pretensions to national greatness,<br />

and s<strong>in</strong>k back <strong>in</strong>to <strong>the</strong> darkness and barbarism<br />

of <strong>the</strong> monkish ages."<br />

" Yon allude to <strong>the</strong> Catholic movement aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong><br />

common schools," remarked Mr. Eldridge, who np to<br />

this time had been silent. "Why have not Romanists<br />

a right to a division of <strong>the</strong> public school fund ~ They<br />

pay taxes as well as Protestants."<br />

"They have <strong>the</strong> same privileges, too, that Protestants<br />

have of send<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>ir children to <strong>the</strong> free<br />

schools."<br />

"13ut t4ey have re1i~ons scruples with re~ard to

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