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have all the educational institutions in Washington put together. In
view of this fact, it is not to be wondered at that Rome decided to build
her national university at the national capital.
Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior under President
Cleveland, was charged with giving to Catholics more positions in
his department than to other denominations. His reply was that “if
Roman Catholics have been recognized to a greater extent than other
denominations, it is only because they have asked more largely;” and
explained this by saying that the Romish church has at Washington “an
energetic and tireless director, who is active to seize opportunities for
extending missionary and educational work among the Indians.” The
Christian Union says that four-fifths of the government Indian schools,
under religious control, have been given to Roman Catholics. The
Assistant Attorney-General, of the Department of the Interior, under
President Cleveland’s administration,—Mr. Zach Montgomery,—is
a Roman Catholic, with all the Roman Catholic enmity to the public
schools, and hesitates not to use his official position and influence to
show it. During his term of office, in an address at Carroll Institute, he
openly denounced the public-school system as godless, anti-parental,
and destructive of happiness. And the United States Senate fully knew
his enmity to the public schools when it confirmed his appointment as
Assistant Attorney-General. The New York Observer says that the only
public hospital that receives any government aid is a Roman Catholic
one.
In a published letter to Hon. Warner Miller, one of the delegates at
large from New York to the National Republican Convention, 1888,
Hon. John Jay, late Minister to Austria, says that the Roman Catholics
even now “coolly discuss the disposition they will make of the United
States, as a people already subject to the vatican by the Irish votes.
Archbishop Lynch, of Canada, wrote to Lord Randolph Churchill (the
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Churchman, New York, April 2, 1887): ‘The Irish Vote is a Great
Factor in America.’ ‘The power of their organizations is increasing
every day.’ ‘They hold already the balance of power in the presidential
and other elections.’” Further Mr. Jay says: “The announcement of Mr.
Chamberlain’s appointment as Fishery Commissioner was promptly
followed by a reminder that no treaty he might make would stand a
chance of ratification. The suggestion that Mr. Phelps, our Minister
to England, might be nominated as Chief Justice, brought a quick