ANOTHER SLANDER NAILED.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 15 December 1904, Page 29

ANOTHER SLANDER NAILED.

OUR AMERICAN LETTER.

(From the International Catholic Truth Society.)

We lhave made arrangements wittfi the International OatUi)olio Truth Society, Whose headquarters arc in Bro'oiUlyyi, New YorK, for the pubheatioin of fioreign letters dealilng with matters or Australian interest. Vv'e priint iberewitlh tile first of the series, whidi deals wi^h a ctoar.se slander on the Catholic priesthood, and which was .pjuibhshed in several newspapers in America, and eventually kwind its way into tlhe echoes of the same bot)h ltn Ausitralia and New Zealand.

Brooklyn, N.Y., October 28

Oh Sunday, July, 3, of the present year, a remarkable article appeared in leading newspapers of all the big cities of the United States. It was headed in the * >Spri!ngiield Republican ' ' Superstition in Swit/eilaind ', ijn the St. Lotuis " Pi,c*neer Press,' ' Tortured for Superstition Sake ' and ' Priests Torture Swi»s 'Girl,' ' Barbarous Treatment of Me»nriette Gay by the Catholic dhucch,' etc., in refutable journals of New York, Bostjom, Qhica.go, Ci-nciinn'ati, St. bo/vis, Detroit, euc. At tJie tune of its publication the International Uattoolic Tcutih Society, through its members m various place®, questioned its truth, poUnUng O'lit one or two apparent inaccuracies. IBowever, unless authoritative informiatioin is at hia'nd denials jure unavailing agaihst positive statements. The International Catholic Truth Society is now in possession of sjucja information, a»nd although ctoßisijderable time has elapsed the wide publicity gi\en by the newspaper*, of sending all over tlhe land to this corresjpanßtfice, c>3l)yrigh'tad by Curtis Brown, klemAmds the publication of tlhe real facts. When these are kiiDwn, let ius hlope that the daily press of the United States will hesitate hi future to print without verificatiicm a 1 conrespon|lence ' so rilled with statemeints derogatory to tlhe Catholic Church.

T!ie Lie

M-ainy of our readers will recall the aTticle in question* fior those who do not let us quote it in part, again reminding them tihjat t}he article aippearqd in newsipalpers of Dhe fhiglhest standing. We will quote from tjhe ' Springfield Republican ' :—