Excerpt from The Catholic Paper, 1910

A speaker at the Missionary Congress held some time ago in Washington made the statemcnt that one vile, lying, anti-catholic book, scattered everywhere throughout the South, had done an immense amount of harm, and had helped to keep alive prejudices which would otherwise have died out long ago. He gave the name of the book, and expressed the hope that steps would be taken, whereby a work setting forth the real teachings of the Catholic Church could be spread broad-cast, to act as an antidote to the poison distilled through the medium of this bad book. Something of this kind, he said, had already been done, in a small way. Wherever missions to non-catholics had been given, Catholic books have been freely distributed but as these missions were held only at the large centers, much still remained to be done. A strange fact in con nection with this matter is that it has been sectarian preachers who have been instrumental in pushing the sale of this book. They have acted as agents, and in many cases openly commended it from their pulpits. And this is true, not only of this book, but of many other works of the same stamp. They have deemed it a part of their duty to propagate the old-time calum nies and falsehoods, with which every Catholic is fami liar. It is but natural to expect that the people who read such works ultimately become convinced that where there is so much smoke, there must be some fire.

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