d purity of character that the man or woman who
lives beneath the shadow of the Cross, and who looks to a living God
for their wisdom.

Character is not a spontaneous fungus which grows without proper
care, as character is an essential that must be cultivated in the
fertile soil of morality, as there is no code of morals which will
stand the crucial test of godliness unless it springs from the
eternal injunctions laid down in the Holy Bible, and without morals
an individual as well as a nation loses its identity among the good
of the land, and when this happens, society in general is the loser,
for whenever we degrade society we degrade ourselves, for there is no
man or woman so strong and powerful in their individuality but what
they can become besmirched and contaminated, to a degree at least, by
the association of those who have been lowered in the scale of
morality by the lack of this most precious jewel of the human family.

We are aware of the fact that Protestantism is not exempt from sin,
as we are well aware that we will find sinners of all degrees in the
Protestant ranks, but we make the assertion, without fear of
contradiction, that the characters in general of the followers of
Protestantism are many times superior to the characters in general of
the followers of Romanism.

We will take the large cities in the United States as an
illustration, and we will find that the saloon-keepers, comparatively
speaking, are from the ranks of Catholicism, and to engage in the
saloon business is no bar to a member of the Catholic Church, for if
this saloon-keeper, no matter if he runs a wine-room in connection
with his saloon and is responsible for the downfall of an army of
precious girls, he is considered a fit subject for heaven by the
Catholic Church provided he liberally donates to the support of this
damnable institution.

Statistics show that ninety-four bar-rooms out of every one hundred
in America are owned and controlled by the followers of Romanism. As
Catholicism establishes and builds character out of money, she makes
money her god, and as long as her followers liberally support the
great army of Catholic dignitaries they are taught that they have
performed the essential part in the establishment of character; thus
you can see what the result of this doctrine would lead to, and you
have demonstrations of this doctrine in this country, and more
especially in other countries where Catholicism is solely resp