Religious Prejudice and Liberty
By Editor
THE Catholic Mirror says:— “One of the most significant things in connection with the recent national celebration of the Washington inauguration centenary was the fact that in New Hampshire, the only State in the Union where Puritanic prejudice against Catholics finds expression in the statute books, the sole patriotic commemoration of the event was the celebration held in Manchester under the auspices of the Catholic Young Men’s Societies.” We have no sympathy with the spirit of intolerance which excludes anyone from participation in the affairs of State because of his religious views, and are in favor of granting the fullest civil and religious liberty alike to Catholics and Protestants; but we cannot help thinking that Papists are the last people on earth who ought to find fault because religious prejudices find expression in the statute books. There is not a Catholic country in the world where such prejudice does not find just such expression.