Religious Liberty and Catholic Demands
The Catholic News, of New York, in referring to about 1,300 desertions from the regular army during the last five years, remarks: "Among Catholic soldiers there is also discontent at the want of proper provision for their religion." And thus it is that religious questions are constantly being pressed upon the government. The demand for Catholic chaplains in the army and State prisons, the demand for a part of the public educational fund for the support of parochial schools, and the position of inconsistent Protestants who are clamoring for the same principles, are only hastening the final struggle between religious liberty and religious tyranny.