d "The St.
Anthony Bread Box" hoax is another scheme that is not very old, but
which the Catholic Church has found to be another great paying
investment, and they are working "St. Anthony" for all that he is
worth.

Now, can any man or woman of intelligence believe that the
inhabitants of these islands can ever expect to become men and women
of affairs--men and women of individuality--and men and women of
intellectuality? If you can give a rational reason why these
countries should ever expect to be elevated to the standard of
greatness under such influences and under the tutelage of such an
institution, then the road to greatness must be a very easy one to
travel.

The Catholic Church is conducted on about the same principle as Dun's
and Bradstreet's mercantile agencies, as they go into the minutest
detail to keep record of the affairs of the country, so that they may
know the weakest as well as the strongest points of their creed, so
that they may at all times be prepared to exercise the greatest
influence at the proper time, and what makes this creed so dangerous,
is that they impress upon their dupes that the church is "eternal
law," and they hold out the crown of glory on high as a reward for
following their doctrine, and this is the most dangerous and damnable
scheme ever perpetrated by mortal, for when you force a man or woman
to believe that you hold in your hands their future destiny, you have
them to the point where you can force them to do your bidding, and
this is exactly what Catholicism does to her followers, and this is
the reason why Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands can never
expect to go higher in the scale of morality and intellectuality
than they are at the present time, if the Government of the United
States permits this troop of ghouls to continue to be their masters.

We believe that we have in this chapter made, it plain to the reader
why the influence of Catholicism should be remotely removed from
these islands, and if I am right, the Government of the United States
is everlastingly wrong in permitting Catholicism to retain her hold
upon the throats of the inhabitants of these islands, and I
undoubtedly am right, as I know whereof I speak, as I have trod the
deceptive road of Catholicism for the past thirty years, and I dare
not tell in this book all that I know of her cunning in regard to
these far-away countries, as I would have to use language so plain
that I could not expect t