a specialty
of settling in our eastern cities.

We will take Boston, Mass., for instance, as there is but very little
difference in the "rabble" of that city and the immoral degenerate
class that infests the densely populated centers of Catholic
countries.

Several notorious cases of open defiance of civil law and violation
of civil rights by the tools of popery have recently occurred in
Boston. One of these is the escape of two girls from the so-called
"House of the Good Shepherd," in Roxbury, and the re-capture of these
girls by a policeman.

Now, bear in mind that this "House of the Good Shepherd" is a
Catholic institution, pure and simple, but these girls who escaped
from this "plague house," were arrested by the police and returned to
this Catholic dungeon without the semblance of law.

On questioning "The Mother Superior," she said that the girls were
not committed to the institution by the courts, but by "the church."
The question then arose: Has the Roman Catholic Church the right to
give sentence of imprisonment with hard labor as a penalty? For this
is exactly what imprisonment in this "House of the Good Shepherd"
means; therefore, if these girls so sentenced escape, what right has
a _city policeman_ to arrest and carry them back to this Catholic
institution, which exists without the semblance of a State law and
without an iota of moral law? Are the policemen of the cities of
Massachusetts servants of the Roman Catholic Church? Have the courts
the right to sentence prisoners to Catholic prisons, and after
sentence, have the prisoners no right? Many of them are kept for
life, or until too old to work, and then they are set adrift to
become public charges upon a Protestant country, after the Roman
Catholic Church has made hundreds of dollars from the labor of these
unfortunates.

We want to call attention to another flagrant case, which happened in
the north end of Boston not long since.

A few months since, a Protestant Italian family in the north end of
Boston was about to move to New York. There were two children and
the wife soon expected to become mother again. She expressed the
wish that some one would care for one of her children for a few
weeks, until she got well and was settled in her new home. A neighbor
sent a woman to her who offered to care for the children, and when
this little one was turned over to her, she took it straightway to
the home for destitute Catholic children, on Harrison av