[720] Ibid.
[721] “The K. of C. Historical Commission,” The Fortnightly Review, Vol. XXX (December 1, 1923), pp. 457-458. The Commission is reported to have spent between $80,000 and $90,000.
[722] According to a reputable Catholic authority, Mr. McSweeney’s salary was $12,000 and expenses.
[723] The Fortnightly Review, loc. cit. The writer of the article was of the opinion that “with Catholic laymen filling chairs of history and political science at Harvard, Columbia, Bryn Mawr, the Catholic University, and elsewhere, and with other Catholics engaged in library and archival work of importance, it is small wonder that the Commission, containing the name of but one engaged in the profession of history, failed to win the confidence of those interested in history.”
[724] Ibid.
[725] Hart, Albert Bushnell, op. cit., p. 120.
[726] Ibid., p. 126.
[727] Ibid., p. 145. These attacks are found in Griffin, op. cit.
[728] Griffin, op. cit., p. 5. “Others were drawn into the army by money, bounties and promise of land.” Hart, op. cit., p. 134. Mr. Griffin asks: “Is this building up or breaking down the morale of a nation? The consideration of such statements may be a painless intellectual question for the adult—but to the impressionable minds of the young the effect is unquestionably bad.”
[729] Ibid., p. 6. Quotation from McLaughlin, Andrew C., History of the American Nation (New York, 1919), p. 152. McLaughlin goes on to say that the “Revolution was justifiable because the colonists stood for certain fundamental principles that were woven into the very fabric of their lives.”