CATHOLIC VIEW EXPLAINED
Father Bradley Disuses the French Re
ligious Crisis for the Journal
Readers.
ITo tlieEilltor of tli I'lutfMiwuth J;tiruul'.
Sir:
The present politico-religious crisis
in France is exciting a. considerable
amount of attention in our own.llttle
community as well as throughout the
world at large. An attempt to explain
the position of the Church in the con
troversy by one, who, In virtue of hta
office, occupies a prominent position
among local Catholics, may not he out
of place nor unwelcome to your read
ers, whether Catholic or non-Catholic.
It must be premised mat in c rencn
affairs the words Cathollo and Chris
tian are synonymous, as almost all
that there is of Christianity in France
is, and always has been, Catholic.
This is a fact which will be well known
to the better read or travelled among
your readers. It will also be well
known to them that the most violent,
as well as the most plausible, attacks
on Christianity have been made in the
French language,emanatlng from Vol
taire, Rabelais, Diderot, Renan and
their like. A hundred years' course
of such literature has had . Its inevi
table effect and de-Chrlstianl.ed the
minds and undermined the morals of
at least a very large number and ap
parently of the majority of the French
people. I may remark, In passing,
that we may reasonably look for pre
cisely the same effects from the same
or similar causes among ourselves
The contest is, therefore, a con
test between Christianity, between
religion on the one hand, and
Agnosticism, Infidelity, on
the other. The Issue has hitherto
been somewhat obscured whether
purposely or by force of circumstances aged and unfortunate, where they have
growing out of the history of the past been enabled, by the public-spirited
successful) to the unwarranted inter
ference of Bismarks government in
the affairs of the Catholic Church.
Very many of our German Catholics
in this country themselves passed
through, the days of the "Kultur
kampf," and will remember how their
churches were closed by the strong
arm of violence in the guise of law,
how they were compelled to worship
in whatever hastily Improvised refuges
they could tlnd, how they assisted at
divine service in fear and trembling
as to what was going to happen next,
how their priests were driven from
home and country and their Rishops preservation of those
cast into prison because tney said to law, which guarantee
the civil authorities, "It It be Just In
the sight of God to bear you rather
than God, Judge ye."
France herself, la the person of Na
poleon, In comparatively modern
times, held In durance not merely
Rishops and rrlests.but the then bead
of the Universal Church himself,
Plus VII, In the endeavor to bend him
to his will, powerless In this Instance,
so alj-powerful Jn every other.
And today the world looks on at the
sublime and Inspiring spectacle of the
hundred venerable Rishops of the
French Church from the nonagenar
ian Cardinal, Archbishop Richard of
Paris, downwards, leaving their mag
nificent Cathedrals, monuments of
Catholic faith and generosity through
hundreds of by-gooe years, walking
calmly out of their palatial residences,
provided by the well earned love and
devotion of Catholics, to face in their
old age the uncertainties of fortune;
of thousands of priests driven frcm
their churches and from their homes,
from the numberless colleges and
schools, wherein for hundreds of years
they have handed down and aug
mented from generation to generation
the treasures of wisdom, of science,
and of literature; of thousandsof nuns
leaving the hospitals and the orphan
ages, and the nomes or reruge ior me
fifteen hundred years but looked at
In the gross, I think It will now be
evident to any unprejudiced mind that
this is what it reduces itself to. The
true Catholic be he French or Ameri
can, or whatever his nationality be
lieves with all his heart and soul that
Jesus Christ is God-"Very God of
verv God." The true Catholic be
lieves that Christ established his visi
ble Church on earth when He Himself
left the earth, and that though he
necessarily committed its destinies to
the hands of frail and erring men,
that nevertheless He the God man
: continues to preserve it as a body by
tnht nl Providence In the wav
1 M W A w-
of1 truth and life to be our guide
through this life to eternal salvation.
If it is a divine guide, it must be un
erring. If It is to be an efficient guide
it must be able to make Its voice
heard In no uncertain tones, and must
be entirely unshackled by mere earthly
nowers. Hence the Incontestable, be
cause divine, Authority of the Church
in things spiritual, In matters of re
ligion, inhering as we Catholics be
lieve In the Tope and the Rishops of
the Church throughout the world,
Hence the supreme and solemn duty
of him who occupies the rapal chair,
who holds the highest place In the
Church of Christ, jealously to guard
the liberty of the Church, to prevent
by every means in his power the in
trusion of false teachers
From the earliest periods of Chris
tian history such false teachers have
endeavored to Impose themselves upon
the Church, and to wrest, by fraud
and by violence, Its authority to the
support of their own machinations,
When S. S. Peter and John the Apos
tles were bidden by Annas and Calp
has to "speak no more In this name to
foresight of Catholics to devote their
lives to the care of the poor and the
afflicted all bowing to the violence of
might, because they must say, meekly
but unhesitatingly: "We ought to
obey God rather than men."
If anyone thinks I am talking at
random or indulging In rhetoric, let
blm lift up his eyes and look around
him and when he sees what the Cath
olic Church does in our own country,
where Catholics are but one-sixth of
justify the principal of non-resistance
to the unju!t exercise of power, would
bo guilty of dlslngenuousness (as Is so
often the case where scripture is
quoted,) for the Apostle immediately
ndds "for there is no power (evident
ly properly exercised power and not
tyranny) but from God; and those
that are, are ordilned of God;
for princes are not a terror to the good
work, but to the evil" (Rom. Xlll-1)
The existence of the Church in the
State indeed, but as an independent
organization, Is the chlcfest hope for
the masses of any nation for the
safeguards of
not those airy
and flimsy things which Fourth of
July orators rave about, but the safety
and liberty of the individual citizen.
For the maintenance of public order it
is essential, whatever the form of
government, that a certain measure
of physical power be committed to the
bands of the supreme authority, and
there Is an ever-present danger that
designing and self-seeking men and
how very, very few men are there, who
are not or who do not become self seek
ing, given the opportunity of personal
aggrandizement may contrive to
possess themselves of this power for
the working of their own wills.
"Eternal vigilance Is the price of
liberty." And this eternal vigilance
the Catholic Church maintains, ever
preserving intact and defending with
all her might those principles upon
which the fabric of ourChrlstlan civil
ization Is founded, expounding and
defining them, protesting when they
are infringed, sometimes, and perhaps
more often with success, sometimes
defeated for a time, when the masses
are successfully l.oodwinki-d by un
scrupulous and ambitious men, but
always in fair fortune and In foul,
amid good repute and evil repute
holdinif aloft the banner of eternal
truth.
This has been the work and the his
tory of the Catholic church during the
l'JOO years of her existence. In the be
ginning, when the minds of men were
taken with the beauty and sublimity of
her teaching, with the self-sacri Being
and disinterested lives of her ministers
they came to entrust everything, even
civil affairs unreservedly to her care
Hence the gradually Increasing in
liuence and final supremacy of the
Church and her head, which lasted so
many hundreds of years among the
nations of Europe, until she had tamed
the tierce spirits of our barbarian an
STRINGERS ACT SUSPICIOUS
Two Tough Looking Characters Possesssd
of Jewetrj and Other Goods.
THEY VISIT SEVERAL BUSINESS HOUSES
Try to Sell Jewelry or Trade It Oil for
Almost Nothing They May Be
Wanted for Burglary,
Two strangers, of a tough character,
went into Perry's restaurant this
morning, and, walking up to the lunch
counter, produced some rings, asking
the girl if she would give them some
thing to eat for the jewelry displayed.
This the girl refused to do, whereupon
they made some remarks and started
towards the back of the building, os
tensibly to try the kitchen. Refore
they had gone very far the proprietor
ess appeared upon the scene and or
dered them out.
Some time after this the two visited
Ed. Donat's saloon and tried to Induce
some of the men there to part with
their money for a ring or some article
in the quantity of jewelry that they
brought forth from their pockets.
Their graft did not work very well In
this place, and they drifted around
town until they struck another saloon,
where they managed to work a fellow
for a bottle of corn Juice In exchange
for some of the jewelry.
It Is reported that these sanio fel
lows were out in the residence portion
of the lown today disposing of silk
waists and other wearing apparel for
almost nothing.
Une of the strangers looked as
though lie had been mixed up in
tight, as the whole side of his face is
black and blue and swollen very much.
Where the two strangers obtained all
this Junk Is not known at present, but
It is thought that they are wanted for
burglary at some of the towns in this
vicinity.
Remain Laid to Rett.
The remains of the late Frank Car-
ruth, accompanied by the wlte and
children, Fred, Glen and Louise, ar
rived this morning from lenver.
From the train the casket wan taken
to the undertaking rooms otStrelght
Jfc Strelght, from which place the
funeral procession started at in o'clock
for the last resting place In Oak Hill
cemetery. At thegravn the services
were conducted by Rev. J.T. Ifcilrd,
after which interment was made.
The pall bears chosen from the old
friends and former business asslciates
of the deceased were, Messrs. J. G.
Richey, J. II. Reckcr, R. W. Hyers,
Robert, Sherwood, sr., F. M. Richey
and W. D.Jones.
I
the population, argue thence of what cestors, and preserving what was worth
preserving from the wreck of Roman
and Greek civilization, had brought
them to recognize the beauty of moral
power and civil order. Those who are
familiar with the history of constitu
tional law are aware that the rudi
ments of American liberty owe their
preservation to the fostering care and
protection of the Catholic Church of
England. I allude chiefly, though not
solely to "Magna Charta," which the
Barons were enabled to wring from
the Crown through the aid of Cardinal
Langton and the Church, then as al
ways independent of Kings and of civil
government.
Later on from a variety of causes,
which space does not permit me to
enumerate now the harmony be;
tween Church and State was broken.
In our own country, the spiritual and
civil organizations are separate one
supports the other, and neither In
vades the rights and privileges of the
other.
In France the anti-Christian gov
ernment iscndeavorlng to Invade the
spiritual province of the Church and
to render it subservient, so that
Church and State may be united, but
so united that the Church become
the complacent handmaid of the
State, or railing that, so united as
the innocent lamb Is united with the
rapacious wolf which devours It. The
State may indeed succeed In devour
Ing the dry bones of the Church, that
magnificence and how numerous are
likely to be the works I have men
tioned in a nation of forty million
people, which was devotedly and ex
clusively Catholic for well nigh fifteen
hundred years.
Rut all these material ana wonaiy
advantages though Justly belonging
to them have always been and al
ways will be sacrificed by the Church
and her ministers rather than com
promise her liberty of action and of
speech in the name of her divine
founder. And here, we may note in
passing, the wisdom of the Church in
requiring the celibacy of her ministers
and chief servants that in case of
supreme emergency they may have no
earthly entanglements, but be per
fectly free-footed and free-handed to
move and to do In the service of the
truth. The Catholic priest, if occasion
arises for sacrifice and endurance for
the sake of Christian truth, has not to
fear for others on his account, and if
he is not received In one city may "flee
Into auother," and always perform the
duties of bis office with fieedom and
equanimity.
The attitude of the French Cath
olics in obedience to the Pope Is made
to appear as obedience to a foreign
law against the law of their country.
any man," they fearlessly replied, "If As well argue that the Ten Command-
1 ... . I ,. m fAAliM Inn tutlAft frVtA lint
It be lust In the sight or uoa 10 near muuia am icu .a t.uv
you rather than God, Judge yo." (Acts of tnoiana nappens 10 De inevioeni
............. fL..
I. ift Anil hin the COnSUlUieU tuunauuuu uu ...w
authorities proceeded to extremities Almighty w7r:
and cast them into prison, reier ana ,.."."'': enormously val
ine Apostles still calmly but firmly comesa.ore.Kner ,a.u, Wuutr,,wuc.,
answer: "We ought to obey conscienceless men succe
rather than men." (acis v-"j.j auq
from the days of the Apostles onward and I think I may say every man that
the powers of earth from time to time calls himself a Christian, and every
have endeavored to step within the man that Is. upright and courageous,
c tA .tun human In- even though without religious prlncl-
stead of divine authority, and nave al- po any kind ,11 ujh the e r-wl 1 h
wv met reslstence. To cite a notable obeythelawlnsofar.andonly In so ar, nnFrhnrfih(Hl.nd .aA otl
District Court Note.
State vs Lou Taylor, ct al., upon
further consideration of motion to
dismiss appeal In this case from coun
ty court to district court, filed and
passed upon, the former ruling of the
court on said motion is vacated and
set aside. Motion to dismiss appeal
Is sustained, and appeal of defendant
Is dismissed. To which defendant ex
cepts and Is given forty days to pre
pare, and serve bill of exceptions. Su
percedeas bond fixed at I'M condi
tioned on the production of children
should the action of this court be af
firmed. Devore Si Reynold Co. vs. Jos. E.
Trult; sale confirmed and deed or
dered to purchaser. Clerk ordered to
indorse amount of proceeds of sale on
notes involved and return notes to
plaintiff.
Fred Gorder & Son vs. H. E. Pan-
konln. Causa called for trial; hear
ing had, submitted upon written
briefs; plaintiff to serve brief by De
cember 2o, defendant to serve answer
by January 1.
Anna F. Fry vs. Clara Fry, et al
Report of referee examined and ap
proved, and it appearing that a par
tition of the property involved could
not be made without prejudice to par
ties interested, the referee is ordered
to sell such property. Rond of ref
eree fixed at t'i.OOO.
the confiscation. But the spirit of
the Church It can never conquer
nence we we see bishops, priests and
nuns going out of their Churches and
schools and convents, which belong to
as
ways met reslstence. Tociteanotaoie uucy and othef
Instance which the language we use as that law tolty wU to Cathollc8 of
naturally calls to mind: How easy ana ..r" " Tlattsmouth.-or St. Luke's Church
how much more P easan t wou a .gr tfae Epls00palean of
have been for the rope oi nu uy ... - Plattsmouth, or any other of the
lngasongof''placebotoi the respective de
King of England-one oi me iurCC ..7 --" " T" nominations, relinquishing everything
Ma,rfnl rnlAra n the world at ilia IS gooa, sua uie oeiier citucu uo 1 ....... . .
f"""" . . . . w m ii.,t mucruuuui! uumuo-ui yi mnyio.
that time-to accede to nis .oemanas w... u . J There may be some soiled Catho-
r.rrtiniy the annulment or bis mar- rigni or wrong, lspaipaoiy iuru nriB.t. von anmo hlafir.na
rlage and thus save the great hngusn uu mt , who wllI basely cornpiy, as there hiTe
nation to the unity of the a.urch uttered by an Intel J circumstances often
Rut no! After exhausting an lawiui
means to bring the king to a better
mind and temporizing, If you will, to
th utmost limit, he Is compelled
Anal! to sav. "We ought to obey God
rather than men," and thus Indirectly
Diva occasion to tbe ensuing separa
tion of England as a nation from the
Church and to the present woeruiai
tlon.
Even In merely civil matters, wiiere
no question of morality or conscience
Is manifestly Involved, the principle
r blind and unquestioning obedience
to human authority merely because It
Is In powcr.li to say tbe least, a danger
ous and a mischievous one. If ash-
n"rc. nutth. Ingtonandthe heroes of revolution-
visions 01 v......-u-, . B ary days bad lain down, as no doubt
vast extent of the English speaking mJnyhm ,Q lh(J 5hadow of
vifflini of our fellow citizens of such a principle, where would Amerl-
German orlgln-both Catholic and can freedom now be?
non-Cathollc-wlll remember better St. Taul, It Is true, says: "Let
than I could possibly describe It. th, every soul be subject to higher powers"
resistance (In thelrcase Immediately but one who would quote the text to
before; but such men will cease to be
long to the Church of Christ they
will erect a new State Church of
France, but It will not be a part cf
the Glorious Church Catholic; the
Church as we believe of Jesus Christ,
and of mankind redeemed by Him.
Thanking you, sir, by anticipation
for your courtesy In Inserting .this
rather lengthy letter In your esteemed
paper, I am, Faithfully Yours,
W. F. Bradlkt,
Catholic Priest.
Rector of St. John's Church.
A Latin Saying.
"Opportunity has hair on the fore
head, but Is baldbcaded In the backj
By catching it as soon as it approaches
you can hold It; If you let It to pass by,
you never will be able to catch It again.
With sickness It Is the same. If you
will block its progress at tbe first sym
ptoms, you will easily control It; by
not minding such symptoms, it will
get a firm hold of your body. Do not
miss your opportunity to check a grave
sickness. As soon as you will notice
that you do not feel as well as you
should use Triner's American Elixir
f Bitter Wine. It will quickly dispel
your discomfort, loss of appetite, ner
vousness, Irritability, pale and yellow
complexion, Indigestion, many cases
of headache, and Inactivity of the
bowels. At drug stores. Elegant
Wall-Calendars mailed to any address
on receipt of 10c. Jos. Triner, "99 So,
Ashland Ave., Chicago, 111,
Another Prophet Heard From.
An Otoe county farmer disagrees
with those prophets who are predict
Ing a long, cold winter. He says he
Judges by the gophers. They have
their winter holes only about a foot
below the surface of the ground. He
also says that tbe hair on the cattle Is
not long and heavy, as it is when
cold winter Is before them.
GOT HIS WIBES;CROSSED
But Will Be Careful Not to Do So Again
Anf Tires In the Near Future.
Some funny things do sometimes
happy.
A business man of tills city stepped
to the phone a few days ago and called
the number of an attorney's orllcc.
The lady clerk at the other end of the
line responded, and In response to his
iinury informed him that the gentle
men wanted was not in town.
The business man therefore "hung
up," but a moment later remembered
that he had told his wife when leav
ing homo that lie would return pres
ently and take a bath. He thereforo
took down the receiver, and when the
sweet voice at central shot "NunibeiV"
Into lils ear; he still had the attor
ney's number in his mind, and
thoughtlessly gave it.
He had but a fw seconds to wait
until a female voice came over the
wire.
'Is my bath ready? queried ti e
business men.
"Your WHATV'rattlcd back.
"Say, Emma, put a change of
clothing In a warm place for me: I'll
be up In a minute."
You needn't come up here," was
the retort that fairly chased the elec
tricity olf the wire.
"Good-bye, dear, I'll see you later,"
was the message sent back as the busi
ness man hung up the receiver, when
for the first time It dawned upon him
that he had not been talking to his
wife at all.
It Is mistakes of this kind that gets
people Into the divorce courts, but we
have promised not to give it away.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THECASE
Defendants In Action of D'Ment vs. Fried
Foreclose$900 Mortgage on Drug Store.
In regard to the decision of the
county court of Johnson county, In
favor of the plaintiff, in the action
brought by D'Ment vs. Fried, the at
torney, A. L. Tldd, for the defendant,
called up by 'phone the district court
clerk of Johnson county, who informed
Mr. Tldd that the case had not been
passed upon yet. Of this fact Attor
ncy Tldd and Mr. Fried intormcd the
Journal this morning, and also stated
that the drug store in question In
voiced at $.',:!00 last January and that
Mr. Fried after that date added
82,47S worth of drugs to the stock
The above gentlemen further claim
that the store was closed because of a
mortgage of $i00 against It, and not,
as Mr. D'Ment stated, because the dis
trict court of Johnson county had de
clared the deal void.
The defendants further assert that
D'Ment has had possession of the
farm since the trade by which lie be
came the proprietor of the drug store
In this city, and Mr. Fried the owner
of the real estate near Crab Orchard,
Neb.
lfosi"""T.n "" I
C. E.
Wescott's
Sons
I "Whan Quality Count."
A NUMBER OF HOLIDAY HINTS
Don't Put off Until Tomorrow What You
Should Do Today.
HELP THE CLERKS BY AVOIDING A RUSH
Fancy "Keen Kutter" scissors at
Bauer's. Qood Christmas presents.
In Judge Archer's Court
An action entitled Amelia Hclde
man vs. Wm. oxen, Jr., was died In
Judge Archer's court today. The
plaintiff brings suit for the support of
a child, which the defendant Is al
leged to be the father of. The de
fendant furnished a bond of 11,000 for
his appearance at the hearing which
Is set for Saturday and was released
Special prices on pianos all this
saonth at M. n lid's Sixth steeet furol
Iture store.
LIVE
OULTRY WANTED
To be delivered at the store of
ZUCKWEILER & LUTZ
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1907
ONE DAY ONLY FOR WHICH WE
WILL PAY THE FOLLOWING
TRICES IN CASH: CRAWS
TO DE EMPTY.
Hens and Spring Chickens, per lb
Fat Hen Turkeys, per lb
Fat young torn Turkeys, per lb
Old torn Turkeys, per lb
Ducks, full feathered, per lb
Geese, full feathered, per lb
Old Roosters, per lb
DON'T FORGET THE DATE!
Buy Today and Give Way to Others, Thus
Giving Country People an Opportunity
to Purchase Tomorrow.
There are two things that the peo
ple of Plattsmouth and vicinity
should do at this Christmas season,
especially.
One of these is to do their trading
at home. The other Is for the town
people to do their buying today and
thus make way for the country people
tomorrow.
Don't run olf to Omaha to buy your
presents. Remember that you live in
Plattsmouth, and here is where you
ought to do your Christmas buying.
This Is the duty of every person who
makes a living In the town or gets
his wealth here. He should not take
the money he earns here to some other
town to spend It, or buy something
his wife or daughter sees in one of
those pretty picture books the city de
partment stores send out every year
Just before Christmas. The Journal
is simply discussing this matter purely
from a business standpoint. Buy your
goods where you know what you are
getting and where you have an oppor
tunity of exchanging if it should not
prove just what you want.
If you do this you will buy your
Christmas presents In Plattsmouth
and get Just as good quality and quan
tity for the money as anywhere else In
the country.
Just now Is the time to buy holiday
articles. Get what you want while
the stocks are complete and the
chances for selection are good In every
department. Don't wait for the rush
next Monday. Help the clerks over
the Christmas rush by trading
today, tomorrow or Saturday, but by
all means do not put It off till the last
moment before tbe stores close tbe
night before Christmas. Help the
proprietors of the establishments to
give everybody plenty of time and
thereby plenty of satisfaction.
Buy at home, and buy today.
Connubial Ventures.
The matrimonial market has been
exceptionally lively today five per
mits to wed being Issced and three of
these couples united In marriage by
County Judge II. I). Travis. Tbe
couples to have the knot tied by the
Judge were Antone Hcdln and Leda
Loberg; and Emil R. Carlson and
Maudo Lobcry, all four parties from,
the vicinity of Louisville. Mr. Hedln
Is a prosperous young farmer near
Louisville, and be, together with his
bride, will visit with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Swan Loberg until after tbe
holidays. The two brides are sisters,
and after they and their newly ac
quired husbands had spent the day In
the county scat Mr. and Mrs. Carlson
departed on a trip to central Iowa,
while Mr. and Mrs. Hcdln returned to
Louisville. The other couples to re
ceive the proper papers were Edward
Ernest and Mrs. Rhoda Thornton.
Thomas II. Walts and Cora M. Sax-
ton, all from Elmwood, and Ray Core,
and Miss Minnie Gobleman from
Louisville were also granted licenses.
Tbe Isit couple were married by J Jge
Travis at his office this afternoon la
the presence of many of their friend.
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