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4 mint MiU'Mrt.
THE
ROME-RIDDEN SPAIN.
SomtrwU, Not tnmUy Knon,
Ar IntereitinR.y SV Forth
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Mil ttrlhor, Mmlar ami I'aWlc
ScVrr f Jhn Uia I wal
ItcWHWW.
"From the day of hehcrou HodoHe
tho Colh, to the day of Isahdla the
harlol-whoiwelvod the rW
from IMuh IX for her holy living -Spain
ha ever hon under the d.itU'
way, aplrltually and 'emorally, of
Home. Hero the paiml lowef wan un
limited and tho secular arm of tho gov
eminent wa ever ready to oarry out
tho command of tho Vatican. And In
this connection wo must Include Portu
gal, whero tho Inquisition In all It
horror flourished a admlrahly as In
Spain, m ono UUlo nolo will hero des
ignated Septomhir 1, tho then
rolgnlng plo Issued a bull which
horrified tho wholo world outldo of
Romanlam - In which ho pave tho
ehurch and hi pontifical blessing to
Portugal, In "that from 1732 thoro had.
boon mado to do ponanco In that
klngdon In public auto 2.1,008
porHon; that 1,415 horctlcs hud
boon burned and that 2,000 hud
boon drowned In tho Tugu and
more than that number had died
In prison."
Think of thU, Americans, In
tho abort space of 42 yoar Horn
anlwm had brutally murdered
full 0,000 mon and women many
of whom wore Hebrew In Por
tugal! Hut It I In Spain that wo arc
pointing the reader to tho love
and regard for Buffering human
ity exhibited by "holy mother
church,"
Power Infernal!, CT.1
What a love!
Look upon thl bloody lht,
taken from HornlMh source and
public record still extant.
Wo find that at Toledo In 1 W
there were 27 heretic burned at
tho Btako for being Hebrew.
At Seville, In 14K1, 2,000 here
tic, Free Mason and Jew were
burned for tho name crlmo and In
tho name of religion and peace!
From 1 181 to 1108 Torquemudu
burned eight thousand eight hun
dred men and women.
Archbishop Doy.a, of Seville,
from 1 HIS to 150(1 burned JOfl-1 per
sons. Hid tho work of boll In the
livery of heaven.
A rchblshop Clsnoros, of Toledo,
from 1507 to 1M7, burned 2,5:i(:,
many being Jows.
Cardinal Adrian, bishop of Tor
tosa, whs Inquisitor of Spain, and
In four year bo burned 1,844
helpless heretic and Jow In the
namo of Mary and Jesus,
Curdlnul Maurlguo, of Seville,
iucceodod Adrian an Inquisitor
and showed hi "works of faith
and labor of love" by burning 2,250 men
and women-many being Jew from
tho year 1525 to 15118.
Tavada, archbishop of Toledo, then
succeeded tho above demon and kept
tho fires burning with tho bodle of 8)0
from 15II0 to J5I5. This miscreant hud
only sl years to do thl llttlo Job of
roasting In and then satan culled him
homo.
Cardinal Louisa, confessor of Charles
V, and general of tho Dominican friar
(an appropriate name) from February
15, 1510 to April 22 of tho amo year,
burned 120 mon and women However,
wo do not read that tho jsipo gave him
a medal for that small harhecuo,
Hut inch low work would notanswer
In Homo, so tho butcher wero ordered
to Increase tho work In Spain' luugh
tor house.
Accordingly, a fresh human demon
took knife and torch In tho person of
Fernando Valdls, archbishop of Seville,
who, between tho year 1547 and 150(1,
burned 2,400 heretic and Jow olgh
ecn year' work. Hathor fair.
Cardinal Ksplnosa from 1500 to 1572
burned 720 pcoplo In tho six year of
hi butchery. Hut then victim were
becoming hard to find and the Spaniard
wero being purified fust.
However, Pedro do Cordova, bishop
of Iludujoz, took hold of tho long and
did better, as he burned 2,810 from 1572
to 1501 tho holy labor of 22 year
Hallelujah!
Then Jcrolnmo do I, lira, bishop of
Cartugcrilu, worked foru few months In
tin amateurish sort of a way arid burned
12H, Just merely for pastime.
Illshop Pertocnrroro, of Cuuca, In-qulsltor-gcnoriil
from 1500 to 15W
throe years 18 wero fired for 'mother
church.'
Fernando do Cuerora from 15!iy to
1002 throo years burned 250 victim
to popish bigotry, principally Jew and
rco Mason." u-i C L
Jhmn .' int(., hhhopot I i Ui'hU
In a pUv ) of f ' lh btnoed
mi Jew ami ben ties
Juan ItaptUt d Are'div from luvi
to l'HT, huttid 4' four JllV WOt
(pain wan be I tig ' lenvd ft,
Inquisitor Ccnetal Atw V,
Hnm, from I'UI t HU buttie.1
22 )nrm of cnd la'nr for 'holy mother
ehurfh,' W !.( rioH.
lM( SarmenU do Vl!ndro ten
aginl, a little stinted, to roa-t )v and
heretic to the tumilHTof 1.21" 5vt.n
the yoar 1'iittt to Idt'O-a wellojs nt :
year.
Inquisitor General Juan do Camargo
from 1720 to 178.1 burned 412, mostly
Free Mason.
These figures furnish an absolutely
truthful record of Spain's papist hutch
or shop. From 141 to 17"l apart
from the thousand umu thousands
murdered by tho priest In the Inquisi
tion there suffered at the hand of tho
secular ower under tho guidance of
papal Home In Spain's politics, no Icfs
than thlrty-stx thousand, six hundred
and fifty-six men and women who were
burned to death for consclenco sake,
and .'104,457 escaped with their live by
Buffering severe punishment Inflicted
by tho church'c Inquisition In the prln
clpal cities of cruel Spain,
And this I tho church which boasts
before tho people of America to ho tho
only true church of Jesus Christ; that
boasts of bolng tho same Jyostorday, U
day and forever! With her hand
rocking with tho blood of slaughtered
million she comes before the pcoplo of
America and ask to ho given right to
which she can lay no claim, itcmom
her, tho above I tho record dripping
with blood of ono land alono. Where
over Homo ha gone she ha left a trail
of blood and Ore, and tho surno would
bo enacted hero today! Tho dogmatic
utterance of papal Homo I that all out
side her blasphemous communion are
children of tho dovll and to kill all such
would ho a service woll-pleuslngtoCod!
They cannot deny thl nor by Jesuitical
casuistry explain tho horrible dogma
away. They cannot deny they arc
taught that a l'rotestant (or civil) mar
rlago simply make tho man a fornica
tor, tho woman a concubine and tho off
spring Illegitimate,
With Homo thoro can never ho on
her part any concession or compromise
save for oxMidloney sake, However
evil, false it nl cruel tho action may bo,
let a fanatic of any creed hut believe
that It 1 tho will of Cod and ho will
gladly do it. Wo willingly concede
that tho Instrumentalities of Homo hi
llevi'd that It was Cod's service they
were engaged In when slaughtering
their fellow men, but that belief never
cumo from Cod. The sumo belief actu
ate tho Hindoo mother to throw her
babe to tho Cungo cns:o(llle, She
give tlio lovod fruit of her body for
the sins of her soul, Thl I precisely
tho belief of Humanism.
What tiro Homlsh land today? Iiok
iiM)ii tho map of tho world for u reply
to thl question. See Spain, whero
Homo in politic ha over been In tho
ascendancy, and what ia.thc? Heboid
IVttl' Italy, otuv ,,Mtit A et.l r
h j'' foot hs si (. n and ti4-i
France I tti Mm . Is M tH.
1 tut while l!M(iiini Is still the r. 1!,
ton of ttuo Ise.l It l H sosl. d from
tlo state. I . I Hot tti the olille
of a pee! ri ItoMtati I 'at holm iun-
try but she I where the iiatlon Is lint
pi,wic eons.
hho inut, then, for the uood of our
nation, bo driven out of )slltlc and
giwn to timh'tftftml that she mut stay
out, or It wllllsar the Might of omv
bright hit now decaying Spain,
... . -
on i hum I r.
( IimiI i oinetiU Miimld Ntd he Teleraled
lit a Free ('mint i ).
F.very iHtnvent In this land Is a hloteh
on our soil, a reproach on our Instltu
lions, They are tombs of the living,
not ef the dead. The mini who assist
In the ceremony of burying a young
heart In one of these frightful hole
commits a crime against humanity,
Wo burn with hot Indignation at tho
picture! Tho world' pity should go
with thoMMr, deluded being who offer
up her young heart, It great loving
and craving are unknown to herself,
and goes with her priest to a willing
dungeonto a fate which is dark a
night, but after sho ha been there a
year tho world' Justice should go and
find out If sho wishes to escape from
her Jailor, If there I in thl hind a
house not under lawful Nupurvislon
which an Inmate cannot leave when
she wlsho to, tho doors of that house
should hi opened by the hand of tho
law or It wall torn down.
Wo have been moved to write the
ahive by reading tho account of tho es
cape of a girl seventeen year old from
St, Ann' Homo In Now York City.
Tho girl risked her life to escajsi from
tho place, which had liooomo Intoler
able to her. Sho made a row of sheet
and blanket and lowered herself to tho
ground from an upper window,
Why should wo allow ecclesiastics to
keep young women shut up In house
against their will' If these person
are criminal then tho state should
euro for thorn; If thoy are not, It Is a
crime to deprive them of liberty and
should hi punished severely, Too many
case like thl come under our cyo not
to take notice of them. Our country 1
disgraced by every convent on It soil.
It Is time they wero abolished by law,
If the Homan Catholic church wishes
to cstabllnh houses fur aged women who
aro homeless, friendless, tired of life's
struggle an, I lck of it vice and it
wrongs, let It do so, but there is no
charity In budding houses In which to
Imprison young, handsomo and talented
women, who are allowed to see no man
but a priest, and who puns their lives
In doing no one outside of tho convent
walls knows what. We do not believe,
that a convent would ever hi built If
priest were excluded from tholr doors,
Americans, awike! and demand that
no human being who 1 not a criminal
or Insane he detitlnei In a house agalnHt
her will; demand that riohulldliigliall
stand on our soil that tho church can
enter but that the state cannot,
Homo ono has said: "If there were
no convents, jirh'Ht would wed." If
there are any fact to warrant this say
ing, our is-oplo should know It. Jlonton
Inixtiti'jidor,
FUTURE OF HOMANISM.I
What Will
It He !tt
Slate?
Ilia United
Ilie IIioiihn ( hiinh In ttm ileal Itnhd
lill'illj Item Iteniii HiilrfnlT U
an Mien lnlttiillnii.
The watchword -if the French revo
hit Ion wcih' IUHrly, rqiiaMty, ami fra
h'rnlty, The strugglosof F.iiroN slneo
1711 have lson on tho line I ml lea ted
by these three words, and It Is senreely
loss I motif the Fulled Htat's, Mexico,
and the count rhw of South America.
In l'.uroHt tho n'sult has hen that
every country that had not some par
llamentary body which represented the
people, sharing In tho government, ha
licon obliged, by peaceful or hhssly
revolutions, to grant them a place In
the administration of affairs through
their representative If, perhaps, we
except Ilussla while all the countries
where the people had part In the affair
of the government through thclroloetod
representatives, have added largely to
tho direct power they already had,
Has Korean lm lost or gained during
tho struggle of this hundred years, In
which tho people havo secured consti
tutional guarantees, overturned thrones,
ustulilfshod republic, and have com
menced to educate themselves and their
children? She has lost every time, and
at every point, arid In every Issue, tak
ing the century as a wholo. H I trim
that the papacy has upjsiared at times
to gain some of tho ground lost no sud
denly In the day of the first republic
an d Napoleon hntonly to lose more after
each apparent gain.
The sumo ha hion strikingly true In
Mexico, In tho South American states,
with perhaps a single exception, so
that tho last two pojs' have looked to
tho United State, where there wero
estimated to hi but 100,000 Catholic at
the era of our revolution, a tholr fu
ture land of promise; at least, If tholr
reported utterance are true, this I tho
case.
Then what of tho future of Hornan
Ism, or Homun Catholicism, If you pre
fer tho word, In tho United States?
Number count for much in thlsconn
try, for wo are u voting people; but
principles and precedent and constitu
tion have in them a power that must
always hi reckoned with in looking to
the days that are to come.
Tho first amendment to the cormtltu
thin, offered In 1M70, provides that
"Congros shall make no law rcqs-ctlng
the establishment of religion." His
tho settled policy of all our stat.cu that
there shall be no union of church and
slate, and the reul and only cause of
any apparent weuknens and slowness
among our people In grappling with
and settling tho scIuki! question in most
determinate lines is, that It has not yet
hx'n settled what part of education tho
stale shall, or can, give without Invad
ing thl question of the right relation
- lT.r: '
Tin ll) of the Ann ilrsii oiiIc U
ll.' III the anwer ef Ji'ot to the lW'
ter. "Iteiiiler unto t' nr tho thing
Hist sic CttecatV, ami unto Uml the
things thsl ait tiiHl'.,' I mi settlf
the lines of ttils quonrion a applh-il ki
mluenlton, and the great. ien of our
voting ppiilallon will full Into lino,
and hold to compiitHory state education
on IIxhI hleas; and when thl shall ho,
woe to tlin men whostand In their way,
ls they pilentsor silltlelns.
The Itoiitlhli hierarchy, as a whole,
stand on this question of the rclatltti
of church ami state, on ground directly
oppot-lte to those of our fundamental
law. The chmvh as an organisation I
supreme, say they! tho state I to ohoy.
The ohi cannot he a subject; the
clergy should hi ameiiabln to civil law
and civil authorltle. And since tho
proclamation of tho dogma or Infalli
bility, tho pope I to papal thought the
conscience, and, according to feoXIII,,
tho Milltieal head of tho entire church,
If not tho world.
In his encyclical of January 10, I81MI,
ho says of tho right of private. Judgment
In civil matters, or, Indeed, any that,
"It must bo considered a July by Chrl
tluns to hi ruled and guided by tho
authority and leudcrshlpof thobhhops,
and especially of the apostolic see,"
HI application of thl doctrine to
politic wa made In the following
words:
"Furthermore, In politic, which are
Inseparably bound up with the law of
morality and religious dutle, men
ought always and In the first place to
servo, as uras jxmslhlo, tho Interest of
Catholicism. The civil prud.
erioo of Individual ecm wholly to con
sist In faithfully executing tho precept
of legitimate authority,"
Thl I net forth as the authority of
tho priests, bishop and pontiff.
It may not hi known to all who toad
these word that tho Horn an Catholic
church In America I ruled directly
from Homo, When John Carroll was
consecrated a the first bishop of tho see
the Hornan pontiffs, and to tho apostoli
cal sec,"
Tho Homan Catholic church In tho
of Haltlmoro, the papal bull authorizing
It, so far from founding an American
Catholic church, declare of the see of
Haltlmoro and all other see to hi sub
sequently created In the United States,
that they were "to hi forever subject
Immediately to us, and to our suecessor
J)oei anyone conceive tor a moment
that a church so constituted, arid In its
government and leader so Inimical to
our riiitlonul and state constitutions In
Its thought of civil affairs, Is to win its
victories here, when every stato In
Kuropo and So.itli America, as well as
our shier republic of Mexico, has
thrown off this burden as insupportable?
These states were Catholic; the men In
Italy, Franco and Mexico, who have In
the last 100 years nii lps:d the church
and turned her Immense wealth over to
public uses, looking on Indifferently
while I'lu IX. denounce all modern
progress, and Leo XIII. play every
card for r jjaleleg a ' t-tina!
ofetvlglitt Ihi Hu ll e t lti,i!i,,
They Were baplbi d lli'o the I h oi h.
heed and t .tui l d by hi r, Hud ji I tl,t y
he icpodii d one and sit In i i hm
a to chiin li ami stale; o.,ii ulilih
est ad her action In ivfelenee o oli-
tic and n lii!, and tin' iiuloid
generally In the Fulled Hini
What, then, Will the future Ming
Since It'ime i aiiimt yield, It will hi leg
her litter defeat oil all heri hnseii lines
of battle. Her theory III refm iire to
herself Is such that she Hi int. st unil
where sho has sbssl, and the line of
march ef the Nineteenth century is In
every particular antagonistic to that
past and present, The constitution of
tho country and all of It precedents
and laws stand as squarely across the
path that the Homlsh clnireh ha
marked out for Itself, I now In, and
seemingly has chosen us they illd across
the pathway of the Mormon church,
The Instincts of tho people are as surely
against Homo papal, and hnr present
course In thl country, as they were
against tlrlgham Young, and are now
against Mormon rule, Americans he
llevo In liberty the word ahivo all
other In our visMibulary Is freedom
freedom of conscience, freedom
of speech, freedom of tho press.
Does Home?
I It Is only within a year that
the editor of tho (Jitthotk TiU
yntik and tho VitthoHc Knight
were both summarily dealt with
for exercising their personal and
editorial right a American cltl
flons. And not only that, but the
bishop' heavy band, in the case
oT Mdltor Hooves, of Cleveland,
fell on every ono who had any
relation to tho paper as sub
Mcrlhcr, or agent, or distributor
or anything else, n Will Ameri
can Catholics sit down under tho
Iron hand of a despotism such a
tbl?ri
Iiok at the case of Dr. Hurt
sell, summoned an expert in
ecclesiastical law to testify In a
civil court. The Ni'm Ymk lli-nild
said of the cms.!! "Dr. Burhell
was "not 'responsible''' for belntj
summoned Intocourf. ' Once
there, he had the option of perj
uring himself and toismaklng a
friend of" A rob bishop orrU'fi u,
or'tcstifylhg as bis oath arid con
science bound him to testify."
Once let the public g-t It fairly
Und squii rejij ritoJs J hough t, as
It 'now' more than half h, that
Catholic cannot hi hd loved
(Older oath-that priest and
bishop lire practicing what their
church directly touches about
oiilh and absolution from thorn
and they will bo branded as wa
Cain.
C Hut the Catholics will outvote
us! When? Where? In New
York City, whoso government
ha become a byword throughout
the land, perhaps for a little in a
rto'j.n of the lariro cities, where
about 4,000,000 of the fstlmated
Catholic population I massed, Hut
how long, think you, would It hi after
Hwjomc! fairly understood that Ho
rnan Catholics were voting as a body,
before all class.' would combine
against thorn and overwhelm them?
With New York as an object lesson,
It will be strange Indeed if other citle
do not take warning. With a debt of
tliViOO.OOO and an annual f-xp nditure
of over 50,CO0 000 three times that of
the entire stato, wlh all It orison,
asylum, reservations, and p ibllc work
sho tnds a the representative of
pupal rule, with government that
cost t:05 per capita, while
llrooklyn pays
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When, think you, will New Mexico
which, under the leadership of the
priest ha Just voted against ft state
constitution heauso of It sound Amer
ican provisions a to education h-como
one of the slsterhissl of stau -? When
Utah docs, and for the same reason;
namely, that he I not under prhsUy
rule.
They will outvote us! Is the cry. To
hi sure they will, tomsirar ily, and in
places, hit only long enough to wnko
up the 50,000,000 who bow to no priest-hissl-the
F rote stunts south, the, great
masse of patriotic souls, Catholic and
l'rotestant, In the cast, wi t and north,
to whom this is the hind of lie- free.
It may h live years, It may hi lilty. but
it is written In the h k of lb- htc
that tho day of JU.i.Mi i (Vhoiic tyr
anny are numh-red. How oho sh.iil
wo account for the fact that all Jvmqst,
South America and Mexico uro sl.u dog
off tho papal yoke; that f Yole.-Unt
countries like Croat llrltain, C r many
and tho United States aro the loader
of the world, while Spain and France
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