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ROME IN WASHINGTON
W. J. H. Traynor's Interesting Let
ter From Our Nation's Capital.
The Em'jcllral Kenim Jiovarum and Jes
uit BurtM-U's Circular the Topic of
Conversation Everywhere The
Jesuits Must be Expelled.
Washington, D. C, Oct 1, 1894.-
The activity In political agencies
throughout the country this week, has
been keenly appreciated In Washing
ton.
The success of our friends In defeat
ing the Kerens-Gibbons scheme for con
demning the American Protective As
sociation in the New York Republican
convention, gives great satisfaction;
while the success of the promoters of
that scheme, under the leadership of
the notorious papist, Frank Hurd, in
the Ohio Democratic convention, was
hv no means a surprise. The fact that
ml
the Democratic congressional com'
mitten here had become sponsor for
Weadock's attack upon our order, and
distributed that defectable effusion as a
campaign document, had foreshadowed
the nolicv of the party whose chief
agency Is Tammany Hall.
At this political center, the present
situation in New York and Chicago Is
regarded as the most Important feature
of the campaign, ensuring, as it does,
the careful discussion of the principles
on which our order is founded, in both
of those strongholds of the papacy.
The exposure of the L. O. U. society's
scheme for the establishment of a Ro
man theocracy on the socialistic plan of
the church of Jesus Christ of latter
day saints, has excited great interest
and no little astonishment. The ency
clical Eerum Novarum, with its revo
lutionary suggestions, and "The Peo
ple's New Doctrine and Coming Eman
cipation, or the Law oi Use," together
with Jesuit Burtsell's circular, are the
topics of conversation everywhere.
The cablegram sent out from Rome on
the 18th ult. by Cardinal Parocchl,
denying his connection with the revo
lutionary movement In this country,
and stating that Burtsell and the papist
bishop had used his name without au
thority, is, of course, taken cum grano
salis, Blalze Pascal long ago denounced
those Jeeults in the words, mentiri im
pwkntissime "most impudent liars."
Parocchl and his master, Loo XIII.,
belong to that category. Having been
detected In a conspiracy to bring on a
revolution in this country upon the
lines laid down in the "Law of Use,"
they hasten to deny, even though their
denial places the whole hierarchy of
this country in the attitude of falsifiers.
This calls to mind what Lord Robert
son 6aid about the higher dignitaries
of the papal institution: "These men
are all liars disgusting liars, incor
i igible liars." "Nor Is It less their
unction," according to Macauley, "to
plot against the lives and thrones of
apostate kings, to spread evil rumors,
to foment civil commotions, to inflame
civil wars, to arm the hand of the as
sassin." This Dew and gigantic conspiracy of
the Jesuits exceeds in magnitude and
diabolism anything ever before at
tempted even by thatdetestable society;
because for the'first time it involves
the pope of Rome aDd his own secre
tary in a scheme whose outcome could
not possibly be anything but universal
war, immensc bloodshed, and either
the destruction 'of all social organisms
how existing, or the extermination as
fiends and traitors of all the Jesuit
spawn in the world. The scheme is
the grandest plot of traitors yet dis
covered. My own opinion is that the
time has come for putting a stop to
such plotting, even though the bayo
net, the sword, 'and the gibbet should
require to be called once more into
general use, The Burtsell gang and
the Jesuits ought to be expelled from
our territorial limits, and their prop
erty confiscated to the use of the free,
non-sectarian schools of the country.
And every Jesuit discovered among us
after the decree of expulsion, ought to
be gibbeted as a spy or a traitor. That
is the only way to deal with these
gentry. There is no use mincing mat
ters of this sort. Experience has shown
that the Jesuit is a thing requiring
heroic treatment, c Hemay best be de
scribed In the words of Thomas Car
lyle: "Such a combination of perfect
selfishness, with perfect understanding,
of logical life with moral death so
universal a denier, both in head and
heart is undoubtedly a child of dark
ness, an emissary of the primeval
nothing, and may stand in his mere
spiritual deformity, at once potent,
dangerous and contemptible, as the
pest and only genuine devil of these
latter times."
There can be no peace so long as
uch beings are allowed to go In and
Alt'
Liquor Dealer. Snap
out among our people, duping the ig
norant, bribing the ambitious, intimi
dating the weak, corrupting the covet
ous, and paralyzinsr the functions of
government. To tolerate such con
spirators would be to invite inevitable
ruin alike to society and to every in
dividual Protestant. Undoubtedly this
Mephistophlles Is again walking up
and down on the earth seeking whom
he may devour; and in his hideous
wake,
"Murder bares bis arm, and rampant war
Yokes the red dragons of his Iron car."
The action of the Federation of Labor
in Boston and St. Louis, antagonizing
the American Protective Association,
coming simultaneously with the publi
cation of Burtsell's circular, and the
resolutions of the German Catholic
Central Vereln.has created a very great
deal of discussion among our people in
Washington, as well as among the
members of labor unions, the leaders in
which are papists.
The resolutions of the Central Verein
contain these words:
'Our Catholic societies are by no
means political societies; every one of
their members is at full liberty to side
with either political party, and yet our
religious conviction, and solely this,
will decide our choice in all those cases
in which a party or individuals see fit
to drag religion into politics and to be
come the tool of cliques, as un-American
as they are anti-Catholic."
"Our religious conviction, and solely
this," should decide our choice in all
cases where the impious presumption
of a foreign potentate, assuming divine
attributes, interferes in the political
affairs of this country. The lex lalionis
should govern this case. The senti
ment seems to prevail among some of
our Protestant journalists. Not long
ago the Christian Advocate, of Raleigh,
N. C, spoke out plainly on this point.
It said:
"This land of religious toleration
seems to be the objective point of Ro
manism today, and Protestantism may
prepare for the struggle which is in
evitable in this country. Only the
other day, In one of the northern states,
the Roman Catholics declared that
they would vote for no man or party
that would not appropriate funds for
their private schools. They are mak
ing war upon the Bible in all our pub
lic schools where they have any in
fluence. And it Is time for the Protes
tant churches of America to inform the
politicians that they have gone too far
now in this direction; that if they ex
pect to retain the respect aud support
of Protestant voters they must change
their policy. The crisis Is coming, and
we ought to prepare for it. Whenever
Romanism can hope to obtain civil
power in this, or any other land, the
struggle for it will be made."
The Protestants of the south are not
afraid to utter their honest convictions.
They know what would happen In this
country were Rome allowed to go on as
she has started to control everywhere
at me, will you? Get back into
as she has, through her agencies In
New York, controlled there.
What Is the character of those
agencies? What may the country ex
pect, If such agencies are permitted,
through Tammany, to continue and in
crease their influence over national
legislation and the national adminis
tration? Their history is plain. On
November 29, 1893, a statement was is
sued by the New York state Democracy
concerning the papist regime in that
state, from which I quote these words:
"It is not alone by their despotic use
of self-chosen and self-perpetuating
party committees to control caucuses
and conventions, in defiance and con
tempt of the wishes of the majority,
that these unfaithful leaders have
brought scandal upon tbe party.
"They have prostituted the name of
Democracy to the vilest ends.
"Municipalities have been looted and
have been denied the right of self gov
ernment. "Offices have been bestowed upon un
worthy persons as rewards for disreput
able political services and as tributes
to personal friendship.
"The laws of the state have been
violated, the mandates of its courts de
fied, and common decency outraged.
All these crimes have been committed
jn the name of Democracy."
Here, then, we have evidence coming
from the Protestant Democratic lead
ers of New York, as well as from the
Protestant press of the south, to show
what Romanism, through its political
agencies, is doing; what crimes it has
"committed in the name of Democracy;"
and that "whenever it can hope to ob
tain civil power in this or any other
land the struggle for it will begin." It
did not need the declaration of the
Cathollo Central Verein, penned by
Jesuit Schroeder, and specifically
blessed by Leo XIII., to show that "re
ligious convictbn, and solely this," di
rects the political activities of papists.
Why, then, does the Democratic party,
through its national congressional com
mittee, presided over by Papist Gard
ner, adopt Weadock's Infamous speech
in favor of plundering the treasury fur
the benefit of papist schools and mis
sions, as a campaign document for the
instruction of Protestant Democratic
voters? Why do Democratic state con
ventions denounce an association of
Protestant patriotic orders, established
solely to combat papist aggressions, as
un-American and unworthy? Why do
we find defenders of the Roman octopus
even in Protestant pulpits, wearing the
livery of heaven In the service of this
satanic, Italian conspiracy? Why do
they not rather instill the truths of his
tory Into the minds of the people?
Says John Malham, in his preface to
the "Book of Martyrs:"
'Of the great expediency of dissem
your pen, you whelp! D'ye think
inating, as much as possible, the his
tory of martyrdom, as exercised by
papists on Protestants of different de
nominations, in times comparatively
modern, we are fully convinced. We
may assure ourselves that tho present
depressed state of popery in England
(in 1813) is no proof that its leading
principle has been abandoned, though
this assertion has often been sounded
in our ears. We cannot possibly doubt
of its still lurking on the hearth in
readiness to blaze out on stirring up
the embers; and that it only wants a
fostering hand to blow up the coals,and
to rekindle the sparks Into an over
powering flame.
"That popery has now become an In
nocent thing and perfectly harmless, Is
a sentiment which we acknowledge
that we cannot persuade ourselves to
subscribe to; and when our readers
have attentively perused the contents
of this volume, wo shall only desire
them to lay their hands on their hearts,
and tell us whether,in their conscience,
they can really entertain an opinion
that the tenets of the latter are so verv
innocent as some unthinking politicians
would induce them to believe
"Persecution we detest as much as any
person; but until some evidence of
reformation has been produced, and an
abrogation of the ancient tenets of
popery proven, it is not the mere dec
lamation of a few individuals, actuated
by political or interested motives, which
ought for a moment to be considered as
maxims of a Protestant government.
Protect them in their private capacity
as subjects of the state, but beware of
granting to persons so constituted any
privileges which would enable them to
subvert the government."
These words express exactly my own
views at this time. And I do heartily
wish that Foxe's "Book of Martyrs,"
Ranke's "History of the Pdpes," and
Blaize Pascal's "Provincial Letters"
were republished and widely distributed
by the colporteurs of the Protestant
churches. These churches publish a
great deal of new matter; why not a
little history concerning Rome? Even
Daubigne's "History of the Reforma
tion" seems to have gone out of fashion.
Hence our people are Ignorant of the
truth, and ready, under the leadership
of time serving statesmen, to discredit
anything said against Rome.
History will not fail to repeat itself.
In a private letter from New York,
dated last Tuesday, a very intelligent
Episcopalian from Texas, an ex-confederate
general, says:
"Dr. Schroeder, of the Catholic uni
versity, now in attendance on the Ger
man papist congress in session in this
city, urges the organization of a C. P.
A. to counteract the A. P. A., just as
the Jesuit order was organized In 1540
I feed you to lite me.
to counteract, by dividing, the then
early growth of Protestantism.
"Satolll also addresses tho German
papist congress, and points to the effect
of such societies in Germany as the
creators of the party of the "conter" In
the German parliament, whlchbrought
the emperor to terms by threatening
his policy with their vote. The dele
gate of the pope knows full well that
the langtag of Prussia, under the im
mediate influence of the present em
peror, actively voted to restore the
Jesuits (the parliament or reichstag
has not yet voted on it) because William
II. wished and needed the votes of tho
puplst party of tho center to pass some
of his favorite measures. The papal
ablegate in Washington clearly Inti
mates that their societies In the United
States may secretly create such a power
in congress aad our state legislatures.
"They are organizing in New York
now to defeat the educational clause of
the proposed new constitution, passed
last Saturday at Albany by a vote of
110 to 37. The activity of the Jesuit
order Is as great now as ever In th'ir
history far greater. Am I mistaken
that this muht bo met in time and now
byeuch providential agencies as the A
P. A.? They certain I v use politics: we
must do the same.
"The World characterizes Arch
bishop Corrigan's speoch at the Niblo
Garden theater recently as 'remark
able.' The prelate was not on his
throne, as usual, at the cathedral, but,
advancing to the footlights, ho publicly
affirmed here in a theater, in the heart
of New York's busy center, that the
first allegiance of the papist was due to
the Roman church, as the church (there
is but one to him, the Roman) is greater
than any territory or government."'
Now I respectfully suggest that a pe
tition something like the following be
circulated among Protestants, and,
when signed, forwarded to the presi
dent: Whereas, The Roman pontiff has
sent as ablegate to the United States
Francis Archbishop Satolli, a person
who has from the date of his arrival on
our shores, busied himself in the politi
cal affairs of this country in a manner
far more irritating than the French
man, Genet, or the Englishman, Sack-ville-West,
was ever guilty of; and
Whereas, The doings of this Imper
tinent representative of the papal im
posture are calculated to disturb the
peace of this nation, and eventually to
bring about a religious war with results
injurious to civilization and destructive
to free institutions;
Therefore, Your petitioners beg you,
as the guardian of our national peace,
to warn the said Francis Satolll to with
draw himself from the territory of the
United States before the first day of
November, 1894. We further ask that
in your next annual iiifHi;e to con-
green, you submit to that Ndy the
question of eipelllng froir. our territory
tho men.bers of the Society of Jesus,
and the abrogation of tho charters of
all institution held or owned by said
society, In the Mtme manner and Uxin
the same considerations &a the charter
of the church of Jesus Christ of tho
latter day mints was abrogated by acts
of congress."
If such a petition were numerously
signed, as I am persuaded it would bo,
the president could not reasonably re
fuse to act upon It, and eaoo might bo
preserved. W. J. II. THAYNOR.
CATHOLIC DECLARE THEMSELVES
IU'ttolutlon and Principle Adopted at
the Meeting In IuUvllle.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 20. The
German Catholic congress met at St.
Boniface Hall, with President Spaun-
horst in the chair. Two prelates, 150
priests and many laymen were present.
The following declaration of principles
and resolutions were adoptod:
Resolved, That In futur , instead of
annual, biennial German t. ' con-
grosses be held at tj-e sail i in and
place the Catholic Central . 1,. may
decide to hold Its annual nclliis here
after. Resolved, That words of heartfelt
thanks be transmitted to Mgr. Satolll,
papal delegate, for his very kind ap
probation and blessing granted to tho
congress.
We again express our filial love and
reverence to our father, Leo XIII., and
In the name of that liberty bestowed
upon his church by God himself, we
declare that the first condition of such
liberty consists in tho entire indejKjnd-
ence of the head of the Catholic church
from every earthly power. The only
solution of the Roman question accept-
lble to us Catholics must, therefore,
imply the territorial independence of
the holy see, the terms for which to be
stipulated by the holy father himself.
As free American citizens we claim
for parents the right to choose the
schools and teachers to whom they
want to Intrust the Instruction of their
children. As Catholics we therefore
claim the right to establish and govern
our parochial Bchools in accordance
with our ecclesiastical superiors and to
develop them by all available means.
Although the sacrifice we make In
foundlngand maintaining our parochial
schools are great and heavy we never
theless expressly declare that wo do
not ask for our schools any state aid.
We assume mout willingly those bur
dens In order to secure the eternal and
truo temporal welfare of our children.
Finally, the fact thrt in the schools of
our uerman-Amerlcan parisnes our
children are learning along with the
language of our country the German
tongue will certainly not diminish their
aptitude for business and social inter
course in after life.
We emphatically condemn tho ex
cessive use and abuse of intoxicating
liquors, and alto the evil and predomi
nating American habit, the so-called
"treating." This evil custom, almost
unknown In Germany, has been and Is
the primary cause of intemperance in
all stages of society in this country.
(QUESTIONED M THE A. I. A.
Candidates at Brazil, Ind., Aked to
Ueply to Three Queries.
Brazil, Ind., Sept. 28. Much com
ment was created in politic! circles
here today by an announcement of the
Republican and Democratic candidates
for county and state officers that they
had received a circular from McGregor,
counsel of the A. P. A. of this city, de
manding immediate answers of these
questions:
If elected will you, directly or Indi
rectly, appoint a lvoman Catholic to a
deputyship or any political office? Are
you in favor of a division of the common
school luna tor any Kinu oi secianua
purposes? Will you do all in your
power to secure the passage of a law
requiring immigrants to live in the
United States seven years before they
are eligible to vote.
The organization claims a member
ship of "00 voters, and admonishes the
candidates to reply to the queries at
once. The circular has stirred up con
siderable commotion among leaders of
both parties. As yet no candidate is
known to have answered the circular.
Minnesota ews.
DCLUTH, Minn., Oct. 3. The Demo
crats at the legislative convention at
St. Paul last week placed their twa
"bosses" Pat Kellv and Mike Doran
on their ticket. Pat Kelly is booked
for the house and Mike Doran for the
senate. These two Irish Romans have
dictated the movements of the Demo
crats in Minnesota for years, and their
candidates in nearly all cases have
been defeated. They will be snowed
under in November as never before.
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