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Senator Blair, in a speech before the
United States senate, February 15, 1888,
said : ' 'Twelve years ago I was a mem
ber of the house of representatives, and
we were undertaking to ecact a consti
tutional amendment which was to pre
vent the appropriation of public moneys
to the support of sectarian schools in
this country. A friend of mine pointed
out to me nine Jesuits who were log
rolling against that amendment."
Why? Because their church was re
ceiving at that very time between $200,
000 and 8300,000 annually for the sup
port of their parochial schools; and
even down to the time of President
Harrison's term of office the same con
ditions substantially prevailed. The
Freeman's Journal (Catholic) say s : ' 'Let
the school system go to where it came
from, the devil." This is the first time
that I ever knew that Satan was the
champion of a liberal education for the
masses. I had always supposed that
ignorance was his best friend, and I am
inclined to think so yet, the Freeman's
(?) Journal to the contrary, neverthe
less. "
The Catholic World, In its issue of
April, 1871, has this to say : 'The best
ordered and administered state is that
In which the few are well educated and
lead, and the many are trained to obedi
ence." So ignorance is the mother of
order and obedience, and the basis of a
well-ordered government? I presume
that Spain, during the three hundred
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and twenty-seven years, from 1481 to
1808, may be taken as a sample of this
Ideal condition, for ignorance certainly
was almost universal; yetas was stated
before in a quotation from an Italian
journal, Rome found it necessary to the
peace of Spain, to burn alive more than
150 persons annually and "condemn to
other punishments short of death," and
probably little short of death, more
than 1,000 mora. And this for but the
one crime, heresy. Yes! Yesl Ignor
ance, thou art the highest virtue where
error seeks to reign! Down! Down! ye
ignorant dogs, and kiss the feet of the
cowled religionists that rest upon your
necks! Bless the hands that smite you
and bind heavy burdens upon your
backs, that will not put forth a little
finger to help lift! Follow them!
Blindly follow them, until together you
tumble into the bottomless plt,and wel
come it as a heaven of relief! But
again, we quote from the organ of the
Jesuits, published at Rome. It says
that: "The people do not need to
learn to read; all they need Is bread
and the Catechism, the latter they can
know something of without learning to
read." Now we see clearly that Rome
is certainly the champion of ignorance.
Another of our cherished rights Is
that of free religious privileges, the in
alienable right to worship God accord
ing to the dictates of the worshiper's
conscience, without fear of molestation
or interference. This right the people
of this country have reserved to them
selves by the provisions of t!ie constitu
tion and protected by adequate national
and state laws, for just so long as, in
the exercise of this right, the equal
rights of others are not infringed.
How stands the great "mother of
harlots" on this question? Listen to
the utterance: of Pope Plus, IX., de
livered August 15, 1874: "The absurd
and erroneous doctrine or ravings In
defense of liberty of conscience are a
most pestilential error. A pest, of all
others, most to be dreaded in a state."
What state? The state where Rome
rules. Why? Because Rome can rule
only as she can bind the conscience.
Again, "Religious liberty is merely
endured until the opposite can be car
ried Into effect without peril to the
Catholic world." The above is from
Bishop O'Connor. The words of Arch
bishop Kaln, of St. Louis, are equally
significant: "Heresy and unbelief are
crimes; and in Italy and Spain, where
all the people are Catholics, and where
the Catholic religion is an essential
part of the law of the land, they are
punished as other crimes."
The Rambler, a Catholic periodical
published In London, has this to say:
"Religious liberty, in the sense of a
liberty possessed by every man to
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No man has a right to choose his re
ligion." Concerning tolerance, where
Rome has power, the Rambler adds:
"Catholicism is the most Intolerant of
creeds. It is intolerance itself." The
Shepherd of the Valley eohoes the same
sentiments: "The Catholio who says
that the church is not intolerant be
lles the sacred spouse of Christ.
We maintain that the Church of Rome
Is intolerant. That she uses every
means in her power to root out heresy.
Her intolerance is the result of her in
fallibility. She tolerates heretics
where she is obliged to do so, but she
hates them with a deadly hatred, and
uses all her powers to annihilate them.
Our enemies know how the Romish
church treated heretics in the 'Middle
Ages,' and how she treats them to-day
wherever she has tbe power. We no
more think of denying these hUtorical
facts than we think of blaming the
Holy God and the princes of the church
for what they have thought good to do."
This statement leaves nothing to be
desired for clearness. Now Protes
tants and unbelievers in this country
may know just what to expect at the
hands of Home, when she possesses the
power to do her will. It is only neces
sary to read the history of the "Middle
Ages" to understand our fate. I
But how does she expect to secure
such control of this country as will en
able her to carry out her cherished de
signs and introduce the stake, the rack,
the thumb-screw and her other engines
of torture for the correction of heresy,
unbelief and liberty? She purposes
using three methods:
1. Political supremacy by the ballot
box. 2. Immigration.
3. Bullets if necessary.
For the time being the cunning hier
archy is working silently. She has
changed her tactics, but not her pur
poses, from methods inquisitorial to
methods senatorial, all the time seek
ing to achieve one end, Roman Catho
lic supremacy in America.
Bishop O'Conneli, addressing Catho
lics in this country, says: "You should
do all in your power to carry out the in
tentions of his holiness the pope.
Where you have the electoral franchise,
give your votes to none but those who
assist you in so holy a struggle." It is
a fact, now quite generally known, that
It is not very long ago since the Catho
lics of this country were agitating the
organization of a distinctively Catholic
party. On that question the Catholic
Kcview, in an article headed, "Not bul
lets but ballots," has this to say:
"There can really be no question con
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cess of the German Catholic party has
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If a Catholio party was and is necessary
in Germany and Ireland, it Is necessary
here. We cannot get along without it,
and it is therefore only a matter of
time, and a very short time at that, un
til that party is safely established. "
I only hope that such may be the
case. Then the fight will fairly be on.
American Protestants against Roman
Catholic foreigners. The Freeman's
Journal intimates the same possibility
in the following words: "The day may
not be far distant when we may have
again a president in Washington who
will protect our rights, and then we
will show the people that we mean
something more than simply putting
resolutions on paper." What will they
show us?
On the subject of immigration as a
means to tbe accomplishment of their
designs, bear what the Duke of Rich
mond has to say: "The government of
the United States ought not to stand;
and it will not stand." These are em
phatic word 8 ; but how does he propose
to overthrow it? Listen: "But it will
be destroyed by subversion, and not by
conquest. The plan is this: To tend
over the surplus papulation of Europe, j
They will go over with foreign views
and feelings and will form a heterogene
ous mass, and in course of time will be
prepared to rise and subvert the gov
ernment." Now there the plan of cam
paign Is declared. On the one hand
the organization of a Catholic party in
this country, and on the other the
dumping on our shores such a hetero
geneous mass of foreign material that
we cannot assimilate and Americanize,
and of a character to strengthen the
aforesaid party. We know that a very
large percentage of those who have
come to our shores from foreign lands
are Roman Catholics, and remain so.
We also know that It Is a settled policy
of Rome to get as many of her subjects
into official positions as possible. To
this end she has her emissaries (the
Jesuits) in all parts of the country, look
ing after Rome's interests in this mat
ter and forcing Catholics into publio
notice and politics. To such an extent
has this prevailed that it has been said
that the moment an Irish Catholic pur
chased a ticket for America he was a
prospective alderman, justice of the
peace, or policeman. We know that in
most of our large cities, and in some
counties and states, the Catholics even
now hold the balance of power, and
taking the country at large, they hold
a percentage of the offices far In excess
of the ratio of the population that they
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Mr. Satolli is in this country, not so
much for the purpose of looking after
the religious interests of the church as
after the political interests of the old
man on the Tiber.
Another means that they will not
scruple to use Is "force." Their utter
ances in this regard are somewhat
guarded. Yet Father Capel has said:
"The time is not far distant when tbe
Roman Catholics, at the pope's com
mand, will refuse to pay their school
tax, and will send bullets to tbe breasts
of the government agents, rather than
pay it. The order can come any day
from Rome. It will come as quickly as
the click of a trigger, and it will be
obeyed, of course, as coming from God
Almighty Himself." No doubt there
is more truth than poetry in the above,
and if it does not mean that the Roman
Catbolio church in America is ready
and waiting orders to begin open hos
tilities against our government, then I
fail to understand the meaning of
words. If such is not their ultimate
design, why is it that nearly every Ro
man Catholic church in the United
States has its company, or more, of
soldiers, thoroughly armed, equipped
and drilled?
Did it ever occur to you, friends, that
the day may not be far distant when
the sons of our revolutionary fathers
may be obliged to grapple with this foe
of all that those fathers held dear, and
fought and died for to bequeath to us?
Shall we prove ourselves worthy of
such an ancestry and such a heritage?
Remember, we meet a foe with cen
turies of experience behind her and
whose settled policy is, "Rule or ruin."
We know, again, that because of this
policy of hers, some of the European
nations have, in the interests of self-
preservation, found it necessary to ex
pel the pope's pets (the Jesuits) from
their borders. Just sixty years after
the organization of the Society of Jes
uits, France found it necessary to ban
ish them. That was in the year 1594;
but she reinstated them again in 1603,
and expelled them again in 1761. Eng
land expelled them in the year 1594;
Portugal, in 1759, and Spain, in 1767.
Pope Clement expelled them from all
Catholic countries in 1773, but they
were reinstated by Pope Pius VII., In
1814. They were expelled from Portu
gal a second time In 1820, from Spain
in 1820, and restored in 1825, and for a
third time expelled in 1835. They were
expelled from Switzerland in 1817; Rus
sia, 1817; Italy, 1870, and Germany In
1873. It may be found necessary for
the peace and safety of this country to
expel them from United States soil.
We know that in our late civil war
the pore's sympathies were with the
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secessionists. This tendency or dis
position to steal nations led to serious
trouble in Japan in the sixteenth cen
tury, resulting In the death of thou
sands of Japanese converts to Roman
Ism, tbe banishment of all European
missionaries and the closing of Japan
to the outside world. This was due to
tbe discovery of a plot by which Rome
was to steal Japan and bring it under
the pope's dominion. It Is also a fact,
that in the present Cuban struggle for
liberty, Rome is against Cuba and
for Spain. And so It goes to the end
of the chapter.
Knowing, then, tbelr past history,
and their present derigns upon Amer
ica, shall we calmly wait, Inactive, and
allow them to carry them out? Shall
we meekly submit to receive the mark
of the "beast," and kiss the toe that
kicks us?
Americans! Protestants! Freemen!
What say you? Patriots, awake! Open
your eyes and look around you, and see
how the coils of this serpent are fast
tightening about us. Awake, sleepers,
and guard your homes and your liber
ties. Where is the modern Paul Re
vere, who will ride through the land
and arouse our slumberlngcountrymen?
Awake! Awake! ere you find yourselves
in chains and slavery, bewaillcg your
lost liberties. Let the deeds of your
fathers inspire you. May their painted
likenesses break the silence and warn
you of your danger. O.that they might
break the bands of the tomb and come
forth, to once more defend the liberties
they furnished at so terrible a cost!
I thank God for the patriotic orders
that are standing in the breach, May
tbelr numbers Increase and their power
be felt, so long as the mutterings of a
foe are heard In our land. Put ye on
"the whole armor of God." Let the
weapons of your warfare, for the pres
ent, be "the sword of the Spirit, which
is the Word of God," and a solid ballot
upon which no foe's name shall appear.
Your country's liberties are in your
keeping; therefore, relying upon the
Almighty's arm, Strike! strike before
it is too late to strike, and prove your
selves worthy of the sacred trust com
mitted to your keeping. Red Ink.
The Difference.
There is another reason why the
United States must just now take up
the quarrel of a South American na
tion. Those countries are Catholic
and England is a Protestant country.
There is a presidential campaign com.
Ing, and both parties are anxious to
placate Rome. It Is true that Cuba Is
suffering a thousandfold more than
Venezuela, but then she suffers at the
bands of Catholic Spain. That makes
all the difference in the world. ZYue
American.
