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Mout Romanists and Their
Doings Past and
Present.
A listeriaa Bays Igsatias Lsvsla, Fat.
tr ef lae Jesuits, fchlverec at lae
First Apprsacs ef Death.
When the Roman Catholic church,
at the councU of Trent, or any other
council, make the doctrine (bat ail
the benefits of Christ are conferred
by baptism, then she haa gone off on
it tangent. Let John Ireland. Corri
gan and Martin' think of these things
and ponder them weiL
When the Roman Catholic teachers
of theology tell you that the concu
piscence after baptism la not sin, but
Imply natural, tell him to go off and
lay down and die. He needs it badly.
If there la anything that will cause
X. P. A".s In the Roman Cathode
church, and Roman Catholics say
thers are more in the church than
outside of it. it is caused by these
doctrines, which, as a bubble, can be
pricked by a child. And the funny
part of the whole business Is that
men who want to give the world the
impression that they are "brainy" and
not fools to be led around by the
nose by personalitiea of like caliber,
ars willing to permit the world to see
their position.
The council of Trent was eighteen
years Ionic, ending In 1563, and dur
ing this time . the Roman here
tic laid plans to destroy the Refor
matlon, if possible. Hut before the
close of the century the Protestants
of Germany and other countries had
religious freedom.
Rule or ruin is the practical out
come of the doctrines of popery. When
Bohemia choee a Protestant ruler and
endeavored to have freedom the pow
ers of Rome reduced ner from 3,000,'
000 to 780,000. "The end justifies the
means" is practiced If they have no:
got it in their theology.
The Jesuits have little uss for Au
gustine. Because of the writings cf
Cornelius Jansenlua, bishop of Ipres,
they not only show that they are
fcemi-Pelaeian. but they procure the
Judgment of the pope against the
friends of Jansennis, who were ban'
lahed, imprisoned, their property con
nscated and they themselves persecu
ted in every way, as the Jesuits knew
how to do. Because of the way the
pope is snubbing the Roman Catholic
clergy of the United States the Jes
uits are unable to do very effective
work here. And yet there is more to
follow.
In 1669 the Jansenlsts got the etg
nature of twenty French bishops on
their side against the Jesuits' demands
regarding the Augustinlan doctrines,
and the pope consented! to the request.
But in ten years the Jesuits overpow
ered them. And in this country, as
in so many others, the pope is a
weather vane, and always turns when
the wind blows. In other words, he
is a figurehead and dances to the tune
of the most successful schemers.
Why do not some of the Roman
Catholic clergy in the United States
state what they think about some of
the acts and doctrines the pope en
dorses, and do as the jansenlsts did
in Holland, separate, and paddle their
own canoe? We may Imagine they de
sire to bask In the sunshine of the
papal money schemes and laugh at
the "out-of-date" religion than to get
down and rustle. What they need Is
a leader, but they do not seem to have
the man with the necessary pluck.
One thing which caused the Jesuits
to hate the Jansenlsts is the fact they
favored the laity studying the scrip
ture. There was a "rub." They knew
that as soon as the people studied the
scriptures their soft jobs would be
changed to "You git!"
In 1709 the convent Jansenist at
Port Royal was destroyed by order of
Louis XIV., not because of immorality,
but because this convent, which was
for both sexes, was conducting things
on better principles than the Roman
brethren wanted it conducted. So
the arm of the law was brought to
bear upon them, and thereby let the
pirate ship float on quietly.
The Jesuits were partially restored
by Pius VII. And after this he Issued
a decree against bible societies. Was
it the Jesuits that the bible societies
troubled? This Is what Octavian, a
Jesuit, writes of Ignatius, the father
of the order: "Our father Ignatius
was holy, but at the approach
of the least agony he shiv
ered as in a fever, and exclaimed: 'I
have done much good to the church
of Rome, I have seen many provinces
of our men, colleges, wealth, but all
these thing desert me now, and I
know no' whither to turn;' he ex
pired In trembling." Let men fight
against the work that Christ has done,
give a false interpretation of it, and
keep it from the common people and
we may expect them to tremble.
' In 1854 the Immaculate conception
of the Virgin Mary was proclaimed a
doctrine, and then, to make this aa
absolute rrrtaiuty they make the pope
infallible and then the doctrine of the
mother of Jesus must be correct. A
Roman Catholic wilt get on a ring and
go about that ring and think he is go
ing in a straight line to aome place,
and he has not mental acumen enough
to see the diffureo.ee.
Plus IX. favored the Jesuits,
whether by compulsion or otherwise,
is a question. But circumstantial evi
dences show that Leo wanud bla own
way and the Jesuit genu or gang
as you may call Uiew took the gen
tleman by the south ear and told him
woat he must do or iney would uo
something, aud Leo did something.
'lite Knignts of Persistency had all
their privileges restored to them. And
we might expect the Jesuits will down
the otuer siue of the house if Leo
were to die. But ail this time this
Jesuit "stage play" is causing patriotic
societies to be lornied aud gaining
strength because of pig-headeducss of
the tamers of deception. "
If the Reformation had continued
1th the power it bad at the com
nieuceuieni it would have made the
Roman Catholic ecclesiastic will
the Jesuits aa their secular managers
somewhat down-hearted. But mere
was a lack of unity among the work
era as to methods and aiso in regard
to doctrines, which had a tendency to
weaken them aa an opponent of Ro
manism. Let ail those who are op
posing this political aud religious or
ganization bear this in mind.
Before the Reformation there were
some popes who had a "hard reputa-
tion," but when they were made the
subject of discipline and criticism they
changed so that no gross misconduct
is reported of them. And in the
United States, where the Roman Cath
olic clergy is brought in contact with
Protestants, they are of a' different
stamp from those who are in Mexico
and South America. At least they ap
pear different. But if the pope had
the United States In his paws what
would be the necessity for these
prieets to act any better than those
in other countries? Now the search
light must not be turned away from
them and their doctrines and morals
must be taken into consideration.
Among other things which caused
the Reformation to be less successful
was the secularizing of the Sabbath,
the substituting of philosophical dis
sertations for sermons and the neg
lect of missions, which is the life of
the church. And while many oppose
the principle, we may consider the
plan of the people in this country who
love freedom in thought and worship,
help other nations which are slaves
at the feet of Rome. Thus we will
help others and stimulate activity at
home against (this slaveholder over
the consciences of men.
. While people do not bear very much
in regard to Zwlngle, the Swiss re
former, he is admired now because of
so many of the theologians of to-day
endorsing his theological views. But
we are sorry to see him in the war
fighting against the enemies of the
state, when he should nave fought
them by his pen and the press. And
the enemies of Protestantism would
be very glad If they could Induce the
Protestants to lay down their pens,
It is the line after line written now
that makes "Rome" tremble.
The best men often have the worst
enemies. And considering the fact
that Calvin formulated laws to separ
ate the church, we may call him one
of the first A. P. A.'s. But because of
his anti-Roman views his life was not
considered worth much by some. If
he had had an A. P. A. organization
behind him of a few millions the
"lion paw" of Rome might have been
as soft as velvet. But this "A. P. A."
has sold books from his library to re
lieve persons who were in distress
and had no money. Go to some of
these velvet-capped Roman ecclesias
tics and see what they will say to you
when you are in need. A man stopped
me on the street one evening and
asked me for some assistance, and I
thought the man was truly In need.
I asked him what church he belonged
to and he said the Roman Catholic. I
asked him if he had seen the priest,
and he said: "The priest will not do
anything for me," and I gave him
what assistance I could. And this Is
on the same line as the priest who
arrested a man Bimply because he
came to his sacred (?) residence and
asked for assistance. But they can
not say things mean enough about
Calvin, even while he was In danger
of being put to death, through the
work of Servltus, who may have been
Instigated by the Roman Catholics to
do this work, the same as Booth was
encouraged by the "Romans" to kill
Lincoln.
When we see how many things
which were done for the French and
their present condition, we think of
the miserable influence of Romanism.
During the times of the Reformation
the Psalms were translated into the
French language by Marot and Theo
dore Besa. But often the persecuted
Protetants yrovli flee to Germany,
and the best men of France have been
compelled to flee because they wanted
haa beea
compelled to suffer for it.
Beea made one true statement
When at a conference at Poiasey,
France, in 1561. which had btn call
ed by the king, a cardinal said In
reference to the men who represented
the reformed doctrines: "Here come
the Geneva dogs." and Besa answered:
There is a need of faithful dogs la
God's fold to bark at the ravening
wolves." It is a wonder the cardinal
did not send some of his dogs to "lay
him out" for saying lu
The Roman Cat hollos at the con
ference in Prance, 1561, made the
same statement that the Pharisee
made concerning Christ. When The
odore Besa made a statement of the
Reformed doctrines the pope's genii y
cried out, "Blasphemy!" And yet tbey
make a man infallible and call him
"another God on earth," etc And the
Roman Catholics do not know any
more what blasphemy is than the
Pharisees did. I. T. K.
The later Ocean fres 1 hat News la
buppn-khed.
For years the Citizen haa been mak
ing tue assertion that the Associated
Press has been In the habit of sup
pressing news which is unfavorame
to Rome, or which Is not in the inter
est of certain corporations and indl?
viduals. One of the most ardent sup
porters of the Associated Press has
been the Chicago Inter-Ocean; but
now that this paper has had a falling
out with the Associated, it tells fam
ily secrets in the following fashion:
"Persons who have not followed the
recent course of the Associated Press
can hardly comprehend the extent to
which It has been debauched by .vlr.
Rice Water Lawson and his bench-
man, Melville K. Stone. We have
known the Associated Press intimate'
ly for many years. We have known it
to be a great news collector, whose
arms were stretched out to gather in
reports from all parts of the world,
and lay them down, true and clear, in
the offices of its patrons throughout
the United States. We have valued it
in the past as the most comprehen
sive and impartial news-gatherer that
the old world or the new has seen,
and we should value it today as highly
as ever had it not been debauched re
peatedly by the unscrupulous gang
now controlling it. The leader of this
gang is Mr. Rice Water Lawson; his
henchman and accomplice is Melville
. Stone. To suit the personal and
financial interests of these two men
the news of this country has been
misrepresented, mangled and sup
pressed. Made recaless and arrogant
by the success of their high-handed
methods in Chicago, they have as
sumed to sit in judgment on the sub
jects which the newspapers of this
country should allow the great Ameri
can public to consider. With malice
In their hearts, falsehood in their
minds, and venom on their tongues,
they have arrogated to themselves a
strict censorship of the press such as
no officials of the czar would dream of
assuming. They has not confined their
activity to politics, as do the censors
in despotic Russia, but have presumed
to distrot all or any news, when such
a distortion subserved their business
interests.
"A few sample instances will make
this plain to our readers. Recently a
sculptor In New York City sued
Whitelaw Reld for several thousand
dollars. He alleged that Mr. Reid had
misappropriated money which had
been given him in trust until used to
erect the statue of Horace Greely,
which now stands in Greeley square.
Here was a man who had been a can
didate for the vice presidency of tho
United States and an ambassador to
France, charged with mlsappropria
tion of funds by a respectable and re
sponsible citizen, yet not a word about
it was allowed to pass over the Asso
ciated Press wires. Whatever the re
sult of the suit, every newspaper from
Bangor to San Francisco would have
printed the report of the trial on the
first page. But the Associated Press
was dumb. And why? Because Mr. Rice
Water Lawson and his henchman
wanted Mr. Reid's support In their
scandalous handling of the news of
this continent
"Again, when Mr. Whitelaw Reid
returned from his jubilee mission to
England he bad a rather interesting
unpleasantness with Mr. John Sher
man, Secretary of State. Mr. Reld vio
lated diplomatic etiquette by invlt
ing his chief to come to Ophir farm to
receive his jubilee report The conse
quence was a series of snubs given by
Mr. Sherman which entertained New
York city for a week. But In this case,
too, the Associated Press was dumb.
Mr. Rice Water Lawson and his
henchman again decreed that the peo
ple of the United States should Cot
get the news. Their reasons doubtless
were the same as in the case regarding
the Greeley statue fund."
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lie Writes Aa Istrrrsllag Letter A best
bpsia ass the tpantarda.
It is said that persecution stimu
late rather than suppress. This is
true to a re rial a extent, but persecu
tion may be carried to the extent of
the destruction of the opposing- ele
ment The Reformation was an ex
ample. In moat countries of Europe
the blood of the martyrs was the seed
of the church. The intt-llertual awak
ening which pervaded the great mass
of the people was not retarded by the
ripressive efforts of the Catholic
power. A few good and great men
were tortured, imprisoned or devoted
to the flumes, while there were count
less others to carry forward the ban
ner of freedom.
Especially true was this of the Ger
manic and Anglo-Saxon, who from re
motest time were actuattd by proud
ideas of personal liberty and the right
to think. On the other hand, the Cel
tic people, more superstitious, were
given to place reliance in authority.
yielded to the arrogance of tueir
priests. Irish, French, Italian aud
Spanish were not drawn Into the vor
tex of reform. France felt its current,
but the dreadful persecution of the
Huguenots, the massacres, auto da
tea and the steady adhesion of the
kings to the holy church checked the
popular tide and held it until it broke
forth in political instead of religious
revolution.
Spain felt the full and crushing
force of Catholic policy. Nowhere
else on earth could the Holy Inquisi
tion have found rest That demonic
Institution was organized persecution,
and having absolute control in Spain,
proceeded to eradicate heresy by the
means always cherished by the
mother church. Every thinker was
brought before the bloodthirsty tri
bunal. Every wealthy and prosperous
citizen who exceeded his neighbors in
thrift. Every one who surpassed In
learning was suspected of treason and
immured in a dungeon. The church
bated freedom, hated wealth in other
hands than her own; iiated learning.
In the torture chamber of the Inqui
sition not only were strong men
bound to the rack and their joints
drawn asunder; delicate, high-bred
women were ruthlessly disrobed by
the brutal servitors, tbelr bodies
branded with red hot irons, their
breasts torn by heated pincers or sus
pended by the arms or feet until in
sensibility shielded them from fur
ther pain. Children were burned and
torn before their agonized mothers.
No device of cruelty which fiendish in
genuity could invent that waa not
employed on these helpless victims.
There was no temporizing. The
work was thoroughly done, and no
seed left to trouble oftentime. The ig
norant, superstitious, perfidious, hyp
ocritical remained to produce a na
tion exactly conforming to the idea
of Romanism. If there is a pure and
simple Roman Catholic country it Is
Spain. The best class of Spaniards
have the gloss of chivalry, but the
nation as a whole Is the most illiter
ate of Europe. The priests are the
source of information and power. The
people are as wax in their hands. Not
only are the people ignorant beyond
belief in this enlightened age, their
bigotry and intolerance are as sur
prising. None of the great reformers
or agitators have disturbed them.
Woman's rights, temperance, the new
views of science, democracy, all alike
are unknown and would not be com
prehensible. A revolution means only a
change of tyrants, for the government
is in the hands of the church and
cannot be other than the church dic
tates. The most cruel, thoughtless, shift
less and Impoverished people aside
from savages, they persecute those
who attempt to teach them humanity.
A physician related his experience
recently in a London journal In be
nevolent work In Spain. He went to
a Spanish city and began to practice
medicine free of chargef often furnish
ing food and medicine free. After a
while he was so shocked by the con
stantly observed cruelty to animals,
for in no part of the earth are they
so cruelly treated, and the horrors of
the bull fights, that he wrote a pam
phlet against these abuses. For this
he was hooted at and derided by bis
former friends and left the city in
disgust for Madrid. When he arrived
there he found that he was shadowed
as an anarchist. All Free Masons or
liberal thinkers are held as anarchists
Another physician attempted to
start a secular school in a Spanish
seaport. This awoke the wrath of the
priests, and when he died, which he
did mysteriously, they refused him
burial.
A newspaper in Southern Spain
made editorial comments on the sad
condition of agricultural laborers,
long hours of work, bad food and star-
vation wages, even the want of the
decencies of life. He was brought be
fore the governor, and although no
one could dispute that he had not
written every word the truth, he was
bullied, threatened and barely es
caped sentence. Such writing can do
little harm, as the laboring class can
not read.
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Americans ran know little of Spain,
for unless they have personally seen
they cannot comprehend the wretch
edness and superstition that exlBts
thers. A well known writer says we
know aa little about that people as we
do those of Mars, and then adds:
"This very year at a bull fight hun
dreds broke Into the ring and attacked
one of the bulls with broken bottles,
stones, clubs and knives, and these
same people are docile worshipers of
the priests. Assassinations are com
mon; a mass is soon said and the af
fair forgotten. Not so If any gewgaw
ts stolen from the image of a saint
That provokes a prolonged bowl of
rage. No resident of Spain cares to
tell the truth, for should his name be
known big business would be ruined,
and a gang of bigots soon have their
knives in him."
Here ia an object lesson. A nation
brought by ages of Catholic rule to
be exactly what that church desires.
Roman Catholicism is the same in all
countries, and had it been possible
would have made Germany, England
and all others exactly the same. She
would, bad she the power, make our
own free nation a people like unto the
Spanish, who are after her own heart
Do you doubt that this is her de
sire and purpose?
When has she ever changed? When
ever relinquished an object?
Just as far as it is possio.e will Ro
manism bring this country to a level
with her beloved Spain.
Her tremendous power is seen by
the way she has prevented our gov
ernment from interfering with the
wholesale murder in Cuba, while the
people constantly demanded action. In
this crisis, where the liberty of a suf
fering people was at stake, we have
seen that the power of Rome waa
stronger than the voice of the people,
itoqo o pdJjajaJd eApnorfxa J no put)
the mandate of the pope.
HUDSON TUTTLB.
Kenie After Uraugemen.
The Romanists of Victoria, Austra
lia, have formed a new "Victoria De
fense League," for the special purpose
of putting down Orange lodges in the
colony by the strong arm of the law,
and preventing any member of the
order entering the public service even
as a policeman! It is a secret organi
zation, but some of its confidential
documents have come into possession
of the Orangemen, through whose
means they were printed In tUs
Melbourne Age. The new league pro
poses to ask all candidates for parlia
mentary honors the following ques
tions: "1. Are you opposed to any per
son in the public service, and partic
ularly In the police force, being a
member of the Orange Boclety? If yes,
and elected, will you support a bill
to attain this object? 2. Are you In
favor of the appointment of a royal
commission to inquire into the state
of Orangelsm in the public service?
3. Are you, if elected, prepared to sup
port a bill to relieve all doubts con
cerning the illegality of members of
the Loyal Orange Lodges marching in
procession, wearing the regalia of
their order?" The Orangemen) of
Australia are taking steps to defeat
the schemes of the papists, and I have
no doubt the Orangemen of England
will take special Interest In the con
test. Should Rome succeed in putting
down the Orange order In Victoria,
she will next try to do the same thing
in the United Kingdom. English
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