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VcEMBEK 1906
The Nebraska Independent
IILEYVSUTEMEIT
L Between Catholic Church and
France Defined by Archbishop
of New York -
SeW York -Archbishop John M.
Ley of New York has given out the
Lowing statement on the church
L state controversy in France: -
Here in America, where there is
o attempt made by the state to in
erfrre with the various religious de-
omlnations, the people at large are
aturaliy disposed to condemn clergy-
ten who, by declining to comply with
he behests of the government, ex-
Le themselves to a charge of re-
lellion against the authorities of the
Li But in order to understand the
efusal of the Roman Catholic clergy
if France to fulfill the requirements
bf the new law of separation it must
le explained that the provisions of
the statute in question demand the
consent of the church and of its min
asters to the alienation of all the prop'
erty that has been bequeathed and
donated, to be held in trust for re
ligious and philanthropic purposes. It
6s property which they do not derive
prom the government, but from the
itiuniflcence of the pious and of which
they are merely the trustees.
The situation created by the new
haw of separation, which is the cause
(of the present crisis in France, is as
ervous
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if, for Instance, the legislature of New
York were to enact laws compelling
the trustees of the Trinity church cor
poration, under the penalty of confis
cation, to give their consent to the
alienation of all its vast property to
other uses than those for which it
was intended and to transfer its ad
ministration and control to people who
might either belong to rival denomi
nations or even profess atheism. It
is as if the legislature of New York
were to enact a statute requiring the
Catholic church, under the penalty of
confiscation of its property of one
kind or another, to consent to the
transfer of the management and con
trol of its sacred edifices, seminaries,
rectories, hospitals, protectories and
other educational and charitable in
stitutions to associations in which
not merely avowed foes of Catholi
cism among the Protestant denomina
tions, but also agnostics and schem
ing politicians, indifferent to any kind
of religious belief, were in the majority.
Were such laws to be enacted by
the state of New York the clergy and
trustees administering the great prop
erty of the Trinity church corporation
and the clergy and trustees invested
with the direction of the property of
the Catholic church, would be prompt
ed to refuse obedience, not only on
religious grounds, but also by reason
of their conviction that compliance
would involve a flagrant disregard
of their moral and material obligations
as trustees. They would look upon
the law in question as iniquitous, as
unconstitutional, and would therefore
consider themselves justified in do
ing nothing to express their submis
sion thereto. .
It is inconceivable to the American
people that the legislature of New
York or indeed of any other state of
this great and free republic, should
enact any such Jaws of virtual spolia
tion. Yet that is precisely what the
French government has done.
In a word the new law requires of
the church . the alienation of all its
property to boards of laymen, in the
selection of which it has virtually no
voice; this board to have full and
perfect control not only of the funds,
but even over the religious edifices
and over the exercise of divine wor
ship itself, independent of pope, bish
ops and canon law.
The property at stake consists of
about 30,000 churches (of which less
than 300 have been built with the aid
of state or municipality), and the prop
erty accumulated by means of endow
ments and . legacies during the last
100 years, since the last confiscation
of church property at the time of
the great revolution, and amounting
to considerably over $100,000,000.
Onlv a portion of this vast prop
erty is destined for purely ecclesias
tical purposes, the great majority ol
the funds being designed and used
for purposes of charity and philan
thropy. Of this proper, the clergy
are the trustees by virtue of the con
ditions under which it was donated
and bequeathed. Their acceptance of
tho new law and their transfer or tins
property trust ,to the "associations
cultuilles" would alienate forever the
estate of the church in deference to
an iniquitous law which may be re
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pealed by another parliament.
Aristide Briand, the minister of ed
ucation in France and the author and
executor of this iniquitous law, has
solemnly declared that without the
written consent of the clergy to the
establishment of these boards or "as
sociations cultuelles," and without the
transfer by the clergy of the property
of the church to these bodies, there
could not only be no public exercises
of divine worship, but there would al
so follow the confiscation of the sacred
edifices, the rectories and the other
ecclesiastical property by the state.
There is' no question of the differ
ences between the various religious
denominations. The pope and the Ro
man Catholic church in France today
are fighting with far better justifica
tion and much greater moderation the
very war that Chalmers and the other
founders of the Free kirk waged in
Scotland sixty years ago for ''the
crown rights of Christ." The clergy
of France, in one word, are fighting
the battle of Christendom and should
have the sympathy" of every Christian
church, no matter what its denomina
tion, which owns property and endow
ments to be used for divine worship
and for the dispensation of charity
according to its own lights.
lowed, ns it, has been, by the declara
tion of his sympathizer and spokes
man, Secretary Hoot, that 'sooner or
later the constitution will bo construed
so as to obliterate all slate rights
and vest the power of administration
in the national government,' the effort
has been to place the entire federal
government under a suspicion which
nothing can remove but such ludlgnant
disclaimer from all parts of the coun
try as followed the utterance of Mr.
Root In the very banquet hall where
he was the guest of honor.
"If it were thinkable .that the fed
eral courts would assume, by any de
flnement of legal construction, to In
vest the federal government with pow
ers which every school child In the
United States cornea to know were
never intended to be granted to it,
it would be impossible to foresee the
consequencees. They would be very
grave.
"In the face of all this the obstin
acy of a president, mad by flattery, to
endeavor thus to subvert the liberties
which Tie has sworn to defent cannot
be characterized in terms which even
the ,most just indignation will justify
using in connection with the president
of the republic."
FRISCO PAPER FLAYS PRESIDENT
Says He Would Subvert Liberties of
Countrymen for Intruding Race
San Francisco. In commenting on
the special message" to congress in
which President Roosevelt, as fore
cast by Secretary Root, will declare
for federal supremacy over state rights
the Chronicle says:
"By his hateful attacks on a section
and a class and his arrogant misuse
of power in seeking to prostitute the
judicial processes of the government
to subvert the liberties of his coun
trymen in the interest of an alien and
intruding race, Roosevelt has done
more to turn back the tide of national
patriotism than would seem possible
for any one man.
"The inevitable failure of his at
tempt will not undo the mischief. Fol-
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