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THE POPE’S LAW Must be i
Changed; or OUR GOVERN-
MENT IS DOOMED, if Roman
Catholics Secure Control.
(continued from page one.)
at the Council of Trent, which began its ses
sions in 1545, and ended them in 1563.
The Pope proclaimed this Code in 1564, and
it has ever since been the Law of the Roman
Catholic Church.
This code of foreign Jaw applies to Catho
lics in America, as well as to Catholics in Ire
land, in Spain, in Austria, and in the Vatican,
itself.
Now it must be sufficiently clear to all un
prejudiced minds, that the bold declarations
made to Protestant America, by the three
Irish Cardinals at the late New York Con
vention, raises the question—
What is the law of this foreign monarchy,
whose Princes parade our greatest City with
insolent pomp, their royal trains borne by
American boys ?
What is the law of this foreign church,
whose Irish and Italian magnates are seated
on “thrones” in American cathedrals; and
who, from those seats of monarchy, arrogate
to their foreign church the right to dictate to
our Government upon the vitally important
subjects of Marriage and Divorce; of Free
Speech and Free Press; of Public Education;
and of our Foreign Relations?
More particularly, when the Princes who
occupy those thrones, prance through the
streets, with royal train-bearers, and with
guards of honor whose drawn swords are as
conspicuous as the insolent pomp op the
Princes — send forth their official orders that
: 11 Catholic young men must organize them
selves separately,as Catholics, INTO RIFLE
(LUBS.
“Preparedness,” they say. “Preparedness”
for what?
The Government is supposed to be the
rgency for Preparedness—not the churches.
'Die Government is preparing, at prodigious
expense; and all other churches are thinking
< f nothing else than to let the Government
prepare the Preparedness.
Why does this foreign church demand of
its young men the formation of a strictly
Catholic army?
It all comes to this: in the Catholic Secret
Societies, in the Catholic Colony settlements,
in the Catholic Schools, in the Catholic Boy
Scouts, and in the? Catholic Rifle Clubs, the
three Irish Princes of the Roman Curch are
drawing their obedient American followers,
into separate and hostile camps.
Inasmuch as those three Irish Princes of
the Papal Empire are themselves not only
the sworn subjects of a foreign potentate, but
are sworn enemies to all Protestants, and are
duty-bound to labor for the enforcement in
this country of a foreign system of laws, we
would be simply suicidal, if we did not ac
quaint ourselves with those laws.
We are thrilled by the story of the boatmen
who, on the outer rim of the maelstrom,
laughed at the warning cries of experienced
sailors, praying those scoffers to combat that
outer rim, and escape the deadly, irresistible
inner-currents.
We arc fascinated, with the strange spell of
terror, as we read of the dwellers in Pompeii
and Herculaneum, who feasted and revelled,
played and sang, in spite of the Avarnings of
earth-tremors and volcanic rumblings, thrown
out from old Vesuvius.
But there are 80,000,000 sleeping Ameri
cans, today, who are just as blind, just as deaf,
just as fatally indifferent to this terrible
growth of Roman politics, greed, immorality,
and superstition—Roman, and therefore
anti- American.
.Within the last few, months, the Popes
THE JEFFERSONIAN
themselves have re-iterated the law of Trent;
and one of the first declarations of the present
Pope was that all government was not derived
from the people, and resting on the consent
of the governed; but that the Papacy, as the
representative of God, was the Supreme ruler
of the world.
Medievalism! Divine right of absolute
kings, ruling the people, by grace of the
Church of Rome. For more than a thousand
years, that has been the papal theory and as
sumption, and it is embodied in the laws made
at Trent.
(1.) That the Pope inherited from mythi
cal predecessors the power of God, on earth;
(2.) That the Pope is judge of all, and
can be judged by none;
(3.) That the Pope is free from all laws,
and is supreme in his power to abolish laws,
govern marriage, and everything relating to
religion, morals, and discipline.
(4.) That the Pope has power on earth,
in purgatory, in hell, and in heaven, to bind
and loose, to do and undo, to command, dis
pense, permit, and forbid.
(5.) That no soul can be saved except
through obedience to the Pope.
(6.) That all temporal power belongs to
the Pope, and that the government of the
whole earth is his by divine right. All rulers
of the earth are his subjects and must submit
to him.
(See Morton’s “Roman Church and its re
lations to the Federal Government.” Pages
158 and 159.)
These preposterous and even insane pre
tensions are re-asserted in modern times, amid
the rush of progress and the light of Reason;
and the fanatical pontiff went so far, not
many years ago, to exact a new oath of all
priests, swearing them anew to this medieval
lunacy. He called it the oath against
“Modernism.”
Did the American priests take the oath?
Oh yes, they took it.
Does not your intelligence suggest (1) that ’
a highly organized church must ever gravitate
toward the objects aimed at in its laws; and
(2) that those laws must be learned from the
Papa’l Code and the Encyclicals of Popes?
1 ou cannot afford to take the mere unsup
ported word of a Roman Catholic American
priest: and I will tell you why:
First, his theology encourages him to falsi
fy, whenever the falsehood benefits his
church;
Second, he dares not tell the truth about the
law of his church, because, if he did, half the
Catholic laymen would leave it in 48 hours.
The three Irish cardinals denounced free
press and free speech, on the ground that their
church had been “villified:” they dared not
tell their own American communicants that
the law of the Roman Church condemns all
freedom of press and of speech, as damnable.
The three Irish cardinals vehemently de
mand that Romanism be restored to power in
Mexico, basing their inflammatory appeals
upon alleged “outrages:” they did not dare to
put it on its true ground, namely, that the law
of popery asserts the Pope's right to rule
rulers.
The three Irish cardinals called for the
separate organization of Catholic young men
into rifle clubs, and for the unity of all Catho
lic electors in voting: they did not feel quite
bold enough to avow the real purpose of this
arming and voting—which purpose is, to
“make America Catholic,'’ and subdue it to
the will of the Italian pope.
Suppose that all our schools, our churches
and our Protestant papers had studied the
law of Popery, the oath of the priesthood, and
the political features of the Roman organiza
tion ! In such a case, the whole country
would scoff, jeer, and scornfully laugh, every
time a Romanist pretends that he can ever
be a loyal citizen, and a loyal Catholic.
If they are loyal Catholics, they must obey
the law of their church; but that law vents
the curse of the Pope upon ours.
Every principle of every American Bill of
Rights, is the exacLopposite of the papal laws.
Every American right, bought with blood, and
glorified every Fourth of July; is damned, in
the. bitterest terms of savage hatred, by the*
official decrees of Popes.
How can these implacably hostile
be reconciled?
Which system is to conquer the other?
Both are here, AND BOTH ARE ARMINGS
In words that burn with hatred and fear,
the Popes anathematize free speech. Papal
law curses it.
What does Cardinal O’Connell say about itj
in his Boston Pilot?
Just a few days before he went to New;
York, to prance gorgeously through the
streets, and to make Madison Square Gardeil
ring with cheers as he expressed his fervent
loyalty to American principles, he wrotq
Popery’s real sentiments for his personal or
gan, as follows:
“When you hear a man prating about thq
inalienable right to free speech, look out for
him!
As soon as he appears, gather your wife
and children, and send them into the house,
and then bar the door against the liberty
loving gentleman. He means no good to you
and your family.”
Thus, at one fell blow, Popery floors Johrt
Milton, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas
Jefferson, Chief Justice John Marshall, and
virtually every liberal thinker and statesman
of modern times—to say nothing of American
constitutions!
Cardinal O’Connell's editorial continued:
“We live in a day when all rebellion against
laws is shielding itself under the aegis of free
speech.
No man can justly claim that he has a light
to free speech.”
Thus Rome's law is arrogantly set up
against the Constitution of the United States.
If they can gradually bring American
Catholics to Rome’s way of thinking, good
bye to free speech in America.
Cardinal O’Connell said in his New York
harangue:
I know well every priest in my diocese, and
every bishop in this country. Yet never, in all
that experience, have I ever heard spoken, lisped
or whispered, or even hinted by any or all of these,
anything concerning Americt and American insti
tutions, but words of affection, of tender and
kindliest solicitude for her welfare; never a syl
lable that could not be printed in the boldest type
and distributed throughout the land; neither plot
nor scheme nor plan—but only sentiments of ad
miration and love. If there is plotting I ought to
know it.
The speaker was blissfully ignorant of the
fact that Cardinal Gibbons, on being asked to
name the five greatest American evils, had
named our divorce laws and our public
schools, as two of the five, and had not named
the Liquor Traffic, the White Slave horrors,
the Child Slave tragedy, or the Unemploy
ment inferno.
Cardinal () Connell was also unaware of
the fact that Archbishop Blenk's paper had
heaped contempt upon our Declaration of In
dependence; and that Bishop Keiley has re
cently said, that he couldn’t think of permit
ting the State of Georgia to enforce its In
spection law, except under his own conditions.
Os course, the three Irish cardinals were
not at all responsible for the riots at Haver
hill, Massachusetts and other papal strong
holds, where free speech was violently sup
pressed. ami the State officials terrorized.
Nor have they anything to do with the
efforts to destroy anti-papal piiblu'Ui.uns, and
to close the lauds ip all who wish to repeat
what Erasmus and Luther said against the
inherent vices of Romes infernal system.
