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french newspapers
HAVE PUT CHURCH
ALWAYS IN WRONG
Continued from Pago Ono.
r their pope being such a wicked, un-
.,-rupulous monater and naturally ask
,1 nr any of these charges are true
' ..rnvrn. A few historical facts may
'A,., „« tn a better understanding or
,!, e true nature of this l'rench prob-
1 7' The concordat.
the l'rench revolution seized ami
■nnflsraled millions worth of church
rnoertv. drove thousands of priests
led bishop* out of France, and almost
.Weeded In uprooting the Catholic
religion there. When Napoleon com-
-erl to remake the country and re.
instruct the frame work of his gov-
eminent, lie found that no stable force
„ulri rule the land without the help of
.elision. He thought tor a moment of
establishing a religion of bla own. as
|.,d been dons elsewhere, but he gave
t he Idea and opened negotiations
Ith the vatlesn. He was unwilling to
hand I'm* * h ® "to 1 * 0 riches to the
l 10rc h or to restore her t<j the former
influence end power, but he wanted a
, l»sr title to the stolen church proper-
tv he wanted the re-establishment of
,i.i old religion, and so he drew up a
,r*t of a treaty containing seventeen
.sort clauses or articles, which he
'.ailed concordat, and presented It ro
ti,. rope. Among the articles of the.
concordat it Is clearly stated that the
catholic religion shall be freely exei-
,ued in France: that remuneration
•hall be given the clergy as compensa
tion or Interest for the church property
taken from them, etc.
This concordat lasted from 1901 to
1905 It was not a fair compensation
for all the plunder and ruin catised by
,ha revolution, but It afforded millions
of catholics tho right of prdaching their
religion In their own country; It lifted
thousands of clergy out of misery and
,sll«d back numbers of priests from
„lle It aurvtvsd seven separate re
times tn Francs; served as the basts of
international canon law for 104 years,
and proved a tolerably satlsfactory
•modus Vivendi” between the rival and
often antagonistic claims of churclt
and state tn France.
During that long period not ono sin
gle Instance can be adduced whore the
Itolv see violated either the spirit or
the' letter of this treaty of 1901. But
ran the same be said of the state? As
has been said of another famous treaty,
It wes broken “ere the Ink wherewith
■fwaa writ was dry,” and broken of
ficially by the so-called organic articles.
Talk about the church persecuting tho
state is llks the story of tho lamb per.
lacuttns tho wolf.
The Catholic religion was to bo freely
exercised In France, and In defiance of
her teachings and law*—the state
pissed the divorce laws, tho military
laws for clerics, the educational laws,
i he taws against religious orders, laws
forbidding bishop or priest to meet
without an order from the police, law*
putting the clergy of -France on the
•alary list like the gendarmes, laws
(bretng religious communities to pay
double or treble tho tax of ordinary
citizens or ordinary corporations, final
ly laws making all religions outlaws,
end licensing Infidelity tn the home and
godlessnesa In the school. And this In
open defiance of an international trea
ty!
Franee. a country officially acknowl
edging the Catholic religion to be the
religion of tho state, putting an active
frte thinker and professed tnfldet as
hud of the ecclesiastical bureau In
Paris! With authority to select tho
priests proposed to Borne for Episcopal
consecration. 1 from whom pastors got
their appointments and oerlshera their
pastors. ' ■
The schools and lycee* were cram
med with antl-Chrtstian teachers:
priest* v ere deprived of their salary!?!
for teaching the Catechism or denounc
ing divorce or insisting upon Bunday
observance. Then to prepare for the
repudiation of the conrurdat, (lie gov
ernment subsidised a whole anti-cleric
al press; and patters, dally or weekly,
Illustrated or not. flooded the country,
endless In variety and numberless, and
all vehemently or Insidiously attacked
the church and relish n. Others scoffed
and .ieeied nt Christian morality. In
venting scandals on priests and r.una,
and palming them in such odious col
ors that people would not but look
upon clergymen as hypocritical rakes
nr.d repulsive satyrs.
Other papers. again, circulated
among children at school, instilling into
their minds contempt for religion, dls-
Irust and hatred of priests, while.some
rags, waiving all decency, minister to
the most abject passions of corrupt
human nature, throwing wide the gates
of scurrilous obscenity, and rotted to
the very core of society—pictures, bills,
notices, reviews, papers and cheap
novels followed suit, and moral life
In the country began to sink beneath a
deluge of unspeakable filth.
Having thus prepared the country,
the government preceded to wipe out
the concordat and nuke new laws for
the church so drastic In nature as to be
almost incredible In the twentieth cen
tury. A convenient quaryel with the
holy see was given n* an excuse and
the famous act of separniion became a
law.
Without a word of warning, without
even a reasonable excuse, a bl-lateral
contract was abrogated and church and
state separated. This repudiation was
a violation of the natural law. against
the law of nation, against the public
fidelity due a treaty, and ail to repu
diate national obligations and to per
secute a church.
When separation became a law. the
church should at least have been left
free, but such was not the Intention of
the rulers of France. A new law
proposed, tho law of pariah association:
by which all ehurph affairs were to m
turned-over to a lay tribunal appoiqted
by the atate. An impossible alterna
tlve woe proposed to the pope under
pain of confiscation of all churches,
cathedrals, bishops' and priests' houses,
seminaries, church lands, etc. The
government proclaims that It has "sep
arated” church and state. That It not
so. They have robbed the church and
made a new' concordat, a concordat de
void of concord and of orthodoxy, a
one-sided contract which no one can
accept or follow unless he first becomes
a Schismatic. Here we have an athe
istical government directing the burk
of Pater and seating Itself on the throne
of the vicar of Christ.
Foreign Authority in Frenee.
I notice that Ctemenceau has hit
upon a new argument. No foreigner
can Interfere In French affairs, but the
pope is a foreigner, therefore.
Plus X Is not a Frenchman, and
thank God for It. But religion, like
science, Is not confined within any
territorial frontiers. Tho Frenchmun
who, on -the grounds of patriotism,
would refuse to accept the discoveries
of a foreign scientist, would cover him
self with ridicule. II is the same with
religious truth and government. The
nationality of the Master and Head is
not tn question. It is a question of the
UNCLE SAM DEFRAUDED
OUT OF FORTY MILLIONS
DECLARES MR.MURDOCK
Washington, Dec. 12.—The United
States government has been over
charged 140,000,000 by the railroada
luring the last ten years for carrying
'he malls, according to a statement
made In the house by Representative
Victor Murdock, of Kansas.
■ "iring tho consideration of the leg
islative bill, he explained In detail how
various roads. Including the New York
Central, had made false averages of
dm dally weight of malts.
"At the last weighing at which the
Nnv York Central appeared, the weigh.
Ing was for 72 successive working days,
beginning February 14, 1905. and end
ing May 15. 1905. 90 days thereafter,”
said he. "The mall was wetghsd not
71 days, but 90 days. The Hunday
weights, as far as I can And, were In
cluded In the total, but when the aver
age. was to be found, the Sundays were
subtracted from the 90 days."
Representative Richardson, of Ala
bama. spoke in favor of sustaining In
the bill the paragraph appropriating
110,000 to send cotton experts to for
eign countries to Investigate the out
look for -Hie sale of the cotton prod
ucts.
QUALITY is remembered after
PRICE is forgotten.
Canton Pumps
remain in service because they do what is
claimed for them.
We Carry in Stock Different Sizes.
Dunn Machinery Co.
34 MARIETTA ST.
ATLANTA.
ORNAMENTAL THERMOMETERS
Thermometers, mounted up
on an onyx column, with
bronze bust. -Vs shown in
cut at $2.87
Thermometer, mounted on a handsome 'piece of
bronze work—“The Shipwreck.” The Thermom
eter graduated with both scales. As shown in cut
in two sizes $1.29 and $2.83
Hrouze Dutch Windmills,
with thermometer showing
both scales. Like cut at 89c
Thermometers mounted on bronze, onyx and rosewood.
Artistic creations, for the mantel, the office desk, to hang upon the wall.
Decorative thermometers, but all of them accurate scales.
All are imported goods.
With clock, barometer, thermometer on rosewood back
and shelf trimmed with brass.
$8.98
Inkwell, as pictured here, with two crystal brass top
wells, mounted upon rosewood tray. In the center, held
by a fancy bronze standard, is a thermometer.
Thermometer and barometer mounted upon carved hoard
in scroll design.
$6.T3
Thermometers mounted on Onyx Column, with Corin
thian Capital and Fancy Bronze base, with a winged
wheel surmounting column,
Thermometer with clock. Tho clock held by a bronze
eagle sitting upon a rock upon which the thermometer is
mounted,
Thermometer and barometer mounted upon a rosewood
back with shelf and bas relief head in bronze,
$7.87, $7.27, $8.97
$4.37
JACOBS’ PHARMACY.
pope aa pope, and not of Plus X, called
Sarto. The papal authority Is not con
fined to any one country In the world,
neither la the multiplication tubte. It
Is neither Italian, nor l’rench. nor Ger
man, nor English, nor American; nor Is
it opposed to any of these nationalities.
It is Catholic, that ts. It Is universal.
The pope in his character of head of
the church Is a citizen of the world.
When he teaches or Issues commands
within the limits of the divine mandate
his voice Is heard across the contl
tients and the seas from one end of the
world to the other, among all peoples,
in all nations, and in all states. He is
no foreigner in Tarts, or In London, dr
tn New York, or In Pekin. Tho fron
tiers of the papacy ere co-tennlnus
with those of humanity Itself.
LETTERS FROM “ROSE"
BROUGH'/ MOTORMAN 70
COURT AND STOCKADE
GEORGIA NEWS
IN PARAGRAPHS
STATISTICS.
PROPERTY TRANSFERS.
tlS^Ktls M. McLondou, to Charles F.
Reason, lot tn Oakland cemetery. Warranty
William II. Herrlsoa to Mrs. [hums
A. Moore, let nesr Mins avenue. Warranty
deed to secure loan.
9600—Home Investment Company to J. II.
Rutledge, tot on Weet Third etteet near Me
Mtllan street. Warranty deed.
9-90—Samuel H. Oglefree to Jamsa M.
Johnson, lot on Lowa street near wood
street. Warranty title deed.
$499—James W, Ifarrlson to W. It. Harri
son. lot oe llarrlsoa street near railroad.
Warranty deed.
99.000— Mrs. Ruhr H. Thompaon to A. C.
Kidd sod W. D. Harrison, lot In land lot
1< $S0^Mra.*Vaien*B. Buck to W. B. Harri
son, ten mere tract nezt to Pike Hill prop-
rly. Warranty dned. . ....
ji.frfsj—W. o. Wsnlsbew to A. C. Kidd
ami W. B. Harrison, land in land lot 194.
BUILDING PERMITS.
$3,000—U. O. Zaehry. to bnllil two two
story frame dwellings at 149-17 Form Kilt
'V»—SmHh Brice, to re-cover frame dwell-
i* at 15 Maple atrecl.
9100— Dr, J. I,. Campbell, lo build frame
servant's house nt 09 Park nvenue.
91.000— M. T. Plekert, lo build one story
frame dwelling nt 50 Mason and Turner
Ferry road.
ll.MO-Fdinoudtoo A lire., to build one-
Introducing In police court Wednes
day morning several "love” letters, said
to have been written to her husband
by another womuu signing In r name
"Rose," Mrs. W. A. .Summers, of 345
Cooper street, declared her husband,
who Is a street rallwuy motorman, has
cruelly mlatreutud her.
In giving her testimony against her
husband, Mrs. Hummers, who Is a frail
lllile woman, broke down and Wept, as
serting she was afraid Hummers would
kill her.
Recorder Hroyles severely repri
manded the husband and then sen
tenced him to serve two weeks In the
city stockade without the privilege of
good lawyer and at once Institute pro
ceedings for divorce. Sirs. Hummers
readily accepted tills advice, and as
she left the police elation stated that
DEATHS.
Robert Powers, aged lOayearz, died at lot
X. Butler street.
Jans All-zander Pierce, aged SJ years,
died at 335 West Peachtree yn-et
of heart disease at 33 Trinity avenue.
Why She Worried.
"Wlmt makes Mabel look so worried
these days?"
"Hhe doesn't know whether to make
her llgure like those in the rushlon |
plates or the physical culture books.”—
Cleveland Press,
she would seek a lawyer Immediately.
. "Rose" Is His "Girl."
Mrs. Summers declared Her husband
was not supporting her and her little
girl, ami charged Hint he hnd kept her
nt home for several months, refusing
to allow her to go down town. Hhe
said'he had Informed her that “Rose"
was hi* "girl.” remarking:
"I wouldn't have my girl see me on
the street with you for anything."
The wife testilleil that her husband
would not buy clothes for her and the
child, and would qot put the latter In
school.
Judge .Broyles suggested that Sum
mers was probably using his money In
buying clothing for "Rose,” and had
none left for his family.
Mrs. Summers said she married Sum.
mers nine years ago, In Lawrencevllle,
ami declared he had not bought her a
pair of shoes In live years.
Denied the Charges.
Hummers denied the rharges of his
wife, asserting she had been Induced to
take court union against him by some
people who didn't like him.
"It Is simply your- cruel treatment
that has done It,” Interposed the re
corder.
The husband admitted "Rose” had
been writing to him, but protested he
wna innocent of any wrong doing at
all. He alsi> said the reason he didn't
want Ills wife lo go out wus because lie
had no money to buy her clothes nnd
didn't want her to be on the streets
looking worse than any one else.
He explained that be was bitten by a
muddog on August 24 anil that this
Incapacitated him for work for some
thin-, causing him to become Involved
In-debt, lie also declared he had tried
to get Ids child in school, but failed
because of (lie crowded condition.
Hummers was arrested at his home
Wednesday morning by Policemen Pey
ton and Payne.
Mrs. Bertha Haas.
The funeral services of Mrs. Bertha
Haas, who died Monday, were conduct
ed Wednesday morning ut her late resi
dence, 384 Whitehall street. The Inter
ment was In Uakland cemetery. She Is
survived by four sons and two daugh
ters,
Mrs. Mary Cecil Graham.
The funeral services of Mrs. Cecil
Graham, who died at a private sani
tarium Monday, were conducted Tues-
Bank Buye City Bonds.
Special lo The Ucorgtsn.
Katonton, Ga„ Dec. 12.—The 915,500
bond Issue liy the city for the con
struction of a ayatem of sewerage
has been sold, the Bank of Katonton
having bought the entire series.
Two Real Estate Dealt.
Special to The lievrgtau. _
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 12.—J. D. Twlt-
ty has sold Itla home on Athena street
to W. M. Hayes for 91850. and will give
possession January I. Mr. Twltty has
purchased the Katin Whclrhcl place, mi
College avenue, for 91.90a, nnd will
move the flrst of the new year.
Old Officers Re-elected.
Hpeelal to The UeorgUn.
Demurest, Ga., Dee. 12.—At the elec
tion for city officers to serve for the
year 1907 all the old ufllrers were re
elected, except J. N. England was elect
ed In place of W- N. Sosschee us coun
cilman.
Schmitz's Death Deplored.
Bpeelal to The Georgian.
Macon. Ga., Dec. 12.—The death of
George Schmitz. one of the rlly flre-
men. at the city hospital. Is generally
deplored. He died from nn in leek if I
appendicitis. He was one of the bc-l-
known llremen In the city and Ills deal n
has caused general regret here.
GEORGET GAIKS LAP,
BUT LOSES IT AGAIN
OK A TECHNICALITY
New York. Dec 12.—In one of the
most desperate sprint* of the day, Leon
Georget. who with hi* brother, Emil,
represent* tl c Frerrh team, nucctded
in catching ill* rivals napping shortly
after 7 o'clock, and before they were
aware of what wan taking place the'
lanky Frenchman had lapped them.
Cheer after cheer for the plucky,
rider broke from the throats of the 10,-
000 spectators who had thronged the
Garden until long after dawn.
Much to the disgust of,the French
man. however, the officials of the race
ruled that the lap did not count, owing
to the fact that at the time of the
sprint MacFarl.-ind was out of the race,
owing to a broken pedal. The French
man in ids hair-raising sprint did not
.lulice the red (lag Hanging from the
judges' stand denoting that lape gained
ill*! not court. When he was informed
that his work had been tor nothing. Hie
Frenchman's wrath kneyv no bound*.
The score at noon was 1,102.9, except
Walt hour and Bedell, 1,102.7.
• Jewelry Store Robbed.
Hpei-lul to The Georgian.
Decatur. Ala.. Dec. 12.—During Sun
day night the Jewelry store of Robert
Rem hum on Bunk street was brul-n
Into and about |I50 worth of Jewelry
stolen. There Is no clew as to the
rubber*.