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Father William Tobin Glorifies
the Roman Catholk Church.
To the extent of a score of columns in The
Everting Herald, (Rock Hill, South Carolina),
Father William Augustus Tobin slashes us poor
heretics, in a manner which reminds me of how his
amiable Church drive out of France the Hugue¬
nots whom the priests and the Catholic mobs fail¬
ed to catch and murder.
I have no doubt that some of the descendants
of those French Protestants are readers of the
Rock Hill Evening Herald.
Consequently they, at least, can appreciate the
delicious impudence of Father Tobin when he
praises the liberal, progressive record of his
Ohurch.
Think of a Southern priest who virtually as¬
sumes that we have forgotten the “ infallibility ”
dogma of 1870; the “ immaculate conception ” of
Mary’s mother, (1854) and the Syllabus of 1867,
which absolutely condemns liberalism, modem
civilization, and state-school education!
Pope Pius IX. officially approved the Sylla¬
bus, and “infallibly” declared that the Roman
Catholic Church cannot be reconciled to modern
civilisation.
Has Father Tobin never read the Syllabus?
It is the latest codification of the law of h : s
Church; and it, vehemently condemns liberty
of conscience, freedom of worship, secular
schools, separation of church and state, free¬
dom of press, and the basic principles of
a republican form of government.
Father Tobin quotes from W. E. Gladstone a
glowing eulogy on the Homan Church as the
leader of civilization for 1500 years.
. “Her art, the art of the world. Her genius,
the genius of the world. Her greatness, glory,
grandeur and majesty have been almost all, though
not absolutely, that the world has had in these
respects to boast of. Every day she is extending
the territory of her vast dominion.”
“And this great Church which is as old as
Christianity itself and is universal, is today, two
thousand years after her Establishments, as young
and as strong and as fruitful and as vigorous as
* on that day when the Pentecostal fires were first
showered down upoa earth. Surely, such an insti¬
tution challenges th* admiration of the world and
demands and deserves a careful inquiry fttom all
those outside her fold.”
Father Tobin does not tell us what he quotes
from: he cites no book, no pamphlet, no letter, no
speech.
Father Tobin alleges that when Gladstone
“was growing older and wiser—for we all grow
wiser with age—he had this to say about the Cath¬
olic church”—and then follows the quotation.
At what time and under what circumstances
did Mr. Gladstone use the words quoted—words
which belie what Gladstone had published in his.
pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees, in 1870; and
which stultify what Pope Pitis IX. published in
1867?
Justin McCarthy, the Catholic historian, wrote
a biography of Gladstone, published by the Mac¬
millan Company in 1897: the second edition
brought out in 1898, contains the latest utterances
of the great statesman. Chapter XXXII. is
devoted to “Gladstone’s Busy Leisure,” after he
had abandoned public life.
Always intensely religious and orthodox, the
retired statesman gave much of his time to
theology; and when Pope Leo XIII. addressed to
the English people his Encyclical appeal for their
re-union with Borne, Mr. Gladstone published a
reply, in which he strongly advocated the Union
of Christian Churches.
By way of response, the Pope published
another Encyclical, to the effect, that Borne could
not unite with, but. would gladly absorb , the other
Christian churches!
In other words. Protestantism could commit
suicide, if it desired.
Gladstone died in 1898: his firm adherence to
the Church of England, as against a union
with Borne was in 1S96: does Father Tobin mean
to say that Gladstone changed his mind after
1890?
bit: had but f /,(■ year hit in uInch to do it.
and had he become the eulogist of the Roman
church within that interval—or at any other!—it
is natural to suppose that Justin McCarthy would
have exultantly made a record of the fact!
In George Barnett Smith’s Life of Gladstone
(1889, Putnam's Sons, New York) chapter XXV.
is given to “Bitualism and Vaticanism.”
On pages 300 and 301, the biographer quotes
Mr. Gladstone as attacking the Vatican Decrees of
1870. because of their tendency to produce open
broils with the civil power; and he declared that
the present attitude of the Papacy impaired moral
responsibility, undermined liberty, and tended to
“emasculate the vigor of the mind,”
Mr. Gladstone argued, that the laws of the
Roman church reduced Catholics to mental slav
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EDITORIALS By TWOS. E. WATSON.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS MEANS THE END OF
GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE.
To be effective, the League of Nations milst
exercise an outside authority , over each member
nation, superior to any authority within the mem¬
ber-nation.
Anybody who is not too blind to see his own
feet, can see that.
Then ask yourself this question:
Is it desirable and safe for us to shackle our
Republic with an outside superior authority?
The day we do this, we cease to control our
national destiny.
To whom, do we surrender that control?
We surrender it to foreign governments,
whose self-interests are different from ours, whose
institutions are different from ours, whose am¬
bitions are different from ours, and whose peoples
are different from ours.
It ife folly to deny, that when we enter a feder¬
ation with France, England, and Japan, we sink
our sovereign independence in a world-Union
which overrides the Union of these United States.
Just as the Central Power at Washington now
lords it over the once separate Sovereign States,
so the Central Power of the League of Nations
will lord it over the minority members comprising
the League.
Who will be the minority members?
There's the rub!
The minority members might include this
Republic: why notf
England’s interests are sure to clash with
ours: and even now the Irish question is the cloud
on the horizon.
The self-constituted delegation of Irish Cath¬
olics (K. of C.) that went from America to stir up
rebellion in Ireland, came within an ace of causing
a split between Great Britain and the United
States.
Nothing saved the situation, except the sud¬
den back-down of President House-Wilson.
The K. of C. Irish delegation had been prom¬
ised the support of House-Wilson and Lloyd
George, but when the Tories of England put their
feet down on the Dunne-Walsh-Ryan delegation,
the English Premier and the American President
both ran to cover.
Next time, the American President might not
give way to the English Tories— then whabf
War, of course!
Again, there is Japan, secure from E u ro p ean
attack!
Why secure?
Because of the thousands of miles of deep
water between herself and Europe; and because of
inexhaustible supplies in men and food which she
can draw from China.
Think of the inconsistency of joining a
League in which these brown “heathen,” may be¬
come our masters.
We do not allow the Japs and the Chinks to
become our equals as inhabitants of this country:
we deny them citizenship, even when bom here:
we refuse to recognize their racial equality in the
Constitution of the League; yet, we admit them to
national equality of membership in the League.
Equality of membership necessarily means,
that Japan's vote will cancel, if not control, ours!
The 45,000,000 Japs will neutralize the vote
of 110,000,000 Americans.
If England and Japan join hands in the
League, this Republic will be ruled by outside in¬
terests.
Do you want that?
We need not. look to France to vote with us,
for the reason that England and Germany are her
immediate neighbors, while the United States are
thousands of miles away.
France can never afford to offend England by
taking sides with us. against her, in the League.
Superfine talk cannot disguise the fact that the
European family of nations is not our family!
It never was, and never can be.
George Washington warned us of this: and so
did Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alex¬
ander Hamilton—who at least shaped up the noble
far-sighted Farewell Address.
Can you change the nature that the Creator
placed in the different races?
Can human ‘organizations change the blacks
into whites, the browns into yellows, or vice versa?
Do you not know that the Austrian Empire
had striven. V >r hundreds of years, to fuse into
one nation the numerous different white tribes, or
races, thnt made up her ill-joined mosaic?
The Czechs are white; the Magyars are white /
so are the Slavs, the Slovaks, the Croats, the Aus¬
trian Germans, the Tyrolese, etc.
But when the Central Authority at Vienna
could no longer exert military pressure on these
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different white peoples, they at once fell apart,
each separate people seeking its separate self-gov¬
ernment.
This being true of distinct members of the
great white family, how can any sensible man be¬
lieve that a League of Nations can harmonize the
brown, yellow, black, and white races?
•They differ in blood, differ in language, differ
in religion, differ in purpose, differ in their ideals
as to what constitutes good government.
This being undeninbly true, why subject OU1
selves to alien control?
Do the People of any nation elect its repre¬
sentatives in the League?
No: the People have no voice in the matter.
Can the People exert any influence over its
own representative in the League?
No: the People are not to be heard, at all.
Does the Constitution of the League originate
with the People, anywheref
No: the French have not been consulted: the
English have not been allowed to express them¬
selves; the Japs have had no hearing; and the
Sovereign People of America have been treated
with supercilious contempt.
The source of all power in France, Great Brit¬
ain and the United States is, the People: but the
historic Constitution of England is set aside, and
placed under, a new Constitution, made abroad,
and 4tad< in Secret, by sinister methods concealed
from the people of England.
The Supreme Law made by Frenchmen, at
the downfall of the Second Empire in 1871, is
violated by a Covenant to which the people of
France a*e no party, and which will be placed over
them without their consent.
The people of the United States acting
through the States, ratified a Constitution made
for them by Madison, Washington, Franklin,
Hamilton, Randolph, Rutledge etc.; but this
Supreme Law of 1787,is to become the Inferior
Law of 1919, without regard to the People whose
national Independence is betrayed to foreign
princrit, frrioutatea, and powers.
The 1 sovereign People made our States and
made our Union, but who are the men that make
the International State which ABOLISHES GOVERN -
MINT BY THE PEOPLE ?
Republican Peace Senators cooly assume that the
Parte Conference has the power to subvert
our form of government, provided the details are
satisfactory.
Is a death-warrant a matter of detail?
Do the details of a funeral materially affect
the deceased?
An Appomattox is a collapse, in spite of de¬
tails; and, in this Surrender, no American heroes,
North or South, are given the opportunity to fight,
The American people are ridden over, and
their Supreme Law subordinated to a new Consti¬
tution, made abroad, by men who were not author¬
ized to make it—and it is be ratified by a Senate
which has no authority to castrate the present U.
S. Constitution , which they swore to “preserve,
PROTECT, AND DEFEND.”
The new Constitution of the World is the
work of General Smuts, of South Africa; but Pres¬
ident Wilson—who detests our form of govern¬
ment—eagerly adopted the Dutch General’s plan.
The new International Union of States will
have its capital at Geneva, Switzerland; and will
have the power to exercise supreme authority over
every member nation.
As these member nations are the strongest on
earth, the League will dominate the whole world
—and the peoples will have no representative in
the Council which taxes them, legislates for them,
plunges them into wars, and sends their boys to
fight and die in every land under the sun.
With superlative insolence, our President is
crying “Shame!” upon a sovereign Union of
American States, where love of country is so great
that there is a protest against abrogating our Con
stitution and accepting the yoke of a foreign des¬
potism.
The War was fought for democracy, wasn’t it?
What (lie League does, is to put the extinguish¬
er. on democracy.
■ The League is the opposite of our declared
purpose in entering the War.
Since President Wilson, Col. House, and Mr.
Tuft wore determined to deal popular self-govern¬
ment - a death-blow, it’s a pity they couldn’t have
arranged our betrayal in such a way as to save
us the 300.000 brave boys who fought and bled in
the belief that they were sacrificing themselves to
maintain our liberties.
Issued Weekly
The Cross, the Crown of Thorns,
and the “Nail of Passion
The Savannah Press publishes the following:
PABIS, April 15.(By Mail).—Seven
thousand American soldiers attended the
services of Holy Week celebration in Notre
Dante Cathedral today by invitation of
the Knights of Columbus and joined in
paying homage to the memorials of the
Saviour—the crown of thorns, part, of the
cross of calvary- and the “Nail of
Passion.”
They came from every part of the
American Germany. expeditionary force in France
and They included Catholic
and non-Catholic chaplains, military inen
of every rank. Prominent Catholics of
France knelt with American soldiers.
It is not my intention—and never has been—
to wantonly offend, much less to insult, the Roman
Catholic individual.
It is the system of Popery that I attack, ex¬
pose, ridicule, and denounce.
It is a fact, undeniable, that, good men and
good women are to be found in all religions—
Buddhist, Confucianist, Mohammedan, Greek
Catholic, Roman, Jewish, and Protestant.
For aught I know, there may be an abundance
of good Mormons.
The reasons why the system of Popery is such
a menace to the peoples of the world are—
First—It arrogates to an Italian bishop the
paramount sovereignty—temporal and spiritual,—
of the whole world;
Second—It virtually usurps the place of God,
in that it arrogates to itself the power to open
Hell to the sinner and Heaven to the Saint;
Third—It blasphemously pretends to sacrifice
Christ, again and again, on tens of thousands of
altars, in tens of thousands of different places, at
the same time.
Fourth—Its bachelor priesthood, its enclosed
convents, and its confessional are irresistible
agencies of inevitable vice and crime— because
against nature.
Fifth—It’s fundamental laws are antagonis¬
tic to liberty and progress, are reactionary, oppres¬
sive, and degrading;
Sixth—It’s system of education stifles inquiry
and enthrones authority —thus stopping the devel¬
opment of the mind;
Seventh—It is essentially a feminine religion,
worshipping a woman as Mother of God and
Queen of the Heavens.
Mary-worship is a survival of Grecian,
Roman, and Oriental mythology.
Seventh—It seeks to reduce men to abject
submission to the priestly caste, in order fhat these
bachelors may govern a man, and his wife, and his
children, in all the movements of their Jives—
teaching that the priest is necessary to a legal
marriage, a legitimate birth, and a Christian
burial;
Eighth—I* calls upon Superstition to uphold
its mastery, instead of relying upon Reason.
The veneration of “Relics” is Rome’s peculiar
cult, and it is a cult based on falsehood, fraud, and
imposture, appealing to superstition and defying
Commoit Sense.
Any Catholic who will give his mind to the
subject must be convinced, that the most venerated
relics of his foreign Church are frauds.
After Christ was crucified, the very few who
believed in him dispersed, fearing for their lives.
The Romans and the Jews were left in pos¬
session of Calvary, of Pilate’s house, and of all
the places connected with the tragedy.
Do you believe, for one moment, that the
frightened disciples returned to Pilate’s house and
demanded the Crown of Thorns?
Doesn’t your reason tell you thnt the disciples
did not ask for, receive, and preserve the crossf
Read the New Testament, and notice how
minutely the events are related, especially in the
Acts of. the Apostles.
If they had gone back io Pilate, and secured
possession of (.lie Cross, the crown. I he reed-sceptre,
the vinegar, the lance, and the seamless garment,
would You theyjiot hare proudly recorded the fact?
know that they would!
Paid says never a word about thoese most
awe-inspiring “relics:” John says nothing; Peter
is silent: and so is every other writer of the Tes¬
ta ment.
earpfan Apostle John had for a disciple, Poly
d one of Polycarp’s pupils was lrenaeus—
and Irenams wrote a most valuable work on early
Christ iantv.
Through Polycarp, this Imucus was directly
associated with the Jews who followed Christ, arid
with John, to whose care Christ committed his
mother.
If Irenmus had had any knowledge of the
whereabouts of the cross, the crown, and the
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