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Vol. 37 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 (Continued on Page 3) m Price $2.00 Per Year 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 If you wish to read a brief but complete exposure of THE ROMAN CATHOLIC SYSTEM so , that you can fully understand the campaign now being fought out, between ROMANISM AND AMERICANISM, order! HE ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHY, priced elsewhere in this paper. Harlem, 6a., Friday, June 6, 1919. 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 (Continued on Page Four.) ’ No. 37.