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THOS. E. WATSON, Contributing Editor.
ALICE LOUISE LYTLE, Managing Editor.
Harlem, Georgia, June 27, 1919.
Mr. Villa seems to be running true to his old
form.
The “Peace Covenant” seems fated to have as
many attacks as an orphanage has measles.
• * * *
The fact that one-armed men may qualify as
golfers won’t butter many parsnips for some of
them.
It is to be hoped Signor Nitti will not say
“notti” to the idea of forming a new Italian cab¬
inet
Cotton workers in Great Britain are on a
strike. Wonder if they will blame it on the cotton
grower of tho South in the U. S. A.
The more Br’er Henry Ford talks, the worse
he seems to be getting Bis foot in, and it’s a
blessed thing for him that the War’s over.
“Mr. Wilson visits Belgium” states editorial
headline. Well, he s veins to have visited pretty,
much the whole works; why doesn’t he come
home ?
Germany is evidently signing the Treaty
with a Jesuitical “mental reservation.” Which
means another scrap of paper is about to become
history.
When you read that $35,000,000. lias been ap¬
propriated for air ships for the U. S. Navy, it. is
• rntlp'r hard tewJjflJieve there is any shortage of
money, isn’t it.?
The Germans are doing tilings with their
same old systematic thoroughness: they formally
notified the Poles that war would begin Tuesday
of this week.
Now that the proposed League of Nations is
being recognized as “a national issue,” why not
give the people of this nation a look-in on what
it really stands for?
If the Japanese have made a “secret pact”
with Germany, would you be at all surprised?
“For ways that are dark” etc, ^ie Japanese and
Chinese are still unsurpassed.
• * * *
Woops! We forgive the New York papers all
the mean things they have said of us and our de¬
sires for thirty-five cent cotton: one of ’em has a
nice juicy editorial on “Watermelons.”
• * • •
The women of Indiana are so worried about
the corseting of the fat women of that State, a
delegation is in Washington, begging for the re¬
moval of the Luxury Tax on the referred-to
women’s corsets.
Uncle Sam seems to lie trying to make the
July Thirst easy: ad in a New York paper tells
of a quantity of rum, gins, beers and whiskeys to
be sold at, auction “by order of U. S. Govern¬
ment,” this week.
Paris and London were favored with copies
of the revised Peace Treaty, but Washington, D.
C.. had not been so favored. Well, maybe Mr.
Wilson and Col. House still think they are the
entire LJ. S. A.
Isn't it queer how “het up” New York can
get over the gambling with dice and cards that
goes on there, but never bats an eye at the cotton
gambling, on her Stock Exchange, the results of
■which keep (he Southern planter poor?
* • • •
Just when we were hoping that the “Leak"
which released the Peace Treaty terms had been
loented. comes a Socialist editor with a lot more
“confidential’ stuff. The whole works of our dip
lamatic system must lie rustv.
» * * *
I( was left for a Pittsburg judge to call some
of the proposed drastic legislation by (lie right
name; he called it “playing politics under the
guise of regulating the personal habits of a free
people,” and he said a hat full at that.
The President of the new German Republic
ixvms to he having difficulty in forming a cabinet.
Too bad the German mind is so slow to grasp the
“at the request of many friends’’ idea, which fills
so many of our American Congresses.
THE COLUMBIA SENTINEL, HARLEM, GA.
What Power Does the Pope
Claim ?
In the beginning of the Christian Era, all the
churches were independent, self-governing bodies,
and each congregation elected its own pastor.
This was so at Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus
and Rome. Paul’s writings are said to be the old¬
est originals that were used in the New Testament,
and Paul shows no particular reverence for the
church at Koine—nor does Peter.
The Linus who is mentioned by Paul was the
first bishop of Rome, as Iremeus expressly states;
and Irena-us certainly knew, for he was the pupil
of Polycarp, who was a disciple of the Apostle
John.
It was not until the 5tli century that bishop
Innocent I. put forward (he claim of Peter’s foun
dership of the church at Rome.
All bishops at that time were called popes
(papas, fathers) and none exercised supremacy.
After the Emperor Constantine the Great
removed the seat of imperial government to Con¬
stantinople, the Roman bishop became the most
conspicuous visible authority; and, from genera¬
tion to generation, his powers expanded, until he
was virtually the mayor of t.n-} city.
Still, he was the subject of the Emperor,
obedient to the laws, coequal with other bishops
who, in their councils, did n it require his sanction.
The courtesy of an invtafio i was expected
and. because of the historic dignity of Rome it¬
self, its bishop was chosen to preside..
In the year C09, the Emperor Phocas con¬
ceded to Boniface the title of Universal Bishop;
and this usurpation of the Roman prelate caused
the Eastern churches to separate from those of
the West.
For a thousand years, the elected Popes need¬
ed the official sanction of the Emperors, first of
Rome and then of Germany, before they could be
installed in office.
In 1073, Hildebrand—Pope Gregory VTL-—
was chosen by viva rote, in -t popular assemblage:
but changed the whole system .vesting the elector¬
al power in the cardinals.
The Pope appoints the cardinals, and tho car¬
dinals elect the Pope; and by the law of the
Roman church a majority of the cardinals must be
of Italian blood and birth: hence, the Pope is al¬
ways an Italian.
The Roman Church, therefore, is local, yet. it
seeks to rule the whole world, in education, in lit¬
erature, in politics, in wealth, in government.
Pope Gregory YTT. first pr \ 'aimed the
Suprein e Authority of the Roman priesthood: in
his famous declaration against King Henry TV.
of Germany, whose hereditary crown ihe Pope
bestowed upon Rudolph: he said—
“ *■ * * *Bv his disobedience, his
pride and his insincerity, has been p,fitly <
deprived of the kingly dignity, so in re¬
ward for his humility. Bis submission and
Bis candour, Rudolph now receives the
title of King and the regal power.
“Deign now, I pray You, most
holy Fathers and Lords, to make known
to the whole world that, as You can both
bind and loose in Heaven, so also on earth
You have the power to deprive of and to
bestow upon every man, according to his
deserts, all worldly things, he thev hon¬
ours. empires, kingdoms, principalities,
duchies, marquessates, earldoms, and any
other possessions whatsoever. Many times
You have withdrawn patriarchates prim¬
acies, archbishoprics and bishoprics from
the perverse and unworthy, and have
bestowed them upon such recipients as
were truly religious. Since You are
judges in spiritual matters, how great
must be Your power in merely temporal
things! Since you judge the very Angels
who have dominion over proud princes,
what can You not do with these princes,
their slaves? Let the kings and rulers f
this world learn to-day the greaBi'ss of
Your Authority! May then in future
drend to think lightly of the economics
and organization of Holy Chucrh. Let
Your judgement * then ho accomplished
upon this Henry, so pronpilv, that all the
world may see and acknowledge that he
falls, not b chance, but bv Your Power!
May his confusion lead him to repen¬
tance, in order that his sould may be
saved in the day of the Lord.
“Done at Rome, the Day of the
Nones of March, Injictiou III” (March
7, 1080.)”
Doosn t every school-boy know how Pope In
noeent TTT. deprived King John of England of
his crown and reduced tin kingdom to a papal
fief?
Have we forgotten that the curse of Koine
lies upon the Great Charter of our liberties?
Don t we know fliat the priests overthrew the
second Trench Republic, and tried to put a for¬
eign prince upon (lie throne of Mexico?
Are they not stirring up civil war in Ireland,
using (lie murderous Sinn Fein and 4th degree
Knights of Columbus?
Arc not the priests of Rune the sworn em¬
mics of Protestants and of our form of govern¬
ment ?
ts those fearful oaths had no meaning, tiiey
would not be required of all priests.
If Catholicism were nothing but a religion,
cardinals would not swear to extirpate Protestant¬
ism.
As Lecky the historian says—
“Catholicism can neve* h? looked on as mete-
ly a religion. Kingdom
“It is a great and highly organized ,
recognizing no geographic frontiers, governed by
a foreign sovereign, pervading temporal polities
with its manifold influence, and attracting to it¬
self much of the influence which would otherwise
flow in national channels.
“The intimate correspondence between its
priests in many lands, the disciplined unity of
their political action, the almost absolute author¬
ity they exercise over large classes, and their al¬
most complete detachment from national and
patriotic interests have often in critical times
proven to be a most serious political, danger, and
they have sometimes pursued a temporal policy
eminently aggressive, sanguinity , unscrupulous,
and ambitions.” (“England ic tlio Eighteenth
Century,” Vol. 1, page 291.)
Governed by a foreign sovereign!
Its priesthood detached from natural relations
and working in the interest of a foriegn Kingdom!
Its system autocratic in the highest degree,
without one spark of democracy anywhere.
Its secret societies bound by terrible oaths
against all Protestant churches and governments!
Its laws the bloodiest ever written; and its
record as bloody as its laws.
This is the pope-ruled Kingdom that has cap¬
tured the first and most important office in Wil¬
son’s League of Nations!
Senator Sherman and the Pope.
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ger of assassination.
Soon afterwards, he was assassinated.
The Protestant and patriots of America could
not believe that Rome had any designs upon our
government and our liberties: yet see how she
managed us during the War, and how she has
sunk us into the League of Nations.
In his work on The Vatican Decrees, Mr.
Gladstone wrote—
“It. is the peculiarity of Roman the¬
ology that by thrusting itself into the
temporal domain, it naturally, and even
necessarily, comes to be a frequent theme
of political discussion. All other Chris¬
tian bodies are content with freedom in
their own religious domain. Orientals,
Lutherans, Calvinists, Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, Nonconformists, one and
all. in the present day, contentedly and
thankfully accept the benefits of civil or¬
der; never pretend that the State is not
its own master; makes no religious claims
to temporal possessions or advantages;
' and, consequently, never are in perilous
collision with the State. Nay more, even
so I believe it is with the mass of Roman
Catholics individually. But not so with
the leaders of their Church, or with those
who take pride in following the leaders.
Indeed, this has been made matter of
boast:
“ ‘There is not another Church
so
called (than the Roman), nor any com¬
munity professing to be a Church, which
does not submit, or obey, or hold its
peace when the civil governors of the
world command .’—The Present Crisis of
the Holy Sec, by II. E. Manning, d. d.
London, 1861, p. 75.
“The Rome of the Middle Ages
claimed universal monarchy. The modern
Church of Rome has abandoned nothing,
retracted nothing. Ts that all? Far from
it. By condemning (as will be seen) those
who, like Bishop Doyle in 1826, charge
the mediseval Popes with aggression, she
unconditionally, even if covertly, main¬
tains what the mediaeval Popes main¬
tained.”
Having shown how violently the Roman*
church had changed in his day, Mr. Gladstone
mentions some of the modern liberties which that
church had recently, and officially condemned, pro¬
nouncing a fearful curse upon all who held to
those opinions which we call democratic:
“1. Those who maintain the liberty
of the Press. Encyclical Letter of Pope
Gregory XVI., in 1831; and of Pope
Piux IX.. in 1864.
“2. Or the liberty of conscience and
of worship. Encyclical of Piux IX.,
December 8, 1864.
“3.. Or the liberty of speech. ‘Syl¬
labus’ of March 18, 1861. Prop. Ixxix.
Encyclical of Pope Piux IX., December
8, 1864.
“4.. Or who contend that Papal
judgments and decrees may, without sin,
lx> disobeyed or differed from, unless they
treat of (lie rules ( dogmata) of faith or
morals. Ibid.
“5. Or who assign to the State the
power of defining the civil rights (jura)
and province of the Church. ‘Syllabus’
of Pope Piux IX., March 8, 186L Ibid.
Prop. xix.
“6. Or who hold that Roman Pon¬
tiffs and (Ecumenical Councils have
transgressed the limits of their power,
and usurped the rights of princes. Ibid.
Prop, xxiii.
(It must he home in mind that
Ecumenical Councils' here mean Homan
Council* not recognized, hy the rest of the
Church. The Councils of • the early
Church did not interfere with the juris¬
diction of the civil power.)
“7. Or that the Church may not em¬
ploy force. (Ecclesia vis inferendoe pot
estatcm non habet. ) ‘Syllabus.’ Prop. xxiv.
“8. Or that power, inherent in the
office of the Episcopate, but granted to it
by tine civil authority, may be withdraw®
from it at the discretion of that author¬
ity. Ibid. Prop. xxv.
“9. Or that the ( immunitas) civil
immunity of the Church and its minis¬
ters depends upon civil right. Ibid. Prop.
XXX.
“10. Or that in the conflict of laws,
civil and ecclesiastical, the civil law
should prevail. Ibid. Prop. xlii.
“11. Or that any method of instruc¬
tion of youth, solely secular, may be ap¬
proved. Ibid. Prop, xlviii.
“12. Or that knowledge of things
philosophical and civil may and should
decline to be guided by divine and eccle¬
siastical authority. Ibid. Prop lvii.
“13. Or that marriage is not in its
essence a sacrament. Ibid. Prop. lxvi.
“14. Or that marriage not sacra¬
mentally contracted (si sacramentum ex
cludatur) has a binding force. Ibid.
Prop, lxxiii.
“15. Or that the abolition of the
temporal power of the Popedom would
be highly advantageous to the Church.
Ibid. Prop. Ixxvi. Also Prop lxx.
“16. Or that that any other religion
than the Roman religion may be estab¬
lished by a State. Ibid. Prop, lxxvii.
“17. Or that in ‘countries called
Catholic’ the free exercise of other
religions may laudably be allowed. ‘Syl¬
labus.’ Prop Ixxviii.
“18. Or that the Roman Pontiff
ought to come to terms with progress,
liberalism, and modern civilization. Ibid,
Prop. lxxx.
Mr. Gladstone shows that the Pope claiiMs
implicit obedience in all things, spiritual nad tem¬
poral. and that there is no salvation for Catho¬
lics who do not accept the dogma.
“In the meantime it is well to remem¬
ber that this claim in respect of all
tilings affecting the discipline and gov¬
ernment of the Church, as well as faith
and conduct, is lodged in open day by and
in the reign of a Pontiff who has con¬
demned free speech, free writing. a free
press, toleration of nonconformity, liberty
of conscience, the study of civil and philo¬
sophical matters in independence of the
ecclesiastical authority, marriage unless
sacramentally contracted, and the defini¬
tion by the State of the civil rights jura)
of the Church; who has demanded for the
Church, therefore, the title to define its
own civil rights, together with a divine
right to civil immunities, and a right to
use physical force; and who has also
proudly asserted that the Popes of the
Middle Ages with their councils did not
invade the rights of princes: as for exam¬
ple, Gregory VII., of the Emperor Henry
IV.; Innocent III., of Raymond of Tou¬
louse; Paul III., in deposing Henry
VIII.; or Pius V., in performing the like
paternal office for Elizabeth.
“I submit then, that my fourth prop¬
osition is true; and that England is enti¬
tled to ask, and to know, in what way the
obedience required by the Pope and the
Council of the Vatican is to be reconciled
with the integrity of civil allegiance?
“It has been shown that the Head of
their Church, so supported as undoubted¬
ly to speak with its highest authority,
claims from Roman Catholics a plenary
obedience to whatever he may desire in
relation, not to faith, but to morals, and
not only to these, but to all that concerns
the government and discipline of the
Church: that, of this, much lies within
the domain of the State; that, to obviate
all misapprehension, the Pope demands
for himself the right to determine the
province of his own rights, and has so de¬
fined it in formal documents as to war¬
rant any and every invasion of the civil
sphere; and that this nejv version of the
principles of the Papal Church inexorably
binds its members to the admission of
these exorbitant claims, without any re¬
fuge or reservation on behalf of their
duty to the Crown.”
From One of the Old Guard of
the 90’s.
Speaking for myself, I love Tom Watson, for
his noble manhood: for his intrinsic worth to the
world. Words fail to express my high apprecia¬
tion of him. I have suffered with him in all his
troubles, disappointments, and liereavements, and
I pray to the God of all the earth to bless him in
his declining years and make them the best years
of his life. And while you are a stranger to me, I
love you because you are his friend. May heaven’s
richest blessings be your constant companion.
May peace that passeth understanding be yours.
Sincerely,
G. B. CRANE.
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