THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 17, 1807.
GOjLEHMIHT dsivsls cfiristianity
& &
Cardinal Meary del Val, Papal Secre
tary of State, Tells of Persecution of
; J the Catholic Church by French
; V ; Officials ---Priests Robbed of v
c f Both Homes and Pensions
OUT OI fRAIJCL
"-(uSJi) ' www8 ' p' vv Mam ' Jv 1 J
' , ' i! HERS U great indignation nonf
- t Catholics all over the world at
r I - the stutude taken by tha Frsnob
X ; .government In It warfare to
. . ouat tha church from France.
Tha troubla began away back la tha
. . daya of tha French revolution, whan all
tha church property waa declared f or
. felted to tha atata, Then . Napoleon
.made the "Concordat," a bilateral
agreement whereby the, eh ur oh eocept
. ad la return for many of her posses-
, elona a eyatam of panaloaa for prleata
and cur tea. which made au pneata
- funotlonarlas of tha atata, In other
V words, tha ehurch oonaeoted to tha oon
flacatloa In sxohaag for the right to
; worahlp In the buildings and auppert
for lta servants. ,
Aeoordlng ., to tha Cnthollo - view,
' Franca baa now kept the property and
'-.'-. refused ehurohmen their pan Ion a. Bow
' r Cathollce retard tha proceedings la aet
forth In a remarkable Interview with
.;'" Cardinal Merry del Val. papal aecretary
'of a tats, obtained by, Vance Thorn peon,
7; In Xyerybodys Megaalna, aa follower
'"' Merry del Val Talk. ,; V-::':-:
' "It la not a war against the ohurch
It la war against Chiiatlanlty ttaelf
' It, la war agalnat Chriat," aald the
cardinal.. 'That la a plain declaration
of the government of (Trance. Without
:.' any eoaoeaiment It aanoonoaa that lta
JY purpoaa la to make an and of tha Chrls
' tlan Idea. It la more than a eolemn
profeeeloa of Irrellgion It la a. declars
Won of war upon Chriat. - ;
v ' Ton hare but to look at tha-facta.
- The Conoordat waa broken moat dle-
s hanorably. -Tha Holy. dee waa not area
' notified. Tbla la Itaelf waa a vtola-
tton .at tha uaagea of clTUlaed nations.
' - Moreover, If the Concordat waa ta be
.broken, if the patty panalona paid to
..,. tha clergy ware to be revoked. Juetice
n demanded . that tha ehurch property.
. which tha atata bald la truat aa a guar
, '' aataa of theaa payments, ahould ' be
1 given back. Now, what waa doner The
. atata confiscated tha entire property of
the church the houses built for Ood
' by the piety of . ages, tha eplacopai
, manaaa, the veryfunde that bad been
(laid p for the aupport of euperannu
VU a tad prlesta, the aacred vessel a and the
. holy rellce of tha faith. . One thine
.tha , atata. offered It permitted the
ohurchee to be taaaed by what It called
associations cultuaUea. Theee aai
clatlona might, be formed by any
Prenchmea who made a declaration ba-
L- ' . - . . , , ,
xore im iocs
Theaa aasoelatlous eultuelles reoelva
- from tha government a one-year laaae
of tha ehurch - bulldlugsr . they ware
held reaponalble - for publlo worship
.and their orthodoxy, their Chrlotlaalty
van, la vouched for, pot by tha blahop
'of the diocese, but by a oounell of
''atata named and appointed by the gov
. emmeot of France by that tnlnlater of
'publlo worahlp who haa declared! -Wa
.'muat make ah and of Chriatlanltyr I
. ehall not Ineult your tntenigenea by
' , aaklng you It thla la rellgloua Ubertyl
These churehaa muat be leaaed from
'the government; ones a year tha leeeae
muat report htmeelf to tha police, like
a tlcket-of-leave-meni but that la not
'all.. The aaaoclation eultuelle la re
'anonafblo for tha publlo worahlp: be.
U'atda Ihe prleat at the altar etanda the
gendarme. At any mom en i tnia, aaie-
E,arly Steamboating oh the
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S ' II I aM .ii-i ii I naw.il
H hlatory of early days ta Port
land la of necessity connected
with the history of steamboating
oa tha Willamette ' from - here
. to 1 Oregon City, and :, from
Oregon City up to -On-vallla there
waa - aa aystem of locks - la tite
early times or they Include the
atorlae of rlvar tranaportatloa up the
..Columbia ta tha Caaoadea or down to
Aatorta. i
River tranaportatloa it will be re
called, waa then the only means of
ommunleatlon, for as yet Do railroad
ld - penetrated the f oveets of Ore sod
territory. '
The Lot Whlteomb waa built la 1RS1
at Mllweukla. near the famoua Uew.
' ellyn' orchard a, where arplea sold for
tit snd til a buaheL and ao valuable
were cherries that It' la aald that vial-
, tors to the orchard would have one
cherry quartered and paaaed around , to
' taste. '. v
Launching Marked an Bra. ; .
The launchlngof the Lot Whlteomb
was an era ta steamboating, for aha
waa a trim craft and the largaet then
oa the river, accommodating about 10
paaaangeres- Her owner and captain
waa the man for whom aha was named,
tt Wbitcomb. Jim fioyd was mate.
Captain J. C Alnaworth. joint captain
and pilot, and Jacob Xamm engineer.
The picture was taken by -Joseph
gaU of thoae who are trying to make
aa and of Chiiatlanlty may riee and
atop- the aervlee oond tha prlaat from
the . altar and take hie piaoe.
Stopt Rellgloua Inatroctlon. .
Have you read thU lair (Article V,
tl and aectlona) which prohtblta
tha giving of rellgloua Instruction to
children between tlie agea of and II,
who are ' Inaorlbed In ' the publlo
achoola or deatlned to enter euoh
aohoolaf
"RaUgloua llbertyt 1. V ;
- "All our property hletoric eharchea.
ancient eollagea, aemlnarlaa, manaaa,
bouaea for the elek and the poor.'houaee
of prayer we let them Uke t all We
demanded only the right to worahlp
Ood la freedom. . - ; . :
It baa beea aald that wa put eur
aelvea In eppoattloa ta tha law of tha
land by refualng to form the aaaocla
Uona, cultuaUea. Thla again ta mle
repreeentatloni the law . gave ua the
tight to form theaa aaaoctatlona we
refused to take advantage of It By
way of anawer tha government applied
a penalty, which haa long been ex
cluded from French law, that of confis
cation. Very well) they have taken our
property but wa have not . yielded tip
wa principles ax raugioua liberty, ,. .
Where Vatican. Stands.
' i Too have read the cope's encyclical
Oravlaalmo officii muhere. In which it
la atated that tha aaaociationa eul-
toallea offered by tha hew law cannot
be lnatltutad wlthdut - violence to tha
aacred prlnolplea and rttea that are the
baala of-the Ufa of tha church. Upon
inai wa stand. The French government
Issued a statement that It knew to be
falaa when It announced that the
French Episcopate would have aooepted
the law; It -waa unanijnouajn reject-
Uf at : . . .
"Again, tha French geveramental preea
avera that in Oermanv the dodo ao
oepted tha aasoolatlona cultuaUea witch
In Franca It haa refused. Thla ta an
other dtatortloa of tha truth.' The Oar
man church councils are merely admlh-
latratora or cnurca property. .
la England they manage tha ehurch
property; but they are not tha orgaa-
laara and dlrcctora af church worship.
aa tha French aaaociationa would-be.
And It la upon this point that wa caa-aot-yield.
. Wa cannot permit ., that
those who are avowedly trying to make
aa and of Christianity ahould 'control
our worship of Chriat, Thla la mora
than a violation -Of. tha rlghta.ef IndU
vldual liberty; It la a denial of man a
right to worahlp Ood.
- The - Freneh government" Taa ' gene
from rOagality to llleiramy.o be coa-
Hlnuad. "It broke the Conoordat with
out notifying the other party to that
contract a procedure unknown among
civilised aatlona. It seised Monalgnor
Moatlgntnt, who waa la charge of the
Papal Nnnotatura-- ta - Part a, and- x
palled ; blra front the country, by tha
hands of lta police. Such aa expulsion
la unprecedented In our days. Even
when - alplomattaTalattons are broken,
civilised natloaa respect tha realdenoes
and especially tha archives of forelka
embeaelea. - .
' "The govern merit can now" read all
tha telegrama exchanged bet wean the
nuncio and the Holy Sea,' and, aa well,
tha eorreapondenoe 1 of all tha atvO
'Jiuchtel, at ' Oregon City, ' In - tha year
sihen jaha bagaa running. There were
oa doato at me tune, oraiaes nm vi li
ters uat mentioned, tha wife and
mother ' of Captain 3. . C 'Alneworth,
Theov Wygant, . Joalah - Myrlck and
Thomas Pope. Charles K. Burns f Ore
gon City has ths original plate. '. ,
-' Orna City Was then k large, city
than Portland, although no use was
made t the water power ' except by
one mill. ' Thla waa a flouring mill
built by Dr. MeLoughlia. : - .
The bualneaa aactloa af Portland
at thla time conalated of a few build
Inge along Front street, facing the
wharf. The ehlngle building, ' - the
town'a chief architectural glory, atood
on ths southweet corner of Front and
Waahlngton atreeta; on the aorthwaet
corner was tha Carter boose, and the
Canton houae, afterward purchaaed by
Steve Coffin and called by his same,
occupied the northeaat. Theaa about
completed the bualneaa section, and be
yond, for half a mile at least, waa clear.
Considerable diversion was oocsaloned
by tha suoceselva "Jumping" of Malms
along the water front by nsw com era,
a perfortnanoe obnoxious ta the original
owners, .who eomatttnee tors down by
night- what had beea built by day.
A Wharf afforded a landing place for
at earn boa ta and about where Alder
atreet la now waa ths docking place
af tha Lot Whlteomb. the waa need
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';';rkin Merry .:, M '' -
' ?. Bishops,' clergy and faithful of Oregon province : extend i - l! II W
. to the Holy Father", heartfelt sympathy. , . ! , if jj j :
nd all of them have a right
ta demand that their .diplomatic seorata
should be preserved. I . have protested
ta tha powers against thla violation of
Inoontaatlble right - of tha pope
the power af oorreopondlng directly or
through ethers with the. Catholics af
Willamette
on both the Aipper and tha lover run,
as ths trips to tha Cascades and-to As
toria were called. ' ' .
' The Black Hawk and tha Eagle ran ta
Oregon City; tha Multnomah, put upon
tha river a little later, was a close
rival of ths Whttoemb and of about
the same, capacity. She was not built
hart but was put together In ths east,
then knocked down and brought around
tha Horn, ' to be put together again.
Methoda In boat building have changed;
but ths Multnomah was built like a
barrel with stout- wooden ribs.
Shortly after this time, the Willam
ette waa built, but out of deferenos to
Judge Deady's cherlehed opinion waa
called the Wallametta, for he Insisted
that ths Indian pronunciation ahould be
preserved. The Hoosler, aa arratlo lit
tle craft, plied 'between Oregon City
and Champoog. The story 1 -told of a
party .of Salem men who wished to
returo from Portland. The trip then
took all day and all night. . They were
an tha Hoosler. and they at earned along
aafely until they Beared Reck Island,
where navigation waa aomewhat diffi
cult One of tha party asked "Doo"
Barlow, who waa piloting the craft.
"Are you surs you know where all the
rocks are along heref Juat than a
Jolt nearly upaet their equilibrium.
"Sure." returned Mr. Barlow, "there a
one. right there. " ,
tha entire world, be they blahopa or the
humbles of the faithfuL" -
All prominent Catholics declare that
Clemenceau, premier of France, and
Brland, mlnlater of publlo worship, are
really opposed ta all forms of rellgloua
worahlp. -,, , , , ,.,.
' By Ceaara Lombroeo,
TIHJD queatlon,- "Should ' Women
Voter cannot bo answered aim-
ply la tha affirmative ar nega-
dh tiva, aa one must take Into con
alderatlon her degree of educa
tion, the climate ta which she lives,
etc., and before attempting to reply I
will place, thla motto over my answer;
"Scribo.la arc Romano" I write from
a Roman etandpolnL ''.
If tha auestloaywera put In Spain, ths
number of women who would have tha
right to ask for the privilege of voting
would be a comparatively small one.
When one remembers their lack af edu
cation, their impulalveneaa and their
eupereUUon, It would not be wiae to
grant them the franchiae, and wo much
leas becauae the priests would make
them' tools la the cause of reaction.'
It ia suite different with tha Anglo
Saxon 'race to grant tha right of auf
frage to Aa els-Sax on woman would only
tend to atrengthen tha conservative
party, becauae women are, aa a rule,
conservatively inclined. ' The votes of
women would hers tend to 'strengthen
tboaa who endeavor to do away with
alooholiam and to abolish Ill-treatment
and neglect of children.
Australia haa ahowq that the experi
ment la not a dangerous sua, and that
woman may be given tha right of auf
frage aqua with men. -
It la, however, evident to one that no
legislature will great this light ta wom
en spontaneoualy, but only whoa forced
by a sufficiently powerful public
oploloa. :. ..( -
' By' Dr. Max Nerdau. -.
i I have no Idea how many women de
By Oarrstt P. Ssrviaa. ;
T HB UNEXPECTED appearanoa -of
aa enormous group of eunspots
i la tha middle of February and
. ths elmultaneoue,. outbreak of
magnetls dlaturbahces la various
parts of ths earth make the question of
.the nature and power of aunapeta par
ticularly Interesting, since there mar be
a continuance of tneee phenomena dur
ing the aammer. . - - -
It la commonly said that ths earth
could be dropped Into the central cav
ity of a great sunapot, like a billiard
bail into a pocket - But thla statement
oonveya tittle Impression of ths vast dl
menalona of these, aolar dlaturbsncea,
and none whatever of the Inconceivable
forces, at play In them." Neither does
It sfford to the' mind of the reader any
Idea of the at rente appearances that
ws should behold If we could vlalt the
sua during one of Its periods of convul
sion, ar, for that matter, at any time.
Should Women Vote?
mand tha right af voting, and I da not
think ' anybody t else knowa. Possibly
there are not very many women who
deliberately and eonecloualy demand the
right to take part In tha political life
of the nation.
. Ths - vagus wish Is, . however. ' quits
common smong women who are com
paratively little developed politically.
Woman' paya taxea as doaa man, aha. is
bound by ths eame laara, and If the gov
ernment fa bad she suffers aa well as
hs does. . .-, , !: -,
She haa aa equally great Intereat In
the control of the government. In taking
part sgalnat taxation. In other worda
aha haa a claim upon political franchise.
In eountriee where eonecrlptloa exists.
It may be aald that she does have to
pay tax In blood, but ia England and
America, where nobody la forced to
serve in army or navy, thla argument
Is lacking.-: . i;
According to my opinion, only ths
mothers ought to vote, because they
alone have a vital, concrete interest In
the future of the nation; but I demand.
In that caaa, that fatherhood ahould be
made a condition for men. .
' By Mma. Juliette Adams. . '
Woman, who Is a human being, who
possesses a free will aa well as man,
haa tha right to develop her physloal.
Intellectual and moral faculties and to
form her awn life. Aa aha forma ose
half of eoelety, aha has eootal tighta as
well as family rights which are exclu
alvely her asm and which shs must pro
tect .
Why, then, ahould not woman vote
whoa they bear part of ths burden sf
' But It la not difficult from what Is
bow known of tha sua to. form an Ideal
ised picture of tha state of thtnea oa
and Juat beneath lta surface. Aa at
tempt la here made to preeent auch a
picture. Including aome of the more con
aplcuous and wonderful phenomena of
the solar shell.
' Leading upon the sun, suppoatng our
selves able to endure ths temperature
of 10.000 degrees, or more, -and the Irre
clatlble electric energlea continually un
loosed there, we should find that in
plaoa of a solid cruat like the earth's
we had beneath us a billowy plans of
White hot metaUlo vapor a. forming the
surface thai la vlatble from the earth.
Sinking dona through thla, ws would
oomo Into a regloa marvelous beyond all
worda a region corresponding In aome
reepeota to the earth's atmosphere.
Over our head a would he the vaat can
opy of glowing metaUlo rlnuda. and
tbouaands of miles beneath US the Inner
social taxes and are able ta take charge
of a houeebold whenever It In aeoeeaaryf
No banker ia Franca will, from a bual
neaa atandpolnt, deny that a household
In which a woman takes active part la
mare eoiid. mors worthy af credit thaa
any sthsr. - . !.'
I am absolutely convinced that the
family,, the saoe tha weaker will be
taken better ears of when women take
part In legtalation. What I cannot bear
la the extreme women a righta women
la ' their desire ta beooma ' masculine.
That la simply disgusting.
' "-' By Mile, Helen Vi
Ia Parla, as la London and In all
European eentera. It becomea evident
that all women are more or leas anxious
to take part la the making of laws They
want to carry out their Ideals la prac
tice, but so far ths number of women
who desire to step down lata ths arena
la small. '. c '
At a time whsa the Ideas of fraternity
sad charity predominate, woraea who
are pre-eminently apostles of "harity
would give to the lawa humaneness and
mlldneaa and leave In tha eternest of
them openings through which goodness
mlgnt work. .' '
X ahall not speak af ths duty women
owe to themselves after the men for
eenturlee have dictated alone and Im
poeed upon society their will sad de
sires. .' i ' '
, Tha best way in which women could
make the parliaments grant them the
right af suffrage would be to arrange
parllamenta of their own and abow that
they are able to Submit te and abide by
parliamentary Tulea.
globe of tha Sun, conalatlng of a maa
of tremeadoualy heated gases, kept br
the Immense iireaaure In a atata of con
sistoncy restnbltng that ef tar.
great ragged hole, 10,000 mllea
serosa, would be tor a tn the outer aolar
urfaoe. It would be tha birth of a
sunspot Immediately the biasing va
pora ef the metals throws up Into cold
apace would begin to condenae, and tn
a ahort time back they would come,
controlled by aolar gravitation, descend
ing over millions of aqua re nit lea about
tha central cavity, dark by con t rent
through the effect of partial coollnc,
and depreaslng tha phouiherlo envel
ope, like a lke of black watrr lying
upon white Ice. .
Out In e'-v, 1 ftn.finiVnOO n!!i-a awav,
the elf' -.. n cf tiat ter.
riflo e, ' i i e - 7 wot: 1
aet t : ' . .,t. i - ,
a-quli j i n ,: ,
t A
r1OM3lGJ0R RICHARD TfTE
VENERABLE WXrtSlSnOP
their m agnatic forces would- Instantly
respond with etrsnga. pulaatloas.
' And what figure would our seemingly
huge, maaslve earth cut In the mldat of
such a aolar exploalon? Let us Imag
ine It suddenly thrown from Its orbit
and descending upon tha sua whlls wa
stand -watching in the depths of thla
hell of fire. - Ws - will suppose It to
have reached tha central opening of the
great spot with lta familiar geographi
cal featurea yet recognisable. .
Aa It dropa iato the midst of the
whirling vapors It la kpua about Ilka
a bubble. . Suddenly lta great globe,
which looks pitifully small and inelg
nlflcant to us now, begiaa to melt like
wax. Tha oceans are gone in a breath
of steam, the eonttnenta dlaaolva, the
Alps, the Himalayas, tha Andes, la an
instant float off and disappear in tiay
wreaths of smoke, and then tha whole
frame of the world that gave us birth
vanishes in a momentary buret of fiery
sparka and is swallowed up amid tha
roaring, flaming gassea of the giant sua
spot Uks a handful of aawduat east iato
a furnace! , .''.'
Vhem Linen Is Mada.
There ia nothing prettier than a Bald
of Iriah flax la full bloom. The ateme
are about 10 Inchea high, says a writer
In Truth. They are very alender and
of a pals green. .,--
On each etem la a flower la aa ex
quisite tone of blue; something between
corn flower and a forget-me-not Ths -little
flower la aot of a very robuat eon
it I tut Ion. Tha petals aoon fall, and then
need pod forme, which, when given time
to do as, producea quantities of what
so call linseed ("lhin" le tha Celtlo .
name for flax). But when the flax la
crown for the manufacture of llnea It la
pulled up before ths eeed has had time
'jo mature.
After having been exposed to- ths air
for a few daye tha flax la laid In water
ind during ths fortnight that thla
arocaaa lasta the odious smell with
hk-h it fills the olteadsd atr la of a
-emarkably powerful character.
As the local guides ear: "Shu re It'a
lust the flax ferrotnttnY It's s powerful
imell Intirely. but there's ao danger In
it glory be to Ood."
..The soaking makea It easy to eer-a-rate
the etrew from the flhsr ty bruie
Ing It between rollers and then in.
pending It through an opening In the
top of a machine In whtrh a horlmil
shaft with woodm e lanes revolra a'
the rate of tht times s minute rrtt
forever are the fiber, flaa snd tiia ' .
now tow.
Next cornea -the spinning nt --..
dona In Immense mlila, en-l s' -r t
the yarn ta woven into it a i
Klnal'y cornea the I i
ltnn ia leii rut o-i '
mniten'! I v r n f
Ti--- o-t