Pacific Christian messenger., January 23, 1880, Page 2, Image 2

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JAN. 23, 1880.
•The Concealed Purpose of Rome i nine-tenths of the inhabitants could able to read. This accomplishment this interference of the Jesuits with
as to Education.
neither read nor write, (p. 307.) among women was even held to be politics; but this I know, that the
Dangers to Young Men.
Dr. John Hall delivered, some time-
Does the Catholic population of this immoral. Until the year 1808, pub- Jesuit is astute enough to see that a
Joseph Cook, in his one hundred country wish to be reduced to that . lie education was entirely in the royal court, or a king, is no longer the ago, a lecture on “ The Perils of the
smd thirty-sixth Boston Lecture, dis­ condition ? If they do, they will hands of the clergy, (p. 406). Are chief political power in the world. Times.” Among other things he treat«,
cussed the concealed purpose of Rome ' reach it, and they will then go to the peasants like these fit for the duties Romanists who value republican in­ of dangers that threaten young mem
in her attack upon our eommon school bottom of our trades as surely as the and the responsibilities to American stitutions should remember that a as young men. He mentions four..
system. The subject is one of so ' Italian peasants brought over here go representative institutions ?
What Jesuit can make himself as' mischiev­ First, the dangerof shallowness, which,
great an interest that we have selected 1 to the bottom after their long training becomes of average Spaniards when ous in manipulating party spoils as he | arises from the hurry and bustle and
copious extracts from the report pub­ under parochial schools. This is an they come into rivalry with the aver­ once could in court intrigues. The ( state of activity in which we live-
lished in the Golden Rule, whieh inevitable result of the natural laws age educated American masses ? The secret whisper of the College of the individual capacities are not trained
will be of great interest to all intelli­ of society. When an emigrant has Spaniards are a proud people. They Propaganda at Rome, and of Jesuits to their highest perfection. The ad­
gent Americans. After giving the 1 had a little experience in America, he have shown vast energy in a stately throughout the planet, is that they vice is given to young men that it
utterances of Father Scully and Arch­ must see that the standing of the past. There was a time when Por­ must learn how to approach political would be well for them to be masters
bishop Williams, Mr. Cook says :
young clerk, or of the young express­ tugal and Spain had fleets in all the parties under free institutions, and of some one thing. The second dan­
From these extracts I derive the man, or of a man on the railway zones. They are now what Edmund they are approaching them in great ger arises f<om a mistaken conception
following five propositions, which I train, depends greatly on his intelli­ Burke once called them, “stranded cities first of all, for there the parties of what success really is. Money baa-
regard as a final proclamation ef an gence. Let the Romish priests man­ whales on the coast of Europe.”
which illiterate men support are the come to be considered the ideal of'
aggressive policy on the part of the age the education of the yoking In the
success. And allied to this mistake
There is no adequate explanation of most powerful.
Romish church against the American United States under the plan on the fact that Spain and Italy have
is the false notion of gentility. It is-
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public schools :—
said
to be the fact that throughout-
which they have managed Italy, and fallen behind in the raee with other
Our Romish population is too open
1. The principles of Catholic your Catholic working men will be­ nations except the illiteracy of the to the influence of American ideas not New England it is extremely difficult
theology as expressed in the famous come a brakeman or a fireman, while population, the lack of enterprise to have a tendency, at least, to revolt to persuade young men to become me-
papal Syllabus have the approval of your Protestant American will be the which comes from .ignorance, and from extreme inculcation on the part chuiiics, farmers or laborers. The
all true Catholics.
conductor or the engineer. This cir­ that most accursed system which of the priesthood. The power of the young men are filled with the idea
2. Wherever practicable, parochial
cumstance ought to appeal to .the Ro­ takes the key of knowledge from the confessional, the power of the pulpit that they must go to the large cities.
schools are to be established in every
man population of our republic in people, and will not use it afterwards in the Romish circles, the power of This is an unhealthy condition of
Roman Catholic parish.
Buch a way as to cause them to with­ except to educate a priesthood into pastoral visitations, the awful power things. All honest worK is honorable
3. They are regarded as pnÆtteàble
stand, in the interests of their own the arts of mastering the populace. that belongs to men who can deny the If done in a right spirit. Another
where their establishment would ..not
political, industrial, social and moral Do you want Spain reproduced in the sacraments to one who lie» passing peril is caused by a certain unsettled­
create any serious financial embar­
future, the application to this country United States ? Do Roman Catholic from the seen into the unseen, will all ness in life. It is extremely easy in
rassment
this country to pass from one line of
4. ~In the absence of suitable of the method which has ham-strung citizens here want priests to have be used to draw the Romish popula­ ilfe to another. The very thought in
Çatholic schools, Romish parents who so many once stalwart European na their way in this Union as they have tion into the bosom of this ecclesias-
the minds of young men that they
patronize American public schools tionalities. An official return issued had in Italy and Spain, a"nd produce ticism which has crushed Italy, and
can
easily pass to another line of
must attend diligently to- the instruc­ by the Italian government in March, a population in which not more than Spain, and Mex’có, and Lower Cana­
work,
if thoy become dissatisfied with
tion of their children in Roman I 1870, shows a general average of one in five can read and write. That da, and every country that it has
their
present
employment, disinclines
Catholic doctrine out of school hours. sixty-four persons without the rudi- population will become lowers of long held in its coils. The tendency
them
to
liieet
th< ir whole energies
5. Any priest hearing confessions I ments of education in every hundred wood and drawers of water. As one of the Romish population to revolt
upon the work in iand. Dr. Hall’s
in the private tribunal of penance is members of the adult male population citizen here, as one believer in de­ will not succeed unless it be very
advice
is : C.loose smwiy, dulioerately,
of
Italy;
ip.
308).
Shear
away
from
mocratic
institutions,
as
one
American
adroitly as well as vehemently and
free to give nr withhold absolution in
with
the
best advive, and perhaps lat­
belonging
to
a
generation
that
has
the
large
robe
of
the
masses
of
Itali
­
thoughtfully supported by Protestant
the case of parents who patronize the
er
than
young
men are ordinarily ac­
ans,
all
women,
all
children
of
both
suffered
something
for
the
preserva-
i
discussion. The reason why I, having
American public schools when par­
customed
to
do,
and then, when the
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tion
of
the
institutions
of
this
country,
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sexes, all men under the legal age.
a little opportunity, let these facts
ochial schools are within reach.
occupation
has
been decided upon,
I personally and publicly request I Take the select remnant and illiteracy I protest in the name of patriotism, in j take prominence, is that I revere the
stick
to
itj
Another
danger comes
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laity. I know their strength
- Archbishop Williams to deny the of the rustiest kind as a corroding the name of education, in the name of Roman
from
thtfjmervating
influences
that
accuracy of a single one of these pro­ poison, absolute inability to read or mere philanthropy, in the name of re­ in this land; I know their industry;
surround
young
men.
Dr.
Hall
said
positions as a representative of the write, has eaten up ten per cent, ligion and Almighty God, against the I know their loyalty to what they re­
present position of the Romish priest­ ! fifteen, twenty-five, thirty of it, shall aggressive Romish propagandism of gard as the best ideas. I know how he had not a word to say against true
reverent they áre concerning religious pleasures; but he spoke of those
hood concerning American common I say ? More than that. It has eaten ignorance.
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truth in general. I respect the nation pleasures that weaken and unfit men
schools. [Applause]. Most of the up forty, fifty, sixty-four per cent, of
the
bright
„intellects
and
warm
hearts
3.
Romanist
ecclesiastical
politicians
which has given us Edmund Burke, for stern, hard work. It is said some­
propositions are in his own language.
times that the reins are drawn too
Ybu suspect me of hot opinion on . of the adult male Italian population, object to the Bible and the ordinary and Charlotte Bronte, and the best
tight.
But no one who had stood by
this point ; you think that I am compatriots of Garibaldi, and suer unsectarian religious exercises in parts of Calhoun and of Horace Gree­ as many death-beds as he had seen
easily ‘to be led into extravagant cessors of Dante and Galileo. . When schools, not so much because these are ley, to say nothing of the patriots,
would say the reins could be drawn
f.— the
— classic Protestant, as, because. the exercises orators, and poets all the way down
statement. But I have no church, I emigrants come ) from
too
tight.— Ex.
have no parish; there is nobody Italian shores to this country, we see prevent the opponents of American to O’Connell. But the very reverence
Greeley on Lawyers.
prompting me to attack the Romish in the result of their competition with schools from calling them godless and of that people, the very vehemence oí
priesthood.
I am one American the educated American population, so raising a prejudice against them. its blood when it is under the control
“ Mr. Greeley,” said Partridge, “this-
citizen, and an humble one ; but by what must happen if Italian priests The Protestant Bible read without of superstition, will make it extreme­
is
Mr. Denslow, a young attorney.”'
note
or
comment,
is
not
really
opposed
ly
hard
even
on
these
shores,
,
for
the
the fact that I am an humble Ameri­ have their way in the parochial
Greeley
uttered a short grunt of re­
as
teaching
sectarian
tenets,
but
as
population to strike off the shackels
can citizen I value the common school schools of the United States. So
cognition,
but not even looked around.
preventing the cry of ii religion.
riveted through centuries in the Old
system, which is the friend of the much for manacled Italy.
I,
embarrassed,
shrunk away to one-
Study well what New Haven lately World. In the Irish character, in the
I turn now to Spain, and surely
laboring poor.
corner
and
took
a chair. He went on
1. A priesthood which wishes to do | i this country must be regarded as the resolved on after a keen debate be­ French, in the Italian, in the German
around
the
room,
lookine at pictures­
in the United States what it has done paradise of priests, but it happens also tween her Protestant and Romish devoutness, we have not only great
and
what
not,
and
in about five min­
in Spain and in Italy, is an enemy of to be notoriously the paradise of illit­ scholars. There was a party repre­ social forces, but inherited religious
utes,
when
his
back
was turned on
the social and industrial interests of eracy. The national church of Spain sented in that collegiate city by most instincts, which csnnot be changed in
the Roman Catholic American masses. is Roman Catholic, and the whole honored names in favor of. excluding one generation. We must awaken to me and I thought he had forgotten,
Let me hold up before you two population, with the exception of the Bible totally from the common the care of the children, for the fath­ me, he suddenly, without looking at
cameos, etchings, minute representa­ about sixty thousand persons, adhere schools in order that the Romanists ers and the mothers will rarely al­ me, said : “ Hem! So you’re an attor­
tion of Roman Catholic rule under its to the same faith, (p. 405Spain is might make no objection to our man­ ter their persuasions. If you put the ney, are you ?” I confessed it. “ I
own roof-tree. I have been accused so solidly Catholic that the exceptions agement of the education of the young. children into merely parochial schools hate lawyers !” he exclaimed emphat­
of exaggerating the illiteracy of Italy are not warth mentioning to the pre­ That party is not a weak one among and give them no strong culture, the ically. “ I hate lawyers; they do-
and Spain, but here I have in my valence of Romanism in that nation. Protestants in this country. It once priesthood will do here, just so far as more mischief than their heads aro
hand “ The Statesman’s Year Book Protestants, of course, have few rights mastered the city of Cincinnati. I possible, what it has done on the oth worth.”
" I suppose they are a necessary
for 1879 ” (by Frederick Martin. Six­ there. It is significant and worthy of shall offend many if I say that polit­ er shores. And so, by-and by, some
evil.
” I suggested, deprecatingly.
teenth annual publication, revised notice in passing that no Protestant ical factions may easily connect their historian will lift up the picture of
“ Wholly unnecessary,” he insisted,
after official return.) A well-known circle has a right to make a public vote with strong ecclesiastical preju­ our mismanaged great cities ; he will
“I suppose you will acknowledge,’”
^English authority, quoted in Parlia­ announcement of its hours of worship. dices concerning the American school lift up certian corruptions o> our poli­
ment, in Congress, and by editors as If you are in Spain and wish to at­ system, and that a great majority of tics as a ghastly vision; then he will I said, “that they promote good order
a marvel of accuracy, so painstaking tend Protestant services, you must do our Romish population is in one of the tear away the picture of municipal and remove impediments to good gov­
and conscientious that one of our so in private, for according to article political parties. I know over what corruption, the picture of political ernment.”
“Just the contrary! just the con­
famous journals felicitated itself not 12 or the Constitution of 1876, all blazing ploughshares I am walking; mismanagement, and find behind both
long go on finding a single statistical public announcements of these are but as I am no politician, and have no popular ignorance, and an unlettered trary!” he squeaked, in his odd falset­
error in the book, it has no sectarian strictly forbidden. By the last general political bias in what I am saying, ballot; and he will tear away that to; "they cause disorder, and they are
bias, but is a purely dispassionate and census of Spain, that of 1860, it was you will pardon me for asserting that picture, and behind the screen will be the chief obstacles to good govern­
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scientific statistical and historical found that of the 19,000,000 popula­ in such a city as Cincinnati, a muni­ found, what ? The hand on the Tiber. ment.”
I
thoug.it
the
man
was,
crazy.
tion
of
the
kingdom
there
were
only
cipal government is almost certain to I say again, let God’s hand push
annual of the states of the civilized
“
Perhaps
you
will
tell
me,
”
I
suggest
­
world. I hold this before me, and on 2,414,015 men and 715,906 women I be open to the manipulation of Rom­ against that Tiber palm, and push it
ed, "how debts would be collected
its authority remind you that ninety- able to read and write. There were ish ecclesiastics. This is true in New back into chaos, W’here it belongs.— without lawyers?”
nine and three fourths per cent, of the 316,557 men and 386,211 women able York city. I will not say it is true Evangelist.
“Don’t want ’em collected; don’t
want ’em collected 1” he -squeaked.
population of Italy were returned as to read but not to write. All the in Boston or Chicago; but our great
Petrarch’s Word.
“ If A lets B have his property with­
Catholics in 1871. The Roman hier­ rest, upwards of 5,000,000 men and towns already occupy one-fifth of the
out payment, 1 don’t see why C, D, E.
archy has managed Italy for many 6,800,000 women could neither read land, and the largest of them are noto­
Petrarch was a poet «Los« home was in F and ail the rest of the’ alphabet
centuries, and the Pope himself has nor write. At the preceding census riously under control of a political that soft and sonny land oaJIad Italy. should be adled on to serve as a po­
governed certain of its States. Ac­ of 1876, the total number of persons party which has io it a majority of One day he was sninarmed to court as a lice to get it back. No debt should
witness on a trial. Ou entering the wit- be collected by law. It’s monstrous I
cording to the census of 1864, out of of both sexes able to write wag found the friends of a foreign priesthood.
news
lx 1, he prepared to take the nsnal Let a man trust another man at his
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a total population of 21,703,710 souls, to be more than 1,221,001. - The total
oath, when the judge closing tLe Holy
<>wn risk. - Even a gambler pays his
On Manhattan Island a controling Book said :
there were in Italy 16,999,701 who number able to read was only 1,898,-
d bts that he isn’t legally obliged to
588,
or
considerably
less
than
one-
portion
of
the
more
important
city
of
­
■'A« to you. Petrarch, your word is suf­ pay, and calls them debts of honor;
could neither read nor write. Of
these 7,889,238 were men and 9,110,- fifth of the population, (p. 406). It ficers is often in the hand of Roman­ ficient.*’
but men will put their property out
Wasn't that a fine compliment to the of. their hands to prevent legal collec­
416 women. Piedmont and Sicily' was rare in the latter part of the ists. A practical division of the poet's
character T He had always been so
occupied the fiistand|last place on the eighteenth century, or at the begin­ school fund has occurred in New York oareful to speak toe trnth, that his bars tion of their grocery bills. Abolish
word was considered equal to other men's all laws for the collection of debt, and
register, of knowledge. In the Basil­ ning of the present, to find a peasant in several cases. I do not undertake oaths.
Noble poet. May every chUd in that would abolish most of your law­
every family
famiiy’ be
be aa
M truthful
trui
icata, Calabria and Sicily more than or an ordinary workman who was to say that will be the outcome of every
as Petrarch.
yers—good riddance.”
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