University of Otrgon
Eugene. Oregon
X
' he S ilverton J ournal
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914.
VOL. III.
NO. 13.
ANOTHER VICTIM GONE-CAN IT BE HER CRY WILL FALL ON DEAF EARS?
ROMISH SCHOLARSHIP IS A GREAT MYTH.
MAGNIFIED BY THE PRIESTS’ “HOLY” OFFICE
THIS ROMAN BAND OF BANDITS
IS ORGANIZED ALL OVER THE WORD
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In Thousand« of Ways the Priests Advertise Themaelvea as Being Almost,
If Not Quite, Supernaturally Wiae and Scholarly, But They Are Very
Poorly Educated in the Modern Sense of That Term—Their Hold on the
People Ia Because of the People’s Ignorance.
Faithful Member« of the Hierarchy Occupy High Ollier in Every State in
the Union—Oregon Judge« Are Catholic — Many Officer« Who Are Not
Known «• Catholic« Are Catholic« 1« Thia America?—I'atriota, We
Mutt Put Our Office« and Our Court« in Charge of Loyal Citizen«.
Again the cry of autfrring from
the lip« of a helpless victim in the
hand« of a«pitiles« monster come«
from the depth« of hell on earth. Thin
time the location 1« Oak Grove, Ore­
gon, at Sinter Teresa’s sanitarium
The victim ia Minn Agnen Murtin, her
«inter name, Sinter Xavier. I will tell
her «lory an I have it in inv office in
black ami white, and an I tell it I can
nee in advance the sleepy Protestants
of thi« Northwent town turn over in
their bed« of eane in Zion and go to
aleep once more, only regretting that
they have been disturbed. I can see
the inerchantn who arc waxing rich by
the wantonnenn of the woman in ncar-
I t, only grasp with a tighter ifrip the
purnen of gold and go on in their wick
ed adultery with the Leant. How long,
oh. Lord, will the cry of the helplenn
and fornaken fall on deaf earn and
hardened heurtn. Herr it in:
On September 19 I received a letter
from Anna Lowery, "The Martyr in
Black,” telling of Sitter Xavier, mak­
ing an appeal to me to do what I
could to rescue her from her torment­
or«. Sinter Xavier in «till an far an 1
know a Catholic, nevertheless, in re­
sponse to thi« uppeal 1 immediately
net in motion a plan for her rencur.
Sinter Xavier wan not kept under
lock and key, but wan kept in «uch a
condition an to render it impossible
for her to leave, independent of the
wishes of the superior of the nanitari­
um. Here in a letter from her to Minn
Anna Lowery which explain« her nitu-
ation:
"Oak Grove, Sept. 10, 1913.
"My hear Friend:
"No doubt you blame me for seem­
ing to fail you when you needed me,
but it in far from true. I am .-'till in
bed. I wrote you how I wan situated
and that I would do anything to help
you God know-. I would, but 1 seem
to l>e worse. I wish 1 could be near
you in your prenent trial. How is it
coming off? I have thought of you
conntantly. In there no way I could
write for you and obtain some money
—a story of fiction for the paper, or
my own life? 1 can read character by
hand-writing if you could get me any
people to «end specimen« or if the
Menace would care to take up graph­
ology, I could write articles for them
and they could send me specimens to
read from their subscribers and then
publish them in the paper. 1 think it
would increase their circulation. 1 am
in need of money badly—I gave Sister
Teresa $20 and she cannot return it
1 am even out of shoes, clothes. If
you had not supplied me with stamps,
would be out of those also. I know
you have all you can do, but if there
is any way you know of, let me know.
1 think you know me well enough to
trust me in spite of this trouble. I
wish you would come to see me. Don’t
you think vou can? Now don’t for­
sake me—I am alone and need your
sympathy.
"SR. M. XAVIER."
There you have it—alone, forsaken,
sick, without clothes, money or
friends. Yet they say any sister can
go or come when she pleases. That
the sisters arc in reality living in a
veritable hell, there is no question,
and I am beginning to believe that the
most awful conditions are existent on
the Pacific coast. After my plan for
her rescue was set in motion, it be­
came impossible to hear a word from
her, as Miss Lowery testifies. And
perhaps the letter written by her to
Miss Lowery from Chicago will throw-
some light on the subject:
“Room B 34, Congress Hotel and An­
nex, Chicago, Wed.
“Dear Miss Laurie:
“I do not know why you have not
written. I sent you word I would go
to you, and heard nothing. I sent that
word saying good-bye merely as a
blind as the nurse was reading my
mail. Mr. Eby saw me and just as I
was talking with him, Sr. Teresa walk­
ed in. She said she would take me up
to his office, then that night «he
brought me away. I thought I would
have another chance of seeing you,
but was ill in San Francisco and had
to wait. God knows I went through
enough to get to you. A Catholic gen­
tleman here gave me this room and a
friend feeds me and gives me money.
I never thought you would refuse me.
I would have been good and faithful
and worked for you—they sent my
trunk, t ok out a ring, and my private
letters and the clothes worth having.
If I were well enough I would go back
and get a detective to get my things,
but Iain too ill in body to care.
“I come to you penniless, alone, sick.
The convents refuse me shelter even—
from them, rich, high, and supposed to
be charitable Catholics. I appeal to
you, a poor hard-working woman, and
I feel that I will not appeal in vain.
Sister Teresa asked me repeatedly to
give you up, and I refused. Cannot
you come or wire at once. I sent you
a message to the Menace.
“I am anxious to hear about the
trial. Do not forsake me. I see only
death ahead, no kindness in this
dreary world. Oh, for a friend to care
for in thi« vale of tear«.
“I am sincere, do not doubt me,
please, and as you are a sufferer and
a Christian (follower of Christ) help
me in need. If you cannot help me,
God be with you, and thanks for what
you did do.
• "SR. M. XAVIER"
There it is another wail from those
who have felt the sting of Rome.
This is the last word received from
Sister Xavier. Where she is now, or
what has become of her, God only
knows, and perhaps Nister Teresa.
Miss Agnes Martin has dropped out of
sight Can Rome tell us where «he
is? If no , let them speak, we want to
know.
I have sent letters to all the possible
add reuses where she might be found,
and have received so far, two replies.
Box 43. R L, Orlando, Fla.,
Nov. 2«, 1913.
Mr. J. L. Myers.
Dear Sir: Your note of inquiry re­
ceived and in reply would say that I
have not seen Sr. Xavier since the lat­
ter part of June, when she left here
for Chicago. She told me then «he
was going to a sanitarium near Port­
land, Oregon. I have written several
times to her, but have received no re­
ply.
Yours respectfully,
MRS ANNA H PIATT.
Here is one from a mother!?) of
Texas:
Dear Sir: I do not know where Sr.
Xavier (Agnes Martin) ia. She was
at St. Teresa’s sanitarium the last I
heard of her. She is not a bound
member of any religious order, as far
as 1 know. So if she is undergoing
hardship« she should not remain. Her
health is critically poor.
Yours sincerely,
MOTHER ROSE MANE.
My candid belief is that this girl
was taken away from this coast to
Chicago to avoid us in our endeavor
to save her from her persecutors. We
demand that the Catholics tell us
where this sufferer is. If she is in a
dungeon, we want to know it. The
time has come for all men with back­
bones to prepare to meet this enemy.
LEON L. MYERS,
Christian Minister.
PATRIOTS, NOTICE.
Leon L. Myers is chief attorney for
the Guardians of Liberty, and will
come at the call of the patriots of any
community who desire to organize
themselves, ‘»’here is work to do in
every community. Patriots arouse ye,
for the battle is on.
The following is the warrant of au­
thority issued by the National Court
of the Guardians of Liberty, sitting in
the city and state of New York:
"To Whom This May Be Presented:
"Know ye, that Leon L. Myers, of
Silverton, Oregon, a memlier of Lib­
erty Court No. 2, of the Guardians of
Liberty, located in the city and state
of New York, has been made a deputy
chief attorney of the order for the
purpose of establishing courts of
Guardians of Liberty in Oregon. The
obligation of a deputy chief attorney
makes it imperative that he carefully
and thoroughly investigates the char­
acter of applicants for local courts,
and that he will act only in strict com­
pliance and conformity with the con­
stitution, rules and regulations of the
order.
This warrant has been Issued by the
authority and under the seal of the
National Court, this 16th day of Jan­
uary 1914.
E. BLAIR,
Deputy Chief Attorney.
Valid until the 16th day of June,
1914.
The Kind of Help That Helps.
The sex desire is one of the greateat, if not the greatest desire, of the
average human being, and there ia a reason for the priests being unmar­
ried other than the inconvenience or bother of performing the sweet, sim­
ple, elevating duties of a good husband. The attempt on the part of some
good priest« to live up to their youthful ideal« of the priesthood "is
enough to drive a man to drink,” and it han driven many a poor priest to
drink and worse than drink, until it ia quite the ordinary thing for priests
to be “fathers” indeed a« well aa in name. This is a dark spot in our civ­
ilization, and, if allowed to continue, it will ruin the United States as it
has every other country where it has been tolerated.
THE LIQUOR INTERESTS
volved. Ultimately all questions must
ARE ON THE RUN! be settled by moral standards; only in
this way can mankind be saved from
self-effacement. The liquor traffic can
When an institution that has been not save itself by declaring that gov­
the object of reforming efforts takes ernment is incapable of coping with
to reforming itself, or to preaching the problem it presents; when the peo­
its own need of reform, its enemies ple decide that it must go, it will be
may take comfort. The Anti-Saloon banished. We are not discussing the
League and Woman’s Christian Tem­ benefit or justice of prohibition, but
perance Union have withstood the rail­ its possibility and its probability in
ings of many, points out the Christian present circumstances. To us there is
Work and Evangelist (New York), ’the handwriting on the wall,’ and its
but their efforts to amend the consti­ i terpretation spells doom. For this
tution of the United States so that the the liquor business is to blame; it
manufacture, sale, and importation of seems incapable of learning any les­
liquor shall be prohibited is taken as son of advancement or any motive but
no joke by the liquor interests. A li­ profit. To perpetuate itself, it has
quor dealers’ journal is quoted in formed alliance with the slums that
what the Christian Work calls a “re­ repel all conscientious and patriotic
markable prophecy of the downfall of citizens. It deliberately aids the most
the liquor trade.” Their "betrayal of corrupt political powers, and backs
fear” is no longer masked, and their with all of its resources the most un­
leading journal calls upon the liquor worthy men, the most corrupt and re­
dealers to prepare their defense, for creant officials. It does not aid the
their day of trial is frankly at hand. purification of municipal, state or na­
In these words the liquor dealers’ jour­ tional administration. Why? Because
nal presents what it avers is "a truth­ it has to ask immunity for its own
ful statement” of how matters stand lawlessness. That this condition is in­
publicly on this question:
herently and inevitably necessary we
"It is always best for normal people do not believe, but it has come to be a
to look at things as they are. Reality fact, and the public, w-hich is to pass
may be obscured to the sick or feeble­ ot) the matter in its final analysis, be­
minded in certain circumstances, but lieves anything bad that anybody can
deception is a poor evidence of friend­ tell it of the liquor business. Why ?
ship. Partisanship with blinded eyes I^t the leaders of the trade answer.
only leads the way to ruin, and self­ Other lines of business may be as bad,
deception is the worst of all. Let us or even worse, but it is not so plainly
look at things as they are, and in the in evidence. The case of the liquor
face of the enemy dare to consider traffic is called for adjudication by the
and concede their strength. Knowing American people, and must be ready
his plan of battle, we can better ar­ for trial. Other cases may be called
range our forces for his defeat; right­ later but the one before the court can
ly estimating his strength, we can bet­ not be postponed. But, as in the past,
ter provide to meet it. The prohibi­ the men most concerned are playing
tion fight henceforth will be nation­ for postponement, not for acquittal.
wide, and contemplates writing into Is it because they fear the weakness
the National constitution a prohibition of their defense that they fear to go
of the manufacture and sale of all al­ to trial ? There are billions of proper­
coholic beverages. To accomplish this ty involved, and an industry of great
result will require the ratification of employing and tax-paying ability; but
thirty-six out of the forty-eight states when the people decide that the truth
in the Union. Of these nine are al­ is being told about the alcoholic-liquor
ready in line through state prohibition trade, the money value will not count,
—Maine. Kansas, North Dakota, Okla­ for conscience aroused puts the value
homa, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, of a man above all oth -r things. The
North Carolina, West Virginia. The writer believes that prohibition is the­
last five have been added within a pe­ oretically wrong, but he know’s that
riod of six years. In addition to these theories, however well substantiated,
there are eighteen states in which a may be overthrown by conditions, as
major part of the people live in terri­ has often been done in the world’s his­
tory made dry by local option, in tory. In this country we have recent­
which we may be assured prohibition ly swept aside one of the fundamental
sentiment predominates. If the people theories of the framers of our consti­
in these states who are opposed to the tution in going from representative to
liquor traffic demand it, their legisla­ direct government; we are on the
tures will undoubtedly ratify a nation­ verge of universal instead of male suf­
frage, and there is a spirit abroad
al amendment.
“The most influential argument which recks little of traditi >n, of pre­
against prohibition is that it is not ef­ cedent. or of vested rights; and on lib­
fective; that ‘prohibition don’t pro­ erty used licentiously and destructive­
hibit.’ This is not basic or moral; the ly it will work short shrift. Prepare
fact of failure to enforce is no argu­ the defense, friends; make your case
ment against even the expediency, ready for court, the trial can not be
much less against the moral issue in« postponed!”—Selected.
Dear Sir: Your paper has been rec­
ommended to me by Otis L. Spurgeon
as one of the very best patriotic pa­
pers printed in the United States. And
as I am very deeply interested in this
subject, and am satisfied that the time
has come when it is necessary to take
a decided stand against Romanism, I
am sending you under separate cover
a directory of the city of Cadillac with In Angel town there lived a beast
A.s many beasts there oe,
the names checked that I believe would
be interested in your paper. Find en­ Both mongrel, pupuf. whelp an i
hound
closed $5 to help pay the expense, and
And curs of low deg-ve.
please send sample copies to each of
these people within the next ten days, This Angel beast hit Christian folks
And many things beside,
if you can. Yours for freedom.
But when it bit a bit of grit,
It laid it down and died.
Read the Menace and then help nail
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the following Catholic lie:
A reward of $10 will be given for
"We have been asked so many times
"If the Menace is lying about the the discovery of an Oregon “father”
Catholic church, why doesn’t that over forty years of age, who is not a
church deny the charges made?” that father. Hurry! Hurry!! Hurry!!!
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Wff take this opportunity of telling you
We would like to read a book writ­
something about that paper, and the
reason the church hates to bother with ten by Father Thomas, entitled “The
it. The church d <es not care to notice Escaped Priest from Mt. Angel.”
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such obscenities, blasphemies and li­
Lots of girls are forced into the
bels because it can hardly imagine
that men in our day, ri^ht here in Am­ convents against their wills and for
erica can believe such lies; because no­ a time are rebellious. But time makes
ticing them increases their population; them good nuns. Why?
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and because they are short-lived—
Where is my boy tonight ? Perhaps
their authors lie too much, defeat their
own purpose, disgust their readers and he’s gone to Mt. Angel to get his sins
forgiven and he may never escape.
bankrupt themselves.”
STIC KERS
Some of the priests are fine boys—
when they are asleep.
Holy water comes from the clouds
in great abundance at times in Ore­
gon. It keeps things nice and green
just like the priests’ dope. We have
fine pastures here for all kinds of cat­
tle and the holy waters are full of
easy suckers. Make the sign.
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If a heretic member of a Catholic
family dies without ever having been
baptized, it makes good picking for
the priest who helps get the black
sheep through purgatory. The O. S.
B. sets the price and the hours for his
prayers—the victim digs for the
“dough.”
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If the priesthood was held Strictly
to lives of celibacy—there would be no
priesthood.
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After paying the $50,000 fine, we
will want to raise $50,000 more to
have our soul made purgatory-proof.
Send us five subs.
Cardinal Gibbons is supposed by the
public generally to be a man of learn­
ing, because they hear of him only
through the daily papers, where hi«
language is cleared by the reporters,
and his syntax corrected. But turn to
his writings a good sample of which is
his book, ‘The Faith of Our Father«,”
and you have this alleged great man
without expurgation. He is American-
born, so there is no excuse such as one
could make for a foreigner learning
English and writing in it. Turn to
page 36 of the seventy-seventh edition,
“carefully revised,” as the title page
tells us. There he speaks of newly-
arrived immigrants from Italy and
calls them ‘emigrants.” A child in the
fifth grade of a public school would be
sharply reprimanded for so gross an
error in the use of words. These “emi­
grants" having arrived, stood in a
bunch, lost in this strange country till
they espied the cross on the cathedral
(Richmond, Virginia), whereupon they
rushed to that building, entered and
saw a bit of home. "They saw around
them the paintings of familiar saints,
whom they had been accustomed to
reverence from their youth.” Did they,
indeed ? Then those "emigrants” were
over three hundred years old, for no
one is canonized until he has been
dead that length of time. But really
the cardinal did not mean to rival
Munchausen. He merely could not say
what he was trying to, and he has had
seventy-seven editions in which to get
it out, but has not as yet. He meant
to tell us that his “emigrants” saw fa­
miliar paintings, not familiar saints.
But this is rather petty. Let us get
on to graver things.
Naturalists tell us that the fox is
very cunning, but not intelligent. She
will hide her den containing her babies
with much skill. Then she goes to a
farmyard, steals a hen and carrying it
to her den, plucks it at the entrance,
scattering the feathers at the door and
the wind scattering them still more,
she thus betrays her. This shows lack
of intelligence. James, Cardinal Gib­
bons has been called “Fox” Gibbons
(el zorro) by his enemies, and by
those who detest his ways without
classing themselves as his enemies-.
Let us look a little farther into this
book and judge for ourselves. But
first it is to be recalled that, as he
tells us in his preface, the material for
the book is taken from sermons which
he preached to “mixed audiences” in
Tennessee when he was a missionary­
priest. That must have been just be­
fore our Civil War, or thereabouts.
Those “mixed audiences” were prob­
ably “poor whites” and negroes, far
more ignorant than those two classes
there are now. What did this good
priest tell those people? For one
thing he told them of the “Spanish In­
quisition. He ignored the inquistion
which had existed under one name or
another fr m the first century, and
which became bloody and fire-blacken­
ed as soon as the Roman Catholic
church gained political power by be­
ing taken over by the Roman Emper­
or Constantine early in the fifth cen­
tury. From the day of its accession
to power it tortured, burned at the
stake, slew with the sword countless
thousands, and promoted wars and
massacres endlessly and beyond com­
putation as to the number of the slain,
all for its own aggrandizement. None
of this did the cardinal-to-be tell his
“mixed audiences.” He began with
the Spanish inquisition in the fifteenth
century, and denied that the church
had any responsibility therein; af­
firmed that it was a matter of the
crown, and the church did all it could
to prevent it, and to rescue its vic­
tims; that Rome was a city of refuge,
etc. It was the plan of the Catholic
church at the time the Cardinal was
thus Polluting the minds of his
“mixed audiences" to make this pre­
posterous denial, and he told the cur­
rent lie, and has let it stand for fifty
years. The church has, a good many­
years ago, backed down from this
stand. Before me as I write are many­
books written by Catholics on the in­
quisition. Three of about the date of
Gibbons’ sermons make the same de­
nial. The later ones do not. Among
the best of the later ones is a volume
of 284 pages, “The Inquisition,’ by E.
Vancandard, translated from the sec­
ond edition by B. L. Conway, C. S. P„
printed by Longmans, Green & Co.,
and bearing the imprimatur of Arch­
bishop (now Cardinal) John M. Farley
of New York. This imprimatur makes
the book absolutely authoritative, be­
sides we all know the writer and the
translator to be “good Catholics.” tn
this book, the Reverend Vancandard
acknowledges, without reservation, the
church’s complete responsibility for
the inquisition in all the ages of the
Christian and Roman Catholic church.
After each admission he smooths the
matter over all he can, and he “can” a
lot. But the admission stands. Now
among all the thousands who have
written on the inquisition the foremost
is Doctor of Laws Henry Charles Lea.
of Philadelphia. He spent a long life­
time at it. Vancandard quotes him on
nearly every page, saying he is truth­
ful, learned and reliable, though he
wai “a hater of the Catholic church."
Thia statement is recent, while before
me lies another book by a priest who
in «peaking of Dr. i>ea, «ay« he was
the biggest liar and bigot that ever
wrote with a pen. So you see that
the church doea change, in some
things.
Doctor Lea is the best authority on
the tremendous subject of the inquisi­
tion, but not many can read through a
dozen or more large volumes, closely
printed. So there are other books that
take a bird’s-eye view, and are com­
plete enough for any but those who
have to study the matter in detail.
Such a volume is the Catholic one just
mentioned, by Vancandard. He makes
some statements that are untrue.
A3 for example, that the Roman
church never persecuted for heresy
anyone outside of the Christian
church, for she burnt countless Jews
and Moors in Spain, robbing them
wholesale, and at last drove them pen­
niless out of the country. In fact the
last “heretic” she dared burn was a
Jaw, at Rome in 1826. Think how re­
cent that is! My own father was then
a full-grown man.
In very condensed form, this is the
simple fact: From the first century
to the time of Constantine the inquisi­
tion was never violent; no force at all
but only instruction and persuasion.
From the time of Constantine, when
the Catholic church of Rome acquired
political power, the inquisition was
“bloody and fire-blackened,” and con­
tinued so up to near 1830, when it had
to draw in its horns. It still found a
thousand ways to harrass anyone who
expressed disbelief in its dogmas, but
it could no longer kill openly. It exists
today within the walls of the Vatican.
Cardinal Rampolla, who died recently,
was the secretary of the inquisition at
the time of his death. The church still
ex-communicates, a deadly thing for-
merl’’, but one that does not hurt so
much today, though it is serious for
some of its victims, especially if they
be priests, as many of them are.
The present pope, Pius X, has fulmin­
ated savagely against “Modernism,”
which is another name for the same
“crime” whose penalty was first tor­
ture and then burning a* the stake—
heresy.
On pages xii and xiii of his “Intro­
duction” to “The Faith of Our Fath­
ers,” Cardinal Gibbons says: “I do
not wonder that the church is hated by
those who learn that she is from her
enemies. It is natural for an honest
man to loathe an institution whose
h: story he believes to be marked by
bloodshed, crime and fraud.” Except
for the blunder in English construc­
tion in the use of “that” for “what” in
the first sentence of this quotation, we
can heartily agree with Mr. Gibbons.
All informed people loathe the Roman
Catholic church because we know that
its history is marked by crime, blood*
shed and fraud beyond any other in­
stitution that has ever existed on the
earth.
Another thing that the good Mis­
sionary Priest Gibbons told his varie­
gated audiences was that the Roman
Catholic church was founded by Jesus
Christ in the year 33, and that Catho­
lics worship Christ. That the church
of England was founded by Henry
VIII in 1534, and that the Protestants
of England, Scotland, parts of Ireland,
and all the British colonists and the
Protestant Episcopal church members
of America, worship Henry of the
Vives!
The facts in this case are
that St. Paul brought Christianity to
Britain in the first century; that later
on when the popes usurped authority
over all Christians, Rome butted in
and took possession of Britain- was
later chased out, and the pure worship
of Christ resumed. The historical data
that Paul was in Britain are stronger,
say unbiased writers of history, than
the evidence that St. Peter ever saw
Rome. Certainly Peter was not the
first pope, as the Romanists claim, for
the papacy did not exist till hundreds
of years after Peter’s death. Every
in Rome was made to order.
As a matter of course, this good
bit of “evidence” that Peter is buried
moral missionary priest did not stop
with the church of England, but told
his ignorant hearers that Methodists
worship John Wesley, Presbyterians,
John Calvin, and so on to the end of
the list. Ignorant they were, but how-
many of them must have snickered
when he told them such things! And
witness the mental and moral condi­
tion of the man, willing to utter such
untruths, and to let them stand in
print through “seventy-seven edi­
tions.” And as evidence that he has
not reformed nor gained sense, recall
that a few years ago when the trou­
ble that expelled the Roman church
from France was at its most acute
stage. Gibbons got the Associated
Press to interview him, to "inform the
American people,” and then made the
lying statement that "the whole trou­
ble was being caused by the one fact
that the French statesmen hated re­
ligion and wanted to destroy it.” As
we all know, religion had nothing to
do with the affair. It was simply the
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