T he S ilverton M ournal
SILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914.
VOL IV.
PAPAL NOTES
By L. I). Ratliff
'ITio Archdeacon villain of une of
Hugo*« «turie« “in making himaelf a
prie«t made himself a demon, — love,
the source of all virtue in man, was
transformed into horrid thing* in the
heart of the priest.”
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The CathoUc Sentinel la authority
for the new» that Colonel Roosevelt
recently visited Home nuns who had
I been driven from Mexico and listened
with “clenched teeth" to their story.
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Dr. Gladden said, "There does not
appear to be any adequate reason why
71>,UOU,UUU people should be shuddering
with tear that 2t,U0U,U(A> are about to
subjugate them."
Let Archbishop
yuigley of Chicago answer Gladden;
"We iiave well-ordered and efficient
organizations, all at the beck and nod
of the Hierarchy; und ready to do
what the Church authorities tell them
to do. With these bodies of loyal
Catholics ready to step in the breach
at any lime, und present an unbroken
front to the enemy, we maw feel se
cure.” (Ln Chicago Record - Herald,
September 11, 1911.)
What is a mob of 75,000,000, un
organised, and most of them asleep,
against 20,000,000 compact und with
religious fanaticism obeying a single
voice ?
One brand of patrotiam: — The
see
priests of Ireland have served notice
Harper's
Weekly
of October 23, 1376,
on the Britiah Government that Catho
lic chaplain« must be appointed to the said, — "'¡'he simple truth is tiiat the
army or there will be no Catholic en Roman Church is making a powerful
effort throughout the world to resume
listments.
a a a
her old political ascendancy. To this
Fraternal courtesies:— Mr. Maruir- end she has u perfect and world-wide
ty, special agent from the Supreme organisation, and cun count upon the
Council, told the Knighta of CoiumbuH superstition of ignorance. In the great
at McMinnville how in Mexico the est of European states she is contend
Catholic populace la oppreaacd, and ing today with the greatest of Euro
their religion maligned by Fraemason» pean statesmen. In England the most
sagacious and sincere of English pol
and Agnoatica.
itical leader« with masterly force ex
a a a
The Proteatant preacher who thank« pose her designs, and the chief of
God for thia "Land of the Free," then English poets appeals In strains that
winka at Papal aggreawiona, may not ring like the twang of the English
lie a fool, but he "sure would make a cross-bow, to the olu English spirit
good aubatitue if you wanted one in and valor that smote Rome three cen
turies ago. in tiiis country the Hie
a hurry.”
rarchy of that Church haa declared
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war upon the American free public
The Catholic Federation haa de schoo1, not as injurious to American
manded of the Wilaon administration liberty, but as fatal to Roman as
two thinga: Rescue of the nuna and cendancy. This Hierarchy marshalls
priests at Vera Crux and recognition its adherents, who are largely ignorant
of no government in Mexico which and of foeign birth, ana association as
doea not grant real "Freedom of a voting class.... The attempt is open
Worship." Funny, isn’t it to hear Ro and resolute. The purpose is frankly
man Catholics talk about Freedom of announced, and all the resources of the
Worship? The Pope’s Bull against most powerful priesthood in the world
Cicilixation (Syllabus) and every other are brought into the field. To say that
Papal authority for the last th usand it is a bugbear because it is not yet
years have condemned Freedom of successful, or to insist that it never
Worship.
can be successful because we are such
a a a
an enlightened people, is as foolish as
Recently five Catholic biahopa called to declare that no other evil is possible
a boycott on a paper in Milwaukee. because we are so exceptionally honest
Three gentry were called into court to and superior. The way to prevent
answer a suit for dan age«. They put tires is to put out sparks.”
On July 18, thia year, the same
up the plea that the laws of the Church
are superior to the laws of the State, Harper’s Weekly made a special fea
and that they hail a right to discipline ture of Dr. Washington Gladden’s “An
a member even by an unlawful boy ti-Papal Panic,” in which the author
cott. The same proposition, in effect, tries to belittle the nation-wide effort
was put up to a court in Oklahoma, now being made to throw off, or hold
where a nun sued the managers of a in check, the Roman Catholic plague
convent for violating a teaching con which has wrought the ruin of so
tract. The court held against the many peoples. The change in this
Church in the former, and for the paper indicates the progress Rome has
made in capturing the public press.
Church in the latter case.
C. W. BIBB IN JAIL LANDED
BY ROMAN THUGS
No. 4
A TEAM OF HULLS
THANKSGIVING DAY
It is not necessary to refer to the origin of this day
among our puritanical tore-fathers.
Appreciation and gratitude are normal instincts in
the life of man. A lite void of these higher and tiner
sentiments is like a barren desert. What fragrance is
to the rose, or what beauty is to the lily, that is grati
tude and appreciation in man’s life.
Life is a great school, with experience the teacher,
with man or humanity the pupil.
lait each one, from a heartfelt appreciation for any
and all experiences, give thanks in his own way.
And there are many things to be thankful for.
Ixit us lie thankful for precious moments of spirit
ual exhaltation, for acred communion, for baptismal
refreshments, which have sweetened our lives.
Let us be thankful for tender ties of love and sym
pathy—ties of iiome and family—ties of friendship,
which draw us closer together in common kinship.
True friendship are tne richest blessings of human
life!
It is so perfectly natural for us to appreciate and to
feel thankful for the joys of life; for sunshine of hap
piness; for success and victory; for triumphs and con
quests.
How frequently we lose the deeper lesson? How
frequently we fail to realize that our deepest joys are
begotten of deepest sorrow ?
How little some people recognize that the purest
light is often the result of deepest anguish of heart
und soul?
How little we realize that frequently our greatest
triumphs rise out of seeming defeat?
“It is the cry of despair,” within the soul of man,
that becomes "the voice of hope!”
"Out of the shadow of doubt rises the light of
faith!” What is the Joy of Pleasure” compared with
the deeper "Joy of Sacrifice, born of Sorrow and Pain?”
In co -nting over our experiences, opportunities and
privileges or service (and that is the best in life) let
us not undervalue the shadows and sorrows; let us not
underrate the failures and defeats, many of which
prove “Blessings in Disguise.”
In the present upheave!, through the awful war, let
us read the higner promise of better things!
Out of the breaking down of the old system of or
ganized error and iniquity a larger vision and promise
of a higher form of equity must come, or evolution is
a farce and a snare.
Out of the greed of gold and power, out of this mad
blindness, which has set nation against nation, inter
national fraternalism will come, based upon the De
mocracy of World-Brotherhood, which alone is a guar
antee for world-peace !
Let us above all else be thankful for this larger
vision of faith and assuring hope, which is the light
upon the way of true deliverance, leading out of the
wilderness of confusion and bondage.
The errors and mistakes of the Past and Present
are still our best teachers.
Err, of necessity, we will and must until we acquire
sufficient wisdom to solve our social and economic prob
lems in conformity with nature’s laws and methods of
progressive evolution.
There can be no lasting construction until scientific
principles are applied to the social needs of humanity.
"Necessity is the Mother of Invention!” Invention
is the means of Progress! Therefore let us be thank
ful for “Compelling Necessity!”
Is not every obstacle, every obstruction a chal
lenge? Do not defeats and failures reveal to us in
herent weakness and moral delinquencies? to be over
come?
How else would we ever develop our latent forces
and creative powers? were it not for the challenge of
Compellig Necessity? for the “Eternal Must!” For
these things let us all give thanks!”
Cor.
We do not refer to a pair of animals
of the ox kind. These are highly civ
ilized; and usually orderly enough.
No; the “bulla” we are after, are of a
very different species of beast. From
the name of the leaden seal affixed to
it—which in Latin is named "bulla”—
the documents of a certain character,
issued by the pope of Rome, are called
“Bulls." The pair of these bulls that
we consider today, are those named
“In coena Domini;” and “Aeternus
ill«.”
The first — "In coena Domini” —
trans1 ated — “at the Supper of the
Lord” — is so named because read in
Rome on Maunday Thursday— the
Thursday before Eester. It m a bun
dle of excommunications; showing in
detail, how kindly the pope feels to
ward any who see things in any other
way than as he sees them. The ear
liest one that has come down to us
was issued by pope Gregory XII, in
1411. The form has been modified
more or less, from time to time. As is
sued by Pope Pius IX 1869, it ex
communicates and curses—with all the
frills; all apostates and all who refuse
obedience to the pope; and all who
without leave, own or read any books
the pope may condemn. It curses all
who directly or indirectly impede the
work of the church. Kings, magis
trates and any others who favor, re
ceive or defend heretics or schismatics
and those who argue that the pope is
subject to a council. (This was just
before the Vatican council had de
clared the pope infallible—you see that
he was not going to take any chances
on that subject.)
We propose to give this old bull a
short grooming; and see if we can
find his good "points.”
There are 32 paragraphs in this do
cument; may we not, then, speak of
them as so many “horns” of the
beast t — As several of these deal
with the case of rulers, we may first
say that in the centuries past, many
rulers and states have forbidden the
publication of this document, annually,
within their realms, because of its
attacks on the authorities — though
these were all of them, professors of
th,e religion of Rome.
One of two things must follow: —
Either the pretended “unity” of the
Roman Church is false — OR — The
pope and his lackeys of the priesthood
— are “The Church” — and the
people and their civil rulers are so
many nothings, and don’t count.
In the third “horn” many of the so-
called heretics are named; and it is
added that the same curses fall on any
who without "Our authority”—“know
ingly read, keep, print or defend their
books.” Hom 17 undertakes to gore
all and every — who as civil officers,
make, or seek to enforce any laws that
the pope may object to. Hom 18 im
pales those who turn to the civil law
to escape any rule of the pope. Horn
20 gores any rulers or states that
dare try to tax the property WE
claim. And horn 21 does for any rulers
who seek to enforce civil law against
any criminal priest. But you should
see the precise form of this “horn.”
THE FEARLESS ANTI-CATHOLIC LECTURER ON
“We excommunicate and anath
ematize
the magistrates and judges
KNIGHTS
OF
COLUMBUS
ORGANIZE
THE 13TH OF NOVEMBER LANDED IN JAIL
.......... anyways intruding themselves
in capital or criminal causes against
AT REDWING, MINN., WENT THERE TO
ecclesiastical persons, by processing,
A Chapter of the Knighta of Colum tution the United States has no na banishing or apprehending them, with
LECTURE IN PIACE OF PARKER
bus haa just been organized in Mt. tional religion, recognizes no particu out the special, particular and express
Angel with, we are informed, 150 char lar religion as against others, tolerates
One of the fearless, forceful, fore
most, fruitful fighters in the patriotic
cause in America is the little S uth-
erner, C. W. Bibb, of Minneapolis.
When the editor of the Sentinel was in
Minneapolis during the fierce Roman
Catholic mob riots, Bibb was on the
job day and night. As a pack of these
papist thugs shadowed this editor
from the great church in which he
lectured. Bibb was ever present and
at great risk went with the editor to
see him safely on his sleeper.
But Bibb seems to have limits to
his operations. On Friday, the 13th
instant, he was called upon to go to
Red Wing, Minn., to lecture in place
of Billy Parker, who had been adver
tised to speak, but was unable to
meet the date.
Bibb, sort of innocent - like, went
down to Red Wing, Minn., loaded to
the guards for the priest and his
tribe. He arrived in Red Wing about
5 p. m., ate his dinner and was loung
ing in his room at the St. James Ho
tel, when behold a knock at the door.
Mr. Bibb opened the door to look into
the keen eye of Chief of Police Jack-
son. The chief was Invited into the
room and to a seat, he all the while
showing clearly he was ill at ease.
"What’s the matter, Chief?” asked
Mr. Bibb. "Trouble a plenty,” replied
Chief Jackson. I have a warrant for
your arrest."
“All right, Chief,” said Mr. Bibb,
“I am at your service. I have but one
request to make. I always carry a
number of books with me and I want
to take one of these books with me
to keep me company while I partake
of your generous hospitality.”
Chief Jackson is a fine fellow, far
too good a man to have any sym
pathy for the principles the low down
cowards whose mandates his official
position compels him to obey.
Down to the jail Bibb and the Chief
went and behind the cold chilled steel
bars, just such bars as the godly
nuns and inmates of the Houses of the
Good Shephe'd inmates are guarded
by to prevent the burglars from intrud
ing. Bibb sat on his crude cot read
ing “Jesuitism Unveiled” as content
edly as if he had been in the libra y
of his own beautiful home in Minne-
apo'is. For an hour and a half Bibb
remained behind the steel bars review
ing the treason and the infamy of that
pet organization of the Roman Catho-
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ter members. We have no prejudice,
no anti-clerical hatred for the Knights
of Columbus, providing they are good
and patriotic citizens and do support
the constitution of the U. S., and de-J
fend the equal rights of every other
citizen to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness. They, the Knights, have
a perfect right to stand up for the
rights of the Catholic citizen of this
republic, for the Catholic citizen has
just as good a right to live and labor
here as any Protestant, Jew or Free
thinker — juBt as good and no better.
When any Protestant imagines that
this is a Protestant country he is mis
taken; when any Catholic imagines he
is going to make this country a Cath
olic country, he is just as badly mis
taken. This country is greater than
a’ y one church, aye, greater than all
churches combined, for it embraces
the idea of universal mental liberty.
This government was conceived and
founded as the Republic of Man—free
Man, representing all creeds, all faiths,
all great and fruitful ideas. This gov
ernment stands upon the Declaration
of Independence; that immortal docu
ment written by Thomas Jefferson who
was a wise and consistent secularist.
Under the Declaration and Consti
the intrusion of religion into none of
its public affairs. This government is
run by men living on the earth, not by |
theories respecting beings that live off
the earth. This government hates rel
igion in politics or rel’gion in schools
or religion in any other department of
State. There iz one ground upon which
this eternal sectarian warfare between
Protestant, Catholic and Jew can be
settled, and settled for all time. It is
the ground of absolute liberty to all
parties and special favors to none. I
will state that ground in the confes
sion of an honest Protestant.
“When we endorse the federal Con
stitution and say that we believe in
the complete separation of church and
state, we mean just what we say. We
don’t mean the mere separation of the
Roman Catholic Church from the
state; but we mean the separation of
all churches and religious organiza
tions from the state. Some Protes
tants, who have not given this matter
the thought it deserves, are playing
into the hands of Rome by joining,
to some extent, in the demand for leg
islation on religious matters.
“The only way to observe the spirit
of re'igious freedom and guarantee to
every citizen the freedom of con-
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license of this holy apostolic see;........
although the offender should be coun
sellors, senators, presidents........ or
entitled by any other name.”
Have you observed that here — in
“Free America” — no matter what
evidence is adducted against a priest,
the defense is — “He is insane, and
must be coddled and cared for” — or,
if nothing else offers — "He isn’t a
priest at all — but is a humbug and
pretender."
Hom 26 is very suggestive. After
speaking of the ways in which actions
of derelict Romanists — or wicked out
siders, must be corrected, he says that
if “even by the connivance and toler
ation of us and our successors, for
how long time soever continued, nei
ther all nor any........ right of the
apostolic see ... howsoever and when
soever obtained, can, or ought to be,
prejudged, or receive any prejudice."
Possibly Rome is sometimes slan
dered by the opposition; but good
friend—Please note from this docu
ment, which is annually published for
the guidance of Romanists all the
world over—
“We may connive at—and tolerate
for a time—but THEN—LOOK OUT.”
"L.”
Our Patriotic Lecturers
and What They
are Doing
We invite our lecturer« everywhere
to send us in report« of what they
are doing or get some of their friends
to do so, and especially to notify us
where they will lecture next. The
following are the names of men who
are regularly lecturing and whom you
can procure by writing them for
terras and dates.
Rev. C. L. Edward«, Muscatine, la.,
Route 9.
Rev. A. J. Scarboro, Magnolia, Ark.
Rev. J. A. Cottam, Dearborn, Mich.
E. H. Beales, Wichita, Kan.
Walter Sims, Bay City, Mich.
E. G. Grossehme, Jr., Brownville,
Neb., Box 5.
Dr. W. H. Boles, Marion, Ill.
Otis, L. Spurgeon, Des Moines, Is.
Pat Malone, 907 Second Ave., East
Oskaloosa. Ia.
William Loyd, Clark, Milan, III.
Basil, E. Newton, Hope, Ark.
Rev. W. H. Granger, Houston, Tex.
P. A. Seguin, Stevens Point, Wis.
J. L. Finn, Toledo, Ohio.
Ford Hendrickson, Toledo, Ohio.
Billy Parker, Oil City, Pa.
E. A. Jordon, La Harpe, III.
Dr. Joseph Slattery and wife, Dr.
Mary E. Slattery, P.O. Box 1846, New
York City.
George H. Buss, 907 Second Ave.,
East Oskaloosa, Ia.
Ex-Nun Helen Jackson, 2424 Auburn
Ave., To'edo, Ohio.
J. W. Meyer, Huntington, Ind.
J. A. Hoyt, La Crosse, Wis.
A D. Buhlman, Lock Box 4195, De
troit, Mich.
Father Jones, Co. 18, National Mil
itary Home, Ohio.
Ex-Priest William Black, Bellaire,
Ohio.
Mart:n F. Bunge, Milwaukee, Wis.
(Martin Bunge lectures to German i
only.)
William Lloyd Clark is now lectur
ing on the Pacific coast. He lectures
this week at the city of Tacoma.
Wa h., at the Masonic temple, for six
days. Dates for Mr. Clark on the
coast are coming in faster than he
can ever hope to fill them and get
back to his family. If the climate
agrees with him and suits him, he
may possibly stay two or three
months. Clark certainly will make
good here. He has the promise and
prospect of a larger crowd than the
building will hold. He writes the land
is lousy with priests and great Ro
man Catholic churches everywhere.
The people on the coast know Rome.
They are thouroughly aroused and
awake to the situation.
E. H. Beales of Wichita, Kan., is one
lecturer to get in touch with him.
Rev. C. L. Edwards of Muscatine,
Ia., is another strong man. In the
campaign prior to election, he was
on the go. It will not do for Mr.
Edwards to be allowed to be idle this
winter. The cause needs every hour
of his time. Edwards has been bring
ing things to pass in his lectures
everywhere. We want you people to
accept him as a man you can depend
upon.
C. W. Bibb of 2208 Girard Ave.
south, Minneapolis, is wide awake and
in the field ready for work. The fol
lowing are some of the subjects on
which Bibb specializes:
1. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy
a Pob'tical System.
2. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy
an E-emy to Our Public Schools.
3. Shall the Pope Rule America?
4. Influence of Popery On Nations.
5. Is There a Danger?
6. Romanism an Immoral System.
7. Primacy of Peter, or the Fallacy
of Apostolic Succession.
8. Romanism a Pagan, Rather Than
a Christian Institution.
The last two subjects are especially
adapted to churches.
You should get in touch with Mr.
Bibb at once.
Ford Hendrickson of 2424 Auburn
Ave., Toledo, Ohio, is lecturing this
week at Orrville, Ohio. When he ar
rived in the town, the prists secured
the revocation of the contract which
gave to him the city hall. Every place
of lecture was closed to him, so Hen
drickson, the bold and courageous
speaker, marched out and took a curb
stone for a platform and began to lec
ture. To the horror and consternation
of the mayor, city council and the
priests, and a few of their loyal sup
porters , the whole city turned out to
hear him. The result of this was the
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