TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
AY, JANUARY 18,1924
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which so clearly sets fqrth the uni­ is the foundation for every teaching
versal attitude of the ‘Church of of the Catholic Church.
ndependent
Weekly
Paper Rome’ as this very clear statement
We would like to ask: Can you find
lished Every Friday by the
there “prayers to Mary,” to ‘Joseph,
from the ‘Pacific.’
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Publishing
Company
Mr. Davey denies that a member or any other ‘Saint’? Can you find
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of oia i>> Mii'l Cuo
of tau eiiurch of Koine rnujl liars
you
find
a
‘
secret
confessional’? Can
arrisen,
Managing Editor ‘permission’ from high church auth­
Can you
ority before he can read the Bible, you find a ‘purgatory’?
fd as second class mail and indicates that the Bible is held in find authority for giving ALL the
in the U. S. postoffice at very high esteem by the Roman WINE to the priest and withholding
it from the laymen? Can you find
>k, Oregon.
Catholic church.
a “laundry sweatshop” called the
On
this
subject
the
Council
of
Trent
JBSCRIPTION RATES
‘Convent of the Good Shepherd,’ in
said: “Inasmuch as it is manifest
ir, By Mail ...__________ $2.00
which girlhood is ground into profit
from
experience,
that
if
the
HOLY
iths, By Mail ------------- $1.00
for an organization which calls itself
vulger
ionths, By Mail .............. $...75 BIBLE, translated into the
Christian? Can you find where God
allowed
tongue,
be
indiscriminately
Payable in advance
is said to be glorified by a woman
to every one, the temerity of men
drawing away into an ‘image haunt­
Telephones
will cause more EVIL than good to
ed’ seclusion and there living a life
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rise from it, it is, on this point, re­
with down-cast eyes? Can you find
ferred to the JUDGEMENT of the
any justification for the infliction of
bishops or ‘inquisitors’, who MAY,
pain in order to obtain from
* by the advise of the ‘priest’ or con- physical
God forgiveness for ANY kind of
OQR EDITORIAL POLICY ♦ fessor, PERMIT the reading of the
sin? Can you find anything about
BIBLE translated into the vulger
the sale of ‘indulgences’? Can you
to advocate aid and sup- ♦ tongue by CATHOLIC AUTHORS,
find about a string of beads for pray­
any measures that will ♦ to those persons whose faith and
er-saying? Any Catholic who will
the most good to the ♦ piety they apprehend will be aug­
read the Bible, THINK FOR HIM­
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people
mented, and not injured by it: and
SELF, and be morally honest, will
encourage industries ♦ this PERMISSION they MUST have
not be a Roman Catholic long. This
establish in Tillamook ♦ in WRITING.
+ “But if any shall have the pre­ is the reason that the ‘hierarchy’ has
ty.
o urge the improvement « sumption to read or POSSESS it so bitterly fought such reading
throughout its history.
port for Tillamook City, ♦ without any such written PERMIS­
Mr. Davey says: “The images and
o insist on an American ♦ SION, he shall not receive absolution
ard of labor.
♦ until he have first delivered up such pictures of Christ, of his blessed
Mother and of the saints which are
■ao be politically indepen- ♦ BIBLE to the ordinary.
found in our homes are not wor-
but to support the can- ♦
“Booksellers, however, who shall
s for public office who ♦ sell, or otherwise dispose of Bibles shiped.”
Let a witness answer who was
bring the most good to ♦
in the vulgar tongue, to any person
taken at the early age of seventeen
I people of
Tillamook ♦
not having such PERMISSION shall
Ity and of the State of ♦ forfeit the value of the books, to be years from a CATHOLIC HOME,
from a youth of Roman Catholic IN-
♦
ion.
by the Bishop to some pious
STRUCTION and placed in a CON-
♦ applied
use, and be subjected by the Bishop
* to such other penalties as the Bishop VENT where she remained for
THIRTY years shut away from EV­
shall judge proper, according to the
BANKRUPT COUNTY
ERYTHING except her sisterhood
quality of the offense.
and the INSTRUCTION from the
This, Mr. Davey no doubt knows
All th is wildeyed publicity about to be the ‘infallible’ law of the priest. Surely if the Roman Catholic
’illan&k county being in a bad fin- Church, By it we see very clearly does not worship images this woman
neii®ycondition seemed to have a that in order for any member of the should have been divorced from it in
ery indifferent effect on the people Church of Rome to read, possess, or thirty years of constant instruction,
'tMMM the most interested—the tax- sell a BIBLE he must first have plus that of her childhood. Indeed I
f Tillamook. Whatever the PERMISSION and that PERMIS­ am unable to see how she could have
the propaganda was, the re- SION must be in writing. We will known ANYTHING about praying to
lst have resembled a wet allow Mr. Davey to explain what he images. But at ¿he end of THIRTY
years within Convent walls what does
o the perpetrators,
means by saying the the statement
draw a comparison. Sup- that Catholics read the Bible ‘by per­ she say? This:
erchant is worth thirty mil- mission only’ is “the sillies kind of
“In the meantime, I continued my
rs, three million of which is untruth”. If he continues to deny novenas to the Blessed Mary (Idola-
assets, earning a good in­ that PERMISSION is necessary he try No. 1), St. Anthony (No. 2). and
owes $400,000.
Is he sets himself against the Council of St. Joseph (No. 3), in heartbreaking
This is about the same Trent and all that array of Popes sorrow and tears * * * In all earnest-
which the county is now who nave again and again confirmed ness and sincerity I was bowing,
and restated this Trentian decree; if scraping, kneeling, pleading to the
county is in a fine shape he READS WITHOUT PERMIS- IMAGES (No. 4), the STATUES
and the county court SION he becomes altogether what I 1 (No. 5), and the 14 stations of the
congratulated on the sag- am, a ‘Heritic,’ damned in the sighi cross (No. 6). * * * At last it came
y showed in making the In­ of his church councils and rulers be. to me as if a THUNDRBOLT had
come from heaven, that these STAT­
for permanent highways.
yond the hope of redemption.
There is no one thing against which UES and IMAGES and RELICS
could do me no good they were all
iriber called us up the other the Church of Rome has directed a
clay and material. I fell upon my
more
bitter
attack
than
the
reading
asked us the name of the
knees and prayed AS I HAD NEVER
ident of Taft’s administra- of the BIBLE by the people, One
PRAYED BEFORE « • • not to St.
historian
hays:
“
As
early
as
860,
■ said that the question had
Anthony, not to St. Joseph, not to
IB at a party at which twenty- Pope Nicholas I put BIBLE READ-
St. Vincent De Paul, no not even to
iple were present, and that ING under the ban. Gregory VII,
the blessed Virgin Mary or any other
known
in
history
as
Hildebrand,
in
lhem knew the answer. Can
saint, but to God.”
.right now—without looking 1073 continued the ban, and Innocent
Thirty years under the instruction
III, in 1198, issued a decree that all
who read the Bible should be PUT TO of Rome before she prayed a prayer
DEATH. The Council of Toulouse to GOD, and that prayer TOOK HER
a fellow gets it into his passed a decree forbidding ‘either the OUT OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
>ou can’t get along with- possession or reading’ of the Bible.
I offer a challenge to Mr. Davey
t’s about time that you got In the reign of Bloody Mary tons of or any other Roman Catholic to bring
out him.
Bibles were used for fuel to burn a ‘living witness’ (like the above)
the martyrs. Pius VII, inl816 de­ who has been THIRTY years in a
PROTESTANT school, or a protes-
The wrst part about these fellows nounced Bibles as ‘pestilences'; and
Leo XII, in 1825 as ‘traps and pit­ tant institution of any kind who will
no
—
-
tobacco is that they always
falls’.
Pius VIII in 1830 declared testify that in all ‘sinceity she was
t of their pleasure for some
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printing presses from which Bibles for thirty years’ PRAYING TO IM-
o clean up.
were struck as ‘centers of pestiferous ages.
I did not say that the Roman Cath­
infection’; Gregoy XVI in 1844 con­
ICIATES SUPPORT
What I
demned Bible SOCIETIES and order­ olic hurch was in politics,
ed the priest to TEAR UP ALL that did say was: “The Catholic Church
To t
Editor: I sincerely thank they could get their hands on.”
IS political in INTENT and claims
>e continued support that I
In remains for BISHOP EDGAR for itself BOTH piritual and TEM-
Ived at your hands and es- BLAKE in the YEAR OF OUR LORD PORAL power.”
br your editorial in your '1923’ to send out over his name this
Certainly Mr. Davey’s denial of
■per under date of January statement: “It was ONLY TWO the ‘political’ machinations of the
MONTHS AGO that Protestant Church of Rome comes under his own
ling my best to give this BIBLES were publicly BURNED in terms—“False and Foolish CLAP­
an, open, fearless adminis- ROME as IMMORAL literature. The TRAP." I am wondering if Mr. Dav­
ceremony was BLESSED by a Bishop ey thinks we do not know who is
ir you are in the capitol of the Roman Catholic Church and fighting the EIGHTEENTH AMEND­
re to come and see me.
eulogized by a deputy who had prev­ MENT?
iLTER M. PIERCE
The political character of this
iously attacked the Methodists in the
Governor
Italian Parliment and called for their ‘hierarchy’ is proved by Boniface
Iron
EXPULSION from Rome. So far as VIII, declaring illegal the acts of lay­
I, 1924
I know, no such edifying spectacle men who endeavored to collect TAX­
has yet occurred in MOSCOW. There ES from the clergy.
REPLIES TO DAVEY
By Pope Gregory IX denouncing
is undoubtedly a larger measure of
RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE in ‘Rus­ from his throne(assumed), that “You
Editor: I am asking your sia’ than in any country in Europe must FIRMLY believe and in no wise
I' • reply to an article ap- or America that is DOMINATED by doubt that all ‘heritics’ (Protestants)
■ a recent issue of your the ‘Roman Catholic Church.’ ”
* * * even if they should shed their
ped, ‘Frank Davey,’ Port-
It will not avail Mr. Davey or any blood for Christ, will partake with
p.ich I am accused of hav- of his followers to cry, "Yes! but the devil and his angels of the eternal
ifalse statements about the these were Protestant Bibles!” For fire,” and his calling upon the SE­
itholic’ Church in a lecture it is well known by Bible readers that CULAR POWERS to “exterminate ♦
I in your city now a few there is not enough difference be­ in their domains • • • all HERITICS” I
bee
tween the Vulgate version and the under penalty of being reported to
Fey seems much concerned King James to contend for to the the Pope who would absolve all of
Hay. I would refer him to serious point of BIBLE BURNING. the vassals of the man so reported
I of the “Pacific Christian
J. Wesley Mell of the American from their oath of allegiance, and
I of November the 7th, page Bible Society says, that the Bible hand the lands of the accused over to
he editor uses these words: Society offered the Catholic Church Catholics (This Pope feels justified
»tie hard to have satisfact- three million copies of the Vulgate in absolving men from their oath of
bcal relations with an or- New Testaments with the Catholic allegiance. Another Pope did the
which CLAIMS equal FOOT NOTES free of all coat if they same thing in the time of Queer.
p* it is in the MINORITY would distribute them in South Elizabeth. If the Roman Catholic
rights wherever it has America, and that the offer was re­ Church is what the priesthood claims
Ito enforce them.”
fused.
for
it
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UNCHANGING
h never read a statement
Mr. Davey indicates that the Bible CHURCH ’ may not some Pope feel
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justified in absolving ALL Catholics America, is perhaps the most difficult
from their OATH OF ALLEGIANCE task he has ever set for himself. 7
To
to
the
AMERICAN
GOVERN­ begin with he might prove that the
MENT?).
Church or Rome had nothing to do
It is proved by the Bull which ex- with Jack Walton's anti-Klan crimes;
commuiucated. Queen Elizabeth, in or Al South's ‘booi.e-p.irty—move­
which the following language is used: ment’ for the presidency.
“Him (the Pope) he (God) has es­
I heard Priest. Doran say that two
tablished as a prince over ALL NA­ of our governors were Roman Cath­
TIONS and KINGDOMS that he may olic. I wrote to the Catholic Truth So­
PLUCK OUT, DESTROY, scatter and ciety and asked which ones they were
disperse.” He then proceeds to speak —No ANSWER YET and that was
of Queen Elizabeth as "that SLAVE months ago. Perhaps the Truth So-
OF VICE, Elizabeth,” and calls ciety is afraid of the TRUTH after
‘BLOODY MARY,’ “Mary of Blessed all.
memory.” Bloody Mary caused to
Were any of the presidents KILL-
be burned one person for every six ED by Roman Catholics ?
days of her reign.
One writer says: “Wilkes Booth
It is proved by Pope Innocent Mrs. Suratt, her daughter Anna,
hurling his anathemas at the MAG­ Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Miss Hollahan, and
NA CHARTA. In this Bull we have Mrs. Powell, arrested for the killing
the most overwhelming proof of Ro­ of Lincoln were each of them Roman
man Catholic opposition to any law, Catholics. Booth fled, but on the east­
Government, or statement of ‘human ern shores of the Potomac he was
liberty’ which does not recognize the CONCEALED in a ROMAN CATH­
Pope.as the supreme ruler and judge OLIC CHURCH for nearly a week.”
OVER ALL.
Was not the man who killed Gar­
By an extract from the Cannon field a Roman Catholic? Was not
Law of the church, in which Boniface the man who killed McKinley a Ro­
VIII declares “the MATERIAL as man Catholic? Was not the man who
well as the SPIRITUAL SWORD is shot Roosevelt a Roman atholic?
WITHIN the POWER of the CHURH, This looks strange for the eason that
the latter is wielded for the Church EACH of these men were outstand­
and the former BY the CHURCH, ing defenders of Protestantism.
Was not Lincoln a friend and de­
one by the hand of the PRIEST the
other by the hand of KINGS and fender of a certain ‘ex-priest’ of his
day ? and is there not some good evi­
SOLDIERS.”
After reading this from the lips dence to show that the sympathy of
of one of the Popes speaking in the the Vatican was with the South? was
realm of ‘faith and morals’ and not McKinley the ‘iron-willed’ presi­
therefore WITHOUT error (accord­ dent who handed to the Senate a re­
ing to Rome’s claim), we are no long­ port of the machinations of the Ro­
er in doubt as to what a Roman man Catholic Church in the Philli-
Catholic Priest means when he talks pines? And is not this report one
glibbly of ‘church and state.’ One of the OUTSTANDING ‘indictments’
writer pertinently remarks: “This ln- of this century, of the Roman Cath­
fallible(?) Bull, which makes Dem­ olic Church? Was it not Mr. Roose­
ocracy IMPOSSIBLE anywhere papal velt who REFUSED to bow his
power reaches the saddle, brands as AMRICANISM to the ‘holy father’
deliberate falsehood every Roman while in Rome?
Priest Doran says that this is no
Catholic denial that his institution is
not seeking to bring America under more of an indictment of the ‘Church
of Rome’ than it would be an indict­
the CONTROL of the Pope.”
Now, either the Roman Catholic ment of the Republicans because the
hierarchy I political and desires ‘tem­ men were of that party. I wonder!
poral’ domination OVER ALL PEO­ If every time a pesident was killed
PLE, or the Popes have lied. Mr. it was a Republican president by the
Davey can stay on either side he de­ hand of Democrat, and Democrats
sires. The blood of more than “sixty had declared their intention through­
million” proves the INTENT of the out more than twelve hundred years
Popes. (I am convinced that the to ‘exterminate’ the Republicans from
average Roman Catholic layman does the earth, and had proved their in­
not understand clearly that absolute tention by the butchering of more
temporal rulership is the intent of than sixty million Democrats at times
the hierarchy, and that is the desire when they had the power, I am of the
of those in authority to keep him opinion that a Democrat or two would
wake up.
from knowing).
That “affidavit” seems to worry Mr.
I wonder if Mr. Davey realizes that
to prove that the Roman Catholic Davey: I assure the public that the
Church does not claim, not intend, paper is now before me. It contains
temporal power for the Pope, and. 15 line3 and is SIGNED by an
that it is not working as a political ¡American who can write the English
machine to attain these ends in ■ language and does not need to ‘make
his mark,’ and still lives in Oregon.
Before the public believes too readily
what Mr. Davey infers that Roman
Catholics ‘never’ work their ends
untuugh Al.iSUNS. 1 invite them to
write to C. E. Gates (Pop Gates) Med-
TILE YOUR FARM
ASK THE MAN
WHO HAS TIÎ.JED
(Continued on page 6)
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