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Volume II New York. Wednesday, October 13, 1920 Number 28
One Reason Why America Lost Her Liberties
i first object should be to leave open to
xz the people all avenues of truth. The most ! effectual hitherto found is the freedom of the press.”—Thomas Jefferson, Third President of • the United States, 1801.
“We must now briefly consider liberty of speech and J liberty of the press. It is hardly necessar. to say that
I there can be no such right as this.”—Leo XlllJtine 20,
1888.
I “As long as our government is administered
( for the good of the people, and is regulated by
their will; as long as it assures to us the rights ( ' of person and property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.”— 1 Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the
United States, 1829.
• “The liberty of thinking and of publishing whatever
j each one likes, without any hindrance, is not in itself an
advantage over which society can wisely rejoice.”—Leo
, XIII. November 1, 1885.
“The spirit of resistance to government is so * valuable on certain occasions that I want it
always to be kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not i exercised at all.”—Thomas Jefferson, Third
President of the United States, 1801.
“It is quite unlawful to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, of speech, of * writing or worship.”—Leo XIII, June 20, 1888.
“It is consoling and encouraging to realize that free speech, a free press, free thought, free ■. schools, the free and unmolested rights of relig
ious worship, and free and fair elections are dearer and more universally enjoyed today than ever before.”—William McKinley. Twenty-fifth President of the United States, 1897.
“The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose of securing Catholic ascendancy in this country.
• AU legislation must be governed by the will of God.
unerringly indicated by the pope. Education must be controlled by Catholic authorities, and under education the opinions of the individual and the utterances of the
press are included, and many opinions are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under the authority of the church, even to war and bloodshed.”—Catholic World, July, 1870. . ‘
“Given a free press, we may defy open or insidious enemies of liberty. It instructs the public mind and animates the spirit of patriotism. Its loud voice suppresses everything which would raise itself against the public liberty, and its blasting rebuke causes incipient despotism to perish in the bud.”—Daniel Webster, American statesman, 1833.
“The Church has the right to practice the unconditional censure of books.”—Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
“Freedom of speech is the only safety valve which, under high pressure, can preserve your political boiler from a fearful and fatal explosion.”—John Quincy Adams; Sixth President of the United States, 1825:
"Liberty of speech and press is the liberty of perdition.”— Pius IX. December 8,1864.
Fre.edom of Religion
ONGRESS shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press."—Constitution of the United States.
“Liberty of conscience is a most pestiferous error, from which arise revolution. corruption, contempt of -acred things, holy institutions and laws; in other words, that pest of all others most to be dreaded in a .State, unbridled libertv m opinion."—Pius IX.
“If there is anything in the Universe that cannot stand discussion, let it crack.”—Wendell Phillips, American statesman. 1837.
“It is an error to believe that every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.”—Pius IX, December 8, 18G4.
“The immigrant must learn that we exact full religious toleration and the complete separation of church and state.”—Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States, 1900.
“She has the right to require the state not to leave every man free to profess his own religion.”—Pius IX, December 8, 1864. .
“The adherents of each creed shall be given exact and equal justice.”—Theodore Roosevelt, Twentv-sixth President of the United States, , 1900. '
‘ “The state has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he shall deem true.”—Pius IX, December 8. 1864.
“Xo religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust finder the United States.”—Constitution of the United States.
“She has the right to require that the Catholic religion shall be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all others.”—Pius IX, December 8, 1864.
“It is consoling and encouraging to realize that the free and unmolested rights of religious worship ... are more universally enjoyed today ... than ever before."—William McKinley, Twentyfifth President of the United States, 1897.
“Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic world.”—Bishop O'Connor. '
“Congress shall make no law 'respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."—Constitution of the United States.
“Protestantism of every form has not had and never can have any right where Catholicity ha= triumphed, and therefore we lose th** breath wo spend in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance and in favor of religious liberty or of the right of any man to be of any religion as best pleases him'.”—Catholic Review. Julv. 1370. ‘
“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not he construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."— Constitution of the United States.
“There is. ere long, to be a state religion in this country, ami that -rare mligiou is to be Roman Catholic.”—Catholic WoC'l. Julv. 18;q.
Freedom of State •
OXGRESS shall make no law respecting VJ an establishment of religion.”—Constitution of the United States.
"It is an error that the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church. . . . She has the right of perpetuating the union of church and state.”—Pius IX, December 8, 1864.
“We exact full religious toleration and the complete separation of church and state.”— Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States, 1900.
“They have now crowned their evil work by the promulgation of a vicious and pernicious decree for the separation of Church and State. . . . We, by our Apostolic authority, denounce, condemn annd reject the law for the separation of Church and State'in the Portuguese Republic.”—Pius X, Hay 24, 1011. (Upon the tomb of this gentleman is the inscription, “Defender of Religion. He repudiated the law of separation of Church and State.”)
“Xo religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.”—Constitution of the United States.
“Hence follows the fatal theory of the need of separation between Church and State. But the absurdity of such a position as manifest. ... It would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the church, or that it would l>e universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to lie, as in America, dissevered and divorced.”—Leo XIII, November 1, 188.5 and January 6, 189.5.
Freedom, of Education
“CpHE Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science.”—Constitution of the United States.
“The Church sometimes tolerates schools in which r ’igion i< not taught, and permits Catholic children to a*t;'i'.d them, when the circumstances are such as to l-ave no alternative, and when due precautions are taken to supply by other means the religious training which such schools do not give. She reserves the right to judge whether this be the case, and, if her judgment is unfavorable. claims the right to forbid attendance.”— Gregory XVI. January 16, 1831.
“It is consoling and encouraging to realize that : . . free schools . . . are more universally enjoyed today than ever before.”—William McKinley, Twenty-fifth President of the United States. 1897.
"Education outside the Catholic Church is damnable heresy. . . . The Catholic Church has the right to interfere in the discipline of the public schools and in the choice of the teachers for these schools. . . . The Church has the right to deprive the civil authorities of the entire government of the public school.”—Pius IX, December 8, 1864.
“The very reason that makes us unqualified in our opposition to state-aided sectarian schools makes us equally bent that in the management of our public schools, the adherents of each creed shall be given exact and equal justice.”— Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States, 1900.
“‘The Royal Government shall remunerate the catechism teachers in the state schools. The office of parish priest is not incompatible with that of the catechism teacher.”—Concordat between the Vatican and Servia, signed June 24, 1914, the direct cause of the assassination at Sarajevo, June 28. 1914, and therefore of the World War.
"You wish ns to give you the people to instruct. Very well. Let us see your pupils. Let us see those you have produced. What have you done for Italy ’ What have you done for Spain! For centuries you have kept in your hands at your discretion, at your schools, these two great nations, illustrious among the illustrious. What have you done for them? I shall tell you. Thanks to you, Italy, mother of genius and of nations, which has spread over all the universe all the most brilliant marvels of poetry and the arts, Italy—which, has taught mankind to read—now knows not how to read.”—Victor Hugo.
“It is an error that the common'veal th is the origin and source of all rights, and possesses rights which are not circumscribed by anv limits.”—Pius IX, December 8, 1864. " '
Sovereignty of the People
“TXTE HOLD these truths to be self-evident, .W that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their .just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. and to institute now government, laying the foundation in such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likdy to effect their safety and happiness." —Declaration of Independence.
“The sovereignty of the people . . . is held to reside in the multitude; which is doubtless a doctrine exceedingly well calculated to flatter and to inflame many passions, but which lacks all reasonable proof, anti all power of insuring public safety ami preserving order. ... In politics, which are inseparably bound up with the laws of morality and religious duties, men ought always, and in the first place, to serve, as far as possible, the interests of Catholicism. As soon as they are seen to be in danger, all differences should cease between Catholics.”—Leo XIII, November 1, 1885. (Repeated with slightly changed phraseology January 10, 1890, by the same person.)
"Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”—Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States. ’
“Undoubtedly it is the intention of the pope to possess this country. In this intention he is aided by the Jesuits and all the Catholic prelates and priests.”—The Catholic Review. .
“A history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.” —Declaration of Independence.
“The Church has in every age striven to direct. r the life of individual man only, but the collective lif3 of nations in their organized forms of republics, monarchies and empires.”—Cardinal Manning.
“We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.”—Declaration of Independence.
"We do not hesitate to affirm that in performing our duties as citizens, electors and public officers we should always and under all circumstances act simply as Roman Catholics.”—Catholic World.
“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”—Declaration of Independence. . •
•‘Within twenty years this country is going to rule th3 world. Kings and emperors will pass away, and die democracy of the United States will take their place. The Wot will dominate the country, and what I have seen of the We-tei u parochial schools has proved that the generation which follows us will be exclusive! v Catholic. When the I'nited State- rules the world the Catholic Church will rule the world. ... In I’rance and Port’igal the Catholic Church was defeated ami per-ecuted becau-e the Catholics were not organized. I want to -ay that when the time comes in thi.- country, as it wdl -urely come, ami the same forces attack the church here, they will not find us unprepared or unorganized and they -hall not prevail. We have well-ordered □nd efficient organizations, all at the beck and nod of the hierarchy, and ready to do what the Church authorities tell them to do."—Archbishop Quigley, Chicago.
“The history of the last thousand years tells i us that wherever the Church of Rome is not a dagger to pierce the bosom ot a tree nation, she is a stone to her neck and a ball to her feet, to h paralyze her and prevent her advancement in i the ways of civilization, science, intelligence, J happiness and liberty. Though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase till its flanks will be torn by a flash of ■ lightning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone, such as the world has never seen, will pass over this country, spreading ruin • and desolation from North and South. After it is over, there will be long days of peace and ' prosperity; for popery, with its Jesuits and - merciless Inquisition, will have been forever swept from our country.”—Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, 1861.
“Both are in the power of the Church, namely, the spiritual .--word and the temporal sword; the latter is to be used for the Church, the former by the Church; the former by the hand of the priest, the latter by the hand of the princes and king's, but at the nod and sufferance I of the priest.”—Boniface VIII, 1302.
Freedom of Person.
' “ TXT HER EVER " the Jesuits are admitted,
VV they will be masters, cost what it may. Their society is by nature dictatorial, and there-• fore it is the enemy of all constituted authority".
Every act, every crime, however atrocious, is a meritorious work, if it is committed for the interest of the Society of Jesuits, or by the order of the General of the Jesuits.”—Napoleon Bonaparte.
“The Pope has the right to give countries and nations which are non-Catholic to Catholic regents who can r.duce them to slavery. . . . The Pope can make slaves cf those Christian subjects whose prince or ruling power is interdicted by the Pope.”—Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy.”—Marquis de Lafayette.
“The punishments indicted by the Church in the exercise of her coercive authority, are chiefly spiritual; e. g., excommunication, suspension and interdict. We say chiefly; for the Church can indict temporal and even corporal punishments. Has the Church power to inflict the penalty of death? Cardinal Tarquini thus answers: 1. Inferior ecclesiastics are forbidden, though only by ecclesiastical law, to exercise this power directly. 2. It is certain that the Pope and (Ecumenical Councils have this power, at least mediately; that is, they can, if the necessity of the Church demands, require a Catholic ruler to impose this penalty. That they can not directly exercise this power can not be proved.”—Dr. Sebastian Smith in “Elements of Ecclesiastical Law'’.
“Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.”—Farewell Address of George Washington, First President of United States.
“No good government can exist without religion, and there can be no religion without an Inquisition, which is wisely designed for the promotion and protection of the true faith.”—Cardinal O’Connell’s Boston Pilot.
“Let there be no change by usurpation: for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”—Farewell address of George Washington, First President of the United States.
“The pope and priests ought to have the dominion over the temporal affairs.”—Encyclical XXVII.
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” — Constitution of the United States.
“The Church is empowered to grant, or to take away, any temporal possessions.”—Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States: nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”—Constitution of the United States.
“Outside of the papal states, I am pope in none but the United States of America.”—Gregory XVI, 1832.
Freedom from Tyrants
“ AGAINST the insidious wiles of foreign ■UX. influence, I conjure you to believe me. fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a fret* people ought constantly to awake: since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.”— Farewell Address of George, Washington, First President of the United States.
"The Pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land."—Pius IX, March 18, 1871.
“A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may detine a tyrant, is unfit to be a ruler of a free people.”—Declaration of Independence.
"As regards opinion, whatever the Roman pontiffs have hitherto taught, or shall hereafter teach, must be held with a firm grasp of mind and, so often as occasion requires, must be openly professed. Especially with reference to the so-called ‘liberties’ which are <o greatly coveted in these days, all mint stand by the judgment of the Apostolic See, and have the same mind. ... In very truth Jesus Christ gave to his apostles unrestrained authority in regard to things sacred, together with the genuine and most true power of making laws, as also with the two-fold right of judging and punishing, which flow from that power. ... In addition to the complete accordance of thought and deed, the faithful should imitate the practical political wisdom of the ecclcsias-tical authority. . . . The man who has embraced the Christian faith, as in duty bound, is by that very fact a subject of the Church . . . which it is the special charge of the Roman Pontiff to rule with supreme power. . . . We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.”—Leo XIII, November 1, 1885, January 10, 1890 and June ?0, 1894.
‘■’The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels and joint efforts.” —Farewell address of George Washington, First President of the United States.
“I acknowledge no civil power; I am the subject of no prince; I claim more than this—I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men— of the peasant that tills the field, and of the prince that sits upon the throne; of the household of privacy. and the legislator that makes laws for kingdoms; I am the sole, last, supreme judge of what is right and wrong. . . . There is no tribunal to which appeal from the Church can lie. There is no coordinate w itness, teacher or judge who can revise, or criticise or test the teaching of the Church. It is sole and alone in the world. It Ivelongs to the Church to determine the limits of its own infallibility.'’—Cardinal Manning, speaking for tic pop? and the church.
"As long as our goveriiiuent is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will, it will be worth defending.”—Andrew Jackson. Seventh [’resident of the United States, 1S29.
"Catholics know well the Pope's -overeignty.”— Tnl'i t. J.iJv s. 1 'iji;,
"A history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states.” —Declaration of Independence.
‘‘The man who says ‘I will take my faith from Peter, but I will not take my politics from Peter,’ is not a truo Catholic.”—Monsignor Preston, New York, January 1, 1888.
“We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us.”—Declara-tion of Independence.
"Even therefore, where the judgments of the Pope do not present the credentials of Infallibility, they are unappealable and irreversible: no person may pass judgment upon them; and all men. clerical and lay, dispers-edly or in the aggregate, are bound truly fo obey them.” William Ewart Gladstone, Premier of Great Britain, 1875. ' -
“When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”—Declaration ’of Independence. .
“It must be borne in mind that even though Cardinals Farley, O’Connell and Gibbons are at heart patriotic . Americans and members of an American hierarchy, yet -they are as cardinals foreign princes of the blood, to whom the United States, as one of the great powers of the world, is under obligations to concede the same honors that they receive abroad. Thus, were Cardinal Farley to visit an American man-of-war, he would be entitled to the salutes and to naval honors reserved for a foreign royal personage, and at any official entertainment at Washington the Cardinal will outrank not merely every cabinet officer, the speaker of the house and the vice-president, but also the foreign ambassadors, coming immediately next to the chief magistrate himself.”—Cardinal O’Connell’s Boston Pilot, April 6. 1012.
“The adherents of each creed shall he given exact and equal justice.”—Theodore Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth President of the United States, 1900.
“Cardinals are the immediate counsellors or advisors r.f the Pope, and form, so to speak, the senate of the P nan Church.”—John Sebastian Smith in “Elements < t Ecclesiastical Law”. ’
Respect for American Laws
Hh'. HAS refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”—Declaration of Independence,
“It has not the riuht m enact that the ecclesiastical power shall require the permission of the civil power in order to the exer< i<e of its authority. . . . She has th?' risrht to exercise her power without the permission or consent of the civil government. ... It is an error to hold that in the case of conflicting laws Ixtween two
it
powers the civil law ought to prevail."—Pins IX, De~ * erm her 8. 1864.
_ 'The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over t sv.rh district.”—Constitution of United States, f • "The Church has a right to exercise its authority without any limits set to it by the civil power;’’— Encyclical XIX.
"Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man I for the Lord’s sake: whether it he unto the king f as supreme." (1 Peter .2: 13) "Render unto
Ca'sar the things that are Catsar’s.”
t "Jul human power is from evil and nm.-r therefore
F be sunding under the Pope.’’—Canon Law of the Bonnin Catholic Church.
4 "For rulers are not a terror to good works but
f to the evil."—Romans 13:3.
J "There are, nevertheless. occasions when another
method of concord is available for the sake of peace and liberty: We mean when rulers of the State ami the . Roman Pontiff come to an understanding touching some .
‘Special matter. At sinh rime- the Church gives signal proof of her mother!v love bv showin" the greatest possible kindliness and indulgence."—Leo XIII, November 1. ISS5.
‘’The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposes and excises.”— f Constitution of the United States.
, • “Without the consent of the Pope no tax. or rate of any kind, can be levied upon a eler.2p.-n»an. or upon any
1 church whatsoever.”—Canon Law of the Roman Cath-olio Church.
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers"—“unto the king as supreme.”—Romans 13:1: 1 Peter 2: 13.
"As the end at which the Church aims i- by far the i noblest of ends, so j,- its authority the most exalted of
|» all authority, nor can it bo looked upon as inferior to
the civil power, or in any manner dependent upon it. ... It is an impious deed to break the laws of-.Ie-us Christ for the purpose of obeving the magistrates, or to ! transgress the lair of the Church under the pretext of observing the civil law. ... If the laws of the state are manife-tly at variance with the divine law. coutain-• , ing enactments hurtful to the church ... to resi-t becomes a positive duty, to obev. a crime.” — Leo XIII. No.. tuber I. Iss.t and .Tanuarv lo.. is'm.
“Whosoever therefore resisteth the Fpagan civil] power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."-—Romans 13: 2.
1 “The pope can release from every obligation, oath or vow. either before or after being made.”—('anon Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
“Before he enter on the execution of his office
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he shall take -the following oath or affirmation: ‘I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States'.”—Constitution of the United States.
“The Pope has the right to annul State laws, treaties, con.-titutions. etc., to absolve from obedience thereto, as soon as they seem’detrimental to the rights of th» Church, or those oi’ rue clergy.”—Canon Law of th' Roman Catholic Church.
“For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themeelves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.”— Declaration of Independence.
“All Cathoiks must make .themselves felt as active element’ in dnilv nc'iti nl !if? in the Countries where they live. They must penetrate, wherever possible, in the administration of eivtl affairs. . . . AH Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitutions of states anil legi.-latiou to be modeled on the principle® of the true Church.”—Leo XIII. November 1, 1885.
"For taking away our charter.", abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our government.”—Declaration of Independence.
“Tell us that we think more of the Chnrc-h than we do of the United states; of course we do. Tell ns we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen afterwards; of course we are. Tell us in the conflict between the Chunk and the civil government we take the side of the Church ; of courw we do. Why. if the government of the United Stat s wore at war with the Church we would say. tomorrow. 'To hell with the Government of the United Stat- -’; and if the Church and ail the governments of the world were at war wo would ®ay. 'To hell with all the government® of the' world'."—llott-S'-igneur D. S. Phelan. St. Louis. Mo.. .Tune 30. 1012.
“And they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him.’ And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies.” —Revelation 13:4. 5.
“As experience teache®. conflicts may arise between Church ami State. Now, in any question, as to the competence of the two powers, either there must bo some judge to decide what doe® and what doe® not fall within their re-peitive -phere-. or they are delivered over to perpetual doubt .ami perpetual eontlii t. But who can define what is or i® not within the jurisdiction of the church in faith and morals, except a judge who knows w hat the sphere of faith and morals contains and how far it extends? It is clear that the civil power can not define how far the circumference of faith and morals
extends. To do this it- must know the whole 'deposit of - explicit and implicit faith. Therefore, the Church alone can fix the limits of its jurisdiction; and if it can fix the limits of its own jurisdiction, it can fix the limits of all other jurisdictions.”—Dr. Sebastian Smith, ‘’Elements of Ecclesiastical Law”.
• "That day shall not come, except there come • a falling away first, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God. or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth
• in the temple .of God, showing himself that he is God.”—2 Thessalonians 2: 3, 4.
“The Church ha- a right to immunity from civil law.” —Encyclical XXX.
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake.”—1 Peter 2; 13.
“"While a State has rights, she has them only in virtue and by' permission of the superior authority, and that authority’ can only be expressed through the Church.” —Catholic Reiietr, July. 1870.
“Unto the king as supreme.”—2 Peter 2; 13.
“In case of conflict between the ecclesiastical and civil powers, the ecclesiastical powers ought to prevail." —Encyclical XLII.
“Submit yourselves unto governors, as miro them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers.”—1 Peter 2:13, 14.
“It is therefore de fide that t'.ie Church, an! th’r.’f >r.' the Pope, has ii direct power over the State; and that, consequently, the Stat', in temporal things that iiivolv-' sin. is sub]set to the. Church. Thia indirect power of the Church mor the State is inherent in th' divir.’1 constitution and commission of the Church.”—T’r. Seba.tian B. Smith, in “Eler.-.-nts of I?. Ie ria ti l.nw.”
“Let none of you suffer as a busybody in other men's matters."—1 Peter 4: 15.
“It is an error that divorce, properly so-cdll. d. may be pronounced by the civil authority."—Pius IX.
"Study to lie quiet and to do your own business.”—1 Thessalonians 4: 11.
“Only those marriages are valid which are contracted before the parish priest or the Ordinary of the place nr a priest delegated by either of these."—Pius X. 1907.
“Wise statesmen as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so [they so planned our Constitution] . . . that truth, ami justice and mercy, and all the humane and Christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land: so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built."—Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States.
“Cold is a wonderful thing. By means of gold we can even get souls into l’aradi.-e."—Christopher Columbus, Jamaica, 1503.
“We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” —Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States.
“The Church is empowered to grant, or to take away, any temporal possessions.”—Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church.
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it. Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”—Patrick Henry, American Statesman. March 23. 1775.
Michigan*» School Amendment
THE Wayne County Civic Association, 228
Broadway Market Building, Detroit, Michigan, is trying to get an amendment before the voters of Michigan requiring that “All residents of the state of Michigan between the ages of. five years and sixteen years shall attend the public school in tl: .ir respective districts until they have graduated from the eighth grade: provided, that in districts where the grades do not reach the eighth, then all persons herein described in such district shall complete the course taught therein”.
The fundamental proposition underlying the United States government, and the government of all the states, is complete religious liberty, which can be obtained only by an entire separation of the functions of church and state. With over one hundred and sixty different religious organizations in the United States, including Greek and Roman Catholics, Protestants of all shades, .Tews, Freethinkers, Spiritists, etc., it is manifestly unjust that the state should favor one of these at the expense of the others.
It is the function of the state to educate its citizens so that they may perform the functions of citizenship. It is the duty of the state to teach its citizens, all of them of school age. the elementary principles of spelling, composition, penmanship, reading, grammar, geography, arithmetic, history, civics, hygiene, and industrial art. The children should stitdy these subjects together, Ijeeanse they will be thrown together in later life and will have common need oi thi.s i»formation. The proper place to teach religion is in the home or, if so preferred, by religious teachers, in places appointed; and with that the state should have nothing to do.
The argument that a school is godless because - it does not teach religion is pure nonsense. The question of godliness does not ent&r into spelling, composition, penmanship, reading, grammar, geography, arithmetic, history, civics, hygiene or industrial art, and the attempt to inject either Bible or beads into the matter is hypocritical and against the real interests of the state.
When a child is made to believe that he cannot be taught the foregoing subjects because of somebody's religion or lack of religion, there is then and there raised in his mind the hateful thought that his religion is incompatible with the institutions upon which the republic must depend for its continued existence, i. e., the education of its citizens: and the natural result is the great disgrace witnessed during the World War where American soldiers, born in America, had to be sent to army schools to learn the language of their own country.
The truth of the matter is that an autocratic and liberty-hating church bodes no good to a liberty-loving land. The two can not get along together. The one will surely destroy the other. Hence it is not strange that in Michigan we find the Wayne County Civic Association hoeing an uphill row in its effort to get this amendment before the people. The newspapers refuse even paid advertisements, so afraid are they of the dreaded boycott; and so the work of tearing down the American school system goes on apace at the same time that noble-minded men and women are trying to build it up.
Scant Difference Discernible
THE difference between the Democratic and Republican platforms ami parties in the coming election may be discerned—through a microscope. The candidate for President on the Republican ticket voted for all the measures that have made the thinking men and women of the Tinted States so dissatisfied with the Democratic administration.
His congressional record shows that he practically approved the Hog Island steal: that he voted for war and for the bill prohibiting freedom of conscience, sometimes known as the espionage bill; that he was a strong advocate of the compulsory draft law and for the return of the railroads, which he knew would result in increased freight rates and billions of dollars of extra expense to the rank and file consumer.
' He favored the new army bill, which passed the Senate April twentieth, calling for 300,000 men and $600,000,000 annually, empowering the whim of a president to mobilize the country and thus creating in a peaceful country a military machine exceeding in size the pre-war German military machine which was crushed at an expense that has ruined the world for a hundred years to come. .
He is in favor of the Paris “Peace” League of Nations which The Golden Age has described at length in its issue of July".the same League now bestowing its benevolent smile upon the thirty wars being waged in various parts of the earth. He is in favor of intervention in Mexico, which, if it takes place, will lie another crime against civilization, as abundantly proven in The Golden Age for August 4 and August 18.
He has done nothing to indicate that he is in favor of the general amnesty which has been granted by all the other warring powers; and his connection with.the press, which has been responsible for the greatest flood of falsehoods and progaganda ever known, is enough to make every person wonder how anything could be gained by placing him in the great office to which he aspires, and for which the Wall Street interests have selected him. .
International Anarchy By xcirton r. Hartuhori
AN it not be truthfully said that international anarchy has prevailed since the fall of
the Roman Empire.’. •
We have had so-called international laws; but have they not. with the treaties, been mere "scraps of paper”— "gentlemen's agreements,” broken at willAre we not now drifting into rational as well as international world-wide anarchy.’
All of the great empires of the world— Assyrian. Persian. Macedonian and Roman— wvre political aggregations loosely bound together and dominating the world only in a military sense.
For the first time in the history of the world, within the past 45 years, its many economic units have fused into one great unit, by spontaneous action and not by military force. This unity is unprecedented, and out of it has grown the ideal of internationalism, the forerunner of complete world union; and ambitious imperialists in Germany and England, seeing the great prize—world empire and world trade— prepared for the titanic struggle to win it And English imperialists think they won.
The unifying of finance also has been progressing until international bankers now dominate the financial world, the League of Nations Covenant being the instrument by which they ** expect to unify the world, forming the fifth world empire, based on the British Church and State System—the British Empire aiming to take in the whole world, unified in religion as well as politics and economics. For the first time in the history of the world, military and naval power, political, economic and religious power are completely- united under one head.
This clearly is the purpose that animates millions of the most prominent and influential i, people of the world, who through the press and C the pulpit shape public opinion, though they declare their aim cautiously, in diplomatic language, gradually educating people up to their objective.
Their urgent appeal for the conservation of peace and civilization through the League of i. Nations Covenant, and other features of their L propaganda when examined, disclose their real F object to be the formation of an empire com-:j pletely dominating the world.
After the rebellion of the Southern slave-! holders in the United States had failed. English imperialists, who had expected that the American Union would be broken up and the states absorbed into the British Empire, began to conclude that the empire would be split up into several nations, like the United States. Gladstone favored this idea; but when he (iied, the old idea of British imperialists again became ascendant, and the propaganda to lay the foundation of a great federation, so-called, of the United States and the British Colonies with the * mother country began more definitely to shape. German imperialists were at the same time pushing their propaganda here to defeat the aims of the British.
* As before stated, in economies and finance the world has become unified, and German opposition to the plan of British and American imperialists has become practically eliminated.
This explains why the unprecedentedly destruct tive terms of the peace treaty were imposed on Germany to force her to acquiesce. Those terms will be modified whenever Germany consents to become a part of the British Empire, and not before.
All the spoils of the war have passed into the hands of England—vast colonies and the trade of the world. Here, then, we have the factors of world-wide revolution and anarchy unprecedented in extent and intensity.
In comparison with the proposed world-wide British Empire, the Roman Empire was only a babe in swaddling clothes. But that world empire is not yet formed sufficiently to act in open self defense. The Senate of the United States has for the tune being halted the plans of the English and American imperialists. This leaves the international world in a state of inci-, pient anarchy. The League cannot function without the power, prestige and money of the United States. Europe is bankrupt and.starving. Russia is in-the hands of the proletariat, who is bitterly opposed to imperialism.
The whole world is shot through, so to speak, with organizations radically opposed to each other. In England, the nucleus on which it is proposed to build this great world empire, 90 percent of the working people are unionized and are class conscious. Their interests are diametrically opposed to the aristocratic element which controls the British government; and the scheme of- the British imperialists to dominate the world is repugnant to the English working men.
Their discontent is based on conditions that are fundamentally unjust; and while before the law technically they have.equality of rigU. in fact their rights are disregarded. Instead of the present agitation quieting down it Ifia.-t increase and intensify. The repugnance in England to the assumptions of title and privilege is increasing, and not only there but all over the world. The psychology of title is beginning to operate against, instead of in favor of the holder. While the war in the interest of imperialism was fought in the name of democracy and self-determination, democracy and self-determination propose to have some of the game as well as the name. The people are tired of political hypocrisy or any other kind.
England and the United States are the main powers in the proposed Empire. England, the
dominant power, is in both name and fact a i monarchy and an empire as well as an aristocracy: and those who speak of her as a democracy know that it is a lie—bald hypocrisy, spoken to deceive the thoughtless.
■ The pressure to taxation resulting from the expenditure of more than one hundred billions of money and a score of millions of lives, directly and indirectly, in the criminal war between
■ English and German imperialists for world
i dominion and world trade—the pressure of this
i unprecedented burden of sorrow and taxation । . laid with autocratic assumption upon the hearts 1 and backs of the people, without consulting them, is yet to find expression in the resentment k of those people. We have an illustration of this
I in Russia. '
’ Men are thinking as never before. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” The law of cause and effect is inexorable. “The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding fine.” j Year by year the crushing effect of this taxation will burn itself into the brain of the '( common people, however stupid and thoughtless they may be. On their backs will automatically be shifted the taxes that wealth ought to pay.
•[ The necessities of the people will have to bear - the tax. If hit hard enough in the stomach the
t blow reaches the brain, as in the case of the
starving woman who started the French Revolu-
•, tion by beating a tin pan and crying, “Bread! bread!”
Talk of stopping profiteering! All the business men and manufacturers in America and J Europe are thoroughly organized. All of the ? necessities of the people pass through their hands. The law of supply and demand no i longer operates: prices are fixed by these organizations which are stronger than the government. They take toll on the necessities for their own support, be it little or much, according to their extravagant living. They pay the producer of the raw material as little as he can be squeezed to accept and get from the consumer as much as they can squeeze out of him. The consumers, the common people (those belonging to those associations get discounts), must take . what is left and pay the price or go without.
The working people have organized their unions for defense. Only 15 per cent of them, . however, are organized in the United States.
The crushing taxation shifted down,down,down until it lands on the backs of the unorganized masses, will drive them into the unions. "Tlffi devil take the hindmost.”
Is this not a state of anarchy? Show me any . cohesion in the world if you can; except the cohesion of antagonism.
Besides these organizations there are some X fifty smaller ones, to say nothing of the two great political parties, ostensibly pitted against each other by shrewd politicians who. fog the issues and cancel the voting power of the people to prevent them from getting control or getting anywhere except into the camp of the profiteers or the imperialists. - •' - /
We have the Elks and the Moose, the Knights of Columbus, the Free Masons, and the Orange- ' men, etc., etc., all pulling at cross purposes.
Then in the religious world we have scores of ; denominations all teaching diverse doctrines, spme of them antagonistic in spirit—Roman Catholics and Protestants, Anglicans and Lu- ; therans, all a jangle of confusion and anarchy—> religious chaos.
The $100,000,000,000 and the vast labor worse than thrown away in the World War would have produced marvellous results for good if expended on improvements sadly needed by the * human race. But less than a score of men at the head, in their lust for world empire, plunged the nations into the maelstrom of hate and murder; and still almost the same few of the victors are planning another deal in their lust for empire, which cannot fail to drag what is left of the human race still deeper into a debacle of hate, murder, starvation and agony.
Do you say this picture is overdrawn—pessimistic? Possibly you may conclude later that in reality it is relatively optimistic. .
Jesus no doubt referred to these times in His forecast (Matthew 24: 21. 22): “Fox- then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world [the present era of .~o-called civilization] to this time, no. nor ever shall be: and except those days should be shortened there should be no flesh be saved”.
Jesus went on to say that those days would he shortened—evidently by the coming of the kingdom of heaven for which He taught His disciples to pray. This, instead of the British world empire, would be established and rule in all the earth, when peace, justice and love would (Concluded on page 13)
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Age of Gold vs. Golden Age:
Tiyr Editor:—In view of your very interest-1V1 ing article in a recent number of The Golden Age, entitled, “How to Profiteer,” I am sending reference to a few Scriptures recently ' called to my attention. The deplorable conditions caused by “profiteering” have brought much suffering to many; but these Scriptures f may bring a ray of comfort to some sad hearts, and’ inspire the hope that soon these conditions •will change, when the Lord takes control of jt earth's affairs.
Some rich profiteers are referred to in a parable (Luke 12:16-20) as a “rich man”, i. “And he said. Soul, thou hast much goods laid
I un for many years: take thine ease, eat. drink,
5 and tie merry.” “But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night [during the dark night of the ? time of trouble] shall thy soul be required of 1 thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided
, The Lord does not tell us in this parable
r whose they shall be, and evidently the rich man did not know; for the Prophet David says . (Psalm 39:6): "He heapeth up riches, and ? knnweth not who shall gather them”.
Job also w?.s a nronhet of thzi Lord: and he tells us something about it. (Job 27:13-17) t 1 “This is the portion of a wicked man with God, ■ and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty .... Though he heap up silver as the dust, ami prepare raiment as f the clay, he may prepare it. but the y’n.-t shall
- put it on. and the innocent shall divide the $ silver.”
, Solomon, another prophet of the Lord, has a
*s , word to say concerning this same subject.
(Proverbs 13: 22) "The wealth <>f the-sinnor is laid up for the just.” Also Proverbs 28:8: “He ’f" that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that wdl pity the poor.”
■ The Prophet Joel tells us who it is rhtit will 1 pity the poor. (Joel 2:18. I!)) "Then will the * Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people. Behold. I will send you corn ami wine , and oil, and ve shall be satisfied therewith: and
I will no more make- you a reproach among the A heathen.” The Apostle James tells ns (James 5:11): “Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy”.
By L. Smith •
James also tells as of a class Iieing chosen of the Lord to assist in bringing these blessings, to the world. (James 2: 5) “Hearken, my beloved brethren. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?”
These are the saints, poor despised ones who, during this gospel age have walked in the footsteps of Jesus, the meek and lowly One, in the narrow way of self-sacrifice, and who will, with their Lord, as a merciful and faithful High Priest, have the privilege of assisting the world in walking up the highway of holiness in the Golden Age, mentioned by Isaiah in Chapter 35.
So, seeing from the Lord's Word, that the masses of mankind are soon to reap the benefit of those riches which are now being piled up by the profiteers, let none envy- them, but wait with patience until the Lord shall take control of earth's affairs and rule for the blessing of all the willing and obedient. Let us observe also from the Lord's Word that proper principles of justice will operate in the dispensing of the kingdom blessings.
The Psalmist says (Psalm 103:13): “Take as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth th m that re eren.ee him.” Also Ecclesiastes 2.: 26: "For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge and joy: but to th? sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to h“i!j iu>. that he inay give to him that is good h^fori' God.”
This is the “Age of Gold” for a few, but the next will be the “Golden Age” for all.
from pane 12i prevail instea I of war, confusion, starvation and hate. ■ '
The miracles of modern scientific attainment foreshadow, and the Word of God proclaims that when this old evil civilization (world) controlled by Satan perishes through its own inherent evil a new and really true civilization (world) will rise out of the ashes of the old not by supernatural, but by natural means, gradually developing into a paradise more glorious than man ever dreamed Heaven to be—a restored Eden, the earthly phase of the invisible, heavenly kingdom, ruled by Christ the invisible Ruler of all the new world instead of Satan, who now is the invisible ruler of this old evil civilization.
Lift Up the Standard: By L. D. Barnes
f ITr. Editor! I would commend your honesty. 1VJ. I could wish that your magazine might become a great journalistic mountain and fill the entire void or sphere of a lying, money-led press, doing flunky business to outworn interests derogatory to the good of mankind and doomed to pass away.
The articles dealing with the subjects—What is Anarchy, The Negro Race, and The League of Nations—are examples of honesty and truthfulness, seldom seen in any publication. Self-interest, .pride, fear, dishonesty, stain the management of them all with rare exceptions, as we ! perceive. The contrast is most unfavorable to 1 the “kept press”.
Few journals are ready to point out that mob I violence, wherein thousands are seized with a
I desire to lynch a wrong-doer, is anarchy. Few
will admit that any violation of established law j is anarchy.
■ Few are ready to accord the Negroes their
natural and legal rights or to concede that all nations are of one blood, made to dwell in peace.
[The discussion of The League of Nations is along the same line of open facts, “openly
1 arrived at”.
I The President’s position has always been
J untenable. His bold departure in leaving his office and assuming the entire world burden in disregard of the people’s law-makers; his visit to the Pope of Rome in disregard of Protestant * principles, to say nothing of respectable pride, has placed the President in an unenviable posi-‘ tion. How different his course at Rome from that 1 of Mr. Roosevelt, who held his Protestant nose high above the Vatican, and preserved the Protestant principles and traditions of freedom , of speech and. action. No kissing of the Pope’s foot for him; though Mr. Wilson, out of respect for the Pope’s enmity to the King of Italy, obeyed “Benedict’s orders” to drive from the ’ king’s palace to "the American embassy first, and then drive to the Vatican". The President's course not only brought upon him the combined opposition of the people, as shown in the election of a Republican Congress to cross Wilson’s way, but doubtless divine providence overruled in the entire matter. The nation that patronizes Rome is on troublous ground: and the man who courts Rome’s favor finds less and less of the favor of God. At every turn the President has met a bear, with troubles from coast to coast— troubles in his own party and outside of it.
The stormy career of the League and the \ President’s efforts to make peace suggest many Scriptures: “He taketh the wise in their own craftiness”. “He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their bidding.”—Job 5:13, 12.
It is lamentable, and a sure sign of decay, when for political prestige rulers ‘ pander to Rome and surrender a people’s liberties to the worst enemy of all liberty. No wonder-the Lord has confused and confounded the operators of such baseless procedure and set at naught their operations as the work of mice!
Here in the Peace Conference were the leaders of the leading nations—“the big four” of the world. Here the great state churches of Europe were represented.
The President is a member of one of the leading Protestant sects and said to be an honorary member of the Knights of Columbus. The best of every system was represented by the President, yet “God was not in all their thoughts”.
In contrast to this Godless procedure please note the following from Washington’s Inaugural address, 1789:
“It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes; and may enable every instrument employed in the administration to exeettfe-wfth success the functions allotted to its charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less that my own. nor those of my fellow-citizens less than either. No people can be bound, to acknowledge and adore the invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every .tep by which they have advanced 4 to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by -ome token of Providential agency, and in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return
of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation 'of the future blessing which the past seems to presage.” < At this early day Rome had not poisoned the American ideals of religion and liberty. Her
* destructive influence had not spread. But the great French general, Lafayette, feared it and remarked that if the liberties of'America were ever destroyed it would be at the hands of Rome!
The world’s hope Is not in any league of nations. It is said that thirty w-ars are now in : progress, and the League is powerless to sup-
I press them. It makes no effort to do so.
Blind leaders have led the world into a ditch, : and there it must learn its lessons. In a dark
L night when no man can work, when every man’s ] > hand will be against his neighbor, as the Scrip-
i tures declare, then man’s extremity in the last
i ditch will become God’s opportunity, and in His
I own way He will exalt Himself among the heathen, worldwide.
Entering the Golden Age B11 c. b. simii
* f > 5"r. Editor:—I am appreciating the “idea” .W-L of the Golden Age. Surely the long-looked-fcr evidences are all about us; and I wish to cc:’.grctul?.to you f.i the foresightodness dis* p!"id in putting the “idea-’ into concrete form and giving it out to the people. I am very 7 much impressed with the effect of your efforts to connect the various happenings throughout the world with the change of the dispensation now at hand.
T am employed in a large railroad shop, ' w' ?ro gu’to a number of the workers are readers of T:ir. C'LrEN Age; and the me.’-age it brings ir. "ire." them to look for better thing? just ak?r.fl. Keep up the good work! I ■wish the Golden Age Magazine had access to every home in the world. Absolutely all men ere looking for a change to come, and soon. If the "idea” of the Golden Age can lie thoroughly impressed, it will go a long way toward preparation for the incoming blessings.
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