This gag is placed in the mouth of Belgian missionaries. Signor Santini, the Catholic and Royalist Deputy for Rome, has been one of the leaders in the Anti-Congo movement, and has done excellent work in Italy. From his own sources of information he confirms and amplifies all that the English and Americans have asserted. There is no conflict of creeds in such an utterance as that. Catholic papers have occasionally spoken out bravely upon the subject.
Nothing is altered on the Congo.
The memory of these deeds will remain graven in the memory of men, and in the memory of Divine vengeance. Sooner or later the executioners will have to render an account to God and to history. There is one order of the Catholic Church which has always had a most noble record in its treatment of native races. These are the Jesuits. In all points the position of Father Vermeersch and of the English Reformers appears to be identical.