The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-11-04
CORRESPONDENCE.
now HISTORY Is MADE.
LETTER Y.


Enron CHIEF s-But yesterday find another Guy
F.wkes letter. signed H and headed The Dark Age
anoth err evidence of how history is made Lord says
MANY profound have thought the Pspacy DEM
ocr attic in its tende pees But my superficial friend can
explain all this and then goes off into TRADE about the
Popes bull regarding Ireland which shall explain next
week and this cautious knight Of the quill accuses me OF
not giving credit my quotations from Lords Essay
At first thought that you the cause Of this oy
peplectinr the quotation marks. But find them all cor
rect and can only suppose the charge is in keeping win
tn. rest of his artce-put in because the ends JUSTIFY
the means
na.i, or Cxt,rl College Well Guy" didn't suppose
tbi btorv would he very soothing to your Garabdid
stomach But you and those good Protestant
settle that for their histories differ from yours
and when you tell that this the only school in
England for time. you are guilty OF bombashe mis-
take-that all This is too soft even for you TO get ON
as joke and as for hstory-weL let US say no more
about that But let st Augustine landed in Eng
land i'm 6 and soon Christian schools established
in many places Greek literature introduced into
Eng land in eco by Theodors the seventh Arehbshap o
Canterbury-he a Greek-and at this same time
lived and usht The Venerable Bee the father OF Eng
sh history and who wrote works on grammar and arth
etic and taught them too l25 before Oxford Col
lege was founded In short England and Ireland were
dotted all over with mOnastc institutions. thousands
of tpem- and they were all schools where the youths
were taught the elementares of literature; and long
before the time of Alfred the Great twho was very
learned mani England could boast of her lite rary men,
The famous Monk. Alans Of France, was an Engshman
And but for your heather friends the GOths Vandais
Alans Huns Lombards Danes and Normans-as have
already expaned-iheir progress would have been more
general One ths1scso of Alfred that every man
who owned hide Of land should send his son to school
until he sixteen. And sir your Arabian literature Is
myth the first centuries of the Christian era and
what they got afterwards was pered from the Chris
tian They admit their inferorty for says GibbOn
vo p 81 They would confess, rithOut shame that
the God who had given tongue to the Arabians,
had more nicely fashioned hands Of the Chinese and
the heads of the Greeks And this in the time OF
"Saladin, but you-wen know what you say-"a fel
low feeling makes $ wond'r 'rous kind
Well Guy" your structures the fendal system are
just the thng but you forget that the Catholic Church
warred against this system for than eight hundred
years and only in the time of the Crrsades that
crushed to the earth, more to rise. 1t was
against this system Church proclaimed her Days of
Cod that from Wednesday evening TO Monday morn
ing the peasant could breathe the free air Of heaven The
Church has opposed this feudal idea of power a
the divine right Kings" The inherent right of men
govern themselves is the teaching Of the Church at all
times and in places Hence where bisotry and tyran
ny exist teachers are hunted like wolves from the
Government And sir the free cities of Germany were
the Outcrop of this POpish idea and Catholic Bishop
headed the people of England Runnymede and gave
Magma Chdrta the foundation berties-yours and
mine-tOday and from these and like facts that
many profound historians compelled Lord says,
say the Papacy Democratic in its tendencies For
this her tendaney everywhere. and at all times
Guy thinks the good to quote history only
and let say, detect all your novel authorities,
from Giacomo Lucretia Borgia, and what you
make of it, But sir this is not bad propenS ity
to systematic mistakes. For instance you say His dec
araon that the Jesnt in spite Of penal laws quarterng
blocks gibbets &C. to be found under every dis
guse in every country is doubt true &c. and then
you 90 off into TRADE about what "Veras would have
DONE had he charged them with Disgusting, &c Now,
Guy, you knour gave that quotation from Lord
Macauy, and yet the face of this must perver it,
you your other baseess assertions
in fact but another exemplfcatiOn Of your principal
rule of action the ends justify the means usual
But you have given up your attempt to fsen this motto
which, hope will cause you think better of your fe
low
YOu have made dreadful onslaught On the arisocTaey
of Europe and have vented your patriotic spleen to your
hearts content Possibly your being at safe distance
may have had something 10 with this efervescng Of
your Democracy. But sir the Jesus did this in Europe,
and for this driven out and the Catholic Church
has taught this lor 100 years and broken down the euda
class in Europe and thank God it be establish
ed here and this Knight Of the Garter with the gun
powder shield, 'yiscount of Geary' rule in
Severance You will hear from next week
vERITAS.
L