The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-08-12
CORRESPONDENCE.
"PEACK, GOOD WILL To MEN,"

that Guy Fawkes has miscarried, and that Ben the
Euebesite is knocked into mutton we don our armor
Of to whack at the redoubtsble Knight
of Rome. yeritas" reminds Us of lifelong Democrat
who has never contaminated the purity Of his faith oS tne
sight Of Republican newspaper As consequence any
thing not approved by the Chicago Times is condemned
e" So yeritas pronounces everything not substantial
ted by Catholic authority n falsifescn of history
discussion such could be kept up until doOms
day, and profit
He also imbued with the notion that all opposed
to Romanism believe the Church guilty OF doing
good deed We, at least assert nothing OF the kina II
would be strange indeed If vast organization profess
edly philanthropic carrying peace and good viii to men
should in its 1900 years never have done ere
liable deed On the contrary, the Catholic Chureh mas
done for mankind perhaps than any other sect She
overthrew slavery in England she often, by her media
tons stopped the eusion Of Christian blood she took
from the rich with hand and fed the poor with the
other she accomplished much in exploring the Wilds of
America and succeeded better in humanizng the Indians
than any other sect We could fill pages with her good
deeds bat alas could Ill volumes with her EVIL ones
The line Is easily drawn The Church was always ready
to do good her interest did stand in the way but
led by the demons Ambition Bgoty and Intolerance
she went to lengths in persecution never reached before
or since For instance she preached crusade against
the unoending North Germ ans now Prussia and with
re and sword gave them the simple choice Hell or the
Cross She preached of crusades against the fol-
lowers of Mahomet ostensiby regain the Holy Sepu
chre and whtened the wds of Hungary Greece and Pal
esne with the bones Of her deuded followers She carried
death and destruction through whole provinces in the
heart Christian Europe solely because their people
doubted actual presence" She slaughtered the Wal
denses generation ae generations hunted hung burnt
ravished and crucifed them all for the ee
for modes of punishment R. G. Ingersolrs Herstes aud
Heses In attempt to the Inquisition into the
Netherlands, she excited the Thirty Years War. As
sample of Christian peace and good will to men,
Motleys RepubheJ Even as late the nth
tury she concentrated her waning power to do evil
little mountain Repub lie in North Italy dating its indie
penence and Christia nifty from the ID century Its peO
pie were vrtuous and innocent. Their crime-they had
recognized the Popei She poured upon their
of Liberty her myrmdons and after unprecedented
ssance they overpowered seized by hundreds cast
over precipces burnt at slow fires their mouths filed
with gunpowder and their heads blown off, Infants
pierced with spears before the mothers face and held
wriggling blazing fires women and men were strip
ped and bound shameless attitudes and buried to the
lips and left to die others were cruched head downward
"a delicate compliment to Jesus! Yes "veritas" just
such things done by your footsore Shepherds not
90 years ago.
South America has been kept in semicvilized state
for 900 years Mexico rich in every natural advantage
suffered from the incubus till she became the spectacle of
the world! why is it. that wherever find ROmansm
in full sway dungeons crowded with political and
ecclesiastical prisoners the streets crowded with pau
pers the people buried in ignorance and living in
huts and cabins while the other side loom up
the the grand cathedral the splendid palace eff the Bishop
the massive walls of the monastery nunnery One side
all poverty and wretchednes the other reveling in spen
DOR Why it. the contrary that the nearer people
approach Indelity the prosperous moral and en-
hghtened they are I We find but answer: Reason
in the highest peace and good will to men,"
There is ladder reaching up to Indelity The rounds
the Greek Church the Roman the Lutheran EpiscO
pal Baptist Methodist Universalist Independent in
spration and away the stars at the top sits
Reason, calmly communing with the Universe.
'vertas" says the Church only controls licentOus
press This license of the press is like the tyran plea
necessity Who is to say where the license nesessi
ty begins and stops The people object to this
license" 1t is only tyrans and priests who fear it.
Truth and Liberty fear nothing.
Paul had to chatse his body to keep in subjec
tion." We shouldn't wonder! ANY man running around
loose with half dozen 'ministering unto him."
would need little of that-(See Beecher)
"Impeccability and Infallibity different terms"
Let's Inpeccabty exemption from sin, Ofense
Ifday entirely free from liability to mistake
Is 1t not to SIM When the Pope for vile luere
hawked about the streets Of every city in Europe his in
famous NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for few cents shings
dollars to commit any crime from theft up murder
not that matter of church government errOri
Dare the Church do the thing todayat least open
lyl And if is not that alone sufficient damn any
gion, Pope OrGod As for the bulls of accommodation
"yeritas" shirks the subject But he warns to
raise hand voice against the clergy for we may be
fighting God unwittingly."
We flight the God of the Jews! Now "veritas" right
here tell your God, this cock won't fight" Not much
Catch us fighting the inspired jawbone of that
Stays 5000 men OF renown" at fell swoop! Aye or
have outward walls blown down by magic COW horn
or get jerked up in fiery chariot swallowed by