, 1879-01-19

literature is SO ephemeral as syIlabuses, bulls
aud letters issued By his Holiness; and no 9th
er kind Of literature has 50 lasting an effect np
On our political aud social life. They are writer
for tho guidance Of the faithful, aud the power
| 1ul organization Of the Church carries them Il
the ear and presses them upon the memory ant
conscience Of all its trusted members. Ihe1
would, most probably, be entirely withheld IRON
the knowledge OF heretics If the spirit OF the agt
permitted it; but it has been found quite safs
to publish the boldest declarations Of war OF
all governments OF the people, because suct
publications can easily be suppressed when it i
desirable to suppress them, and the careless
people will forget them, or accept any explaua'
tion or version which the Church may think best
to give. Thus the syllabus OF the last Pope,
which acted like huge ealyanic battery In
shocking the herctfcs OF this country, and
which called out Gladstone's able defense OF
the authority Of the State, was SO quickly
withdrawn from circulation that six months
after its publication I searched Pittsburs in
vain for q copy! Neither in bookstores nor
public or private libraries was it to be found!
found several persons who had purchased it
and supposed they still had it or one Of Glad
stones books OH the subject; but, come to
search, and they had disappeared.
The Catholic bookstores had plenty OF an-
syllabus, but the syllabus itself was not fur
sale. at length, found it in Protestant
family, who lived in the country aud kept no
servant. 1t may Ill have been accidental, but
it was such short time after large editions had
been issued and copies for sale in every news
depot aud bookstore that one could not help
wondering What had become Of the syllabus
and Gladstone'5 comments: and it occurred to
me that maybe Bridget and Paddy might rem
der to the Church the service that used TO be
performed by the public e1ecut1oner in disposing
OF hcrcticat publications.
OF course the syllabus Vas not hcrctical; but
II prudence required its withdrawal from cir
culation it could easily be disposed OF by an
organization which has one or more agents in
almost every house. So would advise those
who may take an interest in the Pope's recent
letter to get copy and Keep it where it will not
be apt to be taken for starting fires.
10 show that DO sometimes read coming
events BY the light Of those that are past, re-
mind you tiat, more than year ago, | stated,
in your columns, TINT the danger to our Gov
ern1ncnt from Romanis.n would be neulralized
By Communism: and that all the Republic had
to dO was to enact and enforce Justice between
these contending factions; the despotism Of one
man and that Of the mob.
Up to that time had not been able to see
how the Government could survive the machin-
atious Of Popcrv, Democracy, and The Lost
CaEse, bound together, as they were, in death
less hatc to Kcpublcapism; but when tile Com
muue reared its hydra-head recognized 1t at
once as the uitro-g!ycerine which was to scatter
Our foes; tue counter-irritant which was to draw
the national disease to the surface and make its
cure comparatively easy. SO 1, for one thank
God for the Commune, and prefer its reign 10
that OF the Lhurch; for It would soon rain it.
self out. and even it it brought deluge, it
would bc better than ten century fog and
1rizzfe.
But, as said long ago, all that thc Republic
has 20 do is to hold the balance even, aud let
these opposing fl. ttons settle their difficulty,
and This cannot bc done so long as Communists
arc. compelled to support the Church aud aid
her IN acquiring control OF the country through
her vast accumulations OF real estate.
TIC Republic is not Just to the Communist,
nor to any other Worklngnau, SO long as it taxes
his home, tu excmpt the Bishops palace and
the stately cathedral from their share OF the
public burdens. So long as the members OF one
church and no church must be- titied to support
all, so long the Republic is fa:thless to its own
professions and to every principle Ut Justice
That the Church does not render to the State
in her exemption from taxation is abundant1y
not onfy By our criminal ana paupcr
statistics, but By the history OF every public
every popular uprising against law
ald ordGr which has uisgraced the country since
our anti-slavcry tnohs, and, even of these, the
k4t9AA A01G " tA% AAA AAo4AlA q AAAEV CtL-
lirlt.
That the Mother Church, so fur from being 4
trainer Of guod Citizens Is . nursery Of crime,
and paupefistn, and mobocracy, is evident from
tue fact that we have no better class Of citizens
thai the Protestant or North OF Ireland etni-
yrunts, while VIC might slmost close our prisons
md alElshouscs If it were uot'for thu. inmates
furnished By the South Of Ireland. As-the peo-
Die or that region have been upder the care Of
,iae Church SO long that history runneth no.
hat IN
S i bau educator.
The draft not Of New York vas an irish Cath, |
,lic uprising against the Government. The |
jttsburg riot of July, 1877, was an Irish Catho-
ic riot The Mollic Mcguire combination, which |
las cost Pennsylvania so many valuable lives I
nd an inca!culabe amount OF capital. is an
Tisll Catholic organization: and, while the
;hurth was rocked to its centre to prevent thr
'urial OF u mans body in the lot he had bought
I'D paid for, because he had belonged to an or
'upc dsaoproved, every blootl-staincd murderer
t thut Irish Catholic band OF murde7ers Is
ecosniZed US q good Catholic; and, when JUS
lie oyertakes one, he is sent fron. the gallows !
D the reward Of the righteous by the Church,
nd by her accorded all the honors Of Christian
urial. How can any frank, fsir-mfnded minis
er of that Church fail to see end acknowledge
er hostility to law and order under q Repubirs
But his Holiness charges Communism upon
1o Reformation. Was it Luther, and Calvin,
nd Knox, who instituted religious houses,'. E,
nunnerics, aud abbeys, every one
which was, or is, a Conn,unes Did Protcs-
,ntism first teach that the highest ptety divests
le individual! ot all property rights and vests
Il personal right to estates, and all reward for
Ibor. in tile Order or Commune to which the
lttist belongs! Vas it not the Mother Church
ho began, 200 years ago, to teach Con'nup-
III as the most perfect form OF society, anu
ho keeps mp that teaching even unto this daya
'as it lie Reformation which ulade every tribe