Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-17

7. that the Catholic Church teaches tha
civil Governments have rights which n
citizen can conspire against without sin
Is # likely that she shall set the exampl
!, to her own members of disregarding tina
teaching, by engaging herself IN a con Tn
/ spiracy to overthrow this RepuDnc! w
/ repeat conspiracy, for that is what Tn
bigot means when he talks about ne
y Strong hand. +" The history of tn
Church, shows that she has Ive'
on terms of peace and amity with govern
: ments of every kind and form, ant
s uniformly rendered to Caesar "the thing
!. that are Cesar's," whether the authorit.
was represented by king, emperor, sultan
J. car, director or president, and has neve
:. asked from the State aught butthe liberty
h of rendering to God sthe things that ART
! Gods" We are far from being prepared
: to concede that the Church ever sough
!. to place her "strong hand" on the secur
s ity and peace of any government save II
a the practice of injustice or in the unjustl
fable exercise of power. When did this
editor learn that she had "strong hand, .
in the sense he uses it? In the Middle
5 Ages, when her prelates exercised any
: jurisdiction in civil or political matters,
as some of them did, the power was so
VIGOROUSLY used in a benefcent way
that it became proverb: "Better fear
the weight of bishops thigh than of a
baron's little finger" Better live under
the shadow of monastery than in a for
tilted CASTLE" Is this to be forgotten that
room may be made for belief of a volun-
tary and malicious falsehood? The writer
adds:
sThey understand that the door is open to
the poorest of them to obtain the highest
honors in the land"
l Perfectly (, true. But what have the
Catholic citizens of this country, as Cath
olics, to expect from any party? ia
Catholic occasionally obtains an Office, it
is not because he is Catholic, but rather
in spite of it. When has any political
organization in the United States ever
dared to make even show OF doing
scant justice to the civil rights of Catholic
citizens, or as party to lift voice in
their favor? Let the Tribune sage an
swer. He has more to say:
"There are bigots in the Church who hold
that the Pope is their temporal King"
The ignorance of that statement is
equalled only by its falsity. There is not
a Catholic in this wide country goose
enough to believe anything of the kind.
The Catholic Church never claimed, as a
divine organization, to have authority in |
purely temporal matters, anywhere or at
any time. And the Pope claims for him
self temporal authority no where on the
face of the globe, except in Rome and the
adjacent country known as the estates
of the Church, now wrested from him.
Catholics, therefore, the world over, do
not believe that the Pope has any author
ity over them. Nor has claim OF uni
versal sovereignty ever been made by
any one of the Pontiffs who have occu-
pied the chair of St. Peter. The editor
continues:
"And they would, if they could, break up
our free school SYSTEM"
We deny that Catholics would destroy
the school system in the manner he
would have his readers believe they
would. That Catholics have protested
against the present SYSTEM is true of
course; but they were not the ONLY ones
who protested nor was their protest in
tended to shelter the rights of Catholicity
alone, but those also OF all other Christian
antilles in the country. They know that
he State cannot adopt system of Catho-
&c education any more than of Methodist,
Jewish, or Mormon education. The
Catholic theory only maintains that the
public schools must not be goddess. Let
hem be UNCONVENTIONAL, and no one will
lrge their destruction on the ground of
'lolated parental rights. It is reasonable \
o infer that this editor is so shallow, on l
he school question, as to believe that the
'erpetuity OF this Government depends
n our present free school system. This
elng so, it is pity that he is not an ar =
ent patriot at all times and under all y
circumstances. 1t is surprising that he
'as such an enthusiast on the nomination
I MIR. Blaine, since he tried to "break
p our present school system" by his
roposed alteration of the Federal Con-
tuition. He continues: g
And they would vote blindly for the men
their creed when ordered to do So" d
Here is the stale, senseless crv of
prlestly coercion" again. It is still occa- r
onally raised by some demagoeue or
cond-rate newspaper. It requires either
heartless soul, full of venom and nv. f
'crisy, or stolid ignorance to utter such
charge of duplicity against Catholic citi-
ms. While Protestant ministers do not tn,
ripple to introduce partisan politics into We
cir religion, Catholic prelates rigidly for
stain from it. Valuing as highly as -
her men their rights as citizens, thew
tn Jew exceptions, from regard for their -
cred duties and functions, take no part
latever in political affairs. These facts
well known to the intelligent portion g
the American people. ~
10 quiet the fears of this editor. we will
him that the people of this country
in no danger OF having any of their Til
IL institutions destroyed by Catholics.
e danger will come from another quar-
:. The danger is in the spread Of Lib w
!lsm as taught by this great journalist, crus
lch is but another name for infi6el the
olution, and is always despotic in the e emit
|, however fair it may seem in its first 'sis
ects. Cit
n conclusion, we advise him never TO Mi
tie any more Know-Nothing editorials
his readers may think he is a bigoted -
o"-Nothing: CATHOLIC.
ALT LAKE Cry, November 16. u