Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-01-12
PIroRIna INFO rhE rorr.

The promise that DR.. McGlynn
would pitch into the Pope filled the
New York Academy of Music, last
night, and rejoiced the ticket specnla-
|tors, and from O'Clock to IL o'clock,
which was about half an hour before
the close of the address, not six people
left the house. DR.. McGlynn began
b! asking;
1.-THE Pope in politics. What bust.
ness has the Pope in politicsi What
has the Pope TO do with politics, or
politics with the Pope9 Nineteen
hundred years ago there stood on the
earth the only man who dared to say,
| Il am the way and the truth and the
| liie.' When his followers would
make him king he fled from them.
When the evil spirit offered Him the
kingdoms of the world He said: Get
thee behind me, Satan This man is
the only source OF the Papacy. One
day He told Peter he should become
the shepherd of his Masters flock.
"The teachings Peter received showed
that he was to excel his brethren 10
love for his sheep and not in solicitude
for the value OF their fleeces. He was
not to be above his Master, and in no
Iage of the world has the disciple who
has inherited the Office of Peter been
above the Master. The Pope is. il
anything, simply the successor Of
Peter, the man who WAS robuked
when he drew his sword against the
enemies of Christ. The power of
Christ's kingdom is in inverse proper
ton to the temporal power his minis
tiers shall WELD over an unwilling
Ipeople. Peters successor for three
hundred years pmcticed what they
preached. We hear of no concordats
between Pope and Emperor. of no
Ambassadors going to back doors or
Kitchen stairs to negotiate compro-
imises between tine Pope and other
Ipowers.
"Peter was surely as great and good
la Pope as is Leo XIII, yet we seek in
vain in the epistles of this first Pope
for anything like the ircreditab!e as.
lsertions of the last of the Popes-I
should say, the latest Pope.
1.-THE Pope in politics has been the
Course of every nation. His power was
lrevived lately in the Caroline Islands
dispute, but II was sort OF opera bOuffe
REVIVAL. Bismarck carried on flrta.
tion with the old lsdy--that is just
what he looks like-and they exchang'
ed pictures, and the old lady was high
lily flattered at being noticed
"Is 1t not time for US to protest tina
1t Is no part of our religion to engag,
In adulation of poor old bag of bones
i78 years old, with one foot In tn,
Igrave2 Imagine Bismarck submitting
the restoration of Alsace TO the Pope
i THE more politics you take from tn,
iPope the less religion you get III,
gravest charge against Inc was tina
There was too much religion in my
church. There were no political tract
: distributed there, even when they wer,
lsent by the Vicar General OF the bos
lot Tammany Hall
"Seventeen years ago there was {
lleague between Tammany Hall ant
= 1.-THE Catholic authorities, ratified on,
Sunday afternoon between Peter b
aweeny and Archbishop McCloskey
: This was to rob the public treasury b.
: means of clauses 10 be inserted int
Legislative acts by Sweeny TO securt
money for Catholic schools. The SO
called Catholic Protectory has al way
been besieging the doors of the Legis
lature, promising support to those VIII
9 voted 1t money"
NJ The speech was rambling, DIR. Nc
Glynn returning from time to time /
:, censure the Pope Tor bending to Eng
" land. cringing to Germany, and ar
:. tagonizing the best interests OF Italy
'' In order to regain his temporal power
DR.. McGlynn affirmed that the strict
est Roman theology held the con
= science to be supreme in matters c
duty. The speech was greeted wit
the usual enthusiasm