Smyrna times., 1889-04-10
SMYRNA. DEL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON APRIL IL 1889

low rate of interest to the French
man to buy out the Englishman, be-
cause the land in Catholic hands will
pay tithes. The assessor. under
French Catholic control, is able to helm
the process by raising taxes. on prop
erty in British hands. The British ele-
ment will soon be reduced to the com
mercial quarter Of Montreal, while the
French are overfOwing and carrying
at once their nationality and their
ecclesiastical system with them into
the adjoining parts of Ontario and the
Maritime Provinces. They are also
Overl1oWing at a great rate into the
northeastern States of the Union, and
IN combination with the Irish Cath
ollcs, they bid fair to swamp the Pur-
itan in his ancient seat. X
Quebec, in spite of the resistance of
some of the Bishops, the parish priests
and the Old Orders, such as the Sui
plclans, is yielding to the influences
now dominant at Rome and becoming
Ultramontane and, what is the same
thing, Jesuit. Her solid and separate
nationality, cut off by difference of
language from the liberaliZing in1u-
ences OF the New World, thoroughly
permeated with Ultramontanism and
identifying theocracy with patriotism,
promises hencefOrth to be the citadel
OF the Jesuit, and the centre from
which he will carry on his crusade
against the free and progressive civil
lzation Of the New World.
Flushed with victory over his eccle-
siastical rivals and confident in his
hold over the politicians, the Jesuit in
quebec has now Ventured on a stroke
which makes Canada ring and awakens
echoes in New England, if not bevond.
x
Suppressed by the Pope himself at
the instance of the Catholic powers the
Jesuit has arisen again from the tomb
OF suppression. Deprived by political
progress of the despOts who were its
ioster-fathers and by intriguing with
whom its power was originally gained
II has learned to intrigue not less cum
hihgiy and almost as successfully with
the leaders Of the people. Expelled
from country after country, it found
Its way back, and now at last elected
from Europe, by the combined fear and |
Ioathing Of the nations, it takes ship. |
crosses the Atlantic and sets to work at |
the foundation of new empire for |
LoyOla, and the power which LovOla !
served, among the democracies of the |
New World. It's ultimate victory is |
inconceivable. Reaction, ecclesiastical |
despOtism and Obscurantism, whose /
standard it bears, cannot in the end |
triumph over progress, freedom of |
opinion and the kingdom of Light.
fights against it, and will pre-
vail II this is a moral world Often,
as in France at the time of the League.
m Europe generally under Philip III. in
France again under Louis XIV,
in England under James II, in
switzerland before the SOnderbund. in
France once more under the Second
Empire it has seemed triumphant, and
battered itself, no doubt, that the fut-
lre was in its hands when suddenly
the moral powers have intervened, and
It's edlice of conspiracy so labOriously
constructed has come to the ground in
a day. It's cunning, as its behavior at
the time of James II showed, tho pro-
found is not identical with wisdom.
Fail in the end the Jesuit must: but in
The mean time there may be consider
able havoc if the United States and
Canada remain in the hands of poll.
ticians who are controlled by the Cath
Olic vote.
Toronto, Canada.