The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-06-15

you might as we'll call Judas Iscaria
or Julian the Apostate Catholic as tt
give the name to Pembal, Armada
Choiseul, or the Jansenistic leaders Of
the French Parliament.
HOW THEN CAN ANY TRUE AMERICAN
who loves liberty base an argument
against the Jesuits upon the fact OF
their banishment from European coun.
tries when that banishment has been
the work of despotic Kings and infide
politicians who hated them for the lib
critics and the Christianity which they
loved? It is natural for every enemy of
Christianity to hate the Jesuits, in fact
every despot who wishes to enslave the
Church always begins his work by at
tacklng them. They are the most
formidable antagonists of civil despot-
list; the trained CHAMPIONS of orthodox
faith. Persecution, like lightning,
strikes the most prominent object in
the landscape. The infidel or the despot
knows that his plot will be at once de-
tected by the Jesuit; that sophisms can
not mlslead his bright intellect, his
trained mind. He tries therefore to
get rid of the Jesuit first SO that he may
easily enslave the rest OF the Church
afterwards. From the days Of Cholseul
to Bismarck this has been the pro-
gramme Of the enemies of the Church.
But an American who lives in free
republic like this should love these men
for the enemies they have made. Near
ly fifty years before Massachusetts had
enacted penal laws against them. Jesu-
it's had accompanied Lord Baltimore
to MARYLAND and planted there the stan
dard Of religious freedom for the first
time in our colonies. The true Amerl--
can will not fail to contrast this con-
duct of the M sryiand Jesuits with the
New England Puritans. The first Arch
bishop of Baltimore, the patriotic John
Carol. was mem Der OF the Society and
Charles Carol, of Carrolton. was their
pupil. Will any doubt their love of
liberty and American Independence?
1T CAN BE EASILY PROVEN
chat there is no body of men in the
land who more thoroughly realize the
ideal American citizenship than the
Jesuit. Take up their books of theology
and you will find them always on the
side of liberty. They defend the free
dom of the human vii! and the natural
good man against Luther and CALVIN
and the school of s'Total Depravity.''
They defend the rights OF nature and
the rights of man against ,Janseuists.
The systems know in theology as
"Molinism, 'sCongruism,' ''Probabil-
ism" with which the Jesuits have be-
come to great extent identified, are
all on the side Of human nature as
against even the appearance of exag-
gerated supernaturalism on the side of
liberty against law. Wherever a Jes-
uit can strike blow for poor human
nature he is ready to do it. In politics
their writers are unanimously against
the divine right OF kings. Fourteen of
their greatest theologians. chiefly Span
iards, are accused of defending the dec
trine that it is jpstidable IN certain cas-
es to kill a tyraut. Among their great
writer's on law there is not one courtier,
not one Gallican. The bitterest en-
emies Of the JesuiGs in the church have
been the aulici writers who exaggerated
the power of the King and permitted
his interference IN sp1rituals. If this
were the t!me or the piace, it could be
proven that our own Declaration of In
dependence is indentical with the teach
ings of the Jesuit theologians.
THE IDEAL AMERICAN CITIZEN
is he that is best educated. and most
The foes Of Gus liberties are ig-
norance and irreligion. Now the Jes-
uit is most enlightened scholar
whose whole life is spent in trying to dis
pei ignorance. He is Christian gen
tleman whose life is spent in doing
good, in protecting the right of proper
tv and the purity Of the family through
the pulpit and the confessional. No
man therefore is better fitted for the
enjoyment Of our liberties than he. The
morals of bigotry NAV question his
loyalty and make false charges, but he
challenges the Investigation of all fair
minded men. The stale and stupid
charge that the Jesuit has two doc
trines, an esoteric and an exeteric one,
is the invention of bate and calumny.
There is only one word to characterize
those prejudiced fanatics. who persist
in attributing to the Society the doc
trims Of that famous forger, the "Mon-
ita Secreta'';; it is strong word but it
is scripturai, .'they are liars and the
truth is not in them" True American
citizenship is symbolized in the stars of
our flag. They indicate light, liberty
and truth. Who so we'll fitted to live
under it, therefore, as those men whose
lives are devoted to the spreading of
knowledge, Christian liberty and the
truth of the Gospel? The stripes on our
flag are not for such as these. but for
the foreign oppressor and the native
bigot. The bird that symboliZes our
freedom leaves the light and scars to
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