The Irish standard., 1892-12-03

home and dlsfrRnc hlse every citizen who
did not belong to it. We have been ex-
pecting from The North denial OF the
fact that it is necessary for man in
Norway to belong to the established Luz
theran church before he can exercise the
rights of citizenship, but up to date our
Norwegian contemporary has made no
attempt to invalidate our argument.
We have excellent authorities for what
we have said on this matter, one of whom
is Bayard Taylor, the celebrated Ameri-
can traveller, who visited the regions of
the midnight sun and embodied his OBJ
servations in book which he published
under the title of tNorthern Travel !"
No one has ever questioned the veracity
of Bayard Taylor, and we quote what he
says in regard to religious liberty in
Norway. What ideas the Norweglans
in their own country have of religious
liberation may be gathered from the fol-
lowing incident described by him when
speaking of the Catholic 'Vicar Apostle
lie of the North Poie," Russian baron
whose conversion to Catholicity lost him
his estates.
Mr.. Taylor and the Catholic bishop
were fellow passengers on vessel sailing
round the coast of Norway when this
incidents occurred. "A short time AFTER
ward," he says, "my attention was called
to the spot where they stood. by loud
and angry EXPLANATIONS. Two of our
Norwegian savants stood before the
bishop, and one of them with a face
white with rage was furiously vociferat-
ing lit is not true! it is not true! Norway
is free country In this respect, it is
not free,' answered the bishop, with more
GOODNESS than [ thought be could have
shown under such circu instances: You
know very we'll that no Que can hold any
Office but those who belong to your state
church neither Catholic nor Metho-
dist nor Quaker; whereas in France a
Protestant may even become minister
of the govern nent.' But we don't be-
lieve in the Catholic faith; We will have
nothing to do with IT, screamed the
Norwegian. I say that, although Nor
way is free country politically, it does
net secure equal rights to all it's citizens,
and so far as the federation of religious
beliefs is concerned, it is behind most OF
the countries OF Europe
He tn 9reupon retired to the cabin, for
a crowd had gathered about the disput
ants, and the deck passengers pressing
aft seem ID more than usually excited by
what was going on. The Norwegian,
shaking with fury, Kissed through his
teeth: 'How dare he como here to in
suit our national feeling Yes, but
every word was true, and the scene was
only another illustration of the intense
vanity of the Norweglans in regard to
their country. Woe to the sman who
says word against Norway, though he
say nothing but what everybody knows
to be true.''
If Bayard Taylor has misrepresented
the Norwegians in their native country,
we ask The North, whose associate editor
is aNorwegian, to tell wherein he has done
50. Until The North does show that the
are not what they are repre-
sented to be by Bayard Taylor and other
travellers who have visited Norway, we
contend that its editor should keep reti-
cent on civil and religious liberty, which
is guaranteed to every man in this coun-
try whether he belongs to the Catholic
Church or to any of the numerous scots
into which Professionalism is divided from
the time Of Luther to the present day.
Intolerant people should keep silent on
religious liberation.
Knute Nelson was nominated for gov
ernor Of this state by the Republican
party because the shrewd American
of it knew that the Scandina-
Wan element in every party would vote
for him in preference to any native born
American of any other nationality. The
North, which PIRATES so loudly of indie
pendence and iberality, changed it's
politics to elect Norwegian on the false
pretense that he was obnoxious to the
people on account of his nationality.
When his Democratic opponent hap
pened to be an American of Irish extrac.
ton and Catholic to boot, the Scandi-
navian pastors appealed to the religious
prejudice which was lying dormant in
the breasts of their countrymen, and by
INSCRIPTIONS methods famed it into &C.
tivity against Dan w. Lawler. It was
not tariff for protection or tariff for
revenue only that was the issue, but Luz
theranism versus Catholicism. These
pastors introduced religion
into politics and we condemn them for
it. Had Catholic priests done the same
thing we would condemn them in like
AT the recent conference of the Arch
n