The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-01
TO PRELATE
Bishop Coke Writes a Second Pep
perry Letter to Mgr. Satolli.
He Regards the Location of a "yice
Pope" at Washington as a Men,
ace to Free Institutions.

BUFFALO. N. Y. Nov. So-The Right
Rev. A. Cleveland Coke. Protestant Epis-
copal Bishop OF Western New York, has
given out the text of a second letter which
he has addressed 10 Mgr. Satolli. Bishop
Coke starts out by saying that the position
Mgr. Satolli has assumed In this country
is aggressive and offensive. and, even as
an accredited diplomatic, would have made
him persona non grata- Yours" Bishop
Coke says, lis a delicate invasion OF our
capital and a practical intermeddling with
our most delicate domestic affairs, which
you threaten to make permanent. Our sys-
tenn of education and our common schools
are as the apple of the eye of every true
American. whether of your religion or 9TH
erwise. AS Americans, IL is the right or
your coreligionists to settle their re-
lations with their fellow-citizens without
any alien interference. May they not be
trusted to understand their own interests7
If they are not Americans at heart they
have no more right to take part in our af-
fairs than you have. If they are one with
us in the love of American liberties. they
will soon find out what rights they have
been deprived of by Jesuit craft If you do
not let Americans alone, your own people
here will soon remind the Pontim that what
he consented 10 as the law of the French
republic of 1901 is only their natural right
as republicans of the United States in 1893.
when the BuddhistS shall have 100000
votes in this country we shall find out how
the Pope's a~blegate here is to control them
You may force US to make a general law
applicable to Pope and grand Llama alike
If there Is any true American spirit among
your own bishops here, they viii Insist that
no papal nuncio shall be sent here under
wedge which, if il has divided them into
factions, is not less likely 10 split our en-
tire population into embittered and hostile
camps, engendering a social war. Your
apologists assert that your great friend
snip for everything in America and your
disposition TO settle everything In our be-
half is to prevent future disturbances
You have come here TO establish an
imperium in imperfo-a permanent vice
royalty under the caves of our Capitol.
citizen who comes ana goes, The Vice
President has no official house in Washing
ton Our Chief Justice has none, but there
is to be a permanent habitation at our cap
ital for the vice Pope. Thus, the one ire
movable potentate at Washington is the
self, and, henceforth, Leo XIII and his sue
cesSors will enjoy their supremacy on the
Potomac far more absolutely than IL can
be exercised on the Tiber. The servile and
illiterate Italians, Polacks, Hungarians and
such like are educated only so far rs the
OK that knoweth his owner. and they will
furnish votes by thousands to any pur-
chaser who contracts with the vice Pope
for the supply. All has been fo~rearranged,
like the lions at Torres Nedras. The JesuitS
are there in their arSenal-the university.
The lobby is organized and sacks the treas
ury. Now you come as generalissimo.
Truly, in vain the net is spread In the
sight of any bird, but the American eagle
has been drugged. he is fast asleep. But
l mean TO wake him up; that is my humble
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