The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-05-10

political office. End, not to employ
Roman Catholic in any capacity If
the services of Protestant can be
obtained" Mr.. GLADDEN. shows "tle
danger to society by sacred conclaves
Of men bound together by such an
oath Il = meeting together
in concealed places and carefully
hiding all their operations from the
public eye; any man is at liberty to
conjecture. 1t is evident that these
assemblies will be hotbeds of malic-
ious rllmor. The most preposterous
lies can he strrted in these conclayes
or;therc is no one to challenge them. A."
These men have already deluged
tile land with falsehoods, calumnies
| and foreigners against Catholic citi-
zens. They have printed numberless
documents, one Of which is styled
instructions to Catholics" and to
which the names of eight Archbish
ops, and signed with the counter sig
nature and confirmation of Cardi-
nal Gibbons. This document sets
forth, among other vapid nonsense,
that "the Catholics must secure the
control of all the cities, railways,
manufacturers, mines, steam and sail
ing vessels-abovc all the press; III
fact,every enterprise requiring labor,
and remove or crowd out the Amerl-
can hereto, &C." $50 absurd are
these charges, says Mr.. GLADDEN.,
that sensible men, it would seem,
should only laugh at it; yet the forg-
cry has been taken seriously by tens
Of thousands of American voters. We
might have thought it an easy task
to convince this multitude that these
prelates were knaves, but who could
have imagined that credence would
be given to a document which repre-
sents them as preposterous fools. .
Another document of a still more as
toaishing nature has also been freely
employed. This IS prcndo cncyc-
lial of Popeleo NH addressed to
the Jesuits, patriarchs, prinates,
archbishops and other ordinaries, and
given at st. Peters, Rome, on Dec.
25th, 1891, the fifteenth year Of our
-Pontifcate. In this the Pope is
made to declare that "this continent
discovered by Columbus, belongs to
him that he has long forborne to take
forcible procession of it. He, there
fore is made to full inmate as follows:
owe proclaim the people of the
United States to have forfeited all
right to rule said republic, and also
all dominion. dignity and privileges
appertaining to it. We likewise de-
clare that all subjects of every rank
and condition in the United State,
and every individual who has taken
an oath of loyalty to tic United
States in anyway, whatever, may be
abSolved from said oath, as also from
all duty, fidelity or obedience, on or
about September 18th, 1893. When
the Roman Catholic Congress shall
convene at Chicago, Ills, as we shall
exoneratc them from all engage
ments, and on or about the first lg-
Mathis Loyola in the year of oar Lord,
1898. 1t will be the duty Of the
faithful to exterminatc all heretics
found within the jurisdiction Of the
United States The Christian Id
vocate, of New York, a Protestant
journal, says: eve do not know Of
a more transparent fraud. We are
astonished that any human being
acquainted with the Roman Catholic
Church could have believed either in
the Pope or his advisers such dull
idiots as his document would prove
them to be- cit is the work" says
the Adrocote of some "whoSe men
dacity has intoxicated their minds
to such a degree that, though they
wanted to lie, they could not do it
shrewdly." MIR. GLADDEN. says:
"The aforesaid instructions to Cath
olics' and the 'Prendo- Encyclial' are
the principal documents which have
been employed in working up the
anti-Papal jury. 1t is diflicult for
intelligent men to believe that litera
ture of this description can be intend
ed to be taken seriously. 1t reads
like the fabrication of a very clumsy
humorist. But one who is as famil-
lar as | have been constrained to be,
through the constant attention oil
members OF this order, with the
newspapers, leaflets, circulars anil
manitestos, by wllicli it carries on its
propaganda, knows that they are all
of piece. The most cxtrayigant
humorist could not invent anything
more absurd than that which theypub-
lish weekly as current history. And
whatever may have been the origin
of these documents it cannot be de-
MED that they have been used as
campaign literature all over thc
land, in all manner of publications,
and that their gcnunencss has been
been editorially asserted and defend
ed in the organs of the order. With
these documents have been combined
a variety Of alleged oaths Of Papal
leaders and garbled extracts Of Ro-
man Catholic writings. In every
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