The San Francisco call., 1895-12-23

that education is good thing for liberty and
independence, when these learned Jesults
write, time and again, that one of the chief
causes of the troubles of Italy was the unrest
and discomfort caused by educating thousands
and tens of thousands OF young men above
their condition."
What has been the result, the terrible, horri-
bic result of the education in Italy, according
to this Ugh authority? The result has come
about that now there is a great nation, free
and independent, and the good writers of the
Jesuit paper are still wrapped up in holy hor-
ror at the terrible things that have come to
Italy in the overthrow OF the temporal power
of the Pope! The same kind of people, no
doubt, would have said it was terrible mis-
take for the thirteen colonies to kick up such
row against the Government of his Majesty
King George I'LL
I repeat it, there is no liberty under Rome
rule.
The Shepherd OF the Valley, published at ST
Louis, Mo-, some years ago said: "The church
is of necessity intolerant. Heresy she endures
when and where she must; but she hates it.
and directs all her energies to its destruction
If Catholics ever gain an immense numerical
majority religious freedom in this country is
at an end. So our enemies say. So we believe
The same paper also says: ''The most absurd
OF all doctrines is the doctrine of the right ot
private judgment"
Brownsons Quarterly Review for October
1852, had these words: "An the rights sects
have or can have are derived from the State
and rest on expediency. AS they have in their
character of sects, hostile 10 the true religion
no rights under the law of nature or the law OF
God, hey are neither wronged nor deprived OF
liberty if the State refuses to grant them any
rights at all. The sorriest sight to US is Cath
olic throwing up his cap and shouting: All
hail democracyp"
The New York Tablet says: "The Catholic
missionary is sent by the church that has au-
thority from God to send him. The Protestant
missionary is sent by nobody, and can oblige
nobody in the name of God or religion to hear
him. Our Protestant friends should bear this
in mind. They have as Protestants no author
ity in religion, and count for nothing in the
church OF God.
"Ihey have from God no right of propa-
gandism, and religious liberty is in no sense
violated when the national authority, whether
Catholic or pagan, closes their mouths and
their places OF holding forth
w. J. Stillman, Esq, formerly United States
Consul at Rome, wrote to the New York Tri-
bane respecting the Roman Government, from
1861 toll S65, as follows: 81 know that spies
were placed at the doors of the places OF Protes-
tant worship to see If any Romans went in, and
that one friend OF mine, a surgeon in the
French Hospital, was arrested for having
waited on his wife IAN English woman) and
carried at night to the prison of the holy office
(another name for the inquisition), where he
was menaced with severe punishment ii he
not only did not abstain from courtesies to
Professionalism, but compel his wife 10 leave the
Church OF England and enter the Roman
Church, and he finally escaped from them by
an appeal to French protection, as an employe
"The brother OF one of my most intimate
friends was arrested in his bed at night, carried
on by omcers OF tne lnquNton ana never
heard Of again until years after, when re-
leased prisoner came to tell the survivor that
his brother had died in the prison with him
and was buried in the earth Of the dungeon.
''The Roman Government OF my time was the
embodiment OF the spirit OF the papacy of the
Middle Ages. 1t had its rod over its subjects
as it always has done"
Said Castelar,, the liberal orator in the
Spanish Cortes of 1869:
There is not single progressive principle
which has not been cursed by the Catholic
church. This is true OF England and Germany
as well as OF Catholic countries. The church
cursed the French Revolution, the Belgian
constitution and the Italian independence:
nevertheless all these principles have unroled
themselves in spite of it.
mot constitution has been born, not a.
single progress made, not a solitary reform
effected, which has not been under the anathe-
mas of the church"
Such is the testimony of one brought UP
amid the horrors of papal domination.