The Irish standard., 1895-06-15
! PATRIoTIs1AND THE POPE

owes allegiance to the Pope. and has
sworn unfaltafing obedience to- the
church by assolemn oath. Tie then went
on to quote spurious oaths BY bishops
and priests and declared that:the Catllo-
lie religion IS q menace to any country
where it has found footing.
It is unnecessary to deny that a Cath
l,olic takes any oath Of allegiance to the
Pope, either as civil or religious ruler,
no more than citizen of the United
States takes an oath OF allegiance to
President Cleveland. In this city,
where David Tice is known, no atten-
tion is paid to his vapid vaporings by
Catholics, but outside the city, where he
is not known, he is thought by some
Catholics to be worthy Of answering. A
gentleman named Lyn j. Walker wrote
all the way from Iowa to refute the state
ments of old Tice, and suggested that
he 20 to a kindergarten school to study
history. He also surmised, and very
correctly, that Tice is tainted with Apa-
ism, because Of the nonsensical charges
he makes against Catholics, of whose re-
ligion he absolutely knows nothing. NJ
But the most effective reply to Tice
came from Father Mahoney, OF Mendo-
ia, though he does not once mention the
name of the Methodist parson. Father
Mahoney says that by this time people
ought to be tired of casting slurs on
Catholics for their allegiance to & for
eign potentate, and then goes on as fol-
lows: t's
These charges started in the guilty
consciences Of the first benefciaries Of
the Protestant plundering of the proper
ties of Catholics And they are revived
and repeated with every fresh plumber
ing, or likelihood of some restitution to
the plundered. But as the latest and
largest spoliation Of Catholics for their
loyalty to conscience has been by the
Professionals, and In particular, the Or
angemen, of ireland, it is there, natir-
ally, that the Pope has been especially
q terror. The home rule agitation OF
these latter years has, Of course, dis
turbed the little pampered Orange mi
nority, threatening their long, outrage
Gus monopoly Of the honors and spoils
of government. And 1t is certainly
their fierce discrimination to maintain
their old unjust ascendancy and stave of
home rule, that has had the chief part
in originating and keeping up this latter
day persistent, pervasiye and unscrupu-
lous anti-Catholic campaign in Ameri-
ca. The American peoples sympathy,
that had been so effectively fl1rthering
the home rule cause, was, If possible,
to be reversed or neutralized, and SO they
were to be apprized Of the Romanist in
trigues against American institutions
and of the Pope's orders to have 10000
900 of them killed on or about the 10th
of September, 1898. This iatter-day
anti Catholic campaign, run by British
Tory and Irish Orange funds, under pre-
tense of protection" in Canada to "Pro-
testantism,''' and in the United States to
tour American institutions" is in: al
most every particular q repetition of the
one carried on. hundred years ago and
later on behalf Of the infamous penal
laws and all the disabilities they inn
posed on Catholics for no other reason
but their conscientious religious belief.
Very likely the printers copy for the
first issue Of the late bogus "Encyclic-
ap' and spurious Instructions to All
True Catholics was an Orange relic for
100 years back. For then, as the Pro-
testant historian, Mitchell, tells, t'The
chief object Of the government and its
agents was to invent and disseminate
fearful rumors of intended n1assacres Of
all the Protestant people by the Catho-
lies. Efforts were made to infuse into
the mind Of the Protestant feelings of
dstrust to his Catholic fellow-country-
man, Popish plots and conspiracies
were fabricated withsa practical facility,
which some influential authorities
thought 1t no degradation to stoop to;
and alarming reports Of these dark con-
spiracies were circulated with restless
sassiduity. :"
During all, the years of the agitation
for the emancipation Of the Catholics the
main plea of the intolerant opposition
was that their allegiance to the Pope
would not allow then, to be loyal to the
state, and debarred them from any claim
to public offices. These allegations were
never better met than by the wit and
scorn Of that extraordinary Church Of
England parson. the Rev. Sydney Smith.
His .'Peter Plymley's letters, 4 written + in
1928, meet exactly the charges apd cant
Of the proscriptionists Of our day. t MI.