The San Francisco call., 1896-01-16

that OF the anne race, having the same laws. the
Cathoc portion fs always inferior to the protestant
! portion.
| Proceeding then to demonstrate this general
! proposition by an INDUCTION from WeiI-knoWn
instances he next injuries:
And what explanation can be given of this phe
, honenen2 If ProtestantiSm has The same funda
! MeBtai doctrines as Catholicism it has totally
dfereOt discipline and the difference In the result
The Catholic discipline tends to automatic; Ptotes
! tantism to autonimie. This first makes machines
! the second men, The ole makes slaves the Other
citizens. Catholicism says TO the child, Believer
Pretestantsm says 10 him, ''rhnkF'
The fact that this is a Romish tcstimon
makes il doubly conclusive, 1t is the judge
| who calls Us hereties that pronounees in favor
! of our heresy, Hence the question which
determines national triumphs and displays
realms OF bOundless prosperity is no longer q
question of soil or climate, OF race or laws.
Before all 1t is question of religion"
In 1860, ten years before the FrancoPrussian
WRf, NJ. Edmund About had feuifleton in the
Opinion Rationale devoted TO the Protestant is
OF Alsace. Demonstrating the vast superiority
of the Protestants in every point OF social mo-
rality he says linter alia):
y Catholic superintendent of Woods and Forests
declared to me that in a canton, Of which three
fourths of the inhabitants are Protestants SO per
cent OF the offenses against the forest laws are
committed by Catholics | could not believe my
ears. They ciVllly answered me that
was in error That the hereto youth of this dis
trict better educated than our own, and for
this reason, that the Protestant ministers we're
able and jealous who threw their whole souls
into their work, while, the other hand,
the good Catholic priests of Alsaee knew
and curse Protestants. They further told
me that the Protestants were the best farmers;
that their dwellings are the neatest and cleancSt;
that they are the best men OF business and make
fortunes more frequently than Catholics. They
showed me the Protestant villages in state of
the highest prosperity, lands yielding rich har-
vests and fourtshing manufactures-such. for eN-
ample, as uhosa OF NJ. Goldenberg and NJ Schaten-
man. They shoN ed me Catholic hamletS, and even
towns, in which idleness, drunk nness and misery
enjoyed fraternal reign, Notwithstanding that all
the women attended mass every day and mat the
men kept more than hundred saints days in n
year "You see" said hereto to me, THAT the
influence of Rome is felt afar OF 1t may be COM
pared TO the srocco which blows across the deS-
ertS of Africa and throws upon our backs.
at StraShurg. 1t is a happy thing for us that we
have found a shelter against the blast from Rome.
And remember this, that if your kings OF the SIX
teenth century had allowed France TO become alto
gether Protestant it would this day be infinitely
more rich and more moral than 1t is" This
hypothesis so shocked my Catholic pride that
exclaimed TO the Protestant; - II, what you have
just said appears to monument of hypocrisy
and an ignobie tissue of contradiction - In this
way shut him up For, between ourselves, his
arguments were not easy 10 refute and when you
do not feel yourself able to answers the short
est way ont OF the difficulty is 10 insult him.
In remarkable book entitled England, Ire
land, America, - written by Mr.. Richard Cob
den, keen observer OF men and nations he
says:
There exists cause-and we believe primary
one-of the retrograde position, compared with
the present day, in the circumstance OF the Roman
Catholic being the faith of ITS people. Let not
be misunderstood our business does not lie in pole
mics; ard far be it from us TO decide which mode of
worship may be the most acceptable 10 the great
Author of our being. We wish only to speak of
the tendency which Judging from facts that are
before US, this church has retard the secular
prosperity of nations.
Proceeding then to addUce the ''facts,''
which not only warrant but necessitate this
Judgment" he shows that in switzerland
and probably there is no country in which the
effects OF the Catholic and reformed religions
upon the temporal career OF communities may
be more fairly tested
Those Cantons in which the Catholic faith
prevails wholly pastoral in their pursuits, pos
sessing no commerce or manufacturing industry
beyond the rude products OF domestic labor OF
the mixed cantons three are engaged in the manu-
fRcture of cotton, and ii a remarkable feature in
the industry OF these-the Catholic portion of the
population is wholly addicted 10 agricultural and
the Protestant section TO commercial pursuits.
All the eight Protestant cautons are more or less,
engaged in manufactures
Nor must we omit TO add, what every traveller in
Switzerland Will have seen, that in the education
of the people, the cleanliness of the towns, the
commodlouSneSs OF the inns and the quality OF the
roads the Protestant cRutoas possess Il great SIl-
peIiorty over their Catholic neiChbors, while such
is the difference III The value OF land that an es-
tate in Frioourg. q Catholic canton. possessing a
richer soil than that OF Benee. from which il is
only divided by rivuIet. is worth one-thgrd less
than the same extent of property in the latter
Protest ant district.
After referring to France he adds
"Germany gives additional facts TO the
same purport." Prussia, Saxony and the other
the manufacturing and commercial interests of
the country; While those which are principally
Catholic" are 'almost wholly addicted to agri-
culture. Education likewise follows the same law
here in Switzerland; for while the Catholics
amount to about 20,OOo0o0 and possess but five
universities the Proestants support thirteen with
only population OF l4,000.O00
Ii we turn 10 Catholic Italy, where there is very
little manufacturing of any kind. we find that the
nrinclDGliV
hands of foreigners. = The trade OF the
Italian states is in great part transacted BY
ProtestantS. We need scarcely add to
these statements the fact whcn all are acquainted
with, that in Ireland the pie manufacture is
almost wholly confined TO the Protestant prov
inces. II we refer TO France, we shall find that Il
large depot OF manufacturing industry has been
formed the extreme inland frontier of her terri
tory on the Rhine where her best cottons are fab
ricated and printed, md conveyed TO the metrop-
oils (about 800 miles on for sale.
AlSaCe the Protestant district allude to, con-
tains no local advantages, iron coal; it is up
ward OF 400 miles distant from the port through
which the materials OF its manufactures are
obtained and whence they conveyed en-
trely by land, passing through Paris TO which city
the goods are destined to De again returned Thus
are these commodities transported overland more
than 700 miles for no other assignable reason ex-
cept that they may be subjected to the labor OF
In future articles we will show that Rome is
not q proper teacher OF youth as her teachings
H W BOWMAN.
l.. Il
Priest Yorke left undone in his article upon
Spanish civilization in the New World, as con-
trasted with that OF England.
tIrSt-He did not cite the horrid tales of
cruelty practiced upon the Aztecs OF Mexico
and the Incas OF Peru. Nothing in Protestant
annals can equal them. For proof the reader
can consult Prescott's admirable works upon
the subject.
Second-He did not state that the schools
founded by the Jesuits to engraft superstition
upon the people were not for the masses, but
for special class.
Third-He did not inform his readers of the
fact that all the advance made in public edu-
cation had been opposed by the intolerant big
oIry of the Romlsh priesthood Neither did he
enlighten them in regard TO the fact that the
increased civilization of Mexico due 10 its
acceptance of Protestant principles of govern
ment, and its rejection OF papal tenets. While
the incubus OF Rome rested upon il, it made
no advance
Fourth-He was too discreet to intimSte that
persecution for opinions sake was funda-
mental principle of Romanism, and that all
ProtestantS who prosecuted others for their re-
ligious belief were practieing some OF Romes
old tricks.
Fifth-When he wrote the following state
ment, did he expect 1t to pass muster at the
bar OF history? He said
We find the most cold-blooded and savage war
fare ever waged by creed against another was
iustlgRted by Bingham and his fellow Anne erican
preachers in these islands of the Pacific.
If Yorke tells the truth the untold millions
put to death by Rome do not equal the num-
L. rln,r. IL