The San Francisco call., 1896-01-17

While Mexico offers to give immigrants $50
per head the United States would be willing to
give that much TO keep some out. In all the
south American States where Popery rules civ
lZation is at standstill and the old heather
practices largely prevail. Rome as clvilizer is
a failure. The other day gentleman who has
traVeled great deal in speaking of Romanlsm
made this remark TO me: 81 have spent a
great deal OF time among the Indians who live
around Lake Superior. The Romanists have
daa dssa charge OF then them for nearly two hun, ,
men are. all thieves. Popery has taken the
manhood all out of them. You can tell a
Catholic Indian from Protestant as soon as
you see him across the street. The Catholic
mas mean, skulking, thievish look; the Prot
estant mas a manly air about him.. should
tnlhk thet the Roman priests would come TO
the CONCLUSION that their religion was failure
ing"
And yet Uncle Sam pays out his money to
nave the Indians instructed by just such teach
eTs Here is a problem for mathematician: !:
II nearIy two hundred years OF Romlsh teach,
Ing mas made the Indians thus instructed
lower In morals than before, so that the men
are all thieves and the women all prostitutes,
now long Will 1t take them TO make decent
civilized Indians out of those they now
teaching?
1nere is another country to which we viii
turn and gaze upon the civilizing effects or
Rome-a country famed for its cham pionship
OF Popery. Poor downtrodden, priest-ridden
ireland. once the seat of learning. ii is now
the land OF ignorance. Its brilliant mind is
dlmmed, and It's ancient glory alone remains
10 testify OF what Ireland might have been II
not blighted by Popery
Free an Irishman from the incubus of Rome
and he at once makes his mark in the world
II 1t had not been for the curse OF Popery the
name Irish would have been title OF glory in
stead OF a term OF reproach.
Cf all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these; at might have been."
History proves that Romanization means
nal
ton. II reveals the fact tnat Romanism is
political poison the evil effects OF which may be
seen in the nations it has destroyed. Roman
ism is a bar to civilization. because to Roman
ize is TO fossiiZe The spirit of progress is con-
demned by Rome. Like au Egyptian mummy,
she IS wrapped up in the garments OF past
age. The only progress OF which she can boast
Is the progress OF sin. The eternal principles
OF truth are adapted 10 all ages and the highest
degree OF civilization; but the errors OF Rome
are SO narrow and contracted that they allow
OF no introduction of good things.
Rome is hardened in her wlckedness. She
aims TO ment6Ny macadamiZe her dupeS TO
keep them from developing and expanding
under the benign influences of civilization and
Christianity. Civilization in its scope has no
room for Pope, nor this LAND of the free no
use for the papal hierarchy. Under the plea of
lnfslhbilty Rome iustlfies all OF her past his
tory. She boasts Of her interchangeable attitude
in regard 10 modern progress.
If you would know that the papal church has
stood athwart the line OF progress and modern
civilization, listen 10 Gattini, a member OF the
Italian Parliament, as he asks:
"N hat share has the Papscy taken in this
work Is II the press Is IL electricity Is
it steam? Is il chemical analyst /? Is it self
government? Is il the principles of national
ity? Is il the proclamation OF the rights OF
man, of the liberty OF conscience OF all this
the Papacy is the negation. Its eliminating
points are Gregory |, who, Ike Omar, burnt
libraries; Gregory VII, who destroyed moiety
ereignty; Mureant III, who founded the In
QuiSition; Boniface TX, who destroyed the
last remains OF municipal liberty n Rome;
Plus VII, who committed the same wrong in
Bologna; Alexander VI, who ests blished the
censorship OF books; Paul III, who published
the bull for the establishment OF the JesuiIs; ;
Plus V, who covered Europe with burning
funeral pyres; Urban VIII who tortured Gal
lileo, and Plus TX, who has given us the mod
ern syllabus"
When Count Cavour, the Prime Minister 70
Victor Emmanuel, came into power, he under
stood the force OF general intelligence and de-
clared that he would overthrow the Papal do
minion not by fire and fagot, thumbscrew and
superStitiou-her favorite wea apons-but by the
introduction OF modern civilization. 81 will
take Rome said ne, "by railways, by electric
telegraphS, by agricultural implements, by
establishing national banks, by gratuitous
education on q large scale, by civil marriages,
by the secularization of conyentual property,
by the enactment of model code, EN- bodying
the most lenient laws OF Europe, and by the
suppression of corporal punishment. l will
place the spirit of modern eXpansi on face to
face with the old spirit OF observation. l am
quite certain the former will triumph. l will
establish a blockade OF new civilization around
Rome. II she undergOes a modification she
will come TO US; if she remains unchanged she
will, by constant comparison, become SO dis
gusted with her state OF infeFiority that she
will throw herself into our arms to escape de-
struction."
That day dawned in 1870 with the en-
trance OF Victor Emanuel into Rome, accom-
panied by little dogCart laden with the
Protestant Bible and followed by the Protest
ant missionaries
Rome has condemned the spirit of modern
progress and set her seal OF commenda-
lion upon The fossilized corpse OF pre-Reforma-
tion Romanism. H. W. BOWMAN