The San Francisco call., 1896-01-24


SIR: There is no use Disgusting the TACT that
RomaniSm is our National foe. Priest PneIan
saws: 'I frankly confess that the CathoIcs
stand before the country as the enemies OF the
public schools" An enemy OF free education
is an enemy OF the Nation. lie Is base
traitor and an unsafe citizen. He who would
undermine our school system has not the wei
fare of the country at heart.
Education is indispensable in republican
form OF government. Ignorance and Roman
ism go hand in hand. They flourish IN loving
compact Romanlsm can no more exist III
the light than can darkness. The GOLDEN age
OF Romanism was the dark age OF history.
And the zenith OF her power in the dark
est age of the dark ages. Like the owls that
screech and hoot in the darkness, against the
light, the Papal priests cry out against real ed
ucation-the enlightenment OF our pubic
school system. When Rome claims the right
TO ignore the teaching OF children in the Eng
lish language-and thus insulating them from
our American press, platform and pulplt-and
allowing those who are to become our future
citizens and voters to grow up in ignorance OF
the great principles OF Amerlcanism-she vlo-
lates both the written and unwrltten law OF
our country which requires all our citizens 10
be loyal Americans.
Americans, remember this: In encouraging
the Papacy in its educational policy the Roman
Catholic youth of the Nation are subjected 10
the heartless tyranny OF superstition ana
trained in dlSloyalty. The Papal expectation
is that Romish education viii raise up gener-
alton that shall be ready for revolution
against all rights, civil, social and personal, TO
be found resisting the supremacy OF Rome.
Rome is the foe of civilization. Romanism
press, gags the mouth of free speech, obs tructs
the free circulation OF the Bible, seeks 10 pre-
vent all systematic provision Tor general edu-
cation, and keeps her masses III darkness and
superstition. The fact that so many nations
have dated their social and political decline in
the scale of civilization and moral grandeur
from the maintenance of Romish error and the
dissemination OF Papal principles ought to be
warning to America. 1t would be case OF
political suicide TO allow II TO gain the ascend
Modern civilization must consent to abandon
the career OF advancement which has given 1t
SO much power and happiness, or meet Roman
ism in a conflict for supremacy. To Romantic
America would be TO ruin America. 1t would
be to telescope the nineteenth century into the
tenth. Its civilization would be modelled after
the semi the ignorance and super
stition of the middle ages.
shame the cringing coward who would
submit TO the dictation OF power which
blocked the wheels of progress in Europe for
many centuries, by ferociously suppressing by
the stake and sword every new thought, every
progressive idea, and every reformstory utter
ance! The old humbug OF the Iiber claims
divine authority, vet can present no ADEQUATE
credentials of his Office
For years Rome has been using all of her gil
gantic machinery as brake on the wheels of
modern progress. She would handicap sci
ence. bhndfOld reason and benumb conscience
Shall We allow her 10 banlsh public education,
put stop TO the reading OF the Bible, and 10
muZZle the press? To control all the agencies
of civilization is her chief ambition. Rome is
the foe OF civil liberty, hence a menace TO our
Republic. Civil liberty takes the individual
the Pope. II grants the right OF private judg-
ment TO all. But Rome cannot tolerate such q
privilege. To do so would ruin her whole
system. Ihe temporal power OF the Pope is in
compatible with republican liberty. Rome
has strangled freedom al its birth when she
could and murdered il wherever she has had
the opportunity There can be no civil free
dom without mental freedom, and the dogmas
OF Rome make her devotees mental slaves. The
conteSslonal-boX IS the sepulcher of liberty.
The slave of the Vatican is not free man.
Rome is the Zoe OF civic virtue. Romanism
Is ecclesiastical anarchism- She opposes all
moral reforms. she never advocates the pur-
1ty OF the ballot, the necessity of clean poliIic
Her very sytem OF political intrigue and
Jesuitical plotting makes her the friend of no.
htcal immortality and the Zoe OF good citizen
ship. She uses the saloon as her ally in gain
ing power Hence when you fight Rome you
hight rum, and when you fight rum you fight
Rome They are Siamese twins OF evil. Rome
is crafty Zoe. She curses in secret and blesses
IN public, She hurls her anathemas from her
altars at heretlcs, but behaves like q weaned
child before her critics. When weak she is
tolerant; when strong she is tyrannical. She
persuades as a friend before she curses as q
foe. She deludes or devours. She processes
friendship, while an enemy at heart. She
plots in secret and smiles in public.
Rome is loud in her professions of loyalty,
and yet seeks to train our future citizens in
Ignorance aId disloyalty. With satanic cum
ming and educated hypocrisy her minions
cover up their abominable work and seek to
divert attention and allay suspicion. They
viii accept liberation when they cannot gel
more They will claim equality where 1t is
possible, and assert supremacy where they
dare. Rome will betray with q Judas kiss
Like Joab she will give the friendly greeting
and then plunge her dagger into the heart OF
liberty. Friendship is only q mask, and reli.
gion cloak to cover up her base designs Her
history has been one long catalogue of in
trlgulng and plotting, of crafty tricks and Gun
ming schemes. 1t is an act OF folly to trust heI
pretensions OF friendship for our country.
Rome is a dishonest foe. There is honor
among thieves, but none in Romanism. They
are ruled by policy instead of principle
truth Is stranger to the whole system. 1t is
system OF deception. 1t is founded on false
hood aud reared by fraud. 1t is an arsenal oil
lies. Lying explanations given to Gods word
olshonest reports about men who have lett heI
hlthy embrace, incredulOus miracles and lying
Iegends-such as men sailing in the air and
picking up their heads after they were decapi
tated and carrying them under their arms
with all the fraud and swindle of purgatory
ana traussubstantiaton all prove that Rome
should have the belt as champion preyari
Gator. By the doctrine of mental reservation
which lustifes the lie on the lip by the truth
IN the intellect, she stands condemned as dis
honest before the world.
Romlsh priests pose as the friends of educa
tlon; but they mean education i Romish doc
trines by Romish instructors. 1t is the ability
to repeat the catechism and say Ave Maria.
and Han Marys that they consider a true edu
cation. When Papal preate wakes eloquent
over freedom of Conscience" che is speak
ing OF the right to embrace, profess and prac
uce the Catholic religion. >" 'Chastitv. IT in :
Dlshop, priest or nun, means the license of lust
under the guise OF celibate abstinence. To
"tell lies for the glory of God" is what they re
gard as speaking the truth. To steal for Tho
benefit OF the church is pure honesty and
sanity virtue. In fact lying is a fine art and
dishonesty science in the Romish church
Prlestly Justification for lying is indisputa
bic fact Romanism may have some truth
about II, but 1t is madness to put viper in
your bosom because of its gay coat.
Rome is now trying TO hide her dark history
by fraudulent and dishonest methods. Sh,
has establisheda censorship over the press K
conceal facts. She has forced publishers Il
alter the truths OF history, to garble diction
ery definitions, remodel articles in cyclo
pedias and lessons in schoolbooks under threa
OF the dreaded boycott. Some one may ask tn,
question, What has their dishonesty got to d.
with their citizenship? Just this much: Th,
privileges of citizenship carry with them III,
duties of the citizen. But Romanists are un
able to render the duties they owe to the Gov
ernment. The Romish priesthood, whose tbeo
logical training consists in learning the art o
falsehood and deception, teach them that the,