The San Francisco call., 1896-02-16

Whatever, may be aDSoiyed from said cath, as also
from all duty, fidelity or obedience on or about
the 9th of September, 1893, when the Roman
Catholic Congress shall convene at Chicago III,
as we snail exonerate them from all engagements
and on or about the feast OF Ignatius Ioyola in
the year OF our Lord 1893, 1t will be the duty of
the faithful to exterminate all heretics founo
witnin the jurisdiction OF the United States of
America.
AS The circulation of this bull, by sending to all
places, would become matter of difficulty ii is
commanded that copies of il be taken ana signed
by Jesuit notaries, subscribed by Bishop and
have the same power and efficacy these presents
here.
EGiven at St Peters, Rome. on the 25th day OF
fcate. LEO XIII. Pope
But Mr.. Editor, your readers may say surely
sensible people putno credit in such unmiti-
gatea TOT. we may admit that sensible people
could not credit IL, but we must remembe
that the number of fools is infinite. There is no
SO fact easily demonstratedas that this encycli-
cal was looked upon by thousands as verit-
able command from the Pope containing orders
for yeritable massacre.
GLADDEN's TESTIMONY.
i. In the first place, ,letime quote Dr. Washing
ton GLADDEN.. ! do not call him as q witness In
interpret the principles of the a. p A., but l
call him as witness to give testimony to facts.
He says in the Century Magazine for March,
1894: --'
A protestant minister OF Columbus Ohio. STATED
not long ago in an ecclesiastical assembly that he
had purchased Winchester rifle 10 defend him
self against the Romanists The following extract
from letter written by physician in one OF the
smaller towns in Ohio described state of things
which Is not uncommon in Western communi-
ties:
1--WE have been. and still are having an excite
ment In our usually quiet town in regard to the
Catholic question. There is not Catholic I'm the
entire township: but q large number of our peopie
are intensely stirred up. some almost proSurated
with fear afraid that the Catholics are about max
ing wholesale attack upon Protestants, killing
and plundering and destroying our schools ard
churches. Of course it obtains the strongest foot
hold among the ignorant and unthinking. yet it
seems 10 cause great uneasness and fear among
many OF the more intelligent
One OF my neighborS. g Justice OF the Strpreme
Court, having some acquaintance with this com
muniy and feeling curious to know whether this
report correct, ard satisfied himself of
its substantial accuracy. If the documents on
which the a. p A. is making its campaign are
genuine this is precisely the state OF feelings which
tire township" says my correspondent. In such
communities terror is much more easily excited
The people Of these rural neighbors are told the
most lurid tales OF what is going in the cities.
HUBBARD's TESTIMONY.
2. In the Arena for June of the same year
Mr.. Elbert Hubbard, a non Catholic, and /
year ago was visiting an old farmer friend In
great fair. Was he going? Not he, he dared not
leave his home single day, did not know that
the catholics had been ordered by the Pope TO
burn the barns and houses of all heretics? It
sounded Ike Joke, but the gray eyes of this
old man flash and knew he was terribly in earn
est With trembling hands he showed me the
ropes encyclicai, printed in a newspaper which
had deep border of awful black. l tried to ten
this man that POPE Leo XIII was a wise and
diplomatic leader, and probably the most enlght-