The San Francisco call., 1896-01-21

temporal things. To these words of the Pope
DR.. Wendte vouchsafed no answer.
l remark, however, that the reverend doctor
goes off on a side track. He asserts dogmat-
ically: "The true American and Protestant
principle declares that God is indeed
over all, but in the ordering of political society
the voice of the people is the voice of God
This basic axiom of free republican institu-
tons Rome has ever denied and opposed"
The assertions contained in that paragraph
could have been uttered only by tyro in his
tory. do not wish to follow DR.. Wendfe into
side issues, but will state here categorically:
l. Popular sovereignty is not a Protestant
principle.
q The success of Professionalism historically
eventuated in the destruction of the peoples
g. Roman Catholicism has always favored
and fostered the right of the people to rule.
4. The Jesuits were the chief opponents of
the despotlc claims of kings to divine right.
3. Nearly a thousand years before Protes-
tantism a Pope had laid down the principle,
"The people made the king, they can also un-
make him."
CONCERNING sUAREz.
DIR. Wendte is very suspicious of Saurez. l
produced the great Jesuit to testify that the
Supreme Pontiff has no direct temporal power
over the world except in these provinces OF
which he is poral lord.
Against this testimony DR.. Wendte
sapiently objects that Suarez should say
that the Pope cannot or ought not to- have
direct temporal power over the world.
Can DR.. Wendte be serious? Is the holding
OF power question OF theory question of
ldCLE W uSu VIZ Sul COHST0SS uOeS not interfere
with religion, is not our meaning plain? Is it
necessary to use up all the auxiliary verbs in
the language and declare that Congress
might, ought, could, would or should not
interfere?" When Suarez made the statement
OF fact that the Pope had no direct temporal
power, he also covered the question of right.
DR.. Wendte must be hard pressed when he
descends to bubbles.
AS diversion DR.. Wendte now de-
scends on Manitoba and holds suarez
and worldly minded clergy, respon-
can institutions. Let me ask DR.. Wendte
are worldly minded clergymen confined to the
Roman Catholic communion. Has not Oak
spectacle of worldly minded clergymen and
worldly minded members OF church societies
up to their neeks in politics? Is the genus
unknown in any city, town, village or hamlet
OF this country-are they not all with hardly
an exception non-Catholies?
And in Manitoba is it not fact that all the
fury has been stirred up by the preachers, and
for what? To make whole province partici-
pate in the violation of solemn promises. Is 1t
republican TO ignore treaties? Is it true free
dom to trample on minorities? Does it con-
duce to advancement to refuse justice? Yet the
m ajority in Manitoba to-day are backed up by
the preachers and it would appear by Dr.Wendte
stand shameless before the world and declare
that neither pledge, nor engagement, nor
promise binds which has not the majority
back OF it to effect its enforcement. Manitoba
and DR.. Wendte forget that right always
makes a majority and that God does not count
heads when he judges justice.
TAXATION OF CHURCHES.
DR.. Wendte next falls foul of Cardinal Tar
quini. The Cardinal wrote "Civil society, evan
though every member of it be Catholic, is not
subject to the Church, but plainly independent
in temporal things which regard its temporal
end"
Against this clear statement comes DR..
Wendte armed with notice from the old mis-
sion of Monterey, which notice mathematical
the taxation OF church property, Now, 1
taxation a peculiar property OF the
Catholic church, or does it flow from
any Catholic doctrine. Ii / remember rightly
the loudest voice which has been lifted lately
against the taxation of churches has been the
voice OF the Methodist Bishop Fitzgerald. 1t
is the utmost puerility TO imagine thata desire
political ambition. Every man who has few
acres of young fruit trees is exempt,
are we therefore in danger of political
musddma ana 6rafe of to % b
public are not taxed. Shall we say that
churches are less beneficial? OF all the hum
bug OF this age OF hum mbuggery the cant about
the taxation OF churches is the worst. The
whole question is a question of public senti-
ment. II any one wishes TO raise the question
and to agitate in its favor and to organize an
anti-taxation OF churches society, this is
free country, and every American citizen is
privileged TO advocate any measure he pleases.
The bowling deryishes who rant and rave and
gyrate and prophesy the domination OF Rome
are the real enemies to American liberty and
the rights of the citizen.
l might as well say here to DR.. Wendte in re-
gard 10 the taxation of churches that we
Catholics are not growing. The pinch is felt not
by us, because we have the people, but by the
little social clubs yelept churches Their di-
m1nutlve size, their cherries interior and
their unpainted boards are testimonies to the
visits of the taxpayer and monuments of stin-
giness raised to insult the Lord.
MORE NEsCIENCE.
DR.. Wendte must be very unlearned in the
history of liberation when he asks Who was
Bishop Doyle? l am not surprised, however,
at his question, because, after his rendition of
Catholic doctrine, am prepared for anything.
Bishop Doyle was the great j. K 1.-the man
who prepared the way for Catholic emancipa-
ton, and who by his genius ELECTED from the
Duke OF Wellington the compliment, 'No, sir;
the House OF Lords did not examine DR.. DOYLE
but DR.. Doyle examined the House of Lords.''
DR.. Wendte says why should we take Bishop
Popes and councils. Here is the old ques-
ton again. Produce your Popes and coun-
c1ls, DR.. Wendte, and set their utterances
over against the words of J. K. L. We do not
quote bogus popes and stuffed councils It is easy
enough to make man OF straw and easier still
TO knock him down.. We are not dealing with
shamS; we are dealing with realities. Pro-
duce your Catholic doctrine, for you have not
done so yet.
In his vain attempt to defend his gerryman-
dering of Bishop Gilmour's quotation DR.,
Wendte exposes the nakedness of his cause
Why did he only give a scrap from the pastoral
when he had the whole document before him?
W rs IL Tie Sdlut IcdSOH WHICH 1UcpelleQ MIN 10
cut off Pope Leo's sentence in the middle so
that he could fill in with surmises and
innuendo and suspicion? My explanation
OF the passage is the simple and natu-
raj explanation that DR.. Wendte does
not wish to accept it. He picks on the express
sion that the church is above the state Let
me ask him is there no sense in which that ex-
preston is true-as true for the Unitaria as
for the Catholic =? Let me again repeat nv
question, What would Mr.. Wendte do If the
state forbade his congregation to worship after
the Unitarian fashion? The answer to this
question have right to get from DR.. Wendte.
When he gives 1t our way will be very clear.
LAST APPEAL.
sorry that DR.. Wendte is thinking of
Withdrawing from the controversy. My grief
is increased when / realize that an expectant
world is 10 be deprived of sight of the cover
whelming proofs drawn from biography, his
tory, art, science, social and national life"
that Rome is the abomination of desolation
After his experience with the IL 900 virgins
of Cologne, l remark that DR.. Wendte has
fought shy of physiology. Still he might
have drawn some proofs from geology, botany,
astronomy and conchology, not 10 mention the
binomial theorem and the theodoIite. / regret
exceedingly the doctors determination. 1t
would be an inspiring spectacle to behold all
these arts and sciences gloating over the
Roman Gulliver and tying him down to earth
with their liliputian threads. Surely Dr.Wendte
will 1elent Let him not be too fearsome
OF course, it would be a terrible thing to over
throw Rome bV one QeWSDaDer article es-