The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-17

But in truth, I need not go deep into Cath
Ollie authorities. for the Protestant theolo-
gians who have defended this practice, on
moral and Theological grounds are extreme
~ few. Calvin. Salnasius and Molinaeus
about complete the list. The glory OF de-
tending it. in defiance of 1.-The constant ira
tha Of councils. from the bsginning, with
ters OF the Roman church" tBossuet. I'd
Pastoral against r. Simon) was, until you
arose above the horizon, reserved for the
Secuiarlsts Hume, Adam Smith. Turgot and
Bentnam. 1t must, however, be acknowi-
eaged that there is one noticeable excep-
uon-the Infamous Albigensian heretics Of
Languedce. who equally justified paederastia.
and whom the great Catholic poet Dante had
IN MS mind when he classed together $50
dom and Cahors."
inquire curiously whether the attempt OF
some obscure opportunists. since the Ref
ofmauon. to justify legal plumber OF the
poor be orthodox not Let 1t be IL any
one pleases that interest to an estahlisbed
iegai rate is permitted for the faithful this
mas no bearing on the great money lending
operations OF London and Frankfort. They
are governed by no law but that economic
one which you, adopting the phraseoiogy of
such orthodox authorities as Bentham and
aursot pronounce resistless; thus attrib-
the prophets, apostles. fathers, popes, couu-
CHS and, in short. every revered &C.
ciesiastical authority. from Moses down to
Manning. unanimously as with one voice
attribute to the rapacity of men. l need
not remind your grace what 1t is called in
theoiogy to attribute to God that which is
not OF his nature. But l must admire the
ingenuity or your confession that you speak
without warrant from your ecclesiastical
position. Only by renouncing your &C.
ciesiastical position, by thrusting religion and
ethics out or the discussion, by assuming
the premises of fatalism. secularism-l and
u1tiiitaIianism, are you enabled to avoid &C.
cleSiaStical censure
AS politician, of course, you may say
what you like: but as priest, a Catholic. or
a Christian you could not have undertaken
the defense of the unbeiieving usurers in
the most gigantic grab they ever perpetrated
without certainty of condemnation, ex-
tending probably beyond your writings to
yourself, should any one choose to bring
what you have written before Rome You
ask. is it honest to try to pay debts with hair
the money which we receive when contract
ing them? Let me answer by asking YOU
whether 1t is honest for usurers to raise the
value of our notes? AS for which of these
questions be the pertinent one, / appeal to
the article Silver in the Encyclopaedia
Britannica. Your history is of a piece with
your ethics when you ignore such a fact as
this eminent, fair, conscientious. British au-
thority there plainly states-the fact mean
that the alleged depreciation of silver is due
to decentralization; that there has been no
depreciation; that the phenomenon with
which we are actually confronted is an arti-
hcial appreciation of gold, brought about
obviously by the usurers through those gov
ernments which they can bully. That our own
government, the strongest and most vitality
interested among those which principally
suffer by the conspiring of these half-dozen
London and Frankfort Jews, can success
fully resist them, you pronounce mere non
sense" If Patrick Henry and his compeers
had thought so when in the legislature of
Virginia, he Numbered his immortal reply
to the same pusillanimous argument, you
would not now have country to betrayi
Nor, If such cowardly counsels should pre-
vail, is there much hope for the unhappy
land whose name you bear, and which, till
now. has thought that she could rely upon
your patriotism! After accusing Mr.. Bry-
ans supporters of rebellion, secession, re-
pudiation, and all the other wretched cant
for whose curbstone distribution Baron
Rothschild and his American agents are so
literally paying, your grace has said
that you "impeach neither their good faith
nor their honor" They will appreciate the
moderation of your language. and wish they
could return the compliment. But good
God! to what must we attribute it when a
Protestant layman Is able to expose the theo-
logical unsoundness of Catholic archbishop;
when an obscure Englishman, naturalized in
America, must reprove the unpatriotic tim
1d1ty Of a representative Irishman? To what
but that eorrupting influence so early rec
ognized by the heather poet:
Quid non mortadia pectora cogis
Auri sacra fames?"
&C. L. James.