Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-03
The Catholics and the Philippines.

4 PoscNSoioi
by the American republic. They say
that the Catholic church is now in I'M
disputed possession in that archipelago
and that it does not want to fight to
hold its own against the other de-
nominations that will follow American
sovereignty. Such talk as this only
shows that some people are capable OF
taking very narrow view or proad
situation. The true situation is quite
the contrary. There is every reason 10
believe that the heads of the Roman
Catholic church. including the Pope
himself. are glad of the entrance Oh
America into Asiatic affairs. If they
feel any natural sorrow over the crush
ing defeat of Catholic nation like
Spain. it is overbalanced by other con-
siderations of more Importance.
At the banquet of the American So
ciety in London recently, Cardinal
Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster.
responded to a toast saying in part:
1T seems to me from the evidence of
past years, and from the manifesto
ton of friendly feeling expressed at
this table by your ambassador and
/ senators who have spoken. that we are
preparing the American and English
peoples for the great work before us in
the century 10 come. You no longer. if
| | may speak to my American cousins.
| you no longer are a self-contained
| power. You have come forth from
| your continent. forced by the circum-
stances of the acquisitions of lands
abroad. You stand with your foot on
| the threshold of the vast continent of
| Asia. You have entered into the
comfy of nations that has declared it
self in many ways interested in the
welfare and future of the Asiatic con-
tinent. You will never be able to with
draw the influence you have. and il
| will be greater in the future than ever
it was in the past. 1t must make it
|
of Asia. which is waiting for the ad-
vent of true Christian civlllzation.'
In commenting on this speech by
| Cardinal Vaughan. a writer in the Lon
don Times says: 1t will be asserted
| that such pregnant speech could not
have been made by member of the
sacred college, unauthorized by the
| Vatican. 1t indicates that the Church
of Rome would unite with England
and America against Russia in the
future of China. With the ending of
the temporal power of the Pope, and
with the growing hostility of royalty
in Europe. the Catholic church is real
izing that its greatest power in the
future must be in the free countries,
through the people it knows so well
how to sway"
| This all means that the Catholic
| church well realizes that unless the
| Anglo Saxon race, with its devotion to
religious freedom. gets and retains a
powerful influence in the Orient, Rus
| STA Will become supreme there and bar
| forever both Roman Catholicism and
| Professionalism from a chance among
the people of Asia. The state church
of Russia is the Greek church. 1t is a
| branch of Catholicism, but it broke
| away from the mother organization in
the nth century. The difference at
| first was doctrinal, but the strife grew
bitter and has continued to the present
day. 1t does not recognize the author
ity of the Pope. In Russia it is gov
erned by a holy synod which is pre-
sided over by the Car. Therefore it is
a state religion and has no authorities
independent of the crown. Tozier, the
historian, says: THE Greek church
has venerable if not an eventful his
tory. Unlike the Roman church. it has
not been nodded by great political
movements, the rise and fall of king
doms, and the commissions which
passed over the face Of society. It's
course has been out of the sight of
European civilization, it has grown up
| among peoples who have been but
slightly affected, if they have been
affected at all, by the progressive
movements of mankind. 1t has no
middle ages. 1t has no renaissance 1t
has no reformation. 1t has given birth
to no great universities and schools of
learning. 1t has no Professionalism. 1t
remains much. as the fourth and fifth
century left it,"
Such a church as this would domi-
nate in all Asia. and in the Philippines
as well, if Russia should be allowed to
pursue her scheme of conquest. The
Catholic church knows we'll that there
| would be no chance for it's evangelical