New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-28
CATHOLICS IN THE TRANSvAAL.
A CORRESPONDENT rHPUGNs THE AUTHORITY OF
THE TABLET AND QUOTES GERMAN PA
PER WHICH SAYS LEYDs is A CATHOLIC.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: 1.-The Tablet" which you quote as a great
Roman Catholic journal is the organ of Cardinal
Vaughan, the Duke of Norfolk and the Catholic
aristocracy of Great Britain. The Cardinal is at
present busily occupied in offering prayers for the
success of England, and the Duke is a member of
the War Ministry. The Tablet" has opposed
every measure to extend self-government to Ire
land, and violently opposed GIadstone's Home Rule
bill quote the following from this weeks Lit
erary Digest:
A statement of the encouraging progress made bv
the Catholic Church in the Trausvaal appears in
the "Germania" (Berlin), one of the most infiuen-
Formerly the Beers were intolerant. The first
G 8Ia priest WHO came to the Transyaal. P
d4s Was In ISSS But in the following year the
To-day there are five churches and eight chapeis
in the Transvaal P, Aois Schoch. the apostolic
members of the Trappist order, eleven Brothers
OF the Plec4b tTaten di Maria seventeen Sisters
twenty-five Dominican nuns and six of St Ursula
altogether Four boys Schools have fogetb b 72
pupils eight girls schools have 500 OF high schools
sio9 has an and home with 1870
largest and most imposing estabiishmenf Of it's it's
kind in South Africa This progress is all the more
three Hundred Cathocs IN the TTans TaH TSe
stubborn conservative Beers have discovered the
practical value of these institutions, and make use
OF them however much they may have originally
place to compiaisance one might almost say to ioye
of Catholic institutions True the law stII pro
hibits the election of Catholic President Catho-
lies as members OF the Executive Council But
since 1895 Catholics be placed in all other posi-
tons To-day about rs per cent of the officials are
Catholics. DR.. Leyds, the diplomatic representa-
tive of the South African Republic in Europe is a
Catholic One of the councillors of the Cabinet
Pr Farelly. is a Catholic, and so is Mr.. Hogan
other high officials"
In the debate for the removal OF Catholic disa-
bilities, KRUGER made a speech in the Rad from
which quote this paragraph;
Furthermore. the principle of liberty Of re-
Hgion, for which the Protestant has striven so
much he cannot exclude people who think differ
emily. Therefore. although the Roman Catholics
prosecuted us in former years. may not now go
to work In the same way and try to exclude them
from burgher rights. That exclusion would appear
alone to give the idea of persecution and to be in
opposition to the whole tendency of Christianity
and Christian love. This not the principle OF
the Saviour. His word was, Make your friends
from among the unjust Mammon."
If one excludes all Roman Catholics and admits
all Protestants, then would lose sight OF the
fact that there in days Protestants who
are deners of God, and who simply call themselves
Protestants merely as being in opposition to Ro-
man Catholics.
In enlightened England the sovereign must take
an oath that the fundamental tenets of the Catbo-
lie Church are false and idolatrous." There are
several offices which under the Constitution of
Great Britain. a Catholic cannot hold I ask YOU
IN common justice, to print this communication
New-York, Jan. a. 1900 En-