The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-06
A sATURNALIA OF ANGLo-sAx-
ON CANT AND BLAsPHEMY.
From the Irish WORLDLY


We are in the holy season that re-
calls the song of the angels, who sang
Glory to God in the highest and on
! earth peace to men of good will" The
| echoes of that angelic song should for
ever ring in the ears of Christendom.
Yet we hear of nothing and read of
nothing but war, war, war! And the
| two nations-England and the United
States that are waging the wars and
spreading desolation over the earth are
| the two nations that mock the world
with their lying pretenses of carrying
the blessings of peace" and "civiliza-
ton" and Christianity" to the peoples
for whom their hearts bleed and whom
they rob and slaughter and burn, out
Of house and home in punishment for
their sins and for the sake of their con-
versionl
Could the devil himself, "a liar and
a murderer from the beginning" put
on the mask of hypocritical righteous
ness with more shameless effrontery?
Englands outrages on the rights of
weak peoples are nothing strange.
Her infamous career of piracy and as
sassination goes back to time immemor-
ial. She is typefed by the roaring
lion that goes about seeking whom he
may deYour." 1t is her vocation to
rob-
But the American republic has had
a different character. Standing erect
before the world and holding in her
right hand her immortal declaration
that governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned,' she shone as the beacon light
of liberty for enslaved humanity and
the hope Of oppressed peoples in their
struggle for self-ownership. To this
glorious principle America was true for
more than a century. In all that time
she kept within her own confines, liv-
ing in peace, minding her own business,
thinking of no "entangling alliances
with friendship for all and enmity to-
ward none.
Now all this is changed. This repub-
lie of ours, under McKinIey's admins
tration, is tired of being a republic.
She is not content with being mere
natiOn-she wants to be a world
power" as the big marauding nations
like to dub themselves. She wants to
be an empire. She wants to have for
eign colonies and governors general
and Gin time) a stately court and an
upper class and a lower class and a. big
army to make sure of Our |
foreign possessions" and to keep the |
classes at home on their good |
behavior And to insure all this-es-
pecially our foreign pQssessions-ft will, |
of course, be necessary for America to |
have an ally among the world pow
ers" And what power could we have |
as an ally but dear England? 1t is |
true that England "plundered our seas, |
ravaged our coasts, burned our towns
and destroyed the lives of our people,
1t is true that she perpetrated these
0utrages on America again in the war
Of 1872 as she had done in the Revo-
II ie. tr11n that
achieved independence for us and lift
ed us into nationhood. 1t is also true
that Russia was not wanting to us in
the hour of need.
But all this counts for nothing with
US in our present roguery. Isn't Eng
and cur mother? Aren't EnglislhmerJ
2ur cousins? AREN'T we all anglo
Saxona''? Aren't we Of the same race
and religion? Haven't we both done
peoples off the earth? And aren't we
now engaged in the mission of lifting
Id the Filipinos by shooting them
Town, d-n them. Are we not destroy
ng their towns, Iooting their churches,
iishonoring their women and aSSaSSi-
rating their prisoners of war? And, in
addition to these wholesome chasitiss-
nents, which we are obliged to inf1ict
N them in the spirit of brotLherly love.
/
Methodist and Baptist ministers to res
ue them from the errors of Popery and
convert them to pure Evangelical Pro-
Aren't our commissioners
ppclfnted by President Mckinley, to :
puerto Rico and the Philippine is
ands men of the same stripe as these
BAPTIST and Methodist preachers?
haven't they issued proclamations BAN
shing priests, anglicizing the schools
nd informing the Catholic populations
hat matr.mony would. under the new {
ispenSation, be treated no more with
he respect due to a holy sacrament? .,
haven't they informed priests and nuns !
hat now was their chaDce-that they t
eed no longer respect their vows-and Z
o do as they please? /
But while treating Catholic religious l
nd Catholic peoples in this way (and 5
.5t any one should think we are in |
nv way bigoted) do we not show, at ,
ne same time, our extreme lfberaiity Q
I matters of religion and domestic fe- 5
city by permitting the Sultan of Sulu
} retain, not only his Mahometanfsm,
ut to safeguard the institution of Z
avery under the American flag and to
rotect his harem likewise? All this Z
nder treaty. Not only that, but we
gree to pay this polygamist, cut of the
nited States treasury, a stated sum, 1
II. the support CT his wives and con- =.
1bines! Isn't this liberty? Isn't this
free trade in anything you like under
protectionfst president? This is what
e. the junior branch of the Anglo
axon race, are doing in Asia, and this