The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-06-30

HE LIN GEGIAOON A44N
have renominated Mckinley as their
presidential candidate.
The formal presentation of McKin-
ley's name throughout the country for
| four years more of Imperialism, and
from the viewpoint of his second term
of irresponsible power. raises a ques-
| ton of vast importance, not only to the
people of the United States generally,
but especially to those of Catholic faith.
With the stock-jobbing scandal, the
saturnalia of loot and plumber, with
the defalcations in Cuba, the famine in
Porto Rico, the wholesale slaughter in
the Philippines, this paper has no opin-
ion to express except regret, which all
right-minded people feel that such
things could be permitted in the name
of liberty and civilization.
With the merely political aspects of
the situation we do not desire partic-
uIarly to deal. 1t is against the con-
tinual, shameless outrages on the Cath
Ole Church that this paper lifts its
voice Of protest and condemnation.
Greater space than the columns of
the Union and Times afford would be
necessary to describe adequately the
countless offenses committed by Nc
Kinley's policy of benevolent assimi-
lation" against thhe Catholic peoples
of our new possessions
Following the example of the out
spoken Bishop of st. Paul, this paper
issues an urgent appeal to the Catholic
press of this enlightened land to ac-
quaint their readers with the record of
McKinley's treachery and hostility to
our faith.
He has VIGOROUSLY ignored Catholics
in his appointments to the various COM
missions which he has sent to rule these
Catholic lands.
He has permitted his appointees in
their public and Official reports to in
suit the clerical and cloister celibacy
prescribed by the Catholic Church.
He has countenanced those officials
in recommending that marriage as per-
formed by the Church shall not be legal
unless ratified by the civil authority,
although no such rule prevails in the
United States.
He has not appoated a single Cath
Ollie to any foreign mission or consul
ate.
He has. with full knowledge and
without rebuke, allowed his soldiery in
the Philippines to plumber and desecrate
churches, to use the sacred vessels of |
the altar for unnamable purposes, to |
in Driestly vestments, to |
expose the same for sale, to despoil the |
sanctuary of the gold and silver orna-
to turn the churches themselves |
into barracks and telegraph stations, |
and, finally, and worst of ALTO scat
ter the sacred hosts upon the floor and |
trampIe them under their defiling feet.
He has COMMITTED the punishment of
every convicted soldier when the Of
tense was directed against the Catholic
Church.
He has modified or abrogated the
sentence in every case where his ruff
iian soldiery have violated native
women.
He has, through his creatures in the
United States Senate and in the House
# Representatives blocked every APP
,ropriation for institutions with which
Catholics had anything to do, in the
District of Columbia, in the territories
If the United States and wherever the
ederal government extends.
He has, by the foregoing offenses,
nsulted every Catholic in the Repub-
lean party-notably the Archbishop of
It. Paul, who did so much to place him
n the chair of power which he has
lsed for Catholic undOing.
What Catholic, worthy of the name,
ognizant of these facts, but must feel
lis soul big with the Indignation which
inspired Thomas Jefferson to arraign
George III in the immortal words of
be Declaration of independence; which
mpelled Edmund Burke to pillory
Warren Hastings, the oppressor of In
ia, and which has inspired all later
historians to cover with infamy the
anne of Nero, who, in his day, turned
lis drunken soldiery loose upon the in
ant Church.
But the Church which has outlived
he Neros will survive the McKinleys.
yet every Catholic owes it as duty
o himself to cooperate in the move
nent inaugurated by the Bishop of
'renton to hurl from power the little
anting Methodist lay deacon of the
White House.
1t should be our pride, as it is a
acred obligation, to make this year
honorable not merely by the defeat of
IcKinley, but by the total obliteration
his anti Catholic regime.