Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-17
SPEAKING or PAPAL POWER.

The duke Of Norfolk, addressing the
pope on the occasion Of recent pill
grimage 20 Rome, took occasion 20 cx-
press his hope that the temporal power
Of the pontlr would be speedily re-
stored. lie said
we pray and trust that the new cen-
fury may witness the restoration OF the
Honan ponun 10 that position OF tenn
poIal independence which your holiness
declared was necessary for the effective
ihltlllment Of the duties Of your world
wide charge"
The duke was. until recently, post
master general IN sallsbury's cabinet
and that fact has given his utterance on
the occasion a weight that would not
otherwise have been attached to Il. The
patriotic Italians see IN it the admls-
sion on the part OF British Catholics OF
the existence Of designs against the
unity Of Italy, and their press Is bitter
In It's denunciations. There Is hardly
any reason for this, though Tho duke
OF course, had desi' to say something
pleasant 70 a., venerable head Of the
oman church, and an alluslon TO the
possibility Of the speedy restoration NJ
the Vatican to political power must
have suggested itself as appropriate
But both The duke and the pope are
we'll aware Of the fact that no power IN
Europe Is, at present at least. prepared
to wage war for the realization Of that
fond, papal dream. and that It can
hardly come 10 pass without a war,
stll, the utterance was undlplomatlc IN
the highest degree
The incident has called attention 10
the fact that a very large proportion Of
the British people is identified with the
Roman church. and that this circle Is
ever widening. Protestant clergymen
are calling upon the nation to meet
what they consider terrible danger.
befoTe It is too late TO act. They claim
that papacy always has had a narrow
ing influence upon human progress, and
point TO the Dreyfus affair in France as
an evidence Of the danger Of its political
influence.
They claim, further. that there Is IN
France now a persistent Catholic pro-
paganda against Professionalism. In
which Protestants, Freethlnkers Free
masons and Jews are put together In
one class and accused Of treachery to
the state, and that this propaganda has
crossed the English channel with grave
results The Protestants are, conse-
quently, becoming alarmed and are
starting a counter-propaganda. They
! claim mat % per cent OF the inmates Of
the British prisons are Catholics and
that vice drunkenness and mendIcancy
are characteristics Of large number Of
Catholic homes,
Notwithstanding this, however Cath
Ollie establishments flourish throughout
the land, Protestant children are being
sent 20 Catholic schools and the Jesults
have a iirm hold upon the press as EVIL
| denced by the prominence given to news
| of interest 10 Catholics.
Under this heated contest between two
religious forces in the United Kingdom.
the Duke Of Norfolk's speech 20 the
pope has assumed Immense Importance
both IN italy and England, Were Pro-
testantlsm not assailed within its own
ranks. by a criticism that strikes down
its very foundations. it would have a
fair chance in the contest it s waging
with Rome For on its side are the
principles ON which liberty and progress
are conditioned. But with a formidable
enemy at work within, the citadel must
sooner or later fam before the assaults
from without Professionalism has EVIL
IDENTIFY had rs mission I'm the world. II
Is being pressed hard ON an sides. Re
liglous systems, like those Of phIloso.
ply. come and go. but the truth remains
forever and win find expression In such
systems as are most suitable to the
needs OF each succeeding age