The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-11-08
umcIe Jack and
Bis Nephew. B. Bys Sssssss H.

resist the tendency of our so-called
philanthropists to embody their silly
crotchets in legislative enactments, our
Individual freedom and independence
before a great while will cease to eX-
ist even in name. l want government,
strong and efficient government, when
needed but want it to intervene as
little as is compatible with the peace
and good order of society. L am OPP
posed to revolutionism, to rad1caIlSm,
let it come in what shape it may, but
am equally opposed to Ceasarism.
When a democracy, a free press and
publicity were unduly magpified, L OPP
posed the exaggeration, but 1 am not to
be driven from my principles now that
archy,G) and more than / was when she
archy, and more than 1 was when she
was defending the world a few years
ago with her shouts of 'Vive la re-
publique democratique ct sociale! i
am a constitutionalist, and demand for
the body of the nation real and eff
fective voice in the government, d real
and not an illusory check on the adj
ministration, a free press responsible
for it's abuse, publicity and free discus
sion of public men and public measures.
L know all these may be abused, as
there is no good thing that may not
L
ability to abuse, as essential to life,
progress and we'll being of modern So
ciety especially in my own country"
but in religion you allow no free
DOM
"Just as much as the mathematician
allows in his aXioms and definitions.
In what is purely human in religion,
I assert and maintain the same free
dom that 1 demand in politics. In what
is purely divine, 1 freely accept what
God reveals, and in what is mixed, l
leave the discussion and decision to
those whom God has placed over me
to be my pastors and teachers For
the church, 1 demand freedom, full.
entire freedom; and am not so young
or foolish as to suppose that her full
and entire freedom can be maintained
without conceding the full and entire
liberty, before the law, of centradic-
ton. Before the state, the sects must
be as free as she, and therefore, while
[ would allow them no special poNt1caI
privileges, I demand none for her.
Whatever may be the abstract right
of the church, or whatever may be in
other circumstances the duty of the
civil power acting Under her authority,
certain it is that the only practical
rule in most modern states, if not in all,
is to concede the liberty of contradIc-
ton, and to allow to others the lib
erty you ask for yourself. Kings are
not now nursing fathers, or queens
nursing mothers, of religion. The most
we can ask of the state in our coun-
try, at least, is to let US alone, and
not make or administer laws against
us. As Catholic, 1 am willing to
accept this order of things. The
church can gtand up without being
propped up by the state. 1t is the
state that needs her, not she that
needs the state. We Catholics demand
for our religion simply the same facili-
ties that are allowed the sects, and no
more. We demand in the name of our
rights as citizens and Inhabitants of
the country the protection of the laws
against external violence. We admit
the right of the state to arrest us,
if, under the pretext of our religion,
we become disorderly and disturbers
of the public peace, and we demand
that it shall arrest those who, under
pretext of devotion to their religion,
become the same We demand even
handed justice. Our rights are equal
to the rights of any other class of
citizens, and should be held equally
inviolable If we trespass on their
rights, punish US; if they trespass on
ours, punish them. But do not, when
their crazy AMI fanatical street preach
ers, followed by gangs of ruffians, go
into the quarters inhabited almost ex-
clusively by poor Catholics, and get up
a row, throw all the blame upon these
poor Catholics, and arrest only sorpe
poor Irish Catholic, who, provoked by
the insults offered to his religion and
country beyond what flesh and blood
can bear, attempts by force to abate
the nuisance. If we go to hear your
blackguards, let us be held to keep
the peace; but if your blackguards
come to US, into our quarters, to cram
their nauseous stuff down our threats,
and to compel US to hear all that We
hold dear and sacred vituperated, re-
viled and blasphemed, we maintain
that it is your duty to hold them to
keep the peace. You have no right to
force your Professionalism upon US, as
we have none to force our Catholicity
upon you Silence, then, these street
preachers, not because they are Prot
estants, but because they are black
guarsd and peacebreakers, and do the
same by our street preachers of like
character, if you ever find US having
such. Be just, and you will never hear
us complain
CTo be Continued.)
*The authors works were written and
*The authors works were written an
published after the coup d'etat chang
ing the French republic to the Second
Empire, with Napoleon III on the
throne. This explains language which
might otherwise be DISQUALIFICATION
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