The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1902-10-25

to go on against us, as if we were enc
mics to the government, and ought not
to be suffered to live in the country.
You know that it is against Catholics
who agree with me in these matters
that the blows are aimed, while they
whose declarations, rant and impru
dent conduct provoke the hostility to
Catholics, especially to foreigners, are
protected and promoted by the Protest
ant sentiment of the country. This,
as Fouche would say, is worse than
a crime; it is a blunder.''
You mistake the reason of this,
uncle" said Dick. You know that
we Protestans are perfectly liberal in
our views to all religions, in so far as
they relate only to the world to come
There is only one point in Catholicity
that we care the snap of our finger
about. You may believe all Catholic
dogmas, and observe all Catholic prac-
tees, and be never the worse in our
eyes, if you will only not be papists
If you choose to call the Pope the head
of your church, we care not, if you will
only be satisfied with allowing him a
primacy of order and honor, and not
claim for him a real and effective
power over the civil and political con-
duct of the Catholics. These nominal
Catholics as you call them, engage our
sympathy because we see that they are
independent, men who dare think and
act for themselves, according to the
honest convictions of their own minds
without asking the Pope's leave, and
therefore we know they will never de-
sert or turn against the country at his
order. They are not papiStS, and there
fore are, in our estimation, as good as
Protestants. But you aYd the main
body of American Catholics are down.
right papists. and hold the Pope to be
the vicegerent of God on earth. You
are bound hand and foot, soul and
body, to the Pope, and believe it your
duty to obey his orders in preference
to all others, even those of your coun-
try. We can tolerate Catholics who are
not papists, but not you. You are
the more consistent Catholics, perhaps,
! but therefore only the more dangerous.
But it is not on account of your re-
ligion as it regards another world that
i we oppose you, and organize parties
and associations against you, but on
account of your political subsection to
a foreign prince
| 1.-THE old story inherited from Eng
| lish ancestors in the time of good
i Queen Bess, and you really believe it,
[ suppose?" interrupted Uncle Jack
/
cannot precisely say that I do; but
rely upon it, that no small portion of
our countrymen believe it, and you can
never get them to believe otherwise -
DO you place. then, no confidence
in what your good friends, the CALI
cans, tell you?" replied Uncle
Jack. "They, you know say the
Pope has no authority over
temporals, and they tell you,
in bold and defiant tone, that in
politics they recognize no spiritual au-
| thority, and that were the Pope to re-
quire of them to do anything against
! their country, that is, what they think
would be against their country they
would be the first to bind on their
knapsack, and shoulder their musket,
and rush to the battlefield to resist
him? Place you no reliance on their
! hypothetical abuse of the Pope? And
have their reiterated and most solemn
declarations done nothing to reassure
your"
"Pshaw! you know that we are not
to be come over with that sort of
palaver,'' interjected Dick. Cannot
we read history, and do we not know
that Popes have claimed authority over
kings and princes, and that as good
papists, you must obey the Pope?"
! 81 know, my dear Dick" replied his
uncle, that there has seldom been q
! time, when there was a call for them,
| that plenty of nominal Catholics have
not been found to act as these say they
would; and that, I think, might give
you some assurance, even if you place
no reliance on their professions and
declarations"
| But consider they have done so only
at the expense Of their duty as Catho-
| lics.'' said Dick.
To be continued)