The Irish standard., 1903-12-12

III reply To Il newspaper attack ON
the Jesuit order, made hy Professor
C"ddinGt"n. of Syracuse, n. V, Rev.
\. Guggrnl,crg"r. $. j.. of Cnnislls
college. Buffalo. contributes the fol
lowing able and scholarly article:
Dear Sir-Altlougll l do not enjoy
the pleasure of your personal ac-
IuHint;lncr, allow me to address !, few
in the Syracuse Post Standard Of
November 18th, in which you deemed
il proper to ass;lil with more energy
perhaps than foresight. the society Of
which have the happiness of being
Il member. The article WAS probably
written in explanation or cxtcnuation
or the memorable scene in the halls
of your university when one of the
faculty wrote on the blackboard as II
subject for discussion the Jesuit"
principle that "thc end justiiicS the
means" For You began your cXpoSi-
lion with the pr;liScwnrthy statement: ::
'My purpose is not to prove that
.I"SllitS have held n,d taught the doe
lrinr that the end jllStitirS the
m"lnS.'' Hut. alas. you mmllify this
lnu'lhlr intention in til" very next
sentences: in fact. your whole article
is but Il medley of "rnrr;llilrS to
prove in II roundabout way That the
.IrSllitS did ANA ,ln hold and teach that
mnNim in its only uprrIrnsihl" sense
ll" end iustiics bad means.
And how hn you rndrnvor tn prove
til" thesis: 1T is II matter of public
record. You say. "tllHt the .IrsuitS nt
various times have been driven ont
OF France. etc. and then follows an
enumeration of nearly all the countries
OF Europe. What an nrgulmrntHtion!
'rl" .jrSlIilS lIHvr been driven out of
France. Germany. Holland, etc. There
fore they held and taught the prin-
riplr That tIlr end i,lstiiics the means
This ".Iaing SnpIIism rntirrly llncun
SrinllS on your part. my dear profess
S"r'. is still more rnIlnmcrh by your
inSilllnting pHrrmthcSiS: France n,o-
man tatIoir,. Austria Ntnnan Cntlo-
jr|. Spain ntOnGn tntlOlir). etc. as
il Il bona li,lc Roman Catholic govern
mrnt had ever driven ont the .IrSlits
Such governments did not exile the
.IrSlIits: they everywhere called them
in. before and after the suppression
of the Smirty in 1773. Who. then,
expelled the .jrSllilS from France! \
government dominated by .IHnSrmiStS.
Fts'linkrrS. ElfrycloprdiStS. Noltnr-
las. Socialists. FrcclnHSOns. atheists
ana royal miSlrrSSrS. .\ld why did
they driv" out the .JcSllits! because
they aimed higher hey aimed at the
Catholic Church. "Oucc we have de-
Slroyrd the .JcSllilS," wrote Voltnrc
To IIrlvitiuS. "wc shall have il all our
own way With the infamous thing;
i. g.. the Catholic Church. The same
holds good Of all the so-t:lIlcd Roman
Catholic governments mentioned by
y"u II wnS always the nnti-Cntholc
and anti-rrigious srrts. dominating in
Il country at Il given time. that eX-
PEELED the IrS,litS
But the most delicious part of your
'nnt"ntiolinI SophiSm is contained in
the words: ".\nd in 1918 even by
the lnpal government" The head of
the lnpnl government in 1913 was
Pope Plus IN. Did he cXlrl them?
No. my dear professor. they were rX-
PEELED by the same party that public.
" HSSaSSinatr,l SiynOr I;OSSi. that shot
dead Mgr. Palma at the side Of the
pope. that placed their artillery to
storm the pnmll palace. drove Plus IN
to Ga"lH. substituted prostitutes for
the Sisters of Charity in the hospitals
of Rome. and cried in the streets
"DOWn with Christ. cviva R:rr;,lG,S,'
How could YOU prrpeir;ltr such Il
SopllSln. my dear professor! Far
from inputing il TO any evil intention
on your palT. | solely nscribe it to Il
total absence of logical training. But
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