The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-10


Catholic instead of a Protestant gov
eminent, far more religious liberation
/ would be extended to Protestants than
is at the present time extended to Cath
olics; and he cites the conditions of
things in European countries to estab-
lish his assertion.
Our interested readers of Uncle
lakeland they are many-will receive
the notice of it's conclusion with re-
greet, but NE promise to start another
article from the pen of the same logical
and spicy author in our next issue.
Conversation XI-(Continued)
Il have never said they could, and
have never believed that those who
take up with Gallicanism on the ground
of its being less offensive to you than
ultramontanism gain anything, even on
the score of simple policy. l believe it
is as prudent to be papists as CALI
cans, providing Gallicans retain the
Catholic faith. But you have no right
to say that it was Roman infection
that led the Gallican king to do what
he did. He acted on his own RESPONSE
bility and in spirit of his favorite max
i'm, "L'etat, c'est moi" which would be
the maxim of every prince if your doc
trine of the absolute independence of
the state were accepted.
You Protestants have of late years
made such loud professions of religious
liberty that / am not certain but you
have really persuaded yourselves that
you are not it's most deadly enemies
There never was, if it really be so, "a
grosser delusion. There is not a word
of truth in your professions, nor so
much as the shadow of truth. There is
not country on earth where you are
in the ascendency in which you treat
the Catholic minority as having equal
liberty with yourselves. | need but re-
fer you to England, the moGel Protest
ant country. Where in all history will
you find anything blacker than her
treatment of Catholics. Read her penal
code against English Catholics, those
loyal descendants of English heroes.
who refused to desert the religion of
their fathers and of their fathers God
at the bidding of Henry. the wife-slay-
er, and of his godly daughter Elizabeth
If not satisfied, cross the English
channel and examine the penal laws of
Ireland and the blessed effects of Prot
estant ascendency on the warm hearted
and loyal Catholic population of the
sister island.
We have granted Catholic emancipa-
ton"
That is to say at a moment when
Protestant fervor abated, you took off
from the backs of the Catholic minor
ity part of the burden which Protest
ant zeal and Protestant bigotry had i'm
posed upon them. Eut dare you say
that the Catholic religion is free in
Great Britain and Ireland?"
Yes, so far as compatible with the
main tcnance of the Protestant religion
for The state"
THAT is, so far as it does not inter
fere with your Professionalism and your
Professionalism is free to maintain ev-
erywhere its ascendency! The English
government tolerates Catholicity just
so far as it cannot help it, or just so
far as it believes it's Professionalism has
nothing to apprehend from it, and no
further. In no Protestant state are
Catholics placed on an equal footing
with Protestants, before what in fact
is the governing power. Where was
the protection of Catholics in the Cor
don riots? Where was it in the late
whirlwind of excitement in England
occasioned by Lord John RusselPs IA
nous letter to the Anglican bishops of
Durham? In God. where it always is,
and nowhere else
1T was where the protection of the
Protestant minority is in Tuscany and
Spain.''
Il was not aware that in either of
those countries there was any Protest
ant minority. All that ! have seen
proved against the grand duke of Tus-
cany is, that he did not choose to per-
nit the emissaries of Exeter Hall to
stir up disorder and sedition among his
subjects. l have never heard that he
disturbed Protestant residents in his
dominions, in the free and full exercise
of their religion, in case they con-
formed to the laws of the land. AS to
Spain, l have not heard of her Interior
ing with the conscience of Protestants.
She denies Protestant burial
I'm consenrated ground very likely"
But she will not allow them to be
buried at all"
THAT, begging my nephew's pardon,
is not true. What she refused was the
pomp and parade of public funeral
a thing required by no Protestant
bids for temporal reason, on the
ground that it might cause a breach
of the peace. You can find no fault
with this, for you assert the compe-
tence of the state in spirituals, so far
at least as they effect temporals. Cath
Ole funerals with professions are for
hidden by the British government, and
the right which that government de-
manded for foreign Protestants in
Spain, she denies to her own Catholic
subjects at home.'';
But, according to your account, we
Protestants are cruel, prosecuting,
hypocritical set"
You are, according to me, just what
your history for 300 years. written in
the blood of Catholics, proves you to
be; that is to say, when you follow
your religion, which, 1 am happy to
own, is not always the case. You are
very nearly as bad as you are in the
habit of representing us poor Papists.
Just recall the manner in wfinh your
anti-popery lecturers, editors and
pamphleteers speak of US and our re-
ligion, the hard names they call us,
the foul mouthed defamation they in
dulge in against us, the crimes, the
dishonesty, the perfidy they lay to our
charge, the Indignation, the spite. the
venom, they vent on all occasions
against us and Romanism, as they call
it, and then think what we must be
if what they say is true, and in what
estimation we must hold them, know
ing as we do that what they say is
false. You never rebuke them; you
gloat over their filthy columns, and
yet your blood is up, and you think
yourselves nightly ill-used if we just
remind you that all is not gold that
glitters.' and that you are yourselves
no better than you should be. Your
history is written, and you have writ
yourselves down-what you are.
Professionalism, you need not be told,
was conceived in sin and brought
forth in iniquity, and it has always, at
least with our blessed Anglo-Saxon
race, maintained the honor of its
birth"
But, if you think our Protestant
ism so horrible, how could you, if you