Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-09-11
INJUSTICE TO THE POPE.
"Amen" Replies To .Justice."


"Amen" Replies To Justice"
EDITOR CITIZEN:
This Village "Justice" of discord,
after q two-weeks' filling, has un-
corked his bottle of religious bigotry
and bile and emptied its putrid con-
tents In the columns of the VIRGINIA
CITIZEN, Gd nauseam of all of its
right-minded readers. In his last
inimical he Gays, "When / wrote OF
Leo's good deeds l did not mean
good, exactly, but meant Christian y
Pray tell your readers whep you ever
wrote anything good of Leo. 1t will
be news indeed. You did write this:
81 could write until my arm is weary
of the wickedness (of the Popel, but
can amy one tell me of any good deeds
be has done?" You must be con-
graduated on your wonderful per-
formance of the deglutinstion act, and
know now how snake feels when
he has swallowed himself. You
flaunted wide open invitation to
any and all to post you on "any good
deeds he (the Pope) had done" and
being desirous to educate the unin-
formed we quoted you only Protest
ant authority--the New York Sun-
and the pulpit utterances Of an emi.
nent Methodist divine of BROOKLYN.
Do you desire more Protestant testi.
mony? Look up Harpsrs Weekly,
August Sth, 1908, and you will fluid
THE instructive reading: "Of the
growth of such tolerance and sympa-
thy (for the Papacy and Catholicism
we see everywhere impressive evi-
dence. An attempt at this time to
raise the No Popery' cry would
simply provoke derision and only a
l'natic (mark the word) would try
to revive today the anti-Popery
'know-nothing' party, that for an
hour was SO powerful half century
ago. y 3 The Papacy is iusti-
fed in looking forward with equa-
nimity, if not with confidence, to the
vicissitudes of the 18th century =
and is regarded by statesmen
and political economists in Protest
ant countries as a useful if not in.
dispensable coadjutor in the work of
upholding the existing order" Do
you need additional testimony? Get
the message of President Roosevelt,
forwarded to the Pope Leo XIII)
through Secretary Hay, wherein he
expresses his high regard for the
Pope, and refresh your memory by
recalling King Edwards (of Eng
landl expressed admiration for Leo
on the occasion of his recent visit to
the Vatican, and bear in mind that
these eminent gentlemen are the
respective heads of the two greatest
Protestant nsto Is of the earth.
Kings, presidents Of republics. states
men and learned divines the world
over have naught but good to speak
of the Pope, while an unknown
X-road Village "Justice" has naught
but evil. This Village Justice" in
the star chamber of his diseased
mind has indicted, arraigned, tried,
convicted, condemned and now want Is
to hang on the gibbet of bigotry the
character of q respected and yener-
ated Pontiff, which has been pro-
nounced "above reproach" by the
grandest jury ever known.-coNcEN-
sUS OF PUBLIC OPINION.
In the light of such facts how
painfully presumptuous and pitifuily
Insignificant appears the dictum of
the misguided Zealot.
Surely some old "msmmy" must
have frightened this Village "Jus-
tice" in the days of his childhood
with hoodlum stories about "the
horrid Pope with horns AID cloyen
feet, and the apparition has, at this
late date, returned to haunt him
during his recent severe attack of
irreliglous fever, the rawlings from
which appear in his article in the CIrI-
ZEN, He still wags the tail of the de-
funct nctsKnow-nothing'' party, W hich
q haif q century ago was ssdone 10
death" in Virginia by the Hon.
Henry A. Wise. Q He refuses to
smoke the "pipe of peace" with the
wise men of all the tribes of earth,
and this "lone Indian" with war
paint on, leaps into the arena of the
10th century, brandishes his toma-
hawk, and, with a wild and frenzied
whoop, attempts to resurrect and
scalp venerated old man but re-
Gently buried.
Fiels 1t seems 80 unchristian, 90
uncharitable to attack the dead.
1t reminds one of the snarling hyena
and jackal, prowling over the battle
field after the fight is over, scratch
ing and digging into new.made
graves and gnawing the flesh from
the bones of the gallant soldiers
who have fought their last fight and
died for their convictions.
Let Us pray that merciful God
may "throw out a life line" to keep
from drowning in a cesspool of sbom-
ination this misnamed "Justice."
AMEN.
Buckfen's Arnica Salye