The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-12-17
THE GRAND ORIENT.
Freemasons Control All Promotions
in the French Army.

IN the french Army.
Not long ago in the French cham
Der charges were made and sustained
that the French army was under the
espionage OF the Grand Orient. the gov
erning body or ca binet of the Free
Masons. Gensral Andre. the head OF
the army, was implicated in the affair,
and obliged to resign. The Combes min-
istry at the Tina just saved itself from
defeat through an accident created by
an imprudent incident. A member of
the opposition, resenting a remark
made by General Andre. Slapped that
officer in the face. Whereupon the gov
ernment won by vote of confidence
II the ministry
The Liverpool Catholic Times, ex-
plains the dishonorable methods of the
government in a recent editorial:
The system by which the Freema-
sons exercised sway over the French
army WAS on the whole very simple.
An inquisition was made into the lives
o. the officers and their families The
Information was obtained from inform
ers, some of whom were members of
Masonic lodges. 1t was written on slips
called 'fiches,' and these slips. of
which there were 1900. were divided
into two series marked "Corinth" and
Carthage" To be placed in the "Co-
rlnthian" category meant promotion,
and to have ones name set down
amongst the "CarthageHians" was to
be doomed to find promotion absolutely
tarred. The members and favorites
of the Masonic lodges were "Corinthi-
ans" and the officers who went to
church or whose families attended reli-
gious services were "Carthagenians.
General Andre at first denied in the
French chamber that promotion was
regulated by the slips, but when hum
dreds of applications for promotion
We're produced bearing in his own hand
writing the words, See Slip he could
only maintain that the penalising of
Catholics was necessary in order. Ito
purge the army of anti Republicanisnf.
Tie specific instances taken verbatim
from the slips make it clear that the
extinction not of anti Republicanism,
but of the Catholic, religion was the OBJ
Ject aimed at. A captains name is
belongs to all the Catholic religious
works" and his wife collects for "a
Catholic school. A general of division
IS treated in the same way because he !
has son in a religious institution, and
his daughter is about to enter a corr
vent A major of artillery is similarly
punished because he has two daughters
n a religious institution and his wife |
bushes herself with parish works A !
captain of a regiment of infantry is
marked upon q "Carthagenian'' slip as |
absolutely worthless because he has
a son at a Jesuit college, and is re-
ported to be ashamed of mis- country !
for prosecuting the religious. A COM
who went to church with his
family, and induced officers and non, /
&c ,in aad do IL
and whose wife taught catechism at d |
Catholic school is placed amongst the |
"Carthaginians" and described as ia |
clerical" 1t is imputed to |
colonel as a crime that his son. an Off |
Ger, has visited a parish priest, and /
gets off his horse in the street to pay /
reverence to the Blessed Sacrament, |
which is referred to by the informer in /
offensive language. All this system of |
finishing honorable men for worship /
ping God was. carried out in secret by /
the war Office and the Freemasons. |
officers who served their country faith |
FULLY and earned promotion by every |
egitimate title found themselves passed |
over againsSnd again. and General An |
Ire who, as the head. of the army, dealt |
mus with them had not the sense of
Justice or the manliness to tell them |
igiOus practices there would be no
promotion for them. The chivalry of !
lie Combes ministry was represented !
1y a general acting as a man does who
5 without honor or principle,
The Masonic dictatorship in the
French army has been exercised in a
'Ianner brazenly immoral. NJ. Combes
,as got General Andre to resign in or
Ter that he might save his cabinet, but
lie has not declared that he was un-
aware Of what was going on or repu-
hated the wretched despotism. On the
ontrary, he is reported 20 have stated
{ a journalist by whom he has been |
that General Andres sue
'essor would not abandon his policy.
When people bear even for a short
Ime with a ministry that ounages re-
igion. justice ami everything that is
honorable in public life. the political
)rizon cannot be deemed bright
rance is decadent. If there is to be
Iational revival it must be preceded by
great moral reformation which will
nee again turn -the peoples attention
G the old standards of religious faith
nd justice.