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
elnins body or cabinet Of the Free
Masons. General Andre. the head Of
the army, was implicated in the affair,
and obliged TO resign. The Combes min-
lstry at the Tina just saved itself from
J defeat through an accident created by
1 an imprudent incident. 4 member of
The opposition, resenting remark
made by General Andre. Slapped that
! officer in the face. Whereupon the gov
! eminent won by a vote of confidence
il 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 lnquiSition 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. il was written on slips
called 'fiches,'' and these slips. of
which there were 1900, were divided
into two series marked "Corinth" and
rlnth1an' category meant promotion,
and to have ones name set down
amongst the "CarthageHians" was to
be doomed to find promotion absolutely
CARED. 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
were produced bearing in his own hand
writing the words, See Slip he could
only maintain that the penalising of
Catholics was necessary in order to
purge the army of i-Republicanisnf.
Tie specific instances taken verbatim
from the slips make it clear that the
extinction not of anti-Republicanisrn
but of the Catholic religion was the OBJ
ject aimed at captains name is
PUT on a Carthage slip because he
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 a son in religious institution, and
his daughter is about TO enter a con-
vent A major of artillery is similarly
punished because he has two daughters
IL religious institution and his wife
busies herself with parish works. a
captain of regiment of infantry is
marked upon a "Cartha genian" slip as
absolutely worthless" because he has
a son at Jesuit college, and is re-
ported to be ashamed of mis- country
for prosecuting the religious. A COM
mandant who went to church with his
family, and induced officers and non !
commissioned officers to do likewise. |
and whose wife taught catechism at !
Catholic school is placed amongst the !
"Carthaginians" and described as ia
natically clerical" 1t is imputed to a
colonel as 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 |
furnishing honorable men for worship |
ping God was carried out in secret by |
the war office and the Freemasons. |
Officers who served their country faith !
July and earned promotion by every !
egitimate title found themselves passed |
over again. and again. and General An
DIRE who. as the head of the army. dealt |
thus with them had not the sense of |
Justice or the nanliness to tell them |
at the outset that because of their re- /
ljgious practices there would be no |
promotion for them. The chivalry of !
the Combes ministry was represented !
by general acting as a man does who |
is without honor or principle.
The Masonic dictatorship in the !
French army has been exercised in a /
Kramer brazenly immoral. NJ. Combes
l,as got General Andre to resign in or
Ger that he might save his cabinet, but :
he has not declared that he was UNI
aware of what was going ON or repu-
dated the wretched despotism. On the
lontrary, he is reported 20 have stated
tc a journalist by whom he has been |
that General Andres sue
rcssor would not abandon his policy.
When people bear even for q short
time with ministry that ouuages re
i gion, justice ana everything that is
honorable in public life the political
/, prizon cannot be deemed bright.
france is decadent If there is to be |,
national revival it must be preceded by
. great moral reformation which will
NICE again turn the peoples attention
t. the old standards of religious faith
and justice.