Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1906-12-22
ATURDAY, DECEMBER ~. 1906


lope to prevent the present genera
ion of children from being
aught at all by religious men and
women, so that when these children
ave become grown they will have no
'eligious convictions and be good
for the manufacture of So
Ealists and infidels. Protestant peo-
be who are silent or approve ought
3 see that this is no mere blow at
lie Catholic church; it is a blow at
ristianity, and has been aimed by
anti-Christian press that hates all
ms of the Christian religion.
- TO show how this propaganda is
ng carried on and how hypocrit-
is the pretense that the French
ernment is liberal" in its treat
hit and is supported in France
n by so-called liberal" Catholics
re. we need only cite one of the
. my partisan and artful dispatches
hich are being sent out from Paris
mislead American readers. In the
burier-Journal of Thursday, Decem-
er 3, 1906, appears such telegram,
hich said:
"That the rank and file of the
LIBERAL Catholics disapprove of the
'ltransigent attitude OF the authori-
les at Rome was evidenced by the
bet that NJ. Martinez, editor of the
Renaissance. and Felix Robin filed on
heir own initiative with the Project
e Police Lepine today an application
nder the public-meetings law OF
r s1 for permission to held religious
Meetings in all the churches.
|fartinet. who formerly was an An
rchist. explains that he and Robin,
kho is a street hawker. took the
4 tep of making the application in the
interest of public peace" etc.
Think of "an Anarchist" and "a
street hawker'' trying to get, under
he letter of the law, all the churches
Of Paris "to hold religious meet
ingsl" What a beautiful pair to hold
religious meetings! And yet it seems
that they were within the letter
of the law and were repulsed only be-
cause they asked for too many
churches. If they ask for only one
big Catholic church, they will prob
ably get it. 1t is hoped by the Gov
eminent that if each church can be
turned over to a few laymen, they
will run the church like a theater or
a concert hall, or will at least pay
scant attention to priest, bishop or
Pope. And yet, even in this coun-
try, there are newspapers that seem
to think Gf they ever think that
the Pope's refusual to submit to such
control of the church is unreason-
able.
In one of Louisville's newspapers
there was an editorial on December
10, 1906, on this subject, and the
writer, in hunt for padding mate
rial of the usual kind and with de-
sire to find any reason except the
true reason for the attitude of the
church and the Pope, professed to
believe in the ridiculous suggestion
this this is a political question
in which the German Emperor
is playing part, and hence
our droning contemporary quoted
largely from and editorial to
this effect from the National Re
view, the well known British Jour
nal" which is not well known out of
England and even there is not an
important journal. The quotation
given was probably not an editorial
but the private opinion of some mar
row-minded, hide-bound English con-
tributor who had the usual British
biased way of looking at everything
affecting the Catholic church. In
this ridiculous quotation from an
English bigot it is said: ''With two
Popes (Pius X. and the General of
the Jesuits) in his pocket Kaiser Will
helm is a happy man, and is mani
Testing his joy by showering "Black
Eagles on ecclesiastical dignitaries.
This style of absurd, irresponsible
writing is very agreeable to men who
are too lazy or too ignorant to learn
the facts bearing upon the Catholic
church and it's principles or too mar
row-minded to understand them
when explained. The man who wrote
the English article and the man who
quoted it in Louisville were evidently
dominated by dislike of the Catho-
lie church and of Germany or EN-
peror William, the sort of dislike
usually due to provincial ignorance
or inheritent dullness. 1t is surpris-
ing but true that most editorial
hacks in this country get their scant
information and the substance of
their editorials on Europena topics
from English newspapers and maya
zines and English dispatches sent
from foreign capitals; and hence
most of our newspapers are weak
reflection of English opinion, which
is always warped by English self-in-
terest.
We have no quarrel with the
French nation but with the present
dominant political forces there, the