The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-12-14
GIBBONS BITTER
AGAINST FRANCE
MORE HATRED OF CHURCH
THAN LOVE OF REPUBLIC
HE DECLARES.
JACOBIA PARTY LIVES
He SAYS But Is Using More Scientific
Means to Crush Reiaon-Sure
of Americas Sympathy In
Spirit of Fairness.

Baltimore Md, Dec. t3.--"The Am
erican public doesn't understand tht
present crisis in France said Car
dinal Gibbons this evening in an in
terWew on the French situation.
Il am getting to be an old man nov
and think | know my countrymen
They love fair play; they love liberty:
they love to see humane dealings oi
man with man ana in late years have
shown how cordially they hate injus.
tice, tyranny and inhumanity and yet
France has treated her noblest citi.
zens with injustice and iuhumanity,
jand America, which has sympathy for
the oppressed of all nations has rails
ed no protest nor uttered a word of
sympath.'.
IF believed that my countrymen
would knowingly see great and bene
ficent organization unjustly deprived
of its property and means of continued
usefulness, would knowingly zee tens
of thousands Of honest men and noble
women robbed OF their just income
and means of support, would knowing
ly see hundreds of thousands aud even
several millions Of people brutally
wounded In what they hold dearest
and most sacred would knowingly see
majority in the chambers utterly
disregard and trample upon the rights
of minority and the rights of millions
III their ccuntrymen In The name or
liberty--would knowingly see tens Of
thousands OF men ard women, who
happen to be priests and nuns, turned
out of their homes for no crimes but
that of loving God and serving their
ee and recognize all this injustice and
tyranny and cruelty, and refuse genu-
inc sympathy to those who suffer by
them because of their religious belief
hen | will leave life without that
faith in the American love OF justice
and liberty and humanity which has
been my comfort and support and
hope during long career.
Americans Don't Understand.
THE American people have not had
hose things put fairly before them.
Dur press has been to a considerable
sxtcnt relax of the Partisan anti-cler-
cal preFs. Most people over here
rave little conception OF French anti
'lericals. They look on the leaders Of
his party as enlightened statesmen, |
ieeking to preserve the republic from |
ittacks Of an aggressive clergy, There
rave been honest and sincere lovers !
# Republican government among anti |
lericals. | admit. but the majority |
ave far less love CT the republic than
hey have hatred OF religion.
Il am weighing my words and I ray
With deliberate conviction that the /
eaders cf the present French govern
nent are actuated by nothing less
han hatred Of religion. We have here
much Indifference TO religion. but VIC
ave 70 body Of men. no great party
hat makes II a chief aim to weaken
he power Il religion and If possible ,
tterly destroy It.
Jseobin Party Still Lives.
But In France the Jacobin party IS
ot dead. Their spirit is as living to- I
ay as it was in the last decade of /
he eighteenth century; they hate God |
hey hate Chrirt. they hate his relig-
IN, as much As ever their father hated
hem. but they have learned more
rudent and measured method Of at.
lck. They are almost scientific 20
he means they take TO suppress chris I
anity. And yet utterances. Of such
len are received as unsuspectinglv 4
y many Americans as world be a dis
)urre by Cleveland. Roosevelt. or
aft-men who recognize the power
i influence that religion has in pro-
oting the welfare Of society"
The cardinal here quotes from ths
,eeches Of a1ri-clericals 10 prove his
aiement that they are opposed To
.llgion. quoting Brand. minister of
lblic worship. as saying 2
We have been hunting Jesus
hrist out Of the army. navy. schools.
,s pitfalls. insane and orphan ssylums; =
ID nov Ne must hunt him out of
@ state altogether"
Gibbons continues bis historical mar.
tive and follows the events from the
igin Of the conflict from 1880 to The
esent tine pointing out the features =
the various snti-clerical laws passed :
irng that period. and the hardshiPs :
CCOneluded on Third Psgs) 7