The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-12-14
MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
CARDINAL GIBBONST TALKS
J. OF FRENCH CRISIS .:.+.
Baltimore ore rslats Believes Church of France Will
& Have Sympathy of Americans History

Baltimore vi Pr :';,|!l Believe
Have Sympathy Of Ar
Of Events;aS;:a UP 81
1 Ralt inos pse! "a eriean
: sEq4p1a dosS net ndsrat s Fe5at
Sea say isit ev5fias s blRieved p
ne continued, that my countrymen
would knowingly see a Great and Ben
encsnt organization unjustly deprived
or It's property and. the means Of con-
tlnued usefulness, would knowingly
see tens ofathousands of honest men
and noble women. robbed .sof ;. their in
come and. means Of support, would
knowingly see hundreds Of thousands
ana even several millions of people bru-
Tally wounded in what they hold dear
ese and most sacred, would knowingly
see majority in thes,chambers utterly
disregard and, trampie, upon the rights
OF 2! the minority and The rights of mil
Ions l.. ct their countrymen I'm the name
OF hberty),, would Knowingly see tens
sp 2 = thousands a OF; .1aens,an women who
happen , 70 be priests and nuns turned
out or their homes for no crime but
that of loving God aid serving their
:nelg hpor-ltt say, my countrymen can
s ss and recognize all this, Injustice and
tyranny sands cruelty aands refuse gem
them because of their religious: belief
then r will leave life without faith in
American ~lovee-of Justice ana liberty
and humanity which has been nv com
I 7e and support and hope during a
Hatred ofeRe1fgion the Cause, :
~ am weighing my words and T saw
with deliberate conviction that the
:t !, e or the present French govern
y sM EN-. are actuated by nothing less
than. hatred Of religion: W. have no
iS 9Rn akln =, to theirs in this country.
'7 *; nave mere much Indifference to re-
great party, that makes it a chief aim
to weaken the power.of relipien and i; r
possible utterly to destroy If, : '''Ao =
But,1n France the 1Jacobin party is
a a ,dead. Their spirit is: as living to-.
DAY; as it was in theelast decade a The
elghteenth century, - They hate God
s:they hate Christ, they hate his reli gion
as as much as ever their fathers hated
tnem: But they have learned a more
RRrLuaenJ and measured method of work,
4 10y are almost scientific 5insthe means
Iney take to suppress Christianity,
anu ye1 the: utterances of such men are
lecelved as unsuspectihgH by MANY
Americans as would be a discourse ~
M Mr: Cleveland 7or Mr. Roosevelt or M
:IanIt, mem who recognize the powerful
19 that religion has insproin 8 ting
the welfare of society,":
lt IS easy to- show that T ans not
Mlsfepresentlng. the spirit, Of. anti
q Gle IL They makeano Secret of fhe;r
naered 70 christianity Let sIne give YOU
9 few examples. Sin @~ the course
= - a long speech in tile SchalnberFofs dep
ya9res, said:& IF Cod himself: ap iussGel
pefore the multitudessih palpable form,
I s ,hrst duty of map would be to re-
:1use- MN obedience, and to. consider him
not as a master tosWhom,m men. should
may argue ''i '''o'A
.'Eoot Out sApetant f aitil.:u Z.
!".'The present minister of public wor-
smp ~ e'kmest q r rem otify adV6cafe
i sa;d inc e law Of sepagabgp ,esM::s BRAND
The tim has come fo foSf TX froin th 20
s, y l:1 of French children the5sancient
dal5hs E7Wil e hs.7 has serYeds it's, purpose.
and e replace it with the, light Of free
,thio!ght; it is time Is set I'd Of the he
christian idea. We have hunted .Jesns
'sChhrlst from the army,snavy, the schools
/; ne hospitals, insane and Orphan asv,
au1ns and law COURTS, "a flsnow we must
ahu z IN INN out CT thesState altogether
j. Wnati Weuld we Am eficans say if a
s,caoHeet otfleer wererto propose this as
/ hte e great aim of the administrations
i ~! order to understand the present
situation, it must be borne IA mind thaf
sbefore the French. 4 Revolution ali
schurr t4h a. anae .ecclesiastieal5n lands and
properties belonged to The church. Inv as
JUST a title as property is owned IL our
;oWn' country by, the Catholic, M ethoodist
so y: any other religious denomination. At
gSne ,d reXoiutl9nf all &s%b1ilaings, landed
properties; funds wefe&@confiscated by
Sthle revolutionists. But the Injustice Of
fthlsz was soon recognized, and the con-
Sistltuent assembly publicly and solemnlv
spledged Itself to render, some sort of
Justice to the church by&1pivinp for the
support Of the, clergy59and* the main
} &c; of worship an annual bn1oet
This amounted to a little. more than i
per cent on the values Seized BY the
. "TLet it be remembered too that +h;s
act of quasi justice took place: tweive
years y ca before the concordat between the
.iIy see and NapeleonwI. The payment,
therefore, of. the clerical stipends' Was
not dependent simply upon a concordat,
Sbut was recognition of lust debt
owed by the state to therehurche for an
Proprlatlng funds which had been pro-
s 81 nsg revenue for the support Of the
ship. - "0A
Protest by thesPope. = -
49,. The present conflict dates back to
the year 1880, when large. number Of
religious houses. were closed bv order
of the government aid their occl,nants
dispersed and forced to .aseek reli~.
From that time scarcely a year has
passeds without somes annoyance, to sthe
church-a series Of petty sactss sof Ills.
3crlm1 u that were bound in the long
run. to call for a protest. = The protest
came IN the form Of "a personal letter
from. Pope Leo zXIII.a to syPresident
sGrevy. in May, 1883, which was an
s#efea~.ceerteeuslv."ene enough inueed; but
the answeraewas a mere waste of time
ana paper so far as results were con-
cerned. E~..s:'.~. = =:
& 6 spite Of the rbntiff IS reasonable
objections, the Injurious laws were
passed. AS far as possible, God and
s,.l banished from the schools
and q: IS spitals, the oath deprived Of its
EselAa&g sstnIl character and clericals i'm
pressed into the military service
Next, IN 90l, the law OF associa-
lions 4 s was passed, "a Law which, 2as in
TteTpretedg and exe fa1tfH <tDyssi hmhos