Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-13
POPE AND ROOSEVELT
BISHOP McFAUL TO KNIGHTS OF
COLUMBUS AT TRENTON.
Hardly Any President" Bishop Says,
even Washington, is So Beloved
by Mass Of People,

TRENTON, N. J., December 13.-Bishop
James A. McFaul Of the Catholic diocese of
Trenton received many tributes at dinner
given in his honor tonigh. by the Trenton
Council of the Knights of Columbus Gov.
Stokes, responding to the toast Patriot
ism, took occasion to express his high
regard for the bishop and the work he has
accomplished in connection with the fedora
ton of Catholic societies Former United
States Senator James Smith, jr., talked on
The Influence of the Hierarchy of This
Country"
He was followed by Mayor Frederick w.
Gnichtel of Trenton, William D. Pendergast
of New York, Senator Thomas j. Hillery
of Morristown, Edward L. Hearn of New
Haven, supreme knight of the order. and
others.
The French Question.
Bishop McFaul, responding to the toast
The Holy Father and the President -
spoke of his recent visit to the Vatican
paid tribute to President Roosevelt and
commented upon the present situation in
France. He said the French government
has gone mad, but predicted that there
would he a reaction. However Indifferent
French people may appear" sad the bishop,
they cannot forget that the glory of their
nation is nseparably bound up with Chris
tlanlty. Besides, the time will come when
God himself will intervene and declare
Thus far shalt thou go and no further If
the government would only grant a real
separation of church and state the con-
dtion would not be so intolerable. But it
cries out for separation while crashing
after the property of the church.
1t is not separation, it is destruction
how l wish that the church enjoyed the
same liberty in the rest of the world as it
does in the United States. There the state
un md oil |,
church freedom to carry out her divine
mission
In expressing his opinion of President
Roosevelt Bishop McFaul said: There
are now three prominent rulers in the
world, King Edward of England, William
of Germany and Theodore Roosevelt.
And Mr.. Roosevelt, to my mind, is the
greatest. Hardly any President, even
Washington himself, is more beloved by
the mass of the people He has, of course,
made enemies; no man who realizes his
duties and obligations and performs them
can fail to meet with opposition and create
enmity. Often we love him all the more
because he has enemies.
Praise for the President.
Il behold several great characteristics
In Mr.. Roosevelt. First of all, he desires
to give every man square deal. He will
not knowingly do an injustice. The plain
people of this country are convinced of this
IL is TeI1dTkdDle what a strong influence
his personality has exerted. North, south,
east. west he is admired, and in Europe he
is almost as well known as in the United
States. - -. ------44---- --.----->.
He Is a believer in God and in the ways
of God. This is wholesome in the head OF
the nation, for his example is far reaching.
He never fails to point out the necessity of
a clean, pure home. He declares that the
family is the unit of society, and that on
the strength of that unit depends society
and the perpetuity of. the nation. He there
fore detests divorce, he pleads in behalf of
lauds the joyful mother of
children and the home filled with the inno-
cent laughter of childhood.
He is the determined enemy of socialism
because it seeks to lead the masses away
from their true basic principles by harp
ing continually on the strained existing
relation between capital and labor. And
he is right. The man for whom this gov
is not good enough does not know
how to appreciate government nor the
struggles of our fathers to found 1t.
I'VE have no patience with these theories
or the man who would destroy the govern
ment deny the right of ownership and pull
down the American home by establishing
free love and temporary marriage. Gentle
men, mindful of the qualities of these two
great rules of church and state, Plus x
and Theodore Roosevelt, 1 propose their
health. Long may they live and prosper
for the benefit of mankind