Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-24
Los ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING JUNE "a,

But that distinction is TOO closely ltIlheu
with the history of intolerance and per-
secution to merit the name American.
The next claim arises from the part
which she had in shaping the form and
constitution of our government and IN
laying the foundations of the political
and religious liberty which we now en-
joy. The beginning of political liberty,
yes; but of religious liberty by no
means, are due to the state in which the
English was the established church
Finally, the claim that rests on Its
catholic or universal character, is self
contradictory. A national church Is the
denial of a universal one.
"The reverend gentleman makes
Francis Scott Key out to be an Episco-
palian; but he should know that the
author of the Star Spangled Banner
became Catholic and, therefore, ac-
cording to the reverend gentleman's
own epithet, an alien
Jefferson, though vestryman OF the
Episcopal church at Charlottesville and
regular attendant when at Monticello,
was In fact a Unitarian and refused to
receive the rector Of the Episcopal
church while on his dying bed.
Madison in liza wrote: If the Church
of England had been the established
and general religion in all the northern
colonies as it has been among us here,
and uninterrupted harmony had pre-
vailed throughout the continent, 1T Is
clear to me that slavery and subJection
might have and would have been gradu-
ally insinuated among u.s. Oife OF
Madison by Gay, p. IA. His biographer
adds in connection with this signiticant
remark: Probably he, no more tnah
many other wiser and older men, unoer-
stood what was to be the end OF TIE
political struggle which was gettlng SO
Earnest: but evidently in his mind 1t
was religions rather than civil nperty
which was to be guaranteed
80 much for the list of supposed
members of the American church.
"These three names were picked at
random and from a chance knowledge
of their religious convictions which
cursory reference to their lives con-
firmed.
"'The Roman church is an INTRUDER
here: she is an alien, owing allegiance,
first and foremost, to foreign eccles-
iastic and potentate.'
Says Romans Are Not Intruders
"By the Roman, he means the
Catholic church. Catholics, therefore,
are intruders and aliens here. Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, the last survivor OF
of that venerable band of sfgners or
the Declaration of independence, and
the one who staked most of all In the
act of signing, was an intruder ana an
alien. Rev. John Carroll, afterWard
first archbishop of Baltimore, who was
sent with his cousin, the s1gner, anu
Benjamin Franklin, to Canada In Or
der to enlist the sympathies ana alo
of that country for American indepen-
dence, was an intruder and an alien. La
fayette, Washington's right-hand man;
Kosciusko, and Pulaski, all OF whose
statues adorn the national capital ana
Barry the father of the American navy,
were ihtruders and aliens. Is thissWhat
Washington meant when at the close
of the war he replied to the address OF
his Catholic fellow citizens thus: 1
presume that your fellow citizens will
not forget the patriotic part which you
took in the accomplishment of our
revolution and the establishment of
this government, or the important as
sistance they received from nation in
which the Roman Catholic faith is pro-
fessed.' Count da Grasse, Rochambeau
and Baron de Kalb were also intruders
and aliens In fact half the generals
and officers of our revolution We're
Catholics, and therefore intruders and
aliens. Welcome to such intruders.
Thank God for such aliens. Never has
one of them proven recreant to his
trust, not one a traitor.
lndC WAS Tie spirit VI Tie elIllllCelS
of the government, and that was the
spirit which, they wove and hammered
into the very warp and woof of our po-
litical institutions. God governs in the
affairs of nations-that was the lesson
which they stamped upon American
history from the beginning. And they
did this without pretensions or profess
sion. They were not saints after the
Roman type. but they were saints after
the Anglo Saxon tVDe'
Refused Offer of Force
Saints after the Roman type, who
are they? Saint Augustine, who was
sent by Pope Gregory to England to
convert that nation and who happily
succeeded in winning to the faith of
Jesus Christ King Ethelbert and many
Of his subjects, was instinct with the
sanctity of the Roman type and cog
infant of the fundamental principle of
true Christianity and religious free
dom, that coercion is not conversion,
and therefore refused the offer of the
overzealous king to use force to win
over the people. Winifred, the Anglo
Saxon, called Boniface by Pope Greg
ory II, who carried the Christian faith,
taught the arts, culture and civilization
and made possible the restoration of
the ancient but then dying or dead
liberties of the Germans, this Boniface
was saint of the most pronounced
Roman type. Magma Charta, which is
the bulwark of all British and Ameri-
can liberties, has a name and history
Of the same Roman type. Who were
the trainers of the Magma Charta? |
They were the Catholic archbishop of |
and the Catholic barons of |
England. They wrested it from the |
hands of King John at Runnymede and |
made it the foundation stone of modern |
fharfiac Saint Thnnnau PaNLat oe,
a saint of the Roman type. OF him
that patriot and nobleman. George F. |
Hoar, said while protesting that he
himself was still a Protestant of Pro-
.estants: st. Thomas a Beckett, child |
If the common people. encountered |
Henry II with as dauntless spirit as
ever inspired hero or martyr. After
1is murder, the church compelled the !
King to go barefoot to his shrine to re-
main there in fasting and prayer for
whole day, and in watching during a
whole night, and to assemble a chapter