Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-01-05

difhcult even to obtain genuine Amer
lean news in Paris, or to transmit gen.
uine news to New York. But the
main point he makes Is that public
opinion is misled and misinformed
concerning the domestic affairs and
tendencies of the present moment in
France. He tells in the following
words how the press misleads the
people with regard to social ques-
tons:
THE alleged crimes of the capitalist
class are exposed and stigmatized in
every way and in the most violent
terms. A demand is made for a re-
turn to the nation of "seigniorial prop
erty' or excessive capital in order
that they may be exploited by the
public in common. The land must
be sold and given to the peasant that
cultivates it. In word, the doctrine
OF hate and envy is propagated on any
pretext."
These same papers, he proceeds to
say, are responsible for all the agi-
tation against the church which has
thrown France into such state of
confusion. To quote further
These journals propose to
procure the eternal triumps of
liberty and reason in order to
secure the complete destruction
of the church by a relentless an
ticlerical crusade. BY clericalism they
mean what they affim to be an indis-
soluble league between capitalists
and clericals, for the capitalists, in
order to carry on their dishonest
transactions, have need of clericalism
which besots the brain of the masses
by preaching resignation and obedi-
ence. With unwearied reiteration one
affirmation is being dinned into the
ears of the French people by the
french press, namely, that the Cath
olic church, far from educating the
people, far from serving the peoples
interests, far from having organized
In the country an economic system
that was insupportable, kept the peas
ant and the worldngman up to the
time of the Revolution in the direst
subsection, in utter degradation and
want"
While thus the press is charged
with being the propaganda in
France, of social hatred, envy, and
discomfort, with slandering and per-
scouting religion and the church, it is
also in many instances utterly I'M
patriotic, observes this writer In
his words:
Certain editors with a conscience
less audacity which is revolving, 9TH
ers more timidly andas if ashamed of
their undertaking, but all of them
perfectly in accord as to their ulti-
mate object, expound the doctrine of
antimilitarism and internationalism.
The writings of Professor Herve sum-
Marie the new gospel of these pecu-
liar Frenchmen."
BY these means the Republic Is, so
to speak, put up at auction, and is
conhscated In a scandalous manner
by certain political secretaries at the
expense of the majority. AS Cardinal
Gibbons has recently stated that
Americans do not understand the
present conditions of the church cues.
ton in France, so this writer informs
us that not only is the press of Paris
insufficiently equipped with news
agencies, but even international news
Is garbled and falsified. Thus the
news-reading public loses all idea of
truth, perspective, and proportion in
studying the historical progress of
their own country and of the world.
Recognizing the great power of the
press. Mr.. Maze-Sencier asserts that
the only way to fight the influence of
bad newspapers is to found good ones,