Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-01-31
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Charlotte ODserver.)
What the New York World
calls "the most radical anti-Chris
tian innovation made by a
European state since the 'revolu-
tionists banisKed year of our
Lord (Anno Domihi) from the
celandar for year of-therepublic'
is the recent action Of the French
Minister OF France in directing
the mint authorities to drop
from the coins the MOTTO, "God
Protect France" and substitute
for it the words, Liberty, Equali~
ty, Fraternity" This is onesof a
number of developments which
are making it impossible for any
except the most wilfully blind to
deny any longer thatit is awave
of the animosity toward religion
inherent by the Third Republic
from the French revolution, and
not mere anti-clericalism, which
has swept over France and cul-
j, minated in the recent breach
. with Rome. However ill-advised
the Vattican's extreme attitude
, toward the enforcement OF the
separation law may have been,
, the motives actuating the domi-
, nant element in France he We
r been clearly revealed And now
3 comes q demand from one Of the
y leaders of "anti-clericalism" for
what he regards as "true relig-
Q ious liberty" From the Paris
correspondence to the New York
: Evening Post we take the follow.
! ing about him and his ideas:
t IN. Aulard is professor at the
q Sarbonne; the municipal council
!. of Paris founded his professor
q ship Of French revolutionary his.
i tory, and chose him for the post
e He demands in the name OF the
q separation law that Notre Dame
4 and the other churches shall bt
). left open to the worzhip OF any
# and every religion. Because the,
n were built by catholics is not {
!. reason why "Papists, the mos
unsociable of all religious sects,
h should have the sole use of tn
a churches. The state has no righ
,r to choose among the differen
N sects which ask for the use OF tn
e. church buildings; it has no mean
b. of deciding which is best; there
Ia fore it ought to open the church
70 es OF all religious. This is the wa.
70 they did during the great Frencl
ia revolution when the Theophilan
" thropists held their worship il
ID Notre Dame cathedral, althoug1
n. Catholics then as now showe
n. their ill-wilk.
8. Professor Aulard 9 xplain
n what he understands by relie
n. lious liberty. 1T belongs to t h
a. municipal authorities to see tina
,el the Roman sect has no privileg
Ia Of exclusive use of the churches
he and that, by distributing equitt
m bly, such use, true liberty OF wol
q. ship be secured. As any new chu
Nv ches which Catholics might bull
,le for themselves would equally ia
,te under this Interpretation of Il
a. law, it follows that Catholic
of would never have any church
,ct their own"
What would any or all t h
h religious denominations OF Il
Ia United States think il goverl
in ment action ofthis nature shoul
.ds be seriously threatened again
, d them? 1t will be observed thu
NO the demand applies to new chu
ed ches which may be erected
ned France as well as those towal
Of. whose cost of erection the Sta
ok. in the past contributed q pal
,ad The apologists OF the French g
|ol. ernment in this country have
Md task too great for mortal men,
oft How to Cue Ohilblains.
ITO enjoy freedom from c b
blains," writes John Kemp, E'
1T Ia,