Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1908-04-23

oppressors. The Catholic church has
always been the ally Of powers, poten-
tates and principalities. All the re.
ligions Of state have been the re-
ligions Of kings. Whenever the op.
pressor was engaged against the proie.
tariat the church fought on the side of
the master, as it does to-day. And it
is simple folly TO talk Of it having
lifted the working class out of slavery.
Look at the pitiful child slaves in the
coal breakers of the anthracite regions.
Look at the diseased and drawn child
frames by the thousand in the prison
hells Of the cotton factories Of the
South. No one ever heard Of the
Catholic church lifting its voice against
any Of these atrocities upon labor. No,
the Catholic church fights on the
other side, on the side Of the masters
and profit grabbers against childhood
and womanhood, virtue and happiness.
Historic Enemy Of Progress.
The Catholic church through one
long, unbroken march Of history has
always opposed progressive thought.
Against every discovery Of science it
has been opposed by the ban of ecclesi-
astieal proclamation. Through the ages
it has disputed every inch of territory
claimed by the discoveries of the hu-
man intellect. 1t opposed the hello
centric system, burned Bruno at the
stake, tortured Calico and then veered
around and wrote hundreds of volumes
to deny that it had taken the position
of ignorance and oppression against
intelligence.
IL has presented a continuous OBJ
stacle to advancing and liberal educa-
tion, and has been the most bitter op-
ponent Of the public school system,
proceeding on the principle that il it
can but control the minds Of the grow
ing generations il is easy to make
slaves of the adults.
Capitalism Relies Upon It.
The commercial magnates realize
that the church is their most valuable
ally. Representatives of the repub
lican and democratic parties have
openly declared that the church Of
Rome will be the bulwark against the
onward tide of economic revolution.
The prophecy was established on the
throne Of the Caesars and inherited the
ambition for universal empire.
1t is in America that the Catholic
church is making its last grand struggle
for imperial domination. In the COM
ing conflict between the old and the
new the papacy will stand with the
conservative element. Progress means
its death knell. It's dogmas cannot
endure the test Of scientific analysis.
Socialism is the triumph of democ.
racy and the Catholic church is the
relic Of feudalism. The church has
ever maintained the divine right of
kings and the divine institution of
castles. Archbishop Quigley of Chicago
said that socialism must be crushed in
this land and the public schools must
be abolished if the American republic
was to endure.
The church knows its enemy, and
socialism must recognize in the power
of Rome, driven from the courts of its
ancient empire across the seas, the
most redoubtable allegiance upon which
threatened capitalism depends.
Fighting on every side and with
every party the church will endeavor
to make the working people think it is
their sincerest friend, until when a few
billionaires control the means Of life
and the workers see at last where their
true enemy is entrenched, they shall
desert its temples of betrayal, and "a
necessity compels them to swell the
ranks of the revolutionists, economic
liberty and science will ring the death
knell forever of superstition and the
alleged authority of supernatura
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