The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1908-05-30
MAZZINl.
alone.

Only few weeks ago one of our local preachers
delivered a sensationally eulogistic discourse on
Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian revoutonist, thirty
third degree Mason and deist. After reading
synopsis of the minister's panegyrlc on the Italian
nfdel we felt satisfied that the lecturer knew very
little of his subject the political conditions OBJ
tanning in France and Italy sixty years ago
Since the preachers damboyant audation of the
Italian free thinker, a writer in leading New ork
organ speaks of Mazzini of political prophet,
one of the founders of the future. whose work was
not understood in his own times. If his work was
not understood there might be excuse for this
species of implied eulogy, but enough of it at least
was comprehended to justify us in saying that if
the devil became incarnated in human body and
led an attack on the Pope he would not want for adj
mirers or indeed followers among some of our ia
natica preachers and writers. That greatest OF
American philosophers and dialectcians, Orestes A.
Brownson. the contemporary of Mazzlnl, denounced
the Italian as one of the most dangerous scoundrels
and one of the most treacherous assassns of Chris
tanity to which the nineteenth century gave birth
In one of his novels, Dickens says an English
footpad is a very commonplace and disgusting OBJ
ject, but dress him in green velvet, clap feather
in his hat and call him bandit. and at once he is
parsonage of interest and hero of romance. Call
a man Harry Orchard let him set explosive UNI
der railroad platform with the intention of blow
ing up non-strkers let him destroy his enemy
under the protection of darkness and he is hanged
off with the applause of all good nopopery men, but
call him by the name of Guseppi Mazzini, let him
have thoughtful aspect and an inflated style, let
him preach gospel of midnight murder-even put
the dagger into the hands of the assassin-and he
will find all these no-popery men, and among them
a Salt Lake preacher, to admire him.
Though of shifty life and character enough
Mazzn never sought to disguise his doctrines. His
policy was not unlike that of mad old King Lear
at were delicate stratagem to shoe
A troop of horse with felt I'll put in proof;
And when | have stolen on these sons-in-law,
Then kill, kill, kill, kill kill
All Mazzini's revolutionary plans were designed
to commence with the slaughter of sentries or some
thing Of an equally chivalrous nature. He advised
the youth of Italy to cherish the knife the
of the liberation of their country, uss the inner
circle of the anarchists encourages the red socialists
of the United States to study the explosive prop
critics of dynamite and nitroglycerine for the eman-
cipation of American humanity
Yet though every student of the Italy of 1S48
knows this, it does not shock his no-popery admirers
for the simple reason that Mazzin was the enemy of
the Papacy Hatred to the Papacy, in the eyes of
the bigot, multitude of atrocities and
crimes. There scarcely ever>a conspiracy which
apparent success by the employment of baser
than the movement initiated and carried out
engaged in that conspiracy notorious for his
peculiar species of vlliany. Cavour aimed at
embodying in his own person the morality of
Machiavelli; Pianelli emulated the crueltes of an
oriental despot; Cialdini had the temper and dis
position of a cowboy Garbaldi was rotten with an
immortality of foul and vicious kind and thirsted
for the blood of priests, as does the Caledonia hound
Mazzn spre-eminent and conspicuous for the cum
ming of his mind and the vicousness of his char
acter He struck at the very foundations of moral
ity to raise assassination and elevate murder into
kind of religion. That the grave of such man
should be garlanded with panegyrics by Protestant
ministers and Christian essayists, argues for low
tone of knowledge morality in the pulpits and at
the composing desks of certain section of our
countrymen. Marie Corelli wrote "The Sorrows of
Satan" 1t is now in order for some preacher
hungry for notoriety, to preach the, apotheosis of
Judas lscariot or panegyrc on Pontius PLATE.
MRS. SARAH WILSON,.