The Washington herald., 1909-01-11

ter, in The Washington Herald. by VII
liam B. Meaney. NJ. D., captoned.
Church and State" part Of which IS as
follows:
The foundation q Anglo-ssxsn evil aud religious
Freedom dates from the tine "A. y. IZ9 when
the Magma Cszrta vas subscribed. a. iustrlmea;
whose Tery origin and pTOuulgatioa belongs 10 the
then Catholic Archbishop o5 Canterbury. Stephen
Lsngtou. and Pope Bouifsoe III Here then. was
instrument wrunE from King John-fo- by that
ChaTta resistance 10 the rVyal power Tas leEzlizei-
which save liberty to the people, d~nocTacy that
hss endured to this day.
Dr. Nieaney credits the origin and
OF Magma Charta TO Cath
Ole arl..bishop stephen Langton and
Pope Boniface III, and asserts -
II gave liberty to the people. a democracy
that has endured 10 this day"
Stephen Langton did help TO extort the
Charta from the Tyrant John That is
corrobOrated history. and DR.. Meaney -
right But DR. Meaney's other asser-
tion that 20 Pope Bonifaee III IS due the
origin and pronunciation Of Magma Charta
is uncorroborated history. The true his
tory is that Pope Innocent III promptly
issued d bull declaring Magma ChaTta
null and void and restraining King John
from giving Il effect Another thing, Dr.
Meaney failed 70 state that the then Pope
Innocent III suspended Stephen LangJon
from MS Office and drove him into exile
for the part ne took in the origin OF
MAGMA Charra. We ask. then. why did
the Pope do this? The answer IS in the
fact. perhaps, that the great Magma
Charta contained an offensive pronounce
ment 20 Rome IN this: The Church ot
England shall be free The Pope was
against religious freedom, hence BIS bull.
Whatever OF religious and civil liberty
the Anglo-Saxon people got by Magma
Charta. and have retained, Is Of God
Ike thing-a thing singularly peculiar 70
the broad. Hberty-loving Teuton and
Anglo-SaxOu races. and institutions bat
ting for freedom in jealous preservation
against encreachment OF church or state.
in wide contrast with the narrow spirit
Of the Latin Roman world in general.
in subverSion OF freedom in the abSolu-
ton Of mixed government OF church and
state. Dr. Meaney asks:
Dds rct union a church and stare from the tine
Cl the Reformation sEist % the present. dsy N
F-z.srd ard al ths nou-Czthclic nations q Cont
mental E-rope2
Admit that union Of church and state
has existed n England and non-Rou'an
Catholic nations Of Europe since the
Reformation: but with what vast degree
Of Hberality 20 the nonconformists IN
broad contrast with the absclUtion OF the
Roman Catholic nations from the begin
ming 10 the Reformation. and since the
Reformation more particularly eXempli-
rcd in Innocent y Of Rome. in the intol-
Grant Queen Mary Of England, Philip OF
Spain. and Louis XIV Of France carried
even unto our own shores after the
French drove the flower Of their nation
into the New World wilderness In col
ony in Florida soon set upon by the Span
ish who. landing on St Augustine's day.
IN religious custom named their colony
town St Augustine. and sanctifed itself
BY the massacre of the French HuguenOts
for conscience sake-the spirit of which
was IN highest degree and greater men
ace 70 the SUCCESS OF our fO7efathers in
planting their colony in Virginia than
we're the horrors Of the sea in their four
Months trip in frail baTks from England
10 jamestown.
Again DR.. Msaney asks
What sbo1- the CathoIz of Franoe and Itaiy!
For both a thess strictly Catiolic nations have
separation q church ard STATE
Why. thea. attem1+ 20 nake the union q church
and state alone cl1-Eezbie ID Csth0llcs'
Has DR.. Neaney so soon forgotten that
only within the last tWo years France
has attained separation Of church and
state. FOR which the Pope and the Roman
Catholic hierarchy mathematical her as
atheistic and apOstate? Has Dr. Meaney
forgotten that the American Roman
Catholics. IN the glamour OF distance
lending enchsntment. loudly proclaimed
allegiance 10 the Pope. held vast mass
meetings in the cities Of the nation de-
vising ways and means 10 boycott the
French nation in their struggle for seps-
TatiCn OF church and staJe-Ihe Knights
OF Columbus. The right arm Of and the
best IN the Catholic Church" IN great
array and boast OF = 5e0000 strong n
sympathy and support?
L is Idle 10 talk Of the origin Of our
liberties for credit OF race or institution
We have liberty. and the thing is 70 keeF
Il II was given Us in fraternai oneness
and in fraternal oneness. We should pre-
serve Il, ever remembering that Eternal
vigilance Is the price OF liberty
ANDREW JORDAN GREEN.
Jan. TO- zee.