The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-01
Turkeys Ruler Signifies by His Act the End
of the French Protectorate in the East

efforts with the same enthusiasm and
with me accord.
This ground ne said. amid
tremendous burst of applause. is the
Catholic ground-ground distinctly and
exclusively Catholic and religious.
What solid ground for
action and combat on which all
flags may dip proudly, without adj
dication before the standard of
the cross. and unite for the service of
Christ, Today we are
divided as we were yesterday, while
the blows continue TO rain on us,
whether we are republicans or mon
archists. liberals or even democrats.
Have you not as Catholics been
reduced to the state of pariahs and
beggars on the land which is your
own? But 1 ask you, between these
men who have sworn our destruction
and us who have sworn to live, what
place is there for possible agreement
except intservility and hypocrisyg'
Heretofore Leo KITS plea for united
action has been interpreted to mean.
one writer puts it, Rally to the
republic in the interests of religion.
but the new ideal ignores all political
parties and wounds no political feel
ings. So now the Catholic forces are
falling into line and getting organ
lied. Masonic societies. patriotic
leagues. workingmen's clubs. students
associations are forming everywhere.
Women, too. are leagued in the cam
paign. The clergy lead; and their eX-
ample of heroic courage and enlight-
ened zeal is a spectacle TO men and
angels. Great laymen are not want
ing. and a phalanX of splendid orators.
fearless and aggressive, have sprung
mp as it were by ma gic. Lately some
of them in parliament have led Skill
ful attack on the policy of the admin
istration along various lines-Iashed
i the ministry and left it covered with
ridieule God and country" suggested
by Plus Y is the cry of loyal French
men today. France will be the scene
of action, riveting the anxious eyes OF
| Catholics the world over for the next
few months.
The program OF the new biblical in
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/ Interpretation of the sacred text: CD
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