The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1909-12-18
ANDREA,s ROSARY

In speech delivered the other day M BRAND
the French Prime Minister limited that the war
which has been waged for some time in that conn
try against the Catholic Church is about to enter
upon a new phase. The French Hierarchy in re-
cent JOINT pastoral, called upon Catholic parents to
resist the attempt to poison the minds of their chill
/ dren by means of the school books in use in the
public schools of that country. The character of
these books may be judged by school manual of
which M. Catois is the author The Bishop of La
val In letter condemnng this text book oives soma
extracts from 1t, showing It's character One ex-
tract reads: God for us is the unknowable, who
works through laws which do not vary which are
eternal and from which nothing can be takeno An
other French Bishop, Mgr. Willard, Bishop of An
tun, has condemned school book entitled "EIemen
tary Manual of Morality" by NJ Charles Poirson
The book IN question declares that belief in the
supernatural Is a mere presumption: denies ORIG
nal sin and the invioabiity of the marriage bond.
and describes clerical celibacy and religions vows
as immoral.
The anti-C Christian doctrines embodied in text
books are supplemented by comments of teachers
who avowed atheists and who lose no onnor-
tunlty of lmpressing their ant-regious views unon
the minds of their pupils. The Bishops of France
are denounced as enemies of the Republic. because
they have raised their voices in condemnation of
this process of poisoning the minds of school chill
dren with atheistic views! Already the French gov
eminent is preparing to make political capital ont
OF the efforts the French Hierarchy are making
to preserve the rising generation from being inoc
lated with anti Christian beliefs It is announced
that the school question will be the main issue at
the election for deputies which will take place next
May, and which corresponds to our congressional
elections
The government hopes to win victory at the
polls with the assistance of its army of oice-hoId
ers, who number nine hundred thousand which is
just three times the number of ofice-hoders in the
employment of the United States government. and
almost four times the number of government en-
ployes under the second French empire. This mil
DUPLICATION of public Offices for political purposes
is one of the many signs of the corruption with
which the present French Republic is gangrened
The revelations in relation to the frauds pernetrate
in regard to the French navy furnish additional
proofs of rottenness.
In no quarter do the effects of widespread moral
corruption make themselves so manifest as' in
French homes, which IN France as in all countries
should be the mainstay of nation The TEACHINGS
of atheism in regard to marital relations are hear.
ing fruit in France in the diminishing birtbrato
which is causing patriotic Frenchmen so mncb
alarm Official statistics just published show tbo+
during the first six months of the present wear the
deaths in France exceeded the births by .203 and
it is expected that when the official statistics are
published in January, it will be shown that the en-