The Nome daily nugget., 1910-11-26
COM N MuNtcATE 10.
THE ANTI.cHRIsriAN LIAR.
Editor Nome Daily Nugget:
 By ]. Forhan, 8. ].

and effective forms--uperate through the Associated Press. Just now. Spain and it's anti-clerical movements are being ingeniously worked up. The United Press Association also bcnig- nantly lends a helping hand. A certain Charles F. Stewart, it's stan core spondent--a Journalist of giItterIng at tainments. unexamplcd impartiaIity- calls the state church of Spain "a mon Stcr landholding. commercial and In- dustrial organization" And Rome's stand In the present rumpus with Spain. he declares to lc severely dis approved of. nay. roundly condemned. by no less an assemblagc than the Col I"ge of Cardinals' In fact. more than half that respectable body is at pres ent endeavnrinR to make the pope see th' error of his ways, This ". learn "n "th" best auth"rity"-viz Stewards. nn his authority also. we are told that in Spain religious conduct agricultural operations "on an enormous scale" run i"'''ii'7' ihuhuIl'S ana mercantile con ccrns. and in fact engage In every line Of business open to the lay com munity!" And throughout the civil i%ed world. simplctons with brains that could fit into a peanut shell. accept warns like those of Stewart as gospel truth. Yet. to quote only one example in r"buttal: In the whole diocese of Barcelona, with its population of 1,O54. 5+0. not single religious order k en- gagged in trade. business or factory production, This we are assured of by Andrew ]. Shipman in a September Is- sue of the review America" And Ship man quotes from documentary evidence we can control. viz from the diocesan statistics of Barcelona. But men like . Stewart know the market value of pro- llx untruths. hypocritIcally twisted into vcrlsimIlitudc with q show of fairness Carlyle once accounted the population "f England to be some 10000. 900 mostly fools'" Judging by the ap- parent relish with which certain addIe- pated bipcds swallow the pabulum so- cialism serves up. Tom might have In cluded in his computation m area vast ly more extensive than that of En- gland.
 Next in line comes c F. Mcdonald citizen quite as reliable in the mat ter of veracity. as any of the Macs who becomes mildly wroth at "the null tiplicity of religious orders.' Not con tent with giving his own valuable testi- mony In the premises. Mcdonald quotes ''an English writer besides. The "En- glsh writer's name. the public is not made acquainted with. Hut man of his standing can be no other. of course than that cminently distinguished and phIlosophic thinker. John Doe. where- fore. John assures whom it may con corn. that religious orders In Spain are Immensely rich" Everywhere" he says. ''the samo complaint Is heard. that the orders own the best land. and inc best cattle that the peasantry are fast bound In tho tolls. etc" To back up this startling bit of news. no ex- plantations are given. no facts. no proofs, no references. no statistics Which ls ono of the reasons. probably. why a certain local sociaiistic sheet takes to it. and takes to II as affection ately as a duck takes to water. That sort of thing unsupported assertion-- K possibly more In It's line. harmonizes better with It's editorial lcanings. Spain it believes to be upset by a disturbanc" purely economic. originating in the ex- cmption of religious from taxation. All the same. one may reasonably ascrlbe the trouble 10 another source. In real fly. whether the monks pay taxes or not, matters little In France. the carthusians paid tares-probsbly en- riched the republic by 100000 French francs yearly-yet Combes and his henchman made the Carthusians skip over the frontier. without standing on the order of their going. Hut far be II from me to maliciousiy misrepresent
 
 communication to tho Nugget of No- vember Isth." It says. "J. EOrhan. S ]. would have his readers believe that the economic origin of the troubles In Spain is an absurd Idea which orig mated with the socialist editor of this paper. etc" Why. no! J. Forhan. s. J. never accused that soclalistic editor Of having an idea-never, In the opinion of J. Forhan. X. !. what that social istlc editor calls his Ideas is an In coherent. illogical. tangled mess of transcendental rot! God pity the poor wretch.s who accept it as senss'
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