The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-09-18

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-Father Dow
ling's paper. read before the recent
Catholic cong. ess at Leeds, in England,
has attracted widespread attention and
aroused discussion. both favorable and
unfavorable. He outlined wildly the
vigorous and open warfare waged
against the Catholic church by the Free
Afasons in France. Spain, Italy and
elsewhere, and then sketched roughly
proposed international defense union"
! TO comprise all Catholic organizations
throughout the world for harmonious,
uniform and concerted action TO coun-
teract and check this widespread move
ment to stamp out Christianity from
the world.
The first purpose suggested for the
union is the use of the press to propa-
gate correct ideas OF Catholic teaching
and practice. and Cor the prompt cor
! rection of calumnies and false reports
concerning Catholics
Another means suggested is to supply
bishops and priests. lighting against
unjust oppression in any particular
country, with the sinews of war in the
form of financial backing from branches
/ of the union everywhere.
| He also suggested an international
trusteeship for protecting property
/ falsely claimed. or about TO be con-
/ fscated, by enemies of the church in
particular countries. He would have
I the union registered in all countries as
I legally entitled to hold property, and
thus be In a position TO take such prop
/ erty in trust, and to use the backing of
other nations in fighting any unjust
| confiscation Of church belongings.
Another remarkable suggestion is a
universal boycott against the purchase
! Of goods from any country posing as a
I prosecutor of the church.
He suggests that each member pay
! shilling, or % cents, year into the
/ treasury of the union. If 10000, 900
Catholics throughout the world thus
contributed there would result an in
come of S5,006.0O0 per annum to be
used for the legitimate purposes of the
union.
] While some of the suggested features
may be Utopian, or bordering on dam
gerous ground, yet this paper is one
a universal defense of legal rights
against unjust attack from whatever
| source il may come
This call has already sounded in
/ South Africa. 1t has been repeated in
Rome. An international federation has
been proposed. And now the voice
sounds in England OF the pressing.
certed action by Catholics everywhere,
I vigorous, law abiding and we'll directed
/ by competent and conservative leaders
there can be no question among
/ thoughtful observers of the trend of
events at the present day
Cardinal Moran's recent sturdy de-
1 Tense Of Catholic Spain against the
/ calunnies hurled at her by her enemies
in religion was well timed and credit
able 10 his head and heart. He re-
called the incident of the agent who
! applied to Sir Hiram Maxim COR a con
I tribution to Protestant missions in
Spain Sir Hiram has a large gun fac
toSy in England and another in the
Basque provinces in Spain.
/ He explained to the agent that in
Spain he never locked up his factory
! or kept anything under lock and key;
| and that he had never had any loss to
bemoan in consequence. But in Eng
| land be kept everything closely locked
up. declaring that the first night that
Inc should fall to do SO he would be
sure to find the entire property looted
and Quilted In the morning. In con
. clusion he expressed his entire willing
ness to contribute toward makfns
! England as moral as he found Spain
to be.
A correspondent Of the New York
Herald states that drunkenness and 1i-
/ vorce are practically unknown in Spain
and that it has the fewest suicides OF
any country in the world
Finally, the editor of Romo suggests
that the would be Spanish reforrner
visit some up to date country, Eng
land If he desires, and count the cost
| OF education rate poor rate, asylume
| rae, old age pensions, hospitals, feed
ing necessitous school children. etc
and :
wise to drive away from Spain the re-
ligious communities. who do nearly all
this work for nothing.
One of the striking features of the
recent grand procession in Montreal
was the presence OF the governor of
| Rhode Island, a French-Canadian
Catholic. with his official staff, march
ing in the ranks. What with the
Irish. French Canadians and Poles
/ Puritan New England is fast being
| transformed into one OF the most not
able Catholic strongholds in the United
States.
War Soeter. the distinguished Nor
wegian author and poet, has been lee
turing III Norway for the special pur-
pose os dissipating the prevailing false
impressions in that country against
the Jesuits. He had been under the
/ same false Impressions until he visited
Loyola college, Spain. and the Cole
GUM Germantown in Rome. A Nor
wegian Protestant paper described his
lecture before a workingman's club
which lasted two hours, as being list
ened to with rapt attention and warm
~ appiauded. In his lecture tour
through Norway he denounces the laws
excluding the Jesuits as disgrace to
the nation and advocates their repeal
A writer in America has done a good
work in recalling a speech delieverd
June %. 1852, by DR.. Orestes A. Brown
son, in which he described the secret
plottings of certain inidels, with
whom he was associated before he be-
came a Catholic. for the Punishment OF
religion from public schools.
Many persons have forgotten this in
cident, and others have never heard
of it. But present day results show
how these plotters, some of whom
came from foreign shores for the ex-
press purpose. have succeeded in turn
ing our schools from their original
purpose and character, thereby giving
| us the secret Of their present in
effectiveness in checking the tide OF
immortality and irreligion that is
sweeping over the country.