The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-05-20
THE SITUATION IN THE EAST

description of public contract, which
your correspondent knows from in
side information to be perfectly true
no company could get even into the
list of tenderers without subsidizing
the press, and subsidiZing the mem
bers of the committee and that heav-
lily, and for every business matter
we'll, these revelations have stirred up
public fury against the Duma, though
sia is run on the same lines, and thus
something must be done to divert at
tention. Instantly the cry comes,
"The Jesuits! +" 1t is resounding
through Russia at the present time
The Jesuits have been .driven from
their fine church and schools in Mos
COW, and now not only in Polish Rus
sia, but also in st. Petersburg, and
other cities, domiciliary visits to
priests houses, converts, and schools
are the order of the day. Everything
is searched, even to the pupils private
belongings. One crime is the conversion
of any Orthodox pupil to Catholicism,
another is, of course, the posses
sion of anything that can look political
or Jesuitical, and heaven only knows
what is included in this last category.
To show the confusion of mind which
exists, and is fostered by the press in
regard to the Society of Jesus, I must
tell you that a series of articles has
just appeared in some of the most
widely circulated Russian newspapers
leveling accusations against the
Jesuits which have surely never been
made before, even in the widest
flights of anti Catholic fancy Imagine!
The Jesuits are the fountain head of
all secret, societies, the Freemasons,
enemies of the Church. are merely a
lower degree of Jesuit! The article
the Martinists, of which, we know lit
tie in Europe. This is the lowest rung
of the ladder of infamy, according to
| the writer. Then come the Rosicru-
clans, afterwards the Freemasons, and
finally the Jesuits. Their mysterious
symbol the letters S. I. ("Society of
Jesus" as we all know means "Su:
/
chief, whom nobody knows, but who
directs the world operations. Now
then, let me initiate you into the mys-
teries of this weird hotch-potch of
nonsense Any Martinist who has at
tained the third degree is, without
knowing it, Jesuit, for he is already
working in the interests of the Jesuits
1 i-&o
secretly, and finds that Master Masons
are Jesuits of the first degree. A Mar
tinist has always, with the consent and
knowledge of the Jesuits, the degree
of Master Mason, but neither he nor
the Masons knows that he holds the
lowest degree of the Society of Jesus
/ | wonder what good it does him if he
doesn't know the honor conferred
upon him! The Rosicrucians come
between the Masons and the Jesuits
being little blacker than the former
and not quite dark enough for the
latter, but they are on the way al
right. Consider the effect of such
statements as these on a people who
are scarcely yet beginning to emerge
from the time when they had to re
ceive all their knowledge and impres
sions by oral communication or tradi
ton, and you will not wonder at preju
dice.
4 Cathedral of Mainz Endangered.
The news that the ancient and noble
Cathedral of Mainz is in danger of col
> no.
anxiety by the whole of Catholic Ger
many. For thousand years the sane
tuary lamp has burned in that grand
old pile, and every visitor to the
glorious Rhine has admired it's fine
proportions and beautiful windows. II
appears that canal which runs along
side the walls has caused the dam
age, the water fltering through into
the solid foundations. The canal is oi
recent date and has altered the course
of the subterranean waters, so that
the continual washing to and fro has
worn away the foot of the old ma
sonry. DR.. Bendix, administrator, has
called in experts who say that unless
some remedy can be found, or the
canal abandoned, the destruction o1
the whole edifice is certain. The
greater grief is felt that this year the
Catholic Congress of Germany is tc
take place in the Rhine City, and peo
pie will be coming from all parts O
the Empire to gather within the ven
cradle walls. It is feared that many
: of the great ceremonials will have tt
take place elsewhere unless something
!, is done before this event, for th'
press of people might be dangerous il
the present state of the Cathedral ant
involve great loss of life.
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