The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-12-16
.SLANDER AGAINST
JESU,TS RENEWED
Old Accusation That They Teach
the End Justifies the Means
Again Appears.
Generous Challenges for Proof of
the Assertion Have Gone With
out Takers.
Father Delaney, S. j., Ready to Give
$50 to Public Charity if
Statement is Proven.

The old slander against the Jesuits,
namely that they teach that the end
justifies the means, has been revived
in Ireland. The following letter writ
ten by Rev. William Delaney, S. j., is
self-eXplanatory:
Sir-A respected member Of the So
ciety of Friends has shown me
pamphlet on Betting Newspapers and
Quakerism addressed to members of
that Society by the Right Hon. Sir
Edward Fry, p. c., G. G. B.
With the object of that pamphlet I
am most cordially in sympathy, and !
its outspoken zeal in a good cause I
much admire; but turning over it's
pages it startled me to find the fol- /
lowing passage: ....
IF the doctrine be once admitted
that an evil may be voluntarily done
for the sake of producing some hoped
for good, it will admit of vast extern
sion, and it will be difficult to see what
vice may not be promoted under the
preteXt that it will be committed un-
der less hideous circumstances than
is otherwise the case.
THE practice of the Jesuits founded
upon this view has become a byword
of contempt to all honest and honor
able men, and has been not inaptly de-
scribed as taking the devil into part
nership to aid the Almighty to govern
His own world 1t would be lament
able, indeed, if the Society Of Friends
should adopt the teaching and practice
of the Jesuits.'
1t is surely startling to find this
abominable slander calmly adopted and
widely circulated by one of the most
eminent of his Majesty's Judges.
Surely before penning and circulat-
ing SO grave a charge against num-
Der of men as honest and as honor
able as himself, Sir e. Fry--as law
yer and a judge-ought to have asked
himself the question-Is this charge
true? What evidence have 1 to sus-
tain it?
1t would have needed very brief in
vestigation for judicial mind like his
to ascertain that he had not particle
OF evidence to sustain that grievous
charge; that 1t is, and has always
been, Indignantly repudiated by the
Jesuit body as an abominable SLAM
der; he would have found that again
and again they have publicly chal-
lenged their slanderers to bring for
ward any evidence Of their teaching
such a doctrine.
In the year 1852 Father Roh, Ger
man Jesuit, issued public challenge
offering to pay 1000 Rhenish guilders
to anyone who, in the Judgment of the
Faculty Of Law in the University Of
Heidelberg or of Bonn, should estab-
lish the fact that any Jesuit had ever
taught the doctrine that "thc end JUS
tif1es the means" or any doctrine
equivalent to It, For twenty years the
challenge remained open, but no one
came forward to win the prize.
In 1890, the Abbe Richter at Duis-
bourg renewed the same offer, but in
vain.
Again in March, 1903, the Able Das-
| bach, member of the Centre Party at
Berlin, made an offer at public meet
, ing: whoever will furnish proof that
this principle, the end justifies the
means,' can be found in the works Of
the Jesuits. 1 offer him from my priv
ate purse two thousand forms"
| This time the challenge was taken
up. Count Hoensbroech, an unfrocked
Jesuit priest, undertook to show that
the Jesuit writer's had taught the in
eliminated doctrine.
Attempts having been made in vain
to have the question decided by a
mixed jury of Catholic and Protestant
professors, Count Hoensbroech ap-
pealed to the public Courts of Treves
and Cologne and in the latter Court on
the 30th Of July, 1905, it was finally
decided.
The Court had carefully examined
the texts brought forward in support
of the charge. and taken from the writ