The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-10-26

Why does Catholic population like
that of France elect such anti-Catholic
officials?
Since 1875 the Grand Orient"
in which the Jewish element pre-
dominates, has gradually been gather:
ing into it's hands all the .reins of
government-not very difficult task,
seeing that as a rule, respectable, in
dustrious Frenchmen will not touch
politics, while the emissaries of the
lodges go out into the slums OF min
ing and industrial centers, and organ
iZe primaries and Socialist clubs that
defeat any respectable candidate who
dares to enter the lists against the
candidate of the government. Frances
great misfortune was that respectable
people would not, as a rule, enter
politics, or, if they did, soon give up in
disgust, whilst denaturalized French
men and naturalized foreigners did
nothing else for living. That small
coalition of Jews and other Freema-
sons have gained control of the coun-
try by capturing the Socialist vote.
are being used as cats paw. whist
prating about liberty, fraternity,
equality and the rights of man, they
prepare to deal a death blow at the
most sacred rights of the Individual,
to overstep the most arbitrary act OF
any regime. Around election time as
the great mining and industrial GEN.
ters and the slums OF large cities
furnish practically all the voters. This
proletariat is lured on by brilliant
prospects of the collectivist Utopia
that is coming, when the Congrega-
lions and the Church have been
abolished. Anti-clericals or lodges OF
the Grand Orient, largely composed OF
Jews, Professionals, and naturalized for
eigners, are hard at work preparing
the election of their candidates ana
feeding the minds of the working
classes on immoral, irreligious publ
cations, and above all by the multiple
cation of drinking places where adul-
terated strong drinks are sold for the
merest trife. Respectable Frenchmen'
who try to serve their country by
taking a hand in politics, usually with
draw in disgust, and thus the scum
comes to the top and is utilized by
INSCRIPTIONS ambition.
INSCRIPTIONS politicians and secret
societies have worked, steadily and
intelligently, in that same way, Tor
the last thirty-fiye years and more
while the great majority of the people
has been absolutely Indifferent to
politics. The task was still easier
from the fact that they had destroyed
in the masses, from infancy, all reVer-
ence for God or man.
Furthermore the French are an op-
timistic people. From year to year.
thew keep repeating that matters will
soon improve, that the next electlon
will make everything right and restore
liberty.
Again. there is no such thing as
unconditional representation in France,
and the whole electoral machinery IS
manipulated to give the government
majority. Each precinct having
deputy. it is only necessary to cut up
a given district, notably anti-clerlcal,
into a great many precincts, IN order
TO secure an increased number OF
deputies; and vice versa, the process
need only be reversed in districts sus-
pected of "clericalism.' For IN
stance, the department du Nord mas
100000 more inhabitants than six de-
partments of the Southeast, yet it has
five deputies less. Roubaix, with l25,-
600 inhabitants, has one deputy, while
the department of Bases Alpes, with
$4,000 inhabitants has five deputies.
You see how a little judicious elector-
al geometry and arithmetic there Will
always give the government ma
jority.
Finally, we must bear in mind that
there are in France 100000 function
aries. who get from the government
bread and butter for themselves ana
their families, and even their relatives
to a great extent, as anybody can
readily understand. Those who nave
not frequented state schools are TO
be made pariahs, ineligible for the
army, the navy, or any civil position.
Therefore, to suppose that the cham-
bers in any way represent the French
nation is an egregious mistake.
Did some of the French Catholics
join with the government in driving
out the priests and nuns and in con-
fiscating the Church property?
No. The French Catholics never
joined with the government in driving
out the priests and nuns, and con1scat-
ing the Church property. One can
can easily see how the right-thinking
French people have to stand for such
treatment, but are not guilty of the
criminal legislation of which they are
the victims
The Grand Orient is at the head.
1t rules France with an iron hand by
Of ha Socialist vote TT aims