The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-03-20
The CAMPAIGN AGAINST
ROME IN SOUTH AMERICA
Attacks on Menace" Order Com.
mended by Missionaries Asking
For Support From Protes-
tants In This Country

tantS In This Country
"The stars in their courses are fight
ing against Romanism in South Amer
lea. Never since the time of Pizarro's
conquest of the Incas, nearly four
hundred years ago, have there been so
many staggering blows struck at the
Roman Catholic Church in that land"
Thus does the Right Reverend Bishop
Homer c. Stuntz, D. D., LII. d." open
his pamphlet on Roman Catholicism
In South America" which is being dis
tributed among the Protestant people
of this country in the effort to enlist
their sympathies and their pocket
books in the missionary" ventures of
certain sects in the southern CONT
nent. In all his visits to South Amer
lea during the past year, he tells us, he
has found the Catholic churches in a
condition of decay, Symbols of a
deeper mental and spiritual decay
which leaves the system open for the
attacks which are being made upon
It,"
These attacks, we are informed,
come from three local sources: "gov.
eminent, journalism, and the lecture
platform" But stronger than all of
these is "the disintegrating force of
Professionalism with, the open Bible
and message of the direct approach of
the sinner to his God" The most
conspicuous agent" in the succession
of governmental attacks upon Roman.
ism is Dr. Thomas B. Wood, long su-
perintendent of our work in South
America" The government of Bolivia,
"despairing of securing educational
results, from Jesuit schools to which
public money had been given, has
turned the money over to our own
mission, giving $4,000 annually to
carry on two boarding and day schools,
and promises even larger support for
girls school. All of this is gall and
bitterness to the officials of Roman
ism, both here and in Rome"
THE journalism of South America"
writes the worthy Bishop, STRIKES
hard at Romanism.' There is pub
lished in Buenos Aires weekly comic
paper like the Asino, of Rome, and
somewhat like Life, of New York. 1t
is maintained partly for the purpose
OF ridiculing friars, priests and the
Catholic faith in general. 1t is true
that this paper is hostile to Chris
tianity as it is represented by the
Roman church and is therefore un-
derstood to be opposed to religion in
any form. But this is not the case.
Its cartoons are leveled at immoral
and medieval priestly leadership.
When our church held a great Sunday
school rally in Prince Georges hall in
Buenos Aires, on Conference Sunday,
last February, this paper-Fray Mo-
cho-took flash-light pictures, secured
photographs of the leading mission
aries and Sunday school workers and
gave several pages to a sympathetic
wrlte-up Of that truly great gathering"
The Bishop" also tells us of the
splendid work on the lecture platform
against Romanism of certain wom-
an, Madame Belen de Sarraga," who
speaks on such entertaining subjects
as 1.-THE Home versus the Comics.
sional." THE Jesuit in Politics." "The
jesuit in History" and the like. This
sort of work is done so effectively by
these forces, the Jealous prelate tells
US, that it is not necessary for the
Protestant missionaries to take I'm
such activities. They merely profit by
them and turn their attention to con.
structtve work; the bringing of the
disillusioned souls to the light Of tho
Reformation.
The missionaries" in whose behalf
Bishop Stuntz pleads are welcome to
the company of those whose work thew
nnd SO helpful to their own endeayors
The moral tone Of paper like the
Asino and somewhat like Life" can
easily be imagined; such journals and
the agencies in connection with them
encourage Protestant ventures merel,
because they know that this is the
quickest way to drive all thought and
reverence for religion out of the
hearts Of the people. If the mis-
sionaries" of Professionalism are carry
Ing their gospel to the door, down
trodden people in the company ant
with the assistance of licentious ant
biasphemous publications and through
the activities of Masonic governments
as Bishop stuntz says. they are indee,
In a bad business. To have non.Cath
olics In our own country supporting
sheet such as the Menace" is YER
bad; to have them contributing to tn
continuance of campaign of sim
lar nature in South America is nue.
worse. 1t is certainly time that sue
activities were officially discounten
anced by the Protestant denomins
lions of this country.
c. B. of G. v.