TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1915-01-19

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December s0th, 1914,
Editor OF the "Wachtar a. Anzolger".
Dear Blf.-
People nay 10 me, why do the Irish
sympathlzo with The Kaiacrl be Ii a
Protestant and a Mason3 The Irish
should Gympathize with Belgium and
France - they are Catholic nations.
In answer 10 this question ! Wit
say ireland and the Irish do not
sympathlEo with any nation or person
on occount OF their religion. They
are and always we're for the man
that believed In justice 10 all and
freedom OF religion 10 all They
backed and fought the battles OF
France when that nation was worth
fighting for. They backed Robert
Emmett, Wolf Tone and Charles
Stewart Parnell, all Protestants, be-
cause they were noble men that
believed In freedom TO all. The Irish
gays Americans their religious free.
dom under Lord Baltimore, who
hailed from a little town called Balti.
more In County Cork, ireland. The
Irish backed the great Washington
and fought his battles nobly by
land and sea 10 make this a free
country. To-day our sympathies are
with the Kaiser because VIC know,
from his past record, he 10 for right
and the freedom Of all from re-
ligious bigotry; these are the people
we as Irishmen viii back, whether
they are Protestants or Catholics or
Guardians OF Liberty. As long as a
man is broadminded, truthful.
honest and free from religious
bigotry we care not what his own
religion Is, as long as he is right.
/ give below q little history to
pro. to any falrminded reader that
the Irish have taken the right stand
in this war. as well as IN past wars.
About Belgium, she has om
sympathy, but she was made a fool
OF by England. Why don't England
pay her now? But we know John
Bull; he will let poor Belgium die
or beg charity. Here we have an
example: Luxembourg allowed the
Kaiser to pass through her territory.
What has he done for her? He has
so far given her 10000 francs.
The Kaiser is always willing to DO
what is right.
Emperor William appropriately said
he knew no parties, only Germans,
and demanded that the leaders OF
the different factions should pledge
their hand that all, without dlstinc-
ton Of party, class or religion, would
steadfastly hold together. He treats
ali his subjects just alike and he
lets them worship God as their own
conscience dictates, and It is limited
that this was why he dropped
Prince Bismarck as the old Prince
had adopted England's Cromwellian
methods Of persecution, as ii vas
said Bismarck ruled Europe and
Bismarck's ambition and the crown
Ing purpose of his life was to con.
quer the Catholic Church. His cry
was: Wiz gehen NIGHT mach Canossa.
I've win not go to Canossa). Bis
marck embarked on that long and
bitter struggle with the Vatican,
called the Kulturkampf, Prussian
Parliament passed a series Of most
stringent measures (Falk or May
Laws against the Catholic hierarchy.
On March 18, 1890, Bismarck fell.
The last cause of his fall has not
been told, but it is said that 1t was
on account Of his blood and iron
laws against Catholic subjects Of the
Emperor, who did not believe In the
Cromwellian persecution OF his sub.
jects. The Kaiser's motto was Love
and Truth. When men of other
nations. Ike France, were forgetting
God and their Church, and putting
their salvation In their own power
and devices, the Kaiser always put
God first and served him with fear
and vuilt his great merchant marine,
and did what no other nation did,
namely, put Catholic Sisters from
st. Raphael's Verein on German
passenger boats to protect young
emigrant girls from the human
vultures.
Above is history.
From England's leading newspaper
or pr~evaricator, The Times, and
its hirelings, have circulated all kinds
OF stories throughout the world about
how the Kaiser and his army
destroyed and looted Catholic
churches in France, etc. We all in
America remember how the French
Government has prosecuted the
Catholics, confiscated their property,
torn down their statuary and
tranpled on holy relics. We In
America know how Servia treated
the Catholics. This tyrannical Gov
ernment would not permit the cree
tion of a Catholic church at Bel.
grade. To-day, according to Echo
de Paris, a French newspaper dated
November 2, say tout of evil cometh
good. Since the day when wa
commenced the prayer of France has
enlarged and extended itself. Each
morning the churches are full; they
have more assistants at the masses
and more communicates. There are
reunions for the meditation Of the
way Of the Cross, and thousands OF
converts are announced each Sunday |
in the towns and country districts.
SO you see its not infidel France
any more, and what has changed
paree2 We answer THE Kaf. |