Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-03-01
A Conflict Com uq
The Italian Pope A>>..t ing YOU Lbsr.
ties ia an Effort 10 Mike America Catholic.

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vital oonfiict which is rapidly
producing in this country the con.
disions which preceds civil war,
Let DO man dec4ive himself: let
every man SEQ she faots, as they
are.
The consti. uti; of tho United
States declares that congros, shall
have no power TO atrifge the free
dom of the prees.
Yet congress has knuckled to
Rome, and aires dy done that very
thing.
Books honestly aimed as un-
covering the horrible vileness of
the Roman system are prosecuted
becsu use they uncover Rome's rot.
tenness
No other bools are prosecuted.
In the whole United States there
is not q case pending against a
publisher of the prudent novels,
magazines, and Sunday s1ppls %
ments which p ur from the north.
ern p.ess by the milliona.
Books exposing mormonism,
prostitution, the white slave traf.
fio, the salacious episodes at sea-
side resorts, and at road houses
whore joy.riders put up on their
automobile trips, ell these pass
tn. mails, and arouse no prose-
cution.
But every time a writer attacks
the Roman Catholic system, the
governments prost tutes its vast
powers to crush that publisher,
and thus crafty the Irish cardi-
nails who traitorc usly swore, in
Italy, to that murderous oath, to
persecuts protestants to extermi.
The law of Rome was tersley
stated by the great English states.
man, William K. Gladstone, un.
der whose benign legislation, the
estates of Protestant lanlords
were divided up and sod on long
creoit, at low intsrest to Irish
Catholic tenants
The highest law Italian pope
aid his foreign church dercely
condems and curses to eternal per.
dition.
Thcee wEo maintain the liberty
of the press. Epcyclicsl letter
Of Pope Gregory XVI in 1881.
and cf Pope Plus TX. in 1884.
Or the liberty of conscience and
of wcrship. Eucyclical of Plus
TX Dsoembe 8, 1854.
Or the liberty of speech. "Syl.
labus" of March Is, 1891. Prop.
xxx E4oycIicaI of Pope Plus
TX December 8. 1854.
Or who conteId that papal
judgments a. d DEGREES may, with.
"us sin, be dis ,beyec, CT differed
from. unless they treat of the
r ,lrs (dogmata) of faith and
m ra's Ibid.
Or who assign to ,he State the
pow-r Of defining the civil ghte
Gura) aud provi Co of the oburch,
Syllabus" Of P,re Plus TX
March 8, 1851. Ibid. Prop. tx.
Or that thu ch r=h may not en-
plcy fcrce Ecclesi4 Wis in feren.
doe potestatzm non habet. "Svl
labus,' Prep. XIV.
c.r that power not iaherent IL
the Office Of the episoopate. but
granted to it by the cigi! arthcri
ty. Ibid. Prep XXX.
Or that a?y msthod Of lnstruc
tion of outh, solely secular, may
be approved. Ibid. Prep. Xviii
Or tha' il the conflicH of laws
civil and eoclesiastical, the oivi
law should prevail. I'id. Prop
xiii.
Or that knowledge of things
philos' phical and civil, may ant
should decline to be guided b,
divine aud ecclesiastical authori
ty. It'd Prep. Ivxii.
Or that marriage is not in it
essence a sacrament. Ibid. Prop
Xvi.
Or that marriage, not sscra
m.Ltly contracted Isl sacramen
,um exoludatus), has bindinI
force. Ibid Prop. lxxvii.
Or thas the abolition of t.
temporal pc wer # the pcpedon
would be highly advar tageous +
the church Ibid. Prop. lxxvi
Also Xxx.
Or that anu nthar mailman tho