Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1916-12-13
PERU KICKED OUT ROMANISH
R. Don Laws has Repurchased the Yellow
Jacket And is Again in Harness.

X Don LaWrS, who sometime
ago sold the Yellow Jacket of
Morav1an Falls, has repurchased
same and as he says is again
"sk1nning skunks at the old
stand" He is furnishing some
interesting stuff on Peru, The
following is taken from the Yel'
low Jacket.
Absolute religious liberty is the
great American ideal. Its conf
plete accomplishment was the
chief purpose of patriotic fore
fathers who dreamed of a perfect
government by the people where
every man and woman could wor-
ship according to the dictates of
his own conscience. Rome, fail
ing to gain early control of this
Republic, sent her devilish Jesuit
missionaries into South America
where for many centuries Romish
intolerance held the Spanish
American in religious bondage.
But one by one the South Amer :
ican republic threw off the yoke,
fighting bigotry to the last ditch,
tho the revolutionists themselves
were nominally Catholic. In
Peru the struggle has lasted for
twenty years. Rome being drlv-
en- from trench to trench, and her
Jesuit priests fighting like dem
ons to retain their old-tim su-
| premacy.
Here's how Bishop Stuntz de-
scribes the final victory of Prot
estantism in the World Outlook:
Enraged at the s'1ccess of a
medical missionary near Lake
Titicaca a Roman Catholic bishop
took the police out to the missioa,
had over thirty men and women
arrested and tied to a long rope,
and marched them through the
5treets to the common Jail.
No such outbreak of Inquisi-
tional fires had been seen for at
least a generation, and it lit a
conflagration Public sentiment
burned hot againit . law which
authorized such an outrage.
Public meetings were held; peti,
tion to Lima, the capitol, set the
prisoners free; and the senator
from that district was ordered to
p1esent a bill to repeal the old law
of Intolerance or lose his seat.
His bill passed to his great sur
prise, within ten days of. Its
first reading, going through both
Senate and House of Deputier by
all overwhelming majority.
Being an amendmant to the
Constitution, it needed to be con
frned by two thirds vote Gin a
subsequent year" In 1914 it
was smothered in committee by a
Peruvian ''Joseph Cannon,
brother of the Roman bishop OF
Trujillo. But lrat November it
was triumphantly passed by both
houses of the Peruvian Congress.
But another difficulty arose.
The President refused to sign it..
After the lapse of the cons.itu-
tioual number of days, it was
passed again aud became effective
from December 1, 1915
The scenes of those last days
defy description.
Driven to bay in the last and
most fanatical capitol of the
Western Hemisphere, Romanist
leaders fought desperately. They
flooded the city and nation with
misleading pamphlets,
They organized the women of
Lima and had them stay for days
in the cathedral and nearby
churches ready to storm the SEN
ale and House of Deputies.
when the bill came up for it's f.
nal passage.
At the signal the women rush
ed to the Legislative chamber.
| They sent for their husbands
and brothers who were members.
They shouted, viva la Iglesia
Romania", in the corridors and
Offices of the building.
A priest more agile and dariug
than the others leaped over chairs
and seized the bill from the hand
of the member who was present
ing it for final passage, tore it to
scraps, shouting at the top of his
voice; "Death to the MasonsI
Down with the Protestauts!
Viva la lglesia Romania!"
After much turmoil the cham