The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-11-24
HISTORY OF MEXICO:
BY Eber Cole Byan.
Part XXX (Concluded.)

lister prophecy when compared Win
the New Constitution just adopted Dy
the Carrancistas, so please bear with
us little further, and give close at
tention to the following, for II
enitomizes the Mexican Revolution
which was declared by Mr.. Wilson, on
September 2, 1916, to be inevitable
and right"
For it is necessary. to complete the
holy and gigantic undertaking OF our
forefathers, the immense labor OF
freedom begun by Juarez, Campo ana
Lerdo de Tejada." Because the cler-
CIV will no longer be permitted to
maintain the low people in ignorance
and idolatory, nor to win over the
children of the middle and upper
classes. at schools, colleges and semi.
naries, thus preparing generations OF
traitors. of enemies of liberty, progress
and the Republic; masses OF slaves
of the Catholic dogma and serfs OF the
Roman euria.
They will not be permitted to ex-
ert their ministry unless they are
previously married, which is the only
means TO prevent their being a con-
slant. real and formidable menace to
the tranquility, purity and harmony OF
homes.
They shall not be permitted to
dominate and deceive the low classes,
especially women, and distort all
moral idea by means of the comics
sional, which is nothing but window
open on every home and every con-
science.
They shall not exploit the people
in the future by means OF their in
terminable religious and profane fes-
tivities and masses subject
to a tariff.
''They shall not maintain in the
future the idolatry of the people, MAX
ing it kneeI before dirty pictures rep
resenting men, women and animals
'They shall not be permitted to
publish, under the title of educatlve
works, books and pamphlets in which
they attack and outrage the memory
of national heroes, the institutions of
the Republic, in which they disown
and deny the conquests of science and
experience, in which the triumphs OF
sociology and modern psychology are
condemned, in which they place the
object of human life outside of life
itself, in which they counsel hate to
beauty, to matter and to sexual love,
and the poor and the oppressed are
exhorted to persevere in it, and to be
come resigned to their poverty and
their slavery, to live and desire it.
''They shall not be able to continue
enriching themselves with the cen
surable trade in relics, images
scapularies, saints, votive offerings
medals, crosses and waters, ant
blessed candles, to the evident detri
ment of the true spiritual welfare ant
especially to the temporal welfare o
their adopts.
"They shall no longer attemp
against public health by means Of thei
dirty fountains of blessed water; i'm
beetle fasts and abstinences under tn,
pretext that eating certain food on Ger
tain days is an offense and si1
against the Lord.
They shall not be allowed to built
and open their churches, their chapel:
and sanctuaries to pursue thereb!
their work of exploitation, retroces:
ana lies, nor will they be permitted
to found or maintain benefcent asso
Citations or institutions.
They shall not be permitted t.
place collection boxes in churches
nor demand, directly or indirectly
contributions, offerings or aims; mol
adorn their temples and images witt
precious metals and stones, not ever
with the excuse that the donations
are spontaneous offerings from the
people.
"They shall not continue living il
snmptuous palaces belonging to the
nation.
"As we stated at the beginning Of
this work, unless the Americans take
the Mexican standpoint, they are un
able to understand and to judge the
work of clericalism in Mexico, and the
reason of the prosecution begu1
against it"
Mr.. Mena and his friends in Mexico
and in the United Staes were assured
that vast treasures were stored in thu
Catholic churches. Imagine their rage
and chagrin at finding only the pathe
tic gilt and tinsel ornaments adornins
the interiors, valueless to Mena, We
priceless to the loving hands tina
placed them there. But Mr.. Men;
must make good and account for thu
disappearance of the. treasure, so h
says:
The repugnant person
atty of the notorious Plancarte, scan
dalously stealing the treasures of tn
Sanctuary of Guadalupe, the meal
profiles of the Spanish priests of cor
temporaneous Mexico, ignorant, fans
tical, ambitions, loafers and thieve
who, on hearing of the. triumphs Q
the Constitutionalism, fed, carryin
not their miraculous images of ella,
and PAPER mache, which they left il
the churches at the mercy of tn
enemy, but the rich jewels, the gol
and silver, the, dazzling gems wit
which the stupidity of a whole countr
had adorned the idols; jewels whic
.S-a ~, xyo,,t Oh iy,+o 'd01Iorc opd how