Republican farmer., 1918-09-06

in the warning countries has seem l ingly maintained an impartial rather | than O neutral attitude. Therefore, the following proclamation of the i Holy Fathers true sentiments toward Germany and to the cause opposed i to Germany must come as a document of unprecedented interest to the civ inzed world. The author, Monsignor Fay, of Washington, D. C., has re- cently returned from Rome, and only when he realized the tentacles of Ger man propaganda reaching toward the mind of America did he consent to break a silence, and to align, fully and authoritatively, his venerable church with the democratic peoples of the war
 There can be no doubt of the insid- ious propaganda which Germany has carried on in all the Allied countries, nor of the efficiency of her spies and agents---conscious and otherwise. Therefore, 1t is not amazing that, if amongst us in the United States, the general hatred of Germany rises sometimes almost to the point of fan aticism It is now evident that the Germans counted upon this as one of the results which they started to &C., plish---that is to say---the enemy counted not only on very successful l propaganda and a very clever but a transparent espionage, but on the | consequent excitement and fear which would be generated by the discovery | of this treachery. The Germans ac- tually hoped that during this time of terror everyone who would not ex- press unalterable detestation of all things German would be treated so badly among the Allies that, even af- ter the active propaganda had ceased | and the spy system had been de l stroyed, Germany could still count upon a certain amount of pro-German sentiment in the Allied countries pro- German sentiment which could never have existed at all if it had not been indirectly created by the frantic fanaticism of those who, to beat Prus- sia, were apt to initiate Prussia.
 This is a deplorable state of affairs which is now being eliminated by
 sane Americans and to ameliorate these circumstances so insdiiously planned. every true citizen must use his best endeawors. It is a stern duty laid upon everyone in this crisis to search out, to denounce and to de-
 spise anything which in the least re- sembles German propaganda, German lespionage, German peace agitation and German influence. It is equally
 our duty to save flDm persecution
 and to give our sympathy to anyone
 no matter whence he comes or what
 his name may be, who Is willing to give proof of his abiding loyalty to
 the United States. To an intelligent
 American, the point is not where a person comes from, or what his an-
 tecedents were, but what he himself
 is, and the only title to respect at the
 present moment or in the future is
 that of love for this country and the
 willingness to sacrifice everything life and body---in its defense.
 Seditious attacks upon this country,
 upon our present administrator and
 upon the governments of our Allies, land the people themselves, should be
 brought before the public and treated
 with the scorn and punishment they
 deserve, and those who are respOnsi-
 ble for them should be penalized to , the full extent of the law But the more insidious kind of sedttion is that, which through fanatical hatred
 attempts to make a present of such groups known as German-American l and Irish American to the enemies of , our country. Especially now as the
 earth is full of false accusations and . counter-acusations, people who have
 spent their whole time and risked ' their lives in the cause of the Allies 2 have been denounced as pro-Germar ---even people who have been sent to ; us by our Allies to make known the = aims of these countries, and thor lough1y in the confidence of their owr
 governments, have been impeded by s the sly accusation of pro- -Germanism - Against no one have these insane e Idenunciations been made with greater = frequency than against the Pope, al |, though he was the only non-belliger' . ent power which protested against the d rape of Belgium and the subsequen' |: atrocities (and that in open Consis : tory) and although he was the only . non-belligerent power to protes
 against the bombing of unaT1ne6
 towns, the unrestricted use of tht 7 submarine and the deportation of tht !, Belgian population. In spite of thi!
 official disapprova1 of Germany
 methods of warfare, the Pope's atti
 tude has constantly been misrepre
 scented in every Allied country, ant S every effort has been made to repre- II sent him and the church over whicl ' he presides as one of the principa B means of Gernaniz1ng the world.
 That the Germans wish that the.
 could count on the Catholic churcl
 may we'll be true, and that they hay 7 done their best to capture it's indu t ence Is also true, but that the churct
 which counts in her Sacred Colleg
 Cardinal Mercier and Cardinal Glib -e bonS (both of whom are in the conf ie dencs of the Holy Father) could IL supposed to be an agent of German IT. ism is too ridiculous for refutatioT lo were it not so often and so categori LII cally stated. It Is strange that o9 never occurs to great many peopl Id who pass aIong these false claim
 that no one gains by these aocusa
 tons except Germany. To represer
 the Pope as hostile to the Allie
 cause, and therefore that the Allie ID cause has become hostile to him,
 a crime. The writer of this article
 sure that these anti-papal intrigue a. can in all cases be traced to Germa IT. sources.
 a' It is always a good plan to inquir ne when anyone is suspected of disloy m, alty to the Allies, what reason I W. would have for being pro-German. 4 he soon as the Pope's alleged pro-Ge Six manism is subjected to this test, i CT very essence dissolves into thin at sts It is said that the Kaiser being 8
 autocrat, the Pope naturally wou
 sympathize with him, but when oI
 considers that the Pope is the spi