The Irish standard., 1918-04-13
AMERICAN and FOREIGN MASONRY
HOW ENGLISH SPEAKING FURTHER DESIGNS
tions-Membeshp n Countries Consists Largely
Catholics Renegade Jews.
lucn Literature OF MISSIONARY IS ANTI-cATn0LIc
Masonry
With AntiChrstian and Anarchisic
! Masonic Of
Catholic Apostates and Jews Dominate
Masons in Latin Countries.

OdInOiIC ApOSIdIeS ana Jews dominate
Masons in Latin Countries.
The free-masons of English-speaking
communities, as far as individual mem
| bership is concerned, are men born
outside of the pale of the Catholic
Church. They may entertain opinions
unfavorable to the doctrines of the
Catholic Church, or may have a strong
prejudice against the Church and sus-
picion of her motives, but these charac-
teristics are due to their early train
ing and their environment. While they
may be unfriendly to the Church, their
unfriendliness is latent, and seldom or
never develops into active hostility
against her. 1t is different with the
members of the Grand Orient and the
masons of the Latin countries. They
are apostate Catholics, and Jews whose
religion is anti-Christianism rather
than Judaism. The apostates hate the
Church they have abandoned with an
active and unholy hatred worthy of
the demons they serve.
Would Destroy All Christianity.
! They hate all forms of Christianity,
but with the convictions which they
can never lose, they know that the
| Catholic Church is Christianity itself,
: and that if she were destroyed the
nominally Christian sects would be-
come chaff in the wind. That is why
these apostate Catholic masons, and
their .free-thinking Jewish confreres,
use every means that hell can devise
to compass the destruction of the Cath
Ollie Church. The scribes and phari-
sees and high priests of Jerusalem did
not hate Jesus Christ with more viru-
lence, or plot against His life with
more ceaseless and INSCRIPTIONS &C.
tivity, than the Masons of the Grand
! Orient and the Latin countries display
in their unholy and persistent war up
on the Pope, whom they know and
| recognize as the Vicar of Jesus Christ
on earth. The masons of the English
speaking countries are still nominally
Christian. AS individuals, few of them
would care to be associated with the
Grand Orient and it's kindred lodges
in the Latin countries in active war
upon any form of Christian belief.
And yet, it is true that there is con-
nection between the supreme officials
of English speaking masonry and those
of the atheistic lodges of the Grand
Orient and of the Latin countries; and
a percentage of the receipts of En-
glish speaking masonry go to COM
mon fund controlled by the supreme
officers of the entire masonic body, in
Guiding those of the atheistic lodges
1t is true, also, that no matter how
good fellow the individual English
speaking mason may be, the literature
OF the masonic order, even when nomi-
nally Christian is decidedly anti-Cath-
Ollie.
That Foul Lincoln SANDER.
1t is not so long ago that the New
Age Magazine, the official organ of
the thirty-third degree of Scottish rite
masonry, published in Washington, D.
c., declared in it's columns that Abra-
ham Lincoln had said:
Il have proof that Archbishop
Hughes, whom I sent to Rome that he
might urge the Pope to induce the
Roman Catholics of the North at least
to be true to their oaths of allegiance,
and whom l thanked publicly, when
under the impression he acted hon
estly according to the promise he had
given me, is the very man who ad-
vised the Pope to recognize the legiti-
macy of the Southern Confederacy and
put the weight of the tiara in the bal
ance against us in favor of our enc
mics. Such is the perfidy of our ene-
miles,"
Abraham Lincoln never uttered nor
wrote those words. It is damnable
calumny against the name of great
and good man. and it is a lie as stupid
as it is false. Archbishop Hughes
was not sent to Rome, but to France,
to do what he could in preventing an
alliance between France and En-
gland to recognize and help the Con-
federates. There was no need for
the Pope or anybody else to urge the
Catholics of the North to be true to
their oaths of allegiance. Never was
loyalty more generously or heroically
proved; and as it was then so it is
now; and Abraham Lincoln knew
then, as Woodrow Wilson knows it
now. The Pope did not recognize the
Southern Confederacy; and to clinch
the tail end of the lie, Archbishop
Hughes was not Jesuit; and, as Sec
rotary Seward was an intimate friend
of the Archbishop, Lincoln must have
| been aware of that fact
One might laugh at this clumsy,
barefaced lie, were it not sad to think
that this germ of poison will find
Judgement in many an otherwise hon.
est breast where the antidote of refu-
tation will never reach it.
Danger of Substituting Masonry for
Religions and Make It Anti-christian.
Masonry in America has not yet
reached the stage when like the Mas
onry of France it may become factor
in controlling political destinies of our
| country, and like to believe that
such treason will never be enter
tanned nv a maturity 0f tho ordor