The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-10-11
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OrS ana kings.
2. He wears crown which Is deliberately
Intended to show that he is politically superior
to all other crowned autOcrats. For this pur-
pose his crown Is three stories in height to attest
his supreme authority on earth, in heaven and
in the underworld. The cardinal who places this
triple diadem on the papal head accompanies his
act with this injunction: Receive the tiara dec
Grated with three crowns and know that thou art
the father Of HngN and princes and the ruler Of
the world"
8. He has his own distinctive governmental
flag in white and yellow decorated With the papal
coat Of arms, In July, 1917, the kaiser of Ger.
many agreed with the papal under secretary Of
state to spare from submarines the vessel on
which the latter crossed the Atlantic ocean If
the papal flag alone should fly from the mast
head Of that vessel during the voyage. Since the
kaiser was then sparing no flags at sea save
those of his allies, the conclusion seems newt
able that he regarded the pope as secretly one of
his allies.
A. The pope has his own distinctive system
of law. Development Of European civilization
has brought into being in nearly every cont.
mental nation the system Of jurisprudence de-
rived from the law Of ancient Rome and known
as the Civil Law; while the British Isles are SO
far separated from the continent as to have. pro-
duced there a distinct system known as the Com
mon Law, which has been transpIanted into ev-
cry state in our Union except Louisiana where
the French settlers set up the Civil Law.
After the Caesars disappeared from western
Europe and the popes stepped into their imperial
shoes, the encyclicals bulls and all0cuticns from
the papal throne and the canons and DEGREES of
the great church councils flung upon the world a
great stream Of juridical literature known as the
Canon Law, which has recently been ccdiied un.
der direction and approval of the vatican throne.
Since all these judicial systems are distinct
and incompatible with one another, it has very
properly followed that establishment Of either
the Civil or Common Law In any state or country
would entirely exclude the other. But the papal
government intludes its Canon Law equally into
those lands which have adopted the Civil Law
and these under the Common Law. This alien
system Of jurisprudence so thrust into every
community and there maintained in defiance Of
the law established by civil authority is the
prime cause of that perpetual strife between the
Roman Catholic church and the state which
brands that church as alien and pernicious to
all lands.
s.. He sends diplomatic envoys known as
nlIncios to most of the governments of earth and
receives their ambassadors at his court II Is ele
mentary in the law Of nations that only those
clothed with supreme political sovereignty can
send or receive diplomatic envoys. Moreover,
the ENJOYS Of the pope outrank In social and
diplomatic precedence those of all other govern.
ments at every capital to which they are ac-
credited. So does the family of nations
concede to the pope membership and pre-
eminence Of rank in that family.
6. He makes treaties with many govern
ments, which none but a political sovereign has
power under international law to make. In some
instances those treaties, usually known as con-
to compel destitute poems and peasantry to pay
into papal Golfers tithes from their meager earn
lngs. They also place public education complete.
ly under control Of the resident Roman bishops.
by methods so arbitrary are Roman Catholic
peoples held in destitutiom and ignorance under
the cruel heel Of popery. Under that system IT,
hteracy among the adult population Of papal
lands ranges from seventy to ninety per cent.
All standard historians agree that a few CEN
tures ago the vatican was the richest institution
In the world. 1t held title to half the real estate
IN Europe and it's revenues were incomparably
greater than those Of any other government. Its
present fiscal system, including the titheS ex.
acted under treaty stipulati0ns with papal coun-
tries, pours hundreds Of millions Of dollars into
its treasury every year.
No financial Statement Of the vatican treas
ury has ever been published, and its books have
never been ardited for the information Of the
public. The naval and military establishments
on which other governments make their chief
expenditures are entirely wanting to the papaey.
Itseems impossible for it to spend through legit-
innate channels the vast revenues that have
flowed into It's greaning Golfers since the night
fail Of the Dark Ages.
How much wealth was hoarded in the papal
treasury at the outbreak Of the world war IS a
sealed mystery. Neither has the public any in
formation as to the amount boarded there now.
How much Of that wealth is being invested and
handled BY the. great banking houses in this
country Is entirely unknown to the people.
Whether the pope Is financially interested in the
great predatory combinations Of wealth and
power IN this and other lands is one Of the Sc
crets Of big business.
The late J. Pierpont Morgan, head Of the
great banking house that still bears his name,
died in Italy, wAere he had gone. according to
press reports at the tire, to undertake what he
regarded as the crowning work Of his great
career as a king Of high finance. Thatfact would