The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-06-28
1Was Sherman Correctly Quoted2D


ing an explosion somewhere in the precincts of
prestcraft; and here is it appeared in Foleys full
minator OF June l3:
One of our readers clipping from the Decatur
Herald in which Senator Sherman is quoted follows:
"The vatican has acquesced the separation Of church
From the earliest pope the present the papal power
has always insisted the property Of exercising civil authority
majority of the Christian league Are Roman Catholic The
papa power is very active promoting league The delegates
Sitting in the assembly the council will be Of that religious faith 1t
excessive distribution of power ecclesiastical body
If Sherman these words he is either ignorant bgoted
The ppes have time and time again praised conditions in America
have separation of church and state Cardinal Gibbons
least good American Senator Sherman and he is delighted
with conditions here America When Sherman that the dele
gates sitting assembly the council will be Catholic he max
ing fool Of himself We writing Mr. Sherman to find out if
\ he was correctly quoted
The quotation credited to Senator Sherman purports
to be copied from letter written to the faculty of De-
catr college, so there is little likelihood of such mstakes
or naccuracy as sometimes result from verbal interview
But-"f Sherman wrote these words, he is either ig
norant or bgoted baws the blatant batherskte who d
vides his Hibernan talent and columns between promo
ton of Irish secession and attacks upon decent Americans
and desirable legislation.
One may wonder what Foleys opinion can be of that
Jesuit who declared in the Jesuit magazine America, OIL
May a. That the popes still claim their temporal power
power Of which they hypocrticay and unjusy de-
prved, is true"
man. and that made by Jesuit Revlle Identical The
popes still claim they have long claimed both civil
authority and temporal power Senator Sherman says it
in pertinent connection with discussion OF public pocles
and the Jesuit admits it article contributed to the
leading magazine of his order
And one of these is bigot ignoramus because he
saws it! If So what is the other? But the chief in
terest lies not much in the bgoty orthodoxy Of the
senator the question whether what he says true
Foley declares that ''the popes have time and time
again praised conditions in America Where have sep
araton of church and state" Yes they have praised
tain conditions might be expected but when and where
has one or any Of them been caught in the act Of prasg
that separation?
The papal attitude that subject can be better
trusted to what recent pope has written about it. Pope
Leo KILL in his encyclica "Cathocity in the United
States dated January 1885, and published on page 1913
of his Great Encyccals by Benzger Bros, declares t
would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that IN
America is to be sought the type of the most desirable
status Of the Roman Cathoc church, or that it would
be universally lawful expedent for state and church
to be, as in America, discovered and divorced"
We could fill this paper with directly quoted declara-
tons denncatory of such separation Of church and state
as exists in the United Staesdecaratons of popes and
preates as heated as they are hostile That of the late
Plus concerning such separation In the republic Of Por
q tugal is typical of papa soreness on the subject
Senator Sherman is not ignorant of the facts or mis-
taken in his examinations of history when he writes that
The vatican has acquesced in the separation Of
church and state. He may be bgot for writing it, but
that is matter of papal theology and Jesuit TECHNOLOGY
which such fanatics Foley expert beyond the pos
sibility of correction.
Senator Sherman may accept the intended reprOach
as exquisite compliment both because Of its and
because of what inspires it.
AS to the foeysm that Cardinal Gibbons is at least
as good an American as Senator Sherman" we must dis
sent Gibbons recent conduct abetor of on Mex
leo and Great Britain proves him alien to this country in
affections connections allegiance, associations and in
everyday practice
Americans, worthy Of the name, do not busy them
cobellgerents. Moreover Americans do not serve as
ataps of foreign crowned and enthroned monarch and
rs director Of that monarchs local emssares There is
radical difference between American citizen and the
popes preate whose chief and interest in politics
and propaganda nimcal to this country
There is enough sturdy. Americanism in Senator
Sherman for him to utter truth with teeth in it, even if
such frank declarations draw the wrath of popery's
agents He would rather declare fact the knowledge OF
which is essential to the common welfare even though