The Penn's Grove record., 1919-10-10
World Politics And The Pope

World Politics And The Pope
Every American citizen is presumed
to have intelligence to read, think
form an opinion and give expression
by his vote on election day. Thai
can not be correctly made if the infor,
nation is not given the citizen.
We have heard much about British
secret treaties from Hiram Johnson
Senator from California. In another
column is published a message from
Rome taken from the Catholic Stand
ard and Times. In it is confirmed the
statement that Germany and Austria
promised to restore the temporal
power of the pope if Italy could be
kept from joining the Allies. That
meant the overthrowing of King En-
manuel III and destroying the Italian
democratic progress of sixty years,
promulgated by Mazzini, whose slogan
was, God and the People" His
motto is: Liberty, Equality and HUI
manity.2 Italy entered the war on
the promise to keep the pope from the
peace Conference.
That was the secret treaty complain
ed about, but not explained to the peo-
pie. 1t is called an insult to the
pontiff.
What right the Catholic Bishop at
Rome has to claim or expect consulta-
ton in government of any nation or
in the Peace Conference any more
than an Episcopal Bishop in London
or a Methodist Bishop in Philadelphia
all true Americans would like to know.
England. France and Italy by repre-
s~entatives elected by the people and
administered by the elected magis-
trates are supreme in these nations.
All good Americans, all true Britains,
all loyal Frenchmen and all patriotic
Italians believe the same. The pontltf
neve exerted his political power,
never condemned the Germans, Aus
TRANS MOI Turks for their atrocities,
nor gave a message of sympathy to
the suffering Allies. Therefore the
pope's claim to be represented at the
Peace Conference is an insult to every
patriotic citizen of these countries.
The Methodist Bishops in America
attend to the moral, ethical and
spiritual affairs of their churches. The
Episcopal Bishops in great Britain at
tend to the same in their church
affairs. That is Americanism, fidelity,
to their nations. Any citizen who gives
a superior loyalty can not be classed
as a patriotic American.
The article from Rome says: "a
wider outlook on the part OF Baron
Sonnino would have made things
easier for Italy and the Allied and
Associated Powers" In other words,
it is the Roman Hierarchy by the in
struction of the pope that hindrances
are made in the different nations in
accepting the Peace Treaty and
League Of Nations by soaring the poll
ticians and muddling the minds of the
people by many petty sophistical dis
cussions and irrelevant subjects.
The present Irish-American aglta-
ton and anti British propaganda was
started last February when Arch
bishop Cerretti. the pope's special
representative, came to America to
stir up Irish-Americans against Eng
land and has been given prominence
in daily newspapers for six months.
The liberation of the British traitor
to his country, Edward De Valera,
claimed to be president of Ireland, now
parading thru this country, is an in
suit to every true American who is
faithful to the Allies. He is the pope's
representative trying to block the
Peace Treaty and League of Nations.
The Pope In Past Treaties
Every school student of history has
read about the French and Indian War
in colonial times. 1t was the Ameri-
can side of the war between Great
Britain and France. In the peace
t-eaty at Paris when the war was set
tied in 1853, the pope had a hand. He
had no objection to Canada becoming a
British dominion, if a clause was put
in to insure that the State religion
should be Roman Catholic in Canada
2nd the province should include what
is now Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wis
consin and Minnesota. As a protest
against that the First Continental
Congress was called with George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John
Adams and others present. A strong
resolution was adopted. The goth
clause in the Declaration of I~ndepen-
dence is that s~ugar-coated resolution
which few know the meaning of.
The pope had a hand in the peace
treaty at the close of the wars of
Napoleon Bonaparte at Vienna in 1915.
It was a provision to restore Ferdi-
nand to be King of Spain who had toll
Grated the Inquisition. 1t provided
for the restoration of the South Amer
lean colonies to Spain. They were
Colombia, Chill, Peru, Bolivia and Ar
gentina, which had set up republican
governments.
President James Monroe issued a
proclamation that the United States
would not tolerate Spain recovering
the South American colonies. 1t was
called the Monroe Doctrine" Spain
has always recognized the supremacy
of the pope over the king in civil
affairs. Because Of this the Vatican
had nothing to do with the churches in