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10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896 REV. ATHER YORKE ON HIS CRITICS, The Catholic Champion's Spirited Reply to His Opponents. FORGERY IS CHARGED. Catholic Truth and Catholic Loyalty Brilliantly Defended. THE POPE'S SUPREMACY. H. W, Bowman Vigorously Denies the Temperal Power of the Head of the Church. Yorke submits the fol- wer to his eritics in the now in progress: The Rev. lowing eri great controvers: January 9, 1895. l—DEAR 1 know slated to demonstrate | t e ation of .P.A pions. d be A seem, it w tive prophy- my only iear 1 lucid club its corytk have but two aims : & clear hing and wish o arg Inorder to do This it is ssary to obtain | from vho are opposed 10 us some state- | ment of the crimes with which they charge us aud some logical presentation of the r which back up the allegations. I need not » . of THECALL that this method i 1 to be possessed with the 1 10 show 1h ¢ that he | | i at work the scissors taster W. Bow- nd H. W, Bo solved to die nsly, shears rather than hat iuce mor: What bearing ter's mothier-in- | the conr ith American inst wever, that twould ¥ “the pa what the original was about i I have taken certain specified quo. nwn that they were {or- To [ 4 | { 1 1 have sk do_this 1 ent methods. 1 the priesis’ onth I ensive de the law: i 11 of excommunicat e original from i d s orig od 10 use d ts’ oath & Aple | nave | an a1 ve produced aud trac 0 an haudy”; s qu o T ritted the works of that xamination, and showed that the | reverend gentleman’ had substituted & “'no’” | where the original had “yes.” Nor e ret tions have been met. G. ALl stinately fights shy of the affida- vits of Father Prendergast. of Father lmoda and of Fatier Wyman. He has kept a discreet | silence on Tristram Shanay. and Dr. Case has | bLeen as as a clam_ when | asked to explore t t he has | at home for the G h he took his quotation | In the fac € these thinking people will na suspicion on all guo- | tatio ese sonrces. Fuise | in one is & maxin of com- | mon-s W How true it ] may t examination of | otations made by G. A differ ¥ be ex ne such ence 1 piated by p institution of leerning as the Home for the Fex However, know must | ine cation defended heoue ished ing the pu- | other :may be attained by bat- 1is morning G 1ous to show what most cherished insti Sations are d. 1 b 1aken th U present of America, The artic men | s new defenders ch the alleged quotation is tal reply o un rttack on the Cathol ons o New York City. which appeared in Putnem’s Magazine. | have not abie 0 find oul the name of the writer, bt gives this desc se! We know w and other Ntates. wart: for | ription of him- | We and tor fite the place it Wwe 10 say against 1o Who o We make 1o 10 seculer aiion, syslem for non-Catholics. 17 they wish fir themselves, we offter them 1o opposition. | deed. for those who hold the supremacy of the | secular crder and believe that evers department | of life should be secularized, 10 better sysem eat be devised Now the lite, Rome to seciir, ou the m rary buccaneers who must rifle «rins against the Pope come (o this gentleman's writings to_prove the church is trying to destroy the public schools. wrocess ix instrue by he ve. The extract as printed cousists of four consecu- sentences. In ‘the original the first se tence is found near the beginning of a para- | graph. Between this sentence and the next, s given by you, intervene the rest of this par. graph, (wo full paragraphs and part of another | agraph, which deal with different subjects | ogether. Th: say between the tirst cond sentence as printed by G. A. Hub- | Ate tiwenty-one senteuces, making seventy-six lines of text The second sentenc of three an entirely meening, i | ther is o Between the sente you, Mr. Edit as given Ly you con- | An explanatory clause, | different construction out of ihe middle, and | d from the enc second and the dropped, and t rd another e only tw | sentences in the extraet i urth. | | | 1 usk you, Mr. Editor, and ail fair-minded mep, how Hre we with such di honesty as this? 1f Catnolic teachings urc[ treasouable why Is it necessary to gerry. mander Cntholic books 1o make out & case | agrinst us? 1 have given the answer time and time aga:in. When men wish to prove what is not true they are dri o fal forgery and (o perjured testimony. We read, Mr. Editor, in the Seri when men were subor: Lord “thet to argue *hood, to | ! ture that | 4 10 swear agaiust our | testimonies were not agreeing.” | ever iinr has hard work to escape contra- | diction, but s clumsy lar has &y many feet us | 8YOr SUtro’s octopus, and he manages to put one of them in the mess. If G. A. Hub- | bell had stopped for an_instaut in his blind | jury of seissoring to read the extracts he \\‘u-al | | inflicting on your readers he would have seen 1hat one of them cxposed the other. third quoiation ruus as follows: As there is for us Catho'ics onl there is and can be no prope riven by or under tife direc: Catholic ckarch. The obvious inference from this sentence is that the Catholic church is trying to get nnl sckoois ander her control. If we turn, how- ever, 1o his tenth quotation w gives this Jittle extract with its context. This terth quotation is built on the samse plan as the firet, with numerous and interesting omis- Thus, kis educ; on and control of the : find that he | { sess! | endowed with a divine | ity sions. If I remember rightly some eighteen sentences are left out; only the last two are consecutive. Irom these we see that the writer is speaking of religious education, and he says of it what every American, every Methodist, every Episcopalian, will admit: This sort of education can be given only by the church or under her direction and control, and as there is for us Catholics only one church, there is and can be no proper education for us not given by or under the direction and control of the Catholic church. Itis hard to conceive the stolid stupidity which would palm off reasoning like this upon an intelligent community. it 8 & poor cause which needs such advocates. How can iwe be expected to treat with seriousness men who aresuch pandiculated idiots that they fall over their own feet and uto their own mouths ? At this writing H. W. Bowman is ahead in the scissors competition by several feet. His Iast contribution consisted of nothing less than & challenge. 1 answered that challenge sev- eral weeks ago, when I informed Mr. Bowman that he made & misteke in the date. Itshould have been headed the 1stof April. There isno other day in the calendar so meet for Mr. Bow- wan and his challenge. As 10 the Suisun matter, Mr. Bowman doubts my word for the offer of $100 to prove his quo- tation. He also professes ignorance oi the precise quotation in question. enlighten hin I quote from s stenographic report of a “specch delivered by H.W. Bowman Esq. of San Irancisco, California, in the Native Sons’ Iall at Suisun, Solavo County, California, on Octo- ber 15, 1895, reported by F.J. Browniee.” On 4'Tfind’ the following specimen of pat- ¢ eloquence 1r attention to some historical facts ation to the determini- tion of 1 ish_hierarchy 10 overcome the American liberty. [ will read you the following 1rom the Catholic World of July, 1870. It says: Uhere is ere jong 10 be a state religion end that s'ate religion is 10 be Koman Catholic: all lexi la- tion must be governed by the law dictated by the Poy This is the quotatiod. Now allow me to sub- mit the following letter, which I received this morr Suisvy, Cal., Jan. 8, 1896, San Franciscor—REVEREND In to-day’s CALL Rev. W. H. Rev. r AND DEAR FATHER Bowman sars he has only your word for the 8100 € Yorke, here as w reward for the proof of his assertions questioned by vou. We will try and have T CALL reporter here and send them word that the 11 you 10 you at one: money is re L will senc 1t a che Resp i for the $100 cttully, T. J. DEVLI This, 1 think, is sufficient to show Mr. Bow- ma 1 that my word in_this matter at least 1s iable. Of course, I expect to have all the rical Fhari like Dr. Case, who tithe rit and anise and cummin, and who leave undone the weightier things of the law, judg- ment and mercy and faith, resoluting against me for contaminating the cause of truth with the mammon of help that, case an Lo stra camel.” Now, as to H. enter on a public ¢ me state es clearly and ws precisely as 1 can that I have not the slightest intention of en- gaging in a debate with him or with anyone Dike him. If ne makes any assertions about the Catnolic church or the Catholic people I vresume, Mr. Editor, your columns wili be open to me in the tuture as they have been in the pest. Bat {0 appenr on the same platform with himor his I positively decline. Permit me 10 say that [ ain not in this controversy for the purpose of providing pulpitless preachers with notoriety or gate receipts. l1am in the controversy fo auswer the charges against the Catholic name, and the platiorm of THE CALL is A big enough platiorm ior me, and its nundreds of thousauds of readers form au ce wiich can be reached by no human iniquity. However, 1 cannot The scriptural answer eets this every similar case: “Ye blind guides in out the gnat and swallow the W. Bowman's challenge to He and his may nccuse me of cowardice and of prevarication and of all the crimes in the ecalogue, but 1 am content to leave my ac. the judgment the people of & NO debate is necessary 1o show the or falsity of the matters on which I have ged invesiigation. The men w nd, are advertising tickets for su Francisco. trutl attempting 10 obtsin 1 tenses, and_it is well for people to understand it. Yours tru P POSTSCRIPTUM. W. R. Goodwin objects in his morning to An octayo “postseri spect his scruples and wili deal v 0110 Jeter 1o-morzow. T THE POPE’'S SUPREMACY. W. H. Bowman Says That History Has Repudlated the Temporal Authority of the Vatican! W. H. Bowman, editor of the American Patriot, con tributes the following paper to tue famous Yorke-Ross controversy: To the Editor of the San Francisco Call It1s an indisputable fact of history that f the middle o1 the fifth century up to the time of the Reformation the assumption of the universal supremacy of the Pope, spiritual and temporal, on one side, and tie absolute obedience to the Pope of all men, kings and people, on the other, had been toe fundamental SIR: Hm vrinciple of the Papacy. By forged decretals, Papal buils, briefs, canons srdicts the snlse claim to universel sove was estab- lished. The spurions characte Pope's title to temporai power has heen cxposed by the ablest Catholic uuthors and rejected with impatient contempt by history. The absurd attempts of popes and priests to establish & human title 1o the teaporal pos- ns of the papAcY 15 made manilest by the at if the apostolic chair of St. Peter were title to universal tem- nty, s human titie wounid be su- Regarding supremacy to the Pope us the main substance of Christinnity end obe- d ice 10 his will as necessary to salvation they hinve formed an organization based strictly monarchial principles, skillfully adapted 10 sceure uni nd concentration of action, and by hetonizing their doctrines with the cinim 1o temporal and spiritual power, they n i0 usirp the power ol princes aud hold the nations under subjection to the We xubmita few of the absurd claims of the Popes 1o temporal power. thai the reader may be convineed of the justuess of the A. P P. opposition 10 Romanism. ng Pope, is prix yms, and he has power to , plant, ruin and build.”— Canon of the Council of Trent, fac! t poral sover pertinous. ce over all ““All mortals are judged by the Pope, and the Pope by nobod “The Pope may Lateran Canon. supreme over sl the world; impose taxcs and destroy crowns and es jor the preservation of Christianity.’— s Aqui ““The suprema of the Pope over all persons and things is the main substance of Christian- Bollamine. e Pope hias supreme power over kings and Christian princes; he may remove th from office, and in their place put o Biovius, De Rom. Pontifl, cap. 46, p. 62. the Pope is the iord of the whole world, The Pope has temporal power; his tempora power is most eminent, All other powers de- pend npon the Pope.”—Marcinus,Jure Princep. Rom. 1ib. 2, cap. 1, 2. *“Ine Pope is the anly Viear of God, who has supreme power wod emnire over all princes and kings of the earth.”—Blarens, De Rom. Eccl., art. V, sec. 19. ‘He (the Pope) can correct the laws of States and alter them altogether; and, by the pleni- tude of his power, since he is above all law, dispense from every law.”—Pope Nicholas I, A.D.858. [Quoied four times in the Canoh Law of Rome. Causa JX quast. 3 cap. Cuneta per mundum.] Pope Nichoias 1, in 838 A. three principles, which u fundamental 1 D., siso decreed corollaries principle of papal supremacy, name There may always be an appenl 1o the Pope from the judgments and decrees of kings and their courts of justice, but no appeal from any ecelesiastical seutence o & king or his couris of justice.” In the language of the canonist be Yope may reopen the jndg- ment of every Judge and ruler. but no one may review a decision of the Pope.” The fol- iowing was the decree of Pope Nicholas 1 it is ealied” “Distinetio 96, eap. Satis”: “it has been sufficiently proved that a Pope can neither be bound nor acquitted by a seeun power, for the Pope, as is well known, was called God by that pious Emperor, Cohstantine, and it is very clear that God cansot be judged by men.” That being a part of the canon luw of Rome is a matter of inith with ail Roman- ists. All cleries, even to the lowest grade, are excmpted from the jurisdiction of &l civil courts, and from all civil jaws, and from all secural taxes. Pope Innocent 111, in 1215, re- newed this decree in the Lateran Council Hume, the English historian, seys: “The ec clesinstics in that age (days of Thomas Beck.t) had renounced ail subordination to tihe magis- trate. They openly pretended to an exemp- tion, in_eriminal accusations, from u trial be- fore the courts of justice, and were gradually introducing a like exemption in civil couses 3. The Pope may depose kings, aud absolve subjects from their oath of alieziance, and may give away their kingdoms to whomsoever he may cnoose. That principle is a: the decretal letter of Nicholas I to the Emperor Michael. That the Popes have acted upon this prin- ciple all history abundantly testifies. The followinig extracts from the canon law of Rume are_taken from ““Cranmer’s Collection of enets Extracted from the Canon Law. (I‘nrl::e)l‘ Society’s edition of the Archbishop’s works): Thelaws of kings have not pre-eminence over Permit me to | ecclesiastical 1a servient to them. The statute law of laymen does not extend to churches or to ecclesiastical persons or to their £00dS 10 their prejudice. 5 Whatever decrees of princes are fonnd injurions to the interests of the church are declared (o be of no anthority whatever. While a soverelgn remains excommunicated his subjects owe him no allegiance, and if thisstate of things shall last for some time, and the soverelgn being admonished do not submit himself to the church, Lis subjects are absolved from all fealty (0 bim. The Pope may dethrone the Emperor for lawful canses. Lhe Bishop of Rome is not bound by any decrees. but he may compe! as well the clergy as the lay- men to receive his decrees and canon law. The Bishop of Rome hath authority to jndge all men aud specially to discern the ariicles of faith, and that without any councils, and may assoil (acquit) them that the council hath damned; but 10 man hath authority to judge him nor to med- dle with anything that he hath judged—neither Emperor. King, people nor clergy—and ft is not lawful for any man to dispute of his power. The Bishop of Kome may excommunicate em- perors and princes, depose them from their state and asxoil (zequit) their subjects from their oath of pbedience Lo them and 50 constrain them to rebel- ion. The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome’s subject, and the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's sentences in temporal canses. It belongeth to the Bishop of Rome to allow or disaliow the Emperor after he is elected, and he may translate the empire from one region to an- other. The RBishop of Ttome is judge in temporal things and hath Lwo swords, spiritual and temporal. The Bishop of Rowme may give authority to ar- rest men and imprison them in manacles and fetters. “The Bishopof Rome may compel princes to re- but are subordinate or sub- | ceive his legates. \ \ | | i oral debate with him, let | It appertaineth to the Bishop of Rome to jndge which oaths ought to be keptand whi*h not. Princes’ laws, 1f ihey be against the cauons and decrees of the Bishop of Rome, be 0f 1o force, or strength. All kings, bishops and nobles that allow or suffer the Bishop of Rome's decrees in anything to be vio'ate be acoursed. he Bishop of Rome may be judged of none but God only; for although he neither regard his own salvation nor any man’s else, but draw down with | null and void. | heretics in their cemeteries, where they have | claring the acts of an independent foreign wer *‘null and void.” What reason can any omanist, priest or layman, give for this arro- gant assumption on the part of the Roman Pontiff in interfering in the political affairs of a foreign kingdom ? This act of Pius IX shows clearly that modern Popes have not renounced the ancient claims of the papacy, but still claim the right of the Pope as supreme ruler over Christendom to “set aside and make void" any law of any government which in his judgment may infringe the rights, liberties and immunities of the church. £ Again, June 22, 1868, Pius IX issued an allocution condemning the constitution of Austrie. In it he says: “By our apostoiic authority we reject and condemn the above- mentioned (new Austrian) 1aws in general and particular all that has been ordered, done or enacted in these and other things against the rights of the church by the Austrian Govern- ment or its subordinates; by the same author- ity we declare these laws and their conse- guences to have been and (o be for the future (See Janus, pages 23 and 24.) Here Pope Pius asserts the right to set aside the laws of a foreign. kingdom and to declare “null and void” laws sanctioned by legislative enactments. No more arrogant claim to tem- toral dominion was ever put forth by Gregory V1l or Innocent III. A In this passage from this allocution, Janus remar “By this sentence the whole legislature and executive of Austria is placed under ban, with the Emperor Francis Joseph at its head, and the Austrians may be thankful that the whole territories of the empire are not placed under interdiet, according to the earlier precedents put in practice the last time against Venice 1606). £ “Pius IX condemns the Austrian constitu- tion for making Catholics bury the bodies of none of their own, and he considers it ‘abom- inable’ (abominabilis), because it allows Prot- estants and Jews to erect educational institu- tion: Such gets, under the doctrine of infallibility, are justifled by all devout papists. One reason why the A. P. A. opposes Romanism is that | the political principles of the papacy are in . W. BOWM: EDITOR ©O THE AMERICAN PATRIOT. [From a photograph.,| mself fnnumerable people heaps nunto hell, ai may no mortal man in this worid presume to pprebend him. Forasmuch as he is cailed ¢ he may be indged of 1o man, for God may dged of no man. The Bishop of Rome may compel by an oath all rulers wnd other people to observe and canse o be observed whatsoever the See of Eome shall ordain concerning heresy and the favorers thereo?: sud who will not obey he may deprive them of their diznities. Cardinal Manmng, in his defense of the papucy, claimed that’ Rome had the full right 10 depose & Protestant sovereign. In his “Es- says on Religion,” pp. 458-459, he says: “The elction of a Prince in a Christian community cannot be put in the category of & purely civil act. 11, therefore, an heretical Prince is elected or succeeds to the throme, the church has a right to say, ‘I annul the élection or I forbid the succession. Or, again, ii & King of & Christian nation fall$ into heresy, he commits an offense sgainst God * * * and mgainst nis people * * *+ Thereforc, it is in the power of the church, by virtue of the supreme authority with which she is vested by Christ over all Christian men, to depose such a in_punishment of his spiritual crime following concise summary of papal interfer- ence in the affairs of state, from the pen of Rev. Hartwell Horne, M is right to the point: St. Gregory VII twice anathematized and de- posed the Emperor Henry 1V. in 1116 the Em- peror Henry V was deposed by King of Engiand, by Innocent 111 in 1210, and Raymond, Count of Thoulouse, by the same pontify in 121 cmperor Frederick 11 by Inuocent 1V in Peter, King of Arrigon, by Martin IV in 1283 Matthew, Duke of Milan, in 1322, and Louis of Bavar; n 13241 NX11: Barnabas, Duke of Mila 7 3 Alphionzo, King n, n' Vi the King of Navarre by Jullus i1 Henry VIII, King and, by Paul i Henry 111 of in '1683, by Sixtus V, who, on hearing of this mouarch’s assassination’ by Friar Jucques Clement, declared tiat the murderer’s fervent zoal toward God surpassed that of Judith and Kleazer, and that the assassination was eftected by idence! In 1591 Gregory XIV and in following year the uncanonically elected Pope Clement VLI issued bulls of deposition againat i 1V, King of France, whose life was-first at- by oiin Chastel.'s Jesuit, then & monk. Iy Lie was stabbed by Ravaillac. 1n 1569 ins V' deposed Queen Elizabeth, whose Saint Pl | Romanist subiects he stimulated to rebel against | Tion of 1641 tn to the | rted in | | States. | the Piedmont lier and surnished some of them with money to aid their nefarious attempts, and bulis of deposition were fulminated_against that illustrions gueen by Gregory XII1 in 1680, Sixtus \"_in 1587, and Clement VIIT in 1600. Sixtus V in_ his buoll styled Ler a usurper,a heretic and ang excom- municate, gave her throne to Phillip 1168 Spain, and commanded the English to joln the Spaniards in dethroning her. Clement VIITin 1600 jssued a bull to prevent James 1 ascending the throne of Eugland, declaring that *when it should hap. pen ihat that mist rable woman (Queen Elizabeth) should die they (her subjects) should admit none 10 the crown, though ever so neariy allied 1o it by bload, except'they woula not only tolerate the (Ro- man) Catholic religion but promote it to the at- most of their power; and would, according 1o an- cient custom, underiake npon 0ath to periorm the same.” In 1643 Urban VLI issited a bull of depo- sition against Charles I in Ireland. where two years ore not fewer than 100,000 Protestants were ssacred; and 1o those wio had joined the rebel- ame Holy Pontift granted a pie- In 1729 Benedict X111, at (he f Roman Irish prelaces, issned u bull to George 1, Kiug of Iingland, w indulgence. as’ we have above ' gee for ralsing money 1o support the Pre- tender. In_ 1768 Clem X1IT published a brief on occasion of certain edicts issusd by the Duke of Parma and Placentin. in his own do- minions; wherein the Pontift, in the plenitude of his usarped authority, abrovated, rapealed and an- nulled 1 being prej d 1o the 1iberty, immunizy and jurisdiction of hurch. whatever the Duke bnd ordered in lus ediets and forbate hix subjects 10 obey their sovereign: further, depriving all who had either published or obeved the edicts of all thei privileges and incapacitating them from to- ceiving absointion until they shonid fully and en- tirely have restored matteis (0 their formor condi- tion or shonld have made saitable sutisfuction to the cburch and to the Hoty See. 1n 1200 Popé Pins Vi T election 10 the pontificate 1o 1 onis lawiul King of Irance, and in ear he exhibited « most edifying (n- n nary indulgence, instancy dethirone an nt the following » stance of papsl duplicity when it snited his interest by enieringsinto # concordat with Bonaparte, in which. besides suppTessing 146 episcopal and metropoliian sees and dismissing their bishops afid metropolitans without auy form of judicature, he absolved all Frenchmen from their oaths of al- legiunce to their legitimate sovereixn and wuthor- ized an oath of allegiance to the First Consul: and when Lous XVIII sent his embassadors 1o Rome to present his credenticls the POntif refused to receive him. With marvelous infal Ibility, how- ever. not qui e eight years afier the sume Pontift issued w bull. 0 June, 1809, excommunicating Bonaparte and all who adhered 1o him in his in: vasion of the Papal stutes, in which bull he mukes the same extravagant pretensions to sunreme power which hud been put forth by Saint Gregory VII, Innocent 11T and other Pontiffs. On the 22d of January, 1854, Pope Pius IX issued an allocution, which was translated and published in the Neiw York Freeman's Journal, the leading Catholic paper in the United It was a denunciation of the acts of Government. Among other things he smid: “We reject and condemn not only alland each of the decrees of that Gov- ernment hurtful to the rights and authority of religiun, of the church and of the Holy Sec but likewise the law lately proposed. We de- | clare all these acts to be absolutely null and | void.” Within forty-two years we have & Pope de- | Paschal I: Johin, | conflict with the spirit and letter of the Amer- ican constitution. 1. Komanism stands committed to the union of church and state; the constitution repudi- es the dogma. | 2. The constitution guarantees freedom of conscience; the papacy denies the right thus | vonchsafed'to all. 3. The papacy opposes freedom of speech and of the press; the constitution guarantees their freedom. 4. The constitution forbids legislation against | any form of religious worship; the papacy de- | mands legislation against every form of wor- ship but its own. 5. The Declaration of Independence and the constitution make the people the source of civil power; the papacy maintains that the church is the source of civil power. 6. The constitution requires all foreigners seeking eitizenship to renounce all allegiance | to foreign powers; the Romanists boldly avow their allegiance 1o a foreign ruler. | 7. The constitution forbids the appropriation | of state funds for sectarian purposes; the | Romish church has plundered the National | and state treasuries to the extent of miliions of doliars. 8. The constitution makes the laws of the | state superior to those of any church; the | papney maintains that the chureh is above the | State, and not subordinate to it. 9. The Romish church holds that it has the | right to employ force; the spirit of the consti- tution forbids it. 10. The Romish church denies the right of the state to educate the youth of the land; the constitution provides for their edncation. These ten points of opposition to eivil law | are u suflicient reason for our protest against | complete fidelity and obedience to the | lie. The voice ‘of the papacy Is no less uncer- | being Romanized. It is Congress or Vatican; :}’upu or President; confessional-box or bailot- 0x. To Romanize is to Vaticanize. It is to_ ac- knowledge the suptemacy of the Pope. It is to unite church and state. It is to meke the Pope the head of the Nation. It would grant him the seme power that is now vested in the Su- | preme Court. He would decide all questions oir law. The church would be freed jrom clvil censure. The priests would en- | joy immunity from civil law. But the Supremacy of the Pope has been an | unmitigated curse in gl ages and countries. Italy has vomited up Papal supremacy, and America would be msane to swallow down what the Italians have vomited up. To Vati- cafiize means to establish the inquisition in | Ameriea; 1o place the sword of the state in the | hand of ‘the church. To be Romanized the | power of the Pope must be recognized. Itis | asserted in a Papal bull: *We declare, define | and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be | subjéct to the Roman Pontiff.” | Furthermore, to Romanize is to monarchize, | Itis to surrender the republican system of government by the people and to return 1o the monarchial one of government by a_king. The Pope as a temporal ruler claims kingly rights. e cxercises supreme power. There is no appeal from his decision. As a despot he cannot be beaten, The Czar of Russia is notin | it with him. Republicanism has too much liberty for Romanism. It is easier to rulea | people through a monarchial than a republi Can system. ive a man a voice in the Gov- ernment and he ceases 10 be aslave to the Governmenc. There is no obscurity in the position taken by the United States in the matter of aile- | giance; the state requires most perfectand | repub- tain; it demands the unqualified obedience of | itsadherents to the Poutiff. Thus Cardinal | Mauning, speaking in the name of the Pope, has said I acknowleage 1o civil power; I am the subject | of ho ¢ivil power; Tam the subiect of no prince, | and I clatm (0 be more than this. I claim (o be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of men, of the pexsants that til the fields, and of | the p:ince that sits upon the throne; of the house- hold that sits in the shade of privacy’, and the legis- lature that makes laws for kingdoms. 1 am sole. last, supreme judge of what Is right and wrong. | Moreover, we declure, affirm, define and pronounce | It to be necessary (o salvation o every human creature 1o be subject to the Roman Pontiff. All of which may be found in Quirinus {AppendixT, p.852) and the Tablet of October * Tnow auote from Manning’s Decreesand Allegiance, p. 54, where the Cardinal say: It is clear that the civil power cannot define | hosw fur the circumference of faith and moruls ex- | tends. # % % 1f the church cannot fix the limits | of its jurisdicion, then either niobody can or the State must. Bat the State cannot unless it claim | 10 be the depository und expositor of the Christian revelation. Therefore, it is the church or nobo. 1y, This last supposition leads to chaos. Now, if this be rejecied, the church alone can; and if the church can fix the limits ot Is jurisdiction it can | fix the limns of wil o:her jurisdictions. The seme authority, in “Cesarism and Ultra- ? mountanism’ (page 36, nrgues: Any power which 1s independent and can alone fix the limits of its own jurisdiction.ana can | thereby fix the Ilimits of all other Jurisdictions, is, D80 fucto, supreme. The following from an address delivered Ly ;’S_;\e Pius IX| X, of infallibility fame, July 21, is pertinent: There are many errors regarding infallibility; | but the most malicious of all is that which includes in that dogma the right of deposing sovereigns, | and declaring the people no longer bound by the | | ond lieutenant; O. obligation of fidelity. This right has now and again in critical circumstances been exercised by the Pontiffs. * % * [ts origin was not the infal- Libitity, but the authority of the Pope. It is denied by many that the e de- mands the temporal allegiance of papists. Let me quote the following from an encyclical of Leo XIII, November, 1885 We exhort ali Catholics to devote careful atten- tion to public matters, and take partinull mu- nicipal affairs and elections, and all public ser- vices, meetings and gatherings. All Catholics must make themselyes felt as active elements in daily political life in countries where they live. All Catholics should exert their power to cause the constitution of tates to be modeled on the princi- ples of the true church. To be Romanized means to have the political power centralized. The Pope is the center of the system. Ile sustains the same relation to the church that the sun does to the planets. Around him Cardinals, Bishops, priests and laymen all revolve as satellites. He speaks and they obey. To them he is Goa. Thus an abso- Jute monarchy is established. Instead of power diffused amony the people it is localized in the Pope. Allow Rome to succeed in her attempts to Romauize this country and liverty will for- sake her desecrated abode, and despotism will occupy her temple. Heresy would be declared to have no rights. The machinery of the In- quisition would be set to work. The public school system would be abolished and mental darkness settle over the land. Church and State would be united and Government money | would support papal functionaries. Then iib- erty of speech and freedom of the press would be o more. The Dark Ages woula return and civilization be a thing of the past. To prevent such & sad catastrophe the A.P. A.is organized. H. W. Bowsa DISPUTED OREGON GRANT, Appeal Taken by the Railroad From Judge Gilbert’s De- cision. | | | | It Was Held That the Northern Pa. cific Grant Invalidated the Oregon and California’s. | An effort is being made by the Oregon and California Railroad Company and John A. Hurlburt and Thomas L. Evans to have the decision of United States Circuit Judge W. B. Gilbert of Portland, Or., given last September, reversed in the big land grant fight between it and the Government. An appeal from the de- cision has been taken to the United States | urt of Appeals, and a transcript was filed with Frank Monckton, clerk of the court, yesterday. Owing to a dispute as to the status of titles to land in the Willamette Valley and along the Oregon and California erant suit was brought by the United States | Government against the railroad to cancel | patents and restore the land to the public domain. The grant to the Oregon and California was made by the act of July 25, 1866, It was alleged on the side of the Government that the same lands had been conveyed to the Northern Pacific in the grant of that roaa of July 2, 1864—over two yeurs before the Oregon and California | grant—and, hence, that they were not within the purview of the subsequent | grant. To combat this the Oregon and Califor- nia set up the deiense that no provision had been made for any grant to a-*‘branch lme” of the Nortbhern Pacific through Oregon from Puget Sound; that this por- tion of the proposed Northern Pacific route had not been jocated,and that there was no map or report of auy location of said branch line accepted by the Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington. Jud Gilbert took thy i that the grant to the Northern citic for this particular portion of the line from the Columbia River to the southern boundary of Oregon viaa point ‘‘at or near Portianag,” a part of its main grant, and that 1t had located this portion of the intended railroad route and had filed in 1865 a map known as the ‘‘Pernam map'’ with the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the effect of the court’s decision was to declare the Oregon and California’s title to the land in dispute void, in accordance with which he made a decree favorable to the Government. The Oregon and California now comes forward with the usual assignment of er- rors. The docament attacks the reasoning of Judge Gilbert step by step, and still in- sists upon tne litigant road's original con- tentions respecting the supposea forfeit- ure, as it claims, by the Northern Pacific of the disputed grant lands, and the legal- ity of the Oregon and California’s patents to the lands selected. AMONG THE WHEELMEN. Elections of Officers of the Protective Association and Liberty and Alpha Clubs. The Bicycle Protective Association held | its rezular meeting yesterday at which the following officers were elected for the en- suing term: Cal Ewing, president; J. F. Bent, vice-president; R. W. Dennis, sec- retary; Y. Garrity, treasurer; J. W. Cor- nell, sergeant-at-arms. The executive committee will consist of Miss Christine Moran, General S. W. Backus, W. B. Cook- son, W. J. Kenney and A. S. Webb. The association has just finished the first six months of its existence and has been very successiul in the detection of bicycle thieves, the securing of favorable legislation and increased advantages for wheelmen in the City, the pastial lighting | of the park and otlier measures. 1t now pronoses to go into the fight for good roads and will send three delegates to the | next annual good-roads convention at San Jose. The association will meet again the tirst Thursday in February. | At a regular meeting of the Alpha (ladies) Cycling Ctub, held last Wednesday | evening, the following officers were in- stalled: Mrs. J. E. Keller, president; | Miss M. McCarthy, vice-president; Miss Dorothy Pendergast, secretary; Miss E. Cheifers, treasurer; Mrs, Fry, sergeant-at- | arms; Mrs., Henry Wynhe, captain; | Miss M. Mahony, first lieutenant; Miss Lena Egeberg, second lieutenant. The | club is in a most flourishing condition. | | | The memuers are all sturdy road riders, and they are continually seen in their | handsome blue uniformson the country and park roads. The Pacitic Cycling Club will have a run to the beach Sunday, starting from the corner of Eddy and Devisadero streets at 9 o’clock, under Captain Pryor. | George G. Shepston is now a member of | the Pacifics. Vice-President Scott is out again, after an iliness of a fortnight. At a regular meeting of the Liberty Cy- | cling Club, held last Tuesday evening, the following* ofticers were eclected, who will serve for three month: C. Westphal, president; W. E. Bouton, secretary-treas- urer; W. N. Beattie, captain: P.N. Nan- sen, first lieutenant; Thomas Wood, sec- t. Denis, sergeant-at- arms. The club will entera team in the an- nual relay race, and the matter has been placed in the hands of Norval Robinson. t was decided to invite the visiting com- mittee of the League of American Wheel- men to call on the club Tuesday evening, February 4, that the members may le about the orgamzation witn the robability of joining it. Captain Beattie has called a run for Sunday to the Presidio. ———————— | E1 Dorado Parlor Officers. El Dorado Parlor No. 52, N. 8. G, W., installed the following new officers last night at the new Natiye Sons’ hall on Mason street, be- tween Geary and Post. J. G. Jol M. Baker, first vice-president; ( ond vice-president: L. ‘ dent; E. N. Ptelan, rding secretary; D. financial secretary; R. Hober, treasurer: | i. Frisbie ana W. J. Hawking, surgeons, Samueis, JI. Abrams and 'F. Smith, trustees. After the regular meeting a baun- quet was enjoyed. This parlor is now making preparations for its eleventh annual ball ou February 11. This will be one of the first grand social events in the new Native Sons’ Hail. S e pei L The fly-shuttle was invented by John Kay of Bury, England, in 1738, | and cla ! mon, | evenings. 7 to 8:30. Sundays, 10 to 1. RAIN THAT COMETH HOT. Why, It's About the Driest Rainy Season on Record to Date. A NEVADA “HIGH” IS TO BLAME. Interesting Weather Figures and Philosophy That Don't Tell How Much Rain We'll Get. Yesterday was the eighteenth rainless | day and the sun went down on as bright and soft a California winter day as ever | promised a warm and sunny morrow. The entire State is interested in the question, When will 1t rain? The City folks want more of these glorious days that lure to the parks, hills and highway=. The farmers in the interior valle are generally nearly at the point of prayi for rain that they can plow and that seeds may sprout and wheat may grow. | The orchardists are not in a hurry for rain and warm weather in fear that the fruit trees will bloom too early and suffer from frosts. There are all sorts of individual hes about the rain coming right away, but the fact is generally recog- nized throughout the State that a good, widespread rain is at the point of being badiy needed. Forecast Otlicial W. H. Hammon talked weather a good deal yesterday, but he didn’t know what the rain record was go- ing to be. So far this season we have had 4.1 inches of rain, while the seasonal aver- age on January 9 is about 10 inches. So weare about 6inches short to date. The last rain that amounted to morehan a trace occurred December 21, when .34 of an inch fell. So far this season, Mr. Hum- mon says, there have been two rains that | | were general over the State. The most rain has fallen in the upper Sacramento Valley and the upper coast, where the sea- sonal average has been nearly reached. In December last there were nine rainy days out of thirty-one, whilein December, 1854, there were twentv-two rainy days, or nine on which rain did not fall. "Last year the rainfall to date was 15.67 inches, and during the first eight days of last January three inches of rain fell during five days. There have been but two seasons since the beginning of the record when less rain had fallen before January 9 than this season. In 1876-77 4.01 inches Lad fallen at this date, and in 1878-79 3.2 inches. In 1886-87 the record stood at 4.63, and in 1883-54 it was 5.1 at this date. These are the four seasons, dry in the early part, corresponding closely with the present one. This season, then, has so far been one of the driest that San Francisco and the central part of the State has known. ““There is no reason,’”’ says Mr. Ham- “‘that the rainfall should not be normal from now on, and the chances are that it will be. We are now six inches behind the average, and the chances are that we will come out six inches behind. The average rainfall is not the probable rainfall for a season, though. The proba- ble rainfall is only about 20 inches—that is, there have been as many seasons in which the rainfall has been less than 20 inches as there have been in which there has been more. The average is raised by T seasons of very excessive rains, as in 1889- | ! 90, when there was 42 inches. ‘There is a reason for this fine dry spell— cold fera while and then nice and warm —as many people may have ignorantly suspected, Mr. Hammon blames it all on Nevada. It is; the Sagebrush State, which has no reason to do California an injury, that has kept away the blessed ‘rains that has "been trying to get to us ever since Christmas. "The usual output of storms has core to the coast from the big storm factory of the Pacitic, but they bave been sheered off to the north by Nevada. Our rains are all due to areas of low pressure which float in to the northern coast, draw currents from all directions to the storm center, where the air is the iightest, and cause precipitation. As these “lows” come in and travel across the continent they are always stopped or turned by *‘highs,” in which the air is dense. So when a “‘low” comes in, the lo- cation of an impeding “high” will show where it will or will not rain. Ever since Christmas a big low has set- NEW TO-DAY. Dr. Sanden’s Electric Belt Recognized and adopted by pro- gressive physicians everywhere as the most simple and effective appliance for the cure of weak- ness and disease. 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MANH tion of a fam Insomul Pimples Consti) Desy all the ho: ition, BEFORE ano AFTER CLUPIDENE strengthens and res! Prostatitia. CUPIDENE Is the oniy aln. A written guarantee given and m: #1002 box, six for $5.00, by mail. " Bend ¢ Address DAVOL MEDICINE CO,, tled over the Great Basin between the Sierras and the Rockies. The cold has squeezed all the moisture out of it, the | heat has radiated out of it. and 1t has set- | tled down between and amony the moun- tains and got stuck the: Al the winter storms that have come from the west since have had to get around it by going | miles farther north than the usu 1 winter | track. So we have missed theni. A BIG STATE EXHIBIT. | The Board of Trade Will Soon Increase | Tts Scope of Usefulnoss. | Membersof the California State Board of Trade are projecting a new departure in the way of exhibits. In a short time the exhibit now at Atlanta will be re- | turned to this City and installed at 16 Post | street. The proposition, which is made by | W. H. Mills, is that the old stock sllall_ue | increased by what he calls a commercial 1t. The present exhibit is of fruit, farm products, etc.. of all kinds. The ad- dition will be of all the manufacturing products in the territory west of the Rocky Mountains. including Alaska, the Sand- | wich and Samoan Isiands. These will be lumber, cl pottery, sand for glass, | building stone, with descriptions of the deposits and quarries, Materials for street construction will also be exhibited. From the Sandwich Islanc will be ar and its fruits of the islands; Alaska will furnish coal, woods and precious metals, and a Jarge collection of mining extibits will be added. It has been suggested that com- petitive exhibits be made, and medals 1 | diplomas be given to counties producing | not the largest quantity but the finest qual- {1ty of fruits and prodiic NEW TO-DAY. NEWS from the NEW STORE | | Lots of room, lots of light an4 lots We’re doing every= and we're | of New Goods. thing to merit trade, getting it. SWEATERS! Rescued from the big fire at Battery and | Market streets. We hought ’em atauction for little or nothing. Price $1.00. CHILDREN’S SULES, Blue Cheviot, double-breasted, 9 to 14, two pieces, worth $3 50 $2 50 1its, same as above, from $2 00 up | | Reefer S Complete line of Mechanics’ Goods— Overalls, Jumpers, Cardigan Jackets, Painters’ and Plasterers’ Overalls. An immense and brand new stock of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing in all the up-to-date stvles. The Bestat the Loweit | Prices. nature | CARROLL & TILTON, | 811 MARKET ST., Flood Building. THESUCCESS OF THE SEANON THE LADIES' GRILL ROON ——OF THE— PALAGE HOTEL, | | DIRECT ENTRANCE FROM MARKET ST. OPE N UNTIL MIDNIGHT. DR.WOXG W00 n 1 Chinese Drugs {and Tea and Herb Sanitarium 776 CLAY STREET, Bet. Kearny and Dupont, an Francisco. L have been troubled for two vears with in flammation of the lungs and heart disease, and was unmable to find re lief by any physici I was treated for th weeks by Dr. Wong Woo and perfectly” restored to g health. JOHN REGLI, e Six Mile House, Mission Road. ! The Hotel ‘* Par Excellence'” Ofthe National Capital First class in all appolas ments. G DEWITT. Treas American plan, $3 per day and upward. ¥ | IRON BEDS, BRASS BEDS, | FOLDING BEDS, | Wirz and Hair Mat- i tresses, Reclining Chairs, Wheel ( i Commodes. Back Res:3 | W. 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