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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 189€. FATHER YORKE T0 JOHN S, RITTELL, The Priest Says Hittell Made Fraudulent Quo- tations. FORGERY IS CHARGED. Another Letter to Dr. Wendte on the Doctrine of Church and State. H. W. BOWMAN WRITES AGAIN. He Declares the Popes Have Caused the Ruin of Ireland, Italy and Spain. The Rev. Father Yorke, writing in an- swer to John 8. Hittell, says: January 20, 1896. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—DEAR Sik: John S. Hittell has waxed virtuously 1ndignant that I should de iniallibility or his references. It is wonderful that the men who rage most vio against the in- 11ibility of the Pope prove to be the most 3 en their own inerrancy is called in in answer to my objections he has merely reiterated asa bar to all future benefit he lings th has conft shedding on it the light of hLis countenance for more than forty vears. THAT QUOTATION. In the course of my argument with Dr. Wendte I was compelled to c e the suthenticity of certain_quotatio Eight of these were taken from M Hittell's book, and on Mr. Hittell Dr. Wendte threw the responsi- bility. Of these eight quotations Mr. Hittell now magnific meanders into print to verify two. F The doctrine of Aquinasis that “the power of all_temporal princes derives its strength and eficacy soleiy from the spiritual power of the Popes,” and I referto_Doellinger’s “Fables Respecting Popes of the Middle Ages” (English translation), page 153. I might have cited also Gregorovius' ~History of Medieval Rome,” in German, page 117, volume VI. 1 did not refer to the Latin of Aquinas, because the Dook is rare, and the generai readers for whom my treatise was intended could not verify the accuracy of my citation. My for- gery consists in quoting word for word from Doellinger in the English translation. This answer «as called out by two assertions which I made concerning Mr. Hittell's citation. | On the 15th I wrote: “1. Asamatter of fact the reference [of Mr. Hittell] is a frand. Doeliinger does not refer to Thomas Aquinas at ali, and he makes no quo- tation whatsoever.” n the 17th I wrote: The trouble is that Doeilinger does not say what Hittell makes him say. In other words, Hittell has been guilty of forgery pure and simp! Now, there is only one way to settle this mat- ter, and that way is to put Mr. Hittell's quota- tion and the original side by side. This Ido in parallel columns: HITTELL DOELLY ER. The Dominican, Tolo- meo of Lucea, author of the two iasc books of the work “De Regimine Thomas Aquinas, the greatest among the doc- tors of the church, teaches that “the power of all temporal princes | Principum,” the first derives its strength and two books of which are effica olely from the | by Thomas Aquinas, spiritual power of the | goes beyond his prede- ropes.” cessors and explains i tion as a for- ation of Con- ster: and connecti with this other histori- cal circumstances which are either inven- tions or misconceptions, he thence draws the conclusion that the power of all_temporal princes derives its strength and efficacy solely from the spiritual power of the Popes. Concerning this quotation the judicious reader will at once remark that Doellinger does not ascribe the docirine to Aquinas but to Tolomeo de Lucca. Hence, when Mr. Hittell gives it as the teach- ing of Thomas Aquinas, he proves that either he cannot read English or that he is con- sciously dishones Moreover, Doellinger does not pretend to uote from Tolomeo. As a matter of fact, e iy ab A ot T A1 ot B O e Regi- mine Principum” which bears any resemblance to Doeilinger’s phrase. Doellinger gives in nis own words what he conceived to be the doctrine of Tolomeo, and Hittell takes Doel- linger's words, vouches for them by inverted commas and puts them in the mouth of St. Thomas. If this is not forgery, I should like 10 know what is. A RARA AVIS. Mr. Hittell tries to excuse himself by saying that he did not refer to the Latin of Aquinas because the book is rare. The book is not rare. At half an hour's notice I can get a dozer edi- tions in this City alone. Three or four dollars will purchase & set of all St. Thomas’ works through any bookseller. That & man with pre- tentions to scholarship should sey that “De Regimine Principum’ is a rare book is 1anta- mount to & confession of a deplorable unac- quaintance with bibliography. 1 have my own opinion about the real reason why Mr. Hittell did not refer to Aquinas. I believe he could Dot translate it. It is not necessary for me to enter on an ex- smination of that work to show that the au- thors do not hold the opinions attributed to them by Doellneger or Gregorovius. Both these writers were advocating a theory which Manning has successfully demolished. Both were interested in proving that the Popes bed made claim to a direct temporal supremacy, and neither was above torturing sentences’ to evoke a confession in accordance with their theories. When Mr. Hittell gives evidence that he has read the original work and tries to show that their theories are correct then I will undertake to answer him. But as the questior. now stands I have proven him either grossly ignorant or designediy dis- honest. By the laws of logic I am compelied to do no more. A KEY TO A CRITICISM. As a certificate of character Mr. Hittell pro- duces & criticism of his book which appeared in the Westminster Review. With his usual ingenuity he only quoted what suited him. He stopped short where he discovered that the reviewer was laughing at him. The well- known contempt with which the English Lib- erals regard Exeter Hall, the London Metro- politan Temple, is the key to the interpreta- tion of these words wiich Mr. Hittell was care- ful to omit. “This book will be found a useful armory for the ultre-Protestant lecturer or preacher.’” The Monitor closed its criticism with the very same idea: “By the A.P.A. and kindred societies J. 8. Hittell will be hailed as a benefactor. The stock of patriotic forgeries has never been very diversified and at present is running low. The bogus bulls and blood-curdling encyclicals have outlived their usefulness. Quite & new harvest may be gleaned from the pages* of J. 8. Hittell. Of course we must confess that there are too many dictionary terms in the book for the American patriots to get over by judicious skipping. But if J. S. Hittell could be rsuadet] to breax up & few of the chapters nto words of one syllable we believe his work would have an instantaneous success as a patriotic document.” MR. HITTELL'S SENTIMENTS. Let me quote a few passages at random from the book t0_show the truth of these remarks, This is Mr. Hittell's description of a Catholic “The papist_is an intellectual monster wh has outlived the medieval culturestep to which he properly belonged. He has dwelt in & seclu- sion which has not permitied him to under- stand the world as it now is, or to see his own reflection.” This is a specimen of his mendacity: he pists assert that the church has exclusive r:rildlclion over marriage; thatall State laws on the subjec! d all ceremonie: rformed under such laws are void. and that Protestants or Jews living together under the authority of such ceremonies are not married and their children are not legitimate.” a This is how he maligns his neighbors: “The Papacy commands its lay adberents to believe without regard to the manner in which they receive their faith. It forbids them to discuss the dogmas of the church publicly or privately; it does not publish doctrinal books ior them; it will not allow them to read books written lfi!innt the faith or du&llpline of their church. The most stupid credulity. isto be his assertions and pleads | grelerre\l infinitely to the most intelligent loubt.” This is how he concludes: The ))tl)ucy nhas provided a den for the most detestable of all series of rulers, a shelter for the most debased populace, & stronghold for the most oppressive administration and & school for train- ing the most skillful of ecclesiastical forgers. It has fostered evil for the purpose of profiting from the helplessness and the misery of the people. It has cherished the maxim that man’s adversity is the priest's opportunity, and it has done its utmost to reduce humanity to deepest adver- sity. But the days of its triumph have passed to return no more forever; it is marching in disgrace to a dishonored grave, cursed as the great infamy of modern times by an enlight- ened public opinion.” A CHARACTER SKETCH. With these opinions before him the fair- minded American can judge of the sincerity of John 5. Hittell when he expresses his opinion that his forty years’ residence in this com- munity should give him immunity from apim- adversions of a “sacerdotal fraud.” I ven- ture to express my opinion that his forty years’ residence in this Community should have pre- served him from the crime which caused these animadversions. He came here when San Franeisco was but a village d under his eyes it has grown to be a great city. The men who were the prime factors in the making of this metropolis were not unknown to him. Among them were many Catholics, and Mr. Hittell’s memory cannot conjure up an instance when these men were untrue to the obligations of their citizenship. With many of them he was on terms of | familiar intercourse. He knew that they the Pope himself. The Pope is the supreme representative of God in spirituai things, the state is the supreme representative of in temporal things. To these wordsof the Pope Dr. Wendte vouchsafed no answer. I remark, however, that the reverend doctor goes off on a side track. He asserts dogmat- ically: “The true American and Protestant principle * * * declares that God is indeed over all, but in the ordering of political society “the voice of the people is the voice of God.' This basic axiom of free republican institu- tions Rome has ever denied and opposed.” The assertions contained in that paragraph could have been uttered ouly by a tyro in his- tory. Idonotwish to follow Dr. Wendfe into side issues, but I will state here categorically: 1. Popular sovereignty is not a Protestant principle. 2. The success of Protestantism historically eventuated in the destruction of the people’s liberties. . Roman Catholicism has always favored end fostered the right of the neo})le to rule. 4. The Jesuits were the chiei opponents of the despotic claims of kings to divine right. . Nearly a thousand years before Protes- tantism & Pope had laid down the principle, “The people made the king, they can also un- meke him.” CONCERNING SUAREZ. Dr. Wendte is very suspicious of Saurez, I produced the zreat Jesuit to testify that the Supreme Pontiff has no direct temporal power over the world excegt in these provinces of which he is temporal lord. Against this tesiimony Dr. Wendte sapiently objects that Suarez should say that the Pope cannot or ought not to' have direct temporal power over the world. were loyal to their creed, and he knew | that often with much sacrifice they had 1abored to build up the walls of Jerusalem in this new land. Of the heads of the church in California he knew what all men knew, thav their life was without stain, their conversation blameless. If I mistake not, he felt once upon a time proud to enjoy the friendship of Cath- olics, and it may be that he is not entirely free from'at least the obligations of gratitude_to men whose children he now derides. Yet | in the face of all this in his old age he comes before the world with a ook whose pages are packed with insult against everything his former companions reverenced. The anti-papist volumes at his disposal have been eviscerated to foul the good name of his ancient benefactors. Where srgument fails vituperation is at hand,and his 300 pages of mendacity are clothed in the literary style affected by longshoremen. His production is a child of senilit Feakness is stamped upon its every line. e a malicious hag who imaginesthe bystanders are deriding her he squats in the streets and blindly gropes for & stone to hurl at his tormentors. The fee- ble fingers, however, are unable to close over anything more substantial than mud. Sereech- ing and scolding he casts it into the air, but it only <alls back on Limself to defile him more in the eyes of those whose contemptuous pity is their only crime. Yours truly, P. C. YORKE. e CHURCH AND STATE. Father Yorke Replies to Dr. Wendte on the Position of His Church. The Rev. Father Yorke contributes the | following reply to the Rev. Dr. Wendte: SAN FrANCISCO, January 20, 1896. To the Editor of the Call~DEAR SiR: The Rev. Dr. Wendte grows more surprising every day 1 understood that in this controversy we were to discuss principles and arguments. 1 find, however, that Dr. Wendte having started out by demonstrating the nationality of his cook clinches his contentions by demonstrating the | religious convictions of his tailor. In addition, | he provides me with & mythical biog- | raphy, and to sccentuate his triumph over me endows me with the added advantages of | Protestant birth and training. Whsat kind of | a thing Protestant birth may be and what ad- | va tages it has over Hindoo birth or Mono-. | physite birth I cannot always thought we were all born pagans. However, this advantage 1 am_ _com- | | with religion, is not our meanin | necessary to use up all_the auxiliary verbs in imagine. I Can Dr. Wendte bLe serious? Is the holding of power a question of theory or a question of fact? When we say Congress does not interfere plain? Is it the lanuguage and declare that Congress “might, ought, could, would or should not interfere?”’ ~ When Susrez made the statement of fact that the Pope had no direct temporal vower, he also covered the question of right. Dr. Wendte must be hard pressed when he descends to quibbles. MANITOBA. As & diversion Dr. Wendte now de- scends on Menitoba and holds Suarez and & worldly minded clergy respon- sible for the arresting of free and republi- can institutions. Let me ask Dr. Wendte are worldly minded clergymen confined to the Roman Catholic communion. Has not Oak- land given us within the past two years the spectacle of worldly minded clergymen and worldiy minded members of church’ societies up to their necks in politics? Is the genus unknown in any city, town, village or hamlet of this country—are they not all” with hardly an exception non-Catholics? And in Manitoba is it not a fact that all the fury has been stirred up by the preachers, and for what? To make a whole province partici- pate in the violation of solemn promi. Isat | Tepublican to ignore treaties? Is it true free- dom to trample on minorities? Does it con- duce toadvancement to refuse justice? Yet the majority in Manitoba to-day are backed up by the preachers and it would appear by Dr.Wendte stand shameless before the world and declare that neither pledge, nor engagement, nor promise binds which bas not the majority ack of it to effect its enforcement. Manitoba and Dr. Wendte forget that right always makes a majority and that God does not count heads when he judges justice. TAXATION OF CHURCHES. Dr. Wendte next falls foul of Cardinal Tar- quini. The Carcinal wrote “Civil society, evan though every member of it be Catholic, isnot subject to the Church, but plainly independent inéemporul things which regard its temporal end? gainst this clear statement comes Dr. Wendte armed with a notice from the old mis- | sion of Monterey, which notice anathematized the taxation of should like to know is taxation a peculiar Catholic church, or does it flow from any Catholic doctrine. 1f I remember rightly the loudest voice which has been lifted lately against the taxation of churches has been the voice of the Methodist Bishop Fitzzerald. It is the utmost puerility to imagine thata desire church property. Now, I this _ dislike to property of _the {\el'[ed to disclaim. 1 am afraid Dr. perin s of gossip. The only Protestant blood inm veins great-great-great-great grandfather. I need hardly remark that this interesting old gentle- man was dead before I was born. _As I under- stand that he was one of Cromwell’s troopers I cannot say that I regret his decease. | 1do not imagine that your readers, Mr. Edi- | the tor, have slightest _interest in my Diography or in Dr. Wendte's kitchen. | From my boyhood I have been on | terms of acquaintance and friendship with | Protestants. My training, however, such asitis, | was received exclusively from Catholic masters. I would be the last in the world to | deny the immense services which converts | | have rendered the church, but these converts | themselves ave the readiest to repudiate the force upon them. In every age God has chosen Lis own instruments to do his own work out of church ceased to be the joyful mother of children. QUESTION, DR. WENDTE. But leaving aside these megacities, let us | come to the question at issue. In my last let- ter Tasked Dr. Wendte what he would do if & Uniterian_congregation_should come into collision with & state. That question Dr. | Wendte discreetly leaves unanswered. I do not intend, however, to allow him the subterfuge of silence. He insists that we Catholics shall theoretically provide for every contingency and turn our theologies into something like these prophetic almanacs which are so popu- lar in certain sections. All you have to do is 10 look up the date and there you will find out kinds of contingencies, and then demands congregation should come in conflict with a state? Remember, every civil goverumentis a state, and let us héar your answer. ‘WHAT I PROVED. disjointed remarks he makes upon my exposi- tion of Catholic teaching I cannot conceive. That teaching was put as clearly as I could put it,and I tried hard to make my words direct and clear_them of ambiguity. Let me sum up the chief points of my statement. 1. Istated t2at man had two kinds of inter- ests, temporal interests and spiritual interests. 2.'To attain his temporal interests he organ- ized into states. 3. To attain his spiritual Interests Christ or- ganized men into a churen. very nature separate and distinct. 5. The church is supreme in spiritual mat- ters, the state is supreme in temporal matters. ."The Pope claims no temporal power over civil governments. 7. Imay now add that his indirect power over civil govzrnments, of which Dr. Wendte seems 10 be so afraid, is neither more nor less than every man with a conscience claims for himself and grants to others. On this last assertion I will not dwell now. When Dr. Wendte tells me what he would do in case a Unitarian congregation fell foul of a state I may go into fuller explanations. DR. WENDTE'S OBJECTIONS. Ageinst these statements what argument does Dr. Wendte bring? Give ear, O San Fran- cisco, and let Oakland hear! *‘What we do object to, what eve and every Protestant repudiates and disclaims, is the further dictum of the Roman Catholic church that the Po(p’aa( Rome is the Supreme representative of God on earth,and that all human goyernments must subject themselves to_his will.” 4 Now let me ask Dr. Wendte where he found this to be Catholic teaching. True he pro- uced a catera of quotations from John §. Hittell, but I have shown that all these quota- tions are spurious, doctored or inapplicable. Does Dr. Wendte wish to prove me a traitor on_evidence that would put its concocter in San Quentin if it were offered in a court of law? Instead of renewing his assault,let him attend to his demoralized witnesses. When he has weeded out the maimed, the halt, the blind, the lame, he may plan another cam- E:lgn. But as it is now, he is in decidedly d company and he, not the conduct of the Pope, is under suspicion. A SERIOUS PREDICAMENT. To me this is the most serions aspect of the whole matter. Dr. Wendte has been betrayed into employing a number of quotations, which quotations I have shown to be spurious, garbled or irrelevant. What is Dr. Wendte to do? His case depends on the authenticity or the pert- nence of these excerpts from Catholic writers. 1f they fai! his case goes to the wall. He will stand in the unenviable position of one who attacked the character of his neighbor by the same means the Sanhedrim used against Christ—false witnesses whose testimony was not agreeing. Let me entreat him to face this question like aman. It makes no difference what his pri- vate opinions are or how charitable his dispo- sition toward us may be. We are not looking for cnarity; we demand justice. Dr. Wendte has wronged us and he should repair the wrong before speaking of “‘benedictions.” Religion is not sentimentality but fairplay. Our duty to God is not performed by nursing an oppression on our diaphragms. but by doing our duty to man. If Dr. Wendte has brought false witness American retracted that testimony. If he haseven a rea- sonable suigicien that his authorities have misied him he cannot salve his conscience by merely withdrawing from the controversy. Dr. Wendte's reputation for good faith is at stake, and he cannot afford to let judgment go by default. THE CHURCH FOSTER§ LIBERTY. To illustrate my assertions concerning Cath- olic doctrine I produced a few quotations from Catholic writers as to the limit of the Pope’s l wer. Dr. Wendte's wild statement that the ope of Rome is the supreme representative of God on earth Icont; Wendte’s ear bends too readily to the whis: | omes from my grandmother’s | every nation and belief, butin no age has the ! just what is going to happen, such as marriages, balls, cotillions snd other forms of war, battle and sudden | | death. Dr. Wendte grows eloquent on all irom us what we are going o do. I put before him only one supposition and I expect a reply: What would you do, Dr. Wendte, if & Unitarian | What Dr. Wendte wishes to prove by the few | 4. Church and state are, therefore, by their | against us, he should never rest until he has | to procure exemption from taxes is a sign of | political ambition. Every man who has a few acres of young fruit trees is are we therefore in danger of a domination from a caste o fruit- growers? Museums and libraries open to the public are not taxed. Shall we say that | churches are less beneficial? Of all the hum- bug of thisage of humbuggery the caut about | the taxation of churches is the worst. The | whole Tzesnon is & question of public senti- ment. If any one wishes to raise the question and to agitate in its favor and to organize an anti-taxation of churches society, t free country, and every American citizen is );nvfleged to'advocate any measure he pleases. he howling dervishes who rant and rave and gyrate and_prophesy the domination of Rome | are the real enemies to American liberty and exempt, litical | monopoly of brains which Dr. Wendte would Hiaerihol Unatsen, I might as well say here to Dr. Wendte in re- | gard 1o the taxation of churches that we | Catholics are notgrowling. The pinch is feltnot by us, because we have the people, but by the little social clubs yclept churches. Their di- minutive size, their cheerless interior and | their unpainted boards are testimonies to the | visits of the taxpayer and monuments of stin- giness raised to insult the Lord. | MORE NESCIENCE. Dr. Wendte must be very unlearned in the | history of toleration when he asks, Who was Bishop Doyle? Iam not surprised, however, at his question, because, after his rendition of Catholic doctrine, I am prepared for anything. Bishop Doyle was the greatJ.K.L.—the man who pregared the way for Catholic emancipa- | tion, an who by his genius ted from the Duke of Wellitgton the compliment, “No, sir; | the House of Lords did not examine Dr, Doyle, | but Or. Doyle examined the House of Lords,"” Dr. Wendte says why should we take Bishop | Doyle’s testimony as against the utterances of Popes and councils. Here is the old ques- tion again. Produce your Popes and coun- cls, Dr. Wendte, and set their utterances | over against the wordsof J. K. L. We do not quote bogus popes and stufied councils, It is easy | enough to make a man of straw and easier still | to knock him down. We are not dealing with | shams; we are dealing with realities.” Pro- | duce your Catholic doctrine, for you haye not done 50 yet. In his vain attempt to defend his gerryman- | dering of Bishop Gilmour’s quotation Dr, | Wendte exposes the nakedness of his cause. | Why did he only give a scrap from the pastoral | when he had the whole document before him? | Was it the same reason which impelled him to | cut off Pope Leo’s sentence in the middle, so | that he could fill in with surmises and innuendo and suspicion? My explanation of the Yflisnge is the simple and natu- ral explanation that Dr. Wendte does | not wish to accept it. He picks on the expres- sion that the church is above the state. Let me ask him is there no sense in which that ex- ression is true—as true for the Unitarian as or the Catholic? Let me again repeat my question, What would Mr. Wendte do if the state forbade his congregation to worshipafter the Unitarian fashion? The answer to this nestion I have a right to get from Dr. Wendte. hen he gives it our way will be very clear. A LAST APPEAL. I am sorry that Dr.Wendte is thinking of withdrawing from the controversy. My grief is increased when I realize that an expectant world is to be deprived of a sight of the *‘over- whelming proofs drawn from biography, his. tory, art, science, social and national - life” that Rome is the abomination of desolation. After his experience with the 11,000 virgins of Cologne, I remark that Dr. Wendte has fought shy of physiology. Still he might have drawn some proofs from geology, botany, astronomy and conchology, not to mention the binomial theorem and the theodoiite. I regret | exceedingly the doctor’s determination. It would be an inspiring spectacle to behold all these arts and sciences gloating over the Roman Gulliver and tying him down to earth with their liliputian threads. Surely Dr.Wendte will relent. 't him not be too fearsome. Of course, it would be a terrible thing toover- throw Rome by one newspaper article, es- pecially an article that has been seasoned this many & year by the dust of the top shelf. Still, it is possible Rome might survive. Dr, Wendte does not forget the milk white hind that was “oft doomed to death, but fated not to die.” . C. York. e PO H. W. BOWMAN’S LETTER. He Holds Rome Responsible for the Condition of Spaln and italy. H. W. Bowman contributes the follow- ing to the controversy : OFFICE AMERICAN PATRIOT, 819 Market street. Editor San Francisco Call — DEAR Sir: If Rome’s motto, Semper eadem, be true her past history willy give us & clew to the future. Let us learn what has resulted from the Roman- ization of two mighty nations of Eurove, Spain and Italy, and then judge of what the result would be here. Before doing so we will lay down a proposition and let the fact of history prove it. To Romanize is to pauperize. Ro- manism breeds pauperism like a swamp does mosquitoes. Popery and poverty keep step to- gether. pal bums are manufactured in Papal slums. With them beggary is a fine art and poverty is a virtue. They set a premium upon religious laziness and canonize ecclesi- astical tramps. Mental sloth leads to physicai iudolence. The church sbsorbs the wealth of the people. Protestant industry is the result of manly independence. Mental n;fnntlon will_ %luperize a nation, while freedom of thought will produce an industrial revolution. Ireland’s poverty is due to her poper{l. Eng- 1and is & beehive of industry because lier peo- ple are free. Popery not only makes men physical paupers but mental and religious ones also. Rome and rags go together. Ro- manism impoverishes by her vices and by her misdire virtues. Property value:gro lown when Romanists move into town. The Ro manized quarters of our cities are not as valu- cted by the words of | able as the other portions. Romanism flour- l ishes in dirt, disease, ignorance and squalor. Education is a wealth-producing factor, hence Lflaounce and poverty are inseparable allies. bor is productive in_ proportion to the intel- ligence with which it is carried on. The aesti- tution of the savage is the result of hisigno- Tance. Let us carefully note what popery has done for Spain and Italy. Never was a nation so completely under the influence of Romanism as Spain. italy herself, subdivided into several nations, each having different tendencies, crossed by hostile armies, visited by foreigners, has not remained so her- metrically sealed against all external influ- ences as Catholic Spain, lounded by Ferdinand, guarded by a legion of monks, purged from all heresy by the Inquisition, and crystallized in Romanism by policy, by the church and even by the popular instinets. Spain, for three cen- turies under the practical workings of Roman- ism, reduced to a. of torpor by a system of x%norsnee. is to-day seeking to burst the bands flbe‘;:ml despotism and sighing Yor genuine y. Spain is unrivaled in respect to natural ad- vantages. On the north she is protected by the magnificent mountain-wall of the Pyre- Dees: on the south she holds the key of ‘the Mediterranean, the preat highway of com- merce for the world; while the treasure- {raught waves of the Atlantic dash upon her Wwestern shores. Her rich soil well repays the toil of diligence. Her harvests are bounti- ful. The sunny slopes, when dotted with vine- yards and the valleys with orchards, give it an added charm. The climate is varied. The cotton and rice of the tropics and the cereals of the north can be found in her domains. The rich vegetation, with the banana, the olive, the lemon and the orange grove, make it & semi-tropical paradise. Then the citron, the mulberry and the sugar cane vie with the rich fruit of the hollows and the aromatic shrubs upon_her hillsides. Theu her valuable mines, so full of precious metals, are not exhausted yet, and the historic renown of her people rests like a mantle of glory o’er her shoulders. Three centuries ago she stood at the head of the European nations. The splen- dor of ner successive conquests, the glory of her colossal empire and the dread of her un- bridled power ‘was the talk of Europe. The wonderful aiscovery of America by Columbus had given her the key to the treasures of the New World. Wealtn flowed into her coffers. Her ports were thronged with richly laden vessels from Mexico and Peru. Her empire grew in sirength and wealth. Industry re- vived, and the energies of the busy north” and the ‘treasures of the sunny south all added 10 her power and influence. The land swarmed with human lives of indus- try. Towns multiplied and queenly cities reared their heads. But her splendor has vanished, her power departed, her conquests ceased. Her victorious armies are a memory of the past, her renowned fleets that once were the terror of the seas are seen n‘mn the ocean N0 more, her far-reaching territorial posses- sions have slipped from her grasp, and the coffers that once overflowed with wealth are now empty. The fame of camp and court, of deeds of chivalry and voyages of conquest be- longs to the dim past. What has wrought the change? What baneful influence has blightea the land? POPERY HAS BEEN THE CURSE OF SPAIN. The frost of Jesuitism blighted the reforma- tion in the bud. The Inquisition brought a curse upon theland. It is Popery that has re- duced her armies to guerrilla bands, that has annihilated her navy, withered her commerce, dried up her wealth ‘and deprived her of her colonies. Look at Spain to-day! Her political influence ubroad has vanished, and at home she presents & spectacle of universal corrup- tion. With a bankrupt exchequer, with a soii only half tilled, with highways without traffic and overrun with bandits; with harbors desti- tute of ships, with her once splendid cities crumbling into ruinous decay, with her once noble people relapsing into femi-barbertsm, with a corrupt Erie-lhoud keeping the people in ignorance, Spain has sunk to the lowest deptn of natfonal infamy, where her very name hes become a byword of contempt. Popery has spoiled Spain—it will ApollAmerfi:a if given a chance. The following graphic description of Spain by Tardif reveals its true status under the beleinl influence of Romsanism. He says: *Spain s a dispossessed Queen. For two hun. dred years and more diamonds have been fall- ing from her glittering crown. The source of her wealth, we!l or 1ll gotten, s exhausted forever. Her treasures are lost, her colonies are gone, she is deprived of the prestige of that external opulence which veiled, or at least dissembled, her real and utter poverty. The nation is exhausted to such a degree and has been so long unhappy that each individual feels but his own misery. His country has ceased to exist for him; even those times are gone when guerrillas called the citizens to arms for the sole and generous purpose of vindicating the national honor. The despondency "and apathy of the na- tion are visible even in the battles sought by the spaniards among themselves in their civil dissensions. They fight from habit and discharge their muskets at their country- men because they can do notbing else, and because every shot from their guns may bring them a piece of bread. A nation reduced to such a state is low indeed; the chilliness of death is very near seizing upon its extremi- ties. * * * What would Charles V say if, rising out of his grave, he saw his great and glorious Spain struggling thus miserably in dread uncertainty of her future destinies? Where are my colonies? Where are my Bata- vian provinces? Where is my gigantic power and tge glory of Spain, which resounded from one hemisphere toanother? What have you done with my inheritance, ye cowardly and unskillful mén? Where are my treasures; where the victorious fleets that crossed the ocean to bring back in profusion to my empire the gold and gems of the New World?”” (pp. 105 t0 109). The inquisition in Spain q‘roved a drag- weight upon her neck to sink her in ruin. Ecclesiastical tyranny strangled liberty and crusined out freedom. Ignorance has checked civilization, and superstition proved a barrier to progress. Sloth has bred beggars, and Ro- manism sheltered them in convents and nun- neries. Robbery is reduced to a scientific Krm‘ ce. Political intrigues and intestine lr‘oils vary the monotony of their national ife. says: “By the new census of Spain the fact appears that out of nosopulmlon of 17,500,000, only & little over 5,000,000 can read and write. Six millions can only read, leaving 12,000,000 who can neither read nor write. Bad as this showing is, it is little better than in 1877, when 72 per cent of the population were found to be unable to read or write.” Letus turn to Italy and learn what porery has done for it. Italyisone of the fairest lands on earth. Italy was the mother of genius and the cradle of the renaissance. *It was the home of art and poetry; a land of song and peinting. Dante’s somber grandeur was followed by the soft but brilliant light of Pe- trarch, Ariosto and Boccaccio. The wisdom of Politian and Galileo was begotten under Ital- ian skies and the genius of Columbus nour- ished there. Cosmo and Lorenzo de’ Medici, by their srim‘fily munificence, made Florence a second Athens, and on the slopes of Fiesoli re- vived the glories of ancient Academia. In the Augustan age of the Papacy the boundless ‘wealth of the empire of the Cwmsars, added to the spoils of Christendom, made Italy a mine of riches. When Leo X wasat the head of the Italian empire it stood at the forefront of the nations. Rome was the capital of Europe. Thither flocked the pilgrims. Thence issued. the decrees of the Vatican. Priests flocked there in swarms. The voice of Rome was supreme. But to-day, despite the matchless beauty of its climate, the marvelous fertility of its soil, the genius of its sons, its past glory and renown and its heritage of wealth, Italy is a land of ruins. The country swarms with bandits. The land is full of be?gm‘l‘ The masses are iu ignorance. The noble Romans haye degen- erated into a race of slaves and paupers. The holy city retains only a shadow of its former glory. f)eiolannn sits upon itsruined palaces. The politics of Italy are foul with corruption. Social rottenness and religious gangrene mark its decayed state. What has cansed its downiall? There is only one answer: Popery and the priests! Up to 1870 popery enjoyed the whole territory to herself; heresy was crushed out as soon as it reared its head. Her creed was uninjured b dissension, and no Protestant churches pol- luted her sacred soil. There was nothing there to thwart the benign influence of Romanism, or to prevent tne full and perfect development of her doctrines in the personal, domestic and social state of the Italian people. If Roman- ism can elevate a nation, its birthplace and headquarters is the place where we would ex- pect to see the grandest example of its powers. How much did it elevate Italy? Let writers who visited it prior to 1870 testify. Seysone: “The life of the Italian is little more than an animel one, and he is not much better than an ape endowed with speech. There is nowhere & spark of originality and truthfulness. Slavery and misery have even extinguished acute susceptibility to sensual enjoyments, and there is, I am sure, no people upon earth more thoroughly ennui and oppressed with the burden of their own existence than the Romans. Their whole life isa vegetation.”— Niebuhr. Dr. Wylie in his book, “The Awakening of Ttaly,” says: *“Italy at this hour (July, 1864) is a land of strange anomalies. Its whole condition is abnormal. Its sleep is past, and yet itis not awakened; it isawakening. Fuil vision is not yet restored to it, and every- thing it sees appears inverted and distorted. One half the nation 1s alive; the other half is dead—is yet in its tomb. Italy reminds us of the picture which Milton hasdrawn of the lion in the act of spring‘ng into life: Now half appeared The tawny tion, to get free Ris binder parts; then springs as broke from nds And, rampant, shakes his brinded mane. “So with Italy. The head and upper parts of the nation are risen, but the lower extremi- ties stick fast in the mire, and hard, indeed, will be {ue task of extricating them from the ignorance and barbarism of ages.. To herself Italy is and must be an enigma. Newly awak- ened from long sleep, failing to comprehend the new world into which she has been ush ered, and the relations in which she stands to- it, she finds on every band anomalies that The Missionary Review of the World | plosion in Central perplex her. She has brought back from the grave the dreams of old dominion. But how reconcile this with the fact that, so from being mistress of the world, she is not mistress on her own soil. She is, or was, the mother of arts; why, then, is she under the necessity of inviting _the stranger to teach her to weave, 10 }lllfll' to guide the wheel and to ply the forge? Her factories are superintended, her railroads are laid down, her ships are built, her cannons are bored by foreign skill, mainly by that of Brit- ish artisans. Why has her right hand forgot its cunning? Her dwelllnxg 1s in the fatness of the earth, her land is the Jand of corn and wine. Why then are so many of her children in want of bread? Why amd her noble villages, her vineyards and her olive woods do we meet so many spectacles of misery and poverty ? Why is this Eden of hers, whose skies are so fair, Wwhose air is so balmy and whose scenery is so grand, haunted by so many human beings, pale, emaciated, sickly, and whose sunken cheeks and hollow eyes proclaim that they are elnched by hunger and worn down by toil ? Whence springs the contrast between the physical beauties of this land and the horrors that darken it? There is a cause, and it is not far to seek.”” (Pages 33-34.) Dr. Wylie then proceeds to prove that popery is the cause of Italy’s ruin. He says; “Itis the evil genius that presses down her coffin- . A s 4 “‘A regenerated land, bright with intelligence and virtue, shoutd have been the glory of the church, the brightest jewel in the tiara of the Pope. Has the Papacy o ac- counted it? No; the spectacle of & rising and renovated country has afflicted the church with inconsolable grief. Sight terrible and appalling; she has saluted it with anathema. Strange alternative it must seem toltaly: if the countr{ go forward the church must per- ish and if the church triumph the nation must go back to its grave. . In a remarkable book written by John Alberger and entitled “Monks, Popes and Their Intrigues,” the following graphic de- seription of the evil effects of Romanism in Italy occurs: “When we turn our eyes to_ its late condition in Italy and see in the nine- teenth century, under its authority, the in- quisition at its bloody work; the study of philosophy banished from the universities; N0 book allowed to be published or imported except such as meet the approval of bigoted censors; the Government sustained ouly by suppressing insurrection; the prisons crowded with heretics; political offenders cruelly put todeath; the nation struggling for freedom but bound in the fetters of despotism—good. heavens! Whata scourge is it and has it been to mankind. * * ¥ A land once prosperous now choked up and oppressed with the ruins of its former greatness; fields once fertile now turned into barren wastes; & peo- le once the most valiant, polished and civil- zed, now the most aebased, rude and imbecil with ancestors that governed the world, now not able to govern themselves; a common- wealth of kings, now & commonwealth of slaves; where for liberty Cicero pleaded, Brutus stabbed and Cato.died, now & Pope curses, an inquisition murders and prisons reverberate with the groans of patriots and freemen. These, O patriots! are the eternal monuments that commemorate the progress and achieve- ments of the gnpfll monarchy. The usurper of all rights, the sanctifier of all wrongs, the shrine of bigotry, the model of despotism, the church now stands reaffirming the crimes and errors of centuries, and is thirsting for an op- portunity of repeating its past horrible his- tory.” (Page224.) The condition oi affairs in Rome when Pio Nono ruled in his tyrannical glory and bis throne was bolstered up by French bayonets is thus graphically described by & writer in the London Times: Mix, then, gradually—but with exceeding cau- tion—with the Ttalians who inhabit this holy town, and learn from them the meaning of their lives. Yon will doubtless meet with exaggeration enough—possibly with falsehood—but on the whole there will be such a concurrence of testimony in proof of the unutterable turpitude and atrocious tyranny of the Papal Government that no indiffer- ent person could refuse acquiescence in the testi- mony produced. But, if words will not convince your mind, look around yon! What you see—that Sceue of ruin and desolation—that hotbed of fever, with its stenches and miasmas, was once the cap- ital of the worid. When heathens held it, and the high pri with the silent vir- gin by his ' side, ascended the Capitol in honor of Jupiter, Rome was supreme among the nations. In the hands of Christians, and when the self-styled Prince of the Faithful on each re- turning Easter day ascends the balcony of St. Peter's to bless the Holy City, what has not Rome become? I it be the case, as all history appears i0_suggest, that nations and Kingdoms, even as men do, perish and decay from the effect of their own vices and_corruptions, surely the sentence ot condemnation has been branded deeply enough upon the brow of Pontifical Rome. But the ruin, and the sickness, and the poverty, and the desola: tion above ground are as nothing compared with what passes in the interior of those Roman houses and in the dungeons, the dark secrets of which are but occasionally revealed by the few prisoners who ever escape from their chains to tell the tale- We have not space nor time just now to enter upon the subject, but it has been well ascertained that within the last_few years horrors have been enacted in the Roman prisous for which parallels must be sought in the dungeons of the panish Tnquisition when that tribural was at its worst. But the physical torture—no! nor the im- prisoument, of hundreds and_thousands of inno- cent men—is not all. Worse, far worse, than this is the unutterable moral poilution which overflows'| upon every wretched cottage and miserable lodg. ing In this papal land. Get some Koman accorded you bis tardy confidence to si x side under an old archway, when the hot air and | bright sun of Central Italy drive you to some cool shelter, and there hear what he has to say of the uoings of yvonder sable-stoled priests, who sweep past you in silence and in gloom. Hear his story of what priests do at_Rome, where they are om- nipotent, and you will see reasons to be thankful that your lot was tot cast among the pollutions to which every Roman born is subject—he and his family. Civis Romanus sum! How pathetic a compiaint do the words now fmply; how much misery is involved in that brief phrase! We, ot course, can only concern ourselves with the story of modern Rome as & political question. The Pope of Rome to us is but a temporal Prince, who grievously oppresses his miserable subjects, and whose sd- eds are likely to hurry on that ex- Italy which sooner or later must come. The French garrison has been re- duced, and the Popz, in fr.ght, has sent off for another Swiss reziment to guard him lrom the consequences of the too enthusiastic loyalty of his subjects. The police espionage of Rome has been screwed up to the level of that of Naples. The project for withdrawing the paper currency has proved a failure. Every obstacle is thrown in the way of those who would carry out the projected | raliroads; for the Cardinals bave come to the conclusion that the instant their wreiched serfs begin to travel and mix with their fellow-creatures there is an end of their dominion. Only think of what the condition of that population must be, which may become (oo enlightened by contact with the lazzaroni of Naples! He would be a bold man who should venture to predict with absolute certainty the moment, when that power which has held the human race in thralldom for so many cen- turies shall fall to rise no more; but certainly the foundations of the Papacy.as a temporal power, appear sadly shaken justnow. Were the French rrison withdrawn to-morrow, the next day Pio Nono might reckon himself fortunate 1f he escaped the veng-ance of his subjects in the most cunning disguise which the crait of his advisers could sugges-. The intolerable tyrannyof the Vatican led to its final overthrow, and since 1870, the Pope has styled himself a “prisoner in the Vatican.” The Italians hate the Papacy sobad that they have even raised the cry, “Down with the Pope!” “Burn the Vaticani’ There is a society in Rome called the 2 Its object may be seen by referring to its a: ticles of agreement. Article V reads as fol- lows: “To devise and prosecute the abolition of Papacy, the removal of the Pope from Kome and the su pression of the civil rights of the priests,” Article VI reads: “In case of foreign war, the society shall proceed to operate upon its field of action, even before hostilities shall have been formally de’ clared; first, by burning as many churches as possible and especially the Vatican ; second, in com- pelling all priests ana those whose principles are manifestly hostile to the nation. to emigrate; and third, in exciting the masses to the historic tradi- tions of the Sicilian Vespers.” Dean Alford, writing from Rome just prior to 1ts occupation by Victor Emmanuel, said: “It is not too much to say that ihe present moral and religious state of Rome is a foul blot. on modern Christendom and hardly to be par- alleled even among the darkest Dastages in the history of our race. It isthe worstcity in the civilized world.” Said Victor Hugo: ‘Italy, which has taught mankind how to read, now knows not how to read! Yes, Italy is of all the statesof Eu- rope that whers the swmgllest number know BNk 15 the fruit of ! Tt ruins the Such is the fruit of pery ruins the in- g: church, thestate. It dividual, the home, t! debases and debauches. 1t blinds the intellect end it hardens the heart. It is a cruel des- potism_and & heartless persecutor. It was be- gouen Dby superstition and_born of ignorance. t fattens on crime and waxes sirong on iniquity. It loves darknees and hates the light. It has 1o brain to think, no heart to love, no soul to feel, when Bursuing its devilish mis- sion. And this is the system they are trying to force upon Americal It is the ‘?urpose of the Plrlcy to Romanize America, With such examples as Spain and Italy, Mexico and South America before us it would be an act of in- samty to allow the Papacy to control this country and bring us to the level of pastna- tions. . W. BOWMAN. , Postseriptum.—I notice that Priest Yorke has sought refuge in the theory of Gallicanism in order to save his church from the charge oi treason. Now, there are & few facts connected with that theory which are worth knowing. First—It is a condemned doctrine. It is not supported by a single Pope or council. Second—All the Popes have claimed the power to depose kings resided in their divine ng? and not 1n human concessions. - rd—It is contrary to the authoritative teachings of the church, and only held as an opinion ior controversial urposer. ourth—The doctrine of infalibility has com- mitted the church to the maintenance of the ultramontane view. H. W. BOwMAN, An engineer on the Midland Railway was blown off his engine by the wind re- cently while going at full ‘speed without his firemsn’s mis:in‘g‘1 him. He picked himself up unhurt and waiked to the next station to report. . BACK TO THE COMMITTEE The Poolroom Ordinance Fails to Pass the Super- visors. The Order Prohibiting the Sale of Burial Lots in the City Limits Finally Passed. The Board of Supervisors had its usual wrestle with the pool-selling problem yes- terday and from the present appearance of the matter the advocates of the ordinance which prohibits book-making outside the confines of racetraks are not yet out of the woods. At the last meeting of the board the ordinance, despite the opposition of the Supervisors from the First and Twelith wards, was sent to printand in order to get another chance at it the latter voted in favor of the measure and then gave notice that he would move for a reconsideration at the next meeting. When the matter came up yesterday he claimed his privilege and moved that the board review its ac- tion. When the question was put there were only three votes in the negative. Then Supervisor Benjamin moved that the matter be referred back to the Health and Police Committee, stating that several sections of the ordinance could be changed to advantage. Supervisor King moved to amend by referring the order to the Health and Police and License committees jointly. King s a member of the latter committee, as is also Supervisor Wagner, the main opponent of the ordinance. Supervisor Dimond protested vigorously acainst any such course being taken. : He arraigned the majority for their laches in regard to the measure, accusing the members of being afraid of allowing the order to go to print for fear that the people would see that the ordinance they were clamoring for was before the board and demand its immediate passage. He ridiculed the idea of placing it before tbe License Committee, pointing out that thera was nothing in it to give the License Committee any excuse for considering it. The continuous delays he considered as an intentional effort to retard the passage or secure the rejection of the ordinance for some purpose not apparent on the surface. “Why do not the members of this board come outin a manly way and put them- selves on record in this matter,” he said, “instead of dodging around the bush and sending this ordinance from one commit- tee to another where it does not belong?” In spite of his protestations the motion was adopted by a vote of 8 to 3, Supervisor Spreckels being absent. A resolution introduced by Supervisor Taylor, fixing the compensation of Thomas Tennant for keeping the City time, as de- noted by the beils of the fire alarm tele- graph, at $25 per month from the 1st day of January, was adopted. Supervisor Dunker introduced a resolu- tion, that was adopted, providing that in future all proposals for buildings for the Fire Department which may hereafter be invited must be segregated into the differ- ent lines of work necessary to construct the building. The resolution also provided that no bids will be considered unless the bidder is actually employed in the partic- ular line of work called for. Walter M. Willett was appointed special counsel to collect, by suit or otherwise, all | sums of money to which the City and County may hereafter become entitled | upon bonds for street work given by con- tractors who fail to enter upon the work awarded them and to collect on the bonds of the contractors who fail to do their | work according to specifications. His compensation was fixed at 50 per cent of | the amounts collected. The petition of Elizabeth Ina Joy to construct at _her own expense a safety landing on Market street, between the corner of Market and Powell and the Par- rott building, for the protection of the traveling public, was granted on the recommendation of the Street Committee. The Superintendent of-Streets was in structed to recommend the paving with | bituminous rock the number of accepted blocks and crossings on Folsom street com- mencing at Nineteenth street and extend- ing easterly therefrom that can be paid for by the $35,000 recently decided upon by the Street Committee asavailable for the work. The ordinance preventing the further sale of burial lots in the cemeteries within the City limits was finally passed without discussion, Supervisors Taylor, Dimond, King and Scully voting no. IN DEADLY [TALIAN WAR, La Voce and L'Italia Abusing Each Other About a Lot of Abyssinians. One of the Editors Hurls a Fierce Ultimatum in the Shape of a $1000 Bet. Interest is increasing in the controversy between the two. local Italian papers, L'Italia and La Voce del Popolo. There wasa $100 bet between them on Saturday as to whether the Italian troops bhad slain 10,000 Abyssinians before Makalle or whether the managing editor of L'Italia had massacred them in his editorial rooms on Washington street. But the amount of the bet has gone up by leaps and bounds since Saturday, and according to the quotations last night La Voce was offering $250 in defense of its assertion that the massacre was per- petrated in San Francisco and with printers’ ink, while L'Italia was offering $1000 in defense of its telegram which said that red Abyssinian gore had been shed by 10,000 Abyssinians in one repulse on Makalle. ' Ls Voce, in commenting on what it calls ‘“‘this bloodless massacre,” says: “It is true that a special telegam from Rome states that during the attack on Makalle, consummated on the Sth inst., the Abyssinians suffered a loss of 10,000 dead and wounded. “We now have the key to the enigma. This telegram arriving in San Francisco in one of the Chicago papers on the 15th or 16th inst. had been reduced ad usum delphini by cha'niing the date of sending nn““tlhnt ogtl:(:}?g t. e accept the wager—in fact we raise the sum to §250—that it be proven that said telegram was sent out from London on the 14th and that it arrived in San Franciscc through zny of the agencies on that same day, or on the da succeeding, and that no alterations or n!difions were made to said telegram. Also that in said telegram the fight referred to is not that of January 8, but that of the 13th.” L'Italia, in response to this, says it isnot a question of date, but of a pound of flesh, 0 to speak. The 10,000 Abyssinians, were they slain in Washinyton street or before Makalle ? Last night’s issue of L'Italia contained the following: ‘‘We are ready to bet $1000 that the telegram was genuine and that before we had it the disPatch was printed in a reliable newspaper.” e ‘Wish to Sell Now. The owners of the lots which adjoin the City property on which the old City Hall is to be re- built sent in a communication yesterday offer- ring to sell the ground for $55,000, which is the estimate of value made by Expert Ham- mond when employed by the board. The owners formerly asked $71,000, but the board considered this figure too hich and decided to build around the structures now standing on the lots. Tt is mot likely that any attention will be paid to the Iatest offer. — e - A Long Time Between Naps. David Jones, Elwocd's sleepless man, who three years ~°§° went ninety-one nights and days without sleep, and who broke his own reeord last year by remain- ing awake 131 nights and days, has en- tered upon another period of sleeplessness which promises to_eclipse all former ef- forts. His health does not suffer and his appetite is always good. He is unable to reach any satisfactory conclusiéns relative to his strange affliction. He has now gone twenty-one days and nights without s eer, and he says that ne feels as if he would never sleep any more. He is now serving as a Circuit Court juror.—Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel. — ONE DAY FREE FOR ART. First Friday of Each Month at Mark Hopkins Insti- tute. The Trustees Have Adopted a Sugges- ition Made by E. F. Searles and Named the Day. At the suggestion of E. F. Searles the trustees of the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art have designated one day in each month for the admission of visitors to the insti- tute without charge. Accordingly on the first Friday of each month, day and evening, the people of 8an Francisco and all others within the gates of the City, without regard to race, age, color, or previous condition, will have the privilege of admission to the institute without cost. The rights reserved to Mr. Searles under the deed of trust are here exercised with the view of bringing the masses into closer touch with the institute of art on the hill. Horace G. Platt, who recently returned from the East, passed a pleasant day at Mr. Searles’ home at Methuen, near Bos- ton. The latter takes a deep interest in the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and de- sires that it shall be rendered popular in the community, and that all classes of art- loving people shall have the pleasure of studying the pictures and other works of art there on exhibition. In this manner he expects that the influence of the insti- tution will be widened and a greater meas- ure of popularity attained. 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