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the morals and education of its citizens? you forgotten that a state has all the powers of sovereignty in its internal affairs as well as its international relations and is the sovereign personality in a state? That neither the wisdom nor the moral propriety of its own acts or those who obey its orders and commands is questionable? That it is the final interpreter of the principles of reason and morality for its subjects and is absolute, and if resisted may clear the state of their presence? That sovereignty is the power without which a state cannot exist and is the test and criterion of its existence? In other words, as before stated, the state, which is alone responsible for order in its borders, is alone competent to determine what is to take place within its limits, nor can it allow any outside authority, spiritual or otherwise, to interfere under any pretext whatsoever, or seek to determine as to the morals of its citizens, and every state must make the same answer to those who would conspire against it, and use their liberty to destroy that of others, and as faith and morals carry everything worth having in the individual sphere, this is the root of the whole matter. The state is a sovereign power superior to all religious associations. It cannot endure half slave and half free. It will become all one thing or the other, nor can either state or nation long endure, or remain in power if it doesn't promptly resent insult to its laws. The real issue is whether mental slavery is right or wrong. The pope alone arrogates to himself the right to speak to the state as

a spiritual superior, setting up a rival law against the state, in the state's own domain, and claiming title to coercive means of enforcement. He, a foreigner not responsible to the law (in his own opinion), is to decide when, in his opinion, the state has gone wrong, and what his followers may do. He is in the state but not of it; proclaims himself a foreign body in its composition, and is violent in his opposition to anything opposing clerical control of education. An absentee pope claiming authority over the morals of our people is an amusing spectacle. But his representatives in this country obey, and support him in this monstrous declaration, or take the consequences, and he who rebels doesn't find his pathway strewn with violets nor honeysuckles. The voice of the state is hushed and awed into silence before this fearful priestly power now claiming authority throughout the country. Is the authority of the state to be supreme, or is it to allow a power to exist in its midst that it confessedly is obliged to obey, as in some foreign countries? To have this claim conceded in any way, even by silence, is suicidal. The basis of the republic is the liberty of the individual citizen, and to the extent his rights are preserved. The personal protection of the citizen is the highest function of the government. When there comes a prophet among the people telling them their laws are of no avail, to the extent he is listened to and believed, when he says this, he breeds anarchy. Appended is a certain newspaper clipping bearing on this point, in which are

remarks purporting to come from Rev. P. F. O'Hare, viz:

By an attack on the public school system and declaring that the Roman Catholic Church alone can stamp out the danger of anarchy in this nation, the Rev. Father P. F. O'Hare, rector of St. Anthony's Church, in Greenpoint, startled his brother graduates of St. Mary's Seminary, in Baltimore, yesterday at their annual gathering in St. Joseph's Church, Brooklyn.

error.

"The school question is not settled yet," said Father O'Hare. "There is no compromise between truth and And we cannot, we will not, we dare not compromise with the principle which maintains that the state possesses an inherent right to the education of the child; that in education the part which deals with the most vital interest of the child, religion, is to be disregarded and eliminated from the schedule of studies."

Every state has the sole and inherent right to the education of the child, and this open attack addressed to graduates of St. Mary's Seminary against the sovereignty of the state is in violation of law.

The following newspaper clipping contains remarks purporting to come from a bishop at Savannah.

Taking for his subject the "Separation Law," which is now causing so much trouble between the Roman Catholics of France and the government of that country, a bishop at Savannah addressed the congregation at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist after vespers last night. He confined himself almost wholly to a statement of facts, explaining, as he went along, what the law is and the results of its operations.

Now, what are the facts? The pope is the supreme head

of the Catholic Church, appointed by God. This may not please some good Protestant friends of ours, but it is eminently satisfactory to us. To us as an article of our faith, to be believed as firmly as the divinity of Christ or the Trinity he is the vicar on earth of our Divine Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. As such he governs all the flock of Christ everywhere, in France, in England, in the United States. In the just and absolutely necessary exercise of his office and bounden duty he has declared that certain acts of the French assembly are subversive of God's law and the divine constitution of the church.

When a state legislature or the federal Congress attempt to enact a law which is directly opposed to divine law, no one is bound to obey. Furthermore, if the legislature of this sovereign state of Georgia passed a law forbidding Catholics to go to mass on Sunday or forcing them under threat of punishment to admit and fully recognize the validity of a marriage of persons divorced for some of the trivial causes prevailing, I, as bishop of this diocese, would unhesitatingly deem it my solemn duty to protest against such laws and tell my people it was their solemn duty to disobey them.

This is plain enough. Let the state of Georgia beware how it enacts any laws which conflict with the" divine laws " of the Catholic Church.

Newspaper clipping containing remarks purporting to come from Archbishop Farley:

Archbishop Farley laid the cornerstone of the new Normal College and Novitiate of the Christian Brothers at Pocantico Hills yesterday afternoon.

Archbishop Farley said: "The men sent from here will train your children to be good, God-fearing, honest citizens of this great country. Success is not the getting of millions, but in being the fearless, upright citizen who has God in his

heart. . . . To the Christian brother in years to come will be given the credit for conquering the infamous and almost irreparable damage Horace Mann did forty years ago in banishing God from our schools.

Is it for this, a representative of the pope, enjoying personal freedom and protection of our laws, assails the memory of a revered American citizen, foremost in the cause of education, in whose honor, and for whose great service to the state she erects monuments, and points with pride to faithful, unselfish service for the uplifting of the human race? Is it for this he is spoken of in such endearing terms, or is it because, with prophetic vision he saw the coming influx of ignorance to our shores, and with words of mighty import sounded the death knell of parochial schools and priestly supremacy ?

The following is another newspaper clipping.

BEWARE PROTESTANT SCHOOLS

Archbishop Farley Warns the Daughters of the Faith Against Them.

A meeting of the Daughters of the Faith, at which a number of prominent clergymen, a physician, a judge, a poet, and two hundred women were present, was held yesterday afternoon at the Catholic Club, 120 West Fifty-ninth Street.

"I cannot," he said, "speak too strongly on the subject of the necessity of sending Catholic children to Catholic academies. There is, I regret to say, a constant and I fear growing tendency to violate this most binding duty.

"Let no motive, social, financial, or political, lead you to fling your children into the jaws of infidelity and atheism.

"Only a few weeks ago a mother came to me almost in despair, entreating that a mass be said for her daughter. She