Show AN ANTI CATHOLIC I Bishop Jolmstone Raises a Cry V of Warning HE DENOUNCES THE POPE Says thaChnrch Is UnAmerican Not I Church for Americans But Distinctly a Foreign Church NEW YORK Got SBishop Johnstone of Texas Episcopalian raised Q cry of warning against Catholicism today on the occasion of the laying of the corner stone of a new Episcopalian Episco-palian mission His remarks were listened to by more than a dozen Episopalian bishops from various sections of tee country coun-try over one hundred Episcopalian clergymen clergy-men and over one thousand of the laity He spoke of the convention of German Catholics in Newark last week and said he denied that the church of Rome is in any sense either an American church or a church for Americans It is distinctively a foreign church rulAd by a foreign autocrat auto-crat who is believed to be in falllole by his followers who dictates the policy of the church to his partisans parti-sans He pulls the strings In Rome and his puppetts jump in America This great convention in Newark assembled for what To carry out the belief a of a society ofSt Raphaels which recently held a convention con-vention in Germany Its purposes are First To keep emigrants true to old world conditiona and warn them against American traditions SecondTo centralize solidly and isolate foreign RomimCathohcs coming here and so secure them against American ideas Was this convention in Newark called for the purpose of free men 1 By no means We aro told that the subjects discussed dis-cussed were caaefully selected beforehand before-hand while the sentiments received the sanction of prominent ecclesiastical authorities before they were expressed In other words teachers pr pared speeches and good little boys got up and delivered them I conventions of this character are to continue 1 hope some day some bad boy like Luther with American ideas of free speech will get up and say someting pedagogues that will produce consternation among the A 1 a meeting of this St Raphael society in Germany the chancellor of the University Univer-sity at Washington vehemently denounced Cardinal Gibbons snd Archbishop Ireland two patriotic Americans for being 10 aLto aL-to their country and its institutions Tnis chancellor said Bishop Johnson taunts Gardinal Gibbons and Archbishop Ireland as being Liberal Catholics who nave tor gotten that the pop is pope in America as well as in Rome His final taunt is that probably these American bishops intend applying a tucnoy doctrine to religion Well we are tree to say that i things goon go-on much further as they Have been that is just what will be done Jesuitism has never failed to meddle in politics when it has been allowed to get a following It has been expelled again and again for what else can a self respecting nation do with a set of officious foreign ecclesiastics who undertake to dictate not only what their own dupes must do but also how affairs of govern ment must be run In conclusion Bishop Johnstone booed that Americans might throw off tbe galling gal-ling yoke of a foreign meddling bishop bidding him mind his own business on the Tiber and first learn how to make its allies Spain and Amrlca respectable and respected among nations then he might with some grace come over here and tell ua how to attend to our affairs |