Show G CRISIS ISIS IN f FRANCE Cardinal Gibbons Says That the American People do Not Understand I It PRESS IS PARTLY TO BLAME It Has Been to a Considerable Extent He Says Reflex of Par Parisian Parisian isian Press t In or of ot of Strul ll l 1 Flagging Doc Dec JI public does not time the present crisis In France MId Cardinal GI Gib bolus when asked aked last for tor hil his opinion on time the French situation 10 lie II I If I believed that II countrymen would knowingly see n a Seat great ton lion unjustly deprived ot of Its proper property tens of at thousands ot of honest len men women olen robbed of Just In Incomes comes of thousands Ot of brutally wounded In what they hold d dearest anti most sacred a majority In Inthe inthe the chambers ane trample upon time the rights ot of the minority and the rights of at milons of theIr In iii the lamo of 01 know see co lens of thousands of at priests turned out ot of hOlos homes for tor forno I 10 no crime but that of loving God Goti I 1 Isay I say it II I amy can see and rec al all this injustice refuse gen en s sympathy to those who sho suffer then thell I wi vit learn leavo life without faith In American loVe lovo nf at justice justice liberty lut limit limo tho have not had these things put fairly before them Our own press hal unit been t to a able extent the of at ParisIan anti anticlerical clerical press Most over oer hero Ito little of at the Time hey look hook 01 time the load lead loader leadore er ore or of thIs party us its states slates tacit men to pre preserve tho tim tram an aggressive There Thero havo been honest and lovers of at re re I among cl comic I admit but tho majority of at them I tar far Ie less love loe ot of thus the republic they ther ot of religion flut Dut In limo Iho part partIs Is not dead They fh hate nod God the hate Christ time tho hate hato JI his religion as much as ocr ever their fathers hated Hut But th time hayo learned a more anti and 0 of at attak attack tack tak And yet ot the utterances t f such auch men IN utra ns as hy by many Americans as would woul bo t a disclosure I to Mr Ir Cleveland or Mm tr Roosevelt or Mr Taft I M 1 the now minister ot of labor nl o In the tho chombor ot of ute said saidU U All 1 of at UI tie together first h by our forefathers h by out OUI fathers b by ourselves have been attached to time the work o of m Irre Igon ligion Vo 0 Ill Intro time tho human from belet belief In 1 it future l hire 10 Do YOI you thInk that the tho work Is It at attin 11 tin end 1 Xo No It Is but begInning The Tho decreed that the dl this courso which thIs extract Is talc en n should ho be In over every town anti of France ranco t I eald ald In al aim to school chool rue rho time hal Imas c cOmb to rot root up tram tho 11 lis of 1 French children the ancient which hal hums S red 11 its turro l anti replace I it with the tho of fret thou ht It is hc time to get tim rid of the tho ChrIstian Idea We have hunted Jesus out omit of the army time na navy time the schools time tho hos mos pital ant and orphan and law courts nail and now flO we lust hunt out ut of time tho state What wo we Americans say It 1 a cabinet officer to this jut time tho great creat aIm of his lion Uon 1 I For or some omo such sentiments of at the arc nrc not by OUr papers paper Hullet hut hot a states statesman statesman man uter utter counsels of onet auth sentiments of liberty the then II hl his fair words are spread before our people It I Ic n a observation of historians lan that In time the m met t bloody seasons of the French the aIr Was tul ot of words about fraternity and erty erly coming from room the very mC men who lb mado the tho streets run wih with These men Inca anti t o ili ho Inherit their spirit can talk more divinely and net act more mora diabolically timan any ammy other on earth carth In order to understand tand the tho Present situation It lU t be borne In mind that before the l French revolution all aU alt orle ecclesiastIcal lauis and belonged to time Iho Church curch b by us as jus just n a title n as property Is In OUr tW country b by any lon At the revolution nil buildings ni funds el etc wore ero eon can by the Iho The fhe cn con later luter voted tor or time tho support ot et ot of the tho clergy In annual bud budet Time The present ent conflict titmIce back to 1880 1110 when a largo large number ot of religious houses were closed hy by order of tho goVernment anti their occupants die percil 1101 that u a year car haf has passed without some annoyance to Clue tho series of petty acts ot of to the that were In Ile tile long run to Ial tail for tor a pro protest test tet The Tho came camo mu In Cut tho form ot of ota ofa a letter from Pope Leo Io XU XIII I to Orey In May 1893 The Tho an anser ser cr IOS I it mere a at tid pa paper per BO tar far as results were concerned LAW OF Next In 1901 tiiu lint law ot of associations was passed pRed ly By It hi the tho schools Ot of bus lous orders Were forced ou out t ot Of exist existence ence emmee Th fhe members ot of the different lt ra cc congregations not only male but bitt female as wel were sent fori either to 10 eke out an n existence its as they could In own on native France or IO go Into exile Finally In 1905 time the eon con concordat dissolved and separation ot of chur church h and state statu I I It Is e essential to bear benr In that the concordat was a a genuine contract that this contract was 0 annuled annulled b bIho by the Iho French government wih no regard to 10 time tho IL t tine the other Perhaps time the t feature ture ot of time the situation that wi vill surprise ins loSt most and for tor our just al as Americans ts is time the French governments absolute fits re regard ard for tor time the property rights of the tho church iho tins ot of salaries granted to time the ministers ot of reo re 1 lon ns as I a for tor time the which time tho church chuch relinquished under that express In addition time the law ot of separation Ignores time the constitution laws ot of time church chunh II Tim there ont Is due r recognition ot of time the laws governing ever every lawful orlet tinier time tho recent 1111 law provisions nrc tor or organizing worship without nn any proper reference to Ihl the duly of limo Iho church Next the point to which the hol holy tn a has Imas objected most Time The provision for tor associations ot of nor or ship opens open the way for tor or organizations which have In fact In a tow ow cases been already I It place places the church at time the l mercy rcy ot of the jUdgment ot of the council of 01 state slate time tho church accept the present law lan she sho huts has before tier her the very prospect ot of gradual extinction by process ot of It If the separation of church and state In Fanco France meant just It mens In the tho United there would have been heen no such hUI and cry raised cr Very Ikel likely to many tt It would he have nt not been very undesirable lut hut the situa I lre are not it t al all i IT INTEREST nET FLAGS I IN FRANCE CE Paris Dec first day of 01 the regime ot of the tho separation of church and state having passed without grave dIe orders ordel public interest In the of time the of the lo is In It t l Is nol now ot apparent that the Iho of the clergy will lie be purely passive foil that there II is wi no prospect ot of religious passions being aroused time tho Iro are and the tho government ther therefore tore Is rest Ing 01 on Is its oars and wi will to II tit so 80 parliament th tc measures which the Is cc In the tho In iii thIs elt except In the church where legal were mere fN filed time police again tok took holes o of infractions ot of tine ian itt at time the mor morn masses Cardinal is 18 roam the tho mansion The hc however desires to 10 aoth the Iho ot of force 11 in tho ho cal case of time Irel primate who vho Is In hall hail health anti Is action 11 iii he wi will depart In ho a fen en da days or of his own volton volition Time Acton Action n a Violent socialist organ tout male niale nn an attach ul upon on th guy ov dulling tl to the al fact that Catholic so 80 hail numbers ot of There here II is not ot the tho that resistance I is JW Paris Parl D Doe e cabinet awl wih with lr In the chair II tim or order dec der to 0 decide the tho new 11 to tin ho presented to parliament but the tho text o of time decided 11 Imp 11 tim wi will not be tomorrow The he to ho be taken are uro or t 1 a very 11 pl character I It I he od to the Iho III limit of at 1 Oj providing for tor the tho ton ot of chulch und state b which it II years ears race grace was allowed before the tho of time church property and to 1 time the of forming nol now cultural or diocesan Lie V hiring that lelo nod 11 including Iho wil will hO bo ImmediatelY handed over overto overto to tIme tho state to 10 time thc to tle tue ulder In tug that time the thel eles wil wilhe vill he be retained for tor religious Time con ot of wor worship wi te o pro for tor n mm ot of the laws of anti and 1901 Wih I tO the of the 1 be marle madO hy by which those who alo are to the Cornier wi will lo Ieee e their rights It they ther IN are or theIr Ihle those who al are to to the Iho hat Int ter wi lose loso th lr it If they dont conform wih time Tho rho hIltS which the clergy fry wil will their theirl l citizenship wi will be drawn up 1 ii iia CL a special to be later |