Deseret Evening News | 1910-06-18 | Page 18 | Seek to Abolish Accession Oath

SEEK TO ABOLISH ACCESSION OATH prAIA I L ND 01 Saturday I ALST CRT I 1 sign this lIng King 1 George Georg Is to isI M I 1 reported to 10 hate halo asked ke l when the 5 usual declaration which sovereigns take lake on their accession a ealon was placed before boroto him and being l eln respectfully r told that tha It was ties expected of ot him Ills IlIa Majesty signed As Ie Kal Leai of ot discussion I 1 going on now about bout the tho form torm of ot this thi declaration which It Is Ie thought by tty b many man i should Ni bo abolished 1 as u useless ulel out lit itt date dot anti and an n Insult to Catholics Catholic Must lul I sign 7 welt well ell ren reflected t d the I Kings King i character who Is to above all things JUt Just Must Mun i 1 sign aIm this r reflected 1 his hi sense tn of t religious tolerance and end good goad Protestant though he h Is h i his hi disinclination Inclination to do aji thing that savored of oC Lord Jord Halifax Is I one of ot those thOM who are r strong for tor th the abolition of ot the Declara Declaration lion tion There Thero may be he an all outcry In some corns quarters It If the Ih government carry tart out Its lii II Intention of ot bringing In a bill abolishing a th the declaration he be h writes write but It II will wili willi willian 1 1 an in outcry of ot no sort rt of ot Important Th Thill The only difficulties that can possibly uric arise will willi willbe be If It the government nt attempts to 10 tinker the Hie declaration or to substitute another in ILl IL U place The only on I wise Iee and nd reasonable course ourse iu as It 11 Is I far tar the easiest I t Is II to 10 In let Introduce traduce reduce a bill of ot one clause abolishing the thed 1 declaration d altogether The Tho declaration d la is an old and Iee the meaning of ot which very few rew POpl have any an Idea of or for tor the simple reason eason they th have never nev r given Ivon It a thought father Vaughan Is I strong In inthe he the Ih belief that thai the mind of Dt th the tha country hu ha iu at last lul begun to 10 consider conder the anti antl Catholic clauses clause ot of the royal declare loa Jon In th the light ot of common sense History he writes write shows how them to have he sprung from tram the panic and r re religious rancor excited In England Englan by bythe b bythe the archi r Titus Ont Date condemns thorn them us me II wholly Ineffective for far their purposes und and therefore needlessly and gratuItously Insulting alike Ilk to the monarch and his hla hi loyal Catholia Father Bernard Vaughan goes 10 straight and ald true to 10 the taint point when he Ito further say The aa lIB It stands Is la Isa laa Isa a painful reflection upon Ulon the Intelligence or of a 1 anti community If H under the Ih excitement of or panic some ollie excuse cue may have beon been found lound for tor forIt It nono none at It all II tan can n be made for tor It now The main males point now Is I not whether the obnoxious llou clauses clu safeguard the Prot Irot Protestant Protestant succession or not nut but whether the tho charge they tho th convey onvey Is Ie true It Is to that which really matters th the answer anNIer of eif t that Ihal embodiment of ot sturdy h common sense uns Ir Dr John Johnson Johnson son eon to 10 that the mass maa woe was Idolatrous there Is 10 no Idolatry In the niece mass They fhe believe God to 10 be tie b there th and they th adore dor Him Ho o apart altogether from IM II tu 10 our monarch hat hai ha started hl hia reign by n a declaration which ordinary reflection must moat show chow ho to t false rale ralen and n 1 this In order to prevent his hi being a aI I in tO disguise This Is la Indeed a compliment to 10 Catholic integrity