| Show ANTI CATHOLIC MOVEMENT HISTORY has repeatedly demon the fact that when any class of t tl e people living under a government are denied the rights guaranteed under its constitution the safety of the whole to la jeopardized the wrong acts as a leaven which if justice is not speedily done to those which are disabled gradually permeates the entire body politic froude lays this down as otiel the prominent teachings of history citing as a striking instance iu in point the downward phase of the career of ancient rome on this basis we have insisted that the processes inflicted upon the latter day saints would be applied to other religious bodies and that the treatment of the mormon people would be cited asa precedent in justification while pre dating that the withholding of naturalization from members of the church in utah and aad the chi of the same class claes in idaho would be followed by demands for the application of similar treatment to other religionists we hardly imagined that a brisk agitation in that direction boult begin so soon as an it has it has started however in unmistakable shape as will be seen from an article in this issue corn com a large number of anti catho lie lic arguments arguien ta and statements about to be issued in pamphlet form and widely the arguments wrongfully used against the church of jesus christ of latter day faints sie are now employed against the catholic church it t lean is an interesting recitation containing numero numerous pro pronounced bounced quotations tat ions all of which are intended intend eJ to show that a catholic cannot be a aa good citizen because his allegiance to the government of this republic is dubor subordinate binate to that which he be gives to co the priesthood tt it to is claimed that the catholics are am therefore a me menace nace to merin american A eions it is field bield that as the cormons mormons Mor mons are de barred from naturalization and a portion of them f from rom exercising the elective franchise so ought the members of the catholic church it is even urged that an anti catholic oath lie prescribed for the devotees of that faith showing that the treatment inflicted upon the saints to is bearing its legitimate fruit so will the a tation sprung by the be boston committee of one befu rf adred undred those who perused our article of our present issue written before we K dropped upon the one taken from the chicago times would observe that we do not anticipate that the anti cadonic movement Is likely to receive any vigorous support from government officials in ruling positions or from ambitious politicians anxious for place self inter est eat appears to be much stronger than patriotism with men who have political bees in their bonnets and the demagogues among them being in th the majority antagonism to the catholics from that quarter is not likely to be robust this reticence to is likely to be particularly apparent where the romanists Romanis ts are sufficiently numerous num brous to constitute a political factor the public journals are as a rule in the same box as the politicians it is popular to abuse thu the mor mons mono who are supposed to have no friends and therefore no rights entitled to respect there area are a number of honorable exceptions to this journalistic rule but they are comparatively ively few the majority will doubtless be ask aa dumb as oysters in relation to the alleged threaten ed danger of catholicism seizing the republic by the throat and strangling it ft if not dot they will is 18 a rule deprecate the application of apolitical 0 lotical disabilities to roman Catho catholics lids who constitute a power in the land until a few months ago the catholic church never took so far as we have knowledge any active part in persecuting the latter day saints sainta and in this particular was dis i above most of her numerous daughters daughter the protestant sects of late she has assumed a change of front in that respect and through cardinal gibbons and the catholic conference held some time ago at baltimore signified her readiness to take a hand in the business she expressed her willingness to jolia joia with other organizations in the formula ion on and application of such measures ceasur s as would disable wn 11 which was falsely claimed to be a menace to american institute institutions ons now that the great roman religious power in the republic is threatened with a dose of her own medicine it would be interesting to know how she likes it 6 all CITY y OP MEXICO march 27 jay gould bould and party are in this city gould says he Js is not here on business but for pleasure the impression prevails that he intends building a transcontinental line which will top the united states gould will be received by president diaz today m |
