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Show HOAXING A PIOUS EDITOR. "Delenda est Roma" "Rome must be wiped out" is a cry that has so tickled the editor of the Watchman, an Australian Orange organ. Rev. Dill-Mackay. Dill-Mackay. that he has set everybody else laughing as well as himself over the fun of the thing. He came out lately with a grand "scoop." procured he did not deem it wise to say where or by whom. It was to the effect that "Hilnire Maraud-Safran, one of the most gifted of France's polemical writers, has written writ-ten an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes advocating advo-cating the resumption and purchase of every inch of the city of Rome, with a view to its complete destruction de-struction and with it the destruction of the Papacy. Pap-acy. Reasonable compensation is to be paid to the present owners a matter to which the Protestants of the world would gladly subscribe. Even the name of the city would vanish, and the Roman Catholic church would then becomes a homeless creed cut away from the root." So delighted was the Rev. Dill-Mackay with the idea in his Watchman that he encouraged his informant to go ahead and give out some more. He seemingly got what he desiderated, desider-ated, for he wrote in the vigilant Watchman as fol- lows: That given publicity the Protestants of the British empire, Europe. America. Scandinavia and the continent of Europe would come forward with a sum sufficient to carry out Maraud-Safran's scheme, and that within less than a half decade, is obvious from the fact admitted by the rabid little Romanist rag. the Era. published from Oscott college, col-lege, that in the last nine months four French papers pa-pers and two Swiss ones have alone collected 40,000 pounds sterling. We are also informed that "'37,500 francs were collected during the last tvo months in the little Canton of Bale by the local Protestant organ and forwarded to the Eclair to add to its fund" for the destruction of Rome. French papers (we are assured) have thrown themselves into "the cause" and are "meeting with good success." There are some humorists on the Australian press, as Avell as some who are not, as Dr. Dill-Mackay Dill-Mackay has shown. If he had known a little French, he would not now be tearing his hair and biting his lips for a gullible editor, as he must today, to-day, going so far as to open in the Watchman a shilling fund for the obliteration of the detested Rome of the Popes. The Bulletin, a racy Australian publication, went after him in this terrier way: The bland suggestion that the capital city of a great European power be "obliterated" by total strangers on a point of religious prejudice may pass muster. The insectarian paper's schemes are mostly most-ly along grandiose lines of that sort. As a fact, there is no such person as "Maraud-Safran!" "Safran" signifies "yellow" in French; "Maraud" means "pup." A Gaul afflicted with a name like Mr. Yellow Pup would destroy himself. The paper has had its leg dragged badly by some one. and the solemn reference t Mr. Yellow Pup is a hilarious item." But the fun was not to stop there, for we learn some more from the New Zealand Tablet.-Avhose editor recognizes a good joke as well as any one "A correspondent of the Catholic Press, who 'knows every yard of the Duche country' declares in its issue of August 0 that "(1) there is no paper named L'Eclair published in or near Dijon; (2) that Dijon would not support an anti-Catholic publication pub-lication for a moment." He also adds that Oscott "has been closed as a college for many years." The name of the editor of L'Eclair is, by the v.-ay. another an-other gem of nomenclature. He is called M. Henri Singemoine which, being interpreted, meaneth (in English) Mr. Henry Monkey-Monk!" Those pestiferous, irreverent wags are everywhere every-where alike. They love to tickle a dull fiield till it laughs . a harvest of yellow guineas, with stories of yellow pups. Philadelphia Catholic Standard and Times. . |