| Show Rushing to Destruction TilE TUB assassination of the tho vicar lear general of at the Catholic church at atthe atthe atthe the hands of ot tho the Russian soviet shocks but docs does not surprise a world which for five live years has hag watched a great people blindly to destruction under the urge of a mental disease as dangerous danger danger- ous flue as rabies and anet blind to every tradition of honor and decency Proletarian revolutions have al always always at- at ways been singularly alike in two respects That is In the destruction of ot national wealth and resources and an uncompromising hostility to re re- ligion n Many 1 years of painful ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort will witt be necessary to restore tho former while any effort to lead a nation into the paths of Infidelity and atheism brings quicker and sharper retribution than any other national sin I We can only Judge the future by bythe bythe bythe the past and the greatest fact of history la Is that a nation cannot survive survive sur sur- vive vine the loss toss of its Ita religion This truth has been illustrated from the times of Babylon to the tho day of tho the Roman toman empire and the French revolution revo revo- lution Lenine and l ha have been compelled to restore the system of private property Later lit if they are spared the assassins assassin's knife tho they will be glad to restore the rights of the church The plea that the vicar general had been found guilty of treason will carry little weight with the pub pubic lie ic at large A drumhead I teal Ual Is la a liberal and intelligent method method meth- meth meth-I meth I od of convoying convening ing justice compared with the alleged courts of Justice which have disfigured Russia during dur- dur Ing ng the past five years of the church are aTe the proper proper proper pro pro- per custodians custodian of church property and to protect this from the profane profane profane pro pro- fane hands of ot organized murder and confiscation is deemed criminal and worthy of d death only by those who have made murder and pillage the foundation of their enterprise and who strive to abolish God in order to escape reproach harry Harry B. B Williams |
