"Therefore and thereby, the genuine and true inexorable logic is that

"No person can be loyal to the American Nation and to the Church of Rome at the same time.

"The American Nation in its fundamental and crowning principle denounces and repudiates 'the Church of Rome.'

"The Church of Rome, on its fundamental and crowning principle, specially proclaimed, denounces and repudiates the fundamental and crowning principle of the American Nation. "The two institutions, on their respective principles, are diametrically opposite and antagonistic.

"On the American principle, no man can be loyal to the Church of Rome. On the Roman principle, no man can be loyal to the American Nation.

"Accordingly, Rome's boasted patriotism for the American Nation is a preposterous pretense and gigantic fraud.

"A word further should be said on the Cardinal's citations in proof of the sure utter 'destruction' that comes to 'the State that throws off religion.' His words stand thus:

"The State which throws off religion, must by inevitable necessity, accept either anarchy or tyranny, and both end in utter destruction.'

"No one who knows anything at all of past history can help seeing that this is the positive teaching of facts.'

"The whole story of Rome and Greece and Assyria and Egypt point clearly to this one and only conclusion.'

"And lo, the truth is that neither Rome nor Greece nor Assyria nor Egypt ever for a day threw off religion; and they all went to utter destruction.

"And more than that: The Rome that ended in utter

destruction was not only the Rome that did not throw off religion, but was the Rome that actually took on the very religion of the Church of Rome which Cardinal O'Connell preaches that the American Nation shall take.

"And as certainly as that religion shall be taken on by the American Nation, so certainly this will end in the like utter destruction.

"Accordingly the genuine and true inexorable logic is that Rome's patriotism for this Nation, Rome's love of the country of America, means nothing else than this Nation's utter destruction."

And that is not patriotism at all.
Yet it is exactly Rome's "patriotism."

ROME'S LOVE FOR AMERICA

"The grand climax of Cardinal O'Connell's speech as the voice of Rome to Americca, is the following:

'Oh, yes, we know very well, the whole litany of accusations against us. We give only a divided allegiance. We are scheming for government. These are all lies, so patent that they need no answer.'

"As Cardinal, I may be supposed to know what I am saying on this subject. And on my word as a gentleman of honor, I am speaking the simple, absolute truth.

“I have known intimately, personally, and officially, three sovereign pontiffs-three popes of the Catholic church. I am a priest now thirty-two years; I am a bishop fifteen years, and a cardinal five years. I have had the closest relations with not only the Pope, but the whole Roman curia. I know

well every priest in all my diocese, and every bishop in this country.'

'Yet, never, never, in all that experience have I ever heard spoken, lisped, or whispered, or even hinted, by any or all of these, anything concerning America and American institutions but words of affection, of tenderest and kindest solicitude for her welfare;

"Never a syllable that could not be printed in the boldest type and distributed through out the land.'

"Neither plot nor scheme nor plan.'

"But only sentiments of admiration and love.' ""If there is plotting, I ought to know it.'

"'Yet absolutely and honestly, of such things I have never heard even a whisper.'

""This is my answer to all these insinuations. That I know the truth, I think no one will deny. That after such a pledge I am still concealing the truth; that, I must leave those who, I repeat, will never listen to my answer.'

"That was when the 'whole vast assemblage' sprang to their feet, waving flags and streamers, and for several minutes, cheering and shouting, 'Bravo, Cardinal O'Connell ;' and Cardinal Gibbons and Apostolic Delegate Bonzano 'clapping their hands.'

"The experience of Mr. O'Connell covers thirty-two years. It is more than forty years since any other than such words as he praises have been used by Rome toward this government; so that he is on safe ground in what he said.

ORIGINAL ATTITUDE

"Back beyond forty years ago here is how Rome looked on

America and how she regarded the Government of the United States under the Constitution as ordained and established originally by the people of the United States. The Catholic World of September, 1871, published a leading article in which the Constitution and Government of this Nation were spoken of as follows:

"As it (the Constitution) is interpreted by the Protestant principle so widely diffused among us—we do not accept it, or hold it to be any government at all, or as capable of performing any of the proper functions of government; and if it continues to be interpreted by the revolutionary principles of Protestantism, it is sure to fail'—

'Hence it is, we so often say that if the American Republic is to be sustained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the principle of the Reformation, and the acceptance of the Catholic principle by the American people.'

"That is how Rome looked upon this Nation forty-five years ago she 'did not accept it' nor 'hold it to be any government at all.' For nothing can be more certain than that this government was founded on the Protestant principle of total separation of religion and the State.

"The men who made the Nation said in so many words that they did it 'upon the principles on which the Reformation from popery was carried on.'

"Therefore, it stands plain that from the beginning Rome's attitude has been antagonistic to this Nation as it was established and intended forever to be; and her purpose distinctly revolutionary-to turn the Nation from its original foundation and principle to the opposite."

SOME FACTS OF RECORD

"Just thirty-two years ago Pope Leo XIII. issued an encyclical in which he said:

“We exhort all Catholics who would devote careful attention to public matters, to take an active part in all municipal affairs and elections and to further the principles of the church in all public services, meetings and gatherings.'

"All Catholics should do all in their power to cause the Constitution of States, and legislation, to be modeled in the principles of the true church.'

"All Catholic writers and journalists should never lose for an instant from view, the above prescriptions.'

"There, then, in the very year when Mr. O'Connell's thirty-two years of experience began, there was the declaration of a Pope that is as antagonistic to this Nation and its welfare and revolutionary, as anything could be.

"Thirty years ago the same Pope, in a communication addressed to a conference of Roman prelates at Balitmore, said this:

""The unlimited license of thought and writing, to which erroneous notions concerning both divine and human things have given rise, not only in Europe, but also in your country, has been the root and source of unbridled opinions.'

This is a plain attack on the American and Constitutional Liberty of speech and of the press. And just as plainly that is not true affection, nor is it true solicitude for the welfare of the American institution of Freedom of Speech and of the press. It is the opposite.

"Now that occurred two years within Mr. O'Connell's