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Iks Itflce-A-Wtiek blspatck jHaed. BSxery'.esday and Friday The :Stae Dispatch Publishing Co, ,. Burungtoo, N. C. Dr. Pickett, v , '- PreeMeat. lame B. Fonst, Secrets? ami Treas urer and Business Jtaaefer. Office, First Floor, Raufaut Building. ,. Telephone No. 80S. Subscription, On Dollar p year, ; payable in advance. vHuaaaKaiw.i3 m- recard t fiaJffi Sut Lupatch Publishing Co., and not to auy i:;dWWual conneetod with the pa- per. . tioaAof EJZ hv lh writer. We are not responsible for opinions of the correspondents. Subscribers will take notice that no receipt for subscription for The State Di-spatch will be honored at this eftioe time---! it is numbered with stoatped figure .-. KiiUrod as aecoad-claaa matter May 10, 1908, at the port ottce at Burlington, North Carohna, widor te Act of Congress of Aiarea S, 1T9. What The President Does Not Know. The daily papers have reported that on our national Thanksgiving Day, President Wilson, in order to express his thanks to God, attended a Cath olic mass. Everyone well acquainted with the importance and significanse which the Roman Catholic Heirarchy will at once attach to such an act cannot but consider the conduct of our admired President as undise for the interests of his party, as unbe coming to his office, as inconsistent with his past yea, as greatly mis leading American people at home and t.rnlv misrenresentintr Americal ideals i rf - f j giuuiiu. abroad. And to begin with, it is but Finally, the open favoritism to Rom fair to state that I do not criticise anism ghown by our jast president, the President's act of yesterday f rom j Mr . Tafti nas over generous conces the standpoint of some Protestants gions to the affairs 0f the Philippeans, who believe that he began to make hig attitude in regal.d to the Indian concessions to Romanism when he as- Schools affairs, his practical recogni sumed his office as President by re- tion of Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, taining his former private secretary, as a prince of the blood, and so on, Tumulty, a (Jamoiic, no; l am noi the man who has gone so far as to praise both in private and in public his American policy in that. I am a man who believes that true separa tion of Church and State and honest fair-play strongly demand: that we choose the fittest men for pifblic of fice regardless of any religious con siderations. To exclude a capable Jew or an able Catholic, and so on, on account of his religion, is plainly un fair, sectarian and un-American; And I will say in passing to my protestan brethren who in this respect differ from me, that I know as well, if not better, than many Protestants, the real doctrines of Romanism and the plans and policy of the Roman Cath olic Heirarchy, as I know also that a Catholich as to stand in. case of conflict rather with his church than his country, rather with the ecclesi astical law than the civil law. But at the same time I know from long experience and many historical in stances that the best means of check ing the encroachment of Romanism is not by excluding able and patriotic Catholics from public office. On the contrary, when many truly patriotic Catholics are put in responsible pub lic offices, they will realize by them selves that there is absolutely incom patability between Romanism and ; Americanism, and then they will speak out and expose the abusing claims of their own church, as has happened in Italy, France and Spain. To believe that patriotic native Amer ican Catholics and there are many such will endure the yoke of priest hood in public affairs, when Spanish, Italian and French laymen have be come emancipated from that priestly tutelage, is to forget that we live in America and in the twentieth cen tury. Nevertheless I repeat that the con duct of our President on Thanksgiv ing Day was unwise for the interests of his party, unbecoming to his of fice, and inconsistent with his past. The only public and official religi ous observance prescribed by a na tional custom in our country is Thanksgiving Day. When the Presi dent of the United States on such a day, being as he is a Protestant and a Presbyterian, leaves his own church and attends service in aV Catholic church, his attitude will unquestion ably be interpreted both by the Rom an Catholic Heirarchy and by many Americans as indicating favoritism to Romanism. I know that many Pro testants who know our President will see in that act only his willingness to promote good-will and mutual under-1 man he became stubborn and did as standing between all American repub- he pleased. This may be an excuse lies; but many others, and 'especiali.'Jbut t is not a reason. This act of the Roman Catholic Heirarchy, will the President opened the road for the give to his act another and very dif- Catholics toward their goal, ferent meaning. The more so Tumulty, the President's secretary. cause the service attended was a Catu-1 olic mass. . One of the main conten tions between Romanism and Pro testantism is the practice of the mass. Catholics say that Protestantism is not a Real religion because it lacks the offering of any real sacrifice it t has no mass. For Roman Catholics : . thare is in fact . no other sacrifice! worthy of God but the mass. Evan- gelical Protestants, on the contrary, believe that theTtoman Catholic mass is the tnosfr superstitious and idolat rous practrice of Eomanism. Now, our President, being a- Presbyterian and a scholar, has given, unconscious ly and unwillingly, I grant, the best practical illustration to make believe that Roman Catholics are right and evargelical Protestants wrong. The Roman Catholic Heirarchy at home and abroad will rejoice at this and will say, "If the Roman Catholic mass is a superstitious and idolatrous prac- ti can you explain that the Presi- dent of the United States, being him- self a Presbyterian, and a great scnol- 0Fj j,as chosen that very practice as a means of giving thanks to God on the only day which the American na- lion as such wui&uiya tend mass at some other time might be an act of poli.teness and courtesy, but to attend mass on Thanksgiving Day as the ration's President, is an other and very different matter. Again the main contention of Rom anism in the United States is to ob tain from the State officials recog nition as a church. If our President would read a certain document of Leo XIII. to the American Catholics, he would realize at once that the pa pacy advises as the best policy even in the United States union between Church and State. The Roman Cath olic Heirarchy will consider the atti tude of our President as a good step toward the policy. They will say, and they will be correct in saying so, "There is but one day on which the United States, as a nation, worships, and on that day we as a church gath-. ered together to worship publicly, and the President as such, came to us publicly in spite of the fact that he is a Presbyterian. At last we are united on some public and official ; j aroused the suspicions and sensitive ness of millions of patriots. To see the truth of this one has but to con sider the appearance and growth of the societies like the Guaraidns of Liberty, the Knights of Luther, and so on, and especially the astonishing increase in circulation and popularity of "The Menace." It would bea pity to arouse more the suspicions and to provoke more the sensitiveness of that large number of Americans, and I confess that the attitude of our President will not reassure them. The more so because many of them were disappointed in his choice of a private secretary. I truly believe that in all situations there is no ether way to follow wor thy of at rue American statesman than the one taken by ex-President Roosevelt in Rome to appear neither as Catholic nor , Protestant, but as American. The above statements were made by a man who believes in fair play, who loves the Roman Catholic people, and who greatly admires and trusts our President. Presbyterian Stand ard. CATHOLIC AGGRESSION. This paper does not believe in the methods of The Menace. . It has no liking whatever for men like J. J Crowly, who run around the country and hand out hot words about the riests words that are hot only hot but coarse and obscene. It does not believe that the best way to advocate the truth is by abuse of other people. But while all this is true we are alarmed at the constant encroach ments the Catholics are making "hrough governmental favors and in fluence. There is no danger whatever that the Catholics will ever make substantial headway through the methods employed by other denomi nations. They tried to evangelize Wake county, and failed. ; Catholics -annot compete with Protestants in winning adherents. They cannot stand the light. , But they can gain - a foothold through governmental influence. With Washington as their center they can reach the States, and this is their hope. We admire the President of the United States for his wisdom, tact and great common sense. He has made fewer mistakes perhaps than any President of this generation. But he made one. The Presbyter ian Standard apologizes for his at tending the Catholic mass on Thanks giving on the ground that as he is a I Presbyterian and also a Scotch Irish- is an intense Catholic, and he is busy placing . men; of lust! faith 'wherever they can serve Catholicism.' J He is in high iayor ..with JM Chif'aA4fcis position enables him to help his church toward the place of power in our po- litical life toward which it is bending every jshergy. - y 'V 14 is high time that the Protestants waking np to the situation. This government must no be Romanized. We hoped with the retirement of Taft the peril would have passed; but official Washington is afraid to lift its voice. The pastors of the city were right. They advised the Presi dent to stay away from the Thanks giving mass; and they had 'the best of reasons for their warning. Char ity and Children. We clip the following extract from a sermon preached by a Catholic priest in St. Louis, named D. S. Phe lan, and published in the Western Watchman, a Roman Catholic paper of St. Louis, which has a large cir culation: Priest Phelan said: "And why is it the Church is strong; why is it everybody is afraid of the Catholic church? And the American people are more afraid of her than any people in the world. Why are they afraid of the Catholic Church? They know what the Catholic church means. We of the Catholic church are ready to go to death for the church. Under God she is the su preme object of our worshp. Tell us that we think more of the church than we do of the United States; of course we do. Tell us we are Catholics first and Americans or Englishmen afterwards; of course we are. Tell us, in the conflict between the Church and the civil government we take the side of the church; of course we do. Why, if the government of the United States were at war with the Church we would say tomorrow "TO HELL WITH THE GOVERN MENT OF THE UNITED STATES, and if the Church and all the govern ments of the world were at war we would say, to hell with all the gov ernments of the world. They say we are Catholics first and Americans de cidedly afterwards. There is no doubt about it. We are Catholics first and we love the Church more than we love any and all the governments of the world. Let the governments of the world steer clear of the Catholic church; let the emperors, let the kings, and the presidents not come into con flict with the head of the Catholic Church. Because the Catholic Church is everything to the Catholics of the world; they renounce all nationalities where there is a question of loyalty to her. And why is it the Pope is WHAT. THE PRE GALLEY THREE so strong ? Why is it that this coun try, where we have only seven per cent of the population, the Catholic Church is so much feared ? She is lov ed by all her children and feared by everybody. Why is it the Pope is such a tremendous power ? Why, the Pope is the ruler of the world. AH the emperors, all the kinds, anil the prices, all the presidents of the world today are as these altar obys of mine. The pope is the ruler of the .world Why? Because he is the ruler of the Catholics of the worldand the Cath olics of all the world would die for the rights of the pope." The Scramble. . When the pie is opened the birds begin to sing, whether they are Dem ocratic or Republican birds; and it is the same old song. The words are different but the music is the same The scramble that has been going on about Washington and the scrapping that has filled the air at home for the past six months, are familiar, but dis gusting. The President, great and strong as he is, has yielded to the ressure from without and has viola cd his purpose not to remove anv iff ice holder for political reasons. We mnk it would have teen a great deal more seemly not so s y prudent, for he administration to have allowed Messrs. Logan, Seawell and Dockerv o have served out their terms. They .Lid held their offices and discharged their duties under this administration for nine months and only about 60 days remained to them. But little time has been saved to the Democrats and a great deal of just criticism has been passed; nor is this the last of this matter. The people of the Unit ed' States are not particularly inter ested in providing places for noliti iians; what they are interested in is efficient and capable service on the part of officer holders. Mr. Wilson is too big and broad a man to allow a few partisans to discredit the arreat work of his administration bv involv ing a lot of hungry wire pullers in a row . over the distribution of the of fices. It was Cleveland who. made the wise remark that "public office is a ' public trust." It seems to ; be :ommonly regarded around Washi ton as a private snap. The wonderful thing about the whole business is. the strange fascination there is about a public office for the average man. Some people will abandon a good bus iness that furnishes an ample income for a precarious period of office hold ing that does not yield a comnetencv for the present and promises nothing; ror tne luture. Happy the man,who enters the new year with no bee biizz ing in his bonnet. Charity and IChil dren. .. ' r,- Snapp Well, all the fools are not dead yet, ; t ... .. t- Mrs. Snapp-f Im jflad. of it .1 nev er did look ' well irt black Bonton Transcript. An Appeal for Help on Behalf of Ja- . -' : pan. . r:' Washington, Jan. 15. President Wilson as the head of the American Red Cross, late today issued an appeal to the American people for funds to assist the people of Japan, who are suffering not only from earthquakes, but from failure of crops. The President's appeal follows: "Our sister nation of Japan is suf fering from two very serious disas ters. The failure of crops in the northeastern part of that country has brought hundreds of thousands of per sons face to face with the terrible misery of slow starvation, and in the southwestern island of Kiushu, a sud den great volcanic eruption has car ried death and desolation to large numbers in a thickly populated dis trict.:'' . "I apepal to the humanity of our American people that they may give expression of their sympathy for the suffering and distress of so many of their fellowmen by generous contri butions for their aid. Such contribu tions can be made to the local Red Cross treasurers or sent directly to the American Red Cross, Washington, D. c." "Red Cross headquarters announced tonight that an appeal had been sent out to all State chapters asking local chapters to gther the funds. Pete Crafts, a Pet Dog, Has Fallen erhaps your boy or girl is in need of a new pair of shoes these cold days, if so we have a good selection of sturdy, sol id leather shoes made ex pressly for the boy or girl that demands only the best of leathers to withstand the many hard knocks of the sida walks and other rough uses that they are expected to go up against. .Our shoes will come as nearly meeting these require ments as it is possible to make a shoe. FOSTER SHOE COMPANY, Burlington, N. C. 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