Fiery Cross, Volume 4, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1925 — Page 3

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NATIONAL

DUCATION

Constitution of U. S. Greatest Document Ever Penned by Man

Its Origin and Operation It Brought Order Out of Chaos, Developed National Cohesiveness and Destroyed the Power of Disintegration. The Second of a Series of Education Articles Compiled and Issued by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

'"THE Constitution of the United States is the greatest constructive government document ever compiled by man. It brought order out of chaos. It developed national cohesiveness and destroyed the power of disintegration. It softened state pride and magnified love of country. It took thirteen weak, selfish and quarreling states and amalgamated them into a national unit. It turned poverty into wealth discord into unity distrust into love local pride into patriotism. No greater task ever came to the hands of mortal man than that confronted the members of the Constitutional Convention that met in Philadelphia on a spring clay in 1787. There was really no government. The Articles of Confederation had

luuwil in lie a rope of sand thato-

Series A Subjects The subjects comprising Series A are: 1. At the Threshold. -. The Origin and Operation of the Constitution ot the United States of America. 3. The Responsibilities of Citizenship. 1. A Klansman's Obligations as a Patriot to His God. His Country, His Home, and His Fellowmen. 9 5. The Klansman's Oath o Allegiance. C. The Heritage of American Institutions. ". America for Americans. S. Americans Take Heed. a. Ideals of the Ku Klux Klan.

DOVE OF PEACE CANNOTOCCUPY DIVIDED PERCH,

O'CONNELLSAYS

'Catholicism and Free Ma

sonry" Opposite Poles, Asserts Dean of Papal System in Official Statement.

"ONLY WEAK FOLLOWERS OF POPE TOLERANT"

' u lid nobody. The Continental Con"gross would fpc.Mv but each sovereign stat" (rented its demands and ifriuewts with contempt. Tb imestion tv mi every patriot's lips "Would he country survive the shock of civil discord or would the independence of 'he stiites so dearly bought be lost in i lie consuming selfishness of the sev-cr-il st;iles of the newly formed counii j 'I lie convention was called for I lie purpose oi amending the Articles ol Confederation but when the statesmen gathered to pei form that task it was soon discovered that what the ountry needed was a document that i' ould create a national unit and nnalgamate the people of the several slates Into an indissoluble union. :;eorge Washington was chosen as b" president of the convention. hose deliberations lasted from late in inil until a day in September when lie document was finally passed and M-ied. So momentous were the isiios to be decided, so contlicting w;ere

t lie. theories of government of the

n.cnilers of the convention, so pre

l arieiis was ' the condition of the

outiu-y that Benjamin Kranklin, at Hie i i inclusion of the convention, -with

r nine trembling with emotion well s;,it "Mr. Chairman, at the opening i f this convention I was in a. quanoai t know whether the engraving upon M.e back of your chair was a i.,ir t; oi wetting sun. .Vow at, the lamp:- conclusion of the deliberations I can veil say. that it is indeed a i isirm sun whose rays will shine upon '.'"aerations yet unborn for we are v a national entity." Conflicting Theories. ""v . ;'.ir: inount conflicting theories , ".m r. rnment were soon made manliest in the convention. One class of men seeing the danger incident to unlimited power, through a strong centralized government and having recently witnessed a people disentangl

ing themselves from arbitrary rule v.ete strong for the proposition of leaving the ultimate power with the states. These were the so-called state rights- statesmen. On the other hand there was that class who appreciated the weakness of the Articles of Confederation and saw the necessity of developing a power that would be paramount to the rights of the states. This 4 lass was known as the Nationalists or Federalists. The battle waged for months with the- result that the present splendid system of government was conceived by the merging and amalgamation of Hie two conflicting theories. Probably the greatest cerdit for the construction of the present Constitution is due to .lames Madison and

Alexander Hamilton. They belonged to different schools of political belief but so great was their patriotism and

so fplendid their mental eriuipment that they were able to conceive the system of government which left to liie states matters of purely local coni ern and at the same time endowed the national government with a power

sufficient to develop unified action.

The system of checks and balances us set out in the Constitution has

been pronounced to be the most mar

velous system of government ever deIsed by the brain of man. It was (be first really practical experiment In a Republican form of government

and the century that has followed has justified (he soundness of the opinions

of these men who sat in that conven

tion hall. The Republican governments of the world thnt have survived the wrecks of political upheavals have patterned their governments after this model Constitution. Lawyers from the beginning have appreciated .mil understood the power and beauty of our form of government.

Tho time has come when ine layman, the American layman upon whom, rests and will rest the burden of safeguarding it, must understand and appreciate the delicate adjustment of that splendid piece of ma ehlnery failed the Constitution of the I'nited States. We are in danger from our friends who would throw a monkey wrench inio this machinery In the vain hope that they are mak

ing necessary adjustments. I.et us

fully comprehend Its breadth and

scope let us see how it safeguards air life, liberty ami property from nob rule as well as from the despotic way of Imperialistic individualism. Too Many Commissions. Let It ho understood first of all that the Constitution Is an instrument delegating power from the people in whom all power Is lodged to particular governmental agencies. When the people In their sovereign capacity grant certain rights to their governing authorities by and through the Constitution, they surrender to that extent their Individual rights and piivllgen. This Is absolutely necessary tin every man must forego some natural rights and some particular privilege if he la to live in a social state and at peace with his neighbor. But It Is, n4rVertheless, true that a people

Is best Iroverned who are the least

, Some people in this mod-

Iwever, have the erroneous

tthe more power that Is

ifrom the people and

the government gives

ktf measure ot liberty.

degree of protection. We alng to . seed on this

rernmet.. Our national our legislatures

"mmsfR

Checks and Bal

ances

The Constitution is the greatest system of checks and balances ever devised. The executive department is checked against the legislative department bj' means of veto power. The legislative department is checked against the executive by means of the confirmative power of the Senate in all appointments. The House of Representatives is checked against the Senate in the necessity of the concurrence of both houses before a law- can be enacted. The judicial branch is checked against the legislative department in its power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. The legislative department is

checked against the executive its power to impeach.

The legislative department is checked against the judicial in its power to impeach. Congress is checked by the people by the election of representatives every two years. The people are checked by a judicial power which would declare void any enactment of their representatives even though it was overwhelmingly demanded when such enactment is contrary to the fundamental law.

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local self-government. We now have commissions that are regulating everything from motherhood to taxation. It is a result of the peculiar temperament of the American people who are trying to avoid the very substantial duty of governing themselves.

Let us examine some of the work

ings of the Constitution in connection with the present agitation for a change and re-adjustment of the fundamental law.

Under the Constitution, as it is now

framed, it is necessary for a bill to pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the President. Each house acts as a check on the other and the

President a check on both. There

are some very good people who are in

sisting on one popular legislative house and the abolishing of the Presi

dent's right of veto. They claim that

the Senate is too far away from the

people, that senator's terms of office are too long and thatThey block the will of the people through the expression of the House of Representatives. They also claim that the power of veto gives to one man the power of overruling the will of a popular majority. No wiser provision was ever made than the creation of two houses by our constitutional fathers. The opinion of a popular ma

jority is many times erroneous and many times there is grae danger of loose and dangerous legislation when men have been swept into office at, the time of a political upheaval. To keep close to the people is a wise admonition and this is done by electing an entire House of Representatives every two years. The people themselves constitute a check on the legislative department by biennial election. But the check, on the other hand, from excesses in legislation is found

in the election of senators for terms

of six years, one third of this body changing every two years, Then, us an additional check, the President has the right of veto, a right which has always been exercised .with caution and generally for the best interests of the people.

Again, some people would change the Constitution so as to give the President full power to make treaties. Others would make the Senate the treaty-making body. Under the Constitution, the President makes treaties by and with the-consent of the Senate. Dealing with foreign nations is an executive function but so jealous were our forefathers of the people's rights that a check was put

on the executive branch by compelling concurrence by one branch of the leg

islative department. This provision has sometimes embarrassed the President but it has saved the people in some instances from embarrassing foreign alliances. Must Americanize East. Some people would change the Constitution by having the President

elected by poplar vote. "The will of the majority" is a catchy slogan. The Constitution now provides for the election of a President by an electoral

college, made up of electors from the

several states according to the num

ber of representatives and senators

from such states and elected by the people. Our forefathers planned even more wisely than they knew. Under the popular vote plan it would be possible for a President to be elected by tho people of New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey alone. Great as these states are, nevertheless, the foreign influence is so great . that the tradition of the United States in selecting an American President might easily be upset. I prefer the present system by which the men and women of the developing South, the men and women of the expanding West, and the men and women of the rich Mississippi Valley can . have a practical voice in . the selection of their chief executrvi. With all of Its teeming -itHon. i New York. - Massachusetts.

Jere"tLV' fewer r'native- me

born American citizens in proportion to the total population than any other part of the country. The time is coming when the Americans of the West, South, and Middle West must Americanize the Hast and it cannot be done by putting the supreme power in the hands of a foreigtwruide section of our country. Some people would make the legislative department of our government supreme and destroy the power of the judicial department to declare null

and void votes of Congress contrary to the provisions ot the Constitution. I Such a provision would absolutely destroy the etticacy of a written constitution. The judicial department is one of the splendid checks in our system of government. If the legislative department exceeds its power as granted by the Constitution and

passes measures not authorized under its express or implied power, the judicial branch of government under its Constitutional rights declares such acts unconstitutional and void. What greater safeguard against arbitrary, unwarranted and unlimited power by a legislative department of .government that an independent, co-ordinate department of government sitting in judgment on its acts. Early in our government when the" Constitution was in the making, this same agitation was in the air but one of the great figures in our national life. Chief .Justice John Marshall of the supreme court of the United States, breathed life into that document and

made the judicial branch of our government a co-ordinate department, subservient to tio other branch ami conserving the fundamental tenets of our charter of liberties. Many acrimonious debates were had in Congress in these days when the supreme court dared to declare acts of Con

gress unconstitutional and many attempts were made to destroy its power. l'.ut the judicial branch of our government lived and our rights were thereby better protected. Xow, again is heard the cry over the land "Let the people rule and not the supreme court." If the people enact a law through their representatives nri power should -destroy that law. If Congress is supreme and above the Constitution, then is the argument persuasive, but if there is a government of delegated power and the Constitution is the paramount law, then there must be some branch of government independent of the legislative branch to determine when that department exceeds its authority. That, power is rightly lodged in the

judicial branch whose function under the Constitution is" to interpret the law. L'.ut a year or two ago we wit

nessed the spectacle of men debating whether it would be wise to submit judicial decisions to the vote of the people to determine whether those decisions were correct or otherwise. Such theories absolutely destroy the

thought of government as enunciated by our fathers in the document which we are discussing. Status of Federal dutlces.

Again some people are debating the advisability of changing the Constitution so that federal judgos can be elected by the people for short terms of office. Under the Constitution federal judges are appointed by the President by ami with the concurrence of the Senate and the term of office is for life or good behavior. The Constitution provides that judges can lie impeached, the House of Representatives preferring the charges, and

the Senate of the United States sitting as a tribunal to try the same. This provision is a check upon any arbitrary power attempted to bo exercised by the judicial department.

( ornplaint is now often made that

federal judges arc arbitrary and being appointed for life they owe allegiance

to no one. This criticism is sometimes

justified for federal judges in some

instances have been known to act in an arbitrary manner. However, the remedy Is found in the above noted provision, if the representatives of the people flo their full duty and perform the functions granted to them under the constitution. A judge, if he is true to his obligation, is sometimes required in interpreting and applying the law to render decisions which are not in accord

witn tne popular demand. If a judge's temiro of office is contingent on his deciding gases according to popular fancies and not according to law then courts of justice would soon

becme a mockery and sham. We need and must have an independent

judiciary free from the influences of

popular clamor and with courage sufficient to decide every case according to the law no matter how distasteful that decision-may be to the public at

large. This is a government of law and not a government by mob and we should keep our Judicial officers free from that kind of Influence. A successful judge should have no fear of his future and should be separated from the political clamor of the day. I think our Constitution makefs were wise In making federal judges appointive and making their tenure of

office for life or good behavior and

that an; present variation from that provision would tend to weaken the conservatlvenetn. Independence and the stability of the Judicial arm of our government. 1 - Some people contend that the appointive power of tne President should! v abridged, '. Under - the Con-

stituti'i tie appoints all executive

Bubord? s .am well as ail judicial of

ficer-' - etc. The v MKU

the party

in power to build a political machine. This argument is justified in part but

wnere would that power be lodged to obviate that difficulty. To make all these officers selective would be a practical impossibility. To put the appointive power in Congress would make it possible to build a machine of

more gigantic proportions with no check on its arbitrary use and in a body where its exercise would have an important influence on legislation. The remedy is not in changing the Constitution but in educating the people away from party fealty and toward national loyalty. No political machine can stand against the righteous judgment of an aroused public conscience. Yes, let the people rule. but let them rule through their acredited representatives within the limitations set out by the Constitution. It is a great document, it has-withstood the shock of more than a century of con

flict. Under its humane and wise rjro-

Visions we have grown from a handful of people upon the Atlantic sea

board Unto what constitutes a nation of one hundred ten million, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and fr om the (Julf of Mexico to the green fields of Canada. We have developed

from an infant nation to a world power whose influence has brought a larger freedom and a greater democracy to the kingdoms of the world. Leave It Alone Let us leave the Constitution alone. It has been weighed in the balance and not found wanting. Our duty and responsibility is not so much to form a new Utopian document but to support and sustain the present Utopian document which has in it the provisions when properly enforced to Americanize America and to republicanize the world. The enemies of the Constitution are within our gates. Communism. I. W. Wism and an

archy are striking constantly at this

fundamental document. The conservation of America and the preservation of the Constitution depends on men and women who love our insti

tution, who ace impregnated with the

spirit of '76 and who have been bap

tized under the Stars, and Stripes

AVithout disparaging to any extent

the men and women of foreign birth

who have come to these shores to build their own fortunes and to adopt a new country, yet we native sons must understand that the primary obligation is ours and that if a government of the people, for the people and by the people is to survive 100 per cent. American citizens must stand to and abide by this document, the greatest experiment of the ages in free government. God grant our people wisdom to see and courage to perform their duty.

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iieap r rniernuing wua Freemasonry" Is "Tantamount to Unmanly and Unworthy Compromise."

(Special to The Kourier.) Boston, Jan. 19. Cardinal O'Connell, Roman Catholic and dean of Papists in the United States, has tossed a metaphorical monkey-wrench into the Roman plans for a "harmony society" in which Masons and Knights of Co

lumbus were to don double harness. Not long ago, in New York city, was organized the Hamilton-Jefferson Club, the membership of which was to be composed of an equal number of Masons and Roman Catholic knights. The purpose of the organization, according to papal press agents, was to

"harmonize differences between Roman Catholicism and other religious bodies in America." It was not broadcast, however, by the pope's publicity department, that

the president and secretary of the

'harmony club" were Roman Cath

olics, this having been overlooked in

the rush of spreading the glad tidings of peace and good will to men especially Roman Catholic men.

" Gullible Accept Idea. Many gullible Masons and other Protestants - were inveigled into believing the plan would be successful, not realizing that the pope is unalterably opposed to everything Masonic as well as Protestant. For the benefit

of these, the real attitude of Rome is

stated OFFICIALLY by

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HIERARCHY-EC ONCECANDIDi CONFESSES 'SK MADMSfAl "To Atone fXwrongrw d)

to Maid of 0-Ieans, Che Will Be Erpted in I Honor, Papal neet Say;

WAS BURNED TOD EAT

AT STAKE AS

Over-Anxiety of Vatic.

Kegain favor ot; ri Given as Reason for

Attitude After 500 Yi

Inky Blackness IsiThreatened Jan. 24 When Luna Hides Face

Pureau of The Kourier, 213 G St. N.W., Washington. Darkness will spread over portions of the country during the total eclipse of the sun on the morning of January 24, declares Prof. Asaph Hall, of the Naval Observatory in this city. He says it will be especially dark in and over Wash ington.

The moon will first be seen movinga

across the face of the sun in Washington at 7:55 o'clock in the morning, the eclipse ending at -10:22 Vclock.

Cardinal I Tne Peak of tne eclipse here will be

BUENOS AIRES STUDENTS HATE ROME MACHINE

Of Five Thousand Scholars

In Law School Four Only Are Christians.

O'Connell in The Pilot, official organ of the arch-diocese of Boston. It follows: "We carry above a letter from one who styles himself a plain Catholic. This communication calls for the . expression of the Catholic viewpoint on Masonry. We very gladly present it. "It is a plain and undisputable fact that Catholicism antl Free Masoiiry are opposite poles, mutually antagonistic to one another, the one proclaiming faith in God and upholding the Divinity of Christ and the teachings of Christ's church; the other making each man a divine incarnation, and proclaiming crass materialism, downright naturalism. "Pone Leo XIII of holy memory was

very explicit on this point when he

stated that the purpose ot Masonry was 'the overthrow of the whole religio'us, political and social order, based on Christian institutions and the es

tablishment of a new state of things according to their own ideas, and

based m its principles and laws on

pure naturalism.'

Attacks Scottish Rite. "The American Scottish Rite Ma-

reached about 9:40 o'clock. The sun's

surface will be 95 per cent obscured at that time. The streets will be darkened for about thirty minutes. Professor Asaph, however, does not believe it will be necessary for the street lights to be on. as he declares that from 15 to 20 per cent of the sun's rays are

sufficient for daylight. Dr. George H. Peters, of the Naval Observatory, has had specially constructed a camera which will be used Jan. 24 in making photographs of the eclipse from the dirigible Los Angeles. Dr. Peters will use the camera

when the gi oat airship is about a heretic

It is unusual to find evi

faint admission in a So

Catholic paper that, the

man church or her prel

ever made a mistake. ?

Roman system pretends

have a monopoly of the i

tues that she alone has be

IDivinely guided from the beglnnl

i The Roman church has not repe; i one of her dark-age decrees nor ! she ever officially expressed regre I shown any sign of repeptenc: for

! persecutions and bloodshed in the

turies when she reigned supreme Europe. But here is a peculiar: 11

hearted confession from a recent I torial in the Roman Catholic Regit of Toronto: . i

"To atone for the wrong done St. Joan of Arc by Cardinal Beau! Bishop of Winchester, a church 6 cated to St. Joan is to be erectec Farnham, where Cardinal ' Beau lived. Recently a statue of St. J was erected in Winchester Cathei opposite the cardinal's tomb with j same intention. Cardinal Beau took an important part in the tria the Maid of Orleans, and It wae his orders that her ashes were fl into the Seine. The new church wi Catholics are erecting nat Farnl will be near the site of the cardir palace. It will cost $5O,O0O."-, ,.' j Burned At Stake. . Joan of Arc, the MaJ4-

was chained to a stake!

square and bi

mile in the air, above thj mist ami

fog. News from the Wright Aviation Field at Dayton, O.. says that pictures of the eclipse will be made from airplanes above that city, taken at great height.

many .Masons see no evil in Masonry. I Of course not. under the circumstances. Progress in degrees of Masonry is necessary. Multitudes do not receive such degrees. Hence the reason for so many not seeing the perversity of the organization. "I'nder the conditions briefly, of necessity, sketched above, what of Catholics fraternizing with Freemasonry and Freemasonic hodies? It is nothing short of contemptuous compromising of eternal, essentia! principles. It is wrong, inherently so. Of course, oneniay have known the other as a boy, and may have the simple trust of early days yet undiluted by a ripe experience and knowledge of men. But times change and men change with them.

It is always the weak and vacil-

sons have a svstem that has copied

in their various phases the ritual and ftniK l atno ic who wisnes to appear

tuitiaiii flini i'i wan aiiu ic i j icu j,t

(.Special to The Kourier.) Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 19

The great church congress to be held in Montevidio soon

was arranged with more than

one object in view. The discussion of religious questions is the main object, but another almost equally important, is

the effect. South America is

in a religious turmoil. The

fight made on the pope's archbishop

appointed to BUenos Aires is only one

evidence of the feeling against Rome.

To give another idea as to what the

greatest enemy of tne lvian is causing

in other countries in addition to the disturbances they are creating in Spain and France at the present time, the following article is reprinted from the "Lutehran." concerning the

law university at Buenos Aires and

the problem that Roman Catholicism has brought to the students:

"As a conspicuous monument to mark the celebration of its centennial, the University of Buenos Aires.

founded in 1821, erected a splendid structure three years ago, for its fac

ulty of law. Very Handsome Building.

"As a government institution, the entire equipment in all departments

of material sciences is very hand

some, but as to its moral and religious atmosphere, conditions are indescribably bad. A recent canvass among its

5,000 students disclosed the awful fact that only four of them have any faith

in Christianity, or anything but hos

tility for the Church.

'It must be remembered, however

that when they talk of 'Christianity in priest-ridden South America, they

always mean popery, which is the

only form of religion they have hitherto known. "And their hostility to 'the Church' refers entirely to Roman Catholicism, which they bitterly hate, not so much as a church but as a gigantic political machine. They insist that it has been South America's curse, as her chief obstacle to universal education and spiritual development. '- ', "Since th World War a different spirit has been manifesting; itself in Buenos Aires, and now is Protestant Ism's unprecedented , opportunity. Pray earnestly for the coming Montevideo congress, that it may by c' blessing prove an eporjff-making e In fostering Ti strvgthen'"' favorable r . Americas'

ieir protest against the church, sqimrely and tackled them manfully Grand Orient of continental liu- .

symbols of Kabbalism, Gnosticism

and various pagan as well as Christian cults. It posses its ritual, its system of worship, with its rituals for baptism, deaths, blessings and com muniors, etc. "And one may note with some degree of alarm that 'the conception of a Deity outside of reason is an idol and a phantom.' "In every rite and jurisdiction the purpose appears now the same, an exaltation of pure naturalism. We find nothing available to substantiate the claim that a change of heart has taken place since 1830 when 3.000 lodges were forced to surrender their charters in many states and close their doors.

Practically every one of the official

journals of Freemasonry are united

their

The

rope appears to -be right here among

us today in all its power and uestructiveness. No one is so blind as not to see the disasters it fostered in

France, Portugal and Italy. No one not only did not behold those disasters

with horror ami repugnance, but with a glee that surpasses passive assist

ance and mounts to exultation at the.

dire pass to which religion was

brought.

'Let us cite just one authority.

which might be multiplied indefinitely.

The American Freemason, an otlicial Journal, stated: 'This magazine has

never swerved from the position that between the Masonic fraternity and the Catholic church, there is an antagonism inherent to the . nature of these organizations. We have declared that there can be no peace nor even truce between Freemasonry and the official Roman church. They are opposing poles of thought; on the one side an authority that demands submission of will and conscience to

a priestly caste; on the other an institution' that insists on an individual freedom of thought with no intermediary between God and man.' Pity Poor Romanists. "Does not this declaration of principle coincide with the continently attitudes of the Grand Orient? And if so. are not American "Freemasonry

and the continental brand the same?

And since this is so, can the church

trust it in America, with the horrors

of Europe before her eyes? A modi

fication of tactics is to be expected

to fit in with American conditions. But

should American Catholics be blinded I by disguises and dissimulation, when

history points the record of European

countries? .-. 9 -. : . v; "We do not speak of individual Ma

sons. Our subject Is Freemasonry j as an organissation. In. pcint of very

fact; - large numbers Join the organization led on by the specious and de

ceptive all to fraternt"! many

remain blind to its ' , as I

Supreme - Comroi'' ted,-

Masonry cone- all

-"opt ader

his non-Catholic friends as 'different

from other Catholics I have met,' who is found in the whispering ranks of compromise, blinking historic fact and essential Catholic teaching, so that he will be looked upon as of the 'more intelligent class.'

I'nwilling to Compromise. "Great Catholic scientists and eminent Catholic pioneers in every line of human endeavor, men whom history honors and whom the world loves to recall for mighty and valiant services to mankind made no feeble showing to gain greatness. They were men of principle, men of character, who needed no compromise to climb the ladder to fame. "They met ciuestions fairly and

Units of New York City Pray for Imperial Wizard (Special to The Kourier.) New York City, Jan. 19. Every Klan of. Greater New York City held silent prayer at the opening of each meeting for the hasty and complete recovery of the Imperial Wizard of the Klan. These silent prayers have been offered by each of the Klans at every meeting since the Imperial Wizard was operated on NewYear's day. These prayers were offered immediately after the opening of the Klan and before the Klansmen were seated to take up the business of the organization. Dr. Evans is very popular among the metropolitan Klansmen, as elsewhere, and much concern has been expressed for his safety.

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with no thought of selfish interest and no delusions about the evil of human respect. Cheap fraternizing with Freemasonry on the part of Catholics is tantamount to unmanly and unworthy compromise of their precious Christian heritage. Such fraternizing should cease. It impresses nobody. It deludes and makes ludicrous the professing Catholic. "Freemasonry is opposed not only to Catholicism and Christianity, but also to the whole system of supernatural truth."

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1920 the same Joan was exalte sainthood in the Roman . Cath church. No wonder Bernard S makes Joan's ghost ask: "''Can t unburn me?" But her "cannor tion" does not mean that the Rot system is really sorry for condemn her to death. That phase of her cution has not been considered at j Vatican. In spite of Rome the & of Orleans became regarded throu out France as a heroine and mart The Vatican was over-anxious, ' a' the great war, to win vlctorfe France back to the church. Thai

why Joan, the "heretic and witch," came a Roman Catholic saint years ago." It was pre-eminently political stunt, and while it helped, restore political relations -with j Vatican for a time, recent deve' ments in France indicate that the i pal objective has not been enti; achieved. , --."-, "Dignitaries" Look On. .-' j Cardinal Beaufort was not the c' papal prelate who "wronged" Joan Arc. A hundred and fifty Roman i lates, officials and priests ,witnes her execution. This is pointed I

by Frank Hugh O'Donnell, lax

Queeirs College, Galway, forme

M. P., who gives the following .

description of Joan of Arc:

"And all the time sit on

cent dais or grandstand, jf

their toasting victim, that i

an assembly of a hundred!

of the most eminent lord bl

venerable divines of Framcel

land. There was his Emii

Liord Cardinal ot vv menwxess

was the Inquisitor-General of F i the Most Reverend Dr. Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais. The? Cat. University of Paris had sent thirty of its greatest theologians, statue of one stood the other daj Notre Dame de PariB, with trci sanctity over his head. AitdT were all those eminent prelates, i at least being veneral bishops, do watching a young girl being slo roasted to death upon a mighty b fold? They were the tribunal of Most Holy Inquisitor, which,', s

(.weeks of brutal menace and plus

nunciations. had sentenced the st less girl-patriot to be burned e as 'a relapsed heretic and witch,' i who had come to sit upon their gr-

stand with metne and crozier vestments of purple and gold, lii:

greai aignuaries mey were, m

LU 1 1 IV II 1 III , ivjuw VII.UUI en, and burn, and die. - "

"Leave No Tree."t-

"When the mighty iBre -j whir

burned Joan of Arc to death ha

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