Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1889 — Boulanger and the Catholic Tarty. [ARTICLE]

Boulanger and the Catholic Tarty.

Since the see of Rome has been 00-eupied -eupied by a -Pope- who -k nows --how -tobe at tbe same time an unedmpromising dogmatist and a circumspect politician, the French clergy h s abandoned" its militant attitude against the present form of government, its prin- 1 cipal bishops have spoken moderately t on this point, and have declined alt formal adhesion to any party whatever. This, unfortunately is not the case with a notable fraction of the laymen of the Catholic party, who seem to be, above all, anxious to secure the interests of the Church by making bargains with vain promise-makers like General Boulanger, for the execution of whose promises they have no other guaranty than the impudent lies which have I hitherto been the most remarkable! facts of his career. We have seen po-. litical. men, who are leaders of the Catholic party, openly enter the disgraceful coalition formed under our very eyes between pretended conserv- | ativesS and the facetious general, whose only programme is Caesarisra for his own benefit. If this alliunce between the Catholic party—which we distinguish from the Church token as a whole—and General Boulanger becomes a reality, it will be one of tbe most lamentable scandals of modern times, and all the momentary advantages which the Catholics might obtain at this price would be more than compensated by the contempt with which they would br.md their creed for the, greater success of atheism, to which | they would furnish the best of excuses. They would be responsible for it before God and before men.—M. Edmond de Press©nse. Senator, in Harper’s Magazine.