Governor Johnson has just ap
pointed a Roman priest as regent of
the State University. I am won
dering how long it will be before
the Jesuits appoint a rabid anti-
RoMn reverend as a high officer in
their college! Also how soon the
local Catholic schools will be con
trolled by a Protestant lawyer!
Os course there is no mystery in
this success of Roman Catholics.
They are 'in an iron-clad organiza
tion and vote as cold, ai.d solidly.
Nearly every politician, from the
President downward, is bidding for
the Roman vote. Without doubt that
was the secret mission of Butt (the
“hero’’) to the Vatican recently.
Roosevelt, we all know, worked in
the same way. And none of us who
are not so young as we once were,
has forgotten Blaine’s Burchard,
“Rum, Romanism and Rebellion,”
and what the three Rs cost him. It
was a good showing of what the Ro
manists could do at short notice!
Yours, very sincerely,
A CALIFORNIAN.
ROMANISM RUN MAD.
The following from the Boston
Pilot (Cardinal O’Connell’s official
organ) of April 6th, is quite a curi
osity for this century:
“In the first place, it is necessary
to call attention to the fact that the
point raised about discrimination in
favor of one church at the expense of
another cannot be said to apply in
the case of cardinals. They are
something besides ministers of the
Gospel and ecclesiastics’’
“Indeed, a cardinal is not neces
sarily a priest, but he is from a
purely secular point of view a very
great personage, who is regarded
and treated everywhere abroad not
as a dignitary of any church, but as
a prince of the blood.
