If our homes are at the mercy of a foreign
law, then the gate is open to the Trojan
horse.
If the status of wives and children in this
cc nitry, is to be fixed by a foreign code, in
stead of ours, then a. foreign potentate will
have made good his supreme control of the
very basis of our society and civilization.
THAT IS WHAT HE IS TRYING TO
DO!
The exact words of that foreign law, as
announced by Archbishop Moeller in hisl
Lenten message, were as follows:
“The marriage of a Catholic to a Catholic,
or to a ifon-Catholic, contracted before a civil
Officer or a Protestant minister, after Easter,
1908, is, according to the decree Ne temere,
NULL AND VOID”
“Persons who have contracted marriage in
this manner, must have the marriage healed
by the Catholic Church.”
Thus the foreign law of a foreign potentate,
arrogantly usurps the power to dictate to our
citizens, spurn our laws, and to annul the
most solemn contracts made under those law’s,
even when the consummation of the lawful
marriage makes it impossible for the Catholic
husband to restore his Protestant wife to the
position in which he found her.
He may not be hurt: She is neither maid,
wife, nor widow, awl is literally ruined!
In the eyes of The Telegraph, the enforce
ment of the Pope’s law on Frank Boifeuillet
—and against his Baptist wife—is a personal
and private matter.
In the eyes of those who think more seri
ously, the enforcement of any foreign law
upon a citizen of this country, is a species of
T reason.
There can not be two codes of law, one for
eign and the other domestic.
There can not be two sovereigns, one the
Pope and the other the State.
