Visor and Face

New Zealand Tablet, 15 November 1906, Page 10

Visor and Face

M aiat; and Robespierre have left- a numerous .political progeny. ' They.;' guillotined,- -to the Hune/of r • Libe'r-ty, . Fraternity, ' i'eli s ious'3p'<f - that did jtiot .sit, four-square' with tlieiv's.c^-'fheyV-v' ' '•• r. ■ ' Stole the livery of the court, of heaven -"-IT / To serve the devil inj**- , " . ; ,",-,, .- -V I ,'.^.':,' V Theirs mantle has,- fallen " upon the atheistic Ffreeriiason-Radical-Socialist ' Bloc ' or ' Machine >; -who.- now; perset cute- religion e in, the name oV* right ', arid ', and 1 Humanity v with a capital" H. ''itls the "old comedy of the Visor -and; the Face. -.Their t6hgue^sclrop",m"aliiia; at , times; . hut it' is for export^for=H'hev:fo"reign\.,prqss and 'public— iiot for-' home use.- ;On France's'' domestic hearth, the Pecksniffi.au .Visor, is, offv';the r Mpka.niia ; -F^ce t! ihows itself - in its .native hidcbusiies&^and * 1 .t1ie.,-rauc% ! u| tpngues :° l a /Premier- Clemenoeatf'and^of a Minister /Brijijidf hurl -'insults 1 at -the sacred '"name of the Saviour',. of thVwbrld, - and at. a teachers'', congress call fc-r.vthe ' destruction of Clu-istianity ( {l^i'dce.cln-eticnne) .in Fririce./' ;'7, : 'r' , v The yoice ,Lhat speaks for., the foreign, press. .'^babbles sweetly of '• liberty ■of conscience-'. *<VBut- At is 'the sort ,of ' liberty of "conscience ' that the dour old Cromwell the Governor of Ross : during ;his Irish, cami'Paign. -, The • grim Pro teUof. protested ; that .' he ?/\ yrould notv "meddle. with; 'any man's conscience' 'v'o'-But'.heVa'dded: "''lf by liberty'" -of conscience ' you ;>inean ; a~liber4y to exercise the .Mass, I judge it best to use^plaiiv language and to 'tell you now' that where the Parliament of 'England .'have j>6 wer, that-; will not be^alfovVed of ' .• -In „ France to-day- the, iibp^y:* to las'sis^l at' Masses .curtailed in, to. ( military , officer who ! 'is IcejJorted'by'sthe^.Frcenikson spies--"<who"are;; t ts"till as a6t!ive. : 'aV ever), as an'faUendabt^at^ Catholic wol'ship is ? isfsYop^^^^ - rJ c #^nd T ' ( tßfi j4 post- : niaster .or .hcal,ih\inspectpi;> -.- or "let£e,r-carner-r oil; "official rat-catcher who .is ' denounced" for assisting,' at^fcbe Holy '■" Sacrificejm'ay^ JouhV^on^ tpcelvija'g^Ms":' dismissal by an 11 - >l '^&j A%%^ "^P!^f''>^ ''koto President t ajficres,- i ere■.*graciousjy; ' pepmi^tell.vp^tie, *' 'to allow their wives" to attend the Sacred Mysteries. An JGngHsh coii Heai^oHty^ states that ' every;. Sunday.mornyikl^'^'^?^ '"bi"6'ugTiam sets down at r the floors ot[,.^t Sulpice.?. (the pffurpK of our

old " aima .mktei) "llic ' wife' of -the" President': of the French Republic ah'd Mile; 'Fallieresj wlio attend I ' (•( • • ' ? all f et ??' 6t"cdiif se,« 'takes-'his ! -cue -from his an :ti-eh*isffa# Rasters' of Hlie 7 -' Bl6c >j w^ln f ZW^pt^i*?-)^ has'-be^ ,stated>abpve,: the -'Catholic I Times;' pefjtifibWtly asks £ : '-'Why ; does'. President 'Fallieres I 'punisK ,ppor because- tliey '"alldw' r tliel'r : wivesvarid * oliil-dren" to ,'go^t'd J '' Mass, -''and sometimes go" to'^clKtrch \ , themselves; T. adds'' out mver'p u ooT^o"iSii^- 1 POTSP OT $\ '. ',' was ? r Par ticularly • odd f iri lfis "declarations Ton -*cli- I • S/9 v ? r , matters '^when afiftaVseiiles; -He-'congi-atulate^Hhe f on its ; H'igbr<)us action' ; ahd- assurfed'his colo- f nial' 'guests tha'fr'he'; interided' '"'tHait- 'the Ancient -faiths i of aboriginals should/berespectcfd'and *that tidtbing ■ should/ be sa-id"; of- dbn'e 5 - 1 -to - diminish t%e -f aitlv of the : natives in their ancieii," 1 beliefs; "- \So here '-is President ■ Fallieres seridiirg his 6wh' wife arid' cMld'tb Mass," pre-' 1 venting soldiers, ' sailors,' and btliei- functionaries 'from-go-^ ing to " cKurch^and •-'affirming r fcha'tf the 4 " ancienf -beliefs! of savages "would 'be/re-spected !"'•"' -"-': cji I