' Beware! Take Care!'

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 15, 11 April 1907, Page 10

' Beware ! Take Care !'

Those who have followed the conflict between the Lodge and the Church in France do not need to be renAnded that the anti-Christian press of Paris does not greatly burden itself with the luxury of a conscience. This is especially true of the ' Matin ', which, though poorly written and badly printed, sways the anti-Christian forces of Paris and gives the keynote to the campaign' against, religion throughout France. Its proprietors are Freemasons of the extreme Continental type, Jews in race but aggressively atheistic in their attitude towards religion. Moreover, the 'Matin' is not an indspendent organ, even of French Masonic atheism. It is a subsidised Government, organ— a ' reptile ' paper, as it would be termed, in this country of cleaner political methods. For a long time it was edited by the adopted son of the Paris Jewish correspondent of the London ' Times '. In connection with the official war upon religion in France, the last-mentioned • gentleman has made the ' Tunes ' merely the London echo of the sort of ' news ' and views that appear in the • Ma-tin \ Mark Twain has somewhere remarked that the habit of truth-tell-ing grows upon you, if you are not careful. I n all that relates to the Church,. • the ' Matin ' is, so to speak, microscopically careful." Its amazing resourcefulness in untruth in connection with' the Pope and the French -bishops is, for- instance, a matter of sufficient notoriety. The- recent papal encyclical, however and M Combes' enfant' terrible admissions in the Vienna press made even, the 'Times' withdraw from some of the views, which ,it had, adopted at- second-hand from the Matin. 'The - rimes ' and other English correspondents m Paris are, however (as the • Glasgow Observer remarks), careful never to~publish < those extracts from the J< Matin " which would shock English Protestant opinion ', but which •' accurately reflect the opinion of the clique of Freemasons who are for the moment in power ' in France. Fragments of Monsignor Montagnim s stolen letters appear to have somehow got intn uL Tf .K PaPer f ' ' They ~ and specially hls a Ccus £ tions of bnbc-seeking-seem to have touched the leaders

of the ' Bloc ' on the marrow and raised them to a controversial, temperature like that of a/n electric fur- , nace. ' Thus far, we in New Zealand have only _the ' Matin's ' version of the facts,, through the Paris- correspondent of the ' Times '. We ask our readers 1 Ho suspend judgment upon, the case until slow-plodding truth comes to our shores^ in the hold of the "mailboat. Then" we shall bje in a position to judge whether 1 the ' Matin ' has been at ils usual tricks.