Continued from Roman Catholics in America Falsifying History – Part I.

Catholics in American History

THE Fort Worth Record, Tex., joyfully prints a string of lies told by “Father” Frank Park, in a recent spiel to the pope’s band of American foot-kissers, the Knights of Columbus.

Said string of lies follows, as an exhibit of Roman mendacity, and of the willingness of our daily papers to publish the output of mendacious papal propaganda:

That America’s liberty today is directly due to Catholics, and that ever since there has been such a country as the United States, Catholics have always been patriotic, loyal and true, was the contention of the speaker. The life of Columbus was reviewed from his birth in Italy down to the discovery of America, the saving of the liberty of the country by Lafayette and other Catholics: the financing of Washington’s army by four Irishmen of Philadelphia, all Catholics, when starvation and exposure had almost ruined it, and other deeds of valor of direct bearing upon the formation and establishment of the United States as a country, were referred to.

“It was a Catholic who discovered this country; it was a Catholic queen who financed the expedition that gave this country to the world as a civilized nation; it was Catholic soldiers who saved it from the iron hand of oppression, and it was. Catholic money that financed it in its darkest hour and clothed and fed its army in time of distress, and yet we, as Catholics, are charged with disloyalty,” declared Father Park. “I often wonder why we Catholics, we Knights of Columbus, are questioned as to our loyalty when these facts show that America is our country.”

Every one of those statements is a most unblushing, premeditated, inexcusable, unscrupulous falsehood.

The several discoveries of this continent, the first of which was by Scandinavian pagans, did not become important, so far as our national existence is concerned, until successful colonisation took place; and that was accomplished by the Protestants of England and the Huguenots of France.

This is a historical fact which no honest scholar will deny, and if “Father” Park is ignorant of it, he is unfit to discuss the subject.

No Catholic colony thrived: no good to this country is traceable to Columbus, On the contrary, he introduced slavery, and thus became morally responsible for the extermination of the natives of the West Indies.

The Puritans of New England and the Episcopalians of Virginia, together with the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, the French Huguenots of the Carolinas, founded the Democratic Republic of the United States.

The Catholic church is the historic foe of Democracies and Republics, because her law and her system are monarchical, antidemocratic, and anti-liberal.

A church which laid its official curse upon the Great Charter of our liberties takes you for an ignoramus, when it claims to be the founder of this Government, whose Supreme Laws embrace the principles of the Great Charter.

A church which has for 20 years fought and scotched an Immigration bill, because its reading test would expose the fact that, in Catholic countries the people are not taught to read,* displays amazing effrontery, when it claims credit for our Government, based as it is, upon free education, free thought, free speech, free vote, and people’s rule.

* Note: This was true up the the middle the 19th century. By the mid-to-late 1800s, the rise of secular, state-funded compulsory education (such as France’s Jules Ferry laws in the 1880s) rapidly erased the religious literacy gap across Western and Southern Europe.

How asinine it is the gabble about Lafayette- saving the liberties of our country!

In the first place, LaFayette was not a Catholic, and I have published the evidence, again and again. He hated priests especially; he helped to overthrow them, and to confiscate the huge loot which they had got together in France.

He utterly detested, loathed, and despised the popish system, because it is a Pagan affair, imposed upon Christians who don’t know its true nature, and who are never allowed to learn.

Such priests as “Father” Park keep the eyes of papal dupes securely sealed.

In the second place, LaFayette’s share in Washington’s success was almost negligible, not to compare with that of John Laurens, John Paul Jones, and the obscure Southern leaders, who won the Battle of King’s Mountain.

In the third place, our liberties were not at stake in the Revolutionary War, which was fought because the Mother Country claimed the right to tax us, in England, on account of the extra expense incurred by her in defending us from the Catholic governments of Spain and France.

Had we been defeated in that War, our liberties as English subjects would have remained; and we would now perhaps have as much true democracy and home-rule as are at present enjoyed by Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

The colonists who fought seven years for Independence, politically, never dreamed that we would lose personal, commercial, industrial, and political independence to American Corporations, the Money Power, and the usurping Federal Judiciary.

“Father” Park says that four Catholics financed the Revolutionary War.

No such thing happened. It is an impudent invention. Not one shred of historical evidence can be brought forward to sustain it.

Catholics helped to fight England, partly because England had recently fought the popes.

Scotch and Irish Catholics hated England intensely, because the Catholic attempt to recapture the British throne had been bloodily defeated, in Ireland, at the Battle of the Boyne; and, in England, at the Battle of Culloden.

This last occurred in 1745, just a few years before the Revolutionary War started.

France herself loaned the Colonies money, and encouraged adventurous young LaFayettes, Dillons, Lauzuns, etc., to come over on our side, because of the long, long struggle between Catholic Kings of France, and Protestant Kings of England.

Catholic loyalty, about which we are hearing so much tommyrot and slumgullion these days, has never been tested in this country.

There is no test until the pope is on one side and the Government on the other.

Then the test comes, and then you see the Catholics betray the Government in obedience to the pope.

Look at the French Catholics in Canada! They refuse to fight for their own Empire in this War, because the pope is now trying to revenge the Papacy on England, for its defiant breakaway from Rome during the Reformation.

Look at the Irish Catholics! They refuse to fight for their Empire, and have been traitorously fighting with the pope and the German despots.

England’s main weakness today is the disloyalty of her Catholic subjects.

These papists have been enjoying all the immense privileges of British citizenship, and they are just as truly the subjects of the Empire as the Scotch are, but their priests ordered them not to enlist, and they have obeyed the mandates of their church.

Under the same circumstances, our Catholics will do the same.

If we go to war with the German despots, every Romanist chaplain will be a German spy, and every Catholic priest an instrument of treason.

That’s what they are now, in Canada; that’s what they are, in Ireland; and that’s what they are, at heart, in this Union.

Their oaths bind them to the foreign potentate who despotically rules their foreign church.

They are papal subjects, FIRST, and American subjects, SECOND.

(To be continued.)