The Nations Completely Dominated by
the Power of the Pope Are Nations of Illegitimacy.
In this chapter, we have before us the vision of two countries; one
is Protestant America and the other Catholic Ecuador.
Protestant America stands upon a plane of morality and chastity,
which is pleasing to contemplate, and for which she can thank only
the principles of Protestantism, for Protestantism teaches, by both
precept and example, as she looks to the only true standard of
morality that ever existed, which is the Holy Bible. But Catholicism
looks only to a standard which the Pope of Rome sees fit to
establish, and a standard of morals which is set by mortal man, can
only be, at its best, a very inferior standard, as the licentiousness
and lust of unholy man can never compare with that great and
infinitely good _being_, the Lord of Hosts.
Broad education of the mind means a subduing of the passions, and
_broad_ education is something that the Catholic Church fights
against, as she knows full well that to educate her masses would be
equivalent to losing her grasp upon their actions, for no man or
woman of a broad education and an individual intellectuality will
permit these hosts of darkness to dictate to them.
Ignorance is the greatest breeder of crime known to the intelligence
of man, and it is an established fact that crime breeds immorality,
and immorality of course is the equivalent of illegitimacy, and
historical facts will bear me out in the assertion that the countries
which are absolutely under the power of the Pope are countries which
are densely ignorant, and again, as above stated, ignorance leads to
crime, and crime to immorality, and now we are back to the first
proposition and have proven without going further that "The nations
completely dominated by the power of the Pope are nations of
illegitimacy," but we propose to use historical records to convince
without the shadow of a doubt that our statements are true. However,
I do not need these historical facts, as I have traveled extensively
through Europe and many other countries, and I know whereof I speak,
by personal observation and by coming into personal contact with both
Catholic and Protestant nations. However, we are not going to be
satisfied with this alone, as we do not want the reader to rely
implicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to bring
facts to bear upon your mind which cannot be over-thrown, as
statistics are stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but fools
dispute.
We propose to take statistics from the _Peabody Reporter_, which you
can corroborate with the official report of the United States
Commissioner of Education. The statistics that we above refer to
follow:
"To every ten thousand inhabitants under the Roman Catholic school
system, there are 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers and 160 criminals,
while in the public school system we only find to every ten thousand
inhabitants 350 illiterates, making a difference of 1,050 to every
ten thousand." Thus you see that what we have said in previous
chapters of this book in regard to Romanism being founded upon the
mountains of ignorance is true.
Education in its literal meaning, means an infusion of intelligence
that lifts up the minds of man, and it is generally so accepted by
the world at large, but education, as far as Catholicism goes, means
only a rehearsal of abominations, which have been practiced upon the
followers of this creed for centuries in the past, and does not in the
least bear upon the principles of true education.
The public school system is established on the principle that the
intelligence and virtue of the people constitutes the foundation of
free government.
Our public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of
our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes. The
growth and prosperity which have characterized the first century of
our schools fulfills their mission.
Education is the watchword of the hour among Protestants, but never
among Catholics. We must educate if we would elevate, and unless we
elevate the minds of men we will have humanity running riot with vice
and immorality, and this is why the Catholic nations of the earth are
found with their morals trailing in the slime of degeneracy.
Our public schools are to-day the great assimilating power in this
country. We find in them children of all nationalities, and whether
they be English, Irish, Scotch, Danish, Norwegians, French, Italians,
or some other nationality, when they enter these institutions they
pass out of the school houses, scattered all over this land,
_Americans_, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make
anything but a _true American_ out of a pupil who has been turned out
of the public schools of this country, and one who has been permitted
to assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these
schools.
The influence of the public schools works rapidly upon childhood and
is felt through all of their after lives. A child who has been
educated in the public schools of this country is always an
unrelenting foe of caste, but the child who is educated in the
parochial schools is taught to look up to innumerable superiors, and
such an education dwarfs the minds of childhood and teaches them to
continually look to others for their individual happiness, but the
teachings of the public schools broaden the individual mind and gives
courage, which enables the child to swing out from the influence of
others and become a mighty power in the mechanism of the universe.
We touch upon the public schools in this chapter, only in connection
with the dominating influence of the Pope over nations which he
completely rules, in order that the reader may thoroughly understand
that ignorance begets crime and crime begets illegitimacy, as we
expect to dwell more fully upon the education of nations in the
future, but we want the reader to begin at the "Alpha" of reason, so
that when he or she is through with this chapter that there will be
no doubt in their minds as to why the power of the Pope breeds
illegitimacy among his followers.
We have contrasted the difference in morals of the inhabitants,
which are completely dominated by Roman Catholicism, to that of the
inhabitants of Protestant America, but we have made this comparison
in a general way; but we now want to select a country which for its
absolutism of Catholic monarchy has no comparison, and that country
is Ecuador.
In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete hold upon the
inhabitants that they will not allow Protestantism taught, and the
consequence of her tyranny is that out of every 100 children born in
that country, seventy-five are bastards or illegitimate and have no
idea of their father, and the immorality of the priestcraft is so
vile that their actions are absolutely passed over without notice, as
there is scarcely a single priest to be found in that country but who
is the father of from ten to twenty-five and thirty children; but
still the Roman Church continues to forbid her priests to wed, when
they know full well that celibacy in the Catholic Church is the cause
of all of this degeneracy.
This state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador alone, but the same
state of affairs exists throughout the length and breadth of all
Catholic nations which are completely under the power of the Pope.
Italy, for instance, which is the home of the Pope and which has been
the home of the Catholic Church since the existence of her
abominations, is one of the most immoral countries that ever
besmirched the face of the earth.
The first lesson that a Catholic child is taught is "_hate_," and
that lesson is directed at Protestantism; therefore, is it any wonder
that the education of Catholicism only reaches out far enough to
hoodwink the student and does not elevate him or her above the
festering mess which surrounds it?
We want, to repeat the statement that the Roman Catholic Church does
not want to educate anybody, nor will it do so, where it is not under
the pressure of Protestant influence. However, the American people
demand figures and facts before they will be convinced; so as further
evidence of the truthfulness of what we are telling you, we propose
to quote from a report of the minister of education in Italy, made
some few years ago. This report is true in every particular, and
bear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic himself.
The report follows:
"Of every 1,000 males in the province of Lombardy, 539 only were able
to read, and 461 did not even know their letters. Of every 1,000
females, only 426 could read and 574 could not read, neither did they
know their letters.
"In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000 males, only 165 were able
to read and 835 could not, and out of every 1,000 females, only 62
could read and 938 could not read and did not know their alphabet.
Taking this report, you will find that out of every 100, only about
10 were able to read.
"In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only 3,500,000 could read and
write, and the rest did not know their alphabet, and to-day Spain,
another country which is completely dominated by the power of Rome,
has a population of ignorant dupes, as 80 per cent of the population
of Spain cannot read and write.
"In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, this same record is
repeated, as in other Catholic nations. In European countries where
Protestantism is taught there is but one out of every ten that cannot
read and write, but in the same countries, where Catholicism has
absolute sway, there is but one out of every 125 that can read and
write.
"In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there are 315
inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while in six Roman
Catholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to every
2,715 people.
"It is estimated that at least seven-eighths of the twenty million
inhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of the countries of
Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the north and west parts of South
America, are unable to read, and in Mexico alone 90 per cent of the
inhabitants cannot read nor write, neither do they know their
alphabet;" thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does for the
countries which she controls.
We are writing this book, believing that an intelligent class of
people will read it, and if such is true, we believe that it is
useless for us to try to demonstrate further why the countries which
are completely controlled by Catholicism are countries of
illegitimacy, for an intelligent reader knows full well that
ignorance is the greatest brooder of immorality known to man, and, of
course, immorality means illegitimacy, and we believe that we have
thoroughly demonstrated to the mind of the reader that Catholicism
spreads a cloak of ignorance and superstition wherever she is allowed
to rule supreme, and if this is the case, then the natural
consequences of such a state of affairs is illegitimacy.
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