News and Miscellany

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 29, 1868

News and Miscellany.

Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times? Matt. xvi, 3.

Catholics in New York.—The Catholics at Rome do not more completely control that city than do the Catholics in New York. There is not an office of any value that they do not control. When they put in an officer who is a professed Protestant they control him more completely than if he were a Catholic. In the interest of the Catholic church this vast political power is wielded. Immense grants of valuable land are made to it by the city. Large sums of money are donated every year. The Catholic church controls the taxation of New York, and appropriates the millions received from that taxation. The Roman Catholics of the city of New York control and manage the Democratic party, and yet the Catholics are in a minority in the city in which they bear such terrible rule.

The Protestant element is stronger than the Catholic element. The non-Catholic element could overcome and engulf the Catholic in an hour, if it chose to do so. The Catholics are a unit, marching onward as a compact army. The balance are like an undisciplined mob. The Jews do not like our Sabbath and Sabbath laws; nor the New Testament in common schools; here they agree with the Catholics. They also agree with the Germans, who want the Sabbath to be a day of license and riot. They want free liquors, all license and prohibitory laws swept away, and so the Catholics become the standard-bearers for all who are opposed to sobriety, good order, sound legislation and wholesome restraint. Adroitly catering to the prejudices of each, the Catholics hold possession of the city while in a minority.