ROMAN INFLUENCE IN THE UNITED STATES.
MONSIGNORE SATOLLI manages to keep himself and his doings constantly before the public eye, and to magnify his office to the utmost. If he receives a communication from the pope, the secular press chronicles the fact as though it was a communication of vast importance to the whole American nation. If he speaks concerning any of our institutions, his words are quoted as the utterance of an oracle. If he invests an archbishop with a pallium, or a bishop with a crozier, the fact is given a prominent place in the news record of the day. It seems a matter worthy of comment, and of condemnation, also, that the deeds and words of this foreign ecclesiastic, who has recently come to our shores representing a foreign ecclesiastical dignitary, should receive larger mention and more obsequious attention than all the Protestant ecclesiastical dignitaries in the country put together, at the hands of the secular press. It gives color to the statement made already without contradiction, that on the editorial staff of all the large dailies of the land are to be found one or more Jesuits who see to it that everything favorable to the Roman Catholic hierarchy gets into the daily press dispatches, and is thus circulated far and wide, while everything inimical to its interests is either suppressed or toned down as much as possible. The whole thing is becoming wearisome.—California Christian Advocate. Every word of this utterance is true; yet the so-called "Protestant" churches, the so-called "orthodox" churches, and their organs, are doing far more in the matter of establishing Roman rule in the United States than all other elements combined. Do you ask, Wherein?—In this: For years they have been doing their utmost to implant the Roman Church's special badge of authority (Sunday) in the laws of the country. And they advocate the use of Rome's favorite weapon, compulsion, in the matter of securing observance of this purely Roman dogma—this, too, in face of the fact that Roman prelates and journals openly say that Protestants are doing their work for them in the United States. Thus the organs of the professed Protestant churches steadfastly cultivate the roots of the great Roman tree, while the secular press simply sport in the shade of its branches. It would be well if the Advocate and its colaborers would occasionally ponder the part they are so persistently playing in the inoculation of the government with the principles of Rome. A Unitarian minister in San Francisco recently preached a sermon in advocacy of opening the Midwinter Fair on Sunday. A press report of his discourse says:— The ministers who have so strenuously advocated the closing of the World's Fair, were severely hauled over the coals for the manner in which they threatened legislators, and were set down as a lot of corrupt politicians themselves. The tendency of the modern Protestant ministry to force special legislation through the coercion of legislators, is becoming a conspicuous feature of their warfare. As there is no example of Christ or his apostles operating in that line, it is clear that those who do endeavor to "persuade" men by the argument of threatened political defeat, are preaching "another gospel" than that preached "in the beginning;" for the gospel of the Founder of the faith was not urged in that way, nor is it possible to reach the hearts of men by any process of civil law.