The Pope against Universal Suffrage.
In the time preceding and during the recent civil war, when the Protestant clergy took frequent occasion to utter their views upon the great questions involved, our Catholic brethren claimed it as the merit of their religion that their priests did not preach politics. But, behold! the Pope himself does not hesitate to take a part in political affairs, and always on the side of the aristocracy, and against the rights of man. For example, in addressing the French pilgrims the other day, he spoke of “universal suffrage” as “a horrible wound which afflicts human society—a wound destructive of social order, and which would justly deserve to be called universal falsehood.” Does the Pope like universal suffrage in the United States any better than in France?