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 Editorial from THE DAILY HAH of Tuesday, Febmary 5tli, 1889. 
 
 Lbt there be iiu miiUke abuuc the re- 
 fusal uf the Government to veto the Bill 
 fur the Endowment of the Jeiiuiti. There 
 i( nothing in the Briciih North America 
 Act to limit the ozerciieof thevet.i) porer. 
 That it ihull not be exercised merely on 
 Hrounda of ordinary |iolicy, unless the Pro- 
 vincial Lotfislnture has exceeded its juris- 
 diction, is a good general rul^, which once 
 more wo commend the Uovernraent for 
 observinit. The authority given to the 
 Pn)viucial Legislatuies over certain classes 
 of subjects carries with it, like all authori- 
 ty, a liberty of error which must be ro- 
 spucted so long as the legal p<iwer is not 
 exceeded and the error is nut manifestly 
 subversive legally or morally of the prin- 
 ciples of the constitution or uf the great 
 objects of the Slate. But it would be 
 preinwterouH to allege that the framers of 
 the British North America Act, and the Im- 
 (lerial Parliament which (lassed that Act, 
 did not intend the veto to be used as a 
 safeguartl ligainst gross and pal|>able folly 
 or injustice. What are these Provincial 
 Legislatures, and of what S4)rt of men are 
 they com|Ki8ed, that on the most vital ques- 
 tions society should be delivered unre- 
 servedly into their hands ? The Acts of 
 an American State Legislature are subject 
 to the veto of the Governor of the State, 
 which is exercised frequently and with the 
 best e ..uct. The Logialaturu of Quebec 
 has passed an Actcon)|>ellingtl e Protestant 
 minority in that Province to contribute to 
 the endowment of a conspiracy avowedly 
 directed against Protestant rtiliginn and 
 liberty. It has done this at thu instance 
 uf an able but unscrupulous tactician, who 
 styles himself a Liberal, and whose motives 
 for buying the support of the .Jesuits it is 
 impossible to niisunderstand. The Act 
 not only contravenes common justice in 
 the most flagrant manner, but is also a 
 moral violation of the Constitution, sinca, 
 as we have said before, religious equality 
 and the se|Miration of the Church from 
 the State, if not formally proclaimed in 
 the British North America Act, are 
 thoroughly recognized and accepted as the 
 rule of our constant practice, social as well 
 as political. Negativuiy, indued, they may 
 be said to Im laid down in the Act, in which, 
 in an enumeration evidently intended 
 to bo exhaustive of the subjects of import- 
 ance and capable ot speciKcation with 
 which Provincial Legislatures are to have 
 power to deal, no mention is made of re- 
 ligion. Thei', is appended, it is true, a 
 residuary power of legislating un *' all 
 " niattore of a merely local or private 
 *' nature ;'' but it is hardly credible that 
 such a subject as religion shimld have been 
 iitti iidud to bo tacitly included in a re- 
 siduary power. No reason, So far as we 
 can see, can be assigned for allowing the 
 Quebec Legislature to |>ass this Act which 
 might not have been equally assigned for 
 allowing it to pass the Act forcibly con- 
 verting the provincial bonds or any other 
 muasure "' repudiation. We m»y give to 
 the winds then tho pretence that Sir John 
 Macuunalu, ill allowing the Act to go into 
 operation, has been influenced by any 
 motives but those of party ex|)edii)iicy and 
 feai of the French and Catholic v<ite. The 
 L surrender is a decisive proof and an open 
 l> avowal that those who wield the French 
 xai. Catholic vote are the masters of the 
 Dominion, and may commit legislative 
 injustice when they please. 
 
 But we do not wish to be unfair to the 
 (iuveroinent. Its omduct in this matter 
 lias not been worse or more ignominious 
 than that of the Oppositiim. Indeed, it 
 may plead that by the conduct of tho Op- 
 position it has been placed in a strait in 
 ' which, having to choose between desertion 
 of its duty to the community and the risk 
 of losing place, it is absolved by party 
 morality for desertion of its duty ti> the 
 oomniunity. Thu silence of the Opposition 
 leaders when every dictate of patriotism 
 and public morality calls ufion them b> 
 S|i«ak is tantamount tooomplloity with the 
 act of the Goveruinent, and deserves to be 
 visited with at least equal reprubetion. 
 An Opp>iaiti<N' which fails to act m the 
 organ uf popular right when popular right 
 
 is assailed by the Government sinks into'a 
 faction, which no right-minded citizen can 
 desire to see restored to power. Never 
 did a political party commit a blunder 
 mure disastrous or mora disgraceful than 
 the Liberal barty of Canada committed 
 when, at the last general election, 
 it allowed itself to be drawn into 
 an alliance with the partisans of Biil. 
 Both the folly and the dishonour of the 
 step were emphasized by the famous 
 S|)eech made a few short weeks before by 
 Mr. Blakb, in which he had declared thai) 
 the political platform should not iie built 
 of planks from the scaffold, and that he 
 would use no blixidstaiiied key of the oast 
 to unlock the door of the future. Evi- 
 dently osainst his cwn better judgment, 
 though too much in accordance with his 
 habit, Mr. Blake allowed liiinselt to be 
 entangled in an intrigue, the evil conse- 
 quences of which are not yet exhausted 
 nor likely to be oxhaustud for many a day. 
 Even tho cunning of the wirepuller, to 
 say nothing of the larger wisdom of .the 
 statesman, ought to have warned scheii'iers 
 against dragging their jiarty imo so pal- 
 pable a snare. Rikl, rightly or wrongly, 
 hod been hanged, and the feelins which 
 had been excited aoimt him among 
 the French, frothy and artificial enough 
 at best, was certain speedily to 
 subside. As soon as it subsided, the 
 French members, who for the iiioinent had 
 been obliged to pander to it, were sure to 
 be brought back by the Tory leader. In 
 the u|)shot, the Oppusitiim netted at most 
 a gain of half a dozen French seats, while 
 in Ontario it lost fully as many, besides 
 forfeiting its character. A lower price 
 Satan never paid for a political soul. Tho 
 true policy of a Liberal party in Quebec 
 manifestly ;,' that of religious equality, re- 
 pression of ecclesiastical aggrandizement, 
 abolition of tithe, and limitation of the in- 
 crease of church property. This policy, 
 and the hops of future ascendancy which 
 it carries with it, and which is coiiiirmed 
 by the whole course ot" events throughout 
 the civilized world, tho OpiHjsition re- 
 nounced in its unhappy eaaorness to 
 snatch a victory at a single election. Its 
 present inability (v act is the penalty of 
 its fatal error. The pretence of super- 
 sensitive regard for liberty of provincial 
 legislation, which is put forward to cover a 
 paloable betrayal of Liberal principles as 
 well as ao()uiescence in flagiant iniquity, 
 will be received with no more respect than 
 was the sudden conversion of the Liberal 
 leaders to the belief in the insanity of 
 Rikl. 
 
 It is not the political organizations alone, 
 however, or the organs which serve them, 
 that h.kve failed the cause of the country 
 and of public right on this occasion. Other 
 organizations have failed in the same 
 manlier, and essentially from the same 
 cause. If Orangeisiu has any mission to 
 lift it above the level of mere cabal, it is 
 that of defending British and Protestant 
 civilization against the assauiu of the 
 Roman Catholic priesthood. By the pass- 
 ing of the Jesuits' bill it is brought fainy 
 in the face of the enemy, who advances 
 with the banner of aggressi<m flauntinirly 
 unturled in open and triumphant defiance 
 of Protestant right. The trumpet simnds 
 loud and clear. Hnw do tho self-elected 
 champions of Protestantism and liber- 
 ty act ? They make a faint-heart- 
 ed demonstration from which some 
 of their leading men dissent : then they 
 lay down their arms ; go book tu the too 
 familiar pay office in which patronage is 
 served out br Mr. MACKlNclit Bowbll, 
 and reeume their now established work uf 
 paralynng Prutestantisin in the interest 
 of a politioal patron. Their conduct half 
 redeem* the Jesuit, who, at all events, 
 does not intrigue against his own cause. 
 Some of them, we ara happy to say, were 
 ready to uke a line more' worthy of their 
 name and profession, but it is too manifest 
 that thee* are a minority. Theapathv ot 
 the ProteaUnt Ohurohes, if not so striking 
 as that of the Orangemen, is equally die- 
 •pDointing, uid it aniea from much the 
 
 same source. People flatter themsolvee, 
 beoausn thera is no longer an established 
 church or a formal connection between 
 Charoh and State, that the Church is free, 
 and that the spiritual realm is kept, as the 
 Founder of Christianity ordained, nr'^'^ 
 from the kingdom of this world. But while 
 the Methixiist voteor the vote ol any Church 
 is a political power and is itself controlled 
 by political considerations, the principle 
 is betrayed just as much as it would be by 
 submission to Royal supremacy : indeed 
 corruption in the subtler form is, as usual, 
 the more profoundly depraving. It is by 
 the p<ilitical poison in their hearts that all 
 the Chur.:he9 are kept helpless and sneech- 
 less in face of a monstrous aggression 
 uiHin civil right committed by their reli- 
 gious foo, and fraught with danger to the 
 interest of the truth which is in their 
 keeping. Even the Evangelical Alliance 
 nervously hushes the voice of protest, 
 probably from the same fear of awkward 
 nolitical results. As to the feeling of the 
 lieople in regard to this great wrong, there 
 can be no doubt : we receive numberless 
 proofs of it ; it finds expression wherever 
 two men speak together on the subject. 
 Bui oHicial organ or recognized loader it 
 has none. There is nobody to give it 
 utterance in Parliament or carry its pro- 
 test to the foot of the Thrime. 
 
 Since the abolition of the temporal 
 power of the po|ies the energies of the 
 papacy have been wholly turned to 
 spiritual aggrandizement. Ultramontane 
 doctrines have prevailed, and the Jesuit, 
 as their embodiment, has ruled at Rome. 
 The aims of Jesuitism are not masked or 
 doubtful. They are proclaimed in the 
 Encyclical and Syllabus with a frankness 
 which has made the ears of Christendom 
 tingle. In those manifestoes o|ien war is 
 declared against the great organic prin- 
 ciples of fraedom, civil and reliiiious. and 
 of modern civilization. The claims of the 
 Church of Rome to universal dominion, 
 and her right to use force,' in other words 
 to persecute, for the maintenance of that 
 dominion, are asserted in language which 
 would have satisfied Innocent the Third. 
 The extinction at once of Protestant- 
 ism and of liberty is the end pro- 
 IKwed. What means are deemed lawful 
 to accOniplish that end the hideous 
 annals of Jesuit conspiracy tell. The 
 Province of Quebec is now almost losing 
 the character ot a civil community ; it ia 
 being turned into a citadel and arsenal of 
 ecclesiastical aggrandizement and propa- 
 gandism. Economically it is being fast 
 reduced to that state which the Church of 
 Rome seems to regard as the Christian 
 ideal, in which the people are devoted to 
 holy poverty, while the Church, to save 
 them from teinp;ation, engrosses tho 
 wealth. The items of the Church's actual 
 (Hissessions, in the slia|ie of land and 
 buildings, are rated at not less than 
 980,000.000 ; those of her yearly income, 
 indeoendent of those (Hissesaions, are rated 
 at not less than $8,000,000. To this is to 
 be added the wealth of the ecclesiastical 
 orders, of which the amount is unknown, 
 but which in some cases, especially in that 
 of the Sulpicians of Montreal, is certainly 
 very great. 'X'o increase this store and 
 the power which goes with it the spirit- 
 ual taxf^Uherer is always at work 
 among in,, people from their cradlea 
 to their giAves. A system of finance 
 and mone,< lending, secretly but actively 
 and skUf Illy administered, is at the same 
 time sweeping into the coffers of the 
 Church the gains which elsewhere accrue 
 to financial corporations. The British and 
 Protestant element in Quebec is evidently 
 hastening to a doom which the oomipt and 
 servile Toryism of the Province, so far 
 from averting, due* all thit it can to pro- 
 oipitate. If we have a man among us with 
 the faculties of a leader, independent of 
 the oorrupted or intimidated organiza- 
 tions, and with a failh in his conviction* 
 strong enough to foregt< praeent posses- 
 sion 0* power and look to the future for 
 recognition, it i* about time that he should 
 oome to the front. Hi* appearanoe might 
 change the i