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THE AMERICAN. Till: AMERICAN It r-i 1 1 1,1 r ni in t ... r - - ft.... .), J M -!. fit w til f l. IMfORTAMT. I mt tt ! m Kit ' fell MMl r- 1 JOHN C. THOMPSON, loth 4 t.raal tirfta. c - -a UKWAKR OP THK JKSt IT. jeuit jviin. the itft.u-m f Crrlghion cnllre. I ft nt running male fvr, or a aorthy unror f. PrlrM Juho Williams of Pi. !UrntM' Kpl copal rhuiTh A years i no q,itlon of momrnt could he settled trterpt John had sIijiuhI article In ;,:. or more of the papers, Today no question haa Wn disposed of unions Dowllng- tha follower of the beast of Homo has written or orated of end about ll. Hut this Is not pleasing to the neon!. It may be to the Jesuit. It may whet his conceit, and burnish hi egotism, but he will find that what waa taken In goodly does from Williams, an ante-deluvlan fossil, becomes In tolerable and nauseating when admin lutered by a strange or Inexperienced hand. The people had grown used to the deft and delicate painting of John had become acquainted with hla pauses and hla Marts knew hla ex rlamatlona and hla Interrogation and could tllp and lido around the corner with aa much ease as rapidity but If they are compelled to follow Into new grooves, scale new heights of flights of oratory, or descend Into strange depths of logic, we opine there will be complaints; and this lot us not have. If the Jesuit needs something to start Into active operation torpid liver, or to reduce an abnormally ex pnnded Idea of Importance, let him assemble, the "brothers" In the sacred precincts of his cell and read and orate to them until he finds relief, but by the shades of William of Orange the Jesuits know him; by tho of Collngy; of Giordano Bruno; of Huns; of Wycllffe; of Jerome; aye, by those of Lincoln whom the Jesuits slew be cause of cruel, wanton, shameleNs hate, caused by hla fight against their per juries when they sought to ruin and disgrace a former priest Charles Chlnlquy by thera we protest against this practice of the Jesuit of trying to settle all question tor a tree and en lightened people. What ha prompted this protest Is Dowllng's article In Sunday's World Herald, wherein he seeks to make the doctrlue of divorce a branch of the tree of polygamy. He flies to the Bible and to Roman theology for proof, but there Is no proof. The Bible sanctlona divorce for a specific cause, and that specific cause Is as prevalent among Tloman Catholics as among Protestants, and la as prevalent among Protestants aa Ignorance la among Ro man Cathollca. That specific cause was adultery and the world reeks with that crime today. No one knows this better than the Jesuits ,and no class has done more to bring It Into that condition than those self-same promoters of evil. It Is an established fact that Jesuitism practices and we believe it teaches, though we have but hearsay for this belief that the end Justifies the means. So, while we read Dowllng's letter we seek the end which he would attain. Below the surface we see the Idea carried that Romanism Is superior to all other forms of gov ernment, because It follows most near ly the teachings of the Bible on di vorce. This we deny. It Is a well es tablished fact that money will buy anything and everything In the Ro man Catholic church, from a seat In Heaven to a permit to commit mur der; and between those two extremes comes the license for divorce, which, t - fc-e ttt if:t It v ilk . a -! nf'4 I - . t''; '.i-' M t mi Ifc t-a I--- t M.p.lj,! I . tVf4 bf i t. 1. 1 1 1 (,,1 n K tk' k ft K.t n t-. I r'VW st-m i4 I tmw'ar mi mnt i f . 4 . In W t Itml i, ' I A r,fc4 k.MT tftr ri n ite nt.ne t itir tintti, ifc titttv f ltrsets I trt t e.iwte-,t llit lnilu,tr thru it-r l )ll IVnfllilU If ini IrOKXti al utility dimtmla thiir ett4ttilntlon htl .lt rfy tr tfflir i- ptlst rltltra whn dix the miithrr nf hsiUt rtmMdrrs ti be astnxt hr lnliiri and hir Intcr- Ml ito Mot fall aliiHt of the mitilu- gKtlim and governmrnt - not spirit- .ally, but temporarily as wrl-vt Imth earth and heaven -may I ruth Wsly murdered ahot down as was Abraham l.lmnln, who epnaed the foul and damnable lengths to whb IViw llKg's fellow Jesuits and prleets would go to wreck and ruin other priests whom they could no longer compel to teach and practice the dog mas of the chinch of Rome. And iwiwllng shows In his letter why no man who practices polygamy can be made governor of the 8ulu Islands and the, reason he makes that point Is found In the fact that It such person was appointed ft would have to be some one other than a Roman Cath to be some other than a Roman Cath ollc.'or his elevation of Romanism and pulling down of Protestantism would fall to the ground -and hi argument Is based on tills clause of the Rdmundit act. "No polygomlHt, bigamist, or any nerson cohabiting wim more man one woman In any territory or other place over which the United Htates have exclusive Jurisdiction shall be eligible for election or appointment to, or be entitled to hold any office or place of public trust, honor or emotu merit, In, under, or for such territory or place or under the United States." We should like to know If this clause In the Edmund's act Is to be enforced against bigamists, If It Is also to be en forced aanlnst "fornicators," those fellows who "cohabit with more than one woman In any territory or other place over which the United Stats have exclusive Jurisdiction," and If It is will Jesuit Dowllng tell an anxious public what those Jesuit priests, who cohabit with more than one woman who hold positions of public trust, honor and emolument In the army and navy of the vniteu mates, win no when they quit their positions In olio dlence to the requirements of that law? Or doe that law only apply to people who are not Roman Catholics? It will not do for Dowllng to offer the answer that the priests of his church have taken an oath of and that they practice celebacy. We will all admit they take such a vow, but many of us wilt deny that they practice It, and boldly make the charge that for every virtuous priest we can point to a hun dred who are the worst of rakes the vilest roues. In that same letter this same Jesuit prates of "certain rights" which "are natural and inalienable," "the right to worship God according to the dictates of one's conscience, the right to life and the pursuit of happiness." The hurch of Rome, denies Dowllng's words. He has simply practiced "the end Justifies the means." He desired to deceive the people as to Rome's attitude, but that will be Impossible while the American exists. Hhe con demns his pretended claim. If lib erty of conscience is an Inalienable, natural right of man why does the church of Rome today combat and deny that doctrine and brand It a pestilential and soul-destroying? It Is because liberty of conscience Is the very antithesis of Romanism. Where one Uvea the other must perish, and when a Jesuit prates of liberty of con science he Is blinding you to his ef forts to overthrow that very doctrine, which he and his church both brand a most damnable heresy. This man Dowllng Is a new comer In this community, but he is none the: DOES THIS tlEAII THE END OF TIIEWOnLD? t!i Mvt' lr ll(jl'ot. i 1ie UiJ In t W I. en Jt t .tr lra.tt a t lti is for money, not tor tautse, nor for the P(W an ,cray cf everything Protest reaHon given In the Bible, the beast nt and American. He knows no al of Rome and fellows of the order of Continued on Pit' 1.1 Majr ami Jwu. it ftttV.ltiifl much gtiuttnl fT spHMtlallott mi4 me alarm. This hrmim riiott tmutu latfl)-, almut nme in l.tHMI jcats AMmtogrri (laim it Mill mntk ft new mh Ihe hrj;ituiiig tf ticw rytV tt h lishrtt'4 in hv aoc-int CMttVtllsioita an. I svitTctlcl hv W the J.IHHI jcaia f pcacr-, , n jjreul ttur hn yet la rmiiv in which all of l)ur will he euihrtnlcil, aul whie ml vent ii Dot far distant. looking ut the nation, deg piU the Hague confort iu r, Ihil claim npp.m to he well found oil. Everywhere thcie it tin rest ami discontent with existing institutions. It might he nui all are looking for a change am dreading the upheaval that it to prepare tho way. Franco rocking with excitement. Aus Iria-IIungiiry it depending on tho existence, of a single- life Germany is amhitioui a n reaching for more territory, Russia is extending its Asiatic dominion and pressing closely on Great Hritain. Italy is honey comhed with revolution, await ing the touch of the match to the magazine. Turkey is gasp ing with insurrections and tho massing of armies to overawe its subjects. Great Britain is armed cap-a-pie, watching China, the Transvaal, France, , Russia on tho Fersian gulf, and keeping its grip on Egypt and tho Sou dan. C0XPMCAT10NB AT ltOMK. In tho United Slates wo are confronted with imperialism, a violation of tho Declaration of Independence and a vicious monetary system All over Europe the Israelites are yearning to rclum to Pales tine,, where they can dwell in their own land and become one of the nations of the earth. As we know in theso days, the down full of the Turk is tho exalting of Israel the first step in tho era that heralds the coming of he Christ. In unison with tho common expectation of the birth of a new era -a better civilization, splr itualisti declare that the spirit of Abraham Lincoln and JonVr son Davis, through earthly in. ttrumcnts (mediums), proclaim tho advent of a now kingdom next December whoso signs will be visible in the sky over Lake Michigan. Advcntists are also coking for the speedy coming of Christ. One writer declares ie is now on tho earth In bodl. presence awaiting the ino merit to manifest himself and gather tho Israelites to Palestine where he is to set up his king- . i flit uom, at nrsi governing ii ny judges as in tho days of tho Mosaic republic, until ho as sumes dominion over all na tions. Tolten and hit school are ooking for tho early end of tho world (society), when tv better is to take its plaeo, with Christ hi tho supremo and visible head. At least such is tho inference one gathers from his writings. y a singular coincidence nil 1580 dilferent lines of thought cluster around tho beginning of ie twentieth century as tho birth of tho new era about to awn upon tho earth. In the domain of nature us tronomy reveals that in Decern . . I . . 1 r ... t.i .11 ... - - I . I' I. HAlMMaM. I HI i III I III. Ill ill i.ll il i, I . I.... I H .i t Jiij ili t t -h g llr jt.t I! t'.dhi1 I fil l l b .l..l f.-tl .,te 1 hit hi. ., 1,10, Hill. lit tie, .1,-1,,. . f ll a i,.l,n , r il ... rt ...... I., i.i ..... I. . . I . . HI .1. 1. .1. .. ' ' in r tit ir it ii.re ate in t u . it ie tt niaci.r . . II i. I isi tns 11.. i ll.f Jki ulisr iitiii;titaUi if t.I.r tl e nn.-.ti, M.tiutv, the r!,,lti iSh toii)4 hr tiincral tifm t,rn ,rarl,tr. ... il . ts. I I . ! .. li . ...I . . . I ..... . mr ltauri u n.f .im uv j t'lii, ui ,i, .Malt, Jufniri, rat-Mum t .MH!.e lnU lull., t YiU.buij;. If Mat an I lrt Itri-riuUr, iiHlnaliiig a uni Mid t tiM. jtl, l!,e i. L ,fn ft!,.tj ly anal. -g v, Uahirn ftte itt oi j,tt,f tj,ti, i, , , m,mi .im, -imk. " I " ii ii j"j iter, uicj wi i ir , an ftj j iv the pnn, ipie i lleitne'i luHntf lr, the i iTrrt it foll.tw, 4 bv ft hralid triitt in lutnhc-4 toL-rlher in Ihe same iiiai tun i,..r .,f il, lil.i f L.,1 l'd.,.. i. ii - r.i . Ht-hm if Ihe hcftirtii Thry Ibe hi it ftiol the ikimmi, h jle , l!.e rulmc slar of tl.e will be iniille, being ttrurr. iittitt i imim. I'nilcd States. In l-!'.t (a ), ".:, by tbf li&l.t f lit sun. In May The .m ienl. b, lit vr.l i ih. Saturn ai In its nniiiuthm ... i .... ... I i ami June i nri jrar, tin a ,flir. f ii. - (ar. tii,,.n ihr ith Vramu in Scrm.i. !he ... . .. i i tmaii cism, n' liravrna m ,...!, . u !..,. . i ,Ptl. V- m a in niri fc'F l'unri nil l airsast. ntt ptrient h bertut,fnl iMHtarle, kM ii.t, ihrrMi,, j1PV member thoM rrrws.Mite limra. . . ... ... ...i i -1 Jiip.ler.Mll.irit ami UlitUItU ,JUin, aUi,blitri In the star. In the elMbm t.f IS'.Hl JutMtrr he Uo together, Mervurjr, WL ,,e tippoe4 deities ron. wai in the birth I.oue of WiJ. nuft ami :u i.aiiug niovru tilling them. Heme the prev iim MeKinley. In rehruarv, away, llus Is about all the alenre of Unr worship and other IM'T, it had moved into the light modem nstionomy can Bbomifttlons. The Israelites bitth houseof William Jennings give on this phenomenon, ah t.M i,.,., .i.u ,,rror niui nirp,i Ifrvnii. Hoth have been the re. though new diseorcries may be fir t,ndren in saciilive to cipients of remarkable t.rosier- 1.1.. al.al I I " mnuenyuieuiesrope. Molech. ho comet dontous it v. The coincidence is strik. Tho onfiguralioii of t h e through mythology at the Cro. ing. One is President of the heavens In December indicates nos of the Greeks, and the Sat- United States, and tho other the approach of a great comet rn of the Romans, from whom the most popular leader of his inthat or tho following months, tho beautiful ringed planet takes generation. Huch an annearance would co- it name. In 1001 Saturn will ho trans- a a I . .. I incido closely with tho predic As the mother of astronomy ,lm8 1,10 l,lrl 1,0U80 of this tion of tho second coming of and meteroloiiy, astroloev had Mation' it,,e 8lSn Pricorn. Christ, With tho earth envoi, much to do with this belief. Al- Juf,,lor wlU 1)6 1,1 Sngittary, its oped in tho belt of luetoors at- though it has been rejected. It rU''g "g i conjunction with tending a comet, and tho unu. hus retained a powerful hold Uranus, its ruling star. One ..... .. l ii ti ual magnetic inlluenccsat work upon tho brilliant men 0f all uenoie8 a""mer possmiy a loss . . ... -..I" . 11 i by reason or tlio position of the oges from Josctih to Richelieu, 01 croP nnu 11 80,''ai upucavai. nlanctarv snheres and their In. Tvehn.Hrl. mwl HannUn Tho other denotes an era of tf a I ftj . .a iii'vivviii i tlucnco upon tho earth and each EnJighlenod as we claim to be. 8rcat Pr08Penty. following the .a aa i .a I I 1 . 1 . a . 1 1 1 a 1 other, one can well conceive the this "dark seieuco" still nosscs- P 10(1 01 "'sior, pronauiy me phenomenon of the darkoned ,CI A faHcination hard to resist. n,0Nt flU6U8t ai,d glorious in our sun, tho lightless moon, the Tho "wise men" of Eirvnt nro- ,),,tory lliere 8 y founda. .... . . . . I a i.i il.l t il falling stars (meteors;, and the ,noted it loug beforo Joseph in- 11011 1 claims oi asiroiogy. a .a s I " - I T .... a ... 1 . shaking heavens, the roaring ternroted the rhoroah'a dream. leaving asiroiogy ana enter- sea and waves, with mcn'a or hef0ro he, himself, dreamed M"B the moro practical field of hoarli failing them for fear at 0f the sun and moon and the m urology, ine stars as piacea the thing! coming upon the ntladea and applied tho vision ln December and thesummei of .. I I 1 llAA ... I l.i.. 1 1.. l!.-l- eartll. tn hla falhar anil hia hrethrim. '"w, as we nave siaveu, jnuicme Thoro is no quoitionus to the They withstood Mosci when do. la scries of cold winters and hot mi i J. i.. .i:..i. r..l r i.rlls. If alrnMr 1,v a iiiandino- the freedom of the . iney aiso inuicaie great comet. It might not be Hebrews. They flourished in mlgntloni ol th. people. Their thrown out of its orbit, but It Rubylon and Daniel was made configuration is similar to that 1.1 I., i .i .irf...U.If nail.... Tl, .ri1,l uieycar uvu aooui l.UUU nUUHl UU MUIIIWU ll VI UI WfT II- I vatavt wv imvimi hvj viHivivu ed. Ai to tho last.tho divine the ages with tho quoiti6n : iimiiirniiin la Hull II. will IHit tin HUM,... I. I. il...k I.. I...... 1. 1.. -I unnui u.. w - ...... ..... ..w. i IT ilVI V ! I IV til lib IS UU II It I I k I 1 i I fill 1 1, fti. f, ,.mvaln,1 ,f i.. v..... t. - i. .b Danes in the reign of Alfred the . i.v.,v. .w. ........... . tnv vvn, iui nw iiiiiu ooril I rt t ii tj. . 11 ii.... ti 1. 1 t I.. .... . , viium, iinturu cuniiiigruwun. iis j'uriwuu iiohi uu star in ine cast, ami uro January to Msy next year Is one como to worship him." The of comparative Isolation in pages of holy writ aro filled with space. A stray comet coming references to the wiso men along might work things won. mtn wl,0 studied the stars and drous strange, if It collided with nature and made their knowl- years ago, At that time Eng land was over-run with the huropo was swarming with the Huns and other invasion!. Tho winters woro extremely cold and tho summers very hot. A brief summary of tho early ...:..i... . .. i .... . ii.. ....n.i..- l. t i ii . ,. . " Bumiiicrs oi me ub. iuv iivhiiuu i. ivi, weugo Known in wie mantiato oi r,. . , , . . . .!... li'iii i,t. M..T...III A . vim.!.! i ". uD ,..,CBi. VI.H.IVV. I II u. BBILII hid ijuiu. yiuui, ... . . . ................... la. I. a ,11.1 1 u 1. a .... I II,SHAI llii-lMluiiit, a-v im miu, iwtwiav no nan uu ffl mj ii,. nAU, ni,l l.li 111 1 lift 1 I V S 1V BIIV T VVIIIIIHMVV4 When great comets appear in " o'crees in me volume to - frfim MnV44m1lAr tn tll. ' - I M , i ft ft M i I" waav our lyitem tho giant planets aro or the uooic or nature. on(1 of MarcJj The fo tf werfi dacod as lontlnola on guard to In a number of the propho. inaccessible for fuel" asaa.a . S M ft I f MM 1 ft f i I Shield the earth from danger, ciei or lamino ana distress, we ojn gg lin,j so3 the vines Usually they are In conjunction, can trace their knowlodgo ofl wer0 killed lv ilio frost. aiil the or near by, which leadi many meteorology, iguorantly attrib- cnttle perished in their stalls." to believe, tho piusago in Job, uted to Inspiration by tho mod. "In 981 ovorvthinir was froz- . . i I aft i 1 - "rIho morning stars sung to- ern world, uenturies, perhaps un ; the crops totally fallod. aud gother," really meant, "Tho uges ago, Job spoke of th I fumtne and pestilence closed the moving stars stood together,' "iweet iniiuences" or the nciia. yeur." while the earth wat lu the des, and told the mory or the i S70 the heat was an In. hroos of a tempest, cleansing creation' Tho hook of Job is tense the reapers dropped dead . . . . a I .a il a .a .al and changing the atmosphere, more the wall or a ruco than the jn the fields." making it tho abode of human plaint or an Arabian prince, "In 9t)3 and 001 the cprn and nlelllgenco. Htudents now he. David's grandestpsalms aro do-1 fruit were burnt up," levo that tho world will loon acrlptlve of tho glories or the "In 1000 it was so hot and undergo a social tempest that heavens, and the apocalypse is dry tho pools of water disap- will make the earth lit for tho the grand cUmnclorlo or a ruin- poarod .and the fish boinrr left . ... m . I . . . I " exalted beings for whom the ed and a regalnod world. in tho mud bred pestilence." ...sail l - cross on Ualvary reelod and Hliakesi.ear's plays abound khos iioatki. at.. .a I - I l-u...1.1.. .1 I Il,i i.i ui 1 1 ii it ii b a I l.ft ft I I i. i 1 I nf a ireiiiun-n in uiv ui ui.j.n, wim allusions to asiroiogy, "in vim the heat was so when Christ shall como to claim who is not familiar with tho great eggs were roasted in the his own. "bad revolting stars." and sands." ... Wh o astronomv tnnv e ve us "comets aiiine wnon princes "in tho river ro was litllo of Intorest next December, ''i0 ' Hulwer makes Kichelieu frozen and loaded wagons cross meteorology, in itt a n c i o n t oxelalm, "Tho start huvo said od the Adriatic sea," I'l'lioiiln U liKiLlmr for marked U," when escaping from assass- "In 1230 tho Danubo was listurbancci in tho atmosphere Inatlon hy his enemies. rro.en to the bottom." I . .. I i . a- V i 1 V.St m lii that and tho succeed nir In tho horoscope of Nano oon. "in ine Kinne was iroz- months. It buses its conclii. Jupiter, the star of wealth and en over. Travelers pnssod on slom on the powerful magnetic dominion, wot bis ruling star, the ico between Norway and Influence of tho lolar system, The earth was in the ugn Aqua- Jutland. What, if any, effect tho stan rius at his birth- This sign was to br continued. have upon the earth, has long his birth house. Astrologers . i i rt l et ii j . ' i . ni l been a subject or dispute, ware, ciaim mo transit oi Datum Every loyal Nebraskan is proud of ful investigation shows tho earth across ono'i birth house is disas. the First, ami are glad that they have aud its inhabitants are subject trous, In thoir parlance Na- returnod, but how our hoarta acim to such influence!. This is poleon rose to power under the for the loved one who are aiwping borne nut by tho testimony of influence of Jupiter. It was the la foreign soil. naturo and tho sacred writings, star to which he often referred. It is seen in tho daisy turning At the battlo or Waterloo baturn How is it possible for a slave to its faeo to the mn, tender plants was making its transit across decide whnt would be bencnwri for cr. lookinn from the earth, seven planets or spheres will bo1 turning their faces to lbs full J Aquarius. a free people.