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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1891)
l AMERICAN, V VOLUME I omaha niw, Thursday, octoiuw hoi. HE 4 1 rx V' ( 9 PJ I WflMwi ff Tim AttMttvkm WM4T WILL THf INO HI fRUDOMf V M4RV . MTCHVt. Wlisl r tit llist frvwItMn ) l hm( totter, WhMt iMhPttnl tier chlMrt'ii Mill hot! my, Whst t Uif mnwtm itn lisve to iar, Where In the cml, ht name I lie tlsjrt What Briefs vet to Iism In r liniiiKK In mourning, k Whnt crime to le ciiiluivd from ihihI heeds. Where Is the wsy to leml her fhtm hclrsysO Wlml In tint theme, where Hit' tin' huml!' Swttnt.m, Nilt.( tti-tolHT. IMtl. WttATYOUSUOUi.b DO. This it an Important campaign. It I one In which every good citizen Is deeply Interested. One that ha re solved Itself Into a contest, not of men and manure, but of the citizen Against the contractors; of law and order against lawlessness and disorder; of oompetency against Incompetency. It is a context In which politics have been entirely obliterated; In which ' every man planed In charge of city, county and state affair must be not only thoroughly competent, not only boneit beyond question, but he must also owe first allegiance to the govern ment of the United States; ho must, be a citizen without a mental reservation; he must bo a citizen who loves our publlo aohool, who reveres tho memory of our dead heroes, and rejoices In the perpetuation of our republican form of government and Its free Institutions; one who Is proud to be known as ao American citizen before ho Is known as a Kotnan Irishman before ho Is known as a subject of the Pope. He must be a man who looks with suspi cion upon the efforts of the Komiin hierarchy to tear down the very foun dation of our liberal form of govern ment -the ;nb!io schools. He mils', be a uis ii who will not allow the Roman contractors to dictate) w'm iball I hit appointees. He must x a Iiish who recognise tho f set that this Is a Protestant government, and that Protestant ate entitled to protection from the assaults of drunken, disor derly and disloyal Uomnnlsts. He mint tm a man who ! no American In all that the wold Implies, He mul lie a man whom you would trust with your own business, one who has not set the law at dcltnncc, who is an American, a gentleman and a scholar. When you have found such a man, be he Democrat, Independent or Republi can, give him your vote, give htm your Inlhicnco and your moral support, and uso all honorable, means to secure his election. , Heretofore party lines have been too tightly drawn. (ood, competent nnd honest men, who have been nominated by the two old parties lmvo been defentod by boodlors, who have owed MIUTON--"Aiiyou In favor of giving Ireland Homo Rule';'" NHW YOHKKH-"Vcm, If Ireland will give Ann-Hen Homo Hole their elovatlon to positions of honor nnd trust to Ignorunt voters who have been controlled by contractors and certain franohlsod corporations. These same contractors, with that lama tin Amerlcnn vote, are straining every nerve nt this time to foist upon this great city as couiicllmmi nlno of the most Incompetent men ever placed In nomination by either of - the great parties nov battling for supremacy In this state. They nro endeavoring to saddle upon this grout city this city of conventions--!! mayor n man so far below the average In Intelligence, so much under tho Influence of these contractors and f ranch Ised corpora tions, that it would bo a dire calamity and an Insult to tho best class of tax paying citizen of Omaha, should their effort bo successful. It Is lime that Protestant citizens were awake. They should examine well the diameter, ability and Integrity of the men S whom they ca their vote, They hue It It their power to reform this city government. Will they do It? It I possible for them to elect competeiil, honest, ellicient and reliable men at the rleition next Tuesday. Will they do It y Or will they allow men whom they know are Incompetent, dishonest, nine liable and law-defying to control the municipal nlVairs. He Americans, be men and redeem this city from the disgraceful ring that has so long con trolled city n (lairs. This Is an appeal to your reason, not to your passion. How will you answer It y COt.ONIZINU. Why Is it that the Roman Catholic hierarchy are locating all over this northwestern country colonies of Poles, of French, of Irish, of Italians nnd Bohemians, surro Hiding them with the customs of their fatherland, using their mother tongue nnd teaching them to look upon tho pope as greater than the president, and upon all Protestant 0 being almost beneath contempt. Is It that they mny become American Ixod, that they may loaru our ways, our customs, that they may honor our flag nnd lovo our Institutions, or Is it to keep them In ignorance of nil that goes to make a true, loyal saerlllclng American citizen? You know why It In being done, We know, It Is to make them Koniun Catholics first ami citizens afterward. I It right, Is It Just that such things should bo permitted. If our ways, our Institution or our laws do not suit thrin, tho sooner they go back lo where they came from tho sooner will this oountry be the Ideal one which Amer icans have hoped to see. Let us have fewer colonics, belter natiiializttioii bws mid mote sltict ,. naulwenti (dating to iiuulgraliuu o i NUMIMW J and this w III soon be rvatlml. Mske it a iUsblleallon that an elector nttiM le able to read his ballot before joh give him the elective franchise. ROMAS'IXISU VVttl.lt! flCIHHH.H. The following dispatch appeared In the World-Herald Sunday morning, Oct. 1M, I Mil I i MiNNKAi'iii.ls, Minn., Oct. '.M.Uev. (i. I.. Morrill has relumed from a trip to Stillwater and Faribault, where he went for the purpose of Investigating the combination ot parochial and pub lic schools. He expresses the greatest indignation, and says: "I lint went to Faribault. The schools have Cath olic teachers. The teachers are dressed as nuns, with their beads and rosaries, and their main object Is the conversion of the pupils to the Catholic religion. The walls were decorated with Catholic emblems, nnd over the teacher's desk hung tho picture of the Holy Father. And this one from the same paper of Oct. 12H, 18(11 i V Huston, Mass,, Oct. !i7. Marfan Kullburg, a storekeeper of KastHoston, has sued Father Hugh O'Donnell, a Catholic priest, for r,000 for ruining his business. She allege that because she refused lo send her children to a parochial school tho priest publicly boycotted her from tho altar. Wk nro reliably Informed that James Donnelly, Sr,, ha furnished the regis (ration board In the Second ward with cards bearing his name, and wWn A man goes lo reglsler he Is given one of those cards with Donnelly'! name printed thereon, with tho number of his name on the registration list. Tbl savors very much of a scheme Ui tui u tlm re:itr.iiloii polling p'acet Into electioneering div9.