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11 THE AMERICAN VOLUME 1 OMAHA. NIB., THURSDAY, NOVIMBIR I?, 18M. 1 RtlMtUR S3 ClIEERWjJllE AMERICAN. Th inenibeii of Council No. 8 will please accept .our'nearl-felt t It n n k n for the ovation tendered Tiik Amkkh an Inst Thursday night. , Wo have jet to learn of another paper whore a body of Severn 1 hundred men so thoroughly approved of it course as to leave their hall and march to the. oflleo In a body and give threo cheers for tho editor and the paper. No word of ours can con vcy to them tho deep gratitude wo feel for that murk of friendship and Con done May (Jod Almighty ho direct our ellbrU as to merit a continuance, of your approval, and tho approval of our tnf.i other friends. . Let us re member that we have only done our duty, and that we shall repeat this act as often as it Is necessary. WORKED FOR TUB WHITE CAl'8 Strange filings happen. Last. Tues day morning Mr. Alfred, Jordan was in the employ of Mr. John Thomas, a brick manufacture, on south Twenty fourth street. Mr? "Jordan-oeemed to satisfy Mr. Thomas and the latter scorned to Jill the bill us far as the former was concerned, and all was smooth as oil. yet a change took place. Mr. Jordan went to vote. When ho returned ho found his team In the barn and Irate Mr. Thomas told him If ho could make more working, for tho "White Caps" ttijsii jcpuld JiftuUnjE, brick he could go back and work for them. This Mr, Jordan proceeded to do and now he sighs for a situation. If Mr. Thomas U not a Homan ho cer tainly ought to bo. WHITE CAP NOTICES Now and then you run across a policeman who knows a scheme when ho sees It, There was one of that description on a beat on Sixteenth street week before lest. lie discovered the city bill poster, lute one evening, going from point to point, pasting up some little yellow bills stating "Keep It Dark Untill Oct i!8. Not being a member of that despised order known as" White caps," ullas A. 1'. A- ho concluded the bills were being posted for the sole benefit of tho members of that order, and proceeded to tear them down, After ho had got well along weth his work, the bill poster noticed what he was doing, and, boiling over with t'nge, he approached the minion of tho law ,,to Icar what lift meant by tearing down bills as fast as he posted them, and tho policeman, noth daunted said, "yez don't suppose I'd allow yez to paste up white cap notices on my beat, do yes??" If any of our subscribers in the city of Omaha do not receive their papers hereafter by Friday evening they will confer a favor on us by reporting tho matter to us at onco. Wo are revising our lists and will ondavor to see that Tub Amkkican Is delivered promptly and on time, Tub Catholic priests are endeavoring to defend tho exhibition of tho bogus coat at Treves but their defense will hardly satisfy an intelligent people. A A SATIRE On tho Secret Acknowledgments Between Priests and Pope A Prayer, Oil, ruler of the night! TJinu art likened unto a busy gopher. That worketh his way In the dark V A Hit lli.uiil.utf li t.lin ulirit.rtf tiiittl. A - 4V ...... 1 ' ..?' ........ frt 'YCa, riM 11 great inula thou art. v :- -- . Tlmt fllloth his belly from The (lurk places of eurth, , And gathcrcth together hi dlrt i To heap It In a goodly temple, For tho show arid ga.e of won. Kut beneath It, lies tho tyrant. For this, Oh, Irtflnlto man! Wo worship time, We adore thoe. Thy constitutions aro strong: The lawsof thy church are mighty; ' Hut cursed be Unit new-born church, Arid curse thou thu laws of state: For cursed are tho tongues that tell thorn Oh, human god! Answer thou our prayer, Then this peevish lilt of horesy, HI111II be much undone: and here, fuller thu shadow of thy holy church, We'll pluck t he richer pearls of state; And hy Inductions dangerous, And vllo Indirections Het them In Komftii rings And let their gllstciilugs our holy colters All, Hut yet, Oh Infallible! There are swift Injunctions Deep Innovations alloat; Form'd t'wlxt rich and poor, 'CJalnst the sacred rights of thy fathers. Yea, 'gainst thy Infinite fathers, These Infallible gods Istfore thee. Ay, 'gainst That which was most gisid unto them, for every temporal whit, well elutrg'd they To endure forever Hut these modern axes, have play'd The nrcliieologlst with thee, Dug thee up, and set thee In thy place with the muses; And laugh at tho fitful pipings Of an ancient god, In these llt-up times of Utterly We lament with thee, wo confess. Oh, Infallible mini I Tor we feel thee fast passing away Arid thy fathers! Those men I Yea, those human gods Had they bill, have seen; have dreum'd; Haw thought Had they but have known, Tho constitution of a modern republic Aye; had these gods but have conceived It; Theo and wo ml(ht have owned All human breath, 'twlxt heaven and hell; And kept theo well set upon It, An holy monster Ay, e'en a god, To the children of men) yet, Man-begot and born of woman, thou art. Hut lo, Wn bio beHime a minted race. Crown'd of devils and hated of men And thou! Thou art fallen from god to man. Wo confess this unto theo, and theo alone. Yet we praise thy Infallible being, Oh, omnipotent man! And wo remember It not, Oh Infallible! , That In time past, thou and thy fathers Did much err In thine Infallibility. But wo know that within thy law, 1 a nou i a sur una was --7t from under tho weight of thy mistakes. For this we laud and magnify thee, Oh wondorous man, for thluo omnipotence, And we would that all this world, Quite upon theo as we thus hold thee up lint, Oh, most Infallible! They say thou art as ouo born In great luck Rut not In so much great luck, As thy fathers before theo. For lo, thy great luck Hath elutrg'd upon thee, to turn thee back, It was not so with thy fathers; For their luck was greater than kings Hut now has liberty, set up her crown, High above tho crown of kings! And thy eeptro hath lost Its charm. Again we grieve, Oh Inllulte man! That thy part hath fared so well. And wo are wont, again to set thee up Arid for thee, we'll challenge, A We'll light! we'll burn; we'll kill; "", And for thy sake alone, We'll blacken this liberty, with Ignorance; Dispell this blissful peace With tho travail of war; borilamlnute our flHhv lives, With the souls of devils; Incur dangerous Insurrections )n the rule of slate; And spill, nicely, heretic dog's blood, For thy charity's sake, Oh, most Infallible man! And we who know thy dreadful couimuiuls, Hhall serve them well Arid standing within the pale Of thy holy church, We'll 00.U out the life of liberty; Make Ignorance, yea, blacker yet; And tweedle men's mails with holy words, To live In thy name, or by fetniiigo Inveul'oiil, 11a, 1 1 a die. Then we'll lock out ,U famous history, Froii the souls of 4. 'tig generations; And situs down in k rfortablo places; Teach thoiu oril j ). ledgoyif thoe, A rid rear tboiiiJtvveitTo our desire. Oh. omnipotent man! How rich and K.. Is thine Inheritance! Hut hold! Oi. oontlir great For stern rimn there are, , Who deny thoe; who curse time; . Who hate tliee all time Hloodixl cut ' 'Itn'.Utr', Despot And spurn tin ' lilisll. .. -4 And while we try, Hy our black. d direful deeds. To chock this lted freedom's tide; They cry, "Lay on," pontiff! And drop tl y keys, When you t enough. Curse thou their nation, " Oh, thou father of us devils, Is our everlasting prayer. Wuatmox. A Poesl i Oubtpokoa Wonts. The committee in charge of the pro posed celebration of Archbishop Ken rick's Jubilee at St. Iiouls, on lec. J, has stirred up n lively light by Its dis crimination against Catholic children who nttend tho public schools. One of the great features of tho jubilee was to be a children's chorus, and the trouble is all over an order issued by Vicar (ieneral Urady that "all Cath olio children who attend Utjr public schools will be excluded from this churns uiid from otherwise participating in the celebration." Father Towers, of the church of tho Immaculate Conception, has taken up cudgels on behalf of the public school children, and has declared in the most unhesitating way that tho action of tho committee Is" it direct and pub'io blow from a lot of zealots against tho public school system," and proclaims that their assumption of power should be troi'deu under fool. There aro, ho asserts," a number of men on tho ex ecutive comtnititeo who aro without reason on this point, and aro In such a frantic slate of mind that they believe anything outside of tho Catholic church shoulrbo exterminated. " Continuing In this vigorous train Father Power gives tho church dignitaries tho follow ing homo-trust. " If tho head man of our church ation to the subject they would llnd that the parochial school system of this country Is without morlt and there fore should bo abolished. In no way does It corn pure with tho public school system. We have no governing board and therefore tho results aro inslg nilicant. "When the Catholics attack tho established educational system of this country they aro fooling with a boom erang that will rebound on them and (bjal a crushing blow lo their own institutions." No member of the most advancod American society could have spoken more vigorous patriotic on tho public school question. Father Mc Glynn, who was excommunicated for his utterances, never went any farther than this. Tho St. Louis priest Is away ahead of this church on this question, and will prbtibly feel tho bishop's lash ere long. He has spoken tho plain, unvarnished truth about tho general worthlessuess of the parochial schools and the bishops of the Romish church will eventually lind out that they have been fooling "with a boomerang" when awakened Americans arise in their might and bid them keep thoir Impious intermeddling hands off tho Nation's schoolhouse. Tho Kt. Louis Incident will open tho eyes of sensible Unman Catholic parents to the church's malign intcrferonc with parental con- trol,and so an important lesson will hnr been taught. Western Uritlsh Ann;,, can.- . 1" ' -- THE American people have pre ' themselves capable of "home ro5 and the pope's subjects cannot att lo enforce Irish Uulc without recc" a merited rebuke. ,. V - in..1 ;a i
