THE AMERICAN.
THE AMERICAN
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JOHN 0. THOMPSON, - Iditon
W.C. KKI.I.KV. HiihIiii'mi MiiiuiKr.
OMAHA, THURSDAY, KKII. 4, 1HJ
"AM KIUOA FOR AMKHKJANS"
Wt Imltl till AtiK'rli'HtiN wlio nwciip iillt'itliuu
to iIik Ilnlli'il Nluli's without it mental hi
rrvii t Ion In fiivnruf Him )(in'.
MAKKyour motto, "no will, no faro,
l'ATTl wll
farewell tour
hooii l)o hero on itnollu
F.knkht HTUllT would miiko it (food
state senator.
AM, mull orders fop tlio works ol
Father Chlnlquy miiMt bo accompanied
by tho cash.
Title republican party is fant drifting
Into tlit) control or Homo. Iho demo
cratic party iHiilroiuly In tint iniitrMtroin
I'uoiiAitr.Y Unit priest will Ihi ro-it-
polnted chaplain of tlio penitentiary
now Unit Mr. Hoydls really and truly
governor.
WK iiojio to mi io honest merchants
mid wage-earners elected to tlio loglsla
tiiro next fall not political barnacles
mid legal MliyHtorH,
IN Chicago they havonn ordlnanoo
wh ioli makes it obligatory upon tlio
street ear eompanlcH tofurnlMli passon
gers with scats lioforo collecting faros,
Do likewise,
(JlTliKNH should insist on hotter
ntroot car accommodations, Thoy
Hhould Insist on hitter protection.
Thoy Hhould insist on a Moat. No seat,
no faro,
ClIIMC Iiiih recanted. Tlio president
will not havo to excommunicato lior.
Him can enjoy all tlio iMmellts of reci
procity, providing alio will doapenanoo
allow PatF.gan to remain.
ilKN liUTI.KU has vindicated himself
ho has published aliook, HIh rfivortgo
will not Iki complete, however, until ho
malls to each of IiIm tritduoors it volume,
and toniM'ln them to carefully peruse
its contents,
Tub JeHiiItlcal whemo In relation to
tlio. coiihoI idatlon of offices wax made
moro apparent by tlio opposition of
Tom Jjowry at Iho tlmo of the passage
of tlio ordinance, Yet the American)
fell Into tlio trap.
TllR newly elected county eominls
idonor is tho right kind of a reformer.
Ho lielloves In tho right kind of re
trenchment. Ho refused to accept $,'()
which he had not earned during the
month of January,
It I H mild (iounty Trcmirer Irey re
fused to ap)ointan American to a posi
tion InhlMofllco Jm 'chi mo certain mem
ler of tho Ixiard of county commission
ers who retain such men us John J,
Mahoney and Miko Jwihoy in office ob
jected to the applicant. Thin man Irey
together with tho wherlfT of Douglas
county would not today bo holding tho
offices thoy aro but for thysupport of
American, They Nhould not forget
IhUfiiel, As wo Mild lo Mayor llemU
"It lm limit who remembers his
friends,"
ht
Rome In Tho Unitcil Sfte
The Itoinnn CalhiiHo bishop of Oo'
oiiulo recently delivered h speech
Denver In which ho miido use of Ihi
language, oeeordlng U Iho Hepiihl lean
of I hut city:
There can Ihi no progress wherein
fidelity and iipostiioy prevail. There I
no country under tjiomin where lihcrul
Ism, which is but another inline fur In
lldellty, bus had siu-h a Hold as In our
own America, Tim government Itself
claims to Isi Ills-nil In the strict
sense of the word. It acknowledge
(ioil In the constitution, true, but its
profession of religion goes no further
In a country like ours where tho popu
lation In composed of the various
nationalities found on this globe, cm
bracing every shade of religious con
vlctlons, it would bo Bimply preposter
ohm for tho government to favor any
particular Meet. Moreover it Is not tlx
duty of tho Htato to teach religion, but
to protect tlio citizen In tho enjoyment
of alllliM rlghtM whether rellgloiiMor
political, nevertheless It should stand
at least ly tlio liiiiispuuiiiio principles
of morality and justice, If tho govern
merit should not tench religion, and
therefore not favor any sect; IciiHtof all
should it favor Infidelity, for of all Meets
tills Im tho worst, hIiico It carries with
it tho destruction of all virtue and
morality, Its triumph would bo tho
death of tho nation. Hut this Is pro
clsely what our government Is doing,
It 1h openly favoring inlldellty, by tin-
posing upon tho nation a system of eilu-
at Ion which banishes chiisthmlty
from tho hcIiooIs. Year after year our
public schools urn sending forth bun
droils of thousands of children totally
devoid of moral training lieeauso devoid
of faith, TIiiih wo aro unconscloiiMly ro
irultlng tho ranks of Inlldellty, Man
s tho creature of education, his worth
to tho commonwealth stands In propor
lion to bis education. Tho govern
ment therefore should not bo Indifferent
when tho education of its citizens Im at
stake, On tho contrary, as a measure
of self protection, tho plain duty of tho
government Is to Hoeuro for Its citizens
tho liest possible education, Jlut H
annot Iki denied that virtue and moral
ity aro tho main stay of tho nation.
hit neither virtue nor morality can
stand without religion, their only basis.
'hereforc, as a means of self protection
tlio government ought to favor moral
and religious education Instead of ham-
ring as It now does by Imposing a
double tax upon cither Catholic or
rolcstantH who consider IhemwlvoH
conscientiously Isiund to give a religious
training to their children. Tho result
that mIuco comparatively very few
parents ossess either tho moral con r-
ago oi financial ability to stand this
oublo taxation, young America Is
growing up Infidel. For half a century
this fulso and Imperfect whool system
bus Ixicri in voguo und today fraud, cor
ruption and immorality stalk abroad
n midday,
Another favorite principle of lilioral-
hid is state tttisoiutism, it makes no
dllTeronetj whether tho stato Is repul
llcan or demis'ratic, tho prlnciplo ro
mains the same, In an absolute mon
archy it U tho tyrant who absorlw all
power; In tho republic It Is tho majority
that fills tho tyrant's place, In both,
tho stato Is everything, religion, con-
lenco in a word, everything must
yield to its ttbsoluto away, In Italy it
confiscates tho projmrty of tho church.
In Uennaiiy It c U Ihe ndlglou
ord..H und wnds bUheps to pi lm er
linen Ihein for illi fiti'illng Its Ijrnn
nletil inundate, in Frnhiv ll drives the
sister of chiu lty frmn Ihe hospital,
Iho chi-Ultiiii biiilheis out of their
scIkmiU, In Iho Unlbd States Ileum-s-ls
Outhulli's to submit to double lax
Bto' In order to miilntnln their own
scliisds and satisfy their conwleniis.
In a word, the individual has no rights;
ho Is a piipjs t, a pitiful thing at the
mercy of Iho state. This state almoin
Hon is old; Christianity crushed It in
pagan Home; but modern paganism or
liberalism has spared no pains to restore
It again.
MWallsin, like tho serpent con
cealed Is'iieaf h a IIowci-IsmI watching
Its victim to dart its deadly sting with
a fatal aim, Im ever" decorating Itself
Mftwmlc wcl which forum for nil it cm
mon center, whence nil prtHnl and to
which nil Morn.
Now Iho rule laid down by Ihoctnin
fll of llalllmotv, tt And out whether a
widely Is i-ondemned, Is an follows: If
any widely enjoins that Its wcret can
not even Isi manifested to the authori
ties of tho church, or exacts an oath of
absolute and blind oliedlenco, that
society Is condemned, and any Cathollo
Isdonglng to It will h denied nai'i'it5
mental absolntluii until ho withdraws
from tho society. Now tlio priest id
the Confessional, tho bishop in his dio
cese, hns not only t ho right hut tlio duty
to demand this revelation of tho wcret
and tho oath; and a 'refusal to comply
with the request makes it evident that
they aro condemned. To them mimt
then Imi applied tho words of tho
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with (ihristhin Ide.us that It niay tho
more easily bogullo our generation and
mpregnato It with Its deadly venom.
Therefore, my friends, Isiware of In
fidelity, Isiwaro of liberalism, There
s tho enemy that will inevitably plunge
you Into socialism arid nihilism,
At tho close of his lecturo tho bishop
said: I was asked to give my opinion
on forbidden Mooiotles, Tho op! n Ion or
deft seems to havo gone out that only
tho Masons, tho Carlionarl and tho
''enlans aro now under tho ban. This is
mistake. Tho holy father In his
encyclical "Jfumanum Genus," says
that these condemnations of tho holy
see must Isi understood as applying also.
to other societies which, though differ
ent in mimo are yet substantially the
saruo, both in principle and aim, and
thcrcforo agroo perfectly with the
Saviour: "They havo loved tho dark
ness rather than tho light, Isjcauso their
deeds aro evil," Hence, I'oim IhiXII
has declared, "that nefarious oath,
which wo havo spoken of, Is enough by
itself to show that it is criminal to Isj
long to them, oven to tho lowest grades
thereof." For those who are admitted
into tho society must promise and en
gage themselves to blind obedience uril
absolute fidelity In carrying out tho dic
tates of their leaders, under mrialtyof
tho most dire coriMerjuences, yea, even
death, should they resist tho commands
or betray the secret. Thero is no need
of going Into any further detail on this
point; any Catholic, on application of
these rules, may easily know how ho
stands.
Hut let mo ask: Why should you
Catholics bo running after those for-
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