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TttrtiK should l no toleration d
hustler by 1 hi' A, I'. A. order,
Wotl.O It K tho proper thtdjf to
tmnpe seiie of patriotic meetings
during tho Methodist conference In
this oily
' TliK a;itl.imtod May day troubles
failed to ntnUilllx In Europe. Work
Ingim n generally wore very quiet and
orderly, ami but few disturbances were
Hmoo.
IT 1 announced thai tho hikj hnt
given hi approval to Ireland's public
sohistl system, hut not without the
usual appendage, Ho want the chit
drvnto receive a church education fu
school hours.
IN the province of Uaiulti, In Kant
Afrloa, thoro I now raging quite a mt
ioim conflict httwH.n Hoinnn t'ntholic
and I'wtcctant native. Tho war Is
purely re Unions affair, and in attracting
but little, attention.
TltK counly conuniwloncrH havo
agm.'d to Hiibmit the proMnltion of the
Nebnibka CVntrai H. H. Co., to tho
people by a KjK'clal election to beheld
May Slat, It should carry. Tho safe
guards a iv miniclent.
LAST Sunday a crazy woman made
an atmault iion a Roman prlcitt in
Mount Washington. The prlcut warded
off tho blow and drew a revolver. Why
do prleata always have a revolve
handy? No Protestant mlnlMer carry
firo-arma?
A LITTLE rliplo occurred at tho
Huptint church tho Other day, when
even deacons precnted their realgno-
tion. and akcd that they bo accepted
Tho difference! will probable be. ami
cably settled when tho congregation
InventigaU tho trouble.
The
tmixM'Atntnnm Kwzrn
geota that a nerlesof atriotic meeting
lie held every week during the World's
Fair at Chicago. This is certainly
good suggestion, and will meet tho ap
proval of patriotic visitor who do not
fancy having tho Romans carry off all
tho glory of that enterprise.
A CoiyiKS pon dent writing from
Rome says: "Tho jmpo had confirmed
tho decision of tho propaganda in favor
of tho plan advocated by Archbishop
Ireland allowing American Catholic
ehools to ho taught by stato teachers.
and religious Instruction to bo given
after achool hours, tho object being to
relieve tho Catholics of its burden of
expense of separate schools." While
is look plausible on its face, may it
no be possible, that the pojm desires to
detract attention from the public school
agitation now going on In this country
jhk iiomans wno control tho demo
cratic party in New York are becoming
very bold. The plan they havo adopted
Is to displace the school toaeJiers, c
peeially when they are Protestant, and
appointing new ones in their places for
political reasons. Take for instance
the city of Troy. Nineteen Romasi
Catholic teachers were appointed by a
Roman board of education in place of
twenty-one Protostant teachers whoso
competency hal never been questioned,
and some of them had been teacher
for forty years. Most of the new teach
er were selected from attendants of the
convent schools, and who had never bo
fore held positions as teacher. This 1
one of the result of an educational law
which give politicians the right to
dictate who the teachers shall bo in tho
public schools.
TUET UK NOT AFRAID.
At the regular mooting of tho IJoyne
Loyal Orange Lodge of Monti eal, on
Monday evening, ths,t intelligent body
placed itself on record against the Ro
man Catholic church, punning a resolu
tion, which has been given out for pub
lication. The resolution ran thus:
"Resolved, That whereas we believe
that the time has come when Orange
men should spealc out more plainly, and
let the world know what is their belief
concerning the Roman Catholic church,
we hereby place on record our firm con
viction that the said Roman Catholic
church can in no way be considered as
a part of tho Christian church, and we
also believe that the pope of Itomo is
identical with the antichrist of scrip
ture." Lindsay M'ankr.
That is a strong indictment. But the
Orangemen are capable of promulgating
and sustaining such indictment. They
corporation. Their belief 1 shared by
are not alone in their estimate of that
thousand of men who never will be
Orangemen by men who see in it a
political monstrosity.
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elmiiil that thev ! m II w ho
I tho tights of eltlc. tiMi far l highly
to hnrti-r Hu m awsv dr a fe dollar
hold tin in far l.snt..r In sil a few fliu
w oik ! in to nmniiitilsni th-m In the In
terl of any candidate,
A anile, Urn rank and lib' In the
American ai'lrttliiis isu r tnisted
to do only w hat honorable men could
bo i.ivvsIIihI iiimhi to do. Hut theii are
srtaln silitielans who claim to carry
tho A. P. A. vole in their vent jHs ket,
who should not be truxted. That there
are wnuld-ho leaders In the American
order, who havo allowed the lmproion
to gain currency that the A. P. As,
could he delivers! 'greatly to thedetri
meiit and dlsgratv of the order you
and i, and every other man. have heard
tiMin almost every street corner
Mow much truth tln-n Is In these
rumors these' barters and sales you
cannot 1st hohoi1 to know. We d
not know, but w herever the finger of
suspicion is pointed, there should 1st an
investigation. If the party susplciotied
is proven Innocent, exonorato him fully
If ho Is guilty, exoll him from the
order he Is not fit to associate
with decent, law-abiding men.
No man who is innocent of the
charges of ImotllerlHin will f ar an in
vestlgution; he will ask to K Invest!
gated he will insist uhhi tho truth
ls-lng known. Only those men who are
corrupt will hinder or try to forestall
an Investigation. Were charge of
corruption laid at our door, wo would
lie the first man to Insist upon tho most
searching inquisition being made,
Will those other g -ntlemen condescend
to act In that manner If not, they must
not attempt again to assume leadership
In the A. P. A., for as certain as there
is an American order In this city, just
that certain will they bo ostracized.
The members of those order will not
condone corruption. They witl over
throw Its votaries
Wo bellevo that In every member of
an American order should le found
fidelity to one's self and to the order
we IhUovo that every man should bo
tho embodiment of purity, and that
every man should offer protection to
the order and Its momlrs, and not
start out to assasslnato a friend' char.
actor. One way to afford protection to
the order and Its friends is to run
down and expose boodlors not cover
up their short-comings, as d'S the
Roman eorjxirat ion. We detest secrecy
We have no use for boodlersl We
abhor men who engage in tho despic
able business of character-assassination
And wo value our citizenship too highly
to allow this talk to continue without
asking the gentlemen, whom common
rumor charges with corruption, with
corttrollng the A. I'. A. vote, to tep to
tho front and ask to bo Investigated
Tho Amoru an assis'Iatlons can much
better afford to expoll unfit men, to
weed out IssHllers, than to allow tho
good name of the order to bo smirched
by their knavery and treachery. Tho
American Protective association i
greater than any one man; It principles
aro broader than any sentiment ever
evolved by the minds of a whole shoal
of iHilitlcal pigmies, and its aims and
purpose can only ho understood by
honest men!
There may bo no truth in all these
rumors, we hoK there is not, yet the
association cannot afford to pas them
by unnoticed. It cannot afford to take
the cuo always used by Rorno. It can
afford to say to tho world, wo practice
what wo preach
True, some of the men under suspic
ion of handling boodle, of trying to
liver the vote of tho American
orders, have been warm friend of this
paper, and this paper has In times gone
by, given them it earnest, hearty sup
port, but that fact will not deter us
from pointing out to the American tho
advisability of being constantly on their
guard, of calling to their mind tho old
truism, "Eternal vigilance l the price
of liberty."
If this shoo fit any of our friends, we
wanf thera to put It on and wear it-
even if they feel that they will have to
get even by stopping their paper. We
havo but one aim in life the elevation
of Protestantism. That can only bo
accomplished by opposing corruption,
and we shall oppose it wherever found.
Will the association sustain that posi
tion? We believe it will, for an over
whelming majority believe in reform
not In the practice of Rome.
Considerable excitement was oc
casioned, in Troy, N. Y., tho other day,
when the recently elected Roman
democratic school board discharged
twenty-on of the best Protestant
teacher in the public school, and ap-
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IW ! t,.Mhi a ft j. ttd In this fly
t.s ' Itding Ms tiit!s.f In Mi. t.
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I what be y In a hn nl h-n. r.
l uiwum, Mien., April 2, -J -lvr
tnihr I n tv ihe p r
o i) a Thanh to Tit Awi HI
i Them I a cliaiik'" of admtnUtra-
Hon in this town. IM spring. V
elected a Pitil-lnt 1 1 t It and miln'r-
!"'', and cam near gvttlng ti-oautvr
of tho aim' mtnpleilnn. iet to
gvt inure im-t time. My family vi
1 ii k Ami Iiu an, and then the neigh
lr get It and ! II from one to an
other, u Is wonderful w hat a change
on copy hs wrought. Tho hew sus-r-
viiwir ealled yosieniay for tho ln-1 pair.
and sIiowih! mo a sis-elmen of hi iin-
dieeswr's la Roman Catholic) work
last year. A Protefuit and a Roman
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III'lMmltil alitea ill tin. e. tn.l (l,ul iiu-n,t
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hv the Itomnn ni iu.m i nu
than that of thf Protontant. The Prot-
estant Wiw aHS.(w.. fliO. tho Catholic
;-. o ZSZS "lVr.
alsmt Ci. lloth aiv located in the
same solnsd district, 11. L.
Who will, after reading that letter,
ask the mission of the A. P. A? Has
It not a great field in which to work?
Yet where is the difference between
allowing that Romanist to escape fifty
per cent, of his rightful taxation, while,
his nelghlsir Is fully assessed, and tho
Roman church holdings on West
Leavenworth rented out for gardening
purposes which csonx taxation en-
tirely, while only a few block this sillo,
on the opMisito side of the street, is a
tract of land owned by the city attorney,
not as valuable, and standing idle,
brings into tho city treasury hundreds
of dollar annually i It is the old dislgo
of having Protestants pay all the taxes,
w hile Romanists hold all the office and
exempt their fellow Romanists and the
property belonging to the Roman cor-1
poration from one-half, or all, the
burdens of taxation. How long, Amerl-
cans, will you submit to this imposl-
tlon? Aw;ike! Shako off tho joke, and
deal firmly, yet justly, with Rome.
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A8 TO TEMPERANCE.
There Is not a reader of TliK Amkki-
can whodis's not believe in tomiHiruncu.
There aro many who do not believe In
prohibition, but all will bo surprised to
hear this sentiment was uttered In the
great Methodist Kpisoopal conference:
"Tho Roman Catholic church Is work-
lng up on this question," dcclardd tho
banning i.that nZZ
more Interest than themselves In th
r t- A 1 ii iil 1
suppression of this great evil. Arch-
Idshop Ireland of Iinnesota-I Iioiki
they will make him a cardinal Is with
will not Isi long ls;fore tho Catholics
will Ihj (IghtJng tho battle of temper-
anco side by side with us."
If Ur. Kynett know aught alsmt thJ
Roman Catholic church-and he should,
s.cause he comes from Phlladelphiav
he know that corporation has tho life
ofthosabsm arid the brothel in her
grasp. One sentence from the lips of
the bishops In tho various dioceses
would close nine-tenths of all the sa-
oons, and more than three-fourth of
all tho house of lll-famo. Ihcn why
do they riot promulgate that sentence?
Ilecauso them! .laces are prolific sources
of revenue for the Roman machine. It
could not II vo If they were abolished!
Licentiousness, crime, Ignorance and
superstition aro tho corner stones of
Roman Catholicism. Virtue, purity,
honesty and sobriety aro tho exceptions,
not tho rule, That being so, how can
Dr. Kynctt, or any other Intelligent
Methodist, accuse the Roman machine
of "working up on this question"? Ho
knows that Hlshop Kcanticll, of the
dl(sso of Omaha, could close more
than three-fourths of tho saloons in
till city, if ho (Dr. Kynctt) ha taken
the trouble to read the signs alsivo tho
ntrancow of the saloons. Romo and
reform, rum and reason, do not travel
In tho same class. Dr. Kynctt ha been
taken in by a very smooth Jesuit dodge.
-
Tub councilman who Imagine that
the prohibition shibboleth can do nsod
to frighten fellow councllmon who may
desire to vote to confirm the appoint-
ment ofamanwho several years ago I
supported the amendment, 1 certainly U
behind the times. Tbl Is not a brothel
administration. Prohibition was do-
feated several year ago.
; . .
WHY not ask all tho visiting laymen
and minister Into tho A. P. A. fold? .
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Editor Interior: Will you bo so kind
to insert In vour earliest Issue tho
statement herein contained? Father
Chlnlquy ha been here for some time,
being now quite sick. A hi case
necessitated a surgical operation, he
called to hi assistance hi own physi-
cian, tho eminent surgeon, Dr. Ed
mund Andrew, of Chicago. But be
fore Father Chlnlquy wa put under
the influence of ether, as ho is now so
advanced in life being in Lis eighty
third year he wished to make a state
ment which he wanted to u?n with hi
own hand. A he ay in his declara-
tion the priests if the Church orilome
have published Several time that he I
had r iioiitm t Pt-'l tnl Um l e
lf lit li t.' -it ie d III t. Hi I
alo - llw -.ifttii, M i e-.!.'
it.. a at Ii i o ii .(li i' '.i ih. i,i,
it.g d. -nil,, hi wl.t l, I i.n hii, v.Mt
f"f p- t-iii i. ii Mr. i i.ttM.,.,1 I
atui.... t Ii t ttio wnU drsiitt Ibal t.e
U Rom in lit l!u n ttie lo the fn!i
of x s'.i.'. li.al i t lhniy whl, fi
tia deli Illicit m ItlMiity fur ala.nl
ttillij.no Ji-si. and Dial he l ii I j far
feisii Ittltiklng of raUing ttio while fWg
and prt-M hllng Die I'lho tifwhi-h t' hi
old f" l f.iii dll'ig, It 1 li!ii Isnt
that the i l'.i iiiaii world t riiflul mg
nliaiit of father I hlnl.jii) ' faith and
fWllngs w In n tai ing death. Ho l tl!l
III !-d and fit l quite f. hlr. Your
ivrl'Hll(v, P. Ihtftmr At.
Patr t'tiliilipiy t'tmreh.
Tho solemn moment hating arrived
forme when, on account of a painful
ill'', I mimt, l ar a surgical ojsTa
lion which insy a Well lend inn to my
grave as restore mo to health, I I
that I have a duty to fulfill to mil the
chrUi Inn elnm-h: whl. ti Im m Wiii.ilv
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Ml oi o.i in enu nn miea to
him, Ilea ve this life with Joy, for
hear all the echoes of heaven mill em-tli
th.wn.a,rf my Havior
,n pn'l"1''" 0 place tor you. And ii I
go and tu-epiire a place for you, I will
come again and receive you unto my
self, that where I am you may ls also,
I know that on the cross ho has paid
I my debt and secured by salvation. H
has torn with his own bauds tho con
demnatlon which I have merited by my
sins. My trust is in him, and in him
alone. Ho is my only hop), my only
light and life everlasting, It is he
and be alone, who has acquired for me
a place In tho eternal kingdom of his
Father. I bless him Uslay more than
ever, that he should have oened his
eyes to the errors, the superstitions and
the idolatry of the Church of Rome, in
which I was born and of which I was
priest for more than twenty-five years
A It Is very probable that the priests
of lUnno may do to me as they have
done for so many others and indeed as
they havo done already to mo several
times that they may publish that
have mado by pence with the Church of
Rotno when very sick. I protest now
against this new calumny. In tho
presence of death, and standing on my
open grave, I Invito more thar ever my
dear French countrymen and all Roman
Catholics to break tho heavy and
shameful yoke which tho Church
Ilomo places so "heavily on the nations
which she blinds and holds as miserable
slaves at tho feet of her Idols. There
Is but one name that we ought to In
vokn. bv whom wo can h
r '
tt s tin, name of Jesus Christ. The
!' 't of Romo deceived tho people
In making them believe that they havt
tho newer to change tho wafer Into
c i AnA s..vOP t,,m..b fh,.Ht The f !o1
ml Httvl", whom lt,mlnlsts worship
Is nothing but a powerless Idol. Mass
noth lng but a tissue of blasphernh
and idolatry. Tho priest, lifting up
the wafer and snvlm to the tsundu
"This is your Cod who has saved you
uism tho cross," commits tho same ac
Lf idolatry that Aaron committed when
he said to tho Israelite In showing
them tho golden calf: "These bo the;
trods. O Israel, which havo brought
thee up out of tho land of Kgypt."
Auricular confession is but a snare
which the immense majority of priest
fall, as in a bottomless pit of iniquity,
with their female imltont. Confession
is a dlabolital Invention bequeathed to
tho Church of Rome by Idolater of
olden times, I forgive with all rny
heart the calcumnle which my enem
las havo spread against mo. I thank
and bless all tho kind brother and
sister In Jesus Christ who have given
mo tho hand of christian fellowship,
and have holwd mo in tho midst of tho
trial through which I have had to
pas since I left tho Church of Rome
I ask from C and from men forgive
ness for all tho faults committed during
my whole life. My soul ha heard the
voice of tho bridegnxwi saying: "Ho-
hold, I como quickly," and It has
answered: "Come, Lord Jesus, como."
Ht. Anne, 111., March 23.
C. ClIINIQUV.
The priest, as confessor, possesses
tha secrets of a woman's soul; ho know
every half-formed hope, every dim do.
aire, every thwarted feeling. Tho priest,
spiritual director, animates that wo
man with hi Ideas, move her with his
own will, fashions her according to hi
own fancy. And thi priest Is doomed
to celibacy, lie is a man, but Is bound
t0 Pick trom hi, hoflrt tho f,,,,!!- ot
, i i,. i. m,uunnuu i...
desperate ue of his power over those
confiding in him. If ho Is s ncere y !e
, , '
vout ho ha" to tmKgle with hi pas-
lnurB ' Pnious cnance oi
h18 MnZ defeated in that struggle.
And even hould be coma off victorious
still the mischief done la incalculable
Und irreparable. The woman' virtue
has been reserved by an accident, by a
power extraneous to herself. She was
wax in her spiritual director's hands;
the bas ceased to be a person, and I
become a thing. Exchange.
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when ya C8n buy t for & ents. 107
South loth Street.
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A tetpli fraud, Wiw lnti
Vret and Whil ' Il7
A i""Mrq.-i'ii'l willing .i I lot in
iti i-iiti . IjuhI Amofti sn, Ksthii,
n ntn'ttt a e '"( fkp
Piirsl.l) It IK lt p ttg iriMUt.
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tl" of ttm Il iiuUh loin h It t a
Ilatt'l an Intention of tlMtlfc
to rhral I bf Igiiniaitt mil of iKfir
iikiih v through fosr. It woilvd l.-r
si) It I worth by ths pti t.
Purgatory, All othet unciipiurl
I. gins of ths ItoiiitsH church, t a do-
liipnient. Cardinal !wmhh thoot j
ts, that th church gra.laslly d
Vt hp diH tiln out f rt of
liidoihf, sn.lt In ii when it tHitvuntf p.'p
til'tr th0 pope sanction it fir th
twinlit of hi f.ilthfut dupv. Then
such doctrine beoitnies matu-r
fith whrthrr right or wrong, whethrr
scriptural or not, and mut b tlivtf4
by at! RomanUt unJ.-r pr u of drum
tlon. Purgatory grew up in tbi wsy from
an hli'ii. It niMiit, at firr, a ort of
imposed pt-mtnee for ia, piatd on
earth by the living. Aft;r cvuturis it
was found to be like the discovery cf a
ilch gold mine and the bt p)iog
doctrine ot the church a bank that
never f tils for patron who pay their
last dollar for love of kindred and
friends.
The Irish are naturally very affec
tionate and sympathetic and do nt
like the idea of having the souls of
poor relatives suffer In torment, hence
their gullibility in paying largely for
their rescue from the fire of purga
tory. Like all other change of doctrine in
that changeable papal church, purga
tory now means, according to Romish
theology, a place or state in which the
souls of sinner after death, expiate
for sin committed on earth which do
not merit eternal damnation. After
purgation by rain and masses by the
priest, tho souls are supposed to be
purified and fit for heaven.
Popery Is a wonderful religion.
Money can get you an indulgence or a
dispensation to sin against the law. It
can even buy heaven for you. Simony
hus been it curse since the days of
Constantino the great, and today there
Is not a critro committed for which
pardon 1 not granted for sufficient
money.
Now, my Roman Catholic renders, I
would like to havo some of you ask
your priest tho following questions, viz:
Where purgatory Is found in tho llible,
when, and by whom it was Invented?
In what year did tho pope sanction It
as a doctrine of Komish faith? If a
place of purifying fire, what kind of
fire l It? It can't bo natural fire, for
the soul or spirit is not matter, and the
body of tho sinner is in tho grave, and
insensible to pnln. This will give your
priest work for a life time. It him
prove from scripture tho existence of
thi fraud, which no intelligent man or
woman, that has read tho Ifoly llible
carefully, can believe In. It seem now
that poor old Ireland Is to be credited
with tho first purgatory, established
700 years ago, and ever since that lime
tho Irish have paid well for the dis
covery in mental fear and millions of
dollars to the priest.
Mary Frances Cusaek, the nun of
Aenman, while a Roman Catholic In
Ireland, wrote the lives of several
saint such as St. Patrick, St, Francis,
etc. In her lifo of St. Patrick she
speak of a legend of St. Patrick'
purgatory, which sho doubts as she
doc other fabulous legends. She next
mention a story of an Albert Patrick
In the eighth century as having estab"
lishod a purgatory in Ireland; but not
until the twelfth century docs she give
tho first authentic historical account of
it establishment. In 1152 an Irish
knight named Miles Owen first in
formed an English monk, of Saltery
Abng, of Its existences in an Island in
Lough Derg county, Donegal, Ireland.
So to Ireland and an Irishman, pur
gatory is Indebted for Its origin. Miss
Cusack states that this purgatory at
Lough Derg was quite a paying concern,
and becttino qulto popular. Pilgrims in
largo numbers went there, and tho
landlord rented tho right to ferry over
the pilgrims to a ferryman for i'UOO to
300 a year, who charged so much a
head for ferrying them across to tho
island.
Rome makes everything pay. Her
masses, her scapulars, blest rosaries,
her indulgences and dispensators are
all sold for money. Heaven itself is a
matter of dollars and cents. The rich
can buy a high mass, the poor a low
oue, but the poor soul who has nothing
to pay has of course to endure all the
punishment and tay in purgatory un
til his sins are purged.
What merciful priests and what a
merciful church the worthy mother of
purgatoryl She grades the masses ac
cording to tho amount of money paid
by rich and poor. What a travesty on
jlt.p tilii Sr l'lms al.iru im i. i. .(t
!?ntioiif, Jrn I t lt.t. Wlol Is fully
! sli" d f.i iir lli, In hrd.Ug (lit
I pffetoH Llimd i. t Hr ni
j 1h" ll J. iiUi .f pMitt. tt i an
ini!t to mi, IUdiiit, I hi iit who
it!.t lt.tl AH, I i,..l f, K.I mil
I , '
tl b!i IhMill to Hod !h
; . . , ,
j t sti.rr, w nil aenptru me anniriiu tu in
or t tts'f I ihmim i t it . t litisl
bring a pn't tf uth artn I'tsnc,
heic the (devil i f Christ clrsiitr us
fr.i.u sll in. I John 17, Pj grsee w
ar th'M.'. t lvns,, ihriigh faith In
thi. t leariou sl.-tirun nt of Chi 1st, and
not tv nts-Mf ef thr priest and pur
g stry.
The nun of I Unman, fi out who life
of M. Patfivk, thi alote account of
purgstory is taken, waadi'Vout K
nun tV.bolie about thirty jtnrs, but
aftrr many trial, psruerutlons, Insults
and doubt In that aposte churrh,he
left bvr position of mother general su
perior of the sisters of pence, In New
Jersey, and btrchnie a Protestant Epis
copalian. She has written fmir books
sine, her conversion, proving herself a
noble scholar, a pure and dvvottd fol
lower of Christ, acd a liberal christian.
Her last three books should be read by
very Roman Catholic and Protestant
in America. She prove the Roman
church a foe to liberty and education.
Its celibacy and confessional a cesspool
of vice and the w hole church an infal
lible fraud, including the pope and
purgatory. II.
Died.
SEWARD Horatio L., at his home,
2020 Hurt street, Tuesday evening,
May 3rd, 1!'2, of pneumonia.
Such was the announcement which
apMared in tho papers Wednesday
morning. To many it was a complete
surprise, to others it was half expected,
but to all who knew him itwasasad,
sorrowful bit of news. As a friend,
Horatio L. Seward was steadfast and
unswerving; as a husband kind and af
fectionate, and as a father forbearing
and loving. A a citizen and as an of
ficial he was patriotic, broad-minded
and liberal. In any and every position
of trust and responsibility he proved to
bo faithful, tireless and thoroughly
coiriH'tont.
A contemporary, in siH'iiking of Mr.
Seward said:
"Mr, Seward-was born at IJatavia,
Oenessoo county New York, in 1K11,
September 23. After finishing hi
course In the common schools of Hatavla
bo began to grow restless of tho quiet,
uneventful life in a downcast farming
district. California was then tho goal
of every restless, active, ambitious man,
and those who could beeume Argonaut
(o 'tnat promised' inar- "Vrt t i swwsi.
joined the ranks of tho wealth hunter
and reached California shortly before
the war of tho rebel I Ion began. With
characteristic vigor the deceased began
organizing a company and entered tho
army with tho rank of captain. After
js'iteo had been declared Captlan Sew
ard camo to Omaha, in JM4, and after
residing hero two years ho entered tho
quartermaster' department at old Fcrt
Sedgwick, located at Julesburg, and
until it abandonment wa associated
with tho army. In 1W8 he returned to
Omaha arid was made city marshal of a
town which then had only 1500 people,
After living hero for some time Cap
tain Seward left for Texas, where ho
took a position with tho Texas Pacific
railroad, and lived in that state for flvo
years. In lxl bo returned to Omaha,
and shortly after was made atutlouor of
the Union Pacific, which position ho
held until the office was abolished.
Later ho become chief clerk to Harry
(Jllmore. assistant superintendent of tho
Missouri Pacific railroad, which iosl
tlon ho held until a year or more ago,
since which time he has been out of
business. Captain Seward was a mem
ber of Covert lodge. Ancient Free and
Accepted Mason, No, II, and a past
master of that lodge. Ho was a member
of tho Veteran Masons' association, a
member of Omaha-chapter, No. 1, Royal
Arch Mason, and also omemlstr of Mt.
Col vary commandery.Knlghts Templar.
Captain Seward was married shortly
after ho came to Omaha, in 1W4. to
Miss Ella Iliidlngton, by Rev, Mr, Van
Antwerp, then rector of old Trinity
church at tho corner of Ninth and Far
norn streets, where tho Tlvola garden
now Is. Ho leave a wife and three son.
and, also, a mother, who is a halo,
hearty woman of 85,"
Tho deceased was burled Thursday
afternoon In Forest Lawn cemetery,
under the direction of tha members of
Covert lodge, A. F. and A. M.
Word fail to express tho deep regret
of hundred of our best citizens at tho
sudden and unexpected taking off of one
so universally esteemed. All will unite
in saying, "Peace, peace, thou soul of
immortality"
- To A common individual it would
seem that tho city council had wrestled
last Tuesday night with a very ordinary
subject, much in tho same way it would
with ono of Importance. Honest labor
ha never been employed by tho city
authorities, since we havo lived In
Omaha, to clean tip tho alleys Id the
business part of tho city. Tor that
reason if the vags and other petty crim
inals were worked upon them, their
labor would not compete with that of
honest men. It woukl bo a new de
parture. Why should honest men be
taxed to feed and house such characters
and at same time to pay other honest
mon to do the work which criminals
could do. We believe Munroe's resolu
tion should have been passed. Try
again.
