THE AMERICAN,
ELOQUENT, WRCIBLK.?;
R OOMM titV Ml MOHII
Friend- The ul'j. t t of lhl ddt
M ugtfetit bv a tttni(tit itUjtit. It
in tt tn itiieg ! r three we k ago.
It related In the chwing of ft "t'aiholle
Retreat" which had lieen attended hy
i large number of priest. The rejsni
): "At t!u coiirlutton Hishen lien-
hevy addressed the priest on the lm
portancc of leaking the educational
tskhlhlt at lht world' fair ncv, to
llence those who claim thai the
church I opinwcd to education."
Reiue.ids'rlng that for oor forty
year the representative of wpnl
Homo have U'en ivasolos In their en
deavor to overthrow W'ulr 'lnitUri
In the United states, and to ultltuto
therefor a system devised by the Roman
hierarchy and approved by tint jHipe
a system which would lm entirely hi
the hand of n jHiwor which In al It'll to
our government, and which claim nml
demand submission and olsd leuee from
nil government and people, the pre-
tent i an opportune limn, It seems, to
inquire Into tho merits of the twosys
teni of education.
The Columbian Exposition will bo an
object lemon In the history of thin eon
tlnont and the adjacent islands since
October 21, 14U2. It 1 snposod that
every section nd every existing gov
trnmont will be represented. The
tlmo favorable. In no year of the
past'four hundred ha there been nueh
a dogreo of peace and enmity among
the government and people such re
ciprocity of comity and commerce. The
antipathic of race and creed osped
ally creed 'Which originated In Europe
and were perpetuated In the new
world, have, in omo measure, yielded
to commercial necessity, following the
example of the United State, nearly
all the subdivisions of Latin America
have yielded more or le privileges to
those dlHentlng from the Roman creed;
but thi eonorcdence commercial, ha
not yet removed the linen- religion,
educational and political which have
kept separate two distinct develop
ment of nominal chrltlanlty and
christian civilization; and we know of
no better criterion by which to try
Bishop Hennessey' system and the
System ho seeks to overthrow, than Is
found o plainly In view In the develop
ment of each in it American homo.
Every ship sailing from Spain or
Portugal for the new world, carried
at least one priest. It wa not to care
for the soul of the voyagers alone, but
these servant of tha church came to
protect the Interest of the church,
which claimed all the land discovered
acres the ocean; and right faithfully
did they erform tholr duties. Every
island, cape, bay and river, received a
name significant. The church received
tithes and gifts of all tho gold and sil
ver extorted from tho natives, and
acquired immense wealth in real
estate and in the mot costly buildings
of the time. Tho clergy and monks
came in numbers Riifllcient to give the
most perfect education to EuroHans
and Indians, They possessed all tho
appliances (human) of the times. Only
the Bible wa lacking. The Illblo and
the heretic were not jiermitted to live
In Latin America. If "the church" 1
the instrumentality, and the only In
strumentality through which a prrrrf
education can be obtained. Latin
America should now bo chief among
the nation.
Another race and another creed com
menced it great mission a century
later. Netherlander, Dane and
Swedes formed settlement in what are
now called New York, Now Jersey and
Delaware, but these were afterward
abandoned to tho English, who occu
pied and colonized that part of the coast
extending from Maine to Goorgla,
inclusive. All the colonist, except a
few who nettled in Maryland, were Pro
testant. The Diblo was their text
book in church and schools, the only
rule of faith and life. Homo had shut
up the word of God. The few copies
known to exist were in the Latin or
Greek language. It translations into
the language of the people was al
most the first work of the reformers.
The next thing necessary wa to edu
cate all the people to read and reason
In their native tongue. To thl end
school were provided for rich and
poor.' The Protestant immigrants
carried their Bible and their schools
with them. Their system ha been on
trial on this continent long enough to
enablo the intelligent investigator to
determine its value.
, The Latin-American had the ad
vantage in time, in complete concert,
and the active, powerful and zealous
support of the home governnunt.
When Columbus discovered America,
Portugal was the most progressive and
successful maritime power in the
world. Her navigators had rounded
the Cape of Good nope and found the
way to the Indlaa Ocean. They had
girdled Africa with fort and trading
ports; and had established themselves
in India before a Dutch or English sail)
t n t I'm tls I kinn
Hi to iwitii"i !,..!.! of iKr
tlH.lf Ol I H.MOC IMStH, I Vl (if I t1'l"'
fm (!, IW i i I est I I uiif
With OiU yn i -i, h. i itlet d in'
(I,,. t....!! nt II' It U, the ynt
I i ('rem that iUii tin- t l nun nl
tf Portugal noiii t'tn-'l li-r A no-Mean
eohmy t iih oii rtivtin .l.'tiH
Ml, ho n.li .1 the tlMtHto In l."?,
mm non-U dintii uMo-d for lil
in ttie "tiroost "" of the tallli , In
OaUUiMitttt ttii tn.ji(ni In ISiitu
c!, and by inline ItomUh tnlioii-
mi. nlni.i nil hi ion In Attn
A file sod Aim il
To a iil the i tul of tlo rift4H'iith en
tury htnin estne tnlo proinineniv m
one of the ureal iiower of F,iiroH, In
the middle of the rvntuty Aragon ami
t'atehwila had l-eonie the thliil navl
power, rank lug afir Venhv amlOenoe.
The king of Aragon m almtkingof
Naph and Sicily. Hy the one of
ixilooii to heir 1 the throne of
Nevarro had Ikimi removed, and Fer
dinand liii'Bine king of all the coimlrlen
named In lliw. TIiiih years afterwaiils
he was married to Iwatn'Maot ChhHIc.
On the death of IkbIs'IIii's father, In
1171, she Is-eaine queen of CaHtlloaud
lieon. Thus was formed the modern
kingdom of Spain. In 1 10 Ferdinand
H'ruadcd the queen to consent to the
establishment of the Inquisition as a
royal court for the punishment and ex
termination of what the "church"
called heresy. During his successful
reign, which ended In 151(1, he was an
obedient, devoted servant of Home, lie
was succeeded by his grandson son of
Philip of Austria and Burgundy and
Joanna, (laughter of Ferdinand and
Isabella. Charles wus elected emperor
of Germany in l.VJO, and from that date
until his resignation In Oct'olier, 15.15,
ho was the most powerful monarch in
the world, and all his jwwer was at the
service of tho church, In tho now world
as in tho old. Charles was succeeded
by his son, Philip II., a most devoted
and obedient son of tho church, who
spent his life in attempts to suppress
the reformation, spending the resources
of tho richest and most powerful nation
in Europe in tho propagation of papal
supremacy. During thl reign tho
order of Jesuits, founded by a Spaniard,
wa supremo in all educational alTalr
in all his dominions; thus a policy was
established during tho Sixteenth cen
tury which ha held tho Spanish speak
ing ihm1cb In tho most strict Hltlon
of obcdlonco to tho commands of tho
church and moulded their character
as a distinct pooplo In tho now world,
distinguished abovo all other nationali
ties for tliulr blind, ,'inquestlonlng
obedience to the church, and, in tho
same proportion, regard loss of tho law
of God and tho claim of humanity.
Quite different were tho conditions
in Hlblo-readlng America. Tho first
attempt to establish a Protestant col
ony In North America Is one of the
saddest records in tho history of Chris
tianity in North America. It Is tho
earliest record of tho oldest city In tho
United State. East Florida had boon
explored by navigator from England,
Spain and France, but no colony
planted. In 15(12, Admiral Collgny, a
man of sterling character who had
served Franco nobly and successfully,
forseolng the fate of the Protestants of
Franco, at home, planned tho settle
ment of a colony in America, and, ob
taining a commission from Charles IX.
sent Jean Klbault on a voyago of ex
ploration, who, landing at Port Hoyal,
South Carolina, erected a fort. leav
ing twenty-five men to hold tho fort,
ho returned to France for colonist and
supplies. Civil war at homo prevented
his return for two years, meant imo tho
twenty-five men had built a vessel and
abandoned tho fort. Hlbault returned
In 1561, and founded a hopeful colony
at Fort Carolina, at the mouth of St.
John's river, Florida, and returned to
Franco fir more emigrants. In tho
meantime, Philip II, of Spain, hearing
of the settlement of a Protestant col
ony In Florida, sent Don Pedro Menen
dez in command of an expoditlon'com-
prising thirty-four vessels and 2,000
persons, to exterminate tho Protes
tants and form a Catholic colony,
After massacrelng tho colony at Fort
Carolina, ho selected a site for acapltal
naming it St. Augustine. A late
tourist describes tho place so well, and
tho succeeding massacres, I give it
here in her own language:
BCKNKH IN FLORIDA.
In front of St. Augustine, between
the Inlet and the ocean He tho Island
of Anastasla. The crossing of the In
let or river of Matanzas is by a ferry
boat that run every half hour. The
name Matanzas Is tho Spanish for
slaughter and commemorate the mas
sacre of tho Huguenots In 15(15. Ameri
can history does not record a more
pathetic tragody than the martyrdom
of these French Huguenot. In 15(15,
soon after the massacre at Fort Caro
lina on tho St, John's river, a French
fleet under Jean Hihault, who had re
turned to Franco for Huguenot rein
forcement for their new settlement at
Fort Carolina, wa sighted off tho
coast of Anastasla Island. A storm
wa prevailing, and ho wa compelled
to put to sea again. Tho fury of tho
storm, however, was not sent till the
whole fleet wa wrecli u at l ane Can
averal, farther dowtl tho coast. The
wrecked Huguenottyknew nothing of
the fate of their brelliren at Fort Caro
lina. Everything tluable was lost in
the disaster, and Wcy were in a starv
ing condition. W Jiilo they were mak
ing their plana foian overland journey,
the Spanish commander of St. Augus
tine, Menendez, aaving heard of their
o i .. t (! I.U iuit ahi r
ftv 1 hi i H ) s
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,it i lo i h iiit.f lo f in u.-r aM It
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r pty No," ('Ui ll !o itmilvt Willi
ultikitfxg !'! t T y 'tv !( Ittiiik' I l
over til lnil laoftln lo Hi l'"l A
pii,t plemMor tin l!vot I afholio,
fHwi-hi sailor iv i-i s .1 The
lvl were Umtnl, bliti I -loMed, I' ll '
hind I lo- sn. tl nnos, or Itilli k, thai
lino Hie iiwl n, alt put lo ttte oetl
The mt ilay n eme of anolbor
ilelnelinii'Kt of llugili-lioU, Slid IVlhl
Hitht found Ho1 ltere SimniaM hunt-
Ins their prev litlmiil waimliliiiwlf
Willi this ileln. 1,0m lit, and when he
saw the saltish army, he, with eight
gentlemen, erowMil over to nmwiro
U'l-ins. Ni'tollalloiis lusted ail dav,
and ItllMOit was led to believe that
life and Ihowi of his men wield he
spanil, Two hundred of the Hugue
nots preferred the wilderness to the
word of a Spaniard, and would not sur
render, hut one hundred and fifty,
among them Hllwtit, laid down tholr
arm and were ferried to Anastioda
Island. Then eaine the crucial que
lion, "Are you t ,tholles" Hllmnt by
this time knew his fate, and he said,
"All of u are of the l!i ft rniod faith.
W e are of eart h, and to earth we must
return: t wenty years more or less can
mat tor little.
He then recited a
Psalm, and at it conclusion said ho
was ready. All were then led behind
the sand' dunes, and In the name of
religion put to death. Such was and Is
Roman Catholicism. These Huguenot
lied from religious jiorsooutlon in their
own land to lliul the same intolerance
In the new world. It Is the same false
system in every age, in every clime
and with every race. It Is the symbol
ic Babylon, tho mother of Harlots.
Tho English colonies were largely
settled by Protestant refugees. New
England by nonconformists to the
creed of the English establishment.
Almost tho first Presbyterians were
prisoners of war who woro sold for
slaves on Boston common. Tho Presby
terian wore Intensely hated by tho
Stuart dynasty, and tho family im
ported from Hanover, which succeeded
Queen Anne, though more limited In
power by parliament and public opinion,
were no less hostile. Tho Presby
terian who had settled In Ulster, Ire
land, hoping for exemption from tho
jHirsecutions they endured in Scotland,
found that they had been deceived by
tho landlords, who woro supported by
the government, and a constant stream
flowed from Ulster to the American
shores, from the accession of Queen
Anno to the closo of the century, Bott
ling In every colony from Maino to tho
Gulf. The quakers found rest in Penn
sylvania and divided their heritage
with all who settled among them.
French Protestant found home in
South Carolina, New York and Massa
chusetts. Baptists in Hhodo Island.
Catholic found a home in Maryland.
Tho Protestant Episcopal church was
afterward established by law. German
Protestants settled in Pennsylvania
but overflowed into Maryland.
Among all the Protestant denomina
tions there wa ono bond of union the
Blblo. That wa their study In their
home and In their schools, Only ono
of all the denomination had tho suj)-
port of tho mother government, and
sinco the revolution, government sup
port ha been withdrawn.
It 1 now timo to compare results:
Tho result to bo expected of educa
tion are Intelligence, power and virtue.
How does Protestant America compare
with Latin America in intelligence?
Tho report of tho United State census
of lWi, gives tho number of adults who
can rend at R8 per cent, of the entire
number. This Includes Italians, Poles,
Hungarians and native! of other coun
tries of Southern Europe. The or-
eentnge of Italy. 1 40, in Russia, which
Include Poland, 11. If the foreign
born were deducted the percentage of
the United State would probably go
up to 80 to W. Statistics of education
In Latin America aro hard to obtain.
In 18M) only 1 per cent, of tho adult
population of Mexico could read. In
Venezuela In 1870, upward of IK) jior
cent, of the inhabitant could neither
read or write, although tho state re
ligion i Koman Catholic, and Protes
tants, though tolerated, are forbidden
to mako any external manifestations.
In Brazil 81 per cent, of tho inhabitants
are illiterate. Similar i tho condition
In all the Latin countries. In general
Intelligence they are properly in tho
list of uneducated even behind tho
Latin nation of Europe, while tho
free-born population of tho United
State is in advance of all other na
tion. A comparison between tho
nation of Europo shows that like cen
sus have produced like result there
also the Bible-reading pooplo of
EuruiKj arc far in advance of those who
obtain their education subject to tho
"church."
In power, also, the education given by
the schools of tho United States ex
cel all other. This itower 1 evident
in every profession and calling. It has
lMen exemplified at every World's fair
since 1857. The citizens of other na
tion are astonished at it. That power
had produced the telegraph, telephone,
ocean cable, electric light, electric
motor and electric street railways,
tho steamers which reduced tho time
across the Atlantic 70 per cent., tho
reaper, the mower, the self-binder, the
planter and oed sower, and numerous
other labor-saving machine by which
fMHI l H !,- -U ) -1,' '.t J M' I
With II" MWlug ... him !,)
li'i !' him lit (th W4S, g
II, IH (till- i 1 I I, m l II hn !:k hi, tiiil
linn l.i!.l ,t.! a, . font rSnlliii.) Il.ei h.tt
itl n ot Ihi oownum J'U' Mn'i !
I!i and MHiifoi tK'j than h laiitl'it
l I't-ir,,'- ' n iothiil t fiMi Vheeif
mtuslton It l WeMhj' It! profound
llionght II, at U the Intention lilt h
tiu fototiitlonlinit the wmiIiI almv
t'oliinitm dlwovetvd land on thl side
the ixi atl, ace (he prodiii I of pop!i'
whowi e.lmnUmi wa niH-onlroiled by
lhnti and In w !oe sehool tlo Bible
wn an open tstok. The jmai-r of lf-
control, lo divine method of govern
ment lo meet every emergeney, to
onset laws which Meet with general
approval, to adininUtor law without
ib sp ion or prejudice, lo submit to the
deeUiona of courts, to is-ar with the
upHi d or ti si linpoi ftM'tlon of laws
and errors of court until eorreejlon
or change are made In a lawful and
orderly manner. Tho wlslom of
ruler In all Its branches of tl-e govern
ment. The written laws, the orders
and message of executives and decree
and opinions of courts-all comprising
the life of a jieople of greater mental
power and force than has ever existed
In ancient or modern times.
That eiluc itlon which Is not produc
tive of virtue Is dangerous. Tho his
tory of Latin America since it was dis
covered Is the history of successive
crimes, and crime running In nu
merous parallet lines. Assasshiations
and revolutions have boon constant
attendants on papal supremacy, and
tho mother of Nero has never been
without a successor in tho church. Tho
steel blado or tho poisoned cup have
had their victims in almost every
fanlly. It should bo remembered that
Romanism in England and the United
State is a different article from Ro
manism in countries entirely subject to
papal dictation. So tho perverts who
were helped by Dr. Pusey of Oxford
university from tho Arglican to the
Roman creed found it, and tho ex
posure made by some of them had tho
effect of checking that reign.
The most severe consuro of Roman
morality comes from tho children of
tho church. A few years ago tho
pooplo of Brazil dincipirgcd their
emperor and royal family and estab
lished a republican form of government
In their stead. A perusal of tho re
publican constitution open tho secret
of the sudden change. Under this con
stitution there id a complete separa
tion of church and state. A citizen
who I in any way bound by religion
vows is inelllglblo to office. Monastic
institutions and similar order aro for
bidden. Absolute equality Is decreed
for all forms of religious worship.
Member of monastic orders, com
panies, congregation or communities
of whatsoever denomination, who aro
subject to vows of oliedlcnco, rule or
statute which implies surrender of in
dividual liberty, shall not bo registered
a elector for federal or state elections.
Section four of tho declaration of
rights, reads: "The republic recognizes
only civil matvlago, which must pre
cede tho rellglousceremony."
Section 5, Tho cemeteries shall lie
ecular,
Section 0. The instruction given In
public schools shall bo secular.
Section 7. No sect or church shall
receive official aid, nor bo dependent
on, or connected with, tho government
of the union or of tho states,
Section 8. The society of Jesuit I
excluded from tho country, and the
establishment of new convent or mon
astic orders is prohibited.
Goatemala make primary education
obligatory, free and secular.
Tho constitution of Mexico forbid
congress establishing or prohibiting
any special religion whatever. Mar
riage I a civil contract, and the es
tablishment of monasteries and re
ligious orders 1 not (Nirmitted, No
ecclesiastical body can acquire bonded
jirojHirty.
In every state and unction of Latin
America the people have discovered
that they have boon held in bond of
Ignorance by the church and while
they are unwilling to discard tho sup
IKised soul saving institution, many of
them have taken education out of tho
hands of a power which ha made their
jiooplo a world' example of ignorance,
superstition and Immorality,
This paper, though long enough,
should not bo closed without an inquiry
Into tho cause of tho blighting effects
of Romanism, It doe not require a
microscope to discover tho cause,
Romanism I tho boldest, most blas
phemous and most successful usurpa
tion of the authority, attribute and
office of the Lord Jesu Christ that
ha over been devised. Tho command
of tho church are substituted for God's
commandments, the mass dethrones
tho Redeemer, and tho king of saints
and ruler of the nations Is crushed out
of tho universe to mako room for tho
papal throne. If men aro no longer
responsible to God; if the mas Is a full
and complete sacrifice for tho sins of
tho living and tho dead; if there be
"work of Muperpurgation:" If tho
Church is tho depository of surplus
merit possessing attoning, redeeming
power; and if masse may lie multiplied
ad infinitum; if masse and surplus
merit aro in the hand of the priests,
why should an accepted son of the
! i huren f i I .,.! in in i ! i rotiM-and -
,!! It tine M Ihtv V!.tl,,
M HVi ot, r i e pi t. !.!, i i
..i, an. I 1 'fti'l" tklntttl Uio, and III
r!.- i. ,1 o oi-iis'oi tniiiiiotmU' j
. i am, nl, namvv, pi ln', h
i.(tn' sod Be, , and V'j
Iho mother it '!. Willi . It a
jii tn to t-! il. i Bed ii"i H
1 mcvi v to b'n n Ho M,!e, for lhal
lk ehe p tHial re)ii!iiiii!y
nt.il iiiml lvt.'ii ,l,n .
' It. tin), I, I maud at the door n
knnk: If any man In nr inv toUv and
opelt the ihsir, I will come Into him,
and will sup with hint and he with lie,"
Th whole tfuorof the testimony of
the witnesses of Jesu' death and res
nthi'llott U to the ante truth. On
several invasion during His ministry
Je.nn rrld, "t ome unto me." The
Invitation Is li revornble. I cannot but
not l,ii that In the lst IsMik of the New
Testament, from which I have quoted,
the Revelation given to that aged
disciple, John, the yountfer son of
Kchcdm', In his exile on the Isle of
Patmos, long after all the other apostles
had Ish'II called to their reward, that
there is not one won! of a j's', or a
successor to St. Peter, or a vloo-geivnt
of (iisl on earth. Although the lie
loved disciple, he w ho had leaned on
Jesus breast as If he was nearer and
dearer to Htm than all the rest, and
who was commissioned to write a re
velation of momentous future events,
was tho only survivor of tho twelve,
and entitled to whatever dignity be
longing to tho twelve or to the primate,
If there was one, the only title he re
ceived was that of "Servant." The
only office recognized is that of messen
ger. No wonder Rome ha burned all
the Bibles she could find. Tho blas
phemy of the claim to vlce-geroncy Is
most horrible In the substitution of the
mass for tho ono offering of tho Lamb
of God which taketh away sin. By ho
mumbling of a few words, accompanied
by regulated motions something is pro
duced, which, applied by tho operator,
Is equivalent to tho redeeming power
of tho crucified Messiah. God' plan
of redemption as revealed In Ills Word
from Eden to Calvary and from Calvary
to Patmos Is completely set aside, and
tho Son of God retired from His ever
lasting prio.ithoud us unlit for tho work
He had undertaken before the creation
of Adam. This is tho arch crime
which has filled the world with crimes,
and which, If the demand of anti
Christ' mlnnlons are conceded will
bring upon us and our children all tho
woes which havo made tho land sub
ject to Homo scenes of cruelty and
crime and misery from generation to
generation,
ROMAN CATHOLICS CELEBRATE.
What Their Bonner and Transpar
ency Had Written Upon Them.
Last night, Oct, 21, tho Roman Cath
olic of St, Joseph turned out cnmtisHC
in celebration of Columbus, and pre
sumably, to show us how strong they
were, for they had every man, woman
atid child they could muster,
They carried numerous transpar
encies and torches, but we thought at
tho tlmo that they should not have de
parted from their time-worn customs,
and Instead covered their course with
tlnrkwH. For in darkness were they
horn and In darkness have they lived
and thriven.
I simply wish lo notion a few of their
transparencies, Tho first ono that was
noticed was: "Wo aro Catholic and
wo aro Americans." The, first part I
true hut unless the simple living on
American soil and enjoying America's
freedom gives them tho right to stylo
themselves American, they aro not
American for they are not in sympathy
with American institutions, And
where they placo Catholicism before
American they do not Ho for ull things
they aubservo to their damnable creed.
Another ono stated that "Our Coun
try wa discovered by a Catholic."
This may Isi true If Columbus can havo
boon said to have discovered It If a
few small Islands constitute America,
Let us seo what they havo to brag
alsiut concerning tho land ho did dis
cover? Ho found a densly populated
groupe of Islands, a people of simple
habits, kind and generous and with all
contented. Ho carried to them "good
tiding of great Joy" tho Catholic re
ligion and today not a soul lives as a
result of his beneficence,
Another boast was that "Thorn Is no
stain upon tho character of Columbus"
which Is as foul alio as that which
Columbu told when ho stole from tho
poor sailor tho life pension promised
to the ono who first sighted land. Foul
as tho lie ho practiced upon his com
panions at sea when he doctored tho
log book to deceive them. Black us
the ono he perpetrated upon his king
and queen when ho pictured in glowing
town tho vast wealth, the ship loads
of gold that were being gathered to
help uphold a tottering kingdom. Ho
inhaled tho rich odor of tho spice of
Asia and his mind pictured the air
darkened by nlghtengale.
HI prevaricating propensities went
so far as to cause him to seo men with
tails.
His scheme of gold fading away into
thin air ho next turn hi mind to
greater meanness Slavery and this
alone cover his character so complete
ly that it hides it all.
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Imiia t!and.
Ti-wly, their" I a religion of IUrty,
B Hn.- the million of 'plt 'tJ,,
could testify at the stake, on the my
In the ditngmon, In the eonvent anv
ptaoos where the timid 'shopm-rd ?)
abide.. Religion I.lhorty! Veli.sU:
Faith, their faith, they had any
qimntity on hand, wpoclally on the
can va, hut enough of thl. It would
seem on hsiklng ihepcr that It was not
o much to celebrate Columbus Day
that they railed the streets, as to
show tholr npiNinent their numerical
strength a an Indication of what they
might accomplish In Novomlier and
afterwards. But if our sople do their
duty when It comes time to vote thl
country will go buck Into the hands of
tho Protestant and stay there until
God represent himself in this country
and does not need any help from any
old dotard In lsnlghted Italy.
Dan Fenton.
ST. Joe, Mo., Oct. 22-
It Sole Purpose.
Tho A'orfi and )'iM says: Uev. L.
H. Morey ha been In a position at
Stillwater to defend the Integrity of
our public school system. Ho was
called to open our Synod at Duluth,
and ho made a ringing address which
will interest our readers. We find
this paragraph convenient to uso at
onco:
"It Is tho solo purpose of the Fari
bault plan to Romanize the public
school, not to Americanize the parochial
school. For see, a papal encyclical
says: 'Public school open to all chil
dren for tho education of tho young
should 1x3 under tho control of tho Ro
man church and should not lie subject
to civil power, nor made to conform to
opinion of tho ago.' Last January
our genial Northwestern prelate was
summoned to Home to give personal
account of his Faribault plan. After a
while the papal 'lolerarl potest' was
wired back. Now does any ono imagine
that after tho papal announcement that
'public schools should not bo subject to
tins civil power, nor made to conform
to opinion of the age' Archbishop'
Ireland could have secured the papal
'tolorarl potest' If there had been tho
remotest thought In tho pope' mind
that , tho plan was an honest effort to
Americanize tho medieval school? No;
tho very mission of Archbishop Ireland
to Tlomn wa to convince his holiness
that tho Faribault plan was no such
thing as tho bishop's critics had rep
resented, but was an honest effort on
his part to take advantage of tho mag
nanimity of tho American people to
Romanize tho public school. If tho
distinguished prelate had had I ho
faintest thought of secularizing the
parish school and It could havo been
proved against him in the Roman
court ho would havo boon far more
likely to have come home stripped of
his bishopric than ho was to come with
his Latin 'tolerarl potest,' Strike
down Rome' hush power and tho Fari
bault plan would 1st Instantly rejected
In any community In tho country
where Catholic aro not actually in tho
majority, Thl hush power of Homo
Is simply appalling, and tho most ap
palling feature of His that the very
people who aro tho most humiliated
and galled hy It, aro afraid to hint
abovo a whisper tho existence of tho
potent nightmare that rest upon them.
You aro all awaro that tho schomo has
failed In Stillwater. When tho deep
undercurrent of opposition finally
broke forth it power was irroltlble,
and many of our liest Catholic cltlzon
themselves frankly admitted that tho
scheme Involved an unjust discrimina
tion in favor of tho Catholic church.
And yet almost incredible to believe
when tho board called for teachers'
applications, behold, five sister of
charity came also. I think it was that
sign of boldness, not to say effrontery,
that roused our board of education to
reject them, and to go a step further
and adopt a resolution against tho
leasing of any more church property
for school purpose by tho present .
board."
.
Literary Note.
A literary sensation will appear Oct.
21, simultaneously in London and Bos
ton, under tho title; "Recollection
a Spy," by Major Henri LeCnron, f
twenty-five years in the secret servli
of tho British Government, IiCaron
was for years prominent In Fenian and,
Clun-no-Gaoi circles in this country,
but was always a British Spy, His
dramatic appearance a-tTi) Parnell
trial will long bo rememoered. In hi
"Recollections" he makes some start
ling disclosures, It Is said. Tho Amer
ican Citizen Co., Boston, aro the Amer
ican publishers.
You should all remember that C. F.
Shaw & Co., 618 S. 16th St., ha al
ways on hand, Vegetable, in season;
also a lull line of Staple Grocerlas.
Do not forgot jus when down town. ,.
