THE AMERICAN.
THE AMERIQAN:W Till. KMHOATION
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TO THE READER.
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limn IWltstiit, Maine, tn l,i I Intnl.
Otviioii, mill from (iili-aitit on t In- north
to I Imrli lon. I. V., t-tittiti tin Mitim 1-B-liortw'ltll'tlt!
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"II l tin til inMrit( iltf I, I ml in tin
coiititrjri"
"Wt tit-oil tiiotv like II," mid
"Uml MHt'tl you In ytnir notili- work."
Afli-r you liim It-nil llili, ooty, hunt) It
to a rrli'tnl.
Let tln lii1ort't kpri'Hil.
to nil flu ml up for linil, tlio t '( I -tulliin
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AMERICAN l'UBLISIIlNO CO.,
414 Shi-oly IlliK'k.
OMAHA, N KM.
Uk It said to llio disgrace of Prosi
(lout Cleveland's administration, Rollln
M. Clark has boon appointed posl rTiiiH
ter of Kookuk, lowii,
IT Is now reported In this western
country that the secretary of 1 ho navy
is a Romanist. Can any of our friends
"down cant" throw any light on thin?
ONE year ago South Omaha wan
Rome-ridden ami tho people arose and
elected n complete Hot of now ollloors,
except troaauror, ami they piopoMO to
do tho Niiino thing thin yuur,
Wo noi-d five thoimand fuiullU-s to
make it their bimlnoKH to patronlzo
our advortlHora. IjkIIo, when buying
rrtmcmbor tho advortlHoinont you Haw
In The Ameuican. Try thorn; buy of
r'thmiv If yrrtt enn do as well M elMiwhnifi,
and lot thorn know why you patronlzo
them bcraiiHQ they patronize uh.
Tw "Lmlloi l'atrlotlo Club" have
engaged tho Ilev. DIlTonbiichor, Into
chaplain of tho Nebrnnka Honnu of
iUtproHentiitlveH, to give an entertain
ment at WuMhlngtoii Hull, April IOth.
It will eotiMlMt of a leeturo on WbhIi
Ington City and tiUtreoptleoii view of
tho principal government buildings
and many other prominent American
cenoH. 1 1 1m views of the National Gun
Shops and of tho Interior of tho White
IIouno being particularly Interesting.
Tickets 2f) cents, on sale at Max Meyer
& Uro.'s, tho Hell Department Store
and Dr, Huvllle's Drug Store on N 12 Int
street, and at the hall.
do rovn jnrrr.
If you want to know whether there
was need of an American order In
South Omaha one year ago look at this
record.
Six of tho eight councllinen were Ilo
mans. Nino of the eleven policemen were
Hotuans.
Five of tho six firemen were Papists.
Tho building InHpector.clly attorney,
city marshal l, treasurer, deputy treas
urer, clerk, street comtnlsHloner, police
judge, two tnemtiers of tho board of
education, garbage master, a majority
of tho school teachers and election and
registration lioards were Papists.
And,
After, tho murder of Charley Miller,
Protestants wore discharged from
office and Homanlsts put in their places
by the present Democratic nominee,
Jack Walters,
Americans should put none but
Americans on guard let not a Papist
be elected.
Cook Lectures.
IJov. Joseph Cook will lecture In tho
First Presbyterian church on Monday
evening, April 8. Subject, "No Hex,
No Shlrks,No Simpletons In Suffrage."
Those who heard Ilev. Cook's lectures
last season will remember him. Ho has
long lieon one of tho foremost speakers
on tho American rostrum, and ho is
greeted with crowded houses wher
ever he appears. Tickets 50 cents.
The Burlington's 4:45 P. M. Train for
Chicago
arrives in that city at ,1:25 a.m., car
ries magnificent sleeping, reclining
chair and dining cars, and is the Uncut
and most comfortublo train between
Omaha and tho World's Fair city.
I Tho Burlington's dally service to
Denver, Kansas City and St. Louis is
equally satisfactory.
Ticket Office, 1324 Farnam Si.
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"Ills als)t iHifittly plain that Ihe
innlt -."liinitl t liuMo tn Kt tiMl for pur
mto of dm lion tn liuinriiiiiH
Il Is also plain Ihnt the prit'Kis are by
eoiupttlmii-y ivlHutey, plitctil lit elivuiu
stances of the h!ghr! totnptntinn to
lino It for such iiii'sim's. No system
can Iki iiioiv ierfi-elly frninod to sivure
siit h an etui; and, Jet, until papal laws
are road, no ouo would easily Imagine
in how many wiiyn It Iihh K.n-n mi usetl,
To get light on this point, we turn to
ltlnhop Konrii'k's statomout of pupal
legislation, ily examining this legis
lation, we arrive at the following re
sults: The state of things in tho
toman Catholic church has rendered
It necessary to specify nineteen diflYr
ent ways in which advantage can bo
taken of the system of the confessional
as a moans of seduction, and to declare
that whoever uses it In any of those
ways Is to bo reported to the Inquisi
tion by tho female solicited. These
nineteen cases are sub-divided and
classified as follows:
"1. Solicitation during tho act of
confession, live cases.
"2. Solicitation before the act of
confession, t wo cases.
"It. Solicitation Immediately after
confession, three cases.
"4. SolIoltnMon'to which confession
furnishes an occasion, four euses.
"fi. Solicitation under tho pretext of
confession, t wo cases,
"0, Solicitation in tho confessional,
although no confession is tuiiile, one
case,
"7. Solicitation in any other place
Isisldes the confessional, if it is used
for purposes of confession, two cases.
"Now, who can even read over this
general statement of tho topics of these
laws and not receive new light us to
the extensive applicability of tho con
fessional for purposes of seduction?"
On page W ho says: "For an ex
ample, I will take the second specifica
tion of tho fourth general division, i. e.,
solicitation to which tho confession
furnishes an occasion. This is the case
of ono Qui, exfraytlitate in conftsnioM
cnynila, mmit iKcariowm, earn tentnndi
Who, from any frullty discovered in
confession, takes an occasion afterwards
to tempt tho femalo who has confessed."
"How clearly dooa this siieclflcatlon
bring the wide-spread working of that
iiernlclous system beforo tho mind!
Here, now, Is an unmarried priest sur
rounded by hundreds or thousands of
females' They have their frailties,
their impure thoughts, their tcmtitu
lions, It may be their lapses; but, with
out tho system of tho confessional, no
man could tell what they are. And, if
a licentious or tempted unmarried
priest wished to seduce any of his
ilock, ho would have no guide; and, Ig
norant and fearful, he mlghtbo repelled
from the attempt. Hut here tho con
fessional comes to his aid. It spreads
Is'foro him a perfect map of every fe
male heart In his whole Ilock, for they
aro to disclose to him their most secret
thoughts as to God; for In hearing con
fession, as Dens tells us, ho acts as God.
and not as man. And now he knows
the weaknesses, the temptations, the
frailties, and tho falls of everv one: be
studies their diameters; ho knows how
to approach them; and, wherever after
wards he may meet them, tho disclos
ures of the confessional are present to
his mind; and furnish him with innum
erable occasions to compass his end.
ur what use is it, now, to pass a law
thut he who avails himself of any of
these occasions to tempt a female shall
1st reported by that female to tho Inqui
sition? You may us well pour water on
an Inclined plane, and then by law for
um it to run down, nut this is only ono
out of nineteen siM'eKieatlon. Ix-t lis
look at another. Take tho fourth siiec
lflcatlon under tho sumo division, it is
tho ease of one Uui (tliiiucm nolicildt.
priimilttnt m ram vimjWuttm, tkincfpn
MPfi!iirm-"wno solicits a femalo to
sin, promising that ho will afterwards
receive her to make confession." What
power of temptation in tho system does
this simple statement disclose! It not
only elves to the priest light to choose
his victims, nut, lr any through fear of
tho penalties of sin refuse to comply
with his desires, it enables him to say,
You need not fear tho conquences; have
I not tho power to remit sins' Comply
with my request, and then I will hear
you confess and free you from all guilt.
After having furnished such means of
temptation and delusion, how vain the
hope that any law will check their use!
Tho trial in Spain to execute the laws
clearly proved that tho system pro
duced Its natural results and that tho
laws were of noavail. Kvontho attempt
to execute them was abandoned.
It is to protect tho wives and daugh
ters of Romanists against such lecher
ous priests as tiro specified by Ulsbop
Kenrlck of St. Louis, that Rev. J. O.
White has translated Dens Theology
into the English language. It was done
in the hope that such Roman Catholics
would read and heed, and not for the
purpose of unholy gain.
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by rltailtshto ipli as a man well
along In lil tlntsgo.
II, uttnU op hi" wet 'I with a bjii
erltlisl quntntlon In jimUfiealinn of h,
ftftor Itnpngtilng the tliotlvos of every
innuloi Is a tin-nil r of a ptitilolle
oiiler, by iliflarlng that he has done by
other as he would le ilmn by,
And now, In enncl union, lot us give
yon a few lines which we ellpsil from
tin- IUf of Mnii h . 1 !.!, taken from
U reNii'l of St. Pitti lek's day eelobra'
tion:
Rev, .Inliit Willliuns was citlloil fur,
and stepping to the front In salt! he
hiul a mlngloil thin of Shxoii ami ( elite
bloisl running through his views. He
was proud of the fact that he bad Ro
man Catholic lilood In him. From bis
mother ho had drawn that blissl and
he wished most vehemently to denounce
the attacks that he had seen made in
certain Protestant miners unon Catho'
lie inothorhiHHl. He was sorry that he
could not kneel at the same altar as
his Cat hoi ie bret hren Isiforo him, but
he wished them GislHsed just the same
His remarks were punctuated at the
end of every sentence by great applause.
And then bo has the effrontery to
say Tins A mkiucan called him a Jesuit.
And yet we omitted ono thing, and
that was wo failed to show you bow be
Fpread bis tall feathers and puffed him
self up as he looked Into the futuro and
behold our amazement and consterna
tion as wo started out to gather ourself
together after his cyclone struck us,
This Is how ho boasts'
Now wo hope our contemporary will
be reasonably well sutlslled that ft had
better not indulge its propensity for
asking Insolent questions, on subjects
which It does not understand. They
are oniy lorniKiame to me minus or tho
Ignorant and the prejudiced.
Rev. John Williams has so long booh
tho "literary bully" of this community
that ho has grown to believe that ho,
too, Is infallible, and that all that is ne
cessary to settle a question in dispute
Is for him to espouse ono side or tho
other, but this is not so In this In
stance. Whether tho community will
sustain him in this "sanguinary con
flict" Is something that worries us not
tho least, for wo have always noticed
"It Is tho wounded bird that flutters."
We shall await tho arrival of tho next
Issue of 776 McHHengrr with no small
amount of Impatience, well knowing Its
venerable editor will give us another
chanco at him.
The Great Arbitrator.
Rkv. Fhank Cranio, M. E. Church:
I have had the great pleasure to read
your sermon on Lincoln in The A mkiu
can. I thank you through. The Ameu
ican for il.
I was reading a history of Ireland
latoly,and tho writer In his zeal for tho
Irish, says, "Every Irishman is tho de
scendant of a king." If this lie so, may
not ever! American be the mn of a
king, including Abraham Lincoln?
Hero Is a little incident not beforo in
print. Doing in tho South In 1H02, and
hearing there was in a certain town a
man lieurlng tho name of ono of tho
olllclal family of Governor Oglethorpe,
when ho enmo over from the South of
EngLind to settle Georgia, Arriving
In tho town I found his family slave, a
woman of about fiO years of age; on my
inquiring for her master, sho asked my
name, and hearing It sho immediately
exclaimed, "Then you be related to Abe
Llneum," Sho then said she hud al
ways lived In her master's family, who
formerly lived near Chattanooga. I
did not seo her master, nor I did I then
think aught of her remark about her
master is-lng a direct relative of Abra
ham Lincoln.
Subsequently having read Abraham
Lincoln's life, and of his belonging to
tho "poor white tranh of the Smith,"
which seems to mo about us appropriate
for an American to say, as It would have
liconfora Pharisee to say of Christ,
"2'i he wan horn of the pirn white
traxh of Galilee."
If tho remark of this Intelligent fam
ily slave bo true, Lincoln's family, us to
America wholly Southern, judging
from tho page of history, was o'. tho
titled and honored; of the oldest, tho
most intellectual and courageous blood
of England. Nelson at Trafalgar said
of a representative of this family, "Cap
tain is tho only man In tho navy
who has more scars than I have." Ono
of those related to this ancient family
aided Greece with his volco to win her
later Independence. This family is
noted for teachers and preachers, work
ers and thinkers, hk'U and authors for
ages.
This may be said of Lincoln, ho had
tho characteristic traits of this family,
independent, self-reliant,htttlng wrong,
fearless in tho right, unmeroenary,
with lovo for all and hatred for none
a family of grand old Quaker-Druid
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eotiimi rtit at Chapter 111, i.tltt flil li
chapter an m!wmii- nt !. a!i K tit tt
Chapters XXI ami XXII inwti Hn
llMk tf I'l-int ll.
We H-e elivelosl tn l.lntvlii Ihe
glowing gonitis of our iiiiniinm Intell
ectual aiiootry, Ihe autlnss nf our
liti islure.ln cnntrnul to Ibal of heathen
Rome,
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I am yours truly,
A Kkadkk ok Tiik Amkhh an.
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Another Trumpet Blast,
Dkau Hko. ltt!oVNi:i.i,. In your l
sue No, 2, of Vol. VII., of February II,
I "!;!, In printing my address tlel I vered
In-fore the Grand Consistory of Call
fornia, an error oecum which does in
justice to a people and race to which
our fraternity largely owes Its origin
and ceremonies, and many are our
brethren who stand high in our noble
order.
In tho center column and nineteenth
line from the bottom the error rends In
the sentence: "And tho other, backed
by the ultra montane Knights of Multa,
the Jews, the Dominicans and tho in
qulsltion," etc.
For Jews read Jesuits, as it properly
reads In my address hero.
Of all the people in the world, tho
Hebrew race has tho greatest cause for
their utter detestation of the common
enemy of mankind, the head of which
is at Rome. Why, even in our own
nineteenth century, of which we boast
so much of its progress, civilization and
enlightenment of men, that terrible
curse has been as black as tho stnoko of
hell Itself, tinged with the lurid light
from the flumes below.
Scarcely has Louis XVI II, ascended
tho throne of France, following the
overthrow of Napoleon, when Plus VII.
hastened to write to tho new king to
congratulate him on his happy event
After this ho .persecuted the Italian
patriots who hud sided with tho French,
and they were sent to tho galleys, but
most to their death, Tho fanatical
priests also thought of having a festival
after tholr own fashion in honor of tho
return of tho pope. They preached a
crusado against tho republicans, dis
tributed holy daggers to murder tho
heretics, and In their furious fanaticism
designated tho Israelites to public ven
geance and demanded from tho pope
authority "to eat a roast Jew." Tho
Interference of tho embassadors of the
powers were necessary to prevent tho
cannibals from executing their horrible
plan. Tho Israelites saved their lives,
but not their fortunes. His holiness
confiscated their property, overloaded
them with Imports and shut them up
llko a herd of unclean animals In a sep
arate quarter culled "Ghetto,"
As lato as early in. tho year of 1820
tho Jesuits at Valencia, In Spain, cele
brated nn auto daft, and burned an un
fortunate Jew, with all thd pomp used
in the times of Ferdinand tho Catholic
and Philip the Fifth, under the terrlblo
Inquisitors, Torqiiemadaand Don Diego
Sarmlento do Holladeres, Loo XIL,
gratified with tho plenary indulgencles
of a special Jubilee those who had co
operated in or merely assisted at the
punishment of tho Israelite, and de
clared in his bull that the presence of a
Catholic at an kk'o da fe was equivalent
to a hundred stations in a hundred dif
ferent churches,
His Infernal successor, Gregory XVI,,
issued his execrable bull against the
Israelites as follows:
"All the Jews who reside at Aneona
and at Slnlgoglla shall no longer re
ceive Catholic nurses, nor engage
christians In their service under pen
alty of being punished conformably
with the pontilieial decrees. All tho
Israelltesshallsell within three months,
their movable and Immovable property,
If they do not wish It sold at auction.
None of them shall reside in a city
without tho authority of tho govern
ment; In case of contravention, they
shall Imj sent Into their respective
Ghettos. No Israelite shall sleep out
of his Ghetto, nor induce a christian to
sleep In that accursed Inclosure, nor
carry on friendly relations with the
fait hful, nor trade In sacred ornaments,
nor books of any kind, under a penalty
of a flno of a hundred crowns and of
seven years of imprisonment.
"Iho Israelites, In interrlni their
dead, shall not make use of any cere
mony, nor snail they use torches under
penalty of confiscation. Those who
shall violate our edicts shall Incur tho
penalties of the holy Inquisition.
"Iho present measure shall bo com
municated to tho Ghetto, to be pub
lished in tho synagogue.
"Hie chancellery of the holy inquisi
tion, June 24, 181,'J,
FHA V1CKNZO SAUfcA.
Inquisitor-General."
Napoleon the Great performed one
act for which his memory deserves the
gratitude of every lover of liberty
throughout the world. Ho nlMilishcd
the inquisition in France, Spain and
Italy and demanded of Pope Pius VI
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lbs! liml ba $iwn , ntin fnnlont to
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out Mtdatigt ring In safely, inbiaet
iiml a.loi tin att-l w opinion which
nulla hi private judgment. This dm
Irltie, thinnrh ami a . lug and at ndbln lit
api-onrauee, Is prttfmindly altsiittl; and
I cannot warn ymt loo murh agalnl
the Impiety of tlmo tnsiim-a.
"What shall I wiv moro!' The In
bjiiity nf Iho eni'inloa of tho Hnlv See
is ao tncreiised that, Katdes I hi deluge
of s-inleinus Ksiks with which they
Inundate Europe, it gm s so far as in
turn the religion of Hie Im'.y scriptures
to detriment. A stH'iety tHiinmonly
called the 'lliblo Sw-iely' spreads Itself
audaciously over tho w hole earth, and
In contempt of tho traditions of the
holy fathers, In opiaisition to the cell
bra ted decree of the Council of Trent,
which prohibits tho holy scriptures
from being made common, it publishes
translations of them in all the lan
guages of tho world. Several of our
Prodi-censors have made laws to turn
aside the scourge, and we, also.ln order
to acquit ourselves of our pastoral duty,
urge tho shepherds to remove their
Hooks carefully from these deadly pas-turao-es.
Let God arise; let Illm re
press, confound, annihilate this un
bridled license of speaking, writing and
publishing."
"Recollect that the holy spouse of
Christ is free by divine appointment,
and Is not submitted to any earthly
power. Pursue, then, Its enemies
without relaxation, with all the power
of your words, and raise against them
the Irresistible floods of tho wrath of
tho populace," were the words of his
immediate suceessor.Plus VIII, In 18.'10.
Hut enough for tho present. I only
started in to correct an error, ljut have
prolonged the line of original intention.
My next communication will bo u re
cital of facts of most thrilling Interest
und truth, which will arouse every true
Mason who reads it throughout the
globe; and If ho is not willing to also
place tho sword of defense where It can
bo used, if neccssury, in protecting tho
trowel, ho Is unfit to bo enrolled among
tho workmen of tho craft.
Wo have no use, at tho present time,
for Quaker Masons, and no Quakor has
ever yet been admitted to work on tho
temple,evon though ho wears his broad
brim. "Justice Is a divine attribute,"
is active and not negative or passlvo in
Freemasonry. King Solomon cleared
his kingdom of those who were quietly
Intriguing to get rid of him, even nmk
ingnn unconscious tool of his mother,
when his elder brother tried to get her
to Intercede for him to have Solomon
give to Adonljuh tho concubine of his
father, David. Hut ho caused the
traitors to be put to death, even his
own brother, before a slnglo atono of
tho foundation of his temple was laid,
and then he had a clear field for his
stupendous work; and beforo It was
completed Justice was most summarily
executed In conformity with his decree,
and which will bo recited as long as
Freemasonry endures, Fraternally
yours, r.DWIN A. SlIEKMAN,
Oakland, Cal., Feb. Ill, 1803
The Pope and Freemasonry.
I begin to fear that some of my breth
ren aro working themselves up to a
ludicrous pitch of excitement over tho
anti-Masonic encyclical of tho head of
the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIII.
Now, It should not be forgotten by
these ardent ones that "His Holiness"
does not have American Freemasonry
In his mind when he suitors tho agony
his denunciations seem to suggest, It
Is the specter of the Italian forms and
habits with which ho Is acquainted, for
ho was admit ted a Mason In hlsyoiinger
days, that arises before him, tramples
upon his tlarra, fills his soul with bit
terness and allows such "apostolic"
venom to How off his caustic pen. He
knows what he Is denouncing; most of
our American brethren do not, and un
wisely conclude that ho means them
also. ,
That opposition to tho restoration of
temporal power to tho Popo forms a
part of the "unauthorized" discussions
in ovcry purely Italian lodge may be
accepted without controversy, I say
"unauthorized" because Italian Masonic
law forbids such discussions, neverthe
less tho masters not only wink lit these
breaches of law and decorum, but usu
ally participate In the wrangllngs, All
Italian Masons arc opposed to tho re
storation of the temporal power, but
they are not agreed as to tho best
methods of maintaining tho kingdom
of United Italy; and it Is tho discus
sion of tho "methods" which usually
arise during lodge communications.
That tho Masonry practiced In Italy
condemns In the most forcible manner,
and without secrecy or reserve, tho ig-
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The Mamniiy t.f Italy wsgea no war
aiint any tvllgittt alnee U tvtvjiea
Into It fnlil the gmil ami Ihe Inn of
every nation ami ivllgon, bnl It dia a
wsgi a fit-ree ami unnletiting war
ayaihut all tipprtmrs of tin i oiU :
all lyraiitiUi-r nvt-r men's mliitl and
ihii.i ii n,-i-; nil doiH'lvers nf Ihe Inno
c ut and tin credulous. Italian Ma-nn
know am) understand the Vatican, and
lln-y have drawn their sword against it
and nnileil their flag of defiance to their
liplirteil flagstaff. It Is Hot I,eo they
would tlethrotie, but his degrading sl
ley. It Is not the vciieruble Chuix-h of
Rome that they would destroy, but its
Hiwer to oppress and degrade. Tho
Pom bus no fears for his js-rsoti, but Is
shaken with terrors over these con
spiracies against his ecclesiastic gov
ernment which ho cannot destroy. Lot
Iao surrender tho things of the world
to tho people of tho world and there
will never again bo cause for such an
uniipoHtollc letter as that which has
made him ridiculous In tho eyes of all
free men today.
There Is a most remarkable move
ment going on in tho Vatican at this
time, and the apparent mission of that
able diplomnt.Mgr. Sutolli (pronounced
Sutholee), suggests that Loo lias a pol
icy special for these United Slates, but
applicable to no other country. Tho
poisonous fangs of the parochial school
agitation are concealed for the moment;
tho stupid order of bishops and priests,
Issued to foreigners that they neither
acquire the language nor imblbo tho
spirit of our institutions, havo been re
scinded, and the American people aro
almost believing that the claws of the
Italian anti-American tiger havo been
extracted and only the softest of fur
now remains. I pray God that such
may bo the fuct.
Romo will long rule her timorous
children by the terrors of cx-communl-cation
and priestly powers of life and
death eternal. They will long con
tinue to teach fables, and in ignorant
European communities U practice Jugg
lery; aye, they will, for a long tlmo to
come, jugglo with human souls In free
America, and tell of visions, dreams,
miracles, etc. Unllko tho varieties of
tho Protestant sects, Homo works In se
cret and withdraws from tho light of
books and general uncircumscrlbod by
their dogmas cducutlon. Homo tol
erates no secret organizations outside
of Its myriad secret orders It will bo
as secret as It pleases, In its own way,
but all other secrets which Its com
municants cannot Impart nt the confes
sional are denounced as wicked, and
deserving of all Catholic condemna
tion. The reason is exceedingly plain,
Hut It 111 becomes Freemasons to
enter Into a discussion of liberty with
mere ribaldry of speech and argument.
Wo aro free because God bus made us
free. Wo must enlighten those who,
through terror of things that do not
exist, give their hands to tho gyve
and their feet to tho fetters. Tho his
tory of the pupal power is written in
blood at various epochs, so is tho his
tory of the Church of England, and our
own Puritan sanctimoniousness Is not
entirely without stains of oppression
and cruelty. It Is fashionable nowadays
to denounce men who boldly think for
themselves, and demugogy seizes upon
such opportunities to Inflate itself,
While we search after tho truth, let us
bo fair as well as candid, such Is Free
masonry, Deny not to Romo credit for trio enor
mous amount of good It has done by its
missionaries; Its devoted uniformed
Sisters of Mercy and Charity; its great
hospitals; its schools of learning and
art, We havo painters and sculptors
because Rome authoritatively swept
away tho dreariness of Hebrew hatred
of Images, Aye, condemn what Is bad,
but cordially approve whut Is good,
Pardon tho length of this letter. I
havo visited Italian lodges, I have
visited the grand master, Chevalier
Lemml, In his own palace at Romo, I
have talked freely with Italian Masons,
and I speak knowingly, understand
Ingly. I say emphatically that Leo tho
XIII has cause for denouncing Italian
Freemasons, but I fully sympathize
with tho work of tho Italian Free
masons, and pray God that they may
continue on In their noblo efforts to set
the souls of Italy free and break into
atoms the chulns the Vatican has had
rlvltted upon their thoughts and aspir
ations during many centuries. G. C.
Connor in AMERICAN Tvt.Elt.
Attention, Orangemen!
Owing to the Degree of Honor falling
to vacate hall. on Tuesday night of next
week American lodge No. 2'.'1, L. O. I.,
will meet as usual on TllfJKHDAY until
further notice.
M. L. ZtxiK, Sec'y.