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THE AMERICAN, THE SOCIETY OF JISUS. ill Hlttery Trlj and Craphleally Pewajul. mMlto twat It VVt Writt, nrf tuut nCorp Ht tvvry Amerti i RHouM Wd, T hrotltele K hltit y 4 Jesuits would require mot lime than the ordinary H-ri' sic-old deslrv to donate, or lheavcrg otto tun ad: therrfore, to Illustrate tha apptvlstthm received t order from tattoos nationa, In tximpnet form, th MliiwIiiK compila Hon l tvsorltil ti for the general en lightenment: After a poreon Iim delved Into thn history of Jesuitism ami collected tin true versions of the working ml chain like formation which they weld link by link to train power over the state, It cause dark shadow to overspread tho ml ml of the reader Riiil tint vision of a so-tin mod free country, America, to lcomo shadowed. F.very tuition which Iim existed linn felt the curse of the various organiza tions, of which the Jesuit lira one. whloh llketho spoke ofawhccl branch oit from the hol tho (atpa! jaiwer nt the Vatican. The American people are now Mug surrounded by cord which In drawing lttt circle closer every day. They havo submitted to the locating of a Roman prelate In thw capital of their free country, who is second In power to the pope and a foreigner by birth and In language. Kven Franco, with it ma jority of Catholic population, In atrenu ouHly fighting a similar inHiilt to her country; tho admission of an Italian prolate. But to return to the Jesuits. For fear that thu history' meaning might bo misconstrued by a rewriting from word uod by the author, the exact quotation! will bo used. If tho later form of Jeiulti are a con tlnuatlon of the Company of Jtmii, they differ much in formation of principles. At one writer describe; "On doner examination tho Jesuit body proves to resemble those of other religious socio ties only in external and oparnhlo ac cidents, differing from thorn ami from all others in its essential character, and that not in degree merely, but in kind also, so as to bo an institution ab solutely unique in history." It Is needless to follow tho Jesuits through their varied curoer to ascer tain the true standing and their cal culation final as regards the paternal bred fooling of the church with which they were closely allied tho greed for power both in church and state. France has never sanctioned them, although she was their cradlo. In a history of Franco tho words ex plain well tho sentiments of tho people of the time: "At the close of tho seven years' war the Society of Jesus was on trial throughout Eurojm. The order had changed its ground; It had long ruled in king's courts, and wits paying the price of tho means by which It had gained ascendency therein, It had be come both rich and troublesome to society. And the general tendencies of the times were against It, above all, It incurred tho deadly hostility of those enlightened ministers who, In almost every court in Kuropo, were directing the new-born energies of states, Such men as Pombal in Portu gal, or Cholseul In France, could not but resist the Jesuit influence which clashed with their own, whether these regarded the interests of couits in fluenood largely by Madame do Pom padour, took their affairs, which had become secular enough, Into its con sideration, and decreed that the order should be abolished. Lous XV,, after some hesitation, confirmed their deci sion in 1764, and tho order wot expelled from France." It is well to pass to Ireland for a ver sion during the time of King Henry VIII, "But perhaps tho most severe condemnation Is that of the report to Henry VIII,, in 1615. There is,' says tho document, no archbishop, nt bishop, abbot, nt prior, parson, ne vicar, n$ any other person of the church, high or low, great or small, English or Irish, that used to preach the Word of Ood, save the poor .friar beggars the church of this land ued not to learn any other science but the law of cannon, for eovetiM of lucre trantUUvy.' But tho friars, though pretty generally turned out of doors, were themselves beyond Henry's power, and continued to preach everywhere among the peo ple. Their devotion and energy may be freely admitted; but the mendicant orders, especially the Carmelites, wore not uniformly distinguished for mor ality.'" Without regard to the placement of references, specified by tho year of their happening, or the completed form of the Jesuits with Ioigo de Loyola as their first general, but glancing from place to place, and time to time for want of leisure to formate properly, it might be well to view a decision of the Italian government: ''Garibaldi, who was guarding tho frontier of the Abruzzl, returned and defended the Neapolitans at Palestine on the Uth of May, 1849. , Still his as- ,iihv iii.t . t ami tin I n it. h alt. , ! July i r (; it to.tr . thetltr pltl )t.d Malti t,fillll rl jt (Hi li r The IVwh tci mtiml si d leM ll. f" tS )! mt until Aitl, lt tr, llist IMms IX, tMmI M ttit Vh b srttl In his t4i, M U- t tj lh h. il.mst) r ltn, irUtl by bUI'ivm h (nln snd Jitt't lttt hoe! rt.M wllh IhPWfttil torclbte intiy if the Italians 1 150," In K'l th iivhnlMtlcl reforms is .nt plil.nl by Itatla'rl's bill for ititli'Utig cistriilims ! placing chim b pti'x tty iimler slate iitilnl, T' luii'llv of them tiirMtireft 1 icniinitrtHl by the fact llmt the little kincilom of HrttilmU wiuntil fiM-tyme Mliop, HIT csnoiiiles, alsnil l,txil Nroiis vowi-d ! mofiastlo life, ami one ttoi leslsKtlc to every SI I Inhatii tanU," No matter what throne they ill nlsved h decoy, whereby they at tained a fiNitbolil In a country, their Inticrmoot workings would become ap' parent Hfter thvlr ninuU'rs had grown to sufficient strength to allow an asser tion, "The celebrated Jesuit mis. binaries, who went long tho only authorities on China, first reached Can ton In b"7ll, though christian teachers had penetrated Into the country several centuries tioforo, even, It Is said, us early as IWfi, A. D., and churches were built and converts made In 1274, as sup jiortod by Marco Polo. Tho Jesuits, from their sujiorlor knowledge, soon made themselves a powerful body in Mie state, and their Influence was great till about 17(H, after which, owing at first apparently to conflicts regarding tho limits) of tho pope's jurisdiction over Chinese, they lost favor, and eventually were subjected to positive persecution. They have never regained their former authority. Tho later in tercourse of Kut-o)eans with China has Introduced some of the forms of western progress, and opened tho cmplro to commerce," Tho relation between the popes and the Jesuits was not what might bo termed issaceablo at all times. Homo rulers of the church used many means to crush the order, while others gave their assistance. Gathering the ideas expressed by many writers on tho sul- ject, the conclusion can tie readily ar rived at, that, whore tho poje deprcsned it was with the fear that the order would gain a supremacy over tho church. By gradually working through the years, it at last became subject to and an arm of tho pope, "Francis Xavier, was one of tho greatest and most Eoahlus missionaries of his or any other era, Encouraged by the Joint oo-oporatlons of tho pope and of John III. of Portugal, and strongly tinged like Loyola with Ideas of chivalry and self-devotion, ho disembarked at Goa on tho flth of May, 1542, and before his death on tho Isla of Kt. John (Hlang- Bhang), December 2, 1552, he bad roused the F.uroieun christians of Goa to a now life, luhoring with singular success amongst tho Parvars, a fisher casto near Capo Comorin, gathered many converts In the kingdom of Fra vancore, visited the island of Malacca, mudo his way to and founded a mission in Japan, thence revisited Goa, and im pelled by the quenchless desire to un furl the banner of tho cross InCtiina, had set out thither to fall a victim to malignant fever at the early age of forty-six, within sight of that vast em pire whoso conversion hod boon the object of his holy ambition." "Other representatives pf tho samo order worked with success in evangel- llng the Spanish settlement of Para guay in 15A2, while their defeated foes the Huguenots sent forth under a French knight of Malta a body of do voted men to attempt the formation of a christian colony at Itlo Janeiro, By the close of tho Sixteenth century tho urtfftgglng zeal of tho Jesuits led a more complete development and organiza tion of tho missionary system of tho Itomao church. To give unity and solidity to tho work of missions, a com mittee of cardinals was appointed under the name of tho CongrfgutUm le I'rnpaganda I'iiU,n and to it was en trusted the entire management of the mission, conducted under the superin tendence of the pope. Tho scheme originated with Gregory XIII., but was not fully organized till forty years afterwards, when Gregory XV. gave It plenary authority by a bull dated June 2, 1622. Gregory's successor, Urban VIII., supplemented the establishment of the congregation by founding in con nection with it a great missionary col lege, where Europeans might bo trained for foreign labors, and natives might be educated to undertake mission work wherever new colonies were settled. At this college is the missionary print ing press of the Roman church, and its library contains an unrivalled collec tion of literary treasures varying on the particular work." So much for an unbiased account of their work. As It reads, if further re search were not within reach we could but surmise them to be sinless, and for tho solo benefit of God's power. How ever, history proves to us they amassed vast fortunes and lands, that they were direct emissaries of the Roman church first and last, although the cloak of im prisonment and suppression was at times imposed upon them.' This, as was mentioned, merged from the fact tt.st t)i )o nun I ctnn Hint suit hn ni Mnwy tn'tl. Th prvtMis quols tlo tnt sivt lux, U .fl lin t. iltHiviiiiM il rt'wMn! U itillit t tbt tn h Into thi'lr rl an.l Hum bun, suit i bst t tt nt, anl Wisthoin tin Ir etl.Htti'n c itrmbsl A Us It twil M y, that Hoirloiin t mtotiti, rimI th ttltmphl l tl, mm, retail limit! a Ihry gfi- Into years vst rU!-s to thn order, '111 I'lHUsUltl st'honU IM now ths bt In Knrns, and the ttinklh Institutions were li ft to decay Catho lics Would have muslm-d Isthind In the raiHt If It lis. I not Isx n for tin' Jes uits. Ignntlus lyolrt gave this direc tion ! the order which be founded, and the programme of studies, which dates from the end of the Sixteenth century, Is In ti-e, with certain modifications, In Kngllsh Jesuit schools at the pnsent tiny. In I.V) the first Jesuit school was oihh In to rmunv! in l"i0 the order jxnMiciwetl til 2 colleges, l.'ii Noriloil si'hisils, 5" novlclaU s, 310 resiliences, 2txt missions, Iweiity-nlim professed homes, and twenty-four universities The college of Clermont hud aiXNIstu dents In KIU5. Every Jesuit college wss divided Into two pnrts, one for the higher, the other for the lower educa tionthe sfudt'a tuptrliirn, and tho Httulitt infvrir. Tho sfiIi inferiora, answering to the miMlerii gymnasium, was divided Into five classes. The first three were classes of grammar (rudi ments), grammar (accidence), and syn tax, the last two humanity and rhetoric The motto of the school was Uyf, tcribe, failure, you must learn not only to read and write a dead language, but to talk. Purism was even more exag gorated than by Strum. No word might be used which did not rest upon a special authority, The composition of Latin verses was strongly encour aged, and tho performance of Latin plays. Greek was studied to some ex tent; mathematics, geography, music and the mother tongues were neglected, The ntudia mperiora began with a phil osophical course of two or three years. In the first year logic was taught, in tho second tho books of ArUlotk de Conln, tho first book of (U yeneratione, and the Meknrofayira. In the third year the book dc generationf., the books de atdrna and the MrtaphuHka. After tho completion of tho philosophical course tho pupil studied theology for four years. The Jesuits used to the full tho enirlne of emulation. Their classes were divided into two parts, Human and Carthaginians; swords, shields, and lances hung on the walls, and worn carried off In triumph as either party claimed tho victory by a fortunate answer," ' " ' ; "Whatever may have been the service of Jesuits in the past times, we have little hopo for them in tho improve ment of education at present. Govern ment have, on the whole, actwl wisely by checking and suppressing their col- eges. In 1831 it whs brought moro in to accordance with modern idea ,by Koothaan, the general of tho order. Beck and his successor has, if any thing, pursued a policy of retrogres sion, Tho Italian government, in tak- ng possession of Home, found that the pupils of tho VolU'jio Jimnant) were far below the level of modern requirements. It may ho imagined that, by this organ ization both Catholics and Protestant were aji' to degenerate into pedantry, both in namo and purpose, Tho school master had a great deal the best of it. Tho Latin school was tubulated and organized until every half hour of a boys tlmo was occupied; tho Jesuit school took possession of the pupil body and soul. It was, therefore, to bo ex pected that a stand should be modo for common sense In tho direction of prac tice rather than thcorlc, of wisdom In stead of learning," 'To tho Jesuits, tho foremost cham pions of this struggle, it scorned Indis pensable that the confessional should bo made attractive; fr this purpose ecclesiastical moral law must be some how "accomodated" to worldly needs; and tho theory of "Proballsm" sup plied a pi ausable method for affecting thl accomodation, Tho thoory pro ceeded thus: A layman could not tie expected to examine minutely into a point on which tho learned differed; therefore, ho could not fairly tie blamed for following any opinion that rested on the authority of even a single doo- tor; therefore his confessor must bo authorized to hold him guiltless if any such "probable" opinion could bo pro duced in bis favor; nay, It was his duty to suggest such an opinion, even though opposed to his own, if it would relieve the consciences under bis charge from a depressing burden. The insult to which this Prohablllsm applied was an earnest desire to avoid dangerous vigor, led in the Seventeenth century were revealed to the world in the im mortal iMtret Provincial of I'tueul." ! "The bull instituting the order of the Jesuits" (by Paul III., 1540) "makes the commencement of the Roman counter-reformation; two years after ward tho Roman inquisition was estab lished, Contarinl died with strong sus picions of poison, Ochlnl was hunted from Italy and a persecution broke out which soon exterminated Protestantism inside the Alps." America, today, is beset with too many teachers of the class enumerated. They even try to d -aw from the public monies large amount for sustlnence, and destroy the legal seat of learning. 1 tn- M tlw kllll t t- ilisw if )oln tae)lwst( sirntlrtf to ll.nl hth has Im h ! r-tlrn t.i itisny iin'Mf The t whit h H r.iv.'lilt-S tt( tttrt IttHliStt l H. ,.)! thtovh tasking I rung ml c n Pjfhl ti falsi ipi-ri-drhe' nf Aim ilea. Tltt Mluwbtf fttiwet frtHM thti M'irn II n'A.!n, niblUht 4 t HI lniK M , by Pries! Pbi-Un, ! mert ly sample of !h omrrtluns w hich en I Ing fiiiitaNlly rltu n and pub- llhiil In their JoiiinsU: "Thu Pru slsns havs the Jesuits out hnd they are going to keep them out Ho they any It Is iMt-dlesN to n-msik thn! we are Ith the Jesuits In their Ugh!. If any man I hep! out of Germany or any other country Isn-auw he Is a Catholic we ant wilting to organUe an army of Invasion. The only plaint thai a Cat tur tle ran ho rightly kept out lseausnof bis religion Is hell; and If any fool Catholic wants to get In there, he must do It without our asNlstancn." It Is pIcNNiirahte to know that, the majority of tho soplo are credited with more prmlcnco than tint sage dis ciple of Rome, who bases so much In his puny Judgment. Ho may bo a man of much education and in his daily life kind and gentle, or he may be tho re verse, for ought is known; nevertheless, he Is overridden by the garb of priest hood." From the Vnlholk JirmUl, published in New York, these line are taken: "Tho most Rev, Lulgl Galll, prior- general of tho Calccd Carmelites, has just )ecn appointed to the important (Misltlon of Concultor of tho Congrega tion of rites, by his holiness, Leo XIII." These extracts prove, what some have claimed to the reverse, that the orders are but a branch of the church. Every means is being incorporated whereby strength can bo gained over tho country in which tho church is situated. Tho greatest cry now comes from the educational source, which they, as a branch, would blend into their teaching. The time Is almost at our doorstep for tho grt-at reformation of America; let it Is won by a pure ballot and an upholdonce of the principles of the various reform associations, in strict accordance with their principle. If ono of tho number becomes corrupt In office, draw him from tho duty and place another man in his stead. There are men, too numerous, to mention, who would fill any offlco with credit to them selves and their country, but when the power of tho Roman church has worked the mind the question remains open, Let the mind of every American be drawn to the great problem, and as a loom, weavo in his imagination the figures on tho sheet of future events. In HM tho American party will bo tho American law. TUHRY H. HINDU!, KAXHAHCITY, Mo,, March 28, 1803, There I No Death, Tli i' r in no death! ths stars k down To rise iiixm wuim oltiur shore, And hrlKhl In llsvri's Jnwulert crown They nhhici for evermore. There Is no death! ths forest leave Ciiivi-rt to llf'i thn viewless sir; Tim rock fllori(iirilzi to feed Ths huriKry moss they hciir. Thiirs I no death I ths dust we tread Shall change, beneath the summer showers, To Kol'len (train, or mellow fruit, Or rainbow-tinted (lowers. There Is ne death! ths leaves may fall, Thn (lower may fade and pans away The only wait, throoKh wintry hours, Thn warm, nwnet hreath of May. Tin-re Is no death! thn choicent gifts That Heaven hath kindly lent to earth Are ever flrnt to seek sxaln The country of their hb-th, And all thinks that for groWtn or Joy Are worthy of our lovs or car, Whose loss ha left us dwolte, Are Ha fey garnered there, Though life heme a dreary waste, We know Its falrent, sweetenl flowers, Transplanted Into Paradise, Adorn Immortal bowers. Thn voice of hlrdllks melody That w have minted and mourned so long Now mingles with ths angel choir In sverlastlng song, Tle-rn I no death! although w grlev When heaullful. familiar forms That ws have learned to love ars torn From our embracing arm, Although with bowed and breaking heart, , With sable garb and silent tread, We hear ths aenselen dust to rest, And ssy they ars not "dead." They am not dead ! they hsvs but passed Beyond ths mists that blind us her Into thn new and larger life Of that sernner sphere. They have but dropped their robe of clsy To put their shining raiment on) They hav not wandered far away They are net "lost" nor "gone," Though disenthralled and glorified, They ntlll am hers and lov us yet) Ths dear ones they hav left behind They never ran forget. And sometime, when our hearts grow faint Amid temptation flerc and deep, Or when thn wildly raging wave Of grief or passion weep, Wn feel apon our fevered brow Their gentle touch, their breath of halm, Their arms enfold us, and our heart Orow comforted and calm. And ever near us, though unmxm. Thn dear, Immortal spirit tread For all thn boundlea universe I life there is no dead! J. h. MoC'qBT. The Cabinet Reliable Gasoline Stove Is Warranted for Three Years, It 1 the Most Perfect gasoline stove made. W. F. 8TOETZKL, 714 H. Jflth, 1 agent for the west. Well assorted solid gold, filled and silver watches at John Rudd'h 305 North 16th St Psl d tM fc V tiw Hi trt.il, f , faiik ill. I H An4 rH Slrl M tfl l ..lle K K , toe tlh hi A r'HMi.ir h bmml hM At Kth he f,liMt at ! !. Ae kiH Ir al.net tn.. hi fie. He St. I kHt hr4 Imt.l M h-tcM tiill, Till r , h,, hl will' tlie r H-HlH frwm t-trth I rsme, t'w I'lit rtwemita aattie, Hut la Hit rsitr, r . Iere4 ri..f alia e.e I (ultra Vksr, 'if it.se, Nut ahftt tSi e htfv-tb-c rterm tt -tl, 1 1 all aywlf Altulgtili II. l guoitt Ivti-r HVia at all ..,ir r..-, "Thai gals hath ae'ev itniltled hot-, "And hl I y I far iranser Mill, "ttnhatla.it sow ami nmrr mil "Well, well, aald .lu,"lf thsl l. "On t liloj of you I fain wntrlil know, "I'raydld hlng William hither nmie. "iin l Trim's otorange amt foe to Kotnst "Who with hl Orsntemea did Jain, "Ami bw my pspUl t the lloyni't" "Vea. William he's within IliU ilace." Said IVler, "wiiulil ptiimi hi tufi'V "I Hi! no." said Plu. "If William's here, My my rhttrrh In Horns I truly swear I would hell prefer ami satan'sclan. To heaven ami with Vile Orangemsn," So IVlemliul the gain and left Pope I'lua of every hope In-reft. And what Is now the truth to lell, lie miught the gloomy gate of hell, And knocking them a friar came, Who liilil him to send In his name. He aalil "Tell l.ui-lfer the pope Places In him hi II nil I hope) Since Heaven nhiit, I corns lodwell And share my part with him In hell." The devil came half dead with fear, A ml cries "No pope can enter here, Kor when on earth you eat yourUod, Feeding upon tils IIcnIi and blood, I won't admit you .in my peril, Lent, when In hell you'd eat the devil, i. n. c. I'Koiiu, HI., March 111, H).'I. Irony. The Irish race, though proud and sensitive, has ever been distinguished for it modesty. Toe latest manifesta tion of this virtue occurred in Chicago last month, where the city council de clared Ht. Patrick's day a legal holiday, ordered the city hall to be closed, that all public business be suspended, and that tho mayor join the council In re viewing tho procession of Hlbernla'g chivalry in their cocked bats and green sashes. The mayor, recognizing that while in this republic all other men arc equal, the Irish, by reanon of superior Intellect and moral worth, form privileged class, an order of nobility, gave his signature to tho council's ukase and duly stood bare-headed on St. Patrick's day while the cart-horses and their splendid rider filed through the honored thoroughfares of tho idle city. In all Chicago, of course, there was no Irish voice raised against this tribute to Irish desert. Hut what must have been tho indignation of the race there when at the next meeting of the council an impudent German member arose and offered a resolution providing that March 22d, the birthday of Km poror William, also bo made a legal holiday, with suspension of public business, review of the procession, and the rest of it actually, In fact, that no mark of esteem given the Irish saint be withheld from the titular head of Ger many! Of course it was apparent to tho dullest Intelligence that a foul in sult to tho Irish was intended, but as tho German vote is heavy In Chicago, tho council adopted tho resolution, an act of cowardice and base truckling to foreign interlopers for tho sake of their ballots, which tho outraged exils from Krln will remember on election day. Tho mayor, it would appear, became conscious that ho was tho chief magis trate of an American city, possessing an American a well a an alien vote, for though, to bo consistent, ha signed tbo order, he practically nullified it by suspending "all except routine busl ness at the city hall" where none but routine business I transacted, In his letter of approval to the conns!!, the mayor, still with his eye on the Ameri can vote, had tho effrontery to say: "I desire hero to commend tho spirit which dictated the setting opart of this day and the setting apart of March 17 by tho city council as American holi day, and I trust that the council, in its wisdom, having recognized tho cosmopolitan character of our pooula tlon by granting holidays to the differ ent national Hie whoso blood here commingle In the production of the American citizen, will not deprive the city employee of other nationalities of opportunity to properly commemor ate the birth of all dead saints and heroes, a well a the birth of all reign ing monarch. If the catalogue of dead and living saints and monarch bo not sufficient to exhaust th secular day of tho year, I would suggewt that tho council, for a change, appropriate the few remaining days by closing the city hall In order that we may commemor ate the birth of some American hero." Insult of thl character may tie offered Irishmen in Chicago, but it is different In New York, the metropolis of the American republic, There, thank God, the divine rightof tho Irish to rule 1 seldom disputed. Did not Mayor A. Oakey Hall, of sainted mem ory, stand on the step of the city hall, in a green claw-hammer coat, a green necktie, and with a shamrock in his button-hole, to review the Patrick's day pageant? And wa not Mayor Hewitt magnificently snowed under at the polls when he came up for re election after having the brutal bigotry to refuse to hoist the Irish flag over the city hall on tho ever-glorious seven teenth of March? It wo in tho same enlightened city, only four years ago, that an Englishman, so lost to all sense of decency as to hang the British flag fnwtt M wIl.Ikw en tl-r ISnttth of July, n ilrat'i't'd front M iou by notslit hUtt t.n,lo i.i to aity put In illh In ths llhi l Wlttt taoit and l-Ktlbi, , M'iil ti,tT rtii fitly, did itnl Mj Grant go l..wn mi bl kn.f at a hium rem-1 1 eg Ih Cm. i-I'nlnn ii, kl the bsn.l of A n li bishop t ,.ti i rt I. en thsl aiits! pn ls'e ,l. ltM d tot rtb-r ths hall? Tim t-ti.h r Is that IrUhmen, driven from their Island home by entel oppression, can b tft to leant New Ymk for Chlongo, Han Kranclacn, .r anywhere elatt ti-n for heaven, where, l! I under-stiNHl, prvctHlcnen Is not assigned the resident angels avordliif to tho quantity of IrUh Ichor they may hap s n to have In their quill. .IrymvttiJ, He Ought to Know, Rev. Father Shcrninn, a leading Jesuit and son of the late Gen. Hhermnn, delivered a lecture In Detroit few evenings ago on the subject of "Ameri canism." This was the ostensible title, but the generic puroso of the Jesuit father wns to excoriate and bold up to istsslblo opprobrium a rssjlcty of Amer ican IVoti-sUiit which ha boon organ ized to stop the crevescs tn tho banks of American right and llls-rtles through which the turbid and destruc tive waters of Romanism would seek to rush. In regard to this society Jesuit Hhermnn stigmatized it a being com- Kmed"of "men who were anti-American, ex-American and un-American. They dared not meet In public, but gathered In secret, like coward and wolves," A a Jesuit tho speaker certainly ought to know what secrecy means and what plottlngs and planning to over throw existing governments can best bo carried out That is the Jesuit' creed, and so, because Protestants, in self-defense, are forced to fight tho devil with hi own weapons, they are forsooth all this Jesuit style them. Hi special pleading for a clear distinc tion between his duty as an American citizen and an adherent of the power of Rome is Jesult-llke, very obscure and still spacious, where not read between the lines. Ho ays: "The American spirit is the spirit of Catholicism, but this other spirit is tho spirit of the shadow of know-nothlngism. Above my conscience there 1 no power, not even tho pope, I bow to the pope in the eucharlst a I bow to the president or to the supreme court when it defines a law, It is not un-American to give spiritual allegiance to the pope, but it would bo un-Amcriean to bring about a union of church and state," Now, this is not the object of Roman ism, but rather to bring about a union of the church with the state, with the church on top. What Is all thl cry for a restoration of tho popo'g tempor alities if not to this end? The Romish jhurch would be supreme in thi country over state and all other ob stacle to its universal sovereignty specially tho free scbol system had such men as Jesuit Hhcrman also quoted an extract from one of tbo letter of Washington, in which tbo first presi dent spoke of the "patriotic part taken by Roman Catholic in tbeaccomplitih merit of the revolution," and fllso showed that Waehington was on record as opposed to any society that would undermine the Catholics, American manhood, the lecturer said, would re- soil at such a course, and bo did not believe that tho G. A. It. posts, com posed of men who hod fought for their country, would sanction tho principle of secret attack. Now, please note the empty incon sistency of thl praise of Washington. Romanism is the publicly avowed and Implacable foe of Free Masonry Kspec ialiy are tho Jesuit the enemies of the ntltutlon, but hero we have a member of Ignatius Loyola's brood eulogizing a grand master of the Masonic fraternity. Consistency, thou art a jewel," Washington as a Mason and Washing ton a a general of tho army are two different men. A a Mason, Priest Hherman would probably have him treated a Clement V, treated Do Molay, but a a writer of a letter, prals- ng tho "patrlotim" of Romanl!, fighting Protestant England, then he was all right. Ye, this wo the milk In the cocoanut showing, "patriotism," and I but another specimen of Jesuit chicanery. It I a well known fact that it was the inveterate hatred held by Romanist against Knglund that prompted this "patriotic part" in the revolution, and tho samo spirit would today fill an American army with Ro manist were this country .Involved with war with Great HriUin. Of one thing Jesuit Fr. Sherman can rest au gured: Tho birth of this society he to soundly berates 1 due to Romish aggression, and now that it I born it will tay on guard. American Tyler. 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