THE AMERICAN. I Mtt.st Ml. w i,h ,tsm, ti t ivi .t i i Hilhtfun ., ' !'. Avtun t iij tt g tlvt.t ft,ll,l ( 1, tl Hoiimn l'tttiHi l tj lnt nj nnil U ltmr lijr, hlHi i!tittn m- unn iii nh i m urMmi! nog i kUlinir. IM II nff.H la ltullknmil Vllw thai Mit'uUl $rvitt tut r mf than Mir mwtl inn lnti Ijtvw in'l."i;ii tut denial li aiitittry gc m li It It II msltr Hgnlttnl Unman inHi, In Um form of tirttoit h! ljf It tinaiiswi'tnlili'. mkhuwn M'i mi l In? w'piMtoly nl to tin In w tit iletwt which that no man stinll Im eallinl iittwu necntlve, H Is Iho rt dutjr if I lt other sldo In a wnUntii, not. ly ftwHTlltin, (twill vn lutxif. Until this In no, tho only tiling rcultvil of the sldo of tlio iti'gHllvo In Ui vnWr cat gurliil di'ii IhI. Hut TiiK Amkuuwn In ImliKiinnl !) churo wo do not present mml ofiiur caU'tforlul negative. It also objuoU to our una of wlwit In know In logic nit tho arrtiwirtifimi ( twmhmn. It aocustJil the llomim church of curtain atrodntis sins niralnMt kings and I'rotoBtsnts, In times )imt and presont. We said, that granting the truth of these charged, the mine things were done also by Protestant minlatera and English rulora. As the editor of Tuk Ameiucan 1m an English nan, with a Kerry slunt In hli pedi gree, we inadvertantly supposed that if the Roman Catholic of Amorloa, in the year of grace, 180,1, were to be held justly rcsponiiiblo for the pope's giving absolution for treunon to kings, cen turies ago, then it would be jierfoctly legitimate, by parity of reaHontng, to hold l'reHby torlans of to-day responsible for l'rusby torlon treBHon to Mary Queen of Scots; the Congregational lsts of to day for indeendont trennon to Charles I., and for his judicial murder: Latltu dlnarlan churchmen, Presbyterians, Orangemen, et nl., of to-dny renjonBlblo for treoxon to Jitnies II. in driving him from his throne. As The American thought it an un endurable wrong, to lie visited upon all Amorloan Roman Catholics, that Tope Plus VII deduced the marrlugo of ProU-ltants illegal, in 1H08, we thought it perfectly just to hold all Anglicans, including our self, criminally respon iW3, 'even over her In Amorloa, for those English penal laws which did the very same thing with regard to the marriage of Roman Catholics and 1'rot cstantdissentei's. Hut TiiK AMEIUCAN evidently sees in that sort of argument evidence of our total depravity, or worse, of our Jesuitry. It says we try to justify one wrong by another. Not at all. We simply believe In the good old homely proverb, "What Is sauce for the goose is sauco for tho gander." If American Roman Catholics are to bo held responsible to-day for the sins of thepoiKJS, or of their fathers committed centuries ago, then common justice and fair play requires that Anglicans and Protestttuts should bo held responsible Iso for the sins of their fathers, bert Ingersoll is Impartial enough hold all christians resfionslble for sins of their fathers. He Is how- ; silent as to tho responsibility of vjihllosopbers ef to-day for the , I'M against olvll and religious lib- wimltted by the heathen phll- I of Rome, hen they urged Kiwer w mirn hi ine stake ail 4 wlio would not burn Incense Neither dees he hold the s of to-day responsible for tlia the Infidels of the French revo- who deified a courtesan, and 'either Infancy, youth, nor old 'ex, but shed tho blood of all, tj. 'AN would hardly wish morlcan Mnsons rcsjionslblo os against liberty and piety committed by soma of tho ns in 1870, when they led and shed some of the od of Paris. me trick of bigots to against justice of lle they try to hide xous and pal- cruel faction. are quite sure r is to honestly our fathers, on faces forward justice, and to tale fair play, we can all any w for them. lood and iron, its partook of thought of garded, not and truth, ytiviium against A flouted and re 4, so it was. nl i i terrifically lndlg- lish said be was "a n American after- at was not always earnestly religious Protestant. Indeed As lEKK 1 1 V It t. In t Hit' vuiUi il mi l t ,Hi,. ,.M ll. U M-h if i. - I ! m Ati ti " i t IM Hte 4 hi-''k 1 it ! It.tl k I.K ! :t, ltl t t' J IHt, i. tilt, j III MiMI- Hj" t ''In !' in i"t t) iM"t tw-el, Hi,. , !.' Hti m lfil. riHifU 1 0b It lb !tt li - tiMS Hlltxi U IVKllI lv tilt t'H,,.i ', Mltl llltHll(ll titiw t -vf to itaj lie Vi)f l(tt!t ttif fer'ep l ttn-- tln i tsliv tUthk f ie ifii2t iiy r smitlu r, m sih tbr hnii"'l j-sm st. A be r'U III litiiy lli. n by im st'V' ! tin (Mbtr.be Will find Ibe inevit able itiiHitm, rv n In tho (dlit-. I wrtta-r, to wtirnt the other !!, but the (set reiusins, thai In-lit-w r n Htty bi bl tb reins ( gtivemmi nt, and had the jitr, they Jwrwruti'il thi-lr eitmt-iiU, n eitemle Ui truth aiul oinli-r, In ehuii-h and tte. We may fnlrly raUe the (jut-lltiii n to which sltle H'i-iMH'iib'tl the iiiohI, bill Is-fiii-e we ran Jnil,' of the relative moral or t-ellirinu tiirpltmle of our several forefBthtu-s, It will Ite lieeewtiiry to find out hat were the opMii luiiltlen, and the ami'ent neeeltles of any hu iti'iilui' putty. Hut ll Is simply the very fHlw'htKwl of the devil Ut iittetnpl to stir up religious strife and ponwcii' tltm to-diiy, by going over and recount ing the dreadful crimes against cbrls tlatrity which Were eominltled by Ho man Catholles, while silence Is naln tallied with regard to tho atrocities that were committed against Roman Catholics by the other side, or sides. Week after woek TitB Amekican teems with the tirades of Protostunt ministers against Roman Catholics of to-dny, because of the crimes of the In qulsltlon. Dut it Is dumb as to tho atrocities of the English penal laws In Ireland; and as to the worse atrocities of tho saintly troopers of Cromwell whoso, horrid memory still inflames tho hearts and passions of the Irish peasantry. Tho most pregnant curse that an Irish pennant can utter, to this day, is tills, "The Curso of Cromwell on you." And no wonderl The Roman Catholic slogan, "Keep no faith with heretics," was fiercely paralelled by Cromwell and his lieutenants In their atrocious government of Ireland. llo then devotes nearly three col iimns In his paper to atrocities com niltted in Civil Wars In Ireland, all of which prove nothing, and are attforolgn to tho subject under discussion n would bo a poem by Tennyson, Rev, Wil liams forgets or Is Ignorant of Jmo I in portunt thing, namely, Protosaints do not deny that men belonging to their denominations have committed atroci ties, but they do not grow angry and mob tho man who says such things are true, whiln tho Romanists do. An other thing Protestants do not believe crimes can bo committed and forgiven by men, Romanists do. Protestantism changes, Romanism Is unchangeable, lie then continues: Now let it be remembered that these are only a few of the atrocities com milled by Cromwell's troopers, uMin the wretched people of Ireland. And yet our ears are to this day wearied with panegyrics upon these Puritan soldiers, who took (he 11 Ibid in one hand and tho sword In the other, in defenoe of Protestant truth and free dom of conscience. Moreover, this Is not Roman Catho lic history, but Kngllsh history. 1ird Clarendon had no love, it Is very true, for Cromwell's troopers, and he would not le at all likely to soften any of their atrocities or bide them away, Hut he was a contemporary witness, and wrote while many of tho actors in these devilish atrocities were yet llv lng and able to repel his charges of cruel savagery. Tho memory of it yet lives In tho hearts of the Irish jieasantry as we said abovo. Now, In giving this frightful leaf from the history of Protestant atrocity in Ireland, wo are not for one moment forgetful of Roman Catholic atrocities In that unhappy Island. Our object is simply to show how utterly unfair it is to rake up th embers of tho fierce fires of political and religious torsociithms of post generations, in order to rekindle religious posMlons and prejudices in this nineteenth century, Then why do you not, long side of your Protestant atrocities, run an equal uumbcr of Roman Catholic atrocities If It is "tho very flalsohood of tho devil to attempt to stir up religious strife and persecution to-day, by going over and recounting tho dreadful crimes against Christianity which were com mitted by" Protestants? El). AMERI CAN.) Roman Catholles are foolish when they attempt, as some of them do, to deny or palliate the crimes against Christ's religion committed by Philip of Spain, or the Duke of Alva, or the Dominicans of tho holy office. Tho massacre of St. Bartholomew is lndo- fonslble. Their defence, should be that there is no atrocity of Roman Catholic persecution that is not para lelled in the fierce history of Protes tant persecution. The numbers racked, tortured, gibbeted, and burned by Ro man Catholic persecutors may fur ex ceed those tormented and destroyed by Protestant and Anglican persecutors, but that is only a question of arithme tic, and of the extent of the field of operations. But manifestly the ques tion of the numbers destroyed by one i hr t i--t t !, ! !! t'. ,j-Hw ti'i. ti n ! , ! i t )!... ,U i4 .!. li - i I ! .- t "l '. l.l iiil, t t , I . Stut , i-t m-y !( i. t k t ft Vii.lU ll.,. (Ui tf i4m-mMii Hi -Hjf ! I'h hM tmn.tn, t I t i in up Hie ii,Uiti.Tit t ie.t ifiHi,itt In R'Hift t"l!t'.Ut ! t itt, M;e It. i j est Mii'r n1 sinttil thf liilsmim Iii !tt iittit ! it (pn It tim t'slbttlit, t.4 ti win mm mi.ilti.r y mt iti fnii (nihi l-, Miry itiHB-rtt l si Isiil eiii tin Ir I k Mie Itutlk'nsii! lsb l ptiltlle rstiihs bj rt$ Iikih flr- tlltllllftl IllStl, Hill M will be tl. tbsl Hec- (be nHt I, ll. i.-il (i Im liibiUittle, and Mint since be sppi-int tl uf the beribl h tiH-etitUtii nf tlm lhiulitl'in Mteri" low RniiiHii t'slbnllt of Im1,v Mills! I ll. ve that Mn-y vmre iliht, ami that If npsi tilltity is-eiiri-f-d, the Jos ami tbt y wimlil ri-lltfli! the fir sol h rtneih Hon again. Well, we do not fan to ib nl with such lKlrnet pottlhilltlcs. What has liip'iit tl, we pii-miine, limy biippeii ay nl n. Hut supine wo lake a Protestant 'posslblllly. ProUnliuits, lit leant ortho dox Proti'htiiiils, Ih llnvc In an Infallible Hlble, ami In their own Infallible in terpretation of It. Two hundred years iimi the Puritans so Interpreted it that they felt Justified In extirpating "Ro man Cat hollo Idolaters," even as tho Israelites were justified, four thousand years ago, In extirpating tho Idolatrous Caniuinites. Anglicans even were not slow In so Interpreting Holy Scripture as to Justify themselves In persecuting both Roman Catholics and Covenan ters. Now, then, if Roman Catholics must jusllfy what an infallible pope sanctioned two or three hundred years ago, or since, why is it not equally in cumbent on our Prosbyterlun and Con gregational brethren to justify all that their fathers infallibly drew out of an Infallible Hlble, and go themselves and do likewise? Curiously enough, William of Orange seems to bu oh leftist among tho "Amer ican" saints. Hut he violated the treaty of Limerick. Instead of the security in life, religion, and property which that treaty guaranteed, ho rob bed the Roman Catholics of their lands to bestow them upon his mistress, Elizabeth Vlllltu-s, Countess of Orkney, and upon Hentlnek, Ruvlgny, and Cllnc kell, tho Infamous ministers of his vices. Under hlslnfainoiis administra tion, ''It became tho fashion," says an English writer, "to reward nameless English services at the expense of Ire land. Pensions and sinecures, which would not boar tho light in England, were charged on the Irish establish ment, and even tho bishoprics wore given away on tho sumo principle." Irish Industry, trade, and manufac tures were all but prohibited. In re ligion, William utterly, ruthlessly vio lated his solemn ratification of tho treaty of Limerick, and became fiercely Intolerant to Roman Catholic Ireland, while, ho moved heaven and earth to secure toleration for tho Presbyterians of England. Roman Catholic refused to keep faith with heretics; but were they any more lnfumous than William of Orange, who refused to keep faith with Roman Catholics? Hut it Is pain and travail to rake upagoln these Infamies of the past. Hut compulsion lies on us, in the interest of justice and fair play, "Thk Amkiucjan" charges us with trying to Justify one wrong by another. We strive to do nothing of the sort. We have as lltthj sympathy with Ro man Catholic bigot a with Orange zealots. They are both a horrid blot upon the religion of the Crucified. Hut fair men might all try to cover up, out of sight, these gaping wounds of tho past in this land, If these bigots would let us, and try to live together as christian, even though we cannot yet worship Ood at the same altars, or see, eye to eye. (Continued on Fifth Page.) Th A. P, A. Upon tho 13th day of March, 1887, in the city of Clinton, Iowa, council No. 1 of the slate of Iowa, and the first coun cil of tho A. P. A. in the United States, was Instituted with ft membership of seven men, by its founder, tho grand, noble hearted and unselfish patriot, Henry F. Rowers, Never for a moment did this handful of brave, loyal men anticipate that the spark of patriotic fire they kindled was designed to leap like an eloclrlo flash from heart to heart of sturdy sons of Uncle Sam and like a huge conflagra tion sweep on from city to city consum ing the enemies of American liberty like chaff In its irreslstable march to victory. First in the list of patriots, foremost In the rank of fame, high among the heroes of tho nenetcentb century, will be written tbe names of Bowers and the fearles men who gave their time, their energy, their patriotism in this perilous hour to help save the God- given institutions of this "noble repub lic from the martyr-stained hand of the black-hearted, treacherous enemy of llbertyRomanlsm." These men, deeply read and learned in history and politics, scented afar off the struggle that is now bursting upon us; saw through the mist of the future the shackles that Rome was forging for American liberties, as the forged J M-n M -tri-jt In tin". nH.ta! !, . 1 t-r i (, mt'.e MS ii rutv I 1 1- n iv ' . j .'.I.!.. )!. i. ;. -f ttu, tin i ,j ,!. ' ! ' t.- !. '. nut.,;-,, miff ii .iVifWk, riMij (I i. l. :v., !.! I ..Vic tH lJf, j, I ( if jf tl.t m tilt . lisml, nn.ll' h Hh h I'liitr, tintll H tt l ..(f,i l nluiiiN in I 4,i k!it ft Ul!i h i r ti seppUht tbe A m i tt n Sj i illi I ltt list s, wn.l Mm ti ant ti Sjet )ll Mie i HI.' Ntt hH, fl ,,t '! I J . ln Mist iii(-iiiimliU KxiuUj (i. i .., ill Mm clml.tti f a pl ist iRli M.-sr MiHik of the ''father of WhUm," Mh tntrfbiy Mllw.tppl. ml n tbsl fii-st leilU Id cil liiemtx r, In tin prei'lie' of btstbsl ami tb fniiinler of tbeortlr, solemnly )tldgd hlniw-lf with the oblitHtliiiis t.t pur pnli Im Ism In Hist moment was turned on the alarm which bus eoiil Iniied to lucivsm In volume day by Any, There sluiiilsi-ing titrlot- Ism commenced to awnkn and luvsk its fetters of KmnUh ls)iidiigt; there In-gnn that Inlsir of love for country by a Imdy of put riots who have given nil and asked fur nothing, whose only reward has been a satisfied conscience unadorned by gold or poltiletil preferences, men who have not t-cn anlnimeil or afraid to light the foe, while ruin and boycott siaivil tin-in In the, fuce; men who when the buttle has been won, have with tears of joy gladly retired to the rear willing again to serve in the ranks without other trophies than tho crown of honesty and duty, The growth of tho organization has been marvelous tho most remarkable of any ever known. For tho past four years it has had an avcrago Increase of nearly five thousand members per week and today it is increasing much moro rapidly than ever. This increase has been spontaneous, not the result of coercion, of drumming, or the hope of reward for there are no financial benefits' attached to it. On the con trary, those who join this movement have to go into their pockets for tbe expenses of this great body from the very first, knowing full well, too that they would, lie attacked by Rome through the press and pulpit by boy cott and bullying of every description and that they would Incur the enmity of those little dogs among Protestants who creep after and fawn upon Roman ism In every part of tho land. Despite the upparent fact that from tho first this movement has been un popular with political leaders and so- called statesmen, has liocn openly and utterly condemned, misrepresented, villi lied and attacked by its enemies, the Romish church, the scheming poli ticians, the Jesuits in disguise, the vote-sellers, the ward-heelers and tho ring-leaders who turn friend against friend, brother against brother, arid keep tho American people forever di vided with the pestilential bugaboo of partisanship, despite this the upris ing lias been phenomlnul. It Is the grand reaction revolution, If you please, At the lato supreme meeting held tho first week In March, 18!K), dele gates from twenty-two states and Canada were In attendance, represent ing upward of one million membership, and the movement i destined to double Itself before March, 18!), Yet all this growth has been accomplished without any Inducements being held out to men to become members of the order, From tho first this has been pre eminently a movement of tho people, The old parly bosses and partisan leaders are "not in it," and neither can they get In, Tho order has no use for them, in fact tho membership I composed largely of men who are disgusted with the corruptions of par tisan polities, and sick of the apathy and suplnoness so prevalent In Protes tantismIn American generally who allow Homo to trample In the dust their most cherished Institutions, without a word of protest; and allow tho many tentaeled monster to seize and control city after city without even a murmur, Atiurkun JSayln. 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M each (Jay, for the pnrmeof prnNentlns their claim for examination, Hdlimttnent mid allowance, Hlx inonl.hu lira allowed for thn creditor to preitnnt their cliilum nnd one, year for tho ailmlilnlralor U nettle aald eKt.atn, from tha Jmi.Ii day of April, 1NMII. Thin notice will ho piihllxhed In TliH Amkhi v.kh for four weekn mieeewtlvely, prior to ths ailh day of June, Ihwi. All claim not died on or he fore the 12111 h day of October, 1HWI, will ho forer harred from consideration in the final net tliTiient of nalil estate. Wltnem my hand and ofllclal scat this 18th day ol April, IWi. HKAi. 1 J W. ELLKR, i-XH-i County Judge A.