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HOW ROME CHANGES.
AN ARTICLE rOH UlR.XftPtD
MFR?KA tMTPRS.
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N.nn gvnUcmatt Ihlng in the lnbrlr
of tliu tt ha Hem a rllpplng from
the Bradshaw Kifirm, n pnvr rditiHl
by Mr. Will 15. Burr. Mr. Burr lo
gins hi article with thi assertion:
"It I the policy of the AVprm to
remain nonwei-arian a well a non-
itnlitlcal, but the recent growth of a
now organization known a the A. I
A. ha led us to Investigate a few of the
wildest stories being circulated among
the masses, ana it is no more than just
that our readers should have the bene
fit of all wo have been ahle thus far to
discover, la this article wo do not
propose to touch on tho political slg
nillcancc of this movement, although
in our opinion there is the place to look
for the primal cause. IVo will simply
discuss two or three of tho principal
charges brought against tho Catholics
of America and try to show them up in
their true light."
To an American citizen ll is both
amusing and humiliating to witness the
frantic efforts of some milk-and-water
editors as they attempt to threw
cold water upon tho movement
known as the A. P. A., by sus
taining the members of tho llo
man Catholic church against
religious persecution a thing that
does not exist in this country to
day, has not and never can as
long as there is an order of "the
A. P. A. as strong ns there is at
present. Tho groat objects of
the A. P. A. are tho securing lo
every citizen of
Religious liberty,
Equal and exact juntioe;
The complete separation of
church and state;
The perpetuation of tho public
school system aa it exists today;
Tho restriction of immigration1,
and that they owe primary alleg
iuuue to tho United States in
stead of the pope.
If a member of tho A. P, A.
believes In less than what is set
forth above, ho is subject to dls
.tlj.l ffotntb order, and ho
who charges that tho grand body
of A. P. A.'s belle vo n less is
Supremely ignorant of tho prin
ciples of the order and justly en
titled to tho contempt of tho
members of tho order and tho
commlsseratlon of all those gal
lant men who sympathize with
tho movement now making for
the preservation of our dearly
purchased, our blood-bought In
stitutions. Tho tlmo Is one when
men are needed. Men of will
and men of power; such as are
rallying under tho A. P. A, ban
ner from Malno to California and
from Michigan to Texas; and not
such men as cannot distinguish
tho difference between political
Romanism and a chrlstlun
church. Tho tlmo has como
when men of all nationalities and
all crouds must band themselves
together if they deslro to hand down to
their posterity tho liberties and Insti
tutions surrendered to them by their
forefathers. Rome has dcelured that
ho will poRsoHS this country in 1000.
Aro you ready to glvo up your Inde
pendence for tho ignorance, supersti
tion and vloo that follows Roman
ascendancy, and which has blighted
Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Mexico, Hun
gary, Austria and tho South American
republics? If you arc, listen to tho
words of those men who fawn upon tho
hand that Is outstretched In feigned
friendliness, while tho other holds tho
chains with which to bind you to a
tusk-master more relentless than any
who owned slaves prior to tho war of
tho late rebellion, a master who claims
Iho jKjwer to savo or damn at will, and
who hus pronounced, Infallibly, against
tho public schools and in favor of pa
rochial schools. Mr, Burr admits that
some Roman Catholic prelates have In
tho past threatened and visited upon
members of that church certain pen
alties because they allowed tholr child
ren to attend tho public schools. He
Is probably aware that theso prelates
acted under tho instructions of their
bishops, who, In turn, were working
undor tho decisions of the third plenary
council of Baltimore. If ho is awaro of
those fucte then ho knows that Mgr.
Satolli has not changed In fact, ho
had no power to change, for tho pope
had endorsed the work of that council,
and no power inside tho'Roman Catho
lic church daro aHsunio to set aside
what has been approved by tho pope
tho decrees of tho third plcnury council
of Baltimore, and that the pope's letter
has but confirmed tho law there laid
kdown. n he knows anything about tho
Vtomnn Catholic church ho knows she
,a.uivor changes who is always the same.
rivhttt Is so then tho laws which Pcccl
emiiorsed and which the council of
in
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filiH!i liiUtttit, but M oihp ijviit
fIHM ot mul o!hr. To
plinxiw thl i' call jxir tumi.n
thi xvrpl taWen fix-m an aiU'l-
wiileli appranMl in lh Roman t'athouc
Vrfrr(y Ittrn tr, m ,rt i k, a paper
edited by Orei1o A. Rivnmtn, and -domnl
by Xh highest t hutvh digni
Urles In thl oouu.ry. HiMnwm, in
that article, oaid:
"What the rhurch hn done, what
she has expressly or tacitly approved
in tho past that is exactly what she
will do, expressly or tacitly approve in
tho future, if th-j same circumstances
occur."
That declaration contains much U)
think about. It moans that when sho
has tho power she will sot aside all tho
laws guaranteeing liberty of speech, of
worship and of tho press; that she will
set up in this fair land, ns she did in
beautiful Spain, tho holy Inquisition,
and reduce this nation of free men to a
condition of revolting serfdom, and tho
WHERE
first move In that direction Is now be
ing made against tho public school
system. Rome has not hesitated to
brand it as "Godless," as a "nursery of
vice," as "immoral" and as "vicious "
However, wo never ask tho publlo to
tnko our word for any statement derog
atory to tho Roman church, wo nevor
assert a thing we cannot prove; wo al
ways produce. Roman Catholic author
ities to sustain our position, and In this
Instance you will find we havo not de
parted from our general rule.
To convince you that our position Is
tenable so far as It relates to tho present
altltudo of tho Roman church toward
tho public scIiooIh, and that Satolll did
not and could not chungo tho decrees
of tho council of Baltimore, and which
aro still In force, wo will Invito your
attention to this opinion republished in
the MUwaukoo Catholic Citizen July 1,
1H1KI, from tho Catholic Journal:
It upholds tho decrees of tho council
of Baltimore, and the decision is in
every way satisfactory to tho advocates
of christian education. Tho decrees
wore emphatic in declaring that a pa
rochial school must be established In
every parish ob soon lis tho financial
conditions would allow. They furnished
to tho bishops the necessary means of
disciplining tho rebellious members of
tho ilock who sent their children to
other schools, where tho faith of tho
little ones would be In danger; am! these
tkcrees the holy father does wit alter,
amend or annul. On tho contrary, he
declares them to bo In full force, and as
binding as they were when Issued by
tho bishops of this country.
And this opinion, republished In tho
Catholic Citizen of the same date, from
tho Church Progress of St. Louis:
Tho doctrlno it lays down Is tho doc
trine which wo have all along antici
pated, the only doctrine possible. It Is
the doctrlno of the councils of Balti
more, Catholic education for Catholic
children, tho complete chart of educa
tion for tho Catholics of this country.
The long and vexatious controversy,
sprung upon us by tho attempted prop-
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The OtifMiV ( W.vh aU in the name
Isoue, republishe the following opin
ions from Catholic paim:
The oih cmphatieallv endorse tho
council of Baltimore In Its demand for
parochial h-IhhiIs, and w hilst ho does
not directly rebuke his Fairbault plan
ho leiven no doubt as to his tilhn as
to that plan, which, it is neediest to
say, he docs not endorse. Tho fact is,
his holiness' "toleration" of the Isolated
incidents of Fairbault and Stillwater is
far from tho li!erals' interpretation of
tolerarl protest would have had us be
lieve. Portland Catholic Sentiuel.
By these final Instructions of the holy
sec, tho Catholic osilion on tho educa
tional issue remains PRACTICALLY
UNCHANGED. There Is no departure
from tho traditional policy of tho
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church; tho disciplinary laws in tho
matter of education, aro not abrogated;
thoi'O Is NO ANTAGONISM TO THE I)E-
cuEics ov the Baltimore council.
Any contrary Interpretations of the
scholnstlo proposition, In tho words of
tho holy father, "are totally allon from
tho moaning of our delegate, as they
aro assuredly far from tho "mind of the
apostolic soo," Catholic Columbian.
Rome make no recession, NO re
vocation of promulgated policy, but,
on tho contrary, gives plenary endorse
ment to tho principles, decisions and
procedure of Monsignor Satolll.
Ho then deelnres that thero Is abso
lutely no justification for tho assertion
made In certain quarters that tho policy
outlined by tho apostolic delegate is an
abrogation of tho decrees of tho council
of Baltimore. It rather supplements
and completes tho Baltimore defini
tions; FOK THE PRINCIPAL PROPOSI
TIONS WERE DRAWN FROM THE DE
CREES OF THE THIIU) PLENARY
COUNCIL. Northwestern Chronicle.
Does that sound as though tho policy
of tho church had changed? Wo guess
not, Mr, Burr has simply, as has too
many other editors who havo a Roman
Cathollo patron, had dust thrown in
his eyes by tho American jMipo. All
American editors have to do to know
where Rome stands upon any Issue Is to
read her past history. Sho Is today
what she was yesterday, what sho was
at any previous date, otherwise sho is
not Infallible, and the Roman Catholics
can take cither horn of tho dilemma, as
enn also those Protestant editors who
Imagine thoy see so much toleration In
the Roman church.
So much for tho school question.
Now let us look at tho other question
of which Mr. Burr disabuses the minds
of his readers. It la tho question as to
whether Romanists are arming. lie
takes up a report we may torn' It a
wild cat report about a priest at West
Point, Neb., having a consignment of
rilles shipped to his address, and billed
"sacramental wine." As tho report
w . a
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aiv Iving hiped to plleM a aide, am
fttatuarv, r an anj thing other tl.an
tiflea, lull we d lie lici the priest atv
ai retlj urging their im in1 r to arm
-trtjidn the A. . II., the Catholic
Knights, and kindred nidations, We
know that the HiUrnian are armed.
We have wen them aith Winehester
rifles on their ahouMora marching In
pnavaslona; we h,ave rend of their lie
Uig admitted Into the national guards
in Illinois; of their having their rilles
blesMHl by the bishop in Cnlvcston,
Texas, and of an encampment of more
Utan 1,000 men at Fort Wolfo Tone,
flvery one of whom attended mass be
fore going out to drill: wo have read of
these things In the dally press which
no one will have the hardihood to
awuso of lielng unfriendly to Rome
and in tho Catholic press, which would
havo no reason for publishing the cir
cumstances if they even Imagined they
womu jcoparuizo mo interests ol Homo.
It Is our opinion that Romanists start
absurd reports llko that from West
Point, Neb., In order to divert tho at
tention of tho publlo from what they
aro doing openly. Just think how ab
surd these stories arc, thon ask yourself
If any sano Protestant would bo foolish
enough to start them. Tho publlo has
becomo alarmed at tho mighty army
that Is drilled and ready to take tho
Held at the command of tho pope, and
tho josults havo reasoned llko this: Wo
will start absurd stories, havo them
disproved and break the force of this
mighty wavo of American Indignation
which is rolling over this land.
Tho Roman Cathollo church Intends
to capture this country, even by force
of arms, or wo aro mistaken In tho
signs of tho times. Sho is now plotting
treason by warring upon tho publlo
schools. Besides, Pcccl said in his
encyclical of January 10, 1800, that
when tho laws of tho state and tho laws
of tho church conflict, tho laws of tho
church aro to bo unhesitatingly obeyed.
If that Is not treason, what Is It? Arc
1 we going to permit a foreign potentate
to toll 10,000,000 residents of 'this
country that they do not havo to otioy
tho laws of this lund? Aro, you going
to allow such a thing to occur. Wo
certainly will not close our eyes to tho
danger, nor will we close our eyes to
tho absurd stories circulated, evidently
by tho jesuit.
Mr, Burr is right In his condemnation
of those fuko stories about arms being
shipped to Roman Cathollo priests,
Thoy uro tho worst of nonsense. We
havo had people tell us of a coal heaver
in Council Bluffs who d'opped his
shovel down a coal chute at tho cathe
dral, and when he crawled through a
window to get It, saw a hundred or two
Winchester rilles; we have had the
samo story told us, locating tho church
In Omaha; later on It camo to us, Iden-
n.l-a. att.'l t.. ti f !.,.,. ., i,si
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Him! And
t.t WllHl lll,l IN. Hl),;l,Mf tt,tk ia(
Ian, tlie IU'Ul-, Mi tln.ti.W tr other
hiilian denomlnatioiin ttrtfanlxlug
iiiihuty inmpanles? 1 vn i,f i,ar
f tin hi lartlii! wH'li lle, the two innth
pcollon in the by laws U-Ing that
the neiiilrhlp shall belong to a par.
tieutnr denomination, and tw rapatde
of going through tho nmniial of arum
Yet Rome does this Very thing, We
have the constitution and by-law of
the A. O. II. On page lit you will liml
sect ion 21 of article l read a follow
'"No iron shall laisnno a member of
this order w ho U not Irish or of Irish
decent through cither parent, and
jirarh'cof tWuin (Vifmio.
Section 2;t of article 10 reads:
"Any member who shall talk of any
business that may transpire In tho
division room or place, of meeting, ti
other than mcinbcra In gixwl standing,
shall Iks tried by the stundlng eoni
mittoo. and If found guilty, rrnrlid.
rinvr to tt rc-aifmiVfcif."
Will Mr. Burr please tell im why
there Is necessity for such secrecy In a
christian denomination which neither
Li S,-e.
contemplates tho overthrow of the re
public or drugs Its religion Into polities?
Section 0.1 of article 2(1, says:
"In order to encourage and control
tho formation and maintenance In tho
Ancient Order of Hibernians of Amer
ica of an UNLIMITED NUMHER OF MILI
TARY COMPANIES, tho membership of
such compimles to bo composed of men
In good standing in tho order, so as to
afford to all who may bo admitted to
the ranks the op)Mirtunlty of acquiring
a thorough knowledge or military drill
and discipline according to the United
States tactics, a military division of
tho order is hereby authorized."
Section!), article 30, winds up with
this declaration:
"This constitution shall bo in force
from and after thj first day of August,
A. I). 18H2."
From these quotations, editors who
propose to be fair, as Mr. Burr says is
tho case with himself, can sco that tho
A. P. A. Is not fighting tho Roman
Catholic church on account of Its relig
ious teachings, neither on account of
unfounded rumors, but on account of
Its political teachings which It claims
Is a part of morals and on account of
Its well known zeal In organizing and
equipping an army composed exclus
ively of members of tho Roman church.
What Is tho cardinal principle In tho
Romnn Catholic church? Oliodlcnee.
To What? The teachings of thechurch.
Tho laity never get so rich, never get
so high in political stations that they
do not have to OBEY. Thero Is no
liberty In tho Roman Catholic church.
Tho mind, tho conscience, of every
member has been seared by the hot
Iron of oliedienoo, until they can con
ceive of no nobler freedom, no grander
liberty than Is founded In debasing,
abject, servile obedience.
Yet It Is these people, these creatures,
who cannot govern themselves In whoso
hands we thrust tho ballot and turn
into men while they are not equal In
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If t hi I" dUWtitl it iniiv;
I' lo t " t l'ii l, y t.
that tin liii the iiiMiih ati ativ,
the laa of the lte dm not lini-l our
piii al;
I t her Mv pi leMly dli tailoii In mat
ter yun !y pnHlieal iiomt vai;
X In r tfi ive out of Iter coiiiiuiitiioii
the mlils r and the harlot, on the wag"
of wti.we rln ,e grea rh h;
I'1 lu-r dlipcll Ig n. ir iiHrtb
lion and lv,
1a1 her point to one Roman Call ollc
.iiunliy dominated by priestcraft a.l
eurwsl by oh that p,,,ii thl grand
nation;
lather tench Christ and Him cruel
lied; not treaoii;
her olsy tho law of Iho land and
not abridge, the constitutional gunran
be of free eoch, of a froo pres, and
the A. 1', A. will i miii pass out of ox
iHtotieo. But a long a alio docs not
teach those things, as long as alio
delle the laws of this republic, as long
as she assails tho public schools, every
loyal American must bo, at heart, a
loyal A. 1'. A., and Mr. Burr, if ho la
not a Roman Catholic, will lie With us.
si KKiMJ fiii:i:imm.
IVi'iirli-Cuniidlan Congrrgatloiial
Ms Want to Net A way From
Kotiitui Isid.
Columiiia, S. C, Juno 2!).
Governor Tillman has received a
letter from Br. Joseph Allard,
ptiHtor of the Fronoh Congrega
tional church, of Fall River,
Mass., asking what Inducements
would bo offered lo French Can
adians, and largo numbers of
Roman Catholics, who aro ready
to follow their example, "to
settle In South Carolina." The
doctor states that ho was selected
to make Inquiries at a meeting
of French Congregational min
isters. Ho says that they aro
woriiail over tho question as to
how thoy could boat free thorn-
jjjulvos from "tho unceasing per-
niitlnriH of tholr Roman corn-
lots, becauso thoy had tho
"uru to break away from tho
iiyungelical
41,0 tlMin." He
HtWCS that
fifty fa)?0,"nv wlU ""M?4 ot
morowllls' ft,t4,r hVKJ
been specif T,,B Btlto h
thorn as a procornmendod t
"find Mym,,(alwthy'oi'!l
ment greater tf(1 eneminu
em state." l)r fly B,)uth'
his people aro griVd "tty tLat
the constantly Invuf'ir,n,Jtl at
of thn Roman CnthProKrmt
Mu. Ifmrlnnil TL'TCb in
Lafavetto's prediction,
tho liberty of tho Amoevor
nubllo Is destroyed, It wll
I. .. I),.,.,.. natl.illn ,,.V'0
VUI a III l.V'll" VB.UVHV
will bo realized "If things
as they havo boon going."
cago'Horald, Juno 30, lwl,
Kept a I'rlniniT In a Cormuif ,
Columiius, O., Juno 17. Carrlo
Rodger, a lfl-yoar-old girl of Pitts
burg, modo a daring escape from the
convent of the Good Shepherd at Col
unbus, O., Thursday night. When
she protended to sleep tho elderly
sister under whoso charge ho was
placed lay down, and finally ontorod
the land of Nod. The girl then arose
and made her escape by means of a
roo made of the knotted shoots. Part
way down tho rope broke. Sho fell,
and notwithstanding an Injured limb
scaled a 10-foot wall. Miss Rodger
then went to Arthur Wolfrey's house.
No. 44 Cypress avenue. Previous to
this sho asked shelter from a family
that reported the ohcum to tho convent
authorities, and tho poUco wcro noti
fied. Mrs. Wolfrey gave tho girl a hot
supper, and sho told her story In detail.
She said her parents were dead, and
sho was sent to tho convent by rela
tives. Her complaint against tho con
vent was that she was kept a close
prisoner against her will. As sho was
a Protestant they Imposed heavy tasks
iiMin her, principally sowing and
planting potatoes in tho convent gar
den; that they gave her insufficient
food. Mrs. Wolfrey reported her, and
sho was returned to tho convent.
Warned a VImt.
Rev. J, Lansing In "Humanism and
the Republic" writes: "Father O'Con
nor said to me: You aro reaping in
New England what you have sown.
You havo made tho Roman Catholic
Church what It Is; you have given tho
money to build their churches and
their schools, and now they turn and
try to destroy you. You have warmed
a vler In you bosom that is now try
ing to sting you to death. And ho
told the truth."
