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lloWitu CAllnl A W.i'Hinf Hi hi. law
ofll.v, In (In. foil i.h U, nn. I cUblUhed
till order. Til ill' I lie e.l,'-. elllii;
up to the f.itnmlrtiliin n( t he principle
eiiilstdl. d In the A I', A , II will I...
nooewMir) In ghe a biographi. ill sketch
of It father,
Henry F. Dowers wan Unit In Hull I
more, M.I., Augn.1 12, Mi, III father
1 th in. lutnl. r HuMirhtn, Hint hl
mother n nittlv of Muiichus .lis him)
of English parents. Hi. iiiotln't' nunc
of a family of tins most titilvnt religion
enthusluMs. Out' of her uncle, NcIhiii
Uooil, w as one of till" CO Wl nkor of Or,
Coke In establishing Mollunl i f t i i in tlir
United Slates in the early days of the
ropuhlio. Thomas llurton. of Newark,
Del., tho great Huptlnl clergyman, was
another uncle; while yet unol her uncle,
William Haker, wan a minister of tho
Church of England, hut subsequently
renounced that creed Mini Imcnnio u Hu
man Cutholic, She was a daughter of
Captain Lewis, famous In the annals of
Enland't hintory, llnwor'n fatlicf wiih
a Jfraduato of tho imhlio hchoolw of (Joi
many and nerved IiIh tliiio in tho Ger
man army, vMu to tho rank if llou
tenant, Younp Howci'M had wurcely roachod
'-ho apo of II yeai-H when ho wan loft
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without a father, that )iiront having
taken pannage on a Hteainer for (ierinany
which wan wrecked In tnld-ocean, and
all on hoard went to the lioi.loin. Thin
loft him tho only Htipportof IiIh mother,
and from thin time forward for tin; next
thirty yearn ho experienced more of tho
downn of life than foil to tho average
youth of that trlod. Ho had never
been Imddo of a ne.hool Iioiihd, for It wun
alleged that th Jexulu had control of
Maryland, mid had mib"oiicnUy aliol
Inhod all the public, mdiooln. With no
education whatever, and only II yearn
old, ho wan confronted hy the tank of
caring for lilinndf am) mother. Hut ho
had been taught to work, nnd tho next
nine yearn of hln life worn frpont In a
blackHmith and machine Hhop, ami
working at tho carpenter' trade. At
tho ago of 17 be could not tell tho tlmo
of day from the clock, Hy the time he
wan W yearn old, by dint of hard work
ami frugality, ho had naved nulllclent
money to bring him and hln mother
wont, They came to Clinton, Iowa,
landing at Oo Witt, April I, JM,17.
M A K I H A I' AIIX'IIK OV KAItMINO,
Thin country wan then new, the Chic
ago and North wenteru railroad having
boon hullt only an far an Do Wit. Voting
Howem niiw hln only hope lay In farm
ing, and accordingly took up a pleco of
land and commenced. For three yearn
hu toiled almont night and day, hauled
tho product to Oavenport to market,
and endured tho hardnhlpn of tho new
country. Ho made a falluro of the ven
ture, I'oor crop, cxcchmIvo ralnn, and
other mlnfortunen overtook him, and he
gave up the farm and removed to Do
Witt, whore he. engaged In cabinet
making. During all theno yearn he
had boon denied the privileges for get
Ing an education, and at the ago of !!.')
wan barely ablo to read. Hut ho per
aevcred, and hln nparo moment were
lined In ntudy and receiving toachlngn
from hln mother. At tho breaking out
of tho civil war ho cnllntod, but nhortly
before bolng-niUHtered Into tho nervine
bo wan Htrkkcn down with typhoid
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Inn inniily, hii.I Inn yi'iun Inter r
eliil.'il hy one of th" liir(;i'l umjorltliis
ever plven a eandiilnln for oouiily
olll.e, O'loli. r 2 lsT(i, lni nmrrleil
Minn K-mnik V, t'rii(oid, n imlivo of
Ohio, hie died In OiTH. In Js77 Im
wan nilmlltel In the Iowa Imr, The
nit me yuir he oi,'nei up a law olllee In
thin i'lltV, and while aetively ennnied
In the pui'Mult of IiIn rolctidoii eoin
inatided a I; rjfo ami luerallve praetlon.
He win olio of the iiiohI wil)ht after
lawyer in Clinton county, lie wan ad
mitted to irai'lleo in the Miireino court
In 1H7H, and In the United SUlon circuit
and dtotrtet coiirU In HHi. Kroin l-STH
lo H82 he held a cn'i'lill eoinmiHMion if
alde-d(-eHiii) on (lovernor (iear'n MtalT,
with rank of lieutenant colonel of cav
alry. Until 1MS7 he followed hU chosen
profoHHlon. Hut through all theno
years ho had npent in jotting IiIh edu
cath n tho thought lilled h in mind of
tho inlnfortuno of hi onrly dayH, when
ho wiim deprived of mdiooln whon ho
moHt needed thom, ind, to quote bin
own language, In answer to an lnterro-
gallon an to tho cannon which led up to
tho founding of tho A, I', A.
UNCOKTUNATK INTOfJCKANCK.
"Heelng around mo no many men and
women who had received tho benefits of
an early education and knowing the din
ponitlon of tho bloiarchy todentroy the
public gehooln, I felt a deep Internal in
their preservation, wi that coming gen
oration might not nulTer an I had by
reaMon of their ahnenco. I therefore
wont alxmt formulating nomo plan by
which 1 might iiroiiHo tho people to a
danger that I believed menaced the
grandest ol all our public Innlltutlonn.
Akin to thin wan a nee in lug dlnponltlon,
or at leant wan apparent to mo a I
viewed It, a denlro on tho part of cer
tain nationalition dominated hy tho
nainu power, directed ami guided ap
parently by tho niiriio band, to attempt
to control and direct tho political ma
chinery of thin nation, Thin combina
tion of seeming aggrennlon from nn
ciMdeHlantlcal power beyond thoconlinen
of thin government led up to the forma
tion of thin organization."
COUNCir, NO. 1 IH f-HTAHMHIIKII.
Ho, In tho early nprlng of 1H77, an
organization wan perfected In thin city
and Council No, J wan CHtaldlnhed with'
a healthy tneinberMhlp, Encouraged
by tho nueeenn of tho first local society,
Mr, Ilowcrn started out to found thorn
In tho principal cities to how tho seed.
Two other Iowa cltlen worn visited and
round In established, Mr, i lowers then
went to Chicago, and there entabllshod
Council No. it with a largo member
ship, all thin time spending bin own
money and working without compenna
tion. A head council wan noon estab
lished, and ha Immediately went Into
that an Its president, which olllco bo
held for six yearn, directing tho work
of spreading tho teachings of this now
organization and devoting much tlmo
of his own to tho same work. Tho Immediate-
success of tho order far ex
ceeded Mr. Howirn' expectations, and
It gavo him fresh courage and zeal, and
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iN'Ailing. Murli of linn' W t-p. nl In
this luiiiiin-r, i'f'ci(tllj In lite eieniujjs,
lie l inner found hi his oiK.e After il
o'i'I'H'k, bill he n.'Ver k,"'b lo I" d until
It.-i- miilnnjlil. Tne enntiiiiinu I mid
struggle in h is curly iniinliisHi has tuade
him si uipnthctle to a iniu ked degree.
Mme as h pii!tiiue than anything else
Mr. IIiumtk has delved Into g.'oloy,
mincfuliigy and coucliol igy, rihI how
has one of the llu"st col led inns of spec
imens in this part of the statu, it Is
valued at M.ooo. His lino mineral col
lection wan presented to him by l'rof.
lianas, of Sun I'Yanolre i, at that time
stale geologist and superintendent ol
mini s of California. 1 1 is couchnloglcal
ei licet ion lstlieglftof different Irlends,
adib'd to a splendid showing of locnl
speclnu ns.
"For the last sjventcen years Mr.
llnwers bus been tho head officer of one
of t'linton's most successful building
associations, has crved in tho city
council, and held numerousol lior olllco.
He bus lately received achalletigo from
Ignatius Donnelly to moot him in Chic
ago on joint debate on the question of
tho A. P. A.
A ritOlKSTANT 1IUSHMAN.
Tho American rrolccllve AHsoi'lalhni
and (lie Irish.
Cmc'AdO, 111., March 12. The pres
ent danger that confronts tho Human
Catholic church In this country Is one
largely of I'm own creation, and owes
Its origin 1o tin linen upon which It
has run the party with which It mainly
affiliates north of Mason and Dixon's
lino. The active element In the Catho
lic parly in this country Is iiiiques Ion-
ably tho Irish. JliaJ race takes to
polities with the same avidity and the
same case that the newly Hedged duck
ling takes to water. From bin Infancy
tho Irishman Is n politician, hut there
In this difference between his action
political on both sides of tho big pond;
that In Ireland, with the solitary ex
ception of O'Coniu II, ho has always had
l'rotestant loaders and has followed
them Implicitly, whilst hero the l'rot
estant Irishman In the democratic
party must always take a back neat, In
a struggle between a Catholic nation
anil a l'rotenlant power, Hiieh at that
between Ireland and England, the
Irishman wan shrewd enough to son
that It aided bin cause Immensely to
have a Protestant an its mouthpiece;
hence the life work of Edward Fitz
gerald, Hubert Emuiett, Wolfe Tone,
tho brothers Hheares, Mitchell, Hmllli
O'Hrlen, Isaac Hutt and Parucll. The
i lsh Catholic In Ireland ever trus'ed
and followed hln Protestant brother
and tho trust wan never betrayed.
In this country however the case
presents a far different aspect. Hern
tho Irishman Is, to use tho vernacular,
"on top." Ho hold olllco, from that of
constable to congressman, ami, disre
garding tint services rendered to his
unhappy country by his Protestant
brother, convert his "Inlloonco" Into a
close communion. For I defy the best-
Informed Irishman In America to point
to a single Irish Protestant In the
democratic party who holds high or
even mediocre office who In not at least
nuirrle.d to a 1 toman Catholic and hav
ing his children raised in that faith,
I enclose my card herewith, not for
publication hut an a proof of good faith,
and that the statements I am about to
make are veracious, I belong to the
"ruling nice," was born In tho garden
of Ireland, the magnificent golden vein.
Am a Protestant, as have my fore-
fat hom been since the founder of our
stock lied lo that country after the
fatal field of Nasby and the death of
Charles I. Many a Hiinday have wo
hitched up our buggy and driven to
the little l'rotestant church four miles
distant, passing on our wuy the Impos
ing Itoinan Catholic etIIIWe, with Its
thousands of worshipers standing
round Its stately portals, many of whom
respectfully saluted "tho magistrate"
an my father drove by. The parish
priest, tho scion of an ancient Irish
family and a graduate of a continental
university, was of ten an honored gin st
at our table, and when an a child In my
littlo donkey phaeton I would pass his
presbytery, ho would come out In his
Cannock to greet mo and give mo a cor
dial benediction. Tlmo rolled on, and
tho whirlpool ofisdities drew mo Into
its vortox. I chose tho side of my
country an against the side ol my creed
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I "emitted A issl CtlhnlHi g nn,
"m-iit in' with le i ns..ii ." I wnniil
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cllu n 1 ti-Aiiied wiih lli' tit'imn'1 at io
iMirlj, In which I still Is'lung, and that
put ly made u-e of lue in tunny i-nin-imigns,
in which (was nUn.i foist...!
up ni lite public ns a I pi 'nl IrUlt'
American, my t-d'u'iiiinii, coupli'ii with
tint naturally Ibieut tongue of m conn
Iryilleli, lielng found t'.scftil to the
liMili'i s. Hut a put on I ,'iojutok, it ml a
"good fellow, well done," Wits all the
rewind 1 ever received or iXn'i'l to re
ceive, for 1 am far from a millionaire,
nnd have t wife applied for minor oilier
under the municipal government only
to see men who were well oil and noedoil
not the office receive what would have
Is'cn to me it welcome hoon, but these
men had a church and adcllulto nation
ality behind them, and Alderman
'Hilly," Commissioner "Micky," or
"Father I'lin," saw them through.
Once or twice, when I was getting too
near lo what. I sought, inutferlngs of
"deputy" cuiiiinenci d to II y round, and
were repeated by men who know my
record In Ireland, and know well that
as tlm last person lo quarrel with any
mn by reason of his creed, but I whs
outside the fold, and should ho kept so
at all costs, even at the cost of false
hood. Like the colored brother In a "Texas
Kteer," 1 have come to the conclunlon
that "olllco seek In'n mighty poor busi
ness," and have long since quit the
pursuit, but I give my experience,
without a thought of malice, for the
beiiellt of the enlightened members of
my natlomil fy and parly, and to point,
even In a linking and Imperfect man
ner, to one of the rocks abend upon
ivlilcli they are drlfilnur In this latter
end of tlio nineteenth century. An
Irish Protestant, In Ititvr Ocean,
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A I'lihlr -Tim Child and the Klllen.
Hv luisv Mao,
A great many yearn ago there I ved
a giant named (leorge. lie wan very
sttong, and whenever he met a stranger
ha would pick a light with him, If
Ceorgo sueconded In thrashing the
stranger ho would compel him to he
hln slave, These slaves be placed on
his farm and made iheiu work for him,
Many of tlm slaves married, and some
of them bad largo families. These
families Coorgo located at different
place on hi farm and let them work
there nubject t bin orders. Every
month tho fathom of those families
wont to George's house and had a meet
ing there, At these meetings Ceorgo
presided and all the fathom had a vole.
Tho object of the ineelliign was to de
cide what wan best to do for the general
good of the farm. For some reason
Ceorgo would not allow the father of
the youngest family, which was named
Merrlka, to attend these meetings,
The family very naturally objected to
working, wit hout having some say In
tho manngoment of tho farm, and they
dually revolted, They wore success
ful In tho revolution, but the larger
portion of the family were killed, At
the commencement of the revolution a
child had been horn to thin family,
which they named Lo I Sortie, Lo
llertlo grew rapidly and noon wan a
beautiful young woman, When En
II-rile wan a little child she used to
play with a boy called Poo Hleak, Thin
hoy, PooHIoak, had watched Lo Hurtle
grow and had learned lo love her. Poo
llloiik was an ardent wooer and noon he
wa wed to Lo Itertlo. The union was
a very happy one. They had one child,
which they named Merrlkan Poo
Hleak. Ho was a beautiful child and
gavo promise of being a creelt to his
parents. The child grew and thrived
and Isicaiuo more beautiful every day
When the child was three yearn old
nomeone made It a present of a tiny
little kitten named (Jerome. It was a
pretty little thing and was so soft ami
velvety that tho child was charmed.
Tho child nourished and raised tint
kitten and protected It from othnr
animals, One day when the kitten
had been hounded and chased hy all
the other animals about tho farm the
child took tho kitten and placed it In
hi hnsom to shelter It. Lo Hertle had
a good friend named A pa, who saw the
child do this. A pa said, "Lo Hortio,
don't you know tho kitten has daws?"
She laughed and said, "Ccromc is tho
last thing In the world that would hurt
Merrlkan Poo Hleak." A pit said no
more but went his way In silence. Lo
llertlo thought no moro of his words an
she considered him somewhat of a
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Is K iMiuliig exiivillegly billcr. U Is
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Die A, P, A was iinrivwly aierletl.
The 'net that I iiplHln I niili.'ll did iml
ha ttiinituind of lite platisin of ilnt
Unit led the parnile ban can..'.! souii'
cuiiinienl, and when lite i-eann tsi-nme
kitiiwu it iniidit a si'iisiii inn turning the
pullet'. It ban been the rule In silice
cirelcs for the night captain to lake
charge of the hic..iiii ilnv parades, and
he has Hie selection of detail. When It
lieeanie known that Camplsill would
llitve charge of (lie police tint lliiior
nlaus and other Irish societies protested
Multilist him.
A mceling of the olllccrs was held and
it was decided to ask Nuperlnteudeiit
Powell 1.0 select Some other officer.
Maurice Donnelly, county recorder, who
was grand marshal, was appointed to
call on Superintendent Powell, Don
nelly said there were reasons why the
Irish societies did not want Captain
Campbell In command. Superintendent
Powtdl explained that It was the custom
for tho night captain to have charge of
day parade, Donnelly replied that ho
would havo to dispense with the police
In tho parade If Captain Campbell was
In charge, I To asked tho superintend
ent to lead tho men or detail any patrol
man, sergeant, detective, or any mem
ber of the force, and it would be
satisfactory. Superintendent Powell
detailed Captain Mulgloy, an Irishman.
Donnelly did not give reasons for ob
jecting to Campbell, but the complaint
wan made by the 1 1 Ibernlans that Camp
bell In an A. P. A. When Hie police
appeared on tho purndo grounds,
Donnelly sent an aid to ascertain who
was In command of thorn, and If Camp
bell was, to request the politic to retire,
Mem bora of the American Protective
Association who knew of I lie objection
to t he senior captain of the pollen force,
wcro anxious to have tho superintend
ent of police Insist that Captain l 'amp
hell should lend the parade, but the
superintendent avoided trouble by re
versing tlm rule of the police depart
ment, -
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( liarb n J. Wilson Answers a ( miiinunl.
rallon I'l'oni T. Ii. IVnii,
Cllli.'Aoo, Jan. 25, Editor of The
Kccnimj I'dhI: I deslie 1 1 make a brief
reply to an article which appeared In
The KcndvK 1'nnt of the Ullli over tho
signature of T, E, Fenn. The writer,
like many of hln class, seems lo labor
undcrgrcat and unduoexcltouient when
ho discovers that the American people
are at last throwing off the stupor
whleb has blinded their vision these
many your and are dually becoming
aroused to the conditions which con
front them today, Ho seems still more
alarmed when ho learn that at last,
men have been found who aro ready
and willing to defend this government,
hy their liven If necessary, again', any
antagonistic stsdety, whether tliat so
ciety ho noelal, religious, or political,
hut ho has yet to learn, however, that
neither the A. P, A. nor any other
organization with which I am familiar
attack or opposen any man or set of
men "simply on tho ground of differ
eiie.'s in their religion beliefs and life,
as ho assert. Wo euro nothing for any
man's religion, I.ot him believe what
he please. Hut wo do most strenuously
object to any political organization or
movement manlpnlaU.il under tint mask
and guise of a church and claiming
amnesty thereby. Wo attack no man'
religion, but wo draw tho lino when he
nmken a political machine of It, and
It's tho political end of the so-called
Uoiiutn Catholic church, or tho Human
ist party if you please, which wo de
nounce. Wo fall to see why a man who
believes ho should ho his own interpre
ter of the Hlhlu would not make just as
good a policeman a one who Is taught
to yield bis mind and Intellect to a
prelate, or why a woman who knows no
higher Hlltlcal authority tliau thin
government would not bo as competent
a teacher In our public schools a one
who recognizes first a foreign ecclesi
astical power and then her country, and
yet such appear to lie tho polluy of the
Kotnanlst parly; otherwise how does
Mr. Fen n explain the fact that ih per
cent of the police force of this city, HO
M'r cent of the lire department, (17 r
cent (if the teacher In our public
Hchoola ami a corrosonding per cent of
all other appointive offices aro llllod by
momlicrn of hi party.
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mil. And, Incident illy, white tlm legis
lature Is cngiifc'i'il in tills kind of work
we will furnish tlteni w'lh Ihe I Ileal,
oat Its, iibj.s'ls, i't., if Ihe ( iitii-UA-Iwtels,
llils'i-iiiiin Kill s, Cont I nun Lai
rf'iitue, CaIIioIIc (liilerof FoivsUirn,
Onh r of St. I'nirick, iU, which, no
doubt, wttulil hori ify Mr. I'enn really.
If spiuHi s'ruiillei should like to fur
nish the reader of tlir Etriii'.ig I'mt
with the oath of the Clim-na Caels.
Mr. Fenn, however,l probably familiar
with It and tlierefoio 1 should like to
a.k him if he think (lie constitution of
tho United Slate permit him to enter
into an oath-lsiuiul conspiracy against
a foreign neutral HiwerV Does lie still
oppose the A. P. A. bocausn he think
il oppose liis religion and yet approves
of the objects of the Claii-na-(!aol In
trying lo Inlerfero lietweon England
and Ireland In behalf of tho latter
wlienfbe principal difference Is ono of
religion' Is hit aware that, should this
society ever become strong enough to
accomplish anything, the Hrltish gov
ernment would havo a just claim
against the United State for damage
by virtue of tho namu International law
upon which wo collected damage, from
that government on account of tho
"Alabama" episode during the late
war. Apparently Mr, Fenn might
prolluibly rolled on thh subject.
America like a generous host, ban
opened wide her doors, saying, "Coma
all who will," reasonably supposing
that all those who accept her hospi
tality will, In their gratitude, conform
tot lie liberal Ideas of tho IiohI, but In
thin she ha been most woefully mis
taken, They accept the Invitation,
then presume to run the house, and, If
strategy ha to be resorted to to pro-
vent It, they denounce the html an a re
ligious bigot. Ye gods, what a spec
tacle! Apparently lucre In but one re
lief: Shut the door on newcomer, and
sltdown on those who a - already hero.
Will she do It, Vt s, by the aid of tho
A. I'. A. ClIAIU.KH .1. WilhiiN.
The .Modern D. lilah.
A I.Tim )N A, l'cnn., March l!l), IMIll.
Editor Tine Amkuk.'AN: Through tho
kindness of a brot her I wan permitted
to see a copy of your paper a littlo
while ago for tin! Ilrsl time. I call It,
'Koyal AMKUK.'AN." Would to Cod It
wan, ami It ought to bo. In every Amer
ican home. America Is a powerful
nat ion, Samson was a powerful man,
but Delilah put hi in lo sleep, cut off hln
hair, and ho was taken captive. Tho
Koiiutn church Is the Delilah that In
putting Amor en to sleep, and Homo
will take hercapilve, Take furcxamplo
Archbishop Ireland, tlm great prohl-
hliloiilst, a man who r.celve IK) (sir
cent of all his money from the rum
seller; a man who hears the rum
seller's confession ami gives him tho
sacrament, then shut tho eyes of tho
American people hy talking prohibi
tion. Oh! deceitful man that thou art!
May 1 introduce myself to some of my
western hrot hereby asking a few qnoa
tlons? If Peter was the llrst kimj,
which ho wan not, why doesn't tha
pope of today marry as Peter did,
(Matt. , 4); lllshops should marry, (I
Tim. II, -); why do the priests purtako
of the wine and not the bread, (I Cor,
II; 2 1-2-1), why use latin, (I Cor, II: 18
lli)' Somu limit I will tell you what
the church of Home did for mo and
what ( 'hrlst has done fur me.
CONVKUT.
( allinlh'lsm in Ireland.
The last official census of Ireland
shows that there are .'!,! lil,.'W Catho
lic and 1,1MH,(I!MI Protestant. In that
Island. Catholics are the most numer
ous in tho county of Cork and Prole
tanta most numerous In tho county of
Antrim. Tho Catholic In Cork aro to
tho Protestants as ten to one. Tho
Protestants predominate In tho coun
ties of Armagh, Down, Tyrone, Lon
donderry ami Antrim. A littlo over "(J
per cent of the (topultttion Is Catholic,
12 ier cent Udongs to tho church of
Ireland and 0 per cent to the Presby
terians. On Ton in Washington,
Tho Americans were victorious at
tho recent city election In Taeoma,
Washington. We sec In this, signs of
America' sons standing for their own,
and tho time I not far distant whon
loyal Americans will not have to step
down to give room for recent Importa
tions from the old world. Lafayette,
Ore., Ledger,
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