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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1894)
m MOAN i I l III tf f t ., ,, lifMl t !'. !. (! , ..n tf f ... . t IVf. tiMAIIA. NnmAhKVriUUAY, AliiM. .'M4.'""' - - -4 Ml'MMR Jt VM A. i A. mn.Mio. (IhMImh UiwU I) tin I rl I mwe, I IH H a.(t in inr itw In Hi ruin-tit l lnvillli,' 1 olv l l I' I" ' ' W ) i USUI'S -riV ill -i(!iiH. Ill the i A'loil l.nM of it )! n .iU- U l !m ini.4 In itM tik'r.l II. D YMif ton ;suhV'i in ttt miU le In fmuihioM mst-aMins bi pud It. Many i-iiier i iv taking up with (1 iii Hip on" hand, nod nl f h other U U Is lng llwmn'lx 1 traitorous ami mod Uug- poll ttM" twill. There tit n il for think- hip. The A. 1. A. Umrt organlaBmi, Ah fwh it i-i'iin' In for hU the con demnation n fall U tho tot of n.Y KMMVt WH'i.'M , A t H'HT MH'I'I soeietk's are valuable at all. th A voeato nv iKithlMi here, n it 1 no germnro to the tuo. H 1 dear, I"'1 over, tl at, unless such a society t treawtmhleor dangerous to the safety oi' in'8W of a community by Ittt prim ciploH or methods, It Han ft right to exist. There is nothing in law nor common justice to prevent men from combining in organizations for any definite object, and maintaining their meetings, plans and deliberations In secret If they ho choose. It may also be added here that many of those who rail at the A. P. A. have bad little or nothing to nay about the Order of Jesus, commonly known an the Jesuits, tho moHt infamous and crime stained organization that this plain has ever neon, a society which exists today, unhampered by law, in these states, and yet tins been driven out of almost every state In Europe and Spanish America. Beside this, lesser societies, such ai tho Clan-nn-gael and the Independent Ordorof Hibernians, live and flourish among us. It must be borne in mind that tho Roman church itself, In its methods of operation, os peclally In political matters, partake largely of the nature of a (secret society. As such It has controlled the political organization and machinery In every city and state whore it Is possible, whether In Europe, Asia or America. In America it gets as many of Its mem bers Into olllco as it can force the peo ple to elect. "In many cities," says tho Chicago Trihunc, "like Chicago, New York, Urook'yn, Boston, Albany, Troy, Buffalo, Detroit, Fort Way no, Dubuque, Milwaukee, Ht. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City In short, wherever It possesses tho power, It grabs about all the oilier, elective and appointive especially those that have patronage, big salaried and emoluments," The J iiUr Own, of Chicago, recently pule llsbed a tabulated statement of the number of Human Catholics in Iho pub lic olllecs and public schools of that city, showing that tho non-Catholic were merely an Insignificant fraction of the total. As far as tho secret society argument goes, therefo"!1, It would eim that those who fear such things had better first turn their attention to the ancient, successful and powerful society, known us tho I Ionian Catholic church, before they pounce upon tho young society known as the A, J. A. What Is sauce for tho goose is sauce for the gander. It is known that the A. P. A. exists largely because of the sentiment against llemaiilHin. And there have not boon wanting leading thinkers, editors, preachers and statesmen who have condemned as puerile and unnecessary all words of caution against tho en croaching power of this church. They deprecate the frequent outbreaks that occur at anti-Catholic meetings, They characterize as religion bigotry all lectures and addresses claiming to ex pose tho nefarious methods of that ch ui'ch, There Is no question but that many connected with the A. P, A. have done and said foolish things, that there are many lecturers In the Held, Including many a humbug ex priest, who are fomenting religious intolerance, and stirring up strife that they may gain thereby, Hut tho fact that injudicious words and deeds accompany this move meet Is no more argument against It than that many a fool and fanatic has taken It upon himself to advance the cause of Ji:siis Christ or of religious liberty, It still remains true that re ligious liberty, the religion of Jesus Christ,' and tho danger of Ilomanlsm are actual Issues which no foolish friends can dissipate, If the wise men of this land desire to see this movement of religious con II let come to an end, lot them unlto In call ing upon tho Human Catholic church to give us substantial evidence that it has changed its jMillcy, It has been In the past as the confessed enemy of liberty of conscience, ffroo government, free n pooch, free schools, free thought and free men. It has yet to show In any ward, city, county or country where It has obtained predominance of power that It has changed Its principles In any of these respects. It pleads for re ligious tolerance In America, but so did James the Second In England. "While a subject, "says Lord Macaulay, JSP! IbSI mWm "ho had been for many years a perse cuted man, and persecution had pro duced Its usual effect on him; while he was excluded from tho court, from tho admiralty, and from the council, and was In danger of being seized and ex cluded from tho throne, only because ho could not help believing In transub stantlatton and tho authority of tho see at Home, ho made such rapid progress In tho doctrines of toleration that ho left Milton and Locke behind. He learned ny roto those commonplaces which all sects repeat so fluently when they are enduring oppression and for get so easily when they are able to re taliate it. Ills professions Imposed upon some charitable persons and per baps Imposed upon himself, but when fortune changed, when ho was no longer afraid that others would perse cute him, when bo had It In bis power to persecutes others, his real propensi ties began to show themselves, lfo who expressed just indignation when the priests of his own faith were hanged and quartered, amused himself with hearing Covenantors shriek, and seeing them wrltho when their knees were being beaten (iat In tho boots." Our Human Catholic fellow citizens, especially tho laymen and such priests as Arelibbbop Ireland, are Insistent In their declarations that their church Is tho friend of religious liberty, Hut wo nuftt remind them that while we have tho greatest respect for their personal statements, they belong to an organiza tion which has nn unfortunate history, and It will require more than a mere assertion to convince the thinking peo ple of America, that this church Is on speaking terms with human freedom, Communication is too easy with tho uttermost parts of tho earth, and tho general intelligence of the affairs of nations is too wide-spread by the news papers of America, for us to accept their protesting assurance a against tho fuels of the eu-e. If tho adherents of Home would dis arm our prejudices against them let the proper authorities of that church use their good olllco under tho direc tion of Pope Leo XIII. to secure for the Protestants of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia thosiinio liberty of conscience that Is enjoyed by Human Catholic citizens of this country, Let them publicly acknowledge, not by Jesuitical Intimations here and there through persons In lessor olllco, but from tho mouth of tho pope him self, and then from hit" army of arch bishops, that tho church recedes from her former publicly acknowledged op position to free government, Let the church of Homo come out In a manly, plain, unequivocal declaration that they are disposed to fall in with the procession of human progress, and then backup that declaration Inconsistent legislation, and tho thinking men of the world will begin to believe In her, In the meantime, as long ascertain mernliers of society conspire, in tho namo of tho church, to get control of politics, H is just as right for certain num T r A t t m f t rti n n r n mi i ii nti i tt il iit tv mini S4r it , ,t a t I xiuu njiixu niAi ituujva iiu'j vhikuiau uJiii'j J j i n Ul l I .from rturatjo Aimrwan, other men, In the numo of antl church, to conspire to keep them from it. The Advocate thinks that secrecy Is an unfortunate adjunct to any political movement, but If other citizens of this free republic think' differently, they have an Inalienable right to do so, and form any secret society they pleases and wo must confess that if a secret organization Is in phico at all, it Is in plaeo against tho connivance of that hoary secret political society which tho Encyclopedia Brlttiuiloa says Is a sword whose hilt Is at Homu and whose point Is everywhere; that society which "during the eleven years preceding 1XM0, secured from tho authorities of New York City real estate valued at $.'l,i 500, 000, and money to the amount of of $5,827,471 In exchange for Homlsh votes, and every cent of It was paid In violation of law," that society which, "driven out of Berlin, declared that It would plant Itself In tho wes'ern terri tories of America; expelled for their intrigues even from Catholic countries, Spain, Portugal, ItJily, Brazil, Mexico and otbei states, Is free to colonize In tho great west and Is there gathering and plotting to Boninnlzo and control our western empire;" that society "whoso members are simply a band of ecclesiastical ollleeholdors held to gether by tho cohesive power of am bition, as compactly as an army of soldiers, and all governed by a com-mandor-ln-chlcf whoso brow they would adorn forever with a klng!y crown;" that society whoso head has at various times "commended its meinbnrs on their hostility to the laws and govern ment of Italy, Germany, Hpaln, Hwitzer land and Brazil; In 1855 declared abso lutely null and void all tho acts of the government of Piedmont; In tho same year attempted to abrogate the law of religious toleration in Hpaln; In 1HH2 declared tho Austrian law which es tablished freedom of opinion, of tho press, of belief, of conscience, of educa tion and of religion profession, to I abominable and totally void and with outttll force whatever; which in similar phraseology attempted to annul tho laws of Sardinia and the law of Mexico; which In Heptember, h(,'I, declared useless, unjust and Impious the law of New (iranadn establishing freedom of worship. Macaulay nay,, "the policy of tho church of Homo Is tho very masterpiece of human wisdom. The experience of twelve hundred eventful years, the ingenuity and pa tient care of forty generations of states men have improved that polity to such perfection that, among the contrivances which have been devised for deceiving and controlling mankind, it occupies the highest place." In tho meantime let us havo free soi oh. If any man, lie he ex-priest or not, doslres to discuss the church of Home or any other church, It Is the business ol the police to protect him from mob violence If what ho says Is the truth, let the jwople hear it. If what ho says is base and slanderous lies, let them alone and they will kill themselves. ,'Whon tho Jesuit assas-1 . i i ; . . tiO V I !fi WWWIAI Pli"iiA 1 sin," ay Leroy M. Vernon, "stabbed Era Paolo Barpl of Venice, to end his too liberal and evangelical writing, and fted, leaving the weapon sticking in tho wound, Sarpl himself plucked tho barbed stllloto from his flesh, nnd holding It aloft, cried 'The pen of the papitev!' " Contrariwise the sword of Americanism Is open, free discussion of all men and measures, In press, pulpit and platform. 'IIHMUO'N ITALIAN (JUAIITKH. Kalian I'easauls Coming to I'oiiud a New liimio, K venty-two thousand lvo hundred Italians came to tho United Btat.es in IMti.'l, Klxty-llve thousand of them were J toman Catholics, and lifteon thousand of thete were minors; ten thousand of these slaves of popery lo cated In Chicago, Why dooj this Im mense number of tho dusky children of Italy come tofour country? They come over hero because they have been so oppressed by Homo that they can no longer make a living In their own coun try. Their earnings were tiikeri by the greedy hand of Home nnd they hi'd to leave or starve. But these poor people have boon kept so Ignorant by their prlesls that they are not Intelligent enough to realize that these same priests are responsible. Home had one experience with the Italians under (iarlbaldl, and she Is now keeping her children o Ignorant that they will never see tho fallings of their mother church, The priests have succeeded In their object n nd the poor deluded Italians never know that they have to leavo their beloved country on account of tho oppressiveness of Home, On tho contrary, theso Italians come hero and aid the priests in their dia bolical project of making America, the homo of the bravo and the free, a He man Catholic nation, These Italians never think that Home aided by the Ignorance of their children, Is contin ually reaching out and grasping more and more territory, like a great devil fish she winds one of her arms around a country and then drags It in to her power, And after getting thrrn In her power she crushes them into absolute submission to her tyrannical rule. Doom she use her power for their good? Not much! Look at the great Cat hollo nations and tell me, are they on an equal with the other nations of this world. Look at Ireland. lias she prospered under Hommilsm? When Ireland was a heathen imtlon she was fenced by the English, and her warlike chiefs were famous nil over Europe. Aio they feared now'' No. Ireland is now known as a down tredden nice and tho sole cause of this Is Homan rule. Italy, tho homo of Catholicism U the most ignorant nation in all Europe. Ninety-nine per cent of them are gisid (?) Homan Catholics. Eighty-live per cent of them cannot read or write, Twenty-one per cent are born out of wedlock. What has made Italy such a hotbed of Ignorance and lust? Homo. Tho priest are i . i . called fathers by the members of their (lock. May bo this twenty-one per cent of illegitimate births has something to do with tho name father, If tho Hal Ian realized that Homo was the cause of all their trouble they would never assist the pope in hi latest scheme to Bomanlzo America, But this Is not our only complaint against the Italians, They have been so used to working for a mere pittance, In Italy, "that they come hero and work for starvation wnges and replace American laborers, They start fruit stands on thoeornor and undersell American fruit dealers; they put their boys on the streets dur ing the day sol ling papers and at night have them stealing whenever an oppor tunity Is offered. Their girls dance anil sing and play on the sympathies of the easily duped American public every day. At night they discard their tambourines and beg. By mak ing all his family work the Italian makes money, but he never spends any ofltherolf he can poslb!y avoid It )n the contrary, be sends every bit of money ho can scrape up buck to Italy so that bis relatives can pay the priest for tho privilege of living, Wo do not want these people to come here unless they desire to become American citi zens and renounce the all grasping Church of Home, Our constitution siiys all men are free and equal. To be an American you must indorse the principles of the constitution of the United Htates, Can you do thl a d believe Implicitly in a ellgion thst command one man to bend the km o to another? Can you take an oath of fealty to the United slate when your oath as a communi cant obliges you to lecognlzo the pope ns tho supreme legal power of the world? If you take b ilh these oaths, which one will you break? You have to break one of them; will it be the one to tho church, or Iho one to the coon try? If you, as a Catholic, break tho one to your church, you will be excom municated, but If, as a Catholic, you break your oath to tho country, the priest will orlvo you :or tho sake of Mother chinch. Americans, if these Italians do not renounce Homim (.'ntho'li-buii, they can never become good citizens of the United Htates, Ate you going to allow them to come over here, take a false oath of allegiance, and then usurp the privilege of the bullet and vote for whoever the priest tuny instruct them to support at the polls? If you me true Americans you will never submit to such Infamy as this, and as true American citizen of the great republic jour an;;esicrs fought for, I lieg you, for the sake of the good namo of our grand country, am) for tho lienor of the glorious star and stripes, to remove this nuisance to our liberty and crush (lie Church of Home, Daisy (i. Mack. ' i-i . An liupei liiiit Measure, One of the linHirtant measures now awaiting action in congress Is a bill de signed to make better citizens of immi grants coming to this country, and to t .i t, Hll- til : ?! H4.H- I !,. ti .,, t 'ta' n I'M l". iii, ,,.,te ftiil :.l' '! ! t'J H ) - KltU. Yll1 X M. .!!., of IN !-! Hm i, t..t I U-. i, mir. !! I fi ! it tn Bit beam t Hi :..Ui Is J itittlMetv III SititU eH I.l !Helt -l(lil1-tH.nU I I tnw, thl lit nil" l l Tt'll'ln ih d by IhittbiiHo , t teem Ue fiuitl er Birr npttMittsthii ,.f the Unitil hinted, li, Hit I lh, iltiil(-i,l' tnt place of tt MileMee, a eet t ifU ate (ie leg tlml the v. pieM-etitllvc t.n in., an invi olltitliiii iiiiieeriitiig Ihe limntgi mil Mel V si the liniisigl mil Is ntt elm i iii'hidiii (tint) thU eounitv oieler II pi "cut la, or any law Unit may l hileptiil, The following, ijuetml from the leMirt of the judiciary eommlStre, will gUe wiine of tin' reasons why every cit li-ed should favor this mr.imirei "The pui Hwe of this bill Is to pre vent Ihe criminals and paii r of Europe from being cent hero s iininl grunts. Ktatlstlcs sliow that much too large a proportion of the immigrant now coming here are Inciipable of self i.upirt. By the last census, the per cent, of persons isirn In foreign coun tries I H.77 per cent, and yet tills census shows that 2(1 per cent of the white prisoner con lined In Jails and simple prisons are person a of foreign birth. The total number of white eon vlcls In our penitentiaries, whose birt h place Is known, is 2H1'I I0, composed of 1.1,715 riatlvn born and 1 -1,72ft foreign born, showing that more than one-half of all our white convicts are of foreign birth. Our benevolent institution contain (Ml,tnl2 Inmates by tho last cen sus of which the foreign Isirn coiiipoM) 21 per cent. Tho total number of t he white Inmates of our poor-houses Is i.'MHW, of which numlior 27,(ilH, or a little over 51 per cent, were born In foreign countries. These sta tistics show that with a foreign popula tion of I t, 77 per cent, more than half of our white penitentiary convict and more than half of the white Inmates of our poor-house, are foreigners, and prove that of the Immigrants coming here during tho past few years, too many of them are deficient In morals, and are Inciipable, physically, of self- support, Eorelgn countries not only encourage Immigration of criminals and paupers, but use public monry to pay their expenses hero, This fact eems to boa sufficient reason why so largo a percentages of Immigrants o soon find themselves In our prisons and poor-houses, ' The means adopted have been found wholly inadequate to keep out of the country those really included In tho excluded list. Tho sujs rlntendent of immigration states that during tho six months ending Dee mber )!, 1 Hit.'J, 1H.I,02H Immigrant arrived, and 1,258 of them were debarred as falling with in the list excluded by the law; loss than one per cent. The examination on the arrival ol the Immigrants must necessarily lie wholly insufficient to do- rmlne whether tho immigrant bo- long to the excluded class or not, and in many Instances where t he immigrant has made the long journey to the place of examination, and perhaps bus ex pended his all In tho undertaking, sympathy overcome the doubt as to his eligibility, and he Is admitted, Uncer the present system, the Im migrant's word has to lie tak n for most of the Inquiries and there is no means of refuting him If he answer untruthfully, This change strikes at no nationality, hut simply at t hat chin of Incapable of all nations who can be only a hn cnn to us, and whose moral and social influence can do us much harm." Ilaie Their thin Brewery. Tho following is a dispatch from Washington, D. C, to th i PH'slmrg Vnnvu r'iiil(tizttt : Charles E, McKenna, of Pittsburg, arrived here today, accompanied by tho arch-abbot of Ht. Vincent' monastery at Latfobe, Beer Is brewed at the monastery for domestle use, The law provide that in such eases the con sumption m .1st occur at tlm place of manufacture, A tho monastery beer i brewed in one building and the monk live in another, the abbot's visit here is to loivo the intern tl revenue regulation amended so that they can consume this beer in their dwelling, ami not In the brewery. That 1 decidedly suggest Ivo. Here we have an order of monkn, men who have ostensibly retired from tho world that they puiy give themselves tostudy, meditation and prayer, who havo a brewery In which to make their own beer! Hume s'op!e remain lu the activ ities of tile wicked world, and are able to get along withoutthls vice; but these "holy brothers" find It necessary to seek a modification of tho rule estab lished by t he government to protect it self from Imposition, In order that they may have their beer in their own house, Instead of Using com pell, d to walk to the brewery for it. They need go a step further, and lolu the Catholic Total Abslinaiice society. That, would be a real advance. - - - - - Tllt: Amkiucan can bo obtained ot all wholesale newsdealers. Ask your dealer to handle It. i