THE AMERICAN.
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I-Hi nhhi tin, M 4 Cnniiiy to
r', hIh.V'h toil it Hti'il , tll' t'ltlill
i-ceillliu In IJiilllMtl m l.iml I'll""
ll'('liij l) P'Htiti V' l) ItlteH'ntlllg f"ltt-
tire. liU li In turn Involved uiii'X eted
titx itk iiiiallHc lnilrt, mill the light
iill nil, Tin- p!iiilitllK representing
tin' Jr. o. V. A. M , took up their tea-
tl'lH'IIV WhlTO II Wll left I'lT I UN I eVctl
ll'g. A t bedny'a pria-eeillngn, several Nla-b-r
of St. Joseph were tin lln stand,
Including Sinter Miiry John, who
taught room No, H In I lin (iitllll.ln
school. Slater Mary ,li.lni testified
Hint the garb of the order has no sig
nificance except iih n distinguishing
dresa, mid thiil there hud never Im-cii,
so fur hn aim knew, imy design that the
garb should I'Oiivc.v Instruction, rcllg
lotiM or secular, Tho garb Iiiikincs no
obligation to tench Catholicism or
anything else. Tho eabMblmn In not
taught by them In tho public school,
nor him It over been referred to, or Mr
mltted to ho utiiil led by any of tho pu
pils during the regular school m-salona.
Protestant children w-ire novel' re
quired to attend or listen to recital of
thl cabiehlsm, which worn condticb-d
separate from and Independent to tho
rctfulur Hiihool, hohhIoiih wore not even
ojicncd with jiruyor,
Tim HlMtorH Uo ti Miltlod that tho
put 11m In tho Uiilllfzlri hcIiodIm, whoro
thoy had tuuKht, wnro rn lthcr Wiilrcd
nor nxpocti'd to aildrcw tho toucher uh
" KImIuc." Tboxtruriffo iiyiiteiii of ((rad
inu tb hcIiooIm, In which the lurtfor
boy" art) taught In ono room and tho
U In another, hrm no connection with
the ruloH of tho order, Tho tune-born'
kalai'loN were (flven to help aupport the
conviiiit at which they reiilded.
Maud JlyHonj,', aifecj III, ntat'd poult
Ively that tho pupils were liM,ln!tly In
tructod to addrec tic) toucher a
"Hlntor." She wan corroborated by
hor vunifer nUtor, Fourteen wbool
grln word then examine', mmn of
them nwi-arln that the teacher had
told them to addrexM her an "Hlntcr,"
while others had not lieen told U) do no,
but they did m an a matter of jnliu -neioi,
All thuxp pnplln dtaUid that none
of them were puiilnhed or reprli anded
for not complying. In regard to thfj
vMtn of prlenU at the xdiool, they tea
tlfied that t hey were Inatrueted to rle
when the prleat entered, and aalnto
him with; "flood niorrilntr, Father,,'
and when leaving to rlie and thank
him for hi vlnlt.
(Jj'ow-exatnliiiitlon elicited the fact
that Niieh (f reeling were extended to
all fltltor to the ehool, whether
clerical or laymen. The eateohlrn of
the Catbollo ehun-h, the pujill ntatod,
wa taught ftr aehool hour to thOMi
who wlched to receive the limtrucllon,
The J'rotcntfint were not akd nor
expected to attend. The preparation
of the catoeblam lennon during Heboid
hour byline of the pupil wan wn
xlormlly Indulged In, butalway under
cover, like any other violation of rule,
and If (Uncovered by the teacher, wa
immediately stopped. It wa a rule of
the aehool that they nhould not mix up
religion and aeenlar ntudy. None of
the (flrl ever knew of the publle w.
ori belni opened with prayer, They
all testified that they thought the HI
ter tried to win them over U their re
ligion belief by aetof klndne and
petti ri(f,- 'Wuhiirt) IMr.putrh,
f elude A. V. A. Ihl ( luj (luun,
Tif-I':iw)( (,, May ,', J MM To mem
ber of the American Protective Anno
tation: lnanwerto many Inquiring
I am fdeaw d U) ay that the American
Jlroteetlve Ao:latlon of Toledo,),,
did not buy or contract to buy gun a
ha been reHiiUd o widely In the
country,
Home memlicr of the order at a no
dal meeting In the ant-room of their
WMinell agreed to buy for their own
tine (run.
It wa thought beat bv theae men in
combine for thl purchaae In order U
wcure a low or reduced price, Thl wa
not lit a regular meeting of any council
that they iKMufht ffiiri. A dlpute
arone Ixtlween the man acting a the
treaaurer for thene purehaaea and the
arty bought of, a to tbelellvery of a
certain lot of ten. The trcamirer
claimed no delivery of the ten (fun In
(iietlon and payment therefor wa re
f lined.
Thene eron who were prenent at
th Informal meeting were ued. A
judgment wa rendered; tho cane wa
Rpjcaled and will come up laU-r for
hearing.
f will nay that there have been cv
crai caunen, Inducing leading men,
ome of thern A. V. A., to buy and keep
gun at home I will name two or more
cannon:
Flmt The jninwnnlon of arm by
IM-- I"'- r I in, i,, - .-r-rr ' I 'll
Mm. I'artlngton JlitHrirtw,)
many church aocletle In Ohio and
elncwhcro,
Hrmd Thn entrance InU thla diy,
uninvited by the civil authority and In
violation of the ntnte and city etluijetU.'
(to put It mildly) of a coinnauy of
armed I'ollah Ifornan Cathollca from
Detroit, on the occanlon of a IJornan
church dedication March or April I Ml!
here. They of eonrae were Invited by
the local church authority, and the act
rniiMt have been functioned by the I lo
om n blnhopof thl dloecanr'.
Third In Augunt lant, certain peo
ple, mid to lie I'olen, made therniedve
feared and dlntrunud In theoutnklrt of
the city by depredation on growing
crop Ac, Our nowapaper called em
phatic attention to thene violation of
law at the time,
Fourth A very ffreat dlnllke ex
lte and ft In nabl till exlnt ld,ween
certain J'rotentant Oerman American
and I toman Catholic Pole living con
tlguou to the I'ollah ettlement.
Threat on Ixith aide wer nald Uihavo
been common, The A, I', A, had no
part in the matter and It member
w;'e not In any way connplciiou In the
feud.
Fifth Thl city at one time wa
largely domln. ted by Ttornan lata-not
openly alway, but weretly, Hence It
may be aald that aome friction ha
beep developed thereby, eaidally a
to the Mchool truant law,
Klxth One of th reaaon why aueh
undue and fiillb prominence wa
given Ui the "gun" affair wa'that It
wa ael.ed iim by the Irxuil pre for
imlltlea. And no jiafier heio'exwpt
the llUnh. denied a word of the Ilea told
ho frequently and inallclounly, Tho
Annoelalod J'ren agent a imual, were
prejudiced agalnat the A, ', A, and
aent out falae reort, and dlaeolored
fiwa Ui mil t prejudiced mind herein
Toledo and abroad.
The friend of thl American order
can rent annured that no clty.f county
or any other official wero In anyway
connected with or reamalbk" for the
private act of cltl.en who availed
themaelvo of an opportunity to buy
gun, No Hcnalble jxTnon now or at
anytime ha conaldercd the act of the
gun buyer a an act of the American
Protective Anwoclatlon. Iteeetfully,
WM, F, Thomcho!,
Conveiit llormrxi
The F-uroean pre gave an Aceounl
of a convent In Naplea which for four
centurlen had been abut to all and had
been approplatcly known an the nun
nery of the "Hurled Alive," It wa
ouied in IMKi by the (hjIIcc and It
aceret unearthed, A young girl had
been hurriedly ' burled" there to cure
ber of an unfortunate panalon; hut when
KOMK'8 VAIN EFFORT
her family afterward wlahed to com
triunlcatfl with her It wa fjiuijd irnpo
aible. An appeal to the Italian Mini
ter of Juntice aeeu red an order for en
trance, and, agalnat violent opposition,
the jiollce forced their way. They
found twenty nuna, raggul, wreUihed,
and aome of them half Inaane, Fight
of them had lieen immured In thl
denth trap agalnat their will, Thene
women were walled In with only a
amall opening to pan In food, and were
like bony akeloton.
The midden exploration of convent
dungeon In the T.'nlUfd Klate would
veveal almllar horror, If the boiiat of
the Jtoman church f true that ahe I
ererywhere the name,
MAHOXHUV TIIK COKXKK HTOK.
riaee (lie freli-al lit KfllnKliiini ( atlmtlc
In (he Tin Ilex.
Kkhniwam, 111,, May 12. The cor
ner atone of the new public m-hool
building here wa laid today, The
ceremony took place under the auplee
of the Manonle fraternity and wa con
ducteil by (irand Maaier La Ooddard,
of Chicago, annlnted by O, If, H, Tolle,
dejnity grand lecturer, of Mattoon, and
C, Hohrbaugb, deputy dlntrlct grand
maatiT, of Klnrnundy, under eneortof
fiodfreyde IJoulllon coinmandery, No.
M, of Mattoon, Fully o,0Ht H-rw)ii
were InU-renU'd wltnenaea of the rltea
that are aald to be a old a Rolomon.
Of thl numlwr at leant 2,(Ki UmU part
In the parade, which wa comjioai'd of
Manonlc and other aecret order, city
and achool olllcfala, and band. A
algnlficant Item in the lint of the con
tent aealed up In the nUme wa a copy
of one of nine petition that wereclrcii
luted during the week In thl city by
mmbor of the Catholic church pa
tenting agalnat the laying of the ntone
by the Maaona, The only apparent rt
nult of thl mlngulded effort i f the
Catholic wa Ut call out In an extraor
dinary number the friend of popular
education and rellglou liberty. Fol
lowing the Irnpreanlva ccremonlei of
laying the corner aton William A.
Northcott, of (Jreenvllle, head conmi)
of the Mmlern VVVaaJnien of America,
delivered a patriotic add re, Mr,
Allcfl Wright Owyn, a member of tho
Kfllngbam Hoard of Kducation, deliv
ered a auholarly oration, and I)r Jame
Newton Matthew, of F.fflnghain
(joiinty, recited aome of hi line pre
pared for the occanlon. An original
ong net to the mutle of "John Hrown'
Hody," and aung by WW nchool children
cloned the exerclne.
rrlinl'n hlave l it to Held Ofllrc.
Take a good look at the II rat two or
three Homan prient you meet on the
ou,iM "'ii!!!llllllinii(i.i'' "' i ii ri i' )! H'itt m' i I r t i 1 1 1 1 1 J iM'.iMtltlli II
f - wl,j!iifif,!!(!8ll,il U'-i wiwsiiij.'' "-(I
TO STKM TJIK TJDK.
ntreet and then ankyouraclf If you want
to yot for a man, to fill any offfee, who
will get down on hi knee .to ono of
thene fellow and eonfen hi ln an
though he wa (alking to Cod' Ilo you
want U vote for a man who believe he
can get to heaven only through the Jn
tercenalon of nuch men? hi you want
to vote for a man no Intellectually be
netted aa to Indie vo that Cod I forced
ny hi limitation to employ audi go
between a th'-ae fellow to comniunl'
cate with hi children' Do you want
to vote for a man mi Imbecile a to be
lieve the claim of thene pi le), that
they are the only claim agent who can
practice In god' court with any ahow
of auccea' When you think the thing
over you will probably conclude to do
a the A. P. A.' do, vote only for free
men. No prlent'a nluve I fit to hold
office under a free government. Ifu
man I a nlave of the ICornan Catholic
church -the greateat thief known to
hlatory M cannot be, entrunt-d with
the administration of the affalra o a
free people. (!iUlltthti Iterii'fd,
I'll bl Ic Hell oel In Mexico,
In Mexico public achool have lieen
iHtabllnbed by the government, In
which IComanlam I forbidden to be
taught. The Mchool there had la-en
under the control of the prh-ntn for
over ,'tfW year, The remit t were what
might be expected. There are I0.0IW,.
MHI people there who never aaw a Illble,
and If they aaw one could not read ft,
A prient ha an article in the April
number of the (UttlinUe Wwbl, who
lately npent ome time In Mexico, and
he given a number of atrlking fuct.
The government nded and eonllneated
1,000 cathedral and churche valued
at H0,(XW,IXW, and million of property
and revenue belonging to monanterle,
convent, etc, The orient re very
much Inters ted in the education of the
ltopln all at once, and are active In
founding parochial choot In opaml
lion to the public achool. Thl prient
write that the public w-hoo! nyntem
ha t-,en eatabllahed In Mexico In Imi
tation of tho nyatern In the United
State. Thl I certainly an encourag
ing lgn of progren, Wimmn'n Voire.
Tlir Vatican a Meat of Thieve.
Kay the New York TrViunt: "Oniy
two year Mgr. Folchl wa dlnmlcd
from hi office and deprived of hi
archleplai-opal rank for dlnhonenty In
connection with the Peter' Pence
fund, of which he waa the treanurer.
Now it 1 learned that hi nucceanor,
the Joault Father Ferrari, ha been
guilty of nlmilar dinhonety, which ha
led to hi ding nice and to hi expulilou
from the Order of Jenulta."
(.oimjia'm vuvmsmt mmvmm.
Arlhm ut Him' Aiirthrii In AielnflriK
Pat HhIiIi ii Hcnafer 1'enilcmiicil,
VA'iUir Cranflll of the ItuplUl.
HUnubirii In a recent Inane of hi paper
ha the following to nay regarding Gov,
Northen' appointment of a f toman
Catbo Us to the United Htate nenate:
"Argue how we may, Hon, W, J,
Northen, vice president of the Kouth
ern aptlt convention, and lion, W.
,f, Northen, governor of (U orgla, are
one and the name man, And the
governor, In appointing a iVitnnn
Catholic to the United Htate aenate,
In f) feted a deadly wound on the vice
prenldent of the Hi.uthern liiiitfnt con
vention, If our leader a, when In mi
ilon, are not to proU-ct ua, ti whom
ahall we turn' Cov, Northen ha not
only proved dlnloyal to the church of
.fenu Chrlnt, but Ui American Ifii'ltu
tfon a well. What bonlne.a hii a
nun to hold a public ofition, who, by
a aolcmn and binding religion oath,
owe hi allegiance to foreign iir'f
Never, on a pcrona! ground, or for any
real or financial advantage, will fbi
paper ahrlnk from It whole duty,
And a (iod I o,ir jod-, we believe
that every word we have njtld, all that
I written, In the great at k Inline,
I true, and that our lw loved Nor i hen
ha more than he aeema U le aware
trodden the whftj' banner we have un
furled In dirt and n ud, and eat a re
proavih upon our whole peopf, that the
corrialing t'iieh of time will not aerve
to elTaee,"
- - -ItiiiniiiiUin
In llelgliim,
The religion atatitlcn of llelgluni
for JMW, which were on!y publlnhed
toward the clone of I Hat year, glvo the
number of conventual Inatlt.ntlon and
their Inmate In the kingdom-
monnt-rle, with 4,77.1 monk, and
I,,V1', convent, with lnu-i and
nun. Thew have grown during the
deende preceding from 'I'M monanlerle.
with 4, 12" monk, and I, ,'ll'i convent,
with 21,212 aiatern. The Inereane wa
no no great a In tha period H70 WI,
when many of the rellglou nectaex-l-l
led from Pruaala ettieil In Ibdglurn,
In the next decade many of the re
turned, owing to the relaxation of the
church law, Put there are ntill over
W,(W men and women belonging to the
various order, and biking the popula
tion of llelgliim In I"!l at 'i.OOO.OOll, we
find one "religion"-monk or nlU-r
to evry 2W -raonn,
A Niib-iK envi rted VrU-U
Monnlgnor Kouland, who left Ibiman
lam four year age, preached to 1,'WO
Frenchmen In New York City re
cently. Mgr. llotiland waa dotuertlc
i hnpinln lo lie' mM, ind Imi nil lil
MiHle ft lend Mud i Kin minimi of I Midi
ohI I,hh Ii re In the rom in of hi
w lliuill be rtld
"The Itiuumi t'nlholht b in Ii baa
trtki u nd i niitiig" of lh" nepm al iiui of
i Iniii b and ntate In Ihe t'lill' d Hlale
to linin into line great hi1Ii I body,
or HUH hill' , ttlul the iblliger It pieneitt
Intliii pi'i petdBllnii nf the Utilnii I Im
minent. Pi'Ulentiuit bavii lii"d lii bo
i iiiiii lie nil I lie alel l, becaunii the
M'i-iirlly I be.V enjoy I falae,
"If you do not limk out, Priientttiit,M
be unclaimed, "the Catholic octopu
will III tell year envelope America."
A for hlinnnlf, however, lather than
again yield to Home's "unholy dicta-
Hon," he would die the dentil of a
martyr, Thl outburnt wa received
with loud npplauae,
AS OI'I'.M I.CTTKK.
Tu I,. II, Hmllli, 1W ('um. ii. A. It.
Km Inn, Kan
Hiawatha, Kan., May 1,1, IMil.
Hlr; You are certainly awaie that
If you have Invited a Catholic
iii leat to olllclate on Memorial day,
you have dlngraccd the honorable ina
nition you hold, illnhonored the grave
of your dead comrade, and Inaulled
the Old Flag. I the name of High
Heaven! and the name of your dead
Vtmfn rm, bow could you do thl thlngV
Ood forbid that we foater war-engen
dered nnlmoaltli-a, or detract from tho
honor due thoae Catholic who were
pal riot In aplto of their en ed, which
wa a primary cauae of the war. The
iowI I out of place benliie the "Army-
blue" on a day like tbla, and the nyn-
onym of all traltorou element that
"declared the war, a failure,"
We may have mlneorialtucd your mo
tive, Perhap you will have the crn-
laaarv. of aouanl foreign power, read
the letter of Pope Plua, IX, to Jeff
Davl'. The trial of the anaa)n or
our martyred Mncoln, It were mln
ntlv fitting that on thl day, you De
pict the burning zenl of Home for the
union! I 'ere ha new you will hav
bullded, better than you knew, for
draatlc meanure are ii-.ded Ui waken
the ProtenlantH who a yet, realize In
mapaamodlc fanhlon the danger, noon
to lai lulled to nleep by the nlren
voiced Jenuit who nlng of the day,
when the "Mon and I,amb ball II
down togetber." N. wJp.ii tb'"'
Homlah lion, and the American lamb,
lie down toiiether," The p(r little
lamb, will not fie vlalble lo the naked
nye If we interpret aright, the an pi ra
tion of J ,eo XIII. for "a return of the
robuat Cbrintlanlty of the Middle
Age," (to Include the J bumtw-erew,
tack and An-to dfe), In conclunlon
will only add, "Do not try Ui curry
wab-r on both ahoulder," A, V.
Ili f) lag the Fahrlipie,
One of the hcavlet burden renting
iinori the French Itoman Catholic of
Quelac l'rovlnc I the fabrlue law
wherepy the people are ciniieleJ w
Contribute to the ecclclaatical fund
according to the will of the prient and
nhmm. When a prieat take it MM
hi bead ibatb'i would like to build a
w church or a convent, the fabrlo.no
law I Immediately et Into oaratlon
and each Huntiu Catholic of the par
h I obllgixj Ui contribute to the
building fund under pn'n of cx-coin-
munlcation, The Fr- ncb :auadlan
ave ! groaning beneath thl ere
mt and tyrannical la for many y ar,
eld In otatilienee to It by a ui-rl itl-
Oii fea' of the ecelenlatiel fulmlna-
lon of lh ' holy 'at her. It I gratify
ing bi know, however, that aign of de-
veraiic are at bund. The rrem h
anaillan are gralually appreb ndlng
the policy of the holy metier church,
and many of them are declaring their
emphatic refnnal Ui make any further
Inventmenl In her b k, preferring b
bey the Injunction oft hr)lbi "lay up
reaure In heaven where neither
moth nor runt doth corrupt and where
t,ieve do not break through and
nb-al." Ilifwk Oiniidinn.
irow Kranllc Oyer Hip A. I'. A
The Chb'ago ihratil grow frantic
over the ei;ret non-partian A, P. A.
political organization, but I nJJeril
over tha greaU nlnecret (mlitical organ
ization that ha ever exlnb-d. It I the
secret jaditlcal organization headed by
the prletboaJ that ha given rlo b
the A, P, A. One aceret political
organization will produeo another
secret iollte, organiii tier). f,et
the Ittraltl turn IU atb:ntioii
b the many onth-laiund secret
anti-American political organization
In tho Itoman Catholic church
If ahe would be connlb-nt. We agree
that ccret political organization ara
dangerou b) am-lety, I't'ipk't Union
Nkwhukalkiu can obtain Tint
AMKUtCAM from any wbnleale newa
dcaler. Your cuabtmcr will want it.
Put it on your courier,