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falliiPi? of tvtrj half-hoat toil caumt.
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Cliii'Atio AmkuioaN In CHMt your hor-
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"Hear Sir: Homo few diiya ago, hear
ing TliK Chicauo Amkkioan crlod out
by the nowalmya on tbo atiwl, I biiught
a copy out of curiosity and read It. A
few days afterward, hearing tho S'mii
(fiii iVmtirraf proclnlmfd at an antag
onlt of tho former, I got one and read
It pretty generally through. I upo8o
you intend winning tho majority to
your hUIo of t ho ciwo and to destroy tho
main InHplratlon of tho A. IV A. From
tho general tono of your articles It
would appear mi, as tho scourge is a-
piled to tho enemy with no light hand,
I notice also that the denunciations
against you and your stylo of Ameri
canism Is no less vehomotit from tho
enemy ' batteries.
"If you will kindly allow mo, I will
call your attention to what I consider
Is the cause of almost all the noise.
Fifty years of iiHsoulatlon with tho In-
tltutUm of American freedom, which
is now tinder flro, and a Just apprecla-
tlon of the lessons In patriotism and
human Independence handed down from
Biro to son since tho day my ancestors
Jn America set foot on Plymouth Hock work yo shall know them.' Tho char
has filled me with as much concern for aetcroMloinanlstu has been proclaimed,
tho prosperity of the nation, tho pur-
pctuii tlon of our free educational sys-
tern, and tho general advancement of of Italy, at Its very heart, there Is a
tho republic as you or any other citizen cancer called popery, an imposture in
can ever feel. which we have a most formidable
"From tho neutral ground between enemy, most formidable because It ex
your difference I wish to cull your at- Ists among the Ignorant classes, becauso
tontlon to tho true cause f this tiprls- It rules by falsehood and sacrilegiously
Ing of tho piople, this rapidly growing covers its deceptions with the cloak of
power which you ought to have fire- religion. Its smllo is the smile of
sight enough to sco will be abutcd only Satan. This enemy is tho popish
when the end for which It was lnstl- priests." l'opery In America Is in
tuted shall have been accomplished. good condition to bo characterized In
"In tho matter of religion, which you tho ,tt"10 ori.
seem ! make tho bono of contention, I "When Victor Emanuel undertook
am unbiased and am entirely unlnflu- tho reformation of Italy's thralldom,
enced by any allegiance to any order, he suppressed 2,382 convents. Fight
secret policy, church, ology or Ism; for hundred and sevcnty-stx of thciio woro
tho religious oplulons of all, therefore, female nunneries. There woro H,2(K)
I can feel a resiieetful regard. I will nuns and 7,071 lay-slstors. Well, thoro
say further, that I am not a member of Is no comment needed; tho facts are
tho A. 1', A., and slutll oiler uiy ro- eloquent enough to show that there
marks wlthoat fear or favor. was no need of marriage among tho
"I'orhaps you are are familiar, or Itllttit priests. Tho samo thing ex
entirely conversant wLUi tho history ' 4 norei under the 'cloak' of course,
of what Is known throughout tho world Rn(1 yur parish priest makes It his
a KoitianUm, You should be, having business, through the confessional, to
evidently entered tho lists and thrown keep up tho supply and It Is kept up.
down tho gauntlet as its champion. If It will not do to assert that those nun
you have girded on the sword In that noro are established to save tho souls
cause, your battling will not avall-you ' women; the world knows what they
will fall. It Is Indefensible and tho Bro f,,p' must go, and your
most God like heroism would lv wasted priests bo allowed to marry,
if put forth to uphold tho pernicious "You have said In your paper that
fnurle. the A. i. A. wages war on Catholics,
"The hUtoty of the lUmian Catholic because they aro not 1'rotestants. You
church has proven It to Ih) tho greatest know better than that. Hollglon Is
cursu that ever blighted humanity, not tho question at all. As for myself
That church Is a treacherous political I havo no word of denunciation for my
power. It always was, and tho primal brother man tiecauso ho prefers to seek
boast of Its manipulators Is that It never ft life eternal by tho Catholic route in
changes. Nor did it ever change its stead of by any of tho other trails that
course of deviltry except by compulsion aro supposed to tormlnato in heaven,
from those Its detestable workings had but I cry anathema against tho secret
enraged beyond endurance. A repetl- and underhanded game that tho subtle
tlon of tho high handed power wielded and fine-working Jesuit Is playing to
by this villainous system In the tnlddlo get tho upiwhand In tho government
agos Is eagerly sought by tho poo and
ma uuioom in mis country, aim inrougn
tbo good natured apathy of tho Ameri
can masces tho sneaking serpent ha
been able to get a few colls about some
of freedom's most cherished Idols. You
who are using so much thunder to dis
tract tho attention of our people from
tho python In the grass are not deceiv
ing anyone. The snake Is In full view
now. You aro only calling tho reptile's
enemies to arms, Knowing these things,
you cannot profess Ignorance of what
tho Incentive is that prompU the
awakening of eventual millions of men
In this country for a redress of griev
ances, the organization of tho American
Protective Association or like societies.
Tho movement is not new. It had its
origin far back in tho past, when It was
felt by tho prlost-rldden people that
the Uomish church was tho enemy of
freedom. Her implements of conver
sionthe uword, the faggot and tho
gun, and tho eloquent tortures of the
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fully In tvMinw ami no alunklnly
ntulalve thitl no inorlal van commit ml
lantiHKo of mirtU-lfiit I'xpivuhlvtj jntwor
U pU'tuii" forth the tiilowml rrliuca
ami tint vlli, iimlorhmitleil nohomt'H of
whtt h thtt t hiiirh U eulltv. And what
Im this t'hurcti of Home? It Ih that In
fornal, vntit intrlmi.i built hihI main
ulniH, tha
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RtiporMtitlotia of Ijfnor-
anoo ami masquoNullng: umlor the name
of .M-Hion, having for lu motive the
Hcrvlllty of man and tho nulijugallon of
ht Intellect. It lia long ago boon
convicted lKforo the world. It only
remains now for the intelligence of
enlightened nuttomt to puna final Hen
teiico and wipe forever from tho earth
thin culmination of barbaric Iniquity
"Look back at tho unHpoakablo hor
rible InqulHltlon of Spain. That
daughter hoimoof tho Romlah church
in which tho infamous Torqucmada
vlnltod with torture and death tho
thouMtindu of his fellow men, who had
the herolam to claim part ownership of
tholr souls, or who denied that tho
church was greater than Almighty
God.
"I no nenri sicKcns over tho pages
of verified history, and tho scnsltlvo
brain reels In the presence of these
awful revelations. Was that establish
ment a fair sample of what the Ilomlsh
church is trying to arrive at In this
country? Is that the kind of religion
you are defending? Turn around and
look at what tho chuvch has done In
this line, and reiuomher that "history
repeats Itself when It can, 'By their
and It behooves us to heed tho words of
the Immortal Garibaldi, 'In tho midst
of this country. Tho emissaries of tho
pope have had smooth salllrg for a
good while now, with tho wind in their
favor, but there aro breakers ahead,
and thoy must tack ship or go to pieces.
You will doubtless conclude at this
point that your subset Ibor Is no bettor
than others whom you style bigoted
oersecutors or, perhaps, heretics, as
tbo old inquisitors put it. If so, let me
refer you to another kind of critic, no
less a personage than M. T. Elder, a
Iloman Catholic of New Orleans, who
sent a puer, which was read at the
religious congress during tho world's
fair. Possibly you did not hear It; If
not, I will tell you some of tho things
It contained, if you did hear It, you
may find something to reflect upon. It
struck the true note when It denounced
the Catholic parochial school as being
a "factory for retrogressive education
and a producer of that order of intellect
that you will find among the Catholics
vrho compose tho great majority of our
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etvr said any motti than (hal. Stub
hit n would itiaku Ihe lutvh Ml$H(i
and hot (H.iitWal. and would n.l I lie
1st hollo (hltdrvn to the puhile nt'hool
ami not t. a Ii Ih. m t aUt lii-iu. Thai U
I he kind of I "al ho! le J ean lake bv the
hand, for ho Is not a nkt In the gr
A man like that ml ij ht bo niot-lful to
the mHt on ground of eourtnv, but
could never Ih servllo. This is the
kind of spiritual minister that would
modify the tlolsthing system of Itoman
ism and all that it Implien, and would
trip off th clonk of sanctity from the
theatrical mummery In w hat the church
misnames 'divine service.' You will
notice, perhaps, that the chief butdncH
of tho priesthood Is to hold tho women
soul and body, In thelrclutehes through
the confessional Tho children, both
their own, on tho side, and ot her men's,
will then bo In tholr power to recruit
tho church with by educating them
backwards, by tho catechism method
and equip them with ability to walk In
the rear ranks of progress and take tho
dust of their superiors who march In
tho vanguard with tho band
"This confessional business Is ono of
tho abusoB which needs correcting, and
It must bo done through tho public
schools of the country. Educate your
children as your Protestant brother
does his, and thoro will bo no A. P. A,
As It Is now tho greatest efforts of tho
Catholic clergy aro put forward to blast
tho Amorlcan Bchool system. Educa.
tlon is Rome's most potent enemy, and
Jesuitism wrlthos with fear lest tho
light of intelligence may open the eyes
of tho multitude to its trickery. In
my opinion this condition of things
wlllobtaln sooner or later, it is Inevit
able, tho world moves on.
"I have Intimated that Catholicism,
as It has always been practiced, was
degrading, and would debase tho
morals of tho people and prostitute the
Intention of tho Almighty wherever It
could get a ehunco. Tho proof is over
whelming. Look at tho condition of
tho lower classes of Italy, Spain, Por
tugal, Poland, Uohemla and tho South
Amorlcan countrlos. Intelligence is
the exception, Ignorance tho rule. We
see plenty of it in tho emigrants to this
country. Tho contrast between those
from iloman Catholic countries and tho
pcoplo from Protestant communities Is
so groat that Itomo should blush for
shame. As to tho character of vour
priests I know some who aro Inclined
jiorsonally to bo good, pure, honorable
men, and who would. If they could, bo
loyal to tho American idea. Somo,
again, are scoundrels, just as they
would bo woro they ordinary citizens.
The samo may bo said of Protestant
ministers, but personal character has
nothing to do with tho theology or
methods of either system.
"In the Protestant method there Is
no menace to homo and liberty. Polltl
cal supremacy and abject surrender of
onselonco is what tho 'mother church
requires, and sho gets It If she can.
Home will never bo ablo to get tho
Iron grip on this country that sho has
so long striven for, but the establish
ment of tho parochial school In defiance
of good senso and In place of a far
superior system, tho endowment of
nunneries and tho maintenance of tho
confessional, all of which combine to
hold tho priesthood together for an
unholy purposo, shew what would
eventually happen to us If wo did not
wako up and put a stop to It. I know
there aro many Catholics good and
true men, good husbands and fathers,
to whom tho Idea of tho confessional,
priestly coloblcy and tho nunnery are
abhorrent. They are the kind of Cath
olics who, In times of danger, stand
forward in tho nation's defense. They
aro the kind that can bo relied upon to
resist any attempt at tho prostitution
of our liberties Against them and
their religious convictions no true
American of any sect will ever raise
his voice, but against tho ultimate
alms and aspirations of tho machine
run by tho pope of Home the patriotism
of America will rlso in Its might. It
will bo of no use to make the blatant
assertion that the A. P. A. is composed
of traitors. You will not bo ablo to
blind sixty million of people much
longer; there will have to bo a change
for the better. The Catholio church
In this country will ono day be presided
over by a married priesthood, and tho
female-ruining confessional and the
back-action school will bo abandoned
the A. P. A. will then include every
body, and differences in forms of
worship will have no effect on politics.
In one of your articles you speak of the
burning of the Ursuline convent at
Somcrville, Mass., or as you say,
Charlcstown. You need a little coach
ing as to the facts. Your coloring of
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not menially ttetanp-d, as ttni hate
nUlivl, hut was prtlly near It, h
wtmtun i nave taken mueh longer to
have driven her Into ln-uitv. She
was kept a prisoner, detmtl. Insulted
and tortured In an institution rstah-
IIsIhhI by foreigners, built with foreign
monev, rigidly Catholic, un Amerlean,
managed by an Italian priest and mas
querading under tho guise of a school
for tho education of Protestant girl..
closed against insiieetlon and conducted
In a strange and mysterious ma, tier.
The revelations of Miss Heed aroused
tho resentment of tho populace; it was
decided to abolish tho "seminary" be
causo it was lHjruleious and altogether
undesirable in a country where there
were plenty of moral free schools and
colleges, and It was abolished in a
stylo that gave an idea of what Ameri
can indignation is like when It offers
U) rebuke a national Insult.
"I could give you a more minute re
view of tho "affair," but consider It
unessential. I have stood on those
ruins and had tho whole story then and
there from my father, and others who
woro eye-wltnessos of tho occurrence.
Tho records of history are open to the
Investigator; look the matter up. When
you speak of the burning of the Mount
Benedict convent you cite tho matter
as being tho "most fiendish and dia
bolical outrage In all the bloodiest
records of history." Your knowledgo
of what history has recorded is about
on a level with the sincerity of the
patriotism dlcplayed by tho, reverend
fathers and other champions of tho
Human church in this country simply
out of sight,' Nobody was killed or
Injured at the reduction of tho Ursuline
fraud, but how about tho massacre of
St. Bartholomew in Paris, and, in fact
all over Franco? Did you ever hear
about that? The 'records' you refer
to say that upwards of 2;"),000 men, wo
men and children were murdered In
cold blood during some six weeks while
the pope-sanctioned harlot, Catherine
do Modlol and her Imbecile, son
Charles IX,, held tholr Infernal revol
In tho capital. This wus a sample of
what Homan Catholio treachery is
capable of when It gets a good chanco,
Get the history of tho conouest of
Mexico. If your hair does not stand
up at tho recitals of the numberless
atrocities and wholesale murders done
by tho Catholio Spaniards In the name
of Christ, you are less than human
Look over the 'Llvos of the Popes' If
yoa would like to know what kind of
holiness has been prevalent at Home.
You will And the earth has nover pro
duced tholr equal for licentiousness,
treachery, debauchery, llbertlnelsm
and every vllo crime that abundant
opportunity and immeasurable knavery
can conceive of
"In every community of poor pcoplo
throughout tho christian world there
Is more or loss suffering and privation,
spoclally among the Catholics; yet
they must pay their tithes to the
church or bo 'read from tho altar.' Tho
popo must got his 'Peter's pence' every
year, too, on account of his poverty,
This amounts to something like half a
million dollars a year. Plus IX. inun-
aged to make bis dupes believe that he
had no money, yet he hod English gov
ernment bonds worth $.)X(X0.000 and
real estate and other securities of over
$iiO,(XM),(KX more. Oh, yes; he was
quite a pauperl The angel who now
wings the 'hull' pen at Home and man-
agos to eko out his miserable existence
i as only the squalid Income of sixteen
hundred thousand dollars a year, and
they say ho Is a bachelor, too, and
hasn't a family of sons and daughters
and four wives, as his great cardinal,
Antonelll, had owing to tho 'cardinal
virtues' of tho priesthood, I suppose.
'I havo often wondered why somo of
you editors who are clamoring for fame
don't tako up the description of the
running machinery of the Catholio
church, and let tho people know what
tho real business of tho nunnery Is, and
why there should be any secrecy at
tached to It why It Is not open for
public inspection? Why there is a lot
of healthy women kept there, and why
they are nover let out, but are continu
ally visited by unmarried healthy men
not eunuchs either, by any means?
Why the numerous children born there
aro strangled and consumed in lime
pits, and a hundred other well proven
but not generally known practices.
Theso Institutions, we are told, are
soul-saving joints.
"To sum up the whole matter, those
polluting European relics of the dark
ages must bo uprooted and swept from
our country. Are such damnable works
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mler while your rear U on n. If yni
ditnl Ihe tttettty will flank )ou, and
with lil un iior arlilierv will cut you
all U pleta, "He that lights and runs
away," etc. I havt Hut homtr to K
tours rvspwt fully, FoiiTV-Fot R.M
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The figures under dispute appeared
In tho ' Notes and Queries" department
of the New York Hun, August .10, ism.
And "if you see it in tho Sun, It's so."
Tho figures 1 quoted in today's lier
fist r have been going tho rounds of tho
press for a number of years, and they
wont unchallenged until within the
past year, when an Irishman wrote to
Henry Cabot Lodgo for the confirma
tion or contradiction of tho statistics.
Mr. Lodgo wrote to tho pension office
and Mr. Alnsworlh replied that tho
figures were either false or unreliable,
tnat no summary of enlisted nationali
ties had been made, and Buch summary
could not bj made, which latter uart
was certainly an Incorrect statement.
Mr. H. J. Long, editor of the intericun
Citizen, publisned in Booton, deter
mined to gut at the truth. Tho chief
of the bureau of statistics was a Homan
Catholic Irlshmun, and would naturally
shield his race and religion.
Your correspondent forced this issue.
Ho claimed that "tho patriotism of tho
Irish on our battlefields was unparral
loled." I had always believed, and do
still believe that the Americans fought
our battles. In the office of tho Vitize.i,
No. 7 Brum Held street, Boston, can bo
seen a colored diagram, isMied by a
well known llrm of pension attorneys
In Washington, and the figures of en
listments and desertions are precisely
the same as published by tho New York
Sun of August .'10, 1801, and the Boston
Globo September 27, 18111.
Thoa'iove mentioned linn havo given
out theso sheets freely for some years,
the figures have boon publicly exhibited
In prominent offices in Washington and
have only rect-filly boon disputed, but
not disproved. Tut figures were not
compiled officially, but by a number of
gont lemon interested, who had access
to the various departments.
Mr, Apthorp Gould, In his "Investi
gations in the Military and Anthropo
logical Statistics of American Soldiers"
(published for the United States sani
tary commtBsslon by llurd & Houghton,
New York), In speaking of tho com
parative merits of American and for
eign troops during tho rebellion, said:
"How much larger was tho purely
American element among the curlier
troop needs not to be recalled to any
one then lu the country. A small por
tion of tho men who forsook their colors
were Americans. It Is a njtorlous cir
cumstance that the groat mass of the
professional bounty jumpers were
Europeans. In general tho manufac
turing states, us for instance, Mussu-
chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
New York and New Jersey, rank high
In the column of desertions; and this
result is to bo attributed not only to
tho fact that such states are dotted with
towns and cities, but to tho secondary
fuel that thtTso towns ami cities ure
crowded with foreigners, Tho respect
able and industrious part of this popu
lation did Indeed produce a mass of
faithful troops; but with theso wero
mixed a vast number of adventurers
unworthy of any country, who had no
affection for any republic, and only en
listed for money."
Inatiibioof nationalities of foreign-
born United States volunteers Mr.
Gould makes tho following classifica
tion in the states which, ho says, "rank
high In the column of desertions"
All
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Now York.,., ft I, Sim 14 ua IWi IIW)
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K. I. A (!n. ... 7.II..7 K.IUII 2,2.14 I.IHI7 ll -iW
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Total 17,m 4K.SI2 2I.0.VJ l!7,2ii -in.Kf
Mr. Baumgurten, on his hook on
"German Soldiers in tho Civil War,"
estimates the foreign quota us follows:
Germans, with a population of 1,118,-
402, sent to tho war 187,85!) soldiers;
Irish (with a much larger population
to draw from) 144,221; English, 38,250;
British-Americans, 6,'),5;t2, with a com
paratively small number to draw from.
I havo before me a publication of the
records of the Massachusetts volunteers,
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influential jsosllito church (vrlodlcnl
In Germany, in a retvnt Intuit, gate
from authoritative source some Inter
esting data, show ing that for a number
of years the Homan Catholic church
has lost ground when compared with
the progress of Protestantism. From
official German sources we learn that
lietwcen tbo yeans 1875 and lss In tho
nine old provinces of Prussia, i. o., ex
clusive of tho three acquired in ISHii,
the number of converts from Roman
Catholicism to Protestantism was 22,
704, while the Reman Catholic church
secured from the Protestant only 2,411.
1 he number of converts from tho Ro
man Catholic to tho Protestant is
steadily increasing a fact us notable
as the proportional number of changes.
From 1875 to 1880 the figures were 7,702;
from 1880 to 188.") it was 7,1127; while in
the three years, 188") to 1888 it was
5,2:12; in 181)0 alono It was 2,0.12, and in
18!W it was 2,274. Tho only German
state in which tho Catholic church
gains moro from tho Protestant than
the latter does from tho former, h Ba
varia, the bulwark of the church of
Homo in tho land of Luther; yet even
here Protestantism is gainfng numeri
cally at the expense or Catholicism,
From 1805 to 1800 tho percentage of
Roman Catholic in tho total popula
tion foil from 05 to 02.8, while that of
tho Protestants Increased from .'12,0 to
!15.2. In Alsaco-Lorrulno from 1880 t.n
18W1, tho Protestant contingent In
creased from 215,000 to :j.')7,470, whllo
tho Roman Catholic decreased from
l,:iOH)00 to 1,227,181). In England tho
Roman clergy, Indued, lncreused in
187M801 from 1,020 to 2,57.'!, but tho
Roman Catholio population of tho
klndom has decreased by about two
millions In tho last forty years, whllo
tho Protestants havo Increased nearly
ten millions. In 18)1 Great Biltaln
reported lU,Gil,a:i:i Protestants, and In
1881,29,200,807; whllo in 1811 the Ro
man Catholics numbered 7,211,771, and
In 1881, 5,451,881. Whllo the losses to
Homo through Old Catholicism have
not been us great as was hoped und
feared, recent events show that tho
movt ment is still a strong force. Re
cently a whole Roman Catholio congre
gation In Leltmurltz, in Bohemia,
Joined tho Old Catholics. In Italy the
entire vlllago of Montorfano did tho
samo, and lu Szablya, in Hungary, 050
Gorman Homan Cuthollos lately bo
catiio Protestants,
Wooily Itotv ill a I'oIInIi Church
IIajxkton, Pa., May 27. St. Cal-
mlr'g Polish Catholic church at Freo
land was today tho scone of a riot In
which two men wero fatally shot, two
others seriously shot, and a score of
other people cut and bruised by clubs
ami other mlsslls,
Tho riot today was tho outcome of an
effort to dethrone Rev. Father Mos.o
las, tho pastor, The congregation Is
miulo up of Polunders. This morning
they broke open tbo church and took
possession of It. They threw tho priest
out. The police woro called, and when
they arrived wero fired upon, Tho two
fuctlons then became engaged in a
battle, which rsged furiously for half
an hour. Tho police wero powerless to
control tho mob, and but four arrests
wore made. Another outbreak Is
feared,
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