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THE AMERICAN. 3 MAGNET FIIEC;KIILEII t 1 1 - !. 0 M 111 t K Un4 for fttclil Dltiiui Only. V I .. , I . I t I Mm III AM 1 ... ..! .oo rtn mux, mrr I i;lli4 N.ati.tkr mo ( 1, IUnt I ' "ii n'r.t l)i a ll f U 4 rt ! if f . tit t t It l l t O p i in w io t -J ftHi ay;i Il'f ir Uotl,4WttV'Vf' ttt M, I " riHt i-fl, IfiMM at'. fiw tlilm f ,V t l-H tf '. thp t,, in(lU. ivf i..SiU.l nflalrat Annthnt.t mH Oip IuV f lh IIH' jKf)'' nTr tn tatlin. AttiHnnltn, n the Mrr haml, rfr' ! tn jh! nf tw-oi'tc, tru UUlm, i tiy of the Fallot, ii)1! try, InUi-rliy, Ut tWlioii f Wtnt ml f aiu hu ll to fill ltiin of nt He trust. Uoman rathollilsm la n uvin1J l) tin (.Manna til, Ah'l'Bi Order nf Hibernians, ami other kindred rtjiin liation. Their character la Uxi pent-rally known to mvl any comment hew. Hiinic It lo say tht there tro In existence tn America twcnty-flvc secret Hoiimn Catholic societies, to which ft truly loyal A merlon n l In- Americanism U represented by the American IVoUtIIvp Association, Wic Loyal Oranjro IhmI jjo, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, tho Patriotic Order of tho norm of America, tho Daughters of Lltierty, Munonlo Fra ternity, and others; hut hy none so well as hy the A. P. A. Tho time twm when the viper seemed as innocent and harmless as a new-born babo. I Jut times have changed. The world do move. The mask has been torn away, and tho apparently sliijrKlsh object at our feet appears In Its true character -a writhing, hissing serpent, colled and ready to Bprlnjf to dart its poisonous fanps into tho body of patriot Um, to pollute Its blood, to utterly destroy it. We are all on the journey of life; every day In a mlloHtone nearer to eter nity; thoro must bo no delay; our jour ney muHt ho ended on time. ( . We have on hoard many passengers, who are unaware of the difllcultlos with which wo labor; something Is wrong with tho engine, or tho loud U too hoavyiiitho trainmen look around for tho troublo,''for trouble there Is, 'r wo would'not have come Into the station behind tlmu. llalnthero Is tho fault; behind tho hint coach is an old-fiiMhioned broken down engine, called Catholicism; the wheels refuse to move, but rather to go backward; It In a drag upon the engine of progress: It whs a clumsily cotr ructod affair from the first, being built at, some shop on a foreign road, which was encumbered with a person knowias the pope, an master mechanic. Jtyi ehanoo It had been put on the American line, but was very shortly thereafter condemned as unsafe and dangerous. The general manager's orders are, however, to'brlng It Into tho shops, for repairs, If possible It is a bad job, but orders musltbo obeyed. An effort may result only In failure; but thoro Is no time to Jwalt; crews change off; the new trainmen are tho A. 1. A., the L. 0. L., Jr. O. U. A. M., Masons, and I'. O. H. of A., and there are no "slouches," either. They are deter mined, desperate lf occasion requires, Tho train Is behind time; progres has boon retarded by Catholicism. "All atwiard," shout tho conductor; tho engineer pulls open the throttle, tuo whlstlejblows, the boll rlng( and we are olT. Now coiiicsUi tug of war, for we are on tho up-grade. I'u IT. pulT, pulT-f-f-f; what! tho wheels slip; sand 'Is of no avail; wo are sliding back downjtho grade; Catholicism Is too heavy a load for progress to pull. The whistle blows, "down brakes!" Tho onglnoorjand conductor hold a hur ried consultation; tho train dispatcher, public sentiment, "gives them authority to cut loose the old engine, If It was Im possible toi make bond way with It. There Is butane recourse; cut tho old wreck of Humanism loose, and we can malceiup lost time, wo can hold our own. Tho slfllng'bolow is too short to nc commodaU'Iour train; on tho track be low us Is tho fast express of the Twen tieth century. No time Is to bo lost; urioouploCathollebm and let her back upon the openswltch. It Is done; born backward by the retarding force of su perstkltlon and Ignorance, Itcras'uo ink) the siding and Is derailed; tho em bankment Is high, the descent abrupt. IookJisbe Is tottering on the verge of a precipice, and ere tho Twentieth cen tury Is well on ;bi r way, Catholicism will havo7alli n upon tho ragged reeks of oblivion, and will bo forever dead to tho world. Tho tool which politicians have so long used to further their nefarious ends, the political machine that was oneo a church, Is crumbling. Ameri cans have seen tho menaced danger. It Is war to the knlfo, and knlfo to tho hilt; a fight lietwoen blind super stition, dishonesty, corruption, politi cal trlekory.'Intoloranee, un American Ism, even treason to our constitution on ono hand, and on tho other our free schools, free speech, free religion, lib erty of the press, purity of tho ballot i I i( ill ' 'r- 'i'i'XW AMI VOX MIX Kit!, State President of the American Pntrr f Ivo Ax lilllon In t nlet'iuht. One of the best known genlb men In patriotic circle in Colorado Is the gen tleman whose portrait we presen al ve. Although a "lVnnenito" by birth, having been born August 11, t Hti2, In St. Clair, Schuyklll county, 1' nns.vl vanla. He iKicam" a "Hover" before ho was eighteen years of age, leaving Pennsylvania "to go west," and se'tled In Loadvillo, Colo., where ho remained for a little over two years, moving from there to IVnvcr the Christinas of arriving just in time to locomo a charter member of camp No. 1, P. (). S. of A., and ever slnoo that, time has been 'identified with work along tho line of Americanism, namely. America for Am rl ans and the perst nation o tho 'it" Institution of this country, lie became a meuilsr of council No. I, A. I'. A., In January, Jsict, and alsiut March 1st, of the same year, assisted in tho organ I at lou of council No. Ti, of Which he whs I'lccled Its Ill's I iresldeiil, In AiU'Ust, of the same year, ho as sisted in the organization of the stale council of Colorado, and received the honor of being elected tho llrst. presi dent, which position he now lilts, hav ing bo' ii unanimously re-elected Febru ary 20ih of tnl your. At tho time the st lie council was organl.i'd there were only eight councils In the state, where as now thero aro thirty-one, tho rapid groth of the order being due, to a very gr.'at ex'etit, to the untiring ene 'gy and devotion to tho cause of tho s ate president, the worthy subject of this slight sketch. I. M. Ili: KVVI III, Wale Hcrrclary efllii' American I'roleet Ivc AsNiiciallnii In ( oliii-adn. Tho subject of our sketch was born at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, August 1.', 1M(I, where his father was a station agent of of tho C. II. A When ho was about two years of ago his parents movi d onto a farm near Hoohester, Monroe county, N. Y., where he remained till twentv-ono years of age, when his father was obliged to leave home, and tho management of the farm devolved on him, When about twenty five years old he left New York state and went buck to Iowa, In tho employ of the Uurllngton system. In March, 1H87, ho was sent to Charlton to take charge of tho round-house there as night fore man. In November, of the same year, he moved to Denver and entered the employ of the Union, Pacific, and re- and politics, tho sacred honor of our homes, our country the liberty of the greatest nation (iod over blessed. "Truth crushnl to earth will rbe again." ' A Haimkuii Man. Iti'slraln Ullml Ignorance. It Is conceded by thoughtful cltl.ens that among the Imperfections of our political system, as applied to present conditions, Is tho ease with which the ballot, the bulwark of the government, muy be misused and Is misused at every election by professional politic ians and ballot box manipulators. Taking our own city as an example, It will not be denied by any Intelligent citizen that It has been largely, if not wholly, through tho Icnorant vote that Tammany has been able In maintain Its hold upon this community. My the same token an educational qualification for voters would deprive Tammany of much of Its power and loosmi Its grasp from tho throat of the people. Heretofore tho suggestion to place thu suffrage on an educational qualifi cation has met with violent opposition. It ha been pleaded that Ignorance wbs not an "Infamous crime," and to disqualify a man from voting on that ground was to place him on the same piano with the criminal disqualified by the constitution. The argument that this was contrary to the liberal spirit of republican Institutions has hereto fore prevailed, hut not to the good of this government. Unrestricted Immi gration has filled this country full of a rnalned with them until January of of this year, when he was apjsilnted a deputy sheriff, which position ho now Dili. lie joined the A, P, A, In May, JXH2, and at tho organization of council No. was elected Its president, which pos ition he still holds. At the formation of the state council be wos elected by a very flattering majority as Its secretary and was unanimously ro-eloetod to the same position at the meeting In Febru ary of this year, Mr Muck with bus always endeavored to discharge the duties of his ofllce with the thought always uppermost In his mind that the American Protective Association was above any partisan politics, and that some day not very far distant this organization would be the means of pur ifying our national politics and rid America of the pernicious Influence of Homo, ela who are not In sympathy with our form of government, or with any form of government. The recent vio lent outbreaks In the coal regions have b on due t i the discontent of a class of men who do not speak our language, and the majority of whom do not write their own. It Is unfair to educated American worklngmen that these for eigners can have an equal voice with them In dictating the policy of the government. It Is one of the scandals of our local government that tho most Ignorant and vicious classes are manufactured Into voters with the greatest facility, and these men cast their ballots with out the slightest conception of the political prlnclph s which they aid or oppose, This tniikcH the elective fran c'llso a mockery and the system which permits It a disgrace to this ago of en lightenment. Tho Kmplre state has blazed tic way tn great reforms, and as It Is the gate way through which a large part of the Immigration Is admitted, and there tho most directly Interested, It should blaze the way In this, It Is a subject that should early claim the attention of tho constitutional convention, for an other opportunity to readjust tho organic law to present conditions will not soon bo presented. It win do no harm to glvo the people of the state a chance to express themselves on tho proposition whether It is not time to restrict the suffrage so as to restrain blind Ignorance. 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