PERIL OF OUR COUNTRY.
Col. Edwin A. Sherman Says It
Comes From Romanism.
Awake, Americans, and Crush the
Religio-Pohtico Monster Which
Threatens Your Liberties.
ifr. Chairman and Citiunt of Boston:
If I Ml to meet your expectations It
will be on account of a bad etilJ, which
I took cm my pilgrimage to Washington
to attend the triennial conclave of '.lie
Knights Teuiplar. However, I tru.t
you will bear with me, though I Khali
not enter into any argument upon thin
occasion, for I believe, like Cromwell,
that it is well to watch and pray and
keep your powder dry. Applause. I
shall not apeak from a religious stand
point, but from that of the soldier, the
citizen, the patriot and the Freemason.
In the first place, I was a Boston boy.
I was born under the shadow of the
Flymouth rock. Whatever I am today
as an American citizen I owe in gnat
measure to Boston, thin home of my
early boyhood. For up to the time 1
wan thirteen years of age, entering the
public schools of Boston at six, all the
education I ever received, I roceived in
Boston.
I wish to pay a tribute to a distin
guished citizen of Massachusetts, the
Hon. George Bancroft, to whom th
people of these United States are in
debted that the flag of these United
States waves over California. When
he was secretary of the navy, a Jesuit
plot which resulted first in the murder
of that pioneer missionary, the Rev
Mr. Whitman, then in Oregon terri
tory, now the state of Washington, was
discovered. A plot was entered into by
the Jesuits, among them Father Me
Namara, who was landed by the English
frigate, Juno, at Santa Barbara, by
which Mexico was to cede to England
in payment of its indebtedness, that
portion of its possessions for the pur
pose of planting an Irish colony there,
and California was intended to be an
Irish Roman Catholic colony. But
thanks be to God and the foresight of
George Bancroft, while the waves of
war broke upon the borders of Texas,
yet nevertheless Lieutenant Gillespl,
who was sent overland, made hi way
to Mazatian, and there placed his
erders in the hands of Commodore
Bloat, and on July 7th, 1846, he landed
at Monterey, and secured California to
the American nation forever.
I left home when a boy and made my
way to Chicago. I was the first local
reporter in that city in the years 1843
and 1844. You will remember that the
world was to come to an end about that
time. Father Miller had so prophesied,
and I thought I would go to Chicago
before that cataclysm occurred. Sub
sequently war was imminent on Ameri
can soil on account of the annexation of
Texas. Having a relative who was an
officer in the United States army, I
went to Join him. I did not meet him.
However, I entered the service of my
country, and of only about fifteen per
tons now living who saw the first and
last gun fired of that Mexican war, I
am one.
I remember, in coming to this ques
tlon in which you are all so deeply in
terested, (and whose echoes we have
heard upon the shores of the Pacific,
when la the city of Philadelphia, in
1844, the fight took place when the
Hibernian engine company broke into
a school house, threw the Bibles out,
and a riot commenced. It ended, how
Ter, in American principles being
triumphant, and in sending the right
congressman to Washington. I had
when a boy, drank in the spirit of pa
triotism upon tho fields of Concord
Lexington, Bunker Hill and Dorches
ter Heights, whre such noble battles
were fought and the Americans were
ucccssful in driving the English from
BoBton harbor.
During the Mexican war, there was
circulated among our army propositions
to those who were Roman Catholic
soldiers.to desert. Those who belonged
to the infantry, the cavalry, and ar
tillery, were to receive payments in
lands and money, and everything else
accordingly. One man, by the name of
Riley, deserted before hostilities broke
out, and others followed him. Then
after the battle of Monterey, and after
fifteen thousand men under armistice
were allowed to pass out carrying their
arms with them, fifty of those Roman
Cathoiio deserters led the Mexican
army out. It was with great difficulty
that our men could be prevented from
hooting them, but the armistice had
to be kept. When our division was
called from Monterey and Taylor's
lin on the Rio Grande to go to the
south, from Vera Cruz to the city of
Mexico, we found ourselves confronted
bv deserters from our own ranks a
complete ba tall ion known as the Legion
of San Patricio (St. Patrick) composed
of deserters from our army, and Riley,
a brigadier general commanding them
At that time the United States were
appealed to and they removed the bat
teries from their shipB of war, and filled
them with provisions for starving Ire
land, and at the same time these men
deluded by priests of their faith to vio
late their oaths, ungracefully, In our
wn clothing and with our arms, at the
battle of Cherubuaeo, near the city of
Mexico, turned upon their former com
rades and laid them low. It waa im
possible to estimate the feeling of our
men. Sometimes muskcta were thrown
aside and simply with the bayonet
alone In hand we met the enemy and
captured over sixty of these destriers.
There came an armistice, and during
thai armu-tiee they were duly tried by
court martial, and at Mlseoae, in the
presence of both armies, we hung
thirty-two in good order. Thus in my
early life I learned these lessons.
Parsing through Mexico as I did dur
ing that war, I learned much of that
then priest-ridden country. This was
8(xm followed bv the discovery of gold
in ls-IS, and 1 returned to Philadelphia
and there organized a company to go to
California, sailing to Tampico, and
crossing the oouutry to Mazatian, and
thence by 6ea to San Francisco. We
had passports to carry arms through
Mexico, granted by the Mexican minis
ter at Washington. Our passports
was signed by Buchanan, who was
then secretary of state. We traveled
through that country till we came to
the city of San Potosi. We secured a
hotel, and then started to go around
the town in a body to see the sights.
This was a city which had never been
captured during tho Mexican war.
Here we met this same Riley, who had
been branded on his right cheek with
the letter D. We had not gone far be
fore we found there was a commotion.
First came music with a company of
infantry; after them came tho bishop
in his carriage and behind came the
rabble. As they came along every
person was compelled to kneel in the
street 1 said to my company, "You
need not kneel, but take off your hats
as a token of respect to the customs of
the people." The infantry made a move
ment as if about to charge upon ub, and
our pistols naturally were held in posi
tion for use. The bishop looked out of
his carriage, found there was trouble,
and demanded to know the reason. 1
hapjieued to be the only one w ho spoke
Spanish of our party, and I stepped for
ward and told him who we were, and
that we had jiermission to pass through
his country to Mazatian. We intended
no disrespect, but if the attempt was
made to cause us to fall upon our knees
they would pay for it with blood, for
Americans knelt only to God. A dis
pensation was granted us by the bishop,
excusing us from kneeling, and the pro
cession passed on.
In the course of time, on the 24th day
of May, 1849, we celebrated the queen's
birthday by entering the harbor of San
Francisco. And thus we commenced
the development of that mighty empire
of the Pacific, the fairest land the sun
shines upon, and though you may love
old rugged New England, and 1 love
the place of my birth, but when I see
the sun through the golden gate, it
shines upon those delectable mountains
spoken of by Bunyan in Pilgrim's Pro
gress, and it is a land of paradise to
pass from this world to the next.
Time rolled on, and we had period
ically something of this question com
ing up before us, but the enemy was not
strong enough to carry their point
However, at the present time, they
have massed their forces, and getting
control of both republican and demo
cratic parties, (Konie being a unit,
divides on every question to unite to
gether that the church may be the
winner in the end) our country is now
thoroughly sapped and mined, and
there is a false security among the peo
ple that there is no dnnger. I tell you
that we are living upon a volcano. I
hold here in my hand the constitution
and laws of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians. It is a complete military
organization, and in every county and
town throughout these United States,
under the priest, by his direction, the
whole of the Roman Catholic popuhv
tion of the male pci suasion are being
drilled and disciplined. I obtained pos
session of this only lust year, when they
met atlxmisville and completely or gan
ized their national compact. I have
made a copy of a portion of it, it will
give vou startling information. Bat-
tallions, regiments, companies, every
where, they are compelled to join this
military organization. There is one
thing about our country that people do
not understand. There are no better
census takers, no better ones to esti
mate the value of real estate. They
have their men among the priesthood.
One priest is sent to gather all the data.
He leaves it with his successors to take
his place, and thus it moves on and on
continuously. You have a corps of the
most subtle, astute, complete conspira-
tors that God ever permitted this coun
try to be cursed with, and it is ever
active in carrying forward its plots to
undermine and overthrow the free in
stitutions of this great republic.
I am going to relate some facts that
are as positive and as certain as that
the sun shines. There was no way by
which the Roman Catholic church
could accomplish its ends and advance
its interests and hasten the time when
it could seize possession of this coun
try, until it could plunge this country
into a civil war. Chief Justice Taney,
of the United States supreme court,
was a Roman Catholic, and by his Dred
Scott decision started the wheels of the
chariots of war in motion. The whole
movement of the rebellion was a Ro
man Catholic conspiracy In the beginn
ing. And a distinguished
brother
M.1M.1U, UuW uei.u, k l.u.iu lite M-i-
sonio fraternity, our Mooes and law
giver, Albert G. Mackay, (God bless
hi memory) born In Charleston, South
Carolina, was true and loyal to the end.
Tho lie was the only crowned head in
Europe to recognize the southern con
federacy. Jeff Davis' sister waaaeu-
ivrior of a convent In Bardtown,
Kentucky.
When the division of the democratic
party in ISM, came tn Charleston,
South Carolina, that was the first move
ment Then followed secession in
Hibernian hall, in thatcity, and Bishop
Lynch, of Charleston, Father Ryan, of
Georgia and Father Hubert, of New
Orleuns, by direction of the pope, con
secrated the flags, the arm, the weap
ons of the rebell ion of those who were
Catholics, and absolved them from
their oat of naturalization and allegi
ance to the United States government.
And why? There was a man loved as
no other man was ever loved in these
United States; a man, in my opinion,
equal to, if not superior to him who was
father of his country, who was selected
as a victim four years before he was
ever nominated to the presidency
Abraham Lincoln. It fell to my lot at
the time of his funeral in New York,
as chairman of a committee of investi
gation to follow up and ferret out, if
possible, the source from which this
hatred came. Why was it? What had
Lincoln done that Rome should demand
his life? The causs were these, and
the proofs are beyond question, and per
fectly satisfactory. It was found that
the pope had determined upon a general
colonisation scheme to take possession
of the Mississippi valley early in the
fifties. There was a man of the Roman
Cathoiio priesthood, born in Canada,
who had been selected to lead that emi
gration and to plant it In Illinois. He
had money and his people followed him
first to Chicago, and then to Kankakee
county, where he laid out a town, St.
Ann's, and built a church. In course of
time he fell out with his Catuoiio
bishop. O'Reagan, and among other
things, the French who had settled in
Chicago, determined to have a church
of their own. The Irish outnumbered
them and they had no chance. They
selected a place, built a church, sent to
France and bought the richest vest
ments, the best pictures and furnish
Ings and made ready to go into the
church. The next Sunday morning
they were to celebrate mass. When
they arrived there, there was no
church. I have heard of stealing a
red-hot stove, but I never before heard
of stealing a church, but it waa done,
and had been moved away on wheels to
another part of the city. They found
It filled with Irish Roman Catholics
and an Irish priest saying ma9s. They
could not get in. They waited their
time until the priest should come out,
and he treated them with insult and
drove them away. They then went to
the bishop, but received the same
treatment, for he had taken their rich
vestments and had them in his own
house. At last it became necessary
that they should appeal to the head at
Rome. Father Chlniquy sat down and
wrote to Louis Napoleon in France, and
also to the pope in Rome.
The emperor wrote to the pope, and
the pope sent out his nuncio, Cardinal
Bedinl, who came out there and the
bishop was finally removed. But before
that, matters had taken such steps
that they determined to destroy Chini
quy. He had the manhood to defend
his rights, though a Roman Catholic
Driest, as an American citizen. He
purchased the property with his own
money and that of the members of his
own church. They built together. It
was theirs; the title was in him. After
failing to accomplish their purposes
through the courts, though they re
duced him to poverty, a most damnable
plot wss made for destroying him. A
criminal charge was brought against
him, and as it could not be tried in
Kankakee, a change of venue was
taken, and it was to bo tried in Urhana,
Champagne county, Illinois Abraham
Lincoln being of tho council. While
waiting for a tardy juror five priests in
black robes entered at a side door and
took a seat provided for the witnesses
There they sat with their hands de
voutly clasped upon their breast, look'
ing as if it was a most solemn event
They came to give their aid to a most
damnable plot. Before long Lincoln
looking over and seeing this row of
priests, comprehending their object,
and bending over the table to the op
posing counsel, in a loud whisper, in
tended to be head by everyone in the
room, said, "Norton, Norton." "What
is it?" said Norton. "I have a question
to ask you in confidence," said Lincoln.
"What is it?" said Norton. "What
have all them fellows got men's creden
tials for?" It was not in that exact
language, but it was language that
gentlemen will understand by them
selves. It broke the spell upon the
court In a few moments a laugh ran
through the court. Judge Davis, him
self, laughed heartily upon his bench.
But Lincoln had accomplished his pur
pose. He had broken that spell which
could be done in no other way. He un
covered the viilany, and the result was
that the priests, fearful of being
lynched, fled from the city. The next
morning, knowing that the case would
be dismissed, he would net permit It,
without his con9et, and therefore ad
dressed the court and pervris these
l Ink.- Ii ,U 1 ... i.i III
clear through, and this is the starting
point of the enmity ot Rome to Abra
ham Lincoln.) He said:
"May It please your honor, gentlemen
of the jury and American citizens, this
conspiracy, I am aware, ha failed In
1U efforts, but I have a few word
which I wish to say." He went on and
depicted the career of Father Chlniquy
how he had been unjustly prosecuted,
and thee in conclusion, said: "A long
as God give me a heart to foel, a brain
to think, or a hand tocxicute my will,
I devote it against that Hwer which
ha attempted to us the machinery of
the courts to destroy the rights and
character of an American citizen."
A day or two after that Father Chlni
quy went to have a settlement with Mr.
Lincoln. "How much do you thiuk you
owe me?" "1 don t know." "Well,
you are broke," say Mr. Lincoln. "I
am," said Chlniquy,
but I waut to
have you draw up a note, aud I will
sigu it and pay you as I can, lor I must
know what are my liabilities." "How
much do you think you o we?"
"Well, I owe Judge Osgood 11200, Judge
Paddock $150), you, perhaps, 12000; hut
I must have a settlement and know what
I have to work for." Mr. Lincoln
turned around and drew up a note, and
hearing sobbing behind him, he said,
"Father Chiniquy, what are you orylng
about? You ought to be the happiest
man alive. You have beaten all your
enemies and come out triumphant; they
have fled in disgrace, and you ought to
be the happiest man alive." Father
Chiniquy pluced his hand upon his
shoulder, and said: "1 am not weeping
for myself, hut. for you, sir. They will
kill you; and let me tell you this, if 1
were in their olace, and they in mine,
it would bo my solemn, sworn duty to
take your life nnsi If or Hud a man to
do it." Mr. Lincoln turned around,
and with a peculiar look upon his fiu
said, "Father Chiniquy, please sign my
death warrant." That was a simple
promissory note for $."0. Lincoln re
celved tho note and vanished. Now, I
hold the note given to me by Father
Chiniquy. (exhibiting It.) He was of
fered ljO for it in London, but in view
of what I had done in rendering him
assistance in ferreting out this thing
from the beginning, ho gave it to me,
and I had It lithographed, and sent
him the lithograph and kept the origi
nal note. This was the beginning.
When Lincoln started on that tour of
political discussion with Douglas, tho
entire Roman Catholic lntluenee was
thrown in favor of Douglas. His wife
was a Roman Catholic.
There was a greater question rcfore
the people caused by the admission of
the state of California into the union.
When we came to organize the state
government and form our constitution
my maiden vote was cast for the dele
gates to that state convention which
met in Monterey, In September, 1849,
and In that constitution wo declared
that California should have no involun
tary servitude or slavery save for
criminal offenses.
The admission of the state of Cali
fornia was tho cause of those principles
coming up which divided the republl
can and democratic parties into two
factions. Tho political wheel was set
in motion and though Abraham Lin
coin got the popular vote, Stephen A
Douglas got the legislature. The next
turn of tho wheel gave Lincoln the
nomination for the presidency. Then
from that very moment came the re
leasing of every Roman Catholic from
their allegiance to tiie American gov
ernment. They followed it through.
Our countrymen north and south were
hurled against each other, the great
mats of them Protestants, as it was in
tended to be. The scum of Europe now
tramples over the graves of our dead
countryman, north and siuth alike.
Mr. Lincoln was continually In receipt
of these threats of assassination from
the time he entered Into the defense of
Father Chiniquy. lie was continually
warned from time to time, but at last
knowing that the opportunity was
favorable, they could make use of the
instrument and Abraham Lincoln
must die.
Of the men engaged In that con
spiracy, Dr. Samuel Mudd was the
chief director. Ho was a Roman Cath
olic, as was also John Wilkes Booth,
Mrs. Surratt and her son: and in the
judge advocate general's office at Wash
ington, there mav be seen the Roman
Catholic medal taken from Booth's
neck. A short time lie fore that Booth
had received the sacrament from Arch
bishop Spaulding, of Baltimore, and al
most identically at the same time the
pope sent from Rome the arms and ac
coutrements in exact counterpart of
the papal guard at Rome, and when
Archbishop Spaulding died he was
buried with military honors by the
papal guard at Baltimore. In this con
spiracy every one was a Roman Catho
lic, either a jesuit, priest or layman,
who made every effort to conceal it. I
do not state this simply u ion my own
authority, but refer you to the official
report of the trial before the military
commission. Read it carefully and you
will find that all along the line it was
for ths interest of the Cutholic church
that even Mrs. Surratt should die.
(Cries of "That Is so, yes.") Rome Is a
sow that eat her cwn pigs. ("ie3,
yea.") Her son, John B. Surratt if he
had been capturted, would have been
hung at tae same time. nit he had
huii uilcti uiiUi Le .i .uiii tut rU I.
His escape had been prejiared by
Archbishop Bourget of Montreal,
Canada. He went there flrHt, and re
turned to do jturt of his work, and he
made his escai itiul wns protected by
that archbishop. He was pluced in the
charge of Futher Charles Boucher of
the parish of St. Lelxiire, Canada,
there he kept him several months.
finally ho took him to Montreal, to an
other house of tho archbishop, and
there they kept him until they got
ready to take him away. They took
him in a carriage at Montreal to a
small steamer which couveyed him
down to Queliee, from whence ho sailed
on the steamer Peruvian to Liverpool,
and thence to Havre de Grace, and
from there went to Paris and Rome,
and enlisted in the pojwi's body guard.
Rome now thought she had him secure,
but through Father Chiniquy our gov
ernment got track of him. A detective
was put uiou his track, and when the
poje found that our government knew
where ho was, he nuiilo a pretense of
being willing to give him up, but per
mitted him to make his escape. But
he was captured at Alexander, Egypt,
and brought back on the United States
war-ship Swalnra, and tried In the
court of the District of Columbia. It
was a pity that the civil law had taken
the place of the military. A jury that
was never intended to agree was drawn,
and this Jesuit priest, the accessory
Iwfore and after the fact so far as John
H. Surratt was concerned, hud the
effrontery to come directly from Mon
treal, appear In that very court and
give this very evidence 1 am now giving
you; and if you turn to volume 2 of the
trial of John II. Surratt, you w ill find
all that 1 have said to you to be the
exact truth. The investigation of this
matter has been tho work of years of
the most patient research, and at an
expense of thousands of dollars, mostly
to myself itnd a few others. The hatred
against Lincoln continued after his
death. Among all the tributes of tho
nations of tho earth, of socluties anil
organizations, nearly one thousand that
aro bound in a book by the government,
resolutions of sympathy and consolation,
that came for the American people
and among them were some from thirty
and more Masonic lodges of Europe,
supposing that he was a Muson, who
draped their lodges in black, in France,
Italy and elsewhere, yet you may ex
amine that book from beginning to end
not from one single Roman Catholic
society is there the first resolution of
sorrow at this damnable act. Then
still farther, Romo determined to des
troy all evidence, if possible. Her
hatred goes into the ground. She be
lieves in cremation from the beginning,
but not of her own nieiultcrs, and to
destroy the body of Lincoln she plotted
its robbery. I had visited his tomb in
IBiti, at Springfield, Illinois, and saw
the dangers to which it was exposed
and there aro some of us who have
taken a solemn oiitli, (it rests upon us
today), not only to perpetuate his mem
ory, hut to preserve his remains.
It became necessary to keep a guard
there, but notwithstanding this pre
caution, they broke open the surcopha
gus, run out the cedar colli n, and were
about to break into It when our friends
were at hand. The ghouls were cap
tured and every one was a Roman
Catholic; they were tried and each sen
tenced to serve out his time in the
state penitentiary of Illinois. Then"
fearing it might be robbed again, tho
sarcophagus was replaced and the body
was placed in the side of the walls of
the mausoleum, but the rascally con
tractor who built that monument had
put in pieces of wood, and these rotted
and made it unsafe, though the body
was not exposed. It was then deter
mined to remove it and plnce It In the
front of the shaft and there bury it be
side his wife" There it was kept, and
four years ago when I came out there
to hold memoi i il services. I binught
earth from the tomb of Edward linker.
at Lone Mountain, San Francisco, and
mingled it with that of Abraham Lin
coln, and then took some buck with me.
and the bodies of the union soldiers of
California rest under the same sort of
earth as that of Abraham Lincoln. A
few years ago, In order to place the
bodies securely where they could not
longer be disturbed, they were placed
beneath the floor of the catacomb, and
the resting place sealed with Roman
cement; and there in a muss of stone,
in an adamantine casket, to remain un
til the angel of the resurrection shall
smite It and say, "'Come forth." The
lock that was put there is still there,
and I hold the key to the broken lock
of Lincoln's tomb.
And now to the work. I have said
this subject needs no argument. It
needs action. The moral cowardice of
the American people at this time is
contemptible. Eight per cent of the
employes in the department at Wash
ington are Roman Catholics. They
control your telegraphic system; they
are upon your newspapers, and prevent
honest reports. And thers Is not a
square politician belonging to either of
your parties that dare stand openly as
an American citizen. It was my pleas
ure to be a delegate to the national re
publican convention which met at Cin
cinnati, in 176, when for the first time
in the historv of America it became
necessary for both political parties to
enf U tiir platforms the honett
Ho schools. U waa luy picoauiu us
draft the article that went into the re
publican platform. That was carried
and we were successful. We nominated
our man, wo defeated a most popular
man, and our country was saved.
Let me go back a few years. Wbea
Italy was fighting for Its unity with
Rome for its capital as It had a right
to, and when a strong struggle had ta
be made, In all the aid and subscrip
tions that went to Rome there went an
lul venturer and other volunteers from
Ireland to fight for tho hm, and for
real or pretended gallantry at the gat
of J)el Kocca, that man was created a
chevailer of St. Michael and un honor
ary aide de camp to Pope Pius IX.
That man cunw to this country In time,
mid during our war, through Governor
Seymour, of New York, and Archbishop
Hughes, he was created a commissioned
ofllcer In the. Pulled Slates army. His
father in law was Imu h a Roman Calho-
ie, confirmed a Romnn Catholic, whos
father, though a Presbyterian, flva
years before his death became a Romaa
Catholic, and the mother and father '
nro burled side by side In the Cathoiio
cemetery in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Every one of that man's sister Is a su-
leriore,ss of a convent, or nun, except
ing one who married and died in Haiti-
more aud the brother knelt by thesid
of his dead sister while the thundering
cannon at Washington were fired when
Crover Cleveland was being inaugurat
ed. That man who hud given his owa
daughter to Rome, and whose children
were baptised In that faith that man,
whose apostasy from the faith is not
lielievcd in, liecuuso to bring forth
works meet for repentance, knowing a
thing to le wrong, he will not certainly
ullow his children to bo educated la
that wrong; that man who Insulted th
American people by having placed be
fore them ut the national republican,
convention the Koman Catholic priest,
Father Charles O'Reilly, the treasurer
of the Irish National Lund Lenguej
that man was mado the chaplain of the
national republican convention whloh
nominated Junius O. Blaine. I am for
protection, but I believe in protecting
our country, the American publlo
schools, and In sending Americans only
to represent tho American republl
abroad.
Think of it for one moment thece la
Chill, who has been struggling for
liberty from Rome for half a century,
and she has measurably succeeded.
When In Washington I felt some
what Inspired by what I saw there
that monument to Washington whloh
reaches towards heaven. Thanks ba
to the Masonic fraternity who laid th
foundation and set the cap stone upon
it They protected the honor and
saved the American republlo from th
dlsgraoe of a stone being inserted in it
sent by the pope. It was broken and
thrown into the Potomac Some good
people dislike secret societies. Then,
In the name of God direct your forces
against the Jesuits. When the twenty
three thousand Knights Templars pa
raded In Washington the other day,
there was a moral force representing
threa-fourths of a million of Masoaa
that are ready when necessary to lay
down the trowel and grasp the sword
In defense of the free institutions at
America. We love our God, we lor
our country, we love ths Bible. It ta
our light from heaven, God's best gift
toman, next to women I do not mean
the Roman harlot (laughter and ap
plause) for without women there would
have been no revelation.
Now, that country of Chill is follow
ing our course, laboring to keep tha
priests out of the public schools, sep
arating them entirely, endeavoring tn
make Chill the rt presentatlve nation
of South America, with a free country'
totally unpriest-rldden and yet a mad
not two years an American citizen la
sent tn represent these American peo
ple in this republic. Shame, shame.
Again, it is only two years since I
traveled through the republic of Mei
lco, and we have another of that earns
sort sent to that country. I wish wa
hud In our country the same rule aa
they have there. I have traveled safely
and alone where murders used to ba
committed, and where the crosses ara
sot one hundred yards apart to Indicate,
the spot where they occurred. Thanks
be to President Diaz, himself a Mason,
there Is not one convent In Mexico to
day. I cannot say how great is the r
form that has takn place thera.
Where people were compelled to live
in concubinage because unable to pay
ths exorbitant fees lor marriage en
acted by the priests, now there is good
order, for ths Mexican government
married up all those people, made
their children legitimate, and fixed a
fine upoa the priest who dares marry a
person before the government does.
That is the condition there.
Whea Grovsr Cleveland was made
president ha choose a Roman Catholia
for one of his cabinet, Garlaad, and for
assistant attorney-general, the infamous
Each Montgomery, who has Issued tha
most villainous pamphlet against tha
public schools. Neither of the great
political parties hava the manliness or
courage to follaw their convictions.
Their pledges are worse than sand, and
there is but this ta da: you hare got U
rise to your feat and gt to work. I W
lievo la praying, ia trusting la tha
Holv Oh aad all ka Wt 1 WlWve
