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THE AMERICAN J WE EKLf NEWSPAPER. Seb UniTtttity VOLtMK IV. "AMERICA FOR AMERICANS." W hold that all men are Amencant whe Swear Allegiance to the United Statee without a mental rteenation In favor of the Pope. PHICE EM CENT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, Fill DAY, AUCJUST 10, 1891. NUMBKH 32. SENSATIONAL RUMORS Regarding the Primary Reason for the Pullman Strike. A List of Fore men W ho Had Nothing In Common With American Laboring Men A New Church. The strike at Pullman baa not ceased to be an interesting topic of converse tlon, even if the strike has been lost and declared off. It Is doubly Interesting to Americans for two reasons. One is the story which has gained currency that the strike did not have its origin in the list of griev ances published, and the other is that it affords them an opportunity to learn just who were in charge of the Pull man shops. The story which has gained currency as to the origin of the strike, and as it comes to us, is as follows: A majority of the men employed in the shops and a majority of the foremen were Roman Catholics. One of the lat ter was discharged. The Roman Cath olio employes are said to have taken his case up, to have appointed a com mittee to await on some one in author ity and ask that he be reinstated. That was done. The request was denied. The man had been discharged for cause, and his reinstatement was out of the question. The Roman committee re- ported to Its creators probably the priests and another Roman committee was dispatched to a man higher In au thority. They presented the case. The man to whom they went took the mat ter underadvisement. He investigated the case; found out just why the em ployee had been discharged, and when the Romans returned for their answer were informed that the man would not be put back to work. They returned to their friends and reported, and then a concerted move was made to work up dissatisfaction among the men em ployed. This was an easy task for the wages were not the best in the world, and after a consultation a strike was ordered. No man but the Romans who en gineered the scheme and the men In charge of the works of Pullman will ever know whether this story Is true or not, but when you examine the list of foremen published below it will not take an ordinarilly Intelligent Ameri can very long to see if it did not occur, there are ample grounds for believing it did. Look at this list of foremen who were employed in the Pullman works: Jas. Doyle, Buperintenddnt street car department, Romanist. Joseph Trunweller, superintendent tinners and span fitters, Romanist. Geo. Tremebely, foreman inside fin ishers, Romanist. Ortwine, first name unknown, super intendent brass finishers, Romanist. Brakey, first name not known, fore man tinners, Romanist. Dennis Hastings, foreman laborer's repairing department, Romanist. Jas. O. Holleran, foreman wheels and axles, Romanists. Chas. Comings, transfer tables, Ro manists. Mike Pryor, foreman laborer's freight department, Romanist. Mike Long, inspector, Romanist. Mike Hickey, labor foreman, passen ger coach department, Romanist. Nick Overtoam, foreman, repairing truck department, Romanist. Jas. Lahm, foreman, foundry, Ro manist. Wheel foreman, foundry, name un known, Romanist. In connection with this list we invite your thoughtful consideration of an other rumor that is In circulation, and which may sometime prove to be the truth : It is said that there was a deal between certain foremen and certain priests whereby every job one In their departments were charge with about double time the extra money thus ob tained being paid to the priests. It is further stated that the Romanists were building a new Roman Catholic church and that the Americans, as usual, re fused to contribute. This is also hinted at as the real reason why the strike was inaugurated; and it is barely possible that this was taken into consideration for Rome has a penchant for strikes for running in new Romanists getting on the strike committees declar ing the strike off and filling the places still open with ther own men. But this is something Americans have been slow to realize even If they have seen it and something they cannot learn too soon. "Watch your agitators ! F.'nd out who has hold of the string that makes them jump ! A Gigantic Corporation. There is in this country one huge real estate company upon whose life i ; Roman Pathol? c '!mMW it L OF mf our laws make no limit. And this is not the only advantage it enjoys. It not only can go on accumulating real estate forever, but it has the inestim able privilege of having its holdings exempt from taxation. It now holds over $250,000,000 of real estate in Amer ica, and is adding to its holdings every year at an increasing ratio. That com pany is the Roman Catholic church. This thing of a church accumulating real estate as the Roman Catholic church is doing, can only result in con fiscation and civil war. The quicker the octopus Is throttled, the better for all concerned. Houtzdale Observer. MR. LINTON'S FRANK GOES. Michigan Congressman Scores a Point With the Postal Authorities. Washington, D. C, August 6. The speech of Representative Linton, of Michigan, on sectarian Indian schools has brought out much correspondence with the postoffice department as to its circulation as a franked document. Mr. Linton recently received word that the postmaster at Footville, Wis., declined to receive the speech on the ground that It was sent In bulk and could not afterward be separated for mailing to individuals. The Congressman pro tested to the third assistant postmas'er general, Craig, who directed the post master to handle the speeches. Later the same postmaster was notified by First Assistant Postmaster General Jones not to handle the speech on the ground that it contained printed mat ter. The matter appeared on the last page and was the imprint of the printer and label showing that union printers had done the work. Mr. Linton pro tested to the postoffice department, cit ing the fact that the speeches of many prominent senators and members were going through the mails with the printers' Imprint and the union label. He also stated that in case his speech was denied accesb to the mails he would protest against the mailing of the speeches by Speaker Crisp and Chair man Wilson bearing similar imprints. As a result of the protest the depart ments ordered the 6peech admitted to the mail pending an Investigation of the alleged advertisement. Priests Pow Wow. SOUTH Bend, Ind., Aug. 7 Notre Dame is today the scene of an Import ant event In the ecclesiastical history of the Roman Catholic church in Amer ica. It is the first assemblage of the members of the Priesf's Ecclesiastic league in this country. The order was inaugurated at Lille, France, April 25, 1881. Its membership of 29,000 is con fined to members of the ciergy. The direct purpose of the convention is to arrange for a large congress to be held some time In the future. Today's ses sion was devoted to the presentation of papers on various topics. Patsy: Phat in the divil are yez doin', Satolli ? Satolli: Knocking away this rotten old support! Patsy: Shure but we'll all be in the dump if yez do! UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION The Mayor And Police of (Julesburg III Try to Prevent a Hot Selling The American. There appeared on the streets here yesterday afternoon a fellow from Chi cago with a fog born voice and selling some sort of an A. P. A. paper, nis yelling was so loud that he could be heard from one end of Main street to the other. He was finally run on to by one of the police and told to keep a little more quiet, but that he could sell all the papers he wanted to. The fellow disposed of a good many papers. Oaks burg Daily Mail. The true facts of the case are that the officer told the boy he could not sell that paper (allud ing to The Ameri can) on the streets there. The following letter from our correspondent at Gales burg shows the matter in its true light. Galesbukg,. 111., Aug. 4 1S94. Edi tor The American: Where are we at? Galesburg is disgraced. The mayor and police combine with Rome to sup press the sale of American papers. Thursday last there arrived here a lit tle man from Chicago, who proceeded at once to exercise the rights of an American citizen by attempting, In the usual way to supply the hungry people with useful and necessary news of the at titude of Rome toward heretics and their institutions, when, suddenly and un expectedly a big fat policeman swooped down on the little man and said: "Here you will have to stop that," when the mayor, who was also in close proximity said: "You will have to mind the police man. You cant holler that way, any how; that paper creates a disturbance." 1 The little man was forced to stop busi ness, until next day when he fell into the hands of some friends, who gave him the necessary legal advice, where upon he proceeded to business in a man ner not to offend the pope nor any of his banana poolers. At this juncture Policeman Peterson appeared on the scene again and asked Mr. DesRivieres If he had permission from the mayor to sell that paper: DesRivieres replied, No, I dont have to get permission from the mayor to sell papers." Mr. Cook, the mayor, stepped boldly fordward, and said: "I suppose you know what the ordinance is, and if you dont mind, I will put you where you will mind." Now, Mr. Editor, it is a question in the minds of the decent Americans of our city, whether our mayor meant to con sign this little American citizen to the cooler, or Roman inquisition, for he was elected by Roman Catholic votes, and of course caters to the wishes of the pope. But any way, his time is short, and unless his highness gets in his in quisitorial work to please his holiness the pope, very soon he will never have another opportunity. Next year the American people are going to assume the control of city affairs, and il the blooder8 cant enjoy life under that kind of municipal government they have our permission to move out, or go back to the place from whence they came. Yours truly for America. Sixty three. Congressman O'N'eil as a Historian. BY SCOTT r. HBHHEY, PH. D. The low ebb in statemanship is in stanced In the recent Independence Day oration in this city, by Congress man O'Neil. His oration not only lacked a high grade f power, but was strangely deficient in the most simple trutns oi History, lie said in bis ora tion, that one hundred and eleven years have rolled away since the acknowl edgement of our Independence by the world." The statement is so exceed ingly simple in its error, that we would think it a mere slip, but that his ora tion was full of the like. lie tells us that Lord Baltimore, in the Catholic colony of Maryland declared the import ance and necessity of civil and religious freedom and that thore it was first tol erated in this country. Mr. O'Neil knows little of the facts of Colonial his tory, or he knows that Lord Baltimore never gave any original declaration in the settlement of Maryland, upon free dom and toleration, and that the relig ious toleration of the Maryland colony was Incorporated In the King's charter, and was the condition upon which the colonial governorship was given to Lord Baltimore, and upon which charter he proceeded to build up a feudal system. Baltimore was a gen erous character; but by no means the father of religious tolerance in the col ony of Maryland. Nor was Maryland the first in line for civil and religious liberty. He tells us that "people talk too loosely about corruption in public life. Some of it does exist; but noth ing like the people are led to believe." Those who have made a study of some facts in public life are agreed that ''the half has never been told. " Public cor ruption in life and legislation of our average American congress, is beyond all belief, and Mr. O'Neil knows it. In this oration this man defends dem agogueism with a great gusto without seeming to know it. He wants mem bers who take a bribe to be upheld by law. He says make the law agaiast bribery applicable only to the giver of the bribe, holding the taker harmless." He knoivs this opens the way to greater evils in legislation, and more extensive bribery than ever. The man who advo cates such shameless vice of law is him self to be watched. When Mr. O'Neil asks for the repeal of legislation de signed to elevate our institutions, as he does in this oration, we know his sinis ter purpose. Congressman O'Neil is a Roman Catholic. It is quite plain that tho ethics of Roman Catholicism are no more calculated to elevate politics, than to subserve the moral conditions in society. Boston, August 3d, 1894. DEFIES THE LiW. Ilishop Horstmann Refuses to Give the School I.nuinornton the N'iiinIht of Children In the Roman Catholic Instl tutioiis. Cleveland, O., Aug. 3. The men who have been employed to take the school census, upon which the school tax is based, are experiencing much difficulty in doing their work in a satis factory manner. They have found it next to impossible to get the names of the youth who are In the Roman Catho lic Institutions of the city. Those in charge of the Catholic orphanage asy lums have absolutely refused to give the information which the enumera tors demand. The trouble was explained to Bishop Horstmann and ho said that under no consideration would tho names of the inmates of the orphan asylums be furnished to the enumerators. He said it was a plain case of robbery, and that he would not consent to it. 'You get the school tax,' he said, 'and then you enumerate the children and get a per capita tax from the state for chil dren who do not attend the public schools and receive no benefit from them whatever.' The bishop was then Informed that the statistics were gathered in accord ance with the state law, and that on them was based the per capita tax which is given by the state to the various school districts in the common wealth, but ho still refused to give the Information desired. The same trouble has been met with each year, but heretofore the enumera tors have obtained what information they could, and rested content with that, without raising an issue, but this year the authorities will take such steps as will be necessary to compel the bishop to comply with the law. Known by Its Fruits. We are not specially seeking evidence of this fact, but a tree like the church of Rome cannot hide its annual crop, garnered at much public expense into the jails, prisons and poorhouses of this otherwise fair land. Here are a few heart-sickening statistics representing such fruit: "The Independent says that more than one-half (or three and a quarter millions) of tho immigrants that came to this country during the past decade were members of the Ro n.an Catholic church, the greater part of whem could neither read nor write their own language. 'According to the workhousa reiorts for 1892, the Roman Cattiolic church, with G per cent, of the population of Minneapolis, furnished 941 out of the 1,738 persons sent there for crime; In Toledo, with 14 per cent, of the population, 841 out of 1,436; and in Cleveland, with about tho same per cent of tho population as in Toledo, it furnished 2,138 out of a total of 3,569. " And yet we fruitlessly pray. "Thy kingdom come." How can it come mi long as its solf-accredited road-makers are its road breaker? Hit lyUr. ilGlST 21, 1172, The Dut r the rwt St. Uuriholomew Massacre. Kansas City, Mo., August", lOl. Editor The American: I have been a close reader of tho Kansas City paperi for years, The American Included, and notice that whenever the leant word of praise is soken about tho Catholics, that it Is sure to Ihj pub lished In one or more of our dailies. No doubt the reader of The Ameri can remember how delighted the Ro mans were last spring when tho Mitch ell-Dalton-St. Patrick's love feast jkjw wow was celebrated at the Auditorium, now the words of praise from Dr. Mitchell tickled the Romans; how dead the A. P. A.'s would bo before tho April election, and, Indeed, Dr. Mitch ell, in the estimation of many, had per formed a wondrous feat and was the only true, genuine christian in tho city. It Is our purposo now to call atten tion to another saint duy and see if it can be remembered by thes ) two rev erend gentlemen. Will Rev. Dr. Chas. B. Mitchell, of tho Grand Avoiiuu M. E. church, and Father Dalton occupy the same platform and o lo'M ato thia day as they did St. Patrick's djy:' We suggest that steps to txken to secure the Auditorium and have Dr. Mitchell and Father Dalton eak of and no doubt euloglzo tho deed of tho day. It was not the bli-tn of an Irish man, but the butchery of over 50,000 French Huguenots In France by the Roman Catholics. Doubtless Father Dalton might now in these dayB of A. P. Aism refrain from speaking in glowing tormB of this good deed. But If he be a true Catho- llo he should, and shout hallelujah; for the poH, Gregory XIII did. This pope, the head of tho Roman Catholic church, the man who was Infallible.cele- brated this wholesale murder of these poor innocent Protestants by Issuing a letter lauding the fact, and ordered Te Deums sung in his churches. From Dr. Mitchell we should surely hear good words for this daring deed- since he seems to take delight in get ting his name In the press by cham pioning the Catholic side of the quos tlon. We hard'y think the doctor would resist the temptation of holding out for the Romans in this small mat ter of killing 50,0K) Innocent men, wo men and children. If Dr. Mitchell and Futbr Dalton refuse to come together on St. Bar-' tholomew's day, we would then be pleased to hear Dr. Mitchell give this day's deed at least a passing notice in his pulpit on Sunday, August 25. The difference of two days would be entirely in keeping with the subject for the murdering lasted until nearly the last of the month. Do this, doctor, and in vite the followers of the pope to como and hear you. If the doctor will not consent to mas sacre St. Bartholomew's day (St. Pat rick's preferred) to his congregation, will he consent to enlighten his people on the recent encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII? There is a great part of this letter from tho head of the Roman Catholic church that will be, no doubt, of interest to the Free Masons of the doctor's congregation. This man, Pope Leo XIII, who is Infallible, says in this letter that the Masons "demolish chris tian institutions, repudiate every re vealed doctrine, stigma'ize as super stitious religious duties, sacraments and everything sacred, strive to do privdof their christian character, mar riage, the family, the education of youth and everything relating to pub lic or private lifo, aa well as to abolish all respect for human and divine power in the minds of the people." Perhaps the doctor is a Mason. If he is so much the better for tho sub- ect; for ho can, if he will, tell some of his Catholic admirers who are about to quit either the saloon business or the Roman Catholic secret societies ac cording to t-Pope Satolli's word that there is "no balm in Gilead" for the likes of yez. Vigilant. Rat Shea's Accomplice. Troy, N. Y., July 27.-John Mc ough, convicted of assault in the first degree in shooting William Ross at an election poll in this city March 6, was today sentenced to Clinton prison for 19 years and 6 months. "The Roman Catholic citizen of the United States owes no allegiance to any nciple of the Government that is condemned by church and pepe." Tablet. Do you subscribe and pay for The American? Yes or no will decide how much you are interested in the advancement of Americanism.
