THfc! AMERICAN KK SAT01J.PS PtX'KEE A Krthw of III I'wltmn (oi-mlnir The following cHiniunU'titri wm JlrraUh Our country fc m'uroely rwwtwJ frvm the effocU of tlie Ute railroaJ strike with ll 'Ivyeott" and inUrfii- enee with the rlj:hu of tle cltlxen w ho irU-hid o Ilr, Wfore wcbt-hold Cath olic elnl' etirrod to their very depth by Mjjr. SatolU's late dt clslon, which lit practically a church ttojvott against all American citizens, "who are engaged either a principal or ajrent In the manufacture or ale of Intoxicating H (11101." President K. V. Dehe of the A. R. U., and Ms offloers were promptly rrcted and Incarcerated for contempt of the United State court, which had iatucd an order retraining them from cterft.rng either hy threat or per iuanion, with the vocation of any man. Then the law Interposed lU strong arm to protect the American citizen In hi vested right of earning hU bread In any legalized vocation he may select. The liquor traffic I as much a legal ized bunlnetw aa U railroading in this country, and Mgr. Satolll, the pope's pent, is a greater law-breaker than Eugene V. Dobs, for daring to Intimi date any citizen engaged In the liquor traffic, for the following reasons: Flrot. Eugene V. Dibs, In Intimidat ing the railroad employe, was Interfer ing with the United States mall and Interstate commerce; Mgr. Satolll In Intimidating "the principal or agent In the manufacture or sale of intoxicat ing liquors," is interfering with the United States custom rccei its and the rights of the country at large to drink Intoxicating beverages. Second. E. V. Debs and h Is followers could only Intimidate the American workman hy threats of bodily harm and the unplesant appellation of "scab" to follow him through life; Mgr. Sa tolll and his followers seek to drive American citizens from tholr legalized vocation by threats of branding thera as heretics during this life and con signing them to an "eternal hell" In the life to come, for, excommunication according to the dogmas of the Catho lic church, means a denial of an en trance Into heaven. No potentate ever wielded such power over a subject as Mgr. Satolll and the Catholic clergy exert over the Ignorant Cathollo by their threats of denying him the "eu charlst," "the extreme unction," the privilege of lying In holy(?) ground and the prayer of all the saints in earth and heaven for his release from pur gatory. Is there a nation on earth that would permit a foreigner, such as Mgr. Sa tolll, to come to its shores and attempt to drive Its citizens from their legiti mate pursuits, Interfere with the reve nue of the nation, and the privileges of all the people? Why should Eugene V. Debs be Indited and Mgr. Satolll go free? Is there no law In this land to present a barrier to the pope of Rome, In this his first overt act toward the destruction of the liberties of the Amer ican people? Is the manufacturer or retailer of In toxicating liquors worse than the drinker? Who demands the saloon and its liquors? Tbe churches, the laity, the priest and preacher are the liquor man's best customers. A wholesale li quor dealer was heard to say recently that his best customers were the church people because they demanded the fin est wines and drinks. The quickest vray and most effectual way for the Church to destroy the liquor traffic, would be to convert themselves Into sober men and women, and not attempt to exonerate themselves by making a acape-goat of tbe saloon man. So long as we see priest and people tossing off the sparkling wine, foaming beer and other liquors, just so long will the traf fic continue and the saloon man's tra ducers pose as hypocrites. The saloon man Is not responsible for the appetites and sins of other men. He only meets a crying demand. It does not give him pleasure to see men drinking to Intoxl cation. The responsibility is upon the man who drinks. As the observing student realizes the inconsistency between the teachings and practices of the church, he apprec' iates the fable of the fox barking at the front door while his comrade robs the hen roosts. While attempting to promulgate the doctrines of the gentle Jesus, coercion and anathemas have been the true spirit of the church, marking her path way with blood for hundreds of years, Not content to deal alone in spiritual matters, she has ever sought to grasp temporal power and sit as a queen with tne whole world at her feet. She has not hesitated to use deceit, lying, in trigue, theft and even murder to ac complish that end for which she still longs today. Ignorance and supersti tion are her strongest allies, whilst she has ever recognized free thought and free institutions as her most bitter foe. 1 heard Bishop M. P. Burke deliver an address to the graduates of the Christian Brothers college at Columbia hall, June 28, 1894. His remarks were tinged with bitterness towards Protes tant America and especially towards our free public school system, because, as he claimed, the system was so un godly. There was an entire absence of charity or brotherly love in bii voice and word a he pke of the Protec tant tuift of our country. Bitter Invec tive marked hiHtch a he warmed up agalcut tbe heretic. He dwelt e H'cmlly upon the public school yUm of our land a Injurious to the moral of the children and it failure to teach them religion, etc. He said that Cath olic were taxed to Mimtain the public M'hool. He ald the Ignorance of the Auieriean ip!o was kurprUing and was generally remarked upon by other nation whom he claimed were su perior. He Hated the Italians were superior to the American in point of education. Though Blobop Burke s audience wa a Catholic one, yet there was no entbuMlaam manifested at this uncalled for speech to an American audience. After sowing such seed as would prejudice hi Dearer against Ameri cans and American institutions. Bishop Burke sat upon the platform and each young man as he received his diploma from hlui, knelt before the bishop and kissed a ring upon his band. Therv arose within my heart a protest that these young men should bo called upon to humiliate themselves to such a ser vile and superstitious act a burlesque on the bishop's remarks regarding the superiority of Catholic education. I felt as I witnessed this act so destruc tive to American manhood, that it is the cuurches which are keeping the people In error, darkness and ignor ance. A child should not be permitted or required to sacrifice the God-given right of independence to gratify the pride of hierarchy or king. A man'a heel once placed upon the neck of a child, mau, beast or system will never bo lifted while there Is power behind him. My observation is that the Cathollo school system works a great hHrdahip upon the children of the poor Catholics who arc unable to py for tuition in tholr schools, and are denied the privi lege of sending their children to our free schools. What good is there in a religious system that refuses to educate a poor child unless It poses as a pauper! I know or a Cathollo family in our city whose six or eight children are sorely in need of education, becauso the parents are too poor to pay tuition, and too proud to have their children classed as paupers, while the fear of the priests' frown prevents them sending tholr children to the public schools. I rocently learned the following history of a young Catholic girl in our city. Her parents were too poor to educate her in a Cathollo school, so she, being of an independent, wilful disposition attended our public schools until she graduated. She subsequently secured a remunerative position as book-keeper in a mercantile house. The Catholic priests then came to induce her to join the Cathollo church, but she tossed her head and said: "No, indeed, you would not educate me when I needed it, and now that I am making money you want me in the church. I don't want such a religion." When the Catholic church lavs aside her insatiate greed and is willing to teach the children of her members without money and without price, then, and not until then, can Bishop Burke or any of his associates criticize with any degree of modesty, the only sys tem In our land which takes the out cast child of the gutter and elevates him to the Intellectual plane of the child of fortune. Bishop Burke condemns the public school system because of its failure to "teach religion." Religion is cot God and there Is a distinction between re ligion and Christianity. A religion is outward form without power. Chris tianlty is power without outward form. All sects are religionists and devoid of a personal knowledge of God the true God. Catechise them regarding practical knowledge of God, and you will find few, If any, have direct an swers to prayer. How ridiculous to at tempt to teach children of God, when those who teach are bringing reproach upon the name of God daily. The one fact of coercion on the part of Catho lics and Protestants is proof conclusive that they have no knowledge of God as taught by the gentle Jesus. It is injustice to a nation to have any sys tem or organization of men instruct its children of God, when they, the in structors, know not God. I recently met a young woman on her way to Japan as a missionary, who ad mitted to me that she had no personal knowledge of God or direct answers to her prayers, yet she was going to teach the heathen. I said to her, "My dear young woman, you are not prepared to teach the heathen of God when you do not know Him." So you see America sends her heathen to teach the Asiatic heathen of God. And Europe sends her heathen to dictate to and teach the American heathen of God. Few teachers of religion have any practical knowledge of God, while the majority cling to the deeply noted dog mas and superstitions of their fore fathers. The superstitions handed down by the Catholic church have be come so universal that some are prac ticed by many who do not know of them. To illustrate: A well-bred man puts his hand over his mouth when he yawns, but not one well-bred man in ten thousand knows why. The reason is this: Four or five hundred years ago there was a super- ktition common in Europe that the devil wa alway lying In wait to enter a man's body and take powension of blm. Satan generally w.;nt in by the mouth; but when be bad waited a readable time and the man did not open hi mouth the devil made him yawn, and while hi mouth was open jumped down hi throat. So many cane of this kind occurred that the eople learned to make the sign of the cross over tholr mouth whenever they yawned, in order to scare away the devil. The peasantry In Italy and Spain still adhere to this custom, though mot other p-ple have dis pensed with the crocs sign and keep out the devil by simply placing the hand before the lips. It is a most re markable survival of a practice after the significance ha perished. It 1 owing to the fact of the Italians clinging to the crocs sign, as in this care to keep the devil from jumping down their throats, that Bishop Burke deem them more Intelligent tbaj Pro testant Americans. It has been said: "Reason is the only torch of the brain. Honesty is the best human guide to lead us in the light of this torch. Everything put before the people today for them to believe or act upon is subject to Impartial investiga tion." Hence the majority of thinking men and women are cutting loose from the church with its dogmas and super stitions, while the "old lady" (Rev. 17- 1-7) is left to make her statistical boasts over the numbers of unthinking women and children she scares or per suades into her fold. I predict that Mgr. Satolll will be unable to coerce the liquor men of America, and the church will content herself by selling them indulgences (to sin) as was her custom in the dark ages when her power was almost universal. The world is still looking for that Ideal priest described by Geoffrey Chaucer, the first English poet laur eate, viz: A good man there was of rellvlon, That was a poor parson of a town ; But rich he wa In holy thought and work, He was also a learned man, a clerk. That Christ's gospel truly would preach. HU parishioner devoutly would he teach, Benign he wa and wondrous diligent. And In adversity full patient; And such he was proved often times. Full loth were he to cursen for his tithes. But rather would he given, out of doubt, I nto hi poor parishioners about, Of his olTerlng, and eke of his substance; He could In little thing have sufitcance. Wide was his parish, and houses fur as- sunder, But he ne"er felt nor thought of rain or thunder, In sickness and in mischief to visit The farthest In tils parish, much and oft, t'pou his feet, and in his hand a staff. This noble example to bis sheep he gave: That first he wrought and then he tanght; Out of the Gospel he the words caught, And this figure he added yet thereto: That If gold rust, what should Iron do? And If a priest be foul, on whom we trust. No wonder if a common man do rust; Well ought a priest example for to give, By his cleanliness, how hi sheep should live. He set not his benefits to hire, Or left hi sheep bewlluered In the m ire, And ran to London, unto Saint Paul's, To Beeken him a chanterie for souls, Or with a brotherhood to be wit hold; But dwelt at home, and kept well his fold, So that the wolf he made It not miscarry, Ue was a shepherd and ro mercenary, And though he holy were and virtuous, He wa to sinful men not dispiteous. Nor of his Bpecch dangerous nor high, But In his teaching discreet and benign. To draw his folk to heaven, with fairness, By good example, was his business; Butlf were any person obstinate, Whether he were of high or low estate, Him would he reprove sharply for the nuns, A better priest, I trow, that nowhere is. He waited after neither pomp nor reverence, Nor maked him no spiced conscience, But Christ' lore and His apostles twelve Ue taught, but first ht followed it hlmselve." Clara D. Armstrong. rat's Soliloquy. Why should these Yankees organize In such a secret way, And plan for us a sad surprise Upon election day? Have we, the only christian church, Revealed our plan too soon? Must we come down from off our perch, Like Davy Crockett's coon? Sure we must try another game; Our holy fathers feel That we can fool them all the same, With patriotic zeal. We'll tell them when the flag was rent, We saved this Yankee nation; And how we loved the president "With a mental reservation." Of course it will not bo the truth, Our priest will settle that, And we must never mention Booth, Or the dear old saint Surratt. Now we must play the winning card To quiet all this fuss, And show for them a warm regard But never mention Huss. Our priests who scorn the aid of pelf, Though spurned by "i ankee frauds, Are more to us than God himself -They manufacture gods. We'll tell these Yankee heretics We love the public school You see the conscience never pricks Where lying is the rule. But the Yankees now are waking up, And I begin to feel That we may drink a bitter cup, If we should mies the deal. Last night I had a horrid dream Which did my bosom thrill, So real did my fancy seem, The vision haunts me still. 'Twas midnight when I heard a call That filled me with dismay; I woke, and lo, upon the wall Wa written "A. P. A.T Once more I gazed, when mighty dread Had pierced me through and through The ouI of all the martyred dead Came panning in review. It seemed the power of speech had fled; E'en now my tpirit faints; I aw the papal church wa red With the blood of martyred saint. We know those heretics were bad, And the victim of a scheme, But truly I wa more than glad My vUion was a dream. Of course our holy church i white; And I now understand We have the only patent right To occupy this land. For years in office we have thrived With undisputed sway; And are we now to be deprived By the horrid A. P. A.? 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