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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1894)
H AMERICAN. LEO'S STRONG WORDS. Ha Addresses a Large Audience in an Eloquent Manner. lie (Juute Some Eminent ( bun bm and Churth rH-nt t Show the Altitude r the (IiurvB Tvwanl Mate Schools. The following address was delivered by Leo J. IX, Richardson before an en thusiastic audience In Elgin: Mr. Chairman axd Citizens of Elgin; If I fail to meet your expecta tions It will be from the fact that I, like thousands of others, have bien de frauded out of the rportunity of a longer course in the common school of the country. The cause of ouch meetings as this Is not of our own making. The rea sons why the American Protective As sociation was born, and should live and receive the approbation of every loyal and country-loving citizen, I shall en deavor to explain in a humble and hon est way. The first witness to the charge of treason of the political I Io nian Catholic church Is Cardinal Man ning, one of the greatest leaders in the Romish church, who said, "It is a duty to obey the civil law so long as it does not oppose faith." I refer you to Dona hue's Magazine of 1888; he also endorsed a book written by a Jesuit priest,Father Shope. In the book are these words: "The civil laws are binding on the con science only so long as they are con formable to the principles of the true church." 1 always supposed that this government was for the people, by the people, and of the people; but accord ing to Cardinal Manning we have a government of the church, by the priest, and for the pope. Cardinal Manning said another per tinent thing. He said that a contract to which Rome was cot a party, made by a Roman Catholic, is not binding unless ratified by Rome. We are electing men to office who are a part of this system. We have trusted them, because distrust is not One of our American principles. But when we discover that the promise which a congressman makes to his con stituents is not binding unless ratified by Rome, when we learn, in the event of a conflict of duties, he must obey Rome, then it is time to consider if this trust is to be continued. Then it is time for the American people to say whether they will have home rule or Rome rule in America. This religio political institution, called a church, says: "Catholics would not be satisfied with our system of public schools even If the Bibl9 and every vestige of re ligion were out of them." We say they should be quarantined at Castle Garden. The leading prelates of the Roman church say that our schools are godless, and that education therein fits the children for the penitentiary. If that is the case the Roman Catholic church has a large number of teachers headed for Joliet, because a very large portion of the teachers in the public schools are members of the Roman Catholic church. If it is not tiresome, I would like to quote sotae Roman doctrine practiced here they are mostly clippings from Catholic papers and magazines: Gladstone says: "No more cun lng plot was ever devised against the freedom, the happiness, and the yirtue of mankind, than Roxanism." "The Catholic religion, with all its votes ought to be exclusively dominant in Buch sort that every other worship shall be banished "and interdicted. Pope Pius IX. "Protestantism has no principle or consistancy, It was the creation of a drunken, thieving and lustful mob, and consequently must always act as the mob dictates. Western Recorder, Omaha Roman organ. The Toledo Catholic Review thus boldly advised the Roman Catholics of this country: "Catholic votes should be cast solidly for the democracy at the next election. It is the only possible hope of breaking down the school sys tem." Do Illinoisians want this? "The public schools have produced nothing but a Godless generation of thieves and blackguards." Priest Schaur. "I frankly confess that the Catholics stand belore this country as the enemies of the public schools." Priest Phelan. "I would as soon administer the sac rament to a dog as to christians who send their children to the public schools." Priest Walker. We would much rather our children should grow up in ignorance than be taught in a school that is not Catholic. Catholic Quarterly Review. "The Roman Catholic citizen of the United States owes no allegiance to any principle of the government which is condemned by church or pope." Tablet. "The public schools are the nurseries of vice; they are Godless schools, and those who send their children to them cannot expect the mercy of God." Priest Walker. "Let the public school system go to where It came from the devil. We want christian schools, and the state cannot tell us what Christianity is." Freeman's Romish Journal. "Catholic would not be satisfied with the public st'boola even if the ProU--tant Bible, and evry rrs-ig of relig ious teaching were baoished from thein." Button Advertiser. If allegiance to the church demanded of us oosltion to politiesl principles adopted by our civil government, we should not hesitate toob.y the church, -Catholic World. The-e so-called public schools are not public schools, but infidel and sectarian. Catholic parents who send their child ren to such schools are guilty of mortal sin. Priest Fral, Brooklyn! While the state has right, s'le has them only in virtue and by permission of the supreme aulho i y, and that au thority can only be expressed through the church. Catholic World. We are purely and simply Catholics, and profess our unreserved allegiance to the church, which takes precedence of and gives the rule of our allegiance to the state. Catholic World. I would rather one-half of the people of this nation should be brought to the stake and burned than one man should read the Bible, and form bis judgment from Its contents. Bishop Sfiottswood. If the American republic is to be sus tained and preserved at all, it must be by the rejection of the principles of reformation, and the acceptance of the Catholic principles of the American people. Catholic World. It will be a glorious day for the Cath olics of this country when under the blows of justice and morality our school system will be shivered to pieces. Un til then modern paganism will tri umph. Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph. So you see, friends, this is proof posi tive, that there should be some con certed action on the part of country loving citizens to purge both old parties of men who owe allegiance to the old gentleman on the Tiber. "The Catholic church numbers one fifth of the American population, and if its membership shall increase for the next thirty years as it has in the thirty years past, in 1900 Rome will take the country and keep it." Priest Hecker. Now, we have taken their own words to prove their disloyalty to the institu tion that has made this country the envy of the civilized world. We have no ill feeling against any man because he worships God in his own way, but we do object to a man or a set of men using their religion as a cloak to gain political power. Freedom of wor ship as laid down in the constitution, is freedom to to the individual, not to the sect, and I believe the sect which teaches that politics are a part of morals is dan gerous. I also believe the sect which teaches that a man, who comes into the world by the same law of nature that you and I do, has the power to forgive sins and stand between a man and his Maker, I believe that sect is dangerous to the peace, harmony and stability of this union. There is no church finding fault with our public schools except the Roman Catholic church, and I believe you will agree with me when I say, that any sect or set of men that under takes to subvert our public school sys tem, should be tried for treason. And right here let me quote the "Holy laws of Romanism." Archbishop Ireland, at Baltimore, when he made his final ap peal to that body of devoted subjects of the holy father in Baltimore, said: "Go to your homes with the enthuslas Ism you have shown here; spread it in every state in the union, and say there is a new departure among Catholics in the United States. Tell them there is a new mission open for laymen. The long expee'ed day has come when Cath olic bishops, priests and laymen rise up and say, henceforth we will act as one man, in accordance with our religion." The Jesuit doctrine is that a truly good Catholic should be as a corpse in the hands of his superiors. That the faithful (corpses) may fully understand their duty when they act in accordance with this platform, we here announce the laws which every lay member of our holy communion is bound to obey, or be deprived of the holy sacrament of his faith. 1. The holy father is the supreme ruler of the world, in spiritual as well as temporal matters, especially where we have the votes of power. 2. It is the duty of all Catholics to plot and labor for the absolute suprem acy of the pope. 3. It is the duty of all Catholics to take part in elections, to know that "politics are a part of morals. Politics are morals on the widest scale. " They must also give perfect submission and obedience of will to the church and the sovereign pontiff, as for God himself; they must remember that they are to acknowledge no civil superior before the holy father: that in their political work, "they must always and in the first place serve the interests of Catholicism. 1. Wc are opposed to any system of schools that teaches the youth more than the Roman catechism, or that teaches the young to think it is unnec essary, a waste of time and money, when the holy father has been ap pointed by God, especially at the Vati can council in 1 870, to do the thinking for this world. Therefore, we call upon our subjects to do all they can to break down and destroy the free public schools of this Protestant nation, which have compelled us to set up and maintain at great expense, parochial schools to de iend our faith, thus lessening the in come of the clergy, u 1 f .. . ., f-'J LKO J. RICHARDSON. 5. We are in favor of filling all olllces with men selected by the bishop of the diocese, upon whose political judgment all Catholics must rely, for, (as Monslg nor Preston, of New York City, testified to under oath in a civil court), the bish op "must be obeyed whether right or wrong," and this is the law. The faith ful can confide in the bishop; though he may in one county or city compel you to support the candidates of one party, and In the next county or city support those of the other party, but you must not hesitate, he "knows what he Is do ing," for, in either case, we get our price for your vote, and the holy church is the winner. In order to find employment for the many thousands of the faithful who are coming daily to swell the ranks of our Catholic army, which will in time posess this land, we must secure control of all the cities, railways, manufactories mines, steam and sailing vessels above all, the press in fact, every enterprise requiring labor, in order to furnish our new comers with employment; this will render it necessary to remove or crowd out the American heretics who are now employed' You need not hesitate; it Is your duty to do so. You must not stop at any thing to accomplish this end. There are many ways to do this, but if you cannot devise a way, consult your father confessor, but "be careful to do nothing that will create scandal." 7. We call upon all lay Catholics having the means, education and ac quaintances to become candidates for legislative offices, to sit in city councils, in state legislatures, congress or senate. It is in these places that you will do the most good for our holy cause, to re claim this continent which was discov ered by a Catholic for the true church. In these places you can do good work by securing offices for our faithful sub jects, which is especially grateful to us, their salaries being fixed and shown to us we know just how much money to demand of them for getting them the places and caring for their souls, in addition to this valuable aid, as mem bers of law-abiding bodies, they can do great good by frustrating such legisla tion not approved by the holy church, and in securing the larger appropria tions for tchools under the supervision of our worthy brothers and sisters, also by having young priests appointed as chaplains in the army and navy. The opportunities for serving our church in legislative bodies are numerous; hence, this is urged upon you as worthy of serious consideration. 8. We have learned with regret that there are some Catholics who are pos sessed with the insane idea that their children can get a better education in the godless public schools than in the parochial schools. These insane apos tates must be taught by their father confessors that they cannot disobey the Holy church with impunity. It is such Catholics who fancy they must join one of the dominant political parties and vote with them, thus disobeying the bishop, who may have made arrange ments for his vote to be cast for some friend of our church. In all such cases the confessor of such Catholics must deny to them the sacraments and im pose a severe penance, order a liberal alms which the confessor will give as he may deem best. Thus you see countrymen the laity of the Romish church are coerced, and their rights as American citizens are abridged. I wish to call your attention to a book called "The Judges of Faith;" a book that every man and every woman should have and read. It contains a most terrible tirade against our school system, and has the approbation of three hundred and eight of the high and highest church dignitaries. I might quote these proofs all night but time will not permit. Do you know that twenty-five of the largest cities are run and misgoverned by the Irish Catholics? I will give you a few of the names of that nationality that furnished 72 per cent, of the iesortions In the last war of their enlistment, and 97 per cent, of the olico force iu that Ilopkinized and Ftvhanized and Alt- I.I ! : : .V. geldized city of Chicago. I will read them: They wero the McLauchlins, McCloskeys, Mahoneys, Reilleys, Kel lys, Rorkes, Shaughnessys, FinnogiMis, Noonans, Corcorans, O'Rourkes, Fitz patricks, Far rolls, Murphys, Moo neys, Dunns, McGarrys, Quinns, Bren nans, McDermotts, Murthas, Hagger tys, O'Flynns, O'Donohues, Kerrigans, McCauns, Meaneys, Gradys, McNa maras, Phelans, O'Connors, Lynches, O'Tooles, Keenans and the like, that it is strange not to read first in the re quirements for office, proof of the birth of the candidate, or of his father, in the land of Erin. A simple perusal of civil lists of the cities of New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City tells the story of the personnel of our municipal gov ernments. The almond-eyed representative of, the pope, Mgr. Satolli, Is here. He comes from a country where the Roman church has done the educating for 1000 years, and today 82 per cent, of the Italian people are illiterate. Yet this little Dugo, who cannot 8eak our lan guage, is dictating to the people in this country how and where their children shall bt taught. The church of Rome has driven 850,000 children out of the public schools into the parochial schools, and are being taught treason pure and simple, being taught to be good Catholics before they are good citizens. Citizens of Illinois, see to it that none but honest, conscientious men are selected on our school boards, men fearless in the defense of our nubile in stitutions. The whole danger in this country is not altogether from Rome, but from the allies of the pope; the cowardly Protestaet politicians, whose only thought is gain and self; men who cringe and crawl to some priestly In fluences; men who would sacrifice the memory of their mother to attain their selfish end, adopting the Jesuit idea, that "the end justifies the means." I believe that the time has come for de cided and heroic action. These wrongs can never be prayed out of our land, neither can we expect to have the wrongs .-ighted by either of the old parties that divide the country and surely not by this sugar-cured congress now in session. We want men to rep resent us who receive their politics from the Potomac instead of the Tiber. We place country above party and principle above men, We believe that this herd of cattle from Roman Catho lic Europe that is being dumped on our shores should remain at home until our own workmen are provided for, I mean the class that a yard of calico would clothe a whole family a year. We de mand that no man shall cast a ballot until he can read and write the English language, and I would have him parse this sentence: Any man who breathes a word or harbors a thought of disloy alty to our institutions, shoot him on the spot. Romanism was born under planets that were in opposition. It lives in the objective case. Like a mule it has no pride of ancestry, no hope of posterity. It never originated anything, except an unrelenting war on our schools in America, and the inquisition in Europe. It shines by borrowed light. It has been united in honest wedlock to Amer ican principles, but has lived a thous and years in open adultery with crime, ignorance and superstition. The atmos whlch surrounds Romanism is full of noxious vapors, that breed moral pesti lonce ana aeatn. me sun never shines through it; vice seeks its station; corruption grows lusty under its influ ence. Its waters are torpid, lifeless, covered with scum, such as stagnant pools and moveless waters and always offend the eye of man. The soil which Romanism has culti vated has failed to yield harvests of value to the nation, but has given crops of worthless weeds and briars. Romanism has no love of country. It loves popes, cardinals, bishops and the inquisition, instead of nations and pres idents; drives loyalty from its door and welcomes rank treason to its habitation. Romanism blessed Jeff Davis and the Confederacy; bound up the wounds of treason and sKke words of hope and comfort to its devotees. Riinanism Is curao to ton land, the source of our blttoremt (tut; tho haven where vice and crime find NilogisU and defender. Romanism is original slo, let loose to rend and destroy. It is tho spirit of evil. It is the incarnation of unhollnontt; the child of the devil. I U home should be in outer darkness, where there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. We lay at the door of Romanism the murder of that matchless man, Abraham Lincoln. Every jxtsou connected with that diabolical Jesuit scheme wan a pa pist. I call them papist because the Kpe Is their papa. Mr. Lincoln when defending Rev. Chinlquy in a court of Justice in this state in 18oti, discovered the Roman clergy there in force to influence tho witnesses and the jury and ho said: "May it please your honor, gentle men of the jury and American citizens, this conspiracy, I am aware, has failed In its efforts, but I have a few words which I wish to say." Ho went on and depleted the career of Father Chinlquy and how ho had been unjustly prose cuted, and then in conclusion, said: "As long as God gives me a heart to feel, a brain to think, or a hand to exe cute my will, I devote It against that power which has attempted to use tho machinery of tho courts to destroy the rights and character of an American citizen," and for this utterance and de fense of that great and good man Lin coln came to his death with a bullet cast in a Jesuit mould. And now, my friends, let mo say as did another man who has made a study of this question: "Thus, before the American public as the highest court of jurisdiction, we arraign the pope of Rome as the representative of the papal policy, the representative whom they put forward to stand for the whole church in its antagonism to civil and religious freedom, against which he has committed high crimes and misde meanors. We impsach him in the name of liberty of conscience, whoso rights he has denied. We impeach him in the name of freedom of worship, whose temples he would close. We im peach him in the name of free speech and free press, whose voice he would smother in the smoke of fire and fagot. We impeach him in tho namo of civil liberty, over whose just laws he has proclaimed the sovereignty of Romish councils. We impeach him in the name of the marriage bond of the ma jority of the happy households of the christiaa world, which he has stigma tized a "filthy concubinage," because not contracted in the Romish church. We impeach him In the name of Prot estantism, which he calls, 'heresy,' and against which he invokes the persecu tion of the civil government and the tortures of the inquisition; in the name of progress, which he has tried In vain to stay; of modern civilization, with which he cannot be reconciled; in the name of the free and enlightened gov ernments of the world, against whose most beneficent laws he has hurled his anathemas; in the name of the Holy Bible, whose free circulation he has pronounced a pest; in the name of free America, whose overthrow he has plotted; in the name of Almighty God, whose prerogatives ho has blasphem ously usurped; in the name of all these, we impeach the pope and tho hierarchy which dominates the Roman Catholic church, and summon them to the bar of oppressed humanity, and of divine justice." I might close my address now, but I will not, for I desire to call your atten tion to one thing that may have escaped your notice. It is the complete sub serviency of the public press to the church of Rome. Nearly every dally paper In the United States of any conse quence has upon its editorial staff a Jesuit, who is there to see that nothing goes Into the paper which reflects In any manner upon the Roman Catholic church. It is through these Jesuits that the Roman Catholic Truth Society does its work, and it is due to their in fluence that so many complimentary notices of Roman prelates, and so little of the truth regarding the priesthood, creeps into the papers. But, while the the daily papers, as a rule, fawn upon the members of the hierarchy, it is not because they believe those members to be the good, true christian men they outwardly profess to be, but because they fear their power In both politics and business. No, my friends, it is not love but fear combined with greed for the almighty dollar that keeps your metropolitan daily papers ironi pub lishing the truth about Romanism, and about the aims and objects of the A. P, A. But thank God, we have passed that point where it is necessary for us to approach the editorial sanctum with our hats off, and beg, or even ask for fair treatment from the daily press with the formation of this great Prot estant association this great American order brave men, who loved their country and her free institutions far more than ease and comfort, invested their capital in printing presses and printing material and began publishing papers that bivathod pure patriotism in every line. One was located in Bos ton, another in Detroit, but very few men in Illinois or the west knew they were published. Time rolled on and a young man in Omaha, Nebraska, be came imbued with the idea that Rome wait trying to gain jxcwtwitlon of this country. I In studied a khort time over the situation and concluded to leave his position and Invest his money la printing material and begin the publi cation of an anti-Roman paper. He did so, oM-ulng his office in a little bed -oona 8x9 feet in hi homo, where, for five or six month he and his wife did all work editorial, tyo-scttlng, etc. Ia the fall they took in a partner by the namo of Kelley a Canadian, but a ."rot estant and together they lab ;ied as men never labored before. Then an election was held, and the men they supiHtrted were elected, business came to them and tho paper was made twice Its original size, after the office had been moved into a tine suite of rooms In one of the best office buildings in the clty The co-partnership was inurgodlntoa stock company, and renewed efforts put forth to make the paer a credit to tho cause it had oxused. About that time a Roman Catholic mob in Kansas City, Mo., attempted to take tho life of Rev. J. G. White that grand old patriot of Stanford, 111. It was then that the company at Omaha conceived the Idea of opening an office In Kansas City. Tho idea was con verted into a fact, and the next election went American. About the same time Chicago bad elected a mayor, a mem berof the Roman Catholic church and a Clan-na-gaol. This fact became known to the American Publishing Company of Omaha, and Mr. Kelley went to Chicago and opened an office there, and today that city lays claim to tho best patriotic paper in the country The Chicago American a paper which Is fearless and outspoken in ita advocacy of American principles, and In Its denunciation of priestly interfur ence in the affairs of state. And it ia because of such papers as The Ameri can that we are not forced to beg space of the dally papers in order to have our side of the case, fairly presented to the people, and It is the duty of all true pa triots to help these men, who risk not only their capital but their lives la fighting for the principles you say are right, and the way to do that Is to sub scribe for the paper and pay for it one year in advance. How many of you will do that? And now, my friends, let me say In concluding this address, there never was a time in the history of this republic when men loyal men were needed aa much as they are needed today. Willing hands are wanted to bear aloft this em blem of our greatness; men with hearts as true as steel, are needed to repel the onslaughts of the Roman church upon our public schools. 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