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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1894)
I T M EE AMERICAN. ASEKICA CITIZENSHIP, Frtln-bni PuptiUtioii Mut I Taught U ICpert Its Wrth. Civilized nation are but families in extenoiu. The government of a fatuilr has an instinctive dread of the members becoming physically or morally dis eased apd guards with vigilance against the intrusion of anything questionable. Ilence to btHxme united in marriage with a member of a family makes the individual part and parcel thereof. No one questions the rig ht of the parents to exercise this proper espionage over those they have in charge and the father would be looked upon as vile be yond expression who could be found willing to his pure, beautiful daugb ter wedded to a drunken roue, or his son bring home as a wife a woman of the town. Society must protect itself. Freema sonry has its strong barriers against the intrusion of worthless material, and Its proud boast is, that none can pass its portals save when preceded by the tongue of good report. While man kind is homogeneous in disposition the desire for affinity and natural selection is ever present. There are laws, writ ten and unwritten, for the protection of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness, and the infringement of which in volves a penalty of ostracising atd sep aration. Where this is not enforced or complied with, society has to descend to a level with the pollution. The ethics of moral living will not lift the immoral to a level with themselves. Ilence the vile will vitiate the pure and drag it down. The nation 1b but the elabora tion of the family. Citizenship is but another form of son, daughter or broth er-hood. The government of a nation is its parentage and gardlanship. To it is relegated the care, safety and pro tection of the great family forming the nation. Where bad material is per mitted to amalgamate with the good, suffering ensues not to the bad, how ever, but to the good. Hence a portion of the citizenship placed in positions of power are morally responsible for the well-being of the whole for "a public office is a public trust. " All nations have endeavored to guard the immaculate character of its citizen ship. The Romans were very jealous and zealous in this regard: "Then the chief captain came and said unto him, tell me art thou a Roman? He said yea. And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom And Paul said : "But I was free born. " Yes, it was a great thing to be known as a Roman citizen, and the alien had to pay heavily for the privilege. Mark the contrast existing between Roman and American citiznshlp. The most valuable and desirable thing under the Caesars was to be a citizen of that great empire. It was hedged around with guardianship and garlanded with choice privileges. It was the sign man' ual of true manhood, of culture, intelli gence and obedience to the existing laws. It, in short, was a prize well worthy contention an ambition that crowned all else with the proud dis tinction of a Roman citizen. We have here on this Western con- tinent a nation, the peer of proud Rome. Its victories have been derived more from place than war, from pro gress than from conquest, from educa tion rather than from brute force. It stands today clearly defined in the front rank of not only the nations of antiq uity, but with those of the present day. Naturally it would be supposed that the proud distinction of American citizen ship would at least be on a par with that of Rome of the Caesars. But this val uable thing, representing liberty, labor and human happiness as a reward, is to day the cheapest thing in the market so cheap and valueless that the vile, the polluted, the criminal and the off scourings of all habitable lands can come to our shores and without the in telligence to understand our methods of government, without respect for our laws, with no disposition to absorb our system of education with, but in the male to wield a pick and shovel and in the female to trundle a garbage cart through our streets, they have come from the overplusage and serfdom of Europe in millions, to stand on an equal footing of citizenship with the best and brightest native-born American. This element has polluted and diseased this land. It is but little above the brute in intelligence, save in knowing in a poll parrot way the mummery of a sup erstition, which has ever warred a gainst progress-and cursed the earth with a cruel blighting curse for over a thousand years. We have this element with us today by the million. What shall be done with it? The reply to this is two-fold. First, the value of American citizen ship must be enhanced not, however, to place it in the market for money but for worth. The foreign-born popula tion must be taught that American cit izenship is a reward for clean anteced ents and present good conduct. It must be raised so high as to be beyond the grasp of every vile begrimed hand reached out to ravish it, until the own er of that hand shall have proven his right to that great prizo by exemplary conduct, industry and sobriety. Not less than five years should elapse before this prize should be won under any cir cumstances, and then only on the clear indorsement of at least two reputable property holders. Second. Those in potuietwion of pa pers of citizenship should be held re sponsible to the whole nation for their conduct. It I a notorious fact that nine-tenths of the labor troubles In the past twenty years in this country have emanated from foreign-born citizens. Every county judge in America should be given the poer to rescind these citizen papers, upon the perpet ration of an overt aet, and the fact of such ao tion made public. The same power that made these brutalized foreigners, citi zens should have a like power to un make them without any regard for the habeas corpus law. Thl. taken with the restriction of undesirable lmmigra tion, would have some effect in purging the body politic, but alas! it Is the old story of the stable door and the stolen mare. Still defranchisement for overt action would do much to qualify the evils existing, while a law of residence before citizenship for a term of years would do much more. American Tyler. TO PATRIOTIC AMERICANS. Information Relative to Hon. W. S. Lin tou's Speech Against Appropriations of National Money for Sectarian Schools. Speeches delivered In congress are not supplied free by the government, as many suppose, but are a personal ex pense to the members who furnish them or to the Individual ordering them. A large number of requests from all over the United States have been made for Mr. Linton's speech (which the Roman Catholic Postmaster Dennis Ryan re cently tried to prevent going through the mails) than any other delivered during this session of congress, and the aggregate cost if all are supplied, will amount to thousands of dollars. We therefore do not believe that you, un derstanding the situation, would ask any one person to incur such a financial burden, particularly when you can se cure the speeches, and other public in formation of vast importance, in lots of 500 or 1000, for about one-quarter of a cent each. The pastor of the Metropolitan Bap tist church, Rev. Green Clay Smith, P, O. Box 333, Washington, D. C, a self- sacrificing gentleman, devoting much time to patriotic movements, will, dur ing the next three or four months sup ply all those who desire it, without any profit to himself, that portion of the Con gressional Record containing not only Mr. Linton's speech in full, but also re marks by Senators Gallinger, Call, Quay Daniels and Piatt, upon the same sub ject, in connection with the Indian ap propriation bill (which appropriates about four hundred thousand dollars for educational purposes that passes in to the hands of the priests, and Jesuiti cal agents of the Catholic church) and a vote of house, and action of senate thereon; also, the debate, proceedings, and vote of house on a bill (H. R. 353) to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and state govern ment. General Smith will send to your ad dress all the above matter (in one pamphlet), taken from the Congress ional Record, for less than the govern ment printer's charges, viz: the re markably low price of $2.50 per thous and copies, $1.50 for 500 copies, or 50c. for 100, delivered at your postofflce to one address. An unusual state of affairs exists in New Mexico, a majority of the people there being under the influence largely of Jesuit priests. In order to Ameri canize then (as in many of their schools they teach Spanish only) a suggestion was made that the English language should be taught as one of the branches in their schools. An amendment to this effect was offered requiring a pro vision to be placed in ihe constitution of the incoming state as follows: "and in all of which public schools the Eng lish language shall be taught, as a branch of study, but not to the exclus ion of other languages." The people of this country will be astounded to konw that an American congress de feated this proposition, although dona ting millions of acres of public lands to be used for school purposes, the pro ceeds of which maybe used for teach ing whore the nation's language is un known. The circulation in your neighborhood of above matter will furnish conclusive proof, which cannot be controverted, that organization must be maintained to combat certain sectarian connections with the state, and will show how your congressmen voted on these important American questions. The speeches and congressional proceedings referred to are folded, enclosed in envelopes, and franked without extra cost, so that, being public documents, they can each be addressed, and mailed by you broad cast without postage expense. The postage itself under other cir cumstances, would cost you $10 per 1000 copies. 'While the envelopes alone (furnished by the government, printed) are worth about as much as is charged for the entire matter. All this ex pense is saved, churches, lodges, coun cils, and organizations should order them by the thousand, and patriotic persons everywhere should take advan tage of this opportunity, and form clubs of say ten members, where deemed ad visable, so that for 25c, 15c, or 5c each, they can have 100, 50, or 10 of thi$e documents, and disseminate this matter through the mails among their friends for the facte and information it con tains with which the American people have not heretofore been familiar, and which apMrently, on account of cer tain influence, has not become public through the pre In any Mich manner as its importance warrants. It U al most incredible but neverthelei a fact, that our "Aim-rU-an" congrem voted down an amendment providing for teaching the English language as one of the studiek, in the public schools of New Mexico. Plea.se address all orders or further communications relating to this subject to General Ckkkn Clay SMITH, P. O. Box 333, Washington, D. C, and oblige yours truly. W. J. II. Travnor, Supreme Pn sident, A. P. A A CANDID OPINION. The lauding Methodist Paper on Roman And Anti-Roman in Politics. The operations of secret orders al leged to be engaged in promoting re ligious antagonism in this country are much discussed. Neither belonging to any such orJers, nor personally cognlz ant of their work, we take no part in these discussions. Our creed with re gard to the duty of Protestants and non Catholics toward the Rot an Catholic church is short. There is no secrecy about it, and this perhaps is a suitable time to state it. 1. Under the constitution of the United States the Roman Catholics are entitled to the free exercise of their re ligion: they are entitled to vote and to hold office when duly elected or ap pointed thereto. 2. Every citizen, provided he has the Qualifications, and complies with the conditions prescribed by the con stitution and laws of the country, has a right to vote for whom and for what he pleases. 3. In making up his mind how to vote, he has a right to take candidates, party, and measures into consideration, If he choses to vote against a man be cause he does not believe in God does not believe the Bible to be of God he has a right to do so. It is his privilege and right to vote against a man because be Is In a business or pursues a course which, upon the whole he believes to be detrimental. If he believes that electing him to an office will greatly In crease his Influence as an individual, and therefore help him to promote the schemes that he has in view, the citi zen has a right to vote against any roan. No man Is bound to vote for any party or at the behest of any party. Ilence he has the legal right to turn his back upon a party which he has supported for many years, whenever he pleases; but as a wise man he will only do so when changes have taken place in the party, or himself as to his views, which make the party no longer so fully an expression of what he thinks govern ment should do in the measures it rec ommends and the candidates whom it submits for election as some other party. 4. The Roman Catholics are entit led to preach all their doctrines, and to attack Protestantism from their pulpits and elsewhere whenever and however they please. Were there an attempt made to interfere with their liberties, we should feel it a duty to resist it. Protestants have the right to explain to their people and it is their duty to point out especially to children and youth what they believe to be the er rors of the Roman Catholic church. 5. If a citizen concludes that the Roman Catholic church by massing and delivering its votes is gaining advant ages from any political party, either as a whole, or in a locality, which are not conferred upon others, either as to money for public institutions or the ap pointment of its members to office, it is as legitmate tor him to make that one of the considerations why he Bhould not vote for Roman Catholics, as to make any other subject a consideration; and the Roman Catholics have a legal right to exert their influence over their people, and to vote them en masse if they can without such constraint as is prohibited by law. 6. If a citizen believes that the Ro man Catholics would destroy our public school system if they could, ho has a right to make that a test question, and to refuse to vote for any man who will not oppose their schemes in that par ticular; and if he thinks further that they will, if they can, and where they can, promote the division of the public school funds, and he is not himself a Catholic aud does not wish to see such things done, it is both his right and duty to oppose them by every means in his power. If the Roman Catholic church does not approve our public schools, it has a moral, religious and constitutional right to set up parochial schools and support them just as private citizens may employ private tutors, or send their children to denominational or privately endowed seminaries, colleges, or uni versities. As in one case, so in the other, those who turn from the schools provided by the state for the people should do so at their own expense. 8. If boards of education in any par ticular community introduce nuns or monks into the public schools as teach ers, permitting them to rear any of the insignia of their orders, or to use any of the homilies or other books or docu ments prepared especially for their own denomination, or to make any of their peculiar signs in school hours, the citi zen, being aware that this is one of the moft tubtle mode of propagating relig ious idea, and being opptwed to Mich um) of the public school, would be jus tified in doing everything In his power to secure the exclusion of such monks and nuns. u, However, competent lalholiea ap ply, who are able to teach what the state requires, and willing to do no to the exclusion of the religious forms and language of any particular denotnlnn tion, we should hold It to be the duty of the hoards of education to give them as equitable a showing In examination and appointments as others. v. hlle the constitution forbids a religious test employed by tho govern ment in determining the eligibility of an elected candiJate, or enaetlng a law to do this, It places no yoke uon the judgment and will of the Individual voter in any particular, who may vote for or against any person as ho thinks best or cbooeoe. vv natever tne reason controlling a citizen in voting, ho has a right, legal, constitutional, and moral, by argument and pursuasion, and by every method not Involving slander, libel, or bribery, to endeavor to bring others to the same way of thinking and voting. He also has the right to select the persons whom he would thus endeavor to lnflu ence, and if for any reason he prefers to keep secret the names of the persons whom he endeavors to effect, it is his right to do so. 10. As to the means whereby he en deavors to promote nis political pur pose, tneir wisuom or expediency, we say only this, that anti-Catholio clubs in political life that see fit to be secret have the same rights that other secret political clubs have to work out their own destiny. A general boycott of Roman Catho lics in trade and business, regardless of their Individual character, is evil, and only evil and cannot and should not succeed. Yet individuals have a right to consider this and other questions In deciding with whom to trade. The Ro man Catholics have all rights toward Protestants and no others, that Prot estants, have toward them. N, 1. Christian Advocate YOUR DUTY. From now until the polls close on the day of the coming election Americans should bo on their guard. They should, by this time, be aware of the fact that Rome works in an ln.sidu- ous manner, seldom snowing her band; that her strength lies In her secrecy and that they can only hope to over throw and deprive her of her political power and prestige by practicing the lesson she has so well learnod. If you have, In the past, elected men who have misrepresented you, you are deserving of pity, but if you re-eloct them and they do different to what you desire, you deserve condemnation for your gullibility. An American who is true to his coun try, who loves its institutions and re veres its flag allows no party ties or life-long friendships to outweigh his sense of duty when he goes to the polls to cast his vote. If his dearest friend or his trusted brother, stood on other ground than that occupied by himself when considering Priestly Dictation in Politics, Restriction of Immigration, One Ballot Fairly Counted, Taxation op all Property, The Public Schools, Free Speech, Free Press and Liberty of Conscience his ballot should be cast against such friend or brother and in favor of the man who represents most nearly his idea of true Americanism. Until such a stand is taken there can be no hope for a cessation of political medling on the part of the Roman Catholic priesthood, and the sooner American citizens realize this the sooner will politicians refuse to accede to the demands of the Roman corporation You can only be true to your own in terests by being true to those of your country. To carry this idea out it will be nec essary for our friends to retire a num ber of gentlemen who now fill official positions. The retirement must not be charged to an American order, but to the neg lect or refusal of such oflicials to carry out the desires of their constituents. Every Orangeman should carry a policy In the Loyal Orange Mutual Aid Association. No medical examination required; $2.50 is tho application foe. For information write M. L. Zook, 1615 Howard street, Omaha, Neb.; S. E. corner Randolph and Clark, Chicago, 111., or 807 Matn street, Kansas City, Mo, "Foxe.s Book of Martyrs" should bo iu everybody's library. You can get cloth-bound volume ot nearly 1,100 quarto pages for $2.50 It is worth double this price to any student of his tory. Send your orders to American Publishing Company. Americans should be on their guard against those "patriots" who become so enthusiastically jatriotie during political campaigns. As a rule they are not to be trusted, and their protes tations should be taken cum yra.io salis. Education must be controlled by Catholic authorities, even to war and bloodshed. 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