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"Tit A-KHieAM UTHlCllAMPIOWOr ALL t'AKTIOTIO 1HUR TH OMUAW Of NOM SF.PTEMI1F.R 14, 194. PETTIS COL'NTY, Missouri, is making a atratKht fight and prospects arc good for tho plaolntr of Americana In office. The dlsMsltlon of fund collected for tho bopefit of the "down trodden" Irish has resulted in another split among tho homo (Rome) rulers. The siteech of ltepresentative Lin ton, of Michigan, on tho ludlan appro priation bill would bo an excellent cam paign document for circulation. Missouri is in a fair way io bo re deemed from Roman control, there are already 12T councils of tho American Protoctlvo Association organized In that ula to, TUE republican state convention of Tennessee denouncod the A, P. A. and yet there are some people who declare that the A. P. A. is an adjunct to the republican party, WONDERS will never cease, tho dem ocrats of West Virginia are distributing circulars denouncing sectarian appro priations, and in consequence are being accused of bidding for the A. P. A. vote. FROM one of our exchanges, we learn that the P. O. S. of A. is 50,000 strong In the state of Pennsylvania and that no less than thirty seven new camps have been organized there during the year. Under what section of tho rules and regulations governing tho police de partment of this city are uniformed officers detailed to act as coachmen for the wife of "the chief magisterial officer of this city"? The private secretary to the Ameri can pope, Sutolll, who bears the some what euphonious but decidedly un American name of Spigahettl, is mak ing a tour of the southwest looking after some business for his master. James Allan went down to Lincoln recently, and while talking with a friend tho question as to who was the preferred candidate for governor of the gcntlemt n traveling that day came up and Mr. Allan polled the train and handed the figures to us. They showed Majors was tho choice of 43, Holeombof 23, while 9 refused to vote because they wero democrats Bishop Scannell says that the parishioners of the St. Paul's Polish Catholic church by transgress' ng the law ecclesiastic are not in good stand ing and can have nothing to say, and that he, the bishop alone has the right to bold and control the church property and that no priest can go to the parish without his, the bishop's, permission. This all sounds very well so far as Bishop Scannell is concerned, but in all probability he will learn that the civil law of this country is above the eccles iastlcal law which he relies on, and that the said civil law may decide that the parishioners have some rights which he Bishop ScKnnell is bound to respect. AN Investigation of the Congressional Record as to the position of Messrs. Meiklejohn and Hainer, upon the In dian appropriation bill passed June 16th shows that these gentlemen were ab sent from Washington at the time the only vote of the house upon the bill was taken. The Record of June 17th shows that the vote was on a motion to lay Mr. Gear's amendment on the table. Mr. Gear's amendment was to appro priate $2,225,000.00 to establish govern ment schools in lieu of the bill provid ing for contracts with existing schools, many of which were under denomina tional control. Mr. Melkeljohn was paired with Mr. Paschal of Texas, and Mr. Hainer with Mr. Covert of New York, which explains satisfactory why they did not vote. This relieves the honorable gentlemen from any sus picion of attempting to avoid going on record on this bill and fully explains their position, which we are glad to note was In favor of Mr. Gear's amendment TO THE WORKING MEN. Ever since we have been old enough to work, that has been our lot, and if any person understands the at condit ion of the laboring classes, and the condition of the same clas today we do, For that reason we do not hesitate to ask you hi "come, let us reason to gether." During Grant' administration this country was just recovering from the effects of a disastrous civil war, yet times were better than they are today Then a man could get work at living ages, today he cannot get it at the starvation point. Under Hayes the condition of tho laboring classes im proved, and under Garfield they kept growing brighter, and it was not until the Introduction of tho Mills Tariff re form measure in the house, that the advance in wages, the shortening in hour and the hundred and one other things which were accruing under re publican administrations ceased to fall to the lot of our artisans and mechanics. And what was the cause of this? Cap iial, which is the lalwrlng man's most valuable friend, was Invested in mills, in factories, in mines and in othor protected industries was gradu ally withdrawn, so that mill after mill was shut down, factory after factory ceased to operate, and mine after mine was abandoned until such tlmo as the tarilT tlnkerers should got through with their work and give the owners of cap ital something tangible to work upon. While those exiwrlments were being mado, men who had formely worked steadily and earned $2 and 94 per day were forced to remain in idleness or to seek other avenues of employment. From the effete cast came swarms of honest men with willing hands, seeking work that was not to be found, until it became a common by- word that there wore a dozen men waiting for every job that was liable to be given out. DlwHatlnfiu'tlon goes with penury and squallor, so when some rattle-brained folio .vs began to rail at tho two great parties as being tho cause of all the distress in tho land, and as being the friend of the capitalists and the corpor ations and the foe of skilled and un skilled labor, they found plenty of men foolish enough to believe the sophist ries uttered by them. Others, together with disgruntled politicians or chronic ofllco-seekers, grasping the idea but losing sight of the truth took up the cry. Ihey defeated tho republican nominees, and for the second timo in a quarter of a century took the manage ment of national affairs out of the hinds of the republicans and placed it in those of the democratic and populist parties. The result has been, that dis asters have come upon our people, overwhelming them and reducing many to the very depths of poverty; and to day the laborer who was prosperous under Grant, under" Hayes, and under Garfield is an object of charity or able, at the best, to eko out but a miserable existence. The cause of this is easily ascertained, Under republican administrations capi tal was employed under the present administration It is in enforced idle ness. In this the laboring man should be able to read a lesson. When capital was employed he did not want for work, but as soon as it was withdrawn, he was forced to remain idle. If this is true of the past, and you know it Is, why do you not realize that your interests are best subserved by a uniform policy and not by shifting from an established law to one that drlvos both capital and labor out of tho field of employment? The plea that unJer a proposed change you could buy cer tain articles for 25 or 50 per cent less than you can buy them today is easily answered. Take clothing. Suppose the price is $3 or $10 per suit, now many suits of clothes could you buy under ex isting circumstances? Could you not afford to pay $13 or $20 if you had work? We opine that a reduction of 25 or 50 per cent in tho cost of articles is of lit tle bem fit to the man who has had his wages cut 100 per cent. What the laboring man wants is work. If he has work he can buy what he needs. But the trouble is he cannot get it under the free trade policy of the democratic party or under the $50 per capita policy of the populists. He can get It under the protective policy of the republican party, for under it capital will be re-invested, and thousands of idle hands will find employment. By allowing the capitalist to employ his capital, the laboring man will be able to find renumerative employment. Let It be understood, capital and labor are dependent one upon the other. Neither can find employment except the other does. WHAT WE WANT. We want America for Americans. We are heartily tired of being citizens of a country that is free to everyone but Americans. Americans fought for this country, died for this country, made this country what It is, and we want this great country for Americans. We do not object to foreigners coming to this country if they will come intend ing to be American citizens. By Amer ican citizens we mean citizens whose highest object will be to maintain hon est American institutions. We Kant .American officials for American offices. We want such men to hold office as will use their office for the benefit of this country. We do not want men who use their office, or rather prostitute It, for their own individual purjiose. We think that the official of this great land of our should work for honor and for the best Interest of the people. Too many office-holders think that to be an office-holder 1 to have a right to rob the eple on every possible oc casion. Too many candidate go into the fight looking for boodle. We want to have good, clean, American olitlc. He trtntf American frte public Bftuxils. We want the public schools of this country, which are supiorted by the American taxpayers, to be American. When we pay our taxes we know that some of them will be appropriated fur our schools. We want these appropria tions for American schools. We object to our money being used to supKrt the schools of any sect or creed. The ap propriations are for free public schools, and we claim that any sectarian school is not free or public. W tmnt American teuchcra for Aiiieri. can schools. The schools of America are for the purjnise of teaching Ameri can pupils in America, and we think that the only people fit to educate our children are Americans. We object io imported teachers who wear the garb of any sect, religious or otherwise. This country is democratic, and to wear a distinguishing or discriminating garb is not democratic. Our institutions are American. Our children are Ameri can and we demand that their touchers be American. It is all right to say a person may be American, no matter how he Is clad, but it is not right to put a person wearing the garb of an un American Institution in charge of American school children in American schools. Wt irant American judges to expound American laws. The basis of all our American law Is the Declaration of In dependence, a document originated by Americans, drawn up by Americans, and which should be legally inter preted by Americans. The best teach ers of Italian are natives of Italy; the best teachers of Romanism are the priests and nuns, and Burely the best teachers of Americanism should be Americans, and the best interpreters of American law are Americans. We are in favor of law and order, and we want American law expounded in an American court, by an American judge. We want American juries, and in short we want the whole country to be Amer ican. We want a government of Americans, for Americans, and by Americans. ROMAN JUSTICE. It is not every person that has had an opportunity of ascertaining the quan tity or the quality of "Justice" a Ro man Cathollo judge or justice can or will Impose upon a person who is so un fortunate as to appear before him after doing something against either the Roman church, Its priests or its nuns, and some of you might think we were exaggerating somewhat if we told of a case which recently happened In Brook lyn, N. Y., and for that reason we copy the story from the New York Sunday Idvertiser. It reads as follows: "There is a feeling of indignation over in Brooklyn touching the charac ter or the sentence imposed recently by Police Justice Walsh upon one Walter Hanley. The facts are that Hanley, who is a friendless sort of inebriate, re duced to a despondent state, entered the fruit Btore ot a man named Oraney, in Fulton street, and begged for some fruit or money. Graney ordered him out of the place, and at the same time turned to bestow alms upon two bisters of Charity who were out collecting for one of their church institutions. Han ley, who was drunk and irresponsible, Sioke in Insulting terms of the sisters, whereupon Graney knocked him down and kicked him mercilessly. "This was a fair and reasonable pun ishment for the gross behavior of the wretch, but a policeman arrested Han ley, and he was locked up for four days waiting trial. He was finally arraigned upon the charge of "wilfully commit ting an act which openly outraged pub lic decency." The novelty of this charge probably mystified Hanley and, not realizing the enormity of his crime, he was induced to plead guilty. Where upon Justice Walsh fined the penniless creature $500 and gave him almost the maximum of the law, or enough to keep him in jail for two years and a half as he is unable to pay a cent of the fin. Even Graney, the man in whose store the offense was committed and who knocked down and kicked Hanley, says that if he had thought the man would have been sentenced to more than thirty days in jail he would not have pressed the matter at all. Justice Walsh, whose religion per haps causes him to sympathize with the insulted women, holds that the crime of Hanley was egregious and that the sentence is none too heavy. A great many good citizens in Brooklyn feel that if Hanley had insulted two mem bers of the Salvation Army or two wo men representing some Episcopal insti tution JuJkc Walsh's sense of outraged justice would not have been half so keen. Steps are being promptly taken to see if justice cannoi be had for Han ley not the Justice Walsn kind of jus tice but the kind that all true Ameri cans insist upon having." PUTTING TIMIDITY ASIDE. The American element In Chicago and Cook county has striven for years to induce the leaders of the old political parties to place clean, efficient and trustworthy men in nomination for the several positions within the gift of the people, but in every instance their wishes have been unheeded, and as a consequence the city is today in the control of a gang of political free-hooters who care nothing for the will of the people; a gang whose actions put to the blush those of the disreputable ring which is sapping the life-blood of the great city of New York, and which is planning to register thousands of men who are not citizens of either the state or nation, so as to vote them at the coming election. But this attempt to thwart the will of the people at the ballot box by the aid of repeaters and aliens who have not declared their intentions is not a new trick. It has been played in this city for years, but never on as gigantic a scale as common report says it was played during the Hopkins-Swift may orality contest last year. Then, it was that the will of the American voter was most grossly outraged. During the cam paign repeaters and illegal voters got in their work at points where fraud was not expected, if one is to believe the words of men who claimed they were in a position to know, and their votes to gether with tho Irregular counting al leged to have done in many precincts swelled Hopkin's vote so that the re turns, on their face, Indicated that the Clan-na-gael candidate had carried the city. The people, however, were not satis fied. They believed they had been cheated of what rightfully belonged to them and began to plan to recover the ground they had lost. The first move they made was in the last election when they became dissat isfied with the nominees for the council in the second ward, brought out Addi son Ballard on petition and elected him over both the ring candidates. The second move was made last week when about one hundred men met in Masonic.Tomple and organized a new party under the name of the Independ ent American-Citizens Party, after wards arranging for a grand ratifica tion meeting Wednesday evening to adopt a platform and ratify the nomin ees selected by tho central committee. The meeting was held; the ticket was ratified, and the work of reforming Chicago's municipal affairs goes on. The next move will be made on elec tion day when the majorities of the several old parties will be pared down to a point that will convince them that they have ignored the will of the elec tors too long. If you are an, American citizen and believe the corrupt ring which now manipulates the affairs of this city should be retired, we invite you to en list under the Independent American Citizens Party banner, and help swell the vote of the new party. We ask you to vote for principle, not for party, and if our platform is broad enough, and long enough for you to stand upon, throw aside the old party yoke and line up with a party of freemen, a party of progress and a party which is loyal to every one of. our free institutions. Chi cago American. A CAMPAIGN LIE. Some persons are assiduously spread ing the report that Tom Majors has promised to appoint the editor of The American to a position on the board of fire and police commissioners, If he is elected govornoY. The story is false from beginning to end. Mr. Majors has not promised us and we have not asked and shall not ask, and our friends have not asked him to appoint us to a position on the board of fire aDd police commissioners. We are engaged in the newspaper business, not in office seek ing. If any friend or foe of either Mr. Majors or of this editor knows of any stronger way of denying the report they can use it and we will back it up. The story Is a campaign He manufactured ou of whole cloth. THE FARMERS WANT TOM. Grand Island, Sept. 10, 1894. Edi tor American Dear Sir: I notice you are interested in Tom Major's cam paign, and as I served under him four years I appreciate what you say in his behalf. Last week I was up at Broken Bow and as I came back I thought I would poll the train and see how the people felt on governor. As this was Holcomb's stamping ground I naturally thought he would Becure a majority, but what was my surprise when Majors received 15 out of 23 votes cast and the men voting were all farmers, with two exceptions. They said the repub licans thereabouts do not wear a Rose- water collar this year. Yours for Majors, T. B. S. goingTto iYake"iToff, Last Saturday a crowd of men were standing in front of a book store on Farnam street looking at a cartoon in a leading weekly, which represented Sa tolli seated on the dome of the capital in such a manner as to cast a shadow over the whole nation. One gentleman in the crowd remarked that his elbow appeared to be on Omaha. "Yes, "said another, "but we're going to try and push it off this fall." "That's what we are!" the balance chimed in. American voters in the Seventh Missouri district 6hould bear in mind the fact that Congressman John T. Heard, in his capacity as chairman of the committee on the District of Col umbia, did as much, if not more, by his pilotage and advocacy than Representa tive Meredith, of Virginia, in securing the passage of that bill providing for the vesting of title in a Roman Catho llo institution In tho city of Washing ton (Gonzaga College) of about 12,oOO square feet of ground of the value of be tween $15,000 and $20,000. The voters of Mr. Hoard's district should see to it that hereafter the representative be sent to congress who will deem it his duty to legislate for Americans and American institutions, and not exhibit such a desire to champion every bill the Roman Catholic church may be anxious to work through congress and thereby draw money from the public treasury, adding more and more to its already enormous wealth. The Knights of Pythias are to use only the rituals printed in the English langurge where that language predom inates; so says the supreme lodge. From the majority committee report the following is taken: The supreme lodge announce and re affirm the declaration mado at the Kansas City session, that henceforth and forevermore the ritual used in this and all other Faglish speaking nations shall be printed in the English lan guage only, and that when the stand ard of our'order shall be planted in any country speaking another than the English language, the rituals therein used shall be printed and all concerns over which this body has control shall be conducted only in the language of such government to the end that it may be known to all men and to all nations that, around our altars, Pythian Knights are taught, as one of the card inal principles of our order, undying loyalty and devotion to the government to which they owe their allegiance, whether It be the land of their birth or the country of their adoption. For systematic, professional begging the Roman Catholic church takes the cake. The executive committee of the Roman Catholic institution known as St. James' Orphanage located at Benson will hold a fair at Exposition hall Oct. 1st to 13th and a complete canvass to solicit subscriptions will be made of the city and business men. In selecting the date for holding the fair, the committee evidently realized that it would be a very opportune time to "pull the legs" of the several candidates in the politi cal field. We would wish to warn our Protestant friends, that there are sev eral most deserving Protestant charita ble institutions in this city soreiy in need of financial assistance, to which Ro man Catholics never have or never will contribute, such being the case, we ask, why should Protestants be expected to assist an institution solely under the control of the Roman Catholic church? The best educator on earth to make A. P. A's of weak-kneed Protestants is the Roman Catholic paper the Colum bian Banner, published In Kansas City, Mo. Since its second issue the A. P. A. has taken a new start and is growing twice as fast as before. Many new mem bers have expressed themselves on that score by saying that, "the paper in question has opened our eyes to what the A. P. A. teaches." Give the A. P. A. the Banner, they like it. Warm up your paper, call them more "bigots," "lanatics," accuse them of "persecu tion," "malicious," "co-religionists," keeping a "reign of terror," probing "dead issues." Say that "all decent people have gone out;" that, "the ma jority condemn it in their hearts;" that they "use the same scare-crows, the same lies;" Go it Banner, competition is the staff of life. A FELLOW named Renshaw who has been a hanger-on around the state house and an all round candidate worker who has made himself a nuis ance and a night-mare to every man who has held a state office or aspired to a nomination before a state republican convention for years has addressed a letter to the only simon-pure republi can paper of this city which is filled with a tale of woe and a vicious tirade against Tom Majors. This Renshaw is a fair sample of the peoplo who have been enlisted in the semblance of a fight against the election of Tom Majors. Honest people will respect Majors for the enemies he has made. John F. Cantwell, chief of the Youngstown, 111., police, has been re moved from office. As he is a Roman Catholic, his removal Is of course at tributed to the influence of the A. P. A. We do not know if this is the case or not, but we do know that Rome has been the means of discharging thou sands of capable American Protestant members of the police force In every city in the union, and judging from the membership of the police department in every large city, it would naturally be supposed that the police lorce was originated and maintained exclusively for the benefit of Rome and her minions. It is stated that of the twelve members of the jury which convicted "Bat" Shea of murder, two are living In Trov". , and since the trial they have been the object of much ill-feeling. Onesime Belhumor, while on his way from work one night, was stoned by a gang of hoodlums and is now under the protection of a detective. The other juror, Schuyler A. Bink, has reported to Assistant District Attorney Fagan and to the police, that a woman had warned him that he would be shot within a week. IN the city council of Cleveland, O. there is at least one member, who is not afraid or ashamed to let It be known that he is an American, and his name is John C. Hardenbergh. This gentle man has been subjected to considerable abuse and criticism from the press and his associates in the council on account of the stand he has taken for Ameri canism. Mr. Hardenbergh is proud of the fact that he is an A. P. A. and is at present lecturing through Ohio in the interests of Americanism. Mr. Rosewater, of Omaha, Inter viewed in Chicago, told a story of a conversation had with Pnsldent Har rison during the later' term of office, in which he said: "Give me your paper wholly unencumbered and I'll trade the presidency. Your office, Mr. Rosewater, does not expire. That's tue way I look at the office holding business." "Whol ly unencumbered" would mean the can cellation of a 2iJ0,0 X or $.!00,000 mort gage on "the pride of two continents, but it would be worth it to the state to get Rosey out of it. Fremont Tribune. We quote the following item from one of the leading New York daily pa pers, as substantiating our assertion that the Roman Catholic church Is, and always has been in league with the Tammany ring in that city. "Archbishop Corrigan cannot save this present police force, including the police commissioners. Nor do we be lieve that Mgr. Satolli can do it." POLITICAL SOTES. Majors clubs are to be organized in every ward in the city. The republican county convention oc curs on the 2ttth and the caucuses will be held on the 21st. We heard our friend H. K. Burket mentioned as a possible candidate for the legislature from the Fifth ward. The regular meeting of the Sixth ward Majors club will occur every Mon day night at Twenty-fourth and Frank lin streets. The Sixth ward is well supplied with candidates: C. L Jaynes and H. E Ostrom are prominently mentioned for the council. The "Pops" opened up their cam paign In this city the first of the week. Their organ does not go wild over the enthusiasm created by Holcomb. It is said that star chamber sessions presided over by Rosewater and assisted by Chris Ilartman, D. Somers, C. J. Smyth and a few others are being held nightly in the 9th ward. The circulation of the Linton speech with an explanation of how McKeighan Kem and Bryan voted on the Indian appropriation bill would be a good cam paign document for Americans of those districts. James E. Boyd will do some good hard political work from now until after the election, and it will be necessary for Dave Mercer to keep moving, if he hopes to win the race. It is no "win with bands down" affair. PRESS Cl'LLIXtiS. The truth Is that the Roman Catho lic church is, to a most fearful extent, in league with the rum-traffic, and the priests and bishops are unwilling to forego the support derived therefrom. Buffalo Christian Advocate. Father Malone suggests in the Color ado Catholic that the people's party has a great opportunity if it will declare at Pueblo its unalterable detestation of the A. P. A. Well you just wait and see us do it, Brother Malone. We are aching to give an official party declara tion on that score. Boulder, Col., Trib une. The A. P. A. have carried the war Into Africa, so to speak. They have organized lodges in Louisianna, where the Catholics constitute a majority of the white population and more than 90 per cent In the southern half of the state. The new organization calls it self "The Junior Organization" and is being recruited Irom among the farm er's Alliance and populists. St. Johns- burg, Vt., Hepublic&n. The latest revised figures show that the total immigration to the United States, during the fiscal year, amounted to 311,404, against 497,93(5 for the pre ceding year. Three causes are given for this falling off: (1) depression in trade. (2) European governments form ing colonies in Africa, and (3) increased vigilance of the American immigration authorities in enforcing the laws. Cin cinnati Post. In appealing to Protestants to throw themselves Into his outstretched arms, the pope becomes quite pathetic. His appeal Is touching. It Is characterized by sublime audacity and by superb im pudence. His sincerity we will not question, but when the pope of Rome urges Protestant Christendom to re nounce the truths which have blessed the world, and embrace the errors which have cursed the world, he puts himself in a position where he deserves at once the censure and the pity of man kind. N. Y. Observer. The Boston movement for the restric tion of immigration is rather sniffed at by most people beyond the Mississippi. Nebraska and other states in that part of the country do not feel as though they were in danger of being overrun by foreigners, and they are pretty well satisfied with the sort of settlers they have drawn from the other side of the ocean. It is, of course, absurd to say, as the Omaha Bee does, that the Bos ton movement is .started by "Eastern people who fear that the west will grow too fast unless Its resources are cut off," but the remark shows the spirit In which the restriction of immigration is regarded out there. JV. Y. Bost.