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UE TOLERATED. C'oDTfnU. .til Alluwrd U Hoary lob in This t untry. We boat of our free American coun try, it fre institution free schools and iec'h and we K'ftt of our civiliza tion, education, invention and civil rights. It 1 natural that we should, be proud of a government that ha been handed down to us through pools of blood and has become a model nation for the en lightened world. Yet generations bow unborn will 'ait up and call us a weak and cowardly peopi. 'taere is our boasted freedom when impr8i::l In our midt are many Innocent girls bright and IntelligenV who are Induced by cunning priests and almost by brute force are placed inside of a convent wall whose Iron doors swing not open to the authority of the state but only to priests and prelates of old Itome, who without wives and who have the common lusts that belong to unregenerated men have perfect access without restraint of law to the inmates of that hellish convent. We often read of one of iU victims struggling between life and death for liberty and have made their appearance on a convent wall ready to leap at the sacrifice of life and limb only to be dragged back Inside never to be heard from again and made to endure the I torture of an imprisoned life where the ' hope of liberty Is forever gone and where many have been made to suffer a death more cruel than from the hands of the most barbarous tribes forms em aciated until unrecognizable they die a most horrible death alone and from friends and all under the name of a re ligious institution. Such a shameful deception was never before attempted except by Satan himself when he be sought the Savior to bow down and wor ship him. Shall Romish convents be allowed to flourish in this our Ameri can country while such horrible deeds are being perpetrated in them as is de scribed by those who have made their escape. If there is any religion belongs to it, It is the Devil's. God never gave us a religion that deceived and impris oned the innocent and subjected fe males to the lusts of men. Shall we tolerate an outlaw under the name of religion Shall we respect and indorse the religion of a poor pagan idolatrous woman as she steps to the river side and casts her only child into the mouth of the hungry alligator to appease her imagined angry god. If not why tolerate in this free country of ours a hell hole convent made secure by the name of a religious institution belonging to the holy Catholic church, conducted by the holy fathers, and the holy mothers, and holy sisters, and they might add holy devils. The Mormons sought recognition un der the name of religion but received the death blow it so much deserved ere it was aware of it. Shall we now toler ate an evil more degraded if possible and ten fold more dangerous. The true American can never tolerate an institu tion through whose doors the authority of state does not have perfect access. She must and shall inspect the work ings and Bee through the doors and the caverns of the convent den. She must and shall protect every American citi zen who has been decoyed and impris oned and retained against their will. The rights of an American citizen shall not be questioned or abridged. The right of liberty belongs to us as a nation and the right of free speech was guaranteed to us and sealed by the Revolutionary blood of our fathers, and whoever says aught against this God- given right, mark that man, he belongs to Rome. Whoever desires to speak publicly on any subject whatsoever, let him first have the stars and stripes raised above his head and he who dares to molest is a traitor to his country and should be tried and punished according to law. God who rules the destiny of nations does not intend that the principles of this government of ours shall be nulli fied, stifled and corrnpted by pope and a set of priests and prelates. God's mercy endureth forever but there is an end to human endurance. B&ptht Flag. AGAINST SECTARIAN SCHOOLS. Work of the New York Constitutional Convention. The New York constitutional conven tion's committee on education has adopted a section for incorporation in the amendment to the constitution that is worthy of incorporation in the constitution of every state. It reads thus: "Neither the state nor any sub division thereof shall use its property or credit or any public money or au thorize or permit eitner to be used, di rectly or indirectly, in aid or mainten ance of schools or other Institutions of learning, wholly or partly under the di rection or control of any religious de nomination, or in which any denomina tional tenet or doctrine is taught." In New York, more flagrantly than in any other state or city, portions of the public funds have been directed to J;he use of sectarian schools, though to the use of schools managed by one re ligious sect only. We do not remem ber to have ueard charges of misappli cation of the funds of the city of New York to the use of Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, or Episcopalian schools. But in other states, Illinois among them, there Is a constant indirect. though very efficient, misappropriation of public funds to sectarian schools. Such, in our state, Is the case where appropriations are niaJe to so-called in dustrial or reformatory schools manage i by Ca'.holics or by Protestants. The pretex for such misapplication of public funds to sectarian purjxe is that the institutions to whieh appropriation are granted tak cbargs of youthful crim inals and so prevent the contamination that would follow imprisonment in the county jail. The intention may lie good, but the practice is blameworthy. The education or reformation of ju venile criminals is a work that belongs to the stale, and that cannot be in trusted to any sect wittnut v. elation of the spirit of the constitution. The clause approved by the New York com mittee well might be approved in theory and in practice by the legislators of our own state and city. hikr Ocean. UIlKl II YEKSl'S STATE. The Clerical Organs in Hungary Say The Pope Will Never Sanction Civil Marriap? law. We quote the following from 27te Echo one of the leading English daily papers. There are symptoms of a serious con flict in Hungary between the bishops on one side and the majority of the par ish priests, supported by the ultra-cler icalist nobility, on the other side. The Hungarian episcopate, led by the sober and reasonable Prince-Primate Vaszary advise the clergy to conform to the new state law of civil marriage, which is not an attack upon the church, as the clericalist hotspurs pretended and the inflamed peasants imagine, for the law does not disestablish marriage by the parish priest, or Protestant pastor, or Jewish rabbi, but it simply insists that it shall in all cases be preceded by the civil act. The Magyar Allam, the pow erful Pesth organ of the mass of the clergy, uses the most violent language against the bishops. Its writers might be taken for Puritan "Marprelates" or Presbyterian covenanters, but for the fact that they advise an appeal to the pope against their episcopal fathers-in God. "The pope alone," says the angry clericalist paper, "is the head of the church; the bishops are not to be obeyed when they contradict the pope. Every Catholic in Hungary knows that the pope will never sanction the recent attack of the state upon the sacrament of holy matrimony." The clericalist conservative organ actually preaches a kind of ecclesiastical anarchy as the only means to bring the bishops to their senses. "It would do no hurt to the Catholic church," says the Magyar Allam, "If she were purged from all these faithless guardians of her dogmas these Judas-like apostles." It hopes that the supreme pontiff will both "compel them to do penance and to make satisfaction." It is evident that the clericalist conscience among the parish priests of Hungary is a very genuine "nonconformist conscience," and they would apparently be very thankful if the infallible pope would decree Presbyterianism to be "Catho lic," and Episcopacy to be "heretical." They want no bishop except the pope, who Is universal bishop, and only al lows other bishops for convenience sake. It is odd to read in the same paper which contains these "Protestant" sneers at the Episcopate an equally ferocious onslaught upon the Hungar ian Protestants and Jews. "The Prot- estants," says the Magyar Allam, "first invited the Turks into Europe, and planted the germs of all the civil wars which have desolated Hungary." Kol oman Tisza is described as "the Calvin lstic pope, who first set the Hungarian crown in conflict with the Catholic church," It seems to think that the Hapeburg dynasty has already done too much for the Protestant t! Koine Rule in Buffalo, S. Y. George Whitman, In the New York Examiner, gives the following picture of Buffalo politics: "Buffalo is what might be called 'a Roman Catholic city.' Not that a ma jority of its people sympathize with the papacy, but of the professed Chris tians in Buffalo, a majority, perhaps. are Roman Catholic. Our population is, as we claim, 325,000. Among us are 45,000 Poles, rated as Roman Catholic 20,000 Irish, all Roman Catholic; 5,000 Italians, all Roman Catholic; and out of the 80,000 Germans perhaps one-half are Roman Catholic. This would make a Roman Catholic foreign population of 110,000.. In addition to these are about 10,000 who might be called Amer ican Roman Catholics, descendants for the most of German ancestors. This would bring up the Romanist element In our population to nearly 120,000. This proportion is so large that these people had come to feel that the city was theirs, to do with as they pleased. Whole wards are under the dictation of the priests, and the majority of our city officials were, until recently, of this denomination. The Sheehan movement, of which the world has heard much, was more than half a Ro man Catholic movement. Our demo cratic city ticket, at tho last election, contained names of men, five-sixths of whom are Roman Catholics. To my certain knowledge there were priests in Buffalo who, last November, went from house to house inquiring for voters, and seeking by persuasion or coercion to make votes for the "Sheehan gang." In the past decade there prob ably has not Ua one effort against pure government that baa not been backtd by priestly jer. The excise board Is their, and has soxmed to show a prvfeivnce for lloman catnoilea in grautlrg licences. The olice is in their power, and the recent election showed a frightful abuse of this right arm of law and order." THE YAT1CAN AM TAMMANY. Prelate at Home Iritcreolcd in the Ixow I in estimation. New York, Sept. II Father Dooley of this city says the Vatican has taken a deep interest in tho proceedings of the Lexow committee and Its disclos ures, for the reason that the fair name of the church and Roman Catholic morals are endangered by the asserted affiliation with the name of Tammany. He says: "A few days ago I received letter from a very distinguished dignitary very near the holy father. The tlrct letter is dated Rome, Aug. 17, and a second letter bears tho date 1 ionic, ruir. 22. Both these communications make reference to the Lexow investiga gation. Here is an extract from the first: "'A few days ago,' says my corres pondent, 'I had an interview with Car dinal , and had to go into details about the Lexow investigation and its disclosures, and the history of Tam many.' The second letter has the follow ing passage: 'The communications that have reached the Vatican In relation to Tammany, etc., have certainly produced a deep impression. I have been re quested in these communications to put certain information in form and for ward it immediately to the Vatican. I am delighted at the interest for moral purification taken by the neaa oi tne church, and I trust my non-Catholic brethren will be kind enough to stop impugning the fair name of our church and not hold It responsible for the cor ruption that exists.' " Hard on Kansas. Osage Mission, Kas., Sept. 14, The monastery of the Passlonist Fath ers, a new order for this diocese and section of the country, was opened here this week When the Jesuits left this mission In 1892 they deserted a fine set of buildings, erected at a large cost. Efforts to secure the Passlonist Fathers as inmates were successful and the order spent $20,000 repairing and im proving the buildings. A new steam and gas plant was put in and many modern improvements made. The Passlonist Fathers are among the most self-sacrificing of the Roman Catholic monastic orders and their rites are calculated to mortify the fleBh to the last degree. The Trappist monks are not more strict in their formalities and their manner of living and worship ing will be a revelation not only to many In the Kansas priesthood, but among the laity generally. It Is the Intention of Bishop Fink to increase the member ship of the western monasteries and make of Osage Mission monastery and others to be established homes for the increasing number of novices, or schol astics, as they are called, who are com ing into the full communion of the order. PRESS CtLLINGS. "We dare Archbishop Corrigan to enforce in letter and spirit the decree against the liquor traffic. Let the archbishop do it, and watch the conse quences." Wine and Spirit Gazette. The fact that the Catholic Knights sailed for Sylvan Grove yesterday 6,000 strong, with beer enough on board to go around several times, may as well be accepted by Mgr. Satolll as due notice that his views on liquor and the church as expressed to Bishop Watterson, of the Columbus diocese, are not popular in the archdiocese of New York. N. Y, Advertiser. ice Komanists in Japan nave a special dispensation from the pope, al lowing them to labor half of the Sab bath day and attend to their religious services the other half. But in spite of these concessions, Romanism does not receive the favor given Protestant ism, a nan-oreed religion wins no one's respect. Even the Japanese can see through the hollow sham which the pope offers them and despise It. N. Y. Observer. Pope Leo never did a smarter bit of work than when he gavo us this Amer lean pope. He sugar-coated the pill and we gulped it down. The American people have received with pleasure what they had long cried out against. We have a pope, and it is just a little more impossible than ever for a man to be a good Catholic and a good Amerl can. Puck. Father Cronln, of Buffalo,aditorof the Catholic Union, is out with an editorial warning the republican leaders against sympathizing with the American Pro triotic Association. He threatens the republicans with the loss of the Irish Catholic vote. In all probability most of the republican leaders feel just as skittish about the A. P. A. as Father Cronin does, but they cannot help it. The A. P. A. 6eems to be here to stay, a few years at least, and cannot be frightened to bed with gongs and jack o lanterns. Father Cronin will prob ably find the democratic rank and file about as thoroughly Imbued with A. P. Aism as the republican masses are. American democrats, both north and south, are not thoroughly happy with thing aa they now exist, -lfay THE COMIC MIE. Father 0Rourk -"Michael, my son, I liojie you vote as I do?" Mikt! Finnegan "An' how dot your riverance vote?" Father O'liourk "I vote as I pray." Mike Flnncijau ' Och, it's for money thin. Yls, yer riverance, Ol am wid ye "Life. O'Hoolihan "We hov jist organized a l'athriotie Order of the Sonsav Amlr ica. will yez jlno, Dinnis?" Shaughnessv "Tell me flrst.Mlckey, phat be the object av yer order"f" O'Hoolihan "It's to kape thim New England Yankees fro t intrudln' their foreign notions Into the government av the eityav eoorse." Shaugnessy Bedad, thin, I'm wid yez:"-'ufr. Lord Tuffnut "It seems to be a very arbitrary law of yours that a man must be burn in the United States In order to become president." Mr. Barnes (of New York) "Yes; but we have still another more exact ing." Lord Tuffnut "Dear me, what Is It?" Mr. Barnes "A man must be born in Ireland in order to become a police man." Life. Satolll not Recalled. WaSlUNGTON, Sept. 17. Mgr. Sa tolll said today that he had received no communication from the Vatican In timating that he would be recalled. When asked about the reported inten tion of the pope to direct his return to Rome and to elevate him to the rank of cardinal Mgr. Satolll made the follow ing statement: "The apostolic delegate has not received any letter as to his re call to Rome. He thinks that the news given is at least inexact, and he does not know anything in this matter." "Is It true that In the event of your nomination as cardinal your successor will he Mgr. Tommassl subsecrotary of state at Rome?" "The apostolic delegate," was the re ply, "has not received any letter of re call. About the matter he has no know ledge." Ho declined to discuss the probable action to be taken at the consistory which the pope IntendB to hold in De cern ler. Change of Time. On and after Sunday, April 29th, the Missouri Pacific trains for Kansas City, St. Louis, etc., will leave depot at loth and Webster Btreets at 0:00 a. m. and 9:30 p. m. Trains will arrive at 6:00 a. m. and 6:55 p. m. 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