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Volume IV.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1804.
NUMBKR 30,
ROME IN WASHINGTON
'W. J. H. Traynor's Interesting Let
ter From Our Nation's Capital.
The Speech Delivered bj Romanist V
ea
dock in tbe House of Kepresentatnes
June 8, 185)4, a Jesuitical Fab
rie of Insidious Lies.
It is known here that the democratic
congressional committee are sending
out thousands of copies oi tne speecn
delivered by Thomas A. E. Weadock,
of Michigan, in the house of representa
tives. June 8. 1894. This fact indicates
that the party whose practical head
the chief of Tammany hall, has of
own volition decided to enler the lists
boldly and for all time against the
American Protective Association.
Under such circumstances, it
comes necessary to examine Mr. We
dock's speech somewhat in detail, and
to expose its sophistries; for that speech
plainly bears the earmarks of Jesuitical
paternity. Warp and woof, it is a fab
ric nf insidious lies.
On the title page I find the following
quotation delivered by Stephen
Dmiplaa at Philadelphia in 1854:
,'To prescribe a man in this country
nn account of his birthplace or rengiou
faith, is subversive of all our ideas and
principles of civil and religious free
doin.
"In the constitution it was provided
that no religious test shall ever be re
quired as a qualification to any office or
nublic trust under the bnitea states.
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"This provision was adopted unani
mously. It was the common ground of
i,ieHa and enualitv. uoon which all re-
Hgious denominations could stand in
harmony and security. It expressed in
plain language the true principles of
religious freedom, the correctness and
necessity of which had been tnorougniy
vindicated In the history and experience
of each of the colonies. It was heartily
concurred in by Protestant and Catho
lic bv Puritan and cavalier by Qua
ker and Huguenot each and all of the
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unon this ereat principle as a platform,
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their descendants in all future time
i could and would stand In the bonds of
brotherly affection."
Now. this is a very fair and a very
clear statement of the principle for
which all true Americans have stood
since the Declaration of Independence.
It is a fair statement of the truths upon
which the A. P. A. has been organized.
The difficulty is that when Mr. Wea
dock attempts to leave the impression
that he and other papists endorse this
proposition, they lay themselves open
to the Scriptural admonition: "xeare
of vour father, the devil, and the lusts
of vour father ve will do. He was a
y
liar from the beginning, and abode not
in the truth, because there was no
truth in him.' Basing my assertion
upon the syllabus of Pius IX., the dog
matic decrees of the Vatican council,
and the declarations of Leo XIII. and
Francis Satolll, I insist that no papist
can or will endorse the words of Mr.
Douglass above quoted without employ
. j a mental reservation equivalent to
p -jury.
In the body of his speech Mr. Wea
dock says: "This country cannot be
maintained in peace and prosperity
with any one class of our people set
against another on religious issues.
We should be all united, whether we
belong .to this or that church, or to no
church. Whatever our religion or
politics may fcbe, we should be united
together for the purpose of maintaining
this government in all its institutions
and all its integrity."
This Ibt precisely true; and it is
equally true, Mr. Weadock's pretense
to the contrary notwithstanding, that
every consistent papist does want to see
Dhe religion of his church established as
the only religion of the state to the ex
clusion ofall other modes of worship;
and that he does deny the right to en
joy the public exercise of their own
worship evet to persons coming to re
side temporarily in so-called papal
countries. These doctrines are laid
down In the 77th and 78th propositions
of the papal "Syllabus of Errors," is
sued by Pope Pius IX., December 8th,
1864. And according to the 4th canon
of the Vatican council, issued July 18th,
1870, it is taught, "as a dogma divinely
revealed, that the Roman pontiff when
W speaks ex-cathedra," etc., "is pos
essed of that infallibility with which
Jie Divine Redeemer willed that His
ihurch should be endowed," etc. This
tno new doctrine. It has been held
ce Gregory VII., and hence the
jaehings of Pious IX. must be held to
infallible by every true papist.
As to the preservation of peace, that
has neve1' been effected in any country
heretofore, nor can it ever be effected j
Policeman (Of the Celebrated Catholic Political Force) "Ye young varmint go an' put that prop back to where yez found it."
The Man in the Window "Say, Mr. Cop, hit the dirty Italian dago a crack wid yer club. He's pulled the house all endways."
anywhere hereafter, except by the legal
suppression of the papal religion, or the
physical destruction of its authority.
According to Dr. Dollinger, the time
has come when "every Catholic Chris
tian is bound to believe as a doctrine
revealed of God, and which must be
taught, in every catechism, that the
popes possess absolute power over all
princes and authorities and over all
states and commonwealths; and that
by their sovereign power they may in
terfere at discretion in all state affairs
depose princes, annul laws, and regu
late war and peace."
The following proposition, the 19th
of the syllabus, is distinctly "stigma
tized" as heretical, and its contradic
tory taught as papal truth."
"The church is not a perfect and en
tirely free society; nor does she enjoy
peculiar and perpetual rights conferred
upon her solely by her Divine Founder;
but it appertains to the civil power to
define what are the rights and the re
strictions with which the church may
exercise her authority."
Now, if this be heretical and false,
it's opposite must be true, and must be
so held by every papist. Hence, Mr.
Weadock, as a papist, must believe
that the church is a perfect and en
tirely free society; that she does enjoy
peculiar and perpetual rights conferred
upon her solely by her Divine Founder,
and that it does not appertain to the
civil power to define what are the
and restrictions with which the church
may exercise her authority.
He must also believe that in case of
conflicting laws between the two powers
church and state the ecclesiastical
law ought to prevail syllabus, proposi
tion 42; that the church may exercise
its authority without the permission or
assent of the civil government ibid,
proposition 20; that the church has the
right to avail itself of force and of every
direct and indirect temporal power
ibid, proposition 24; that the ministers
of the church and Roman pontiffs
ought in no wise to be excluded from
charge and dominion over temporal af
fairsibid, proposition 27; that tho
common wealth is not the origin and
source of all rights, but possesses no
rights which are not not circumscribed
ibid, proposition 39; that the Roman
pontiff ought not to reconcile himself
to, or agree with, progress, liberalism,
or civilization, so lately introduced
ibid, proposition 80; that all the mem
bers of the Christian and Catholic
church are agreed upon the compati
bility of the spiritual and temporal
power ibid, proposition 75; that all'
Catholics worthy of the name must
work to the end that every state be
made conformable to the Christian
(popish) model. Encyclical of Leo
XIII., 1885; that man's duties, what he
ought to believe and what he ought to
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SATOLLI IS CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
do, are by Divine right laid down by
the church, and in the church by the
supreme - pontiff. Encyclical of Leo
XIII., Jan. 10, 1890; that if the laws of
the state command anything prejudicial
to the church, or are hostile to the
duties imposed by the papacy, then, in
deed, it is a duty to resist them and a
crime to obey them Encyclical of Loo
XIII., Jan. 10, 1890.
Surely these doctrines, emanating
from the present pope and his immedi
ate predecessors, are calculated to ar
ray one class of our people against an
other on religious Issues. They are
calculated to lead to a war of extermina
tion. They cannot possibly produce
any other result. "Gentlemen may cry
peace! peace! but there is no peace."
Individual servitude, however abject,
will not satisfy the demands of the
papal hierarchy; the state must also be
its slave. Every state must be made
conformable to the papal ideal; and
every papist worthy of the name must
work to that end must vote to that
end, legislate to that end, adjudicate to
that end, administer all laws to that
end. Nor is it less their function in
carrying out the one supreme purpose
of the papacy to plot against the lives
and thrones of temporal rulers, to
spread evil rumors, to stir up social
strife, to foment civil wars, to arm the
hand of the assassin. No nation ever
admitted the emissaries of the papacy,
whether before or after the advent of
Christianity, without experiencing the
fate of the peasant who warmed the
serpent in his bosom. Heathen Rome
was the true mother of papal Rome.
The latter inherited its policy from the
former. The spirit which actuated the
the military chiefs, consuls and emper
ors, arising from the maxim "divide
and conquer" which subjugated all
the autonomies, civil and religious, of
ancient times, and welded them Into
one universal empire, under one em
peror, who was also a pontiff: that
spirit lives on in the papacy. It is
diametrically opposed to every prin
ciple of the Anglo-American system of
laws, and unless its power Is overthrown
speedily in this country, it will root out
and exterminate that system, together
with all men who adhere to it. I ask
those who feel an interest In the preser
vation of our republican institutions
and of the sacred rights of conscience,
to examine the Dartmouth college case,
tho Girard will case, and the Mormon
church cases; especially the opinions of
the courts, in 5 Utah, 361; 15 Pacific
reporter, 478; 10 supreme court re
porter, 792; and 11 supreme court re
porter, 185. Contrast the principles
there expounded with the syllabus of
Pius IX., with the dogmatic decrees of
the Vatican council; and with the allo
cutions, encyclicals and pastoral letters
of the present pontiff and his predeces
sor. The two systems are utterly In
compatible. It is impossible for them
to stand upon terms of legal equality in
any country. One or the other must
be suppressed as treasonable and sedi
tious. Of two contradictories, one must be
right, and the other wrong. There is
no exception whatever to this rule
And whenever two religions embody
two hostile and Irreconcilable theories
of sovereignty, a war between their re
spective adherents is inevitable, and
will come just as soon as the minority
feels itself strong enough to cope, by
means of foreign alliances, with the
majority. Peace is possible only when
all the religious sect of a country re
pudiate the idea of a spiritual sovereign
entirely, or where they all profess al
legiance to the same spiritual sover
eign. It is transparent temporizing to
say, as Mr. Weadock does, "whatever
our religion or our politics may be, we
should be united together for the pur
pose of maintaining this government in
all its institutions and all its integrity."
This government was not established
by the "vicar of Christ." "We, the
people of the United States, do ordain
and establish this constitution," is the
language of its founders. That govern
ments derive all their just powers, not
from the supreme pontiff, but from the
consent of the governed, is the principle
on which It Is based. Mr. Weadock
refers to a provision in the constitution
of North Carolina. In 1770 the people
of that state adopted a constitution con
taining the following provisions:
"XXXII. No person who shall deny
the being of God, for the truth of the
Protestant religion, or the divine au
thority either of the old or new Testa
ments, or who shall hold religious prin
ciples incompatible with the freedom
and safety of the state, shall be capable
of holding any office or place of trust or
profit in the civil department within
this state.
"XXXIV. There shall be no estab
lishment of any one religious church or
denomination in this state in preference
to any other. Nor shall any person, on
any pretense whotsoever, be compelled
to attend any place of worship contrary
to his own faith or judgment, nor be
obliged to pay for the purchase of any
glebe, or the building of any house of
worship, or for the maintenance of any
minister or ministry, contrary to what
he believes right or has voluntarily
and personally engaged to perform; but
all persons shall bo at liberty to exer
cise their own mode of worship: Pro
vided, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to exempt preachers
of treasonable or seditious discourse
from legal trial and punishment."
These articles remained in force till
1835, and up to that time no Roman
Catholic ever held office 'n North Caro
lina. It was not until after the civil
war not until the politicians of that
statu had joined their political fortunes
with those of Tammany hall, that the
language of the popes, referred to by
Mr. Weadock, was introduced Into their
constitution. Mr. Weadock said:
"North Carolina, where the Meck
lenburg declaration of independence
was proclaimed, ordained in her consti
tution that 'secret political societies are
dangerous to the liberties of a free peo
ple, and should not be tolerated.' "
Compare this with what the men of
1776 did put into their constitution.
Compare it also with what Pope Pius
IX., in whose time it was adopted, says
concerning "secret societies, Bible so
cieties, and other pests," in the 4th sec
tion of tho "Papal Syllabus of Errors."
The democratic congressional com
mittee may use the effusions of an
Irish papist to advantage in some locali
ties; but the American people will hold
them responsible for the endorsement
of such things, and will teach them
better manners. May God have mercy
upon the members of that committee,
and turn their hearts. I suggest that
all who read this artic e or Mr. Wea
dock's speech send to Rev. Creen Clay
Smith, P. O. Box 333, Washington, D.
C, for copies of the document which
has been compiled from the Congres
sional litxird, comprising the speech
of Mr. Linton on the Indian appropria
tion bill and ex tracts from the remarks
of Senators Piatt, Call, Daniel, Quay
and Gallinger, oa the tamo subject, to
gether with other valuable information.
This document can be secured in franked
envelopes, ready to be mailed, at a
nominal cost, the price being $2.50 per
1000 copies, $1.50 for 500 copies, and 50
cents for 100 copies. They can be
mailed by the purchaser at any post
office in the United States without pay
ment of postage.
At a congress recently held here
composed of delegates from the A. P.
A., L. O. L , Jr. O. U. A. M., P. O. S.
of A.; National League for the Preser
vation of American Institutions, Amer
ican Patriotic League, O. A. U., Amer
ican Defense Association, American
Flag Assocication, controlling in all
about 4,000,000 votes, the following
platform of principles was adopted:
1. The integrity of the funds and
the fair and impartial character of the
American free public school system
must lie preserved, and all private edu
cational aud other institutions must be
subject to civil inspection.
2. Essential separation of church
and state must be secured, and the in
timidating power of eccleiasticism over
both citizens and law-makera must bo
destroyed by constitutional prohibition,
both by the nation and bv the states,
against appropriations of public money
for the supjHirt of sectarian or private
Institutions.
3. Stringent Immigration laws must
lw enacted to prewrve tho character of
our citizenship, give dignity to honest
toll, and avert tho jierlls of an unre
stricted Immigration, which permit
foreign government to tran fer to our
shores tho dregs of their population,
representing the lowest form of Illiter
acy, beggary, sujierstltlon and crime,
Imposing new burdens on our laboring
classes, and serving unscrupulous jioll
tlcians for the most unworthy purposes.
4. Tho attitude of all candidate for
elective offices in nation and utatet on
these vital questionsconcerning Ameri
can institutions must bo ascertained as
furnishing the basis for the voter's In
telligent action, and In case none of
them are uncompromisingly loyal and
outspoken in their adhesion to those
principles, put nominees In tho field
that art
D5. A i just, fair and equitable re
adjustment and distribution of appoint
ive federal offices and emoluments
among the various states, territories,
and district of Columbia, in pro(ortlon
to the various populations thereof.
W. J. II. TltAYNOIU
The A. 1. A. Knows no I'oltllral 1'urty,
We loarn that the I to v. Pat Cronln,
of Buffalo, N. V., Is groaning very
loudly about the A. P. A. In a late
Issue of the Catholic Union and IXrne of
Buffalo, he has had published an open
letter addressed to the loaders of tho
Republican party of New York, threat
ening disaster to that party. If our
Rev. Pat had studied the results of re
cent elections he would have found that
tho A. P. A. favors no political party,
In regard to being a devil-fish, fasten
ing its deadly clutches on this party as
Patrick declares, he knows as well as
we do, that the Romanists are striving
and have to a great extent succeeded in
fastening their deadly clutches, devilfish-like,
on one of our great political
parties; and that party is the Demo
cratic. We have failed to read of the
Romish priests denouncing tho leader
of the Democratic party in iueir
schemes against the fundamental prin
ciples of tbe American constitution. He
knows too well that the Romish priests
are instructing their church members
to vote the ticket that contains Romish
candidates, or those that they think
are friendly to their cause, and how
often do we find those candidates are of
the Democratic party. Yot he has not
a word to say against Rome's organiza
tion coquetting with this party.
Protestant Americans have been
slumbering in the past. But in the
future you will find them wldo awake,
no matter whether they are Demo
cratic, Republican or of any other po
litical party.
There has been any number of Pro
testants who have been members of ihe
democratic party, but they have found
out at last that this party is controlled
by the Romanls's, and that preference
is given to Romish office seekers over
Protestant, and that they have not
the interest of these United States at
heart; it is Rome first and the govern
ment of the United States afterward.
Their eyes have been opened to their
devil-fish movements in regard to our
public schools, their blood sucking
qualities in bleeding the public treas
ury in support of their charitable in
stitution, Indian schools, etc. He
calls upon all Romanists native and
naturalized to help quickly to defeat
this uprising of Americanism; he
brands this movement intolerable big
otry. But we find the shoo is on the
other foot in regard to bigotry. Has
heforgotten the treatment of Christian
EndeaVorers, and the mobbing of the
three Protestant churches In Canada
lately, the treatment given to Protes
tants of Spain in compelling them to
enter their places of worship by a rear
entrance, the pope's last letter to the
clergy of Brazil, in which he instructs
the priests to withdraw their members
from schools conducted by heretics, and
the prohibition ot any member of the
church of Rome in visiting a Protestant
church. No! Patrick, we find Roman
ism is far from being tolerant as she
would have us believe. Of late the
Poles are beginning to find, that with
in the Romish church there Is no lib
erty. Prohftaitt Stnndnrd.
Romanizing Redskins.
A Roman Catholic Indian congress
was recently held near Pierre, S. D.
Nearly 4.000 redskins were present.
They had assembled from Pine Ridge,
Standing Rock, Rosebud, Lower Bru'.e
and Bad River reservations. They had
with them eight "blaek gowns" one
secular priest, two Jesuits and five
members of the order of St. Benedict j
They assisted at a solemn mass, during
which they sang hymns and recited
prayers in their native tonsrue.
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