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Volume IV.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, Fill DAY, OCTOBER 12, 1894.
Numrkk 41.
ROME IN WASHINGTON.
Some cf the Doings of the Roman
Combine at the Nation's
Capital.
The Bureau of Engraving aud Printing
and Hie Government Printing Office
Complete! Under the Control
of Romanists.
We are informed that since the at
tention of the authorities in the several
departments was called in these col
umns to the fact that the impudent,
brazen-faced nuns kept up their prac
tice of levying tribute on the wages of
the employes, there is a lull in the bus
iness, and that in the bureau of engrav
ing and printing and in the navy yard
they suspended operations entirely on
the last pay days. This suspension,
however, may be only temporary.
Speaking of the bureau of engraving
and printing, these facts concerning the
doings in that department have been
banded to us. The assistant chief is a
Romanist. All appointments and pro
motions are submitted to him before
any decisive steps are taken. The
Romanists have nearly all the best
places, and their proportion in numbers
Is as three to one. Most of the Roman
ist employes are coarse, common Irish,
who constantly seek to abuse and insult
any delicate Americans who may be
placed near them. Some of the women
employes in the bureau have not been
In this country two years. The few
Protestant superlntendents4aro so fixed
as to be powerless. When a vacancy
of any importance occurs, however,
many non-Catholics may apply for it a
Catholic is pretty sure to get it. Not
long since a vacancy occurred -one of
the superintents died. The place was
filled by a lower official, a reputed
Protestant, but his wife Is one of the
most prominent workors in the Roman
Catholio church in this city. The
Roman church reaps a rich harvest
from the bureau. A plate-printer's
assistant was recently heard to say
that she must have a promotion; that
she could not support herself upon the
salary she was receiving because she
paid eighty-seven dollars a year to her
church. She has a good position now.
Black-robed sisters stand inside the
doors with outstretched hands regu
larly every pay-day to receive their
proportion of the employes' earnings.
No Protestants are allowed any such
privileges. The Catholics do what
ever is in their power to scatter discord
among their Protestant neighbors. A
quiet, hard-working Protestant is fre
quently called up and roundly abused
by a Protestant superintendent for
some misdemeanor never committed,
the invention of some malicious Catho
lic informant
We will have plenty more, and worse
things to tell of this thoroughly Roman
ized department of the government.
The government printing office is
fast becoming a most disgracefully de
moralized department. Two character
istics on the part of the majority of the
present employes are conspicuously
noticeable to any one passing through
thatonce well-regulated workshop, viz.,
laziness and incompetency. It is a well
known fact that in the first division
especially not two hours work Is done
In the eight, and what is done is of
such a blotched character that the
work Is necessarily delayed; to the In
convenience and annoyance of the de
partments of the government for which
it is intended. i.The general demoral
ization is the result of the wholesale
dismissal by the present public printer
of most of the old and competent force,
to make room for a lot of botchers who
are not skilled workmen and whose
chief qualifications for the positions
they occupy consist in their having
been local political party workers in
some "bloody" wards of New York or
other foreignized and Romanized cities,
their abilities in this respect having
been recognized by some second-rate
member of congress, who willingly be
comes the Instrument in the hands of
an officious priest who wants to secure
positions for hisicross-marked disciples.
A friend employed there assures us
that in the chief divisions the sight of
an American la "good for sore eyes."
Foreign "mugs" and broken English
gabberings meet one at every step.
Places hitherto held by skillful Ameri
can mechanics are now filled by men
who seem more fitted to trot the bogs
of Ireland than to do a decent days
work In this great government work
shop. They troop into the building
when the whistle blows at eight in the
morning with the visible signs upon
the kneeB of their corduroys of having
just risen from the dusty floor of St.
Aloysius church across the way, to
which popish joss-house two-thirds of
the force, male and female, belong, and
iter BifeHw h i 'i ; i
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His Holiness: To Satolli (the
through the Influence of whose meddle
some priests, as stated, they obtain and
hold their positions.
A Mason employed there for many
years who is naturally acquaint d with
every other Mason formerly there, tells
us that he has "kept tab" of every
member of his fraternity dismissed
from the office, and he has noticed that
in every single Instance of this kind a
Romanist and generally an Irish Ro
manist has been put into the place.
This, of course, is not the result of acci
dent, but of studied intention, either on
the part of the public printer or the
priests who manage that annex to St.
Aloysius churc-h, and who as all the
world knows, are instructed by the pope
himself to proscribe Masons In every
manner and in every place, that frat
ernity being under the anathema of the
"howly father."
In the medical museum a few weeks
ago an official was being examined as
to his physical condition by an agent
of a life insurance company, and was,
for this purpose, partially disrobed.
During this time two nuns entered the
building begging money for their
church, and so promptly did said official
deem it his. duty to respond to their
appeals that the examining physician
was obliged to'postpone his examina
tion until the man could get into his
clothes and hasten away to get a bill
changed, out of which he could deliver
over io the nuns his accustomed con
tribution, as they admitted of no delay,
after which the examiner proceeded.
This business goes on there, despite the
fact that a notice is conspicuously posted
prohibiting begging, soliciting or ped
dling. Thesei impudent white-hooded
Romish mendicants have the right of
way. They should be kicked into the
middle of the street, instanter.
An old lady sixty-five years of age
was recently sent to the "farm" by the
police justice for begging in the street
for a crust of bread, while veiled nuns
In convent garb flit through the depart
ments auu aloug the streets, ;roni store
to store and from house to house not
asking for a crust to sustain life, but
with impudent effrontery and brazen
mien, demand contributions for their
alread rich "God-houses" and to sustain
a lot of lazy, wlne-guzzling, lewd and
libidinous'prlests. We say, when this
state of affairs exist in our midst there
is something wrong, and Romish beg
gers should be treated as beggars, and
every last one of these motherless, un
sexed females notified to "get thee to a
nunnery" or go down to the govern
ment farm along with the consistent
and legitimate beggars. There should
be no beggars, ytt there are beggars
and beggars. United American.
TIIE AMERICAN
Espada). Don't show that red hat
to use the sword on him.
Wilt ON THE A. P. A.
American Liberal League Organized to
Oppose all the Order's Candidates.
San Francisco, Oct. 8. Open and
organized warfare against the Ameri
can Protective Association has com
menced in this city. Meetings have
been held In every precinct and an or
ganization called the American Liberal
League has been formed by a number of
prominent lay members of the Roman
Catholic church to devise plans for the
defeat of candidates In the coming elec
tion who may be supported by the
American Protective Association. The
organizers of the American Liberal
League have employed every available
means to learn the plans and methods
of the American Protective Associa
tion. They claim to have obtained ac
curate accounts of the American Pro
tective Association meetings In this
city, with the rituals and oaths of the
various lodges. James F. Smith, an
attorney, who Is a prominent mover In
the American Liberal League, said:
"Our league is an organized body; it is
only by combination we can fight the
A. P. A, movement. By thorough dis
trict and central organization we will
try to see that none of the A. P. A.'s
are elected. The local Populist ticket
is largely A. P. A. in its makeup, and
the municipal non-partisan ticket also
contains many A. P. A. names. In the
recent Republican municipal conven
tion there were sixty seven members of
the A. P. A. and its ticket also has
many names which the American Lib
eral League will openly denounce."
A Leisure Hour.
In a leisure hour I have been glanc
ing over a pile of the back numbers of
your noble paper. Review is an earnest
word, and a needed one, as In view of
absolute or continued progress, we must
seek ever to compare, improve and
complete, in any field of action, with
unceasing endeavor.
Your paper's sterling Americanism,
and bold stand tor uncorrupted freedom,
educationally and morally, will not bo
without its fruits in our dear land, so
beautiful throughout its surfaces, yet
so ominously threatened in a political,
social, and even a spiritual sense,
through that vampirous network of
greed, wiles and black magic, the Cath
olic church nd its. system, which is
spreading its leprous touch across the
paths and lives of a free and generous,
then fore unsuspecting people. Let us
awake to conditions, and to that which
may result in our unfortunate future as
American citizens.
New England is pierced through and
through by Catholicism. We must
BULL-FIGHT.
of your's quite 60 conspicuously,
retoember this means the abolishment
of free education for our children, for
what is that education which consists
only of an Ignorance laid down to hold
the masses subordinate to the law of
the priests! And without knowledge
comes darkness, preceding destruction
and disaster. This would be the result
of papal authority, which may be
likened to a cancerous growth, Insidious,
hidden, yet so fatal in its ending. To
the free hearts of a free people an ap
peal must bo made.
Let America be ruled by Americans,
and let fearless souls and patriotic
spirits put shoulder to the wheel in
every political campaign and In every
decisive action. Ella Gibson Magoon
in Progressive Thinker.
BARBAROUS TREATMENT
Of a Scotch Priest In a Roman Catholic
Institution In Germany.
There has just been published at
Ilagen, says the Pall Mall Gazette a
pamphlet telling the story of most ex
traordinary and wanton cruelty prac
ticed upon a priest. This is the story:
The Rev. Alexander Forbes, now about
49 years of age, held till about three
and a half years ago an active prefer
ment in the Roman Catholic diocese of
Aberdeen. At that date he got in
volved in differences wHh his bishop.
His ecclesiastical superiors arrived at
the opinion that Mr. Forbes was a diffi
cult man to deal with. They proposed,
therefore, that he i hould take tempor
ary vacation from his duties in some
home of rest, and suggested that of the
Franciscan Sisters at Bruges.
The institution kept by the Francis
can Sisters was reckoned by Mr. Forbes
to be a convalescent home, and so It
was, only most of the convalescents
were idiots. He lost no time in intro
ducing himself to Dr. H. Moulart, the
principal doctor, who informed him
that he could not be received as an in
mate, since the home was intended only
for the mentally deranged, whereas he
was of perfectly sound mind. There
upon Mr. Forbes, who was traveling
alone, went on, upon the advice of a
Roman Catholic sister and with the
consent of his bishop, to the large Alex
iar cloister, conducted by lay brethren
at Mariaberg and at ix la Chapelle.
What he saw and experienced there for
more than three years is, at the end of
this century, almost Incredible. Mr.
Forbes arrived at Mariaberg on Feb
ruary 18, 1891, and found immediate ad
mission. His board was paid by his su
periors at Aberdeen, and he attended,
with the consent of the archbishop of
Cologne, to all the clerical duties of the
asylum. But this did not last long(
Satolli, or you'll never be able
The barbarous punishment inflicted
upon the helpless wretches nervous,
epileptic, and insane which he had
almost dally to witness, grieved and
disgusted him bo very much that after
vain protests he at last threatened to
bring the circumstances to the know
ledge of the authorities.
That moment saw the end of hia lib
erty. Since then he himself has been
most unmercifully handled, beaten, and
cruelly maltreated, for more than three
years. It has now been clearly proved
that an official bad at the time, but bo.
hind the back and without the know,
ledge of Mr. Forbes, procured from the
district physician and private sanitary
officer a certificate Bhowing him to bo a
lunatic. He was deprived of every free
dom, assaulted and struck by four ol
the brethren at the same time, and this
on many occasions. Re was straped
and pinioned repeatedly, and even
thrust into the dreadful cell or dungeon
reserved for isolated confinement. In
this there was neither chair nor table.
He was kept in this awful place night
and day, without any food whatever.
Even a drink of water was withheld
from him. Every communication with
the outer world he was utterly deprived
of. The letters received for him did
not come into his hands, and those
which he wished to sund off were held
back. A German Roman Catholic
divine also had the misfortune of mak
ing the acquaintance of Mariaberg, but
through a ruso he contrived to escape,
and gave a description of the outrageous
treatment of Mr. Forbes, as he had
often witnessed it. Some German pa
pists Interested themselves in the case.
Herr Mellage, a hotel keeper, of Iser
lohn, took energetic measures to secure
the release of the unhappy man. After
vain application to the clerical authori
ties, he succeeded in enlisting the at
tention of the procurator-fiscal and the
chief of police at Aix la Chapolle.
They directed a radical examination of
his mental state, and in the end, after
every obstacle on tho part of the pious
brethren, Herr Mellage succeeded in
bringing the unfortunate man In
triumph from his prison. Mr. Forbes
was set at liberty, his deliverer, Herr
Mellage, being accepted as bail for his
residence in the country till the end of
criminal proceedings which have been
taken. Mr. Forbes is now living with
nerr Mellage, at Iserlohn, in West
phalia. He has been deprived, since
his deliverance, of his right to officiate.
Pope Leo a Born Diplomat.
Pope Leo XIII. is a born diplomat,
equal to Metternich or Machiavelli. He
is politically a Republican, a Democrat,
an Imperialist, a monarchist, a social-
lot, or a prohibition!!, if lv any moans
he may advance tho power of ": doin.
Ho never We sight of the 1. m'sh
sU'ttityed motto, "The end junilliea
the mean." Ill remit rrcynllcal let
ter, addrctthcd to all the fal'htul, U the
most artful, plauxibh; diplomatic docu
ment that hat ap'ur, U in r.:oi.Vrn eo
clexianitlcnl literatim-. Ho poj-'x at a
unique and conspicuous reform r. He
looks out upon the world of in: 1. kind
with the eye of worldly winiom. Not
once does he apie:il to tho written
word of God a the arbiter ef christian
unity, a trie solvent of the eucloblahti
cal muddle, but balancing hlmtelf upon
the odettal of aptmtoUc sueeension, he
assume power and prrrogallvis which
alone belong to Jesus Christ. He is lu
favor of reforms which ornanato from
thequirlnal of Rome, ard which lead
by all road ba-k to tho Vatican. Hia
octopui-slan tentacles ex toad ail over
mankind; and he wouid suvo all niuu
by a system of salvation which origi
nated in tho dark ages und which ha
been filtered In the mystic wat . rs of
liubylon. "Come Into ujv rosy bcuau,"
said tho epldor to tLc t!y. Four him
who comes bearing Chrlsliuu
Leader.
THE A. 1 A. DENOUNCED
By (he Civic Union of New York, a Ro
man Catholic Political Organization.
Nkw Youk, Oct. 2. The Civic Union
held its oountv convention ut 1137
Broadway last night, und adopted a
resolution endorsing tho caudidacy of
David B. Hill for governor. John P.
Brophv, the president of tlio organiza
tion, presided over tho deliberations of
the convention, which was attended by
forty-three delegates.
The resolution adopted waa offered
by Thomas Carey, and U as follows:
"Whereas. The seventh plank In the
clylo union platform declare for 'the
absolute eciuallty before the law of all
citizens, regardless of birth, belief, or
legitimate calling; and
Whereas. The constitutional rights of
American citizens are thrcatonod by
the secret conspiracy known as the A.
P. A. 'sandbacgera io politics, as its
members have been aptly stylod by the
Hon. Richard C. Kerens, of Missouri,
and,
Whereas. This rovlval of know-
nothinglsm has made iu appearance in
our own state, and tho issue has been
squarely and manfully met by the Hon.
David B. Hill; therefore bo it
Resolved, That the Civic Union, com
posed of 10.0M enrolled voters, without
distinction as to religious or political
belief, records Its unqualiScu approval
of Senator Hill in his noble position,
and on that issue takes its place beside
him to stand or fall in behalf of our
proscribed fellow-citizens."
Mr. Brophy (whose name sounds very
Roman Catholic Irish, the president of
the union,) was appointed only a few
days ago a deputy to Internal Revenue
Collector Edward G rosso.
Jurors Were A. P. As.
Denver, Oct: 9. In support of a mo
tion for a new trial of the suit of J. K.
Mullen and Charles D. McPhee against
the Wets-?rn Union Beef company, ex
Judge Vincent D. Markhart filed an
allldavit made by the plaintiffs, allegiag
that the jury, whicn returned a verdict
for the defendan's, was packed with
American Protective Association men
by Sheriff Burchinell and Matt Adams,
clerk of tho district court, and would
not Kive a verdict in accordance with
the evidence" for the plaintiffs because
they are Roman Catholics. The affi
davit, which is vcy long, repeats the
oaths known to bo takpn by numbers of
tho American Protective Association
and declares that they are unfit to
serve on juries, esfiecially in cases
where Roman Catholics are concerned.
The suit of Mullen aud McPhee was
brought to recover $10,000 damages for
cattle, which they alleged died from
diseases contracted from infected cattle
which tho Western Union Beef com
pany introJuced uion the ranges.
Priests Preach Sedition.
Managua, Nicaragua, Oct 6. Ia
view of the continued disturbances in
Granada, President Zelaya threatens
to place himself at the head of the
troops and end this state of affairs.
Priests throughout the country are
preaching against the government.
Two more have been arrested. It Is
known they furnished the Indians with
arms and ammunition. The govern
ment maintains the closest censorship
of the press. Mail correspondence even
is being Inspected.
A False Report.
LONDON, Oct. 6 The Rome corres
pondent of the United Press telegraphs
a denial of the statement recently
printed in the Paris Fhiaro, that Mgr.
Satolli, papal ablegate to the United
States, is to be made a cardinal at the
papal consistory soon to be held.
