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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1S91.
NCMBKR 42.
ROME IN WASHINGTON
W. J. H. Traynor's Interesting Let
ter From Our Nation's Capital.
Gibbons, Burtsell and Satolli Taking l
the Labor Question as a Mean of Ex
tending the Wolfish Despotism
of the Vatican.
Washington, D. C, October 17.
JmM Cardinal Gibbons, as Is well
known, is the administrator of the arch
diocese of Baltimore, of which Wash
, ineton City is an appendage. On Sep-
' tember 30, at Frostburg, Md., this pre
' late, who combines In his own charac-
' ter the nature of the Sabine won with
that of the Carolina fox, delivered a
sermon calculated to stir up the labor'
lng classes against all other elements of
society a speech which fairly places
him in the lead of the revolutionary
propaganda ef which Dr. Burtsell Is the
accredited mouthpiece.
Having talked at length about strikes
etc., this Machiavellian concluded as
follows:
"I earnestly hope that some efficient
remedy will be found to put an end to
the recurring strikes, and arbitration
seems to be the most potent method that
can be conceived of."
Now, in what sense does he use the
word "arbitration?" It has on9 mean
ing tor the subjects of Leo, and another
for the rest of mankind. According to
the papal theory it means that the
court of Rome should be a court of ar
bitration for the strong, and a court of
appeal for the weak. That is what Sa
tolli and his followers really mean when
they clamor for "arbitration." "We
must have arbitration," say they.
"But who is to be the arbitrator?" we
ask. The reply to this Is given in the
pope's organ, the Civxtta Vatollica:
"The pope is the only one qualified for
that office." r The idea Is that the sov
ereign pontiff should arbitrate all dis
putes between nations, and his dele
gates all disputes between corporations,
societies and individuals of less than In
ternational importance.
To the people of America, accustomed
to the definition of the term set forth in
our law books, the word arbitration
means entirely. a different thing. It
simply means a voluntary and amicable
settlement of aj controversy without a
formal lawsuit, by a reference to some
disinterested person, whose decision
shall be final. The conspirators seize
upon this ambiguous-word, and by in
direction, by fraud, and by tricks, of
which an artful jesult alone is capable,
contrive to make it the shibboleth of
the trades unions.
Under such influence as this, the
chief of the Knights of Labor said in
Chicago, on the 6th of July last, that a
walk-out on the part of the members of
all the trades unions of that city would
do great good. How? Because, to use
his own words, "It would force upon the
people a stronger realization of the ne
cessity for a settlement of these trou'
bles; ancl the population would rise en
masse in a demand for arbitration."
Here lies the nut and kernel of the
whole nefarious scheme so loudly talked
of by some, and so inconsiderately by
others. Pause and reflect upon It. Our
established jurisprudence is thus to be
swept away, and the ecclesiastical sys
tem of the dark ages introduced. And
upon this hypothesis alone, the cardinal
declares that as to the settlement of
strikes, "arbitration seems to lie the
most potent method that can be con
ceived of;" thusdeliberately inciting
the populace "to rise en masse in a de
mand for arbitration," after first volun
tarily depriving themselves of the
means of subsistence by a general walk
out. 'Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them In their hour of might."
What does It allmean? Revolution
ary methods are invoked, almost in the
same terms by the cardinal and the la
bor agitator, in order to paralyze indus
try, and thereby tc intensify popular
distress to a degree which cannot fail to
force the populace to demand what
Gibbons and Satolli and Burtsell,
through Mr. Soveteign, are stealthily
aiming at. Revolutionary legislation,
such as the George arbitration bill, is
invoked as a subsidiary agency of the
wolfish despotism of the Vatican, In the
unholy work of subverting our constitu
tional judiciary. In all this Gibbons
joins hands with Sovereign, and Satolli
with Altgeld. And even the pope ex
presses surprise at the fact that federal
troops are employed to preserve order.
Infallible surprise! He, too, is inter
ested in bringing about a universal de
mand for "arbitration" through disor
derly means, fomented by his emissar
ies. According "to Bishop Keane, he
has been "much disturbed." He was
under the Impression that the Chicago
riots the arbitration riots, planned at
Excited Irishman To Amazed Storekeeper "Sure, there'll never be any more dealin's bechune us, yer dirty blagyardl Yez keep A. P. A. goods!" (A fact.
the Vatican under his direction were
not in the nature of a revolution. Indeed,
he was deceived. They were precisely
ot that nature and were so intended
by the revolutionary propaganda. But
for the promDt and vigorous action of
the president the whole railway system
of the country would have been in pos
session of the revolutionists, and Con
gress would have been intimidated so
completely as to Insure the passage of
the George arbitration bill and the Ma
guire tax bill, two measures which,
taken together, would infallibly have
established the 'Commonweal of Christ'
for which General Coxey was loudly
contending. We, as a nation have
sunk very low in the mire of popish in
trigue. Let us, therefore, unite in a
petition to our president, warning him
not to go to Canossa, and asking him to
put in train such measures as may be
necessary to expel Satolli and the Jesu
its from our shores asking him, more
over, to see to it that the adherents of
the papacy receive no more than their
equitable share of federal official pat
ronage, and that our system of govern
ment, so far in appearance, shall no
longer be administered by his subord
inates, as it has been heretofore, with
an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as
to discriminate in favor of foreigners
and Romanists, against Americans and
Protestants. Calling his attention to
the fact that while the Romanists num
ber about one-eighth of our population
they have in this capital over two
thirds of the federal offices, and own
over 812,000,000 worth of church and
school property, accumulated largely
through the special privilege of beg
ging through the various executive de
partments, while Protestant sects are
denied such a privilege. Let us remind
him continually o' the words so wisely
spoken by his pastor, Dr. Sunderland,
on the 1st day of July, 1894: "Foreign
elements are multiplying among us, and
there is one element which is palpably
Irreconcilable with the spirit and de
sign of our institutions, whatever may
be the professions of its more liberal
adherents, and that is the Roman pa
pacy. "An order of men is harbored among
us men who have been expelled at one
time and another from every civilized
country under heaven; and that order
is the jesuits, who are free to circulate
among the people, and who don't hesi
tate to declare that this Protestant na
tion shall one day reckon with the Ro
man pontiff. We have had our battles
on various vital questions in the past,
but the battle with the papacy is yet to
come, and may even now be at the
doors."
Let us listen no more to popish hom
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THE LETTERS
ilies on the ambiguous word, arbitra
tion. "Be these Juggling fiends no more believed,
Who palter with us In a double sense."
Since Mgr. Satolli's chief mission
here seems to be to get control of edu
cational institutions and state and gen
eral governments, It may be well to in
quire what he and his masters have
done for Italy, where, until recently,
their rule has been unchallenged.
One of the best commentaries on this
subject is to be found in a book written
by Horace Greeley, who traveled in
that country In 1850. From this book
I have made the following instructive
and interesting extracts, from which
your readers will observe that before
the A. P. A. was organized there were
some Americans who could see and
think as we do now:
Greeley says: "We crossed the sum
mit of the Appennlnes about daylight,
and began rapidly to descend, follow
ing down the course of one of the
streams which find the Adriatic to
gether near the mouth of the Po. At
5 A. M. we passed the boundary of
Tuscany and entered the papal terri
tory, so that our baggage had to be all
taken down and searched, and our pass
ports re-scrutinized two processes to
which I am becoming more accustomed
than any live eel was to being skinned.
The tim9 consumed was but an hour,
and the pecuniary swindle trifling. But
though the hour was early, and there
were few habitations in sight, there
soon gathered around us a swarm of
most importunate beggars brown,
withered old women spinning on dis
taffs held in the band (a process I
fancied the world had outgrown) and
stopping every moment to hold out a
dirty claw, with a most disgusting
grimace and whine 'For the love of
God, signor' with ditto old men, and
children of various sizes, the youngest
who could walk seeming as apt at beg
gary as their grand-dames who have
carried it, 'off and on,' for seventy or
eighty years. If the ancient Romans
had equalled their living progeny in
begging they would not have dared
and suffered so much to achieve the
mastery of the world they might have
begged it, and saved an infinity of need
less slaughter.
"These people have no proper pride,
no manly shame, because they have no
hope. Untaught, unskilled in industry,
owning nothing, their government an
absolute despotism, their labor only re
quired at certain seasons of the year,
and deemed amply rewarded with a
York shilling or eighteen pence per
day, and themselves the virtual serfs of
great land-holders who live in Rome or
Bologna, and whom they rarely or'
SETTLED IT.
never see Is it any wonder that they
stoop to plead and whine for coppers
around every carriage that traverses
that country? That they fare miser
ably, their scanty rags and pinched
faces sufficiently attest; that they are
indolent and improvident I can very
well believe; for when were unedu
cated, unskilled, hopeless vassals any
thing else? Italy, beautiful, beauteous
land, is everywhere haggard with want
and wretchedness, but these seem no
where so general and chronic as in the
papal territories."
Speaking of dwellings, barns, etc.,
Greeley writes:
"The peasants' cottages are thatched
with flags or straw, and often built of
the latter material. Of barns there
are relatively few, most of the wheat
being stacked when harvested, and
trodden out by oxen on floors under the
open sky. I have not seen a good har
ness, nor a respectable ox-yoke in Italy,
most of the oxen having yokes which a
Berkshire hog, of any pretensions to
good breeding, would disdain to look
through. These yokes merely hold the
meek animals together, having no ad
aption to draft, which is obtained by a
cobbling filagree of ropes around the
head, bringing the heaviest of the
work upon the horns. The gear is a
little better than this -as little as you
please while for carts and wairons
there are few schoolboys of twelve to
fifteen in America who would not beat
the average of all I have seen in Italy.
Their clumsiness and stupidity are so
atrocious that the owners do well in
employing asses to draw them; no man
of feeling or spirit could endure the
horse laughs they must extort from any
animal of tolerable sagacity. To see a
stout, two-handed man come home with
his donkey-load of fuel from a distant
wood, half a day of the two being spent
in getting as much as would make one
good kitchen fire.
"Man is the only product of this pro
lific land which seems stunted and
shriveled. Were Italy once more a na
tion, under one wise and liberal gov
ernment, a thorough system of common
schools, and a public policy which
looked to the fostering and diversifying
of her Industry, she might easily sus
tain and enrich a population of sixty
millions. As It is, one-half of her
twenty-millions are in rags and are
pinched by hunger, while inhabiting
the best wheat country in Europe, from
which food is constantly and largely
exported. There are at least one hun
dred millions of dollars locked up in
useless decorations of churches, and not
one common school from Savoy to
Sicily."
"A little education, after a fashion,
is fitfully dispensed by certain religious
and charitable foundations, so that the
child lucky enough to be an orphan, or
illegitimate, has a chance to be taught
to read and write; but any such thing
as a practical recognition of the right
to education, or as a public and general
provision for Imparting it, is utterly
unknown here. Grand, beautiful Btrue
tures are crowded in every city, and are
crumbling to dust on every side; a
single township dotted at proper inter
vals with eight or ten schoolhouses
would be worth them all."
In referring to his visit to St. Peter's,
Greeley writes:
"In the afternoon I attended the eel
ebration of high mass, this being ob
served by the Catholic world as St,
Peter's day, and the pope himself offl'
dated In the great cathedral. Not un
derstanding the service, I could not
profit by it, and the spectacle impressed
me unfavorably. Such a multiplicity
of spears and bayonets seem to me
strangely out of keeping in a place of
worship. If they belong here, why not
bring in a regiment of horse and a park
of artillery as well? There is ample
room for them in St. Peter's, and the
cavalry might charge and the cannon-
lers fire a few volleys with little harm
to the building, and with great Increase
both to the numbers and interest to the
audience. 1 am not pretending to
judge this for others, but simply to
state how it, naturally strikes one edu
cated in the simple, sober observances
of Puritan New England. I have heard
of Protestants being converted in Rome,
but it seems to me the very last place
where the great body of those educated
In really Protestant ways would be
likely to undergo conversion.
"I have seen very much hero to ad'
mire, and there Is doubtless many more
such that I have not seen, but the radl
cal antagonism of Catholic and Protes
tant ideas, observances and tendencies
never before stood out in a light so
clear and strong as that shed upon it
by a few days in Rome. I obtained ad
mission yesterday to the Slstine chapel
oi the Vatican, and saw there, among
the paintings in fresco a representation
of the death of Admiral Coligny at the
massacre of St. Bartholomew; and if
this were not Intended to express appro
bation of that horrible massacre, I
would like to know what was meant by
having it painted and placed there."
Writing of Sardinia, Mr. Greeley
says: "She needs, first, of all things, an
efficient and comprehensive system of
popular education. With the enormous
superabundance of 60,000 priests and
other ecclesiastics to a generally poor
population of 4,000,000, she has not to
day 5,000 teachers, good,Wd and In
different, ot elementary and secular
knowledge. These blaek onatf d gentry
fairly overshadow the land with their
shovel hats, so that corn has no fair
chance of minnhlno. The churchoH of
this city (Genoa) alone must have cost
ten millions of dollars, for you cannot
walk a hundred steps without panning
ono, and the wealth lavished in their
construction and adornment exceeds all
belief while all the common school
houses in Genoa would not bring fifty
thousand dollar.
W. J. II. TlUYNOR.
News From California.
The following letter has been for
warded to us for publication as showing
the growth of the A. P. A. In Cali
fornia and the good work it is doing
there:
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 2nd, 1 8 1.
II. Bkuns, Esq., Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Friend: I thought you would bo
glad to learn something official relating
to the outcome of the political contest
In this county In connection with the
late Republican convention. I may
say "Eureka," and, that "We have met
the enemy and we are not hls'n." There
aro twenty councils now In this county,
nine of the same in the city. We se
cured nearly one-half of the delegates
to the convention, of which there are
all told, 519. More than one-half of
that number represented the city and
more than one-half of the city dele
gates to the county convention were
members of the order. At the first
session of the convention an effort was
made to break the power of the ordor,
and the party and its friends who made
the effort were figuratively swept out
of existence. A certain resolution was
offered. Though it did not mention
the A. P. A. in name, it meant the
order by inuendo, and It was snowed
under with such a vim and power and
by an almost unanimous vote, that it
was a most wonderful experience to the
mover of the motion and the very small
minority of ersons that were with him.
When the motion was made to lay the
resolution upon the table, a question
was raised as to a point of order. The
chairman, who was elected by our poo
pie, ruled the resolution out of order)
mover of same appealed; chair asked
whether his decision should be sus
tained, and there went up from all over
the convention such' a shout of affirma
tion that men stood on their feet, swing
ing their hats and handkerchief Radios
swinging their handkerchiefs, men
shouting, etc.
There was for a few moments a per
fect yell of approval, and when the
negative was taken in favor of sustain
ing the appeal there were but three
lonely votes, and then there was an
other yell from "our side" of the bouse.
From that hour on until the close of the
convention, four days and nights, the
A. P. As. had full swing. We have
secured more than two-thirds of the
nominees for offices, but could have ob
tained every one of them had we seen
fit to have done so. There is not a
Romanist, of course, on our ticket,
and so goes on the reformation." I
have given all my time to this grand
work from the time we started In
December last until this moment, but
cannot afford to continue to give so
much time as I am now doing, with
little or no compensation, and after the
election is over I presume I shall fever
my close official connection with the
organization.
Our friend, the stato president of
California, is very actively engaged in
building up the work, as well as my
self, and we now have about 150 coun
cils in California. XXX
Opposed to Sectarian Appropriations.
Sedalia, Mo., Oct. 14. Last night
Hon. George T. Tippin, Populist candi
date for congress for this distrIct,spoke
to a fair-sized audience. A letter was
handed to the speaker requesting ah
expression from nim on tne a. r. a.
movement. He said "he opposed the
appropriation of public funds for sec
tarian purposes. That the reason the
organization was In existence was be
cause Roman Catholics were meddling
with the public schools of the country
and by the force of ignorant numbers,
most of foreign birth and feeling, were
holding political positions to the detri
ment of free American institutions.
When they stopped doing so, the A. P.
As. would have no mission to per
form."
Another Jesuit.
Prince Waldburg, eldest son of the
reigning prince of that Ilk, who a year
ago renounced ail nis ngnts ot succes
sion in favor of his younger brother.
Maximilian, on entering upon his novi
tiate as a member of the order of Jes
uits, has now completed his term of
probation and has just been admitted
to the full membership of that power
ful order, which counts among its ranks
more princes and great nobles than any
other religious fraternity.