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Volume IV. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1S94. Number 43.
ROME IN WASHINGTON.
W. J. H. Traynor's Interesting Let
ter From Our Nation's Capital.
It Is Evident That tbe Roman (Jtiotioii is
Henceforth to be the Real and I'ara
mount Issue in American
Politics.
Washington, D. C, October 23.
For several days past the Brotherhood
of St. Andrew, an institution related
to the Protestant Episcopal church.has
been in session in this city. About
1,500 delegates are In attendance. The
spirit of the institution may be inferred
from a statement made by Mr. Smith,
Its vice president, in his speech reply
ing to the address of welcome. "We
acknowledge," eaid he, "but one sov
ereignty, but one flag, and but one com
mon purpose." The spirit of Bishop
Coxe and Archdeacon Williams is ap
parent in these brave words: and we
may be sure that the young men of that
brotherhood understand the perils and
the duties of the hour that they are
our friends in the present struggle-that-.if
this government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall per
ish from the earth, it will not be
through their connivance at the aims
and methods of the Roman Imposture.
Success to the Brotherhood of St. An
drew and all similar organizations.
The Satollists, as those who oppose
the principles set forth in the platform
Of the American Protective Association
are called here, are evidently becom
ing alarmed at the outlook. The
Church A'etes, their most powerful or
gan, breathing the spirit of Georgetown
college and the Catholic University, is
rabid in its denunciation of Apaism, as
It is pleased to call patriotism. It cries
loudly upon all political parties to de
nounce our order. These doleful
screams of bigotry, corruption and
treason remind one of
"The wolf's long howl on Onalaska's shore."
or of the wails of the doomed in the
bottomless pit. The so-called Society
of Jesus stands appalled at the activity
and strength manifested in the work
of their undoing. Strange men! aban
doned men! lost men! what have they
in common with our countrymen? Why
should such harpies, the veritable
black andifoul descendants of Vir
gil's harpies, be allowed to 6hame this
land with their presence?
I see from the press dispatches that
Mr. Sulzer has been nominated tor con
press bv Tammany Hall. Just before
Ma nomination Mr. Sulzer said: "The
main issue of the campaign in the city,
as well as in the state, Is the question
of civil and religious liberty, of free
dom of worship and thought as against
religious intolerance and bigotry."
Senator Hill, in a recent speech, gave
utterance to the same views, and it is
evident that the Roman question is
henceforth to be the real and para
mount issue in American politics, as it
has always been in European politics.
If there are any two things specially
and emphatically condemned in the
law of God, they are usury and idolatry,
and these two things have been hit
upon by Tammany and the Jew-Jesuit
league of Now York, as the basis of the
Satollist party in this eonto-t. Hence
we hear this cry of "civil and religious
liberty" liberty for Sbylock to plun
der the necessitous, liberty for idola
ters to plunder our treasuries and levy
blackmail upon everybody! Audacity,
mendacity and rapacity were never
more skillfully interwoven into one po
litical fabric anywhere on earth before.
And this fabric of treason, usury and
Idolatry is called Democracy! "O,
liberty, whatj.crimes in thy name are
committed!"
Now that Roman Catholicism is set
up as the model of free institutions,
now that the Sabine wolf has put on
the clothing of the American theep,
now that Sbylock has joined hands
with Leo 'n the work of preserving
freedom , let us look a little into the
genesis 01 the parties to this alliance.
What is now.'called ultramontanism,
the controlling spirit of the papacy, is
identical with communism. Under the
Roman empire, which was practically
universal, or Catholic, 'religion exalted
the emperor-into a divinity. To him
were temples elected. Offerings were
paid to him on -altars. Men swore by
his name, and held festivals in his
honor. His images secured the privi
leges ofasylums to tthose who fled to
them. The only worship, probably,
which wascommon to the old empire
was that paid 'to the emperor. To this
all other religions accommodated them
selves. The emperor united polities
and religion. G The office of priest was
assigned to certain citizens as civil
offices were.
Under this constitution, of which the
sovereignty,!' both .spiritual and tem
poral of the Roman emperor was the
essential principle, Christianity made
appearance. At first it studiously sep
arated what was God's from wl at was
Ca-sar's, and put forth its movements
in Republican forms; but these forms
disappeared more and more as the new
faith gained ground. By degrees the
clergy took up a position distinct and
apart from the people. An aristocratic
system was developed, with the head at
the seat of the empire, which, as it
grew in power, formed an alliance with
the emperor as other religious bodies
had done before it. But there was
then no question as to the strict subor
dination to the emperor. The pope
dom also formed an alliance with
Charlemagne and his successors, and
with the German emperors in turn, as
one dynasty succeeded another, always
in political subordination to the civil
power, until the pontificate of Gregory
VII. This ambitious and able states
man, seeing an opportunity for the ag
grandizement of the papacy in the
minority of Henry IV. of Germany,
usurped both the spiritual and tem
poral sovereignty of Christendom, and
with the aid of the clerical party re
versed the relations between himself
and the emperor, and hence the rela
tions between the church and all politi
cal powers. In effect, Gregory VII.
succeeded to the functions and jurisdic
tiocs of the Ca'-sars. As Ca'sar had
been a J ion tiff, eo were Gregory and his
successors. As Casar had arrogated
to himself divine attributes, so did
they. As the decrees of Casar were
infallible and irreformable of them
elves, and not by consent of the enate,
so were the "definitions'' of the Roman
pontiffs infallible and irreformable of
themselves, and not from tbe consent
of the church. So that the so-called
successors of Peter are really the suc
cessors of Caesar. The polity of the
Roman church is the polity of the Ru
man empire. Its principles are best
set forth and summarized in the
"Prince," by;Nicho!as Machiavelli.
In a former letter I quoted the words
of Dr. Dollinger. The disposing power,
the dispensing power, the power of ar
bitration and award, and the general
function of sovereignty, which Dr.
Dollinger refers to, are distinctly set
forth by Pope Boniface VIII., in the
celebrated bull - Unnm Sunctnm, which
was a solemn dogmatic definition ad
dressed to the whole church.
In another hull the same pope thus
addressed the French king, Phillip the
Fair:
"Do not, my son, imagine that you
have no superior, or that you are not
subject to the highest hierarchy of the
church. Whoever may say so he is an
infidel. The apostles said, 'Here are
two swords,' and the Lord did not an
swer, 'The-e are too many,' but 'It is
enough. C If anyone denies that the
civic sword is in the hands of the
church, ho disregards the words of the
Lord, 'Put away the sword.' Both
swords are given to the church the
spiritual and tho civic. The one is
drawn for the church, the other by the
church. One is in the hands of the
priests, the other 'n tho hands of the
kings and warriors; but the latter may
y.
HE CASTS THE VOTE
use it only in accordance with the will
of the priests, and only so long as the
priests permit It."
In a recent paper (May, 1894,) the
count of Hoensbroech himself an ex
jesuit discussing the policy of Prussia
in respect to the jesuits, says:
"A Catholic official owes, in the first
place, allegiance to the pope. If differ-
enjes arise between the government
and the pope;, as head of the church,
every official professing to be a good
Catholic must obey the pope alone, and
may not carry out the provisions of any
law contrary to the doctrines of the
church. A strict Catholic cannot obey
the state in all things. According to
Catholic doctrine the church Is the
highest and last authority on all ques
tions. Nothing is excepted. The family
and the school, the army and thecustom
house, science and art all circle around
that one center, the Catholic church.
The pope is the sovereign of sover
eigns, appointed by God, and the high
est judge, to whom all others owe
obedience. If, therefore, the pope con
demn the constitution of any country
the Catholics must believe that this
constitution is utterly wrong and
worthy of condemnation."
Thomas Carlyle says that of all the
rights of man the right of the ignorant
man to receive instruction is the most
indispensable; that it is the right re
servative of all rights the only divine
right. How this sacred right is affected
by the domination of Romanism is
shown by the fact that illiteracy, sen
sualism and crime are more prevalent
in papal countries than anywhere eUe
in the world-
1. Illiteracy. The percentage of il
literacy in Hungary is 51; in Chili, 73;
in Polland, 91; in Mexico. 93; in Vene
zuela, 90; in Spain, 80: in Portugal, 82;
in Brazil, 84. These are all papist
countries. In everyone of them the
percentage of Illiterates is greater than
it is in heathen China, where 50 per
cent of the people can read and write.
2. Illegitimacy. For a population of
205,000 in Rome in 1870, the year of the
Vatican council, the number of births
reached a total of 4, 78; but of them
only 1,215 were legitimate, while 3,10,'!
were illegitimate. That is, 75 per cent
of the births in the holy city that year
were illegitimate.
li. Murder. In the states of the
church the proportion of murders to
population for the last years of the
pontificial government, was one for
every 750 inhabitants. In Naples it
was one for every 2,750, and in Austria
one for every 4,113. These are all
papist countries. In Protestant Eng
land for the same period there was but
one murder for every 1 87,00 Inhabi
tants. The priests thrive where the
people perish. Suierstition, born of
ignorance and nurtured by crime, is
the pedestal of the papacy. Uence it
is Rome cannot be successfully opposed
on political lines unless her spiritual
powers be first overthrown. These
words of an ex-priest are true: "The
spiritual ower of the Romish priest
hood over the people is the ladder by
which they ultimately climb to olitical
Miwer. Wherever Rome conlrolls
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THE PRIEST DIRECTS.
spiritually, she is always strongest
politically. To prove this fact all that
Is necessary is to look about us and see
the political power Rome holds where
spiritual Romanism predominates;
study the history of the nations where
Rome has ruled spiritually and politl
cally. The student will occupy but a
brief time in discovering that wherever
the people are bound down to the feet
of the priests by spiritual chains, the
prloei is master and dictator to the
king."
Both historically aud theoretically
these words are true. They show what
sort of civil and religious liberty Shy
lock and Loo are contending for what
the mongrel horde of Satollists, mas
querading as democrats, mean by their
theatrical appeals to their Intended
victims for help against the united
Americans. They want a religious
Issue, with usury and idolatry as the
gods of their system. Let them have
it. To the extent of antagonizing usury
and idolatry, as the root and kernel of
this new and spurious democracy, the
A. P. A. is waging a religious war, but
to no greater extent. We take up the
gauntlet thrown down by Straus, Hill,
Crisp ami Sitolli. Qui vivc?
W. J. II Traynor.
SITOLLI I'XKF.It FIRE.
The Pupal Ablegate Has an Experience
He Won't Soon Forget.
Pattekson, N. J., Ojt. 21. Arch
bishop SatollI had an experience today
that he will probably long remember
as oneff the unpleasant incidents of his
life. 1 he archbishop's sensational ad
venture occurred in the parish resi
dence of Rev. Father S 1$. Smith,
pa6tor of St. Joseph's church in Patter
son. The archbishop arrived in Paterson
from Quebec last night, and went at
once to the residence of Father Smith,
who for some time past has been op
posed by a number of the members of
his congregation. The archbishop's
visit was for the purxse of investigat
ing the trouble. Tne parishioners
opposed to Dr. Smith learned of the
ablegate's arrival, and at 9 o'clock this
morning a large delegation, headed by
ex-Street Commissioner James Gibson,
E. F. Leonard and John Cheevers, in
vaded the residence of Father Smith
with a view of having an audience with
the ablegate. The congregation held
a meeting last evening and decided to
ask for the immediate removal of the
rector, Dr. Smith. Reaching the door
of the pastoral residence, the delega
tion was informed hy Miss Carrie
Smith, the house-keeper, that she had
strict orders not to allow any one to
enter the house, as Monsignor Satolli
had requested not to be disturbed.
"But we mutt see him," answered
Mr. Leonard, as he foreed the door
open, and the committee tiled into the
waiting room.
During the conversation on the steps
two men forced their way into the
house ahead of the committee, and in a
few seconds the entire delegation was
in the hallway clamoring for Satolli.
"We will see the archbishop."
"We must see Satolli."
"He must listen to us," cried the
members of the delegation, all of whom
were greatly agitated.
Secretary Papl, the private secretary
of Monsignor Satolli, who accom
panied the papal delegate to Paterson,
emerged from his room and inquired
the nature of the dltturbanco.
"We came here," said the siwkes
man, "to see Monsignor Satolli, and
we will not have until he explains why
he did not fulfill hi's promise of visiting
this parish a month ago to settle the
difficulty that has now been pending
nearly a year."
Dr. Papl translated the committee's
declaration, as the archbishop does not
speak English. The archbishop
scarcely waited until Dr. Papl had con
cluded, when he said in reply:
"Wei', all that is settled," meaning
that he would take no further notice of
the complaints against Father Smith.
The secretary informed tho men that
Monsignor Satolli would not see any
of them today. All the members of the
delegation, who by this time had gath
ered around the secretary, said that
they had called to see tho papal dele
gate, the ndjustor of all difficulties in
the Roman Catholic church of the
Unit.:d States, and that they would not
get out of the house until they talked
with him.
Two members of the delegation left
the room while Dr. Papl was speaking,
and took up their situations in th'! hall
to fete that Archbishop Satolli did not
leave the house. As they reached the
hall they were met by the archbishop,
who had been attracted by the uproar,
and was descending the stairs, attired
in his priestly mantle, and bowing and
smiling. He entered the waiting-room,
and with an inquiring nod to Dr. Papi,
confronted the committee. Three mem
bers of the delegation closed the door
leading into tho hall, while another
stepped forward and made known the
determination of the parishioners to
have Father Smith removed at once,
or at least ansferred.
While Dr. Papl was speaking a mem
ber of the delegation angrily declared:
"This is shameful, and I consider it an
outrage to se nd a man here from Italy
to setile church matters in America
who is unable to speak the Knglish
language."
The spokesman of the com i.ittee in
reply to tho monsignor's declaration
reminded him of his promise to make a
settlement in the condition of affairs at
St. Joseph's church, and spoke with
much emphasis of the remissness of the
charges against the pastor. In a tit of
passion Archbishop Satolli replied:
"Well, anyhow, you insulted me at
Washington by bringing an apostate,"
and the ablegate forced his way from
the room, and in doing so he tripped
on his mantle and fell against the ban
isU'r. Before he could recover hlmseif
James Gibson had freed his mind.
"Is this the line of conduct you in
tend to pursue?'' he said. "You will
make more ajostates. You came here
as the guest of a man who is under
charges that the bishop of tho diocese
has admitted to le serious. Your con
duct is unworthy of the highest repre
sentative of tho I toman Catholic church
in this country. Your conduct Is an In
sult to Araerban Catholics. If the
committeemen of St. Joseph's parishion
ers had not taken this matter in hand
you would have ei has had a babbling
crowd who would tear down this houso
over tho miserable pastor's head."
Satolli hastened upstairs and tho
committee returned to tho rooms of the
Catholle Club. It was resolved to call
a meeting of tho parishioners for to
morrow night to determlno what action
will bo taken.
Satolli offered mass In St. Joseph's
church at 8 o'clock, and at 11 o'clock ho
took a drive through the city Inspecting
some of the silk mills. He will dine
with Dr. Smith this afternoon, and a
number of local clergymen have boon
Invited, but it Is believed hoiiio of them
will Ignore tho Invitation. The ach
blshop was not Injured by the fall
further than to susUiin a painful abra
sion on tho thigh. Ho was able to walk
upstairs without assistance.
THE CHURCH OF ROME.
A French-American Paper Holh Com
mends and Criticises It.
Tho French-Anierkan Citizen, pub
lished at Springfield, Mass., sayB:
"Tho movements of the Roman Cath
olle church in America must needs bo
extremely Interesting to every citizen
of the United StaUw. Tho eyes that
watch ought not to be other than
friendly, but can hardly bo other than
keen. 'I he R jman church Is a strange
mixture of good and evil, In which the
good is so good that wo wonder how
tho evil can stay, and tho evil is so
desperate that we wonder how the
eood can remain In Its company. With
everything that Is American and
scriptural in tho Roman Catholic
church we shall gladly bo in prompt
and thorough sympathy. None the
less, but rather all tho more is every
thing that is un-American and un-
scriptural to be opMsod. There are
many who hope that tho Roman
church will yet ho found taking Its
character from Its best elements; that
It will yet cast off the traditions which
obscure, which too often make void the
gospel; '.hat it will vet, even In coun
tries whore It Is supreme, become wise
enough to abandon the Intolerance,
despotism and worldllness which have
made priestcraft hateful and have
sometimes even made religion odious.
Such a hope let us cherish even against
hope. But meanwhile, until that
blessed era arrives when the Romish
church stall not only see Its errors, but
confess and forsake them, the very best
service its Protestant friends can ren
der it Is to put it on its good behavior
here In America, by opposing its
schemes for civil power and sate funds
that should not belong to any churcli,
and by preaciiing a simple and pure
gospel to such of its nu mbers as we can
reach, until it does that work Itself.
Forelgnlsm Against Americanism.
Every day and hour the foreign im-
miirraion question looms up darker
and blacker on the political horizon.
Stone's Immigration bill shows a good
healthy movement in the right direc-
t ill
tion. Let. H go on and on unui u win
sweep clean our great American com-
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monwealth and purge oui an anuuisw.
The Prohibition platform would prrv
hibitthis foreignU-m. "Put none but
Americans on guard," is rapidly be
coming the political shibboleth every
where. The foreign elenvnt is in the cities.
The awful iquor business is growing
and drunkenness increasing In the
cities and larger towns. Temperance
and sobriety are increasing in the rural
regions, and the country saves tne
town. Bit the Farmers toot an me
costs in the courts, ainnhoues, insane
asvlums. jails and penitentiaries, lhe
cities will destroy the nation unless the
country people unite, and thatspeedily,
In defense of law and order.
Two million A. P. As. already or
ganized in"defense of our public schools,
andevery teacher in' Gentry county
will ere long be put on record for or
against sectariauizing the public
schools. Read plank 13 of the Prohioi
tiori'platform.'Jt" is"notJdle talk. to
wave the "danger" signals at the influ
ence that is sectamnizing the grand
public school system.
Figures show that one year with an
other the rural vote is about evenly
divided between the Republicans and
IVmocrats-that is, they simply cancel
each other's votes, leaving the foreign
whisky slum vote of the cities to select
and elect our officers and run our
politics. Stanberry, Mo., Temperance
Mart.
Speaks ell of Coiriguu.
Romk, Oct 18. Mgr. Satolli has
written a 'etter to his holiness, Pope
Leo, highly extolling Archbishop Cor
ngan, in eo::. ci,ueiice of a pamphlet at
tacking the latter by a priest well
known in Washington.
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