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NOVEMBER 30, ISM.
Tuk American hM boon the direct
cause of the organization of over 200 A
P. A. COUQl' 11- within the last six
months.
A Kansas town has the honor of
having a presidential postmaster whose
porroBoondonco reads as follows: N
mooch Person ycr Dy that Name."
Send for sample copies of Tu
American, and then have your friend
subscribe. By distributing America
literature you will assist In building u
American principles.
When you have road your paper
send It to some friend in soma reniole
corner in some county in the state, and
ask him to pass it around among his
neighbors. Also request him to son
for sample copies, and add his name to
our list for one year.
The management of Tub American
is spending annually about 18,000.00 for
upbuilding tho principles of Americans
who have gone to sleep. Do you not
think it a llttlo of your duty to assist in
this work? Have you subscribed or
paid your subscription? Think this
matter over and see how you stand.
The Kansas City Times uses a column
or more frequently stating "how the
committee first aroused public sent!
unenv ana "uotnam's police worse
than St. Petersburg's ever was," but
the push sheet steers clear of the rot
In Kansas City elections and the action
of tho police with a wonderful tact
The Time knows that the action
of the push in this city would cast
shadow on the darkest sjwt of "Goth
am" corruption. The 2mea not only
snips lightly over this puddle of elro
tlon ring fraud, but advocates the
men who have boon "counted In" by
the gang of ward heelers and thieves
In the Democratic push. The Demo
crats of moral standing are sick of such
trucicllng, and openly denounce the
ring rule paper.
THE memoor of the patriotic orders
In' this city deserve more credit
than words can express for the great
enthusiasm now being displayed. Since
the election has passed Ihey have come
together with astrouger feeling and
interest 'or the campaign of It is
pleasing to see them working like a
hive of busy bees planning for the c m
lng election two years ahead, and doing
so with so much energy just the mo
ment the last election was past. It is
amusing, however, to many who are
among the workers, to note the re
marks and jeers which are produced by
the mention of certain newspaper ar
ticles, which prophesied the death of
the American orders after the election
on November 8, 18M. No time since
the organization of these orders have
the members worked with such de
termination. It is the intent of the
leaders to place a council of the A P.
A. or the Jr. O. U, A. M. in every
hamlet in Nebraska before 1896, and
they will do it. The order is thor
oughly alive to the situation and will
have, from the present increase, a
membership, by the next election,
double what it is today.
The church of Rome is just like a
sponge. Everything must cone in,
nothing must go out. According to a
dispatch to the Fall River yews from
Baltimore Cardinal Gibbons recently
said:
"Thank God, there is a yearning desire
for the reunion of Christianity among
anany earnest souls. This desire is par
ticularly manifested in the English
speaking world.
I have received several letters from
Influential Protestant ministers ex
pressing the hope of a reunion and In
quiring as to the probable basis of a
reconciliation. I have longed and
prayed for reunion during all the years
t)f my ministry. I have prayed that as
we are bound to our brethern by social
and family and by natural and commer
cial ties, so may we be united with them
in the bonds of a common faith.
"The conditions of reunion are easier
than are generally imagined. Of course
there can be no coiproml8 on faith or
morals. The doctrine and moral code
that Christ has left us must remain un
c h angeable. But the c h urch can mod 1
fy her disci p).ine to suit the circum
stances of tue case."
THE DESSENTINQ OPINION.
We have received from a friend
In Fall City, a copy of the Johnstown,
Pa., Dally Tribune, with the full text
of Justice Williams dissenting opinion
in the GaUlUln school caso. The opin
ion Is well worth reading and is as fol
lows: 1 can go with my brethern on all tho
questions save ono. I cordially assent
to tho proposition that teachers should
be solecttd for tho common school be
cause of their fitness, and not because
of their religious belief or their church
affiliations. I am glad that In this
state, and In this country, the rights of
conscience aro no loss sacred than the
rights of proierty, and that tho test
oaths and religious disqualifications
H)long to a period farther back than tho
memory of the present generation can
reach. I hope they may never be re
stored. The constitution and bylaws of
this state provide foropen, free schools,
for all children of the proper ago, and
shall be secular In character; schools in
which the conscience and the sectarian
bias of both parents and children shall
be fully respected, or at least not inter
fored with. Thoir purpose is to provide
an elementary education that shall help
to fit the risng generation for actual
business and the duties and prlvilages
of citizenship. Is the public school in
tho Borough of Gallltzln sj conducted?
It is a school with eight apartments,
and a separate teacher for each. The
eight teachers are members of the same
church and sect. This Is unusual, but
not unlawful. Six of these teachers are
nuns of tho Sisterhood of St. Joseph.
They have ronounced tho world, their
own domestic relations, and thoir
names. They have renounced 'their
property, their right to their earnings,
and the direction of their own lives,
and bound themselves by solemn vows
to obedience to their ecclesiastical SU
porlor. They have ceased to bo civi
lians or secular persons. They have
become ecclesiastical persous, known by
religious names and devoted to religious
work. Among other methods by which
their separation from tho world U em
phasized and thoir renunciation of self
and subjection to the church is pro
claimed, Is the adoption Of a distinctly
religious dress. This is strikingly un
like the dres of their sex, whether
Catholic or Protestant. Its use at all
times and in all planes is obligatory.
They are forbidden to modUy it.
Wherever they go the Q&rb proclaims
their church, their ordoiy and their
separation from the secular world as
plain as a herald could do.
The question presented on this Mito
of facts it whether a school that is
with rollgious, ecclesiastical persons a.
teachers who come in the discharge ol I
thoir dally duties wearlnar the rellc-loua J
garb, and hung about with the rosaries
and other devises peculiar to their
order, are not necessarily domln
atcd by sectarian influences and obnox
lous to te spirit of the constitutional
provision, and the school laws. This
is not a question about taste or fashion
In drsss, nor about the color or cut of
teacher's dress. If It wa only this.
would favor the largest liberty. It is
deeper and broader than this. It is
question over the true Intent and spirit
of our common school system, as de
clared in the provisions referred to. If
this is a proper administration of the
school laws In Gallltzln, it would be
equally so in any other school district
In the state, and if any common school
was presided over by e cleslastics, In
their distinctively ecclesiastical roles,
supplying pupils with copies of their
church catechism on application, and
teaching it before and after school
hours to all who choose to remain; it
seems to me, very plain, that the com
mon schools would cease to ba such;
and would become, to all practical in
tents and purposes, parochial schools
of the church whose ecclesiastics pre
sided over them.
Clergymen sometimes wear on the
street a coat or hat that affords some
evidence of their profession, but they
do not appear in churchly robes when
bout their daily work, or in any garb
that points out the church to which
they belong; that these six teachers do
just that they wear and present at all
times their ecclesiastical dress. They
come into the schools not as common
school teachers, but as the representa
tives of a particular order in a particu
lar church. Now, the point Is, not that
their religion disqualifies them; it does
not, nor is it thought that church mem
bership disqualifies them; it does not.
It is the introduction into the schools
as teachers of persons who are, by their
striking and distinctive dress, con-
tantly asserting their membership in
particular church and a religious
order.
The common schools are supported by
general taxation. The Catholic and
the Protestant, the Jew and the infidel,
help support them and have an equal
right to their benefits. The common
schools cannot be used to exalt any
church or sect, or to belittle or over
ride it, but they should be free from
ecclesiastical control and from sectarian
tendencies.
Is the public school of Gallitzin such
one? The learned judge below" did
not think so, for he enjoined against
the teaching of the catechism and all
sectarian instruction. These six
teachers cannot, or they will not, at
tend the teachers' institutes; they have
no touch with those engaged In the
i . a . . Aa.. ..
is the selection of men as officers who
are partisans Instead of patriots We
have many able men In our ranks who
belong, nominally, to some one of the
old parties, but who are loyal to the A.
P. A. before they are loyal to their
nartv. And those are the men who
should be chosen as officers. They
would have no axes to grind, and would
not be afraid lo have people know they
were standing up for American institu
tions and were opposed to foreign ec
clesiastical interference lu the affairs
of state. The men who lead the great
est patriotic order In the world should
bo broad-minded, liberal, Influential
men. They should be men who have
made a success in life, and who can do
vota a llttlo time to forwarding its in
terests. They should ba men who un
derstand politics, who know tho leaders
lu the old parties and who have the
confidence of the best element of society
in the community wherein they reside.
They should be men of education, of ex
perience and of broad-guaged views,
and if such men have the reins during
the next twelve months the1 order will
be so strong in the state that nd com
bination of Its enemies can prevent lt
accomplishing its purpose. Therefore
it behooves every council in this state
to send Its wisest, most cool-headed and
most conservative members to the state
council. Let the next ba the greatest
and grandest assemblage . of patriots
that has ever been held In the state.
Got your members together, select your
delegates when the proper time comes,
if they have pot already been selected,
and go to the statu council deter-
mlnnd to Dut the best men in office
and tho best measures in operation
m i honefit of the order and the
ttMtttry at large.
ASK FOR HELP
Ait . Our readers are conversant-
with the .p taken by the Polish Ro
man fi.th.HS their breaking away
from the Ro. church, and their or
ganization of n Independent Polish
American Catholic church. You all
know thV objected to the priests and
M.fc,., -rcislng any authority Out
side of spirt tual affairs; that the Poles
fv- ,i.. education of their children
in tho public- a ools and the vesting of
organization' a a no' 1U T V
church dignita; ' the locese In
snoTi tney aeoia . ,
ui merican-owing al
leglance only to Gin
and their country
'he standard laid
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and against priestly dlctfcV ( thei
porai anairs, togeiner win. ,
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American vatnoiic enure n to
are charitably inclined:
CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 22, 1894:-
ear
of
Sir To propagate the grand ide
American liberty and American price,
pies in religious affairs, to free- o
poor people from the despotic, tyrannlt
cal treatment of the Roman bishops invi
temporal affairs, and to free them from
mis slavery, to raise our cniiaren as
American citizens and to educate them
under the American school system, is
the aim of the movement recently
started in your midst.
Owing to the stringency of the money
mayket and the lack of employment of
some of our members, we most respect
fully ask your assistance financially, in
our struggle for independeuce in the
temporal affairs of our church. Most
respectfully yours.
Lu UROSZKIEWICK.
1044 North Hoyne Ave., Chicago, 111.
SOME QUESTIONS.
How deep does your patriotism go?
Have you done anything to spread
the cause?
Hive you sent cut any American
literature?
Have you subscribed for The Ameri
can?
Have you joined a patriotic order?
Do you desire to support American
institutions9
Do you wish to place Americans on
guard?
Do you know that some poonle are
afraid to say that they are Americans?
If there is no cause for alirra why are
they afraid? If you know these facts,
why do you not go to work and work
harder?
tame pursuit. ii in tomo u-u.- w
ough school Episcopalian clergymen
should appear in their rolws, and if
Catholic priest should appeal to the
courts, I should no more doubt their
right to relief than I doubt the righu
of the plaintiffs in this case.
THE STATE COUNCIL.
The next duty the members of the A.
P. A. are called upon to perform is to
send delegates to the state council. The
men who attend that meeting Bhould
be the ablest in the order. They should
be earnest, conscientious men, for the
future of the order In this state will
largely depend upon their actions. If
they adopt the right measures and se
lect the right men as officers there are
tho best reasons for believing that
hereafter the A. P. A. will virtually
control the state, and force the several
parties to "place none but Americans
on guard" when they make their nom
inations. But tho thing to bo guarded against
TUB Kansas City Tinus states editor-
lly that, "another Republican victory
has been reported from West Virginia,
here several hundred Italian laborers,
penniless and unable to secure the pay
owing to them for several months work,
have torn up the railroad tracks and
caused every farmer in the neighbor
hood to stand guard over his barn and
other property." This speaks well lor
Democratic "editorial" writer. Does
he know that these are prosperous Ro
man Democratic times, under a Roman
ized president and acts of a Romanized
congress? Does he know that these
hundreds of Italian laborers" without
pay are laboring under a national pre-
domlnence of Romanized Democratic
rule, and that those now in power who
claim to be Democrats, court these in'
cendarv foreigners to come to the
United States to demolish property and
debar American labor? Too bad for
the push organ that it has become so
rattled, that its mind does not realize
under what kind of an administration
the people suffer.
AN exchange speaking of the A. P
. in a distant city, well represents the
past action in this city when it
states that, "the principles of the order
are cleanly American, anti-monarchic
and anti-hierarchic. There may be
sneaks in the order, cowards, and those
who think it can be used for personal
advantages, but they are few and will
slough off like diseased parts of the
animal body. It Is known too that ma
chine politicians and bosses have sent
their tools into the order to control or
disorganize it as may seem best. Their
emissaries are well known and will be
bounced in duo time. The A. P. A's
have done the best they could under
the circumstances, and hereafter they
will be able to avoid those conditions
which aro embarrassing."
ONE of tho members of the Munici
pal League says the lato election would
Indicate that the endorsement of the
league was to a candidate what the
breeze from the Upas tree was to the
traveler certain death and asks who
did we elect? Hicks had a good show
until we endorsed him, and even the
Republicans ad m tted Mrs. Peattie and
Rev. Mackey would be elected, but
when our endorsements were made
public and people found out that The
AMERICAN had told the truth, they
began falling over each other to pet
away from our tkket. Who can we
claim? Gordon? Oh, no! Kemet,
well Flynn was our choice even if we
did say openly that the league was for
Kemet.
OUR friend, Rev. H. D. Brown, writss
as follows: "You fellows who do not
study the Bible much, get things mixed
a little. Now that head on the second
page, 'The Character, Mission and
Teachings of St. John the liapttst,
is wrong. St. John was one man and
John the Baptist was another. You
should have left out the 'St.' It was
John the Baptist you wanted to men
tion." With all due regard for our
reverend friend, and admlting that
Biblical history makes tho distinction
he cites, we will ask him if we have
not as much right to create a new saint
as any other fallible (though he may
claim to be an infallible) man.' But,
inlrino- aside, it was "St. John the
4 B '
Baptist" we referred to.
Our Duty t Our Country.
Society in the west perhaps in the
whole country, cannot be said to be
settled. There is too much material in
most communities that have received
little or no education in nationality,
It is possible the "level" to settle upon
has not yet been laid down. Once in
about every 2000 years mankind takes
an account of stock-of-ideas that they
have amassed since the last inventory
of 2000 years previous. Having taken
the account of the "stock-of-ldeas:"
customs, habits, laws, commerce, pro
ducts, inventions, etc., in order to form
a new basis for the firm to stand on, i
well directed "study" of the "stock-in
trade" will be necessary.
In the meantime let me present some
deas about man's duty to his country
was written about 2000 years ago by
1ERO a Roman, who lost his life, in
ost cruel manner, perhaps as much
a ia
else..
ise he was intelligent, as anything
He says:
IT IS A VIRTUE.
'To give that which is really
1st. 10r.
due to .aa. -0 to tae enemy and the foe
nd. "1 an(j manners; but on the
to bad mes. to defend good men and
other handy
manners, teem tbose highly, to
teem those highly,
3rd. "TO e
wish them wail;
in friendship with
4 th.
"To liva
them;
5th. ' To consid,
one's country first;.
6th. "ThenthosffO
ir the interests of
f parents;
interest in
the
th. "To put our .
third and last place."'
Intelligence is the o.
pleasure and profit meaas
bject of life,
thereto; vir
i8 wisdom.
tue united with knowledge
Justice is that which the C.
forth to all as uniform and sk.
he who is ignorant of the lawi
universe must also be ignorant
eator sets
nple, and
i of the
of jus
11 the
tice, for on these laws "hang a
law and the prophets;" as the wort.
t be-be-le
speaks the workman so these laws
speak the Creator. Failure to contin
n well doing is the crime o', nation
as well as individuals. The process of
virtue Is the process of law; law is a
rule of ritfht. The greatest labor is
necessary for the attainment of the
greatest good. Thought saves labor.
If we make a bad use of our affections
they become vices, if we use them well
they become virtues. The ornamental
may please, but it is the useful that
preserves.
The laws of heredity are always true
to the original cause and effect; we
can observe these in ourselves. It re
quires no statute law to establish the
primogeniture of Intelligence and vir
tue. We are all equal In this order of law.
Nature's laws are uniform and inde
pendent, none slighted or none pre
ferred. The way of truth and wisdom, virtue
and justice, all emmanate from one
source or fountain, "in whom we live
and move and have our being." Science
treats of man's knowledge of the laws
of the universe; ethics of his duty to
himself and his fellow man.
To serve our country and our Creator
Is to maintain justice by good works,
deeds and thoughts. If the soul Is in
telligence, and wisdom Is reason, and
the object of these the highest good,
then these are the same as religion.
Religion is the embodiment of wisdom,
reason and intelligence.
Intelligence is the store-house of wis
dom, the inventor of progress and the
support of nations. God makes all men
equal in that He gives wisdom to all
alike. Education is the key to His
presence.
Every man should place confidence
in himself, aud use his own judgment
and individual capacity lor the investi
gation and weighing of the truth,
rather than through confidence in
others to be deceived of their errors, as
though he himself was without under
standing. None can save us but our
self. "In the image of God created He
mik-"tind He holds us personally ac
countable to Him and accepts neither
attorney or priest to appear or plead
in our behalf. N. A. List.
Time For American1 to Organize.
When an ecclesiastical hierarchy, or
sacerdotal, fanatical and despotic
monarchy, soaked in bigotry, claiming
absolute and unlimited authority, polit
ical, financial and military, temporal
and spiritual, to rule and domineer over
the whole earth, cautiously and clan
destinely pushes its way into the poli
tics of a free and prosperous nation like
ours, It is time for patriots to awaken
from their letheao slumbers, and when
consider that the said unlimited
monarchy and absolute despotism, in Its
dark and bloody history, covering a
period of more than fifteen hundred
years, has always been shrewd, watch
ful, alert, unscrupulous, selfish, greedy
and revengeful, ever ready to sacrifice
the lives and fortunes of its own ad
herents, and always anxious to destroy
the lives and seize the property of all
those who are not its slaves, it is time
for the lovers of liberty and fair play to
begin preparations for their own safety;
and especially when we consider that
the said unscrupulous, selfish, greedy
and all-devouring oligarchy, with un
limited finances, plundered from the
ruined peoples of the old world, and by
all manner of frauds and false pretenses,
with its sixty secret, oath-bound politi
cal orders, and with its always obedient
and well-paid lieutenants, has already
obtained a partial or complete control
of all our great political parties, and a
score of our great cities, by stealthily
placing its artful and cunning minions
on the managing committees, and in
nearly all of the high and responsible
positions of executive control, with the
avowed object of capturing this nation,
and asserting its temporal supremacy
over the same, under the blasphemous
pretense of divine right, and thus es
tablishing a monarchy, autocratic ana
unlimited, upon the ruins of this sacred
republic, it is time to sound the alarm,
and assemble for self-protection; and
still more, when we remember that this
same secular, political and military
hierarchy, during the fifteen centuries
of its terrible history of conquests, for
money and for power, ordered its fanat
ical armies into more than a thousand
frrihlo hattles. encased in more than
four thousand skirmishes and remorse
less butcheries, and condemned hun
dreds of thousands to dungeons and to
torture, in its so-called "religious" and
so-called "holy wars," against the so-
called "heretics, infidels and heathens,"
most of whom were far better people
than their conquerors, destroyed many
great cities and many hundreds of vil
lages, laid waste many lands, caused
the destruction of more that sixty mil
lions of human lives, confiscated the
prope-ty of the living and the dead,
shed human blood -hough to float
fleet of ships upon, burned add destroyed
thousands of libraries and millions of
good books, crushed the truth, imprls'
oned progress, slaughtered science and
murdered reform, and now brazenly
proclaims, from Baltimore and from
our own capital, that It has never
changed or revised its objects or its
aims of subduing the world, and hold
ing its countless millions forever bound
and chained, never revised or repealed
its canon laws or its heartless decrees,
but with the icy statement that it is
(temper eaikm) always the same, it im
piously announces from Baltimore,
Washington, New York and Chicago
that what it has done for other coun-
tries and other governments in all the
ages of the past, It will surely do lor
this country, our own beloved land of
liberty and glory, our native and
adopted homes, surely it is high time
to consider the measures that are nec
essary for self-defense and f .r the safety
of the republic.
Charles A. Story.
A lO-lXvlDE.UE.
To Edward 1) ckenson, Ueueral Manager
1'oion Pacific Kailwaj.
How strange it should be that just at
the critical moment, for tha supremacy
of the Pacific Ocean as an independent
field for commericial activity, vital to
the land on the eastern bjrder of the
ocean, a war breaks out on the western
border of the ocean, between the peo
ples whose commerce is the bone of
contention or competition between
European manufactures vs. Pacific
States manufactures. Ilotc strange it is
that at the very critical mi ment of the
commencement of this war between the,
Japanese the Yankees of the West
Pacific and tie Chinese the feudals
of the Eastern Atlantic that every
railroad of the United Slates leading
from the Pacific Octan to the Atlantic
should be ncapacilatcd for travel, rather
blockaded? And yet a British railroad
on British soil runs unvexed from ocean
to ocean! !
Who is the trltor to American com
merce? What enemy did this gigantic
act of treason? Did Romanized trait
ors do this? Remember at the same
time all the large cities in the west
were In "privy conspiracy, sedition and
rebellion," shown by mobs and flames?
that this was so, is attested by the Pa
triot of the White House. Suppose he
had been a Buchanan instead of a
Douglas? ? ? ?
An efficient, striking employee of the
Union Pacific railway In Utah stepped
up to the United States soldier guard
ing the company s property and asked:
Would you fire on the strikers?" The
answer ol auty came prompt, "es."
It was the loyal, bravo soldier's last
word. Ihe "efficient," striking em
ployee of the Union Pacific stabbed him
the noble and true soldier clad in the
United States uniform, while on duty
to death. I saw a notice of $-00 reward
offered by the local superintendent of
the Union Pacific railway for the ar
rest of this assassin posted in one of the
offices of its headquarters for a short
time. The assassin has not been ar
rested, but the notice is taken down I
think. How is that, Gen'l. M. Dicken
s m? You could plead in most manly and
eloquent terms for these "oath bound
societies" on your road, which was a
guarantee of their loyalty. Loyalty to
whom? Is this great "world's high
way" honey-combed with treason, the
harbinger of the criminal and assassin
or not? Private report, that ts loyal,
says it is, and has been. We ask again,
Was this blockade, "this privy con
spiracy and rebellion" on this United
States railway called thi Union Paiific
comes pretty near being tho dis
union Pacific leadins to the Facinc
Ocean, at this the most critical pariod
(and put with this) ana an lntenuea
army of 70,000 Sms Coulettes In the city
of Washington at the same critical
moment, was this "a ccinciaence.J" 1
ask you, Judge Caldwell? you, Judge
Dundy? Judge Riner? Did you see
this "co-incidence" from your "watch-
tower of justice?"
Is the Union Pacific "the world's
highway," or only a little "truck road?"
I suppose the A. P. A. acts on the
maxim "When bad men unite good
men must combine.
N. A. List.
E. P. Dillenback was happier than
anybody Tuesday, owing to the arrival
at his home of a thoroughly American
girl. She wasn't very old when she
appeared, but she weighed ten pounds
Written for Tag Ameiucan.
Be True to Your Colors.
Come all you true Americans
Tls time to take a stand;
We must no longer falter
It we would save cur land;
Though we have gained a victory
For America, so great,
We must stand by our colors
In County, Town and State.
True to our dear old banner
With blood so dearly bought
Blood of our brave fore-fathers;
On many a field they fought, '
And while it waves above us.
Our freedom Is secure, i
Then let u save our colors
Whate'er we must endure.
Our liberties so dear to us
We surely must defend,
While for free speech and public schools
We'l to our death contend.
We'l keep our banner flying
And defend it 'til we ale. '
"True to our nation's colors"
Shall eer be our cry.
We know the foe Is lurking
In every shape they can ;
They are seeking to defeat us
By many a secret plan;
They hate us for pur freedom ;
They bate the Bible too;
They hate our loyal stars and stilpes
Our dear red, white and blue.
The eneniy is striving
To gal n our glorious land ;
Our geat free institutions
Would then no longer stand.
If Rome should ever rule us
Our rights would all bb lost, ; .
Then lets hold up our colors . . . .
What ever be the cost.
The God of love and Justice,
in whom our trust Is stayed,
Will kepp and save his people
They need not be afraid.
We'l arm ourselves for battle
And for our right will stand;
Our colors are the ensign
In this, our native land.
Mhs. K. E. Bnioux
SWEET &FBIHUS, Mo.
