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DECEMBER 14, ISM.
THE AMERICAN AND "FIFTY
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Reports from all over the state are
encouraging, and show the A. P. A. to
be growing faster than before the re
cent election.
EVEN Texas, Arkansas and Loulsana
are awakening to the tact that Rome U
getting too much of a hold on our coun
try, and are welcoming the A. P. A.
as a new Moses.
The palntors and decorator have
elected James II. Sullivan, of Spring
field, Mass., as their president. And
yet they say Rome does not control the
labor organizations.
A BARGAIN.
Rev. Charles Chlnlquy's
Fifty Years In the Church of Rome
and a
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The Amkrican,
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The balance of power In the next
congress will be held by the A. P. A.
We believe that it will wield an In
fluence for hotter results than If any
one party was In power.
A COUNCIL of tho A. P. A, was In
stituted at Lincoln, Mo., with fifty
charter members last week. The mem
bership is oomposed of the best citizens
In the town and neighboring vicinity.
Information reaches us from Mid
dleport, O., to the effect that the Amer
ican Protective Association is doing
good work there May it continue to
prosper. To do so, It must keep the
politicians out of the order.
What would
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Rev, Chlnlquy's books and
The American?
It was but recently that a visitor in
Kansas City, Mo., could not be made to
believe that he was in the Uuited
Statos. lie said that every policeman
whom he had accosted ''were not able
Xi speak the English language without
an Irish brogue."
There Is one thing that can bo said
truthfully about the A. P. A. of Chlc
ago: It ii composed of conscientious
men, who love their country and its
free institutions with the same intensity
that they bate Roman encroachment
and priestly dictation In politics.
The management of The American
Is spending annually about IS, 000. 00 for
upbuilding the principles of Americans
who have gone to sleep. Do you not
think it a little of your duty to assist in
this work? Have you subscribed or
paid your subscription? Think this
matter over and see how you stand.
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The patriotic women who have organ
lzed councils of the W. A. P. A., D. of
L., W. L. O. A. and kindred associa
tions should receive the hearty and
cordial support of all true patriots.
They are doing good work and deserve
all the encouragement and assistance
which it Is possible for Americans in
side and outside of the order to extend
to them.
Ireland has decided that Roman
Catholics may join all secret societies.
except the Masonic. If the members
Masonic, know when they are well off.
they will promptly veto Ireland's de
cision by dropping a black ball into the
box every time a Roman makes appli
cation. They are outsid6 now keep
them out.
ENGLISH SCHOOL ELECTIONS.
Thk school elections in Knc-
land have crvaU'd almtt a milch in
terest a Is usually stlrtvd up over the
election of member of jmrlianient A
cooUrurary, in shaking of the nnult
la England, w): "Complete returns
on tho London school board election
last Tburwiay came in slowly, owing to
the number of candidates running and
meager machinery for rtortIng the
rtult. The complete vot shows that
old tory Loudon Is getting ready to
shake off the trammel of malignant
conservation and to realize that tail
that I helpful to mankind shall be
brought to bear through the channel
of free primary education. The issue
in the election was whether a compro
mise over the Bible should stand or
whether the reactionaries, who want
evangelical dogmas taught even to the
doctrine of the atonement, should com
pel teachers and pupil alike to submit
their consciences to the dictation of a
cabal. The leaders of the reaction
wro Rev. J. R. Dlggle and Athelstan
Riley. The reaction movement was
called Dlgglolsm or Rlleylsm. The
most Intense excitement prevailed
among the people for months over the
question. The radicals Interjected a
third issue, namely, whether even tho
compromise Is not too much to yield to
conservatism, and whether, since the
voluntary or denominational schools
afford unlimited religious Instruction,
tho time and money of the public or
board school should not be devoted ex
clusively to secular teaching. The
compromise consists of reading without
comment the ten commandments or re
peating the Lord's prayer. If Individual
teachers choose to read other portions
of the scriptures, equally free from con
troversy, their action has not been
censured, provided the parents of the
district made no objection. When en
largement of the doctrinal Instructions
and Increase of scripture teaching were
required by a majority of the board
last spring almost a majority of the en
tire 7,000 teachers sent a protest to the
board against the proposal, and the
majority, undertaking to play spiritual
despot, sent out a second circular de
manding of the protesting teachers
whether their protest represented In
dividual conscience or whether It was
due to interference by outsiders In their
school work. Most of the teachers paid
no heed to the second communication
and the majority did not dare discipline
the recalcitrants. The result of the
election shows that the progressists or
radicals alone have made gains. They
have won six more seats than they
have in the present board. The duke
of Newcastle, despite all his political
and social influence, was defeated by a
radical and a woman, Miss Davenport
Hill. Neither section of the board will
be able to disturb present rules mater
ially, but whatever change occurs will
be In the direction of reason. There
will be no turning back and there will
be no rash steps forward."
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The American.
Enthusiasm in A. P. A. circles is
rampant just at present. Nearly every
council hall In the city is filled with
earnest, hard-working, loyal members,
who are Americans first, last and all
the time. We are pleased to witness
so much Interest, and especially so soon
after the election. It shows that our
principles live even if individuals do
not succeed In getting their men elected
to office. Keep on,' boys; we will win In
the end.
A BARGAIN.
Rev. Charles Chlnlquy's
Fifty
Years in the Church of Rome
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to
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82.25.
A Friend at Cairo, III., writes us
that Americanism Is growing at a rapid
pace In that pretty little city. He de
clares that Romanism had better not
show its head in politics next April un
less it wants to have it cracked. He
says the Romans have two churches in
that city, a hospital, a convent, and two
parochial schools. 'The hospital is sup
ported principally by the city and the
convent by the weak-kneed Protestants
It is time there was a change.
A BARGAIN.
Rev. Charles Chiniquy's
Fifty Years in tho Church of Rome
and a
r ear's Subscription
to
The American,
only
$2.25.
A Gentleman down in East San
dusky, Ohio, has written us that he had
paid three dollars to a Mr. McCcuthy
for a book published by The American
Ptjbi.ishinq Company. If anybody
by the name of McCarthy is represent
ing himself as an agent for this office
he is a fraud. He may be representing
the American Publishing House which
the Chicago Dispatch designates as a
fraud. Besides we publish nothing but
newspaper. Be cartful of the addre.
Get our address from our paper, dont
gues at it.
The patriotic ladies of Chicago have
been trying for roe time to Induoe the
school board to Buat the American Bag
from every school bouse every day the
weather is flue, but so far they have
met with ioor success. One of Chi
cago's greatest needs i an American
school board. Tbl she will never have
as long as Rome controls the major
and dictate the appointments. With
Madden on the Republican ticket and a
tool of Hopkins on the Democratic
ticket what hope Is there for Ameri
canism in the public schools? From
present Indications that is to be the
predicament true Americans are to be
placed in.
A BARGAIN.
Rev. Charlos Chlnlquy's
Fifty Years in the Church of Rome
and a
Year's Subscription
to
The American,
only
$2.25.
Last week a policeman entered a
restaurant on West Missouri avenue,
In Kansas City, Mo., and when asked by
the waiter what be desired to eat, he
askod, "What hev yees?" "There is
the bill of fare," replied the waiter,
pointing to the same, which hung on
the wall In large printod letters. "Raid
It to me, plaze, for its a bad raider I
be." It was a follower of Corrigan and
Cox, tho Roman and Romanized police
commissioners.
There Is an old saying that a dollar
saved Is a dollar made. This Is as true
today as ever it was, and the way to
save a dollar and seventy-five cents Is
to pay a years subscription in advance
for The American, add 25c to it, and
get one cloth bound volume of Fifty
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The People Composing the Party.
Feeling the need of united and har
monious action in the presence of im
pending danger, which now threatens
the destruction of the great republic of
Washington and Lincoln, being planned
by a secret, silent, but dangerous foe,
we most earnestly request the counsel,
good will, aid and co operation of all
citizens who desire good order and a
stablo government, and all religious,
moral and educational organizations
that are not monarchial, not despotic,
npt tyrannical, and we desire to invite
and wolcome the friendship, help and
active support of all patriotic and liberal
societies and benevolent and charitable
orders, who are their own masters, to
promptly combine for political action;
and especially those that teach and
practice the rules of justice, the sacred-
nessof truth and the holiness of liberty,
and who respect the equal rights of
man, believe in the golden rule and the
brotherhood of the race, desire personal
and political honesty, uphold impartial
religious liberty, demand the freedom
of thought and conscience, the exercise
of reason, the freedom of speech, the
right of examination and investigation,
the liberty of the press, the freodom of
commerce and trade, and who support
and defend the constitution and the
laws, submit to the will of intelligent
majorities, icsist upon the union of all
the states composing this nation, honor
the star spangled banner, uphold the
free, unsectarian public schools, are
willing to labor for equal and pro rata
taxation, the complete separation of
church and state, fair wages for the
woiklng people, and who desire and
earnestly demand that this great re:
public the home of holy liberty,
founded by our heroic fathers, and
based upon the solid principles of eter
nal justice shall not decline, shall not
perish, shall not be torn by treacherous
and perfideous hands from the family
of nations, but shall live, shall prosper,
shall continue to be free and unfettered
as the mountain wind or the ocean bil
lows, through all coming time. We
are ready to combine with these and all
true, liberty-loving American patriots,
native and foreign-born, and hereby ex
tend to them a hand of welcome.
Charles A. Story.
Felt by Politicians.
Logan, O., Nov, 26. To the Editor
of The American: The American idea
has taken quite a hold on the people of
this, Hocking and Perry counties.
There has not been a single Romanist
elected in either county for two years.
Previous to that time there were one
or more elected every year. I got you
one subscriber last week and expect to
get quite a number more very soon. We
make good use of what papers we no
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get. A few sample copies could be pu
to good use, even If they were back
numbers. We have some good workers
here, and their work has been koenly
felt by some of the politicians. Yours
most respectfully, J. W.
SWEDEN'S HERO KINO.
December 9 Marks the Three
Hundredth Anniversary of
Custavus Adolphus.
Due of the lU-markable Men of Hitorj-
Tbe Swedish I'ulony lie ttatili..ucl
ia America.
To Swedes in the old country and to
Swedes in American and to Protestants
all over the world today, the 9th of
December, Is a day of rejoicing and
thankfulness.
It was on the tth of December, 1594.
just 300 years ago, that In the royal
palace at Stockholm, Princess Chris
tine of Holstew-Gottorp, the Queen of
Karl IX., King of Sweden, gave birth
to a son, afterward known in history as
the great Custavus Adolphus, King of
Sweden, and the champion of Protest
antism.
Sweden until tho period of 1525 was a
Catholic country. During the year
1519 there returned to Sweden a young
theological student, Olaus Petri, from
the German high school of Wittenberg,
where he had seen and heard Martin
Luther, one of the teachers at the high
school, publish his protest against the
traffic of the Catholic church In absolu
tion, and was therefore a witness of the
first movement of the reformation, and
the first champion of the Lutheran
church.
The reform or Protestant movement
spread with a rapidity that threatened
the very existence of the Catholic
church. Pope Clements VII., by his
stubbornness, also advanced the tenets
of the reform movement. Not alone in
Sweden, but In Germany, France, Eng
land and other parts of Europe the
Catholic church lost power, and from
this period dates Sweden as a Lutheran
Protestant country.
But the pope and the Catholic church
did not remain idle. A constant battle
for the recovery within the church of
the lost territory was fought by all the
power at the command of the Catholic
church.
In Sweden during the reign of Gus-
tavus Vaea, and his sons and successors,
Eric XIV., Johan III., and his son,
Sigismund, and Karl IX., father of
Gustavus Adolphus, a constant intrigue
was carried on. Every Catholic power
on some pretense or other waged, for
years, war against Sweden, not to their
advantage, as subsequent events will
show.
Sweden, at the death of Gustavus
Adolphus,' had entered on the grandeur
period of her history, she was the great
power cf Europe. The Swedish flag
floated over 100,000 square miles of pos'
sessions, greater than the Spanish
kingdom under Karl V. and Philip II.,
21,000 square miles larger than the
present German empire, and three
times as large as the present kingdom
of Italy.
Her possessions consisted first of
Sweden proper and Finland. Besides
this 6he bad the Baltic provinces of
Eastland, Llvland and Osel. The
Duchy of Pommern, with the islands
Rugen, Usedon, Wollin; the Duchy of
Bremen, with the principality of Ver
den; the Duchy of Zweibrucken and
Kleeburg; Trondhjems, province in
Norway, and the Island of Bornholm
Prussia also stood under Swedish rule
until 1635.
Such was Sweden, and in Gustavus
Adolphus, the descendant of the great
Gustavus Vasa, she had a king worthy
of her, a king not alone In deeds but In
look and appearance an ideal king.
Hardly 17 years of age when he was
declared king, he was already then a
statesman and a leader of men.
From his cradle ho had been sur
rounded by the panoply of war. At
the age of 15 he requested his father to
give him a command in the army sent
aeraintt the Russians. As a child he
had listened to the statesmen that had
made Sweden's greatness, and as a
young king he found himself surrounded
by such men as the Chancellor Axel
Oxenstjlrna, the greatest statesman
Europe then had, and military leaders
such as Do la Gardie, Brabe, Baner,
Horn and Wrangel and others, names
forever united with Swenden and
Europe's past history. ( Is it any wonder
that the young prince with his inborn
genius would be a man at an age when
others are fitill boys.
The young king Is at this age de
scribed to be a perfect type of manly
beauty and an ideal Norseman, with
his clear, rosy complexion, honest blue
eyes with the loving Northern expres
sion, oval face, high white forehead.
golden hair; it was an appearance that
surprised the southerners. The Italians
called him "II re D'oro," the golden
king.
This appearance, this type of north
em nobility he inherited from his
ancestors, not from his father, Karl IX.,
as he was dark, with sharp features,
but from hia grandfather, Gustavus
Vasa.
In his stature he also resembled his
grandfather erect, broad shouldered
and powerful, which by exercise in the
art of war and his northern education
had been hardened and found early de
velopment, making him possessor of a
sound body and perfect health.
But Gustavus Adolphus was not alone
a rreat soldier and statesman; he had
a taste for the fine arts as they then ex- J
isted; he loved music, was a poet of no
mean ability, an author and a finished
orator. Was Gustavus Adolihu then
a saint, a prodigy? Nu; he Lad the
strong maa's strong patalons, but Le
had a sound mind; he never lost his
believe In God Almighty or in a higher
power and higher aim in life. This
raised him abave his time s theological
hate and quarrels. His character rose
superior to the temptations that sur
rounded him, and Gustavus Adolphus
furnished the world the strange spec
tacle of a great statesman and general
amid the most extraordinary successes,
still feeling himself bound to act accord
ing to his conscience, nor disdaining
the acquirements of the virtue of the
private Individual.
While Sweden was constantly en
gaged In war, Gustavus Adolphus found
time to foster civil and patriotic pro
jects. For us Americans, and in par
ticular the people of Pennsylvania and
Delaware, the name of Gustavus
Adolphus ought to be highly honored.
The first Swedish colony in America
was established by Sweden's great king,
and he aided the colony with 400,000
daler, a great sum at that time. A
Hollander, William Ussellnx, organized
the first colony in 1633.
Gustavus Adolphus first conceived
the idea in 1624. Even then he looked
at the subject of colonization with the
eye of a statesman who understood the
wants, not only of his own country, but
of the world, and was able, with
prophetic glance, to penetrate the dis
tant ages of the future.
He proposed there to found a free
state where the laborer should reap the
fruit of his toil, where the rights of
conscience should be inviolate and
which should be open to the whole
Protestant world.
No slaves should burden that soil,
"for, " said the great king, "slaves cost
a great deal, labor with reluctance and
soon perish from hard usage."
The thirty years' war, of which he
became the hero, and in which he gave
his life, prevented the king from carry
ing out his colonization plan. The
momorlals still remaining from this
first colony are the old Swede church
In Philadelphia, the Swedish churches
of Kingssesslng, Swedishborough aad
Christena at Washington, Del., also
Christ church In Upper Merion, Pa.
We come now to the period of the
thirty years' war, which in reality was
a religious war. After Gustavus Adol
phus, through his statesmanship, had
made peace for Sweden and between
the various Protestant countries, and
united them to a whole, Europe was
divided in two great parties, the Prot
estant and the Catholic. Sweden's
king, as ruler of the greatest Protestant
kingdom and through his own great
personality was naturally the self
chosen leader of the Protestant powers,
while Ferdinand II., the Roman-Garman
emperor, was the adviser under Pope
Urbanus VIII. (Barberini), and head of
the Catholics.
Beginning with the battles of Strals
und, Breltenfield, Magdeburg, Greiifen
hagen and Numberg, were a series of
victories for the army of Gustavus
Adolphus. The Swedish-German rrmy
of the thirty years' war consisted of
76,000 Swedes and Finns, and 20,000
Prussian troops, with forty-four vessels
of war and seventy-one transports. This
army, as the war progressed, was con
siderably enlarged.
Gustavus Adolphus has been com
pared whh every great soldier of
modern times, but in his forced march
with his great army from the Donan to
the Elbe at Nurnberg to preyent Tilly
and his army from joining Wallenstein
and forcing the battle of Lutzen, he
comes nearer to our Sherman of the
civil war and his march to the sea than
to any other modern general.
During the night of the 22d and 23d
of October, the Swedish-German army
crossed the Thuringerwald, and Gus
tavus Adolphus joined forces Jwith Due
Bernard, of Weimar, who had kept
every pas9 guarded.
Wallenstein had made somo terrible
mistakes and was in a trap. Under the
impression that Gustavus Adolphus in
tended to remain at Nurnberg i n winter
quarters, he had permitted jPappen
heim to withdraw to the Rhine with
10,000 men. Arnim with his army in
Schlesien could not come, and only
20,000 men were available.
The Swedish king, aware of all this,
decided to attack him, and during the
night of November 5 the whole army
was placed in battle position.
Tne morning of the 6 th of November,
1632, broke, and the representative men
of the thirty years' war, Wallenstein
and Gustavus Adolphus, should now in
open battle measure each other's
strength.
Wa'Jenatein, expecting every mo
ment the return ofPappenheim, who had
been. sent for, endeavored to delay the
opening of the battle; for the same
reason the king wanted to force the at
tack. The battle commenced, and at
the moment that the two armies met,
the imperial troops on Wallenstein's
order set fire to the city of Lutzen.
The king commanded, as usual, the
right wing of ths army, and with Nils
Brahe, the only Swedish general pres
ent, made the first attack.
The king's plan was to force Wallen
stein from the road to Lelpsic, leaving
him only a retreat toward the north,
where the principal stryth of the
united Swedish army was concentrated.
At the beginning of the battle Pap
penhelm had arrived; both he and Nils
Brahe fell deadly wounded; the Im
perial troop were alr.aJy In retreat,
when, "as a miracle," writes Diodate,
the German writer who has described
the battle from an imperial point of
view a Swedish description of the
battle has never been written a heavy
fog settled on the baitlefield and en
veloped the fighting armies, the battle
dissolved Itself to a collosal hand to
hand fight, a terrible fight, man against
man.
Out of this darkness broke as a
lightning's flash the battle's historical
incident the fall of Gustavus Adolphus.
Little Is know of the actual circum
stances of the king's death; all that Is
known is that the king, in company
with Due Frans Albrecht of Saxe
Lauenburg, had been slightly wounded
in the arm. Separated from his at
tendants, he had been shot la the back
and fell from his horse. He would still
have been saved if any of his attendants
had been near him, but, separated from
all and fighting for his life, a trooper
of the enemy rode up, inquired who he
was, and receiving the answer, "King
of Sweden," gave him his death wound.
The news of the king's death was
only known when his horse emerged
riderless from the tumult. The army,
stunned for the moment by the terrible
calamity, rallied and attacked the im
perial troops with a madness that only
revenge could satisfy, and the battle of
Lutzen became, therefore, one of the
bloodiest battles of the thirty years'
war.
Wallenstein was forced to retreat,
but made his way toward Lsipsic and
saved the remnants of his army. The
conquerors were not In a position to
follow him, and the only result that
was certain was that the great leader,
the champion of the Protestants, Gus
tavus Adolphus, was no more. Through
the whole Protestant world it was felt
as if the sua had set, leaving all in
darkness.
Here we must leave the great king;
his course was run, but the cause lor
which he gave his life conquered, and
we enjoy the results in the day that is
ours. His name and deeds will live as
long as history and civilization remain.
It Is interesting to note that of the
Swedish regiments which fought at the
battle of Lutzen the following corps
still are maintained among the Swedish
army: Of the Infantry, the First Life
Guards, the First and Second Life
Grenadier Guards, Smalands Grenadier
Corps and Vestgota, Upland, Jonkop
Ing, Dal and Vest Gota Dais regiments;
of cavalry, the Life Guard regiments
Dragoons and Hussars, and Smalands
Hussars; of artilery, the First Svea and
the First Gota artillery regiments.
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