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THE AMERICAN 'r, ft A WEEKLY NEWSPAPElC "AMEIUCA Foil AMERICANS." We hold that all men are A nericant who Swear Allegiance to the IV ted States without a mental rccervallon In favor of the Pope. PRICK FIVE CENTS Volume IV. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, PECKMBEU 28, 1894. NUMBKB NOTES AND COMMENTS. The mysteries of sleep may never be explained. Yet there are those who believe Im plicitly In dreams. They may have seen some thine which we have never seen; if seen, have passed unnoticed. To illustrate: In an early day two families removed from an eastern state, and located In Iowa. Each family was blessed with a beautiful baby girl at about the same time. The children grew to be young wo men. They became as sisters; were always in each other's company. They attended church together; go ing one Sunday to the Methodist church, the following to the Roman Catholic. This was pursued for some months, then the lloman Catholio girl, an es timable, sweet dispositioned girl, de clared her intention of entering the convent as a novice. She begged her chum to accompany her, but this the Protestant declared , she never could do, at the same time Imploring her friend to give up the idea. For weeks they argued, then the Ro man Catholic girl bid adieu to her friends and took the vows of a novice. At first she was allowed to visit her home, but the time between the visits gradually lengthened, and finally ceased altogether. . Then the mother began dreaming of her daughter; she saw her in tears; saw her hold out her hands in suppli cation; aye, she heard her implore her to take her from the convent. Night after night she saw the same sorrowful face, the same look of suppli cation, the same unutterable marks of grief. Suddenly the apparition ceased to niroy"bern5epf Wt at "ILe tune time it ban to appear to the school girl friend.-' She became so impressed with the idea that something was wrong with her friend that she decided to go and ask for an interview. She went: but her friend was at her prayers, and would not see any one.' She returned home, only to dream again of her friend and her woe. The next day she and her brother appeared at the convent and asked per mission to see their friend, but the request was denied on the ground that visitors were not received that day. The young folks became suspicious; they asked when they could see her, but were put off with evasive answers, so they appeared at their friend's home and related their experience. Instantly the mother remembered her dreams: she became imbued with the idea that something was wrong, and set off immediately for the convent. Admission was refused he also; then she became historical and threatened to call in the aid of the courts if she was not allowed to see and converse with her daughter. Rather than have "scandal" brought upon the institution, the mother super ior told her to await a time and she would suspend the rules and allow her to talk with her daughter. After what seemed to her an age, the mother was taken into a room, in one side of which appeared an iron grating about a foot square. Back of this all was dark. Another-wait, and a face haggard from suffering, with eyes red from weeping, appeared before the opening. "Mother!" said a supplicating voice. . A scream was the only answer. The face retired from the grating, the in animate form of the mother was borne from the convent, and in less than two hours the town was wild with excite ment. Men and women crowded around the convent doors and demanded that the girl be brought forth. The priest appeared; assured the jeo pie there was nothing wrong, and ad vised them to disperse. This tbey refused to do, shouting fori the nuns to bring forth the girl and let her speak for herself. Finding his assurances were of no avail, the priest threatened ta have them all arrested, but changed his mind when he saw the father of the girl and a peace officer approaching the convent The peace officer had a writ of habeas corpus, and demanded the body of the girl. While the nuns talked to the officer, the mother superior and the priest bound and gaged the girl, put her in a covered spring wagon and attempted to make away with her by the rear gate, but the crowd, growing impatient, had surrounded the convent enclosure and caught the two worthies just as they turned into the street. The priest jumped from the wagon and made his escape, but the mother superior did not fare so well, as her skirts caught upon the brake and threw her heavily to the ground. The girl was discovered, released from her shackles, and conducted to her home. Then it was that the truth became known; that she bad been maltreated by the priest and mother superior, ravished by the priest while confined in a cell, and was nearing the day of maternity. Could anything be more terrible? Yet such cases are of daily occurrence, even if they do not ail become known to the public. Council No. C, A. P. A., will meet at 1206 North 18th Street, Wednes day evening, January 2d, 1895. All the friends are requested to be present. The death of Major John B. Dennis, in Connecticut, last Wednesday will be regretted by a host of friends in Omaha, where he was a familiar character for a number of years. We may be wrong but if we are not we can see why the pope now has it in for the K. of P. The K. of P. has excluded saloonkeepers. Nine out of ten saloon keepers are Romanists. It is but natural the pope should fight for his own children. " ,BrsHOi'John P. Newman will deliver a lecture Sunday morning at 10::J0 o'clock In Trinity M. E. church, Kountze Place, that will be of particular interest to Americans. Our readers should hear tbe bishop. He is an Amer ican from the ground up. A friend asks if it is a fact that The American was issued for the last time last week. We will say it was issued for the last time before Chris mas. We now ex pect to issue fifty-two more numbers before next Christmas, but as this is the last number before New Year we desire to wish you all a happy, prosperous New Year. There is nothing like stick ing to a thing. About one year ago Bishop McNamara attempted to lecture in Kansas City amid the most exciting scenes. Today he announces that he will celebrate the anniversary of the assaults on him and his wife by return ing to the city and delivering a series of lectures. We wish him success. We know Rome will not repeat her war fare on him, because she has learned that physical opposition to the A. P. A., and to what she terms "itinerant" lect urers, ha? an effect the opposite to what she desired. Long live McNa mara! Long live the A. P. A.! It is currently reported that Rosewater, through some of his tools, expect to have a bill impeaching Judge Scott introduced into the next legisla ture of Nebraska. It is hardly neces sary to inform the members of the leg islature that the fi(;ht being made upon Judge Scott is not against Scott, per sonally, but against the A. P. A. Scott is the object in sight the A. P. A. the thing aimed at. It is merely a Roman Catholic scheme a jesuit trick and should be promply sat upon. Our ad vise to the ligislature is to let Mr. Rosewater fight his own battles. A few more campaigns like the one just ended will deplete his resources to such an extent that he will exist only in history. Besides, he does not carry this judicial district, or this county, in his pocket, and if the members of the legislature are wise tbey will keep out of this judi cial controversy. Let Rosewater and Scott settle it. It is merely a personal matter. The public is not interested in the question at all. It is meet that we should as the old year fades into the past and the New Year stretches out into the future, thank the many friends who have given us their cordial, earnest, hearty tup port since we first began publishing The Amkiucan, and we do thank them for what they have done. Without their assistance we never would have made the paer a success. It Las Wen their dollars, their quarters, and their fifty-cent pieces that has made It possi ble for us so print and circulate so ex cellent a paper, week after week. But if we have relied upon them through God for their kind and generous assist ance, In the past, It is our pleasant duty to place our trust in the same unfailing agency. As we take up the work of the new year, confident of suc cess, firm in the belief that we are right, and thankful that we have been spared so long to battle against the common enemy of our country and our God, we thank you one and all for your assistance and your uniform courtesy. May you always find as true and loyal friends as wo have found among our patrons. May we all live to realize that "God's will is done," and that He does all things well. The effect of Romanism on a judicial officer cannot be better illus trated than by quoting this dispatch from Fond du Lac, Wis., under date of December 18: "In the circuit court to day Judge Gilson overruled the de murrer in the matter of the guardian ship of Gertrude Klein, the pretty little Sheboygan girl whom Mr. and Mrs. Ira A. Bean were very desirous of adopt ing. The case is appealed from the Sheboygan county probate court, in which Judge Glllen set aside an ordor of adoption which Mr. Bean had se cured for the child. The petitioner alleges that Judge Gilkn set aside the order on the ground that the petitioner Is not a member of the Roman Catholic church. The motion to strike out cer tain portions of the petition regarding Judge Gillen as being a Roman Catho lic and prejudiced because of that fact was granted. The respondent was given ten days to answer the petition. The case will stand for trial at such time i s the court may fix after the an swer Is served. The opinion that interested persons are endeavoring to create in favor of pensioning people who have filled official positions for years, should be frowned upon. Ju6t now there is talk of passing a law in Illinois, pension ing lady school teachers after they have taugh in the public schools continuously for twenty years, and male instructors who have served in the capacity of teachers for twenty five years may be retired on half pay. But Illinois is not the only placs where 'the pension idea has taken root. In Omaha the board of fire and police commissioners are talking or we will put It this way the papers credit the board of fire and police commissioners with cherishing the fond delusion that they have the power to keep Jack Galligan on the pay-roll in the fire department until death ends his miserable existence. Just why the public thould be called upon to support a drunken, foul mouthed, degraded Irish Roman Cath olic who has neither a record as a com petent official or a respectable citizen, the aforementioned papers do not state. All we have to say is, if the commis sioners know when they are well off, they will not carry Jack Galligan on their pay-roll after the day ho is dis missed from the position of chief of the fire department. The public is long suffering, but there Is a point where forebearance ceases to be a virtue. Almost since the day Judge C. R. Scott took his position upon the bench as one of this Judges of the judi cial district, he has been assailed by the daily press. This is not to be wondered at as the daily press of Omaha is, like the dally press in every city, opposed to any man who is a member of the A. P. A. or in sympathy with the American Protective Association, unless he will turn traitor to the people who elected him and become their subservient tool. The Bee has been particularly biUer in its attacks upon the venerable jurist, yet hardly more so than the convert, jesuitical thrusts made though the World Herald by a pseudo Romanist. It is not out purpose to defend Judge Scott against the personal and malignant at tacks of the Ike, or to palliate the in sinuations promulgated through the columns of the Vforld Herald, for the public is well aware of the fact that the editor of the Bee has no use for a man who is not his abject slave, while the party with which the World Herald af filiates is sa Rome-ruled that it dares not be what its business manager would be were it not for his environments. Yet we want to say a word in behalf of Judge Scott. Remember what we say is not in his defense, for he is able to fight his own battles, and we have enough to do in our chosen line that of showing up the designs of Rome against our free institutions without taking the fight off his hands. But the thing we want to say 'n Judge Scott's behalf is that he Is t'.e flint and only judge who has had the moral courage to re fuse to naturalize Ignorant foreigners who have asked to be endowed with the greatest American privilege the right to cant a ballot. lie has taken the po sition that a man w ho seeks to become a citizen of the United Stales should Iks conversant with our form of govern ment; should be able to read and write; should know something about the con stitution, and that he should be a law abiding, law-respecting man. This po sition will be endorsed by every truly loyal American citizen. It is a position any other judge on the district bench can occupy with credit to himself and benefit to the country. Heretofore the candidate for citizenship had only to appear before the district clerk and have the oath administered to him. He was not at-kod a question touching his qualifications, only ordered to hold up his hand and be sworn. We think this one act of Judge Scott's, in behalf of his country, will outweigh, In the minds of a majority of our people, the many little, insignificant acts which personal malice and jesuitical interests have magnified to unreasonable proiwrtlons, in the columns of the dally press. We do not think Judge Scott is infallible, neither do we believe him either crazy or a fool, but that he is, as some of the leading attorneys at the bur put it, "the best judge on the bench." These same attorneys have accorded to Judge Ambrose the honor of being the best attorney. A CORRESPONDENT in the Pat riot, of San Francisco, recently had this to say: "The pope's slaves have in formed the American Protective Asso ciation that it has no right to exist as such, i. e: It has no right to say anything in regard to the manage ment of governmental affairs. Well, does not the country belong to the American patriots? Who gave it to the pope and his angels? They claim that Columbus discovered America; such, however, is not the case, as Leif Erickson sighted America in 1001. He was an Icelandic navigator. He dis covered this continent nearly 500 years before Columbus was ever heard of. However, Christopher Columbus was a Roman Catholic, so this explains the matter. It is just about as reasonable make this claim as It is to state, as some of the Roman Catholics have done, that George Washington was a Roman Catholic. The American patriots un fortunately invited those offscourings of the world to come to our shores and to partake with them a Thankgiving dinner, and alter entering the dinning hall, to our surprise the ungrateful wretches attempted to turn us out and take possession. But we are sure the genuine Americans are not so foolish as to permit them to take charge and place their favorite at the head of the table as master of ceremonies. We have fed and clothed them, furnished them shelter and all the necessaries of life. We have permitted them to crowd our own poor, but worthy, citizens out of our charitable institutions; we have been obliged to be taxed for the pur pose of building jails and prisons in which to confine them for the commis sion of every crime that can be named. We have tried to educate them so that they might make a presentable appear ance in the world, and by the natural kiudnecs and generosity of the Ameri can patriots they have permitted them to hold municipal, state and even na tional offices, and just as soon as they found out that they had the power they commenC' d pentionlrg the police, who had hitherto been paid $1 25 er month, b.-sides their perquisities, such as per mitting the lower classes of people to openly violate our laws in keeping open dives, gambling houses, etc. Now, as 60 per cent of our public school teachers are Roman Catholics (the very and only enemy of our public schools) they wish to pass a bill at the next session of the legislature to pension school teachers. This may be very well; but reverse the matter. Suppose 60 per cent of the public school teachers were Protestants; do you believe the Roman Catholics would be in favor of pension ing them? Not much. It almost ap pears as though the Roman Catholics had hypnotized the American people, since they so readily consent to almost any proposition the tools of the pope present. American patriots, you know that just so long as you permit this trash to remain in the United State that your sons and daughters will not be permitted to hold any remunerative positions, nor to learn trades, nor to study the professions if by any schemes or lies on their part they can prevent this. But they wiil compel you and all that you hold near and dear, not only to be their servants, but their slaves. The Roman Catholics are always saying the dagoes must go, the Chinese must go. the Mormons must go, the Germans must go; but these classes have given the American ccplu less trouble than the hk)'s Irish. If a vote of the Amer ican patriots could ho taken In the United States, I have no doubt It would be unanimous to drive the poc'a tools out of the country. Let us American patriots, therefore, make a determined effort to stamp the Roman hierarchy under foot right now and settle the question of who shall rule the United States once and forever." Those people who think llo man Catholics have the right to think for themselves, are about to have nura erou examples before their eyes, early in the new year. At that time the edict will go forth, "give up your church or your lodge." While we are not Infallible we venture to say that you will see the slaves of suerstltion falling over themselves In tholr mad scramble to get back into the rotten old hulk that plys the waters of Igno rance and bigotry. They will, with scarcely an exception, leave the lodge for the church. A dispatch from Bal timore, Maryland, dated December 27, 18D4, says: "The papal decree admon ishing Catholics to avoid membership in the throe societies, the Odd Fellows, Sons of Temperance and the Knights of Pythias, will bo read in the Catholic churches next Sunduy. Everyone of these orders has many Roman Catho lics on its membership lists, to whom there is now a choie.o of two courses either to give up their church or sever their connection with the societies. The subject of placing these three sc- oietles tinder the ban has huen under discussion in this country for several years, but no conclusion has boen reached, until now, because these so cieties had among their defenders arch bishops, who, by their efforts at the annual meeting held In 1892, effected a compromise. It was decided to exam ine their constitutions and rituals be fore deciding whether these societies should be condemned. At the meeting in Chicago of the archbishops In 1803, the objects and methods of these socie ties were discussed and the verdict in favor ot their condemnation was unan imous. It was decided that they should be included with the secret societies, either affiliating directly with the Ma sons or following their methods, and as such they were inimical to the Roman Catholic church. This decision was forwarded to the college of cardinals at Rome, where a committee was ap pointed to act upon it. After a long and exhaustive examination this com mittee ratified the decision of the arch bishops and Pope Leo XIII has now given the edict his official sanction. This was sent by Cardinal Rampolli, secretary of the college of cardinals, to Mgr Satolli, with instructions to promulgate it to the priests of the United States. The priests through out the country will not dkcuss the probable effect of the edict against these societies on their Catholic mem bers because, as a high ecclesiastical authority of the United State said, it Is a delicate subject to discuss and there are special reasons why they should re frian from saying more than that those societies were condemned because the archbishop evidently held that they were antagonistic to the church." Apropos to what we have said about pensions in another article, the following, taken from a Chicago daily paper, may be Interesting: "A bill is to be presented to the legislature providing for a pension system for vet eran teachers in the public schools. The board of education is empowered to retire any female teacher who shall have taught in the public sjhoo'.s twenty years, three-fifths of the time to have been spent in teaching in this city. The male teachers, of whom there are comparatively few, may be retired after twenty-five years' service. The pension is to be one-half of the salary paid at the date of the retiracy, but must not exceed a thousand dollars. The fund out of which pensions are to be paid is to consist of 1 per cent of all salaries of school employes, of fines and amounts deducted from salaries for neglect of duty, and other miscellane ous sources which maybe provided by law. The 1 per cent, which amounts to about J30.000 a year, will furnish the bulk of the money. These sums will have to be invested and the Income from them will pay the pensions. It Is evident that it will take some years to accumulate enough money to pay a comparatively small number of pen sions. But there must be at this time a number of teachers who have served their twenty years, many of whom would be glad to retire on half pay if they had a chance. In the case of a policeman, he not only has to serve twenty years, but he must be 50 years old. There is no such requirement as to teachers. Many of the female ones begin at 18. By the time they have terved twenty years tney will be only 38, and ought to be moat efficient then if they were efficient at any time. How far the board would use widely lu lower to retire teachers cannot be told in advance. If the pension fund were small, as It will be for some yean to come, nd the number of teachors who wanted to bo imnhkmed was largo, there might be a good deal of log-rolling to get thoito coveted positions, where there was a steady income with nothing to do. A teacher pensioned at 38 might draw her pension and also engage in some other business which would bring In more than the half of her pay she had given up. Or the board might uso this pension plan as a means of getting rid of teachers who wore and always had been inefficient, who ought to have been dropcd long before, but who had sufficient influence to enable them to keep their places. For 'influence' does its work In the schools as well as in other branches of our public sorvlco. If all the teachers were starting In fresh this 1 per cent and the money collected from other sources might make a suffic ient pension fund. For there would bo a great many lapses among the female teachers. Many would die and more would get married. But tho proposod system will start off with numerous candidates for retiracy, and it may bo that after a short time the young teach ers who will have to wait from flftoon to twenty years for pensions will not like to be paying out a hundredth part of their salaries for tho benefit of pen sioners who may live for thirty years after they have been retired. Very possibly one of the first demand made on the board if the bill passeg will bo for a small increase in pay sufficient to cover, and a little more than cover, tho 1 per cent withhold. Then the tax payers would be called on to pay tho pensions rather than tho teachers. Or if the number of descrying applicants for retiracy was large and the fund was not large enough to provide for them all the tax-payers would be called on to contribute to the fund in some other way. The legislature may want some statistics before it acts. It may want to know how many teachers are eligible lor retiracy now, and how many ought to be retired, and how many years' ac cumulations will be required to provide pensions for them. No information bearing on these points has been printed yet." A local paper says the taxpayers cf Omaha will approve of tho plan of pen sioning Jack Galligan while he is in his present condition. Don't you be lieve It! Thi y might have approved It bad Galligan's sickness been tho result of an accident while in the discharge of his duty, but when it Is tho result of self-abuse of drunkenness, etc. they will most strenuously object. Tne Inquisition. Tho work of the bloodthirsty inquisi tion swept Protestantism almost en tirely out of Spain for three centuries; to secure the triumph of popery many thousands of innocent persons were slaughtered, merely because they would not accept, the false doctrines of popery. And what has been the result? A na tion of infidels! We do not say this on our own authority, but on that of the leading Roman Catholic newspaper of Spain, El Vorrea Espnnol, which, ina recent issue published an article en titled, "Elgiteon Millions of Catholics in Spain." In this article it is de clared that ''in Spain there are five millions of Catholics, viz., three and a half millions of women and one and a half millions of men. The rest, it affirms, are infidels, spiritualists, or anything they cared to call thcmi-elves. Catholics they certainly were not, for they never worshipped in Catholic churches, and no one could tell from their life and conversation that they had any respect for religion." English, Churchman. Must .Never Be. Bill Springer -beg pardon; gQa Willian M Sprioper, congress' jjinj from Illinois and an enemy to Ar4ericanjgm introduced a joint resoli jtjoit in the house last week authoring the aD pointment of Martin Fv 'Morris, judge of the court of appeal 0f the District of Columbia, a reger A 0f the Smithsonian Institute. This, (Sa papist trick, and mitat nivar lv . . l , fc - . 1 lUl.U toO ftttflO pilKU. Morris is r.0t, &n ordinary Romanist; he is a full- dedged Jesuit, and the Smith sonian Institute must not be allowed ta fall into their damrerous clutches. The library and other sources of education in that great institution would be Ro manized quickly if they got possession of it. Americans all over the land should quickly pour into congress earn est and emphatic remonstrances against this Springer Satolli scheme. : Deluge your congressman with protests at once. United American. Read Whitney's add. He deserves American patronage.
