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DECEMBER 28, 184.
IT 19 rumored that a council of the
A. P. A. will bo organiz-ed in the Third
ward of this city. ThU in one ward
where such a body of sturdy men are
nocdod.
IT IS stated that Priest Conway, of
the dlocoso of Scranton, has given up
the priesthood for the stage. If he were
to lay aside Romanism entire, it would
be a more beneficial change. However,
of the two, the new calling i preferable.
THE management of THK AMERICAN
Is spending annually about IS.OOO.OO 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? Tblnk this
matter over and see how you stand.
There is an old saying that a dollar
saved is a dollar made. This is a true
today as ever it was, and tne way to
save a dollar and seventy-live cents is
to pay a years subscription in advance
for The American, add 25o to it, and
get one cloth bound volume of Fifty
Year in the Church of Home. Regular
price of the book is 92.00. Road our
advertisement on page 5.
''Never again can it be said that
woman takes no Interest in politics,"
says the Human' Voice, of Boston,
"and would not vote had ate the op
portunity. Colorado exploded that
theory last Tuesday. In many pre
cincts Bhe was first at the polls, she
stood in lino and took her turn with the
men. In some districts the women cast
over sixty per cent, of the entire vote.
Some faces were so youthful that one
almost doubled their having reached
their majority, while to others full
citizenship came only after the hair
was white and the step slow, showing
that her tentyone years had been
reached twice and thrice over again.
The election passed off very quietly,
there was no rudeness, 'no break of
language." Whether this was due to
the presence of women or the closed
saloons we cannot my, but possibly to
both, and more especially to the latter.
What the etrcngth of the prohibition
voto would ordinarily bo, cannot be
determined. The last election it was
1,600, this year it was 7,000, but the
conditions were such that multitudes
ft It that they must use their ballots to
keep that 'blasphemer' from occupying
the highest office in the state, and
heneo voted acalnst their convictions."
Kansas City needs a Lexow com
mitt e badly. Nothing is more corrupt
for want of proper management than
the police of the city mentioned. At
the h ?ad of the force are Commissioners
Cox and Corrigan, with Governor
Stone as a silent factor. It is a notice
able fact that certain patrolmen con
eider the saloons as their place of abode
during the night hours, instead of being
on the beats given under their protec
tion. Almost nightly on East Eigh
tee nth street three policemen assemble
in a saloon and remain for hours. It is
reported that they only make "points"
to meet the sergeant on his rounds.
The citizens may attribute the fact of
the police not hearing the shots fired
-on Independence avenue by the high
waymen to a similar occurence of duti
ful policemen. If this is the mode of
our Romanized force, It Is time we tried
one composed of people who have been
citizens of this country for a time long
enough to brush the Irish brogue from
their voice. An immigration of the
Kansas City police would bring to light
some facts which no newspaper, through
common decency, could print. On East
Twelfth street, at night, it is no com
mon occurence to see several policemen
talking to women who are presumed to
be kept indoors at such hours by these
officials. The Kansas City police seem
to be the most fraternal people in the
world, among those of the Romans on
the force, judging from the manner in
which they collect. The citizens who
have ever had cause to travel the
streets at a late hour, if they have seen
the patrolmen at all, it was in lots of
two or three, and oftinn more. This
argument docs not apply to all, but will
hold good with the majority. Do we
need new commissioners and a new
chief?
TO AMERICANS.
Have you ever been hungry?
Have vourchildn-n shivered and
cried from cold and insufficient
clothing? Have your provisions
remained uncooked for want of
fuel? If any of these things
have happened to you then you
know the suffering which thous
ands of citizens in Nebraska are
undergoing today. All over
that state men, women and child
ren are almost crazed ly want,
while in some instances children
have died of starvation. Many
of these sufferers are members
of the A. P. A.; all are a portion
of this great human family.
In thousands of homes starva
tion stares the inmates in the
face, and the death rate from
this cause will be simply apall
ing in the very near future,
unless our friends lend a help
ing hand at once. For that
reason we call upon our liberal,
patriotic, unselfish, humane,
christian American citizens to
extend whatever relief lies in
their power. Such things ns old
clothes, sacks of grain, potatoes,
beans, dried and smoked meats,
flour and meal are especially
needed. If you have anything
in this line which you can spare,
bundle it up, take it to the ex
press offico or raiiroad office and
ask them to carry it free to the
chairman of the Nebraska relief
committee, AV. N. Nason, Iirown
block, Omaha, Neb., or to the
secretary, llev. Ludden, Lincoln,
Neb. These men are at the
head of a relief commission,
which has been created by the
governor.
Your assistance is earnestly
asked in behalf of our drouth
stricken friends.
If you would rather send sup
plies to us, direct them to our
Omaha ollice, 1G15 Howard
street. If you do that we will
endeavor to see that the goods
get into the hands of deserving
people, by and with the assistance
of our friends living in the
burned-out portion of the state,
or wherever else suffering and
want prevails.
There are f0,000 people read
ing the papers published by The
American Publishing Company
every week. If each one will
send us by mail four-pound
packages of flour, beans and meal
we will be able to keep starvation
from the homes of 500 families
until the first of May.
How many of you will do this?
It will cost you but a mere trifle.
Look at the figures and see if
you cannot economize enough to
spare this amount:
Flour Ofi
B ans 20
Meal 12
Postage 24
Total "2
If you do not care to bother
doing up the goods in three
four-pound packages, you can
send the amount in cash to John
C. Thompson, care American
Publishing Company, 1G1 5 How
ard street, Omaha, Neb., and he
will acknowledge receipt through
these columns, by publishing
name or initials as the con
tributor shall direct together
with the name of the town in
which they live. Resides this,
we will publish receipts from
those to whom goods have
been delivered. In all cases
where money is received, goods
will be purchased. No money
will be given to applicants for
help. By sending money, one
third more relief can be afforded,
as the postage will be saved.
There are Masons, I. O. O. F.,
K. of P., M. W..W. of the W.,
A. O. U. W., Orangemen, A. P
A., and christians of all denomi
nations suffering for the bare
necessaries of life. To the mem
bers of those fraternal and
patriotic orders we appeal for
help on behalf of their destitute
brethren. Shall we appeal in
vain?
Who will be the first to re-
t A
Pe sure you get the address
right.
Will our readers in the drouth-
stricken section forward to us at
once the name of some reliable
person in their community who
would be willing to give the
necessary time to ascertaining
who are needy and deserving,
and who would act as local dis
bursing agent?
I'rgen His Subject.
Cardinal Vaughan ha issued an ad
dress to his spiritual subjects, urging
them to take a more active part in the
political government of this country,
lie declares that "civil society" in Eng
land has "fallen among thieves," and
Romanists must, therefore, rescue it
out of their hands. If English Roman
ists obey the commands of their car
dinal we do not expect any satisfactory
moral results to follow. The example
of New York and othor cities in Amer
ica in recent years, rather leads us to
expect most unsatisfactory results from
an increase of Romish interference
with the civil government of the coun
try. In New York the Romanists se
cured almost absolute control of the
city, and the result was a vast Increase
of bribery and corruption of all kinds.
"Tammany Hall" was a by-word for
everything abominable in civic govern
ment. English Churchmun.
A. 1'. A. In the Michigan Contest.
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 11. There
have been developments in the double
senatorial race in this state within the
last week that will have considerable
influence on the vote of the various
candidates when the time arrives for
the legislature to ballot next month.
The sentiment of the Republican party
has been considered unanimous for the
re-election of Senator McMillan, but
within the last day or two there have
been a number of rumors to the effect
that an opposition had been organized
and would seek to defeat the senior
senator. This opposition is said to be
made up of the A. P. A. members in
the legislature, who are believed to
number at least two score, and is crystal
izlng around Congressman Linton as a
candidate. The opposition of the A.
P. A. element to the present senior sen
ator is said to arise from his failure to
completely Indorse its attitude on the
immigration question. Another de
velopment of the lust few days has been
the formation of an offensive and de
fensive argument between Congressmen
Burrows and Stephenson, both of whom
are avowed candidates for the scat now
occupied by Senator Patton. The
understanding is to the effect that
Stephenson is not to allow his can
didacy to interfere with that of Bur
rows, although he is to remain in the
field.
Cliinliiny Well Again.
DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 24. The Rev.
Dr. Chlnlquy is up and about once more,
having passed through a siege of very
severe illness. During his sickness the
Jesuits made several unsuccessful at
tempts to visit him and have him re
turn to the Romish church. He visited
the Montreal Weekly Witness, walking
the distance of three-quarters of a mile
as the fresh air revived him. He is
still indignant at the efforts of the
Jesuits and considers it his duty to ad
dress the Archbishop at Montreal, ex
pressing his thoughts as to the
"anxiety" evinced for his soul's welfare.
It seems that several priests also
wished to save the grand old man.
How old Rome would have if joiced to
have secured a reconversion of the
doctor!
"Did you see the priests who called
on you?" he was asked. "No; I refused
to permit them to come to my room. I
told them as it were my death bed,
even from the grave, as it seemed to
me, thai I knew Rome better tb ati they,
and that I would not allow them to see
me. I said it was cowardly to come to
me when I was too ill to lift a finger
and after meeting my challenges dur
ing my lifetime with sticks, stones and
pistols, to come to me to try to shake
me In my feeble state."
"But the woman who called on you?"
"The second one, the French woman
evidently a lady of high rank was, I
think, of the third order of Jesuits.
She evidently had some deep plan to
carry out. She begged to be left with
me alone."
Mr. Chlniquy was much pleased to be
out again. His doctor had given him
up, and was surprised at his recovery,
as very tew men at the age of Chlniquy
recover from a severe attack of hem
orrhage. And to think that the Roman
Jesuits would hound an old gentleman
who had left her forever, and who Bhe
had persecuted at every Opportunity, is
gait supreme. To send a woman to
plot again it a man too sick to speak
aloud is but another page upon her
bloody and disgusting history. Chini
quy, like the great John Knox, is a
Presbyterian. He ranks equal to
Luther, Calvin, Wlckllff, Huss and
others.
Long live Chlniquy! ZENITH.
JiO OFFICE FOR KELLY.
He Is a Itomaa Catholic and Nut Wanted
fur Oil Inspector.
Toi'EKA, Kan., Dec. 15. -Some of
the Kansas Republicans have been giv
ing their strongest encouragement to
the American Protective association.
One of the favorite candidates before
the Republican convention for state
auditor was Tom T. Kelly, of Paola,
but he fell under the ban of the Ameri
can Protective association, and was
turned down in quick order. Kelly was
a strong worker, and during the cam
paign he gave material assistance to
t e Republicans. He was heard from
in many sections of the state, and
everywhere he went the results of the
ballot box showed that he was a force
ful factor in the victory gained. Since
the election the party leaders and man
agers have been trying to bring about
the appointment of Kelly as coal oil
inspector, a nice position with satis
factory salary attachment. Bat a good
sized bomb exploded in the Republican
camp in the form of a resolution adopted
at the last meeting of the Paola lodge
of American Protective association:
"Whereas, It has been rumored that
one T. T. Kelly, a citizen of Paola, Kas.,
and a member of the Roman Catholic
church, is trying to secure an appoint
ment to some important position under
our sta'e government, and that there
are good reasons for believing that he
is about to succeed in securing the po
sition of oil inspector, and believing as
we do that no Roman Catholic should
ba appointed to any position In our
state government or any other place
outsida ot the church to which they be
long; therefore be it
Resohed, That Paola Council No. 45,
American Protective Association, of
Paola, Kan., will oppose the re-election
of any state officer who, during his
term of offico, shull appoint or support
the appointment, or who shall or does
approve of the appointment of T. T.
Kelly or any other Roman Catholic to
any position of trustor profit."
This action is denounced by the party
leaders in as strong terms as they dare
utter, but it is certain that it will re
sult in the defeat of Tom Kelly for this
or any other good position under the
coming state administration. In com
menting upon the incident, Barney
Sheridan, editor of the Paola Western
Spirit, the most influential democratic
paper in that portion of Kansas, said
today to the Times correspondent:
'We have nothing to do with Mr.
Kelly's political ambitions or his battles.
He is amply able to take care of him
self. We do not even know that he is
a candidate for appointment under the
republican administration that he so
vallently and effectively worked to put
in the saddle, and yet we do know that
if such an honorable and useful citizen
as Tom Ke ly Is to be proscribed by a
baker'B dozen of sore-head Republicans
and Populists on account of his religi
ous views, then the proscription will be
a passport to favor in the eyes and
hearts of all brave, liberal and patriotic
mn.
"For, let it be remembered, In the
course of events dating back t its
earliest settlement, that this has been
the particular country that fostered
freedom and trampled tyranny; this
the favored spot where liberty of con
science and of the press built our
school housts, ourchurches, our homes;
the fertile land that invited with her
foliage the toilers of every blood and
every belief to locate, to labor, to love,
and lift a neighbor up, rather lhan
drag him down; the soil that attracted
and perpetuated a rugged, courageous
and charitable yeomanry and the famed
section of the resourceful west that
bears upon its bosom today 20,000 dar
ing, dutiful souls who Want peace,
prosperity and patriotism, but not per
secution." Pope in Excellent Health.
New York, Dec. 22. Dr. F. Z.
Rooker, formerly vice rector of the
American College at Rome, and who
has recently been appointed secretary
to the apostolic delegation in America,
to succeed Secretary Papi, arrived in
this city on the Cunard liner Lucania
to J ay.
"1 left Rome on December 9," Dr.
Rooker said, "having my last audience
with the pope on the evening of Decem
ber 6. I never saw the pope in better
health, and the report that he is suffer
ing with catarrh is not true. The pope
has just received the first copies of the
oriental encyclical which had been pre
pared during the last days of my stay
at Rome, and copies of which I bear to
Satolll. The encyclical concerns the
steps that have been taken in the east
to bring into the Roman Catholic
church many of the inhabitants of
Armenia and the countries thereabout,
who, though practically Catholics,
still refuse to acknowledge the suprem
acy of the bishop of Rome. By estab
lishing schools and permitting the
natives of these countries to retain
many of their old customs In the cele
bration of the mass, the pope hopes to
gradually bring them into the church."
A Pertinent Question.
Cardinal Vaughn, archbishop of
Westminster, according to the Cot-Wt'c
Reviao of November 24, "authorita
tively" instructed the Roman Catholic
voters of London to vote for the Tory
candidates for school trustees and
against the Liberals, because the former
are In favor of t aching religion n the
public schools, and the latter opposed
to iL
Now we rise and respectfully ask the
Catholic lUviac to explain the difference
between this action of Roman Catholic
officials In Engl tr.d and the action of
the A. P. A. in America. The whole
Catholic church of the United States is
posing before the country a) martyrs,
the victims of the persecuting A. P. A.
This organization is opposed to just
such Roman Catholic ideas of the rela
tion of church and state as are illus
trated by the cardinal's position in
favor of teaching religion in the public
schools with public money; and conse
quently votes against Roman Catholic
candidates for public office. This, say
Roman Catholics, is persecution.
Wrhat, we again inquire, is the differ
ence between an organized political
Catholic boycott of candidates in Eng
land because they are in favor of the
separation of religion and the public
schools, and an organized political
Protest: ct boycott of candidates in
America, because they are In favor of
the enion of religion and the public
schools? It will not do to answer that
the ono is secret and the other not, for
the Roman Catholic church is the most
thoroughly secret organization in the
world.
A cardinal's oath reads thus: "I,
, cardinal of the holy Roman
church, do promise and swear that
I will never knowingly and advisedly,
to their Injury or disgrace, make public
the councils intrusted to me by them
selves the popes , or by' messengers or
letters" from them. A bishop prom
ises that "the councils which they the
popesj shall intrust me with, by them
selves, their messengers, or letters, I
will not knowingly reveal to any to
their prejudice."
Now that the charge of secrecy is
disposed of in advance, we again repeat
our request to the Catholic Review to
tell us the difference between a Roman
Catholic political boycott in England
and an A. P. A. boycott in America.
The Sentinel is not an advocate of A. P.
A. methods, as its readers well know,
but it desires an answer to its question
nevertheless. American Hentinel.
Luther Tried.
Cardinal Gibbons preached a sermon
not long since, which was called by
some papers "a remarkable sermon."
He admits some things of which the
masses of the Roman Catholic church
are grossly Ignorant. He says: "It
cannot be denied that lamentable
abuses crept into the church in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."
Then he laments that Luther did not
fight iniquity within the church, in
stead ot turning his weapons against
her. But did he not? Did he not try
to reform the church? Was he not
very slow to leave it? He turned his
weapons against the Roman Catholic
church only when that corrupt church
compelled him to do so. But there are
lamentable abuses In the Roman Cath
olic church today. Can the cardinal
not see them? If not, ho does he e
pect that Luther would make other
blind cardinals and bishops and priests
to see the abuses before the reforma
tio nV If so, why doesn't he reform the
church? But after his criticism of the
great reformer for dividing instead of
reforming the church, he makes an
ardent appeal for the union of all Chris
tendom: "May the day be hastened
when the scattered hosts of Christen
dom will be reunited. Then, indeed,
they would form an army which in
fidelity could not long resist, and they
would soon carry the light and faith of
christian civilization to the most remote
and benighted part of the globe. May
the day soon come when all who profess
the name of Christ may have one Lord,
one faith and one baptism when all
shall be in one fold, under one shepherd.
MidUiud.
A. Jesuit Lie.
In the case of the two missing Ray
mond brothers, of Denver, Colo., form
erly of Haverhill, Mass., the daily
papers of the country shjw their Jesuit
hands.
On the night they were last seen It is
said they went to a meeting of a Denver
A. P. A. lodge. The daily papers of
the country, noticeably the Boston
Journal, whose Roman Catholic manag
ing editor is at the head of the United
Press Association of New England,
charge that it is another Cronin murder,
and state that the men were not in
good standing at their A. P. A. lodge
and were probably murdered in the
lodge room.
From the best information we can
obtain the men were never members of
any A. P. A. lodge, and their disap
pearance is explained by the fact, that
both men married for money, and hav
ing got cont.-ol of the property have
gone to some other part of the country.
It is high time men of patriotic prin
ciples realized the supreme control the
Jesuits of America have over the news
gathering and news-distributing agen
cies and organizations of the country,
and see to it that they support the
patriotic press.
As Supreme President Traynor of
the A. P. A. so well says: "Let me
warn all the members of our noble
order against placing any credence in
the many reports circulated by the
daily press until your own patriotic
newspapers, which should be supported
by every member of the order, shall
have verified them. The band of the
Jesuit is upon the throat of the press."
Lovxll (Mass.) Herald.
How Is thi?
Chiniquy's "Fifty Years in the
Church of Rome," $2.00;
The American one year, 12.00.
Both for 12.25.
What I the Iiible Literature!
It had become the custom of a former
age, and especially during what is
called the "Dark Ages" from the fall
of the Roman Empire to the rise of the
Re'orination, the period when eccles
iastical Romanism ruled both church
and state to denominate the people of
former ages, especially those of Europe
as ignorant, uncivilized heathen; it was
necessary for the adherents of the Ro
man religion the papacy to do so,
in order for them to be able to main
tain their teaching, that they were the
authors or preservers of all literature,
sacred and profane. They did this right
in the face and eyes of the earlier re
ligious literature of writers during the
later years of the Roman Empire before
the popes had assumed political control,
while they were yet content In intelli
gence and religious teaching, being
then merely a denomination like we
see other denominations of today; but
when the empire died they put on its
"Toga," assumed its function, and tried
to carry heathenism on one shoulder
and Christianity on the other, so to say
good devil and good JLord, and failed in
both.
Apropos to this is the story of Nuina,
who gave to ancient Rome its religious
rites; and when he died the Sibyline
books, or books containing their relig
ion and literature, were buried with
him. Several hundred years after,
there was a dispute as to the proper
performance of religious rites, so they
decided to dig up the bones of Numa
and the books buried ith him, and on
their searching the books and finding
that their practice of their religion was
not in accord with the books, instead of
reforming their religion, they burnt the
books. Now, see: Tnese books of
Numa are rediscovered, these Sibyline
books said to be seven although they
did burn those Numa had, other copies
were extant, and it now appears that
these Sibyline books were seven books
in one, that is, theri was seven mean
ings or readings to the one; and when
they dug up Numas' bones and books,
they found they had lost how to read it
in its mysterious or hidden sense, and
hence sooner than expose their ignor
ance, they ordered the books burnt.
Now, is this not exactly what Rome
is doing with the Bible today? It was
Archbishop Corrigan at the congress
of religion during the World's -a'i.
Chicago who said the Roman Catjolics
did not believe all the B.ble. Another
Catholic priest steps up and says,
there is another part I don't believe,
and bo on for all the other priests, and
when they get down to the end, one or
the other of them have rejected tne
whole Bible, because it does not accord
with their practice.
The Bible we have, in common use,
is an exposition or a demonstration of
the Bible, which describes and demon
strates the laws, the "Three Laws" of
the Universe, "in whom we live and
move and have our being," these laws
are declared to be "the same yesterday,
today and forever." So that the Bible
from Genesis to Revelations is a unit
throughout, equally the truth, from
beginning to the end. There is a rad
ical difference between Romanism and
Protestantism. The Bible is a unit to
condemn Romanism, hence the rejec
tion of a part by Archbishop Corrigan.
And yet the present Bible in general
use the Protestant Bible we are in
debted to the early learning of the
Irish, Armorican and Welch, etc. Take
the name Terah, the father of Abram;
that is certainly an Irish word. Why
does Archbishop Corrigan reject this
ancient Irish-Armorican-Welch Bible?
Because he is Irish or because he is
Roman?
Now what we want to say is, the re-
establishment of the Science-Ethlcal-
Religlous learning of this ancient Irlsh-Armorican-Welch
Bible, which is an
exposition of the older British Bible,
copies of which did duty as the Sibyline
books, which I always think is the one,
or was, the Masonic Bible; the Masonic
society, as well as the I. O. O. F., being
scientific and ethical societies, to pre
serve the truths of and this ancient
literature, which describes and demon
strates the laws of the universe, "in
whom we live and move and have our
being," "the sameyesteriay, today and
forever."
The earlier settlers in Palestine were
from Europe, in the main from the
present, France and Great Britain, just
as the settlers of the Euphrates and its
northern contiguous territory were
Scandinavian-German stock; exactly
like the people who are now settling up
the United States. We have the same
literature, that of our ancestry; hence
its intense interest to us. We ourselves
are a living representation of its truth;
it permeates our existence.
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