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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
For some time The American'
has. bf en going to the Y. M. C. A. at
Cherryvale, Kas., and Mr. E. C, Phil
ko, secretary of the young men' de
partment, write us as follows: ' We
wih you a very happy New Year, and
with our greeting we desire to extend
our most hearty thanks for your gener
osity in contributing literature for our
reading-room during the past year.
You will, no doubt, be pleased to know
that our work has been greatly pros
pered. We are now reaching In a defi
nite way through reading-room, library,
night school, Bible clause, etc., fully
100 young men. The success of the
reading-room has been very largely
due to those who, like yourself, have
contributed periodicals. For your share
in this work we again thank you and
trust you will be disputed to continue
your co-operation.
It is said that we entertain
angels unawares, and from the number
of men and women who send and bring
items of interest and of importance to
this office, we are ready to admit that
such is a fact. A few weeks ago we
printed an article in favor of equal suf
frage; and shortly after the appearance
of the paper a lady walked into our
office, laid upon the counter a circular
tied with a bit of yellow ribbon some
might term it orange -and without ray
ing a word walked out. On the fourth
page of that circular we found these
sentiments: "American women alone,
of the entire country, out-number the
foreign-born, both men and women,
more than three to one. Double the
American vote. Large numbers of
foreigiers are here without their fam
ilies. Double the true American vote."
We have no idea who the lady was, but
we are in favor of doubling the true
American vote, whether cast by a na
tive or a foreign-born woman. Let us
have equal suffrage.
A recent dispatch from San
Francisco announces the death of ex
Senator Fair. That dispatch has been
followed by another, which says: "From
trustworthy sources It is learned that
Charles L. Fair will contest the will of
his father, and that his two sisters will
not give him any assistance. They are
counting on his loss of his third share
of the income in case the contest goes
against him, as they believe i'ueir
father received shrewd enough advise
to make his will proof against any legal
attack. Besides, they dislike their
brother so cordially that they will give
him no aid or support. This dislike
dates back to the time when their
mother sued for divorce. Fair's boys
both sided with the father, and Charlie
was especially outspoken in condemn
ing his mother's course. He declared
she wanted the monsy to squander on
priests. The sisters resented this bit
terly, as they are both devout Roman
Catholics. Then came Charlie's mar
riage to Maud Nelson, whose reputa
tion was none too good, and his subse
quent escapades in Europe and New
York. Now he has reformed. He does
not drink and the woman whom he
married is credited with the improve
ment in his habits. Her efforts, how
ever, received no sympathy from the
sisters."
At a meeting of the Nebraska
State Teachers' Association, William
Murphy, a Roman Catholic priest from
l'ecumseh, sought the opportunity of
posing before an educated audience to
make a speech and chose for his sub
ject: "Ij it True That the Public
Schools Fail to Teach Morality?" He
is quoted as saying: "As regards the
church to which I belong, I know that
6he would not pull down a single stone
from the grand edifice of our public
school." After a decade of opposition
and denunciation of our puelic schools
by Roman Catholic bishops, priests and
publications, it is clear that the know
ledge of Mr. Murphy will fill an ex
ceedingly small book. The press every
week contains the orders of some bishop
in opposition, and I doubt if Murphy,
with all his pretended friendship, has
not forbidden some parishioner to send
his children to the public schools on
threat of excommunication from the
church, or eternal damnation, which to
an ignorant Roman Catholic means the
game thing. Unable to maintain the
shackles of ignorance in a free country,
the Romish church seeks to secure the
acceptance of her own schools first by
her own people, compelled, and then
by supplying a corrupted and falsified
set of text books for history and read
ing classes, to gain prestige with the
growing generation, and finally by gain
ing control of city governments of all
the principal cities to acquire direc
tion of the educational forces of
this country. A part of this fight by
the Roman Catholic church on the
American public school system is con
tained in the charge raadeby them that
they were godless and failed to teach
morality. The strangest part of this
whole proceeding is that Murphy
should select for his audience a gather
ing of public school teachers, every one
of whom would be ready to defend those
schools from the charges made by his
church. Those charge have never
been advocated in a gathering of pub
lic school teachers, and only in the
councils of his church would there be
any excuse for such a defense. It was
an opportunity for Murphy to talk
through his hat in an endeavor to
soften the justly bitter feeling that is
fast crystalizing against his church for
its senseless fight of denunciation and
opposition to the grandest educational
system the world has ever known, cele
brated for its universal adaptation and
loved for its freedom from religious
bias and prejudice.
Our readers are always inter
ested in the immigration question.
Probably because it is of such vital im
portance. At any rate they are inter
ested in the question and are studying
it from all points. For that reason the
following will afford some food for
thought: "That the financial and in
dustrial depression prevailing in the
country for the past year and a half
would cause a decrease in the volume
of immigration was expected, but that
this falling off would be so great, as the
figures show, no one was prepared for.
In the light of the social and industrial
problems awaiting solution in this
country, the report of the superintend
ent of the national immigration bureau
is extremely interesting and will fur
nish food for thought. According to
this document the number of people
leaving the United States for Europe
by steerage passage since October, 1893,
wis greater than the number arriving
by that means. The report is for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1894. In
that time 288,020 immigrants came to
this country. Of these, 2,389 were sent
back at the steamship companies' ex
pense, and 417 more deported, having
become public charges within one year
after landing. The number landing
was about 150,000 less than during the
previous period, which in turn received
180,000 less than did the year previous
to that. How the immigration from
the different countries has fallen off,
these figures show:
' COUBTKY- M4 Urease of lec
Italy 42,977 2!U8 511.8
Germany M.WM i4.!W2 58.4
Sweden 18,211 17.424 f.l 2
I'oland and Russia. . 3S.WM l:t,:ii4 74.ll
Ireland SU2.I1 i;t,:47 WU
England and Wales. 18.74N 1011211 H4.7
Hungary 14.7UU 8,12! ftt.2
A large proportion of the immigrants
for the last year remained in the cities
and fewer went upon the farm. New
York state got 96,000; Pennsylvania,
42,000; Massachusetts, 25,000, and Illi
nois 22,000. One-seventh of the total
landed who were over 16 years of age
could not read or write. In other
words, over 40,000 persons who will
immediately begin work at some busi
ness are without a rudimentary educa
tion, and may never acquire it. That
the illiteracy of the nation, already
large, is being added to In this ratio
every year is appalling, and should
engage the attention of every thinker
in the land. The recommendations of
the superintendent are worthy the con
sideration of congress. He suggests
that every immigrant from a country
where pollen or penal certificates are
granted should be made to secure one
before sailing. He also calls attention
to the fact that our immigration statis
tics are defective, in that they include
many persons who have once left this
country and are returning. The laws
regulating immigration fall far short of
what they should be."
Last week we called the atten
tion of the members of the Nebraska
legislature to the fact that the fight
being made against Judge C. R. Scott
was a personal matter and should not
be given the dignity of attention by the
legislature. That we were not alone
in this opinion will be seen by a pe
rusal of the following editorial in the
Valley Enterprise: "For some time
past the Omaha Bee has been making
threats that if Judge C. R. Scott did
not resign his position on the district
bench it would have him impeached by
the legislature. The confident air of
the Bee would seem to suggest that
there were some good reasons why
Judge Scott should bo dishonored be
fore his fellow citizens and in his pro
fession. An investigation, however,
shows that the tirade against the judge
is fanned on by personal hatred and
malignity. It is not claimed by the
most aggressive of his opponents that
he lacks in legal ability or that there is
anything against his honor or integrity
as a judge. Some of the members of
the bar, against whom cases have been
decided, are doing the preliminary
work in getting up a petition to the
legislature calling for impeachment.
Up to the present writing they have
confined their work to getting the sig'
natures of the merulx-rn of the bar, and
have bad very little success. Those
members who have signed are, as a
rule, political lawyers who have-traded
on their power to influence weak courts
to do their bidding. Their business
demands that a judge whom they can
not control must be destroyed. The
Enterprise believes that it would be a
great calamity to Nebraska if the legis
lature should lend Its aid to this nefar
ious scheme to strike down this judge
who has bad the courage and manhood
to fairly administer the law, without
fear or favor, to rich and poor, to indl
vldual and corporation. The most
serious charge against the judge is
that he lacks a judicial temper because
he does unheard of things. The people,
the litigants, who pay for keeping up
the courts, are not so tender on this
point. In fact, It is refreshing to know
of an innovation in this regard. The
dally press must not be permitted to be
above the law, and If an editor, no
matter what his power, Is guilty of a
contempt of court, he should have no
favors shown him that are not accorded
to the humblest citizen. All self-
respecting members of the bar realize
that it is not becoming In them to as
sail Judge Scott. There is a growing
belief that the courts and lawyers
"stand in" together against litigants,
and when a judge has the manhood
that has been displayed in this case
the masses of the people demand that
he be eustatnod. It la beneath the
dignity of the legislature of Nebraska
to listen to the unscrupulous and vin
dictive men who are stirring up this
fight. The grounds are flimsy and In
sufficient, and the political grave yard
yawns for the Douglas county member
who would help strike down this up
right judge."
A Roman Catholic priest of
not even local renown appeared before
the State Teachers' Association of Ne
braska and answered the question "Do
our Public Schools Teach Morality?"
Who, pray, but his church, has deigned
to propound that question, and who,
but a bigoted Roman Catholio priest
would have the audacity, the temerity
to stand belore an intelligent American
audience and laud so corrupt and rotten
a concern as theRoman Catholic church.
Will Chancellor Canfield please tell an
anxious public who proposed to Priest
Murphy that he expatiate upon the ques
tion as to whether the public schools
teach morality? Will he tell us who
but the popes, cardinals, archbishops,
bishops and priests have branded them
as "godless," as "vicious," as "sinks
of iniquity?" Would we not be justi
fied in concluding that Murphy saw and
realized that his church had wrongfully
and maliciously accused the public
schools, and that be sought this oppor
tunity to weaken the effect the damn
able charges it had made were having
upon itself9 Yet from his address there
has been quoted 'one sentence by the
Rome-serving daily press that is jesuit
Ical in the extreme,, and is intended to
mystify many. It reads: "As regards
the grand and majestic church to which
I belong, which, like the sun in its daily
course through the heavens, illuminates
the world and which has been the hand
maid of civilization for nineteen cen
turies, I know that she would not pull
down a single stone from the grand
edifice of our public school, but rather
would she add other stones, aye, other
stories to it until it rose above the clouds
Into that bright and ever serene sky,
illuminated by the light of the world."
Very fine, is it not? Now look at what
he said, denuded of all verbiage: "As
regards the grand and majestic church
to which I belong, which il
luminates the world I know
that nhe would not pull down a single
stone but rather would she add other
stones, aye, other stories until It
(the public schools) rose above the
clouds Into that bright sky, tl
htmined by the light of the world," the
church to which he belongs the Ro
man Catholic church.) God forbid
that our schools should ever have to
proceed by the light furnished by
the church of Rome a church which
has degraded Italy, pauperized Ire
land, debased Mexico, and shrouded
in ignorance and superstition every
land that, has listened to the false
words of its priests; aye, God forbid
that we should go to her the inventor
of the inquisition, the murderer of
thousands of Protestants, the hater of
intelligence, the dispoilerof virtue, and
the foe of religious freedom, of a free
press, of free speech, and of free schools.
If Murphy knows anything, he knows
every man in the Roman Catholic
church has to tliink as tlte pope of Home
thinks. An individual opinion outside
that held by the pope is as foreign to
the Roman Catholic religion as virtue
is to the average nun, and Pius IX. has
declared that "public schools open to
all children should, be left under
the control of the Romish church,
and mould not be subject to the
civil power, nor made to conform
to the opinion of the age," and no mat
tcr what Murphy says, he has no owtr
to change the edict of the pojw, hlch
is clearly against the public schools, as
conducted today.
Oxk of our friends in Carrol
county, Illinois writes us as follows:
"Long may your flag wave. 1 think
my time will soon be up, and must re
new, for I would not have it atop. It Is
the best paper I take, by all odd. 1
sincerely hojw you will not make a fail
ure. Certainly, in such a glorious
cause, the watch-word should be.
Never fail.' This seemed to be the de
cided sentiment November 6th, and we
hope it will be largely Increased by
the next election. Down with Jesuit
Ism, with all its Immoral, beastly and
devilish practices and teachings. True
Yankee Americanism 1s too pure and
ennobling to tolerate aw vile and devil-
It h & set bearing the form of humanity,
but void of every principle that goes to
niake up true manhood out of them.
Give us the pluck of little Mexico. It
looks very much as though the Al
mighty designs our country shall bo the
final battle ground with this terrible
tctupus, with the result of its final de
struction, similar to the slavery ques
tion. It is really the old battle over
again betveen liberty and despotism.
Shall we emulate our forefathers' Bplrit
and courage, and prove ourselves equal
to the task? Keep us posted as to tho
political position of our leading politic
ians, for we want to know when we
come to vote. If what is lately said of
Tom Rood is true, ho might as well lay
his presidential bonnet on the shelf, for
he never will get there. 1 am sorry to
see the New England states are becom
ing largely Roman Catholic. If Rued
judges by his surroundings in his own
state, and is disosed to cringe to the
Roman Catholic element for political
favor, he will find he makes a grand
mistake. He ought to remember that
the great west Is largely settled with
the descendants of our old New Eng
land fathers. I am one of them and
am proud of it who are brim full of
the good old spirit of '76, that needs
only the occasion to arouse it to heroic
deed'.) for liberty as against despotism
and 'lenthenlsh darkness. If tho sen ti
me. - attributed to Reed be true, there
Miiich a shDt( go up from Iho west
and south as will bury his quorum rule,
which was all right, in infinite mat ob
scurity. Ic now looks as though Cul
lem will succeed himself as senator. I
would like to ask him, how about those
Roman Catholio funerals in the senate
chamber? I never knew what his views
were, but we ought to know if he has
used his position to favor Roman Cath
olicism in the east, or in any way; and
so with any party who proposes to rep
resent us in our law-making councils.
We want to know, squarely, If they
will represent or misrepresent us. I
am exceeding glad to see the move that
is being made in Chicago. I have some
friends living in the city. During a
visit to them a few years ago, we started
to go down town, and as we walked
along we got to talking about these
things, when suddenly he turned to me
and whispered, 'Don't talk so loud, they
will hear you.' Great God, has it come
to this, that a citizen of this glorious
land of freedom cannot express his sen
timents above a whisper? By the
eternal, we'el see about that, were
about the sentiments that entered my
mind just about that time. I sincerely
hope Chicago will rise in its moral
right and shake off and squelch for
ever the terrible element that has been
carrying full sway so long. May the
time soon come when an American citi
zen can speak his sentiments, not only
above a whisper, but proclaim it from
the house tops, without fear of molesta
tion, and even tae poor news boy can
sell upon our streets The American
or any other patriotic paper without
danger of being abused and assaulted.
We are proud to think we have the
second and most wonderful city in our
own state, but it detracts sadly when
we oome to see how it is ruled.' "
The Protestant S tni da rd says:
"Orangeism Is not the awful 'bug
ahoo' that Romanists are wont to paint
it. It is the essence of Protestantism,
and is to the Protestant religion what
Jesuitism is to the Roman Catholic. It
is substantially a Protestant defense
association, and stands as a barrier to
Roman Catholic encroachment and in
trigue. It was calltd into existence in
Ireland on defensive principles, and
must continue to exist so long as the
cause that called it into being exists.
Its principles will bear the most search
ing investigation, and are embodied in
the principles of the many and various
patriotic orders now in existence in the
United States. Herein Is the wisdom
of our forefathers vindicated, in that
one hundred years after the organiza
tion of Oracge lodges, other IxkIIos or
order are adopting similar principle
for tlin defense of our right and liber
ties, and the maintenance of the Prot
estant religion. Such are the A. P. A.,
the American Mechanics, the Son of
America, Knights of Malta and others.
These orders are purely American, cx
cept tho Knights o' 'ta, and the
memberships stand
Ue foundation
of Orangeism. Tl
consider this facta)
the above organir
side it as an rndor
anccstora did mor
Cornish itaiicrt
t damning to
hut we con'
t of what our
r.'utury ago.
Rome la the same -u
lands, hence
the organization to combat her and
stay her Insidious cnoroat hment , (Hilit-
Ically, are more or less the same. We
have no controversy with Rome along
religious linos, oxcept that we pray God
she may come buck to apostolic Chris
tianity, as we find it enunciated in the
'Acts of tho Apostlv. We grant that
she has the same civil rights as others;
in fact It Is against tho spirit of Orange
Ism to orsocute any man on account of
his religion. If any man bearing tho
rwinio of Orauge, or wearing the colors
of an Orangeman, has ever manifested
a spirit of hatred or persec ution toward
ny Roman Catjiolic, he lias dorfo so In
defiance of the principles of the order.
There are soiptf. bt-hoadod fanatics In
every organisation, and they are no
credit to It, but (hey are not all to be
found In the Oratigo association or A.
P. A.; they may also bo found In the
A. O. II. Wean never judge of any
orgaui:ation by the conduct of a fow
within it, wp nust study their constitu
tion and prlnc No to find out what they
stand for. O rwisra, though foreign
born, Is casll; ".turallzed, and adopts
Itself to O ry Protestant country
where It gal "s a foot hood It swears
true allegiance to the government of
the country where It exists and is loyal
to the institutions of that country with
out any evaslorv or mental reservation.
It is thoroughly American in America
and thoroughly British In Great Brit
ain. It stands for the Protestant re
ligion and the liberties of the Individual.
It honors such men as William III.,
Luther, Calvin, Knox, Washington,
Lincoln and Grant, because the men
were the advocates of all we hold most
dear, though they were not Identified
with our order. We are opposed to all
tyranny and despotism, whether from
king, pope, prince or potentate
whether it bo the-despotic Jaciew II.,
of England, betraying his subjects and
depriving them of their rights and
liberties, or the pope of Rome assuming
the right to rule tyrannically over all
Christendom by divine right, we take
our stand against both, and assert that
we have a right to think for ourselves,
and exercise the powers God has given
us. without dictation from any man,
fallible like ourselves, though he may
claim infallibility and special powers.
From this it can be teen that Orange
ism Is intensely American, for these are
the underlying principles of our glor
ious republic. 'Ail men are born free
and equal.' Rome says no; we say yos.
God does not delegate His power to any
mere man in these days, and give him
the right to rule and govern the na
tions despotically in the name of heaven.
The holy spirit is given to the church
for her guidance into all truth, and
every man possessing that spirit be
longs to the true church. We recog
nize no other head than Jesus Christ
Himself. All others professing head
ship, and who, by virtue of that profes
sion, seek to 'lord it over God's herit
age,' are an i-Curists. Orangeism
opposes bitterly opposes such as
sumptions, and in this we stand side by
side with every Protestant kingdom or
republic in tae world. But principally
our opposition to Rome is in her politi
cal schemes to enrich herself out of the
national and state treasuries, In her
diabolical plot to overthrow our public
schools, and in her attempt to intimi
date the press and the politicians of the
country by her threats of boycotting.
We also oppose the control she has so
long exercised in some cities and states,
not to their welfare and purity, but to
the.!; destructlon,iegradation and social
corruption. Tammany will serve as a
sample. Her past history in those
countries where she had full sway is
not such as to commend her to free and
enlightened America. Such are some
of the reasons for the existence of Or
angeism in this country, and of which
we have no reason to feel ashamed.
Wk have received the follow
ing letter from J. S. McElhoes, of
Madison, Neb., which explains itself:
"Will you allow me space in your in
valuable columns to thank the man or
friend who subscribed for me for The
American. I thank him for so doing
because I hardly know how I could get
along without it this winter, as I be
lieve that it is the best means to open
the eyes of tho blind to the cause of
Americanism and to our educational in
terests and the little red school house,
and to teach the un-American what
Americanism la in these United State
In the hour of trouble and conflict I
wa born an American, and that tamo
blood atill remain In my veins. I
fought and lost acme blood to free the
slaves of the south, and I feel the effect
of It today. I was wounded twice and
taken prisoner once, but got away bo
fore old General Stewart got me to that
miserable un, Llbby, Richmond. Yet
old and broke down and ill at I am, I
am ready to defend our American free
educational system, and I say, for one,
none dare Interfere. I have been able
to labor but very little during the last
Ave year, but have put In my time and
all the money I could spare In educat
ing three girls and a boy up to free
Americanism and to know what free,
education Is and means, and I have luc
ceodod pretty well. I started two girl
to teach Americanism, and one boy to
teach the same. Now again I thank
the friend who sent me Til E American,
as I thought 1 did not have a friend In
the world, while I knew that I had
thousands of enemies. If he ever lets
me find him out, I will try to recipro
cate in some way that will afford as
much pleasure o) ,hlm as TuE"Amkui
CAN always affords me. May God bless
him abundant'y and may his prospects
bo brighter, aud may he prosper, Is my
wish. Again I want to thank Mr. J.
Fasley, of Missouri Valley, for the
paper and the two Folton speeches he
sent me. I have read them and sent
them out to do more good. I introduce
The American when and wherever I
have a chance, and I believe it Is doing
a great deal of good throughout the
land. I received tho receipt that you
sent me, and I will preserve It lor future
reference so as to catch that frlond of
ml no Now, Mr. Editor, lam not writ
ing to become a weekly correspondent,
as you will see 1 am not very export
with the pen nor grainatlcal in the use
of words, although I try to speak Eng
lish (American) and use no unknown
words to tell what I want to say."
Tun fulsome flattery bestowed
on Jack Galiigan by the World-Herald,
after his dismissal as chief of tho fire
department of Omaha, must be naseat-
Ing in the extreme to the thousands of
respectable people who are readers of
that paper, and who know well that
Galiigan had no ability as a chief, that
his mouth was as foul as hell it"!?, and
that he was almost anything but a sober
and respectable citizen. That a man
as vicious, as profane, and as near an
Inebriate as Jack Galiigan is should be
par ded before the public as a man of
worth whose decapitation caused a
loss to the community, will bo taken
with considerable allowance by many
who know him. The secret lies here:
Galiigan Is a Romanist.
Now that John P. Hopkins
will not offer himself as a sacrifice to
the reform sentiment, who will bo sug
gested for the trying ordeal? If the
Democrats have no show, will they run
some good, stable, influential business
man, get him defeated and then allow
Rome to strut around with her tall
feathers spread, and claim all the
credit of the victory won by their op
ponents. She is already getting into
the Republican band wagon. Watch
her dictate the nominee, and if he la
elec ed watch the appointments and
see if Protectant Democrats have not
been sold out for positions tor Republi
can Romanists.
Disunion of Our Country,
I call upon you, fathers, by the shades
of your ancestors, by the dear ashes
which repose in this precious soil, by
all you are and all you hope to be
resist every object of disunion; resist
every recroachment upon your liberties;
resist every attempt to fetter your con
sciences, or smother your public schools,
or extinguish your system of public in
struction. I call upon you, mothers, by that
which never falls in women the love
of your offspring; teach them, as they
climb upon your knees or lean on your
bosoms, the blessings of liberty. Swear
them at the altir, as with their bap
tismal vows, to be true to their country,
and never to forget or forsake her.
1 call upon you, young men, to re
member whose son you are whose
Inheritance you possess. Life can
never be too short which brings noth
ing but disgrace and oppression. Death
never comes too soon, if necessary, in
the defense of the liberties of your
country.
I call upon you, old men, for your
councils and your prayers and your
benedictions. May not your gray hairs
go down in sorrow to the grave with
the recollections that you have lived in
vain! May not your last sun sink in
the west upon a nation of slaves!
judge Story.
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1A.
CI