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JANUARY 25, IS5.
TllK reason wo never wrote an answer
to Archbishop Kane's effusion which
we published several weeks ago with
the statement that wo would review it
In a subsequent Issue, was because it
was so barren of argument that there
was no necessity for wasting more space
on It. Hut we want to ask, why did not
the papers, which published extracts
from Kane's diatribe, also publish the
salient jHilnU made hy Traynor in his
Answer.
ON K of our friends has written us to
the effect that ho thinks wo are too
awfully cruel, Before Christmas we
announced that The Amkkican would
not bo issued again bofore Christmas,
and all the Romans In the country
rejoiced because they thought that the
paper had suspended, but our friends
know better, and when the paper was
Issued as usual the follow leg week, the
faces of those Romans was a sight to
behold, They won't trust their eyes
after this nothing but their ears, and
only what they hear from the priests,
at that. Should you fail to receive
your paper regularly you will confer a
favor by notifying this office, because it
will give us a chance to show the inefli
clency and dishonesty of the average
Roman official to the heads of the de
partments. The state council of Illinois Is in
session in Chicago this week. From all
the Indications the first of the week
trouble was brewing. The Johnson
forces were on the ground early and
proceeded to close up the gps as fast
as possible, while the anti-Johnson
faction were directing all their energies
to defeat Mr. Johnson for re-election.
No differt-nce how this contest ends It
will injure the order, because the de
feated faction will not thirk it has been
treatid fairly. No true American can
help deploring the unnecessary contro
versy, Hi d ail will unite In condemning
the men who are to blame for the rue
tion in the ranks I the A. P. A.,
brought about by attempting to force
and by advising tie m ;mbers to vote
the straight Republican ticket. The
A. P. A. was organized to fitiht polltl
cal Rome, not to fight Democracy, not
to fight Republicanism or any po
litical party, and when any man or
set of men attempt to get it away from
that position they have cease 1 being
A. P. A's and become partisans and are
dangerous to the order.
A COMPREHENSIVE STATEMENT
On pages two and three will be found
the semi-annual statement of County
Treasurer Irey. It la so complete and
so very comprehensive that it needs no
explanation at our hands. Prom it the
people of Douglas county are able to see
for themselves that they made no mis
take In electing Mr. Irey for a second
time to the very responsible and honor
able position of county treasurer. The
amount of money which this statement
shows Mr. Irey has been able to collect,
in spite of the hard times, speaks louder
than words as to his ability. We have
heard Mr. Irey's name frequently men
tioned in connection with the office of
state treasurer, and if ability, honesty
and integrity are to count for anything
we would gladly second the suggestion
being made by his friends, that he
be elected state treasurer, two years
hence.
GOT THE RIGHT MAN.
The Board of Education made
mistake when it placed the work
of
keeping the high school clock in repai
in the hands of John Rudd, the Six
teenth Street jeweler and watch re
pairer, for he has a reputation for fine
workmanship unsurpassed by any man
in the business; besides, he attends o
all watch and clock repairing himself,
instead of leaving it in the charge of an
apprentice. The high school clock will
not only be kept in repair, but it will
keep the correct time daring 1395.
THE PEOPLE WHO HELP
Men
and Women Who Havo
Alroady Answered
Hie
AIH-Ill
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Made In lUliulf of
SnuVnr ir Me-leru
rlimsfcil.
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TO AMERICANS.
llavo vou fvor been hungry?
Ilnveyourchililmi withered ami
cried from cold ami inullicient
luHiini:? Have vour provisions
reniaim'O uiironKi'u 101 .tui u
fuel? If any of tht-sf things
have happeno'l to you then you
know the sullVring which thous
ands of citizens in Nebraska aro
i i i c - i ,.r
undergoing today. All over
that state men, women and child
ren are almost crazed hy want,
while in some instances children
have died of starvation. Many
of these Buflercrs are members
of the A. V. A.; all aro a portion
of this great human family.
In thousands of homes starva
tion stares tho inmates in the
face, and tho death rate from
this cause will be simply apall
ing in the very near future,
unless our friends lend a help
ing hand nt once. For that
reason wo call upon our liberal,
patriotic, unselfish, humane,
christian American, citizens to
extend whatever relief lies in
their power.
The following persons have sent to
this office the following amounts in
ash:
oviously reported $S0
77
Chas. Wills, Atloboro, Mass 1
00
ieorge W. Canarroe, eston, 111. 2
iustav llolmquist, Chicago 1
0(
00
KltOM I'UT-IN-HA Y.
'!d. Duller, Put in-liny 1
00
00
. 11. 0.horn 1
eorge Gilbert
50
25
25
Elmer Running
ulius Wurtz
Chas. Johnson
25
John Stone
1 00
25
25
Alvln Merkley
eorge Jiickford
Theodore Martins
Harry P. Jones
a m es liilnert
Ieorge Morrison
M. C. Dodge
Chester Gibbons
Christ Friek
Mrs. K. Stone
Mr. Gebant 1
Mrs. Gebant
John Gorman
Charles Fox
Unknown 1
A. Fox
W. Fox
Albert Parker, sr
totert, sr
Mrs. Capt. Foye
Miller
Miller
Mr. Kent
I. Rinehart ,
V. Duller J
Hugo 1 limes
John Noellert
J. Morrison
Mr. UiKkner, jr
Mrs. Miller 1
Mrs. U irgrall 1
C BurgralT
Mr. Brick man
Mr. J. Iliiller
Mr. Charles Ruh
Mr. N. Fox iV Co 1
A'm. Shearrer
II. Ingold
Peter Retts
50
00
50
50
50
25
50
00
50
25
00
Mr. George Giscoyne 1
Miss M. Elliott
Mrs. M. A. Urandour
Mrs. J. C. Fox
Liuie Foye
Mrs. C. ldlor
Phil Vrooman and family 2
C. Holloway
Mr Holloway
Louie Engle 1
Ed. heimer
50
75
50
25
50
50
25
00
00
00
D. Rasenfeld
Frank Herbs ter
Willldlor
F. J. Magle
A. R. Bruce
J. Duffey
J. J. Stranahan 1
E. J. Dodge 1
O. T. S ars 1
Geo. Ualloway 50
John Meyers oo
Geo. M. Baldwin I 00
e o ;"o
F.Rittman 1 00
Wm. Haas 25
Ernest Gram 50
Nick Soenlchson . . i 30
J.Merts 25
Mrs. G. F. Schmidt 1 00
M. Wigand 1 00
L. Scheror 50
John Brown 1 00
Antone Rha 1 00
Mrs. Murry 1 00
Joe Gross -
Alex Herbster 25
S. Welsler 50
Samuel Conway 2
Adolnh Bolat 50
r,U n urn Id lor 50
Mrs. Reidline 2 00
George Milier 50
.Tribe Parker 2-5
L. DUler
Eli Clapsadel 1 00
John Wigand 50
Amos Hitchcock 50
D. P. Vrooman 50
John Tiehberfr 1 00
H. M. B., Chicago, 111., box of shoes.
F.XPENDED.
Ppflviouslr renorted -HA 50
PuHn-Bay postage 25
John Van Winkle, Order No. 4.. lo 00
John Montieth. Order No. 5 15 00
J. C. Richards, Order No. 6 15 00
John Sturm. Ordor No. 7 20 00
Henry Keuchel, Order No. ( 15 00
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KEY. ( HAS. ( II1M(JI Y.
He AiihwerH Some Knimiii
Lies in
His
liiiiniial Way.
Montreal, 05 Hutchison Street, ih
December, 1894. To My Lord Fabre,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal.
My Lord: Your besieging me with
your priests and priestesses, during my
last sickness, is tho reason of ray ad
dressing you this letter.
I am perfectly cured, my Lord; my
bodily strength is so perfectly restored
that I write you this letter without the
use of my spectacles, and my hand does
not shako more than when I was only
I!0 years old, though I am in my Stith
year.
Yes, my Lord, I am cured, perfectly
cured, though I have not had a single
drop of your waters of Notre Dame de
L'nirdes, and without iroing to the
Goxl St. Anne of Reaupre!
I am cured in spite of the maledic
tions of the bishops and priosts of Rome
And, what will puzzle you the more,
I am cured, perfectly cured, without
having accepted any one of your medals
or scapulaires without even having
bought any of your blessed candles
which I might have got from you for
15 cents!
But, to prevent you from suspecting
that the devil alone, or some witches
could have healed such a bad man as I
am, I must give you the secret of that
cure.
May our merciful God grant that you
may have recourse to the same remedy
with the multitudes of our dear coun
trymen you are leading in the perish
ing ways of Rome.
From the very day that I broke the
chains which were tying me to the feet
of tho idols of the pope, I put myself
under the care of the best physician the
world has ever seen.
Ills name is Jesus!
He is both the Son of God and the
Son of man.
Ho came from heaven more than 1800
years ago, to save us from all our spirit
ual and even bodily miseries.
But his condition was that those who
wanted to be cured by him should not
invoke any other name but his own.
For his Apostle Peter wrote in his
Testament these very words: "There
is no other name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved."
Acts iv:12.
His Testament is called "The Gospel."
These last eighteen hundred years,
all the echoes of heaven and earth are
repeating his sweet words: "Come unto
me all ye who are heavy laden, and I
will give you rest." Matt, xi : 28.
Whatsoever ye shall ask In my name,
that I will do, that the Father may be
glorified in the Son." John xiv :13.
"If ye ask anything in my name, I
will do it." John xvi:14.
"If a man love me, ho will keep my
words; and my Father will love him,
and we will come unto him, and make
our abode with him." John xiv : 23.
"I am the true vine; ye are the
branches."
"Abide in me, and I abide in you."
John xv : 1, 2, 3, 4.
"If I bo lifted up from the earth, I
will draw all men unto me." John
xii : 32.
From the day I gave up the pope to
follow Christ, 1 have found more and
more every day that the greatest j ys,
the greatest happiness iu this world,
was to love and serve him. I have
kept myself, then, united to him with
all the faculties of my heart and my
soul, as being my only light, my only
strength, mv only wisdom, and I have
always found him true to his promises.
But when I found that it was good to
be united to that mighty and merciful
friend in the days of prosperity, I have
found that it was still more my interest
to be united to him in the days of trial
through which I had to pass.
Ho was my shield when I was at
tacked by the thousands of assassins
whom you, or your priests, have so
often sent to take away my life, either
with their pistols.or with their murder
ous sticks, or with their sharp stones,
When these stones were falling upon
me as hail in a stormy day, in the
streets of Montreal, Quebec, Halifax,
Charlottetown, Antigonish, Ottawa,
etc., 1 was throwing myself into the
arms of that mighty and loving friend,
I was pressing myself on his heart
and I felt secure as a little child woen
la bis loviDL' mother s arms. I was in
voking his almighty name, ana h
seemed I was seeing his merciful arms
around me to protect me. I was hear-
Imr his sweet voice tellins me: "rear
B
not, I am with thee!"
And when I was escaping from my
would-be murderers' hands, bruised,
wounded, bleeding, I felt happy for
having suffered something for the sake
of that beloved Saviour, who on the
cross had shed His blood for me.
Rut it is when I was attacked by the
last terrible sickness that I felt the
non-ssitv of havinc that miiihty and
merciful Friend near me as my Physl
cian.
With Peter 1 cried: "Lord, save
me."
And you can come and see, with what
merciful and mighty hand he has come
to my help and cured me!
You may imagine my surprise and
my sadness when, in that very time, I
suw your priests and priestesess coming
to tell me that I was out of the way of
salvation, and that I was to be damned
if I would not come back to the church
of Rome, of which you are a bishop.
For, what had these priests of Rome
ti give me to take tho place of that
divine friend and physician, Jesus the
Son of God, that I might forgot that Ho
was my only hope, my only life, my
only Saviour, my only refuge?
What did they offer me to prevent
me from saying with Paul: "I do not
want to know any other but Jesus and
Him crucified0''
They had nothing but a few rags,
called scapulaires, and some small idols
of copper, iron and silver, probably
found in the crumbling remains of the
temple9 of Venus, Minerva, Bacchus
and Jupiter!
Yes! what had your priests to give
me that I might forget ai.d forsake that
dear Saviour Jesus, whose presence In
my heart was, very often, making me
so happy that I was not only forgetting
my terrible sufferings, but was chang
ing those sufferings into feelings of un
speakable joy?
They had to offer me a little god, only
about one inch In diameter, made with
a little cake baked by their servant
girls between two heated Irons?
Re not surprised, then, if I have
ordered those ambassadors of Rome out
of doors with the utmost indignation!
Here, My Lord, allow mo a few re
marks. Since more than thirty years that I
separated myself from the church of
Rome, 1 have hardly been a single day,
when in good health, without asking,
supplicating, even challenging you and
your priests to come and show me what
you call my errors.
Thousands of times, I have told you
that I would, with pleasure, go back to
the feet of your pope and suomit myself
to his authority, if you had had the
kindness to show me, before the world,
that the Apostle Peter has been to
Rome, that the present pope is his
legal successor, and that that apostle
with all your popes have received from
Christ the power to rule over His
whole church?
I have requested you many times, and
1 do request you again today, to show
me, in a public conference, that your
au-icular confession is a sacrament
established by Christ, and that it has
been always practiced as it is today in
your church. When I pledged myself
to show, from the authority of your best
Roman Catholic authors, that it is of
pagan origin, and that it is in use in
your church only from the dark ages.
In that public conference I will ask
you to show me the next of the gospel
which allows you to let the poor people
burn in the flames of purgatory because
tLev have no money, when you so
quickly draw out of that burning furn
ace the rich who fill your hands with
the gold which, very often, they have
stolen from those very poor people?
I have another favor to ask you in
that public conference
It will be to show me a Gospel text
which allows you to send to hell, as
guilty of a mortal sin, the poor" man
who, in' lent, has eaten a piece of solid
lard, even not bigger than my thumb,
and that you allow him to go to heaven
as a true christian, if he eats that piece
of lard when it is melted in his soup?
I will have three other questions to
ask from your lordship, in that public
conference. 1st. It will be to show me
how it is that you cannot make a living
frog, or a living grasshopper, nor even
a small living fly, you, nevertheless.are
so powerful that you can make millions
and million f living chrisU, living
god. with little takes baked in your
kitchens by your servant girls?
2nd. How jou lave the pjwer to
shut ui those chrWU, geds, in your
talieruaeles. when Paul tells you so
clearly and jKisilivcly that such a thing
cannot lie done, as we ste by the follow
irg clear words of the Gospel:
"For Christ is not entered into the
holy places made with hands, which
are the figures of the true; but into
heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for u."-Hebrews ix.,24.
"Gud that made the world and all
things therein, seeing that He is Lord
of heaven and earth, dwelltth not in tem
ples made with hands." Acts xvii., 24.
When at that conference I will also
ask vou to show me the text of the Gos
lel which does authorize you to advise,
if not to force, so many men and women
(priests, monks and nuns) to make vows
of celibacy, and to promise they will
never marry, when God Himself, in the
Bible, is so evidently opjiosed to such
vows, as you may see by the following
texts:
' And the Lord God said: It is not
good that man should be alone. I will
make him a helpmeet for him.'" Gen.
xl., IS.
"To avoid fornication, lot every man
have his own wffe; and every woman
her own husband." 1 Cor. vii., 2.
"Now the bpirit speaketh expressly,
that in the latter times some shall de
part from the faith, giving heed to se
ducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Forbidding to marry, and com
manding to abstain from meats which
Gcd hath created to be received with
ilinnUstfivin. of them which believe
and know the truth."! Timothy iv,
1, 2, 3.
You have never been brave enough
to come and discuss those matters with
me so long as I was in good health and
able to answer you. The only answer
you have given has boen to send mur
derers with sticks, stones and pistols to
kill me. But as soon as you hear that I
am so sick that I can hardly move my
head on my pillow, you become brave,
you besiege me with your priests,under
the pretext of showing me my errors,
and bring me back to the church of
Rome!
But do you not fear that even your
school-boys will see that there is lack of
courage in you? Will they not feel
that you have no confidence in your own
cause?
When I was sick and unable to answer
the arguments of your ambassadors, I
have refused to see them. I asked my
people to turn them out of doors in the
most unceremonious way. For I was
really indignant. But, today, thanks
be to God, I am well and able to meet
and answer you.
V you were sincere in your efforts to
bring me back to your church, come to
day and show me my errors. I am able
to hear and answer you. I will open
you all the doors of my house, and I
will be the most happy man in receiv
ing you In my humble home and giving
you all the honor and respect due to
your high position and to my own par
sonal esteem for you.
We will meet and discuss as true gen
tlemen. Bishops and priests of Canada, if you
grant me the favor of that public dis
cussion, I will also ask you to show me
the text of the Gospel which told you
to hang our heroic patriots of 1S37 aad
1838.
For the French-Canadian people have
not forgotten that it was the desire of
General Colborue to let them live,when
the bishop of Montreal said: "Hang
them! ! !"
You had excommunicated and cursed
them before the battles! As much as
it was in your power, you had tied and
paralyzed their strong arms, when on
the battle fields, that theyi might not
conquer, and, pot satisfied with that
When they were defeated, you
ordered them to be hung!
What crime had they committed to
be so cruelly, so unmercifully treated
by you?
Ah! They had so much loved their
dear country, which is yours and mine,
that they thought it worthj to Bhed
their blood to make it free.
The stern voice of historical itruth
tells you that a handful oi Jinsolent ty
rants had taken the notion ithat the
French-Canadians were good only to
draw their water and cut their wood.
More and more every day they were
trampling under their feet our most
precious and sacred rights; they were
not concealing their minds that, just
as the neg-oes of the southern states
were destined to serve their white
masters, so the children of the French-
Canadians, conquered on the p,ains of
Abraham, were fit only to serve their
conquerors.
The only crime of our heroic patriots
was, that they thought it was better to
die free men than to live slaves.
Has not noble England, after the
bloody days of St. Charles and Saint
Eustache, taken the defence of our pa
triots? Has she not appuded when
her most eloquent parliament ora
tors with Lord Brougham, Lord Dur
ham, etc., etc., declared that the
French-Canadian patriots were among
the noblest men of our age: that they
had fought and die! for the defence of
their rights and to prove it, has not
that noble English nation granted to us
all the rights and privileges for which
those heroic countrymen fought and
diei?
Are you so blind and so igrorant of
the history of your own country as to
Ignore those facte?
Among the heroes who shed their
blood in those days for you and for me,
there was one who was the bravest
among the brave. The pages or old
and modern history have no record of
any moro daring, brave and devoted a
soldier of liberty than Chemer.
Rut why is it that the very name of
Chenier still fills your heirts with fear
and rage?
Not satisfied with cursing that
French-Canadian hero, in his life and
in his death, you want to degrade his
memory, you want his body to be buried
in the open fields with the carcass of
the brute animals!
Why so?
It is only because the name of that
heroic patriot is forever mixed with
the love of liberty!
You hope that by destroying the first,
you will make the people forget the
se ond. For it is only on slaves you
want and you can rule.
Rut you are mistaken.
Wherever there is a French-Canadian
heart on the borders of. our grand St.
Lawrence river, it heats with a holy
emotion at the spotless names of Papin
eau and Chenier. Every true French
Canadian, in spite of your fulmination,
is proud of having had such an elo
quent apostle of liberty in the first, and
such a heroic martyr of liberty in the
second one.
In spite of you, the seeds of fraternity,
equality and liberty, which Christ has
brought from heaven to save the op
pressed nations from the hands of their
Oppressors anu tyrants, are Dearing
their blessed fruits in Canada.
When you trample under your feet
those sacred seeds of liberty, the hour
is coming fast whenthe French-Canadian
people, with the.holy gospel in hand,
will settle their accounts with you.
In that day your high citadels will
crumble in Canada as they luve crum
bled in England, France, Germany,
Mexico, &c.
Th'atday, the French-Canadians will
accept the word of God to guide them:
and that word will make them free.
Thanks be to Godjthereare many min
isters of the gospel who are much more
learned than I am in all the arguments
about the facts and doctrines on which
we differ. I will Invite;two or three of
them to help me in that conference, and
you will select as many priests as you
dsh to refute and answer me.
If you show to the people ;that I am
wrong, I will ask your pardon for what
I have said and done against the church
of Rome, and I will again submit my
self to your pope. But if you cannot
show that, I will, with the help of God,
so long as I live, continue to .show to
our dear countrymenljthat the church
of Rome, with her priests, bishops and
popes, is nothing else but thaVanti
christ, that man of sin of which'the gos
pel speaks when it says:
"Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shalliiot come, ex
cept there comes a falling away first,
and that man of sin be revealed, the
son of perdition, who opposeth and ex
alteth himself above all that is called
God, or that is worshipped. So that
he as God sltteth in the temple ofGod,
showing himself that he is God.
" . . For the mystery of iniquity
does already work. Only he who now
letteth will let, until he be taken out of
the way.
"And when shall that wicked be re
... vealed whom the Lord shall consume
with the spirit of His mouth and shall
destroy wi;h the brightness of His
coming.
' Even him whose coming is after the
working of satan, with all power and
signs and lying wonders.
"And with all decelvablenesslof right
eousness in them that perish; because
they receive not the love of the truth.
that they might be saved.
And for this cause, God shall send
them strong delusions that they should
believe a lie,
That they all might be damned who
believe not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonions,
ii., 3-12. Truly and respectfully yours.
C. ClIINIQUY, D. D.
Temperance Apostle of Canada.
Pond's
Extract
cures
ALL PAIN
INFLAMMATIONS
AND
HEMORRHAGES.
One drop of l-nml's l xtraet trorlh
more thnn a tnhlrtpoonful of
CHEAP SUBSTITUTES,
MADE CRt'DELY,
WHICH DO NOT CURE.