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REV. Dii. Dearhohn, one of the
ablest and most fearless exponent of
true Americanism, and the state presi
dent of the A. P. A. in Missouri, Is
making a tour of the state, visiting the
several councils and giving the boys
some much needed instruction and
aotne valuable a Iv'ce.
Edward J. Doyle, who fourded the
Loyal American and has acted as its
editor for twi years, announced In the
issue of February 1 that he would retire
from the paper with that Issue He
operat d a branch of his paper In Chi
cago during April, May and June, of
last year, but found the fiela unprofit
able, and retired.
Mr. E. II. LONO, a promlnei t young
attorney of Grand Ilaplds, Mich., will
be a candidate for the office of state
secretary of the Michigan state council
at it next annual session to be held in
Saginaw in February. Friend Long is
an experienced society man of great
executive ability and no better choice
could be made by the friends of Michi
gan.
E. II. Walsh, who was editor of the
Primitive Catholic, of Brooklyn, for
more thau eleven years, has laid aside
the mantle of this life and put on the
robes of immortality. He was at one
time a Trappist Monk, but became con
verted, and, like Rev. Chiniquy, Bishop
McNamara and Rev. J. J. O'Connor,
set about trying to enlighten his former
co-religionists as to the beauties of true
Christianity and the comfort derived
from belief and trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ. May he rest in peace.
The Republican party of Chicago
will hold its primaries next Wednesday
and its convention the day following.
As many of our readers as adhere to
the faith of Republicanism should be
on hand at ihe primaries." There is
the place where the dirty work is al
ways done, and there la where the hon-
st laborer, the competent mechanic
and the conservative businessman mut
meet and defeat the ward heelers and
hoodlums. II the latter class put up
and choose the delegates reform is en'
tirely out of the question. The dele
gates they choose nominate the candl
dates for the various offices and you are
forced to vote for them or bolt your
party nominees. Take a hand at the
primaries and If the disreputable ele
ment does not like the nominations
your delegates make, let them bolt
l.OYAL PATRIOTIC LEAGUE.
The Jesuit are trolling.
They see the A. 1. A., the graodeet
order thla country ha ever produced,
racked and torn, it not completely
recked, by the very men who should be
lu moat earnest, and IU mot consistent
Iriends.
What Jesuitism has been unable to
accomplUh, after year of unremitting
loll, these loyal, these patriotic men
have done in barely half a year.
And why?
Not btvaune they hated America!
Not because they did not believe the
Roman hierarchy a constant menace to
our tree public schools and their indi
vidual liberty:
Not because they did not love the
principles of the order!
No; not because of these things, but
because they conceived the Idea, right
fully or wrongfully, that the order was
being prostituted to further the Inter
est of a few politicians, and they re
belled.
The dissatisfaction was but a murmur
at first as soft as the evening gepbyr.
Itut as the weeks and months rolled
by, It grew In force, until it broke, on
Tuesday, a veritable hurricane.
And when the storm went down,
when the waves of indignation had
spent their force, seventeen magnlficant
A P. A. bark lay Uon the storm-
swept shore, their musts and rudders
gone, their hulls stove in, their com
passes and life-boats washed away, and
not an officer nor a member of the crew
nor a passenger remained upon a single
one of those dismasted, ruderless hulls.
A number of officers are reported
saved.
Hut tho beautiful barks In which they
set sail to obtain political purity and
complete freedom of mind and con
science, by annihilating priestly Influ
ences In our affairs of state, have no
charms for them today.
And why?
Because, while In the heyday of ex
istence, their crafts came In contact
with others that were flying the same
beautiful ensign, were painted with the
color emblematic of purity, and were
oftloered by men who possessed like
countersigns, yet who are accused of
attempting to scuttle the ships compos
ing the first fleet, because they would
not deviate from the course mapped
out; who when they refused to steer
In their direction, placed an embargo
upon them.
, The officer of the first fleet lodged
no complaint with the supreme officer
of the crafts, which are accused of at
tempting to induce them to become
pirates, so far as we have been able to
learn, but h ve rebelled and set up an
Independent government, without even
asking for satisfaction or redress,
This certainly is an unheard of pro
ceeding.
It is a proceeding that would indicate
that their cause was weak or that the
supreme eflloer of the A. P. A. was an
unscrupulous, designing, corrupt and
dishonest official. Aye, they have
charged that, if the dally papers can
be arelled upon; and right there is
where the ship wrecked crews and this
paper part company. We do cot be
lieve W. J. II. Traynor is corrupt, we
do not belleva him unscrupulous, wo do
not believe him dishonest, we do not
believe he ha designs against any
thing but political Romanism, and we
do not believe the A. P. A., as a body,
is the "enemy of free speech, a free
press, liberty of conscience, religious
liberty and political Independence, "
but we do believe that some of the state
officers of the A. P. A. of the state of
Illinois have, and are now, attempting
to subvert the principles of the order
for their own personal aggrandizement,
that they are and have attempted to
muzzle the press this portion of it
by placing a boycott upon it for lis
fearless stand against their corrupt and
partisan methods; yet we are not going
to condemn the hole order because
few politicians who, having secured
control of it, are spending a good por
tion of their time In fighting this paper
simnlv because it will not advocate
their side of the issue.
The A. P. A. is good enough for us.
It is good enough for any man, or any
set of men, if the principles are lived
up to, and if they are not lived up to
it will be but a short time before the
people discover it, and retribution will
follow.
The declaration of principles of the
newly organized anti-A. P. A. order as
published in the Chicago Herald are
given below:
"Equal rights to every true citizen,
regardless of color, creed or former
nationality.
The constitution of the United
States and of the several states and
the laws based thereupon.
"The absolute separation of the state
from the church.
"The protection of a non-sectarian
public school system.
"That no citizen shall be proscribed
because of his religious belief from any
of the privileges guaranteed to him by
the constitution of the United States,
nor shall any organization, either secu
lar or religious, be permitted to adopt
any test whereby its members are obli
gated, coerced on intimidated to act in
violation of the constitutional pro
visions for the guarantee of religious
liberty.
"That any organization, either civil
or eoclelatlcal, that violate In lu
eoDftltutlon and obligation the inde
pendence of the citizen voter, the right
of free speech, religious liberty, liberty
of conscience and the freedom of the
pre I a conspiracy against republican
Institutions.
"That do true citizen patriot can be
an unscrupulous artliaD politician."
The lhrald further says:
The new principle were adopted
without a ditsenting voice. An open
letter of Professor Sims to W. J. II.
Tray nor, supreme president of the A.
P. A., was read, in which the professor
staled his reasons for renouncing all
allegiance to the secret proscription,
un-American practices, unjutt and Il
legal acts, corrupt political machinery
of the A. P. A. In these reasons Mr.
Sim staled that he could sustain the
following charges against It:
"1. Its secret partisan political
methods are a conspiracy against the
rights of American citizenship ami a
menace to honest popular government.
"2. It constitution by which des
potic power as vested in its officers is a
violation of the constitution of the
several states and of the United States
and a menace to the persona! liberty of
Its members.
' 3. Its usurpation of powers such as
are alone vested in the constitutional
courts of the republic, and its refusal to
allow Its members to appeal from its
actions to the civil courts, make it or
ganized Insurrection.
"4. Its so-called advisory boards, in
which are vested all the political action
and liberty of its members, is a con
splracy to control their franchises of
citizenship in violation of the conslitu
tlonal and legislative provisions and
laws for tho protection of tho independ'
ence of the'cltl.en voter.
"5. Its systematic persecution of its
members and councils by the secret
propagation of slanderous and libelous
accusations, suspensions and expulsions
by Its officers for refusing to comply
with their unjust, arbitrary and illega
dictatorship Is dcpotlo and un-Atnerl-
tan.
"0. Its claim to be a protective as
sociation of the liberal institutions
which are founded upon the constitu
tion under existing conditions Is a mis
nomer, under cover of which it is or
ganized as a secret political machine
run in the interests of boodllng poli
ticians.
7. As now constituted and con
trolled it is the enemy of free speech,
a free press, liberty of conscience, re
ligious liberty and political independ
ence." The letter was indorsed unanimously.
The national officers of the Loyal Patri
otic League are:
President Walter Sims.
Vice President Arthur E. Gam mage.
Chancellor J. B. Ellacott. '
Chaplain Ar.hur W. Slaught, M. D.
Secretary William E. Ser Vis.
Treasurer Joshua Boydell.
The cabinet was asked to prepare a
constitution and by-laws for the league,
and the next meeting will be held at
the sb m 3 place March 11.
Council No. 1, of Butte, Mont., of
tho A. P. A., has adopted ttrong reso
lullonsagalnst Edwin S. Booth, Stephen
Williams and David Lawrence, mem
bers of that council, who, as members
of the legislatureof Montana, castthelr
votes for Tom Carter, the Romanist,
for United States senator. The mem
bers of the c luccil, by reeolutions
unanimously adopted, branded them as
traitors, and agreed to neither trade
with nor consult, associate with socially,
vote for, appoint or recommend for ap
pointment, the sa d Bjoth, Williams
or Lawrence,. The men deserve all the
lgnomy their act has brought upon
them, but our friends have not strength
ened the order by declaring a boycott.
This Is not a principle of the A. P. A.
The sentence the council should have
passed upon Boot' , Williams and Law
rence is "politic 1 oblivion." Tht
would mean a great deal to an ambit
ious man, but it would not give the
enemies of the order an opportunity of
saying, "You condemn the Romans for
boycottihg, yet practice it yourselves.
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was adopted by a majority exceeding
50,0)10. The people Lave suffered long.
They bare been patient. They show a
disposition to suffer yet a few more
year, but we caution the churches
against an unseemly interference with
the will of the people.
Ill M IX M.iVI KY
la ( bun b and Slate are the Inventions
if !ihouet Men In Etrry Aice, In
Etery ( lime.
Before religion became a combina
tion of religious and political trusts, to
control the souls and the bodies of the
people in general, it was necessary to
teach religion first. The root of the
word religion means to re-bind body
and roul to hi me mythical being, no
person, living or dead, shall ever know.
He Is an omnipresent being. None but
the ecclesiastic fraternity know the
being that baa caused people and
nations to fight for their civil and re
ligious freedom. Read the Bible as It
Is published by priests, and you will
learn the delusion and consider you are
not getting a perfect unbiased history
of human events in the past, no more
than you do at the present time, when
priests fashion tbelr conduct to suit
themselves. Moses and his brother
Aaron, gives to mankind the first or
ganization of church and state schemes
lor absolute power over tho Israelites,
who could neither read or write to teach
their slavery to an oligarchy. Tho
Lord said to him, not to the people
whom he enticed out of Egypt, by the
crafty delusions he learned from his
father-in-law, Priest Zethro Ilagnel,
the high priest of Madlun, but to him
alone: "See, I have made thee a God
to Pharoah, and Aaran thy brother
shall ke thy prophet." Exodus VII,
1.
The crafty priests of the Fif
teenth century says this means "to be
his judge and to exercise a divine
power, as God's Instrument, over him
and his people." Have the popes of
Rome deviated from this theory since
Constantine the Great deluded tho peo
ple of his time by the absurdity of a
cross floating in the air with the Greek
inscription, so said, "Under this thou
shalt conquer?" Such delusions, r&
liglon has always Invented, to control
body and soul of mankind.
Boniface III, made pope in GOG, es
tablished by the civic power of tho Em
peror Phocas, the superiority of the
popes of Rome over the patriarchs,
The Chalcedon emperor seized the em
pire by the murder of the Emperor
Maurice and his children in 602. The
Greek church has never been reconciled,
and the church of Antioch and Alex
andria went out of ex.stence by the
political and religious iufluence of the
god of Rome. Boniface VIII, the
Moses of his time, in 1291, hurled the
thunder of the Vatican against the
kings of Denmark and France, and de
clared that God had made bim Lord
over kings and kingdoms. Philip III
of France, the hardy, despising his
threat?, bad him seized by force, but
he escaped from his guards, because
they were Roman Catholics, and he
fled to Rome, where he died iu 1303.
Under his Mossalc God influenc, the
inquisition was established in Narbonne
Gaul, and committed to Dominie and
his order, who treated the Waldcnses
and other reported heretics with most
Inhuman cruelty. If they hud hud the
power in 1776 what would they not
have done to Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson,
to leave God out of the American con
stitution? How h? the Vatican working
the papal schemes in America in this
age? Her pledged priest all over this
country, with their Catholic press, are
deluding the innocent worshippers of
Roman theology, as Moses did the
Israelites. Cardinal Rampolla, the
papal secretary, has more official au
thority here than George M. Pullman,
the monied lord of palace car notoriety.
From the Vatican, Cardinal Gibbons,an
ecclesiastical high grade officer of Pope
Leo XIII, administers a reproof to
Bishop McQuald for the pope's so-called
deplorable violation of his church dis
cipline in exposing the crafty political
schemes of Archbishop Ireland with
the Republican candidates for office.
The American people have their hered
itary disease exposed, but the pope, in
his piety, does not want to be frus
trated. Cardinal Gibbons might term
this "Catholic scientific research." If
the pit riots and defenders of the Amer
ican republic and their public schools
are not protected from the influence in
educating the children, and their in
flue nee in politics, corrupt politicians,
and the representatives of the people,
by religious and political scheming,
they will be bought and sold for the
honor and glory of God, and His repre
sentative, Pope Leo XIII, whjisGod,
and satan in the garden of paradise.
Americans are politically afraid to con'
demn their practices for fear they would
lose a vote. Bankers and trusts are
afraid to meddle with their religious
Intrusion, as they are striving to get
rich on the toil of others. Silence is
their policy on all church questions.
Their ideas are let the people Dht our
wars if necessity requires it. Let the
American citizen from all countries and
creeds remember, where the Vatican of
Rome or its priests are recognized by
the civil authorities, their sugar-coated
sophistry means to praise, and then
decoy. Who sold Ireland to England?
The pope of Rome. Who gave recog
nition to the secession of the southern
state? Pope Plu IX from his Vatican
at Rome. Who killed Abraham Lin
coln? Roman Catholic assassin. Who
destroyed the Irish rebellion of -H in
Ireland? The Roman Catholic priest.
Roman Catholic ideas are fixed for their
civic or religious life thus: "Tn Is de
cision should settle the qucs ion for
every true Catholic, the vicar of Christ
ha spoken, and prompt obedience is
the only answer tibe given by Catho
lics." Yes, Moses has sioken to the
Isr;e lus in the name of Lrd, God,
Jehovah, Almighty Ruler of Mount
Sina; you must not question his divine
right to rule. The Celtic god, Beltaln,
was a better god for the ancient Celts
In Ireland than the swap that was made
by St. Patrick to the pope of Rome
The rulers put Jesus of Nazareth to
death b, -cause he blasphemed Gud, and
Moses put Jerome of Prague and thous
ands of others to death lor not ooeying
the pope of Rome.
The union of Ireland and England is
the union of sharks. One takes care of
the immortal soul of the Irish peasant,
and the other takes care of his body
while living, while he can serve In the
army and navy, to defend the divine
right of kings, "i am the Lord; there
is no Saviour beside me." Isaiah
XLIILll. Hosea, or Osee, XIII: 4.
It is known in this age, or in the past
ages, that Roman piiests and Roman
writers are like the common fish
monger, they never cry stinking fish;
they abandoned the emblem of the
apostles to establish a cross to suit the
ambition of Cons'antine the Great, who
had no moral or religious purity. The
popes of Rome have always endeavored
by their examples to rule church and
state. The Roman hierarchy was al
ways hypocritical in all the past his
tory from the Fourth century. In this
age they say something mil mean some
thing elsa. Is their literature not as
fabulous as the expressions of St. Peter,
who jumped, and swore he did not
know Jesus. Si. Mark, XlV:71; Luke,
XXII:57 58; St. John, XVIII:17-25.
This Peter, or the rock of Rome, said
to Jesus: "Though I should die with
Thee, I will not deny Thee." St. Mat
thew, XXVL35 72 74. Let priests or
Catholic writers solve the question:
Was Simon Peter a better man than
Judas Iacario,? The gold rings that
popes or their emissaries use as the
unity of the church and the unity of
the faithful, Is a religious delusbn, like
the Romish service book (Lectlonary)
their history of religion is a legend.
Let all nations and people impartially
read their Bible, and they will find
God and satan on the seven hills of
Rome in sunny Italv, where they have
lived for centuries by deceit.
M. H. B.
Some Figures.
The Inter Ocean in comparing the
statistics of immigration, says: The
Immigration Restriction League's pub
lication No. 5 notes a decrease of 3i per
cent in the number of immigrants that
arrived during the year 1894, as com
pared to 1893, the totals ling 440,793
and 228,020. It also notes an increase
of zeal In enforce i ent of the law regu
lating the quality of Immigrants, 2,389
persons having been debarred from en
trance on the ground of unfitness during
1894, against 1,630 in 1893.
The number of immigrants Is subject
to offset by the numb3r of emigrants;
190 840 persons having left the Unitl
Sta es during 1894, two-thirds of whom
are described as "immigrants," by
wnich we suppose Is mcai t aliens whose
slay in tne united btates was very
brief. These figures do not comprise
the return to their own ountries of
psrsons who came thither with intent
to make a visit only, but are confined
to the return of those who came with
more or less defined purpose of making
homes here, and who were dissatisfied
with the outlook. Thus the account
for 1894 stands:
Immigrants landed 288.020
Deduct Immigrants who became emi
grants 126,22ft
Net Increase of population by immigra
tion 161,7!4
This is the least addition that has
been made by aliens to our population
in any one ver during the last quarter
of a century.
Furthermore, few of the Immigrants
received during 1894 were skilled la
borers; but one in four of those from
Scotland, one in five of those from Eng
land and Wales, one in seven of those
from Belgium, one in nine of those
from France, one in ten of those from
Germany and Scandinavia, one in four
teen of those from Italy, one in eighteen
of those from Russsa, one in twenty
three of those from Poland, and one in
twenty-nine of thosefrom Austria-Hun'
gary being craftsmen.
The ratio of illiteracy varied greatly
between the nationalities that swelled
our population during the past year.
Ninety-nine out of every 100 of the Ger
man and Scandinavian immigrants
were able to read and write in their own
langiages. More than ninety-eight
per cent of the English, Scotch, and
Freuch immigrants could read and
write. Ninety-four out of every 100
Irish were masters of the rudiments of
education. But thirty-five out of every
100 Italians, twenty-three out of every
100 Russians, twenty-seven out of every
100 Poles, and thirty-one out of every
100 Hungarians were ignorant of the
use of letters.
The figures compiled by the league
for the restriction of Immigration indi
cate and emphasize the need of revision
of our law io order that the wholly
illiterate add wholly unskilled labor of
Europe may not further crod and cod
tamlnatetbe great cltiesof this country.
TO AMERICANS.
Have you ever been hungry?
Have your c hildren shivered and
cried from cold and insutlicient
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 by 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 Ave call upon our liberal,
patriotic, unselfish, humane,
christian American citizens to
extend whatever relief lies in
their power.
The following perrons have sent to
this office the following amounts in
cash:
Previously reported $140 07
E. S., Chicago, 111..- 1 00
J. M. Hughes, Line Springs, la. . 75
A. G. Hollander, Co. Bluffs. 1 CO
W. N. WThitney, box of shoes.
EXPENDED.
Previously reported $126 75
Mer. Ex. Co., drayage 50
Win. WThitney, shoes 2 00
John Van Winkle, order No. 9... 15 00
A dispatch irom New York
under date of February 10, shows the
old, Intolerant spirit of Romanism. The
spirit which Protestant apologists
would have us believe was a thing of
the past, but which we know. exists to
day and will exist as long as Romanism
shall endure. The thing rthat has
called that slumbering Bpirlt into life
is the play "Gismonda," which Miss
Fanny Davenport has been. appearing
in in New York, and the dispatch gives
this account of the situation; "Trouble
seems to be brewing for Fanny Daven
port. The success of 'Gismonda' is
tempered with the disapproval of the
large Catholic element of this city,
which is outraged bacause of the free
use made of the m )st sacrei portions of
church worship on the stage. 3 This dis
approval has already baen expressed in
most emphatic manner, and in a way
that has sUrlled the actress Miss
Davenport was surprised 4at the falling
off in the audien Jes ths second week,
but the cause wa soon -made apparent
when she received scores of letters from
prominent Catholics criticising 'Gis
monda in strong terms, iThe portions
o' the play which the Uatiolicj most
o'ljecs to are the secondhand fifth acts.
In the second, the cloister at Dophnl la
shown with the nuns singing. This
entire act is within the cloister, and,
while itlearesa bad taste Injthe mouth
of any honest Romanist, it is palatable
compared with the fifth. C Easter Sun
day Is being celebrated whea the cur
tain goes up for the last time in the
church of Santa Maria. The censor is
swung: tin bishop p3rfornu the func
tions of his priestly office, granting ab
solution to the wicked duchessi for the
murder of Ziccarlah. It is to all this
which the Romanists object, and aleo
to the profanation of the pipe's name.
There Is no aotual boycDtt-i of 'Gis
monda,' but the run of'the play will not
close In New York in a blaze of. glory."
If Miss Davenport and ,her,i manager
have the nerve to stand out against the
boycott of Rome and atnalater date
make a tour of the countryj and visit
this city, we will assure her that there
will not be an opera house'in 'the city
large enough to bold the crowds that
will flock to see her in "Gismonda."
Don't be dictated to, MissDavenport.
We are not all Roman Cathlto slaves.
What is it Furl
Cairo, 111., February 4th, 1895.
Editor The American: Way down in
Cairo we are thinking about the spring
election, and many of us ask ourselves
what is a government for? Ia the past
it has been something like this, a full
deaa drunk Irishman, going to jail
with a half drunken Irish policeman, to
be locked up and fed by another h ilf or
three quirter drunkdn Irish jailor.
Wonder if our American citizens feel
like continuing a city government with
officers who have no higher aspirations
who think no more of our money than
tospend it in this manner just because
their wives are Romanits and know no
better than to follow a '.priest's dicta
tion? It is truly time we were awaken
ing to the needs of the hour and asking
what are we here for? and to say
strongly we have had enough of that
kind of govern uent, and go to the polls
and see that no more such officers are
elected.
A SUBSCRIHEIt AND BUSINESS MAN.