THE AMEBIC
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A WEEKLY"".-. i'APEK.
VOLCMK V.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Last week we stated that
Council No. 1, of Butte, Mont., of
the A. P. A., had adopted strong reso
lutions against Edwin S. Booth, Stephen
Williams and David Lawrence, mem
ber of that coun'-.il, who, as member
of the legislature of Montana, cast their
votes for Tom Carter, the Romanist,
for United States senator. We also
8 ated that the cmnell, by resolutions
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 said Booth, Williams
or Lawrence. Since publishing that
Information we have received a set of
resolutions from Council No. 7, of the
same city couched in the same language,
aod directed against Charles R. Leon
ard, E. II. Metcalf and Howard Paschal,
who had voted for Tom Carter also,and
had resigned their membership in the
order. Resolutions are no good, boys;
acts are what count. We don't like a
boycott, but men of the calibre of the
six men who have been branded by our
Mends in Butte as traitors, deserve all
the punishment the law will allow their
constituents to inflict. There are too
many traitors to the interests of the
t people occupying public positions to
day. Learn them a lesson.
. Ouk friends the enemy in
Kansas City, Mo., seem determined
to keep up their reputation as dissen
tion breeders. For 6ome time they have
engaged in a lively war among them
selves, and, unless signs are read amiss,
the end is not yet. It all comes about
over a business transaction.and a money
loosing one at that, unless the firm had
been receiving money from other
sources than through ligitimate busi
ness channels. As near as we can get
at the matter, T. A. Casey and John
McAneny, two priest-ridden papists,
formed a partnership last August, and
began a publication, an anti-A. P. A,
sheet, under the name of Columbian
Bai,iier. The material ueed in its pub
lication was never paid for, and Casey
charges McAneny with collecting money
which he never accounted for. Finally,
after a regular Donnvbrook affair, the
Banner office was closed under chattel
mortgage. Then Casey formed a new
company and, after surmounting "legal
difficulties'" launched the Columbian
Catholic on the uncertain sea of journal
L-m, the shores of which are lined with
anti-A. P. A. barks, in a dismasted,
rudderless, weather-beaten condition.
Just where the trouble will end we have
not the least idea, but the interest of
the church demands a speedly cessa
tion of hostilities.
Just at present the grand jury
is in session on Omaha, aDd the impres
sion has gained currency that there
are enough men on the panel, who are
tied up with the disreputable element
and corrupt officials, to nullify every ef
fort of the county attorney to secure an
indictment acalnst anv tfficial. This
idea has taken such a firm hold upon
some citizens that thev have gone to
the expeuse of having printed, and are
circulating through the malls, the fol
lowing manifesto, which is one of a
large number sent through the postoflice
to Samuel MacLecd. "To the honest
citizens of Omaha: Do you know that
you are living among reputed honorable
citizens of Douglas county who are at
this moment banded together for the
purpose of suppressing an investigation
of some of the most attroclous crimes
by your present grand jury? In fact
they used their influence with the
c unty commissioners and Induced them
o select men for the graDd jury that
would screen them and save them from
the penalty ol their crimes. Such, how
ever, Is the case and is it not a disgrace
to the people of this state that the stat
utes allow three or four men to make up
a list of 24 names to select a jury from.
The two leading newspapers of this city
are largely supported by well devised
methods of blackmail enacted from
wrong-doing public officials and crimin
al classes, thus making this band feel
secure in concealment. What do you
think of a state of affairs that allows
the editor of the Bee to be called before
the grand jury and allows him to refuse
to testify when it is well known that he
has in his possession many affidavits
charging grave crimes against public
officials? Wrhy is he not compelled to
divulge those official statements so that
the parties who made them might be
summoned to testify and stop his prac
tice of holding up these officers by black
mail through covert threats of expos
ure? Is it not about time that the
county commissioners were checking up
the office of the clerk of the district
court, and -accounts of differentsheriffs.
It is reported that the books of the dis
trict court's clerk show indubitable
proof ofaextorlion and malfeasance in
office to the extent of thousands of dol-
"AMERICA FOR AMERICANS. "We
lars. If the report is false it should be
cleared up; if true; the guilty parties
hould be brought to justice. Is it pos
sible that the judges of the district
court and the county attorney can es
cape responsibility if an investigation
is not made. The committee having
this matter in hand is determined to
expose all these and similar facts to the
people of Omaha, unless there is virtue
enough in the prosecuting attorney, the
grand jury and the public press to do
their duty." So runs the circular. It
may le true or it may be faUe. The
people and the editor of The American
have heard rumors of exorbinate fees
being charged by the district clerk; we
do not think that is so; we have
also heard In fact a friend of Mr.
Rosewater's told us that llosjwater
had co less than twelve and, we think
he said fifty affidavits against Soavey.
Will Mr. Ro.ewater 6tate to an anxious
public whether his friend told the
truth.
Tjik Chicago Tluus can never
say anything mean enough about the
American Protective Association, but
it over reached itself last week when
it linked that association with the new
anti-A. P. A. order which was organ
ized last week in Chicago under the
name of the Loyal Patriotic League.
The Times said: "It is difficult, it Is in
fact, almost Impossible, for the average
American to discuss calmly and quietly
the Impudent attitude taken by the so
ciety which calls itself the American
Protective Association. This congeries
of fanatics, many of them in Chicago of
Canadian birth, has taken over the con
tract of protecting America and the
Americans from the pOe of Rome, the
Irish, and other aliens of divers stocks.
The society hus split up recently owing
to the discovery that one wing of it was
corrupt, disreputable, and utterly un
principled and unworthy, and the good
men, those who by their own admission
are good men, met Tuesday in the
Masonic Temple and founded a new
American Protection Assoclation.which
Is to protect America after a fashion
unknown outside the Orange lodges of
northern Ireland. Here is one of the
planks of the platform voted through
by the Tuesday gathering: "No nat
uralized foreigner shall hold any office
in the government 61 the United States,
the several states and municipalities
thereof, or the United States army and
navy, or any military organization of
any character whatsoever.' Think of it !
Suppose these protecting Americans
had been protecting America when the
land really needed help. They would
have cut off Baron Steuben. Count Pu
laski, Lafayette, Rochambeau,Sulllvan,
Lord Stirling, and the whole company
of gallant Frenchmen who followed the
American bugles from Germantown to
Yorktown. Tbey would cut off many
of the great figures of the civil war
Sheridun, Schurz, Shields Schermer
horn, Mulligan, Mtagher, Dale, Cowes,
Ericsson, and unnumbered thousands
who poured their blood out that the
union of these state t should be perpet.
ual. Narrow bigotry is the one note of
these people. They do not seem to know
that it was Catholic Maryland which
gave America complete religious toler
ation, or that it was Archbishop Car
roll, Washington's friend, who was in
trusted with the most delicate diplom-
acv of the voung republic, ihey are
bogus Americans who have missed the
flavor of Americanism totally. They
do not set m to know that the country
needs good men, and that good men are
of us, no matter where they may be
born. If a Tesla comes here to get wid
er scientific opportunities, or if a Von
Hoist comes here to teach American
history in an American university, they
are truly naturalized when their papers
are completed. America does not
need protection, especially does it
not needj- imported protection. If
the gentlemen who prepared the
Masonic hall meeting could only
realize how completely unnecessary and
unessential they are in any scheme of
genuine American development they
would get them, much to their and our
betterment, into some lice of productive
Industry." i So spoke the Times but as
we have answered the s'a'ercents made
by the Times In an article on the fourth
page we will pass them by row, and re
fer onlv to the correction it made the
following day Feb. 15, 1895, which was
so much of a mix up that the friends of
the new order could not recognize their
own child. It read as follows: "The
Times yesterday commented with some
vigor upon the statement, prii.ted in all
the papers, that the American Protec
tive Association protested against allow
ing any naturalized foreigner to hold
any office, either federal, state, or mu
nicipal. Representatives of the organ
ization declare that its declaration of
principles was misquoted, that it was
to unnaturalized citizens they would
deny public places of honor and emolu
ment. Their actual declaration, then,
seems to have been as wholly commend
hold that all men are A nerlcans who Swear Allegiance to the United States without mental reservation n favor of
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, FKBUUAUY 22, 1S95.
able as ttie Incorrect version of it was
wholly execrable."
A CORRKSPONDKN'T frOIIlDixOll,
III., writes us as follows under date of
February 13, 1835: Mr. Clark, lecturer,
of Jacksonville, 111., arrived in Dixon
Friday afternoon, February 8th, to
make arrangements for series ol lec
tures on the aims and object of the
American Protective Association.
After securing the court house and hav
ing the bills printed for the lectures,
the sheriff refused to let him have it,
claiming that the bills were insulting
and that Mr. Clark hid got the court
house under false representation. The
facts of the case are these: After Mr.
Clark had got the bills printed and dis
tributed over the town, the Romanists
began to howl, and thej went to the
sheriff claiming that If he allowed Mr.
Clark to lecture they would serve an
Injunction on him. This wared him
so badly that he did not know whether
he was dead or alive, and he positively
refused Mr. Clark the use of the court
house. Then Mr. Clark ent to the
manager of the opera house and askod
him for the use of the opera house for
the lectures. This he positively re
fused, claiming that his patronage was
90 p.-r cent Roman Catholic, ana ne
was a candidate for mayor at the next
election, and ho could not afford to let
an A. P. A. have the opera house. It
was impossible to secure a hall, and Mr.
Clark was compelled to use the hall of
Council No. 20!), as be did not wish to
disappoint the members and their
friends. The hall is rather small.eeat
Ing prjbably 150 persons. While Mr.
Clark was distributing tho bills on the
street, he passed a livery stable owned
by Mike Gaffney. Five or six men
were inoide the stable, and Mr. Clark
stepped in and handed Mike Gaffney
and the other bystanders each a bill.
Gaffney crushed the bill back into Mr.
Clark's face, and with oaths and curses
ordered him out of the stable. Clark
complied with his request, ard when
he was on the sidewaik he noticed they
were following him. He told them to
keep their distance with the remark
that some day they would run up
against the wrong man, who would
make a lead mine out of them. They
retreated into the barn. Later in the
day, Mike Gaffney swore out a warrant
charging Mr. Clark with assault. The
constable refused to serve the warrant
until Monday afternoon, stating that
he was a Roman Catholic, but hated to
do such dirty work. Mike Gaffney and
his Romanist witnesses swore that Mr.
Clark displayed a revolver and threat
ened to shoot said Gaffney. Mr. c"Uark
being sworn testified that he carried no
revolver while in the citv and made no
assault on Mike Gaffney, only using the
expression as quoted above. Mr. Clark
was fined $50.00 and costs. He gave an
appeal bond, which was refus.-d by Jus
tice E. B. Baker, at the dictation of
Mike Gaffney, but the bond was ac
cepted by the circuit clerk, Ira Lewis.
Mr. Clark proposes to fight the case at
the April term of court. The writer
hereof can assure the public that Mike
Gaffney has bit off more than he can
chew. Mr. Clark lectured the first
night on "The American Protective
Astociation, Its Aims and Objects, and
Especially the A. P. A. Platform;" tbe
second night on "Political Romanis-m;"
and the third night to men only on
"Tbe Secret Doctrines of the Roman
Catholic Church." It was impossible
to accommodate the people at these lec
tures, and many had to be turned away.
As a patriotic lecturer, Mr. Clark is
hard to beat, and is by far the best man
we have had the pleasure to hear on
these subjects. In all of his lectures
he makes it his aim to explain tj the
audience tnat the A. P. A. is not op
posed to the Roman Catholic religion,
but that we have all respect for the re
ligious convictions of our follow men.
Councils that have not had the pleasure
of hearing Mr. Clark in a set u s of his
lectures would be profited by securing
his services.
Pkobably no state in the union
Is more alive to the dangers of Roman
aggression or insinuation than Ne
braska, and much of this state of af
fairs is due to the country press, which
has either denounced the A. P. A. or
commended the work it has and is do
ing. The latest paper to speak with
no uncertain sound is the Craig Times
It says: "The public school question
interests old and young alike, for it en
ters the home and upon it rests the
foundation of our glorious republic.
The words 'public school have a
magical influence and arouses within
the breast of every patriotic person a
feeling of loyalty and fealty towards
these institutions, and every true and
loyal American resents with vigor the
attack of any alien foe upon our cher
ished schools. The public school is the
bulwark of our nation, and the funda
mental principles taught there have
made this republic pre-eminent among
the nation of the world as an Intellec
tual ard liberty-loving nation. In the
public schools have been sown the seeds
of indi'iH-ndeni-o, patriotism and truth.
Mgr. Satolli, the papal legate, at a re
ception tendered hlra at Newjorka
short time ago, sHke on education and
deplored the fact that our public schools
lacked religious teaching. We doubt
the sincerity of such a statement. His
sKMtth was really a tirade against the
public schools and a disguised plea for
national support for tho parochial sys
tem. Wo bulievo Mgr. Katolil to lo a
man of high intellectual ability and
well informed regarding religious mat
ters pertaining esjieelally to the Roman
Catholic church. It Is unreasonable to
supK)o for a moment that the papal
legato was Ignorant of tho attitude of
the church of Rome to our public
schools. Taking it for granted that he
knew tbe attitude which his church
has always taken to our aohool system,
It ,iust necosmrily 'ollow that his
statement was made in insincerity. If
our public schools do not give true re
ligious tn lnlng, whose . fault is it?
What church, whatdenomlnation.what
sect, what body of men has ever pro
nounced against the reading of tho
Bible or tho teaching of broad religious
principles in our public schools? Among
this great conglomeration of creeds,
raoes and colors none have ever com
plained of the Word of God, or tho pre
cepts tuught in our public schools, but
the Roman Cathollo clergy. As far
back as 18(56 the official Roman Catho
lic organs, such as Freeman's Journal,
the New York Tablet and others have
used their Influence against the public
scIko'.s and condemned the reading of
the Bible there. Our magnanimous
Pro estants, to please their Roman
Catholic friends (?) ordered tho with
drawal of tbo Bible from our schools.
No sooner was this done than the cry
went up from tho throats of the Romish
clergy that the public sjhools were
'godless,' and the hierarchy hus striven
against our public schools ever since.
If the church of which Mgr. Satolll is
the head in America, is, and has been,
In favor of true religious teachings in
our p'iblic schools why did It so strenu
ously and assiduously demand the
wi:.Ldraal of the Biblu from them,
and why are they now, In to many
places, endeavoring to prevent the of
fering of the Lord's prayer at the ojien
lng of the school session? Taking Into
consideration these facts, we cannot
help belleviug that Mgr. Satolll whs
In -in 'ere when he diplorcd the absence
of religious tending in our schools
The Roman Catholic church demanded
the discontinuance of religious training
In order that it might enter a plea for
state support for separate schools. Mgr.
Satolll cares not whether religions
teaching is given in our public schools
or not. What he wants, and what his
church has been striving for, for many
years, is separate schools for Roman
Cathollo children, supported by state
funds. We trust that this un-American
and unpatriotic plan will never be ac
complished. We believe, however,
that our public schools should teach by
precept and example a true religious
spirit, unmixed with paganistic and
sectarian principles. We cannot get
too high a moral standard in our
schools. Let them go onward and up
ward toward that pinnacle of perfection
whence emanates all knowledge, right
eousness and truth. Let all who love
this, their country, stand for and co
operate with our public schools where
knowledge, patriotism and truth are
tiught, and palsied be the arm that is
raised against them. God bless our
public schools" "
A Pretty good story comes to
us from Portland, Oregon. It is to the
effect that the Romanists of TroutOale,
Oregon, had built a church and had re
quested tho archbishop to lend his au
gust presence to the dedicatory services.
Tbi9 proposition his "riverence" read
ily acceded to. The local priest also In
vited a number of lesser lights, and
otherwise prepared for a regular papist
holiday. The day for the dedication
drew near. Holy water was prepared
and a good supply of wine our in
formant says whisky was purchased
for tne occasion, l nese articles were
entrusted to a devout Romanist with
the admonition that he must be at the
Cjlumbian Beach church promptly a
the hour set for services. Thl he faith'
fully promised to di. and a few hours
later had boarded the truin for Trout-
dale. He began an examination of the
jugs and bjttles entrusted to his care
The holy water was set carefully to one
side, but the liquor he concluded should
suomit to a test. The first bottle proved
to be of high grade. It was so pleasant
to the palate that he took a second sam
ple, only to be followed by other
draughts from that and other bottles.
Before he arrived at Troutdale ho was
the happiest man in Oregon, so it was
not strange that he picked up a few
boon companions, andthat they proced-
ed with the sampling of the consecrated
Hi) nor. Morning found them all bliss
fully Ignorant of the proud march of the
Roman hosts toward Columbian Beach
church. The fact that Archbishop
Gross was there, clothed In his priestly
robes and dectced with ring and heavy
gold crews troubled not their dreams.
Yet when the hour for the Bervies drew
nigh, and he to whom the liquor and
holy water had been entrusted, ap
peared not, a courier was dispatched,
who soon returned with the informa
lion that the "drawer of water" was
drunk, bad em pled all the Kittles and
los; tho holy water. When this an
nouncement was made the dedication
was declared off and the "howly" fa
thers left in disgust, one of them re
marking that tho loss of the holy water
was of no consequence as they could
have mado plenty more, but not a man
of them could turn water Into wine.
The dedication will take place at some
future day, and we are reliably Informed
that the priests will not trust the liquor
to the keeping of one of the laity
next timn.
WASIIIMJIOX l.ETTEK.
It Is Filled mill Very Interesting In
formation.
The holy Romanists who challenged
tho members of the A. P. A. to a joint
discussion of the questions at Issue be
tween our order and tho so-called
church of Rome, are In a sad predica
ment. Bishop Ke-ane, president of the
papal university of America, led off In
the debate, and was answeied by Presi
dent Traynor. The bishop declined to
file a reply to Mr. Traynor, but put for
ward Dr. Stafford, of St. Patrick's
church and Georgetown university, to
show bow little Mr. Traynor knew a
task in which tbe "holy" priest ex
posed his own Ignorance. Messrs. Brad
field and Burch field replied to Priest
Stafford, and 'in the course of their
statement quoted from tho "Syllabus of
Errors," Issued in 1804, by Pope Plus
IX. The priest In his re-joinder claimed
that none but men of his order could
interpret so learned a document, and
that the syllabus, so far from being an
tagonistic to our principles of govern
ment, was entirely in harmony with
them. The A. P. A. men then quoted
about ithirty propositions of the sylla
bus, condemning as pestilential errors
freedom of conscience, freedom of
speech, .-eedom of the press, civil mar
riage, modern civilization, the public
echool system, and tho right of the
state to determine the limits of its own
jurisdiction, and teaching as "Catholic"
truth the superiority of the church in
all its relations to the commonwealth,
and the divine right of the church and
the pope as the bead of tho church, to
rule every human being, papist or Pro
testant. Several dally papers pub
lished this article, and then came
trouble for the innocent, child-like and
bland Dr. Stafford. He received a
diocesan reprimand for entering Into a
discussion with heretics who knew what
they were talking about, and auptly
withdrew from the arena, leaving an
article by Hon, W. S. Linton on anti-
Catholic legislation, in the hands of
the publishers, wholly unnoticed.
Twas ever thus, from childhood's hour."
These cunning Jesuits, when driven
from the field, have hidden behind sub
terfuges.
But the artful scamps will not be so
fortunate as tbey imagine. Tbey prom
ised that if any clergymen of "equal
rank" with themselves would take part
in the debate, they would continue it.
Thereupon Dr. Sunderland, pastor of
President Cleveland's church, and
Bishop Coxe, of Buffalo, were invited
to discuss the question with the papist
theologians, and will, it is said, consent
to do so. If the Jesuits can't hold their
own in a debate with a country lawyer
and a blacksmith, what mav we expect
when Coxe and Sunderland lake them
in hand9 I know their ohje:t. It is to
support Bishop .Roane's assertion that
the A. P. A. movement is the result of
religious jH-rsecution, instigated by
Protestant, or, as they say, "sectarian"
preachers. But this plea is sufficiently
refuted in advance by the fact that not
one of the men who have heretofore
participated in the debate inaugurated
by themselves has ever been a preacher.
Jo fact, the Protestant clergy and press
have until recently, with few excep
tions, held aloof from the movement;
and Bishop Keane knew this when,
with characteristic lack of truth, he as
sorted the contrary. When Blaize
Pascal denounced these Jesuits as men
tiri inipudtntissime, he hit the nai
squarely on the head. "Most impudent
liars" they are.
Speaking of the Catholic University
of America, I am reminded that the
said university has recently received
1100,000 in donations ,")0,000 from
Connecticut judge to found a chair of
political economy, and 150,000 from a
Baltimore woman to found a law de
partment. The so-called university
owns seventy acres of the finest land In
the Pope.
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the district of Columbia, and has a
number of fine edifices already con
structed. Besides thi, the papists also
have Georgetown University, which
wa established in IT, and which
owns magnificent properties, both in
Georgetown and In Washington. They
also own Conzaga College, Carroll In
stitute, and seversl convents, besides
hospitals of various kinds, and numbers
of other educational and eeU mosynary
Institutions, and sixteen parish
churches. The are all missionary es
tablishments, many of which are up
ported in whole or In part by tho gov
ernment, In pluln violation of the con
stitution; so that as a missionary field
the district of Columbia Is practically
In the hands of the enemies of the re
public. For tho Protestants, as such,
have not a single university, college, or
lobby in tho district, and thelrchurches
are being frozen out as fast as It is Km
elblo for the combined efforts of the
politicians and tho Jesuits to attain
that end. There is talk, however, of
establishing a Protestant congregation
and Paulino propaganda, which will
probably bo done on the 22nd of this
month. The Methodists, raoroover,are
trying to establish a university here,
and tho government project for a uni
versity of tho United States Is gaining
Btrength. I have already sent you the
report of tho select committee of the
senate on that subject. The papists
are fighting both schemes tooth and
nsll, and it soemB to me that our noblo
order should therefore encourage both.
A good symptom of bettor times is
that the picture of John Hamblen, the
great English statesman whoso name Is
mentioned in Gray's "Elegy," and who
so manfully withstood the encroach
ments of the papacy In tho reign of
Charles I, has been placed In the Blue
room of the White House. Possibly
Mr. Cleveland, after having given
nearly all tho offices to the papists, is
coming to his senses, like Senator
Vance, who, after voting for appropria
tions of money to Indian papal schools,
finally drank to the health of John Cal
vin. Thus the Jesuits were strength
ened and John Calvin duly honored at
the same time. Such Is statesmanship
in this God-forsaken district. The
honors go to dead Protestants; but the
papists always get the money.
The people of the state ol Washing
ton are evidently in earnest about rec
tifying the situation, and are premring
to demonstrate this fact on tbe Fourth
of July. I have been shown a letter
from Seattle In this connection, which
is interesting as showing tho progress
of the patriotic movement In that
quarter; and also the appreciation in
which Messrs. Linton and Traynor are
held on the Pacific Coast. It is as fol
lows: "Seattle, Wash., February 5, 1895.
Hon. W. S. Linton, House of Repre
sentatives, Washington, D. C Dear
Sir: At a regular meeting of the King
County Advisory Board. A. P. A., It
wa unanimously decided to have the
Fourth of July celebration, 18!l5, under
the auspices of the A. P. A , and to
make the occasion In fact, as well as In
name, the American celebration of in
dependence; that we get the best
speakers available, and that to this end
the secretary communicate with Hon.
W. S. Llnlon, and Bon. W.J. II. Tray
nor, national president of the A. P. A.
In explanation of this proposed effort,
we desire jou to kno that we have
bad public meetings attended by over
5,000 people in this city, and the citi
zens here and in the country around are
thoroughly aroused and interested in
our patriotic principles, and such a
celebration as above proposed wililight
a blaze In this state that will render a
good account of the 1890 elections.
Hoping that we may secure you as an
orator, and that we may be advised as
soon as you accept, I am, yours fra
ternally, E. S. Feet,
Secretary of Board,"
On tbe 221 of February there will be
a patriotic celebration at Vienna, Vir
ginia, under the ausp'ces of the A. P.
A. council of that town. Great pre
parations are being made for the oc
casion. In this city there are now five coun
cils of the A. P. A., besides one council
of the W. A. P. A.
Preparations, on an elaborate scale,
are being made for a grand entertain
ment to be given by the Junior Order
of American Mechanics of Kansas City
and its suburbs, on Washington's birth
day Feb., 22nd, at Warrick hall, 827
Central St., Kansas City, Mo. The
Junior Order of Kansas City needs no
introduction to our citizens as they are
well aware of its aims, and objects.
Purely patriotic in its principles, it is
at the same time benevolent and char
itable, and aids its fellow members when
in distress. The Rev. A. H. Slaughter
of the Firt Baptist church, Warrens
burgh, Mo., has signified his willing
ness to ba pres-.'nt at the entertainment,
which is a sufficient guarantee that the
affair will be a success. You should attend.