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THE AMERICAN. THE AMERICAN Kntrrrd at PiwtonV a a-il -! ta(tr JOHN C. TMOMSO. O.TO. W. C. KI'1-l.KV. Hulnna Uff " ri'HLlMIKU W'kLY Br THK AMERICAN FDBLISHING CCIPANT, Ort lt t'i 161i lUwanlMrret, Omaha, V-bral. THK AMKKHAN Or TUU. IMS ll.ir. hrrrt. Omaha. N'-ti. Khhu KkV ; Main Mnl haia I'itf , Mil. Kmi 4. 1. Kl Kandxlph Miwl. I'tit Cau, 111. fl'JMhllTU'N KATK: .uhaor'.i'i'.un. IVr ear . , fc" no - S! Moniha I in - Thrr U.mlh. SU TtlUHT IK AIAtl -HIKIHiaiU HALF HATI CM H KATKit. I Otnilwa on rar, urrcouy II M 10 I t Kt " " " " I (HI w M 1,25 The atxivi rni to rlul ar ! only hen full iiiiiiiUt, and ch for Mine, mc Cnpany irl-r. hU'iult ty draft, eiprouor lawtoflW ninnrf or.lrr. ayatil to Akimka I't ai.iitu i no mmmav TO ADVERTIStRS. Tin ratra fer advprtlM-inrtila In llie com tilm'tt tlirt t rillUniix of Tut Amkhk am are 1(1 Cmta mt agatn llucrm li liiM'rttnn U lliui to tlie Inch, and an avrravx of flislit wunla to the llnt'I. 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If there are twelve Americana read ing this paper, members of the A P. A., Orangemen, or Protestants who would like to associate with ua la busi ness, they should take advantage of this offer. It will be their laatoppor tunlty. If not gold by March 10, 1805, the offer will be withdrawn, and stock sold to present members of the com pany. Do you want t) put 1100 00 of your money Into this fight for your lib erties and jour country? V Address American Fuhlishing Co., 1015 Howard Street. OUR friends, the Poles, are right, and they should never quit fighting until they secure their rights. When they contribute their hard earned money they have a right to know where It got 8. It is not their duty to work, pay and pray while allowing the bishops to handle the cash. Members of the A. P. A., in fact all patriots, will be pleased to learn that Ilev. Win, P Murray, will deliver a eermon Sunday evening, Feb., 24, 1805, on "Washington." Ilia church Han ecom Park M. E. churoh, cor. 29th and Woolworth should be filled to over flowing, as he is one of the ablest and most elcquent preachers In thecity. OUR Sou'h O naha frit nds should not fall to hear Col. Henry S. Hilton, who speaks in the First Baptist churoh, cor. H & south 16 h st, Sunday, morning and evening. Col. Hil on was associated with lie v. J. Q. A. Henry in the fight for Americanism In San Fiauclsco last year and comes to this county covered with the laurels so honorably won In a fight against municipal corruption. His subject will be, "All things are yours." Wk have received two or three letters 'from members of the A. P. A. asking us to withdraw Mr. Kelley from Chic ago, because he had declared himself against C. P. Johnson. As Mr. Kelley Informs us that he is still an A. P. A., and as he denies the charge that the Loyal Patriotic League, of which he is also a member, had denounced the A. P. A., we can see no good reason why we should disturb him at this time. If our friends feel that Kelley "s connec tion with the piper In Chicago will prevent their supporting The Ameri can, they can have their paper discon tinued by paying all arrearages. We Are not rich, but no man or set of men can dictate either the policy or the management of this paper. The only thing they can do is to withdraw their rpatronage, which those feeling dis gruntled can do at any time. The editor of The American is an Ameri can, and he asks nothing but fair treat ment, and that he is able to secure by treating honorable men In the same manner, and the support of dishonor able men be does not want. Yon may not be able to avail your self of our great offer, but some friend of yours may be waiting for just such an opportunity. Mark our offer and send the paper to an acquaintance. THOS. J. MORGAN, LL D. United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs From 18S9tol893, CoutributraThiwYerj Inh-rrMinf lrtlrle on i,I hc Papaiy and the Indian. One of the greatest contest of the ages Is now in progr-osa on the Amerl ran continent. It 1 the atregglo be tween Protestantism and the papacy; between modern civilization and med ievalism; between republicanism and despotism; between Ameilcanlsm and foreign Ism. The theatreof the struggle I continental; the parties engaged in It number mere than seventy million tteoplc; the immediate results of the struggle will affect, for weal or woe, our own nation, the republic of the United States, and its ultimate effects will bo felt around the globe, and last forever. The Issues of civilization are involved. It is of the highest Import ance that every lover of truth, every friend of liberty, every true patriot, every well-wisher of the race, should understand the significance of tho con test, and be prepared to take his atand intelligently and forcefully on the aide of the right. THK PATRIOTIC ASPECTS Of THE STRUGGLE. The object of this paper is to set forth cloarly the patrlotio asjiects of this great contest. The Roman Catho lic church as a religious institution, with its system of theology, its mode of worship, its discipline, its methods of propagandism, has the same right that any other religious organization possess in America, and so long as its friends and advocates confine themselves to the realms of strictly ecclesiastical affairs it will receive from the American pub lic, rightly, the samo treatment that is accorded the Baptists, Methodists, Congregatlonullsts, or any other de nomination. S3 long as the papal church appeals to reason it will bo met by argument, and If it wins converts or makes conquests by its appeal to the intelligence of men, its triumphs will be honorable and undisputed. In a land of free discussion, such as ours, there should be no limit to debate, and no effort made to arrest by force or other foul means, any progress made by any Beet; but the Roman Catholic church Is, distinctively, historically, a political organization. Politics and religion are inseparably blended. In Europe he pope is recognized by all the trovernmenta as a political poten tate, having a voice in Bhaptng the political destinies of European nations. The papal organization Itself Is modeled after the Roman Empire, and is the most complete doepatism ever fashioned. The pope claims to be a temporal ruler, subject to no rival power, equal In rank to the highest, entitled to be repre sented at the courts of Europe, and he exorcises control over the political re lations and actions of his subjects, not only in Europe, but in America. A sharper contrast could not exist than that which separates the ideal Ameri can Republlo from the Roman Catholic despotism. (For a fuller elaboration of this thought, see my Essays on the Papacy and the Republic. " Bromficld street, Boston.) When Roman Catholics In America, acting, not as Individuals, each express ing his own personal preference and following the lead of his own judgment In political matters, seeking to promoie justice and to further the public wel fare, as memb?rsof Protestant churches generally do, but instead of this, united under a compact organization, standing together, voting together, seeking to secure advantages for the Roman Cath olic church out of the political condi tions in this country, they at once sub ject themselves to the challenge of patriotism. When Roman Catholics, simply be cause they are Roman Catholics, and without regard for their fitness, are thrust forward into public places and fill an exceptionally large number of the national, state and municipal offices; when it is understood that Roman Catholic votes are in the market, at the disposal of those candidates for office wuo, directly or Indirectly, In money or In other ways, will pay the highest price for them; when the Ro man Catholic church boldly and openly and almost unanimously allies Itself with one political party, and seeks through that party to gain for itself advantages at the expense of other de nominations; when the church Identifies itself with a disreputable political ring, such as Tammany Hall, and fattens on the ill gotten gains of blackmail and corruption, as has been shown by the Lexow committee; when the church Is able to secure for its schools and char itable institutions millions of dollars from the public funds in the great cities and out of the state treasuries; when the church is able, by its organ ized lobby and its political Influence, to taite from the United States treasury millions of dollars for the carrying on of its missions among the Indians, it behooves every lover of the republic and of republican institutions to array himself against an evil that menaces, serloufly, the welfare of the nation. Resistance to the encroachments of the Roman Catholic church is the call of pat riot 1 1-in, and l aa urgent a u the call for troojw in T1 to preserve the Union. The aw-ault made upon our In atitutlona is more auhtlle, veiled in greater aecrvcy and more plausible, but none the let hostile and deadly than waa tbe aaault made by I hone who ought to dissolve the Union. A CONCKKTK EXAMPLE. History Is aald to be philosophy by eiamplo. We have much to learn as to the aim, method, spirit and ultimate tendency of the Roman Catholic church in this country by studying the rela' Hon of the papacy to the Indiana. No one will deny that there have been it lf sacrificing Roman Catholic mis sionaries who have devoted themselves to work among the Indians, and no full minded man desires to withhold from them whatever meed of praise may be duo to their zeal, conscientiousness, fidelity and efficiency. It is not ctsy, of course, Ui separate between tho indi viduals who are involved in a system and the system Itself. Many of the in dividuals may lie honest and praise worthy, while the system to which they belong, and for which they them selves are not resainsiblo, may be utterly vicious. It is fair to say that in relation to the Indians in this country the chief motive, the impelling cause, the one dominant force which, more than anything else, and all else com bined, las urged forward the Roman Catholics in their endeavors, has been the desire to augment their own power, to extend the influence of the papacy, to make Roman Catholics out of the Indians, to secure whatever could be secured for the glory of the church. To thla end they have pressed their claims aa Catholics and have secured the largest possible share of appoint ments in tho Indian service; have made the most preposterous claims as to their successes; have shown the utmost illiberality, and have shown intoler ance towards all other workers. CONTRACT SCHOOLS. The government of the United States has, since 187(5, been devoting un In creasing amount of money and care to the work of educating Indian youth, with the view of fitting them for Amer ican citizenship. Some years ago, in addition to public Bchools established and maintained by the government it self, the Indian office entered Into con tract with various religious bodies for the education of Indian children in mission or church schools. Methodists, Presbyterians, CongregationaUsts, Episcopalians, Friends, Lutherans, Mennonites, Unitarians and Roman Catholics participated in this form of government subsidy. Baptists are the only considerable body of christians that have had no share in It. They have refused to have anything to do with it, because of their well-known doctrines as to separation of church and state. The following table, taken fiom the records of the Indian office, exhibits the amount of money paid out of the public treasury to the various religious denominations for carrying on their mission work among the Indians: s t o i?5 : jggfi its ; : i S 2 5 : : S 3 J2 ? : ? 5 s 3 3 : it- 3D : S y i '.ct-cJ - n c 3 fi 11112111 :i ; SSS? : : : : s 5 s In 1889 the com-nlssloner o! Indian affairs, when appealed to by the Roman Catholics to iDcreae the number of Roman Cathollj contracs schools, de clined to do so, on the ground that he rega-ded the entire system asobjection able, and hence he was u 1 willing to ex tend it. His action In this matter gave rise to a violent and bittsr controversy which continued during his administra tion, and attracted large public atten tlon. Among the reasms urged by the commissioner for the position taken by him were the following: First The schools carried on by the Roman Catholics, and by other rellg lous bodies, while Indirectly promoting the general welfare of the Indians, and tending to fit them for citizenship, were nevertheless distinctively mission schools, designed chiefly to proselyte 3511 : : : : : ; : : ; g : : ::::::: mil; m;;;;u! It; ; : ; ; ;a ; ; ; s j ;s ; ; : .... .. cj:O k v . . a sc . . ; v : D . 3 ; : o 5 : . :u :i : k : o : b : : sit. a . b ." ,s i; c; : Sf t "355 rf H c t 3-i-S!! "as a J the Indians to the peculiar form of re llgloua faith held by each denomina tion carrying on Its work among them. The basis of instruction la the Roman Catholic school is the Roman Catholic catechism, which inculcates in the minds of the Indian children taught at public expetae that "the only true church is the Roman Catholic church," and that the pope is Its Infallible head, to whom absolute obedience is due. While no one d'spules the rights of the Roman Catholics, at theirown charges, to propagate among the Indians, or elsewhere, their own peculiar dogmas, the commissioner Insisted that they had no right to do this at public ex-K-nse. Second The money paid for the sup port of these contract schools Is public money, taken from the United States treasury, and belonging to the people of the United States, and raised by public taxation. It Is a misuse of public funds to appropriate it to private pur poses. Public money should bo used only for public purposes. The propa gation of a sectarian tenet is not a mat er in which the public is Interested. Third It la a violation of the spirit, If not the letter, of the constitution of the United States, which prohibits the establishments of any religion. The United States does virtually establish the Roman Catholic religion when, by act of congress or by tbe act of any executive officer, it takes public money and uses It for the establishment and support of a distinctively Roman Cath olic school which inculcates as a funda mental doctrine of Its teaching the idea that it alone is the true church, and that there is no salvation out of its folds. Fourth To take public money for the maintenance of sectarian schools is contrary to the doctrine which is now well nigh universal among An Orleans, that the church and the state should be kept entirely separate and distinct. The state or the cation is a political Institution, established for the preser vation of order, the securing of justice, the promotion of the public welfare; the state has nothing to do with mat ters of conscience, and has no right whatever to meddle with religious affairs. The church, on the other hand, is distinctively a spiritual institution, designed to promote the religious wel fare of its own subjects, and it has no rights or authority outside of its own domainp; it can exercise discipline only over those who voluntarily, as members, submit themselves to its jurisdiction. The state has no right to interfere with the church or to control it so long as it keeps itself within its own spiritual domain; the church has no right to seek to impose Its obligations upon any that are unwilling to accept them, nor to in trude itself into the sphere of politics, nor to attempt to secure an unfair ad vantage in the way of offices or public patronage. For the government to ap propriate money to sectarian schools among the Indians is a violation of this established doctrine of the separation of church and state. Fifth To appropriate money for Ro man Catholic schools Is un American. The public schools of America are peculiar. They are the pride of the republic. They are adistlnctlve feature of our civilization. They embody more fullv, perhaps, than any other one in stitution, a distinctive American idea. They seek to prepare the entire gener ation of children for their duties as American citizens; their aim is patri otic; their scope is universality; their spirit is equality. They seek by all legitimate means to break down all the barriers of race, nationality, religion, which separate the masses in American life, and to blend all the heterogeneous elements into one homogeneous people. They are the hope of the republic. They are the citldals of freedom. They are the training schools of American citizenship. For them the nation pours out its treasure like water, the annual cost of its publio schools now exceeding $100,000,000. They are public institu tions, maintained for the public, for the promotion of the public weal, and are paid for out of the public treasury. To take public money and devote it to sectarian schools which are necessarily provinclrl, and which tend to separa tion, and which strive to keep alive the animosities of race and religion, is thoroughly and wholly un-American. Sixth To appropriate public money for the support of Indian schools is un patriotic. It violates a fundamental principle of Americanism; it creates a corruption fund dangerous to the peace of the community; it introduces into politics sectarian strife and bitterness; it tends to subordinate questions of public policy to sectarian interests; it hinders the process of complete amal gamation and assimilation of the var ious elements of our population; It promotes the temporal prosperity of one sect at the expense of others; it is done in the face of the e trncst protests of millions of people, who believe It to be a public wrong; it threatens the in tegrity of the public school system of the country, and opens the door for the countless abuses which history shows are inseparable from any union of church and state. THE PROTESTANTS ACQUIESCE. The discussion of the question of con tract Indian schools was taken up with zeal by the public at large; clergymen discussed in the pulpit; religious and secular newspapers devoted leading editorials to it, and published many communication! regarding it; the de lilieratlve asxembliea of the various Protestant churches considered It; it was a frequent theme of discuss ion in minittera' meetings, and in social unions, and received careful considera tion by the Mohuok conference, the Indian Rights Association, the National League for the Protection of American Institutions, and was a favorite theme in the various patriotic associations. I ne result 01 ttie discussion has been a great change in public sentiment, which amounts to practical unanimity, outside of the Roman Catholic church. The Presbyterians, Methodists, Con gregationalists, Episcopalians and Uni tarians, who bad shared in the public money In support of their mission schools, one by one gave up their con nection with the system and pronounced against it, so that at present (I8U0) the Roman Catholic church stands almost alone In receiving government aid fjr its missionary work among the Indians. So overwhelming has been the tide of public sentiment against the system that the present commissioner of Indian affairs, under the direction of the Sec retary of the Interior, has announced that it is his present purpose to entirely do away with the contract school sys tem, and that he has already, wherever it could be done without prejudice to the Interest of the Indians, withheld appropriations from contract schools. Thus the sys'em is doomed to destruc tion. THK ROMAN CATHOLIC ASSAULT. The Roman Catholics, on the other hand, sought to resist the force of the arguments urged against the system, and to break down the commissioner who urged them. The methods adopted by them are very significant and should be carefully considered. 1. They brought to bear upon Presi dent Harrison, through their ablest men, Archbishop Ireland and others, the strongest Influence they could use to Induce him to remove the commis sioner from his position. The presdent informed them that he sympathized with the general attitude assumed by the commissioner; that he, himself, preferred the national schools for the Indians, and that he was unwilling to accede to their request. 2. They attempted to destroy the commissioner's reputation. False and libelous articles, seeking utterly to dis credit him in the public mind as a trusted and competent official, were printed and extensively circulated. For months, and even for years, the Catho lic newspapers were burdened with these accusations; but slander and false charges often re-act upon their authors. This method of warfare is a modern form of the inquisition, the essence of refined, cruel persecution; but while it may Inflict pain and suffering, it fails of its ultimate object. It failed here. 3. Failing In this, the Roman Cath olics next attempted to defeat the con firmation of the commissioner of Indian affairs. They concentrated upon the senate of the United States, either per sonally or by kttir, the whole force of tho Roman Catholic hierarchy. Sen ators were flooded with letters and pe titions, and remonstrances and threats; nothing was left undone that could be done to secure a victory, and the men who engineered the scheme felt abso lutely confident of success up to the hour when the vote was taken; but this scheme alto failed. It was the most braz 'n, bold, unjustifiable, un-American attempt ever made in this country to dictate to the United States senate its action regarding the confirmation of a high official, on purely sectarian or re ligious grounds. It Injected Into the secret deliberations of the United States senate the odium thcologicum in Its most repulsive form; it was suitably rebuked by the action of the senate in confirming the commissioner In his high offi je. 4. Foiled again, the Roman Catho lics next attempted, through their lobbying machine in Washington known as the bureau of Catholic Indian missions to control legislation on In dian affairs in their own interests; and in this they were partially successful. They secured the introduction into the Ind'.an bill to hi supported by the gov ernment, special Roman Catholic schools which had been rejected by the commissioner. Senator Vest, of Mis souri, was one of their principal cham pions on the floor of the United States senate in securing vicious legislation, and in protecting their interests. 5. The Roman Catholics attempted to prevent the renomlnation of Presi dent Harrijon, giving as a reason for their position their dissatisfaction with him because of his "bigotry" In sustain ing the commissioner of Indian aff tirs In his opposition to the contract school system. In this, too, they were unsuc cessful. 6. In the presidential election of 1892, toe two great parties, the Demo cratic and Republican, entered the contest on pretty even terms; it was generally understood that the result of the election was very uncertain. The Democrats had triumphed In '84 and the Republicans in '88, and there was every reason to believe that the result of the struggle in '92, if not a drawn battle, would be determined by a very small plurality of votes. It was thought that a comparatively small number of voters might exert an abnormally effective Influence In determining the result of the election. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POLITICS. This offered to the Roman Catholic church an opportunity that had never presented itself before In the United States, when it might show its power as a political machine. Roman Catho lic newspapers boldly announced that they cared nothing for the great ques tions at Issue between tbe two parties; tbat they had a grievance against the Republican party because of the Indian policy of the Icdian commissioner; that by united effort on the part of the Roman Catholics they mlghtdefeat tl.e Republican party, insure the election of Cleveland, and thus punish their enemies and gain an advantage for the church. A secret pamphlet, full of misstatements, falsehoods, slanders, charging President Harrison with 'bigotry," and asserting that he was using the powers of his great office to the Injury of the Roman Catholic church, were circulated freely all oer the country, among priests, bishops and others. Urgent appeals were made privately, and from the pulpit, to Ro man Catholics to stand together for the overthrow of the administration as a matter of revenge, and for the election of Cleveland for the sake of the eccles iastical advantage that they might gain from It. Harrison was defeated; Cleveland was e'ected. How far the attitude of the Roman Catholic church contributed to this result probably never will be known; it Is probably true tba- their attitude was not the determining factor; many causes combined to bring about a chanee of administration. Neverthe less it is true, and a truth of great sig nificance, and needs to be carefully pondered by every patriotic American, viz, that the Roman Catholic church threw itself almost solidly into the presidential strupgleof 1892, and sought to bring about the defeat of Harrison, because he sympathized with the public schools and was opposed on principle to appropriating public money for the support of Roman Catholic schoo's among the Indians. The Roman Cath olic newspapers boasted, after the elec tion, that the victory was theirs, brought about by them; and the church had sought to secure from the then in coming Democratic adrain'stration the reward of its labors in behalf of Cleve land. The startling fact presents itself thus, that the Roman Catholic church in this countrv, which claims a follow ing of ten millions, with a voting popu lation probably of a million and a half or more, can be used as a machine for dPtermlnlng presidential elections; that It holds as it has boastlv said bv one of its champions the balance of power, wnicn it is prepared at any time to use for its own advantage. The Roman Catholic church thus enters the lists, not to promote tho public welfare, not In the Interest of patriotism, bul to pro mote its own advantage and in the in terest of the Roman Catholic church. In this fact there Is great peril to Republican institutions; it is full of ominous threatenlngs, which Indicate a storm that may at any time burst upon tnis country with such fury as to shake the very foundation of liberty. Admitting what is cla'med by intel l'gent Roman Catholics, that the Ro man Catholics of America combined spcretly for the overthrow of President Harrison and the election of Grover Cleveland, and succefded in their effort, what follows? Evidently if they can combine for the defeat of President Harrison, they can combine for the de feat of any other president. If they can conspire together for the election of Grover Cleveland ua president, they can conspire together for the election of any other man as president. If they can combine to control a presidential election because of their dissatisfaction with the administration of the Indian office, they cm combine to control a presidential election because of the dis satisfaction with the administration of any other great office. If they can combine for the control of a presidential election to punish one administration for being unfriendly to their securing money from the public treasury for Indian schools, they can combine lor the overthrow of another administra tion because of its unfriendliness, or supposed unfriendliness, to their secur ing public money for parochial schools, or for the erection and maintenance of cathedrals, for the establishment and maintenance of nunneries, monasteries or theological seminaries. If Roman Catholic priests can control the votes of the members of their churches, and lead taem to do violence to their own political convictions in one instance, they can in other instances. Thus we are confronted with the specter of a vast body of voters, not actuated at all by individual judgment, not influenced to any degree by patriotic considera tions, not following their own con science, not seeking at all to discharge their civic obligations to ,the republic, but banded together, led. controlled and guided by a priesthood seeking to use their votes wholly. In the Interest of the Roman Catholic church, and who hold up before the community this vast political power as an ensign at any time ready to be used to strike down any man or party that is not willing to bow meekly to their command and con cede all that they see fit to ak. It does not require the intelligence of a statesman, but needs only the common sense of any pi tin patriot to see that in such a condition of things there is im minent peril to Republican Institutions, and that there is need of some sort of a remedy. The foe of Republican iLti tutlons, the enemy of liberty, thit thrusts Itself Into American politics and seeks to prostitute the sovereignty of the voters to the base uses of ail ecclesiastical body, ought to oe rebuked in such manner taat the repetkku of the disgraceful conduct of the Roman Catholic church in the presidential election of 1892 will be Impossible. Tne friendly warning addressed by American patriots to the Roman Cath olics in this country is tnis: Hands off of the public schools; hands off of the public treasury; hands off of the ballot box; no priestly interference with American politics. There is room in America for only one people, who shall all be Americans. No Hag shall be honored here as the symol of sover eignty, except the stars and stripeB the emblem of liberty.