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MERICAN. LIk Dr'g ' THE A A WEEKLY NEWSPAPEK. "AMEK1CA FPU AMERICANS. "-Wo hold that all nu n are A wrlcan whoSwow All, glance u. tho Untud Slat. without a mental reservation In favor of the Pop. VoLUMK V. OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FMDAY, Al'Klh 12, ISiT,. PRICE five CENT " - . u NlIMBKK 15 NOTES AND COMMENTS. Thirty long eventful years have passed since the bullet from Booth's pistol pierced the mortal body of the beloved president, Abraham Lin coln. At no time since that time has the nation trembled as it did the night of April 14, 1805, when the spirit of that kind, patient, homely man went before its Maker to be judged. As tender as a mother, as pure as a prattling child, as kind as a constant lover, retiring, un assuming, yet firm as steel, and as just as aay man who ever lived, Abraham Lincoln lives in the hearts and the memories of the American people as the greatest and most lovable man of modern times, and it would be a fitting mark of respect if our ministers would each year, on the Sunday nearest the date of his assassination, devote the time usually taken up with a sermon, to a discourse upon the life and character of our martyred president. The Manitoba school ques tion has thoroughly aroused patriots all over Canada, if one can judge by the utterance of a Winnipeg paper: "The Dominion government, after weary weeks of EquirmiDg and twisting, has at length passed an order commanding the legislature to restore separate schools to the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba. This act is a deliberate surrender to the demands of the Roman Catholic prirsthood of Quebec. It is another proof, were any such needed, that Canada lies prostrate under the feet of a foreign, a Roman ecclesiastic. It is another proof that our readers are recreant to the duties they owe the people and traitors to their queen, and are ever ready, as the panderers to place and power, to sell themselves and the liberties of free-born citizens of Canada to the pope of Rome and his unscrupulous devotees in Canada. The question of separate schools is dwarfed by the issue now raised. We are tow called upon to determine whether or not the French Roman Catholics of Quebec, the men who were conque' ed by Wolfe and his British soldiers on the plains of Abraham, shall rule and con trol the citizens of Manitoba and arm fiantly assume the right to contiol the destinies of Canada. Since they were conquered by a too liberal foe tkey have taken advantage of the generous terms given them by their conquerors, and not satisfied by the ruining of their own province and the driving of hundreds of thousands of its best citizens to a for eign land, they now extend their des potism and nothing less will satisfy them than the control of the destinies of other provinces and bringing the whole dominion into the slavery of Rome. The gauntlet thus thrown down is promptly taken up, and let the con test between Romish slavery and free dom and equal rights go on until every vestige of special privilege and the grinding slavery to a state church be driven out of every province in the do minion and the time-serving caitiffs now ruling in Ottawa, who sell their souls for prelatical patronage,be driven back to the obscurity from which they ought never to have emerged." with the letter and spirit of the consti tution, a grave injustice will be done the moderately well-to-do citizens of this country, for they alone will now be amenable to the income tax law. Neither the extremely wealthy or the poor people will suffer because of its operation. In fact they will be bene fited, for the tariff on some articles necessary for their comfort or for the gratification of their vanity was reduced because the friends of the income tax measure had counted on he wealthy people being comjM'lled to carry the burdens imposed by the enactment of such a law. It may bo they did intend to create two cla-ses in this country, and array one against the other for political effect, iu-t as has b,-en charged by some of the daily papers, but it extremely doubtful if they anticipated that the middle class would Iks made to carry the load they had prepared ft the shoulders of the very rich. Since the court has, however, done the unex pected and exempted both the ex tremely rich and the extremely pot) from the effects of the law, it would seem but an act of common justice to declare the whole act null and void. f.w .m ex h o. A friend at Ithica, Nebraska writes us as follows: "Your valuable paper comes regularly, and I am alway pleased at its appearance. I have read with some regret the items relating t the organization of a new political party. When asked my opinion con cerning it, I answered that I was not in favor of it, and the reason I am op posed to it is because I am an A. P. A I am well acquainted with the argu ments in its favor, but there are some arguments on the other side which, It they have been offered I have not seen them in print. No party with a single issue can be successful; and if we espouse the cause on some of the issues of other parties, do we not weaken our cause? If the new party should adopt a free trade plank they would prevent many A. P. As. from voting the ticket because they believe in Republican tariff. If they incorporate a tariff plank they drive many Democratic A P. As. out, because they cannot indorse the principle. I might mention 'free coinage' and other questions that will have the same effect. As we are, we have the hearty co-operation of Demo crata, Republicans, Populists and Pro hibitionists; and the fact that we advo cate Americanism In the true sense of the word is a fact to which we owe our rapid strength and growth. Now, if we branch out in open antagonism to the great political parties, I believe we will only be grinding the knife to cut our own throat. The question is not how do we stand on the great political questions of the day, but do we believe that 'America should be for Arnerl cans?' Neither do we ask where a The supreme court of the United States has finally reached a de cision as to the validity of at least a portion of the income tax law, and has handed down the opinion that so far as the. law provides for the levying of a tax upon rentals from real estate, and on interest derived from bonds of the general i government, of any state or municipality, the law is unconstitu tional. As to the validity of the other portions of the law no opinion was reached, as the court was equally divided. This failure to arrive at a conclusion will necessitate the re-opening of the case at some future tin e when the entirecourt is present. Ut less the law is declared to be in conflict man was born; but now that he is Here and eats American bread, earns Ameri can money, seeks American protection, we want to know before he is given any American office, 'Is he an American, and does he owe his allegiance to our constitution alone?' On such a broad platform as this every American can stand. We ought not to allow our marvelous prosperity to turn our heads. As it is we can go into all political con ventions, and politicians are already beginning to comprehend the fact that the A. P. As. are not to be trifled with. We have already made 'Rome howl, 'and nothing would pies so her better than to have us become a political party, and thus shut us out of the conventions of all other political organizations. Let the A. P. As. learn a lesson from Rome. Does she form a party9 Has she ever become exclusive? No; she Is too astute for that. She knows where the key to the entire situation lies, and she never fails, where she can, to lay her hands on tho key. A wane every patriotic order and every American citizen! Ba- hold the KEY. Where? I'll tell you Rome sees to it that her minions and their hordes are at the not polls but primaries. They are there in force, and endeavor to elect their own ilk as delegates to our conventions, and our conventions being made up of delegates of tha 'Roman dago,' we don't wonder that we have the devil's own saddled on us as candidates for office. Let every loyal A. P. A., Orangeman, Jr. O. U A. M. and every citizen that loves law and order, and that loves good govern ment, be found at the primaries. If they are there and will give their con sent to the election of those delegates who are known to be Americans in the true sense of the word, those delegates when in conventions will nominate American candidates, and we will soon have all we desire." The Second Summer, many mothers believe, is the most pre carious in a child't life; generally it may be true, but you will find that mothers and physicians familiar with the value of the Gail Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk do not so regard it. Some liitcreolhig Fuels From a l'rotew taut Missitiiiurj. White Cloud, Kas., April 0, isi5. EiHTOit The Amkkicax: You ask me to write a few lines on my experience in New Mexico during the last ten years. I hardly know where to begin ar what to select, as the area of both New Mexico and the subject are so great. New Mexico Is prehistoric. It Is a region of antiquities and ruins, of whose palmy days there Is no known re mcrohranee on earth. Cut- tno edi- Hues, cliff hewn habitations, earth-set "dugouts," and adolu (clod) mounds, are of frequent occurrence in most parts of the territory. SantiFo b asls of being the oldo-it city in tiio United States. Tais, the "town of two houses," was probably In habited and built in the saui'J stylo, in the time of Columbus, that it presents today. The Pueblo (1 o. "village") Indians, now nominally Romanists, still dance the "Matacheena," with eleven young men and one little girl, "Malincho," (wife or daughter of Montezuma), from the church to every house io town, an nually. They are said to look dally at sunrise for the return of their demi god, Montezuma, who is now living under a lake somewhere In Mexico. The Spiniard, the Mexican, is there, too. He hs been there with his cruci fix and his lash (for his, slaves all the year, and for bis own siuful back during lent) fjr nearly four centuries. It is more than two centuries since his re turn to New Mexico, after his expulsion by the United Indians under their great leader, Popeh. There is a Romish chapel, or church, or cathedral, in every town, large or small, and an annual "feast day" to the "patron saint" of that town, which is the biggest day of the year for that place. Crosses stand by the roadside everywhere, often bearing names of the deceased, or a record of the number of "Hail Marys," "Lord's Prayers," "Napkins," (that lay by Itself in our Lord's sepulchre) and the like, said by some faithful Romanist at that spot,for the rest of somebody's soul in purgatory, or for the person himself, maybe. With so much devotion and religion on pub lic record by the highway, the land ought to be overflowingly full of re ligion. Great stone piles mark some places. The faithful passer-by should add another stone to the heap. These are inviolable. They are "rests," where the departed spirit of some person who died there, or whose corpse was borne there, may stop its w mdering up and down the universe, and "rest" for a time. Up to the last quarter century this people was unmarried by Protestant ism. A Presbyterian, a Methodist, a Mason, or a cursed American (who was not a Romanist) was all the same a heretic Protestant, an unscrupulous child of the devil. The fruit of all this unmixed, holy zealous Romanism was a people who would lie, 6ti al, rob, and murder either one another or anybody else, or rebel against their government as often as they chose. Mexico is said to have ixty rebellions to her national record Doubt-less. Central America can show still greater number. Neither South America nor Ireland are lauded as th pacific models of the world. Romanism has kept New Mexico nique as a country of medieval stead lastness. in tne Kio Arriba (upper river) wheat is still cut with a sickle, threshed by the tread of horses or of goats, and thrown to the wind with a paddle to clean it. Threshing floors are a picturesque, unfailing, and most necessary feature of the landscape adja cent to every village. A Mexican mill turned by water from an irrigating ditch, has a 4 inch polo with a flutter wheel on the lower end, and a circular stone on the upper end of it. Every time the flutter wheel gties round in the sluiceway, the stone goes round upon its fellow on the mill floor "only this and nothing more," is the machin ery of a Mexican flouring mill. "Sem per eadem," ever the same, is the boast of Rome. It Is true here. Men and women all smoke cigarettes in count less numbers Everybody, young and old, male and female, participate in the fandango and the baile (by-lay dance). They bet on cock fights, horse races, foot races, cards, or anything else pos sible, staking even their wearing ap parel. Whiskey is their glory, and must be had at any sacrifice for the "feasts" (holidays) of either the town or the family. Few of the men and scarcely- a wo man of the past generation could read. You could tally with your fingers all the Bibles, and portions of it, ownd in all New Mexico prior to 1S.10. Precious few women, and still fewer men, were chaste, and not a very largo number of them claimed to be so; public senti- wns not ihtiiu .led, yet consort would Ho conspired with a UnlU d State pout- "v "u uieoun oim oouy cisc, omce Inspector and the two together occasionally resulting in a wap of con reported me to tho department and sorts in the same village Children of charged m with owning letters, and closest Incest and of priesU are not very that I rohlmd the mall of a registered rare- tctt r. I was arretted, taken out of bed To a considerable extent, tho Sab- at two o'clock at night; taken to Sioux bath Is olwerved until ma-, but not at City ami placed in lull for seven hour. all afterward. Lent, holy week, and before the citizen knew anything about esiKcmny i.oo.i r ri.iay, are rigidly oh- it. They did not dare to arrest me by eu, generally, utrmnim l tut daylight as tho citizens would have In trHtia film lM,n!tjn hvsith,.r.l ttiolu.1.. I .1 nn... .1 t., , .. . "" n-i .nu. 1 nen inn cmens nulled me nuh-t of the men in their lodges. They out and brought me home. This was a carry or drag heavy er.w,es, whip year ago hist Christmas. My trial was themselves with thongs, or cactus, and put oft until last May, at which time the like, and otherwise butcher them- I pioved myself Innocent of every and stives up during holy week, or on the each charge. The jur y cleared me In ueatn or a inemher or their order, lift-en minutt s, after they heard inv ismunuiiH'H uu-ir hkmhi ui ij'H i miti int'ir 1 tftco of tho ttory arid that of my wit nitlli'il li't,ld lit.,,, f 1,,, irv..ii..1 41..,., I . 1 . 1 K, nee. niNiui uiur Wcckh alter thev u.nu aning. 1 cuuiu un volumes wim looK tho pohtolllco away from me, the similar things, of which I have been an citizens got tin a petition to not make a eye witn, ss 011 multiplied oeeaHjons.lmt change in pohtnuiHters until after my uiK article is already too long. trial, and that If I proved myself not If Roman Catholics or Protectants, guilty, that they pray that I bo re- wiio live in the licht and tho lihert.v I tamed, and I trot everv nm rim nf thu j , , ( ... ..... nd the intelligence of the better parts office to sign It. When the priest found oftheUnitid Stales, think the sltun- that all of h in church people signed the t;on, as it was recently, and to a largo etitlon, next Sunday at mass, ho said extent still Is today, in New Mexico, is "ho was surprised that so many signed specially desirable, they should seek to that criminals p.'titlon; that ere six pui mo noiy uoman uatnoiic church monnis roiled ny their right arms Into full and exclusive miwer in the would be parallzcd. or wither from their United States. The facts s'ated atove bodies, and if ho didn't put me behind permeata the people after from two to the bars ho would ask tho bishop to be four centuries of exclusive tenoning removed." So when I was let free, the and control of the Roman Catholic citizens went up to him and said, now church. I will unconditionally warrant Dr. Stoll got clear, and that ho was the it to produce an exact counterpart of cause of whole trouble, that he must notices the fact that tho number at which application is to l-i made Is that of the residenceof M. II. Do Young proprletorof the ( Viroiii. k The notice of tho torresMndont Is accompanied with some com ments, which wo deem It unnecessary to publish. It Is well known that Mr. Do Young's family are Catholic, and It Is understood that though by birth a Hebrew, ho has him self been baptized Into tho Catholic church, co that he has a erfect right, If ho chooff, to select his servants from his adherents. Ills Itimish proellvl- leu are made apparent, too, through the colli 1 ns of his paper, not only by what Is published In.hut what Is omitted from them. In this we accord him tho same liberality that we do in regurd to his limi-ichold affairs. Wo alno, In com mon with and us the representative of a lame numlicriif genuine Americans, re serve the right, In our dealings with the j.uriil of the day, to select as tho ob jects of our favor and Influence those which show themselves most nearly tho friends of American liberty and Ameri can institutions.-- mmtvoiVfriif, Sun tVanciHco. N01KI WOMK.N AIUKKSSA. I. A.'g Mi-h. I.hcrinore ami Julia Ward Howe IMd'nt Know Hie Nature of the Meet ing. Hdhtoh, Mush., March 2!!. Mrs. Mary A. Llvermore and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe addressed an A. P. A. meeting last evening without knowing tho real naturo of tho gathering until New Mexico as It was fifty years ago, In keep his word and ak the bishop to r Thulr presence created much every part of the United States within take him away. But he said he did not 8llrl,rl. "oil women have national the same length of time, if given abso- get justico, that It was a packed jury of rclulliUon8 "'"dcri or all sorts of lute control of the country. If vou A. P. A's, and said before he went he llbural movomonts, an I It seemed In- seriously object to that kind of situa was going to starve me out first. I told x,mr'henBll)lo that they should have tionand condition, you had better do him I would bo In Granvile when he experienced so sudden a change of all you can to prevent the holy Roman will be- God knows where. So finely uoarl- " n"w appears that they went Catholic church from exerting any con- after about five months hard trying to 10 tho meeting, thinking It was merely trolorinfluencointhisland. You may starve me, he finely was starved by his "'"patriotic naturo and not knowing name every country from Mexico to own people, and left, and I am Btill on that It was pi lmarlly to boom tho A. P. Cape Horn Inclusive, and add to them deck. This is a whole Catholic com- new dally organ. Mrs. Liver the land of the Vatican, Italy, ana the munity and my wife a convert to the "'"'re was asked to give her lecture on same general condition exists in them church, Is an American, but this deal "Womo" ln the Civil War," which she ail-either because of Rome, or In spite cooked us both." delivered with eloquence and feeling as of Rome. The question before the Thlu.mrnHnI,,iB).T well as knowledge, for she was at tho American people, of every creed and k B0W viD temperance lectures', l. t,'lhe"aD,ta'-y commission. When of no creed.of every church (the Roman Here is the sort of temperance teacher , been speaking half an hour a church included, for there are many he is as testified to, under oath, by Mr. lttre I,ar,1 ,fntho began to good people and good citizens in it) and peter Reef. We copy his affidavit In C"Uferh and ta'k and Bhum' untU tho ofcochurjh, of every party and of no party, Is: "Do you desire this condl full: STATF, OP IOWA ) U m of things?" Let every soul an-"( r Woodbury County, yes or no, and act accordingly. ito spectfully, Little Mark. FROM filtAXVILLB IOWA. I, Peter Reef, being duly sworn on oath, dciMise and say that I am a resi dent of Sioux City, Woodbury county, Iowa; that on or about the (ith of Feb ruary, 18U3, I saw Rev. Father P. A. R. now a rnesn arrieii 011 a u nci Terse- Ternev ,.,,, i,,.,, the H.irn of Ottn cuthm ofa I'liblic School Director. Jlz, at No. .'MS Nebraska street; that The readers of the Toledo A merican between ID o'clock and midnight I saw will remember reading a card in its col- him treat the crowd several times to umns from Dr. L S. Stoll, of Grand- whiskey and saw him drink in the vllle, Iowa, concerning his abandon neighborhood of fifteen or twenty ment of the papal church. B 'low are glasses of whii-kev; that during said s:)tne of the details of the cause of Dr. timti he got upon a ch.iir in the i-almm Skill's change of church relations and and made a speech and said that hi of the cruel treatment he received at, wi'e was in Russ'a and that he was a the hands of his papal pastor, Fr P. A. traveling man from St. Paul; that at 1 R. Terney, which wa are permitted to o'clock the bar keeper closed the saloon noise forced her to stop. HIssos even wore heard. She was compolb'd to sttip abruptly and sit down when she had used only throe-quarters of the hour assigned to her. Mrs. Howe was more fortunate In her reception when ho told how she came to write tho "Buttle Hymn of the Republic." Tho only thing that made the two women think that there might bo something that they had not looked for ln the meeting was when the clergyman who was making the invocation said, amid cheers: "Our F-ither, which art In Heaven, wo thank thee that wo have not yet to siy 'Our father which art in Home.'" The Man With 11 Fi slung-Hod - or a gun either, for that miitter---will find nielil vnf ne titr It. In th,x T i i T7,tn .!. r i . 1. ...... .1 - 1 - 1 i.v . 1 n .. .. . " i un a p, vaie icuecr .mm tue coo- uu rauier lerney wunieu tnis amani M,mnlaln8f north anU Wt.st , f Sh,.1(iani tur mc uuewir says. nun some oiuers 01 me crowd 10 Lro out ur i,..u....... t .... - '-j'"-, 011 Hie uuruiigwjn nouies I call myself proud and happy after and "see the gir!; that we sUrU d for sho,., r , . M,im;l ,.h ,,., uving 4-5 years in eiarKiiei-s and then to aggie i.uruu's house or prostitution, vrthwPJit t.hlnb" Dint iKrt ,vw..r!fi,l arA J.,t hut k.f.. rr.. Ik.,, V, l.. I V T..- .u.u.L VI... u ULIl. J.IV..1 I'll U. RliU JUCM JIU I W U W Ll-lWI C U lllttl. I1U, L CI 1- 11 U I V I BCCHOn took pity on nie and let the rays of light ney, fell on the walk; we then saw that liierce through my 48 year old eyes. This light, however, cost me about J.'!, lOO, caused by my spiritual advisor. Besides I was postmaster and lost it, all on account of living up to true Ameri can principles, as an American citizen I was director of our public school and because, after we had a teacher hired for the next term of school, this priest came to all three directors and wanted us to go back on our word and hire Catholic sister, in place of one we had contracted for. The other two directors went back on th :ir word. The priest told them that if they would have sister to teach it would convert the school into a parochial school and the Catholic children could go free. When he came to me, I told him I gave the teacher we had hired my word and honor and that I could not go back on my word, that if I went back on It the teacher we had hired would look at me as a liar, and a liar I would be, and that my father did not raise his children to lie. The priest said that was nothinc I told him he ought to be ashamed of himself to set such an example. My wife then spoke up and said, "Father Terney, if Mr. Stoll allows a Catholic sister to teach in our public school it will cause the few Protestant families to sell out and move away." "Mrs Stoll," the p'iest replied, "the quicker they sell and move away the better for the country." Then I told him nothing was too low for him, as long as he would receive some revenue by the transaction, and that neither he nor the bishop nor the old man, the pope of Home, could make me go back on my word, even if the other two did do o. Just because I would not kiss his dirty feet he left In aneerand from that ment did not demand it. While divorce ume on boycotted me in my business. he was too intoxicated to go further and we tenik him to the Merchant'? hotel and asked to get him lodg'ng, but the clerk refuse! to ndrnit him on ac count of his condition; then we went to the Friendship hotel, where we were also refu.-ed; we then took him to the Planter's hotel and left him for the night; that the next morning I went tti see him in I is room where he treated me toadrink of whiskey out of a bottle that at that time I saw that he had an other bottle of whiskey and a bottle of wine in his satchel; and at that time he was still intoxicated and he wis-hed me to go back to the saloon where we were the night before and find his pocket- of the United Stn'es so well repays the hunter and fisher. Game is plentiful In the mountains and this streams fairly swarm with trout. whitellsh and pike. Just to illustrate things: In 1S92, Mr. Richard Kimbill.of Omaha.caught !)S trout in fo.ir dsys; his best record for a day was 23" fish, all of them hex)ked in less than ek'ht hour?. And Mr. E, A. Whitney, President of the First National Btnk of Sheridan, has In his possession a trout which, when caught, weighed six pounds and nine ounces and which was deemed worthy of exhibition at the World's Fnir. S:ieridan,the gateway to these"happy hunting-groun 's," is only a day's ride .V...T i. i UUU5' 1 '"P"' aim ohck to from Qmaha, Lincoln, Kansas City and mesa.oon anu reiurneu wun mm to st. j h r(nmd td tickets at U V. 1 1 L. . . l. ; I r 1 J kueuuw., ue,e ue went 10 nis room ,ow me8 ape Rt ftU tim08 0Q gale at sun intoxicated; that he wanted me to Burlington Rou'e Ticket Offices and .euu w.uuinmauuayanu go ana got the extrt.me advisability of, this sum uim a oonie oi Deer, Dut I rerused and left him and returned to my busine-s. PETEIi KEEP. Subscribed and sworn to this 1.1th day of November, 1-SH3. C. S. ARGO, Notary Public. mer, spending a fortnight in the Big Horns is respectfully urged upon every man who loves the excitement of the chase or the restful pleasures of tho rod. J. Francis, G. P. & T. A., Burlington 1 hereby certify that the above is a Route, Omaha, Neb., will gladly fur- true copy of the original. nlsh further Information J. WALDRON. Personally appeared before me, H. A. 1 Ittlk rajer Meeting. Lieb. a Justice of the Peace in and for without having something to say. If Sioux county, Iowa, J. Waldrtm and ou wanl 10 Eut nold of thoughts that made affidavit that the foregoing is a wil! 1hj lielPful to others, read Chicago true and correct copy of the original. iaiilknaiu, xalks, oy Evangelist Given under my hand and seal this 060 uau on 8Uca subjects as Re sist dav of December, A. D. 193. pentance, Prayer, taith, Confession, H. A. LIEB, J. P. Wa3 Jesui Divme.J am Excuses, The Great Commission, Heaven, How to Kosey's Counterpart. Hold Out Faithful, etc. Just published, A correspondent calls our attention 331 large pagt-s, only 50 cents, postpaid. to an "ad" under the head o! "Wants" Address the publishers of this paper,or in the Vhronick for a servant, with the Chas. H. Kkrr & Co., Publishers, addition, "Catholic preferred," and 1" Monroe Street, Chicago, 111.