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THHTIE A TMIT?"0 TP A W A WEEKLY NEW SPA FEU. "AMERICA FOR AMERICANS." We bold that all men are A nerlean who Swear Allegiance lo tbe United SUki without a mroui reservation In favor of the Pow. PRICE FIVE CENT Volume V. ' OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1S05. NdhiTir IS NOTES AND COMMENTS. Last week tne daily papers were agog over the discovery that "the Tlslt of Archblbhop Ryan, of Phila delphia, to St. Louis was to induce old Archbishop Kenrlck to make a will According to Catholic rules of govern ment all church buildings, lands, etc., are held in fee simple by the archbishop, and several very serious consequences might arise from his dying intestate It Is said that he did make a will years ago, but It was somehow misplaced and on trace of it can be found. The arch bishop is now in his 90th year, and Is not at all times rational. He has a large number of relatives In Ireland and this country, who, in the event of his sudden death, might come in pos session of all his property. Millions of dollars are involved and the clergy and people are very uneasy. This week they say "the story that the venerable Archbishop Kenrick has made no will and refuses' to make one, thereby rendering diocesan property valued at over $1,000,000 now in the prelate's name liable to descend to his natural heirs, isdenounced as untrue. Coadjutor Archbishop Kain says the will Is in his possession." A Poktland (Ore.) dispatch, of April 26, says: "The Oregon Pres- bylery of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, meeting at Woodburn, Ore., has passed almost unanimously a long aeries of resolutions arraigning the Catholics for their opposition to free public schools, asserting that 'the in fluence and practice of the clergy and laity are opposed to temperance, virtue, morality, purity, truth, public intelli gence, freedom and true godliness,' and that wherever they have held the bal ance of power 'immorality, profanity, Sabbath breaking and intemperance have gone hand in band with ignorance and superstition.' They call attention to the present heavy immigration of the 'poor, ignorant and priest-ridden Catholics from Europe,' and assert that it is the policy of the priests to influ ence them against free institutions and incite them to strikes, mob violence and destruction of property. Attention is called to the fact that they have all sworn allegiance to the bishop of Rome, and demand is made that the immigra tion of Roman Catholics be prohibited; that none be made citizens until they have forsworn allegiance to the pope, as well as to other foreign powers claiming their fealty. Parents are warned against sending their cnlldren to schools where they may come under Catholic influences, and the members of the presbytery pledge themselves to use all possible diligence to keep Cath olics out of office and positions of trust. The Cumberland Presbyterian church is quile a strong body in Oregon." Americans! Here is some thing for you to think about. It is a dispatch from San Antonio, Texas, under date of April 25, and reads as fol lows: "There was never a more aston ished group of army officers since the beginning of time than those who com pote the staff at the headquarters of the department of Texas and the garri son at Fort Sam Houston, when they opened their papers this morning and found that Col. John J. Coppinge had been appointed a brigadier-general. There was a decided personal flavor in the news, for Copplnger was only re cently removed from the command of his post, and Col. Wade, his successor, was a much more prominent candidate for the appointment than he. Gen. Guy V. Henry, who is also stationed her, although not himself an applicant, was supposed by the knowing ones at Washington to be certain of the honor, and it is undoubtedly true that he was recommended by Col. Lam on t, or at least that the secretary of war intended to recommend his selection only a few days ago. Col. Coppinger, who re ceived the star, is the son-in-law of the late Secretary Blaine, having married his daughter I Alice, and it was due to the refusal of President Harrison to give him this same appointment that the Blaine family fell out with the ad ministration. Mr. Blaine himself did not care much for Coppinger, and took very little interest in the matter of his promotion, but Mrs. jBlalne was very much in earnest about it. When Sec retary Elkins told Mr. Blaine that he did not think;the president could prop erly promote Coppinger, because he had no particular ability as a soldier, had never done anything to distinguish himself and was awav down near the foot of the lists of colonels, Mr. Blaine dropped the subject and never men tioned it again, but Mrs. Blaine went straightito the president's study and asked her son-in-law's promotion as a personaland family favor. It is under stood that she was very insistent about it, and expressed her displea-ure at Gen. Harrison's refusal; at Uast the break between the two families occurred then and has never been repaired. Now President Cleveland give Cop pinger what Harrison refused even to the son-in-law of his secretary of state. and there never was a greater sensation in the army. Everybody Is wondering how it came about, and there is only one explanation offered. Coppinger is a native of Ireland, belonged to the body guard of Pope Pius IX., and came to this country as a soldier of fortune at the outbreak of the late war. He is an ardent Catholic, and it was through his influence that Mr. Blaine's daughter Alice left the Presbyterian church and joined the Catholic before their mar riage. The officers here all believe it is a religious appointment, and that it was made after a still hunt, through the influence of the Catholic hierarchy. Hence the sensation. If a hundred officers had been asked to express an opinion yesterday as to the probable appointee, not one of them would hare suggested Coppinger." In an address before the Mar quette Club, of Chicago, Saturday night, April 27, Hon. William Warner, of Missouri, in answer to the toast, "American Patriotism," said: "Love of one's country is patriotism; love of America, her flag, her institu tions, is American patriotism. It "has ever been willing and able to defend the rights and maintain the laws of our common country. Its needs of he roism and self-sacrifice, in war and peace, constitute the brightest page in history. The citizen of the republic, by birth or adoption, imbued with its spirit, sinks sectionalism, state-rlght- Ism, Germanism, Englishism, Irishism, and every other ism into 'American ism.' Proud as a citizen is and should be of his state, that which should most exalt his just pride and patriotism is that he is an American. His patriot- Ism finds expression in the words: 'My country, may it ever be right; but my country, Hgut or wrong.' mis pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night is loyalty to American interests. He inscribes upon his banner: 'One country, one language, and one flag.' Whether at home or abroad, 'His first best country was ever his own. American patriotism is the exclusive property of no class, church, or party. It champions law and order and crushes anarchy and communism. It gu.e a Cleveland a loyal support in protecting the commerce between the states as freely as it gave to Lincoln the youth of the land in the preservation of the Union. Its test of official actloa is that He who maintains his country's laws alone Is great.' Under the a-gis of our blessed constitution American pa triotism guarantees protection toev ery citizen. It demands that the de lara- tlon of the fathers, 'That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain Inalien able rights, among which are life, lib erty and the pursuitof happiness,' 6hall be recognized and enforced on every inch of American soil. It drives from the halls of legislation false lenders who seek to create dissensions between citizens on lines of wealth, nationality, color, or religion. It recognizes in a government by the people that wages, the property ot the wage-earner, should be sacredly guarded. It i9 conscious that the men and women who largely in the near future are to shape the policy and control the des tinies of the republic are the boys and girls of wage-earners of today. It knows that the foundation of a govern ment in which the voice of the people is the voice of God is the virtue, intel ligence, and contentment of its labor ing classes. The children of these sons of toil, the future citizens and rulers of the republic, must inherit virtue and contentment ftom the American home, and be educated, if at all, in the American free public schools the colleges of the people. Amer ican patriotism will protect Amer ican homes by paying to American labor American wages, to the end that these boys and girls shall not be pre maturely driven from the school-room to the factory. To endow the children of every American home with virtue, intelligence, and contentment, the trin ity of good citizenship, should be the highest aim of all legislation, national and state. Broad as is the Catholicism of our government, it should no longer permit the pauper and criminal classes of Europe to pollute the stream of Amer ican industries. They are the spawn of vice and ignorance, neither recognizing the dignity of the laborer nor the nobil ity of toil. To them the gates of Castle Garden should ever swing outward. I believe in that stalwart American pa triotism that uses the output of the American shop, that wears the fabric of the American loom, that eats the pro duct of the American soil, that drinks the wine of American vintage. Am3r Ica's interest against the world is the shibboleth of American patriotism. In the family of nations, as in the family of individuals, charity should begin at home. Other people will not, from dis interested motives, contribute to our prosperity. There can be no greate error,' said the Father of hU Country 'than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation. The be lief in such favors,' ho said, '1 an 11 luslon which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard Seme Hard-Shell Fact. The following excerpts are culled from a sermon lately delivered by Rev I. A. Thayer, of Newcastle, Pa., and are thought begettors to those who cry ''Peace, peace!" when there Is no peace "The timely topics now demanding the wise treatment of the pulpit, that name for the purpose of illustration, as well as for their intrinslo import ance, may be grouped under the follow lng heads: 1. Political Romanism. 2. Political Rum. 3. Political Rottenness. "I lay especial stress upon the ad jective. I shall have nothing to say of religious Romanism. Its religious er rors must stand on a level with other religious errors, and bis honest relig ious opinions entitle the Romanist to the same respectful consideration to which all other rellf lonlsts are entitled But In the Romanist as a politician American institutions are confronted by a determined and deadly enemy His ultimate purpose is to rule the land and subordinate all its resources to the church's interests. He seeksofiice with marvelous persistency and cunning, and now occupies a large majority of the offices at the national capital and in all the principal cities of the union. He seeks the public support of his schools and charity Institutions, and receives ten dollars to every one given to the control of all other churches and socl etics. Of course, in this office-seeking age we cannot condemn the Romanist for seeking and obtaining office. It is likely that others would do the same under the same circumstances. But it Is the methods he uses that need atten tion. These are political. They are united in this. They control a vast host of ignorant voters, ready to do the bidding of the priest, who is a diplomat and a political wire-puller of consum mate ability, and subservient to his superiors. They work for the future. Present disadvantage or defeat is noth ing to them. If one lifetime is not suf ficient for the accomplishment of their purpose, they work with the same fidel ity in perfecting preliminaries that must be resigned to other hands. With no change of purpose and with aston ishing skill and patience they work for the long run. Their method Is to stand between the dominant political parties and hold the balance of power. And so certain are they to use their great vote agatost anyone who antagonizes them, that they have the majority of the poli ticians ana political newspapers per fectly cowed. These dare not speak, vote or print their real convictions on pain of being defeated in elections or boycotted in business. Yet, as voters, the Romanists are In a small minority. Why, then, are they so influential? Be cause their opponents are asleep to the facts and divide on a hundred minor issues. The politician krows that he can depend on the support of his Prot estant friends regardless of his vote on the question in which the Romanists are interested; but that he will lose the latter's vote if he does not obey their will. And there are enough districts in the country, in which the Romanists hold the balance of power, to give them the balance of power In congress. And me ranks or the Komanlst voters are being increased through foreign immi gration at the rate of 100,000 a year. American Tyler. Delegates to Milwaukee. The interior Nebraska and Omaha delegates to the Milwaukee annual meeting of the A. P. A. leave Omaha via the Chicago & Northwestern Rail way at 4 o'clock p. m. May 5, arriving at Milwaukee Monday morning, May 6, at 10:45 a. m. Both chair-car and sleeper accommodations. Purchase your ticket via Chicago fc Northwest ern Railway, at 1401 Farnum street, or at Union Pacific Depot, and take a receipt for your fare, which will en title you to a rate of one-third fare re turning. What Can't Be Cured must be endured. But before you make up your mind to endure what you think nothing can cure, give the waters of Hot Springs, S. D., a trial. And take the Burlington Route when you go. If ycu want information about rates, trains, etc., write to J. Francis, city passenger and ticket agent, Burlington Route, Oaiaha, Neb. Beautifully illustrated folder descrip tive of Hot Springs sent to any address on request. Eat Dybairsdellciou8 Cream Candies. 1518 Douglas St. EX-PRESIDENTBOWERS Writes an Able Article Upon Papa Investments in American Commerce Ily the Pope Seine Farts and Figure HIh American Should RememlMT. The revenue of the pontiff Is gath ered am many sources by way of taxes, that is, Peter's pence and indulgences, and this income, collected from all the nations of the earth, Is centered and garnered in the coffers of the pope, and through whose agencies the papal Investments are made. Some years ago, through the mismanagement of one of the cardinals, who had charge of the funds of the Vatican, the pontiff met with a great loss, involving hun dreds of thousands of dollars to the Vatican. Aside from the actual mone tary question, all the realty or personal property, in whatever country it may bo situated, Is held personally by the bishops of the reeoectlve dioceses in trust for the pope. For years this property has been entirely exempt from taxation, and massive structures con vents, nunneries, churches and cathed rals amounting in value to millions of dollars, have been and are exempt from taxation and are a loss to the people of this nation amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Not ocly these, but immense blocks of resi dence property, from which the repre sentative of the cburch draws an an nual Income of no mean proportion, aleo have been and are exempt from taxation because it was rated and de clared the property oi the church. This great loss to the people in taxes becomes a burden to the balance of those from whom the taxes are exacted, and is collected solely upon their realty to the sole behoof of the owners of this untaxed real estate, etc. Therefore, in this exemption and freehold the merchants of our country, of necessity, are compelled to take from their busi ness or add to the prices of the com modity in which they are engaged an additional per cent, wnich trie con sumer must eventually pay. This ex emption, these possessions without tax ation, Increase the per cent, of advance ment upon the commercial interests in order to make up the shortage, by rea son of this deficiency or privilege granted under our laws. We recognize the laws of our nation and should up hold them and maintain them against whatsoever attack from any source at any time, but where a law becomes un wholesome and we find the people op pressed by reason of its existence, tnrougn tbe instrumentality or such a corporation exercising its apparent right based upon the simple construc tion, to the great detriment of the peo ple financially, with the additional per cent, added to the commerce that be comes their life, then such a law should be annulled, or amended by proper leg islation, and I believe that the time has about arrived. We have before us two noted exam ples that caused a great deal of com ment and excitement among Protes tants as well as the Roman Catholics. As usual, under circumstances in the days gone by, It created great strife and disputes upon the question of this aw that gave such great relief to the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the pos session of property in this nation. In St. Louis was one instance, and the other in the city of Buffalo. The rul ing upon these two cases was the ulti mate cause for sending the first papal nuncio as a visitor to this country. Gaenaeto Bcdinl arrived upon our shores in April, 1853, and so deter mined, outspoken and boisterous be came the people that, terror-stricken, he ran away, afraid of assassination, in March, 1854. Questions bearing upon the liberties of the people, and their financial interests as well, were held to be of considerable importance so much so that the subject were carried into congress, and a debate followed be tween the Hon. Thomas R, Whitney and others relating to the matters of our commercial interests at that time, 1853. The churches at that time vested n the bishops all the properties held by them in the interest of Rome. This same question is affecting the Polish Catholics more or less to-day, as, for nstance, the Cleveland Polish church and those of the city of Baltimore so recently withdrawn. To come back to the subject matter of our commercial interest, it will be necessary to follow up from 1828 the causes that gave rise to this question. n Vienna, at this date, was organized, under the patronage of the Emperor Ferdinand the Fifth, the SU Leopold Society, Prince Metternich being its president, and tbe Archduke Cardinal I Rudolphus, Archbishop of Ulmltz, su preme director, and two other person ages that I cannot just now call to mind. They commenced the buhlnce for which they were instituted, May 13, 1S2U, and made their first report in Octolwr, 1830. Their offices and apart ments necessary to carry on their busi ness were in the Dominican convent, and from there were sent out their emissaries 10 ail countries, ana more especially to the United Slates, to take an Interest, and, if possible, subvert by missionary work, Intrigue and josulti- cat appliances, the states of America known as the United State. Tbey were quite successful up to 1854, when the people became aroused; subsequent to that, for a short period In America, they ceased their open hostilities and assumptions of authority and dictator ship, up to 1801, since which date tbe country is familiar with their trans actions. Tbe cardinal representing the Roman Cburch and its financial in terests comes from Vienna, and is one of the propaganda of Rome, and re ceives the largest salary of any officer on eartn. it is ne wno controls anu dictates the Investment of the moneys of the Vatican, ne is an apostate Jew, and through him this money is placed, as investments, where It will return the best results therefrom. We will notice this personage further along in our discussion. The representative of the St. Leopold Society, or foundation, as some are pieasea to term it, in America was Bishop Edward Fenwlck, of Cincinnati, who served as their agent in America up to the time of his death. They bad their agents In England, Germany and Frarce at this time, all working in concert to one end the establishment, through the com mercial relations of the nations, of the power of the pope and his temporal claim in the nations that were Protes tant. While Bishop Fenwlck, in his capacity of agent for this organization, was at Cincinnati, he received from Europe large sums of money at various times. At one t me. I am assured, be received the large amount of 1300,000, The question arises, What was this money placed in bis hands for, if not for investment in some of the stock, bonds, or the commercial relations directly affecting our nation? One can scarcely enter into this discussion of the financial relations and take any one subject matter to itself bearing directly upon the commerce of America, as so many things sre Interwoven with It and the commerce of the nation perme ates so many of the lines and branches of the pursuits, in a business sense, of the country; but In 1844 George P. Gif ford, who was then the organizer for the Republican party, at Boston, de livered an address lefore the Native American Club, either at Charlestown or Cambridge, in which he gave a list of tbe sums received, and also described how they were disbursed, most of the money going to points on the Missis sippi river. It is thought by some writers that this agent, through the St. Leopold direction, and these moneys Invested by him, Is the source of all our American troubles since 1831. It came here under the cover of these organizations, took root, and has been with us ever since. It has been using the British nobility and capitalists, whom it has assisted to buy up our lands with money derived from the Bank of England and the Rothschilds, who are the custodians of the Vatican's immense wealth, thereby establishing an alien landlordism and affecting, to that degree, our com merce. It has enabled the English yndicate to purchase and control our great manufactures, more especially to be mentioned the breweries and flour ing mills, which to-day are putting out their products for alien account from the moneys borrowed by these lord lings through the agencies and instru mentality of the bishops and arch bishops of England and Ireland for the Roman Catholic Church. It has in duced discord among our laboring popu lation through Its Influence by reason of Its moneyed Interest, and its effect pon the commercial and the trans porting or carrying power of this na tion, has organized strikes and brought up questions that are entirely foreign to our idea of government. It has as sisted in the transplanting to the shores of our nation vast hordesof immigrants, the least desirable o' the earth's people, the worst elements of Europe. Ninety five per cent. (I believe this is correct) of the adherents of the Church of Rome are, under its influence and control. By its grinding hand it has engineered every financial crisis that has occurred in this country and elsewhere since 1837, and to day it is tbe power that dictates the investment of these moneys from the pope's treasury, and conse quently is drawing the gold coin from our American treasury to-day and transferring it to the treasuries of Austria, Russia and France. In 1S44 Col. William L. Stone, editor of the Commercial Advtrtistr. in New York, I bad a oontrovemy with Illrhop Hughe upon this subject of commerce. Why was this discussion at this time, if the Investment of the Vatican did not affect, In some degree, the commerce of this nation? Other matter than the commercial relation of Rome with thU nation, from May 27, 1844, to June 21, 1844, were discussed, and, I believe, were put into pamphlet form for distri bution. In 1850, Eras tin Brook, a member of the state senate of New York, Intro duced a bill to divest Roman Catholic bishop of their titlo to church prop erty, which he very ardently advocated. Ill speeched on the question excited the Ire of Bishop Hughe and involved him in a long controversy bearing upon the amount of property held by the bishop in the city of New York. There wa an attempt made at this time to ar rive at the value of the property held, and a careful lint was made of tbe vari ous holding, but it wa impossible to ascertain the true value, or a to the amount paid for thl property, because the consideration expressed in the con veyance was nominally f 1. 00, and there fore it was out of the power of Mr. Brooks to obtain tbe desired informa tion. This information can be found in possession of the New York Historical Society. This may not seem to have any bearing upon the question under consideration, but is Injected here simply as an emphatlo declaration sub stantiating the evidunce, the original belief or recitation of the fact that the Investments of the pope's money In these institutions more or less affect the commercial interest of this nation as applying to the people by reason of their non-taxation. The realty of any concern doing business in this country, Biich as banks, brokers,corf oration and other organization is taken into con sideration as assets in their accounting of their business, and in the settlement and adjustment of their financial affairs; therefore I feel that I am privileged, with these as a rule, to use thl as an argument as to unjust.Dablo interfer ence by the Roman see in our com mercial relations. In 1889, the New York Ikrald published in display type, with sensational headings, the account of the establishment of the Universal Association Bank and Trust Company. This concern was whol ty a Roman Cath olio institution, instituted by the pope through bis investing agent, the car dinal aforesaid, with a capital stock of a hundred million dollars, entirely under the control of tl e papal authori ties. Colonel George Wm. Camoron, Lybourn and Clachino Curtl were re ported, at that time, to be the promot ers, and tbey brought with them, from the old world, on May, 15, 1890, the papal benediction. Waldorf II. Phillips wa reported to have been made presi dent, and he afterwards went to Europe to perfect the plans for this mammotb financial scheme. Frederick A. Sawyer was reported as its secretary. Mr. Phillip returned from Paris on Sep tember 11, 1890, and is reported as say ing: "We are now located in France, England and Ireland, and I go Thurs day, the 18th, to Berlin and St. Peters burg. We will open our European branches about September 15 or Oc tober 1st." If this gigantic enterprise that was established in New York, with hun dreds of millions of dollars, and of which the papers made so much, was founded, which there is little cause to doubt, it has been kept secret, and under some other name has dune its work well. If this association was established, and is in existence at present, the money came from the hands that are today making investments inourcoramerclal ii.terests and attempting to guide by their in fluence and power the affairs of this na tion to that extent to gain a recogni tion paramount to all temporal organ izations. Soon after this establishment, as reported in the papers, there was granted by the legislature of Kentucky an extraordinary charter, so history records, to the American Bank, Trust and Guarantee Company, with twelve directors, seven of whom were to live in Rome, Italy; one in Paris, France; two in New York and two in Kentucky. This entire body of men, without an exception, were Romanists. E. J. Sin ger and J. B. Thompson, of Kentucky, are mentioned in connection with it. The establishment of this concern, ma nipulated as it is or was to be, leads one to tbe conclusion and the facts has es tablished a firm belief that the invest ments in American commerce by the pope through his agencies have been more widespread and of greater force and effect than the American people have ever given credence to. It is very hard indeed for anyone to prove beyond the peradventure of a doubt the exact amount, the data of the investments, the branches and lines of trade in which, the investments were made,but we have sufficient evidence collated to show that the money of the Vatican, accumu- Continued on Page 8.
