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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.
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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-
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