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x. XH AMERICAN THE AMERICAN Caurml at INwUinlt" a '"' ! fcaiwr 79NN O.TNOMMON. ioitoa. W. 0. hi 1.1 V. HutiiMHK Maaar. IIER1CAN PUBLISHING COMPANT, OtTH Ki 1614 Howard Mrect, Omaha, Nehra-fca. THK AMFKU AS im M tlowart Hir t. Omaha. Nrh K.wia ' "n"u', K.Kim , Ut tl Kaudolph Mil Ibl- MAV H, ls'-' Mr. Koskwatkk'h mayor will now have to offer unimeaehable t .-alimony aa to bt nity before the pe ple mill acwpt hU add res of welcome an the product df a truly bright mind. OS f oi"" friend offered the gratui tous suggestion to the K)W that he send one of hi "bull'' to the relief of hi subject in Nicaragua, who were recently beet by John Hull. Those horoU-M bull mould have no torror for John. KosKWATKK i afraid the people will help u start a dally. If they do, Roey, you will sweat worm) than you do now, for thi state 1 opulatcd with tnon who want to get a punch at you; and these column will alway be open for anything they may write. PmksT PilELANS oxpreslon of pre tended solicitude for the spiritual wel fare of tho young people of the Chris tian Endeavor Society and the Epwortb I.cgue i a good exhibition of Ronilsh hyiwcrlsy. What doe Pnelan know alwut either jiorsonal or political right eousness? Mayor Swift Is an honor to Chi cago. In a recent speech he said: "I am a Methodist; but above this, I am an American citizen." With a Protes Unt It U country first, church second. With a Romanist It i church 11 rut and country when the church caausethe country. SaTOIXI ha replied to the petition of the Christian Endeavorers asking for the unfrocking of Priest D. S. Phelan. It l to the effect that tho complaint should go to Archbishop Kaln at St. Liuls, who has charge of tho diocese in which Phelan lives, and In which he publishes hi paper. To show how tho Dee is going down hill wo will give the reKrts from four towns outside of Douglas county. He fore the last elootlon there were 50 copies of the lies taken la Crete, today there are seven; Fall City, before the election (10, now 3; Irvlngton and Niek crson, b'fore the election 12, now 5. Comment lsuunecesary. These figures are given us by cltlaans of th se town. L .. -J. THEpoe has forbidden his subject the right to participate in tbo Italian ejections. Among the rea--ors for the Inhibition Is the one so often given, that he Is a prisoner In the Vatican. If the pope has power to prevejt hi subjects from participating in an election, he has power to oompel tho n to take ac tion, and for a particular candlda'e. Americans thnuld not forget this. The firm of Hjland & Co., of Chi cago, should experience no difficulty in finding men to fill all but one of the re qulrements sot forth in the following advertisement which appeared In the Jieemd: UTANTEll-Two able-bodied men ' years; fitlr education; Catholic; resent us In the cltvs ex-member over 25 to reu- of the police foree preferred. Ap;ly, with refer- IIYLAM0-. earborn at. No BETTER man oould have been chosen to succeed Mr. Alfred Millard as a member of the board of park com missioners than Mr. C. E. Bites. lie is a personal friend of Mr. Millard's, and will no doubt fo'low out many of the improvements which have boen in augurated by the boar J since Mr. Mil lard's connection with that body, besides suggesting many new ones. Mr. Bates is a man of large experience, a good business man, and quite an authority on the question of parks. Father Nugent added that he thought at first, when he entered the hall, the stats and stripes ought to be floating over it; but, after all, the flag was used bv a certain element as a test oath. They fought under that flag in a war raised by Methodists and Bap tists in the outh. He was rouiidly ap plauded. II orld-Herald. Such was the language u?ed by one Nugent while addressing tho Roman Catholic Knights on Wednesday in Omaha. Is it not as near the language of an uncovered traitor as one would want to listen to? The members of the Omaha school board should make co mistake in the selection and advancement of teachers. They should not advance one Romanist who has no other recommendation than the timely, politic removal of Roman emblems from her house, and refuse promotion to another one who has earned promotion by her competency A little fairness goes a good ways with us and we believe it will with the peo ple, and our advice is if you are going to employ Roman Catholic teachers, give the best ones a show. We do not believe any of them should be employed, so long as their church opposes the public tchcols, and if Mr. Tukey has the courage, the A. P. A. members may be given an opportunity to rid our echcols of Roman Catholic teachers, REDELL'5 RESIGNATION. Oar friends, to whom Chief II. doll hbcn to the habit of talking, were not urprid at hi resignation, but they are turprlsod that he ha not the courage to tell the public what Induced Llii) to take the step, instead of allow ing the lUe to place him Is fore the peo ple in a false light. Rowcwater" aer thins are not calculated to do Mr. Ue dell any good. They are made for the sole puroe of allowing Rosewater to vent hi spleen against the American Protective Association. Nearly two wetks before he handed his resignation to the board, and only the day before the appointment of the several lieutenants was made known, Chief Redoll told a gentleman whose word will not be questioned, that he ,s not satisfied with the way the bi ard was treating him. They had got his opinion as to the advisability of se curing the steamer formerly used by the Dnraut company at the U. P. shops, and after he had seen the manager of the road, made all arrangements for a transfer of the engine to the city, re ported that the cost of repairing it would be in the neighborhood of $300, and recommended that the proosltlon ha accepted, the board Ignored his recommendation and ordered a new engine at a cost of about iM.iiOO. And this, too, when Iledell had expected the board to use the difference between the cost of repairing the old engine and the price of the new one for the purchase of new hose and new fire alarm boxes, for which he had made a requisition. Again, when the appointment of lieu tenant was being considered, Coburn and llartman, presumably at Kosey's suggestion, dictated the appointments and when they were disapproved by the people those worthies sat back and allowed Hudell to be blamod with trying to force the Irish to the front in the department. And again, the same evening that the Ike laid the blamo of Rodell's resignation at the door of the A. P. A., to Senator Smith, Representative Allan, the Covells, the Churchills, the Rus sells, the Johnny Thompsons and the legislature, Chief Rodoll went be'ore the Commercial Club and told the members the reason of his resignation. It was none of the reasons given by tie Insect at Seventeenth and Farnatn. It waabtCMse the facilities for ftyhlinj fire were inadequate and he amid not rink his rf)tfn(i. as a fife fiijhter tn a nfv ei' dmmi with Mich primitive apparatus. These are facts, and we Invite Rose, water or any other person to disprove them. They are facts which no amount of dolglng will answer, and which political chicanery cannot overcome. "THE PREACHER AND HIS PROV INCE." His Eminence, Cardinal Glbrons (eminent as a Catholic conjurer and conjector), the most distinguishel Ro man citizen now ttaylng in the United States, writes under the abova title an article for the May number of the Xurth American llevietv. lie pleads like a retained Roman attorney. His open ing sontence is: "Alter the Bible, the study of mankind is the most important and the most instructive pursuit for the ambasssdor of Christ' thus declaring by Implication thht the Bible is a book which Roman Catholics may include in their authorized currlaulum of stud ies, and that a Roman Catholic priest lst-uly "'the ambassador of Christ" in stead of literally an emissary of the pope. The cardinal's article contains a mass of quotations, some cf which (those from Protestant writers and ora tors) are very good. But, reading be- tweea tie lines, the acute reader can discern the footprints of a messenger of the Roman curia. The cardinal, In felicitous phrase, ob erves that he has "found evidences of genuine piety and gratitude even among the inmates of our penitentiary." Well does his eminence fay "our peni tontiary," for the major portion of the habitues of American penal institutions are those who have been brought up in the nurture and admonition of the lord pope. The cardinal speaks of Charles Dickens having "made personal visits t ) the prisons, insane asylums, reforma tories, and boarding schools of Eng land," where the great novelist, com ing into contact with tie children of Rome, was able to draw his knowledge, as his eminence says, "from actual life." The cardinal refers to his visit to Rome in 1870. "I was never more im pressed," ays he, "with the Impulse given to knowledge by contact with learned men than during the Vatican Council, when prelates of world-wide experience and close observation were assembled in Rome. Each bishop brought with him an intimate acquaint ance with the history of his country, and with the religious, social and po litical condition of the people among whom he lived. One could learn more from a few nouis' Interview with tbote living encyclopaedia than from a week's ttudv of book." We wonder what rvporU were made by the bihop from such enlightened i'i) couctrii a Mexico, Honduras, Bo livia, Ecuador, VeLctuela, Peru, Chill, Colombia, Qjebec, Spain, Portugal, Sicily, of the religious, social and po litical progress of the people among whom tbey lived. The province of the prl-t in theme countries 1 to repret ProU'tantiu, to rebuke and suppress every manifestation of free thought and mental activity. Active Intellect uality and vigorous mentality are fatal to Romanism. "Politic ha a moral a well a a civil aspect, The clergyman I a so cial as well as a religious reformer, a patriot a well a a preacher, and he knows that the permanence of our civic institutions rests on the intelligence and virtue of the people," says the car dinal, y -lite true. But what Protes tant Is so naive a to believe that any Roman Catholic prolate or priest can be a patriot? Who among the sons of liberty believes that Roman Catholi cism is an ally of intelligence and virtue? Docs any true Protestant, any lover of liberty, any friend of free edu cation, doubt that Cardinal Gibbons and all the Catholic clergyman in the United States acknowledge the Pope of Rome as their lord paramount? We again quote from the cardinal: "In his encyclical of January, 1895, ad dressed to the Roman Catholic hier archy of the United States, his holi ness says: 'As regards civil affairs, experience has shown how important it is that the citizens should be upright and virtuous. In a free state, unless justice be generally cultivated, unless the people be repeatedly and diligently urged to observe tho precepts and laws of the Gospel, liberty Itself may bo per nicious. Let those of the clergy, there fore, who are occupied with the in struction of the people, treat plainly this topic of the duties of citizens, so that all may understand and feel the necessity in public life of conscientious ness, self-restraint and Integrity.'" How much Romanism would it take to make a man "uprlhi and virtuous?" Is an ardent Roman Catholic ever dis tinguished for self-restraint and con scientiousness? Is not the intensity of a Romanist's religiosity in exact ratio to the intensity with which he hates freedom of thought and action and dep recates the triumph of the principles of pure democracy? When will all Protestants learn that the triumph of the doctrines of the Ultramontanes and all consistent Ro man Catholic are Ultramontanes moans the weakening of the pillars of t ie temple of liberty, the foreigniza tion of those sacred institutions which have been transmitted to us by our fathers, the suppression of free schools, free thought, free speech and a free pre is, the ultimate extinction of the American Republic, and the bending of every neck beneath the rule of the Roman curia? THE NATION'S WEALTH. In the June number of The Nation is an article entitled "Democracy vs. Plutocracy," by Hon. M. W. Howard, M. C. In it Congressman Howard says, among other things: "Tho great issue of the future is not the tariff. It is not the money question alone, although it has to do with money. The Issue whicli presents itself to the people is, Shall Plutocracy rule, or shall we have Democratic rule? By the term democracy I do not mean the democ racy of the so-called Democratic party, nor yet the much-boasted Democracy of Grover Cleveland; for it is Plutoc racy In everything except in name, masquerading in stolen costume. I mean the democracy of Jefferson, Jack son and Lincoln. What we want is a government by the people, instead of the rule of the money power. It is quite the fashion among the plutocratic papers to sneer at every one who suggests that there is a money power. The idea thai there is a plutocracy in this country is hooted at. This is a point on which we should thoroughly satitfy ourselves, for our future welfare depends on a proper understanding of the issues of most vital importance which confront us. Is there a Plutocracy? and, if so, Is it opposed to the people? I assert here that there are thirty thousand men who own one-half the wealth of this coun try. There are twelve men each worth $100,000,000. Take the railroads, valued at. . .IU.ST5,9ti8,000 Capital and surplus of the na tional banks 931.000,000 Assets of the principal joint KUu'k romminles dolnit busi ness in the United States 176,0X1.000 Asset of the principal life and lire Insurance companies immw Twelve millionaires. l.Ono.OOO.OUO And we have a total of tl5.3tij.968 000 This is an aggregate of wealth equal to the value of all the farming lands, fences and buildings in the United States, added to the total farm products for one year. It is nine times the value of all the money in circulation in this country. It is one-third or $5,000,000,000 more in value than all the money in the world. In this table I hare reckoned only twelve of our millionaires, of whom we now have about thirty-eight hundred. Neither have I taken into account the hundreds of trusts, such as the coal-oil trust, the sugar trutt, the beef trust, the whisky trust, the leather trust, the match trut all controlling large amount of capital. Cbauocey M. Depew, himself a mill ionaire, once said that fifty met In thi country could come together and with in twenty-four hour stop every wheel from movlDg and turn every workman out of employment, and paralyze Indus try and commerce." SOME FACTS. The Omaha lbt (Roman organ) ad vise the A. P. A. to form a new party, so it member can alway be true to party associate who chance to be nominated for office. L:t u K-e. At each recurring election Rosewatergives as a reason for bo. ting one or more of the nominee for he always bolts that they do not represent Republican principles. There is no party in this country today which does not hold alle giance and loyalty to the government and institution of this country as prin ciples of paramount force and impor tance. The A. P. A. says boldly In it platform that it will noi. support men whose allegiance U to any foreign eccle siastical or civil power. There is noth ing anomalous about the status of the A. P. A. In American politics. The Jesuits have kept their hands pretty well covered, but even Rosewater knows that it was tho Roman hierarchy which set the example of pushing its mem bers into all parties and places where they would be useful. That organiza tion is inspired by treason, the A P. A. by loyalty. John Rush was entirely honest when he stated publicly in this city that "we are Catholics first and citizens afterwards." That is the posi tive teaching of his church and its so cieties, which were organized and are actively engaged in enforcing the doc trine through political action in all parties. Before the A. P. A under took to redeem Omaha and Douglas county from the pernicious gang that had looted the treasury notably in wooden pavement and the county hos pital contracts it was political suicide to express sentiments against parochial schools or against any of tho dogmas of the Jesuit order. Free speech was throttled and the press dared not assert Itself on the American question. Geo. W. Linlnger, vice president of the Uee, also a heavy stockholder, was at first an enthusiastic supporter of the A. P. A. lie had for years felt the sting of papal bulls against his Masonic princi ples, and he was simply expressing his honest convictions when he said, time and again, that the A. P. A. had done a great deal of good. Even Rosewater looked with favor upon the A. P. A. so long as he could dictate the appoint ments, but when he undertook to put men into power who were unfit he learned that there was a deep-seated principle underlying the movement that was not to be trifled with. Those members of the order who had been led to believe by him that he thought well of it, found him to be a deadly foo of everything that would strike at the power of any man who assumed to be a dictator in this county. But the final rupture came when Rosewater endeav ored to sustain in this city a polled sys tem that had been protested against by thousands of the best people, and later condemned by a grand jury. It now develops that Rosewater threatened to get the best of every A. P. A. in Ne braska before it was a year old. He tried to get money from the National Reoublican Committee to fight tho order, but failed because the men then in charge knew that when the principles which the A. P. A. advocates fall the country will have failed. It is now believed that Satolll will furnish tho money for a boodle campaign next fal', and that as a reward for services rendered Rosewater will be decorated with the order of lay Jesuit. INTERNATIONAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. The most important work done by the supreme council of the A. P. A., aside from electing officers, was the organ ization of an international association, with the following as its declaration of principles, aims and purposes: Recognizing that the political and moral advancement of nations depends as much upon the general intelligence and development of mankind as upon the general moral, political and physi cal perfection of the units composing nationalities; and, also, Recognizing that universal human perfection can only be attained through more complete international, social and political intercourse than that which at present obtains; and, further, Realizing that progress and develop ment of constitutional governments are willfully aud selfishly obstructed by certain rganizations claiming uni versal recognition, and which, through the completeness of their system of organization, xercise a more or less universal jurisdiction, to the detrimeat and injury, as well tf constitutional sovereigns and governments, as of the subjects and peoples thereof; and, Believing that the furtherance of human freedom and progression are most speedily and b;st accomplished bv the maintenance of constituted authority and restriction of abuses of and infringements upon the rights, privileges and liberties of individuals by constitutional enactment and lawful protest; This, the first congress of the Inter- national Protective Association, held thi 11th day of May, 18'Jj, hereby formulate the following declaration of princlp'is, aim and purposes of in corporation: 1. The voice of the people, intelli gently and justly expressed, is the supreme law. 2. The perfection of all law is the recognition of the right of local self government. 3. Tne right of fretdom of con science, of intelligence, free speech, free press and the prerogative of unre stricted private judgment is beyond all question. 4. In defining and enforcing the laws, and in the definition of its jurisdiction and powers, the slate is sui r. me. 5. All institution of an ecclesiasti cal character, claiming temporal dominion or the right to define the ex tent of theirown jurisdict on, are inimi cal to all forms of constitutional govern ment, are a meuncj to the perpetuity thereof. 6. The intellectual and moral ad vancement if the world is best expe dited by a sond atd fraternal union between all penphs and races whose civilization is the highest, and whose liberty of conscience Is the most per fect; and the welfare of mankind is best enhanced and preserved by the con tinuance of a lasting peace between all races and peoples opposed to the efforts of selfish and soulless international and universal ecclesiastical and financial corporations to disturb the harmony of universal brotherhood by the rude alarms of barbarous, dehumanizing and enslaving war. Aims and purposes: 1. To establish throughout the civi lized world the principles of the organi zation by all proper and lawful means. 2. To uphold the right ol self gov ernment harmoniously with the best interests of the whole. 3. To secure and maintain the su premacy of the state as expressed by the voice of the people. 4. To assist with our moral support all people in their efforts to secure and perpetuate the enactment of legislation based upon the broad principles of con stitutional liberty. 5. To resist by all lawful means all attempts made by the enemies of peace and international harmony, of freedom of speech and conscience, to precipitate war or engender hostile feelings be tween nations, wherein branches of the organization may be established. WOULD MISLEAD. Rosewater has always traded upon the personal and political prejudices of the people, particularly that element of our population which does not readily read and speak the English language. Driven to desperation for a fair argu ment with which to antagonize the A. P. A., he charges that it is a counter part of the Knownothing party, having for its object the spoils of ollice. Fur ther, that it is intended to place none but native Americans in ofilce. Sev eral years of its history has disproved these charges. Undoubtedly there are men in and out of the order, and Ri se wat r is one of them, who believe that the question of birth-place should be an element in determining the fitness of candidates for office. It is thi ques tion which has caud the formation of various political societies among Ger mans, Swedes, Bohemians, Polanders, Scotch and Irish. Native Americans also have their organizations; but the A. P. A. makes no such distinction, and one of the tendencies of the order is to assimilate all the different nation alities and make us a united people, with one aim and purpose. The Know nothing Idea of native Americans for ofli'e has b;en exploded, and it is no part of the A. P. A. movement. In proof of the character of men who make up the order there has just been elected for supreme president for the third term, by the supreme council, at its session la Milwaukee, W. J. H. Traynor, a naturalized citizen, but as true a patriot as ever labored in the cause of freedom. Rosewater cannot mislead the people with this kind of talk. The character of the A. P. A. membership insures the recognition of all loyal men, without regard to nativity. The Omaha Tribune, a German paper edited by a proxy of Dictator Rose water, notifies the German people that the A. P. A. is drifting into Know nothtngism, and that the issue will have to be fought out in the national campaign of 1800. Mr. Schneiser, the principal owner of the paper, is a Ro man Catholic by birth, and Frank Lange, secretary of the company, is a candidate for county treasurer at the hands of the Democratic convention. Mr. Lange recently told a prominent German citizen of Omaha that Rose water had promised him his support for the office to which he aspires, and advised all Germans to keep off from ihe Republican ticket. Mr. Lange will discover before he gets through with thesa methods in politics, that the German people of Omaha cannot be herded together like cattle under an appeal to their prejudices. Many of the staunchest supporters of the Amer ican Protective Association are those who have seen the blighting curse of Romanism in the fatherland. They came here, imbued with a spirit of lib erty, and have lent their votes and in- flue nee to swell the tide that bat set In against ail forms of oppression and in justice, and believe that America can best work out her destiny with a united people, free from the prejjdices of classes and cliques. Furthermore, they point to the fact that citizens of all classes have received the support of the A. P. A. order, the only test being undoubted loyalty to the institutions which will make our country grow greater as time rolls on. One of the most aggressive opponents of the A. P. A. in Omaha is Ed. Simeral. no spends a great deal of time upon the ttreets abusing people generally, and the A. P. A. in particular, and out lines plans for the destruction of the American movtment throughout the country. He has breathed an atmos phere surchargtd with Rosewater 60 long that he only lacks the elements of brains to be a fairly good type of the same genius. Simeral, like Caesar, is ambitious. He aspires to be a party leader, and he believe that the Al mighty was making great men the day he was launched into this world. Sim eral went to Lincoln to impeach Judge Scott and he came home again. He is now engaged in arranging the details of a citizens' movement for fall, so that Rosewater can dominate as in the days of yore. But Simeral will get over that. Before they follow him, the people of Douglas county want to know why it was, when he was county attorney, the commissioners were permitted to make the stupendous blunder of the Douglas addition affair? Claims are already piling into the county clerk's office for a settlement of these claims, which will anount to $300,000 or more, and this must come out of the pockets of the tax payers at a time when a dollar is two fold harder to get than when Simeral was the board's advisor. Will Simeral establish his right to lead the people by explaining the Douglas addition affair? The Catholic Knights are in session in Omaha this week. They have done nothing noteworthy, except to make the same old plea that they are as good and loyal citizens of this country as their Protestant neighbors. Men who belong to a church the head of which only this week denied their co-religionists the right to exercise the elective franchise in Italy, must not be sur prised if their protestations of loyalty are taken with a grain of allowance. If their pope can command non-compliance with the law in one country he can do so in all. They must remember that it is theirs to do, not to question why. We know they are more adject slaves today to the Pope of Rome than the negroes were to the southern planters in the sixties, lor the pope holds not only their worldly happiness, but their future fate in his hands. They must remember that all their efforts to ap pear as free and independent men will be of no avail so long as the head of their church demands and receives their primary allegiance. A stupendously large blunder led the county authorities into selling the poor farm lots, plottad and known as Douglas addition, and claims are now filing into the county building for a re fund of the money paid as principal and taxes, together with interest. It is thought that at least $300,000 will be necessary to pay the face of these claims, and should the county issue a twenty-year bond, the interest will add a coup e hundred thousand to the amount. The series of blunders which has resulted in this condition of affairs were made from 1880 to 1889, and Ed. W, Simeral was county attorney daring two years of the time. Will he explain bis connection with the affair? The people demtnd an explanation? The reinstatement of Cnief Redell would hurt no one more than Rose water, as that unscrupulous poltroon would then have to devise other grounds on which to attack the A. P. A. There is no doubt in our mind but what Re dell's resignation was forced from him by a cleverly manipulated string of cir cumstances, or that the very fellows who are now crying loudest over what he has done, were the ones most anxious to have him do just what he did. As a dissembler and a hypocrite, we com mend the cross between a Bohemian and a Jew. The re-election of W. J. H. Traynor to the office of supreme president of the national council of the A. P. A. assures a clean, honest, aggressive administra tion of the duties of that office. He should now take immediate steps to straighten out the tangle in Illinois. A great many true patriots have been wronged, and those wrongs should be speedily righted, so that there may be united action in 18!6. Every reader of The American should secure a copy of the June Nation. It will be filled with good things, con taining among other things a fine half tone photo engraving of Hon. James Allan and "the emblem of the A. P. A." If our public schools are not good enough for Roman Catholic children to attend, they are good enough for young ladies of the Roman faith to teach in. The address before the McCook council will appear in the next issue. Rev. J. A. O'Connor, editor of the Converted Catholic, writes us as follows: "Allow me to congratulate you on Tlie Nation. It is a very neat magazine,"