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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1895)
1 1 V r LAS TEU1S IDfPEBs. uau aiiHi it iflM B Corpm CrUU 1T la Jiew Xrxtrw Las Vegas, S. M., June 18. liJZ. The Mexican Catholic people are noted j for their enthusiasm in the obteriuco I of ceruio great fert day during tbelr calendar year, principal among which w "Corpui Crlsil." The weather all that could beaoked for Sunday, June 16, and at an early hour bells all on-r the plaza awakened "the faithful to a KM a' T I ... ITk ' - , i itm tu uiih, lurucjftui people passed . ' wr ttilon, the children and young )t ' people in gay attire, and the aged men and women lb dark shawls and clothing. Ail nurrtea on to the church. About 9 o'clock I visited the church, and was seated with the men on the north tide of the large audience room. The finst sight of importance was the march of about seventy-five boys from 4 to 14 years of age, dressed in turkey-red skirts, white waists and red capes over their shoulders. They marched in, followed by girls of the same age, and dressed In white, with wedding veils and garlands of floirers on tbelr headi, fully as many as the boys. Then fol lowed the different religious order, with their banners flying, until the great church was full to the doors, of all ages and conditions of people. Si lence reigned supreme. During the service the parish priest preached against the Protestants. Especially did he make the church resound with his attack on the tract workers and all Protestants. After the service the great procession " began. From the church the orders, children, nuns and priests passed out into the street. At various points aloog the line of the procession little booths were erected, made of lace curtains, pictures, etc., one of which was across the street from the church on the side walk. At such places the procession would stop, and the priest, who, while walking, carried an image of Christ, would go in and give a form of prayer and benediction for that house and people, after which he would move on under a canopy carried by four men, the children following. The men and boys walked on one side of the street and the women and girls on the other. The policemen were in their glory, and after such a sermon were ready to show their colors. They passed along the line and ordered all men to takeoff their hats. The chief of police, coming to where I was, ordered me to take off my hat. I repl.ed that I would not, as did alto my friend, Mr. Lindsay. At that time we were at least fifty feet from the procession. The chief, who was a Mexican, did nothing to us, but went to Mr. Cruz, a Mexican Protestant minister, and after 6i tiering him twice to take off his hat, and being refused, arrested him, and was taking him to jail when the sheriff overtook them and ordered the policeman to let him go, because he had no right to arrest a ( fuan for not taking off his hat. After being released, and while on the way home, with his baby in bis arms and his wife with him, Mr. Cruz was met by the procession. The first policeman said to another (so be testified at Cruz's trial) that "there is that animal with his hat on." The second policeman left the procession and told Cruz to take his hat off, upon refusal of which the officer grabbed it from his head and threw it on the ground. He did this , twice, and Cruz, with his baby in his I arms, replaced it. The policeman then ! arrested him and started to jail with him, assisted by the first policeman (the chief). When they had gone one block and a half away from the pro cession and the point of arrest, Cruz said: "If you can make me take my hat off, you can make me kneel to your idols." Then the second policeman struck him with his club over the right eye and nose, knocking him to the ground. Is this America? No, it surely must be Rome. Cruz was put in prison, and was given no medical care. After three hours' work Sunday afternoon, we secured bail, and today (June 19) the trial Is going on. Protestants are standing for their rights. These are facts. E. E. Whedon in San Juan Protptctor. ' Only tried and true Protestants are capable of cleaning our Augean stables. This Elegant 'New Rochester' Nickel or Gilt Sewing Lamp without glassware will be sent ex press paid to any address , Chimney and Shade sold everywherei ot we can supply you. ' We makejro other styles of the famous New Roch ester now mtlr iiDrovei.) The desideratum for a Sm iirbt with one-auarter the Moat of target sties. RrWwirt Brass Co. "Ty.I ooooooooooooooc3 If V li I FOR GENUINE REFORM. Influence of the A. P. A. in Placing- Douglas County's Business in a Prosperous Condition. The 'TiUzras Platform' Answered and American Priariple ltrfcaded by X. II. BedUeld. Deputy County Clerk M. II. IV-dfiold spoke as follows to the Second Ward Republican Club last Monday night: Mr. President aid Fellow Citizens: Political parties are a necessity in a republic; and I apprehend that If by any mishap tue citizens' movement should succeed, and my friend Mr, Tukey should be elected mayor of the city, Lee Helsley as police judge, Mr. Siintral appointed city attorney, Mr. Shoemaker city proeecutor, Mike Meany as foreman of the street work ing force, and that all the other active workers in the citizens' caute should get seme public office, we should find that these people had built up a politi cal party of their own. 1 am going to talk to you tonight about local politics, and I shall discuss the issues which have already been presented. I shall discuss the issues plainly, and I do not want any one to go out from this meeting and say that have been talking religion. The only religion talked in this campaign has been and will be at the citizens' meetings; and it must be that peculiar kind of religion which has in all coun tries made church parties a success. I take it that no one will attempt to deny that, although we are Republicans, we are also citizens; and, if we are true to the principles of our party, we ought to be the best citizens in the community and there can be no better place to further a citizens' movement than in the Republican party The campaign on which we are now entering involves, among other things, the question as to whether or not the people of Douglas county are capable of self-government; whether they have the intelligence and capacity to select men for the different official positions in the city and county without dicta tion, and whether the officials so se lected will have the manhood and self- rtsuect tv perform their duties without receiving orders from any man. but treating every one alike. The official staiemcnt of t.ie county cierk lor the fiscal year ending Julyl, 1895, was recently given to the public. Tne law does not make it his duty to furnish such a statement, but in line with the rcfoims inaugurated by the present admiuistration of the county, it has been the custom of the present in1 cufebtnt to furnish the tax-payers with an account of the work of ttieir public bervants every year. riom the report, it appears that on the let day of January, 1892, there were claims against the county for current expensts and judgments amounting to $319,802.92, and that there was only the sum of $48,438.55 to pay with. Since that time the levies for 1893, 1894 and ls'Jo show a decrease ol $H4,oUU.bl as compared with the '92 levy; but, not withstanding this, the above indebted ness has all been wiped out, all the cur rent expenses of the county have been paid, and there is a net surplus at this date of $730,131.05. This table is proof of the fact that economy has bean practiced in every branch of the county government where possible: 18S2-'93 1893-'94 lSDf-'K! Rent district court..! 3.441 64 $2,00GO4 tl,6G0 TO Groceries, poor farm 8,754 4 4,443 33 3,481 31 Fuel at poor farm.. 4.803 70 Drugs at Door farm. 2,098 45 Meat at poor farm. . 3,038 08 Stationery, printing 15,9i4 70 Fuel at court-house. 2,651 93 2,064 97 1,019 59 2,040 17 8,267 51 2,054 50 2,024 28 498 02 1,614 46 7,536 10 1,481 21 Overseers of high ways, road fund... 11,945 44 7,792 12 3,444 41 Overseers of high ways, bridge fund. 4,063 31 Fuel at tbe jail 2,093 94 Drugs at the jail.... 420 88 Coroner's fees, etc.. 2,621 20 2,111 50 1,642 43 ' 202 56 1,915 60 1,010 38 967 94 103 78 1,272 65 oln contrast with this showing, I hold up to your mind'e eye the skeleton of the county ho&i-'ial job, in which the people were robbed of hundreds of thou sands of dollars. In contrast with the showing now made, I would remind you of the living reality of the Douglas addition blunder, which may cost the people half a million dollars before it is settled, and for which $60,000 has already been levied against the tax payers. And I call your attention to the fact that the present board of county commissioners has required all the officers of the county to make a strict accounting of all fees due the treasury, and has inaugurated business methods in all departments. These are some of the facts. Is it not strange that at a time when the county's busi ness and finances are in the best con dition they have ever been, there should be such a clamor for a change of administration. The record has been made all that was promised four years ago has been fulfilled. I chal lenge the champions of the citizens' movement to refute these figures If they can, or forever hold their peace. One other point: We are hearing more or less In this campaign about men being proscribed on account ol their religion. 1" deny that any one's religion is being assailed. Every one in this country has the right to worship Cod according to the dictates of his own conscience. That principle l fundamental in our m. To set It aside U to destroy the foundation on which tbe government rest. But, my friend, while I uphold the constitution of my country, I maintain that religious liberty is a right guaranteed to the In dividual, and cannot be construed ai to protect any man, or set of men, In building up a system in this country that Is antagonistic to American In stitution and American progress and development a system which virtually makes a government within our gov eminent, and a hierarchy of the church and state supported, if you please, by the nibernlaa military organization, not created by and owing no allegiance to the constitution of the United States, What docs the word "proscribe mean? Why, it means to denounce and condemn as dangerous. Well, my friends, it Is the duty of the people of this country to denounce and condemn as aangorous anything that menaces the perpetuity of the government. I do not have to particularize to an In telligent audience facts that are known as the history of our country. I do not have to remind you that this power struck at the head of our government, and almost plunged tbe nation Into anarchy when the blood of Abraham Lincoln was wantonly spilled by an assassin, and It Is to ward off the re currence of such events that millions of patriots all over the land are organized. Lit us analyse this matter of pro scription a little further. The consti tution of this country does not guar antee that any man shall have an office. It lays down certain qualifications that the Individual must possess before be can get an office, and that is all it says. If the position taken by the citizens' platform is correct, I suppose that our friend, Mr. Richards, of Fremont, felt that he was proscribed by the voters of his state when Ihey refused to elect him governor. I remember in that campaign that the Personal Rights League refused to support him because they believed that his election would nave meant a restriction oi tneir per sonal liberty. Will any one deny that tbe league had a constitutional right to do it? Others opposed him on par tisan grounds; and I have no doubt that there were individuals who voted tor or against Lim on religious grounds. The sum of the whole battle was that Mr. Richards went down in defeat- but will it be claimed for a moment that his constitutional rights bad been abridged? No! No! The constitution does not guarantee to any man the right to have a public office. Why, I remember running for office once, my self. I was a candidate lor the city council in the Second ward, and that is when I got my first lesson in practical politics. I learned a great many things about tbe influences which control the minds and consciences of men in polit ical action. One of the first things I learned was that the officers of tue Bohemian Catholic church had dis cussed my candidacy, and they sent a man to me 'to find out how I would stand on the question of complying with the law, then and now in the bojks, in regard to the taxation of church prop erty. A member of the Hibernian order asked me how I stood on the proposition to divide the public school funds with parochial schools, and whether I would be In favor of tbe proposition to restore the temporal power of the pope. That was Second ward politics a few years ago; and the same questions are alive over there to day, although less rampant than they were. When the election came on there were those who voted against me on partizan grounds, some on religious grounds; there were others who with held their votes because I was a Mason; there were still others who didn't think I was a good man for the place, and the result was that I was defeated. But, my friends, I did not feel that my con stitutional rights had been assailed. I felt proscribed, in a sense. Every fellow who gets beat for office feels that way; but I simply footed up the returns, found that I didn't get votes enough, and went on about my business, while my friend, Pete Elsasser got the job of serving the people. It was a mathe matical proposition no constitutional questions involved. But it is claimed that a very large number of the people of Omaha and Douglas county have taken an oath that is offensive to the citizens' plat form. I am confident that the man who wrote that platform was either a traitor to his country or else he didn't know what he was talking about. Granting that a large number of people have done so, there can be no oath more sacred than the duty which every American citizen owes to his country of being loyal to her institutions and her flag. There is no oath more sacred than the duty which every citizen owes to his country to protect and defend the public school, and to be a just, upright and honorable man. Why, my friends, the patriotic sentiment is one of the strongest and most ennobling passions of the human soul. Destroy love of country, and you have a nation of serfs, who will allow the grand structure of our government to crumble and fall. I remember, back in my childhood days, when I felt the first influence of the patriotic impulse, and when the grand possibilities of American manhood and c'tlienship began to unfold to my mind. It was up la my Wisconsin Home, and tbe report was circulated about the village that on tbe following day tbe soldiers would paoe through oo their way home from the war. Promptly at sunrise I was on the main street, and It was not long until In the distance a cloud of dust arose and above It waving la the morning breeze was a battle-torn flag of the Republic. Presently the soldiers came up. Their ranks were disordered, their uniforms Uttered, worn and faded; many of them were nursing bandaged wounds; some were limping; others, unable to walk, rode tn ambulances and the motley band ol patriots, with their canteens and their knapsacks, with their supply teams and trappings, . 1 . 11 . i . passeu siienny oy, wearied and worn from long service at the front. My incnus, must oi tnoso ooys nave gone to their reward; but the memory of that closing scene of the greatest of modern wars unites the past with the present; and I stand before you to say that the principles for which they fought still live, and tbe American people, now awakened to a now danger, are determined to sut-tain them, and transmit the blessings of liberty to generations yet unborn. I will welcome the day when I can take by the hand every man who en joys the blessings of our system of gov ernment under the Stars and Stripes. I have do prejudices, no feelings against any living man; but I am relentless in believing that there is but one standard for all citizens, and that standard Is loyalty to American institutions, and firmness in opposition to every influ ence, foreign or domestic, which threat ens the perpetuity of the Union. This standard will not only eventuate in a realization of the principles on which the government was founded, but we will, when it is reached, see the dawn of the period of which Washington dreamed when we should have a na tion controlled by principles of univer sal justice and benevolence. Fellow Republicans, in this contest there can be no such word as fail. Our cause Is just, and the people will sustain it. I thank you. SAVED 11IS SISTER. Rescued from a Los Angeles Convent Tlie Law Resorted To. "Is your face clean? Go wash your face and comb your hair. Two men are In the sitting-room to see you." This is tbe language with which Sister Alberta, superioress of the Sacred Heart School, on tbe East Side, ac costed Martha Brown in the kitchen of the above-mentioned "lock-up" on last Thursday afternoon. Miss Brown Is the adopted daughter of Mrs. Elmira Sparks, of Visalla, Cal , and is now nearly 15 years of age. Some three years ago Miss Brown's teacher in tbe public school, a Miss Blake, professed great affection lor her, and proposed to Mrs. Sparks, tbe adopted mother, that Martha be sent to school in Los Angeles. Mrs. Sparks at first objected, but was finally per suaded to let Martha go, on condition that she be returned to her in two years. Time went by, and no word came from Martha; but Miss Blake would, when asked about her, say that she was progressing nicely. When the two years had elapsed, Mrs. Sparks was desirous that Martha be returned to her, but was put off upon one pretext or another. Some few months ago young Sparks joined the A. P. A., and, through read ing the Tocsin and like papers, got an insight into what Catholic convents are, and began to suspect that all was not right with his sister. So, in com pany with a friend, and armed with a letter from his mother, certified to be fore a justice of the peace, he Bet out for Los Angeles. In company with S. P. Ross, of this city, he called at tbe Orphans' Home on Boyle Heights, and was Informed by the sister In charge that Martha Brown had been trans ferred to the Sacred Heart Convent on the East Side. To the East Side Mr. Sparks and his companion directed their steps, and on ringing the door bell at the convent a "sweet-faced" sister, with a huge cross and a bundle of keys dangling by her side, answered the call. She inquired their business, and, on being informed that they were relatives of Martha Brown and produc ing a letter from Mrs. Sparks, tbe turn key sister said she would report to Sister Alberta, the superioress. They were invited in, and, after some delay, Miss Brown came into the room. She was overjoyed to see her brother, and was much embarrassed because of her appearance. After a few minutes' conversation, Mr. Sparks invited his sister to accom pany him to the city for the purpose of making some purchases for her, but was told she could not go without per mission from Sister A'.berta. Mr. Sparks told her to ask permission from the sister, but she did not return; the turnkey sister came in her place and said that before Martha could go Mr. Sparks would have to get permission from Father Harnett, and that he could be found at his home near the church, a block away. To the church they started, and on regaining the street they saw the priestly bachelor leaving the convent from the rear. They sought his priestly presence, and made known their wants, but were told that Martha was busy with ber kitchen duties and could not go, that he did not know they were the persons they rep resented themselves to be, and that they could hold do further conference with Manba till he (Father Harnett) could bear from the priest at Visalla. At this arrogance both Mr. Sparks and Mr. Ross became Indignant and gave the representative of an alien church some stialght American talk, telling him that on the morrow Uncle Sum would open his priostly prison and let at least one of the captives go free, and that it was only a question of a ft-w years when tbelr darkened windows and bolted doors would 0en to the light of day and be subject to examlna tion at any time. Mr. Sparks then ob tained a writ of habeas corpus, and his next appearance before the Romish prison was with a deputy sheriff. The same turnkey unlocked the door and was Informed by the sheriff's represen tative that he wished to see Sister Alberta. On her return the turnkey said that Sister Alberta would be down In a few minutes, but before she came Father Harnett camo In and said that Sister Alberta was not at home, but that he would answer for her. As the rit Included both Father Harnett and Sister Alberta, the legal functionary drew bis document on tbe holy father, who surrendered the girl. On regaining her freedom. Miss Brown spoke freely of her ldcarcura tion, saying that she was compelled to do the drudgery of the school and that she was at times brutally treated; that every sister but one had beaten her, and that several times she had written home and given tbe letters to the sis ters to mall for her, and that, with a promise to mail them, they would put her letters in the office desk. Miss Brown was seen by several friends before she started for her home in Visalla, and they all say that she showed evidonco of bavin? received rough treatment. How long, O Californlansl how long will you tolerate those priestly prisons? Will you again send to the legislature the political cowards who promised If elected to Introduce a law for the open ing of Rome's prisons? Los Angela Tocsin. ricasant to Take. The NORTHWESTERN LINE , fas vestlbuled Chicago train that glides east from the Union Dopot every after noon at 5:45, and into Chicago at 8:45 next morning, with supper and a a train is RIGHT. Other trains at 11:05 a. m. 4.50 p tn. dally good, too. City TickjtOffija, 1401 Farntmstraat Pamphlet. Extracts from United States Con gressional Record, containing address of Hon, W. S. Linton and discussion In congress upon sectarian appropriations of national money to: Indian education, and the vote thereon; also remarks made respecting a requirement to teach the English language in New Mexico er admission to statehood, and two eparate votes rejecting such a require ment. Address, Gen. Green Clay Smith, IJ O. Box 333. Washington, D. C. Price, postage paid, $2.50 per thousand, or 6 copies 10 cents. VVbat stops NeuralKln? Dr. Miles' Pain Pills. All druKK-lstsscll Dr. Miles' Pain I'llla. TheNation Monthly It is replete with Articles on Questions of Local, National and Social Interest. Price, 5c Single Copy; $1 a year, in advance. FOR SALE Br ALL FIRST-CLASS NEWSDEALERS. CONTRIBUTORS: Hon. John V. Farwell, of Chicago, 111.; Col. W. S. Morgan, of Arkansas; Hon. M. W. Howard, of Alabama; lion. F. M. Washburn, of Boston, Mass.; Ex-Gov. D. II. Waite, of Colorado; Rev. J. T. Robinson, of Lena, 111.; Hon. Faul Van Dervoort, Henry W. Yates, John 0. Yeiser and John C. Thompson, of Omaha, Neb., and a number of other leading western writers. ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO THE NATION, 1C15 Howard Street, (ioldea Treasures f the Vat Iran. Impartial writers say that the gold contained In tbe medals, vessels, chains and other objects preserved la tbe Vallt an would make more go d cola than the whole of the present European circulation. Hood's Is Wonderful "At bsrvsittni tuns I took a sststs mI4 which trttii tn my Umhs, and to a short Him dsvslopsd Into It A fur his a good sum of y for different diss aud suffering all winter, I ksotas a srlpplsd Inst I as la wtik with ths aid f erutntiM. Iiy la kiad ltk of a fi laud I was ff tit kottlts of HmO T 1 SarsanaiUla. I took tta J,,k j msdlelns and It ass fak Ht,l,w,twtor, lyrtitorsdmstoksahk, Clifford. N.D. and I think It vodl mi LI fa. I wilt obMrfully answer all who may wish to orreipond about my sffllellua or statu Bient" a. W. CooLtr, Clifford, North Dakota. Hood 's Sarsa parilla Be Sure to Get Hood's Cures Hood's Pills eurs naunsa, and blllousnssa, Notice to Nun-Resident Drfeiidnnt. To JimIiua Stow man and Mm. HU)wnin, lint arid n-nl nun e unknown. Iiln wit-: IMhumh tukx notice Hint on the 6th day of July, lN1i", I'll 1 1 1 p t,. Jolinwin. plitlntlfT hitri-ln til cil Iiln poiltlon In the IHntrlrt court of IIiiiikIum county, Ni'brMk, nifHlnut Joxhua Htowmnn and Mm. Htowmao, tlrt and real name unknown, lila wlfu, tlio otijm-t and pruyiir of which arn to form-lime a certiilo tax cvrtlllcatii Uuled Noveuibur IM.li, W,i, and i-ovi-rliiR lot It, block M, In the town ot Klorein-e, HoiikUn county. Neliruxka; that thi-re Im now duo upon aalil certificate the aum of fliMX), for which mini, with Intermit and all oiinIh, iiiiilntllf praya for a dec r no thatllio rii'ftin'li.iit ue renulreit to nay tho ame, or that said promim-n may Im aold to niillhfy the mi oiint found dun. you are ri-oiilri'd to anxwer aald untltlon on or In-torn the 'ilth day of August, 1h'J."i. iimea juiy nun, IM J i 1.1 1 L. JOHNSON. IMiilnMIT. By Haundera, Mai-furlund & XJlcktiy, lila at- Kirni-y-i. Notice. To Charles Powell and Mr. Powell, Brut and real iiainii unknown, Iiln wife: You will uIchhii t ake notice Unit on the Rrd day of July, 1KWV, Walter K. Keeler. uliilnlllf ln-n-ln. tiled hlx petition In the dlnlr ct court of DoukIim county, Nehraxka, HaliiNt Charlea Powell and Mri l'ownli. Hint and real mime unknown, Iiln wife, the object and prayni of which are to foncloe certain lax curl illciili-H dated Novemcer liMli, and coveriim Iota 1, 2. 3, 4 and 5, In block -i, Cole HrilllHiiti) Addition to the city of Omaha, HouL'los county, Nt-hraiika: that there la now due fiereon, upon Raid certifi cate, and Iki'h paid thereunder, the aum of V5 U0, for which hij in, with lntrit from this date, plaint III praya for a decree iliat the de fendiinta may fin ri-iitilred to nay the name. or that Hit til premlHi-s may be Hold to aatiafy the amount found due, and that, tho defend knlN Im forever barred from chtlu Inif any Interest In the aforeaaid real fatal". You are required to anxwer xtilil petition on or before tne llith day of AuKunt, lttij. Dated July :ird. IMfl. WA M 'Kit K. KEEI.EIt. Plaintiff. Ily Hauudera, Macfarlatid & Uk-key, Ills At tornvya. 7 5-4 SM''ial Muster ComiiilsHliiiier's Sale. 3 Under and by virtue of an order of aule on decree of foreclosure of iiioriiraxe Waned out of the district court for IIoukIhx county, N- iiraaKa, ana ti me airecteii. i will, on the Kith day of Auniixt, A. I). IM'.i. at ten o'clock a. in. of wild day, at the north front, floor of the county court houao, In the city of Omaha, Doimlaa county, Nebraska, aell at public auction to tne liuiheat bidder lor ciisli, the property deacrlbed In aald order of aule aa follows, to-wlt : Lot twenl y-aix tali. In block fourteen tHIof Orchard Hill, an addition to the cltv of Om aha, 1 ion tl us county, Neliraxka; said prop erty U be sold to sat 1st v Jennie H. Hcotl the sum of xliteen hundred, thirteen and t'.I KJO dl.Hia.UMi Dollars with Wo (Hi) percent inter est per annum from May fl, 1H1H, and thlrty elirht and 41 1141 i&W l:ti Dollars coxta toitetber with accrulnn coxts according, to a judgment rendered by the district court of said llouir las county, at Its May term, A. D. 1MI3, in a rt-i tain action then and there pending, wherein Jennie H. Hcott was plaintiff and Joseph D. Wsmpler, et al wered fendanta. Omaha, Nebraska, July ll'h. I -''.'). UKOKUKE. TUKK1NOTON. Hpcdal Master Commissioner. John W. I.ytle, attorney. 7-12 i Magazine, A WESTERN MAGAZINE FOR WESTERN READERS. OMAHA, NEB" J