AMERICAN
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER.
Volume V.
AMERICA FOil AMERICANS." We hold that all men are A verlcan who Swef Allegiance to tbe United SUk-i without a mental reservation In favor of the Pope.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1895.
PRICE FIVE CK.N IB
. NCMBER 32
THE
REV. DR. J.Q.A. HENRY,
Of Chicago, Lectures in Boston on
the Subject of Papal Aggression
in the United States.
Pri wtly and rapid Fulnilnatlons Against
the A. P. A.-The Hibernian
Constitution.
Rev. Dr. J. Q. A. Henry, formerly
of San Franclsoo, now pastor of the La
Salle Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago,
lectured on July 22d at the People 'a
Temple in Boston. He said: ,
"I have not time to refer to the nu
merous other patriotic institutions, but
confine myself entirely to the Amer
ican Protective Association, familiarly
known as the A. P. A. One would sup
pose that Leo XIII. had been studying
the scurrilous and blasphemous ency-
clicals of Pope Pius IX., to cull out all
the contumelious suggestions and in'
sinuations that might be used to de
scribe the horrible features of the A.
P. A.
Archbishop Riordan, of San Fran
Cisco, said that it originated in hell;
that it Came up through the sewers of
the streets; and so for months it was
called by the euphonious name of the
Sewer Rats. I have respect for a rat
that is not satisfied with its dark, me
phitlo surroundings, and desires to
come up to the light. I have respect
for the man who wants to come out
from a malignant institution; but not
for the man who, like the dog, will re
turn to his vomit, and like the sow to
her wallowing.
And Archbishop Riordan also said
that the A. P. A. had couCP up out of
the sewers into Market street. Yes,
they have come to Market street, and
they are there still, and they will be
there in the middle of the road, and
will keep there, under the blessing of
' God. Sixteen months ago there were
two councils in San Francisco; now
there are twenty. JThere are 200 coun
cils in the State dr California. And,
they are composed of people who cast
good solid American votes as against
every Roman Catholic votetbat caif be
mustered. Yes, and they outnumber
the Roman Catholics twice over.
Vri An iVn f ma rt irAtln noma V. n
vA, P. A. fired out the opponents of the
interescs.of the public schools. And
the A. P. A. hold the balance of power
in the great State of California. And
that organization will control it for the
glory of God and for the emancipation
of the people from the clutches of Ro-
manism. Yes, and tbe A. P. A. are
getting out on the "main" street, and I
think they will get out on Washington
street and Tremont street, here in your
beloved city. And I should not be sur
prised if they occupied the thorough
fare to-the state-house within the next
fifteen months.
Rome claims that the A. P. A. rep
resents nothing more than the spirit of
wild beasts, and should be hunted
down. Give it time and it will die,
they say.
We don't propose to let it "die."
Rome said she would kill me. She
would put a dagger into my heart. She
said I should never leave San Fran
cisco safely. The Monitor came out
with a statement that it was a pity
that I should be allowed to go out alive,
thus setting the thugs to take my life,
if possible.
But I went down to a store and bought
this little silk 'flag showing it, amid
much enthusiasm, and have worn it
over my heart, acd I said: "If they
put a dagger into my heart, they must
do so through the Stars and Stripes,
and if they did that they would call
out 20,000 young men to avenge that
insult to the old flag. Great applause.
Bishop Keane eaid of the A. P. A
that it was the dying kick of bigotry,
What do you think of that kick? It is
only a youngster in age. Notwith
standing, it did "kick" last fall in Cali
fornia. Lincoln was once asked how
long a man's leg ought to be, and he
said: "About long enough to reach
from his body to the ground." New,
the A. P. A. are about 3,000,000 of
voters, the brightest, brawniest and
brainiest, and it can clearly reach down
the ground. And In 1896, when it
does "kick" and Rome does not "feel"
the kick, it will be a m:racle.
A Roman Catholic asked his priest
what a miracle was. The priest gave
A the Patsy a tremendous kick, and then
asked him if he understood what a mir
acle is. "Did you feel that kick?"
"Yes."
"Well, Pat, if you hadn't felt it, it
would hate been a miracle."
When the A. P. A. kicks political
Romanism in-1896, It will be a miracle
if Rome does not feel It from Hell Gate
on the east to Golden Gate on the west.
Now, what are some of the reasons
for opposing the A. P. A.? First, it Is
e" t. Rome well understands that
fact. The truth is, that Rome fears
secresy if it i against her own Inter
ests. She knows the power of organi
zation. She does not fear any number
of men and women, provided they are
dissevered and unassociated. But when
the leaders in tf'A country have their
hearts fired with the genius of Amer
ican liberty, and get their eyes open
and get their power concentrated, then
Rome fears.
Ana tnen tbey criticise this move
ment as being un-American. They say
we do not admit to the A. P. A. people
born under some other flag the Eng
lish, Irish, Germans, Scotch, and oth
ers. But we d not ask anything about
where a man was born, but "Are you a
genuine, bona fide American?" It does
not become Rome to criticise this order
as being un-American, when the hier
archy is in Its aims, in its spirit, in its
intrigues and in its methods, its roach!
nations and its malignity of assault
upon our institution), utterly malicious.
In its hide, hoofs and hair Romanism
is the very incarnation of that which
is alien and un-American."
At this point the speaker quoted
from the preamble and the constitution
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians,
showing that it is intensely Romanist,
that it can be composed only of Irish
men, that it is under the absolute con
trol of the bishops and priests, that its
purpose is entirely out of harmony with
the genius of American institutions.
"The Hibernian spirit is opposed to
true Americanism. The American
spirit is in favor of true Americanism.
That spirit is possessed of the four
principles:
1. Love of liberty.
Rome never has loved liberty; never
has given it where she ruled.
2. Love of law.
While Rome has one-seventh of the
population, she gives the far largest
number of thugs, criminals and vicious
classes to the American Republic to
day. We say to the people: "Ba law
abiding citizens." But Rome says:
Be law-deriding citizens."
3. The true American citizen reveres
womanhood. '
There are no better fathers and nf
better mothers than are in this free
laud. We stand for the protection and
the defense of imperial womanhood
But the confessional, the convents, the
beastly and debased priesthood cor
rupt and debauch womanhood, from
childhood to the time of old age. The
A. P. A. believes in delivering inv
prisoned nuns from nunneries and from
the slavery of the confessional, and
from the tyrannical priests In the con
vents. '
4. Ideal Americanism has love for
God and the truth.
We have a belief In God, as shown
by the pilgrim fathers when they en
acted the first charter of liberties, be
ginning it "In the name of God, amen."
"Beware," said the speaker, "of the
secret work of the Romanist servant
girls in your household. A Methodist
minister in San Francisco had a Rom
ish servant-girl, and that girl, taught
by her church to do so, took the little
daughter of the Methodist minister and
carried her to the Roman Catholic ca
thedral and had her baptized. This
was done to save the soul of the child
Who of you knows but your own boy or
girl has thus been secretly taken and
baptized into the Church of Rome?
Who can know it? I don't want my
child baptized in any such way as that,
In an unholy fashion. I think we
should wake up to this question of the
servant-girl. They are able to get at
your family secrets, your conversation,
your reading, your literature, your
company, and by and by the.-e secrets
of yours (an be brought up by the
priesthood to your utter injury If they
so desire.
Now, why has this A. P. A. organi
zation come into existence? First, from
the fact of the attack upon the public
schools. They succeeded in Boston in
putting certain books out of tbe schools.
You had a fight, and you succeeded.
Rome does not want history taught by
your text book. She doesn't want her
children to know the facts concerning
the history of the nation, of all nations,
and indeed of Rome. I stand for his
tory. History is written. Rome can
not change it. She seeks to suppress
it or modify its study.
And another reason for this organi
zation is in the need of good citizen
ship. Rome has large control, and
where she has it we have bad citizen
ship. The father confessor has too
much power for 111 in this land. Eccle
siastical powers dominate too largely.
This association wants civil institutions
to be dominated by civil rulers.
Again, the frequent desecration of
Old Glory has caused an intense spirit
of devotion to be manifested in this
society, the A. P. A. It has the spirit
of '76, and this organization proposes
to rally to the standard of our faith
and hope, and defend It against all
odds.
It baa been said that the A. P. A.
should be censured because it brings
religion into politics. Does It? Only
Mormonism and Romanism ever have
done that. Methodism, Presbyterlan-
ism -these do not do it. The A. P. A
I organized for the purpose of carrying
politics out of religion
Here statements were quoted from
the Catholic World, the utterances of
Priest Phelan, etc., and he then said:
"The American people can stand the
little red school-bouse, but it cannot
stand tie red bat. It cannot stand a
church whose sole existence is by
reason of the political intrigues, the
political Infamy, the political corrup
tion of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
We have no contest with any man on
account of what he believes religiously.
If a man wants to kiss the pope's toe,
let him do so freely. If he wants to be
a Romanist, let him be one; but do not
let him draw that Romanism into the
political arena, or he will be 'downed.' "
The speaker here unfoldod the princi
ples of the American Protective Asso
ciation, dwelling on each point suffi
ciently to reveal its significance.
But," say some persons, "if I be
come an A. P. A. I shall be boycotted."
Well, two could play at that. Sixty
millions of freemen could play at the
boycott with ten millions of Romanists,
if they so dot i red.
The speaker quoted from the thir
teenth and the eighteenth chapters of
Revelation, and showed in what way
Almighty God will finally boycott the
harlot of Rome. In Buffalo a man be
came an A. P. A. His Roman Cath
olic neighbors suspected it. One came
to him, and another, and another, and
asked him: "Are you an A. P. A.?"
He got so tired with them that he went
and had a sign painted thus: "A. P. A.
Butcher." And his trade increased to
a most remarkable extent. There are
twenty-five butchers In Boston who
could afford to have those words painted
in letters of red, white and blue, and
their trade would not diminish, but in
crease, as their brethren would stand
fvf them and not let them suffer.
Y The A. P. A. is set to maintain prin
eiplaf and institutions that Rome ut-
tifjfursesand anathematizes. Listen,
fits the utterances of Pope Fius IX :
"Those who assert the liberty of con
science, or religious worship, sit anath
ema" (or, In other words.) ".Let him be
damned." "All who advocate liberty
of speech, tit anathema" (let him be
damned). "All who maintain that in
countries not Catholic tbe Tree exer
cise of other religions may laudably be
allowed, sit anathema" (let them be
damned). Anything else? Yes. "All
those who assert that the pope ought
to come to terms with progress, liberal
ism and modern civilization let them
be damned."
That is Romanism simon pure. Now
God is calling the spirit of prophecy to
make known in Daniel what shall be,
and let us hear it. The judgment of
history, of the Bible, cf the Christian
consciousness, of human reason, of
human happiness, of human hope, of
pure womanhood, of sweet childhood,
of Protestant Christianity, of time and
of eternity, of Christ and of Almighty
God Is sitting In condemnation on Ro
manism and she shall be destroyed by
the brightness of His coming.
MIRACLE OF GUADALUPE.
Image Possessed by a Washerwoman
With Strange Attributes.
MEXICO CITY, July 26. A new ap
parition of the Virgin of Guadalupe is
reported, but it is not true, a has been
said, that Archbishop Alcarin has
vouched for it. The story as told is
this:
Matllde Perz, a washerwoman, had
an old basket of flat-irons and other ob
jects, including a small lavage of the
Virgin of Guadalupe. Entering the
room where the basket was the night
of June 17, Matllde was astonished to
see a light Issuing from the basket.
Upon examining it she found that the
illumination came from the image.
She placed It on the wall and Invited
sick people .n her humble neighbor
hood to visit it. They went in throngs
and, touching the miraculous image,
which continued to shed supernatural
light, were all healed. Newspaper re
porters who saw the image assert that
it Bheds a violet light.
Sot Bad. Read It.
An early settler la one who pays his
bills promptly. We would like to see
more early settlers find their way into
our oRice. fhxUpsburg Journal. To
your earnest expressions, Bro. Blair,
we respond with a fervent "amen."
Another Miracle Train Wrecked.
Paris, July 26. A train crowded
with pilgrims returning from the
Shrine of St. Dauray, was wrecked near
the town of St. Brieuo today. Twelve
persons were killed and twenty-five in
jured.
STAND Itf THE.
Rome's Attacks en Our Schools and Our
loath.
The assault on the Christian En
deavor convention at Montreal by a
howling Romanist mob; and now the
unrtbuked attack of Priest Phelan on
the same great body of Protestant
youth, two and a quarter millions
strong, as their representatives gather
in Boston, is but one of the straws that
indicate the spirit of Romanism and
tbe outcome of Roman Catholic teach
ing. This liberty-loving nation bat
been repeatedly called upon to look in
amazement at Rome's intolerance when
one leaves her fold, for conscience sako,
such instances being made conspic
uous iu the attack upou au ei-piiest at
Savannah; and every place in the land
where the telegraph and newspapers
reach will hear of her vlloneis and
brutality in the unprovoked, attack
upon the school-house and flag on In
dependence day, in the capital city of
New England; while two empires look
on as Manitoba, standing against
Rome's hostile attitude to public
schools, modeled after the pattern of the
United States, hears her champion
read, from assumed reports, of tbe
shocking immorality of tMue schools
which are the pride of every lover of
American soil and liberties.
No member of her communion loses
place in her ranks or caste with her
hierarchy for saying, as did Priest
Phelab in a set of resolutions presented
at one of their gatherings, that:
"Tbe present system of public cchools
is a curse to the country and a flood
gate of atheism and sensuality, and of
civil,, social and national corruption;
and the children turn out to be learned
horse-thieves, scholastic counterfeiters,
and well posted on schemes of dev
iltry." Nor has Archbishop Kaln of St.
Louis or Mgr. Satolli dealt out disci
pline to this same priest, as, speaking
of the great gathering of Christian
Endeavorers, he says, among other
equally shocking things:
"The corrupting tendencies of Buch
heterogeneous gatherings of young pco
pie itsuot be overestimated, and for
downright viclousness and depravity
they have never been equaled since
the horrid Saturnalia of Greoce and
Rome."
Any amount of insult may be heaped
upon millions of the flower of our young
people, and the most outrageous
charges made against our glorious sys
tem of public education; it is passed
over in tilenoe by Archbishop Kain of
St. Louis, and the Mgr. Satolli, who
lords it over Rome's ecclesiastics, for,
though expressed in an impolitic way
and in unguarded language, it differs
not a whit in its spirit from standard
Roman Catholic authorities living and
dead. But let an attempt be made to
get, in our courts, justice meted out to
a bishop, and every word printed in ap
proval must be promptly retraced.
A man rises in the Manitoba legisla
ture, and the Associated Press reports
him'as quoting the opinions of prom
inent Protestant ministers In the
United States that our public schools
had sapped Christianity, and that girls
had given testimony unfit to read con
cernlng tbese schools. Called to ac
count by patriotic men, this same man
rises to a question of privilege, and
purports to read extracts from reports,
3 says the Associated Press despatch,
to the affect that a large proportion of
the Inmates of houses of bad repute In
Boston ascribe their downfall to the
public schools, and this when the state
ments are not only raise in every par
ticular, Ibut when, as Mr. Pettlgrove,
chairman of the Boston school commit
tee, says:
"I can assure you 1 never heard of
any official document giving such infor
mation as he (Mr. Maitine) is said to
have quoted, nor do I know of any
statistics upon that subject that have
been published by anybody."
This is-a statement that would be re
peated and re-echoed by every school
committee in the land.
Whence spring this and other low
and dastardly attacks upon our public
schools and our young people? Per
haps the question cannot better be
answered than hy some reference to
standard Roman Catholic authorities,
for it is from champions of this church
that these onslaughts come, and popes,
councils, prelates, priests and laymen
are alike Involved. Indeed, it seems to
be those who wear the tiara, and robe
themselves in the "red and purple,"
who lead in this vilification, and the
poor Catholic who joins in an attempt
to vindicate his church in bloody riot,
and violent attack on freedom of speech
and conscience, seems but to be inter
preting into acts the creed he has been
taught by those who claim from him
implicit obedience.
In 1889, for example, a book was pub
lished by John Murphy & Co., received
the endorsement of 380 of the "high and
highest church dignitaries" Cardl
nal Gibbon pronouncing it "an excel
lent repertory for those who wls'i to
supply themselves with ready material
for treating the subject of Christian
education," and offering the author his
"congratulations on the manner In
which he has handled this vital ques
tion."
Q ioting from the first Plenary Coun
cil of Baltimore, held in lr2, we find
that a policy of antagonism is thus
early outlined by the ruler of the
church, for:
"As it is evident that! the system ol
public education in most of our states it
calculated to serve the cause of heresies
by imbuing the minds of Catholic youth
with the fa! so principle of the sect,
wo admonish pastors to watch
narrowly lost they use the Pntestant
version of the Scriptures, or recite the
prayers and hymns of the sects. It will
be their duty to prevent books or ex
ercises of this kind from being intro
duced," etc., eto.
From this date began that open at
tack on the morality of our public
schools by the highest dignitaries of
the Roman church, which calls them,
among many other things, "mischiev
ous," "baneful to society," "a social
plague," "Godless," "Immoral," "dia
bollcali" etc., and which found unre
strained expression as to the morals of
our wbole body of public-school chil
dren In the following utterance of the
Second Plenary Council of Baltimore,
In 1866:
'Besides, the morals and examples
of tholr fellow scholars are generally
so corrupt, and so great their license
in word and dood, that through con
tlnual contact with them, the modesty
and ploty of our children, even of those
who have been best trained at home,
disappear like wax before the fire."
Later, In 1872, tbe Sacred Congrega
tion of the Propaganda, in its Instruc
tions to the American bishops, went
even further than this, and cast the
gravest reflections upon our whole body
of noble Protestant teachers, for, as a
reason why the Public State School
system is "by its nature fraught with
danger," we are told that:
"Teachers indiscriminately of every
sect are employed who are left
free to sow errors and the seoda of vice
in tender minds."
But it remained, for the coming of
Satolli and the official document en
titled "For the Settling of the School
Question, etc., the Most Rev. Francis
Satolli to the archbishops assembled In
New York" to cap tbe insults offered to
the long-suffering American public
concerning her much-prized schools by
that church, which, while it prates to
loudly of morals, furnishes most of our
criminals and one-half to three-fourths
of the Inmates of all our juvenile re
formatory institutions, though consti
tuting but a small fraction of our popu
lation. For this autocrat among the Ameri
can prelates says:
"It was held for cortain that the pub
lic schools bore within themselves a
proximate danger to faith and morals,
because teazhers are chosen
indiscriminately from every sect, and
no law prevents them from working
the ruin of youth so that they are at
liberty to Instill errors and the gerjis
of vice in tjnder minds."
Think of the Pope of Rome; the
Sacred Propaganda; Mgr. Satolli, and
the archbishops of this country, put
ting into cold type such a conception
as is embodied in these words concern
ing the nearly half a million teachers
who are employed in the public schools
of these United States. And think
what must be the temper of mind and
heart of these Roman Catholic teach
ing prelates who desire that our
teachers, chosen for excellence and
good character, as well ai education
and ability, should be prohibited by
law from instilling errors and the
germs of vice in tender minds, and con
sider, for one moment, what must be
the thought of these high church
authorities concerning child and school
life when they add:
"Likewise, certain corruption seemed
to impend from the fact that in these
schools, or at least in many of them,
children of both sexes are brought
together for their lessons In the same
room."
Is it any wonder that children
brought up under the training of prel
ates like this crowd, our reformatory
institutions, aid that out of homes
here such leaders govern pour the
riotous mobs of our great cities? Let
McGlynn, who doubtless knows whereof
he speaks, be the only witness we here
summon Catholic versus Catholic to
give an answer to tirades like these;
and tbese are his words:
"This talk about the Immorality of
the public schools Is a brutal, beastly
calumny upon the American people."
Let not the American people forget
that all the t 'umnles heaped upon our
public schools, and by inference those
who are reeiMnnlble for them, the
American people, are freshly rt affirmed,
In tbe letters accompanying th docu
ments we have quoted, signed by tbe
present so-called liberal pontiff, Leo
XIII, for says he:
"Wo again as far as needs lie, declare
that the decree which the Baltimore
Councils, agreeably to the direction of
the Holy See, have enacted concerning
parochial schools, and whaterer else
has been prestrlbed by tbe Roman
pontiffs, whether directly or through
tho sacred congregations, concerning
the same matter, are to be steadfastly
obsorvod."
Nothing retracted, no steps retraced,
no slander withdrawn, no opposition
ceased; but the same biiier worus, tho
same constant strife with ou schools,
and the same shameful criticism of our
youth, cbildron, teachers, and, by con
sequence), of the millions who are la
sympathy- with them This I the
spirit of Romanism today, as it baa
been from the beginning a iplrltof In
tolerance, whose measure and bitter
ness can only be known to students of
history.
We are making history now. Rome
has boldly declared her purpose to rule
this land, and she has already tried
her band at making and unmaking
presidents, governors, legislatures, and
officials from the highest to the lowest
round. Her sll ny trail can be seen
everywhere ever now, and tbe only
way left us, in vlow of her arrogance
and Intolerance, is to organize as pa
triots all over the land to save our
priceless heritage from her foul grasp,
and may God speed the right.
RECEIVER AITOIXTED
For tbe St. Francis Children's Hospital
and Orphans' Rome at Tiffin.
Tiffin, O., July 31. Alonzo Bur-
man has been appointed receiver by
Judge Melhorn, of the common pleas
court, for the St. Francis Chlldrens1 Hos
pital and Orphans' Home of this city,
at tbe Instance of Rev. W. B. Fleck.
Thirty years ago the home was founded
by Rev. Joseph L. Blhn, who prior to
his death, in 1803, bad increased the
property until it Included over 700
acres of valuable land, and the bulli
ings and appurtenances are first-clam,
the value of the property being IM.OOO.
Per request at the death of Father
Bihn, tbe property went into the hands
of Rev. Fleck, against whoso cpntrol
some of the Inmates of the home, who
have given all their earthly belong
ings to the institution, protest, and a
board of directors has been elected at a
meeting held today, at which Arch
bishop Eider, of Cincinnati, was
present, and, if the court decides in
their favor, tbe board will have charge
of the institution. Rov. Father Fleck
states that the property was instituted
by the Rev. Father Bihn, who put his
fortune into it, and while the Catholic
church as an organization never con
tributed to the enterprise, an effort is
now being made, in tbe name or the
church, to obtain possession of the
property. Nearly 200 persons are taken
care of at the borne, and the outcome of
the suit is looked forward to with in
tense interest. '
Not to Employ Foreigners.
New York, Aug. 2. Naval Con
structor Francis J. Bowles, who suc
ceeded Constructor Fernald in charge
of tho construction department of the
Brooklyn navy yard, is reported as
contemplating some radical changes in
that department He began on Thurs
day, when he removed Chief Draughts
man C. S. Richson and put in his place
B. Southard, whom he brought from
the Norfolk yard with him. A rumor
from Washington has it that Con
structor Bowles Is determined to re
place all foreigners in his department
with Amerlcan-bcrn citizens. From
the same source comes a rumor to the
effect that there is a suspicion it. the
war department that many of the for
eigners now in the construction depart
ments of the various yards are in the
employ of foreign governments and
have furnished them with blue prints
of the designs of many war-ships.
Religious Statistics.
According to the religious census re
port just issued the total communicants
of all denominations in the United
States is 20,612,806, who belong to 165,
177 organizations or congregations.
These congregations have 142,521
edifices, which have sittings for 43,564,
863 persons. The value of all church
property used exclusively for purposes
of worship is $679,630,139! There are
171,036 regular ministers, not including
lay preachers. There are five bodies
which have more than l,000,000of com
municants, and ten more than 500,000.
The leading denominations have com
municants in round numbers as follows:
Catholic, 6,250,000; Methodist, 4,600,000;
Baptist, 8,725,000; Presbyterian, 1,280,-
332; Lutheran, 1,230,000: Protestant
Episcopal, 640,000. Inter-Ocean.