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AUGUST 23 lAV
Rorewatkk'h lUt W a drone in the
civic hive.
Maciuavkli.I Roskwatkr U a mas
ter of the art of prevarication.
Will Rosewater, from a pure tenae
of civic duly, ujHrt any good men for
office in the ensuing campaign? No.
IN seeking to elevato honest, loyal
and capab'e men to public office, the
A. 1". A. it performing a ktrletly lawful
and legitimate function.
The pungent paragrapher of the Hit
assort that unwise leadership in the
A. P. A. ha wrecked the order In
Omaha. Who or what bm wrecked
the lkt? mmm-,
County Juixjk Baxter It seeking
a re-election. While we opposed Mr.
Baxter at the last election because of
hit age, we mum concede he ha made
a very good judge. lie may be Mr,
Thorn' moot formidable opponent.
Through the kindne of Mr. Clar
ence A. Chaflin, we are able to place
before our reader today the very com
plete answer to the reoent letter of
Senator Hoar made by representative
men of Massachusetts.
One of Rosewater' apparent schemes
for "reforming" the city and county
government I to oppose any good men
whom the A. I'. A. 'a will miHrt. In
telligent people cannot be hoodwinked
with such transparent hypocrisy.
Several uicmbert of the American
Protective Association will arrlva from
St. Louis Saturday, to transact some im
portant business regarding the order.
In all probability St. Louis, Kansas
City, and sotneof the larger towns will
be brought very ckse together for
campaign work.
Since Judge Jones, of Kansas City,
Mo., fined Andy P. Foley and his bar
tender' tl,000 each for keeping their
salo;n open on Sunday and for assault
ing an ofllcer, we may expect the Irish
Romans to submit to the law and keep
their hands off police officers. Judge
Jones deserves unstinted praise for his
notion.
Whkn the Ike refers to such men as
Col. Akin and Capt. Palmer as Der
vishes the people are forced to ad mil the
class of men who have earned Rosewa
ter' emnlty by supporting the A. P. A.
have excellent standing in this com
munity. The Ike will nominate Col.
Akin as clerk of the district oourt If it
keeps p ninding him. The people want
what H n-cy opposes.
Ex-Sknator InuaLLS is laying his
wires to regain his ol J seat In the upper
house of Kansas," says yesterday's Ike.
Erratum: For ''Kansas'' read "Con
gress." We knew Hojewator had been
cutting down expenses for sometime,
but did not think he would find it
necessary, for economy's sake, to dis
pense with the services of all his ca
pable proof-readers.
Memuership in the American Pro
tective Association la not necessarily
the ultimate test of fitness or avail
ability for public office. But the sin
cere advocates of the principles of the
A. P, A. require and demand thai
aspirants for high official position shall
all be men of undoubted honor, persi i
caclty and probity citizens of char
acter, candor, constancy and capability
The able and learned editor of tl e
Ike has been insinuating that the A.
P. A. is largely composed of unintelU c
tual and unlearned men, of those whose
action is uniformly governod by Ignor
ance, passion and prejudice. The ti uth
is, Rotewater is beside himself with
rage at the evident fact that the A. P. A.
is constituted chiefly of citizens of char
acter, conscience ana candor. As a
class, they are not a whit inferior to
the best of Rosewater's entourage.
A COUNCIL of the A. P. A. has been
organized In Webb City, Mo. It is
growing and has many leading citizens
as members. Our correspondent 6aj
"We want no praise for our labor, but
thought you might offer some sugg s
tions for our welfare." The best Bug
gestion that the American can off r
is: Bring into your ranks all the good,
loyal men that can be obtained. Do
not work so much for numbers as for
quality. One good man will be of more
service than twenty poor ones. By
"poor ones" we mean men who have no
stability, and who are not upright in
character. A man with a questionable
character should never be allowed to
become a member of the A. P. A.
SENATOR HOAR.
The ubldixd preat all over the
country I published, with to small
how of guto, the letter written by
Senator Hoar, of Ma , to Mr, Kvan
of the Mine state T'je prominence of
Mr. Hoar, both In the councils of hi
party and in the service of hi couotry,
hou'd debar no man from answering
hi aault upon the only patriotic
order tint ha agisted In driving
wrong-doer from the high K.ltiim
under our munlclal, state and national
goverrment.
Until the advent of the A. P. A. in
the politics! arena boodlerUm, ballot
box stuffing and election fraud were
the rule by w bleb, election were car
ried, but now ueh methods are frowned
upon and often actually punished by
the parties who formerly Ignored their
existence.
Until the A. P. A. struck New York,
and until Rev. Dr. Parkhurst realized
that the highest type of Christianity
could exist only In a healthy olllical
atmosphere, Tammany ran that great
state, and, unless reports are very un
reliable, robbed the tax-payers of mil
lions of dollars. Hud the A. P. A.
helped to purify no other state, bad it
gone out of existence wltn the over
throw of Tammany, the country would
probably never have recovered from
the good effects of that crusade. Rut
the usefulness of the A. P. A. did not
stop there. It spread all over the
Union. One city after another repudi
ated the gang that had been In power
for years, and in nowhere was this
more noticeable than In Chicago, Kan
sas City and Omaha. In each of those
cities the people had been robbed
blind. This was particularly true of
Omaha, and no one will attempt to say
the reform was brought about by any
other agency than the A. P, A.
The attitude of Hoar today Is not the
attitude of Hoar prior to the day he
was elected to the United States Senate
by the help of the A. P. A. members in
the Mas-ashusetta legislature and
their friend. At that time Hoar was
being accused with being an A. P. A.
and was being iuiorUned to deny the
charge, a thing he refused to do. Now,
however, he is in office for six years,
and he shows his true colors by snap
ping at the heels of the order that U
responsible for his re-election. The
senator should remember that six years
at his age is a very short time and that
there are a great many young men in
the order which he maligns, who are
as loyal to their friends as they are re
lentless to tholr foes.
The A. P. A. accords to every cl ti
nea the right to express an opinion,
but if that opinion runs counter to what
its membership believes to he true
American sentiment he who utters it
must bear the consequence at the next
election, or whenever he seeks u place
of trust or honor. Some say this is in
tolerance. Let us see if It Is. The
Republican party believes In a high
protective tariff; yet, knowing this,
John Smith, a free-trader, aspires to a
nomination for president, but the dele
gates in convention assembled say no,
he is not in touch with the party; we
believe in a protective tariff: Mr.
Smith is a tree trader, and there are
nuny adent protectionists seeking the
office. Mr. Smith will either have to
change his views or wait until a ma
jority of the party believe as he does.
Mr. S nlth is set aside. Will any one
s y that the Republican party was in-
toiersni? It stands for a principle
wliicn Mr. Smith did not represent.
So with the A. P. A. It represent a
principle, and Mr, Hoar is not a-tune.
THE A. P. A. SOUTH.
It has probably been less than a year
si no the A. P. A. was planted in the
S ut h by Sipreme President Traynor;
yet the minions of Rome have conceived
it to he o1 sufficient importance to do-
mai d a great deal of their attention.
The ot slanget was precipitated several
mobth ago, when Ex-Priest Slattery
and hlx wife attempted to lecture in
Odd Fel ows' Hall at Savannah, Ga,
Since then the opposition to the order
in the South has been more bitter If
les demonstrative. Roman priests,
laymen, spineless Protestants and "lib
eral" editors have sprung into the
bieich and, Ajax-like, defied the on
coming host of American freemen. But
they will find their efforts as futile as
wtre the efforts of E. Rosewater, until
quite lecently the "boss" in the Repub
lican party in Nebraska, who has found
it necessary 'o say that he has been
eying "BAckl" at the A. P. A. for four
jeais, but that it would not "back."
The A. P. A. has come to stay; and
tie sooner the Romans realize that
fact, and begin to conform to our laws
and acknowledge that they owe prl
m ry allegiance to no power, civil or
ecclesiastical, outside of the United
Si ales, tne sooner wbl they be acknowl
edged to be lojal citizens of this coun
try and justly ent tied to all that our
Cns l union guarant es its citizens.
Daring tue lt six monthe we have
received, at d ff rent times, papers,
circulars and suppliants containing
the wail ot some deluded Protestant
because of the a t v.-nt oi the A. P. A.
Generally they term U a prescriptive
oi der.
The latest suppiein- ni, is from Bir
mingham, Ala.; and was sent out by
the Lhiines of thai city during the
month of July, with a view to injure
the A. P. A. by bringing reproach upon
one who ta fcar!ely and conscien
tiously fought from the pulpit the same
great power which the American order
was organized to combat at the ballot
box. One Hrann, editor of the Icom
rhtft, of Waco, Texas, was the author
of that screed. It proves conclusively
that bis proper place It In the fold of
the Roman Church; for he sees nothing
therein but goodness and purity. We
would not say that there were no good
Christian men and women in the Roman
Church. We believe there are many
such; but we do not think that church
has a corner on all the men, omen
and children whose moral are above
par or whose friendship is worth pos
sessing. To begin with, let us concede the
bravery of Sheridan, the goodness of
the nuns who nurse the sick and the
dying, and the self-saerifloeof the leper
priest Damlen. They were good, they
were patriotic, they were Christian;
but 1 that any defense of the policy
pursued by the Roman hierarchy in
this country? Is it any excuse for the
Pope of Rome sending Satolll here
with credentials which declared that
hi authority was supreme lawr, con
stitution and ordinances to the con
trary notwithstanding? Are the loy
alty of Sheridan, the goodness of those
nun and the sacrifice of that one priest
sufficient to palliate the crime com
mitted by their pope when he declared,
in an encyclical dated January 10, 1800, ;
that when the laws of the state conflict
with the law of the church, the laws
i f the church are to be unhesitatingly
obeyed? Is the lustre of one Roman
Catholic general, the piety of a few
women or the humanity of one priest
to blind us to the real intent and pur
pose of the hierarchy of their church?
Are we to forget the assaults upon our
public-school system by their popes,
their priests and their bishops? Are
we to forget that those schools have
been branded as sinks of iniquity, as
'godless," as "nurseries of vice," and
as "radically iniquitous," by the men
whom they confess their sins to?
Are we to forget that Romanists
boast that they are Roman Cath
olics first and citizens afterward?
Are we to forget that they falsify
history, that they believe that the
end justifies the means? Are we to
forget the greatest Roman virtue is
obedience, and the most pestilential er
ror is toleration? .Are we to forget the
hundreds of brave Protestant officers
who wore the blue and the gray because
Mr. Brann holds up before our admir
ing gaze one loyal Romanist? Are we
to forget the trials, the sufferings, the
privations, the anxiety, the tears and
the heart burns of the thousands of
Protestant wives, mothers and
daughters who remained at home
and nurBod, tended and cared for the
weak, the old, the infirm, the young
and the feeble? We say, are we to for
get the noble deeds of our heroic, noble,
self -sacrificing women bt cause he holds
before us the beautiful picture of Chris
tian womanhood ministering to the
wants of suffering and dying mankind?
Are we to forget the Protestant minis
tor as he kneels beside the wounded and
dying soldier whispering words of com
fort and cheer to him while all around
him his comrades are struggling in
war's appalling vortex, simply because
he draws aside the veil of obscurity,
which one priest of Rome has drawn
about himself, and bids us look? No, a
thousand times no!
While we accord to the wounded Ro
man veterans a full measure of praise
for their loyalty, while we acknowledge
the great help and assistance the Ro
man sisterhoods have often rendered,
and while we admit the self-sacrificing
of iorue Roman priests, we claim an
equal measure for Protestants who have
proved their loyalty, their goodness and
their willingness to undergo privations
that mankind might have its sufferings
alleviated,
But there is no virtue in aught save
the Roman Church according to some
writers. Brann appears to be of that
class. In his effort to have Rome make
a good showing he makes SDme egre
gious blunders. One of which is con
tained in this sentence: "Nine Roman
Catholics signed the Declaration of
Independence." Who were they, pray?
Who, besides Carroll of Carrollton?
And he is said to have been a very in
different member of the church.
Mr. Brann also says that Washington
wrote a letter praising the patriotism
of the Roman Catholics. We shall not
say that Washington did not write such
a letter, but does it not seem a little
strange that he should single out from
among more than nine-tenths of his ad
herents a very small fraction, and write
a letter commending their loyalty?
What called for th'that letter? Had some
one questioned their loyalty? Or did
the Jesuits solicit Washington to write
such a letter? They certainly would
not hesitate to make such a request, for
they have already circulated the report
that Washington died in their faith,
and men who will steal a dead man
would hardly hesitate to ask for a letter
of recommendation, particularly when
they were as well Informed regarding
Romanism as the average Jesuit usu
ally is. Now, while we are considering
the loyalty of the Roman Catholics of
the Revolutionary period, let us not
overlook a very important communica
tion sent by the Roman Catholics of
Canada to England right after tbeclote
of the Revolutionary war. la that let
ter the writer cal.' the attention of the
general government to the fact that it
a the Roman Catholic colonies that
remained loyal, and that It wa the
Protectant colonies that rebelled. From
thin we Infer that had there been a ma
jority of Roman Catholics in this coun
try when that ItjeUm tea (arty occur
red, there would have bcea no move
made for the liberation of thi country
from the tyrannical yoke which it bad
borne for so maiy year. We believe
these doubt and these conclusions are
natural and just, and one rt-aon that
makes u believe so is because the Jes
uit or their tools do not hesitate to
misrepresent or garble what a man has
id. For instance, the word of Gen.
Grant have been usal in denouncing
the American Protective Association,
when no word of his could be construed
or even tortured into meaning hostility
to the A. P. A. We say Grajt has
been wrongly used by Roman sympa
thizers and Jesuits in their warfare
against this particular patriotic order,
and we can prove it. It has occurred
like this: On page 213 of his "Personal
Memoirs" they have selected these
sentences or this portion of a paragraph:
"I have no apologies to make for hav
ing been one week a member of the
American party; fori still think native-
born citizens of the United States should
have as much protection, as many priv
ileges in their native country, as
those who voluntarily select it
for a home. But all secret, oath
bound political parties are dan
gerous to any nation, no matter how
pure or how patriotic the motives and
principles which 'first bring them to
gether. No political arty can or
ought to exist when one of its corner
stones is opposition to freedom of
thought and to the right to worship
God 'according to tho dictates of one's
own conscience,' or according to the
creed of any religions denomination
whatever." Then they stop. They do
not take the next sentence in the same
paragraph. And why not? Because
it shows plainly when Grant thought a
secret political party could be, with
safety, organized. That sentence
says: "Js'awtheksn, if a sect sets up its
laws as binding above Vie state laws,
wherever the two come i t conflict this
claim )irws be resisted and suppressed at
whateivr cost." We have already re
ferred you to the pope's encyclical of
January 10, 1800, where that Identical
claim is made. The A. P. A. will ra
sist that claim and suppress it at what
ever cost, In conformity with Jie ad
vice of that great Protestant general,
Ulysses S. Grant.
There may not be any danger from
Roman aggression, but we believe there
Is, as everything points that way.
Lafayette, himself a Roman Catholic,
declared that if the liberties of this
country were ever destroyed it would
be through the machinations of the
Roman clergy. That peerless states
man and patriot, Henry Clay, said:
"This governmsnt will pass through
two wars, one over slavery and the
other with the Catholics." We might
multiply these instances of prophetic
wisdom, but space forbid -i.
It may be that the laity are Ignorant
of the intentions of their priests; in
fact, we believe a majority of them are,
but here is where we find the greatest
fault with the members of that church
their blind obedience to the orders
that emanate from Rome. Some may
attempt to deny this charge, but let us
look at it impartially. It has been but
a short time since the edict was pro
mulgated that Roman Catholics must
leave the Knights of Pythias order
and the Odd Fellows. How many of
them refused to obey that order? Not
one In a hundred. If the pope can
command them In one thing, he can do
so in every other thing as to politics
and as to their allegiance to this gov
ernment.
It is not our purpose or our desire to
abuse the lay members of the Roman
church, but we shall criticize their
servile obedience to an alien priest
hood, which owes primary allegiance
to a foreign ecclesiastical despot. This
is a, country of freedom. No man is
greater than his fellow man. Here no
despot can say what you or we shall do,
unless we foolishly place in his keeping
our conscience.
The A. P. A. believes in toleration,
and practices what it teaches. The
Roman Catholic church does not be
lieve in toleration, and it practices
what it preaches. Therefore, the only
difference between the beliefs and
practices of the A. P. A. and the Ro
man church is the difference between
(he Constitution of the United Slates
and the established policy of the church
of Rome. That this U so, we have only
to point to the fact that no Roman
Catholic speaker is ever mobbed, while,
on the other hand, Protestant min
isters are often assaulted by Romans.
Further, Protestants do not insult the
American flag or oppose the little red
school-house, but no later than July
4th, of this year, a Roman mob, led by
a priest and egged on by women, as
saulted the little red school-house pro
cession in Boston, which was marching
beneath the stars and stripes. Prob
ably Mr. Brann can excuse such
reprehensible conduct. We cannot.
It is simply outrageous and damnable.
And now one thought in conclusion:
The Roman church 1 a well d;'.ed
army. The pope give hi orders to
Satolll; Satolll transmits thorn to the
archbishops, ibey to the bishop, they
to the priests, and the priests transmit
them to the laity, and the whole
column advance a one man. Loyal
Americans were d!organlzed. They
bad no leader. As a consequence,
they were at a disadvantage in a con
test with Rome. This was realized by
the organizer of the A. P. A. It also
account for the existence ot the order,
and offer a good and sufficient excuse
for it continuance at leaet until such
time as Rome refrains fromjinterfering
in our affairs of state.
THIS FELLOW IS A PATRIOT.
Chicago, July 30, 1WV American
Puolishlnir Co. Sirs: I received a
bill today for two years' subscription of
your paper, and if my memory dues not
d-ceive me I subscribed for THREE
MONTHS, AND PAID FOR IT IN AD
VANl'E, and if I had wanted it longer I
should have said so and paid for it at
the time. Please discontinue same, a
I do not have time to rt ad It. Respect
fully yours, W. E. LUNT,
H63 Adams
A man who will accept a paper from
the postofflce for upwards of two years
after bis time expires and then attempt
to get out of paying for it under as
flimsy an excuse as that advanced by
Mr. Lunt, might have a bard task If he
undertook to convince us that he was
either an honest or an honorable man.
Mr. Lunt knew the time he had paid
for had expired. He bad been notified
regularly every three months since;
yet, he attempts to sneak out of paying
for the paper under the specious plea
that "if his memory serves him right"
he ordered it for three months and paid
fur it. He had his receipt and knew
when his time expired, and he knew
also that publishers, as a rule, do not
discontinue sending a paper to a man's
address unless they get written notice
from the subscriber or from the post
office. The truth of the matter is, Mr.
Lunt sees an opportunity to make four
dollars by refusing to pay that bill.
Such men as he strew a patriotic
editor's path with roses, for their
mallneis, their contempt! bleness to
contrasts with the self-sacrificing of 'so
many noble patriots that the latter
seem even greater and purer in char
acter.
Supreme Vice President Jackson, of
the A. P. A. In the United States, is In
the city and will visit the councils
here. Before his departure he will
deliver a series of lectures. Friend
Jackson reports that the order is grow
ing rapidly In Texas, his home, and
that the most prominent and influential
men are coming into the ranks. "It
will not be long," he says, "if the order
continues to grow at the present rate,
until we can place Americans on guard
in our great state." From this city he
will go to St. Louis, and there visit the
members of the order. No brighter
speaker has recently visited our city,
nor is there a person more enthusiastic
in the cause of Americanism who bases
results upon sound business principles.
We are informed on good authority
that the Omaha Lice, which for some
months has been fighting the A. P. A.,
is losing money. We suspect that oar
friends at Omaha and throughout the
State of Nebraska are letting the Bee
alone.
The loyal and consistent members of
the A. P. A. are unequivocally for good
government, law and order. That is
why the equivocal Rosewater vilifies
and caricatures them.
The advisers and coadjutors whom
Rosewater has drawn around him are
not of a character calculated to inspire
a journalist with lofty aims and noble
purposes.
MAKK1ED.
Carroll-Lyttle. Aue. 22, 1895.
at First Presbyterian church, Miss
Urace Carroll to Mr. Wm. Lyttle.
The groom has had charge of the
linen department of the Boston Store
for several years, and has just returned
from an extended trip through Ireland,
where he purchased for his firm prob
ably the largest stock of fine linens
ever imported by an Omaha house.
The bride is an estimable young lady,
with a large circle of friends, who will
join with us in wishing them bon voyage,
Uarberry-Gantz. Aug. 22, 1805,
at toe residence of the bride's parents,
South Forty-first street, Rev. Fleharty
omciaiing, miss .naue uaroerry to Air.
Bert Gantz.
Mr. Gantz is the accommodating young
man who is employed by the New Eng
land Bakery, White & Ortman pro
prietors; and Miss Carberry is a pretty
and popular young lady, the daughter
of Mr. Carberry, an old and highly re
spec ted citizen of Ambler place. The
young people will go to housekeeping
in Ambler place next week. May they
always be as happy as they were Thurs
day nighty
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San Antoxio, Tex., Aug. 19.-
Editor The American: Last January
I subscribed for your paper. I am very
much pleased, and think it a grand
paper. I read every copy and then
give the paper away to some one who
will read, hoping thereby to aid the
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for renewal of my subscription and a
copy of the book entitled, "If Christ
Came to Congress." Yours in the
work, S. R. W,
JOSIIH STROM!'? 1 DURESS.
"The (hurra and MaTMuenU f Our
Time."
"The Church and the Movement of
O jr Time" was the subject of a timely
and forceful address by Rov. Josiah
Strong, D. D , of New York, at tho
union tent services at the corner of Mt
Vernon avenue and Twentieth street
Wednesday evening. The tent was
filltd to overflowing, scores being un
able to gain admission to bear the dis
tinguished speaker. The meet.ng
openoj with a rousing song service, the
audience being led by a large mixed
chorus. M ls Jones, M re. Jones, Messrs.
Morgan and Jones sang an excellent se
lection. In a few choice word Rev,
Henry Stauffer introduced the speaker
to the vast audience, who welcomed
him with generous applause.
By way of introduction Rev. Mr.
Strong said that it gave him great
pleasure to look Into the faces of an
Ohio audience; he was not a native of
the Buckeye state, but most of his Ufa
had been spent here. He was glad that
f o many young people were present and
were taking such active interest in the
meetings. They were quick ta recog
nize the movements of the times. The
first sign of the times which is noticed
is the new patriotism. The free insti
tutions of this country are based upon
two fundamental principles local self
government and federation. The
speaker then cited instances to show
that while patriots were at the front
battling for the right, there were others
at home who were In effect tearing
down those very things which were be
ing contended for on the field of battle.
He looked with alarm upon the grow
ing tendency to corruption in politics
and te rule of the many by the few.
He said that the cities were becoming
boss-ridden a ad rabblo-rulod, but cited
as a hopeful sign the overthrow of Tam
many In New York. The speaker
thanked God for the Increasing patriot
ism which impels men to vote intelli
gently. He urged concentrated action
at the polls as a means of wiping out
the corruption in municipal affairs.
The second favorable sign of the times
was the new philanthropy which is
springing up on all sides. Men do not
now wish to see suffering even in a
brute. The most striking illustration
of this new philanthropy is found in the
social-settlement movement. In these.
persons not only give their time and
their money but also their very lives to
help the wretched. It is one of the
most encouraging signs of this move
ment that persons of wildly different
religious beliefs are content to work to
gether for the common good. The or
ganization and the co-operation result
ing from this new philanthropy are
most encouraging signs.
The third sign of the times is in the
increased interest taken in the study
of social questions. We are beginning
to see that society is something more
than an aggregation of individuals.
The speaker elaborated on the various
ways in which the study of social ques
tions is going to tend to the uplifting
of humanity. He urged the most hearty
co-operation of all interested in the
study of these questions, so that the
greatest good may be done with the
energy expended. The fourth sign of
the times is the movement of the
churches to get closer together. Or
ganic union may be some generations
ahead, but all indications p int to the
fact that the twentieth century will be
the most Christian century yet. The
greatest demand of our times is the co
operation of all Christians.
Dr. Strong made a fervent plea for
all Christians to grasp the political sit
uation and to lake the elections out of
the bands of corruptionists. In conclu
sion he called upon his hearers, In an
eloquent manner, to watch the signs of
the times and to profit thereby.
At the conclusion of the address, Rob
ert L. Fletcher, of Chicago, sang "The
Wayside Cross" in a very effective
manner. Mr. Strong followed with a
few remarks in which he urged the pas
tors to take up the matter of co-operating
in a practical manner for the up
lifting of humanity In even a more effec
tive manner. He is secretary of the
Evangelical Alliance of the Unlled
States, and said he would be glad to fur
nish anybody interested In the subject
with printed matter explaining the
workings of the organization.
The Colored Councils of A. P. A.
There are no more loyal members of
the American Protective Association
than those composed of the negro In
Kansas City. We are proud of the
good work accomplished by our colored
friends. Sjme papers which advocate
Roman principles state that the A. P.
A. denounces the colored man. Such
assertions are either malicious or pro
ceed from ignorance. It Is very sel
dom that you can go into a council of
the order and not find a colored mem
ber visiting the council.
How Would Toul
We wonder how some of our delin
quents would enjoy life working for a
man or firm who only paid once in five
or bIx years. Study this matter care
fully resolve to turn over a new leaf,
and may the Lord, in his great mercy,
prolong your lives until you can say to
the world that l7--. paper has been
paid for forv6eil RVvance. Iloutz
dale (Pa.) kjjservtr.