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WHY I AM NOT AN A. P. A.
Patriotic Lecture Dolivorod
by Joe Spoyer, Editor Kan
sas City Reform. Nov.
29, 1895,"
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It l not often that a loctui pab-liahr-
to aivanoa, In xk form, a lac
lure which he expect Ij deliver. In
fact, we have orver known H to havp
boen done but in one instance, and that
Ingle Ins'anct' wai mhn Joe Speyer
wrote and prlntod hi addre to
week before It u delivered.
We have rrad Mr. Speyer' lecture
through carefully, and find but one
urprl and that U the absence of the
wordi 'applause, " "loud applaute,"
"loud cheer," "continued applauae."
"lauehter." "htses." "Kroani," and
"voclforoa applause." Surely, auch
a modeU nan at Joe Speyer might
have Inserted thera with becoming pro
priety. It certainly would have been
an permltmlble at to print a lecture
which ha never been delivered, and
which will not be delivered at written
a fact which any man or woman who
hat ever graced the lecture platform
knowt; for one alwayt tayt many thing
unthought of up to the moment of their
delivery, and leave at many thought
of unsaid. I But, be that a It It, we
shall.lwlth the help of God, who It
. alway on the lde of right, answer the
ophlstrlo contained In Mr. -Speyor'
lecture.
In the flrt place, Mr. Speyer ay:
"Ladle and gentlemen If thereever
was a time In the hlxtory of the nation
when men Bhould doolare themtolve
a to their attitude and thought! upon
publlc?queHlon, that time U now; and
while I do not regard the question of
A. V. A.-Im a by any mean of any
great or permanent importance, it 1
Btlll of tuch importance that all good
oltUint should declare themselves re
garding it"
At to the permanency and a to the
importance of the A. P. A., we dis
agree with the lecturer, and believe
every roan, woman and child in the
city whore Mr. Speyer intend to de
liver ht lecture except those who
are member of the Roman Catholic
Church, the saloon element, the thug
and "the push" will disagies with
him. We believe that, so long a Ro
man Catholic place the law of their
church above the law of the country,
tt will be of the most vital importance
that thero te an agent, If not the A. P.
A., at lemt one similar In Its object
and purpose, to foster and instill a
more loyal devotion to our country and
it cherished institutions.
Lost Mr. Speyer try to make it ap
pear that til U not the doctrine of the
Roman church, we will direct hi at
tention to the encyclical' cf Pope Leo
XIII., reipnlng pontiff, and the aa
knowludgcd ecclesiastical head of the
Roman Cathollo Church in thl coun
try, laid encyclical was dated January
10, 181H), and contained this specific
declaration, that where tho law of the
state come in corflict with the law of
the church It become a sin to obey
thera in short, that they are to un
hesitatingly obey the laws of the
churchA This U but a reiteration of
the . sentiment which pervade the
canon law tf that church, of the aentl
meet expressed by it theologian, and
in convention of the laity In thUcoun
try within the memory of this writer
and within the memory of the dtstln
guhhed gentleman who has undertaken
the Herculean task of stemming the
tide of (American sentiment which has
set in toward the A. P. A. That this
charge against the Roman church Is
not an A. P. A. concoction, and did not
originate .with the A. P. A., can be
verified by a reference to the document
above mentioned. Nor is the sentiment
confined to that encyclical. It has been
rife for centuries, else why should that
grand and noble patriot, Ulysses S.
Grant, take occasion, in vol. 1, page
213, of his "Personal Memoir," to de
clare that
"if a sect set) up Its law a binding
above the state laws, wherever the
two come in contact this claim roust
be resisted and suppressed at whatever
cost"?
He certainly had some tangible proof
that some ecclesiastical institutlan was
guilty of setting it law up as binding
above those of the state. And what In
sututlon could it have been, u it was
not the Roman Catholic Church? Will
Mr. Speyer presume to say that Gen
Grant referred to the Methodists, tha
Presbyterians, the Baptists, or to any
other heretical or Protestant denoml
nation? Unless he himself is a papist,
he will not attempt to say that Grant
did not know and did not intend to re
fer to the Roman Catholic Church
Mr. Speyer then took occasion to aay
that he had "selected this evening, the
27th anniversary or his "entrance into
journalism, to tell where" he
"stand in regard to this new political
fungus and why" he "is not an A. P. A.,
and declares it is because be is "an
American citizen."
If he wilt pardon ua, we will aay be U
wrong. We do not care to be store ve-berr.-ot
than that, for we telieve there
I no argutteet In Invective. If Mr.
Speyer 1 an American ril'ten, if he
hold no primary allegiance to any
foreign pilnco, power or potentate;
labor for the ierpetuatlon of all the
free InitUtutloc of thl country, and op
pore any foe which would lm !r thera.
be that foe native or alien, civil or
ec lel.ti( l, be U, to all Intents and
purp -jaet, a conslittent A. I. A. If he
doe not do that he U a miserable ex
cum for an American citizen. And it
I our opi"lon that a man who defend
an Institution which breathe hatred,
malice and libel against our grand,
nun atctarlan, free public-acboot y
tern-the bulwark of our Republic, the
leveler of race prejuilee and the
equallter of oclat condition is but
little superior, in point of loyalty or
abilty, to the Innlltullon or the class
which make it meoeary for Ameri
can citizen to organize for the protec
tion of any one, or all, of the Institu
tion which make thl the grandest and
beet republic on God' green footstool.
We believe Mr. Speyer will understand
what we mean.
"I hold that no true American can
ba an A. P. A.," ay Mr. Speyer. And
we hold that every true American,
whether he bat been obligated or not,
I an A. P. A., for the principle of
that order, of which we are proud to
be a member, are the principle of thl
Government, regardlo-s of the asacr
tlonof Mr. Spsyer that they are not
only "un-American, unconstitutional,
but contrary to every national tradi
tion, and in conflict with the very Deo
laratlon of Independence."
The lecturer that Is to be then say:
'Where can you find In this enlight
ened age a party of rellglou proscrip
tion, taking away from men, women
and children every vestige of human
right, even to the right of labor?
Where, I ask, can you Dnd such an
order exoept in the United State of
America?" That I an easy question.
Wo ahall answer it by saying in any
country dominated by the Roman
hurch. It at we see Mr. Speyer antici
pated that answer, for he declare in
the next sentence that "No other
civilized country is large enough to
contain an organization so obnoxious
to the spirit of liberty or so deotruetive
to the best idea of national unification
upon which the stability and the future
of the nation Is founded." We do not
care to be understood, however, as de
siring to admit this charge of religious
proscription which he has leveled at
the A. P. A. We have so often said, aye
we have 10 often proved, that there is
no reasonable ground for such a charge
being made against the A. P. A., that
it seems almost foolish to pay any at
tention to it. But we shall not pass it
by unnoticed in fact we would not pass
it by were this the thousandth time we
had been called upon to make answer to
it. The A. P. A. doe not proscribe a
man because he worship God in the
Roman Cathollo Church it is bee wise
hi church teaches, and because he be
lieve it has the right to define, what is
right for him to do from a moral stand
point, and because Its head, which he
believes infallible, specifically declares
that "politics is a part of morals."
This declaration you will find quoted
in Joslah Strong's book, 'jOur Coun
try." If tho church can dictate what
are goo 1 morals, and politics la morals,
then she haB a right to dictate what is
good politics. In other words, she
claims the right to tell the laity where
they shall use their influence in poli
tics. Could anything be plainer? Can
you not now see why the A. P. A. op
poses Roman Catholics? It la because
of ecclesiastical interference in politics,
In the affairs of state. And have we
not a perfect right to oppose them in
the light of that fact? We have; and
we will exercise that right until they
become in fact, a well as in name,
American citizens; until they do their
own thinking, and until they declare
with that Irish patriot: "I will take my
religion from Rome, but not my poli
ty "
The next assertion and they are all
assertions which Mr. Speyer makes is
that the A. P. A. 'is an organization
WITHOUT RESPECTABLE OR RESPONSI
BLE representation, and comprised
most'y, if not entirely, of impecunious
political ad venturers." This senti
ment of Mr. Soeyer's is found on pages
2 and 3 of his pamphlet. On page 17
we find him declaring: "Owing to the
excellence of some of the above princi
ples the principles he ascribes to the
A. P. A., MANY GOOD people are
'roped' into this association." It is
not necessary for us to point out thia
clarinfir inconsistency, nor is it more
than necessary for us to quote an old
axiom, more trite than that he pro
fesses to quote on page 29, and which
rendered in English is, "False in one,
false in all," to convey our opinion of
that which he charges in that intended
lecture.
We shall not stop or stoop to bandy
invectives with this lecturer, for rea
sons already stated; but when he at
tempts to throw discredit upon the
membership of the A. P. A. because
men do not acknowledge membership
in it, we affirm It is not through shame
but from a belief that their business
will be injured through the medium of
i a boycott, the most effective weapon of
the Romas church, aid which It wield
with re'.enlle vigor ajatnst met) who
have tli courage to aay they are Am
erican fint, la.l and all the time. The
best evidence we have ever had that
Individual liberty wa slipping away
ba been offered by men who are not
member f the A. P. A. whom we have
apprca:hed with a proposition that
tbey ally themselve with that much-
abuted aociation. They have laugh
ingly told u that they did not believe
there wa acy danger from Roman ag
gression, but that if there wa any
danger they were with u and would
Jjlq the order. We have never be
lieved they were sincere in what tbey
aid, and urged them to come out and
how their colors, and tbey have an
were I that tbey could not afford to do
so, that it would ruin their business,
that they would be boycotted by the
"Catholics," and that they did not
dare to do a we reque-Ud. Thl fear
of the Roman church 1 what we pro
pose to overcome. We can do it ef
fectively by not permlttitg Rome to
know our membership and lyttematlc
ally ruin one busioes man after an
other by her damnable boycott. '
The next point which Mr. Speyer at
tempt to make I that the A. P. A re
quire a religious tost for office. This
we have fully answered in a preceding
paragraph, so we hall not dlscu? it
farther at this time.
De next ask: "Do they know that it
1 a crime and a heinous crime to palter
with or rebel against the Constitution
of the United States?" Tbey do, and
by the grace of God they will see that
such crimes are punished, if the Roman
church ever attempts to place her law
in operation in thl country when the
same, conflict with the law or the con
(tltutlon of this country. Te will ee
that those who dare "trample on or
ubvert that constitution" are adjudged
guilty of "treason, base and damnable,"
and that they suffer death "on the gal
lows tree." Will Mr. Speyor join with
the A. P. A. on that proposition, or
doea ho believe that "treason, base and
damnable," consist only in belonging
to an organization composed exclusively
of Protestants, and having for their ob
ject the perpetuation of the Institutions
which are ruthlessly assailed by the
enemy within which he is now so ear
nestly championing?
When Mr. Speyer says "these men
of the A. P. A. stand openly confessed
dofllers and de'amers of the American
Constitution, and in secret places
defy and trample It underfoot," be say
what he knows to be a foul, a black,
unpardonable untruth. Because he
charges, or his allies charge, that the
member of the A. P. A. abrogate the
Constitution of the United State does
not constitute a confession by those
men that they are guilty as charged.
So far we have found neither reason nor
logic in the forthcoming lecture of our
versatile newspaper friend. We call
him friend, because he has afforded us
an opportunity to explode the fallacious
statements he intends to make.
Mr. Speyer will, according to the
printed program on page four of his
pamphlet, follow what he has just been
quoted as saying with this grandilo
quent sentence: "I am not an A. P. A.,
because I love the Const. tutlon of my
country for its broad and enlightened
principles; because with uplifted nand
I have sworn to defend It, and upon the
battle-field I have faithfully fulfilled
the oath I have taken, blow many
members of the A. P. A. can say that?
How many of them can wear this badge
of loyalty to the flag, the Union and
Constitution, and say I won the privi
lege to bear it on my breast on the
field of battle? It i because I wear
this badge of the Grand Army of the
Republic that I can never be such
thing as that which is called an A
P. A."
All honor to Mr. Speyer for the noble
work he has done! The valor he dis
played In defense of this country is de
serving of a more fitting place for ex
ploltatlon than before an audience
which will be composed largely of men
and women who belong to the church
whose spiritual head blessed the cause
against which he was fighting, and
which furnished 72 psr C9nt. of the de
serters, according to a table which the
New York Sun twice published and
then, years afterward, repudiated.
The next thing on Mr. Sp?yer'i
printed program will be a quotation
from Lincoln's second inaugural address
and reads, "With malice toward none,
with charity for all," which Speyer
says Is the spirit in which he would
"humbly attempt to arraign the faults
and foibles of" his "deluded fellow citi
zens of the A. P. A. in 1895." A short
time afterward he refers sarcastically
to them as country-saving office-seekers
and oath-bound men, to show his
charity. On page 15, to further show
how free from malice he is, he alludes
to the A. P. A. as selfish, ignorant.
bigoted, unchristian, un-American an
unlawful. On page 23 he refers to the
A. P. A. as "this modern Mafia, these
office-seeking vultures, these hungry
hell-hounds." Charity? How sweet!
Malice? Not a bit!
Then, on page 6, Mr. Speyer quotes
from Shakespeare and dubs the A
A. the foster-child of the old Know
nothing movement, and declares that
"various attempts have been made by
the A. P. A. to prove that Abraham
nooln was in sympathy with Kno
nothingUm," and quote a portion
of a tetter from a book "Life of Lin
coln," by Nlcolay and Ray. They may
he rMponible, or they may not be, and
hey may or may not be RjtraoisU.
One thing 1 certain, Abraham Lincoln
was a patriot. It wa not necessary
for him to be a member of the Know-
nothing organization, any more than it
is oex-ifcary for John L. Webster, of
Omaha, Nebraska, Congressman Morse,
of Massachusetts, or Cotgressman Un
ion, of Michigan, to bi an A. P. A.
to make him a true patriot. Belongirg
to the Know-notbing organization or to
the A. P. A. did not and does not neces
sarily prove that a man was or 1 a true
patriot. Because there were and are
good men ouUlde of either, did not and
doea not prove that those ins!de were
or are disloyal or un-American. We
believe a very large per cent of the
VoiefcUot who are outside of the A.
P. A., and a goodly number of the Ro
man Catholics, are a loyal as the most
patriotic member of the A. P. A. Loy
alty does not belong to a particular
class. Patriotism is not circumscribed
by the membership of any order, nor is
It ca-tt aside simply because men go in
and meet secretly for the discussion of
measures which they believe will be for
the public weal.
The next on the program is an
assertion that "the A. P. A.'s would
change the Constitution of the United
States to read: 'All men are created
equal except Catholics," ' followed by
one equally as absurd, that "Tbey
would be after any other set of men
who happened to hold an office; vulture
like, they would gobble everything in
sight until they held all the offices
themselve." These charge are a
absurd as they are untrue, but that will
not prevent some people being misled
by them
By this last statement,and by linking
the A. P. A. with tho Knownothlng
movement, Mr. Speyer Jhopes to array
the foreign born population atrainst the
P. A. This would ba foolish if it
could be accomplished, for in no single
stato, in no single city, bo faras we have
been able to judge by the census re
turns, barring Chicago and Milwaukee,
would the combined force of the Roman
Cathollo and the naturalized voting
population be greater than the native
American voting population. But
the naturalized citizens whose friend-
hip and assistance the A. P. A. desires
in this fight.for a preservation of every
one of our free Institutions, come from
the Protestant countries of Europe, em
bodying the English, Swedes, Danes
and Scotch, the Protestant Irish, Ger
man, Garlbaldian and all other who
believe the Reformation was not a fail
ure, and that liberty Is a boon, not for
those of to-day alone, but for countless
millions yet unborn. The A. P. A. is
not organized for the purpose of footing
its members upon the public as Its ser
vant in public office. They must take
their chance with every other candi
date, and he who is a member of the
order has no greater right to expect the
support of hi co-workers than has the
candidate who is not a member but a
thorough American and in sympathy
with the principles of the order. All
others must expect the opposition of
the A. P. A.
On page 8 o' the program as pub
lished, we find a quotation from the
Roman Catholic Bishop of Washington,
one Mr. Keane. It reads bs follows:
"I am convinced that the whole
movement now known as that of the A.
A. is simply the outcome of im
ported Orangelsm, in alliance with the
small lingering element of New Eng
land Puritanism, in which the intoler
ance of the former has fused with the
worst forms of superstition of the lat
ter. . Tnese parasites upon me
social body will vanish in due courae of
their own acaord, if left to the purify
ing influence of the life-blood of the
Republic."
By the light of the recent election
Mr. Keane, and probably Mr. Speyer,
can see a little more clearly. If they
cannot, God pity them; for nothing but
Gabriel's trumpet will open their eyes.
On pages 8 and 0, 10 and 11 he pre
tends to give a short sketch of the
Know-nothing party. But It is only an
attempt, as he passe over one of the
bloodiest and most inhuman acts ever
committed by the pope's Irish with a
slight referance, embraced in less than
three lines. He did not tell you that
the came intolerant spirit that caused
crowd of the lowest grade of the citi
zenship of Kansas City to chase a Cum
berland Presbyterian preacher through
the street of this city with ropes, while
they cursed and swore and cried aloud
thai they would hang him, actuated
the uncanscionable rascals who shot
into a peaceable gathering of American
citizens who had met in the open air
on the commons, in Philadelphia, to
discuss the political questions of the
day, killing one young man and wound
ing several others. He did not tell you
that owing to the repeated and unpro
voked assaults on individual Know-
Continued on Page 4.
Dr. J. Parker to the Fope.
London, Oct 11, 1895. Dr. Joseph
Parker has written a letter to the pope
in answer to the pastoral lc lei advo
cating a reunion of Christendom, in
which he eay:
"Were this a personal mttte- I could
hardly forgive myself for Bering to
LI
approach a presence so august and ven
erable. But, Inasmuch asyou have ap
pealed to all sections upon the ques
tions which affect the standing of the
out before Ujd, I have emboldened
myself to bear witness to the headship
of the bleesed Christ, and to decline
communion with any man or church
that wouli officially or prescriptlvely
come between me and my Saviour."
Xergaa Ceuaty, Cslurad.
Morgan County is NO T "way out t n
the frontier." Don't allow acy Ides of
that sort to take posaessioi of you.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. Morgan County i more prot
perous than any tection of equal size In
Illinois and Ohio. Its citizen are as
Intelligent a any in the country, its
educational and rellglou advantage
a good as the best. J lb climate as
healthful and pleasant as any in the
world. You must visit Morgan County
to appreciate it properly.
Morgan County has any number of
advantages over nine out of every ten
farming section in the United State.
No crop failure; no malaria; no hot
winds; no intense heat; no bitter cold.
The people are friendly. The system
of irrigation is co o.ierative and eco
nomical. This year's yleM are beyond belief.
Think of 10 per cent, of the wheat
fields in the county averaging 50 bush
els to the acre. Oats, barley, corn, po
tatoes and alfalfa made just as good a
showing. One man made SI. 350 from
thrje acre) of onions. Another has
already received $1,520 from the pro
ceed of "0 acres of wbeit C; A third
cleared $320 from his bees alone.
The price of land ranges from $15 to
0 per acre including perpetual water
right. Eighty acre are a much as
man can farm, and if be goes in for
market gardening or fruit raising
both of which are very successful there
ho will find that 40 acres will keep
him busy.
Detailed information about Morgan
County, together with full particulars
of this year's crops, is contained in an
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except compensation for actual service) ren
dered, it will have no capital stock, and iui
expenses and benefits shall be paid from,
due and assessments levied as often as nec
essary upon its members and U roves. It
members are not liable for IU corporate
dents.
Fifth. The time of commencement of thl
Corporation shall be the 5th day of Septem
ber, 1N&, and shall continue 50 years with
power ta reincorporate.
Sixth. The highest amount of indebted
ness or ll-ibility to which this corporation U
at any time to subject lUtelf at anv one time
outsioe of death beneUls shall be (5000.
Seventh, lis affairs shall be managed by
an Executive Council or Board of Director
of not less than eight members, who shall be
Its elective officers known as Supreme Guar
dian, Supreme Adviser, Supreme tllerk. Su
preme Banker. Supreme t'byslclan and three
Supren e Managers.
Its lirst elective officers, to serve until ths
first meeting of its Supreme Forest ahall
be Mary J. lluse. Supreu e Ouardlan: Emma
H. Manchester, Supreme Adviser; Ruby H.
Root, Supren e Clerk: t'has. O. Farmer, Su
preme Banker; W. O. Rodger. Supren.e Phy
sician: Ueo. C. Thompson, Ueorge S. Ootland
U. A. Weise. Supreme Managers.
Eighth. The first n eeting of its Supreme
Forest shall be held at Saint lculs. State of
Missouri, on the second Tuesday of March.
1S07. and shall tie held dlennlally thereafter
at auch time and place a shall be designated
at the last preceding session. It Execu
tive Council shall hold regular annual meet
ings on the third Wednesday of January, ex
cept in the year in which it Supreme frorest
convenes.
Witness our hands and corporate seal or
the Supreme Forest, Woodmen Circle, at
Omah. State of Nebraska, this 5th day of
September 1WI5. Mary J. Bus.
Kuby 11. Root. Supreme Guardian.
Supreme Clerk. ll-S-4
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