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6 THE AMERICAN. FROM BOMCm IDSlTlOS. fcwUrj r t IH Matr tb (1r- rmU(r f the Ctrrrj. St. Thkkesa'h Pko-Cath kur a l, LtNtxt.X, November 14, lMCi.-In order to cornet the many grow and wilful tBUtrprrwataUoas which have been going tho mucus or the newspapers during tho past two nwkt, touchlug the rvlalioos of Hlthop ltonaoum with the prltt, Iurihjr and FSUgerald, I am dlrvcitd br the right rns.ro ml bishop to moke the following statement.: 1. That on the 2d day of Ik-tuber of the current year all lhtdlocsan com- alMtlom r of lcvetl:allou concurring the right revert-nd bishop suspended In contumaciam tho aforemctttkint d Murphy and r'ittgerald, 2. That thereupon the suspended priest appeau d to tho apostolic dele gation at Washington from thejudg Bientof the right reverend ordinary of thit d locew. 3. That In a k-ttcr under date of Oc tober 19, ISltt, and directed to Rev. William Muruhv. hU eminence, 1ho most reverend apontollo delegate, de eided the appeal a follow: Reverend and Dear Sir: Although your letter does not deserve an answer, couched as it la In rcprt-hensible and unbecoming lanjruace. which show that you are utterly devoid of all sne of reverence and rnpect for jour lawful superior, nevertheless for your informa tion I will say that a person who Is ad judged contumacious cannot, according to ecclesiastical law, avail himself of the remedy of ah appeal. I am. rever end and dear sir, your devoted servant in unrtst, Francis, Archiiishoi Satolu, , Delegate Apostolic. On receiving a copy ot the above de cision, which, noodles to say, is final, emanating as it docs from the tribunal of last resort, the right reverend bishop by his attorney jwtltloned the presid ing justice ( f the First judicial district for an Injunction restraining Itev. Messrs. Murphy and FlUgerald from occupying or In any manner using the church buildings, rectories and other property pertaining to their former missions. The hearing of the petition is set for Monday, the 25th Inst., at Tecum beh. The right reverend bishop has ap pointed Kev. Mr. Van der Rlet to the pastoral charge of Auburn, and Rev John C. Caraher to the mission of Te cumseh. Both gentlemen have already entered upon the discharge of their duties. I am, sir, your faithful servant, E. J. Fkenv, Acting Secretary House of the (Jood Shepherd. This is the familiar- name of a Ro man Catholic institution, founded in almost every largo city iatheUnlUd States, There Is no objection to the name. But somehow we all remember having met people In this world of ex oepttonally fine names, but upon an intl mate acquaintance with them we have found that their characters hardly oamo up to their names. Tho Ameri can Christian publio ought not to be left In the dark regarding the charac ter of this institut ion called the "House of the Good Shepherd," Some of us have gained soma Information about life within these walls in more cities than one. This knowledge leads us to believe than the-e Is more of cruel ty rannical and Inhuman treatment than any prison administration can show, I propose in this article to tell briefly some tacts which have fallen under my observation, and been unearthed by ex amination: In a southern city Is lo cated one ot these Institutions. A youcg girl was temporarily placed in it by her brother. When he went after his sister the woman in control would not even permit him to see her. A second visit enabled him to talk with his sister through the bars. Her an swers as she afterward testified in court were dictated to her by her mother superior, who knelt by her side, out of sight of the brother. This young girl had been cruelly treated, and was made to sign over to the mother su perior a note for a few hundred dollars payable to her when she arrived at age. As a minor, she had no right to sign over such a legal paper, but the Institution cared little for that. During the recent summer I made some examinations on my own account of the "House of the Good Shepherd" in Denver and Kansas City. For sev eral years there has been a law in Col orado according to which, upon corn plaint, young girls were sent by the civil au horities to the Denver House. The county from which they were sent paid 13 per .week to the institution for keeping the girls. It was understood they were to be schooled. Hundredsof these girls were placed in the House, and the state was paying the money for their education there. It turned out that the girls got no schooling, and had to work daily at hard labor, and were ted on the stuff gathered up by the nuns, who begged in a wagon day by day through the town. The attempt was made to have every girl sign a contract to remain always in the House. If they afterward de sired to leave, they were told they had taken an oath and signed a contract to stay. Some of these girls have been released, and their stories are pitiable. One young girl, who was still in this House at my latest information, has sent out into the world a heartrending plea for some one to deliver her from the prison she Is in. As a punishment forciUin faults these girls must til th floor. Another form of punish ment ! to hang an imitation of a bu man tongue in red flannel about th neck. The Colorado law is now hap pily ripes.ld. In K anion City I bad an opportunity to have a privat Interview with thn young women who had escaped, or btcn liberated from the institution of the tamo name. Neither of these had any knowledge of what the other two had said. Tbey corroborated each other if half they told 1 true, the people of that city would be juilifled in demand log tho chwlng up of this House. They bad to submit dally to loneliness, cruelty, hunger, hardship, humiliation shame and heavy toll, without com forts, sympathy or wbrds of kindness, What they ate was mostly refuse from tho hotel table gathered up by the In stliutiou't wagon. The meal was mostly stale, and sometimes wormy. Tbey worked unceasingly, and were not per mitted to speak a word during the day except at dinner and at recreation hour. They were not allowed to be two or three of them togethor seeking comfort in each other's sympathy, and this loneliness led to the mudcess of despondency and desperation. One of those young women came hobbling in before me on crutches. The following conversation, as shown in my note book, took place: "How are you injured?" "My limb is broken." "How did it happen?" "I did It when I jumped out of the two-story window at the House of the Good Shepherd." "Why did you do that?" "I wanted to leave, and they told me I had to stay, and that I would be lost It I did cot I had tried to jump tho fence before, but got fast in the barbed wire." "Were you so very anxious to leave as to risk your life?" "Oh, yes, and other lives too. I once built a fire in the closet of my room, and tho fire department only just came in time to save the building." "Were they not much excited at your attempt to destroy the building?" "Why, no, because the girls often try to burn It down." The "Iloufe of the Good Shepherd" is a disgrace in our country, nd Chris tlon people should see that their State Legislatures apply remedial leglsla- tian. Scnft F, Jlersltty, J'h. I)., in Lu We ran Observer, Widespread Misunderstanding. Again the JS'amiard declares the un fairness of any American in picking up 4 , n ,1i,nta,.l a.i,Awa that, mil mihlirv vhool enemies have hurled at the pa rotic orders, resharpcnlng them and taking up the attack. The American Protective Associa- tlon, tho American Mechanics and the Patriotic Order Sons of America, as well as kindred organizations of wo men, have been ruthlessly criticized and condemned by such men as Presl dent Gates of Amherst and Senator Hoar, who allege that Americans thus associated are discriminating against Roman Catholics on the ground of the'r religion. We have taken great pains to look up the principles or platforms of these or ganizations, and find no good and suffi cient resson for the charge. We have also Inquired diligently of many of the foremost men in the land, gentlemen who, as jurists, business men and clergymen, whose nBmes are the syno nym of honor and liberality one and all protest that the charge is utterly libelous and unjust. It has been fully demrnstrated that, whether in consti tution or ritual, there 1b not the slight est abridgement of any man's rights on the score of race or religion. The ref erence to the Roman Cathollo hier archy is altogether incidental, on ac count of the prominence of that power in opposing and denouncing our publio- scbool system; but the whole theory of the patriotic orders is the protection of our institutions from the attack of any clerical power, Protestant, Mormon or Roman. In particular, it is the avowed pur pose of the Americans thus organized to prevent the election to office of any man who is believed to be acting in the Interest of an eojlesiastlcal force, no matter what religion it may represent. The candidate fcr office may be a mem ber of a Protestsnt church, but the only inquiry made is as to his position a a political aspirant, on the question of the maintecacce of the integrity of our institutions. When Senator Edmunds and his co adjutors in Congress sought the enact ment of laws for the protection of the American principle of monogamy as fundamental and vital to the orderly existence of society, the crv of discrim ination against Mormons on account of their religion went up from Interested Utah polygamlsts and was afterward echced by President Eliot of Harvard College. It is clear to dispassionate, reasonable people that Senator Ed munds' attack was not upon a religion, but defensive purely of our institutions from the assaults of a hierarchy pleased to associate Its polygamous propagand ism with politics. We respectfully urge that when any religious organization among us strikes at our iBs'Jtutlona, no fault should be found with Americans for warding eff and tnaklng ineffective the blow. The patriotic orders will take not one hot tile step further toward any church or political party than is necessary to de fend the time tailored institutions of this country. Tlitir purpose ! one that commends itself to the favorable judgment ot lovers of freedom, who, in th-j light of history, have profited by the lestona of the pact. We rutpecifully call the atteition of our countrymen to tie difference be tween abusive, caiumniots epithets, so freely inlerlardlrg the speech of inter ested pulitkat aspirants In the service of our country's enemies, and the facts, very easily understood, of the actual principles of the patriotic orders. One thing is clear to thoughtful men, that whether the on ward movement in volves the question of the stamp act in '70, the freedom t f men of all races, as in 'til, the long, hard fight with the saloon, or the question as to suffrage, the reformer must expect to be inten tionally misinterpreted, his very char acter slandered by bitter foes, and his work hindered by stupid comervatlsm. liotton Daily Stand trd. Statehood and Utah. It can hardly add to the glory of the Republican party that Utah was one of the stales which last week joined the party of "moral ideas." There can be no sort of doubt but that the Mormons cast their lot, with sinister motives, with the Republicans. They have no pol i tics apart from their religion. They votod the Republican ticket so that they might gain favor with the party In power. The present presidency of the church, Wllford Woodruff, George Q. Cannon and Joseph Smith, are lie publicans and voted the Republican ticket. The presidency threw the whole weight of their influence in favor of the Republican candidates. One and perhaps two Mormons will be elected to the United States senate. It Is a fact that Joseph F. Smith, at priesthood meeting, attempted to dis cipline Apostle Moses Thatcher and Bishop Roberts because they bad ao cepted nominations at tho hands of the Democrats without first obtaining the consent of the church. It was a blind to deceive the people of the United States. The whole policy of the Mor mon church is to get the state enrolled as a member of the Union and then to control their' internal affairs to suit themsolves. The Mormon church la an organization as completely political as any political party in the United State). It will vote with the Republi cans or Democrats just as the wel'are of the church fojms to demand. The women, who are hereafter to vote, will obey the behests of their priests with alacrity and fanatical zoal. It matters not what the princes of the church may assert all their pretenses are falte. The highest officials in the church have again and again te jn convicted of falsehood and Insincerity. Tha peo pie of this country are now face to face with the proposition to admit Utah to statehood. It is true tho Constitution recognizes the complete separation cf church and slate, but it is also true that the Mormon population is abso lutely ruled and controlled by an eccle siastical despotism which will not hesi tate to set at naught the provisions of the Constitution. Four-fifths of the people of Utah are Mormons, and it is atural to believe that religious fanati cism will control the policy of the state. The protests against members of the church taking part In the elec tions wee hypocritical and insincere. Non-Mormon politicians in Utah have sold themselves to the "Latter Day Saints." Nothing is left now to com plete this shameful transaction but tho proclamation of President Cleveland. The question is: "Can nothing be done to undo this crime against Amer ican institutions?" If the state is ad mitted without further question, every principle dear to an American will be trampled under foot in this benighted region. We hope that President Cleve land will withhold his proclamation ntil something can be dens to save the country from such shame. St. Louis Observer. kill, and seldom but what all twigs start from the terminal bud ia the spring. All lies trees make a thrifty and phenomenal growth, plums and cherrie bearing well two years after planting, 'and many of the apple and crsb trees bearing well after the third and fourth year from plantlrg. Locust trees planted at oce year old are, after four ) ears' growth, 20 feet Ull and 15 inches around. I have thoroughly tet d groaiog currants, gooseberries, strawberries, rapberr!e', blackberries and grapes, all of which make a pro lific growth and yield abundantly, proving to me that small fruit-growing in this locality is a profitable irduttry. Vegetable produce wonderfully, and last year I grew ten tons of sugar beets on one-quarter acre of land. Many single beets weighed 25 pounds." Detailed information about Morgan County is contained in an illustrated booklet issued by the Paaenger De partment of tho Burlington Route and now ready for fr(e distribution. copy will bo mailed to any one who will write to J. Francis, G. P. A., Omaha, Neb., for it. No one who is really in earnest in bis desire to find a tetter lo cation than his present one will fall to do this. AN UP-TO-DATE .... ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED offlnWor Morgan County, Colorado. "I would rather have one acre of land here under irrigation than ten acres without irrigation in any local ity I ever lived in." This statement is made by Mr. A. J. Morey, a resident of Morgan County, Colorado. It is very much to, the point The more you look into it, the m6re forcibly itstrikesyou. Mr. Morey has lived in Wisconsin, Kansas and Wyoming. He has traveled over many other states. He has lived in Morgan County for tha past six years long nough for him to ascertain what draw backs, if any, are to be found there- long enough to enable him to make money enough to get out of it if he did not like it. He is there yet. And he intends to stay. His experience is in teresting. Read what he says: My lands here are under the Platte and Beaver Ditches north of Brush. I have been engaged in sheep business chiefly, but have also carried on some farming and take quite an interest in fruit culture. I have 325 fruit trees now growing, which includes apples, plums, cherries, apricots and pear trees. I have never had a tree winter PelUd with Mud. The Irish ragamuffins in the vicinity of Davis' corner have stamped their eeal of disapproval upqn the patriotic sermons preached of late by Rev.W. II Yarrow, by pelting missiles at the Fird Primitive Methodist Church and by congregating outside and hooting, and creating disturbances generally, Last Sunday afternoon, in broad day light, they threw handful after hand ful of mud into the vestibule of the church, which struck the double doors leading to the vestry and adhered to them. There were not one or two lumps of mud when teen by the Htrald man, but the middle portion of the doors was literally plastered with mud To remove all traces of the mud will require that the doors be restaincd. Perhaps if a pancake god made by a prlfBt were placed in a conspicuous po sitlon outside the church, these bead counting scamps would evince more re' spect for the sanctuary. Lowell (Mass. Herald. The Cause. As Vice-Pope Satolll la to te recalled to Rome, because the pop-3 loves him eo ardently that he cannot stand it for bira to be so far from Rome, the press isalla&tir as to who will be his sue cessor. Well, if Rome knows what is good for her health, there had better bo no more vice-popo. Satolli's pres ence has been the cause of increasing the aotl-Romanist sentiment more than the presence of any other one man. He has done more to overthrow popery in America than twenty of the ablest A. P. A.'s. Sure'y Lea is in bis dotage. Sinco the fifth angel poured out his vial on the "scat of the beast" h is king dom has been full of darkness. The pope's great acts tend to his own over throw. American Baptist Flag. Says the Priest Advised Him to Steal. Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 13. Louis Bohne, the real-estate man who was arrested last eight on the charge of embezzlement preferred by the Rev. Michael Wecker, a Roman Catholic priest of r'lre liluti, Wis., created a sensation In ourt to-day by declaring that the priest had advised him to steal. 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