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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. With tears and sobs Bohne told
how he had been ruined financially by
the failure of the South Side Savings
Bank, and how, in order to satisfy his
creditors, he had even sold his home
stead. He said:
"I told Father Wenker at one time
that I oould raise no more money unless
I stole it, and he told me to steal it
then." Bohne was held In $3,000 bail.
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