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4 v HE AMERICAN; 1 I i e a ft a o ft A' t tc D at At wt AC St CO ca br wl pu ? thi Al cl ed bv wol bv tch oth fr Thi troi mat it fact I ! onol no p cidq suit! nL it. ! H ' i voted j other toounu ; sometl ;A. wt the tu means ; for the . Des vostiga jchool P. A. h fore tft ;he invj THE AMERICAN tfOMN O. TMOMIOM. W. C KKLLKV. " PCBL1KHKP WKKKLT AT THI UEEICAH PDEUSHMG CCCAKT, UU Uowakd Srairr, Oata. N THE AMERICAN OfriOKA. Mli Howard Piiwt. Omaha. N tUaaa A IM Lul lUaAuiiih Yui'Lltwv ulldlai. KaaMaOltv, )V.OO lr IttrMlT tm Adrmmom. DBCEMBER C. 18. TBI Omahft Ji sps faaillArljr of "the Dlety!" Mutt bo a s-w tutelar divinity. God of the tpiowi Wl would Ilka to oaII our reader' Attention to the adverlUesMt of The 8eAr Jewelry Co., top of ooluan, pge 8 DAT SHt A will bo killed by electrio- ity because ha wm doing the work of the Roman Catholic Church, and wu eaucht At It. Tom Byrnes, the Irish ltomaa Cath olio ex-superintendent of Now York police, U traveling for kia health, while they are discussing hla methods of doing business. Wk trust every man and woman who reads Tub American will pay their aubterlptlon before January 1st. Every one of you can send In something. Please do so, And help us start the Mew Yoar out of debt. Wkrb we to guess, we would guess that Satolll would be the next Pope of Rome; and he might be requested to take bis teat vjry soon, aa the Horn an Cathollo head must show to the world that he is A man, Although they claim he"is a God. Miss Fkancf.8 E. Willard will soon lose her position If she dot not stop her sympathy for, and oo-ope ra tion with, the Roman Cathollo Church. Probably she believes all they tell her. Some of the ladies have written to her regarding It . Ths fear of the Roman Cathollo Church Is that she will not be able to cause a war here in the United Slates between labor and capital, or between this country and some other country. She wants war very much. That Is the cause for It being necessary for Americans to make to many apologies. , THE mother of Parnell has her furni ture told At thorlff'a sale, yet there it not An Irishman who hat enough re spect for the leaders of Ireland to pro vide for her. Where are (he followers of Parnell? Where Is the charity of . Mo miIti the Irish Roman Catholics, who have title onrKu ' many chsrltablo Institu te tb Uoni? . tere ONE of our fair friends in Springfield, t0 H 0., does not expeot much from Governor Bushcelt, and bates her opinion on the vuu? fact that Mrs. Bunhnell gave a dona llcka tlon to a Roman Cavhollo fair or instl kani' tution. Wo will Just tay that If Gover D0 nor Bushnell ties up with Rome after CPW getting the A. P. A. vote, his future i P011 political CAko will be dough, of hi) ; ticko" President Cleveland's message J""50 does not touch the keynote of the timet. W The hArd times the business depres ;ea" tlon-is not the result , of too much I fl k i monef but of 'aclt o emPloyment S :! . Open the bank vaults, put the money, i ' noor hnai-dnri- Into Hrmilltinn. drive uf)ut idleness, and we will have a nation burdened with prosperity and peopled with happy, contented citizens. We have received a letter from A friend (n Schoolcraft, Mich., announo- . v tbe deAth of Mr. PAt Welch, a ' ' i lecturer of no man Ability upon the (jSomet oj Romanism. It was our of the'. , . . ... ' pleasure vu vv pvnmnivi; luquaiunu vlih Mr. Welch, And we are pained to ' learn of his death. If there ever was .,m. . was that foe. Ptace to his coul. ticketj :wljle' IN Mr. JohnD. Howe'a medley, pub- , llshed In last Sunday' Omaha Bee, , . that gentleman speaks of those "whose would) , . .v., ..,,,.,. An original and A curious simile. ,Next we shall have some word-juggler ... . evolving tome tuch sentiment a this: , "Their putrid purity proved nauseat- permeated with a certain kind of 111- jcnooir ,,, . Jackmi smelling Rosewater. We fail to find words which will .. . adequately expres our opinion of the would i!Teralct rendered by the jury in Justice O'Connell' court In the case against tbe fireman who as- 1 i Sundf saule n1 blt old maD Buck ,n Evans- Vr,iton tome three weeks Ago. Although I'isitfttl tie defendant Admitted he ttruck Buck, 'n low0 3ury brought In A verdict of not f Inarch guMy- The lur3 n8l8ted 01 tnroe i "ation R111118! Methodist, and two men s,H .who did not "attend worship At Any ' . . church." WTe consider this verdict i ' nf Dut alp aample of the justice Protea I iAt thetant8 can exPect if tbey allow Rma 10 ( Ae publgaln ntro1 ot ttl18 country. Chicago . -.American. ONE DRAWBACK. Tbo greatest drawback which besets the patriotic editor U tha subscriber who take take the paper for a year or two And then, after you have tent him a core of ttalementa, suddenly dls covers that he never ordered the paprr at to hit addreM, or that he paid ia advance and ordered It kppd at the end of the time paid for, and absolutely refuse to pay the bilL W do not CAre to refer to Any one la particular. The fellows who write Intuiting letter ia Answer to a polite request for what we believe they owe ua, are do worst than thoaa who rua up A bill of 12 or 13 aad refuse tha paper through the post offloa when w Insist upon thlr paying the bill. For A long tlm w dav thought we were the otly oompany la the country OAirylBg M.OOO or 110,000 back sub scriptions oa our book, but we see, by the last Issue of the Patriolie American, tbat Supreme President Tray nor was carrying hundred And probably thou sands of the boy. The new company which ha purchased Mr. Traynor' paper aays: "There are now upon the list of the Patriotic American the name of a large number of subscribers who are la ar rearsmany of them for three or four year and have been carried along by tbe late pumisner, mr. i ray nor, euner from sympathy or charity, which quali ties, judging irom me aggregate oi these unpaid subscriptions, muHt have Nen an exceedingly expensive luxury. The present publishers cannot afford to perpetuate a system that would soon ruin the institution, ana respecuuuy give notice that all back tubsurln'lont must be paid up promptly within tbe next few weeks or they will be placed in the hands of an agency for collection through the proper legal channels. The excuse, offered in many cases, after receiving the l'alrwtic American regularly for many months, or even year, that the subscriber 'did not order tbe paper sent,' or that it was ordered stopiwd before the arrearages were jald up, cannot be accepted oy toe present proprietors. All arrearages must be paid before the name of the subHorlber 1 stricken from the list. Another expensive Item which we can not Afford to carry is Mr. Traynor' dead-heAd' list. While we Are Anx ious to be courteous And obliging to All, we Are not In a position to give some thing for nothing, And therefore all names, except those of our patrlotlo exchange, and those friend from whom we receive favor, cither In the form of correspondence or otherwise, will be stricken from the list. A pur suance of this course will accomplish a material reduction in our expense and enable u to give A much better newt- paper to our paying subscribers." During tbe last year or two we have sent every aubtcrlber who 1 in arrears not only one statement of hit account but many, with A courteous request that the tame be paid. A very large number have failed to remit for tome reason, but we hope they will not put It off so long that we shall be forced to resort to the harsh measure outlined In the above clipping. There it a reference In the Patriotic American to a "dead-head list." We have no tuch thing In this otllce. Every paper which goea to a subscrib er'! Add rest It, by ut, believed to be a bona-fide subscriber. If any imagine they are being complimented with a free subscription, now it the time to dlsAbuee their minds of that thought. Our rates are t'2 per year; ministers, half price. If you have not paid your two dollars, tend it In before January 1, and help us start the new year on the right side of the ledger. Remember, It is not what YOU owe, but what you ALL'owe, that makes the burden hard to carry. . Our total in debtedness Is less than 13,200. That amount could be wiped out this month If every one of cur subscribers would send ut in what la justly due us. Will you do it? OBLIGATION OF THE CHURCH. Professor George D. Ilerron, of Iowa College, contribute to the December 4 mi a an Interesting artlole on "The Opportunity of the Church," the paper being a condensation of A lecture which he delivered in Boston In November, 1895. When he fpeak of "the church," he ot course means the Christian church In general, albeit he evidently does not regard the Roman Catholic Church a in any tense one of the moral agenclea of Christendom. He appears to recognize the fact that the Church of Rome la not really in favor of either personal or political righteousness. The professor opine that many of the most Important social, political and edu cattonal reforms of tbe day are being brought to full fruition without the active co-operation or positive en oouragement of even the evangelical churches. "The real social reconstruc tion," declares the professor, "is moving on outside of, and largely In opposition to. organized religion; its leaders who come from are not of the church. In no nation on earth it there such abject submission to mere money in both church and state as there Is In America. Money hag more influence than Jesus upon the ecclesiastical atti tude toward the problem of social jus tice. Our persistent blinking this fact, our evasion of the moral responsibility it putt upon us, may prove the dis placement of the existing church Pastors may secure active participa tlon in municipal reforms from the very men who buy the city's councils and loot its people, only to find the city in a last state worse than the first. This is a rather severe Arraignment of the churchefdeemed Protestant. It la perhaps a timely protest AgAlast pluto cratic Aad exclusive Protestantism. But there Are wealthy And Aristocratic Protestant whoae rcligiouaneM doe not prevent them from joining hand with dealgalng RomanlaU In "reform movement, a ha been demonstrated la recent campaign la the great cities of this country. No political or social reform ever emanate from Rome. Neither the Roman hierarchy nor the I to roan laity terloualy desire good government. The greAlet foe of pure politic Are those who Are friendliest to the purely political project of ab Alloa hierarchy. W apprehend greater danger to tha Hepubllo from the accumulAtloa of vast estate Ia the hand of aa alien priesthood than from the reAiing And maintenance of costly Protestant church edifice. All property, whether devoted to sacred or eculr uses, and whether owned by Catholics or Prot estant, tnould be Assessed At it full vaIu for purpose of taxation. Prop erty-owner of every class ought to be tiling to contribute their just And equitable aharo toward the mainte nance of the government under which tbey live and by which they And their property Are protected. If All the trustee of ProtesUnt church edifice were Actuated by that cog It ant public pirit And that exalted patriotism which possesse the heart of all true And loyal American citizen, they would lntitt on sharing equally the burden of public taxation; they would recognize the fact that the state hat some right which the church 1 bound to respect EDWARDS' BOND. The ditreputable mountebank who runt tbe Omaha Ike hat done every thing in bit power to keep Treasurer- Elect A. G. Edwarda from tecurlng a bond, And hat endeavored to Induce the council to not approve the one he did secure, Although It was signed by a oorporAtlon known to be sound, solvent And satisfactory In every respect. We shall not criticize the bankers or local capitalist who held aloof and failed to go to Mr. Edwards' rescue when he waa being assailed by tbe most damnably dishonest political trickster who ever disgraced this city. They have made their money, and have a perfect right to protect it from real or fancied danger; but now that Mr. Edwards has secured A good And suffi cient bond, they should not counte nance the persecution of a man whose only crime lies in his being poor. It seems to us the good name of this city, of its officials and of Its cltizent hat received enough notoriety, through the liet and the misrepresentations of the Omaha Bee and the Associated Press dispatches, to lnduoe the repre sentative business-men to unite in an effort to repair the injury done their city, their bui lnejs interest and their commercial standing abroad. They can overcome the Injury those two Rome- ruled agenclea have done the city by giving their unqualified Bupport to the officials elected until tuch time as they prove themselves Incompetent, dishon est or negligent. Let the disappointed individual who has for twenty years mistaken the voice and tbe opinion of Rosewater for the voice and tbe opinion of the citizens of Omaha we say, let him wallow in his vomit, which is putrid and festering from long exposure! He is no longer a power; he is but the smallest kind of a factor in the affairs of this great city. He has degenerated into a common scold, a chronic croaker, a spiritless kicker a regular mossback, For that reason, they should infuse a little new blood Into the body corporate which he has been pounding incessantly for years, while a industriously milking the United States, county and city treasuries of every dollar he could get his hands on. STATE COUNCIL. The State Council of the A. P. A. of Nebraska met In Graod Island and elected an entirely new set of officers. Mayor Kelley, of McCook, was chosen president; Charles Unltt, of Omaha, secretary, and J. H. Campbell, of Lin coln, treasurer. Resolutions were adopted calling up on Congress to acknowledge the Cubans a belligerents. Another set of resolu tions supporting the position of the cltlxens of Manitoba on the school question were unanimously adopted and telegraphed to Rev. J. C. Madill. Tbe secretary's report showed the order was growing steadily in the state, And was organized so thoroughly that it would be able to secure the nomination of only loyal citizens on the several party tickets. The meeting was one of the most harmonious in the history of the order in the state, and assures a prosperous year. WHAT WAS THEIR RELIGION? The Chicago Evening Press and Journal of the 2d inst. publish a statement of the number of boys sent to the Bride well during 1894, And give their nativ ity. By that report we find there were 2,395 juvenile offenders sent to that in stitution during that year, and of that number 1,900 were native-born and but 495 were born in a foreign country. Will the Post now give us the religious beliefs of the parent of those boys? COUNCIL 125 i comfortably housed for the winter. This 1 tbe council whoae wisdom outweigh Rose water's eounael. Some two years ago the A. P. A. wm orgAnlzed la tbe State of California with one little council. Now that state ha about 600 council with an immense membership, And ha mors patriotic paper than any other ttate ia tbe Union. Ir churchea wish to do miationary work among Roman Catholic, they can find drove of them la Maine, Let A work be Urted there, And tend Bible to thcee Romas Catholic a well aa to those la ItaJy And la South America. Since tha Associated Pre ha felt the power of tha A. P. A, to tuch an extent that it will publish the newt, A ven when not agreeable to the pope, the dallle are filled with intelligence regarding the beastly practice of Ro to Un priest. The A. P. A. is A great educator of the people. The Fortlander. TUB Timet-Uerald doe not mince matter when It speaks to Job a R. Tan ner. If he 1 guilty, as charged in that paper, of protecting boodler from the operation of the law, no reputable Re publican, no conscientious and loyal A. P. A., can do aught to elevate him to the high office of Governor of Illinois. Ben Tecnebeck and Cornelius Dor- gan, Dotn oi wbom are iloman Cath olics, attempted to throw William Potter into a furnace of melted metal, because he was an A. P. A., but tbey were detected and stopped, And now they must suffer because they were doing the work of the holy (?) Roman Catholic Church. It is sUted that Priest O'Grady, of Cincinnati, who murdered Mary Gil- martin, It showing signs of Insanity. This might be the only method by which he can escape what many suffer for such deeds. The Roman Catholic Church should be condemned as well ai O'Grady, for the enjolnt celibacy on her priest, which waa the principal reason for the commission of the deed charged against O'Grady. FOR years Rome has been proselyting the Indians. Recently the haj taken notice of the negro, and now she ia after the Insane. The New York Sun says: "The Rev. James Nolan and the Rev. Father McKennai of St. Peter's church visited tbe Hudson River State Hos pital at Poughkeepsie, Monday even ing, and heard the confessions of 200 Insane patients. Although the patients represented numerous forms and de grees of insanity, and some were very bad cases, there was no contusion. This WH1TN Cash Shoe Sale MEN'S, WOMEN'S AND MISSES' SHOES At SOg to 7Sg on the Dollar. We are closing out several kinds of MEN'S AND WOMEN'S Fine Shoes, and they will go at Cost or Less Than Cost! MEN'S 48.50 French Calf, Custom LADIES' $3.50, $4 00 and $6.00 Cloth MISSES' $1.75 and 12.00 School made, double sole Shoes, will Top, Button, Plain Toe and Patent Shoes, grain and satin calf, spring go at ' Leather Tip, in one lot at beel, are now $4.00 $3,Q0" " $i-BQ MEN'S $7,00 Cordovan Congress, 3 Shoe for $1.50. SCHOOL SHOES, spring heels, globe toe, will sell at LADIES' Cloth Top and Kid Button same as above, sizes 2i to 5, for Common Sense Spring Heel . $4.00, $1.50 $10 , . xt.c to, t a Ladies' Century Shoes, LADIES' Fine Dongoia Button MEN'S $-1.00 Cork Soles, Lace and . p . . , c g8 $4.50 Kangaroo Calf, Lace, Good- minted, and Square Toes- S4.00 ,e"i5o $15 10 $2-0Q RAZOR TOE- TurnS A tQ E wldG) gizeg 2i to g cork soles Are now Arctics and Rubbers $3.00 $3.00 LOWEST CASH PRICES. Wm. I IHITffl, morning Father McKennai celebrated dm for the male paUent. Th priest And the Authorities of th asylum Are so pteaed with the tucce of the ser vice that they will repeat It regularly We hope th Sun will not deny the fact contained la tbe Above, After seven or eight year have elapsed. OCR reader will find Mr. Samuel Burn' advertisement la another col umn. He need no introduction to the citizens of Omaha or of Nebraska." He ha been on of them for year. Hi manner of doing bualne i equally well known. It 1 to do exactly as he Advertise he will do. , And now th paper are aying that ChArlea J. Bonaparte, a grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, the brother of the Uluatrlou Napoleon, may be elected United 8tate senator from MaryUnd by the Republican. The papen Also state that he la "a rigid Catholic." We fall to tee where the American of MAryland will have benefited them aelvea if they honor Mr. Bonaparte with that position. Romanist Bona parte would be as much a tool of the holy church at Romanist Gorman ba ever been. Perk Leon Bouland, who left the Roman church In April, 1848, and wat lnductel Into the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Potter, ha gone back to the Roman church. In a letter to the New York Herald he says: "I understand now, a I did not then, the Infallibility of the pope, that when he speak ex-ca'hedra on matter of re ligion his voice is the twice of God." When he left tbe church in 1883, he gave a his reason that, politically, he did not "admit the pretensions of Ul tramontanism" claiming absolute au thority In matters outside of religion. The elections in Massachusetts last Tuesday attested again the political strength of the A. P. A. The candi dates endorsed by that organization, with hardly any exception, were elected by overwhelming majorities, and the Associated Press dit patches, so antago nistic to the A. P. A., chronicle but one or two defeats one at Springfield and the other in a second-rate village. Are the Republican leaders awake to the advisability of not insulting this great and influential portion of their party? It will not tolerate any apolo getic attitude. The party must Qsh or cut bait. A YOUNG lady living in Douglas, Mich., has had the good fortune to win tbe love of our dear friend, Norman A. MacRae, to whom she will be married Tuesday evening, December 24, 1895. Most editors would reverse this and EYS IPZ SOUTH SIXTEENTH STREET. tay that Mr. MacRae had been fortu nate in winning the love of to good a girl a Mis Josephine Smith. To all of which we Agree; but it la bitter the other way, for there Are few men of our acquaintance for whom we hold A higher opinion than Norman A. Mac Rae. He Is a man among men good, pure, true, manly and Able; nothing but what A good, pure woman could love thorough genllemAn. Tbey will be At home After January 14, 1S96, At 4577 Lake avenue, Chicago, I1L W with them a full measure of thi world's good. Wrra Romans la charge of both the Republican and Democratic Central Committee la Cook County, the church ought to be able to owa ChicAgo And Cook County la a very few year. Will the party who borrowed D'Au bigne' "History of the Reformation" kindly return the tame to thi office? Now is tbe time to exAmine well into the character of the men aeeking admission Into the patriotic order. Keep this fact In mind: A. la not a partizan order. The A. P. Advertise in The American, If you want good returna. The Flag It There. Bath, Me., Nov. 28. To-day the Start and Stripes were unfurled for the first time over the oldest public build ing In Bath, the Erudition school house, which was erected In 17V4 for educational purposes, for which it hat ever aince been used. It was built by Joseph Sewall, father of Hon. William D. Sewall. In the building on February 22, 1800, Andrew Greenwood delivered a funeral oration on the character of George Washing ton, who had died the December previous Thef.ag, which was unfurled on a new flagstaff to-day at 10 o'clock, waa presented the school by Winona Coun cil No. 1, Junior Order of American Mechanics, this being the only council In Maine. The presentation remarks were made by D. N. C. William C. Bes selievre, and the flag was Accepted in behalf of the school by Supervisor I. C. Phillips. Singing of patriotic tongs and recitations followed, and then the flag was thrown to the breeze. There were many people present, in cluding pupils, members of the school- board and of the council. Special dis patch (o the Boston Daily Standard. For worn-out business men nothing equals Dr. Kay's Renovator. See advt. f