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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.
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