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Sal THE "AldiwTO'A'iMii 4 THH AMERICAN aalur JBMN O. THOMPSON. WTOn. W. G KFLLCT. Ralaaaa MMw rcBUHHco wkhlt r tub JHEElCiK PDEUSHIHG COMPACT, Ml IIowako St a art. Omasa. rim amkkuas orricM. Idtt Hoaart HimwU ttaaha. lt,Mm a. m Lut KajKMi Waa. Chi YiiVbliwy ButldtM. Kaaaaa OH, Mo. JANUARY 17. I8W. THE AMERICAN Prm Now Until January I, I80T, For tha Small Sum af 50--CENTS--50 Pa Your Subscription at th ! Rata Up to Data, an Taka Ad vanUca Our Great Offer.! 1 Parian Bandlnc Ua Tan Naw Sub- t X erlbara w.H ba Farorad With a Vaar'a I Subscription to THI AMERICAN. No poraonal chack accaptad unlaat mada tor 16 eta. mora than tha amount of aubacrlptlon you with to pay. Mm 1 at H Immht m Urn - iim I ewM. ! W.irf Mm Oawka. " Ct ! AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO, f NOTICE. The Increase In our subscription list bM boon so groat and so unexpected that we are behind with our mailing' list If your friend says he did not get bis paper this week, tell him It will be along all right next week. We are work ing fire more employes than we did be fore the first of the year, and yet are unable to koep up with the rush. Everybody is getting In on our odor. Tell your friend his name Is not to yet We want thorn all. Push It to the 600,000. A patriotic papist Is a fiction of the imagination. The Roman Caihollo confessional box Is the vestibule of hell. The Roman papacy Is tho consum mate flower of earthly tyranny. Lafayette was a patriot In spite of his Romanism, and not because of It. Behind every preachment of pope or priest there is a mercenary motive. People will think twice before they accept a ring candidate for governor of Illinois. Corruption in high places in Chi cago seems to be the rule and not the exception. We are for protection to the in terests of the Catholic and Protestant girlhood of America. Convents and nunneries have no legal or moral right to exist on Ameri can soil. They cumbor the earth. - The Roman Cathollo convent system is an impious conspiracy against Amer ican girlhood and American woman hood. It is not by resolutions, but by reso lutlon, that offensive forolgnlsm and rebellious Romanists are to be over come. Manitoba Is fortunate in possessing sGreenway to lead her forces. His election means death to remedial legis lation. The strong arm of the law should be laid hold of the pope's prison pens, which are lawless and iniquitous insti tutions. Millions for the defense of the American common-school system, but not one cent for tribute to the teachers of treason. Wb demand the absolute prohibition of the Roman Cathollo traffic in young girls. '"TIs a consummation devoutly Xo be wlsh'd." Institutions which prison persons against their will should be under the complete control and sole superintend ence of the state. The staunchest friends of the papacy are the bitterest eaemies of the patrl otic principles exemplified by the mem bers of the A. P. A. Those who sanction the principle of papal supremacy in our affairs of state and all consistent Roman Catholics do should be deprived of the right to hold public office. The A. P. A. aid not get the gover nor of Massachusetts, buteuoceeded in obtaining a good part of the legislature. Enough, at any rate, to elect the SHAKE THEM UP. There Is to be another shaking up la the police department of Chicago, un lets reports are false; and It is Dot oomlog any too soon, if common rumor can ba credited. This time it is to reach the license inspectors, who are accused of being altogether too friendly with the people tbey are set to watch. The men who compose the llcsnae detail are: First dlvlalon First precinct, Ser geant William S. McGuIre; second, M. Iletlman; third, William Fitzgerald; fourth, Thomas O'Sbea; fifth, William Carberry; sixth, Albert M. Junge; sev enth, James W. McKenna; eighth, John B. Watson. Second division Tenth preclnct,Tei rence Dwyer; eleventh, James E. Sickles; twelfth, M. E. Hunt; thir teenth, James Sheeban; fourteenth, Patrick Winn; fifteenth, Fred Drown; seventeenth, Henry A. Wilson; eight eenth, William G. Byrne; nineteenth, John F. Lake. Third division Twenty-first pre cinct, Patrick H. Seery; twenty-second, John J. Egan; twenty-third, Charles Dorman; twenty-fourth, Thomas Moore; twenty fifth, John Ilooley; twenty- seventh, Stephen B. Healy; twenty eighth, Daniel J. Hartnett; twenty- ninth, Patrick Davoren; thirtieth, Henry Boylan. Fourth division Thirty second pre cinct, Henry R. Streeter; thlrty-seo-ond, Peter Molser; thirty-third, John Lembcke; thirty-fourth, August C. Keller; thirty-fifth, Joseph P. Gough; thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth, Rich ard Bartlctt; fortieth, Ernest Mueller; forty-first, August II. Mueller. If there were a few Americans em ployed upon our police force and not quite 89 many Romanized foreigners, there would be no necessity for "shak ing up" the force so often. A Roman ized police force is a curse to any city. Chicago American. Some of the news printed in the Star about "splits" in the A. P. A. proves very comical reading to those who are on the inside. It seems to be the In tent of the Romanized, boodllng Star to try to create the impression that the order is in a great state of eruption, and that it will be scattered to the four winds before the next election. All that is necessary in this line is to say- wait. Every time that it seems proper to institute a new council of the order, and the prollfio Star happens to gain knowledge of the fact, it announces the event in about the following language: 'There is a great spilt in the council, and the dissatisfied members withdraw and organize a new council." We ad mire an open enemy, but when such sloppy, underhanded methods are used it naturally makes a person feel that the whole contents of a paper are cor rupted by the same methods. The cries for free America and the laboring man are too transparent when the owner sucks the teat of opulence and lives in Paris. The Star loves the poor laboring man and the tax-payer to such an extent that it Is often charged with advocating publlo improvements with an earnestness gauged by the amount of money the corporation puts up for its support. That is, the Star is said to favor most the improvement that gives the Star the most money for its support. It is well that the people should remember this, and judge the statements made by that paper as they would the statements of the retained attorney who defends a criminal as defense for revenue only. A paper which will olalm to be free and inde pendent in its utterances, and then re sort to such tricks to make revenue for its owner to live on in a foreign land, ought to be Ignored. Some of the papers are trying to ele vate the name of Chief Irwin to the pinnacle of perfection as a manager of police. We are sorry to say that there are thousands who could handle the police and not shield the worst class of political gamblers, as is being done in this city. There is a class of gamblers who. during elections, resolve them- aalvaa Into heelers whom the chief positively refuses to "see' when oper ating their gambling places. These Dolitlcal gamblers run their games 01 chance wide open, and are exposed dally in the papers, yet the chief never attempts to stop the games. If, now ever, some poor devil is caught playing "craps" in an alley or in some poor abode, he is arrested, hauled in state to the station, and fined. This mode of fostering the well-known gangsters In the city should be condemned by every honest citizen. Rome's greed is insatiate and insati able. There is nothing, however base or lcnoble. however dishonest or dls reDutable. however unchaste or unlaw ful, which Rome will not do to gain a necunlarv advantage. The infamous traffio in young girls, by which the convents and nunneries are regularly replenished, is an integral part ol the revenue system of the Church 01 Home. IP all Americans fully realized the inhuman treatment, gross outrages, and cruel injustice which are visited uDon voung girls in convents ana nun neries, they would arise en masse and demand, with one voice and one accord, the utter extinction of thuws sinks of Superficial ProtesUats prate about papists being "persecuted oa a oount of their religion." What are the nature and element of their rel Igloo? How does their religion agree with this definition: "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this, to visit the widows and fatherless in their s miction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." Fancy a Roman Cathollo priest heeding this scriptural injunction! Whoever knew a priest of Rome to exemplify the doc trine which St. James accentuates? How many Irian Roman Catholic lay men have the kind of religion defined bv the apostle? It any Roman Cath olics are really religious, they are re ligious la spite of their Romanism, and not because of it "Let any one send a boy to school, and that boy will learn to lie and steal before he learns to read," said a Kan sas City "preacher" by the name of J. B. Welty, before "The Social Purity Movement," held last Monday. We would be pleased to know if this would be critic learned these things when he attended school? A man to criticize must have some experience, and we udge that a minister should be ad- vUed to speak. As be makes the posi tive assertion that the boy learns to He and steal, we see no alternative whereby he can escape, unless he never attended school. We would judge the latter from his decision, as no educated man would make such an assertion. In a i mall town in Lapeitre county, Michigan, lives s lady who had among her books a copy of "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome." Recently she was visited by a neighbor's wife who was a member of the Roman Catholic church. That Roman neighbor began looking through the books. When she came across Rev. Chinlquy's book she ex amined it carefully, then walked delib erately to the stove and put the book into the fire, and it was burned before our lady friend could save it. This is but proof of what Romanists would do if they had the power in this country. It has aroused the indignation of the whole neighborhood. Subscribe for The American, se cure a friend's subscription, and have him follow your example. Start the chain and let us have a paper which will reach the whole land. If you do this and continue in the good work, it will be but a very short time until we can give you the largest paper in the United States for the least money. Think it over. James Anthony Froude wrote that: "The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness." The practical effect of a belief in Romanism is the making of treachers and dissem blers out of those who otherwise might have exemplified a noble type of civil ization and reached an exalted plane of patriotism. The Chinese Gamblers' Union of Bos ton have set a price upon the head of the person who divulged certain of their secrets. They defy the law of the land something which the Roman Cathollo hierarchy have been doing for several generations. The election of I. O. Rhoades as president of the board of education was a deserved compliment to a man who always stood boldly with the men who elected him. We have needed more men like I. O. Rhoades on the board of education. Let tho old-line politicians cham pion, if they choose, the cause of the Roman Cathollo corporation. Their Influence will be confined strictly to the limits of their own narrow bailiwick. But fifteen days have elapsed since we offered The American for 50 cents January 1, 1897, yet we have added more than 1.000 names to our 1 at. Did you secure one of that number for us? Have you paid your subscription to The American? Remember this is a new year, and you can secure the paper up to January 1st, 1897, for fifty cents. Ask your friends to subscribe. Every father and every mother in the nation should work with inspired energy for the suppression of the sacer dotal seminaries of sensuality which exist in the United States. The augmentation of the circulation of The American to the 500,000 mark will give the cause of pure American ism an Impetus which it could receive from no other agency. Address all communications for sub scriptions to The Kansas City Amer ican to 519 Whitney Building, Kansas City, Mo. Rheumatism positively cured by Kid neykure. We guarantee it. See ad. Presidential Problems. Editor O'Meara, of the Boston Jour nal, declares for Reed, and the Boston Globe (Irish Democratic) also declares for Reed. At a meeting held In Wash inirton the other day, Quay, Clarkson, Piatt, and Fessenden (Conn.) declared for Reed. But in spite of all this, we think McKinley will be nominated. TO THE DAILY PRESS AGAIN. It ia within our province to again brand the daily press aa time-serving, priest-fearing, and Rome-ruled, without in the least fearing a challenge for the proof to sustain the charge. But the knowledge that we will not be called upon to prove that assertion is not what emboldens us to make it. It is the consciousness of the truthfulness of the charge, and of our ability to sustain the accusation should any one of the illy contrived brood muster up sufficient courage to attempt to controvert what wo charge against them separately and col lectively. To prove to you that the charge is true, we suggest that you take the daily paper published in your community and compare its editorial utterances upon the great Protestant organization known as the A. P. A., which believes in and has been organ ized for the purpose of perpetuating every one of our free insti tutions, with its utterances in connection with the Roman Cath olic Irish Military Union, which has as its professed principal object the liberation of Ireland, but as its ulterior object the wounding of this grand nation when it is beset by enemies from without. Compare its damnably lying statements about the A. T. A., about its members, and about the public officers who have been elected by and through the influence of the members of that grand and noble order we say, compare the untruthful statements about the A. P. A. with the fulsome flat tery bestowed on anything fostered and fathered by Rome, and tell us if what we have here charged has not been demonstrated to be an absolute truth. It has. And yet we are the men who keep those papers alive. We are the fellows who know how to read, who have the money to spend with their advertisers, while the traitorous gang before whose power they creep and crawl have neither the ability to read nor the wherewithal to pay for a paper if they did sub scribe for it. 1 " Such being the case, how long do we propose to kiss the hand that strikes us? That is a serious question. The daily press is arrayed clearly demonstrated by an incident which happened in Omaha only last week. At that time a the A. P. A. waited upon the daily papers of this city and asked what would be the charge for publishing the following notice: "A lecture will be delivered at Washington Hall, Tuesday evening, Jan- nary 14, 1896, by the Hon. John H. D. orator. The subject will be "Mission men are cordially invited. The Hon. orators the State of Michigan has produced. He is a polished gentleman, a gifted orator, and a fluent speaker, capable of coping with the subject he is to lecture on. This lecture is intended for the enlightenment of the masses who do not comprehend the meaning and teachings of A. P. A. -ism. The' commit tee having the lecture in charge would respectfully request ladies and gentle men to be present. Admission 25 cents." , Mr. Hitchcock, of the ing that it would cost $35, and not care to publish it, because it Ye gods! Objectionable matter? Where? What is there objectionable is because a man high in the councils of the A. P. A. organiza tion will explain the mission of fellows are very careful to keep the gene'ral public in ignorance as to the real purposes of the A. P. A. The truth even may become objectionable to some people. And this man Hitchcock may objectionable. One thing is certain: He has keeping his readers in ignorance as to the time when and the place where Senator Stevens would expound the principles of the A. P. A. Why? You may answer it different ning of this article, if you can. Everybody remembers the columns of nauseating flattery doled out by the Omaha daily papers when John Ireland visited this city and lectured to a paid house. Those column notices occurred both before and after he had lectured. Ireland was a Roman Catholic. Yet, when a man as high in the A. P. A. as John Ireland is in the Roman Church visits this city for the purpose of deliver ing a lecture, the daily press do not mention the fact. Nor did they mention the fact in their issue of the following morning. Why this difference? Why this insult? Can it be Protestant Americans will submit to such outra geous treatment? Romanist Ireland lectures to a paid house, and gets columns of notices. A. P. A. Stevens lectures to a paid house, but gets not a line. We say the daily press is Rome-ruled, or it would not be guilty of such unfairness. We need another Declaration of Independence. The despotic power of Rome over the newspapers and news agencies must and shall be taken from her. To to this, Americans should patronize only such papers as have the courage to give them and their order fair treatment. Don't spend a dollar with a truckler. Hew to the line. against the A. P. A. That is committee of men belonging to Stevens, of Michigan, a silver-tongued of the A. P. A." Ladles and gentle John H. D. Stevens is one of the best Wortd-7eralJ, is reported to us assay that even at that price he did was objectionable matter. about that notice? Perhaps it the order. These daily-paper be one to whom the truth is attempted to assist Rome by to what we did in the begin We cannot. PRESIDENT TRAYNOR. Continued from paja ooa. the confessional is a part of the relig ious faith of papists; it is warrantably replied to that the moral theology of Peter Dens, discussed .by a celibate priest and a woman in the seclusioa of the confessional-box, is conducive to immorality, and passes beyond the do main of a privileged religious act and becomes a menace to good ruoiais and thus to the state at large. Therefore it ia that I urje the pres entation of a bill in each state legisla ture for the abolition of the confes sional or the confession of a woman to man or vies versa. If confession is in dispensable, let It be conducted in such a manner as not to outrage publlo morals. Upon the same grounds I urge the passage of a bill in each state legisla ture thtowing open to publlo inspec tion all nunneries, monasteries, Houses of the Gocd Shepherd, etc. It is unlawful for the state to farm out to sectarian Institutions its con victs, incorriglbles, paupers, and or phans, either by means of cleverly de vised special acts or otherwise; yet there is scarcely a state in the Union in which the Constitution is not openly and flagrantly violated in this regard. I am aware that this is no new subject for the consideration of the order, and I merely mention it to draw attention to the fact that the matter has re ceived too scant consideration at the hands of the organization, and should form material for immediate and con tinual agitation until the evil has been legislated out of existence. While reiterating the principle that the citizen's religious belief should be respected and his rights in this respect protected, it may safely be laid down as a rule of action for our order that whatever in one's re ligious doctrines or convictions tends to render the state tributary to the church; that subordinates the layman to the eccleslast; makes any law of a church superior to the laws of the state, or tends to make the citizen less loyal to his country or less virtuous, is perilous to the national weal, and, therefore, to be combatted with every weapon in our arsenal of reform. The American Protective associa tion has grown from the day of its birth at compound interest speed, until it has become an immence and well or ganized machine of reform, of which each cog, each pin and screw and nut is an intelligent, active, loyal American. While it has not grown so rapidly as to be unwieldly, it is beyond all ques tion the largest and most powerful organization of its kind that the world has ever produced and requires not only a most comprehensive knowledge of its principles, but also of its consti tution, laws and ritual, upon the part of every member in the order that it may run without friction in any of its parts. I regret to observe that, in many cases, there appears to be a lack of such knowledge, a deficiency which frequently leads to unpleasant some times dangerous consequences, and consumes valuable time and labor that were better applied to fighting those evils for the suppression of which the order was instituted. The judicature is a necessary ad junct to any organization and more es pecially to an Institution of our Kind, While our judicature is not infallible, it is, as a general rule, as nearly infal lible as the resources at its disposal and an honest and earnest desire to do justice can make it; but litigation always leaves one side dissatisfied and frequently loses to us good and useful members who, through a misconcep tion of the purposes of the law of the order, consider themselves wronged. I deem it a wise rule of action that arbitration should always be first re sorted to un.ess the offense Is a flag rant one especially if the aggressor has erred through ignorance of the law. The courts of the order should always be a matter of last resort. It is not to be expected of any human organization that all should agree, even though all may be actuated by the beet of motives. When we differ In opinion it is wise to glean all the good from the argument of him who differs with us before we lay claim to the infallibility of our own position. In view of the immense quantity of correspondence which every week reaches me from one source and an other', which clearly indicates in the minds of many a misconception of the duties and rights of the supreme presi dent, I would as briefly as possible de fine the relationship of the supreme officer with the other branches of the order. 1. It should be accepted as a fact that every state, where a state council has been formed, or every district where a district council has been or ganized, is a jurisdiction within itself, having its own constitution and by laws and controlling its own subordi nate councils and affairs, conformably, of course, to the supreme constitution. In like manner the subordinate council governs its own membership and acts conformably with the state constitu tion, or where no provision is made by the state for any particular act or or dinance, by the supreme constitution. 2. All litigation within each state speaker of the house. iniquity. Boston Citizen.