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HE AMERICAN THE AMERICAN OMN O. THOMSON. taa. W. C. KKL1.KT. . rCBUCUCn WMKLT f TBI AMERICAN P0BUSHI1IS COIPAKTJ MM BotD tst. 0. Sa THE AMERICAN OKK10M kom t. 114 Lut tUattolpki Klrttt. CM- Whltao Bulldln. K.mm OHy. I, U. Kui 0. tTlppI Oro " THE AMERICAN From Now Until Jaimanr . For th I" 50--CENTS--50 T Pay Vur Sub.crlpt.on at 2 I I Ua to Dot, ana Toko AS- X vanU of I A..M r.nf fffcf T Any Ponon tondlng Uo Ton Now tub- X J ...itw.,. .11 bo Fovorod With a Voor's T Subscription to TMt AMCWOAN. ti. ur.ni.l chock occootoa vnioto mod lor 16 ett. moro thon two amount of tubociipllon you wnn 10 poj. MM IM at WW " ,M 0' Ito W.w ' MM 0-M, mm C(t or CHUM rW. No CommlMtoa to Aannt. If jrou doalT wtu ono you VJ w I"""- i AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. ... a FEBRUARY 21, 1896. The Illinois state council of the A. P. A. meets In Blooraington next week. There are about ten entertainment on Up for the evening of February 22, In honor of Washington' birthday. There Is a law against commerce be tween the sexes, yet Roman priest and Roman nuns have been repeatedly proved guilty of that crime. Populists and Democrats in the Kentucky legislature seem to hare com bined to prevent the Republicans from electing a United States Senator. We would state that the best mode to abolish the "green" from the Irish man's eve would be to show that it Is tha most unlucky oolor on earth. Su perstition would do the rest. WE have made the rounds of the A. P. A. In this city, and flad that each Booting averages about one-half more members in attendance than was the a se before the last election. Crifple Creek, Colo., Is the home of the newest patriotic paper. It Ij managed by I. N. Simpson. Its name it the Vrippk Crtek Anwrican. It Is eight pases in also and sells tor 12. It will certainly prospsr. Senator Vilas in a reoent speech declared that the silver-mice owner were entirely responsible tor the agita tion of the silver question. Strange to relate, the people and the mine owner seem to be of one mind so far as the money question la concerned. ONE would think Americans, of all people, would be awake to the dangers of Romanism, yet they do not seem to be. Some are too deeply engrossed in business, others In politics, and still other in the money question, to real ize that Rome is the lnslduous foe that it encroaching upon their liberties. Clara Barton will have no trouble in entering Turkish territory. The American minister at Constantinople has obtained the Port's safeguard, which guarantees herself and her as sistants protection while distributing relief in the distressed provinces of the empire. Under the recent order of the Treasury DeDartment the mints at Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Orleans will coin silver dollars at the rate of 11,500,000 per month. It it the intention of the department to continue this rate of coinage until at least 20, 000.000 of silver dollars have been coined. The revenue law provides for the payment of a license by manufacturers and vendors of malt, vinous and spiritu ous liquors. Nuns and priests of the Roman church violate this law with impunity. The former beg wine and vend It without license, and the latter have been known to brew and distill liquor in their monkeries in violation of said law. How much better Is a Roman priest or nun, wh defrauds the nublie in that way, than a West Vir ginia or Kentucky moonshiner? A letter from Peoria says: "Last Saturday night Council 99 of the A, P. A. had a splendid meeting. At no re cent time has there been such an en thusi&stic assemblage. Over three hundred members were present, and nine candidates were initiated. There were present many visitors, members Irom Council 97, and other councils of j ctr. no,B il,e1 "BW dent oT Council 104. 8laos the begin ning of the new fear, It Menu that all the council la tola city arc taking- on new Ufa and new vigor to light tha bat- Uea of im.' Tukre 1 considerable unanimity on the part of the various r.uropeao power in the matter of strengthening their navies And while this la going on tney an quiewy wiwui other. The steady increase In popula tion of theae countries haa brought about oonditiont of unrect which noth- inc abort of war or potlilenoe can allay. It I tha belief of some of the beat .rhnUra of the world that tha whole of Europe will, In time, be dominated by tha Anilo-Saxon race, wnicn win .nail taooma the ruling race of the hole world. j One of the dirtiest trick on record i laid at the door of a Kanaa City dally paper. It wa not the Journal, World or Star. A representative oi the vile sheet In question went to the meeting place of Council 31, Jr. O. U. A. M., before opening, put on the re- Ualla of the order and aat In the hall until he was called upon for Identifica tion. Not being a member, and conse quently unable to give the desired in formation, the regalia was taken irom him and he was requested to retire. Thlt act hat caused much displeasure among the members, and from the talk, It might pay the paper he represented to prepare a carriage and have it wait ing to carry off the fragments of the next representative who maket such an attempt Aarwa CiV Amerwan. liOOD WOKE IX l'EORU. Friend tt That Live American City Writet Abeut the A. P. A. Peoria, 111., February 17th, 1896 Editor American: This city, like other town, has a class of croakers (Protestant I mean) who are continu ally crying about the A. P. A. It un- Americanism. They remind me of a dock of butxards hovering over a dead carcase. It these croaker are not de vouring one thing they are devouring another. Just now these harpies are busy circulating reports regarding the order and it councils, calling It any thing but nice names. Among other thing they aver that the Amerloan Protective Association 1 not a consti tutional representative body of legal voter, and it candidates elected to office are not representative men. This la horrid if true, and if true 'tis a pity I But if I mlatake not, the very class of men who are now crying down the A. P. A. are me a who have had-and some of them now have an axe to grind and we have refuted to turn their grind stone, and because we would not we are not a representative body of legal voters. Ah, how sadl The A. P. A. does not claim, however, to be an or ganisation of any partisan political party. It claims to be an organization for the lalvatlon of these United States from ring rule and Romanism. Itl or will be. the protector of all just 1 s of the land. It membership I v-om posed of the rloh and the poor, and the Door are treated wiinin me council with the same consideration as the rich. It Is no respecter of persons. It doe not seek to be an organization of any class, sect or creed. It only asks that Its view be aocorded with as its logic and American principles justify When any clas of men seek to make the member of this organization their henchmen, they get left. They may, If the? tee fit, declare that It is not a representative body of legal voters. That does not matter to us. Our field of political work It peculiarly our own aid we have, In the face of all opposl tlon In the past, gained victory after victory over our enemy, even In Peoria, The A. P. A. it out of its swaddling clothes. It feelt Its oats. It It quite able to go it alone. That it just what it Is rolncr to do in the future. All the bra j in ga, all the slurs, all the chin music and all the backbiting that can be done by these mean, tklnfllnted and drled-up old Romanist sympathizers, who are too stingy to buy a patriotic niner and inform themselves, cannot deter the A. P. A. from moving onward and upward, boom and boom, until at last it will reach such a stage of effi ciency that it will shed light unto all the heathen in the most remote corners of these United States. Yours In F. P. and P. Charles Cunningham Party Fealty Mast Abdicate. We have received a large number of letters recently from friends in various parts of the city asking us to call upon all Americans, and particularly upon all the mem bert of the patriotic orders In this cltv and county to come out to all open meetings and Identify them selves with the movement now making for a more pronounced Americanism They argue, and justly, too, that Protestants cannot hope to win a per manent victory In this city, until they follow the tactics which Romanists have practiced for so many years that is, get together, stay together, work together and vote together, whenever an Americanized Protestant is nomin ated, regardless of the ticket he is run ning upon. American principles can not be triumphant so long as partisan feeling controls your acts. Party fealty must abdicate in favor of fealty to 1 America. Calea this happens there U no hope of suooeM, ao chance to via a victory, futrnc senucneni weigna not with Rome or her tools, and partisanship will be the ruin of this nation unless the Protestants awake to a realisation of the fact that tbey are blindly allowlog tt papal K)wer to gala control of this government. The proper way for Protestants to remedy this evil is to let tbs party booses crack their hips; let them howl for protection to our Infant Industries, for a tariff for revenue only, or for whatever tbey please, while they keep their mind on the ultimate object to bn attained the Amerlcanlxatlon of America by the aid of the ballot, and In spite of partisan ship. Unless this Is practiced univer sally Rome will do as she ha boasted: Take this country in 1900 and keep It Americans! Do you want to see that realized? Do you want the worst enemy civil and religious liberty has ever known to gain the ascendancy In this country? Do you want your liberties subverted? Do you want your free school system ruined? Do you want your fortunes, your homes and your lives jeopardized, by placing the affairs of thlt country within the cortrol of an arrogant and oppressive priesthood? If you do not buckle on your armor, go out in the world and preach the gospel of Americanism and arouse every man to a full realization of the danger In which hit and our liberties are in even today. Rome's minlont are working as they never worked before, and it It your duty, at true, loyal, patriotic citizens, to join bands with the men who are fighting the canoe ro us growth from which thlt body pollllo It now suffering through the machination of the Roman priesthood in local and state affairs. There must be unity of action on the part of Protestant Americans; nothing can bo accomplished by dividing our forces or by working at cross purposes, and the only way we can see to keep from doing that Is for the patriotic orders to devise a way to keep this olty out of the control of the corrupt and un scrupulous gang that has for years tried to dominate it and the county. To this end we ask every A. P. A. council, every camp of the P. O. S. of A., every coun cil of the Jr. O. U. A. MM and every lodge of the Loyal Orange Institution in this county to tend ut, under teal of their lodge a poll of their attending membership, showing the number of men who can be depended upon to get out and work to rid thlt country of the detestable clique that misrepresents Amerloan sentiment as often as it con trols a convention. At a member of every one of the above named association! we urge upon our frlendt and brothers the need of prompt and vigorous action. We ask them to take up this question and disouss it and ascertain whether it It not time that we became truly Amer ican, by refusing to bow before any man. or any set of men who may set themselves up as dictator?. When you have discussed it take a rising vote and send the result to us, and If the result justifies it we will help organize a fight against the notorious gang that hat brought disgrace upon this fair olty and thlt great state by their unfair and un-American acts. But if we are to organize, we must be up and doing. No time it to be lost. It is not long until election day. and it will be useless to fight after the polls are closed. There fore we ask every brother to go to hit lodge, state this case clearly and ask the opinion of the members as to the advisability of cutting loose from party tie and becoming a free lance? After they have expressed an opinion, ask the lodge to instruct the secretary to in form us officially as to what proportion of their membership favors making determined fight against Roman ag gression. If the friends of true Ameri canism will take hold of this matter and work in unison, we will help them win a victory from Rome and it will be done without the use of a single dol lar, and on the principle endorsed by our orders purity in politics. No tub tcriptiont to a campaign fund will be asked, and no donatlont will be ac cepted. The fight will be made upon the plan adopted in Omaha. Every patriot will be given something to do, and no one will be paid for what he doea. The fight will be prosecuted for the good of the city and the county, and not for personal gain. It will be a fight for liberty and equality, and against usurpation and fraud. Are you with ns? This is the only way to defeat Rome. It must be done honestly and without the use of money. Right and truth are bound to win. Kansas City American. A New Law Firm. Attorneys C. C. Wright and B. F, Thomas have formed a partnership. The firm name will be Wright Thomas, with offices in Suite 517 New York Life building. Mr. Wright stands at the head of the legal fraternity in this city, and Mr. Thomas has for the oast five vears been employed as the legal adviser of the Bates-Smith In vestment Company, whose business still retains. Messrs. Wrignt & Thomas will, on account of their capability and trustworthiness, make a strong law firm; and The American wishes them unbounded success. UNION PACIFIC. "The Overland Route." . City Ticket Office, 1302 Farnam Street ROMAN THUGS STRIKE. hey Assault Fred Carew. an American Employe, While Selling Papers. The AtUfk Orcirrrt Satsrday Algal, and Wsald lists Rtsaltrt In Care w't Death Had st a Lady Interfered. IChlCMO Aiuertcaa. Rome has struck another blowl She bat spilled the blood of another patriot and while sbe did not cause hi death, that certainly was her game. Her plan was well laid, but God de feated her through the agency of a woman. From what we can learn, Fred Carew, as has been bis custom for more than year, was selling The American oa the streets last Saturday night He was standing on the corner of Madison and Clark, and things were 'coming hit way" in a very thort time particularly Roman things. Probably the success he was having tended to stir the ire of the Romanists as much as the cartoon On the first page; at any rate they descended on him and were beating him in a shame ful and shocking' manner, when a lady ran to his rescue. There were six papists in the as saulting party, and their hideous cries and shouts, as they hammered and kicked poor Carew, frightened the pas sers-by so that they increased their speed to get away from danger. One Roman struck Carew In the face with either a pair of brass knuckles or billy, mashing his nose and face into pulp. The others tried to wrest his papers from him, kick him, and struck him from behind and no doubt would have left bim seriously Injured, it not dead, had It not been for some unknown woman rushing In and placing herself between him and his assailants. All the time they were pounding Carew they were emitting a regular stream of oaths, vile and indecent lan guage, settling beyond a doubt whose agents they were. For years Rome has tried to keep this paper from reaching the public Her minlont have often assaulted our newsboys; they have purchased the papers, set them on fire in public, and tried to incite a riot so that her thugs might murder the boys they could not Intimidate. But we are still doing business at the tame old stand, and 111 be, It the Lord Is willing, when the power of the papacy in our affairs of state has been completely broken Until that hour arrives, we ask every patriot to do what he can to increase the demand for this paper. Hand tne one vou vet to a friend. Come to the office and get some tample copies and make yourself a committee of one to get at least two of your friends and ac quaintances to tend in 50 cents and get the paper until January 1, 1897. How many of you will do that before the first of next month. Think of our eight-page paper being sent to any ad dress for ten months for 50 cents. Who will not want it? When we get a circulation of 25,000 in the city of Chicago Rome will not assault our newsboys. Public senti ment wi quid y tell her she Is in the wrong. POPE LEO WAS FOR PEACE. His Efforts to Induce England to Aibi- trate the Yenexnelau Dispute. Rome, Jan. 27. The pope hat taken an extraordinary ltterest in au me phases of the recent conflict between England and the United States with re gard to Venezuela. As you know, Ven ezuela last year proposed to England to submit the pending question to the ar bitration of the pope. But the English government refused to act upon the suggestion, fearing, perhaps, that it might give umbrage to English senti ment, which has never been particu larly favorable to what It calls papistry. There is no doubt tnat Leo Alii, was very mucn nurt Dy mis atutuae oi England. The holy father attaches great Importance to arbitration, which he regards as one of the traditional functions o the holy tee. Bismarck was well aware this when he invited the meditation of the Vatican in the matter of the Carol) . Islands. Although no 11 .'steps may have been taken by , iXIII. to induce the English government to reconsider its rejection of his good offices, unofficial action was undoubtedly taken, unhap pily without success. The last few weeks have been full of disappointment for the pope. When) war between the United States and England seemed imminent he re marked: "And yet if England would but have consented, this quarrel would have been settled long ago." After England's refusal of the pro posed mediation President Crespo wrote the holy father a letter expres sing his regret. At the Vatican then seems to be no doubt as to the justice of the Venezuelan cause. Considerable satisfaction was therefore felt there when the United States took up Ou defense of Va South American republic. On the occasion of Cardinal Satolli's investiture at Baltimore the pope re ceived a long telegram from the pro delegate fully describing all the im pi r All honor to thee, thou glorious man, Who led the hosts in Freedom's van To Liberty! All hail to thee, our country's sire Who helped give man his heart's desire, Pure Liberty! For this thy name on hist'ry's scroll Will live until the death-knells toll For Liberty! So rest, dear soul; thy work is done, And millions have thy praises sung, George Washington! presslve details of the ceremony. His holiness was much delighted to learn how much significance and pomp had been attached to the solemnity, and in conversation with several persons at the Vatican he gave expression to his feelings on the subject. It was the first time on which an official representative of the pope in the United States had been so honored, and great importance was attached to the occurrence, which was considered as a triumph of the papal policy. One of Cardinal Satolli's compatriots, a distinguished prelate who enjoys the confidence of the pope, with whom The World correspondent had occasion to discuss the investiture, said that he re garded the Baltimore ceremony as the closing episode In the history of an Im portant period. Referring to the hos tility with which the delegate was met by a majority of the American Episco pacy on his arrival In Washington, and recalling Mgr. Satolli's attitude in va rious matters affecting Mgr. Ireland and Dr. McGlynn, he echoed the views of the pope by declaring that the strength of the d. egation must neces sarily lie in the assumption of a neu tral and Independent position. How true this was, he continued, Mgr. Sa tolli had been quick to see himself. He had understood that it was the part of the papal envoy to Washington to avoid partisanship and prefer the char acter of a peacemaker or arbiter, for which Mgr. Satolll had shown himself to be eminently suited. The long con flicts and disputes by which Catholicism and the United States had been dis turbed, had caused, at least temporar ily, thanks to his diplomacy and zaal. The work of harmony had made great progress. The delegation was no longer combated, while those who, at the outset, were the bitterest enemies of Mcr. Satolll the Jesuits and the Archbishop of New York were now his most devoted advocates. In con elusion, the prelate declared that there was every reason to rejoice at the suc cess of the new cardinal's mission. It It now rumored here that Cardinal Satolll may after all not come to Rome to receive his "hat" at the next con sistory. The wish, however, may in this case have prompted the thought which gave birth to the report. In addition to Ab. Mgr. Averardi, who has been supposed to have a chance of being appointed the next delegate, Roman ecclesiastics are again talking of the possible despatch to Washington of Mgr. Lorenzelll, inter-nuncio to the Hague. He is supported by the Jes uits, who of late have constituted them selves lord-protectors of the delegation and who have at this moment a great deal of influence at the Vatican. For many years, indeed, they have not en joyed such power as now. Leo, how ever, refuses to allow the Jesuits to sway him in his attitude towards the Washington University. Their re peated onslaughts on that institution have had no effect The holy father looks on the university as peculiarly his own creation, and a continuance of his favor seems assured. N. Y. World. Patronize those who advertise in the American papers. By doing this you will greatly assist the cause. DAMAGES FROM A PRIEST. Father Jiowlcki's Estimate of Frank Powelskl Costs Him $1,500. Judgment for $1,500 was entered in Judge Tuthill's court recently against Father Adolph Nowlcki, a Polish priest of South Chicago, for alleged slander. Father Nowlcki was tued by Frank Powelskl, one of his parlshlon era, lor sio,i uo. wnen tne suit was called for trial the defendant did not appear and a jury passed upon the case, r Attier jnowicxi was me inaetor of St Michael's church at South Chi- - cago last November. Powelskl was president of a benevolent society con nected with the church, known as St. Matin's Society. Dissension arose and the organization split into factions. The president and the pastor were on opposite sides. Powelskl told the jury that, on November 24, the pastor, in the hearing of several parsons, accused him of perjury and called him a drunken bully. Finally he was expelled from the organization and he declared the pastor was mainly responsible for it JR. 0. U. A. M. ITEMS. The Junior Order of the United American Mechanics has been enjoy ing quite a boom in thit state during the past few months. Several new councils have been organized in the twin cities recently, and the older lodges have received new acquisitions in membership. The state organizer, A. G. Balnbridge, of Minneapolis, in stituted Mayflower Council No. 9, at Hay field, Minn., last Wednesday even ing; and Saturday evening Twin City Council No. 10 was instituted at Ham line. About 150 members from both cities were present at the latter cere monies, including the Lincoln Council Glee Club, the Washington oCouncil Mandolin Club and the Ryder Mandolin Club, of St Paul. A newcouncil will be Instituted in B. lnerd thtsiweek.wo) Minneapolis Times. Last evening the officers of the several councils and the rei resentatives to the state council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, at a meeting in Snyder Bros.' art studio, decided tc make an effort to secure the meeting of the national council in 1897for Minne apolis. The national session this year will be held in Denver, Co. . ext June. Owing to the rapid growth of the order, Minnesota will be entitled to seven representatives. The object of the meeting last night J was toodevise some way of raising money forthe ex penses of the delegatestto Denver, It was decided to give a union ball, of all the councils in the twinscities, on Feb ruary 28, and a committee iwas ap Omaha, Nebraska, has tspent over ten millions on public improvements such as pavements, sewers, etc., during thirteen years. Omaha is one of the model cities of the country. Mobile Herald. 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