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THE! AMERICAN STILL THEY COME. Thousands of New Subscrlb ors Have Enlisted Un der Our Bannor Marr January lt, aa4 lak-aa the He- psrU From all Over the Ouatrj Are Falr, II U But lb iwpir. One month ago we publUhod s lew letter from friend In all .ctloo of th country which tended to ehow, Id a small way, the gnat and growing Interest la a purer and truer Amrrt ckIib. Since thon we have received hundred of letter enclosing Hat of new subscriber. From among the number we have selected a few toahow our friend how other fuel about the work we are engaged In: Stratum, Neb., Feb. 2 Enclosed find one dollar to pay for two cople of The Amkkican to 1897. I thought I would be able to send In a Hat of ten or more, but 50 cent la aa bard to get aa 150 waa four year ago. If there ia any ahow for a crop by June 1st, will try and work up a list. Prospect are better now for a good crop than they have been at thla time of the Jyear alnoelfll Jongs. Pierce, Neb., Feb. 20.-Pleae find enclosed 50 cent for TuR AMER ICAN until January lat, 1917, aa'adver tlaed In oopy aent me by a brother from Iowa. Your work la all O K, and not built on wind aa the Romania! would have ui believe. Will try .and get tome subscriber In thla locality. An Amkkican. Peoria 111., Feb. C-Youri liberal offer of placing your paper at o low a coat, considering quality and quantity la beyond most of Ita reader expecta tion. I have boon a reader of 'your valuable paper for more 'than two year, and I think It 1 just about the kind of paper all good American should have In their home. Enolosed find price for one more subscriber. Frank. Klngsley, la., Feb. 8. B'ind enolosed postal noto for $2.50 to pay for five new subscribers to your paper. I hope to send In a large list soon, for I sincerely think your paper the beat and truest exponent of true Amertoanlsm ever published. Your for America, the little red sohool house and free public schools the world over. Solon. Montrose, Colo., Feb. 11. Am muoh pleased to see my letter In your last cumber of The Amarioan, and am also pleated t see how you are awaken ing the friends to the lmportanoe of supporting your paper which I advo cating Americanism o fearlessly. At our last council meeting I secured the enolosed names of friends who are anxious to receive the paper scon and which I send with the money ($3) and trust you will fend me a receipt aa soon as you can conveniently. If at any time you wish to publish anything I send, you are at liberty to use my name freely, as I am not ashamed ofbelonglog to the grandest organization on the globe, whose ob ject Is the elevation and uplifting of humanity, freeing them from the pope's bondage. Wishing you all success In your work, I remain. Yours, F. M. Beck with. Appllngton, la., Feb. 8. I enclose you express order for $3.00 for six more new subscribers, and still there's more to follow We heartily appreciate the stand taken by The American on presidential candidates and are with you to the finish. R. C. Peoria, 111.. Feb. 10 Enclosed find check for $6.10 for which please send your paper, as per your offer, for the balance of 181)6, to the names and ad dresses given below. Will. Elmlra, N. Y Feb. 23 Enclosed please find $1.00 for two subscriptions to January 1, 1897, for The American. Other names will be sent shortly. Now let the good work go on, trusting success may crown your efforts. Mrs. S. J. Reading, Pa., Feb. 24. The Ameri can received, and It is "just right." I am cerUinly with you, but at present can't do much as I am working up to 10 p. m. I send you $1.00 with the names of two of my shop-mates. You will please send them the paper as soon as possible. I also enclose the address of the recording secretaries of the P. O. S. of A. and P. O. of T. A. camps in this state. Send a sample copy to each address aad the price will do the rest. Yours in the cause. A. Laborinqman. Isle of Hope, Chatham county, G. A., Feb. 25. As per advertised in A. P. A. Magazine, I enclose 50 cents for The American till January 1897. The cause Is flourishing in Savanah. Five councils and another organizing; two thousand members, and they are still coming. Let the good work for free dom go on, Dice. Peabody, Maaa., Feb. 10. I enclose money-order for $5 50, for which please arnd Tui American until 197 to the following nartie. You are doing a great wirk and should uved. P. P. VWalla. Cal., Feb. II. Knclored find postal order for ., for which please send The Amkkican to the person namrd. I tent you Hat of fifteen some time ago. For these lists, if not In conflict with your rules, you may send me "If CbrUt Came to Congress." JOHN. ItUboe, Arizona, Feb. 20. I endow money. order for ". Please aend THE Amkkican to December 31 to the fol lowing. You are on the right track. Keep thing moving. J ok. Otia, Colo., Feb. 21. I send you even new came for your paper, to take ad vantage of your fifty-cent offer; and I alao wlxh to renew my own aubacrlp tlon (which I believe expires In March) at the aame rate. Enclosed find draft for $4. Trick. Madison, Neb., Jan. 29. Having ob tained a copy of your paper, and aeeing your great offer, I wish to be one of your subscribers. I never before real ized what a calamity was approaching our nation. There la a large number of friends whom I wish to have aee your paper, and am In hopes they, too, will subscribe and spread the good work you are doing the informing of Protestants of their danger. Shalt I send you their names? and will you tend to them sample copies? Or, will you send to me a package of back num bers, that I mar end to these ac quaintances and friends whom I believe are just a much In need of an "eye opener" a I was. Hoping your paper of brave and timely Information may reach every home in the United States In a short time, I am A Physician. Enclosed please find 50 cts for paper. The Handiwork of Rome. Perhaps a great many of our readers are not aware that the hand of Rome has been guilty of burning out a good, loyal citizen of our country, but such 1 the case. When the A. P. A. coun cil was organized In Areata several law-abiding citizens of that place re ceived anonymous letters containing serious threats, and among those re ceiving the letters was J. U. Bracken. It contained a threat something like this: "If you don't resign aa presidency of the A. P. A. your house will go up In smoke or you will be found dead on the road," Mr. Bracken living some little distance from town. Some time after, while he and hi wife were away from home, and their children at home and In bed, their home "went up in smoke,' thus fulfilling that part of the threat, and nearly burning their chil dren at the same time. This Is merely a sample of the "law and order club" of theCathollj church and its Jesuitical Instruction. After the burning Mr. Braoken placed the Stars and Stripes on top of the chimney which survived the flames to show that although his home was gone his love for Old Glory remained. Only last week one sup porter of the green rag was overheard 1 1 say to another: "Bracken (prefix ing the name with words too vile to re peat) had lots of nerve to put that flag up after he was burned out." And Rome again goes unpunished. Citizen, Eureka, California. The above account is true except as to the family being away from home. A correspondent says the family were at home, asleep, and that the children were barely rescued from the burning building by the father, who was severely burned about his bands, feet and shoulders by falling embers and burn ing rafters. We commend this treatment of Mr. Bracken to those sleepy Protestants who can see no danger In Romanism. Convents. While In the study of a pastor in the far west, I listened with Interest to an Incident which he related and which took place In a town where he attended seminary, several years ago. There was a large convent near the seminary, and the Protestants were patronizing the convent school. An escaped nun, who had been lecturing against the convent, delivered a lecture in the church near the seminary building. The Irish came to defend their con vent by strong arguments stones and the windows of the Protestant church were broken to pieces, and the carriage In which the lecturer rode after the lecture to the house of the pastor was shot at and stoned. After this lecture the Protestants left the convent se verely alone. The escaped nun proved that celibacy and the convent system should be ended. A. Z. Dent Want the Statue. Peoria, 111., February 26. With three cheers and a tiger the state con vention of the A. P. A., in session here, adopted a resolution to-day protesting against placing a statue of "The Jesuit priest, Pere Marquette," which the State of Wisconsin has presented to the general government, among those of American statesmen, and instructing the secretary to notify the Illinois con gressmen of such action. C. P. John son, of Springfield, was re-elected presi dent by a large majority. THE MlBqiETTE STATUE. IU ravelling la Wataary Hall Will be Qfpmti la C'wrreaa. Washinoton, D. C, Feb. 23. A hard fight on the Pere Marquette atatue, which Mncoostn want to erect la Sutuary hall, will to started la congress tomorrow. The statue now 'stand veiled In Sutuary hall Senator Mitchell, who la naturally In W rested- In Wisconsin's statuary, an nounoed yesterday that the unveiling ceremonies would not take plaoe for two week. Tbla morning a local paper declare that the dedication and unveiling ceremonies will take place to morrow. Thts declaration caused Mr. Linton, of Michigan, to rl&e la the bouse to-day and declare that he In tended to try to atop It. Senator Mitchell waa seen to-night He said that the plana In no way bad been changed and that the unveiling posltivelyl would not take plaoe to morrow and probably would be defer red for ten days. Although the senator Is exceedingly careful not to say so, It seems that everybody Is trying to dodge responsi bility In the matter of the Marquette statue. Opponent of the statue say It Is that of a Cathollo priest, who wears In hla belt a crucifix and a rosary. They add that the fact that the statue la that of a (Jesuit doe not Improve matters any In the eye of those who oppose the statue. The fact I that the American Protective Association, generally known as the A. P. A., Is taking an active Interest In having t he statue removed from Statuary hall. Mr. Linton made the claim today that Wisconsin had no right to plaoe the statue In Statuary hall, as Pere Mar quette was neither a dweller in Wis consin nor a citizen of the United States. This 2 point, however, was brought up before and by a concurrent resolution in the -fifty-third congress Wisconsin was given permission to place a statue of Father Marquette In Statuary hall. Whether this permis sion can now be withdrawn Is what Is Interesting a great many mon In con gress who object-to the statue. The statue has now been standing, veiled, in Statuary hall for a week and nobody seems to know whon it is going to be dedicated. The announcement printed here this morning gave a list of men who are said to bo on the pro gram to speak, and declared that President Cleveland and Cardinal Gib bons intended to be present. The use of the president's name, it seems, was unauthorized, and most of the men mentioned have been going around to-day declaring they knew nothing about the Marquette statue. Before anything definite can be ac complished It Is nooessary for the gov ernor of Wisconsin to officially notify i the speaker or tne bouse and tbe presi dent of the senate that the state of Wisconsin, according to Its right, had placed in Statuary hall a statue of one of its great men. It Is usual for the governor of a state tn ask that a day be set aside In both house rnd senate for appropriate exercises. When such a letter is received it has been usual for the two branobes to set aside a day when eulogies on the subject of the statue are delivered in both houses. Governor Upham, of Wisconsin, has so far failed to send In any letter or to father the statue In any way. It is understood that he has delegated his powers to J. W. Loea of La Crosse, but this cannot be verified. It is, however, certain that the committee is having its own troubles getting prominent men to deliver addresses at the dedica tion. It was announoed to-day that Senator Palmer and Senator Cullom had both been asked to speak and would probably accept. Both men say they have received no official request to speak. The statue of Pere Marquette was suggested to the Wisconsin legislature by State Senator George C. Glnty in 1887. It at first met with little favor, but Catholics took the matter up strongly and the legislature finally appropriated $8,000 for the purpose of erecting a statue. As the result of a competition Slgnor Trentonove was awarded the contract by Governor Peck in 1894. The statue, as com pleted, Is the most imposing of the col lection in Statuary hall. It towers head and shoulders above the others, and this Is not the least point of its offeBse in the eyes of its opponents. So splendid is the appearance of the figure that the claim ia made that it cost far more than the $8,000 appropriated by the Wisconsin legislature. It may be that it will at length be unveiled and dedicated to the United States, but if it can by any legislative means be re moved from the capitol Mr. Linton, of Michigan, and a large number of his friends in congress propose to have it done. Catholic Venezuela. For the benefit of those Americans who are excited over the Monroe doc trine, misapplied to the Venezuela boundary dispute, I wish to give the readers of the Eagle a glimpse of Cath olicism in Venezuela. On the streets of Caraccas, the cap! tal, no scene is more frequently re peated than the following: When a Catholic of even moderate means finds himself dangerously sick and needing at his bed-side some holy father to administer extreme unction, four attendant, each having a lighted tallow candle, two Inches la diameter and about three feet In length, are ;nt after a priest. Aa aoon as be is found, be summon four other men and four boy, all of whom are properly robed and equipped for the procession. To one of the robed boya 1 given a large bell, wbich la supported In a frame work which fit over the thouldera and reU on the breast. He lead the p re ception, and followed by tbe four men with candlt, they are followed by the priest under a large canopy supported on the shoulders of the four men be longing to the priest. Beneath this canopy may be seen two of the boys holding up the robe of the priest, one on each lde, while the third boy walk immediately in front of the priest, be neath the canopy, swinging a censer full of burning incense. This is the procession. The bell-ringer in front keeps the bell ringing from the priest' residence until the home of the sick man 1 reached. The purpose of the bell ia to announce the coming of the priest and to clear the atreeta of all heretics and Infidels until the proces sion has passed. Should any heretic or non-Catholic be caught between croMS-treets, so that he can not get out of the street on which the procession Is passing, he must kneel line a faithful Cathollo until tbe procession is past. Should he refuse to kneel, he Is knocked down and dragged out aa was the Pres byterian minister last June In New Mexico for not kneeling to the Corpus Christ! procession. Thla is Catholicism In Venezuela, and in New Mexico be neath the Stars and Stripes! Trinidad is a small island off tbe coast of Venezuela. From the Ca'ltolic Niws of that island, I clipped tbe fol lowing comments on the American Bible Society work in Venezuela. Let Americans read, reflect and then re solve to raise the black flag of intoler ance to the arch enemy of civil and re ligious liberty, who would treat our Bible societies here with the same "tar and feathers'1 recommended to the faithful In Venezuela. The Catholic Xews, of Trinidad, says: "That most pernicious of all pernici ous sects the Protestant Bible So ciety Is again at its murderous work. Its faUe prophets are galvanized into temporary activity, and this time it Is the "benighted" Catholics of Spanish America who are to have the peace of their homes invaded and the sanctity of their religion vilified by psalm-sing- lng twaddlers, gospel tramps, and ig norant hirelings who are about as com petent to explain the Word of God as a Hottentot is to lecture on bimetallsm. These paid emissaries of a society that gathers into its coffers the savings of dytpeptic old maids, these self-consti tuted apostles, laymen clothed In cleri cal g a rb, carry on an Infamous traffic in a Bible which they can not understand, and yet profess to explain to the addle pated dupes who are weak enough to listen to them. All honor, then, to the Catholics of South America who hav3 expelled the evangelical carpet-baggers. The priest, and people of Span ish America will not remain passive while the slimy serpents of heresy en deavors to imprint its poisonous fangs Into the souls of their little ones. If the Venezuelans are ignorant of any thing, It is the use of tar and feathers, a judicious application of which would be sufficient to keep the brawling ran ters of the Bible Society at a safe dis tance from their shores." Americans, what think you of Cath olicism in Venezuela? Has not our government gone far enough in making advances toward the old woman to stop short of espousing the cause of Vene zuela against our Protestant mother land? Has not the Catholic vote been tied on to the present administration sufficiently by the numerous important appointments made by Grover Cleve land to render unnecessary tbe Vene zuelan message? Or must the Demo cratic party go on in its wild career of courting the old lady until there is not left one Catholic in all this land who will vote the Republican ticket? Be it so? Amen! So bs it. C. C. Clint, in Cincinnati Eagle. , A Scheme. There ara many who are worried about the murdering of the innocent Armenian Protestants In Turkey. It seems to me that there is a plan. The Roman Catholic archbishop is said to have conferences with the sultan; and I believe the Christian people of the world are very Blow to take the hint that they want money, and I believe that if they were offered a liberal sum of spondulix the war would stop imme diately. They want "backsheesh," but the Christians are so terribly slow to take the hint that many of the "infidel dogs" are killed. It might be a wise thing to ask the sultan, or this arch bishop, what the price is, and It might be wise to give it, and it might be wise to put it into the hands of those whose relatives and friends they have murdered, and let them settle with them. R. E. O. We print stationery, make blank books and furnish supplies for all the leading business houses in Omaha and South Omaha. 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A correspondent writes: "On Tuesdsy, February 18, 1 called upon a friend who Is one of the proprie tors of a smsll retail store, and, as usual, the conversation drifted to the doings of Rome, the following is what he said, as near as I can remember: " 'I was standing looking out of the front window Saturday night about 7 o'clock, when a very, gentlemanly-ap pearing young man came in and asked If I was the proprietor. I said I was one of them. " 'I have,' sild the stranger, 'been appointed by a committee to solicit money to build an armory, and I have have bad success beyond all expecta tion. Here is the list. Will you kindly help us? Of course there in, a law at present forbidding us to bear arms, but we are going' to repeal that. Our three members are;worklng hard with that end In'vlew.' "All the time this conversation was going on, my friend was reading the list of names, which werejgenerally Prot estants, who gave from five tojtwenty five dollars. Thlnkiof that, from the leading houses In tnls city to St. Ann's Armory!" Boston Citizen. MiRKUGE LAWS IN PERU Illegal Unless a Roman Catholic Priest Onidates. Methodist ministers at their weekly meeting Monday,. Feb. 24, considered the question of areliglous liberty in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, where Protestants before fthey can legally marry must become UomaoJCatholics. The Revv John Lee, chairman of the Committee, on Religious Liberty for Protestants Jn South' America, ("called attention to three communications written by Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary of state, Secretary of State Olney and Mr. Dentin. oMr. Lee called Cardinal Gibbons' attention to the mat ter some time ago, and the cardinal forwarded thejletter tothe papal sec retary of state. In hIsreport yester day Mr. Lee says: "The papal secretary of state in a letter to Cardinal (Gibbons says: 'A letter written to your eminence by Mr. Lee of Chicago has reference to a state of things sok'v dependent upon the civil laws in force in the republics of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador states. Nevertheless, as your eminence has been pleased to communicate to me such letter, I have written to the apos tolic delegate in the above-named re publics to obtain precise information concerning the laws; which affect the condition of Protestants there as re gards both the exercise of their re ligion and the celebration of mar riages.' And then is given the assur ance he will call the attention of the holy see to the information the dele gate will send. Nine months have passed since this letter was written. During this time three registered let ters have been sent to Cardinal Ram polla reminding him of his promise to 'call the attention of the holy see to the information which the aforesaid delegate will send,' and asking him to communicate with the committee the decision which the pope has reached in this matter. Not a sentence has the committee received in reply to any of these letters from the papal secretary of state.'" Last August a letter was"addressed by the committee to President Cleve land The result of that communica tion was the following letter: "Department of State, Wash ington, September 10, 1895 The Rev. John Lee Dear Sir: The president has caused to be referred to this depart ment your letter of the 13th ult. in which you say Protestant citizens in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia are unable to be legally married unless they aban don their religious convictions and be come Roman Catholics. You further state a committee was appointed by the Chicago Methodist minister's meeting of April, 1894, to invite the pope's at tention to this matter and request him io secure for Protestants in those coun tries the same liberty of conscience that is enjoyed by the Roman Catholics of this country. You enclose a oopy of a letter from Cardinal Gibbons and ask for an expression of opinion concerning the matter. In reply I have to say the sledtord. Mm., write on Jul y Slot, ouniv weuen anytninff. i tried several rlnslly last Aue-uat s friend sent me Dr.X benefit of other if yoq desire." ft U a poel- jepeia, constipation, Urer and kidney diseases i. h 'ad at-he, biliousness, diapoodency. female department has no precise Information as to the laws of Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia concerning this subject. No case has been brought to the attention of the department where a citizen of the United States has been discrimin ated against In the manner Indicated, and, In the absence of a specific case calling for its action, the department does not feel called upon to express an opinion in the matter. I am, sir, your obedient servant, Richard Olney." The report gave the particulars of the case of F. A. Hazeltine and Miss Annie Wood, daughter of Dr. Thomas Wood, a Methodist Episcopal minister, who were married last May In Callao. Though every possible means was taken to comply with the laws of civil regis tration the latter was refused on the grounds that there had been no legal marriage. Mr. Lee's report referred to the let ter of Mr. Dentin, giving information of the judicial decree printed in one of the leading papers last December de claring it a penal offense for any one in that country to marry without observ ing the ceremonies of the Roman Cath olic church. This, said Mr. Lee, was part of the information for which the papal secretary wrote the apostolic delegate in Peru. To Be Cut Out and Kept. The Roman Catholic papers are cir culating the following item: The military committee of the United States Senate which unani mously reported in Colonel Copplnger's favor and turned down the A. P. A.'s, Is composed of distinguished represen tatives of both parties. Nearly all of them hava war records. They are: Major-General Joseph R. Hawley. Red field Procter, late secretary of war and colonel of the 15th Vermont. Geo. L. Shoup, ex-governor of Idaho and colonel of the 31 Colorado cavalry. Gen. Wm. J. S?well, of New Jersey, who carries a wound from'Gettysburg. Francis E. Warren, of Wyoming, a Massachusetts soldier in the war. Jno. N. Palmer, of Illinois, late major-general in the Union Army. Jno. L. Mitchell, of Wisconsin, who served In the 24th regiment of that state. W. B. Bate, of JTennessee, ex-major-general In the Confederate army. E. C.Walthall, of Mississippi, major general In the Confederate army. S. W. Elklns, of West Virginia. F. M. Cockrell,nof Missouri. Failed to Get on the "r'oorce." Commissioner-George B. Forrester of the Department of Police 'and Excise, Brooklyn, is' a disgusted man. He had a faithful follower whom he wanted placed on the police force. D With his political influence he believed this was an easy matter. It might have been htd it not been for the civil service ex amination. When the list of men who had passed the civil service examina tion was published a few days ago Com missioner Forrester carelessly looked over the names. He missed the name of his political protege. He then put on his glasses, after wiping them care fully, and went over the list extremely carefully, but the name was not there. "O, It's only a mistake," saidohe to himself, "the name has beea left off ac cidentally." The excise commissioner called on Commissioner Welles for an 'explana tion. Mr. Welles simply referred Mr. Forrester to his protege's examination papers. Here are soma of the questions and answers: Q Who Is the governor of New York state? A. Grover Cleveland. Q. Who Is mayor of New York city? A. Richard Croker. Q. What is the northeastern state of the union? A. Africa. Q. What states border on the Mis sUslpl? A. The Hudson. Q What is the usual process of deal ing with a prisoner from the time of his arrest until his conviction? A. One month. Q. Who appoints the police commis sioner? A. Mr. Welles. New York Times. "The Only Direct Line to St. Paul, Minneapolis. Sioux City Route, "North-Western Line," through train, Pullman Palace Sleepers, Dining Car, everything strictly first-class. Leave Webster street station 5:45 p. m. dally. r