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MAY 22, 1800.
OUR CHOICE.
For President:
W. S. LINTON
of Michigan.
For Vice-President:
JOHN L. WEBSTER
of Nebraska.
CIVIL service Is a fraud, a delusion
and a snare.
To The victor belongs the spoils Is
good enough doctrine for us.
The Methodist Conference has been
In session this month and it has
rained.
Quite a numbor of our friends have
sent us in nearly one hundred new sub
scribers since January 1st, 1896. Are
you one of them?
DO YOU patronise the firms who ad
vertlse In this paper. It you don't,
do so They deserve the support of
every American.
If the National Council of the A.
P. A. has eliminated all reference to
sectarianism from the ritual, it has
not strengthened the order.
Nebraska farmers have not seen as
much water in four years as has fallen
during a single week this year, and yet
the weather clerk keeps the machine
turned on full blast
Guess Grover thinks the Romans
own Kansas City. He recently ap
pointed John C Taraney a justice of
the supreme court for Oklahoma, and
the senate confirmed htm. John's
friends and co religionists could not
steal a seat in congress for him so he
had to be taken care of.
Tornadoes visited half a dozen
states during the last week. The most
destructive was at Sherman, Tex., and
the next most destructive was in north
eastern Kansas and southeastern Ne
braska. - Nearly 100 people are re
ported killed at Sherman, and twenty'
five in Kansas and Nebraska.
SINCE Cardinal Gibbons has denied
that the Roman church has misused Its
power, we desire to refer him to the
manlamsnt just promulgated in Can
ada by the bishops of his own church,
Unless he is a Jesuit pure and simple
he will not attempt to say those
bishops did not transcend their power
when they issued it.
The government at Washington is
evidently not aware that there are any
thing but Romans domiciled in Omaha.
Some two years ago a fellow was dis
missed from the postoffioe after he had
been accused of using vile and obscene
language before ladles. A few days ago
he was reinstated, and the order for
his reinstatement, it is said, came dl
rect from Washington.
The time has come when the great
Republican party, which has been the
most patriotic party in all history, and
which governed the country during the
most critical period of its history, but
which in the opinion of many prudent
patriots has departed far from its
prlmitivo purity, must boldly and un
equivocally declare for the radical re
striction of foreign immigration, for
the exclusion of inherent aliens from
the privileges of citizenship, for the
taxation of all church property, for the
abolishment of private papal prisons,
for the maintenance of one free, unseo
tari&n school system throughout the
American republic, and against sacer
dotal interference in American affairs
of state if it expects to command the
confidence and the votes of the patriots
of America.
WHERE EVERYBODY GETS RICH.
No country In the world has pro
duced the same number of rich gold
mines at the United States, and no
state In the Union has equaled, let
alone excelled, Colorado. Her Cripple
Creek mining district la a marvel. IU
reputation is world-wide. Wherever
civilization has a foothold there has
gone the fame of Cripple Creek. At
home it is regarded with silent admi
ration. A few years ago it was bleak
paks and uninhabited canons, but to
day It is all life and activity. Poor
men have become millionaires. Rock
that the oldest and most experienced
miners had never before known to con
tain gold Is filled with the richest kind
of a deposit. Two years ago where
there were less than half a dozen ship
ping mines, there are more than one
hundred to-day. It Is stated that there
has never been but one shaft sunk In
that district to the depth of 100 feet
but what gold was found In paying
quantities.
Citizens In every part of the country
are Interested financially in Cripple
Creek, and those who are not so inter
ested are longing for an opportunity
to be.
We are of the first named class.
With us are associated a number of
Americans well known for their busi
ness ability and financial standing in
the oommunity in which they live.
We have formed a corporation to be
known as the Amorlcan Gold Mining
and Milling Company, for development
of four claims in the famous Cripple
Creek district. A contract has been
let for sinking a shaft 100 feet, and
there is not the least doubt in our
minds but what we shall be as success
ful as the hundreds who have preceded
us. With this belief the company, of
which the editor of this paper is presi
dent, has decided to sell a limited num
ber of shares of treasury stock and use
the money for developing purposes.
This treasury stock will be non-asses-able
and fully paid up at date of issue.
For a few days we shall fill all orders for
stock In the American Gold Mining and
Milling Company at the regular min
ing stock market rate 5 cents per
share. We have about enough money
subscribed to sink the shaft 109 feet,
and as we do not expect to have to go
below that depth to strike paying ore,
we suggest to you the propriety of
getting in on the ground floor.
Another thing that will convince you
that we are sincere In our belief that
we have a good thing is the fact that
all the stockholders have placed their
stock In escrow for six months. There
will not be a dollar's worth of the stock
of the American Gold Mining and Mill
ing Company sold except for developing
purposes before November, and not
then unless we have struck ore.
Send all orders for stocs to American
Mining and Gold Milling Company, 1015
Howard street, Omaha, Neb., where
we have our general offices. You
might as well risk a few dollars and
stand a show of getting a stake as to
drudge along for years without the
least hope of laying up anything. You
get twenty tl.00 shares for 91.00. If we
strike ore every share will be worth,
before six months, at least 1.00; but,
it we don't strike it, you are not out
any great big amount, as we do not in
tend to soil enough shares to break any
man up. In fact, we have agreed
among ourselves that no friend would
be allowed to risk more' than 11,000.00
in-our company. We are not after
your money, only enough to develop
our claims, so get in early.
ROMANISM BREEDS CRIME.
There is not the least doubt in our
mind and should not be in the mind of
any Intelligent person that Romanism
is a prollflo source of crime. We be
lieve this, because there is hardly a
crime committed and reported in the
newspapers but what one or more of
the participants are members of that
disreputable, un-Chrlstlan and non
American organization.
A recent case in point in Chicago is
the murder of merchant Marshall.
Out of probably halt a hundred men
arrested for the crime, more than two
thirds bore names seldom worn by any
but the most devout followers of the
pope. Following this case came an
other, that of Dan McCarthy, who
while drunk, murdered his wife and
who now, to save his dirty neck, is
felgniog insanity. Nor are these the
only cases where Romanism has fig
ured. Thousands of the pope's faith
ful are landed In the jails every month
for all manner of crimes and misde
meanors. For every Protestant who
transgresses the law, anyone can
easily name ten Roman Catholics, and
yet the Romanists are not one-third of
the population of the great cities.
Why, then, do they furnish so many
criminals?
We have but one explanation and
that is the alleged religious training of
Roman Catholics is such that crime
looses Its hideous features and becomes
but a trifling matter to them. This is
so because they believe that by going
to the priest, being sincerely contrite,
and asking his forgiveness, he can ab
solve them of whatever sin they have
committed.
The Roman Catholic religion is a
handy one for criminals, profligates,
and wantons, at it affords them im
mediate and permanent relief from the
qualms of conscience which would
otherwise bother them until they ap
peared before the last Supreme Judge
to give an account of their lives.
It is a well-known fact thai Roman
ism has furnished us nearly all our
boodlers, ballot-box stuffers and re
peaters. Dy it lavish use of money
and damnable practices It has made
politics a stanch, until It behooves
Americans, regardless of their politics
and the plaoe of their birth, to rise up
and drive out of all positions of honor
and trust every man who owes primary
allegiance to any foreign prince, poten
tate or commonwealth, civil or eccles
iastical, other than the United States.
With them should go those who sym
pathize with and lend their aid and
comfort while they are corrupting our
politics and social atmosphere.
Unless this is done and at once
the perpetuity of this government is
certainly problematical It is the his
tory of nations that when they become
corrupt, trifle with the weak and un
fortunate, that they sink Into imp
tency and decay. No truly patriotic
American desires to witness the disso
lution or the decay of this great repub
lic. They can only avert such a thing
by dethroning Romanism and placing
truly loyal Americans on guard.
Will you help do it?
NEW IMMIGRATION LAW
Yesterday the house passed the edu
cational test law, known at the McCall
bill. The debate on the bill was quite
warm, but after everything had been
said the measure was agreed to by a
vote of 105 to 20. The McCall bill, as
passed, amends the immigration and
contract labor acts by .adding to the
classes of aliens thereby excluded from
the United States all male persons be
tween 16 and GO years of age who can
not both read and write the English
language or some other language But
no parent of a person now living In or
hereafter ad milted to this country
shall be excluded because of his In
ability to read and write. The bill
also provides that it shall be unlawful
for any alien who resides or retains
his home in a foreign country to enter
the United States to engage in me
chanical trade or labor while retaining
his home In a foreign country, though
aliens may come for the purpose of
teaching new arts or industries under
such rules as may be prescribed by the
secretary of the treasury. It it also
made unlawful for any company or cor
poration to employ such aliens In any
mechanical trade or manual labor,
though this provision does not affect
employes of vessels or railroads whose
duties require them to pass over the
frontier to reach the termini of their
roads. Aliens, exoepting subjects of
Canada and other American countries,
are not allowed to enter the United
States except at places where the
United States maintains an immigra
tion inspection board.
The New Nation, the monthly maga
zine published In Omaha by the Union
Publishing Co., and edited by lion.
Paul Van Dervoort, is just out for May.
It is a large, Interesting and hand
somely printed number. Mr. Henry
W. Yates, one of Omaha's leading
bankers, has an able article in it, as
has also the millionaire banker and
miner, Joseph K. Clark, of Butte,
Mont Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood has
contributed a splendid article under
the heading "Woman and Patriotism.'
Mr. Frank Burkltt, of Mississippi, and
Mr. O. D. Jones, of Missouri, have each
contributed a very able article. Be
sides these there is some charming
pieces of poetry, a bit of romance, and
editorial comment The price of the
magazine is 11.00 per year, lOo for a
single number. Don't miss having it
sent to your address. Sample copies 5c
Objection is made to the admission
of Arizona into the union on the ground
that the population is largely Mexican;
that the laws are printed in Spanish,
and that that language is generally
used In the courts', that Mexicans, In
dians, half-breeds and Americans make
up the population in about equal pro
portions; that 44.5 per cent of the pop
ulation arc illiterate, and that there
fore the federal power Is more capable
of maintaining law and order than
state authorities would be. These are
strong considerations. ,
Rome Kept It Dark.
As a result of the Scranton riot, it
has been discovered that among those
wounded in the Romish mob who at
tacked Ruthven, was a priest named
McMurray, who died the next day
The faot that McMurray was among
the rioters, Inciting them to violence,
has been sought to be hidden, but the
facts of his acts and subsequent death
has leaked out. With the usual deceit
and cunning of the papacy, none were
allowed near the dying priest except
his fellow priests, who admitted that
he was sick, but gave no further in
formation on the subject The hatred
of the Romish hierarchy would lead
them to avenge themselves upon the
A. P. A. if they could do it secretly,
but as that is impossible, they prefer
to keep silence upon this matter, and
hope by so doing that the whole c
curence may be forgotten. Butte Ex
aminer.
Furniture bought sold or exchanged
by J. L. Cooper, 1400 Dodge street
GIBS03I SCORES THE A. I. A.
The Man laid Senator Used Strong Lan
gsage WbfB Speaking of the Order.
Washington, May 15. Mr. Gibson
of Maryland made a sensational speech
In the senate yesterday In opposition
to the bill restricting immigration.
He urged that there was no reason to
turn back Immigrants so long as there
were mountains to tunnel, rivers to
bridge and virgin country to develop,
The power behind this anti-immigra
tion bill was "the American Protec
tive Association, a secret oath-bound,
red-lettered, left-handed, dark-lantern
organization." The bill's real purpose
was hostility to the Catholic church
a purpose of envy, hatred and malice,
It was the offspring of a brood of mis
chief-makers.
Mr. Gibson read the oath of the A
P. A. organization. This was the or
ganization, he said, that was seeking
to enter American politics. There was
no branch of honest politics which a
secret oath-bound organization could
serve. He added: "The whole people
are equally interested in the welfare of
the country and none should be refused
an equal share with the rest in every
deliberation and in all legislation af
fecting it. All political clubs, socie
ties and associations start on their
career with professions skillfully
drawn, so as to make it appear that
their purposes are patriotic and worthy
of support, but all of them, as soon as
they have obtained power, are used by
unprincipled men to do wrong. This
is the history of the Carbonari, the
Nihilists, the Jacobins and Anarchists
and the Commune, and this will be the
history of the A. P. A. unless its evil
tendencies are prevented in time by the
American people, and its dangerous
career stopped by their good sense and
judgment. I have faith, Mr. President,
without bounds or limits, in the Amer
ican people, in their moderation, wis
dom, justice and courage. I do not be
lieve that they will submit to the dic
tation of any such organization as the
A. P. A., but that they will promptly
and effectively stamp with the seal of
their condemnation this Imprudent
and dangerous interference with the
interests of the republic."
Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota, denied
strongly that the A. P. A. was behind
the anti-immigration agitation. Then
he said the darker side of the immigra
tion question had been presented, and
he would endeaver to picture the
brighter side of the problem. This
country had been to a large extent, he
said, a nation of immigrants, and a
large share of its history was immigra
tion history. The nation needed men
to perform the toil and drudgery and to
bear the trial and misfortune incident
to the development of a new and unset
tled country. This want had been sup
plied in a large measure by foreign im
migrants. The bloodof. nearly fifteen
millions of German people had been in
fused into the hearts and loins of the
American people. These immigrants
had not come as a 8oourg9,,,a8 free
booters and pirates, but on a mission of
peace, and had responded in full meas
ure to the Intellectual, moral and po
litical instincts r and, requirements of
the nation. Russians, Poles, Hunga
rians and Italians had been cited as
samples of inferior races wholly unfit
for American institutions. He who be
littled and affected to despise these
races knew little of their history and
ethnlo makeup. He paid a high tri
bute to these people and olted some of
their great achievements. He argued
that continued Immigration, so far
from depressing wages, had gradually
resulted to promoting labor to a higher
level. The large influx of foreigners
had led American labor to seek higher
pursuits and more profitable callings.
The process that had been going on be
tween the native and the foreign-born
had also been going on among the foreign-born
themselves. Speaking of
the objection that foreigners furnish
an undue proportion of criminals, he
said that might be true as to numbers,
but not as to character or quality. In
conclusion he spoke in most compli
mentary words of his own state, which
was largely peopled by foreigners,
many of them being of his own race.
Another Good Letter From "Southern
Watchman."
Savannah, Ga., May 13. Editor
American: Our primary takes place
next month, and politics in our city
is at white heat. The Liberal club
(Tammany's new name) leaders having
had recourse to every species of false
hood, vituperation and slander as
modes of attack upon the present ad
ministration of our city government
and also upon the Citizens club, which
represents the better element among
our citizens, and the rough element of
the former having exhausted their
vocabulary of slang and abuse upon the
latter, have at last made use of threats;
one of them threatening that "they
will drive every cracker, Citizen's club
man and d A. P. A. from the
polls;" and it is widely rumored here
that a large quantity of brass knuckles
are being provided to give practical
effect to their threats. If the Romans
attempt any lawlessness they will soon
dlscovertthat the loyal American ele
ment know how to take care of them
selvesi and our city they did so once
before, and will always do so whenever
necessary.- - - - -
The tevenlng Uerald (Tammany's
organ) confesses to the treachery of
sending 'dispensed Catholics Into the
A. P. A. for the purpose of discovering
who areata officers and active mem-
bers,!and this wretch has given out
what be. claims is the obligation taken
by the members of the A. P. A. a vile
concoction, 'statirg that the Associa
tion boycotts every Irish Catholic, and
swears "so. help me God. Amen," that
none of tbem will ever employ a Catho
lic in any capacity while he can get a
Protestant This, of course, any sane
man can at once tee is false; if it were
truejthe enemy would at once prose
cutejthe association for criminal con
spiracy: but Tammanyites and black
balled A. P. A.s will pretend to believe
anything for the purpose of strength
ening their own side. The following
from the Savannah Citizen (Protestant)
may be Interesting to our friends in the
westas 'indicating the spirit of the
time here and the determined attitude
of the loyal American element:
"Evening Herald, Mr. Editor: Kind
ly Inform me who or what is the Coo
Coo Club? it Respectfully yours,
Ignorant."
The editor replied that "The Coo
Coo Club is the remains of the old Citi
zens club, who have formed an ally
with a gang of secret bushwhackers.
Meaning the A. P. A. It is composed
of a few old members of the Citizen's
club who are in for personal gain, sev
eral counterfeit Catholics who for the
sake of political office ignore the teach
ings of their church, and the remain
der comprises the ignorant A. P. A.
element."
To the above the Citizen replies:
"What does the Liberal club organ
mean by this? What are the 'teach
ings of the church' that 'several promi
nent citizens ignore for the sake of po
litical office?' What 'teachings of the
church' does a man ignore when he ac
cepts or holds office under the present
administration? When was it made a
'teaching of the church' that office
could only be held under a Tammany
control of the city? The editor of the
Herald Is a good Catholic. He is a
man for whom personally we have con
siderable regard. But he ought, in
dealing with such delicate matters, ex
plain the teachings he refers to more
fully. He ought not to endeavor in
this way to assist men of less intelli
gence and less character than he in
their efforts to bulldoze men into line
for the Liberal club on the mere ground
of having a common faith."
The councils here are flourishing,
and large additions are made at every
meeting, and there is no doubt what
ever that public affairs here will, in
the future, be controlled by the loyal
American element of society. I attach
to this a list of five new subscribers to
The American, and P. O. O. in pay
ment of same. The American is
much liked here, and I predict for it a
good circulation, not the least recom
mendation it carries with itself is its
freedom from slang and personal abuse.
Southern Watchman.
An Open Letter.
Atchison, Kan., May 19. To Stan
ton Park, Adjutant E. C. Johnson Post:
Permit me to ask why you secured the
services of a Catholic priest and the
use of a theatre for "Memorial Day,"
contrary to the implied, if not Impera
tive "general order" that such services
shall be held In churches?
God forbid that we foster war-en
gendered animosities, or detract from
the honor due those Catholics who
were patriots In spite of their creed,
but do you know sir, the "cowl" is sadly
out of place beside the "army-blue" on
this day, and in thus selecting an em
mlssary of the religious despot, who
gave sole recognition to the arch
traitor Divls, you were to say the
least, very inconsistent? Possibly you
have forgotten that it was the same
godly fold that furnished the assassins
Booth, Surrat and Gultau. Shades of
our martyred Lincoln, and Garfield,
whither are we drifting that you
could do this thing? Members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, does the
spirit of 61-65 no longer Btir your blood,
or the fires of patriotism burn low In
your hearts in these degenerate days,
that ye brook this dishonor at the
hands of an alien, whose sole aleglance
belongs to "the old man on the Tiber,"
by whose mandate the dastardly hand
of servile priests has so often torn Old
Glory from the bier of a fallen corn.
rade, when you would give him a sol
dier's burial?
Possibly I have misconstrued your
motive; perhaps you will request this
devotee of a dago-god to read the letter
of Pius IX. to Jeff Davis, and a few
pages from the trial of the murderers
of Lincoln. It were eminently fitting
that you properly depict the burning
zeal of Rome for America, so plainly
demonstrated in many Instances of
Jesuitical Intrigue treason and murder.
It is very possible that your Intentions
are good, but 'tis "currently reported"
that "hell is paved" with the same ma
terial! Friend Park, "now has the
floor." One of the Boys.
The Flood Will Continue.
There is little prospect that any
thing will come of the laudable effort
that has been made in the present con
gress to further restrict the influx of
undesirable Immigration. Otherwise
the senate would probably have taken
some decisive action on the conclusion
of Gibson's tpeechin which he declared
that there was "no reason to turn back
the immigrant from our shores as long
as there are mountains to tunnel,rivert
to bridge and virgin country to de
velop." It was the speech of a demagogue.
Mr. Gibson knows that his assertion as
to the inception of the proposal to bar
out the ignorance of Southern Europe,
as the Chinese were barred out years
ago, was not In any way a warfare upon
the Roman Catholic church. That was
a specious plea on his part for the pur
pose of consolidating the foreign vote
for the Democratic party.
We do not hold open the gates to the
foreigner because we need him here.
It was for his own sake that he was in
formed that the United States was an
asylum for the poor and oppressed of
all countries, but the time has come
when the privilege of asylum la being
shamefully abused. A great mass of
these poor and oppressed, who have
availed themselves of the helping
hand, have become the greatost men
ace to the perpetuity of the republlo
that it has to face. They are found in
the lead of all who undertake to over
throw our laws for common protection.
Their ignorance makes them the legiti
mate prey of bad men of all sorts.
They are brought to the ballot-box to
nullify the votes of Intelligent and pa
triotic Americans, born or naturalized,
to the right of freedom. They take
the oath to support the constitution
and laws at the Instance of just such
men as Gibson himself, and then are
the first to take up arms In defiance of
all law.
We have no mountain tunneling nor
bridge building that cannot be done by
the people we already have, and when
ever there is one job of that kind hun
dreds are hanging around begging for
work when no more help is needed.
This matter of flooding the country
with the vicious and ignorance is not a
question of poetic periods, but a seri
ous, pressing subject, entitled to honest
discussion, without fear from political
consequences to those who undertake
to tell the truth. Kansas City Journal.
Stepping Stone to Romanism.
A sensation has been caused at Cam
bridge University, England, by the al
leged discovery of a secret society
which attempts to proselytise the un
dergraduate to extreme High Church
views, and which enforces an oath upon
all its members not to divulge the fact
of membership to any one.
Mrs. Mary Svabek, 1235 South 14th
St., Omaha, Neb., writes: "I have
been sick three years with headache,
pain in stomach, dizziness and no appe
tite. I tried three doctors and all kinds
of medicines, all of which failed. I
have since used two 25 cent boxes of
Dr. Kay's Renovator and I have no
more headache, good appetite and
stomach in good order as well as my
whole system." Sold by druggists at
25cts. and SI. See advt.
THE POLITICAL LA.ACE.
The "Lance" has a great deal more
respect for a man who makes no prom
lses during a campaign and when
elected relies upon his best judgment
as to the conduct of his office, than for
the man who promises "everything"
from superintendent of the waste
basket to private secretary to half a
dozen different men.
When a certain gentleman ap
proaohed the deputy in the sheriff's
office and asked that worthy to send
some of the patronage to The Ameru,
can he said they didn't propose to fight
for business for The American. When
the sheriff and his deputy were seek
ing the office they wanted you to fight
for them.
Already candidates for the legisla
ture are beginning to appear above the
political horizon and every ward in the
city will have enough candidates to
supply any ordinary state legislature.
There will be no United States senator
to elect next winter and the men that
are elected should be those who will
attend strictly to business.
The insurance companies have be
gun their fight against the valued pol
icy law In earnest as may be seen by a
reference to the propositions recently
submitted to the Omaha Retailers' As
sociation. Some of the Omaha banks evidently
want to handle some of the state funds,
and for that reason they are "coach
ing" a candidate for state treasurer.
He is a good man for all that.
The management of the sheriff's
office will have to be greatly Improved
before the next election if this paper
advocates the retention of the present
occupant. As conducted now it is no
improvement over Drexel's administra
tion. From 10 to 1000
feet down, gold is found in abundance;
the deepsr you go the richer the ore,
These are facts concerning Marcur,
Utah. THE UNION PACIFIC is the
only all-rail line to Mercur.
For Mercur leaflet, giving full par
ticulars, call at City Ticket Office,
1302 Farnam St.