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Number 28
QUITE CONTEMPTIBLE.
That Is How Our Washing
ton Correspondent Views
the Proposition
Of the Library Committee of the Senate,
Which TYishea to Fill Certain Panel
la the Capitol Dome With Repre
sentations of Romanism.
Capital Patriotic Press Bureau,
Washington, D. C, June 30, '96.
In a former letter I referred to the
contemptible proposition of the library
committee of the senate to fill the re
maining nanel in the celebrated frieze
In the dome of the Capitol building
with representations of Grover Cleve
land, Mrs. Potter Palmer and the Duke
ofVeragua at the Chicago World's
Fair. If the American people were to
search the world over they could not
find a more objectionable trio with
which to adorn this saered temple
of liberty. Grover Cleveland, whose
name will go down to history In black
est disgrace; Mrs. Potter Palmer, than
whom a more dangerous female emis
sary of popery In America, since the
demise of Mrs. Ellen Sherman, does
not live, and the Duke of Veragua,
that alien aristocratic tramp and royal
begger, gambler and bullbreeder of in
qulsatorial Spain ye gods! Should
this crowning papal Infamy be perpe
trated, the American people would be
justified in raiding the historic build
ing and smashing into smithereens
every Romish idol and effacing every
papal fetich object in sight! Here,
friends, are the names of the senate
committee on the library who have
this matter in charge: Henry C.
Hansbrough, of North Dakota; George
P. Wetmore. of Rhode Island, ana
Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana. Their
addresses, respectively, follow in the
above order, viz: Devil's Lake, in. u.
Newport. R. I., and Terre Haute, Ind.
Write each and all of them flood
them drown them with protestations
against this outrage, and continue to
remonstrate when congress re-convenes
in December, and do all you can to
" thwart this n:ost damnable Romish in
vasion of our nation's most sacred edi
flee. Hansbrough' term expires next
March. He has served the Romanists
well, both in the house and senate, and
should be promptly retired when his
term Is out.l Wetmore's term unfortu
nately does not expire tiil 1901. Voor
hees has-always been the faithful tool
of the papists, during his long career
in both branches of congress, and to
his influence on the library committee
is due much of the'dlsgraceful befoul
ing of the Capitol with objects of Ro
mish fetichism.D It is high time to re
tire him also.
That there has long been a concerted
scheme on the part of Roman author!
ties to fill the Capitol with statues and
portraits of noted Catholicfpersonages
and pictures of conspicuous events In
the history of the Catholic church, is
apparent.! One 'meets with them at
every turn. cThelr introduction has
been so Quietly and clandestinely man
aeed as to be scarcely -observed by the
public. The Catholic crosss confronts
vou upon all sides. D It is seen promt
nently in one of the four paintingBthat
adorn the walls of; the hall of Kepre
sentatlvesjand is carefully pointed out
and exhibited to visitors by the Catho-
11c guides who swarm in the building
Romish emblems and pictures of prom
inent characters in the annals of the
Catholic church in America, from the
landing of Colombo at San-Salvador to
the present time, stare you impudently
In the face owberever you go. The
massive bronze outer doors of the main
entrance are covered iwith representa
tions of striking occurrences associated
with the Jbrlght Jside of' the Roman
church in the old ! world; while at the
same time in a dark and obecure cor
ner, hidden away among..the rubbish
in a crypt.'in-lthe basement, covered
with dust and! mildew, lies a bust of
the immortal Garabaldi, and no man
ner of urging and petitioning has been
able to have it 'brought forth from its
obscurity to public vlew.The agents
of Rome!preventiIt.
But of all the bold Intrusions of papal
portraiture, holy heraldry and trashy
trappings which abound in the Capi
tol to constantly remind one of the
presence ofj popery, none Is so impu
dently offensive to Americans as that
mapnificently-wraught statue of Pere
Marquette whlch'disgraces Statuary
hall. As a work of art, it is superb, as
a representative character In the his
tory of the republic. It is a stupendous
fraud and egregious lie. It is a per
nicious presentiment of one whose no
toriety (alone consists in his having
been, In life, a Jesuit priest a member
r that hand of lmtlous brigands well
tyled "burglars of the universe." He
lived and died one hundred years be
fore the republic was born. He came
to the wilderness of America at the
command of his master, just as all
Jesuit priests go wherever they are
sent. When be became a Jesuit priest
betook this oath. Read it, Ameri
cans, and then say if I am asking too
much of you, when I recommend the
unceremonious exclusion of this in
sulting embodiment of murder and
treason from the hall set apart tor
statesmen and patriots, and the prompt
punishment of the pious villians who
had the effrontery to desecrate the
republic's pantheon with Its offensive
presence. The oath Marquette took
reads, in part, as follows:
I, James Marquette, in the presence
of Almighty God and (then follows a
long string of names of blessed virgins
and saints and angels and archangeles
and apostle and somebody's "ghostly
father," and Ignatius Loyola hlmBelf)
to declare and swear that his holiness,
the pope, hath power to depose
heretical kings, princes, states, com
monwealths and governments, all be
ing illegal without his sacred confirma
tion, and they may safely be destroyed.
Therefore, to the uttarmost oi my
power I will defend this doctrine and
his holiness' right and custom against
all usurpers of the heretical or Protes
tant authority whatsoever.
I do now renounce and disown any
allegiance as due to any heretical king,
prince or state, named Protestant or
Liberals, or obediance to any of their
laws or magistrates or officers.
That I will go to any part of the
world whithersoever I may be sent, to
the frozen reclons of the North, the
burning sands of the desert of Africa,
or the Jungles of India, to the centers
of civilization of Europe, or to the wild
haunt of the barbarous savages of
America, without murmuring or repin
ing; and will be submissive in an
thtnero whatsoever communicated to
D
me.
I do furthermore promise and declare
that I will, when opportunity presents.
make and wage relentless war, secretly
or openly, against all heretics, Protes
tants and Liberals, as I am directed to
do, to exterminate them from the face
of the whole earth; and that I will
spare neither age, sex or condition,
and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil,
flay, strangle, and bury alive these in
famous heretics, rip up the stomachs
and wombs of their women, and crush
their infant's heads against the walls,
In order to annihilate their execrable
race. That when the same cannot be
done ODenlv.tll will secretly use the
poisonous cup, the strangulating cord,
the steel of the .poniard, or the leaden
bullets, regardless of the honor, rank,
dignity oroauthority of the person or
persons.lwhatever may be their condi
tion In life, either public or private, as
I at any time (may be directed so to do,
by any agent1 of the pope, or superior
of the priesthood of the holy father of
the Society ofJJeeus.
In confirmation of which I hereby
dedicate mylife, my soul, and all cor
porealpowers, and with this dagger
which I nowlreceive, I will subscribe
my name, written In my blood, In testi
mony thereof; and should I prove false
or weaken In my determination, may
my brethren and.my fellow-soldiers of
the militia of the pope cut off my
hands and my I feet, and my throat
from ear to ear, my belly opened and
sulphur burned therein, with all the
punishment that can be inflicted upon
me on earth, and my soul be tortured
by demons In an eternal hell forever.
And of which I, James Marquette, do
swear by the' blessed Trinity, and
blessed sacrament which I am now to
receive, to perform, and on my part to
keep inviolable; fandi'do call all the
heavenly and glorious host of heaven
to witness my real intentions to keep
this my oath.
In testimony hereof I take this most
holy and nblessed Sacrament of the
Eucharist, 'and witness the same
further, with my name iwritten with
the point of this dagger, dipped in my
own blood, and seal in the face of this
holy covenant."
To assist in promoting the objects In
dicated in the form of oath from which
I quote, and which is imposed today
upon every tJesuit priest, Marquette
was sent to the ""wilds of America."
After roaming fl about through the
northwest In, the interest of his holi
ness, possibly running against the
MleBisslpplirlver at some point in the
wilderness, but "discovering" nothing,
for DesotoJ-had discovered it nearly
two hundred years before that time,
while Joliet explored its banks in
what is now Wisconsin twenty-five
years before he met Marquette, the
latter died and was buried in what is
now Michigan, a century before this
nationucame into existerce, and this
was tha extant of hi connection with
iu history. But tho papists of Wis
consin had no one else to select to rep
resent them, and so they decided to
take Marquette. And there he stands,
towerlngly, by the side of the Immortal
Lincoln, whom his fellow Jesuits in
later years slew, as per oath above
quoted. He Is clothed in cowl and
gown and priestly habit, a rosary ana
crucifix and medallon of the irgln
Mary resting beneath his girdle. Two
papist detectives, paid by the govern
ment are in constant watch over the
precious marble, lest some exasperated
American should In his indignation
break It to pieces. One of these Ro
mish watchmen, named Joyco, has in
his possession and prizes as a holy
relic a portion of an arrow which some
American vandal kicked from the
figure of the savage on the base of the
pedestal.
The whole obnoxious pile should be
toted out to the American Vatican er
roneously called the "Catholic Univer
sity" a few miles to the north of the
Capitol, where already the statue or a
Pope Leo graces the campus, or Wis
consin should promptly order the ob
jectionable thing back whence It came.
A bill accepting It passed In tne
senate, owing to the preponaering
papal influence in that body, and es
pecially owing to the efforts of the
senate library committee, which had
the matter In charge, and of which I
speak elsewhere in this letter, but the
corresponding committee in the house
is not likely to report the bill favorably
because an American Mr. Harmer Is
Its chairman, nor will the house Itself,
as at present constituted, pass the un-
American measure. Friends should
write to Mr. Harmer 4ow, protesting
against the acceptance of the statue
His address is, Alfred C. Harmer,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Next winter will witness a royal con'
test In congress over the matter, and It
behooves the Americans in and out of
congress to stand by Mr. Linton and
his friends in their vigorous and right
eous warfare against this culminating
Infamy of Romish aggression upon the
nation's Capitol. A. J. B
WHO WILL GET THE PROPERTY!
Sister CarmellU or the Roman Catholic
Church!
New York, July 2. The trial of
the action brought by Richard White
Hennessy to contest the will of his
aunt, Mary Frances Baker, known in
religion as Sister Carmellta, was re
sumed yesterday before Surrogate
Fitzgerald. Sister Carmellta, it is
contended, was a Sister of Charity,
and among other vows, took the one of
poverty. She died last August, leav'
ing an estate valued at between $150,'
000 and 8200,000. This property was
left to her niece, Mary Sullivan, by a
will executed February 27, 1895.
M. J. Sullivan, a brother-in-law of
Sister Carmellta, denied yesterday
that she was a Bister of Mercy. Mr,
Sullivan said that Sister Carmellta be
came a Sister of Charity when she was
about 18 years old, and had always re
mained in that order. He also said
that Sister Carmellta Inherited the
propei ty about two years after she be
came a Sister of Charity. When
asked if she had not taken the vow of
poverty, Mr. Sullivan said that Sister
Carmellta had done so, but had re
ceived permission from Vicar-General
Quinn, the principal advisor of the
order to whlchjshe belonged, to hold
the property.
Only a Piece of Bunting.
As we read in a Boston journal that
"the American flag is no more than
any piece of bunting," we can almost
see the bright sun-light which covers
the Bunker Ililh monument turn to a
blush of shame. What changes a cen
tury brings! It Jwas there that the
resistance to .British oppression had
its birth. Clt was thereand at Lexing
ton that the first blood in the great
war which gave-us liberty and national
existence1 wasshed. It'was there that
the life current of the immortal War
ren moistened the glorious banner that
a Boston paper now' characterizes as
"only a piece of bunting." Can it be
that the spirit of liberty, that love for
our flag, no longer finds a place in the
hearts of the children of the patriots of
long ago? a We cannot believe it. We
would rather Jbelieve that the words
above quoted.are only the vaporings of
some English lordling, and that his
sentiments find no echo in the hearts
of thejpeoplo who live in the shadow
of that grand monument which Web
ster said "would stand through the
ages as ajtestimonial of patriotism and
11 berty". Missoula Republican.
SM00 Reward.
I will give $100 to anyone satisfac
torily answering the diamond proposl
tion on pages 109 and 110 in Coins Fi
nancial School. A. S. Landon,
362 Washington Boulevard, Chicago.
TURK DOWN THE FLAG
Widow of Jack Galligan, ex-
Chief of Omaha Fire
Department,
Shows Her Hat ml for the imerlraa
Flag by Fulling It Down. Tearing It
Into Shreds, Stamping and
Spitting I'pou IU
People who were passing along 18th
and Webster streets last Friday morn
ing were witnesses to a most traglo af
fair. They saw the American flag pulled
from its staff; saw it torn Into frag
ments; Its beautiful folds crumpled
and twisted; then dumped Into the
dust of the street, where It was both
stamped and spat upon.
Tho dastardly act was committed by
a woman, and tho woman is the widow
of Jack Galllgan, an old Roman Catho
lic soldier, who bad been a momber of
the fire department of Omaha for
about twenty years, and a good portion
of that time the chief of the depart
ment.
Friday, however, Mrs. Galligan got
into a tantrum because a lady who
rents from her nailed a beautiful Amer-
can flag to tha house.
As soon as Mrs. Galligan saw It she
ran and jumped the fence, pulled down
the flag, and desecrated It as above
described.
Mrs. Galligan Is a large woman,
while the lady who nailed the flag up
to the house Is not up to the average In
height or weight; but, in spite of this,
when she saw what was happening to
her country's flag, she started to its
rescue. Before she could get the
soreen door unlocked, however, the
mischief had been wrought, and Mrs.
Galligan was yelling and stamping and
spitting at it in a most disgraceful
manner.
As the owner of the flag stooped to
gather up the pieces she saw a boy
driving by in a delivery wagon'. She
hailed him and asked where the near
est telephone was located, as she
wished to telephone for some friends or
to an editor.
Just as she did so two gentlemen
came up Webster street, and she hailed
them also, and called their attention to
the torn and dirty fragments of a once
beautiful flag.
While she was explaining that Mrs.
Galligan had torn and stamped and
spat upon the flag, that worthy yelled
back: "Yes, and I'll tear you, too, if
you don't stop hanging that dirty old
rag on my house."
Later In tho day the husbadd of Mrs.
Galligan's neighbor came to our office
and gavu us the above information, and
advised us to go to his house and have
his wife verify the statements.
It was about 4 o'clock Friday after
noon when we reacnea tne oanigan
property. In the corner house lives
Mrs. Galligan and south of her are two
cottages which she rents to Protestant
families. It was from the house next
to that occupied by Mrs. Galllgan that
the flag was torn, and it was there we
went for Information. From what we
could glean, the widow has for some
time been referring to the flag as "that
old rag," and has been ranting against
all secret societies, declaring that she
would be living when they were all
dead and In hell, and that she had no
use for any of them except for what
money she could get out of them.
Mrs. Galllgan has applied for a pen'
slon from the city since the death of
her husband, and is now applying for
a pension from the national govern
ment. The disgraceful and disloyal
exhibition above narrated should for
ever stand as a bar to her appeal for aid
No person who deliberately, maliciously
and traitorously desecrates the Amerl
can flag is worthy aid or even protec
tion under its folds, but all such per
sons should be shot down with as little
compunction as If they were rabid dogs
or actual Invading enemies.
Long wave the flag.
Death to its despoilers.
What of the Convents!
BY SCOTT F. HEHSHEY, PH. D.
The very safety of the government
rests on the supremacy of law. One
power has always opposed the su
premacy In the United States over a
certain class of institutions. This
power is the Roman Catholic church
Its institutions are conducted in viola
tion of both the principle and letter of
our laws, and the church cooly nulll
fies the law at pleasure. This right to
abrogate civil law is clearly expressed
in the organic law of that church. Ac
cording to the latest Issue of her canon
law, bearing the authorization of the
pope (that of Smith) it is expressly
held that the church alone can define
the jurisdiction of the civil power, and
warn the state off the domain of the
church.
Nowhere is this shown more than In
the management of ber conventlcal in
stitution. They are men contrary to
law In every particular. Long ago we
should have taken this Spanish lm-
lortatlon of the Romish inquisition
Into band. The convent is subversive
of rights and liberties, and ought to be
made subject to law, or abolished al
together. They are rivals of the working
classes, of conducting, In tho larger
cltlea, extensive industrial enterprises,
and so reducing their field for a liveli
hood. In some of the countries of Eu
rope this has contributed to the cause
for their suppression. There is a bad
odor about the convent. There are too
many tales of wrong, crime and vloe
Issuing from theso places. No Protes
tant church In tho land could survive
under a like unsavory odor, nave we
a lower standard for the Roman Catho
Ucchurch? The convent Is Spanish and cruel.
It Is more like the Spanish Inquisition,
In its cruel methods, than anything we
have In this country. According to
the latest Issued canon law of the I Io
nian church, the church has the right,
and irrespective of any civil law, to
punish by fines, whippings, imprison
ment, and even death. No reasonable
person, informed with the facts of con
vent life, doubts that this law is en
forced behind the convent walls. Some
of us know of actual cases Investigated.
The convent establishment Is con
trary to our law in every particular.
We have two fundamental principles
of constitutional law bearing upon this
subject of Individual rights. The one
Is that of those "certain Inalienable
rights, among which are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness;" the
other declaring that "no person shall
be deprived of liberty without due pro
cess of law." Out of these have sprung
an elaborate system of statutory pro
vision to protect the just liberties of
the individual. Thousands are held
by restraint behind convent keys, de
prived of all show of these guaranteed
rights. It Is a thing wonderfully
strange to contemplate that our people
submit to Buch wrongs against their
fellow beings.
The most recent report issued by the
Roman Catholics, covering these inetV
tutlons, which happens to be at my
hands, Is for the year 1891. In that
year is reported seventy convents for
the diocese of Boston alone, with
twenty-two monastic Institutions, which
are fully as bad as the convents, and
quite as un-American in their charac
ter.
In the entire United States, in 181)4,
there were 1405 convents. Each of
these Is a prison, not established by
law, but forcibly holding in confine
ment, women who have committed no
crime. If certain calculations and esti
mates made are not wholly misleading,
these places average about sixty In
mates. This makes an aggregate of
84,300 conventlcal prisoners In the
United States. Close by this statement
I desire to make that made by a Ro
man Catholic authority, that there are
only 300 total abstainers from strong
drink among the 6,000 priests in the
United States, and refer to the pro
vision made In the law of that church
for a lighter penalty against ecclesias
tics who keep concubines, than for hav
ing wives.
The convent door should be opened
for civil inspection, and the call of any
friends of the inmates, or the thing
should be abolished. In every country
In Europe, except Great Britain, the
convents have been made subject to
state Inspection, or made liable to sup
pression. In some countries they have
been abolished. I think It was some
twenty years ago they were all sup
pressed in Italy but about two. Mex
ico has had to take up the convent and
monastery evil with a strong hand.
The gigantic fault of the American
people Is, that we allow an evil to grow
until It becomes entrenched In power
almost equal to that of the national
government.
Boston, Mass., July 6, 1896.
Papal Dictation la Politics.
Has It come to this, that Archbishop
Ireland controls the great Republi
can party and dictates what shall not
go into the platform of the Republican
national convention at St. Louis9 It
is stated by good authority that a few
days before the convention this Roman
prelate sent to T. H. Carter, chairman
of the Republican national committee
the following telegram:
ST. Paul, June 17, 1S96. To Hon.
Thos. H. Carter, National Committee
man, St. Louis: The clause In the pro
posed platform opposing the use of
public money lor sectarian purposes
and a union oi cnurcn ana state is un
necessary and uncalled for. It is urged
by the A. P. A. Its adoption will be
taken by them as a concession to thera,
will avaken religious anlmosltv la the
country and do much harm. The Re
publican party should not lower itwli
to recognize directly or Indirectly the
A. r. A. I hope the clauite, or any
thing like It, will not he adopted.
JOHN IRELAND.
By his dictation tho ofllonslve plank
was knocked out of the proposed plat
form. Hence In view of these facta it
Is evident that the Roman Catho
lics politically dictate and cx ntrol to a
great extent the Republican party, and
it does not seem that the American
Protective Association was organized
any too soon.
The Archbishop knew his manto
horn he sent his telegram. Chair
man Carter was, wo think, the same
Senator Carter who voted for the con
firmation of Copplnger, and he was as-.
soclated in the convention with' two
other gentlemen, to whom he showed
the telegram. R. C. Kerens also of the
national committee, a strong Roman
Cat hollo and political adviser of
Satolll, and E. Lauterbaeh, from New
York, all of whom obeyed implicitly
the dictation of the archbishop and
removed every vestige of pitrlotlo
Americanism from the Republican
platform. What a sad spectacle for
angels and men to behold! The great
Republican party In Its delegated na
tional convention In 189G surrendering
every principle of true Americanism to
the behest of the papal hierarchy, the
well-known enemy of American free
Institutions.
The great political pot Is now
fomenting and running over In all di
rections as never before, and no one
canjtoll how politics will pour out in
November. Although the Republi
cans now feel sure of the election of
McKlnley, but the most that can be
truthfully said Is that if so and so
takes place so and so will be the result.
The political results of Archbishop
Ireland's telegram to the Republican
convention shows vory clearly the
strong political grip the Roman Catho
lics have upon the Republican party
to-day. In time past Rome has gener
ally voted In a body for some party
and have often elected its president,
and we think it will unite more closely
at the polls In this ensuing campaign
than ever before. Without question
the hierarchy has of late done its ut
most to Romanize the Republican
leaders, either by offering boodle or
fair promises of political promotion,
but some of Its wily schemes have
totally failed. But since the nomina
tion of McKlnley the Roman Catholics
evidently do not like him and will not
support the Republican ticket, for the
following reasons:
First Because McKlnley would not
make pledges to the Roman power.
Second Because the Roman boodle
scheme to break up the American Pro
tective Association proved a dead
failure.
Third Because when the special
committee sent by the supreme council
of the A. P. A. to interview MoKlnley
as to his Americanism and showed him
Its platform of principles he replied,
"Gentleman I am already familiar
with the principles of your organiza
tion and sympathize with then. I can
see nothing In them which any good
American cannot support."
Fourth Because the A. P. A. re
moved the political boycott from Mc
Klnley, making him equally as eligible
to A. P. A. support as other candi
dates for presidential nomination.
Fifth Because the Roman hierarchy
hates the A. P. A., Its platform of
principles and the nominee for presi
dent that It cannot use for its own
special political advantage. Now un
der these circumstances we do not be
lieve that the Roman Catholics will
support McKlnley. Neither do we be
lieve that Romanized Republican poli
ticians and their constituents will all
support him, and we know that tho
silver Republicans will not; and fur
thermore we believe that the A. P. A.s
will not vote for him, standing on such
a platform of principles, though he
may be himself considered an accepta
ble American. And as to what the
great Amerloan Protective Associa
tion! will do In this political emergency
we cannot say, nor are we much con
cerned about It, for It Is fully able to
take care of Itself, and not only so, but
It is strong enough, wise enough, brave
enough and persevering enough to
check the political power of Rome in
this country and to entirely turn it
down In the near future. J. G. P.
Two Tails.
Becauseyou are steady,
And take on your shoulder,
A pailful of water.
Do not become bolder,
Anday to the people:
"Come hither, my brother,
Thls'work Is so easy
Just give me another."
Thepolitlcal Rome
Is one pall of water,
And the silver and gold
It another; It brought her.
X. Saw Wood,