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4 THE AMERICAN. THE AMERICAN Sala-nxl IVatorrioa m r4-tUii natter. OMN O. THOMPSON. TO. W. C KCLLKY. Hutlasw aar. fTBUfllr.I) WKKLY BY THI ilEElCAN PDBUiiHINS COIPAHT, tei$ tlow.an iTKBrr, unaa. N. rilK AMCKK'AN OrKU'Ka. IMS lloaar.l Mrwt, Omaha fi-tt. M IVwrll Air.. Malloa Iit-au, III. T o. ! Hvt. lriliilot'rfk Vlu. a !. a 1 i'iir, frl''fv in Advmnvm i II AMERICAN From Mow Unl.l January I. 1007, For tha Small Sum of 50--CENTS--50 Pay Vour Subarnpt.on at tha 1 Rata ; Up to Data, and Taka Ad vantaga of Our Great Offer.: Any Ptrion Banding Us Tan Hm Bub acriuars w II ba Favorad With a Vaar's 8ubtcr.pt. on to THE AMERICAN. No perianal chack accaptad unlsss mailt lor IS it, mora than lha amount el subscription you ar th to pay. WM ffa mt taa aaBaa fajaa Zaaaa taa 0a fa iaa fa tkt$ (Va. (! Waataar ?aa aaf taa Oawaa, taaaaa Cla i ar Ca'aaa faaar. No CommlMiioii to AKnta. If yuu deal with one you iy hi price. AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO. TO THE PUBLIC. THE AMF.KICAN U nut the organ of any wcUonlrr, aasoclallun, party, cllnuo, faction or dlvlNlon of tlia population of this grand Kvpublto, and repudiate and brands aa falsa all claim! or charges tbat It I such, let such claim or i-bargo be made by any person or persona wlioru aoever. THE AMKKIOAN li a newspaper of general circulation, going to and being read by people of all religious belief and political afllllatloni; by tbe white and the black, the natlreborn and the naturalized, the Jew and the Gentile, the rrolcKtant and the Human Catholic. TnlMrlaliu ran be substantiated In any Court of Justice at any lime. AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO.. I, JOHH C. THOKFtOH. rVaaaW. JULY 10, 189(5. For Our Friends At the last meeting of the Board of Directors of the Amer can Publishing Company, it was decided to oiler for sale a por tion of its Treasury Stock at the par value of ten dollars ($10.00) per share, which is to bo de voted to liquidating all existing indebtedness. The stock of this company lias always increased in value, and the stockholders are well pleased with their in vestment. It is only on account of the necessity of some ready money that they have decided to dispose of any further stock. Friends who are interested in the success of the leading pa triotic newspaper of the West, can now have an opportunity to demonstrate it for a nominal amount. It is a condition that none but subscribers of this paper and who are known to be friends of the American cause need make application for this stock. Not exceeding 3,600 will be sold at this time, that is necessary to meet outstand ing obligations. There are no liens existing against any of the property or this company, and the indebtedness cannot exceed 40 per cent of its paid up capi tal stock. We simply offer this to our friends as a legitimate business investment. Make all applications direct to The American Publishing Company, 1615 Howard Street, Omaha, Neb., accompanied by the cash, at the rate of $10.00 per share. JOHN C. THOMPSON, President. PATRIOTS RESPONDING. The following- friends have said they would help take up the $3500.00 which The American owes. We want 350. Who will be next? Homo (H) Kansas City, Mo., 1 share 110.00 F. M. A., Falls City, Neb., 1 " 10 00 It is stated that the supreme presi dent of the A. P. A., Mr. Echols, is a goldbug. Is his tour to stem the free silver tide? Allen G. Thtjrman might become as universally respected and loved as was the Old Roman, If he would be a Democrat not a slanderer of the A. P. A. ARE YOU A DOLLAR PATRIOT? Rev. J. J. O'Connor ha been able to do a (real deal of good work, not only la the city of New York, but through out the country; and wherever hi magazine, the IWrrf.iJ Qittwtir, ha been circulated, light ha broken through the darkness that baa ob scured more than one Roman Catholic mind. While we and hundred of other hare been busily engaged In our chosen fit Id, that of awaking the American people to a realization of the dangers which hare beset every government which tolerated in the least tbe direc tion of the affair of state by political ecclesiastic, Itev. O'Connor ha been holding a light to direct the feet of the many thousand who are annually leav lng the Church of Rome, lie himself was a convert to Christianity from llo- manltm, and knew all tbe baleful in fiucnee which were at the command of the priest and other Iloman ecclesla tic, to compel the faithful to remain loyal to their church and ileadfast in their belief, and that knowledge he ba put to good use. Ho knew that not alone tho laity, but many of the priest and higher church dignitaries were In doubt as to the cor- reetnes of the teaching of the Church of Rome, who, owing to the laws of their church, were stepping outside the pale of Christianity into the very shadow of agnosticism; and he knew tbat unless something was done to aid them they would become totally sep arated from all the great bodies of Christians. To prevent this and to as sist those honestly seeking after truth he established a home into which many priests have been received and sent forth to preach the gospel. At the time Rev. O'Connor under took the task of establishing "Christ's Mission" he was a poor man, but in splto of that he won the confidence and tho esteem of a large and influential circle of friends who have given him sufficient capital to keep the venture afloat for a great many years. Ills has been a noble work; a work of sacrifice and a work of love, but we doubt if it has boen more beneficial than that done by the editors of the papers which havo warned Americans against the pernicious Influence exerted in our affairs of state by the Church of Rome. Those paper have also won the confi dence and the esteem of large circles of friends, but those friends, in the main, have been poor men, men with out capital. Yet they are the mort loyal of all patriots. No one has ever called on them for assistance but what they have responded liberally, nor will they ever appeal to them with any other result. Believing this way we have con cluded to ask for 3T0 volunteers who will each Invest ten dollars in one share of the capital stock of the Amer ican Publlbhlng Company. We want three hundred and fifty loyal friends, true patriots, of undoubted American principles, to assume the burden that wo are carrying to-day. The stock may be paid for in monthly or weekly payments. Are there three hundred and fifty good, staunch, true, loyal Americans, who believe in the princi ples advocated by this paper, who will invest ten dollars in a business worth $2,", 000, which has been built up in a little more than five years from 150? How many will answer before the next Issue? Address us at Omaha, Neb. Show Rome that you are a patriot even when it costs something. Who will be first? THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Last week we published a dispatch containing a letter which purported to be from John Ireland, the Roman Cat hollo archbishop of St. Paul, to Tom Carter, the then chairman of the National Republican Central Com mittee, wherein was expressed the hope that the clause in the proposed platform opposing the use of public money for sectarian purposes and union of church and state would not be adopted, because it was urged by the A. P. A. and would be taken as a con cession to them would awaken re ligious animosity in the country and do much harm. It also said the Republi can party should not lower itself to recognize directly or indirectly the A. P. A. If Ireland wrote that letter It demon strates that he Is considerable of a Jesuit. He calls attention to the fact that the A. P. A. wants those planks in the platform and that If they are placed there It will be taken as a con cession to that order. He at the same time drops a hint that such a conces sion would "do much harm," and the convention, in order to have it appear that the party was not friendly to the P. A., omitted the objectionable planks. The action of the Republican party shows how near-sighted the loaders are, and that letter shows how much of a Jesuit John Ireland is. He said lust enough to trap the party if you adopt those planks it will be taken as a concession to the A. P. A. but not enough to show them that "if you don't adopt those planks it will be taken as a concession to the Roman church." The contest for the insertion or the rejection of those planks was a contest between Protestants and Roman Catho lics, between loyal, patriotic American citizen and tbuoa who believe the law ol tbe church take precedence of and give the rule to the laws of the state, and It appear tho Republican party decided against the Protestant and ia favor of tbe Romanist. We do not know whether Ireland wrote such a letter, but If be did and it can be proved he did, every man who believe la the principle of the A. P. A., in tbe doctrine of a complete sep aration of church and slate, and who 1 opposed to the appropriation of public money for sectarian purposes, will feel ashamed of his party's leaders for their un-American cringing beneath the Ro man Catholic lash. We should like some authentic in formation on this subject. Who knows whether John Ireland wrote such a letter? Who knows whether it was his protest which induced the platform committee to change Its report? THEY BENEFITED THE STATE? The people of the nation now know, if they did not before, that there Is such a state in the Union as Nebraska. Through the magnificent personalty and transcendant genius of Senator John M. Thurston and ex Congress man W. J. Bryan, who were the cynosure of all eyes at the St. Louis and Chicago conventions, this state has sprung into national promlreace, and will live in history as the home of tbe two most eloquent, convincing and logical speakers who participated in tbe deliberations of the conventions of the two great political parties held in thoee cities during the months of June and July. Thurston was the Demosthenes at St. Louis, Bryan at Chicago. Neither had anticipated tho enthusiasm their words would produce. Probably this was due to the fact that they had both como up from the humblest walks in life; yet they were, because of their elo quence, their magnetism and their grasp of what they considered the needs and the wishes of the people they represented, we say, because of these things they were able to electrify and control while other men of national reputation failed utterly to Impress or sway the same audience. But these are not the only able or eloquent sons our state possesses. When the Populist convention meets in St. Louis we expect another Ne braskan to win new laurels for us. We expect Hon. Paul VanDervoort to be to the Populist convention what Messrs. Thurston and Bryan were to the Republican and Democratic con ventions, and he will be if his health docs not fall. THE SPHERE OF LABOR UNIONS. Last week while we were at Lincoln watching the Republican state conven tion an article was put in type and ap peared in the paper as an editorial under the above heading, which docs not meet our views on the sphere of labor unions. There was one sentiment in the arti cle which no friend of organized labor can endorse and which we believe the author cf the article did not intend to give expression to. It was this: We want unions to protect our labor- oe men, but we want them composed of Protestants; and then they should be organized to Influence legislation and not to compel their employers to increase, or even keep tnelr wages at a good figure. Had the writer substituted for the words "and not'" after the word legis lation, the words "as well as" and had he omitted the three last words of the article not of the paragraph we would be in hearty accord with the article. But as it appeared in our last issue it does not meet our approval. MERCER'S RENOMI NATION. The renomlnation by acclamation of Congressman Mercer by the Republi cans of this district was certainly a compliment to that gentleman which may well be appreciated. Even Dave's worst enemies concede that he has made a better record than any man who has ever represented this district in congress. His vote in the primaries last Tues day was the largest ever given a can didate In this city or county, and may be taken as an indication that the busi ness men, laboring men and mechanics of all classes endorse his work in be half of Omaha. Mr. Mercer will re turn to Washington and resume his duties as secretary of the national congressional campaign committee at an early date. There was not any. doubt in our mind but what the best interests of the schools demanded that H. J. Banker should be succeeded by some other man, but Messrs. Anderson, Band hauer, Gilllspie, Johnson, Lowe, Lunt, Tukey and Irey thought differently, and, as they did the voting, re-elected him superintendent of buildings. The Democratic convention nomi nated William Jennings Bryan of Ne braska, for President, and John R. Mc Lean, of Ohio, for Vice-President. Of them and the platform we shall have something to say next week. The nomination of W. J. Bryan for president by the Democrats has re moved Nebraska from the doubtful column. REJIillhmEUNIiUiliE A Romish Priest Adopts the Platform of the A. P. A. The Rev. D. J. Stafford wants a Separate Church and State A Grand Oration. The following stenographic oration, delivered by the Rev. D. J. Stafford before the "Association of the Oldest Inhabitants," in Washington, D. C, February 22, 1896, was made by. Chase Roys: The most momentuous act, with one solitary exception, in the civil history of the world, was the inauguration of the American government. It founded a new civilization. It laid down the Ideal basis of government. Itjplaced the corner-stone whereupon was to be surmounted the most majestic structure of human liberty the world has ever soen. It started an age of progress, and it solved forever the question which from time Immortal had vexed and bothered the minds of statesmen the most perfect liberty of the indi vidual citizen. A whole century and more has flowed from It. It stands there as it stood in the beginning beautiful in Its simplicity, forever to be commemorated byjall who love .liberty, and ever to be blessed by all'. who love man. In this sublime act" that proclaimed confidence lc manhood, and launched the ships of state, Washington took a prominent part. He had led the armies of his country through all the vicissi tudes of war to a happy termination, and during it all had displayed that boundless love of liberty that insured victory, and when the war was over lie might well be proud of his rooord aB a soldier. But peace has its victories as well as war; and they are more glorious when achieved, because more difficult of achievement. But when he would have looked about for popularity and ag grandizement, or power Jin the world, this man, who had served his country without remuneration, who bad been true to his duty this man handed back the sword of his country, stained with the enemy's blood, but never'withjdis honor. He asked that he,might be permitted to remember, amidst the sylvian beauty of Mt. Vernon, that he had once served his country and merited her gratitude. Scarcely hud he retired there whon he was again called to the head of the government. There he met greater difficulties than he had encountered on the field of battle. A government was to be established, a constitution elabor ated, a policy started, commerce ex tended, national credit secured; and all this could not be dono without op position. There was serious doubt about the propriety of a popular government. Washington himself had serious mis givings, but he put them aside, and en tered upon an untried sea. The result of it is before us; and all that great liberty and civilization have been, in very great measure, the result of this man's wisdom, sublime confidence, and religious trust In God. The government established, Wash ington set about the administration of it, and the inauguration of what was to be in all time the policy of the gov ernment. What makes him for all time the type of his countrymen? American means man, or the rights of man in contradistinction to the rights of governments, and the rights of kings man In his individual rights. In other words, the American idea was the liberty of every man all his rights in the civil and religious order. The policy, then, of Washington, was justice justice to all parties to all religions. No part of this country was large enough to fill his heart. He was a son of Virginia, but he loved all parts. Nothing less than the whole country and the whole people could satisfy his heart. (Applause.) Secondly, that there should be jus tice done to all political parties that every party should have the right to advocate the policy that it deemed best for the whole people, and the whole country, and that no one party should have the right to dictate to another. The third principle was justice to all religions; and he pointed out in the most emphatic language, that of all the things that tend to perpetuate and preserve free institutions, religion and morality, are most important, and that the patriotism of that man might well be suspected, who would seek to oppose in any way the progress of religion. Now, in discussing this religious question, Washington had in mind all religions Catholic, Jewish, Presby terian, Methodist, and every other that would seek to do good, and attend to the wants of humanity. The only possible solution to this religious ques tion is absolute equality to all religions (loud applause) absolute equality be fore the law. Washington and his fellow patriots had before their minds the condition of Europe, where religions had been state religious, and he willed with a 1 i''yr' r William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Nominee for President. supreme wisdom that no such state of things should ever exist in the United States. It bad already been declared that man had a right to his religion, and a right to life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness. Washington under stood it, and he understood it well; and when he spoke of religion, he meant all religions, and that a man who sought to oppose all religions might well be called an enemy of mankind. There is no other solution of this ques tion than the right of all religions. What a pity that Mr. Stafford's words have not the authority of the Church of Rome! Pope Leo XII. says: "The church holds it unlawful that various sorts of divine worship should be on a par with the true religion before the law." The Catholic Review of July, 1870, says: "Protestantism of every form has not, and never can have, any rights where Catholicity (Romanism) has triumphed, and therefore we lose the breath we expend in declaiming against bigotry and intolerance and in favor of religious liberty, or the right of any man to be of any religion as best pleases him." Pope Plus IX. said: 'The absurd and erroneous doctrines and ravings in defense of liberty of conscience are a pestilential error a pest of all others most to be dreaded in a state." See his encyclical of August 15, 1854. In his encyclical of December 8, 1864, hesaid: "The (RomaL) Catho lic religion, with all its votaries, ought to be exclusively dominant In such a manner that every other worship should be banished and interdicted." He further said: "She (the Roman Catholic church) has the power of re quiring the state not to permit the free expression of opinion!" It is this freedom that makes our country great. It is not the extent of our country, nor the wealth that is in its soil. Guard religious liberty, and as long as it is preserved, this country shall stand. Religious liberty can be preserved in no other way than by repressing intol erance, and Romanism is intolerance. Therefore, taking Priest Stafford at his own words, Romanism must be crushed. We must not tolerate intol erance. The end will come when this liberty is violated. Famine and drouth may sweep over our land and destroy our prosperity, but it will be brought back again; but, Oh, who will build up the temple of constitutional liberty who will build up the liberty of man here or anywhere else in the world, if here, where it has found a home, it shall be violated and banished? No body. Let us therefore guard this lib erty well. Let us watch our public men and our private men. Let us use all the influence we have over this country, and let every man understand, and let every public- servant under stand, that no man's civil rights, and no man's religious rights, whether he be Protestant or Catholic, may be vio lated. And in demanding this policy for ourselves, we must be willing to grant it to others. There must be no distinc tion because of one's politics or re ligion. And when the historian of the future shall take his pea to describe the glorious history that shall be be fore his eye, and look on all the world to find how it developed, and how it came about, he shall not find it in Egypt, or Greece, or Rome, or Eng land, or in any European country; but when he shall cross the Atlantic he shall find it, and write the name of the warrior, the patriot and the statesman, the man, George Washington. (Pro longed Applause.) Note. This priest, anxiously striv- ingfor popular favor, has been forced thus to come out and take his stand upon the A. P. A. platform by the A. P. A. sentiment which is everywhere in the air. If we persist in our good work, disseminating our principles of libertv, civil and religious, all Catho lics as well as Protestants will eventu ally come to endorse them, and the Romish element in the United States will either be compelled to break away from a foreign pope, or the hierarchy will be driven to call a universal coun cil and repeal their bigoted, blood thirsty, anti-Christian canons, and recognize the great principles of re ligious liberty and the right of private judgment, as expressed in the constitu tion of the United States and in the platform of the A. P. A. THE POLITICAL LASCE. The story which has been circulated by political enemies that Mr. Peter Mangcld is a Roman Catholic has been denied by several trustworthy mem bers of the A. P. A. Let us have a fair fight for commissioner, and not beat a man by the influence of mis statements. The Sixth ward has another ener getic young man in the field for the legislature. His name is Chas. L. Hart, and he is one of those fellows who can always be counted on to get out and hustle for good Americans. Hon. I. R. Andrews is happy. The congressional primaries were well attended by Dave Mercer's friends. Mr. Cornish's allusion to the only Republican dally which could not stulify Itself by supporting but one of the candidates for congress struck a responsive cord in the hearts of even Dave Mercer's friends. M. F. Singleton, one of (he best edu cated and most gentlemanly colored men living in the city, is a candidate for the legislature. Mr. Singleton is a resident of the Eighth ward and in the past has done yeoman service for the Republican party. He deserves any honor the party sees fit to bestow upon him. Frank Burman, our Swedish fellow citizen, is a candidate for the legisla ture. He has been a most loyal and earnest supporter of the Republican nominees and of American principles, and would do honor to the party should it favor him with a nomination. The Democratic platform contains a plank which every A. P. A. man In the country will endorse. It is that one declaring for political liberty and religious freedom, and characterized by the daily press as an antl-A. P. A. plank. If anyone can find a sintrle sentiment in it which has not been set up as part of the platform of the A. P. A. for the past four years, except the flattering endorsement of the Demo cratic party, we should like to have it pointed out. The Romanists are sim ply trying to steal some good A. P. A. thunder when they induce the Demo cratic party to declare: "The consti tution of the United States guaran tees to every citizen the rights of civil and religious liberty. The Demo cratic party has always been the expo nent of political liberty and religious freedom, and it renews its obligations and reaffirms its devotion to these fun damental principles of the constitu tion." The Canadian-Americans know how to celebrate the Fourth of July.