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The Globe-Democrat, the great repub
lican daily, refers to Roman Catholic
Dick Kerens as Cardinal Kerens.
Tzs misguided girls were inducted
into the society of the Sisters of Mercy
July 7, at Mobile, Ala.
Bryan Is a K. P. McKinley is a
Mason. The pope hates both orders.
THK TICKETS.
REPCIIL1CAN.
For President,
wm. Mckinley,
of Ohio.
For Vice-President,
GARRET A. IIOBART,
of New Jersey.
DF-MOCK ATIC.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
ARTHUR C.SEWALL,
of Maine.
PROHIBITION.
For President,
JOSIJUA LEVERING,
of Maryland.
For Vice-President,
HALE JOHNSTON,
of Illinois.
NATIONAL.
For President,
CHARLES E. BENTLEY,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
J. H. SOUTHGATE,
of North Carolina.
ATTENTION, FRIENDS.
There will be a special meeting of
the John L. Webttter Republican Club
Monday evening, July 20,1800. Every
member who reads this notice 1b re
quested to be present, and is also re
quested to toll as many others as he
can that there will bo a meeting that
evening and urge them to bo present.
BRYAN AND SEWALL.
The Domocratio convention has se
lected the standard bearers for its
party. They are William J. Bryan of
Nebraska and Arthur C. Sewall of
Maine. Mr. Bryan is well known to
most Ncbraekans, and, personally, well
liked by all who have had the pleasure
of his acquaintance.
He served the state as congressman,
and might have continued to represent
his district indefinitely had he not
been consumed with a desire to become
United States senator, for which posi
tion he made a vigorous but fruitless
fight.
That contest was probably the most
memorable ever engaged in by aspi
rants for plaoe in this state His op
ponent was John M. Thurston, the idol
of the Republican party, and one of
the most brilliant and forceful speak
ers the West has yet producod, Bryan
and Thurston toured the state, visited
the most Important towns and cities
and spoke to thousands of our people
every night, winding up the joint de
bates in Omaha before an audience of
more than 20,000 electors. The elec
tion followed and proved an overwhelm
ing victory for the Republican party.
Mr. Bryan did not sulk after defeat
overtook him, but continued to urge
his free silver views, and soon had a
majority of the Democrats and a large
number of , Republicans following in
his train; and when he was seen at the
head of a free silver delegation from
this state, it did not surprise anyone.
The unexpected did happen, however,
when he was nominated for president.
Mr. Bryan belongs to the new
Democracy. He also belongs, from the
best information we have been able to
obtain, to a Protestant church. We
have always understood that his wife
was a Protestant, but a gentleman In
whom we have the most implicit confi
dence Informs us that she is a Roman
Catholic
While Mr. Bryan is a Protestant, his
closest political friends have been
Romans, and it is an Indisputable fact
that he wrote a friend of ours that he
was not in favor of tbe organization
(meaning the A. P. A.)
Ills delegation from Nebraska em
braced Count Crelghton (one of three
men in this country whom the pope has
honored () with a title), Constantino J.
Smythe, the attorney for the Roman
corporation and himself a Roman, and
who is believed to be, by many, a Jes-
ult,and others of the same stripe. Bryan
has been a warm friend of Bishop Bon-
acum, and only lost year wanted to
elect a Roman Cathollo as a member
of the Board of Regents of the Ne
braska State University.
The candidate for vice-president on
the Democratic ticket is as much an
unknown quantity as is the Republican
nominee for the same office; and the
Democratic platform is not one whit
better, for the patriotic orders, than
the Republican platform. Both were
framed by political trimmers and
cowards, and unless the Populists
adopt a ringing American platform
and nominate thorough Americans as
their standard bearers, there will be
no candidates and no platform which
will appeal to the A. P. A , and they
will have to vote either as Democrats
or Republicans.
Col. John W. Echols, supreme
president of the A. P. A., spoke Tues
day evening, July 14, in the First M
E, church, Chicago, to members of the
order in Cook county. There was a
fair crowd In attendance considering
the warm weather. When he spoke of
the order being Instrumental In oblit
erating the Mason and Dixon's llae
and making this one united nation, the
applause and cheers were deafening.
He was well applauded all through his
speech, which required more than an
hour la delivery. Mr. Linton was un
avoidable detained and was not pres
ent as advertised.
The national council said McKinley
would be acceptable to the A. P. A.
Will the gentlemen who have charge
of the business of the organization In
the interim please tell us whether Mr.
Bryan is acceptable to the A. P. A.?
If he is, then we who have been Re
publicans and Democrats can go with
our parties and support their nomi
nees without having some two-by-four
patriot jump up and howl "traitors" or
"boodlers." As between Bryan and
McKinley, it will not take us long to
decide.
IN two weeks we have found two
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THE Populist convention of Nebraska
which selected delegates and instructed
them to vote for W. J. Bryan, had as
temporary chairman D. Clem Deaver,
a Romanist and ex-member of the de
funct fire and police board of Omaha;
and as permanent chairman, Captain
Barry, another Romanist, and the
head of our state militia.
The national Republican committee
man of Illinois, Dr. T. N. Jamelson,
made a true statement, but a huge
blunder, when he said Illinois was not
yet In the Republican column, and
tbat it would have to be won over be
fore election. That statement coin
cides with the reports that reach this
office.
Elsewhere in this issue appears an
article under the heading "A. P. A.
Blast," which is an interview hod with
Dr. Dunn of Boston. We do not know
by what right or authority Mr. Dunn
speaks for the A. P. A., but like any
other member of the order has a right
to be heard through our columns.
We are being flooded with letters of
Inquiry about Bryan. Watch the col
umns of The American after the
Populists have adjourned. Uutll then
we shall not say whom we will support,
although we shall give, impartially,
the record of Mr. Bryan as we did the
record of William McKinley.
Some of the drunken Roman Catho
llo aldermen of Chicago have had a
falling out, and have charged others of
their number with offering them
bribes. We suppose the gang is strong
enough to whitewash the offender,
even if an investigation is had and the
charges are substantiated.
It is a grave question if the Popu-
lists can afford to endorse the Demo
cratic nominee for president when
nearly 3,000,000 Americans look to them
to put up a platform and a candidate
that will be acceptable to members of
the A. P. A.
The Populist convention meets in
St. Louis next Wednesday. It looks
to-day as if it would endorse the Dem
ocratic nominee for president.
BRYAN Is not an A. P. A,
The Return of the Jesuits.
The recent effort and failure in the
German Parliament to pass the bill al
lowing tbe return of the Jesuits has
called forth considerable comment.
The Catholic Stand&rd publishes a let
ter of Frederick the Great on the sub
ject, which is highly interesting. It
says:
It is well known that Frederick the
Great of Prussia, though a pupil of
Voltaire, did not bear his master's ill
111 against the Jesuits, but that, on
the contrary, when the order was sup
pressed throughout tbe world, he
asked the pope to allow it to retain its
organization in his dominions, a privi
lege which was granted. But long be
fore that year, 1773, he had expressed
himself against intolerance. When
Silesia was ceded to him by the Em
press Maria Theresa, she wrote to him
asking him not to disturb the Jesuit
college, and received a reply which
has recently been found in the Breslau
archives. In this letter "Old Fritz"
thus expressed himself on the relations
of church and state:
"I do not for a moment doubt tbat
your Imperial Majesty will accord me
the justice of believing me unbiased by
any religious prejudice or predilection
in administering the law or distribut
ing favors. All that I demand of my
subjects Is obedience to the law and
loyalty to the crown. As long as they
fulfil their duties In this respect I, on
my part, consider myself bound to im
partially bestow upon them favor, pro
tection and justice, no matter what
sort of speculative notions they may
sustain with regard to religion. To de
cide or to pass judgment upon these I
absolutely resign to Him who alone
rules the consciences of men and to
whom I am incapable of forming so
low a conception as to believe Him to
be In need of human as la Lance or
pleased with being supported by vio
lence, artifice, or any other human de
vice."
This is all very well as an expression
la favor of freedom of opinion in re
ligion; but the trouble with the Jesuits
Is, and always has been, that they do
not confine themselves to matters of
religion, but meddle with tbe politics
and government of every nation which
has tolerated them, and on account of
their secret plot and intrigues,
treachery and devices, they have been
banished from nearly every country in
tbe world. That Is the reason they
are still kept out of Germany and
ought to be. Lutfitran (Jbtavtr.
A Sample f Romanism.
Take a glimpse of a country in which
tbe sway of the pope is absolute-
Ecuador. No political organization or
publio sentiment contests with the
church there. Everything is subject
to the pope, and the population, occu
pying a fruitful land in the most
healthful country ia the world, is the
most ignorant, servile and degraded la
the world. A correspondent writes
from Qui toy describing tbe filth and
degradat on of the capital city, and
accounts for all by saying that the
church is the power behind the throne,
and it controls the government and
dictates its laws and sees to their en
forcement. All the schools are taught
by priests and nuns, and the scholars
learn more about the saints of the
church than about their own country.
There Is no reliable man of Ecuador.
For years there has been on the statute
books a law forbidding the Importation
of books, newspapers, or printed mat
ter of any description without the ap
proval of the priests. More than one
fourth of all the property in Ecuador
is owned by the bishop. No religion
save that of Roman Catholicism is tol
erated. Protestants worship as they
did in the days of the Inquisition.
There is a Roman Cathollo church for
every two hundred inhabitants. Two
hundred and fifty days each year are
set aside as fast or feast days. Ten
per cent, of the total population is com
prised of priests and nuns.
Sixty per cent of the births are
illegitimate, because of the excessive
marriage fees exacted by the church.
Primitive Catholic.
Uncle Sam's Aliens.
As an illustration of the sort of peo
ple Uncle Sam is employing In his
headquarters in Washington, the fol
lowing list, from the Washington
Times, is in point. The following have
only taken out their final naturaliza
tion papers within a month, , but all
are drawing salaries fron the United
States treasury:
Michael Gallagher, war and navy
department; John Fogarty, office of
surgeon general; Jeremiah Callahan,
bureau of engraving; L. Morrlssey,
war department; Thomas McCabe, war
department; W. H. Connelly, interstate
commerce.
All the above give their birthplace
as Ireland.
Then the following government em
ployes have only taken out first papers
within a month:
Timothy Sullivan, James Riddy,
Patrick Corey, Marcy A. Kelly, Flor
ence Pollock, Johanna Kelly, Daniel
Garvey, James Galvin, Margaret Cole
man, James Ronan, Johanna Collins,
Lizzie Rlordan, Michael McCormick.
These all give Ireland as their birth
place, and all have snug government
berths, though not yet citizens.
We also find on the list of employes,
who have just taken out first papers
Domlnlco Mornondello, Carl Blanbock,
Camille Delecco, Tius Stang, Hyman
Bernstein, Emlle L. Cupfer, Gustav
Rosseou, and many others, some of
whom are drawing salaries of 11,800 or
more. Fifty-six have taken out papers
within a month, some of whom have
been drawing salaries for a long time.
And there are tens of thousands of
American veterans out of work none
of whom can get a job, even though
professedly patriotic congressmen.
Boston Citizen.
Control of the Priests Gone.
The hierarchy of Quebec have mani
festly lost their hold in things politi
cal. They did all in their power to
make the people vote against Laurier,
and the people voted for Laurier in
much larger numbers than they ever
voted for any political leader. Right
under the noses of some of the most
violent prelates, the people voted just
as they pleased. For years we have
hod grave doubts as to whether some
of the statements mode about political
power of the French priesthood were
correct. Scores of times the people of
Ontario have been told that Quebec is
the most priest-ridden country in the
world. It may have been at one time;
it certainly is not now. All the people
needed was a leader who refused to
allow the hierarchy to take him by the
throat They got that leader in the
person of Wilfred Laurier, and last
week showed the result. The hier
archy have been taught a lesson that
should do them for the remainder of
their lives. We in Ontario may well
stop pitying Quebec, and ask ourselves
whether after ah there is more politi
cal freedom in this Protestant prov
ince, than In the province that has so
often been described as In bondage to
Rome. Canada rrtsbyttrian.
UlSTER ON SILVER.
Coatlnued from pat I
or In the pocket of the country mer
chant. If one man cannot use It,
neither can the other. It Is because
the free and unlimited coinage of ell
ver at the ratio of sixteen to one
creates a cheap dollar, which cannot
be used in commercial trade, the Re
publican party condemns It.
When the cheap silver dollar has
driven the gold into retirement, what
are we going to live upon? If we can
not use the silver dollar on account of
its cheapness, we would all be forced
to retire from business, and this great
nation would be a nation of idlers.
The difference between the Intrinsic
or bullion value of the two metals is so
great that all men admit It. That
being so, I cannot understand how any
Democrat who believes in his national
platform, and the traditions of his
party, can be in favor of free silver.
For any Democrat to appeal to the
memory of Thomas Jefferson in sup
port of his free silver theories is
enough to make the ashes at Monti
cello rise up and rebuke him.
It was Thomas Jefferson and Alexan
der Hamilton who first agreed upon
which the two metals should be coined
Into money. They undertook to as
certain the relative value of the two
metals as bullion, or commercial com
modities, and it was upon the bullion
values so ascertained tbat the coinage
ratio was fixed. Thomas Jefferson
adopted the sound financial principle
tbat the value of the metal in one kind
of money should be equal to the value
of the metal In the other, so that the
two should be at all times exchange
able. Yet it so happened that when Thomas
Jefferson became president of the Uni
ted States he found that the ratio
ageed upon had become unequal, and
in order to prevent one money from
driving the other out of circulation,
and without any authority or act of
congress upon the subject, Thomas
Jefferson, as president of the United
States, ordered the mints to stop coin
ing the silver dollar. From that date
up to 1S35 silver was practically de
monetized by the Jeffersonlan execu
tive order.
If the demonetization of silver is a
political crime; it was a crime inaugu
rated and sanctioned by the father of
the Democratic party. If it was an act
of wisdom, it had the sanction of the
Democratic party.
The Democratic ;platform of 1892 de
clared: "But the dollar unit of coin
age of both equal Intrinsic and ex
changeable value." That declaration
was the Democratic declaration of
Thomas Jefferson as well as the decla
tion of Alexander Hamilton. The
Democrat who to-day forsakes that doc
trine and advocates the coinage of the
50-cent silver dollar has no place in the
old political parties of this country.
Free silver men suggest that the free
and unlimited coinage of gold has ap
preciated the value of gold, and that
the free and unlimited coinage of sil
ver would increase the value of silver
so as to bring it to a parity with gold.
It is not true tbat the coinage of
gold increased its bullion value. It Is
a well understood fact that gold in the
form of bullion is just as valuable as
gold in the form of coin.
Senator Jones, in his great speech on
the silver question, complained of the
fact, and said: "Nearly all the gold
produced is consumed in the arts and
manufactures, and hardly any is left
for circulation."
If the coining of gold increased its
bullion value, would not all this gold
which Senator Jones complained of as
being consumed In the arts and manu
factures, be turned over to the mints
to be coined into money? If coining
gold increases its value, why is not all
the gold bullion coined into American
dollars? It is a well known and ac
cepted proposition that gold which is
used in the arts and manufactures has
an intrinsic value equal to its value
when coined. Let us state the case in
regard to silver.
If the coining of gold does not in
crease the value of the coined dollar
above the value of tne gold bullion,
there can be no logic in the statement
that the coining of silver would in
crease the intrinsic value of the silver
dollar above the silver bullion.
Do you need a national illustration?
If so, we will point to India and to
Mexico, where the merchantable value
of coined silver depreciated to the
value of silver as bullion.
But if silver is to be made a legal
tender, as it would be by the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, the man
who works for daily wages would be
compelled to accept depreciated silver.
In other words, a man who now gets
three dollars per day, measured by
the gold standard, would get but three
silver dollars, worth but 11.75. By this
process we should work a great hard
ship upon the toilers of this country
greater than the most imaginative
free trade orator is ready to depict as a
result of the McKinley tariff. They
say the tariff is wrong because it costs
the laboring man too much to buy
what he wants, but In the same speech
they advocate a theory of finance
which would reduce his wages nearly
one-half in money value.
It Is a deception to say that the far
mer of Nebraska are a debtor class,
and tbat therefore cheap silver would
benefit them.
Statistics show that the farmers of
Nebraska last year paid off 15,000,000
of mortgage indebtedness. Admitting,
if you please, that if our farmers should
pay off their mortgage debu to the
amount of 15,000,000 per year with sil
ver money, that was worth but two
and two and one-half millions, and by
that transaction If it were a possible
one eave two and one-half millions of
money, nevertheless there Is another
side to the story. The farmers of Ne
braska sell, from the products of their
farms, of wheat, of corn, of oats, of
live stock, 1100,000,000 per year. If
they are to use cheap silver money in
the payment of their mortgage debts,
they must also accept the cheap silver
dollar In payment for what tbey have
to sell. The logic of the situation
would be, if prices remain the same,
they would lose $50,000,000 per year in
the transaction.
The question Is, can the farmers of
this state afford to advocate a financial
scheme which might take from them
f50,000,000 per year for the sake of
cheating their creditors to the amount
of 2, 5000,000?
My free silver friends may answer
that, by the free and unlimited coinage
of silver, we would have more money,
and that therefore prices would go up,
so that the farmer would realize more
for what he has to sell. Perhaps that
might be true.
But It is likewise true that it is not
alone the quantity of money in circula
tion that determines prices. Prior to
to the so-called demonetization of silver
in 1873 prices were high, and yet the
fact is that there was not as much
money per capita in circulation in this
country at that time as there is in cir
culation to-day.
Again, the free sliver farmer says
that interest is too high, and that if
we had free silver it would.reduce the
rate of Interest.
Senator Peffer, in a speech in the
United States senate, said that inter
est Is too high. Senator (Jones, of Ne
vada, the champion of free eil ver in
the United States senate, and who
knows more about the silver question
than any man who has ever written or
spoken on the subject, said: "Remone
tization would increase the rate of in
terest that the people of this country
would have to pay."
If cheap money would stimulate
speculation, speculation would create a
demand for money, and tbe rate of in
terest would increase.
Tbe question comes back, do the
farmers of this state, with their vast
mortgage debt about which they com
plain, wish to inaugurate a 'financial
system which would deprive them of
the power to borrow money, or to ex
tend a loan, or when so borrowed or ex
tended, have the rateof interest In
creased upon this mortgagejindebted-
ness?
It Is freely urged that, if the free
and unlimited coinage of silver would
bring a profit to the .mine owner that
profit would be no greater -than that
the demonetization of silver took from
the mine owner. Demonetization did
not take from the mine owner the
value of silver. The value of silver,
like that of any other commodity, was
a changeable one, according to supply
and demand, and according to the cost
of production. The increased produc
tion of sliver tended to depreciate its
value, just as a surplus production of
corn or wheat would reduce their value
on a market. It was only a couple of
years ago that we in Nebraska had
more corn than we knew what to do
witb, and western farmerscould not
sell it for sufficient to justify the cost
of transportation to market, sand in
many places It was used for fuel. The
decreased production of corn in the
last year or two has made it more val
uable in the eastern markets othan
wheat. This same principle applies to
silver. The moment that you bave
more silver than Is demanded 'for use
in money and in trade, it must diminish
in value.
The diminution in the valuefof silver
is an inherent diminution and not the
result of demonetization.
A few years ago silver was'mined at
profit to the mine owner. It was looked
upon as a great and unlimited source
of wealth. If that silver has to-day
the same intrinsic value that it had
when silver mining was profitable, why
did not the mine owners continue min
ing silver and exchange it in the chan
nels of trade for other commodities,
just as the farmer barters his commod
tles one for the other without loss to
himself?
If it is true that silver has not depre
ciated as a commodity, then the mine
owners could have contlnuedthe oper
ation of their mines with as much
profit since the so-called demonetiza
tion of sliver as before.
This whole subject resolves itself
into one general proposition, that the
free and unlimited coinage of silver is
a device to enrich the mine ow ner, and
without any correspondlgn benefit to
the remainder of the people. -
Is it not a scheme to give him 11.70
in money for a dollar's worth of silver,
and then to force the rest of the world
to accept 60 cents for one dollar's worth
of labor, or for a dollar's worth of
goods? Who is benefitted by this
scheme? The mine owner? who is
Injured by this scheme? All the rest
of the people of this nation.'