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TO THE PUBLIC.
T1IK AMERICAN U no lb orian of
any pert, order. aaeociatlon, party, clique,
fact 'on or divlaloa of UiS population) of
UiliiruJ Republic and repudiate and
brand u falea all claim or chart ea that
It I tucb, let eucta claim or chart be
mad by any pernio or pereona bom
aoavar. THE AMERICAN 1 a nenapaper of
(oaaral circulation, golnc to and Iwlnn
road by people of all relltfloua belief
and political aRllIatliBi by the white
and tha black, Us native-born and tba
aturallMd, tha Jaw and Uie tienltle, th
Protectant and the Roman Catholic.
Tot claim can ba iulatantlald In any
court of Juatlca at any tint.
AMERICAN PUBLISHINa CO..
AUGUST 7, 18M.
THE TICKETS.
REPUBLICAN.
For President,
wm. Mckinley,
of Ohio.
Tor Vioe-Prosldent,
GARRET A. HOB ART,
of New Jersey.
DEMOCRATIC.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
ARTHUR C. SEWALL,
of Maine.
PROHIBITION.
For President,
JOSBUA LEVERING,
of Maryland.
For Vice-President,
HALE JOHNSTON,
of Illinois.
NATIONAL.
For President,
CHARLES E. BENTLEY,
of Nebraska.
For Vioe-Presldent,
J. H. SOUTHGATE,
of North Carolina.
It 18 too warn to even think about
Writing an editorial on the political
situation.
Romanism is the same to-day that it
was In the dark ages otherwise it Is
not unciaiigeable.
Ntt civil law which has not received
papal sanction Is binding on a member
of tha Roman (Jathollo church
Hooter, who murdered Councilman
Sam Du Bois, bis A. P. A. brother in
law, last winker, was hangei to-day.
Fhb Omaha JJw wis selected by the
state officers as the paper in which tha
eifisMUiMoaal amendment should be
published.
IT IS not always the maa who talks
tha loudest in the counell chamber
who is the most loluentlal and re
spected among non-members.
. i ...a..
Governor Holcomb says there is
nothing in the A. P. A. principles
which any good American cannot en
dorse. People like a brave man.
Some laboring man living in Omaha
who owes for The American and who
f ailres to do one or two day's work to
square up hit account is requested to
apply at this office Monday or Tuesday.
One of the celebrated lights of the
Roman church ia this country in the
early fifties was Orestes A. Brownson,
and be said "what the church has done,
what she has expressly or tacitly ap
proved in the past that is exactly
-what she will do, expressly or tacitly
.approve, ia the future, If the same clr-
xumst&noes occur."
The silver question is not one of the
issues contended for by the A. P. A. as
an organization. Neither is the ques
tion ot sound money. A man can be a
consistent A. P. A. and a rabid Free
Coinage man at the same time; he can
be an unreasonable sound money man
and a loyal member of the order, so
don't accuse your neighbor of being a
traitor to the ordet 11 he does not agree
wi'.h you on the financial question.
We have received a copy of the Ion
don American of the 10th ult., which
contains extended accounts of two
Fourth of July celebrations held in
London by the American colony. One
was at the home styled the "fine man
sion" of Mr. and Mrs. John Biddulph
Martin (Victoria C. Woodhull), the
other a banquet at the Criterion. The
love of America must be strong indeed
that does not wither and die when sur
rounded bv an atmosphere so different
to that of the "land of the free and the
home ot the brave."
TOO MUCH ROMANISM.
Rome was never more actively en
gagod in shaping tie political policy
or the various parties than she Is to
dav.
Ror loyal son in high positions and
tboati la low stations vie with one an
other in their charts to make it app.nr
that they are running the politics of
the country to the entire excluilonof
alt other persons and Id teres'..
If Dick Kerens but sneeze the papers
are filled with gush about the "noted"
Missourlan. It Gibbons re-utters a
chestnut which was original with
Cnauncey Do pew several years ago, it
Is telegraphed all over the country as
a moat wonderful anwer to an lnqulst
live Roman reporter. And si It goes
We read of what Burke is doing; of
what Cock ran has advised of Sulli
van's attitude; of Donnelly' declara
tion and ot Walsh's opinion of the out
look to his district or state. We read
nowhere of what Swan Peterson ar
Nels Nelsen are doing for their party;
never bear of the work of Gustav
Houck or Isaac Abraham. There
seems to bj no room to chronicle the
acts of aoy but the pope's follow
ersthe ignorant and illiterate Irish,
and the cunning Jesuits. This may be
accounted for by the fact that tha
news gathering agencies are manned
by Romanists, are practically under
the censorship of Rome, and that they
hope, by giving undue prominence to
everything done by a Roman, to re
ceive the credit for electing tha next
president of too United States.
If this supposition is not warranto!,
how are we to account for so many Hi
bernian names in connection with the
pending contest and so few of every
other nationality? How does it come
that John Smith and John Jones and
Sam Brown and Tom Day are not tak
ing an interest in politics? Wnere are
the Swedes, the Danes, the Gormans
and the English? Aro the Irish the
only people who are expected to cast a
vote at the coming election? It they
are not, let us have little loss truck
ling to Rome. It is nauseating; be
sides, the people are as much opposed
to papal Irish domination as they are
to freo trade and English domination.
They are ready to run their own gov-
ment without the help of any foreign
Influence, civil or ecclesiastical. Will
the politicians and dally papers take a
hint, or shall the people teaoh them
a well-deaerved lesson?
CHEAPER GAS WANTED.
The statement that there is a move
ment on foot in this olty to secure a
franchise tor a new gas company, will be
hailed with delight by the people who
use gas for illuminating and heating
purposes, as it will, if successful, in
sure cheaper light and fuel. We un
derstand the new company is the one
which went into Kansas City and se
cured a franchise under a pledge to
furnish gas at 11.00 per thousand, and
we also understand that it is tha in
tention of the new oompany to dupli
cate that price in this olty.
We do not kuow how extensively the
petitions have been circulated, but
are certain that if the people are given
an opportunity to express a desire it
will be in favor of a reduction in the
price of gas.
At the present time every person
using the product of the Omaha Gas
Manufacturing Company is paying
11 15 per thousand. If gat can be fur
nished by a new oompany at $1.00 per
thousand there Is no sense in the eltl
lensof Omaha paying one and a half
times that sum. The gas company of
this city has grown (at by virtue ot
its monopoly and it is high time that
the people were looking to their own
interests.
Every citizen of Omaha ia interested
in having the price of gas reduced. If
he does not use it in his home or in his
place ot business the municipality of
which he Is a part uses it for the pur
pose of illuminating the streets, and a
portion of that expense falls on every
citizen, either in the shape of taxes or
rent.
If the new company is the same one
that invaded Kansas City and if it
made the same promise it made to the
people of that town, our citizens will
make a very grave mistake if they do
not vote it a franchise. There are
hundreds and thousands of dollars ex
pended annually In this city for gas,
and if the price can be reduced one-
third, it means a saving of many thou
sands ot dollars annually to the com
mon people.
A friend down in Gaines Mill, Va., I
cays: "I notice the imprisonment of
the San Franciso editor for publishing
Den's infamous took. The decisions
of both courts should be published in
full. The papal church wants to es
tablish a censorship over the press.
Every A. P. A. paper in the country
ould be suppressed were the ecclesi
astics in full power; and, were the
courts under the influence of papal
judges, the question of personal liberty,
freedom of speech, freedom of press,
etc., would run the gauntlet. Please
publish the decisions." Will Mr.
Price, the editor of the A. P. A. Mag
azine, kindly furnish us the decisions
so that our readers may know how
Rome works?
Orangemen Make Reply.
Vancouver, B. C, July 15. At the
Provincial Orange celebration at New
Westminster on Monday in memory of
tha Battle of the Boyne, the following
resolutions were pae4:
WliEREAS, lUv. Father Yorke,
nrleetoftne Human Catholic church,
writes la the baa Francisco Kiaminsr
of June M, 1 that on July I-lh. la.t,
at ictoria. ISrltlau Columbia, the A
I'. A. lodges, of Taooma dragged Old
Glory at the tall of the Union Jack,
under an arch bearing the inscription:
"One Qjeen, One Country, One Ho
Hflon." and that "the unclean crtat
u res who howled and stamped as Mr.
Henry calumniated the sisters, came
over the Canadian border;" and that
"Toronto is the only country in the
world where the Stars and Stripes are
systematically insulted;" and that
Whereas. Rev. Father Canavan,
another 1 torn an Catholic priest, in the
same paper on January 2-nd last, de
clares "tnat there is no country in tne
world where the starry banner is more
dishonored and insulted than in Can
ada;" and that "no people in the world
today hate loyal American citizens
more than a certain section of Cana
dians (namely Orangemen);" and that
"the fair flag that Is the universal em
blem of liberty was foully dishonored
and foully insulted on the street of
Victoria, Vancouver Island, by ruffianly
Orangemen on the 12th ot July last.
be it hereby ,
Resolved, By this large assembly,
composed of the Orangemen ot British
Columbia, that the above charges,
made against Canada and Canadians in
general, and Orangemen in particular,
are absolutely false, and are made
either through Ignorance or with the
malicious intent of stirring up creed
strife and unpatriotic animosity be
tween two of the greatest Christian na
tions of modern times.
Old Glory was not trailed at the tall
of the Union Jack In Victoria on tne
12th of July, through an arch bearing
the above motto, it Is a foul slander
framed by those who framed the al
leged motto, and it is a base untruth
that Toronto, the stronghold of Orange
Ism, systematically insults the Stars
and Stripes. A blacker untruth has
never been uttered than that the
American flair waa foully dishonored
and insulted by Orangemen in Victoria
at the celebration a year ago.
The very contrary Is true that Cana
dians esteem and admire their cousins
across the southern border; that next
to their loyalty to the Union Jack they
love to do Honor to tne Star Spangled
Banner: and that Orangemen, every
where, act on the principle of liberty of
coniclence, equal rights to all, and civil
and religious freedom to all classes and
creeds, and are foes to sedition, bigotry,
treacnery ana disloyalty.
llev. U. It. Maxwell, the member-
elect from this city to the Dominion
Parliament, spoke In favor of the reso
lution and emphasized the fact that
Father Yorke was a brother-in-law of
the Hon. Theodore Davis, now chief
justice and formerly premier and attor
ney general of this province. San
Francisco Examiner.
, The Late Bisaep Cexe.
There will be widespread regret in
the Episcopal church over the death
of Bishop Arthur Cleveland Cexe of
the diocese of Western New York. As
a poet, he produced some creditable
verse; as a preacher, he took a high
rank in his ehuroh; as an administra
tor of his diocese, he showed himself
to be an aggressive and vigorous ruler;
as a patriotic scholar, he took high
rank In this country and Europe, and
he became prominent as the friend and
advocate of tha Gllllean movement In
France. But he will be remembered
chiefly as a controversallst. II J be
lieved the Protestant Episcopal church
to be the only divinely authorized
church In this country. The other
Protestant bodies he regarded as
"sects, " though he always referred to
them in terms ot kindness. But his
intense dislike of Roman Catholicism
was, perhaps, his mst marked charac
ter is tic. He spake and wrote against
it whenever he had an opportunity.
Some years ago he wrote a number of
letters to the pope, calling upon him
to give up his errors and become a
true Catholic; and about a year ago he
wrote a nnmber of bitter letters to
Cardinal Satolll. He regarded Roman
Catholicism as an unlawful intruder in
this country, and, therefore, usually
referred to it as "the Italian mission."
This was his hobby, and many people
thought he rode it too often. But
there was never any question of his
sincerity of purpose, while his charm
of manner, as well as his wide culture,
made him friends wherever he was
known. No Episcopalian of the pres
ent generation more completely type-
fled the famous "via media" of Eplsco
pallanlsm, holding itself aloft, on high
conscientious grounds, from Protes
tantism on the one side and Romanism
on the other. Nete York Tribune.
The Irish Rag.
Judge Stone decided the Lawrence,
Mass., "Irish Flag" case in the police
court on the 20 Vh. Oa the eve of Jul y
4 Patrick O'Brien, a contractor, placed
a green flig on the chimney of the un
finished Ward Six school building.
The next day City Marshal Bailey re
moved the flag, subsequently restoring
to O'Brien on demand. O'Brien re
placed It on the building, where it has
since remained. Marshal Bailey se
cured a warrant against O'Brien, al
leging a violation of chapter 115, Acts
of 1395, which makes unlawful the
placing of a flag or emblem of a foreign
country upon the outside of publio
buildings. O'Brien's counsel raised
the point that the green flag was not
an emblem of any foreign country, be
cause Ireland was not an independent
sovereignty. At the hearing on July 7
the judge took this point into consid
eration. O'Brien was adjudged guilty,
and a fine of 1 10 was imposed. O'Brien
took an appeal to the superior court.
W THE '
A Roman Bishop Named
England, of South Caro
lina, (.les the Lie Is the Matomrnt That the
Roman Catholic Ibarra Has Always
Been the Knead f the Op
presard. The Milwaukee Roman Catholic CM
tfn says:
In a letter received from Rome by
The Citizen, dated June 10, and written
by Dr. Zahm, the well-known scientist,
be says:
Editor Vie Cituen:
"I was talking yesterday with the
Rev. Ferdinand Kittel, who, as you
know, is here in the Interest of the
American Catholio Historical Society,
when he told me that he had come
across a number of unpublished and
unknown letters by Bishop England,
some of them bearing on what might
be called the precursors of the A. P.
A.'s. Knowing the great attention
The Citiun has ever shown the A. P.
A.'s, knowing also the interest the
Catholics of the United States have In
all Bishop England wrote, I at once
thought of The Citiien, and asked
Father Kittel to give me a few ex
tracts for your paper, and he readily
assented to my request. The extracts
I send you will show you how much
valuable matter pertaining to the his
tory of the church is still concealed in
the archives of Rome and what good
work Father Kittell is doing in collect
lng this material for the Catholic His
torical Society."
The above will explain the purport
of the following extracts taken from
letters written by the great Bishop
England. Tbey are now for the first
time published and throw great light
on the A. P. A. doings ot other days.
Extracts from a letter of Bishop Eng
land to Dr. Cullen:
Charleston, S. C, February 23,
1836. In order to understand the posi
tion in which this mcst injudicious pro
ceeding of my Carlow friends placed
me, I must advert to the very altered
situation of the United States. The
great progress made by religion, the
vast increase of Catholics byfimmlgra
tion and a tew conversions, the erec
tion of churches, convents, seminaries
and colleges, together with the publi
cation here of translations of some very
injudicious vaporings f rom letters writ
ten by tome of our most zealous mis
sionaries, and published in the periodi
cals of Europe, roused the concealed
bigotry of the virulent sects; and their
leaders, who have boen heretofore com
paratively moderate ia their assaults
upon us, now became furiously decla
matory. With all their pulpits, with
one hundred weekly paperscalled re
ligious, with a large portion of the
thousand journals published once,
twice, thrice or six times in'the week,
with almost all the colleges and
schools, with Sunday school teachers
In all their districts, and with immense
subscriptions to aid them, thoy began a
mcst virulent course of misrepresenta
tion, lying, calumny and denunciation,
so that we could not say that ono of our
churches or religious houses was safe.
A new and more formidable diffi
culty now embarrassed mebecauee of
my peculiar situation. No diocese in
the world contains so many negro
slaves as does that of Charleston. Its
population Is about two million of souls,
nearly bait of whom are negro slaves.
South Carolina and Georgia are the
most determined of any of the slave-
holding states against permitting any
Interference, however remote, with
their domestic institutions. I was In
some degree a favorite with them be
cause of my having repelled an attack
made upon them by O'Connell on ac
count of the existence ofslavery;in the
south.
During some years the most fanati
cal portion of the Calvinists, especially
in the states of New England diocese
of Boston and New York, have been
forming associations to procure, if pos
sible, .the abolition of slavery in the
south. The south was exasperated and
looked upon this as a malicious and
outrageous Insult; and the southerners
are a high, proud and chivalrous peo
pie. The kindness of the holy father
in my regard is no secret here, but like
everything else has been grossly mis
represented. To render me odious to
my own district especially, and to the
citizens of the union generally, the
northern sectarians published that the
pope gave me privately a commission
to establish the Inquisition in the
United States as soon as I could see It
possible, and had appointed me his
legate to Hayti, so as to enable me to
establish relations of amity w th the
negroes who had achieved their free
dom, and thus facilitate the abolition
of slavery of negroes in the south.
Ridiculous as is the first statement, it
was generally published and is even
now extensively believed, though its
credit is on the decline.
During the summer the northern fa
natics poured great quantities of tracts,
calculated to bring odium upon slavery
and to excite lnaurrectioa among the
slaves, into our southern and weaUsrn
late. Tley bad agents for their dis
tribution who traveled a preachers,
or peddlers, or doctors, or land specu
lators.
e a
Ia Charleston we are not permitted
to teach the slaves to spell or to read.
The law does not prevent the education
of free negroes. I found that most of
our free negroes were drawn from the
church by being educated in sectarian
schools. Whites only are allowed to
be teachers, and the children of negroes
or mulattoes are not permitted to be
taught in the schools of white children,
I established a school for the free chil
dren of color, and I got two of my stu
dents to teach the boys and two of the
sisters to have care of the girls. On
account of the superior Instruction
numbers of children of the sectarians
attended, and their parents began to
come to church. As soon as this new
excitement concerning the tracts arose,
the sectarian papers denounced us for
our extensive literary education of the
blanks. It was all the consequence of
the kind feelings of the legate for his
Haytlan friends, and was the germ of
Insurrection. Mobs were organized in
Charleston, and at night they sur
rounded the posteffice and forcibly en
tered; took out of the mall bags the
tracts and pamphlets upon abolition
which had been sent from the office in
New York, directed not only to this
city, but to Georgia, Alabama and
Florida; reserved them to the next
night, and then burued them publicly
la the square under the guns of the
citadel. Whilst they were at the post
office two or three of my flock, who
were mingled in the crowd and whose
religion was not suspected, overheard
them arranging that as soon as they
oncluded at the postoffice they would
come to the seminary and give me (I
lived there) the benefit of Lynch 's law
and tear down the buildings and the
church, etc. I was soon called out of
my bed by two of my flock, whom I ad
mitted into the yard, and from whom I
learned these particulars. They added
that some armed men would join us, as
they had sent messengers to warn the
Irish who form one of the volunteer
corps of the city militia. These latter
began speedily to arrive with their
guns and bayonets. The French were
also notified, but we had only two ot
their number.
After a short deliberation and prayer
in the church, I concluded that if we
should be attacked we had better re
sist than allow the church and the
convent of the Ursulines and the sem
inary and ourselves to be destroyed. I
then came out and found a pretty large
force assembled and their officers ar
riving. I told them that I hoped we
should have no contest, but that I
would use their aid if necessary, pro
vided they pledged themselves to obey
me and would invest me with the com
mand. To this they assented. I then
stationed sentinels, and showed the
officers the best points of defence for
the whole of our possessions, charging
them, if an assault were made, not to
have a shot fired until I would give di
rections. Some of our people then went
ut into the streets, and the intimation
was soon privately conveyed through
the city that we were prepared. We
kept guard for two nights and no at
tempt was made to molest us. On the
83Cond day several of the most respecta
ble citizens of all religions sent to have
their names enrolled on our guard, and
the city officers said they were ready
with their whole force to come to us
should we need their assistance. "A re
spectable committee of citizens then
called on me to request that I would
discontinue the school for negroes. I
answered that if they made the same
application to those of other religions
who had schools, I would comply,
though I disapproved of their proceed
ing. They applied, and all the schools
were closed. The public authorities
convened the citizens, and measures
were taken to guard against the efforts
of the Abolitionists, and thanks were
returned to those who closed the
schools. I attended the meeting, and
sat with the presiding magistrate in the
most conspicuous place, by the courtesy
of the sheriff, who is au Irish Catholic.
I began my preparations for depart
ing (for Hayti), but as the legislature
met in December, I felt it necessary to
attend at their session in Columbia to
get some acts of incorporation passed
for the convents and churches. I trav
eled thither in company with the two
principal leaders of one of our great
political parties and who had been the
two late governors of the state (Gen
erals Hay ne and Hamilton), and with
our most eminent jurist (Mr. Petti
grew), who led the opposition to them.
They were all my most intimate ac
quaintances, and although Protestants,
by no means bigoted; and though we
were two and two in politics we were
firm friends. We talked freely and
confidentially, and they endeavored to
impress upon me the great mischief
that I would do to the Catholic re
ligion not only in my own diocese but
through the whole southern country,
by going then to Hayti and affording
the opponents of our religion so plausi
ble a pretext for creating prejudices
amongst the slave-holders against our
church. I merely told them that they
ought to knew that 1 was opposed to
the Abolition!!, who were most bitter
enemies also to the Catholics; and that
I was not backward to vindicate the
south even against my friend O'Con
nell; and that having promised the
holy father I did not consider myself
free now to hesitate. They gave the
pope credit for the zeal and purity of
his motives, assured me that they had
all confidence in me; but that the pub
lic feeling would, after my departure
and when I could not defend myself, be
excited against my church and all its
clergy in the south, I still was deter
mined to proceed.
I always stood well with the legisla
ture in Columbia, and on this occasion
Governor McDuffe, though opposed to
me in politics, was exceedingly kind
and attentive. It was usual on all
previous occasions for the house of rep
resentatives to pay me the compliment
of inviting me to preach for them. On
this occasion a motion was made to ap
point a committee for this purpose. In
this house there are 120 members and
not one was a Catholic. About forty
voted for inviting me and the rest
against It. It had always before been
a uranlmous vote. Two days after
wards I found, upon going into the
hall, a gentleman declaiming vehem
ently in favor of the Catholics, and
could not understand his object until
General Hayne came to me and said
that he was renewing the motion to
have me invited. I immediately left
the hall, and after the debate was over
I returned and found that the majority
against me was greater. I also found
the petitions for incorporating the
Catholic institutions delayed in the
committees, and those for Lutherans,
Calvinists, Methodists, Baptists, etc.,
favorably reported. I went to several
of the members to urge them to use
their influence to get the Catholio pe
titions Dassed. I was told confidentially
that they had as much respect for me
as ever, but that they were prejudiced
against convents, etc., and wished to
show their disapprobation of my going
to Hayti. With some difficulty I got
the petitions to pass the committee of
the house of representatives" merely by
the casting vote of the chairman, the
numbers being equal for and against it.
In the senate, which consists of forty
of the most wealthy and best informed
men in the stats, the majority of the
committee favored thei petitions, and
the chairman of the committee brought
those who opposed them to speak with
me, and I removed their difficulties and .
procured a unanimous vote of that
body. But I was told that upon the re
port of the committee of the represen
tatives being made i to the senate, a
party wat organized to vote against the
report, and that it would probably be
successful. I informed my friends of
this, and Ganeral Hamilton, who is a
senator, procured fromthe senate an
invitation for me to preach for them in
their hall. Theapresldent of the sen;
ate, Mr. Djas, a Protestant ia fact
there is no Catholic inithat body and
some other friends advised me to preach
in advocacy of my 'own bills and to re
move prejudices, and saldvthat they
would get the greater number of the
representatives to attend.
Nearly the whole legislature was in
the hall, besides a largebody of the
literati, etc., who hadaseembled on
business of the colleges and to attend a
literary society, which IJalso joined on
the previous day byadvice of my
friends, though the subscriptions to
those societies draw away a large share
of my little means. I spoke for two
hours, during whlchrf recounted the
indignity, injustice ando persesution
heaped upon the Catholics, and the
manner in which theCarolmians had
been deceived respecting Jthem. I ex
plained our principles ot church gov
ernment, our efforts Intthe cause of fine
arts and sciences, our rights under the
constitution of thelfstate, the nature
and objects of our religious institutions,
and especially of those Ifsought to have
incorporated; and I besought them, as
they valued their good name, not to
degrade Carolina by 'placing it by the
side of Massachusetts. I had them in
tears, and immovable' as to many stat
ues. My friends told me it was one of
my happiest efforts. In truth, mr
whole soul and all my energy were
luruwa into it, i was mysaii in tears.
I left Columbia that night, on my way
to Charleston, to proceed thence to
Hayti. My bills all passed without any
opposition. "3
T JOHN, BISHOP;OF CHARLESTON.
A Fact.
The Foreign-born population of the
United States is less than 15 per cent.
of the whole. In so far as this 15 per
cent, has been educated at all, it bag
been educated in parochial schools.
This 15 per cent, furnishes 26 per cent,
of the whole jail and Bridewell popu
lation ot the country. The census of
1891 gives the penitentiary population
at 28,440. Of these 13,715 have been
educated in the common schools of
America, in so far as they have been
educated; 14,725 have been educated,
is so far as they have been educated,
in the European parochial schools,
mostly under the management of
priests, friars, or nuns. Of the 63,696
inmates of poor-houses, over 51 per
cent, were of foreign birth, and edu
cated, in so far as they were educated,
at the parochial schools. Chicago Inter
Ocean. . 1