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AUGUST 21, 189(1. TIIK TICKETS. RKPUMJCAN. For President, WM. MCKINLEY, of Ohio. For Vice-President, CARRET A. HOnAHT, of New Jersey, DEMOCRATIC. For President, WM. JENNINGS BRYAN. of Nebraska. For Viee-Presldent, ARTHUR C. SEWALL, of Maine. rROHIIUTlOJJ. For President, JOSHUA LEVERING, of Maryland. For Vice-President, HALE JOHNSTON. of Illinois. NATIONAL. For President, CHARLES E. BEMTLF.Y. of Nebraska. For Vice-President, J. U. SOUTHGATE, of North Carolina. NO man In Missouri his vote away this year. should throw Mark Banna is a thorough poli tician, but he should not be accused of being a Jesuit. If free silver increases the price of the articles you consume will it also increase your wages? The first thine to do to make this country prosperous is to put the idle workmen back into the shops. WHAT difference does it make to you how cheap things are if you do not have the money to buy them? Some of our very rabid free silver exchanges can see nothing good in Mc Klnley and nothing bad in Bryan. OUR friend G. S. Ambler is still in the race for city councilman from the Seventh ward. His friends are legion. Til ere is no doubt but what the Democrats nominated their most popu lar man for president. It is equally true the Republicans did the fame thing. Romanism Is playing both ends against the middle. She appears in the role of special champion of both the leading candidates, but through the confessional she is instructing for but one, so far as we can learn. Every American in the state of Ne braska should go to the polls with the determination of re-electing the best attorney-general the state has ever had. A. S. Churchill is able, pains taking and trustworthy. He should get your vote and the vote of your friends. While we are not saying very much at present about whom we intend to support for the presidency, we are ac cumulating as much evidence as it is possible to get hold of, which we intend to use later on. When the proper time comes there will be no lack of interest manifested by The American. The letter of Mr. Rayhorn lets the public into the secret of how the daily press stoops to do the dirty work of Rome, by misrepresenting and lying about the A. P. A. The Infer Ocean and the other dally papers of Chicago ought to be ashamed of themselves for being parties to the slanderous attacks upon the A. P. A. THE Democratic headquarters at Chi cago are manned by certain Roman Irish politicians, and it is safe to say that if Mr. Bryan places his campaign in the hands of this class of people he cannot expect to receive the support of the great mass of patriotic American voters. They have learned to judge Dolitiolans by the class of people wlh whom they train. THE FOOL KILLER HAS NOT BEEN IN ILLINOIS LATELY. Lacleiik. Ill, August IV KniTOK The Amkkican Dear sir: I understand McKtnley's wife la a Ro manist. How la It you were ready to lie about liryan t wife, staling she waa a Humanist, when It tit not true, and keep silent about old McKlnley's? I have bt-en a Republican ten years voU'd that way but I would not vote for Mckinley under any consideration, and 1 do not ace how any friend could. 1 think if The American wanted to be true to Americans It would Inform us that live In the country all about tbee men on both ticket alike. While 1 lived In Chicago I could attend my council and know all these thing; now I rely on Thk American, Please tell the people that old McKtnley's wife It a Romanist, and he honest and fair with all. Keipoctfully, G. W. Uentley. This paper never was guilty of telling alio about Mrs. Bryan or any other person. It docs not have to He to up hold American principles, and it would not uphold them it It did have to. Mrs. Mc Klnley, like Mrs. Bryan, it a Prot estant, and any man who says she Is not is either woefully ignorant or will fully untruthful. There is no principal of the A. P. A. involved in this presi dential campaign. If there was we would not be holding our peace and telling you to vote as Republicans and Democrats, as Free SUverltes and Gold bugs or as Populists and Prohibition ist. We would be an out and out ad vocate of some party and of some can didate. We have never hesitated to take sides, and will not hesitate to take sides In the present campaign whenever we have proof that either candidate is antagonistic to the prin ciples or the organization we have fought to upbuild for nearly six years. When we get that information we shall publloh It, and though every subscriber was like our correspondent, a free sli er man, and looked upon W. J. Bryan as a modern Moses, and the evidence was against their candidate, we would publish It and ask them If their obliga tion was binding only when it suited their fitney and not when tholr princi ples or their organization was de nounced or assailed. Were the evi dence against Wm. McKtnley and were our subscribers all McKlnley men we would do the same. The prlnoiples for which we have contended for more than five years are as dear to us today as they were the day we espoused them and they shall be as fearlessly and as ably upheld in the future as they were in the past. No blatant member of the order can make us think our duty Is different to hat It Is. We know what our duty is. We have been schooled by that most capable and efficient teacher exper ience and Bhe has left this impress upon our mind though a man be a Republican, a Democrat or a Populist, yet does not believe in the principles enunciated by the A. P. A. he is not fit man to elect to office or clothe with official dignity or authority. GLAD SHE WON. The Chicago daily papers have had a great deal to say in condemnation Of the A. P. A. because they alleged the order refused to give a prize to a young lady because she was a Roman Catho lic. Now comes the chairman of the committee with a letter which knocks their lies into a cocked hat. It reads as follows: Chicago, 111., August IS. To The Editor: As chairman of the com mtttee having charge of the A. P. A. picnlo at River Grove Park on Satur day, I desire to make a statement, in behalf of tne committee and tbe nraer, regarding the prize won by Miss Katie Rider as her name now appears to be. "Miss Rider entered the race, which was free for all, upon my personal so licitation. She won the prize, and had It been on the grounds she would have received it then and there. It is simply a misunderstanding on the part of the press reports that she would not receive It. None oi tnose in authority the committee and judges had any Intention whateverof not granting it to her, and none of them stopped to ask the question whether Miss Klder was a 'rotettant or a uatnoiic. "She entered under no false colors whatever, and I am glad she won the prize, and hope she enjoyed herself during the day. She was just as wel come to the grounds as any member of the order, and will receive tne prize as soon as the full committee meets to dispose of all matters before it. (JHARLE3 UAYHORN, Cnairman." "Rome Alters Her Face Her Heart Sever." 'Like the moon, always changing; but, semper idem, Rome alters her face; her heart, never." In comment ing upon the latest encyclical of Leo XIII., Uarptr's Weekly, of July 25, says: "One learns a lesson from this last encyclical from the Vatican that Rome has lost nothing of its monumen tal egotism. The invitation of the thirteenth Hon to all the lambs to come Into union with mhrht easily have been made by Leo X. or Gregory VII, It Is musty with the antiquities of the temporal power of four centuries ago The dust of the centuries flies out of It as one turns over Its parchment pages still there Is a difference in the way of putting things nowadays. Even a pope scolds no more. The lan guage of the authoritative magiste' rium is calm. There is nothing of the older blunder. The anathemas against Protestants are forgotten, as though veritable antiques. This is a gain for the courtesy of words. Never more will the pi! apeak as universal mi tor." However, like the moon, a change of face Is no evidence of a change of heart. He alill claims supreme au thority aovcreltn authority which the whole community Is bound to obey. And this he dfcl res 'is absolutely necessary." Now "sovereign power" means temporal power as well as spir itual power, for he declares that "for the due preservation of the unity of the faith It Is not sufficient that the bead should have been charged merely with the office of superintendent, or should have been Invested solely with the power of direction; but it Is abso lutely necessary that he should have received real and sovereign authority which the whole community Is bound to obey." It is for this temporal power that the popes of Rome have have been mournings the desolations of the church, mourning her widowhood for nearly a century. It is for the temporal power "real and sovereign authority" that they may apply the screws of the Inquisition upon all those who refuse to obey that they contin ually work. The German Catholic congress at Louisville, Ky., Septem ber 2H, 18J4, voiced the sentiment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy upon this subject, as follows: "We again expressour filial love and reverence to our Holy Leo XIII., and the name of that liberty bestowed upon his church by G Jd himself, we declare that the first condition of such liberty consltts in the entire Independence of the head of the Catholic church from every earthly power. The oMjr solu tion of the Roman question aot-e olo to the Catholics must, therefore, imply the territorial independence of the holy boo, the terms for which must be stipulated by the holy father himself." It was in March of the same year that M. Jansens (Catholic) contended In the Belgian parliament "that papal Independence was essential for the ac complishment of his (the pope's) mis sion; and that it was in the pope that the hopes for the future of Christendom lay." Woe the day when these hopes shall be realized. Lovers of liberty, sleep not! Study anew the principles Involved in a separation from Rome, lest while we oppose that church alone we establish a veritable image to the papacy! The very spirit of the papacy is in the air. Leaned Church Property. Montgomery Ward & Co. have leased from the Cathollo bishop of Chi cago the property at the northwest corner of Michigan avenue and Madi son street, for a period of 43 years, 10 months and 16 days, from July 15, 1806, to May 81, 1940, at a rental of $6,650 a year, until June 1, 1910; 17,600 a year for 15 years, and for the last term of 15 years $11, 400 a year. The transaction was negotiated by George P. Merrick, representing Montgomery Ward & Co., and General George W. Smith repre senting the Cathollo bishop. The ground has a frontage of 38 feet on Michigan avenue, and 1621 feet on Madison street. The rentals are based on a valuation of $3,500 a front foot for the first term of 15 years, $1,000 a front foot for the second term, and $6,000 a front foot for the last term of 15 years. It will be seen that the average rental is $8,743.17 a year, for convenience tak ing the term as 44 years. Figuring on the same basis the frontage value is $4,590 a foot and $23.38 a square foot. The Economist. ltishop Foley Is Overruled. Marshall, Mich., Aug. 17. Word was received here by Rev. Friar P. A. Baart to day that Cardinal Satolll had overruled the decision of Bishop Foley of the Michigan diocese in removing Rev. Frank Kennedy from Ypsllanti to Niles, and had decided that the re moval bad been made without suffi cient cause. The cardinal decided that the bishop had overridden a law of the church which provides that no priest shall be transferred from a larger to a smaller parish unless punishment is intended, and the bishop had expressly stated that In the Kentedy case no punish ment was meant. Father Baart states that he has re ceived definite Information that Mar tinelll has been appointed Satolli's successor, and that the official an nouncement will be made after next Sunday, when Martlnelli will be conse crated as bishop in Rome. Trobably Too Much Booze. Havanna, 111., Aug. 17. Rev. Father B. E. O'Mahony of the local Catholic church became suddenly in sane Sunday afternoon while deliver ing a sermon at Manlto, in this county. He became violent and it required the combined strength of six men to get him into subjection. He was brought to Havana, and has been raving ail day. It is thought that brooding over his financial condition, hard study, and the excessive heat of the last few day 8 combined to bring about his pres ent unfortunate condition. A (Jood Child Is usually healthy, and both conditions are developed by the use of proper food. The Gall Borden Eagle Brand Condensed Milk is the best infant's food; so easily prepared that improper feeding is inexcusable and unneces sary. j iiitivp oi vm i in i 1 1 1 J JllkJI u (Continued From First Page.) the Catholics of this land, to which he declares he has so great an interest It Is not needful that in any of his ut terances he should have the sanctions of councils, for his utterances are "ir- reformable" by any authority whatec- ever. I he extravagance oi lionliace VIII. gained In his day, the 13th cen tury, some force by being approved by the "Fifth Late ran Council," where Pope Leo X. declared: "We, with the approbation of the present holy coun cil, do renew and approve that holy constitution;" but those of Leo XIII. In the 19th century, have in themselves the force of law with all loyal Roman ists, and from them there Is no appeal. "There can be no doubt," says Baron lus, one of the foremost of Roman Catholic theologians, "but that the civil principality is subject to the sacer dotal, and that God Lath made the political government subject to the do minion of the Spiritual church." In his encyclical, given the 10th day of January, 1890, the present pope, after placing his own utterances on the same level with those of the Lord Jesus Christ, affirming that "no one can serve two masters," and that "we ought to obey God rather than man," declares, from this standpoint, what Is the duty of Romanists in this century as citizens, in language which either places Romanists In direct conflict with all laws not sanctioned by papal au thority, or marshals them as one man, under their priestly leaders, to control the affairs of states in accordance with the laws and canons of the church. The importance of these utterances cannot be overestimated In dealing with Romanism in the United States, and some paragraphs which most im mediately concern the voters of the United States are here quoted. The encyclical proceeds by regular steps from its assumption of authority equal to that of our Lord Himself and gains added significance from previous and subsequent declarations and the trend of events: "It cannot be doubted," says Leo, "that in actual life the duties of Catho lics are more numerous and greater than the duties of those who have not a proper grasp of the Catholio faith or are altogether devoid of it." To understand what follows one needs to remember that the politics of Leo XIII, and the modern papacy concern themselves with two main objects, viz.: The restoration of the temporal power and the upbuilding of the interests of Romanism. In a land where the peo ple rule themselves and are formed into political parties, the problem before the Roman Catholio leaders is, there fore, how to control the state through popular suffrage and by political meth ods, and that the state ought to be separated from the church and the church from the state, and in the case of conflicting laws between the civil and ecclesiastical powers the latter laws should prevail (See proD. 42-55), becomes at once a vital question and must be met by him at the outset. Therefore says the pope referring to the love of country which has made Italian unity, English freedom, the American republic and Hberty-loving peoples everywhere: 'The supernatural love of the church and the natural love of country are two loves proceeding from the same eternal principle whence it follows that there can be no repugnance be tween the duties which they impose nevertheless the order of these duties is sometimes subverted cases happen in which the state de mands one thing from the citizens and religion the opposite from Christians, and this undoubtedly for no other rea son than that the heads of the state pay no regard to the sacred power of the church or desire to make it subject to them no one, however, can doubt which is to receive the prefer ence It is an impious deed to break the laws of Jesus Christ for the purpose of obeying the magistrates, or to transgress the laws of the church under the pretext of obeying the civil law." To get the full force of this one needs to recall the teachings and practice of Romanism for centuries on such mat ters as schools, the religious orders, civil marriage, and the Catholic as the only recognized religion. All the posi tions of the Roman Catholio leaders on these questions had been met by civil enactments in Italy, Mexico, France, Austria and other Roman Catholic countries in spite of the protests of Pius IX. and the bitter opposition of the clerical party. The religious orders have been largely suppressed and their property confiscated by civil processes; marriage was performed by the civil authorities; schools free from priestly control had been established by the state; other persons than Romanists had the privilege of public worship ac cording to the forms they chose; and Leo XIII., in 1890, declares it "an im pious deed to transgress the laws of the church under the pretext of obey lne the civil law." What is this but inciting to rebellion under cover of re' ligion? Do we wonder that an Italian parliament has enacted almost unani mously In their Penal Code clauses which threaten with: "Flue, Imprisonment and dismissal from office any minister of religion, who, in the exercise of his priestly functions, speaks against the unity of Italy, or excites to the non-recognition of the laws and Institutions of the stato, or who disturbs the peace of families. Some such legislation might not be amiss in these United Slates. If Mcr- monism and Anarchism need some checks, may not Romanism as well In its denunciation of and warfare upon our public schools, and In It excom munication of persons within its pale who are married by the civil authori ties or by Protestant ministers? Shall any pains or penalties of any nature be Inflicted by any class upon those who In the exercise of their undoubted rights under our civil laws and free constitutions leave the Roman Catho lic church, send their children to the public schools, or are married in ac cordance with our Americas laws? Italy and Mexico will haveinone of It, why should we? Slate Lair, Church Law. "But," says Leo in this encyclical, "If the laws of the state are in open contradiction with the divine law: if they command anything prejudicial to the church or are hostile to the duties imposed by religion (the Roman Catho lic religion, with its excluslveness, an athemas and denunciations of liberty, progress and modern civilization), or violate In the person of the supreme pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then, Indeed, it Is a duty to resist them and a crime to obey them ajcrime fraught with Injury to the'state Itself." This in 1890 is but an amplification of the papal theory as to the supremacy of the church and the pope'over all civil authorities, which had been con sistently held by Leo XIII., while Car dinal Peccl. "Can it be intelligible," said .the car dinal, "that the living Interpreter of the Divine law and will should be placed under the jurisdiction of the civil authority?" Now,Jas pope, he declares "he must be free to com municate without impediment with bishops, sovereigns, subjects,' in order that his word, the organ andexpres- sion of the Divine will, mayithavea free course all over the earthiand be there canonlcally announced." Referring as cardinal to the laws enacted In UmbrU, requiring the clergy to accept the separation of church and state and to conform to the laws, he said: "They are offered, as the basis of re conciliation, the acceptance" of the con demned and false system of the separa tion of church and state, which, being equivalent to divorcing the state from the church, would force Cathollo so ciety to free itself from all religious In fluence." In his first encyclical, after being elected to the papal chair, after de ploring all the evils thata have fallen upon the times and mankind, he de clares: "Tbe cause of all these evils lies principally in this, that men have de spised and rejected the holy and august authority of the church, which, in the name of God, Is placed over the human race, and Is the avenger and protector of all legitimate authority. If any sensible man in our day," he adds, "will compare the age in which we live, so bitterly hostile to the religion and Church .of Christ (the Roman church) to those blessed ages when the church was honored as a mother of na tions, he will surely find that the so ciety of our day, so convulsed by revo lutions and destructive upheavals, is moving straightway and rapidly toward its ruin, etc.' To save these United States from this general destruction, we are to have a permanent apostolic delegate who shall be able to enforce the In structions and decrees of this prince of princes and ruler of the earth. And what are these instructions in general in 1890 to all Romanists in the United States, as stated in this ency clical? First. Obedience. This Is the key to the whole papal system. "Now the Roman pontlff'is the su preme ruler of the church." Second. Stand together In political action. "Furthermore, In politics which are inseparably bound up with the laws of morality and religious duties, men ought always and In the first place to take care to serve as far as possible tbe interests of Christianity" that is of Roman Catholicism, for In this same epistle Leo, in speaking of the Catholic religion, says, "which is thejonly true religion." Third. Support no one for office who is not Romanist in sentiment, if not In faith. "And since the fate of states depends principally upon the dispositions of those who are at the head of the gov ernment, the church cannot grant its favor or oatronace to men whom it knows to be hostile to it. Its duty is to favor those who, having sound ideas as to the relations between church and state, wish to make them both harmonize for the common good." What those sound ideas are the previous lines show in the language of tbe pontiff himself, and it only needs to note that tbey are in direct and irre conciliate conflict with the whole American thought for us to see that this is practically a call on all Roman IsU, under ecclesiastical leadership, to directly or indirectly, as far as possible, nullify our constitutions and laws re lating to separation of church and state. Fourth. The school system of the United States It to be negatived as far as possible. For In relation to the edu cation of the children by other than Romanist method he says to Catholic parents: "It is therefore a strict obligation for parents to be careful and neglect no effort to energetically repel every out- - rageous Injustice of the kind, and to maintain exclusive authority over tbe education of their children," Fifth. All political action is to be taken under the initiative of the pon tiff himself, and through the ecclesias tical leaders of Romanism, for "The civil prudence of individuals seems to consist wholly in faithfully executing the precepts of legitimate au thority. And so much the more because the political prudence of the supreme pontiff extends to a large number of subjects. In effect he has only to govern the entire church, but also to order and regulate the actions of Christian citizens in view of the realization of their eternal salvation. It will thus be see a how indispensable it is that beside the perfect concord which ought to reign in their thoughts and actions, the faithful should always religiously take as the rule of their conduct the political wisdom of the ec clesiastical authority." Before reaching the statement which thus embodies the substance of all po litical duty on the part of Romanists, this labored encyclical had carried the "faithful," by careful steps, over such steps, over such general ground as that: "The union of minds, then, requires perfect submission and obedi ence of will to the church and to the sovereign pontiff as to God Himself. Ohpriipnna nnirht In htk iwrfftpt nay, if it is not absolute and complete in all respects It is deprived of its essence. In fixing the limits of obedience, let no one think that it is due to the authority of the bishops, and especially of the Roman pontiff, merely in matters of dogma. Man's duties, that is to say, what he ought to believe and what he ought to do, is by Divine right laid down by the church and In the church by the supreme pontiff." Nothing can do plainer than the propositions here stated, and lest any Romanist should venture to hint that this is utterly destructive of freedom and mattes them all slaves of their bishops and the pope, Leo XIII. de clares of the bishops: "Should any of the latter (bishops) lay himself open to criticism either In his conduct or in the opinions he main tains, it does not belong to any Indi vidual to arrogate to himself in his own regard the office of judge, confided to the sole pastor (Leo). The actions of superiors ought not to be struck at with the sword -of speech even when they appear to merit a cen sure." Honacum, Satolll and the Civil Laws, As an illustration of the .manner in which Romanists are In bandage to their bishops, under the present re gime, the case of Bishop Bonacum of Nebraska is a recent and pertinent illustration. In 1893 Mgr. Satolll had a long list of charges against this ec clesiastic placed In his hands by priests, of which the following arejsamples: He had gone Into speculation with two priests of the diocese of St. Louis to purchase lands at Lincoln, fa part of which he seeks to unload on thls dio cese at more than double the cost. He is untruthful. Few priests in the diocese will believe his word, Hand in his malicious untruthfulness She has scandalized the public byodenunciatlon of the clergy, publishing that six of his priests are "infamous oand notorious criminals." He has never made a financial state ment and ha; certainlyappropriated large sums of money. He has not preached a sermon since he came here seven yearsjago'.and the priests are heart broken. These and other charg38 iof a most scandalous nature against this ibishop went, signed by ten well-known'prlests, to the representative of JtheJJpapacy In Washington without avail. JFinally a suit was entered In the Jcourtsi as the only remedy available Jby one oof the aggrieved parties, whereupon Satolll wrote to Bishop Banasum under date of February 7, 1894: "Language fails me to express how deeply I deplore and tcondemn the adtion of Father Corbett in J citing be fore the civil court the sacredi person of his own bishop. & There fore Father Corbett's actions, so grievously offending his bishop's dignity add au thority, deservesitheShighest censure, and also ecclesiastical punishment. Be pleased, then, right 'reverend and dear sir, to accept the sslncerest ex pression of my condolence, and my solemn protest1 aagainst fall that has been done to the sasredjparson, dignity, and authority byja prie3t.iho besides trampling under foot-theiecclesiastical laws, dared to take advantage of the civil conditions existing' this coun try, to cause so much scandal," cts. Satollihad previously declared ani