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    THE AMERICAN.
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JOHN O. THOMPSON,
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TO THE PUBLIC.
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any srct. order. association, party, clique.
fiuM'on or division of tha population of
this (rand KrpubllC and repudiates aad
brand aa fslss all claims or chartea that
it Is auch, lot such claim or charts ba
mad by any person or parsons whom-
MWf.
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general circulation, going to and being
road by people of all rellulous beliefs
and political afflllatlonai by tba while
and the black, the native-horn and the
naturalised, the Jew and Uie Oentlle, the
Protestant and the Koutau OathollC.
Tblsclalm can be aulwtantlated In any
court of Justice at any time.
AMIRICAN PUBUSHINO CO.,
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SEPTEMBER 18. 18W.
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REPUBLICAN.
For President,
vm. Mckinley,
of Ohio.
For Vice-President,
GARRET A.
IIOBART,
of New Jersey.
DEMOCRATIC.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BUY AN,
of Nobraska.
For Vice-President,
ARTHUR C. SEWALL,
of Maine.
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC.
For President,
JOHN M. PALMER,
of Illinois.
For Vice-President,
SIMON B. BUCKNER.
of Kentucky,
PEOPLE'S PARTY.
For President,
WILLIAM J. BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
THOMAS WATSON,
of Georgia.
SILVER PARTY.
For President,
WM. JENNINGS BRYAN,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President,
ARTHUR C. SEWALL,
of Maine.
PROHIBITION.
For President,
JOSHUA LEVERING,
of Maryland
For Vice-President,
HALE JOHNSTON,
of Illinois.
NATIONAL.
For President,
CHARLES E. BENTLEY,
of Nebraska.
For Vice-President.
J. li. SjOUTHGATE,
of North Carolina.
FIRST NOTICE.
It has become necessary for business
men in all branches of trade to do a
trlotly cash business, and as that neces
sitates our paying cash for what we
buy we hare also concluded to go to a
cash basis, and will, on and after No
vember 10, 181)6, discontinue sending
The American to all subscribers who
are in arrears. If their accounts re
main unpaid at that time they will be
placed in the bands of a collection
agency for settlement. We sincerely
hope no subscriber will neglect to pay
his bill on or oefore November 10.
Look up your receipts and If you are in
arrears come In and settle. Don't neg
lect this matter. Attend to It to-day
The Omaha Republican city pilmar-
Irs will be held October 9th and the
city convention on the 10th.
It IS not our intention, and will not
be, to que t Ion the honesty of purpose
or tte tterling integrity of the A. P.
A. who believes his duty is to assist In
tho election if Mr. Bryan. This is a
free country. Every man has a right
to his epic ion and no man has a right
to mole st or make him afraid. While
thli is troo we shall endeavor to show
In a gentlemanly and courteous man
ner the reason we think they are
wrong. We shall not say they are an
archiets, knaves or fools. We do not
believe they are. We believe them to
be sensible men, and we also believe
they will be with us if we can show
them wby Republican success this year
Is better for them than Democratic suo
cess: and this we shall attempt to do.
In order to do so, however, we shall be
nm relied to do what we have at
tempted to avoid doing. We shall
ccmtwlltd to discuss the sliver and
tariff Isxuei two subjects which are
hard to roaster, and which unscrupul
ous men can easily distort and mlsrep
lenent to the masse. Tbe first article
on those subjects wl l appear this week.
READ! REFLECTI I THEN VOTE.1'1
A number of patriotic pa er bare
declared that they have concluded to
support Bryan and Wateon In this
campaign. Just how a publication
which pretends to be an American
paper and a supporter of the Little
lied School Route can conscientiously
support W. J. Bryan when it knows
his record In congress Is more than we
ran comprehend.
Never since the day that W. J. Bryan
was nominated has there been any
question In the mlod of the editor of
The American as to who should be
supported by patriotlo Americans or
who would receive the support of this
paper. THE America N has been con
sistent since 1U first Issue and it will
be consistent In Its last. It will not
support any man, now or hereafter,
who does not approve of the principles
of the A. P. A.; and W. J. Bryan Is on
record as opposing that order. He Is
on record as opposing the introduction
of the English language into the pub
llo schools of New Mexico. He Is on
record as the special pet and champion
of Romanists in Nebraska, and he is
on record as having favored the intro
duction and adoption of an antl-A. P.
A. resolution by the platform com
mittee of the convention which nomi
nated him.
Consequently we have not and will
not endorse the candidacy oi Air.
Bryan. On the contrary we shall con
tribute to his defeat by giving his
record on the A. P. A. and Roman
questions as wide an airing as possible
each week. In order to do this we
shall print and circulate a large num
ber of extra Americans each week.
These papers cost you nothing; they
will bo as free as water, and we as.
you to read them carefully, and decide
for yourself who nearest represents tha
American idea.
Another thing:
Do not consider the copy of THE
American you receive as a sample
copy. It is not. it win oe sent to
your address regularly until Novem
ber 1. ' Unless you are an old sub
scriber your subscription is paid for
until that date. It has cost ten cents-
one cent and a half per copy barely
enough to pay for the white paper and
the postage. If any of your friends
want the paper until November 1st,
toll them to send in their name to
gether with a silver dime and we will
forward It to their address.
We had hoped to be able to send out
weekly 50,000 extra papers, but the
friends who had to raise the fund to
pay the expense found that on account
of the stringency of the money market
they were unable to raise enough to
pay the expense of issuing the papers,
so but a very small portion of that
number will be printed weekly.
However, each friend of true Ameri
canism can help some. There is no
friend of the Little Red School House
who does not have a friend who would
enjoy reading The American during
the remainder of the campaign, and
there is no friend of the American flag,
of free soeech and a free press who
cannot afford to send THE AMERICAN
to that friend when it only costs 10
ocnts for the balance of September and
October.
Are you Interested in the defeat of a
man who told a memoer oi toe a. t .
A., when said representative remon
strated with him for toadying to Ro
manists, that he "would be a fool not
to stand in with the Roman Catholics
when they controlled his party and al
ways supported him;'' who had a count
of the Roman church, and the son of a
Jesuit, as his body guard on his trip to
New York to be notified of his nomlna-
tlon by the Democratlo party, and
whose panegyric of a cross of gold has
been accepted by Romanists as a rally-
Ing cry for the faithful of that religious
persuasion.
TARIFF AND F.NANCE.
In an editorial in another column we
have agreed to discuss the tariff and
financial Droblems for the benefit of
our readers.
We begin the discussion with some
misgiving, because these are questions
which have been ably handled by but
few men; still, firm in the belief that
we have espoused the right cause, we
shall devote to it our best effort and
trust to an All Wise Ruler of the des
tinies of men and nations for guidance
and aid in the premutation of the facts
which are the foundation of our belief
and argument.
By common consent the year 18 13 is
accepted as the date from which this
discussion should proceed.
The statistics which we have been
able to gather both as to the price of
products, population and money, show
some very strange things.
In the first place we find that the
United States had a population of 41
677,000 in 1873, that the circulating
medium the same year wast751,881,809,
or 118.04 per capita, and that the price
of wheat waa 11.25 per bushel.
We also find that the money of the
country consisted of $25,000,000 in coin
and bullion in the United States treas
ury and $749,445,610 in paper money
We also find that the population of the
United States In 1895 was 69,878,000,
that the circulating medium wastl
601,908,473, or 122 93 for every man
woman and child In this great big
country being an Increase in the cir-
culatlng medium of more that 21 per
cent for every man, woman and child.
This circulating medium Is derived
from 11,200,87,508 of coin and bullion in
the treasury and l, 137,619,914 In paper
money, and shows our coin doubled Itself
more than 51 times, and our paper
money almost doubled Itself, while the
population only Increased a little over
66 per cent. According to this, then,
our circulating medium Increased a
fourth faster than our population. In
other words, if we bad grod tlmea In
1873 and prior to that time when there
was but 118 04 for each man, woman
and child In the country, and It was
the supply of cheap money that made
times good, how do you explain why
times are not correspondingly better
to-day than they were In 1873 since we
have $4 89 more for each man, woman
and child than we had in 1873? If It Is
an abundance of money an Increase In
the circulating medium that Improves
business, why In the name of common
sense are times not Deiier now man
they were in 1873? We think we can
explain this point to your entire satis
faction. From 1861 to 1865 this coun
try was In a turmoil war wa raging;
Improvements were being destroyed,
fields were being laid waste, towns,
cities and villages were being sacked
and burned; hundreds of thousands of
men, and millions of heads of live
stock were killed; the granaries were
empty, the stocks in stores were run
down, factories and thops were idle,
and the whole people were impover
ished. Suddenly a peace was declared.
The farmer went back to his Sold, the
carpenter to his shop, the smith to
his anvil, the painter to his staging,
the printer to his case, the laborer to
his work. On every hand a cry went
up for men to do the work. From every
quarter came a demand for the farmer's
grain. The wheels of commerce were
set in motion, the factories were re
opened, the shops were in operation
and labor was employed. There were
few if any idle men. Everybody was
working. Everybody was contented.
Everybody was happy. The merchant
was prosperous because the laborer was
prosperous, and the farmer was pros
porous because those two classes were
prosperous and not because we had
cheap money.
How is it to-day. Your country is In
turmoil. The mills are closed, the
hops are empty, the laborer Is idle,
the merchant is doing but little busi
ness while the farmer has no market
for his crOD. Yet we have more money
than we had In 1873. More money for
every man, woman and child than we
had then. Surely, then, it is not the
soarcltv of money that makes these
times so hard. It must be something
W It must be because the laborer is
nnnmnloved. But how can he be em-
ployed? By opening the mills, start-
W the factories and shops and other
avenues of trade. And how will that
ffect the farmer? It will give him a
home market for his produoo. How do
u. vla tn Ka an? TincanBA w
ave just demonstrated to you that
1W of everv character was not idle,
but was enjoying the fruits of Its toll
rtnrlnir the vears which tho friends of
free sliver tell you they desire tore-
turn to. And the good times of those
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years wcid uun -
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.... -i MHA wi t t na rni i it. hi x Hiiiiii'
Hrpoa f che arj monev. for we had less
money then than we have to day-a
great deal less, 26 per cent less, or, to
be Dlain. J4.89 less for every man, wo-
man and child In this country.
i
Tt la not more money we need to
make us prosperous. It is more work
for the laboring classes. Of what bene
fit to the farmer Is a man In the city
who is out of employment and out of
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m a rMiartni ni tuilaluch. ur n wuuu vi
flour or meat? No, sir; he cannot,
He is of use to the farmer only when be
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has work. He cannot get work while
eus wora. 6
there is any show of the country going
to a silver tasls, because! capital
not seek investment in enterprises now
no nee iuo- r
struggling to exist or In those, in con-
temDlatlon of establishment while this
wuipiauuu u
agitation for the free and unlimited
coinage of silver continues.
Now, what is the difference between
the way we have coined silver up until
a recent date and the way It would be
rtnnn under the free and uullmlted
coinage plan?
Under the law that the last congress
repealed, the government bought
monthly 4,500,000 ounces of silver bul
lion of those having it for sale, prin-
clpally from the silver mine owners in
the states lying westoi ieorasKa, ivan-
sas, Texas and Ukianoma, attne same
price those mine owners couio sea
tneir suver lor w au, v.u.
. . H M Athaa niiatnmAli
Would the farmer want more irom me
government iur ui f""1-"
could get for the same thing Irom a
private individual? Certainly not.
But these mine owners do, and we will
show you why In a minute.
Under the law that congress re
ta nfflMala nf the treasury de-
partment bought silver bullion at Its
market value so much per ounce, and
as the market price of silver was but a
trifle over 92 cents per ounce the gov
ernment would give the mine owner
his pay In notes which were a legal
tender for all debts, public and private
unless otherwise stipulated In the con'
tract.
This law was enacted solely to bene-
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OS m suver
1 to bolster up the price of silver,
from the day of the enactment of that
law until lWo silver steadily decreased
in ta'ue. As a toos quecoe the actual
value of the bullion in the dollar was
not known from one day to another.
In 1878 an cunce of silver was wcrth a
little more than 11.15. Ten years after
it bad dropped until It was not worth
94 cents, and in 1893, when the law was
repealed, it was worth but a trifle
more than 79 cents, while In 1895 It
was quoted at 65 2 5 cents. Had tbe
government continued to buy silver and
bad It dropped to 50 cents and less per
ounce, we would have been able to coin
two dollars out of one dollar's worth of
silver one of the dollars would have
paid for the sliver used in both dollars
and tbe other could have been hoarded
in the United States treasury. Under
free coinage how would it be? Sliver
a as quoted at 65 5-8oenta last Satur
day tn the Cripple Creek Dally Times
That would mean that a dollar con
taining 811 grains of pure silver would
be worth In the neighborhood of 63
cents. Then, if a silver mine owner,
or a speculator In silver not the labor
ing man, not the farmer, not the mer
chant or the artisan but the monled
class which has grown almost as rich
mining tilver or speculating in it as
the Goulds and Vanderbllts have In
manipulating railroads; almost as rich
as John D. Rockefeller has In manipu
lating the Standard Oil Trust, and al
most as rich as Carnegie has by the
management of bis mammoth Iron
works those people, the silver pluto
crats, the silver barons, could take
their sliver to the mints and have it
coined into dollars and every ounce of
pure silver would net him give him
a profit of another silver dollar, if the
price remained as high as 65 cents per
ounce, and II it leu Deiow ou cents, as
it did in 1894, his profit would be even
greater about $1.05 on each dollar's
worth of silver he took to the mint and
had coined. But the price of silver
will go up if we get free coinage; you
nay. That is merely an assertion and
proves nothing. We might contend
ith equal reason that free coinage
would drive the price down. That also
would be an assertion and would prove
nothing. The thing that will regulate
the price of silver will be the law of
supply and demand, the same law that
regulates the price of wheat, of pota
toes and of cotton. If there is more
silver produced than can be used the
price will naturally go down; if there
is less produced than can be used, the
price will go up, because those needing
it will bid one against the other in the
hope of obtaining what they need;
whereas If the supply exceeds the de
mand, those buying will jew the owner
01 luo P"u,. ""
8lDle nure
Let us look for a few minutes at trie
silver "crop" since 1792. From 1792
down to 1870 the output, the produc-
tlon, or the "crop" of silver did not ex
ceed $06,000,000 In value. From
to 1894 It had Increased, according to
the United States currency statistics
quoted on page oi bound Lurrency,
to J13,UUO,UUU. in omer worus, xur o
years next preceding 1870, the mines
of the United States produced but $56,-
,. . .Lii. I io-n
wu.uuu worm oi suver, mho iruw io,
to 1894-twenty-four years they pro-
j..,i !K7 nnn find amrt.h nf silver. Tn
i
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u uau u lu I . w . - v. -
oo piain, me imue "
States produced eacn year
up to 1870, and they produced 16,541,-
ooo oo eacu jear irum uu.n
And now, to further Illustrate, the
mines of the United States, prior to
1870, produced but one-ninth as much
sliver each year as they did from 1870
to 1894. Or, probably it would be
plainer this way: The mines of the
United States produced, after 1870, and
uountil ISM. $5,823,717.94 more EACH
i r .
year than they produced each year
prior to 1870. Do you wonder, then,
why silver is cheap after reading these
"vui'
figures? Suppose each farmer in the
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nine umlB
. . d tt population of the
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T' t,Z r V" B , " r
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a h u tIme8 aa much flour each
year hereafter as you are consuming
tvriftv. And If you did not wneat
ould be a drug in the market, the
price would go down, andstbe larmer
would be compelled to stop raising
wheat or sell it at the then current
price. We venture the assertion that
if such a state of affairs did exist you
woula h(jar o the farrnerg geUlng
hema to have the government
taw authorizlng the purchasing
, lndlng of all wheat In order to
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fc tha. at a stipulated price,
h eilver mle owner8 are
doingto-day.
We might carry
this discussion of
the silver question to a greater length
but as this article has already exceeded
the space we had allotted to lt,.we will
bring it to a close in a few short para-
iW18-
We will ask you, however, before we
close, what you understand by free sii
ver? If you do not own silver, or a sn
ver mine, how will the freecoinage of
silver benefit you? II you get a dollar
of It you will have to work and earn It,
or rou will have to sell something
That Is the only way you will get it.
And If you work you will get your pay
in a dollar which you do not have the
- ... . .1,
but' least assurance wm uo . .
cents six months or a year after it is
coined. Money Is worth only what
I eople will give for it. Not a bit more.
If we ceal with a man In England or
Germany or France and be will take
our money only for what its bullion
value is, and that bullion value is but
one half as much as Its face tays It Is
worth and you desire to buy some of
bis goods from us, do you suppose we
would sell them to you for one-half
what tbey cost ui simply because your
coin said it was worth twice as much as
the law of supply and demand said it
waa worth? No, air; you would pay
the difference you would stand the
loss. If you had sold your wheat or
your stock, or if you had labored and
tad been paid In silver dollars which
the markets of the world said were
worth half as much aa their face said
they were worth, every merchant In
the country would mark his goods up
100 per cent and you would have to pay
twice as much for everything you use
as you do to-day, and would be a loser
from 25 to 30 per cent on every dollar
you got for your wheat or for your
stock or for your labor, since neither
farm products or labor would Increase
100 per cent. Tbat would be a claim
that the most blinded free silver advo
cate would not be brave enough to
make. They admit tbat farm products
111 not increase as rapidly as silver
and that labor will be tbe last thing to
Increase In price, if their scheme to
have the free and unlimited coinage of
silver saddled on this country carries.
They all admit this. To contend other
wise would be an evidence of a lack of
thought upon this subject.
In a preceding paragraph we have
shown that tho enormous output of sli
ver from the mines of tbe United
States from 1870 to 1894 had the effect
of reducing silver from $1,328 in 1870 to
$1,152 in 1878 and to 65 2-5 cents in
1894 to less than one-half. Let us see
what has been the effect of the same
immutable law upon the price of farm
products.
In 1870 the south produced 3,150,000
bales of cotton as against 9,900.000
bales in 1895, and cotton wa9 worth 11
cents in 1860 and 12 cents In 1890-1.
The American hay crop amounted to
25,085,100 tons in 1870; and to 65,776 158
tons in 1895. More than two and a
half times as much.
The oat crop for 1870 was 282,000,000
bushels; for 1895, 825,000,000 bushels
More than threa times as much as was
raised In 1870
Tbe wheat crop for 1870 was 288 000,-
000 bushels; for 1895,470,000,000 bushels,
or nearly twice as much as was raised
in 1870. Take this In coanectlon with
tbe fact that Russia and India and Ar
gentina have developed into great
whp.ftt exDortln? countries since 18i0
and you have the solution of the prob
lem of cheap wheat.
It will not be out of place to Btate
here that the finance committee of the
United States senate made a report In
1893 showing the price of farm pro
ducts from 1810 to '.1890 1. In that re
port barley was quoted, in New York,
at 77 cents in 1860 -and 95 cents in
1890-1; corn was quoted in Chicago in
1SR0 at 43 cents, and in 1890-1 at 58
cents; oats on the same market In 1860
at 34 and In 1890-1 at 58 cents; wheat,
No. 2 spring, on Sime market was
quoted in 1860 at $1.02 and in 1890 1 at
$1.03. But, after all, prices are better
to-day than they were before the war
when we were under thebenencent pro
visions of the act which was repealed in
1873, and this fact more than anything
else convinces us that the war and not
the statute which was wiped off the
statute books In 1873, was responsible
for the good times which we enjoyed at
that time,
Trfst some critic may eay we have
aasoned falsely as to the law of supply
aid demand in relation to either silver
or farm products, we will say we have
taken into consideration the fact that
sliver Increased nine times while wheat
increased less than one time. So from
this we conclude that the secret of our
prosperity was not lo an abundance of
cheap money but an abundance of work
for all clasrea when there was
market for all labor as well as for all
products. L?t us open the mills, and
the shops and the factories, let us put
the idle workmen back to work, let us
enact a high protective tariff for his
protection and for the protection of our
farmers and our manufacturers, and we
will have approached nearer the mil
lennium than ever before,
Just one more thought, and then we
will dismiss the subject for this week,
Contrary to a general belief, the pres
ent silver dollar is a legal tender for all
debts, public and private, of whatever
amount, except where otherwise speci
fied in the contract.
At some future time we shall take up
the question of "Ratio, Protection and
Labor."
The Kansas City dailies should have
accused Rev. J. A. Dearborn with
slugging and stabbing himself, and
with afterward pitching himself over
the fence into the yard where he was
found in an unconscious condition, if
tbey had desired to be consistent. A
Roman thug attempted to assassinate
Mayor Davis last spring, and they im
mediately raised the cry that he shot
his own hat. The assault on Rev. J.
A. Dearborn will convince the people
that those papers lied aboutWebster
Davis. But they may expect these
ft
murderous aaulu as long as they per
mit tbe Roman corporation to be recog
nized as a political power; and the Ro
man church U always with tbe Demo
cratic party.
We do not believe that tbe best ele
ment among oar free silver friends will
acquiesce in tbe attempt of some of the
friends of Mr. Bryan to interrupt the
meeting at the Coliseum Monday eve-
Ing. The American people believe
In free speech. Every man has a right
to be heard in tbe expression of his
pinion. The Bryan shouters disgraced
themselves, their candidate and the
city of Omaha.
September 29th and 30th are the
dates set for large Republican rallies
in this city. Hon. John M. Thurston,
Gene al Dan. Slckles, General R. A.
Alger and General Horace Porter will
address the meetings. The county
central committee expects a large num-
3T of people in attendance from other
parts of this state and Iowa.
The election in Maine Monday re
sulted in a Republican majority of over
45,000, and the return of every Repu b
llcan congressman by increased major
ities. It is also noticeable that dis
patches published In the Wmld-lie raid
Tuesday morning contained no men
tion of the matter. Why this discrim
ination? The best paper that has reached
this office for many a day Is Liqht, pub
lished in San Francisco, by W. E.
Price. It Is brim full of original mat
ter, and every line contains a bomb for
the hierarchy. May It always prosper.
"Mr. Faclng-Both-Ways,"
Referring to Rime's methods , of at
tempting to be "all things to all men,"
the Boston Tramcript says:
There are Intimations that Dr. Mc-
Glynn will not be placed-'over a parish
In New York, but will be transferred
to the jurisdiction of Cardinal Gibbons
or Archbishop Ireland, or some other
liberal' prelate. Such a transfer would
be quite in accordance with the policy
of Rome. Dr. McGlynni and Arch
bishop Corrlgan would not s get along
together very well, and there might be
renewal of differences at which the
fiithful would be scandalized. Wher
ever Protestants areln an overwhelm
ing majority, the policy of the Vatican
Is too saiaoth over suchj affairs as the
McGlynn episode, and'J to stimulate an
Indulgent liberality. 3 In ;thls case the
priest who has .given trouble might
well be put under superiors o who are
parsonally popular withjJAmerlcans,
and wio ara, a wjil, ana - of tact, not
Inclined ti th i 03a9pbuouj severity of,
discipline which Archbishop Corrlgan
believes In. The wlsa msn of the Vat
ican know when to see and when not to
see, when to irown ana wnen to ais
nilst a trifling difference J that cannot
be 63ttled without a notoriety "that will
be Inconvenient to Jthe church. They
are shrewd politicians and nice judges
of expediency. tThey are all advanc
ing the cause'of thechurch antl enforc
ing its pretensions.
"In the United States they conciliate
public sentiment; ;ln Spain they shape
and direct the Intjnsltyof Spanish
Catholicism Jfor their owaj ends. The
Spanish government is hesitating now
as to authorizing the jestabllshm ent of
a Protestant church inMadrid. The
papal nuncio in-Spiini has protested
against It; so have mnoyj.indlvidual
lay Catholics; but theiexample of the
latter Is not so much to'" the point as
that of the former, whoi represents the
Vatican. Spain is theonly ttyplcal
Catholic country In Eirope.C In 1887,
out of her populatlonjof 18,000,000, only
about 7,009 were Protestants, a Even In
this year of progress, Junder her pres
ent constitution, public Protestant wor
ship Is forbidden. Protestants may
meet in private houses to worship, but
all public notlcesi'of their services are
prohibited. The present ; premier, less
bigoted than most of hls'countrymen,
has been inclined to 'relax the severity
of the laws so. far" jas to authorize the
establishment of a Protestant church,
and all the ecclesiastics; are up In arms
against him. j The contrast between
the attitude of the Vatican In Spain
and its attitude in the United'States is
instructive, but ols ot particularly
startling tothose cfamlllarJSwlth the
history of the Roman Catholic church."
Which Is Rightl
The R3V. J. B. Daly,1 in a lecture on
"The Jesuit in .Politics," pointedly
says: "I have this to say to the Prot
estant who apologizes for JRomanish
(and Romanism is Jesuitism): If Prot
estantism Is right-Romanism is wrong,
and if Romanism 'is right Protes '.ant
ism must be wrong. Both iare tje an
tipodes of religious opinion. If there
must be apologies for (Romanism
among Protestants, s.the Protestant
Reformation was a t gigantic mistake,
and the millions of martyrs who died
for religious llberty;and tan open Bible
died In vain. If they died in vain, they
were not only fanatlcs,but tbey were
also fools. If;JRome'l8 right, then
Protestant apologists, "for Romanism
make a mistake tln, remaining in this
country. Letthemi.be consistent, and
go to Spain, Portugal or South Amer
ica. We can.apare them, and Rome is
welcome to them. Tyler. . -Tr i