THE AMERICAN
A WEEKLY KEWSt ,
Volume VI.
'AMERICA FOIt AMERICANS" Ws hold that-all men are Americans who Swear Allegiance to the United SUki without a mrnul reservation.
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BULLETS AND BOYCOTT.
Experience of the Louisville
School Board.
Threatened With Stray Bullets, Boycott
and Raving Their Threats Cat if
They Did Not Reappoint Roaiaa
Catholic School Teachers.
The following article Is taken from
the Louisville Justice, and shows the
extreme methods papists will resort to
in endeavoring to secure control of our
educational Institutions:
Concerning the twelve teachers,
whom several of the trustees desired to
reinstate at the last school board meet
ing, not a trustee was approached in
behalf of a single Protestant teacher,
while the influence of Roman Catholics
brought to ".bear In behalf of the six
Roman Catholic teachers was tremend
ous. '
, The methods adopted to influence
trustees to vote to reinstate Catholic
teachers were reprehensible in the ex
treme. Some threatened that they
would withdraw their business from
trustees, if they failed t j vote for their
teachers. 'Then they went to some
bankers, to have the bankers Insist
upon said trustees to vote for said
teachers under threats of discontinuing
favors from said banks. Others were
said to have been threatened with stray
bullets, and still others with having
their throats cutl The latter threats
were made'by anonymous letters.
This was all brought about by some
change made at the Centre and Wal
nut street school, which seemed as if
an error to those who did not fully un
derstand the matter, and the trustees
were willing to correct any error made;
the Roman Catholics wanted to take
advantage of the condition In that case,
ring in their Roman friends, who were
dropped, but the members of the Fifth
district saw throuhthelr scheme, and
set about to defeat It.
After a fight in the boajd for several
weeks the Protestant members finally
defeated the scheme. Some of the
new members, soon after becoming
members of the board, found out that
many of the "oslt'ons held by teachers
were not held because" they were ef
ficient, but simply because they had
political influence.
The new members, having promised
their constituents that they would act
for the best Interests of their schools,
dismissed such teachers as did not
come up to the proper requirements.
Because there happened to be some
Catholic teachers among them Rome
howled for five weeks, until the matter
was put before the board for argument
and vote, and down went the Roman
ring I
It would take up too much space to
fully explain the trouble and worry our
trustee friends had in this matter, al
though it would make very interesting
reading, If the full details could be
given, of what transpired in the differ
ent committees, and how some of the
Romanists tried to give contracts to
their Roman friends, after they had
baen beaten by a lower bids frcm other
bidders.
Last week, for instance, one trustee
from the lower ward a, i moved to give a
Romanist a contract, after he was un
derbidden by a $20 lower bid by a Prot
estant! But friends were on hand and
saw justice meted out. Many schemes
have been blocked by our friends in the
board, and If we will give them four
friends this fall, they will give every
body fair play, and only such teachers
as have the good of our schools at heart
will be placed in charge. '
Don't stop working. The Romans
are on watch and working all the time.
It will certainly do your heart good to
learn what the few friends In the board
have already accomplished.
AN APPEAL.
First International Congress or Anti
Free Masons.
In the month of September, from the
26th to the 30th, there will be held
with the consent and blessing of the
holy father, XIII., at the city of Trlent,
in Tyrol, an international congress of
anti-Free Masons, to further and create
a general "organization of Catholics
against Freemasonry and their usurp
ing plans.
It is high time that the Catholic
world gather together against this in
fernal sect, who understand to work
their unchristian plans in secret and
darkness to overthrow the Catholic
church and other religious societies.
They are distributed all over the
world, very cleverly organized and
governed, from Rome(?); an Interna
tional organization of Catholics, pro
vided with the necessary means, is the
only safeguard against this Masonic
aggression towards the Catholic
church. The order of Freemasons have
openly announced that they purpose
nothing less than the extinction of the
Cathollo church and systematic ruina
tion ot all Christian societies.
France and Italy are already In the
hands of the Freemasons; in Hungary
the Jews and the Calvinis's lave, In
the Masonic lodges, joined hands for
the suppression of the Cathollo church,
and in Austria they now openly work,
where they till now worked secretly.
Open your eyes, Catholics of Austria!
Prepare for the coming fray! Organize!
The International combine will strongly
assist jou In your duty to defend your
church.
At present our aim is to establish
this International Antl-Freemason So
ciety, similar to the Alliance Israelite,
or the Gustavo Adolph Society. Who
soever can should go personally to
Trient and take part In the consulta
tion and deliberation; all others help
us by a gift, by prayer or membership.
Active members of the congress are
expected to pay five florins, assisting
members not 'less than one-half florin
Send contributions to the chairman of
the preparatory committee, Dr. Joseph
Porzer, lawyer and councilman in
Vienna, First District, Schottenbastel
No. 1. ' May the coming fight not find
us Catholics unprepared, but willing to
defend our most holy church. The
Committee, August, J89C Translated for
"llie Tyler" from 'VaUrland," August
t, 1396, Vienna, Austnia, by A. J.
W hat Current History Says.
LaGrande, Oregon, September 16,
1896. Dear Sir: Will you please
answer through your valuable paper
the following 'questions: Is Garret A
Hobart, the nominee on the Republl
can ticket, an American, and what is
his record InJ the past in this respect?
There are three or four Americans
here who wish to be Informed In regard
to this. Respectfully yours,
A Subscriber.
On page 271 of Current History, Vol.
VI., No. 2, we find the following:
"Garret Agustus Hobart. Bio
graphical Sketch: For reasons that
seemed wise to the makers of our con
stitution, the vice- president Is scarcely
a- active member of the administra
tion. He stands apart in quiet dignity,
presiding In the senate as occasion tray
demand. The chief virtue requisite
seems to be discretion. Still, as the
second official of the state, he holds a
lofty station, 1 Inasmuch as, In event of
of the death or disability of the presl
dent, he immediately become one of
the most powerful executive rulers on
earth. Moreover, his personal quali
ties and his political Influence may add
to the administration strength deeply
felt even though not widely seen, and
for this it is 1b dens able that the vice
president be in hearty accord with the
president, both -Jin theories of govern
ment and in specific party policy. It is
known that this has not always been
the case. If the people now order the
reins of government into Republican
hands, this accord, It Is believed, is
fully to be expected.
"Garret Augustus Hobart, Republi
can vice-presidential nominee of 1896,
was born in 1844, in'Long Branch, N.
J., in a little' old "farm-house built long
before theRevolutlon. The house has
since been ' enlarged and remodelled.
Mr. Hobart Is of -mingled New Eng
land andj colonials Dutch descent. His
father, Addison W. Hobart, came in
early life from New'J.England to New
Jersey and taught school in Monmouth
county. Afterward he kept a general
store at Marlborough, a few miles north
of the village ofJiFreehold, where he
was an esteemed resident through the
rest ofhls life. He was an elder In
the Reformed (Dutch) church, and In
1884 was a delegate to the general
synod of'that church which met at
Grand Rapids, Mich. Through Mr.
Hobart's mother, a Van Derveer, he Is
a descendant 'from' many of the early
Dutch families! in East Jersey and on
the western end off Long Island. He
was named after'bis mother's brother,
Garret Augustus Van Derveer, a well
known farmer tof Monmouth county,
whose homer was at Deal Beach. Mr.
Hobart's maternal grandparents were
David G.iVang Derveer, and Katy Du
Bols, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin
Du Bols.Ifortsixty-three years pastor of
the United Reformed (Dutch) churches
of Freeholds and sMiddletown, and a
most zealous patriot in the Revolution.
Throughthis clergyman of French Hu
guenot descent, 'Mr. Hobart, his great-
grandsos, gets astrain of that good
blood. Tracing the Van Derveer line
upward in successive generations, we
find the well-known names of East Jer
sey settlers, Hendrickson (from Long
Island in the seventeenth century), Van
Voorhles (Dutch colonist in Flatlands,
now Brooklyn, L. I, 1660), Schenck
(Dutch colonist inFlatlands, 1650), Van
Couwenhoeven, or Conovor (Dutch
colonist In 1640 founder of the town of
Flatlands). The first to bear the name
of Van Derveer In America was Cor
nelius Janse Van Derveer, who came
from North Holland in 159, bought a
farm In Flatbuah, L. I., and twenty
years afterward was made a magistrate.
He married Trvntle De Mandevllle. It
was his grandson, Tunis Van Dervoer,
born about 1704, who was the first of
his name to remove from Flatbush and
to settle In New Jersey. Nearly all
these Dutch ancestors of Mr. Hobart
have been farmers, sturdy, vigorous,
solid, persevering.
"Young Hobart graduated from Rut
gers College in 1S63, and began teach
ing school, but soon entered on the
study of law with Mr. Socrates Tuttle,
a prominent lawyer in Paterson. This
gentleman was the son of an old friend
of Hobart's father. The student was
admitted to the bar in 1866, at the age
of twenty-two, and has ever since been
in practice In the city of Paterson. In
18H9 he married Miss Jennie Tuttle,
the daughter of his preoeptor. Her ac
quaintances describe her as bright,
cordial, of merry disposition, brilliant
In conversation, a charming hostess.
She is efficient in many works of char
ity, and a valued member of the Church
of the Redeemer (Presbyterian). The
shadow of a great bereavement is siill
upon her and her husband, as scarcely
a year has passed since their only
daughter died suddenly of dlptherla, in
Italy, on the shore of Lake Coma
There is a son twelve years of age."
Rome's Cost to the World.
According to the Milwaukee Catholic
Citizen the pope is allowed for his per
sonal wants about 1100,000 annually. A
regular allowance is also made for the
other dignitaries of the Vatican. The
cardinals receive 1140,000. Other ex
penses are: The poor diocese, (80,000;
secretary of state, $200,000; employes
and ablegates, 1300,000; support of
schools and the poor, $240,000; adminis
tration of the Vatican, $360,000. The
papal expenditures for all purposes
amount to more than $1,400,000. The
income is received from many sources.
Strange to say, Italy contributes the
smallest part of the revenue. The
Unite States send' attong the largest
amounts of money. The pope receives
from time to time rich presents frpm
the orowned beads. The last jubilee of
Pope Leo XIII. brought to the Vatican
$66,000. In addition to the above long
list of expenditures by the Vatican
household alone, there are fabulous
sums expended throughout the world
In maintaining the Romish church.
The cardinals, archbishops, bishops
and priests live like princes and lords,
and there are thousands of women
maintained by the funds of the church.
It is safe to say that the Church of
Rome yearly spends more money than
is expended to maintain any civil gov
ernment on earth. England, with her
matchless navy, Germany, with her
matchless army, do not bleed the peo
ple as the church of Rome does, and
most of the money spent by the church
Is derived from two systems, that of
practical coercion and that of begging.
All business houses know this. All
politicians know It. Ail Romanists
know it. Isn't it time to call a halt?
Clikago Sentinel.
The Mask Is Off.
On Tuesday of last week a diocesan
synod of the archdiocese of St. Louis
was held at the Kenrlck Seminary.
Archbishop Kaln, who has succeeded
Archbishop Kenrlck, deceased, eat
upon his throne, "dressed in the full
pontifical robes of his office." Three
hundred priests from the city of St.
Louis and the surrounding towns In
cluded In the diocese were present and
reaffirmed their loyalty to the pope In
temporal as well as spiritual matters.
This is the first synod of the St. Louis
since the one held in 1837. The de
crees of the Council of Baltimore were
reasserted and promulgated. Parents
are prohibited from patronizing the
public schools and are liable to the ex
treme penalty of excommunication if
they dare disobey the decree. What a
fine commentary upon the boasted lib
erality of the Catholic church toward
the public schools! This action, re
member, is not the cobwebbed statute
of a medieval pope, but a decree issued
in the center of our land of liberty in
this very year. Beneath the thin gauze
of flattery and deception to the Protes
tant world is this sdvere and unaltera
ble Instruction to the communicants of
the Catholsc church and the rule laid
down to her priesthood. Coupled with
this is the allegiance sworn recognizing
the temporal as well as religious su
premacy of the pope. The mask is off.
There is no toleration for this accursed
treason, no matter how much easy
minded people may bubble over about
the guarantees of the federal constitu
tion. Omaha Christian Advocate.
ITS EXTRA HAZARDOUS
Such Are the Risks on the
Lives of Nuns Con
sidered. The Issue t A modes Mutst Either Amer
icanize Rome or Rome Must
Romanize America.
Life insurance agents are not gen
erally wanting In easy adaptability to
thulr audience or In originality of ar
gument, when they want to make them
see the point, but It has remained for a
woman agent in St. Louis to out-dls
tanoeall male compatltors by aocom
plUhlng a feat noao of them so much as
thought of before. She invaded a
large nunnery in that city and actually
prevailed on the sisters to Insure their
lives. The Institution needed new
buildings. These she told them could
be erected and the policies assigned for
the eventual payment of the debt thus
Incurred. The mother superior con
suited Archbishop Kaln, and reoelvod
his cordial consent to the scheme, so
that the nuns finally consented to In
sure their lives in sums that aggregated
$96,000, thus providing for the gradual
extinguishment of the debt. Were
these sisters members of any ordinary
institution open to public inspection,
and subjected to the general laws which
govern other institutions, there would
be little to say except by way of com
ment on the lngunlty and assurance of
the woman who accomplished such a
remarkable business feat. Bat when
we remember that in the case of nuns,
the usual laws relating to death and
burial are suspended, the whole matter
takes on a different light. Who ever
heard of an Inquest held over a nun dy
ing suddenly? In the case of any or
dinary mortal, there must be a regular
burial certificate and various formali
ties, all of which are disregarded In the
caei of women who draw their last
breath behind convent walls. Waiv
ing the question why our government
permits this cool over-rldlng of the
regular mortuary laws by which other
people have to be governed when they
depart this life, can any intelligent
mind fall to see that to allow insurance
an.ong nuns is to put a premium on
murder? How very easy to put away a
nun who is for any reason objectionable
to the priests or the other Inmates.
There will beno questions asked. In
fact the outside world, will not know of
her death at all, but the convent will be
rid of a troublesome member, and the
holy mother church will get the money.
The company which is willing to insure
life under such peculiar conditions is
either in some way in collusion with
Rome or else has very little business
shrewdness. Woman's Voice.
The Vital Issue or the Day.
This is the Issue: America must
either Americanize Rome, or Rome
must Romanize America. Tnat is the
problem which this nation must solve
In the future. The Romanists say that
we attack their religion. Let us see:
Rome has assailed our publlo school
system. She will, if she can, destroy
it. In order to do thU she has entered
the arena of American politics. She
stands now In the full blaze of Its light.
Let her look well to the joints of her
armor. She has put her religion Into
our politics; le,t her take it out, or
stand the consequences.' When she
takes her church out of our state affairs,
our state will not meddle with her
church. We want no Protestant or
Roman Catholic machinery In our
American politics. Rome is both an
ecclesiastical institution and a political
machine. We attack the machine, and
not the institution. We protest strongly
against her sectarian politics. Let us
protest against Protestantism when it
is wrong; let us protest against Cath
olicism when It Is wrong; let us protest
against every form of evil; let us go on
protesting till every wrong is righted,
till the truth in all things is established,
till justice everywhere triumphs, till
every high and holy hope in politics,
in religion, and In ethics, receives its
fruition.
What this city, state and nation need
to-day is a little more of Jesuitical
pluck, minus its duplicity, a little more
Roman Catholic persistence, minus its
secretiveness. Now, in season and out
of season, by day and by night, in re
ligion, in politics, In our schools, in our
benevolent and charitable institutions,
in our legislative halls and in the halls
of congress, in the press of our country,
on our police, on the streets, in our
saloons, everywhere and at all times,
Rome Is at work. She is silent, se
cretive, cautious, affable; when she
can, she flatters; when she cannot, she
tries to intimidate; she rewards her
dupes and persecutes and tortures ber
enemies. She dislikes dlscuiulon, for
it would be her ruin. What she has
the power to do she thinks that she
has the right to do. She always acts
much more than she talks; and her ac
tions are generally far from being in
the line or her talk. She does not
need to say much because she la so
thoroughly trained. You always hear
from her at the ballot box. She is as
persistent In carrying out her policy
as are the laws of gravitation. She is
as thoroughly organized as are the
forces of the universe. Will, you stand
still with folded arms, and see our pub
llo schools, the just pride and the glory
of our nation, founded by tho toil and
the wisdom of our fathers will you see
them go down under tho crushing
power of the Roman hierarchy? i'ro.
11. II Lincoln, in Boston Investigator.
IHSUOP M'CAUE.
What a Methodist Bishop Thinks r
Rome.
"I wonder If the pope would receive
a little counsel from a Methodist
preacher? If so, here it is:
"Be quiet, old man! The world has
slipped by you. Some nations that are
free from your yoke will never put It
on again, and they mean to see that
all nations and kindred and tribes and
tongues shall have the same liberty
they enjoy. 'Peter, put up the sword'
the master told you that long ago.
You have used that sword more against
the friends than against the foes of
Christ. The nations built upon the
trot's of God have grown too mighty
for your control. You catnot convince
them, for you have no argument, no
logic, and no success In nation build
ing to enforce the sophistry of what
you call argument. You cannot com
pel them, for the military power of the
world has passed Into Protestant hands.
The effort to regain it for Rome has
cost you dear. Remember Maximil-
Han and the empire of Mexico. Austria
has had her Sadowa; France has had
her Sedan. Buy no more wisdom at
such a price. Neither France, nor
Spain, nor Portugal, nor Austria, nor
Mexico, nor the South American re
publics, nor all combined, can restore
to your feeble hand tho fallen sceptre
of your papal states. The attempt to
do that will seal the doom of the pa
pacy in Rome itself. The causes you
bless have been cursed, and the causes
you curse have been blessed. Heaven
fall to ratify either your anathemas or
your benedictions. Tho stars In their
courses fight agalnBt you. The breath
of life has been breathed Into the na
tions. The pandemonium of Rome
must give place to the kingdom which
is not of this world. Be quiet, there
fore! Fall Into line! Give the people
the Bible. Ask the next council to
take back Jts silly decree of papal In
fallibility, which every sensible man
on earth ridicules. You are nothing
but a man, and you know It; and all
the fawning flattery of the world can
not make you believe that you are any
thing more t:an a poor, Ignorant mor
tal like the rest of us. What is the
use or keeping up this comedy any
longer? Three hundred years ago,
when the Armada sailed. It was high
tragedy. Times have changed, and it
is getting to low comedy now. Three
hundred years ago there were seven
million of English-speaking people:
now there, are one hundred and ten
million of them. And, as sure as the
Bjn shines In heaven, this race will
victoriously preserve civil and relig
ious liberty for themselves and for all
mankind! Be quiet! The soul of John
Huss Is marching on!"
A Tribute to the Irish.
A speech was made In San Francisco'
in 1849, to a great Democratic meeting
convened in Portsmouth Square. From
the steps of the old adobe, the then
municipal hall of the old ayuni&miento,
a "gentleman" whose name we do not
call, addressed the assembled multi
tude, among whom was a large sprink
ling of Irish, mostly New Yorkers, and
all followers of the Hon. David C.
Broderlck. We can, only from mem
ory, give the eloquent peroration of an
eloquent address. After dilating upon
the splendid character of our enter
prising argonauts, who had dared the
rounding of the stormy southern cape,
the perils of a tropical isthmus voyage
and the dangers of a trans-continental
passage, in ox-wagon or on mule-back,
over the plains; after exhausting the
inexhaustible rhetoric of "fertile soil"
and "balmy clime," he attributed the
discovery of America, In a time ante
dating the voyage of Columbus, to the
Irish; to their wisdom In council and
valor on battle-fields he attributed the
victorious establishment of a govern
ment independent of Great Britain; to
the Irish be attributed all the progress
made by our country in national, moral
and political advancement, and con
cluded by a splendid burst of euloglum
on our Irlh follow cllUens. "Who,"
he asked, 'firnl discovered gold In Cali
fornia? I answer, the Irish. Who laid
the foundation of the great Democratic
party, and who compose Its rank and
file? The Irish. Who have filled the
land with the frulu of their industry?
The IrUh. Who fill and successfully
administer the offices of the country?
The Irish. Who have wrought the
great industrial achievements who
have dug our canals, bulldcd our Iron
roads, cultivated our broad and fertile
acres? Tho Irlnh. Who bavo erected
our great publlo, private and eleemosy
nary institutions? Tho Irish. Who
have constructed our pauper homes
and built our pcnltenUrlcs? I answer,
the hod-carrying Irish. And who have
filled them? The Irlah, be jabcrs; and
may the devil take them." When tho
applause had died awny, and the con
fusion subsided, a coat-tall was seen
hastily entering the El Dorado saloon
opposite. 21 ArgmuiHt.
Disasters to Poll t leal Romanism.
Thus far this has baen a disastrous
year for the Roman Cuthollo church in
politics. In Washington congress has
passed a resolution that hereafter no
appropriation of publlo money shall ba
made for sectarian purposes. That
cuts off all the largo sums that were
voted every year for the Roman Cath
olic schools among tho Indians, their
asylums, hospitals, etc. Henceforth
the government appropriations will be
UBcd for non sectarian purposes. To
the patrlotio members of congress, led
by Mr. Linton of Michigan, the thanks
of the whole American people are due
for the fipal disposition of this ques
tlon.
The nomination of Major McKlnley
as a presidential candidate by the Re
publican party does not please the hier
archy, who see In him a praying Meth
odist and a sound Protestant. Mr.
Bryan, the Democratic-Populist and
Silverlte candidate, Is also a Protes
tant, a (member of the Presbyterian
church In Lincoln, Neb.; and, though
nine-tenths of the Roman Catholics
ill vote the Democratic ticket, they
would prefer Mr. Bland, of Missouri,
whose wife Is a Roman Catholic, as
their candidate. Mr. Bland would
have been nominated at the conven
tion In Chicago If his wife had been ft
Protestant. But the fates were against
him. It is remarkable that Mr. James
G. Blaine's Roman Cathollo mother
lost him the presidency in 1884. Gen
eral Sherman's Roman Cathollo wife
and Jesuit son prevented his nomina
tion and now Mr. Bland's Roman Cath
ollo family have likewise blasted his
hopes. Romanism is not good for this
world" or the world to come. It does
not pay ,for a politician to be allied to
Rome.. When the political power of
Rome la broken, the people will no
longer be deluded into believing what
the pope or priests tell them, and the
door will be open wide for the Gospel
of the Son of God to reach them in
loving klndceu. Converted Catholic,
August, ISM.
The Grand Old Waldcnse .
The municipal authorities of Bres
cia,, Italy, have given to the Waldenses
of that city a venerable Roman Catho
lic church of the Twelfth century. It
Is well preserved. The Waldensian
services were to be Inaugurated a fort
night ago. The church will contain
250 people. The Waldenslans number
64 members and 28 catechumens, all
converts from the Roman Cathollo
church. There Is an audience of from
100 to 200. In Florence the director of
the Bank of Tuscany had become a
Protestant. He died, and his funeral
was one of the largest ever seen in the
city. The procession was led by the
Waldensian pastor, who conducted an
Impressive funeral service which served
to remove wrong Impressions and strong
prejudices from the minds of the peo
ple. All the great men of commerce,
of letters anl of science In Florence
had assembled In the Protestant ceme
tery, and they seemed deeply Impressed
with the story of the hape, joy and love
of the eminent Christian whose remains
they had followed to the grave.
Twenty-three members had been re
celved in the Florentine church one
Sunday In May, 19 of whom came di
rect from Romanism; twenty-three
from the same body are under instruc
tion. The Waldensian pastor of Ancona
recently visited Villa Canale.and while
there preached to successive audiences '
that continued pouring In upon him
till 10 o'clock at night, when his voice
gave out. The eagerness of the people
to hear the Gospel is simply marvell
ous. Not many years ago the W alden
sian pastors were cooped In their Al
pine valleys, and with little prospect of
evangelizing Italy. Now their Influence
Is felt far and wide, and they are daily
gaining strength. Pnsbyterian Wit-nets.
