4 "THE AMERICAN THE AMERICAN. atrrr! at IVntoflU-s nucood-claae matter. JOHN O. THOMPSON. tO.TOn. W. C KELI.KY. RuIdm Maaacar. IUHUM1KH W'KKIT BY THE AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANT, lltlj lloWAHU fTHtrr, 0k., Nl. THE AMERICAN OKKICKa. IMS Howard Htnx't. Omaha. Neb. t. O. Ho I4N4, Cripple Creek Colo. fiJH) a Vrar, Mf rlvtlY I- Advmnrm. TO THE PUBLIC. THK AMK1UCAN la not I ha organ of any sect, order, association, party, clique, faction or dlvlnlos of tin population of tbli (rand Republic, and repudiate and brandi aa fala all elalma or charge that It la such. It't auc-h claim or charge be made by any prraoa or persous whom aoevsr. THE AMKUICAN la a newapaper of (eneral circulation, going to and being read by people of all religious belief and political adulation; by the while and (be black, th native-born and the naturalled, the Jew and the Gentile, the I'roU'ntant aud the Komau Catholic. Thliclaliu can be sulMtantlalcd In any Court of Juitlce at any time. AMIRICAN PUBLISHING CO., JOM C. 1H0KH0K. F'mlfmt, SEPTEMBER 25, 1890. THE TICKETS. REPUM.ICAN. For President, WM. MCKINLEY, or Obto. For Vice-President, GARRET A. HOB ART, of New Jersey. DEMOCRATIC. For President, WM. JENNINGS BUYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President, ARTnURC. SEWALL, of Maine. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC. For President, JOHN M. PALMER, or 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. 81LVER 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, or Illinois. NATIONAL. For President, CHARLES E. BENTLEY, of Nebraska. For Vice-Pi evident, J. H. SOUTHOATE, of North Carolina. SfctOND NOTICE. It has become necessary for business men In all branches of trade to do a strictly cash business, and as that neces sltates our paying cash for what we buy we have also concluded to go to a cash basis, and will, on and after No vember 10, 18, 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 hands of a collection agency for settlement. We sincerely hope no subscriber will neglect to pay his bill on or before 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 American until election day for 10 cent. Cash with the order. Hon. Joel A. Piper has made an excellent Secretary of State, and is en titled to re election. The American takes pleasure in commending him to the voters of this state. Hon. Charles H. Morrill has been aooointed vice-chairman of the Republican state central committee. He can be found at the Republican headquarters in Lincoln, where he will receive all callers. POPCLIST speakers frequently make the statement in their arguments to the effect that Interest rates would be .materially reduced under the free and unlimited coinage of silver. By a ref erence to the statistics prior to 1873 it will be seen that interest rates were much higher than they are to-day. It will also be seen that the legal rate av eraged about 10 per cent, while the con tract rate was even much higher. In times of so-called "cheap" money the interest rate has always been higher. Our readers should not permit them' selves to be deluded with that kind of aa Idea. ANSWERING HAY SEED JAY. Io another column will be found aa article, written by a friend, to anwer to our editorial on "Finance and Tar iff" which appeared In The American laat week. The article U given space for the reason atstgned in the opening para graph or our friend's article because the columns of The American are never cloaed agalmt a man because his opinion differ from that held by us. However, one thing must ba under stood at the outset: We shall not give pace to all articles rlttea in favor or tbe free coinage of silver, and for that reason we shall not surfeit our columns with a defense of the present mone tary system. We shall aot give space to more than one communication each week that is written for tbe pur pose and with the intent of answer ing articles we may have written. We make this statement at this time so that there may be no opportunity for any person to say we have not been abtolutely fair in tbe conduct of this paper during this campaign. We be lieve we are right just as thoroughly as some of our free stiver friends do that they are right, but If they can convince us that we are in error, we ill not hesitate to so declare, even though it bo in tbe last issue before the election. We are not a partisan unless the other fellows nominate notoriously bad men, or men with notoriously bad rec ords so far as their attitude toward the P. A. is concerned; then and in that case we become a partisan. So much for an explanation. Now lot us sue what our friend says: "You refer to Mr. Bryan's reoord in opKsltlon to the compulsory teaching of the English language in the public schools of New Mexico, for which, of course, be stands conaemnea oy a large majority or the American people; quite forgetting that William McKln- ley, in common with a large number of the political men of our time, sought the good will or the Romtoh church by acquiescing in her demands. You refer to the warm friendship of some prominent Romans for Mr. Bryan; do you discover no equally zealous Romans, loud-mouth jd in their cham pionship of William McKlnley? How about Kerens, Lauterbach, Ireland and others?" Our friend has simply followed a common free sliver plan of argument in tbe above. He meets a well established fact with an assertion. Last June the supreme council of the A. P. A. was in session in Washington, D. C , and the records of the several Republican can didates for president were fairly and impartially discussed. The conclusion reached was that every candidate whose name would be presented to the Republican convention at St. Louis, rrom Linton down to McKlnley, would be acceptable to the A. P. A. The committee sent to interview Major Mo- Klnlcy relative to his attitude toward the A. P. A. consisted of Rev. 13. F. Hudelson, state president of the A. P. A. of California; Mr. King of New York, and another minister, unless our memory serves us false, from Kentucky, Those men went to Canton. They had an interview with Major McKlnley, and their report was that that gentle man had unhesitatingly and unequivo cally endorsed the principles of the A. P. A. If Major McKlnley was accep table to the A. P. A. supreme council, If he unhesitatingly and unequivocally endorsed the principles of that order, then he must have committed some flagrant act since June if he has ac quiesced in the demands of Rome to that extent that he would be unaccep table to the great body or patriotic cit izens composing the A. P. A., the grandest American order ever institu ted. But what was that act? Was it hen he wrote his letter or acceptance and said of the priest-ridden and pope cursed classes of criminals, paupers and contract laborers of the old world that we had no room for them? Oh, no; our friend says, it was wnen ne per mitted John Ireland and Lauterbach to dictate the platform and when Dick Kerens was placed in charge of the rtate of Missouri. Now is It true that he permitted either Ireland orjjauterbach to dictate hat went into the platform? Is it not a fact that the platform as first drawn had in it every principle contended ror by the A. P. A., and was not that plat form submitted to William McKlnley, and did he not approve of It? The members of the A. V. A. who were present at the St Louis convention have bo stated, and they have also stated that the second platform, the one adopted, was never ratified by Major McKlnley. We will admit the great Republican party was cowardly when it threw aside the first draft or the platform endorsed by its candidate, William McKlnley, and took up and adopted one molded on the lines indl cated by John Ireland. We condemn the party for that act. However, shall we blame McKlnley because a thou sand men were too cowardly to endorse what he approved? Would such action be just? Most assuredly it would not. But how was It with the platform com mittee of the Democratic party? A Romanist from Georgia and one from California Insisted on the Introduction and adoDtlon of an antl-A. F. A. reso lution. The man who is now the Dem ocratlc nominee was on that commit tee, lie stood with those Romanists, and he has since told a friend of ours, an A. P. A., a Junior and a Mason, that be understood the plank adopted was an antl-A. P. A. plank, and that he favored it because it was. Well, why did be place Dick Kerens lo charge of the state of Missouri! He did not. He had no more to do with It than you had. Tbe delegates to the national Republican convention chose their own national committeeman. A. P. A. men on the Missouri delega tion tu the national convention were really responsible foi his election. They voted for Major Warner the Ed Roue water of Kansas City Instead of Chauncey I. Fllley, while Warner voted for Kerens. Our friend then says; "You fall to note that there Is a great difference between the amount of money In existence and tbe amount In circulation doing business." We did not note that fact in our arti cle. We did not think it was so. The amount or money in actual circulation was $21 10 per capita. But our friend does not agree with us as to tbe reason ror this small shrinkage since tbe end or .the year 1893. He says it was a conspiracy on tbe part of the bankers to force the repeal or the Sher man purchasing clause. If his asser tion were true, times should be better to-day than they were in 1893, or In 1892 prior to the repeal or the pur chase clause of that act, but we sub mit the question to you, Are they bettor? You know they are not. Then our friend's theory is not the correct one; and It must be because, as we stated last week, capital will not be in vested while there is any possible show or the country going to a silver basis. This government is nothing but a great corporation. Every citi zen has a vote to cast to decide wbat policy shall be pursued. We are the president of a newspaper corporation. We are one or the stockholders. Sup pose we were we to cay to the rest or this community, "We do not propose to use the same money you use; It is too dear; we will print a lot or our own and you will have to lake It In exchange for what we owe you, and or what we buy of you," would you not get hold or all the money possible and hoard it up until the stockholders or our company got together and took a vote on the proposition? Moat assured ly you would. You would say, "I know this money Is worth every cent its face says it is worth, but I do not know that the money you issue will be worth more than tne paper on wnicn it is printed." So it is with the capitalists to-day. They see one set or our people a very respectable minority crying ror cheap money, and they have sim ply said what you would eay, "We will keep this money that we know to be good until such time as this money question is settled; then, If the free sllverltes win and their theories prove to be susceptible of demonstration, we shall let our money out into the chan nels of commerce; but, if they prove to be pure fallacies, we shall continue to hoard our good money." You would do exactly the same thing had you njpre money than you could use in your business. Our friend next says: "If there be free and unlimited coin age of gold, tne gold Duuion win oe worth its coin value, and if there be free and unlimited coinage or silver, the silver bullion will be worth its coin value, for who would sell his bullion for less, when he can have it coined free? If the coinage or either be lim ited to below the amount produced, the surplus will seek a market with the highest bidder, and this fact ex plains the depreciated value of silver." For the sake of argument, let us admit that the price of bullion will not go below Its coin value under Iree and unlimited coinage. Now, let us go a step further. Lst the silver kings of America take their mountains of silver that are waiting for a market; let them take them to the United States mint; let them take their pay in silver certifi cates, and return to their homes. Have you any or that money? Has your neighbor any of It? Can you get any of it If you do not work, and can you get work if the shops, the factories and the mills are closed? Can you get any of it unless you have something to sell, and can you sell to those silver mine owners more than you do to-day? You say, "Certainly; they will want to get their money in circu lation; they will want It to be earning them something; they cannot afford to have it lvlnsr Idle." We are not so sure about that. Ha not our friend said that the money In circulation had decreased to little more than $13 per capita because of a conspiracy on the part of the bankers? May not these silver mine owners, who are aleo bank era and railroad magnates, may they not also conspire, and, in order to get a greater price for their silver than even the face of that silver dollar calls for, may they not hoard (heir money, thereby forcing the price of money up and the price of labor and of farm products down? This proposition is just as reasonable as that advanced by our friend In his article. It is just as liable to prove true, also. We cannot see where we would be benefited by pitching the present financiers over- bo re: and taking on a new outfit, more unscrupulous, equally as selfish, and not a bit ore hooest than are the gentlemen on Wall street. For our part, if we are to choose between Wall street bankers and silver mine owcers, we prefer the bankers, because tbey live aod vote io this country, while, unless common report is wrong, a ma jority or the owners or silver and silver mines are foreign capitalist. v Our friend then admits that the present capacity of the mints of the United States would be Inadequate to the demand if we bad free and unlim I ted coinage, aa he figures that there would be sent to our mints, provided the mines of the world produced each year hereafter as much as they did in 1895, one hundred million ounces of silver, which would be worth, accord ing to free coinage figures, $129,500,000. He falls to take into consideration that during 1895 the production from Amer can mines was much less than it will be hereafter, otherwise the argument of tbe free sllverltes to the farmer that free coinage will open our mines and put a large number of men to work who will have to buy their products, is groundless and of no weight. The free silver advocates have repeatedly told us that tbe silver mines were closed; that they could not afford to mine sil ver at the prices which have obtained for several years. If this is true, if it is a fact that the silver mines are closed, then, Instead ' of our hav ng $129,500,000 worth of silver to coin free, we may be called upon to coin one-half as much more, which would raise tbe amount to nearly $200,000,000 or more thaa $3 for each man, woman and child in the United States. Then ir that plan was pursued for seven years, we would have twice as much money for each man, woman and child as we have to-day, but it would be In the silver mine owner's pocket, and would remain there unless you had something he wanted to buy either labor or products. Our friend then speaks of keeping the balance of trade in our favor, and seems to think that it will be accom plished very easily if we have free sil ver. To secure for ourselves a larger share of the trade of the world than we have to-day, must, in our opinion, re sult in the cheapening in some way of the article offered for sale. Countries (the people in the aggregate), like in dividuals, buy where they can get things the cheapest. If China and Japan, which are silver countries, offer an article for sale that was manufac tured by people earning lens than a dol lar a week, how can the American manufacturer, who pays from $1 50 to $3 50 per day to have the same thing produced, how can he compete with the Chinaman or the Jap unless he lowers the price 6f his laborers' wages to a level with the standard in those ountrles? He can avoid j this in but one way by buying the material of some producer who has reduced his laborers to even a lower standard of wages than have the Jap) and the Chinese. Don't you believe, friends, that we can obtain the balance of trade or tbe world unless your wages are reduced to the Lvel of those paid In other sil ver countries. And free silver will not control the markets of the world for the farmer's product any more than it will for the laborer, and we will show you why. Russia is a silver country. She is a great wheat pro ducing country. She also has cheap labor. She will go into the markets of the world and offer her wheat, raised by a man who probably received for his year's work one-tenth as much as the American farmer had to pay his help. Does the farmer believe he could pay ten times as much for' help to raise and market a crop'as the Rus sian farmer does, then 'take his product to the world's market and (undersell him simply because we have the lrce coinage or silver and have given the silver baron twice as much as his prod uct was worth? Does it look reasona ble? Take it home. Suppose you and your nearest neighbor teach took a load or wheat to market, and .that his cost him five cents per bushel to pro duce, while yours cost your fifty cents per bushel, could you go on the market and undersell him? If you can't do it at home, can you do It abroad? I. When you hear a free Silverman talk, go home and think ithe thing over by yourself, and IV won't have so rosy a hue. AS USUAL. A man giving his name as Frank Connors was arrested about 3 o'clock Sundav morninar bv Officer John Wells. Connors was drunk, and was wander- lnir about trvinsr to open doors on Uom mercial street. He bad two decks of cards on bis person, and Chief Selp was preatlv surprised to discover afterward that He was a iatnouc priest, xiis irue name is Father Callis, and his home is, nr was until lately, at Leavenworth When arrested in Atchison, he was on his way from Jrranklort to leaven worth. He says he knows a great many Atchison people, and named one nromlnent citizen and wife whom he said he had married. He looks to be about 35 years of age. The above clipping, from the Atchl son Globe, is a refreshing exception to the rule of the subsidized dally press, falling over each other in their efforts to kiss the mcta tarsal extremity of the superannuated vice-god of dago land, by upprefsing all news detrimental to the Interests of the Romish "machiae," an exception that has a tendency to re lieve "that tired feeling" which has been growing on an observant public of reoent years. Thb fact that more silver Is la cirtav latlon as money to-day thaa prior to 173, when the mints were open to free and unlimited coinage, is evidence enough in ifctelf that tbe Republican party ba al wave been in favor of the broadest use of the white metal. It has always been the policy of the Re publican party to plaoe the govern ment at the back or all' the money of the people- In order to maintain the parity. At present the purchasing power of every standard silver dollar is equal to that of gold or any other kind of money. Gold is simply a stand ard of measurement for our dollars, and is merely adopted as such because it purchasing power, whether colnti or in bullion, Is the ame in every other nation. Should our standard silver dollar be accepted in the payment of imports, whether coined or in bullion, we believe that no objection would be raised to the free and unlimited coin J age. me existing tact una tne duu-s Ion and coinage values materially differ under present prices, and the argu ment that legislation would equalize that value, is a theory which, in our opinion, cannot be sustained. The congress of tbe United States might as well fix the value of wheat, corn and other farm products, or any class of manufactured articles, and undertake to maintain it. - Under the head of "A. P. A-lsm Waning," the Irisli, Worhl announces the suspension of the Putriotie American of Detroit. If the editor of the Irish World will look about a little he will find that A. P. A. sentiment Is as strong to-day as ever. The fact that a newspaper whloh supportsjthe princi ples of that order raay suspend on ac count of business reverses idoes not in dicate a "waning" of the sentiment. Tbe A. P. A.n has no newspaper organ." So far as this newspaper is concerned, we will say that the de mand for It is unprecedented ln its his tory. Since the last issue orders have been sent In for many thousand copies, and our presses will bejcompelled to run almost night and day from this time on. Last week we published ex-PresI- dent Harrison's New York speech, and since that time the. demand for extra papers has been so large that the edi tion was soon exhausted. It order that all our readers and' those who have since been added to our list may have an opportunity to read that speech, we have decided to reprint it, together with the article upon the ;J financial question. Parties desiring The Amer ican during the campaign should send in their orders as early as possible. Why Is it Rome always tries to se cure the attorneysnips everywnerer Smyth for attorney-general and Dunn for county attorney Are both Roman Catholics, nominated by the Demo cats this fall. They have had the attorney-general of Illinois for four years or more. Look well to your bal lots on election day. SUES A PRIEST. Mtea Kate T. Hickie Wants $0,000 Damages From "Fattier" E tin is. 'Father" Bernard A. Einis, of the Dominican convent, 871 Lsxington ave nue, Has bjen sued in tne supreme court of Queens county byJJMiss Kate Ted ford Hlckie, of Long Island City, to recover $50 000 damages for defama tion of character. Herman S Loew, of 280 Broadway, appears for Miss mcK'.e, and w. J. Lardner, formerly deputy attorney- general, represents the priest." Miss Hickie, who formerly lived at 43 Weft Thirty-fifth street, alleges that she has been attacked in letters. written to her and the newspapers. Miss Hickie is about 28 years old and a prepossessing brunette. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and her parents died when she was 7 years old. About six months ago "Father" Ennis, a young priest, be same infatu ated with the woman and she made frequent visits to the Dominican Con vent church to see the young priest who, contrary to his vows, had fallen In love with her. One of the older priests, a Father Hartigan, noticing the intimacy be tween Miss Hlckie and the young cell- bate, tried to put a stop to her visits, and finally wrote letters to friends and newspapers or a defamatory character, charging her with poor funds she had collected for the church. When Miss Hlckie could mo longer call at the convent "Father" Ennls communicated with her through the malls, and many letters passed between them, all of which the young lady has placed in the hands of her attorney, who, In the course of the case started, will make them public, and he prom' ises that they will be ot an interesting and spicy character. When "Father" Ennis found that he could no longer keep up his intimacy with Miss Hlckie, he commenced to say things derogatory to her character, and it is for this that the young woman is suing him. Romish celibacy is a farce and a humbug. The papacy caa no avore de stroy or control the faculty of love than it can remove the sin f rvm the cent.-r of the universe. Eofoir;d celib acy compels RomUh priests to ruin lives and destroy the happiness of other. Romlah priests frequently select or phans or a friendless girl for their vic tim. Father" L?yden, of Illinois, made ai orphan his crnel victim. "Father" Flaherty, of' Mount Morris, Ji. Y , ruined a fatherless and mother less girl of 16, and now here is another papal parasita seeking, the downfall of aa orphan and friendless young womn. , Miss Hlckie hai so oe difficulty In securing a lawyer to take her present ease in hand and try secure her justice in a court. Lawyers are afraid of Rome. She holds a string on many of them, and outraged humanity can not, in many cases, get these advocate and Interpreters of the law to figit for them. "Father" Eonis belongs to tbe order of holy butchers that ran the Infernal machinery of the inquisitioa, and ie mean and low enough to do anything. We shall watch with interest the de- - wsiopmenU In Miss Hickie's case A SILVER DIME Will pay for THE AMERICAN Until Nov. lit 1896. Your friend cannot afford to be with out it. Send it to his address.. Fight on the A. P. A. The contest in the Eighth congres sional district of Michigan will be watched with considerable interest from the ract that party lines to a de gree will be abandoned, as likewise will the currency question, in an effort on the part of the Democrats to over throw the A. P. A. The Democrats in nominating Judge Ferdinand Brucker, think they have found in him a candi date who will draw many Republican votes for Congressman Linton, the A. P. A. candidate, and, while Bruckner is a Protestant, his liberality on the subject of creeds is well-known. Valho fie Vituen. Yes. That is the way of the Jesuits. They get soma cowardly sneak, of a Protestant, who is so "liberal" to the "common enemy" for the Bake of office and peir. The "liberal" is always ready to do their dirty work, while these traitors to human liberty set back, smirking over their suscess in befooling, the peo ple. Of course the "Democrats" do the bidding of the hierarchy because, don't you see, the Jesuits control all the votes of the "Micks," "Wlnskis" and "Sa tollls." They cannot down Linton iby any fair means, and if they do, it will only make . LINTON THE. NEXT' PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Of course, the Citizen says it Is an ef fort of the Djmosrats to overthrow the A. P. A., but if it had said that It was an attempt of the papists to overthrow American liberties and all free institu tions, It would have beea absolutely correct, They have always used the Democratic party as a toot to Injure, destroy or weaken this country. How any self-respecting American citizen can train with such a crowd is beyond comprehension. Patriot all over the country will watch with interest the struggle be tween the Columbian JUeague demo-pop-papal combination and the Ameri can citizens. Citizsns of Michigan, see to it that these traitors to human rights are hopelessly defeated. Wisconsin Patvitt, Here You Are. ST. Loins, Mo., Sept. 11. Editor of The American j Please answer through the columns of your valuable paper, to settle a dispute, the following questions: L Is William McKlnley uu favor of Roman Catholics? No; he is a Mason and a. Methodist. 2. Is Garret A. Hobart a Catholic, or under their influence? No; he belongs to the Reformed Dutch church. 3. Is Arthur C. Sewali an A. P. A.? Is he under Catholic inSuence? He is not an A. P. A. Have no in formation on the latter question. 4. Is the vice-president of the Popu lists an A. P. A.? Has he held an of fice in the order? It not, is he in favor of Catholics? He endorses, the principles .of the A. P. A. Do not know that he is a member. 4. Is Lewis, who was nominated for governor of the state of Missouri, an American. He is; but not an A. P. A. American City. Mexicans Attack Church. Mexico City, Ssptember 18. On the night of the 15th a mobattacked the Presbyterian church at Aguas Callen tes, the pastor of which "ia the Rev. D, H. Sharp. The mob broke the win dows and doors owlth stones. Mr. Sharp's house was" also attacked. On the 16th instant a crowd tattacked the Morelos Protestant college in the same city, breaking every window in it. Several arrests have been -made and the authorities are anxious to identify the leaders. Ualted StatesjMlnlster RanBom has also been appealed to to use his bestoffloes'with the government to secure the punishment of the offenders.