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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1), !S9G.
Number 41
7jVoLUME VI.
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I The A. P. & Piesident, Ad
dresses a Large Audience
at Rochester, N. Y.
Thlnki He See a Cloud BUing Out of
thV East-Only a Question of Time
When It Must be Settled.
The report given below of a certain
lecture delivered the other night In
this cltyjcontalns the sentiment of the
speaker, and not necessarily those of
Tlu Timts. We give place to the re
port, the same as to any other local
doings, but without comment, as The
Time Is a non-sectarian paper:
tit. j j t. C.mt TTa.ll
1 was crowded to the doors with an audi
ence marked for its representative
character and!manlfest devotion to the
principles. Lad vocated by the different
speakers.
Chairman James Sargent called the
meeting to erder, and after the audi
ence hadjglven a hearty vocal render
Ine of the National Anthem and prayer
ras offered by Rev. E. W. bnepara.tne
speaker of the evening, ionn v.
. . ( lt A,nnA
KChois, 0I ueorg i, ws iuuuuuwiu.
Mr. Echols said in part:
"Mr.President and Friends op
America and American Institu
tions. Many a time and oft our fore
fathers gathered together to take
counsel one with another concerning
questions of grave interest for their
country and its Institutions. So we to
JL night,I trust,meet as practical men and
women, to discuss practical questions of
practical import, in the hope that our
mimrlinff together, our mutual under
standing and disoussion, may aid us to
discern some growing evils which are
arising In our country, and by oppos
ing, end them. To most of you born in
this, my native land, it is unnecessary
for me to speak of the formation of our
government. You know full well that
way back yonder two or three hundred
years1 ago, our forefathers came to this
country as Huguenots, who settiea in
' 4 . - i- r.ilnnn In.o eart.lnn nf njr
Vjua i-oruiiiiM "
I pouptry, escaping from the persecution
growing out of the revocation of the
edict of Nantes In Fratce, as Cavaliers
who settled in Virginia, as Puritans
who settled in Massachusetts, to escape
the wrongs of the English church. We
well know that in nearly every in
stance those settlers came here to find a
new country where they might wor
ship God according to the dictates of
their own conscience, and from that
day to this has been a land of liberty,
x This has teen a land where you and
F4 every one of us could worship God ac
cording to the dictates of his own con
science, and it is In the hope that we
may hand down to posterity the same
blessing,(ithe same freedom that has
been handed down to us, that I trust
we meet 'here to-night, that I trust we
are meeting time and again all over
. this land.
"In times past we have seen the
small cloud arising out over the sea no
longer than a man's hand, and many
times our land has been stained by
war's cruel strife, and it has taken
father, husband or brother from the
building up of the purest of all altars
next to the worship of God, the family
altar.
"We well know that the seemingly
small cloud at the time grew In lnten'
slty until it took the firstborn of nearly
every household all over this country,
"I come to you from far off Georgia,
where we were upon one side of that
great conflict, up here to New York,
where you were on the other side, and
I thank God that while once we heard
only the song of Sherman marching
through Georgia, Georgia can now
march through New York. (Applause.)
"I come to you bearing a message
from that far off southland that while
at that time we had to be seriously
spanked, I may Bay, to end the rebel
lion which existed in our herders, now
we are a Union-loving people. (Ap
plause.)
"To-day all over our beloved south
land there is an air of veneration, love
and loyalty towards our grand old Star
Spangled Banner, and we trust that the
lessons of the past, the dark acd cruel
and bloody lessons of the past, will in'
deed bring home to you the sad story
that 'eternal vigilance is the price of
liberty.' Let us guard well our out
posts here to-day, that never again
shall any man or set of men allow any
clouds to spring up and grow In our
midst to bear such awful results as
were seen from 1861 to 1865. It is now
beyond question we all know that the
cause of that conflict was human slav
ery. The question has been asked me
why it was that the north had to lose
its best and purest blood to remove the
national evil. It was because It was a
national evil, and the national blood
bad to be shed as its propitiation.
You know where It began. That it
was in many instances Massachusetts
ships, manned by Massachusetts sea
men, filled with cargoes of New Eng
land rum, that were sent to the coasts
of Africa, and that brought back the
negroes to be sold all over this land.
We well know that in 1794, when the
question was in the American congress,
shall we prohibit any more bringing
in of slaves Into this country,' tbe
records show that in Massachusetts and
Connecticut they were against the bill
to abridge the importation of slaves,
and with South Carolina and Georgia
voted unanimously against it. Tbe
whole country was guilty of slavery and
It was a national evil, and the best and
bravest of our whole land had to be an
offering tcHheGod of battles, and now,
from the Penobscot to the Rio Grande,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, we are
a free people in fact as in name, wor
shiping the tame God, standing by the
same Institutions, and we hope, stand
ing shoulder to shoulder, to perpetuate
these institutions of this our own na
tive land. (Applause.)
"It is now all peace within our bor
ders. Have we no foes to face? Are
there no questions pertaining to good
government to be answered? I think
there are. Iithlnk I see rising far out
yonder, rather toward the east, a little
cloud now much larger than a man's
hand, that ;is slowly but surely encom
passing this country, and as surely as
God reigLB,Uf that question is not met,
and we cannot end that system which
is being fastened upon this country, by
the ballot, it will only be a question of
time wheniwe will have to end It by the
bullet. (Voices: That is so.) Which
will you have, the ballot or the bullet?
(A voice: Thejballot.) I hope there Is
not one within the sound of my voice or
In all this country !who will answer ex
cept as the answer haB been made here,
'by the ballot.' C Let us take it in time,
friends, and Bettle it by the peaceable
measure if the ballot, and not be com
pelled to Bettle It by the musket. But
what, say you, are these questions?
"You recognize the honor that I have
now is chiefly through this my god
father (turning to Colonel Sargent). It
is through him I am lifted up to what
I shall always hold the greatest honor
of my life, and no more worthy or bet
ter epitaph do I want over my body
when laid in its-last resting place than
that I tried well toiperform my duty in
this my offlolai;positlon as Supreme
President of theAmerlcan Protective
Association. (Applause.) Represent
ing, as I do, millions of American free
men; Btanding.Jas I.do, at the head of a
column which (extends from the Atlan
tic to the Pacific, and through every
state and territory 'this broad union,
united, as we trust, in broad organiza
tion, not to sow theseeds of difference,
not to attack any man's religion a
charge we indignantly deny or to at
tack any man's religious sympathies
but banded together for the highest
and purest motives, and because we be
lieve there areiquestlons to be answered
requiring perfectjorganizatlon and dls
clpline, without which ruin stares us
in the face.
"Why am I a member of the Ameri
can Protective Association? We are
called rascals. and thieves, and there Is
not language enough or words enough
to do Injustice tojour order, and so they
actually have to icurse us in Latin oc
casionally. (Applause.) Sometimes it
comes from sway over the sea, pro
nounced by that,"oldtman who seems to
be better adapted to cursing than
blessing. We rare called all these
names, and Tfor .what? What is the
sum of our offending? What hurtful
principles Ismyffrlendihere advocating
with all the; might and main of that
life which has led him to success in
business and'Other;circles of life? I sup
pose many of you 'have read them. We
have some good clergymen in the land
who say wejare.some new device of the
devil. (A voice: Lord forgive them.)
I would say,', have mercy on their bouIs
(A voice: Amen.)
"Our firsthand leading tenet, the first
principle of our organization, is loyalty
to true Americanism, which knows no
birth, race, creed or party. That is the
first requisite of membership in the
American (Protective Association. Is
there in all. this land a heart so dead as
to say there is anything inimical to our
institutions or to our country in that?
Neither race, creed or party, let them
be born where they .may, Jew or Geu
tile, bond or - free, high or low, so long
as they eimplyl pledge themselves to
support well our American Institutions,
we bid them'welcome, and yet for that
we are not 'honorable gentlemen, it is
said. The American Protective Asso
ciation is not a political party and does
not control the political affiliations of
its members, but it teaches them to be
intensely individual in the discharge
of their political duties, because It be
lieves that all the problems confronting
our people may best be solved by the
conscientious discharge of the duties of
citizenship by every individual. Is
there one In the sound of my voice wbo
can take exception to that plank? I
know there Is not, for it would be
merely a stultification of yourselves Id
so doing."
The speaker then enumerated one by
one each of the dozen principle of the
order, analyzed and elucidated, and of
fered them for criticism. One by one
he showed the principle of the order
to be identical with the principles of
American citizenship. At the con
clusion of his address the speaker gave
an Interesting and graphlo account of
a personal experience In the Orange
men riot In New York, In 1873, where
he bad a bullet put through his cloth
ing. Suddenly drafted as a detective
by the municipal authorities of New
York, he was compelled to help In
quelling the riot, and his description of
the battle which there tot k place was
eagerly listened to by hi audience.
The opposing tenets to Americanism
of Roman Catholicism were clearly ex
plained and references made to many
sources, long past ana recent utter
ances of the bishops, cardinals and
egoists of the said church. He described
the attitude of the papal system to
ward the Good Book and their claim of
an Inherited standard of divine right
of interpretation; their denial of pos
sible legal marriage relation to tbe
Protestant Christian church. The re
lations of church and state were ably
expounded, showing their union to be
the ambition of the Roman priesthood,
hereas the object of American Insti
tutions, and their safety, he explained,
depended upon church and state and
their separation.
Mr. Echoli was followed by the su
perior president, who referred to the
nrlnciples of their order as being the
same for which our forefathers fought
and died. '
It is necessary, he said, to eradicate
a political policy which has steadily
limited the seating capacity of our pub
lio schools, to add to patronage of
private schools. He objected to the
use of public funds for support or private
institutions. The solution of the prob
lem, he said, was the election; of none
but patriotio citizens to publlo office.
A few tears would see the grandest
results in the election of patriotic and
intelligent citizens to office that any
country ever possessed.
President Echols delivered an ad
dress last night in Buffalo beiore a
mass meeting of the Polish Catholic
who have renounced the authority of
the oooe. The gathering was made up
of Polish citizens of Cleveland, Toledo,
Detroit and Buffalo, to the number of
fi.non. who are now In' the racks of
Protestant Christians. ' It was by a
special Invitation of the president of
their organization, a former Roman
Catholic Polish priest, that he ad
dressed them on the occasion of their
annual convention in Buffalo.
President Echol will return again
to Rochester to-night, when a meeting
will be held in Sargent Hall. Ihe
lloclbester Evening Times, tieptembtr SG.
Silver Party and Borne.
The Independent asserts that every
Roman Catholic church paper in this
country is for Bryan and free silver.
As the Roman press is under complete
control of the hierarchy, and is only al
lowed to voice the sentiments of the
hierarchy, this fact is a big straw. ,
The New York World say that the
silver mine of tbe United State are
principally owned by tbe following,
with the value as follows:
John McCay (Roman Catholic), $40,
000,000; Marcus Daly (Roman Catholic),
(25,000,000; Flood estate (Roman Cath
olic), $25,000,000; O'Brien estate (Ro
man Catholic), $25,000,000; Fair estate
(Roman Catholic), $25,000,000; besides
other men and estates either Roman
Catholic or connected by marriage
with Rome, such as W. A. Clarke, $40,
000,000; John P. Jones, $25,000,000; J.
B. Haggln, $25,000,000; Sharons, $35,
000,000; Hearst estate, $35,000,000; Sen
ator Stewart, $20,000,000; and James
Murray, J. C. Powers, the French syn
dicate, de la Mar, Moffatt and others,
representing sixty millions more in
all, $340,000,000.
Is it any wonder Rome howls for
Bryan and free silver?
Foreigner In America.
"We guarantee," writes Bill Nye,
"that every man in America shall fill
himself up full of liberty at our ex
pense, and the less of an American he
Is the more liberty he can have. If he
desires to enjoy himself, all he needs Is
a slight foreign accent and a willing
ness to mix up with politics as soon as
he can get his baggage off the steamer.
The more I Btudy American institu
tions the more I regret I was not born
a foreigner, so that I could have some
thing to say about the management of
our preat land. If I could not be a for
eigner, I believe I would prefer to be a
Mormon or an Indian."
the Order
Cannot
Be Trusted.
Tbe Order a Meance to Protestantism la
All Nations-Why They Should
Not Be Tolerated.
That noted ex-Jesuit nobleman,
Hoensbroech, has again come out with
the explicit declaration that Jesuits
are always and everywhere disloyal. A
Berlin paper recently urged the gov
ernment to reoonulder its action to re
admit the Jesuits to Germany, on tbe
ground that it would counteract the
Polish aglUtlon and at the same time
reward the Jesuits for their loyalty.
To this Graf Hoensbroech replies as
follows through the Zukunfl, of Berlin,
which is translated for the Literary
Digest:
"Catholic orders in general, and the
Jesuits in particular, have no 'father
land' and do not wish to have one.
They are and want to be cosmopolitan
and International, not as Christianity
is cosmopolitan and International, but
to the utter sacrifice of their personal
fatherland. Not only do the rules of
the order require the Jesuit to say, 'I
tad parents, sisters, brothers," etc.,
but the spirit of these rules requires
that he should think, 'I had a father
land.' No one knows this better than
I. Over and over again my patriotism
has been held up to me as one of my
'imperfections,' as a remnant of world
liness, and I have tried long and hard
to become indifferent In this respect,
thinking thus to please the Almighty.
Even when I defended the order I have
been censured for my ilndestructlble
patriotism.
"The gentlemen who declare that
the Jesuit has a country, loves bis
country, wishes to work for the good
of his country, simply do not know the
facts! Dr. Lleber declares that the
exile celebrated the German victories.
I car prove and my proofs are much
stronger than his that the 'bitterness
In the heart of the Jesuits' is not due
to separation from their country, but
to the fact that they cannot openly ad
vance the Interests of their order
among their rela ions. Two 'German'
Jesuits (I relate a positive fact) ex
pressed the hope that France would
win, at the beginning of the war, to a
Catholic family In Wistphalia. How
can the German Jesuits take an inter
est in German patriotic anniversaries
when the German province of the order
is largely composed of Swiss, Danes,
Swedes, North Americans and South
Americans? I remember the time
when some of these Germans had to
leave the settlement of Ma. la-Loch.
The man who spoke most strongly out
of the 'bitterness of his heart' was a
Swiss.
"The 'bread of exile!' Well, I have
eaten It. Few of even the most well
off German families live In such com
foi table circumstances as the Jesuits.
The 'poverty' of the order does not
consist In being poorly clothed, poerly
hi used tnd poorly fed; the Jesuit is
poor only in so far as he may not call
his own the very comfortable quarters,
very good clothing and excellent food
which he is provided out of the ex
traordinary rich funds of the order.
The people at large have an altogether
wrong concept on of poverty of the
cloister. I was much astonished my
self at the comfort of our life, and no
one can speak pathetically of the
'bread of exile' who has had an Insight
into the grand establishments at Dlt
ton Hall, In England; or at Bl enbeck,
Exaeten and Wyansdrade, in Holland.
Even the old leader of the Centrists,
Reichensperger, acknowledged this
when he visited Blyenbeck. I do not
censure the Jesuit maxim that he who
Is expected to work well must eat well;
but the legend of the hard 'bread of
exile' must b. put out of the world. It
Is misleading.
"Nor do the Jesuits themselves de
sire to return to their settlements in
Germany, and their reason for this Is
very characteristic. Wherever the
Jesuits settle down they are bitterly at
enmity with the rest of the Catholic
clergy. What they want is the right
to return singly and to carry on their
propaganda openly as they do now
clandestinely."
The writer warns against the Catho
lic orders which are closely connected
with the Jesuits, of which connection
he gives an exhaustive description. In
concluding he reiterates his warning
that the Jesuits will never cease to op
pose Protestantism and the Protestant
Ex-Member of
Says They
dynasty, and that Protestant Prussia Is
as much as ever an ejesore to them.
Huston Standard.
TIUIMNd OF JF.SUTS.
A Jesuit Xast Be as a Walking-stick
la the Man4 of Ills Superior.
The Jesuit Father Clarke's article in
the nineteenth Century on the "Train
ing of a Jesuit" has been very much
noticed. Tbe curious thing about It Is
that he admit that a "blind obe
dience" Is given by Jesuit to the
order of their superiors; but he trio
to save tbe credit of bis order by de
claring that the Jesuit mut not. how
ever, obey an order which Is manifestly
sinful. Here, however, comes In the
question, How can a "blind" man see
anything? If be is to obey blindly he
cannot oen bis eyes to see where ho I
going. In "The Spirit of St. Igna
tius," printed by English Jesuits, 1
read this: "If my uporlor occasion
ally order something which seems to
me to be against my conscience, whilst
he thinks otherwise, I ought to trust
him rather than myself, unless I am
obviously In the right" (page 73). But,
how can anything be obvlout to a blind
man? Such directions as those I have
just quoted are well calculated, under
some circumstances, to lead to the
commission of any crime. On the next
page to that just cited I read: "I
ought to consider myself as a dead
body which has longer either will or
opinion." If the miserable Jesuit is
not allowed to have even an opinion of
bis own as to the justice or wisdom of
the commands of his superior, will he
ever be able to see anything wrong In
doing whatever he is told to do, how
ever criminal It may be? I have no
doubt that those who in the past have
committed murder under Jesuit in
fluence were well Instructed in "blind
obedience."
It so happens that I possess a secret
book of the Jesuits, printed by them In
their college at Roehampton, near
London, in 1863. It Is entitled "Rules
of the Society of Jesus." In the sec
tion devoted to the question of obe
dience the proviso, "unless I am ob
viously in the right," Is omitted. As
the subject is an important one, ana
as my readers cannot see this book, I
will quote from it here: "At the su
perior's voice we must be most ready,
no less than if it came from th mouth
of Christ our Lord, leaving unfinished
anything whatsoever, even the letter
bepun and not ended. Let us direct
all our powers and our intention in our
Lord to this point, that holy obedience
be always most perfectly observed by
us, as well in the execution as in our
will and judgment; performing with
great speed, spiritual joy and perse
verenoe whatsoever shall be enjoined
us; persuading ourselves thaW'all
things are just; denying with a certain
kind of blind obedience any contrary
onlnion or iudirment of our own. Let
everyone persuade himself that they
who live under obedience must suffer
themselves to be carried and ruled by
Divine Providence in their superiors.
as if they were a dead body which suf
fers itself to be borne to any place and
to be treated In any manner whatever;
or, like an old man's staff, which
serves him, who holds it in his hand,
where and in what use it pleases"
(pates 15 and 16).
While I am about it I may as woll
give one or two more extracts from
this secret Jesuit book. Here are some
directions to the Ignorant which are
sufficiently startling: "None of those
who are admitted for the work of the
house muBt learn either to read or
write; or, if he have any knowledge o
letters, acquire more; nor shall any
one teach him, without leave of the
general; but It shall be sufficient for
him to serve Christ our Lord In holy
simplicity and humility" (page 27). So
much for Ignorance. Now for secresy.
The 38th rule is as follows: "No one
must relate to externs what things are
done, or to be done, in the house, un
less he knows the superior approves of
it; and he must not lend them the
constitutions or other such books or
writings in which the institute or
privileges of the society are contained,
without the express consent of the su
perior" (page 33). There are other
curious things in these secret rules of
the society of Jesus which I may quote
on another occasion. rrotcstant Ob
server. GREEN FLAG CASE.
A Bnling of an American Judge That
Ireland Practically Has no Flag.
Lawrence, Mass., October 1. Judge
Hopkins, in the supreme court, has
quashed the somewhat famous green
flag case against Contractor Patrick
O'Brien. O'Brien was arrested July 6
for displaying an Irish flag on a portion
of the staging of the new ward school
house on Independence Day, A there
Is a statute forbidding the display of
any foreign flag upon a public building, '
O'Brien was found guilty, and Judge
Stone, of the police court, An J him 110.
An appeal was taken to the superlor
oourt and the decUlou was given.
Judge Hopkins ruled that Ireland was
not a country In the meaning of the
statute governing the case, and had no
flag, except that of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland. Tho
case was accordingly aisraiMcti.
National Schools In Quebec.
The result of the genoral election in
Qmlieo has lessened tho Incredulity
hlch otherwise would have greeted
the report that tho Liberals of that
provlnoe are thinking of abolishing
the dual system there also, and estab
lishing a single system of non-denominational
national schools. Indications
of awakening In the French Canadian
mind Increase daily, and It 1 by no
means Impossible that a conflict be
tween the Clericals and the Liberals
over the settlement oi tne Aiamtooa
school question might result in the sug
gested programme. The abolition of
separate sobools in this province has
already produced results reaching far
beyond tbe designs of those who intro
duced that measure. Should it result
n striking from Quebec the shackles of
mediaeval eduoatlon, It will, indeed,
have been a great thing for Canada.
It has been rumored that the hier
archy, being largely connectod by per
sonal tie with tbe party which ha
ruled the country for nearly twenty
year, intend to reiuse lis sanction hi
any reasonable settlement of the diffi
culty here, with the intention of rais
ing the cry at the next general election
that the Liberals, after killing the
remedial bill and defeating the govern
ment which represented a policy of
remedial legislation, had failed to
bring about any satisfactory arrange
ment. It Is quite possible In that con
tingency that the Quebec Liberals,
finding the Clericals determined to act
as a political enemy, may resolve upon
carrying the war "Into Africa." And
do doubt they could do so with a fair
hope of success. The last election has
shown that the tory ultramontanes are
not Invincible where they have hitherto
been regarded as strongest.
No doubt Quebec Is awakening from
her sleep, and perhaps she may do so
like a giant refreshed. The splendid
natural capacities of the French Can
adiau race will then no longor lie dor- -mant.
Beyond doubt, many new Idea
are abroad in that province, and the
habitant Is beginning to think. He is
no less devoted than formerly to hi re
ligion, but he is not quite so devoted to
the Clerioal control, the fruit of which
he find rather sour. When he sees
one ol bis own people at tne neaa oi
the government of Canada, he may feel
dissatisfied that he himself and his
children should be handicapped by lack
of education. We may yet see Quebec,
peopled as it is by descendants from
tbe best populations of old France, rival
that country in her awakening to
modern life. We may yet see Quebec
no lesi a pillar of Canadian nationality
and civilization than her sister prov
ince of Ontario.
We have some times been asked how
we should like it if the msjority In
Quebec should act as did the majority
here, and take away separate schools
from the minority. Our reply has al
ways been that we should rejoice to see
it. We should rejoice to see the peo
ple there establish a single system of
non-sectarian national schools. We
fear the day for that lies some way in
the future; but an obstructionist policy
on the part of the hierarchy may do
much to hasten that well omened time.
Winnipeg Daily Tribune.
Hate Changed.
It may be well to remember that the
first apostolic delegate to the United
State, Father Bedini, who was sent .
here in 1853, did not find the govern
ment or the people quite so subservient
as has Satolli. No government vessel
was sent out to meet him, nor was he
the chief figure In assemblies of na
tional Importance. On the contrary
his credentials were refused recogni
tion, and he was nearly mobbed in one
or two cities which he visited. His
mission proved a failure. Satolli is
suave, shrewd and diplomatic, but even
he has not succeeded in settling the
dissensions In the Catholic church of
America, which in spite of its boasted
unity are likely to grow worse instead
of better. How well Martinelli will
succeed remains to be seen, but his task
is not an enviable one. It may not be
generally known that before Satolli
was sent to America as representative
of the pope, there were only three
other apostolic delegates in America,
one in Colombia, one whose jurisdic
tion comprised Ecuador, Bolivia and
Peru, while the third represented the
vice gerect oLCarlst in San Domingo,
Hayti and Venezuela. Theso are the
countries which share with the United
States this dubious honor. Woman's
Voitx.
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