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THE AMERICAN Newark, v. Jos. v I A i t Slattery. i Stick, Stoats and Revel en Ised la the Attempt U Take tbri te4 Ex Priest's Life. Rome's dastardly sons have made another attempt upon the life of llev. Joseph Slattery, the ex-priest of Bos ton. This time the mob was organized by the pope's brigade in Newark, N. J. Fully fifteen hundred toe-klssers were In the first crowd which made the assault on him Tuesday night, after he had delivered his lecture on Romanism. And such a mob! All Romans! All drunk! All shouting for the blood of a man who had offered them no insult, but who had had the courage to say the Roman Catholic hierarchy had designs upon our government; that the priest hood, in the aggregate, were corrupt, and that the members of tbat church were loyal first to their church and thea to their country. But that mob knew not what he had said. It had congregated outside the hall, and had heard no word be had ut tered. Tben why should they cry for his life? Because the priesthood had in structed them that ex-prlests and ex auns should be killed; that the churoh demanded their lives, and that they who took the life of such a one would not be guilty of murder. ' Jesuit Tom Sherman, in a speech in Chicago three years ago, declared openly In favor of the murder of ex priests. Those drunken men and women of Newark, N. J., were only following the instructions of the tody-handed and oodlhicsto JftSDerJttbs who make up the despicable organization of Jesuits which to day controls the Roman Cath olic church and which in the sixties furnished the assassin who took the life of the martyred Lincoln. The dispatches say that it took all the polio 3 reservo in Newark, N. J., to save Slattery, the ex-priest, from being mobbed. He lectured in that city on Tuesday evening and at the close of the performance a crowd of some 1,500 gathered at the doors to wait for his appearance on the street. Slattery and his wife waited in the church until the crowd began to disperse. A guard of twenty-five policemen then escorted the couple to a cab which was In wait ing. Then the cabman lashed his horses and attempted to break a way through the mob. Orders in the mean time had been issued for the reserve police, who came double quick to the scene of the trouble. As many as 3,000 or 4,000 people were still massed to gether, the most of them with the sole purpose in view of reaching Slattery, It was a struggling, howling mob, and thA ex-nriest drew a revolver. A shower of stones and other missiles greeted this action and until the end of the perilous journey Slattery was in danger from frequent attacks of this nature. Slattery and his wife had just got safely aboard a train bound for New York when the crowd began to pour into the station. It was Impossible to do the ex-priest any harm before the train steamed away. t This outbreak cf Roman Catholic in tolerance, following so closely on that at Madison, Neb.Ji should convince all Protestants that pur government is in danger from papa aggression. By diplomacy s he drove the Bible from the public spool By force she ei peeis to abridge free Roman Mob in aftisr that, will come the complete subjugation of the pre, through fear of - boycott, or by eut right purchase Wh n that occurs, goodby liberty. If Americans do not want that day to come they should give aid and comfort to those who are making the fight that t ley have not the time or, probably, the courage to make for their own pro tection. Let no Roman mob prevent the exer cl of frea speech in your town. Let no patriotic paper die for want of your subscription. Stand firm. Be just; but, above all, be an Ameri can. Rout pop3ry. Send the papal ablegate back to his home In Rome. Let the Monroe doctrine apply to the Vatican as well as to England. Resist ecclesiastical Interference in our affairs of state. Join the A. P. A. When you have done tbat have back bone enough to say you are a member, and that as long as the Roman churoh meddles with any of our rights, liber ties and institutions you ae her relent less enemy. When Americans do this, Roman mobs will not disgrace an American city. Until it la done they may be ex pec ted at any time. To make the organization of a Ro man mob impossible it will be neces sary to have a more perfect union of all Protestants to combat the already per fect union of Roman Catholics. We are one of such a union will you become another? Organize! If you value liberty, Organize! If vou value free speech, Organize! If you value the public schools, Or ganlze! If you value liberty of conscience and a free press, Organize! If you don't; if you want to witness papal supremacy in America, remain silent, remain inactive; cry, "there is uo danger," and when you see the in' quisition set up in this covntry as it has been this year in-the Philippine Islands; see Roman priests teai your wife, your children, your sisters, your fathers an! your mothers from thuir homes and place thein upon the rack; see their jjints pulled apart with the thumb screw, their eyes burned out with heated sp-jars, their bodies cut open and hres built in ineir stomachs, their brains dashed oat with clubs through which great iron spikes had been driven, and their bodies ssared and scarred with brand Ing Irons; when you hear their groans, their cries of agony and their shrieks of anguish remember it is too late to save them from such an awful fate Remember that you alone are to blame for the horrible torture they endure. Remember it has been through your temporizing, through your pleading that Rome has changed when she herself says her motto is semper idem, always the same, unchangable that It has been possible for her to gain con trol of this country. Remember that she has said that she will take this country In 1900 and keep it. It is for you to say whether she.wlll realize her ambitious boast. If she does she will establish the inquisition with all Its hellish appliances, and youth, age, vir tue and honor will have to bow to her command. We cannot prevent her accomplish ing this; you cannot, nor can we all combined unless we look to God for aid, As the pope of Rome Is the man of sin, as he is antl-christ, the man whose number Is 666, and as It Is God's will that he be overthrown, let us as Amer- can citizens, take Him as our leader, put on His armor and enter the battle to win. We do all kinds of book binding THE ISqUSITIOX HEWED. (Verities ITsrtleed by Spanish rriesU Mart than Three l at arte If again Rnwrtrd U at Sanllli. San Francisco, Nov 25. News from Manllli, brought in by steamer IVklo yesterday morning from Hong Kong, bows tbat Spaniard have retorted to torture of thi natives and half casts of the Philippine which surpasses in its cruelty that practiced by the Chinese Mandarins in caes of the most atro- clou crime. They are also charged with confiscating the estates of wealthy half-cast and deporting these wretched victims to Fernandopo, on the west coast of Africa, a plaoe that has a climate that quickly proves fatal to the stranger. These statements are not given on the strength of reports of refugees. James W. Davidson, a well-known cor respondent, was recently commissioned by the Bong Kong Press to go to Manllli, and cautioned to evade press censorship, and in several letters that he smuggled through the lines be tells what he has seen and what ha has heard on good authority. According to him the Instruments of torture used In the Spanish inquisition three cen turies ago have been kept in the mon asteries of Manllli, and were brought out recently and used to extort confes sions from the native and Mestizo sus pects. He says over 3,000 subjects have been arrested and kept in jail at Manllli, subjected to hideous treatment Mr. Davidson also intimates that the leading powers of Christendom will be called upon to interfere and put an end to the tortures which revive the worst features of the Spanish inquisition. Was There Ever a Female row I BY BDDSOI TDTTLI. No claim was ever put forward more arrogant or more presumptuous than that the divine right of the pope has directly descended from St. Peter, to whom Christ Imparted it. The Catho- lio historians have invented a list of names of the immediate successors of Peter, filling up a gap of at least a cen tury, as an after thought, to prove a dogma assumed at a later time. There Is no evidence that Peter was aware that he was placed at the head of the church or that he even ever visited Rome, and absolutely no proof that he was bishop of that city. There was no pope, according to the present funo tions of that office, previous to the be ginning of the seventh century. At the close of the fourth century the bishop of Rome assumed the title of poppus or father. The succession of popes is marked by the ascendancy to that office of the most scheming, vil lainous, treacherous and conscienceless of men, who paused at no crime, lust, fanaticism and imbecility alternating in the papal chair. To make this claim of apostolic suc cession good it must be continuous There can be no break, for It must fall from one to the other, and as Paul taught that woman la the church mutt listen, to Interpose a "female pipe' would be the destruction of the author lty of all subsequent prpes, and make tho claim ridiculous. Yet afier the death of the despicable, avaricious hio IV., according to the ancient history of tho times, jiiit 6uch a pone was or daimd, and for a time was a chief the church mU'ht Will be proud of. It is true that the existence of Pope Joan has been called ia question. Every Catholic authority, and Protestant critics who follow their lead, pretend that the Btory of hr reign la a myth. The former cannot well do otherwise, for to admit Its truth In this age would bring their ciuse to obloquy and ridi cule. Yet we, after careful, examina tion, give adhesion to the truthfulness of the history of the time, which passed undenied and unquestioned at a time when the Catholic church was su preme, and to have written and pub lished anything derogatory to her high claims would have been heresy punisha ble with the fagot's flames or the tor ture chamber. That it was then written, published and believed, of it self is sufficient evidence to an unbiased mind of its truthfulness According to that history, Joan was the daughter of an English priest and a young girl paramour, whom he had taken with him on a missionary jour ney to Saxony. As she grew to wo manhood, she became by education the equal of the most distinguished men of her time. But destiny had not in store for her to become a second Hypatia, and the reciprocated love of a youthful monk decided her fate. Marriage was impossible for priest or monk, and she, putting on masculine attire, followed her lover, under the name of English John, to the Abbey of Fulda, when she engaged in study. Wearying of re straint, the lovers planned a tour of ob servation to different countries. When they reached France, Joan held dis putes with the greatest doctors, and gained admiration by her wit and keen Intelligence. They lived three years in Greece, studying philosophy. At the end of that time her lover died, leaving her desolate and broken hearted. Rallying, after a time, she quitted Greece, which had become dis agreeable to her, and went to Rome, where she engaged at the Greek Acad emy, founded by St. Augustine, as pro fessor of the seven liberal arts, and her brilliant instructions in rhetoric gave the institution wider renown. ip Marianus, ber historian, says of her, "Ber conduct was as commendable as her abilities; the modesty of ber dis course, her manners, the regularity of her morals, her piety and her good works shone forth as a light before men." When the priest saw that the days of Loo IV. were numbered, and that a new pope must toon take hi place, a party was formed in support of the famous young doctor of philosophy, aod so worked oa the populace, that when Leo died, with almost unanimous ac claim she was choen to become the head of the Church of Rome and was ordained la St. Peters, and followed by an immense train, took possession of the palace and the papal chair. All was well, no one penetrated her disguise and she inspired profound re spect from the world's rulers by her wise government. Yet she was to be oast down from her lofty position. Love again proved stronger than reason, and It was impossible for the pope te marry, a laisoa was the only alterna tive. It was probably a cardinal she chose to share with her in her govern ment. To quote again: "At the period of Rogations the popess, according to the established oustom, mounted her horse and went to the Church of St. Peter, clothed in her pontlflcial ornaments, preooeded by the cross and sacred ban ners, accompanied by the metropolitan bishops, cardinals, deacons, nobles, magistrates and a large crowd of peo ple; she tben came forth in this pomp ous apparel from the cathedral, to go to the Church of St. John after Lateran. But i before arriving on the public square, between the Church of St. Clement and the Ampitheatre of Doml- tlan, called the Coliseum, the pains of childbirth seized her with such violence that the reins fell from her hands and she fell from her horse. The confusion and disorder which this shameful adventure caused among the people exasperated the priests, who not only prevented her from receiving any assistance, but even without re gard to the horrid suffering she was enduring, crowded around her to con ceal her from all eyes, and threatened her with their vengeance. Joan could not support her humiliation and the shame of having been seen by all the people in so terrible a position; she rallied her strength to bid a last adieu to the cardinal priest who sustained her in his arms, and her soul took its flight to the skies." The child was then and there strangled by the infuriated priests, but the people, during Joan's reign of two years, had become so much attached to her that they demanded for her a de cent burial, which was granted. She was refused the consscrated grounds of a church, and with her child was burled at the place where she died. Such this dreadful passage In the history of the Catholic church, which the priests may well seek to disprove. The un natural conditions imposed, the viO' lence Inflicted on the most Intense and exalt"d emotions of the heart, the sup presslon of conjugal and parental love. necessarily are repellant and lead to reaction and rebellion, which is only satiated through crime. Even if taken as a fable, the story of Joan has a lesson, and reveals to us tho shocking immorality, not to say indecency, of tho most cultured people of that time when ruled over by the Catholic church. And yet that church, with the tiger step of despotism, by stealthy approaches, seeks to wrest education of tin children from the gov ernmentaud through political Influence mak3 our president secondary to the pope. And again, it is said, the American movement, the government of America byAmericans, is not needed, and that a false alarm is created for selfish pur poses. The most fatal mistake is that of underating the enemy. Brazil. "Swarming priests, friars and nuns are hero, side by side with ignorant masses. Among men a widespread deism, among women cringing super stition, and in both sexes a low standard of morality is everywhere prevalent. Those who conform to the church's teaching manifest an absence of spir itual life and a resting only in outward ceremonials for an inward preparation for the life te come. The apathy and infidel tendencies of the people are due largely to the character of the national church and its dissolute priesthood. The people are tired of papal dominion, and In several of the free republics the government casts its influence and moral support on the side of Protes tantism." Gospel in all Lands. monsters. enormous engines The enormous engines that haul "The Northwestern Line" OMAHA CHICAGO SPECIAL east at 6:30, evening, (U. P. depot) and into Chi cago at 9:30 next morning Well- worth taking a little time to see them nothing in this country like them nearly as high as the Union Depot, not quite as long. City office, 1401 Farnam street. WON T each reader of this paWr in duce one frien 1 to subscribe durtng the coming week? Friends, please put your shoulder to the wheel! Who can not afford The American at the pros lent price? TATICAS OUMiEH. Rr-KUbllhnrat ef a derma Ascend anej by I'ep Lee. New York, Nov. 14. A Journal apt al from Washington says: Radical changes have taken place in tho Vati can. It bas been learned In YV aahlog- ton that the pops hlmsulf has receded from the policy be formerly advocated, owing to the p eure brought to bear by the Germans and their adherents, who have op pone J the liberalism of the popa, and that lbs papal court will soon be readjusted to the new condi tions. In such case the UnlU-d Stale will not be the only country to foul the shock that must follow. It is well known here and abroid that Leo and his cardinal, Secretary ofStatoRam poll a, are French sympathisers. Tbelr main European policy was based on the plan of conciliating Franco, "the eldest daughter of the church," and through her regslnlng the lost tem poral power of the popes. A tremend ous struggle between llampolla and the rival fsotiob favoring German concilia tion has been steadily urged for the last ten years, Cardinal Lulgl Gallm bertl, the frle&d and confident of BIs mark, being the head of tho opposition to French conciliation. Gallmbertl died last summer, but a successor was found in the German Jes uit, Cardinal Steinhausor. To Stein hauser is credited the defeat of Ram- polla and the disposition of Loo to ac cept the new conditions. It is now claimed that next month will witness the retirement of Ram polla and the institution of a new order of things. The Germanizing of the church and the re-establlshmentof ul tramontanlsm in its most far-reaching sense will be the first result. LITTLE LEFT FOR THE TRIESTE. End of a Long Litigation at Barabooi Wisconsin. One of their schemes came to naught at Baraboo, on the 6th instant. The Baloone will case was settled in court. Before Jacob Baloone died he willed $1200 to his four heirs, and the re malnder of his property, valued at (7000, to St. Joseph's church of that olty. The heirs ountested the will and It has gone through the clroult court once, to the supreme court and back again. Before it came up for trial again a settlement was agreed upon as follows The heirs first take out the 11200, the church pays all the costs and the prop erty is then divided equally between the church and the heirs. It was fur ther agreed that the executor should pay the funeral expenses and erect a monument to the deceased. After the cost of litigation and all other oxpenaes are paid there will be but little left for the Catholic church The will was contested on tho ground that Jacob Baloone was unduly influ enced in making the will by the mem be -s of the church. A newspaper commenting on this case, In a head Hue said: "L'ttle Liift For the Contestants." It ought to have Buid: "Little L"ft For the Priest," and if tberj were only morn contestants ike tho Italoones, that church would not bo gutting tho lion s share of a great many estates in tbi country to tho impoverishment of tho rightful' heirs. It isagooi sign of the times wlien their own people rebel upainBt these harpies who fu' ten of the tho ter rors of the death bid. Wisconsin Pa triot. A '' (Savonarola. Referring to the prijst In PIecnza, Italy Don Paolo Miraglia Gullotl, who has rebelled against property and is" preaching reform, t'ae Churchman says: The press of North Italy continues to give frequent news of his movements. The Sera of Milan says: "The struggle is now not only religious but civic. The partisans of the bishop will hear of no truce with the partisans of Mi- raglia, and, whenever they can, remove them from the employments that they hold. The Miraglians, on their part, have deserted the other churches and assemble in ' their own chapel, where the Sicilian priests officiate, celebrate, preach and carry out his full min istry." The Lombardia reports from Co- dogna Sept. 13: "This evening Don Miraglia, the well-known priest In re volt against the pope, addressed an audienco of some three thousand y pie. The populace, carried awayWith enthusiasm, carried the orafr away through the streets of the Vwn." Toe Miraglia writes Wmself to Dr. Nevln from PlecenMf; Sept 14: "St. Paul's chapel hereoos forward in a wonderful wagsuaday, Sept. 6, I opened a smajnapel in the neighbor ing townosrbio, where the people have wyfoomed me with great enthusi asm provisional chapel has been 1 by a family of the town. I ahead without care lor my per son, rne moment is propitious, ana u seems providential that the movement has begun in this diocese of Piecenza, which is the antechamber of Roman Jesuitism. We must try to profit by it. I have courage, great endurance, faith, strong lungs, i run right and left preaching '.he Gospel, but I cannot do as much as I want to do, and know how to do, for means are wanting me. Ab solutely the greater part of the lower olergy think as I do, but they do not move, for ther are afraid of losing their pitiful stipend and starving to death. Uero it has beaome absolutely neoes- sary to enlarge our cbapel. fcverf evening It is so full that many people have to remain outside in the courW yard, listening at the door and win dows, and when It rain in the coming wintur season, what shall w do? How ever, in every way 1 am full of courage because, without poosesslng a penny, I feel myself the richest man in the world, bocaute I fuel supremely an un bounded faith lo the divine Provl- denoe nihil hulxntr. A letter From Kitulll. 8T. PAUL. Minn., Nov. 21. tfnderl date of Nov. 6. Cardinal Butolll baa written a long letter to Archbishop Ireland, giving, under his own sig nature, a summary of the report which he made to the holy father on tas lerlcan church affairs. The arch' bishop is willing, in view of the lata so-ralled summaries of this report ap pearing In certain New York papers, to give to the public, through the, medium of the press, some of the mat tor In Cardinal Satolll'a letter, which refers to himself. It la aa follows: I arrived in Koine on Saturday, Oct. 31, and the day following, Sunday, I had the extreme pleasure of being ad mitted to an audience with the holy you that I did not fall to speak a". the adulence. I wish at once to tell father. Many things were discussed In length to the holy father of yourself and to narrate to him how sincerely and loyally you are devoted to the Holy See and to the person of the holy fattier himself; with what great xeal and great success you labor incessantly la all things that may be to the advantage or the Catholic Chucrh in the United States. I added that your zeal and your success will surely Increase In Um future. In another part of his letter Cardinal Satolll congratulates the archblBhop oa the election of Mr. McKlnley to tha presidency, and assures him that a bright future is reserved for Bishop Roane, the late rector of the univer sity. Rome's Mack Record efSlnaud borrow. Maro C. Ethler, a prominent lawyer of Montreal, is dying in Notre Dame Hospital. He attempted to commit suicide on the 2d Inst by swallowing carbolic acid. Ethler was married to a beautiful woman, a leader In society, about three years ago. She was ruined by her father confessor, Abbe Guyhot, who was at tbat time attached to St. James' church In Montreal. The holy, sinless, celibate father took advantage of this beautiful woman when at confes sion. When once he had gained hit devilish purpose the intimacy con tinued, until they were caught in tha very act, and she immediately left for New York, no doubt to lead a life of shame and debauchery, and her holy father confessor left for a retreat to again appear lo parts unknown to pur sue his devilish work, while the wronged husband, knowing that law could not bo found In Quebec to punish criminals, took to drink to a-Buage his sorrow, which en l.id in the attempt to tikohls oui llfo and so end his dis grace and HiiTOw.-Om iie Truth. A Lucky ,M ink. L'lndi n, Nov. tt. Hy tho d'nth of i S'.r Eiwnrd Hunter IJIair, the baron (lev aiid pruba ily hU ct"U"ivj est'Uos iil.-o to ti In i loo-it to i Father Oswald ( is he is mow ea'lrd) of ,h II -nedietine Monastery ut Fort Augustus. 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