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and polllteal aftillalloiia. I'V tlir while
and H.f Mack, li e natl Ixirn ami Ih
naturallroil. Jew and tlit Ui'iitlln, III
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lion at
fund, v,
la running abort of fund.
I only 'iear that the
lo f.iuliijf short of
he 1aiiT
TllE French people are now models
of thrifty citizen. This I largely
owing to the fact that tho priestly
order does not thrive in Franco as It
The lit. I lev. William David Walker,
of North Dakota, sikicoods tbo Illustri
ous patriot and scholar, A. Cleveland
Coxe, a Protestant Episcopal Bishop
of Western New York. Ilia scat U at
Buffalo.
THK Chicago Chronicle way thoro la
a widespread fear in Franco of placing
a single man in command of tin) French
Vmy. Probably tho French are afraid
"H bachelor pilosta may come Into
power. 1 low would It do to try a mar
ried man"
SlNCK LI H"ng Chang's roturn to
China, tho Imperial government ban
deckled 1 g'dual!y 4ngtldy.e tho
people of tho empire. Schools for the
teaching of tho English language and
western sciences are to be established
at all thu principal ouloa in China.
Thus is Tennyson' dream of ' the Par
liament of man, tho Federation of tho.
world," being fulfilled.
Let every patriot in the United
State write a letter or a postal card
to hi repreeoutativti aud hid senators
at Wunhiritoli, riqtio?tinj them to voto
for BOino one of tho bills now befoo
the Congress for the n'Htrictlon of fP.
cign liumlnratlon. Specify the rna
ure that you want thorn to upiR)rt.
Ctmrefs should ho spurred to Action
by the uuited patriotic .eniinvont 0f
the country '
There were 0.S votes cast ir, the city
of Sau Francisco at tho Ia.'t general
election by persona who c.oijij neither
read nor write. Of this number (ill
wero Irish Roman Cat.hor-iM) anj f,,P
elgn born; Kit) we-e lt"ftiiail nnian
Catholics, and 75 were natives of tho
United States, every of( i,orn Q' h.
man Catholic prenW. ,n ihesefati we
ee a strong argument (,. tha further
restriction of foreign, immigration, par
ticularly from coiimtHeH Which have
been for centuries .vltd by the papacy.
Mr E C. Dka,NKi 0I)0 0r dtrj,
waterway? comrJl)i.om,r8 of WicconHin,
who has boon d rKwing the neat salary
Of iM.lHHJ a yea P eomplainn that, there is
iuue ior ninv to do, that bo ! not earn
t ...
mg mo eiiry which the iiiatc pays
him, anl (:lares he .wanta to nerve
without cc mpvnat,ion. U is needless
to say tht Mr, y,mt s uot one of the
pope's Ir.l(ih, Whoever kn w an lri-h
Kiiwan (Catholic to decline tho salary
attach'.., t0 an , tflje on ln ground thai
ke d'1 1 not earn th0 nwn P paid him?
Dasl
II. Il 'aly, wht; as pre-iirenS of
the'
Hoard of Cook Conn I. v t'onnnlssion
at Chicago devotes cnrcely fix
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hrf
mrs a week lo Uie rour.'y nusiness,
as jast accepted a rai-." ia
,'te $5,000 per Milium
Ins salary
ISTKNSK interest a'.uclu e to the fo
lection of a new United S is ' s senator
la liliii'iis. The lip'.r.r ;c..r.s have a
majority on jjint ballot in tho. new
legislature, which will iin el early in
tho present month, liumeoc popular
mass meetings have been held in Clii
cayo. to protest agairet "l.o scuatori.il
caDuidacy of Martin 1. Mailden, at
present an aldorman freiii Chicago's
Kiucteenth ward, which is a veritable
little Ireland. Though masquerading
as a Republican, Madden it a Roman
Catholic in politics. He has a national
reputation as a shrewd and unscrupu
lous ward politician. If chosen senator,
he would reflect no credit on the great
State of Illinois. Anotber prominent
aspirant for the senatorial toga is Con
gressman Robert Ii. Ilitt, a man of
high character and splendid ability,
who would grace the scat once held by
Logan and Trumbull and Ogleeby.
CHURCH DOCTRINE SUPREMF.
M treat. L iH.c. D- 2t'.h Th
tsiamiaqieiil itui'd by tha K imao Cath
o'ic btbiiw of l,'.iebc furhtddmg faith
ful Catholic Iti uborlh for, read,
Ctr.-olali or ii'herw as t-ncntirage the
eewpaH'r L'FUt Uur. published lo
l,.if'ic city, utiilir pain of txrgi'e
privijtif ihr Iter rd 'a of the ch ireb."'
f aa cri aled inionw eiciieinent
tlini.-i'l mil tli p-ovinee and la Uo
n. hi n.'. d in tirg U-i ni by the II t -rai
Frrm h mid Kncll-h pawr. Mr. I'a
fund, iulill-her of the cot il'Miit.ed pa
r, will, il In iin.l. tkIikkI, lane an c
liuii fur .'. ill uamugea agalnul each of
the liiihii a ho igned the inauda
tiu nt, and a mini Vr of proiiiim-nt men
here nave exppi B-i d their wl!liiigimii
lo auli-crl e tnwad carrying the cam
to the privy cotinetl, If neeesi-ary.
l a 1'alrie, a lila'ral French iaier,
ii,b;li-hed In thUeity, taya: "Hit. Mr.
I'araiid who was (.truck, but Mr.
I .a irier who wa aimed at. It is the
lF.lectetir which la asaa-.il nnl. d, lint
in the htiMj that the pointof the dagger,
after having kUSed l'aeand. will elrike
tin- liral mlnlst t of Canada in a vital
aMil The i k. cut. on of L llhwleur at
yuetwo i and i an bi only the la-gin-mng
(ifaklrugglu to the dealh with
the government at Ottawa "
Mr. 1'aeaud haya he will cease the
liubliealioii of his paper and apical
frtitn the co .d.-mnatlon of tho bishops
to the Roman court.
The ntleni-e of L'KlecU ur conslnted
In publltthlng a pamphlet written by
Mr. Divid, upholding tho doctrine of
the supremacy of tde state In slate
afTairn and denying the right of the
church to dictate to electors how they
hall vole upon such a queation af that
of the restoration of separate schools
In Manitoba
It Is not often that men live to see
every one of their charges against a
person or an organization vended, yet
we believe the above item proves con
clusively the only remaining unproved
charge which we made, at tho outset of
our career as the editor of a patriotic
paper, more than live years ago.
Although the last to bo verified it Is
also the most Important of all the
charges laid at the door of the Roman
Catholic church that It seek to
and does direct the acta of its members
toward the state.
Nothing could be plainer than the
doctrine of the church as set forth In
the last paragraph of the above dis
patch. If It was an offense against the
church for tho paper L'Kleoteur to
publish tho statement that the state
was supreme In all affairs of state, then
the claim of the church is undoubtedly
that It Is also supremo In civil govern
mentsthat the laws of the church are
binding on Roman Catholics even
when those laws conflict with the laws
of tho stilt'). That paragraph permits
of no other construction. In fact there
can he no other construction nlaued
upon It. It says as plainly as anything
can that the bishops of the Roman
church uphold the doctrine laid down
by Leo XI II. in 1SW, and Leo stid n
his encyclical of that year thii,'whcn
the laws of the state and th.9 laws 0f the
church conillct, t.tio laws of tho church
are to bo uoVultatlngly obeyed. The
clalffi ,,f thit iiniiit Id not, imtf In f.hit
readers of The Amkuican. Tho ap
plication of the doctrine, however, Is,
and we now await the declaration of
any number, or of any individual Ro
man Calholio of this country that he
defies and will resist its application.
It is our opinion that the American
Roman Catholics have neither the
courage nor tho independence to emu
late the example of the French Can
adians who have declared against the
infamous doctrine that the state Is bo
oeath the church and Bitbject to the
dictation of the pope of Rome. Our
Romnn Catholics come of vastly poorer
slock. They descend, In the main.
from the offscourings, the Ignorant
and tho pauner elemonts of Ireland,
Hungary, Poland and Italy people
who have been for centuries the willing
and tho abject slaves of the papacy.
They have known no leaders like Col
ony and Luther. They have had no
voice among their own people raised
io opposition to tho claim of the pope
that his will is supreme In all earthly
things Had their forefathers been
s.hooli d, as were tho forefathers of
those French Roman Catholics, to the
fuel that the state Is supreme within
tt-e t, ami thai, the church oat no
right or authority to medilu: in civil
affairs, thero would probably lie lio
ground for this charge b,?ing lodged
against them. Ru, as thev themselves
must, nek now ledge tho juslnos of the
ili irge, they should bo ready and will
itig to a.'j.'pt liberty in both civil and
eccle-ias lical uftuir, now that it is
guarautci d by the constitution of a
I'roUHtant goveri.ment, Hud lmt cou
tUiuo la their servile obedience to the
p-ipaey which has made them obj its
of suspicion among then fellow citizens
and which caused the orgauifatlon t f
suck a.i a-sociation as the A. i A.
DUTY IS PLAIN.
It makes no difference whether you
live in the town viliere this paper is
published or not, you are just as much
interested in the success of jour small
business firms as wo are in the success
of tho small firms in Omaha; and the
Mime rules that apply here apply in
your t jwn or city.
It is a weli known fact that, the pros
perity of a town depends ujhvi the suc
cess of its business-men upon the suc
cess of the employers. Every failure
ia commercial circles hurts each indi
vidual citizen. It injures alike the
banker and the laborer and they
should unite lor the protection of even
the weakest establishment in the com-
munUv. You n ay think thia la not mi,
hut we are prepared to p-ove that It Is.
If you allow a lirm now doing btislne-s
in your loan to close out and sell off
their goods at forced sale, yiu injure
every other busines-man ergaged In a
similar line, btcause II is human ra
ture to buy where you can ve a few
cent on any article It Injures the
prtiia-rtj oi.er, by depriving him of a
tenant, the la airer, because it throws
more men uan the labor market to
compete with b!iu for work; the laun-
dryman who did up his linen; the
smith who shoo his horses: tho grain
and ftod deab r who aold him feed; the
tailor who made or repai'e i hi- cloth
ing; the milliner, the drescm tk'T, th"
confectioner, the stationer, the Outeber,
tho milkman, the coal-dealer, the ice
man, the printer; ill fact, every man
who sod blin a dollar's worth of floods
-every one of them Is inj ired. The
busim s-maii who has failed prohablv
employed two or three ulerks auu de
IWery-mon. They go out and scour
the town for work. Tuat lessens the
chane- s of every other idle man who is
searching for work and so it goes. A
iwrnon who does not -top to think of
the Injury done th town by permitting
a business housj to fail fur want of his
support, may bo tne next to feel the
weight of a failure. n.Tne house he
works for may need the assistance of
the retailers in other lines, but they,
too, may fail to appreciate the fact
that the failure of tho other Arm would
Indirectly hurt their business. It mat
ters nut whether it Is a big laundry, or
a big department store or a monopo
list of any other branch of the retail
trade, that advertises articles a cent or
two less than honest retail dealers, it
is the plain duty of evaryman, woman
and child who desires to seethe city
prosperous, to give all tho aid and coin
fort ha or she can to thojrelail dealer.
Suppose the big laundries the
Model, the City Steam and the Fron
tierwhich have formed t a trust or a
pool, under the name of- the Imperial,
succeed in driving the fifteen smaller
laundries out of business, what will the
city gain? It means that ;the hands
employed in them, numbering "nearly
one hundred and fifty, will be;;thrown
out of work, that thay will j crowd Into
some othar line, even if they have to
cut the price of wages. As an individ
ual, you may save from 10 to 25 cents
per week flvo, ten or fifteen dollars
a year but when thoso little laundries
are gone, up will go the prlce.Janil you
will pay back all that you hjaVemado.
What is true of the laundries Is also
true of the retail' dealers. If they are
closed ono liltor another, to enable a
row tle'partment stores which hire
young girls at ruinouslyj low salaries,
and often with the covert Intimation
that they can probably flud some "gen
tleman" who will pay for their room,
the town will sojn bo one of empty
store buildings and ennty houses.
It seems to us that the duty of every
American citizen is plain.
THE RIGHT RING.
One of our friends in California sends
us tho following very Interesting com
munication: I take a grat Interest in promoting
the causo for whlelvyour va'uttble pa
per devotes the largest portion of its
columns. It Is a cause iwhicb should
always be foremost in every true
American's heart. It Is- a cause we
cannot afford to neglect. 2 Wetaceom
plished In this county all that we could
expeet at the late election. We re
turned Hon. S. G. Hilborn to congress
from this district, whose record In
previous sessions will stand a .lasting
monument to his memory. We also
elected our assemblyman to the state
legislature, which means a vote for
Goo. C. Perkins, our present senator,
who is a true American. The two su
perior j ldges who were elected are
also good Americans. This county re
gained all its former prestige, a id now
stands the banner county of this great
slate.
There is an item I wnh to call your
attention to which I notice! in the
Call of the 12th orl3.h Inst. The ar
ticle Is dated Canton, Ohio, Dj-.-ember
lOtti, and states that Judge Joseph Mo
Kenna is an aspirant for a cabinet posi
tion. We sincrely hope that his as
pirations may never be consummated.
li s was apooiuied bv Pre-iJent Harri
son to the bench of the United S'.ati
circuit court, whiah w.is 0 le of iSj
great mistakes Mr. 11 trri&on was guilty
of making; ami U has been stated thtt
he afterwards sal j lie would not have
sippoi&ted Melie-na if he bad known
that he w,ts a R niun Catholic. The.
article states that the j.idge is well
known to Mr. McKinley. I -sincerely
hope he is, especially religiously.
Every means pisible should be u-ed lo
defeat his appointment to so important
a position. Ho never neglected to
recommend an Irish Catholic for any
position that was to be filled" when he
was repre.-eiitativi5 from tins district,
1 wish to c mgraiulalc you on having
so able a man in your state (and I think
in your city) as John M. Tuurston. In
this state he is cmsidere 1 ore of the
ablest men in our ti lo country.
When you have an a-tiilj in The
American that lias a strong bearing
on sectarian appropriations, restriction
of immigration or sectarian schools,
closing nunneries, and other countries
dumping their Infamous Jesuit priests
into our fair land when they can
no longer tolerate tb.-m at home, etc.,
do not neglect l send our represent
live Mr. II ilborn a copy. 1 have taken
your paper for the last two years and 1
have not half a doen copies left. I
give ibem to s line oi.e to read after I
get tfironvh reading them. The no
torious Father Y-rke was arrested lo
San Fiancireo la-t week, which )ou
pruhably know btfore this If it would
teniilniite in giving him a good steady
h line for a while it would b. a God's
b essirg I preume you g"l L'gbt in
yourexchaiges I lake that pe rlodiei
and tind it a very lively sheet. 1'rice,
the editor, is an up-to-date fellow, and
is nior- tan a n a'ch for th! tl irinei
mouthed blackguard of the 1'aciQo
Coast. Yours truly, V, B S.
CHIKK lUliEN'vX'H. of the Chicago
p illre department, continues lo disci
p ice the di linquent members of his
force. Of the MX who were disciplined
on Monday last, Patric k .1. Cunning
ham was suspended for thirty days for
drinking while on dutv, and Patrick
Woods and Daniel O'Shea were fined
from the to ten days' pay for infrac
tions of the rules These new-fangled
police rules disturb the established cus
t ms of the erring sons of Erin.
John R. Tannkk, governor elect of
Illinois, and Miss Cora Kdlth English
were wedded at Springfield, 111., on
Wednesday. Certainly a capital match.
Papal Massacres.
The revolting det iils of the Arme
nian massacres recall all tho horrors of
tne massacres by the Romanists at
Montalto. la the year 1500, under the
government of the Marquis di liicei
anicl, in the slaughter of the Luther
ans on June 11 of that year. The de
scription of these Inhuman cruelties by
a Roman Calho'ic eye-witness is as
follows;
"I can compare it to nothing but the
slaughter of so many sheep. They
were all shut up in one house as in a
sheep'old. The executionor went, and,
bringing out one of them, covered his
face with a napkin, or benda, as we call
It, led him out to a field near the
house, and, causing him to kneel down,
cut his throat with a knife. Then,
taking off the bloody napkin, he went
and brought out another, wnom he put
to death after the same manner. In
this way the whole number, amounting
t ) eighty-eight men, were butchered.
I leave you to figure to yourself the
lamentable spectacle, for I can scarcely
refrain from . tears while I write, nor
was there any person who, after wit
nessing the execution of one, could
stand to look on a second. The meek
ness and patience with which they
went to martyrdom and death were in
credible. "Some of them at their death pro
fessed themselves of the same faith
with us, but the greater part died in
their cursed obstinaty. All tho old
men met their death with cheerful
ness, but the young exhibited symptoms
of fear. I shudder while I think of the
executioner with the bloody knife in
his teeth, the dripping nap'iin in his
hand, and his arms besmeared with
gore, going to the house and taking
out one after another, just as the
butcher does the sheep which he means
to kill."
''According to orders, wagons are al
ready come to carry away the dead
bodies, which are appointed to be
quartered and hung up In the public
roads from one end of Calabria to the
other. Unless his holiness and the
Viceroy of Naples command the Mir
quis of Bjccianloi, the governor of the
province, to stay his hand and leave
off, he will go on to put others to the
t)rture and multiply the executions
until he has destroyei the whole.
Even to-day a decree has passed that
one hundred grown-up women shall be
put to the question and afterward exe
cuted: so that there may ba a complete
mixture, and we may bj able to say, in
well-so j nding language, that so many
persons were punished, partly men and
partly women.
"Phis is all I have to say of this act
of justice. It is now 8 o'clock, and I
shall presently hear accounts of what
was said by thesj obstinate people as
they were led to execution. S line nave
t.estineJ such obstinacy and a'.uboorn-
ness a to rjfuse to look on a crucifix
orci'ife-s to a priest, and they are to
ba burnt alive. The heretics taken in
Calabria amount to 1000, ah of who 11
are condemned: but only eighty-eight
haw as yet been put to death.' ( Pan
taloon, Rerum in Eecles. Gest. Hist.., f.
M37-H: "Da Porta." ii., ;;Ol-312 )
Tne following summary is by a Ne
apolitan historian of tint, a.ijo: ' S.mw
had their tnroats cut, others were
sawn through the middle, and others
th 1' iwn from the top of a high cliff
all were cruelly but deservedly put to
death. It was strange to ht an of their
obstinacy: for while tho father saw his
son pat to death, an! tho son his father,
they not only gave no symptoms of
grief, lut said j u'fuily that they would
do angels of God. So much hai tho
devil, to wh )m they had given them
selves up as a prey, deceived them."
(Toramo Costo, See-onda Parte del
Coropendio deli' Istoriadi Xapoli, page
237).
And Perrin adds: "With the excep
tion of a few who renounced their faith,
the whole colony were exterminated."
(History qf the Reformation in Italy,
pages 2S3-6, by Thomas McCrie, D. D.)
A Protestant, in Protestant Observer
CONTRIBUTED ED.TORiAL.
HT IIUI JIHT HI. H
The term "naturaliation," no far as
it applies to certain ciasies of foreigner
M tt'lng in the United States, is a mis
nomer. There are ihowe who will never
be naturalized in any sense, Italy aenda
tousacla-s of Immigrants who are a
Ijnilifie aource of tsuunle and nr.xiety
lo tho givcnment and people of the
Uniud Slates. A residence rf a ba:f
decade in this country is inadequate to
Aait-rk-ao e the sous of Sh iiy. Imag
ino a company of Italians live years
from S.eily singing, w,th spirit or with
patriotic ardor, "The Star-Spangled
Rannfr'' or "Columbia the Gem of the
Ocean"' Among the Italians coming
10 the United States there are very few
who under any circumstances would
make good, loyal American citizens.
They are unnaturalizah.e, politically
and socially unassimilable They are
utter. y alien in th ir instinct-, habits,
customs, manners, laws, principles, pas
sions, prt j .dices, predictions, pur
puses, ambitions, desires, tastes, rel
Ishes, tendencies, associations, and
tradit'oas. Centuries under the rule
of the popes of Rome, they have come
to possess small capacity for mental
and moral improvement. Persons of
the Italian race should be almost
wholly x duded from this land. Those
of them who wish hereafter to leave
iheir native land for the land of liberty
should be required beforehand to es
tablish their fitness to become citizens
of tho United States. We should dis
courage emigration from the Latin na
tions. Too many Latins have already
been permitted to settle in this country.
Of the foreigners who in the future
desire lo come to the United States, we
shall probably be compelled, for the
highest and best interests of our father
land, to refuse an asylum to the major
portion of the subjects of the Pope of
Rome, of whatever race or language,
to most Orientals, and to most of those
who are nativesof either Russia, Spain,
Italy, Gnece, Hungary, or Bohemia.
They spring from nations whose civili
zation is the antipodes of American
civilization. They have contributed
very little to the general progress of
this nation. They are the people who
have caused us the greatest trouble
and the greatest anxiety. Many of
them are chronic disturbers of the
social order. Nearly all of them are
the Implacable enemies of free and
self respecting labor.
Foreign born Roman Catholics rarely
make good American citizens. Their
tuition, training and traditions tend to
unfit them for the proper discharge
of the duties and responsibilities of
American ciiizsnship, and to render
them peculiarly incompetent to govern,
legislate and judgo for a free and an
enlightened people. They have been
taught from their earliest infancy to
regard the Pope of Rome as the father
and ruler of nations, as the keeper of
the consciences of men, as the supreme
judge of the universe, as the sovereign
without an acknowledgment of whose
paramount authority neither peoples,
nations, states nor governments have a
legal right to exist. Among this class
of people the sincere believers in civil
and religious liberty are rare. They
are therefore as a rule incapable of
aopreciating and unworthy to enjoy
the blessings, benefits and advantages
of American liberty. Those Roman
Catholics especially who come hither
from the Emerald Isle have an intense
and innate antipathy to the free .insti
tutions which this great Protestant
nation has established and maintained.
Intending immigrants of every nation
who are insane, idiotic, or inebriates,
imbeciles, criminals, degenerates or
anarchists, whatever their age, should
be rejected. All those liable to become
a public charge, and all those suffering
from a contagious or a loathsome dis
ease, should be rejected. All known
enemies of constitutional government
and of American institutions should be
rejected. All persons over the age of
sixteen years who cannot read and
write some language should be rej ected.
The ignorant and illiterate of even
Protestant English-speaking foreign
countries, if the intending immigrants
be above sixteen years of age, should
be ri jected.
Statistics show that about one-fifth
of the persons susceptible to insanity
are torcign-norn; so a,e one-uuru 01
thoo suffering from chronic diseases'.
and ene fourth of tne blind. In Massa
chusetts, in 115, when only 2. percent,
of the entire population was foreign-
born, 40 per cent, of the criminals were
foreigners, in New York Stale, in
1SS7, there were in the country poor
houses 0172 native paupers and 92S
foreign paupi rs: while in the city pooi'
houses the native paupers were 18,001
as against 31.107 of foreign birth. In
Massachusetts, in ISio, of 122,203 per
sons atove the age of ten years unable
to read and write, 108 305 were foreign
ers. From 120 to IS'JO tho population
of tills country was increased by 15,
3Sl,0iit) aliens: 455,302 came in 1VO0
alone. Thousands of those who since
120 have made their abiding place
among us never should have been per
mitted to land on American soil. Very
few of the keepers of our grogshops,
in which literally thousands of Amer
ican youth are despoiled of their man
hood, are of American birth and Amer
ican antecedents. Foreigners of the
baser sort are largely responsible for
the havoc which strong drii k ha
wrought in the ranks of the boys of tba
nation. Men who keep saloons should
not be permuted to hold public office
or legislate for the people. Hdt wa
shall naver t-fftct the com pleto over
throw of the liquor power until we
first settle aright the vital question of
foreign immigration.
Every foreign-born persoa. before
be.og invested wkh tne ballot, before
having the privileges and prerogatives
of American citietirhip oonferr. d upon
him. should be required to familiarize
himself with the causes which impelled
this country to separate from Great
Britain. These causes are admirably
epilomi. d in the immortal Declara
tion of Independence a document un
excelled io tho literature of liberty.
Every foreign born person should be
required to read and understand both
the Declaration and the Constitution,
in the English language, before he is
admitted to full uitizmohip. This re
quirement would constitute a reason
able and a necessary educational quali
fication. Our universities, colleges,
academies and schools should devote
more time to teaching the English lan
guagethe language of Shakespeare
and Mil ton, of Washington and Lincoln.
1 see by some of the literary and educa
tional journals tuat the instruction
which many of our uaiversity students
are receiving In the English language
and in English composition is regarded
by eminent authorities as inadequate.
No American, native or naturalized,
can learn too much of the English
language or of the works of genius
which were written in English. The
Euglish language should bs the bond of
unity of the American people. Every
child in the Republic ought to be
taugbt a thorough knowledge of our
national language, to the entire neg
lect, if necessary, of all other lan
guages, ancient and modern.
We must protect our people from the
deleterious in fl oences of an u nrest ricted
foreign Immigration. Wise, courage
ous, patriotic legislation on the subject
will enable us to winnow the chaff from
the wheat. If foreign immigration
were confined within proper limits,
American labor would be more gen
erally employed and more adequately
rewarded, and marriages among our
worthy workmen would receive needed
encouragement. As Time describes
her cycles, tho Elysian Fields of our
America must couit more and more to
be peopled with a patriotic race that is
indigenous to the soil. Ill fares the
land to freedom dedicated whose native
race decays.
A Hopeless Struggle.
Just what Archbishop Langevin
hopes to gain by stirring up opposition
to the school settlement, it is difficult
to opine. As the days and weeks pass,
it becomes more and more unalterably
settled that, for good or ill, the ques
tion is finally disposed of. Quebec
views the question askance; those of
her public men who have not pro
nounced in favor of the settlement
seem, with a few exceptions, disposed
to give it the cold shoulder and drop it
altogether. The Conservative party
will not take it up, and when one of
the leaders here and there attempts to
touch it he is roundly denounced by the
best elements of the party. The Con
servative party declares that the school
question has done it quite enough in
jury already, and is determined to have
no more to do with it. As we have
already said, only a small wing of
Quebec seems disposed to have any
thing to do with it. Protestant Canada,
Conservatives as well as Liberals, while
perhaps not of opinion that the settle
ment seems all that was desired, has
accepted the settlement as a satisfac
tory compromise, and have with great
thankfulness dismissed the Issue as
dead and buried They are not going
to allow Archbi-ihop Langevin, whose
immediate following aredivided on the
issit ', to aain force the question into
the political arena. Try how he may,
Archbishop L'ingeviii, whoso mistaken
zeal no one will bu disposed to criticize
with too much harshness, will never
suceeed in resurrecting the school
question. It is dead and buried, and
tie; people nov desire to turn their
attention to business. The archbishop
may fcueeeeil in keeping a few of his
people here, who are disposed to follow
him, in partial turmoil: but as the
months go by he will discover how ut
terly hop less is the task which he has
set for himself, viz.: of securing any
other settlement than that which has
been made. The Greenway govern
ment is dispose! to administer the law
in a spirit of kindness -nay, in a spirit
of generosity but the dream that sepa
rate schools will ever be re established
in Manitoba has vanished utterly.
The question w ill never be reopened,
as no government will oiler better
terms than those which have been ar
ranged between Lauricr and Greenway.
The archbishop may succeed in keep
ing the schools closed and in keeping
the children of his church in ignorance,
but ultimately he must yield. He might
just as well do it now, and secure for
the children of his church the blessing
of a good education, which will enable
them to compete successfully in the
battle of life with the children of other
denominations. Winnipeg (Manitoba)
Daily Tribune.
