The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899, December 10, 1897, Page 4, Image 4
THE AMERICA IM THE AMERICAN. 40 O. TNOHPtON, . C SRLLfcV. HUlaae NuiKf ft?BUfltl WEKKLY II If TUB IIEEICAH P0EUSH11G C0IP1HT, Wit tlOWAMt fTHIKT. I Ml A, NSB. Te4ee 911. SUBSCRIPTION S2 A YEAR. Ma Ppr mil t DitrontimM litest Order of Sulcrtbr. J TO THE PUBLIC. TIIK AHfcKICAn I o tne orgaa 01 any ew:t.ordrr, umm-IkI Ion. parly, city tin, .art'oa or 1IIIob of the popuUlloa of this grand Urpubllc ant rvpudlaw sod brmail as f.le ell rlatiua or i-hr that It la aiu-h. let u-h claim or charte be mA by any prrsou or pri wuoni eoever. TIIK AMKKIOAN l a Bppr of geeoral circulation, going to and twlng read If people of all rellgloue bvllrfa aad iK.IIII.-al nflHUI lotm; by Ine white and Ida Mack, the native-bora and the aaturalltrd. the Jew and the lie oil la, the Protmimit and the Boiuau Catholic. ThU claim ran be tulxtanttaud la any court of JutU at any tluia. AMI ftlCAN PUBLISHING CO.. . JOHM C. THOU HO. fmMnl. DECEMBER 10. 1897. OK course the A. I. A. la dead. Don't neglect to renew your sub scription before January 1. It would take but little coaching to tnake moot of our public men (airly ac ceptable Jesuits. WKLL, It would do your heart good to read tho letters from our subscriber who are renewing for I9SW. We pub lish a few m another column. McKlNLKV found a good position in the cabinet for Romanist McKonna.but he eould not find any kind of a position for II. F. Bowers the founder of the A. P. A. Wonder If the Romans are real well satisfied with the death of the A. P. A. which they reoently announced. Per haps they will be able to announce its death again after the next election. The People's Atlas of the World Is without doubt the cheapest and best atlas on the market today. Wt sell It for 50 cents. Nice book for a present to a child of school age. Only 50 cents. No, friknds, the Wandering Jew Is not about completed. It will last at least seven months longer, aad the most telling, the most graphio descrip tion of Jesuitism is yet to come. Do not fail to read it to the end. OUR Republican president could find good fat berth for Pat Egan, the no torious Irish Roman Catholic, but he could not find any room In the publio service for W. S. Linton, the American Protestant who opposed the traitorous brood that harbors such undeslrae'e creatures as Pat Ejran. The government at Washington put Terry V. Powderly Into a fat govern ment job that of Immigration Com missioner because Terrenee was a Ro manist, but it could not find anything for Representative Hlnde of Missouri, because he had been the editor of a pa per that opposed political Romanism. It WAS possible for McKlnley to find a comfortable office with a fat salary for Romanist Bellamy Storrer, the rich Romanist of Ohio, but we have not yet heard of McKlnley finding any kind of an office for Representative Eainer, who ao ably assisted Mr. Linton in his oppo sition to sectarian appropriation. ROME seems to own McKlnley, body, soul and breeches. He readily found a . place in the government service for Mike J. Dow Hug, a member of the Ro man church and its secret organizations but he has no public pap for any Prot estant who is known to sympathize in any way with this movement against political Romanism. The citizens of Kansas City have In duced W. C. Holden to remove his paper from Galesburg, 111., to their city. Mr. Holden has published Liberty for at number of years, first at Lincoln, Neb., then at Duluth, Minn., then at Galesburg, 111., and always as a feat less and outspoken American paper. The patriots of Kansas City should see that Liberty gets the support it will so richly deserve. We DO not know how you can do more effective work against the insidi ous advance of Jesuitism into our af fairs of state than by inducing your friends and acquaintances to read anti Roman literature. And nothing Is bet ter adapted to the work than The AMERICAN. Get it and Chlniquy's great book "The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional" and send them to your friends. You get them both for 42. We will send the book to one ad dress and the paper to another if you wish it done that way. The two for 12. Omaha citizens were afforded an op portunity to listen to a plain and dis passionate exposure of the Roman Con- fi-ulonal by ex Hunantst Koe'elo. laat Sunday afternoon and evening at Wash ington Hall. The let ture in the after noon was to lad U-e only, and that In the eveoing to men only. The hall was comfortably filled In the afternoon with ladles of refinement and culture, w bo showed their appreciation by frequent bursts of applause. The evening lec ture was attend by two hundred and fifty of Omaha's representative and pa trlotlo citizen. They manifested their approbation throughout by liberal ap plause and left the hall fully satisfied that bad as political Romanism Is, the disgustingly obscene questions pro pounded to Roman Catholic women In tho Confettlooal are a thousand times worse. Tbey must have thought the men who pretend to be American citi zens, who place their loved ones in the perilous potltlon necessary to make a proper auricular contortion, had ceased being men and wwj slaves to some power that could oj used lor untold barm In a free country like America; for the power that could make them permit the Questioning of their wives and daughters about their thoughts, actions, desires, hopes and conduct from a sinful and immoral standpoint- could compel them to vote a certain way, could make has made them be lieve theiroaths of allegiance were bind ing at the will of the pope, and that It was their duty to obey the laws of the church whenever and as often as they con 11 let with the laws lof the state. Mr. Kostolo made a very favorable Im pression on those who were fortunate enough to hear him, and no doubt be would be accorded a very enthusiastio welcome were he to return again to do liver a series of lectures. We have personal knowledge of the truth of most of -what Mr. Koitelo uses in his lecture, therefore we feel justified in recommending him to our readers as a trustworthy exponent of Americanism and as a firm opponent of Romanism. He speaks next Sunday aftornoon and evening in Love's Opera House, in Fre mont. Every American in Dodge should go and hear him. WHAT OUR FRIENDS SAY. Orangevlllc, III, Deo. 6. Thanking you for your kind offer I hasten to ao oept the same. Ye, my flag Is the Star Spangled Banner, and I working under the flag of my master, Jesus Christ. Enclosed find postofllce order for subscription to January, 1899. Respectfully, MRS. C. L. The grand old patriot, Hon John B. Stone of Kansas City, Mo., sends in twice as much as we would think of asking for a renewal with the remark, "for luck." Hundreds of others are re newing and wishing us success. Have we heard from you yet? Let us all be gin the new year with a clean balance sheet. Rockford, 111., Deo. 6. Please renew the subscriptions of the subscribers whose names are enclosed. Draft for same enolosed. Wish I could send In 1,000 names, but will try and get at least a few more. Our papers have said that the A. P. A. is dead here, but No. 3G has taken a new lease of life and will steer clear of scheming, political tricksters, and will not lay down till we ha ve none but "Americans on guard" May you live long and prosper. F. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 6. Friends: With these few lines I enclose $2. You will have my support in your good work from the beginning until Ameri cans have eradicated all the houses of the good Bhepherd, and until priests and nuns are driven from American soil. Not until then will ours really be a free country. They hate our free schools and Protestant churches whloh are for the upbuilding and continuation of our present form of government. To you friends, I have not time to write much. I offer to help you In this work. You need support. I cannot do much but when you need and call on me I will do my best from $1.00 to 93.00. I remain, your friend and brother of No. 58. A. H. Hurley, wis., Dec. 5. tnolosed you will find your slip with my address and that of another. You ask if my flag is still nailed to the mast-head of antl Romanlsm? Yes, God knows. In this town of ours almost everything is un der control of the Romans, and this, j all because of the fear of the Protes tants for the Romanists. I am marked for a very bold A. P. A. because I get your paper through the office here. But, while I don't seek trouble with them. I usually say what I believe to be right. When I first got your paper the postoffice clerks (ail Romanists) became very curious to know what was Inside of the wrapper, so one day they took off the wrapper and I think they found out to their hearts content. I told some friends I would pay for the American If the postofflce clerks would read it, even If I never saw it myself. We have no council of the A. P. A. here but the people are studying this question of Romanism in politics. In my work I come In contact with a great many people every day and I never let an opportunity slip to put in a word against Rome. May the good work go on and so continue until ever Protes tant in our beloved land shall be on their guard against the machinations of Rome, and every Romish priest be Is the wish of W. Naabvllle, Teno., Dec, 0 I like the American very much and think it a great paper, and I am not going to be without It a long as I am able to rsUe the price and It Is printed. I am as poor as a church mouse but I will have your paper If I have to go without my dinner. I hope -your paper will live forever and hope It and iu supporters 111 live to down that old scoundrel sitting in Rome and his gang. We are seeing some f their work here at tbe present time and It Is nip and tuck with us to hold our jobs in tbe fire and po lice departments, and I see you have the same kind of a gang to deal with. Long live the American and iu whole crew. J. Kansas City, Mo., D..-C. 3. Yes sir, you shall have my subscription, and I only wish I could send thousands more, and that I could1 take stock in your fearless, true American paper and mske it a dally la plaof once a week, tbat I could see the good work that 1 believe you are doing, go on to victory. It makes the weeks seem so long when I can soe only once a week a paper tbat is not largely controlled by a nod or a wink of the old man on the Tiber. 1 believe there are very many good, honest Roman Catholics but they are blind and I think If they would read and enlighten tnemselves they would become good, true American citizens as many of them are doing, but they are born In Ignorance, raised in Ignorance and die In the same state of mind be lieving that their priest can pray them out of that mythical place called Purg atory, and deliver them safe In heaven for a stated sum of money. Oh, what nonsense, to think any mortal man Is possessed of so much power! If we could only get them to believe In our free schools, our free churches, where we teach from the Bible that the re ligion of Jesus Christ is free to all without money and without price, and without any comments from priest or pope, how dlflerent things would be in this land of freedom. Yes sir, I am willing to do all I can to enlighten tbe vicious and ignorant, to open up all the houses of the good shepherd, as they are called, for Inspection by all or close them up for all time to come, rid our selves of all Jesuits, stop all pauper and criminal immigration and compel every one to respect all our free institutions or brand those who refuse as traitors and send them from whence they came never to return, and for all Americans to stand up for and rally around the American flag and, If necessary, de fend It as long as our blood shall course through our veins. I am also opposed to the appropriation of one cent of the publio money from the National treas ury for the benefit of any religious or sectarian association or Individual. Further I am in favor of every corpora tion, which owns property of any klud, being made to pay taxes. Also,I am in favor of an income tax. Let us all be free and equal under the law and we will be prosperous and happy. C. R. W. It LOOKS as though the Nebraska supreme court bad fixed a soft place to light on in the i Broatch-Moores case. Moores wlll;probablybe declare eligible. Our supreme court is rapidly acquiring an unenviable reputation among tbe common people. AT the recent session of the state council of the A. P. A. a complete set of new officers were elected, and the secrecy and non-partisanship which has distinguished it for two years will be Its future policy. We expect a revival of interest in the work in this state. line to Romanism. Companies of priests and nuns have arrived In New York from Ecuador, South America. They call themselves exiles, driven out by persecution. They are nothing of the kind. All travelers for years have represented Ecuador as the most priest-ridden country in the world. Education was limited and languid, enterprise hardly existed, a low state of public and private morals prevailed. There has been a revolu tion, of which very meager reports have been made. As far as they go, they indicate that Ecuador has thrown off the yoke of the Roman hierarchy, as Mexico, the Central and South American Republics generally .have done, and it is possible that some of the chiefly obnoxious orders have been banished from the country. No coun try in North or South America has been so far behind the times in desira ble attainments as Ecuador, and the fact has been due to the supremacy of Roman Catholio prie sta and sisters. Herald and Presbyter. Pretest Against McKenna. Washington, D. C, Dec. 6. Presi dent Echols and Secretary Palmer to day issued a special address to the American Protective Association. The address say it is the duty of the association to protest to the senate against Attorney General McKenna's elevation to the supreme court bench; asserts that the government depart ments are being Romanized and Ro manists given more than half the offices in certain departments; declares against the president's latest extension of the civil service, and urges all kept In his proper plaoe jour friend. members to write to their senators and representatives In o p pool t Ion to tbe appropriation of any money at tbe present session of congress to sectarian purposes. A Weak a nerd IrtrUnt Expetwd. Evangelist Kootelo used in his lecture last Sunday evening tbe following: "If ever there was a time, or an occasion which calls upon yju to vindicate your honor, your rlgbw, and justice, now is the day and now the hour. What and who U this insolent upstart, this dough faeed and weak-kneed s (called Protect ant, appointed and paid by Protectants who acuas sacretary of the Y. M. C. A? I tell you friends, I would rather meet a Roman Catholic than a coward ly Protestant for you know wbere to place tbe Roman, but you don't know wbere to place such men a Mr. S. L Willis. Who Is be that be dares In sult, as he has the members of the in stitution which supports him? How dare he insult the comuon sense of the eillzens of this city? He, your servant, how dare he outrage the fuellngs of the very people tbat give him bread to eat? Such men dare call themselves "Americans!" We bear with such m;o, but when their arrogance, insolence and pumped up dignity, presume to trample upon our rights, tbey deserve something more than commUeratlon. A prominent citizen, and member of the Y. M. C. A. informed me that he in tended to discontinue as a member of same on account of tbe audielty of this man, wbo refused to allow a Protestant Evangelist to display the advertise ment of his meetings in the hall, and who refuses to allow so worthy a paper as The American u be placed on the files of tbe association. It is an out rage which you as Americans should protest against." Baptist Sentiment. The following sentence from the Texas Baptist Standard is true; and it is bo Important that we would have it written over the hearth stone of every family into which the Recorder coes: "The pope is extremely desirous of controlling this country, but whether he will ever do it depends on whether Baptists are faithful." "The Baptists have never perse cuted," Is a favorite claim of our de nomination. We have never perse cuted, but when the time has come for a struggle for freedom, Baptists have taken up arms. When tbe time has come to defend the truth. Baptists have thrown themselves manfully in to the breach. If they were right In struggling for freedom and for truth, they would be not less than wrong to suffer our nation to pass gradually There are Baptists who say we lose the respect of other people when we Into the dominion of Rome, when they come out openly and say Rome should he held off by holding her subjects have the power to prevent It 1 out of American politics there are Baptists who say this. But we do not care If they do. Baptists are nowhere with authority commanded to look to "other people" for approval. It is their duty to stand for all they are worth for free Institutions, free government, free religion, free speech, regardless of the consequences. There are Baptists who actually say nave said to us that Roman Catholics In Americat are different from those of Mexico. Brazil. Cuba, Spain and Italy. It is true, and it is true simply because there are 1,000,- 000 men in America who would take up arms and fight to the last ditch to make it true. Roman Catholics were recently di vided by a Romanist in this state (writing in the News and Observer), into good Catholics and bad Catholics, He claimed to be a good one. If they are true Catholics, they are bad clti zens of a free country; if they are bad (that is disloyal) Catholics, they are hypocrlts to their church. The pope will be very good to Americans, and his priests and sub jects 'will behave themselves and pa rade their loyalty and their patriotism, until they have insinuated them selves into the chief offices of our na tion; and then Baptists will have the battle for freedom once more to fight Catholics are patriotic for power only Let them get the power, and their pa triotism will all be opened upon the "holy father" in Rome, the Infallible and absolute god of the Romanists everywhere. Why the necessity of these words here in North Carolina Protestant North Carolina? There is a need for them: Rome has insinuated herself into the political parties, and the peo pie have almost reached the point of perfect obedience to these parties. If ever Rome gets a hold upon our state (she already has a hold upon our na tion to a certain extent.) it will be through the blind obedience of the voters to unscrupulous party leaders. The Biblical Recorder. How It Must Be Done. We often see a wish expressed that the convents and other popish prisons might be inspected. In the Iowa Pa triot for October, there is a petition directed to Mrs. McKlnley. wife of the president, signed by hundreds of Iowa ladies, and reading as follows: HOW TO FIND CUT. Fill a bottle or common glass with urine and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of tbe kidneys. When urine stains linen it is positive evidence of kidney trouble. Too fre quent desire to lurinate or pain in tbe back, is also convincing proof that tbe kidneys and bladder are out of order. WHAT TO IM). There is comfort In the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Rjot, tbe grett kidney rem dy, fulfills every wUh in relieving pain in the back, kidneys, llver.cbladder and every part of tbe urinary passages. It corrects inability 1 1 hold urine and scalding pilo ia passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or baer, and overcomes that unpleasant uecessity of being compelled to get up many times during tbe night to urinate. The mild and extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is so m readid. It stands tbe highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists, price fifty cjnts and one dollar. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet both sent free by mail. Mention The American, and send your address ti Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton, N. Y. Tne proprietors of this paper guarantee the genuine ness of tbls offer. "We, the undersigned, ladies or women of America, having heard of tentimes of the ill-treatment, perse cutions and abuses received by the inmates of Roman Catholic convents and other monkish institutions, from the hands of those at the head of such Institutions in America, and be lieving that there should be no slav ery, either physical or mental, in this bright land of our. etc." Now I am unable to see what Mrs. McKlnley can possibly do in the prem ises. She has neither legislative, ju dicial nor executive powers. Perhaps it may be merely to show to the world how many women of the state of Iowa are opposed to nunneries. Very well, but why not go to work so as to ef fect the liberation of these prisoners? The national covernment neither McKlnley, congress nor the supreme court can do anything with the con vents in any state. Each state must deal with its own convents. Each Btate has the right to open to inspec tion all the convents within its bord ers, or to abolish them; but the United States government cannot touch them, without first amending its constitu tion. It is not only the right, but the duty of each state to know whether any of its citizens are illegally impris oned, and so to guaranty liberty to every individual. If, on inspection, girls or women are found in such convents suffering voluntary tortures, such as going bare foot In the winter, sleeping in cotton sheets in the winter and woolen ones in summer, lapping crosses on the floor, or counting beads and saying "Hail-Marys," they should be judged Insane at once, lodged in the state insane asylum and treated. Most of them would be cured in a year or two of instruction and careful teaching by some graduate of one of our public high schools. Meantime they could be made to pay their way, or nearly so, by doing some useful -vork each day. Then they would become the honored mothers of children, and be a credit to society. No state should allow a foreign despotism to psychol ogize and entice its young women into prisons, there to be kept In seclusion during life. If our states, as republics, do not overthrow this evil now, they will not be able to do it when the institution, which supports the convents, has be come much stronger; and they will be such institutions in America, and be- jooted out by an uprising of the people with bloody sacrifices, and possibly by the destruction of a Republican form of a kingdom supported by a powerful army. The king of Italy, backed by an army, has abolished the convents. The states, without armies, have not dared to touch them. Every state has the right, but is restrained by fear of the Catholic vote. Protestant voters, se lect brave men for your legislators, and remedy this evil while it is young. CHASE ROYS. To Care Couatlpation Forever. t.ToH? 's.carets Cndy Cathartic 10c or 25a. u c. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money. Who Will Be the Gerhard Groot. These three letters stand for co operation, fratenlty and charity, and these seemed to be in the mind of Gerhard Groot when, after preaching so as to displease the Roman gentry of the cloth, and had his license taken away from him, started the organiza tion of Brethren of the Common Life. While there were no cast iron rules, each one put his earnings In the fund so as to support the institution, and in this institution Thomas A. Kempls was educated. They maintained in their schools a pure Latin and Greek, and left out the subtle reasoning of the "schoolmen." And this work was one pf the greatest and most success ful preparations for the coming Refor- mation. What we want at the present time is to have all people well posted on the important subjects of the day and be able to judge for themselve regarding the issues which may be presented. There are so many who have an ax to grind and are planning to get the public to turn tbe grind stone. Tbe secular press is to a cer tain extent Romanized, but weare very glad to see a change in this respect for the better. The servants of the pope have been slapped in the face sev eral times. They have had their corns stepped upon and they have been taken by the nape of the neck and somewhat choked. And that Is the cause of it. But we must educate. There must in some way be a Brethern of the Common Life. If It were start ed the papists would surely try to Ro manize it, but let it be started and let the papists be thrown over the wall as often as they climb in. By this method the school directors will know in all districts what to do with Romanized school books and would know who to get for teachers to teach their children and would know how to vote and how to rule when elected to an office. Who now will be the Gerhafti Groot? There is no Charles V or Phillip II now and the pope says he is a prisoner. T. T. L. No-To-Bac for Fifty Cent. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men auuug. blood pure. AUc. $1. All druggist Th rough Rome's Protest Through the protest of Archbishop Riordanofthe Roman Catholic church, AT t'Pr'a A tint ant an A faA Airal t3fla tory has been excluded from the pub lic schools of San Francisco and Fish er's History substituted in its place. Archbishop Riordan contends that the Roman Church, through the decrees of its councils and the administra tion of its infallible head, nc?er erred from the right, and the Myer's strict ures upon the Jesuits and the Inquisi tiftn are objectionable. Therefore the book that tells the truth most 20. This same Roman Catholic influence is now at work in the same city to discharge one hundred Protestant teachers on trumped up charges, be cause of their "unfair references" to Romanism. Protestantism acknowl edges what mistakes it has made, seeking only the truth, but the intol erant Romanists try to protect their errors by attempting to suppress the " record of their ecclesiastlclsm, and con ceal fangs that have never been drawn, in order that they may rend rend and destroy! Books and teach that never changes. Therefore, noth ing should be said against the holy (?) prerogatives of that ecclesiastlclsm to rand and destroy! Books and teach ers must go out of our public schools 1 to preserve the unimpeachable record of this church in its sacred and lawful vocation of stamping out heresies and persecuting heretics! Such is the spirit of intolerant Romanism. Will Ameri cans stand it? The clearer truth of our day demands greater Catholicity, and these old savageries must perish. Omaha Christian Advocate. We sell Edith O'Gorman's Corvent Life Unveiled. Price $1.25. Excites the Catholics. Lima, (via Galveston, Tex.), Nov. 16. Mr. Jarrett, an American Protestant missionary, has successfully passed an examination at Cuzcn, capital of the southern province of that name, former capital of the Incas, and the most an cient of the Peruvian cities, with a view of establishing a school there. His intention has greatly exeited the Catholic party. ' Open lour Eyes. Rome loves education? In 1870 ten per cent of the population of the Prot estant countries of Europe was in school. In the Catholic countries one in 124 was in school. In the Protestant countries there was a newspaper or magazine to every 315 people. In the Catholic countries the proportion was one to 2715. Who educates? Open your eyes; the cloud is rising that will bide the sun of American freedom.-Masonio Tyler. Art Vis Mmtfn tf !, tne Telefrapfc Britain of the ktunan body. NervM attend from tbe brain to avary yart of the body and reach every ergaa. NenrM are Bks are good servants but kava suiters. NervM are fed by the blood and are aerefeM like tt la character. Rtrm win be weak and exhausted 9m blood Is tata, pale and Impure. nrM wIU surety be strong and steady On blood Is rich, red and vtgoroaa,( rVM and a true ftiend la Hood's Sarsapo rffla because It makes rich, red blood. TVM then- work naturally and wen, the brala Is unclouded, there are a aearalgle pains, appetite and Kos are good, when yon take Sarsaparilla, T One Trot Rood Purifier. AD druggists, ft, near eart ay 0. L Moot Ce, Lewell, Maes. ' Hood'i P1IU a'r2