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AMIRICAN aUBLI8MINa OO..
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DECEMBER 17, 1897.
i'UHCJATOKY ! the priest)' Klondike.
Home make the leant noise when the
U working the hardest.
Don't neglect to renew your sub
scription before January 1.
OUR chief magistrate, Wra. MoKln-
ley, In thla week mourning the death of
hla mother,
lr you are not a protesting American
you don di serve the liberties your
forefather bequeathed you.
A NICK Chrlbtma present to ond to
your friend la a receipt for a year' sub
scription to The Amkiucam. ,
THE size of a churoh building 1 not
necessarllly a true Index to the Chris
tian character of the congregation.
THERE ha been more (rood sleighing
In ttil ktate so far thl winter than we
usually have during the entire season.
OCR friends at Fremont had an op
poriunlty of listening to Rev. Kostelo
latt Sunday, and they were well pleased
with what thty beard.
Who is "the White Slave"? The
Itlrl who 1 kept la the Roman Catholic
prison, the Bouse of the Good Shop-1
herd, agalmt her will. j
MONEY is Rome's only god. It lsl Is about to canonise as a saint. To this
. . 111 . t a. .
rcooided that (jurist arove me money
changers from the temples). The peo-1
Die may have to emulate His example!
la that as well as other respects.
The People's Atlas oC taa World Is
without doubt the cheapest And best
atlas on the market today. Wa sell
11 for SO cents. Nioe book fer a present
pacbUdof school age. Oaly 60 cents.
A MONEY order will coat you S cents,
and tbe banks charge us 15 oents for
eolUcitnff your personal check. For
that reason we ask you to please spend
three cents for a money order when
aendlng In your subscription.
NONS in tbe Roman church claim to
be ti e brides of Christ. You can see
through this bltof sophistry if you will
just remember that the church claims
that the priest takes the place of
Christ Is his representative.
Some people regard all national
bankers as enemies of the republic As
a rule such believers would have less to
lose through a realization of their
char pes than any man who does busi
ness with those much abused Individ
uals.
OUR heart i filled with sorrow for
our fellow-worker, Rev. James A,
O'Connor, of New York, whose heart
Is heavy with grief because of the un
expected death of his only child. The
boy was playing In front of Christ's
Mission when be was run over by a
heavy truck, receiving injuries from
which he died.
There is going to be a hot time in
K areas City before tbe 15th a ay of next
April. Rome Is organising her forces
Into Auiora Democratic clubs. The
patriotic American Democrats should
go in with them, remembering always
that they are Americans first and Dem
ocrats afterward. Every American
should make himself felt as an active
factor in bis party.
The Roman Catholic church teaches
that ALL Protestant wives are concu
bines and ALL Protestant children are
illegitimates. That includes you and
yours. If a greasy, pot-bellied, forni
eating priest has not bad carnal knowl
edge of a woman she is not considered
respectable by that high authority on
morals which furnishes more than fifty
per cent of the criminals, paupers,
and prostitutes to the country. Yet it
brazenly brands Protestant wives and
their children as Immoral and incap
able of inheriting.
SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN.
The Boaid of Education of thl city
respectfully informed that there la at
least one hook Is. the puhllo achoott to
wbioh ohjrctloa bat beea entered at
thlaoffloe by a parent who take suffl-
clent inlerret In tbe education of bla
ren to eiamlne thoroughly and
critically tbe book that are furnlabcd
them by the achool board.
Wo aecured a copy of "Stories of
Other Land," the work complained of,
and read It carefully. It certainly hat
aome very objectionable feature. It
teem almoat an advertUement for the
church of Rome.
The flrat story I about Spain, and
the Aral two senRnoes are: "The let
ter of Columbu to tbe Spanish mon
arch, announcing hi dlacovery, bad
produced the greatest sensation at
court. Tbe event It communicated waa
considered the moat extraordinary of
tbelr prosperous relffn, and, following
upon the conquest of Granada, wa pro-
nounoed a signal mark of Divine favor
for that triumph ochutvd in tin name of
the true faith." Not a few Protestant
will object to tuch unqualified reference
to "the true faith." It would not be
objectionable If the sentence had
been rendered, "achieved In the name
of what they believed to be the true
faith."
In paragraph five the discovery "wa
looked upon as a vast and signal dispen
sation of Providence in reward for Vie
piety of the mmarths." The piety con-
Uted in murdering with rack, with
thumb-screw, with sword, with fire and
1th all the hellish appliances of the
Roman Catholic inquisition hundreds
of thousands of Protestants; but the
book doe not mention that fact.
In the closing sentence reference is
again made to "the true faith," which
reeked with the bent blood of the na
tion. In the eighth and last paragraph of
the flrt story the anthem "Te Deum
Laudamua" i incidentally mentioned
to the scholar.
The second story is headed "Ferdi
nand Megellan." It, too, Is Romanized
to a certain extent. Besides, It Is poor
ly written. It contains a number of
errors, typographical ana grammati
cal, and is a disgrace to any publishing
house, from a mechanical point of view.
Besides these two there are a num
ber of others against which objection
could be lodged because of their fre
quent and favorable reference to thing
and objocts and institutions that
are
thoroughly Romanish.
There is a story of a priest, one that
makes him almost as pure of heart and
almost as good as Christ. There is an
other telling about Michel Angelo and
the pope; another of Piiarro and the
prleata in the lands of tbe Incaa; an
otber of Joan of Arc, whom the pope
last we woum not ooject, lor sne was
steadfast and died outside the pale of
the Roman church
It is not through any fear of the lnflu-
enoo this book will have upon our chil
dren that we suggest its withdrawal,
but on behalf of the thousands of child
ren who will read it who do not and
may never have the aame care mani
fested in their education.
Charles T. Beatty, at one time
supreme secretary of the A. P. A., was
sentenced to fifteen months In the east
ern penitentiary of Pennsylvania last
Tuesday for passing a forged check on
the Hide and Leather Bank of New
York. We do not usually experience
any feeling of pleasure when it Is an'
nounoed that some criminal has been
sentenced for his crimes, but in this
Instance we are glad to know that the
law has been adequate, and that Beatty
will suffer some for his many misdeeds
A man who will assume the obligations
and then systematically rob and defraud
not only the members but also the asso
ciation which honored him by an elec
tlon to its second most important office,
deserves a more severe penalty than an
ordinary criminal. Beatty was not
only a passer of forged checks but also
an embezsler. We have known for sev'
oral years that the miserable scoundrel
had been acoused and was on the point
of being arrested for embezzling sev
eral thousand dollars of the funds of the
American Colonization company when
he disappeared, and the dispatches an
nouncing his arrest, conviction and
sentence was the first intimation that
we have bad that he was on American
soil. He deserves more than he has
received.
Romanists are now claiming that
the entire faculty of Notre Dame uni
versity are members of the G. A. R.
I As this Itom is being prepared we nave
before us the names and pictures of tbe
entire post they refer to and but two of
the eleven charter members are priests
of the Roman church, one Gen. Om
sted will not be ordained for two years
and the other eight belong to a minor
society called the Order of the Holy
Cross. There are two things to marvel
at in the organization of this post. The
first is that not until October 5, 1897,
did the church dignify (?) the G. A. R.
by organizing an exclusively Roman
Catholic post, to be used to advertise
the loyalty and patriotism of the priests
of Rome; the second is that it should
take more than thirty-two years to
find eleven veterans of the late war of
sufficient intelligence to parade before
the public as members of the faculty of
school run by ao alien corporation
or ecclealaallra' despot end as members
of tbe G. A. R. at the same time. We
think Rome would do well not to boatt
of thl post of the Grand Army or our
people may see other reaons for It or
ganisation and it exclustveneas than
those tbey will advance.
IT has been ab.mt two months since
Archblahop Cleary ef Kingston, Ont,
placed an ln'erdlct on Protestant mar
riages and funerals and referred to
himself tbe right to administer tbe sa
crament to those who Ignored the in
terdict. The Roman papers htned
to assure the public that his example
would not be followed by the clergy of
this country. As If to emphasize the
untruthfulness of the assurance, the
tame dally papers, that republished
them, are now printing a dispatch from
St. Joseph, Mo., stating that Bishop
Burke of Kansas City, had ex commun
icated a number of Roman Catholics
for attending the marriage of a daugh
ter of a devout Roman Catholic
In a Protestant church. At the
time the Roman paper were deploring
the narrowness of Archbishop Cleary
we said Cleary was within tbe pale of
his authority, and that be had simply
stated tbe true position of tbe church
In regard to marriage, and the bishop
of Kansas City has confirmed our state
ments.
A lady who was raised a Roman
Catholic but who i now an ardent and
conscientious worker In the cause of
true Americanism informs us that she
is so thoroughly convinced that the
Roman priests are misleading their
people for the purpose of destroying
this government and erecting upon it
ruins an oligarchy or a dictatorship,
that she will help thwart them If
she has to go hungry and In rags to do
her share toward perpetuating our form
of government. When we hear such
sentiments m these from those who
have come out of Rome we blush from
shame for those alleged Protestants
who cry out Orange, Masonic or
A. P. A. bigotry when we oppose the
Insidious advance of Romanism into
our affairs. Is it not possible to arouse
the sleeping Americans to a realization
of the danger of their country?
You may be able to make some
people believe that Romanism is grow
ing more liberal, but we don't believe
It is. One of our daughters who at
tends the Hansoom Park M. E. church
and Sunday school, volunteered, as did
a number of others, to sell tickets for
the Old Men's Club concert. Monday
she started out, and In the course of
her rounds visited a house weit of Park
avenue. She told what her mission
ta and asked If they did not want to
buy a ticket and the young fellow who
answered the door bell ordered her off
the premises, remarking that he had
no use for that kind of a church. Our
little one did not know the party but
from the location of the house and what
we can learn of its inhabitants we' be
lieve we are safe In saying the fellow
was a Romanist.
One million dollars is to be expended
by the Roman Catholic church in the
erection of a magnificent cathedral In
Newark, N. J. When we look about
us and see the destitution and Ignor
ance that is afflicting seven out of every
ten Roman Catholic families, the un
necessary waste of such a vast sum ap
pears to be almost a crime. But the
Roman church has always taken great
pride la two things in whloh she ex
eels the magnificence oi ber mass
houses that have been built with the
money begged from Protestants and
stolen from hired girls and ignorant
wives, and the ignorance of its com'
mun leant.
THE law governing the publication of
the notices of applications for liquor 11
censes in the paper having the largest
circulation is strictly unconstitutional.
The legislature exceeded its authority
when it told the merchant that he could
not patronize the weak, that he must
patronize the strong. There would be
just as much justloe in a law that would
compel the same merchant to ship
over a particular road because it had
more miles than any other road. The
newspaper monopoly Is the meanest
on earth and should not be either fast
eredor aided by legislative enactments.
OUR tried and true friend, Justin D,
Fulton, says Rome has all but captured
our national citidal; that Protestant
ministers dare not tell the truth about
Rome and her intrigues against our
free institutions lest they lose their po
sitions, and he say he is going to re
turn to Washington and preach the
truth there as he has preached it in
Boston, trusting in God for funds to
carry on the work. Every patriot in
the country will with him God-speed
IP YOUR priest wants you to put up
money for praying the souls of your
loved ones out of purgatory and into
heaven ask him to show you a receipt
from just one soul he has resoued from
that alleged place of purgation. If he
can't do that he is simply trying to rob
you.
To Can Constipation Foravar.
Take Casrarets Candy Catbarttc. 100 or So.
If C. C. C. tall to cure, druggists refuad money
fICl IN BOGOTA.
The Truthfulness of Canon
Law as Printed by Us
Weekly Verified.
"Highly I nlawrul for Catholics Is O
Opt rate r Alst ia Aay Trot
ftttant lerrnionv."
Romanism Is the same today as in
the days of the Inquisition, ready to
tear the Bible from the people, ex
communicate and persecute for evan
gelical life and faith, and oppose In
every way the simple truth of the gos
pel. Witness the recent official and
authentic
(CIRCULAR.)
Archbishopric of Santefe de Bogota.
Ecclesiastical Government.
BOGOTA, May 6. 1895.
To the Priest of :
As our divine Savior says, the en
emy continually invades the Father's
inheritance, and, laughing at the vig
ilance of the good, sows tares amongst
the wheat Such is the case in coun
tries, like ours, where through divine
favor, and. thanks to the zeal of our
superiors, tbe only true, the apostolic
Roman Catholic religion prevails. The
proselyting Protestant sects endeavor
to induce the faithful to apostatize
from the faith professed by them at
baptism. This we have witnessed dur
ing the past few years, principally in
this city, and elsewhere in the re
public. One of the numerous Protestant
sects the Presbyterians who agree
among themselves only to make war
upon Catholicism, have for some time
been among us, supporting mission
aries and propagating their false doc
trines. Early a church was built in
which to celebrate their heretical wor
ship. Later these missionaries un
dertake the task, of collecting pros
elytes by sowing the evil seeds of
heresy among them.
To accomplish this, a college and
school for girls were established,
where, it is well known, are gathered
not a few children of poor parents.
These they flatter by sifts and prom
ises of pecuniary help. Next comes f&e
establishment of a college and school
for boys, and recently a night school
was opened for workingmen, in which,
according to their lately circulated
prospectus, they also offer to give, be
sides the primary instruction, that of
religion; which is none other than the
Protestant
It pains us to see that some fathers
and mothers some unintentionally,
others preverted have sacrificed their
consciences and the faith of their
families, and. perhaps for small as
sistance, placed themselves and their
children on the road to eternal de
struction. We would be guilty of a
grave neglect of duty if we did not
earnestly call the attention of the
clergy and faithful to these 'evils
which we have noted. Under a pre
tense of offering Instruction, which is
justly desired by all, it is not possible
to permit them to snatch away, prin
cipally from the poor, the Inestimable
gift of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ
and his holy church.
The present energetical propagation
of the Protestant faith by means of
tracts, leaflets and periodicals, In
which, under a cloak of pretending
virtue and false piety, they endeavor
to gain the confidence of a simple and
naturally believing people, in order
to instill Into their minds errors and
heresies, which are not always easy
to discover, and In the end to persuade
them that they teach tbe true doctrine
of our Lord Jesus Christ; that this
consists in believing; that faith and
works do not go together; that It is
enough to be sorry for sins and ask
God's forgiveness in order to obtain
justification; and therefore, the teach
ing of tbe Catholic Church is false
upon these, faith and good works, the
sacraments in general, especially upon
the hold Eucharist, repentance and
confession.
You, tbe priest, well understand how
imperious is our duty to instruct the
faithful who are under our pastoral
care, of the dangers that threaten
their souls, If they knowingly expose
themselves to the reception of these
miserable doctrines, clearly prohibit
ed and anathematized by our holy
mother church, and especially by the
holy council of Trent Therefore, we
most earnestly exhort you by the love
of our Lord Jesus Christ, to improve
every occasion presented, in public
and private, in the pulpit, the con
fesslonal and your social relations, to
dissuade Catholics under your juris
diction from receiving Protestant
books and periodicals, or those of un
believers, and from taking part in, or
causing others to take part in, the
establishments of education founded
and sustained in this city or else
where by the Presbyterians or any
other sect
inereiore, in exercise of our au
thorlty, we decree that you persist
ently communicate and explain to the
faithful the following points:
1. Apostates from the Christian faith
incur the penalty of excummnnica-
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pecially to the Roman Pontiff, and
with them, all heretics of whatever
name or sect; and all who believe,
harbor, aid or defend them; also
schismatics, and all who obstinately
depart from the obedience of the Ro
man Pontiff.
2. The same penalty Is incurred by
all who knowingly read, without the
authority of the Holy See, books of
the said apostates and heretics, where
in their heresy is defended, or books
of authors which are expressly for
bidden, also those who keep, print, or
in any manner defend them.
3. No Catholic can, without commit
ting mortal sin and incurring the
penalties Imposed by the church, send
hia sons, daughters, or those depend
ent upon them, or go himself to any
establishment or school founded and
known in this city by the name of
The American College for Boys and
Girls," nor can he give aid or help
to any like educational institutions.
The workmen, youth or adults who
go or encourage others to attend the
night Bchool. which has been opened
in the "American College for Boys,
Incur the same grave sin, and are
under the same penalties.
5. It is higly unlawful for all Cath
olics to co-operate or assist in any
Protestant ceremony, funeral, etc.,
performed in the church or out of it
6. The faithful who receive, or
have In their possession, tracts, leaf
lets, periodicals, such as the Evan-
gelista Colombiano and El Progreso,
of New York. Bibles, or books of
whatever class printed within or with
out the Republic, which are distribut
ed or sold by Protestant missionaries,
or their agents, or any other booksel
ler, are positively obliged to deliver
said books to their respective parish
priests, or send them to the archbish
opric.
You are to cause this circular to be
read In all the churches for three con
secutive Sundays at the time of mass,
so that the faithful may fully know its
contents.
God keep you.
BERNARDO, Archbishop of Bogota.
The gentleman who translated this
circular speaks in his letter, dated
May 19. as follows:
"You will see by the inclosed cir
cular how things are shaping them
selves here in this county. That they
mean to enforce the circular is evi
dent from the following, which I
learned yesterday from the gentleman
himself: I had given him a few
tracts, and afterwards, meeting him
again, asked him bow he liked the
tracts. This opened the conversation.
during which he told me that a priest,
accompanied by a policeman, had en
tered his father's house, and had
carried away not only his Bible, but
several books in Latin, some of which
were very old and much valued.
Since the close of the war the priests
have been overbearing, and many acta
of oppression have been inflicted upon
the liberals by the government, which
Is really nothing more than a tool In
the hands of the church. . . The ac
tions of the church are more and
more overbearing each day. Today I
notice that the police have been new
ly armed with Winchester rifles."
Herald and Presbyter.
A Fragment From Florence.
For a really good society, two things
are requisite a high state of culture
and the habitual reunion of the most
cultivated through genial and Intel
lectual sympathies. But as social dls
Unctions, in part factitious, prevail
even In republican countries, this
fusion into unity under high influences
is nowhere more than partially prac
ticable. Gross and accidental advant
ages are still prized and that even
by the intellectual above those that
are inherent and refined. They who
possess, watch them Jealously. Instead
of the salve, printed in large letters
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on Goethe's threshold, they would like
to inscribe on theirs, "No admittance
to strangers;" that is, to those who
haven't the same interests to guard.
Against a partition of their power they
in various ways protest; and now with
the more emphasis, from a perception
of the growing disregard of them. The
land of promise, where men and things
shall be valued at their just worth, is
much too remote for Its remoteness to
be measured; and we can only discover
that we are less far from It by a
comparison of where we are with
where we have been a comparison
which, if made broadly and with a free
spirit, will, in other domains of life
as well as in this, induce hopefulness
and trust.
The second requisite, therefore, is
found, from general causes, as little in
Florence as elsewhere, and less than
in the great capitals. As to the first,
Florence has its creditable circle of
men of letters, science, and art But
while with those to whom rank and
affluence give opportunities of educa
tion, they are but slenderly connected,
they are at the same time sundered
from the masses; they and the multi
tude cannot duly co-operate; their
light scarcely pierces the blighting
shade cast upon the people by the
tangled brambles of priestly abuse. A
community under Roman ecclesiastical
domain cannot attain to the highest
state of culture possible in its age. By
the growth and diffusion of knowledge,
through the long peace and the inter
communication among nations, the
bonds of episcopal tyranny have been
somewhat loosened in the Italian
states. The body of the scientific and
literary men have of course always
lived in secret protest against this
curse. But though they hate the
tyrants and content their impostors,
they cannot escape from them. The
mind is stinted and thwarted in its
wants and aspirations. Thought itself,
free in the dungeon and on the rack,
languishes where it has not free ut
terance by speech and pen. That un
der this long double load of political
and religious despotism the Italians
have still kept alive the sacred fire of
knowledge; have, through the thickest
atmosphere, shot up into the sky, high
enough for all Europe to see them.
lights, poetic and scientific, proves
what deep sources of life, what elas
ticity and tenacity of nature there are
in this oppressed people. Let those
who for their abject state would de
spise them, think of this, and ther
will perhaps wonder that the Italians
are not even more prostrate. Written
from Florence, Italy, in May. 1842. bv
George H. Calvert
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