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THE AMERICAN THE AMERICAN. K ,wrvd at t'oauiflloa m miooO-clM Matter. JQHH O. THOMPSON. TO. W. C. KKLLKY. Hualaaa Mufr rCBtlMIKD WRICKLT BY THI AMERICAN PUBLISHING COIPANT, Mis Mow Ann tt. OajAkA. Nib. T.).pw. 811. SUBSCRIPTION $2 A YEAR. Ha Papar ba OIrntimid lcpt Ortiar of Subtcrlbw. TO THE PUBLIC. THE AMERICAN la the organ of any arct. order. aaanrlaMoa. party, clique, .aclUm or division of Ui population of thle grand ttepubllc, and rouudlataa and brand aa fulse all clalnin or rfcarewi thai It U eucb. Irt euch Malm or charge be aade t j any prraon or paraooa hom tWTer. TIIK AMERICAN la a aewepaper of (varral rlrculatton. Rnln to and being rad by people uf all rallttloua belief and political afltllallonaj by Ui wbtta and lb black, the native-bora and tba aaturallaed. the Jew and the Qentlla, the Proteatant and the Komaa Catholic. Thin claim ran ba auueUntlated Id any court of juatlc at any time. AMERICAN PUBLISHINO OO.. , 0. nOMftOH. FrMtmt. JANUARY 7, I89S. IT must be gratifying indeed to the publlo to be able to point to a judge of the character nd ability of Cunning ham R. Scott. PERU It going to try to pass a law le galizing all marriages. K it ii panted it will be gall and worm-wood for the priest of Itome. Neither the World-Herald nor the Hoe have ei plained why they did not take editorial notice of O Connor's at tempt to bribe Judge Soott In Count Crelghton's behalf. Why? That was a stinging rebuke Judge Soott administered to a fellow judge when, in answer to the question of an attorney if he would sake a certain order, he said, "yes, but I will write it myself." flood for Soott. Certain Roman Catholics have told us that they endorse our exposure of the methods of O'Connor in Crelghton's bo half, but thry object to our holding the church up as a party to the dirty deal. Their objection would have weight with ua were we not reasonably certain that the church expeots to oome in for the bulk of Crelghton's woalth when he goes to meet the last, Supreme Judge A larck majority of the people who read the account of the attempt of Count Crelghton's attorney to bribe Judge Scott are of the opinion that Kirs. Shelby must have established her claim beyond any reasonable doubt, otherwise the count's hireling would not have run the risk of being sent to the pen. Mrs. Shelby deserves relief, and she is in tbe right court to receive it If she has established her right to have the transfers ma.de by her father to the count set aside. THE Italian goverommt Is carrying the war lnt o Africa, so to speak, against the pope and his pretentions, A recent dispatch from Rome says, "the Italian government has resolved to found at Florence at publlo expense a library of all the books which have Incurred the censure of the Sacred Congregation of the Index. The Vatican hat protested againtt the measure on the ground that the majority of the books in ques tion are Improper to the last degree, and that the establishment of a collec tion of such a nature Is an affront rather against public morality than against the discipline of the church." It IS a source of amusement rather than of Instruction to the patriotic un biased onlooker to contemplate some of the screeds that appear in partisan dally press on the virtue and the merit which are Involved in being a loyal Re publican or a loyal Democrat. The time la coming in the history of this country and there are portentous signs ol its near approach when the term Republican or the term Democrat will not necessarily mean anything, but when the designation American, 1 rightfully bestowed, will mean everv thing that la good, true and noble In the arena of politics and in the forum of morals. To be a true and loyal American should be the principal aim and chief ambition of every American citizen, whether he be Republican or Democrat, wnether he be Populist or Prohibitionist. A CANDID ADMISSION. Spain is the most bigoted, most ignorant, most poverty-stricken, and most cruel of European nations. Snain was the first to open and is the most unwuung to close the Infamous slave trade. In Spain religious tolerance, even in the closing years of the nine teenth century, is a name rather than a fact. In Spain the oxen plow and the asses carry water, even as in Pales tine in tne time of Abraham, Isaao and Jacob. In Sualm the hands of clock have stood still while centuries were passing in silence. Chicago Inter ueean. Once In a great while a fragment of truth regarding some priest-ridden country is given editorial expression in the dally press. But tho CUc-na Inter Ocean and all the other great dalUc ever steadily maintain algnlfl cant alienee at to the underlying came of the decay of papal nation. Great edltora ahould atudy the nature, elo roeota and principles it the papacy. Spain, once ruled by the proudeat mon arch of Europe, hat gradually sunk to the rank and condition of a third rate power, and baa reached the loweat depth of decay among the clrlllzed na tion of the earth through the opera tlon of beo'.tod bigotry, fierce fanati cism and aimonou eaoerdotallam Spain, prior to the melancholy and unhappy period at which the papacy acquired the ascendency over the Iberian Peninsula, was inhabited by a truly noble and chlralrlo race. The pro-papal Spaniards were a tolerant people. Ilul In the process of the cen turies the miasma of Romanism has polnoned the very well springs of the social and religious life of the Span lards, so that today Spain la not only the most Illiterate nation In Europe but the moat hopolosly superstitious The backwardness of Spain in all those elements that relate to a truly enllght ened and progressive civilization is di rectly traceable to the teachings of that church whose priesthood have ever striven te repress the noblest aspira tions of the human mind. Spain, If it shall ever partially emerge from the moral darkness whloh enshrouds It, will progress but slowly toward the life and light of liberty. FRIENDS, BROTHERS, PATRIOTS. "Qod move In a myatnrloua way Ills wondera to perform." Aa if to emphasize the truthfulness ol this sentiment we have this week, just before going to press, oome into posseat-ion of the details of the most damnable conspiracy that has ever been batched in this country, and after careful inquiry, and earnest and thoughtful consideration of oaoh boo tlon of the plot we are firmly convinced that our information is reliable, that the liberties enj yed by Protestants in tills country today are tottering, and that before the country is placed be yond the reach of those who are at the bottom of the conspiracy to wreck the government, there will be hundreds of thousands of lives sacrificed, of homes made desolate and of treasure spent. Today there ia but one living man who keeps the olot from being in full operation. Ill death may occur at any moment; It will occur when the Jesuits are ready to strike. To the end that the country may be duly warned of the impending calam ity, which we shall make so plain that he who runs may read and understand, we will publish the week ending Janu ary 22, a large extra edition with an exposure of the plot to overthrow this government and subvert our liberties by the aword. We have started detectives on the scent and have written to different point for additional information, and shall have everything ready for a most startling but reliable article by the end of next week, but too late for pub lication in the issue o the 14th Inst. That edition of the 21st will be sent to any address In bundles containing from 10 to 100 papers or mailed direct from this office to addresses that may be furnished. We expect to distribute a large num ber at own expense, but the question Is of such vital Importance to each citizen that we urge upon you the need of freely circulating that issue in your Immediate neighborhood. At least one million men should read the Issue of January 21st. If you desire to help arouse the sleep ing Americans send in your order for as many copies as you can use to good advantage. Order early so we may know how many to print. We have lead in this fight in the time of peace in the hope of Orlnglog about a paolflo settlemebt of the ques tions involved, but the men in charge of the affairs of state have continued to get farther and farther from the truely loyal American people, and nearer and nearer to the standard of Rome, until the hierarchy makes bold to plot and plan the overthrow of the government by force of arms. When she strikes some one will have to lead. We propose to be that one. Now who will dare to follow. But it is not enough to be willing to follow; your friends and neighbors must be apprised of the danger. That special edition will point it out. Councils should order in thousand lots. Subscribers should order as their means will permit. Those men who are wealthy should not hesitate to back this movement with their funds for war would leave them aa poor as their neighbors. A few hundred dollars judiciously expended now may save our liberties in the near future. In lots of 1000 to one address $10.00 " " 500 " " " $7.50 . ii ii ii i t)o " ' " 50 " ' $1.25 X ! JQ tc .1 II -3() Single copies .05 These prices barely cover expense of printing, unless papers were printed in larger lots than we anticipate printing. How many will you want? Order now. Do you not wish to have some good reading the coming winter months? See our great offer on another page. IS THt ITALIAN RIGHI? rrofttesor Iiombroao, the Italian rrluuuoioKlHt. tut wvn enda.ioriug t dlacover why the crime of murder ia Increasing In tbe I'nlled Stales, and reaches the conclusion that it la large ly due to our lax Immigration laws, which admit the lowest rlas of crim inals from Kurope. The explanation docs not agree with the facts In thi vicinity, at least. In Chicago I. Is a notorious and somewhat humiliating fact that tbe most desperato crim inal and murderers were born right In tnla city. The Market-street gaiig, the Mortell-MctJrath gang and the other bauds of desperadoes with whom the police once waged a continual warfare were all Chicago products. The same Is true of tba thills of the present day. The men who, like Merry, kill out of pure wantonness are usually Americans. Tnelr disre gard of human life ia due to the knowledge that their chances of hang ing are not one In fifty, and until we have reform In our crimiual Judica ture murder will Increase, though we shut out immigration altogether. Mr. Ijombroso, like most theorists, has un dertaken to twist facts to nis theory Instead of fitting his theory to facts. Chicago Chronicle. We candidly think that Professor Lombroso la nearer right than is the Chicago Chronicle. While it may be true that the majority of Chicago's desperadoes, thugs, plug-uglies and murderers were born in the city in which they have been operating, care ful investigation Into their antecedents would probably reveal the fact that nearly every soul of tnem was of Ro man Catholic parentage. What does the mere fact of a man being born In this country signify If he have the pernicious principlee and jdam- nable doctrines of Rome indelibly im pressed upon his mind and - con science? Wuy, in the city of Balti more and throughout the State of Maryland there are thousands of Ro man Catholics who can trace their American ancestry back to the year 1640. Yet the families to which they belong bare not been in America long enough to become so thoroughly im bued with the spirit of democracy and of freedom aa to constitute them ser ious protestors against any of the pol icies which the papacy is endeavoring to carry out on this American conti nent Fractlcally the members of the no torious Market street and Mortell- McGrath gangs at Chicago are Roman Catholics, of either Irish birth or Irish descent a fact which the Chronicle was careful to conceal. If the majority of the criminals of our large cities are men of Roman Catholic parentage, tuition and training, and If they were born In America, then it la the prov ince of pure patriotism and of en lightened statesmanship to see that in the future the progenitors of such as they are rigidly excluded from these shores. There are large classes of Ro man Catholics in Ireland, ia Italy, in Belgium and other European . coun tries who, if they contemplate emigrat ing to the United States, should be compelled to undergo a thorough ex amination at the hands of some com petent specialist in criminology before they are permitted to Journey west ward with a view of taking up their permanent residence in the land of liberty. DODGES THE POINT. In a three-column editorial article that appeared In the Louisville Courier-Journal on Christmas morning we noticed this sentence: "It was the ir religion of the church militant that Luther fought." In other words, It was the impious murders, the unspeakable wickedness and malignity of the lead ers, doctors and advocates of the Church of Rome that Luther fought! Was "the church miltant" of Luther's day an institution that persecuted, tor tured, maltreated and murdered here tics? And when Luther fought "the irreligion of the church militant" did he not protest and contend against the Church of Rome? Lid he not with stand the powers of aggressive tyr anny, cruelty, malignity, fanaticism, hatred and malice clothed in the pur ple of religion? If so, why did the Louisville Courier-Journal not Bay that it was tne damnable doctrines, sanguinary methods and diabolical deeds of the Church of Rome which Luther condemned and fought? Lis ten to the declaration which the Cour ier-Journal makes in another part of its elaborate Christmas article: "The spirit of God, working through Christ, and Him crucified, never made a war nor killed a man; never burned a her etic; never tortured either sinner or saint; never damned a soul. The gibbet and the stake are hell's inven tions." From which we deduce the log ical conclusion that the epirlt which impelled the Romish church to perse cute, torture, maltreat and burn here tics was not the spirit of God or of Ills Christ, and hence that the church which did these things was not a Christian church. If the Church of Rome, as it was constituted in Luth er's time, was not a Christian church, at about what time did it become such? What fundamental or pivotal doctrine of the Church of Rome has undergone material change since the time of Luther? When did the church of Hlldebrand and Torqemada abro gate or annul a single tenet of its an cient faith? By what process of rea soning can "the church militant" of Luther's time be made to appear es- aentlally different from the Roman Catholic church of today? True it U that the Roman Catholic Church does not In our day actually put heretics to ( death, and in moat lands does not now resort to torture; but nevertheless all the decrees of the Council of Trent stand sure and steadfast aa integral porta of tbe faith of Rome; and it was largely through the power and au thority which those decrees conferred that the priestly Inquisitora were en abled to visit Impious and merciless punishment upon those who had the moral courage to indulge in freedom of thought and action. Rome has been shorn of much of her power, albeit Rome is the same yesterday, today and forever. Can the Ethioplanchangehisskln or the leop- ard his spots? No more can the Beast of prophecy change Its nature. The pa- ' pacy has ever exalted the right arm of its power at the cost of the sacri fice of the most precious human in terests and tbe destruction of the in alienable rights of dissenting mortals. Every cburchly denomination in Christendom, unless it have a Roman Catholic taint, unless it be fashioned somewhat after the model which the "fathers" of the Council of Trent de signed and established, has taught toleration and charity to dissident religionists and sought to usher in the era of brotherly love among tbe var ious nations of earth, has tuned its bells to "ring in the thousand years of peace." Pnpe Won't Hare It. The official Journal of the Vatican announces that the Laurler-Greenway compromise on the Manitoba school question, will not be accepted by the Pope. The Pope will hereafter par ticipate in the future elections in France, and in furtherance of this purpose has dispatched two special agents to convey Instructions to the French electors. The latter is not only true of France, but of every na tion of the world, and he now has a hand in the politics of the world, down to the mayor of a city in the United States. The end justifies the means and when prayers are ofTered in the Roman Catholic churches previous to election day for the success at the polls of a thirty-third degree Mason(!) The Tyler is led to question as to whether the church or the thirty-third degree man is most the Jesuit. Both, eh? American Tyler. Must Pay Taxes. The supreme court has ruled that the paroachial schools of Pennsylvania are subject to taxation. In Franklin, which is under Bishop Mullen's juris diction, as well as Erie they compel them to pay the tax. In Erie the as sessors return them as taxable, and the board of revision exempts them. The taxpayers of Detroit, who have been "touched" to the amout of about $4,000 annually on a Masonic temple, devoted exclusively to the uses of Masonry, should present the parochial schools and tbe buildings UBed by the Knights of St John, o that valiant Sir Knight. P. E. C. of Detroit Commandery, and 111. Commander-in-Chief of Michigan Sover eign ConBistory, the Hon. W. C. May bury, mayor of the city, for his im mediate consideration. Tyler. Lives In a Convent Sleeps at Home. Mrs. Cragie John Oliver Hobbes the novelist has taken apartments at the Convent of the Assumption, Ken sington Square, in which to pass a considerable part of her time while in London. She does not sleep at the convent, but returns to her own house at Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, about a mile away. She is devoting herself to reading and religious exercises. In reply to an inquiry she denied any intention of entering the sisterhood, but finds the Quiet and calm of the convent life agreeable and beneficial. Mary Anderson Navarro's slter Is a nun in the same convent under the name of Mother Dominica. She Is one of the teachers in a high class and is very successful In the convent school. Dispatch from London. The? (Jot One We the Other. Society was in somewhat of a flutter over the reception into the Catholic church of Viscount Encombe, the son and heir to the Earl of Eldon, and the great-grandson of the famous Lord Chancellor Eldon, who was a most in veterate and bigoted opponent of Cath olic emancipation. Lord Encombe's conversion is announced simultane ously with his engagement to Hon. Miss Margaret Fraser, sister of Lord Lovat, one of the oldest Catholic fam ilies in Scotland. Protestants are gratified by the an nouncement that Miss Darcy, only child of the greatest Australian multi- millionaire, of Irish descent, has ' Joined their church on her marriage 1 with a captain in the life guards. London Dispatch. To Core Cooatlpatlon Forercr. Take Ciisiarets Candy Cathnrtic. 10c or 25c. If U C. C (ail lo cum. driifKiNt refund money Head Kostelo's book. It gives the questions asked females in confessional. Awful depths of Roman theology ex- j posed. Price 50 cents 1'KOSrEtTS LOOK LK)IT TeOarUoed but Venerable Correspon dent, J. U. V. From an American outlook I cast my eye In thought over the country and Bee the great democratic and re publican parties contending with each other for supremacy, laying their plana for the next congressional elec tions and especially for 1900, but they are both black wiih villainy without moral principle, love of country or the fear of God, fast damning the country and leading it to national rev olution. I look at Romanism and see it on top today as to wealth, compact or ganization, political power and Influ ence over men ia halls of legislation, in municipal governments, in the dally press, ia the city public schools and in presidential appointments. I look in thought again and see the great Protestant family of the nation comparatively asleep as to any proper sense of the real political designs and purposes of the papacy to destroy our public school system, our free insti tutions and our civil government; and when Informed of these facts will not believe them and bo sleep on. The wily Romanists, seeing the insensible condition of the Protestants, Improve well their opportunity and often suc ceed in obtaining subscriptions to their pretended causes of benevolep.ee, thereby securing their good will and thus disarm them of any opposition. The great body of Protestant minis ters, too, from ignorance, politics or fear, are dumb in the pulpit on Rom anism as to its political encroach ments on our civil government Prot estant ministers have also permitted the great Nek York Methodist Book Concern to become badly emljched with Rome in its manufacturing de partments and refuse to have an in vestigation of the alleged facts, neith er will the religious press of the de nomination allow any reference to the reported painful facts, but sometimes refer to the Roman Catholics as "our brethren." And as I look I see almost the entire Protestant voters of the na tion casting their ballots with cor rupt political parties which eland on the license principle, sustaining more than two hundred thousand licensed saloons, costing the taxpayers, direct ly and indirectly, two billions of dol lars annually and causing the death every year of one hundred thousand of human lives, besides untold pov erty, tears and agony which can neith er be measured nor estimated. And, more than this, these corrupt parties are stretching every nerve to secure the votes of Romanists, not knowing nor caring if the country is captured by Rome if their respective parties can only(wln. I take a look in thought at patriotic Americans in politics, but I must con fess that I am all at sea as to the knowledge of any combined action contemplatjd in the fut ire or even of any plan now in operation to weaken the political power of Rome and to strengthen the patriotic cause. But after all, I believe that this apparent dearth of patriotic news Is but the lull of the elements before the gath ering storm, that the true American orders know what they are about, and that they will arise in their strength in due time in some political form stronger than ever. But to succeed well it is highly important that we sustain our patriotic papers better and also to greatly multiply their num ber all over the country. And if all the American patriots of the different orders and their friends were true to their principles and as energetic as they should be in the American cause, we might have half a score of well sustained dallies in this country, com batting the political power of Rome. Shall we have them? J. G. P. IT 18 EASY TO TELL People who fall to look after their health are like the carpenter who neg lects to sharpen his tools People are not apt to get anxious about their health soon enough. 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Sold by drug gists, price fi'ty cents and one dollar, or by sending your address and the name of this paper to Dr. Kilmer & Co., BInghampton, N. Y., you may have t sample bottle of this great discovery sent to you free by mail. All PratetitanU Are Damned. NEW YORK. Dec. 21-Father Hen derson's letter in last Monday's Saa explaining the teaching of the Romas Catholic Church that Protestants arc damned is not complete. Here la what the church teaches its own children: In Father Miller's "Familiar Expo sition of Catholic Doctrine," approve by Cardinal Gibbons and praised by him for plainness, one chapter U headed, "Reasons why no salvation It possible outside of the Roman Cath olic church." (Notice that "Roman.") Here ia part of the catechism. Q. Must, then, all who wish to be) saved die united to the Catholic Church? A All those who wish te be saved must die united to the Cath olic church, for out of here there U no salvation. Q. Have Protestants any faith la Christ? A. They never had. Q. What will Chriat say 10 them on the day of judgment? A. I know yott not because you never knew me. Q. Are Protestants willing: to co fess their sins to a Catholic bishop or priest, who alone has power from Christ to forgive sins? "Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven them." A. No; for they generally have An utter aversion to confession, ant therefore their sins will not be for given throughout all eternity. Q. What will follow from thla? A. They die in their sins and are damned. Q. Will those heretics be saved who are not guilty of the sin of heresy and are faithful in living up to the dic tates of their conscience? A. Invin cible ignorance or inculpable ignorance of the true religion excuses a heathen and Protestant from the sin of here sy, but such ignorance has never been the means of salvation. From the fact that a person lives up to the dictate of his conscience and who cannot Bin against the true religion on account of being invincibly ignorant of it, many have diawn the false conclusion that such a person is saved, or is in a state of sanctifying grace, making this In vincible ignorance a means of salva tion or justification. Q. But is it not a very uncharitable doctrine to say that no one can be saved out of the church? A. On the contrary, it is a very great act of charity to assert most emphatically that for no one out of the Catholic Church is salvation possible, for Jesms Christ and his apostles have taught this doctrine in very plain language. He who sincerely seeks the truth Is glad to embrace it. in order to be saved. Without admitting that Christ and his apostles taught anything of the sort, two things appear to me clear; first, that the Church of Rome does teach the damnation of Protestants; second, that if it modifies what it teaches, as Father Henderson claims, it does so in defiance of the allege teachings of Christ, requiring it to teach such damnation. R. N. T.. in New York Sun, reprinted in Chicago Tribune. Bell Is Right. President Bell of the Central La bor union, takes the ground that the question of foreign immigration ia the most serious one now confronting the American workingman. , He believes the capitalistic press, factory and mine owners are opposed to restricting im migration because capital uses the foreigner as his weapon in fighting American workingmen. Labor Bulle tin. Help Is needed by poor, tired mothers, over worked and burdened with care, debili tated and run down because of poor, thin and impoverished blood. 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