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T H EE AMERICAN THE AMERICAN. re1 at lVwim,- u anYMid-oiaaa matur. 40H O. THOOK. w. C. KKLLKY. Huslai. B lYa. tURUtHKIt WRAkLT MY THK AMERICAN POBLIUEIHG CCMPAMT, Ml Howard Htbt. (tana, Ma. TaUphona Bll. SUBSCRIPTION 2 A YEAR. fc) Papaf will torn Dlcntlmid lcll on Ordr of Subscriber. TO THE PUBLIC. THK AMF.UICAN U not ro of any M-1-i.oroVr, a.K-latUm. prty.cll)Ut, .art'.on or division of th population of Dili traniJ Krpuhllr, and rpullaUn and brand m f l" all claluia or eiari tbt U to such. I' l u, n cU"" ,',"'r," m1e I'J an person or persons honi aoever. THK AMKKK'AN to a newspaper of general circulation. Botn to and being read people of nil rHlou beliefs aud polttt-nl aflillatlon: tiv in mUf and (bo black, lb natlre-born and the aturHlieU, the Jew and the Oentlle, tb I'rlt-Ht ant and the Koman ratliolln. TnUrlalturan be aulwlnntlatrd In any court of Jiit!c at any time. AMERICAN PUBLISHINO CO.. JANUARY H, IMK. Poi'KRY I tottering. It take more than wind to real serf Iceablo patriot. make a The pope still eight for the restora tion of hi temporal power. When the popo flooafroln Italy what country will be foolish enough to offer him refuge? . WONDFK whether Count Crolghton went to Chicago to get drunk, hire a thug, or to attend to business? Uncus Sam should look up his old guns. The Indications are that he will have use for them in the near future. Next week Rome will know how to appreciate a fearless opponent. We hall make her feel the weight of facts. There is a movement on foot to de feat the Lodge immigration bill. The opposition comes from the Romans, and Is headed by W. Rourke Cockran. YOU see, friend, you are not the only man in America who admires Thk American or who Is opposed to the exercUe of priestly influence in our af' fairs of state, YOU who have been crying that the A. P. A. was dead could learn some thing by reading last week's American and also something by reading each Is sue that succeeds it. IiiNATius Donnelly, the distln gulshed Roman citizen, who Is also nominally a citizen of tbo state of Minnesota and of the United States, will wed his typewriter. OCR good friend Judge Itaker, It is aid) is being groomed by Rosewater for the Republican nomination for gov ernor. Ben has not done anything that we are aware of 1 3 deserve that a 111 lo Mon. Judge Scott's decision in the Fire and Police Bjard cane is generally con ceded by attorneys wit h whera we have talked as the equal of any that has ever been handed down from the Supreme bench of the United States. Judge Scott should have a care. If Rome could find a man who would offer him a bribe, she can find one who will assassinate htm, If she gets an Inkling that his decision in the Shelby Crelghton case is against her interests. Guess Chlof Dotective Cox know what he wa talking about when he declared that the Polloe Commissioners wouldn't have jobs, reputations or any thing else when he got through with them. Things are coming Mr. Cox's way quite rapidly. You can get a good idea of Socialism by reading The New Time of Chicago, so don't expect us to stop our fight against an evil we know exiats, to assist in bringing about reforms that are not possible while the Roman hierarchy Is so active in politics. The man who reads and thinks and then brings into play reason, must ad xnit that if the Bible is God's word and is a true prophecy of what is to transpire in the latter days, that we are nearing the time when the great battle of Ar mageddon will be fought. By an unpardonable bit of careless Bees we failed to mention last week the death of Eon. John L. Carson at Lin coin, January 1st. Mr. Carson was one of our most esteemed friends. When we were a small boy he was the head of the leading bank in Brownvllle, and when we left home to come to this city nearly twenty years ago, we carried with us a letter of recommendation that was signed by John L. Carson that any person would have been proud of. He was a good and kind man, but of late years a great sufferer. While not a politician he was elected and served one term as Regent of the State Unlveralty. II family bare our sym pathy In their bereavement. ONK of our friends Mitt what we con alder the difference between anarchy and aocUllntn. Anarchy aeeks loeffect a change in existing conditlona by force; socialism by lawful and pacific mean. Socialism I primitive democ racy; anarchy la IComanlam. Just think what a deep plot Home laid to destroy a San Francisco mlnls ter when she sent Durant into a Prot eaUnt church and, after be bad tried to fasten the murder of the two young girl onto the preacher, died on the scaffold an acknowledged Romanist. Ouu contention U not o much that the lay member of the Ilomau church are at heart dMoyal to either G d or country, but that they obey blindly every command of their father confess or without 1 llowlng their conscience ia decide whether It Is right or wrong. Mil. Hakky FiscHKit has composed a very lino national hymn which Mr. Lee G. KraU hat set to music. It is en titled "Oh Land of Freedom." We ave been favored with a copy of the words and music, which our trusted orltio pronounces "grand." Price 15 cents. G EN Kit a L, Wkylek characterizes the Cuban patriots as "those rebellious hordes of bandit who are unworthy of ordinary and humane treatment." If that remorseless bigot, King Philip II of Spain, and his chief assassin, the Huke of Alva, were living, they would regard Butcher Weyler with feelings akin to envy. Thk People's Atlas of the World Is without doubt the greatest book ever offered for the same amount of money. Up to date. 'Authentic maps of Cuba and the Klondike. Maps alone sell for 5 cents each, and the book and the maps are both being sold for 60 coots. our children should have one of them. Even the pope baa his troubles. The Italian government is going to out off the bulk of the appropriations to Rom man Catholic church dignitaries, and that means a big deficit in the pope's Italian income. There is but one way overcome this and that is for the Irish too kissers to go down into their pockets and make up the difference. Now that the most elllolont, honest and fearless county clerk which this county has ever had has stepped down and out of office, this paper wishes him an exceptionally large share of the prosperity that is due in this section Mr. Red field proved himself every inch man and leaves the public service with the knowlodge that he did his whole duty by the taxpayers who in turn love and respect him for the ene mles he baa made. At some future time the publlo may again call him into its service. That grand old patriot and uncom promising foe of popery and Jesuitism, Colonel Richard W. Thompson, Is en gaged in writing the last volume of his 'Recollections of the Presidents." He has already written two volumes of the work, and the third, ' From Lincoln to McKlnley," will be completed in the spring. Colonel Thompson is the author of "The papacy and the Civil Power," 'Footprints of the Jesuits," etc. He is a vigorous and an instruc tlve writer. He is 88 years old, and lives In Terre Haute, Ind. John McCullaoh, a Protestant Irishman and a Republican, has been made chief of police of New York by the Tammany administration. The new chief is a member of the Presby terian church, is about 50 years old and has beea on the New York police force for 28 years. Gotham's police commission desired a Democrat for the place (which probably would have meant a thoroughbred Roman Irish man), but by a new law they were re strlcted In the choice of a chief from among the captains of the police de partment. McCullagh is the first Prot estant in many long years to attain to the position of chief of police in New York. Carl Schurz, who contributes regu larly to Harper's Weekly, apparently considers the Irish welcome and useful immigrants in this country. He places them on an equality with those who come to us from Germany and from Scandinavian countries. Bat we know it is the concensus of opinion among those competent to judge that of all the foreign immigrants who have come to these shores since the foundation of the American government, the Irish have proved themselves the most pro lific in mischief and in recreancy to tbe trust reposed in them. When we speak of the Irish in this connection we of course mean the pro-papal Irish, for the anti-papal Irish are among the best citizens we have. No, the Irish, owing to tbe prevalence of papalism among their race, are really a very undeeir able acquisition to the citizenship of the nation. The Roman Irish are dlS' honest, tricky and treacherous in polit ical affairs and in their business doal logs rlth their non-Catholic fello men. Do you not with to have some good reading the emlng winter monthi? See our great offer oo another page. ALL of our readers will sympathize with the citizen of Fort Smith, Ark., whose homes and places of worship and of business were destroyed by a hurri can Tuesday night. A private letter from Mr. E. C. Hlndo sayt that his son, Hon. H. D. Hinde, lost hi entire stock. The dispatches give along list of killed and woundrd, and place the damage at nearly 11,0(10 000 Rome's nuns have held up Protestant huslness men for millions of dollars for the upbuilding of their Institutions, and to counteract that Influence we suggest that the wives and daughters f all loyal Americans band themselves together and Individually and collec tively solicit lhoe tame business men the same day and the fame hour the una solicit them. They won't dare to give to Roman and not to Protestant women. The money raised by our loyal friends could be used to build up Prot stant hospitals, found and maintain libraries, buy and circulate freely pure American literature and ere many year Rome would be bankrupt Last Sunday morning one of the popd's own wa on his way to mass and stopped to look at the picture of the first flag which we display in our win dow. He had a string of beads in bis band and as he gazid at the picture he clenobed his fist and said, "I'd like to tear that!" "Well, tear it; and you'll have to tear me, too," said J. O. Pear- soll who was passing and heard the remark. "Wnat've you got ta say about it, if I did?" "I've got this to say about It; I'm not an A. P. A., but 'm a good American citizen, and if 1 ver catch one of you Irish tearing that flag you'll have to tear me too. Now get along to Ninth and Howard, where you belong." And yet the Ro man's say they love that Hag. Mituoiiiunis. The principal cause for the success of the Jesuits in China, in the seven teenth century, was the fact that they let the heathen keep a part ot their ldolutrous worship. And tniH la tlie cause of the condition of the Roman Catholic church at the present time. It Is a union of the "form of Chris tianity" with heathenism. It has been seen, in so many differ ent ways, that the Jesuits of the Ro man Catholic church were pitting me masses against the few who are rich. Many do not see this scheme, but it is "roping" many into the service of this society of the said church. What have the Jesuits to gain by having the poor people to fight the wealthy in the United StateB? It might destroy tne nation. It it would, it is one thing desired by the Jesuits. Most of the Roman Catholics are poor, and they would overthrow many men of wealth who were supporting Protes tant institutions. The poor Roman Catholics would have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Beside this, the Jesuits want to ride to success upon the most popular scheme that will not do any injury to the heretical Roman Catholic church. The Jesuits say there is no such things as a crypto-Jesuit, but that docs not establish the fact. There might be a mental reservation some where, which we do not see on the surface. In the seventeenth century Robert de Nobili went to India from Italy and said he was a Bramin from a distant country and had come to re form the religion, ine "scheme" "worked," and he collected a large number of followers. The other Jesuits followed the same plan and at the end of the century about 150,000 had accepted the improved Bramlnism, or the Braminized Jesuitism. And yet they say, "We are not crypto-Jesuits." In the last part of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth cen turies the Jesuits were very successful in Japan, even princes were among the followers. But this success came to a sudden end. The government found a letter in which they saw a plot was formed to overthrow the government. Now, the question may be asked, "Have any of those letters been found ia this country?" NIcon, a patriarch of Moscow, wished to improve the condition of the clergy of the Greek church and there fore arrested the drunken priests and put them in prison. He studied tne scriptures and tried to cause others to study them. For this he was sent to Siberia. And the church of Rome would do the same thing if they had a Siberia to send such a man to . KrlMMiy rajra Bo. Cascaret Cantiy Catnartic, the most won derful Hied kill disecnerv of llic ure, pleas ant and refn-slnns to thf tasip. act eently and osiUvely on kiilneyv liver mid Ixuvels, rioaiisini; the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, lialiitu.il mnstifiation and biliousness. I'ca buv ami trv n box of C. C. C. to-day; 10. i". .M cent. .Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. To I'lirt t umi iiwi lt.i I iirniTr. Take CiUMurfts nuiiv I stli.e in' Mr or TSc If C C C (ail loture, UriiKxiM r (una uiem y HE CLAIMS AMERICANS IkmUnoU Iro lfc po- not discourage people with the thought that as a nation we must again attempt the experiment of de mocracy, aud that though it has failed ouc-e success will come with patience. In those colonial days natiunad de mocrary was impossible. There were no railroads. There were but imper fect means of comuinication. it was a three mouths' journey from one end ot the couutry to another. There were few newspapers and fewer books. '1 here were no telegraph lines, ti was iuipossioie to euueate the people to uu itueiugcut understanding of public qut-olious. '1 he great mass of tne peo ple ere wotluiiy ignorant. No ouier cuuiluiou una pob&iuie. 'iney had a vugue idea of democracy, but could not Kive it eipiesjiiun. 'l uey were Ubed to being governed, and ibougu the becpue ot tne king had neeu wilh uiattu, us imprint yet remained. Aud yet u was lo uicse people mat we are umi to iuuk to lor our wisdom aud tor our ideals. iimaie of the man whose eyes are lixeu uu tne past, aud who searches lor wisuoiu among Uiu catacuuius. True wisuuiu studies tne past lor us rocas and biioais, but not lor tuo open sea wuicu hiieicnes away to tne 1'ole ot 'Hum. Hie truth lies around us, aud beyond us. 'IrutU is tbe east in which liits sun is rising, aud not tne west ue ueatn wnose horizon tne glorious orb ot ligtil lias descended, btuuy tUe past tor us uiisiaKes, uui not for its ideals. For obvious reasons tbe proceedings of Hie. convention which in 1.S7 framed our constitution were suppressed tor more than half a ceutury. TUe sessions were secret. Not a word of the debates was made ptiuiic. Washington was made the custodian of these records, in lh3a, under Andrew Jacasou's ad ministration congress published Madi son's Journal or the Constitutional Convention, and for the tirst time the people learned how that famous docu mout was drafted. It is as yet a secret document so far as the mass of the people is concerned. But few have the slightest knowledge of these debates. They imagine that the session consist ed of a series of fervid orations on the rights of the people, and that the del egates labored earnestly to secure an instrument which for all time should guarantee to the nation "a govern ment for, by and of the people." m order to demonstrate the kind of de mocracy which actuated the founders of the constitution and to show how far we have progressed sine. then, the i win repeat few of expressions made by the leading delegates during the con vention, which expressions are select ttti at 1-i n ,t . i - "uiuuu iioui tuousanas of a similar tenor. These selections do no Injustice to the opinions of tneir authors. Among the delegates from the thir teen states there were but two who evinced any love for democracy. One of them was Benjamin Franklin, the grandest man America has ever pro duced. The plutocratic historians of mis country have done his fame scant justice, and have passed him hv nro, ferring to deify those whose leanlnes ere on tne side of aristrocracy. He was then old and feeble, and never voice except to nlsart rnr lifted his Justice for the common nonnie rha other delegate was Wilson James Wilson, also of Pennsylvania, nnrt what a democrat he was! Yet neither his name or his speeches have been emblazoned on the scroll of popular fame. Modern tories and monarchists found clubs in honor of Alexander Hamilton, the American patron saint of legislative corruption, bond steaia and worship of royalty, but the day will come when the name of James Wilson will occupy its proper place in me temple of fame. inese are some of the expressions used in the five months' debate on me adoption of our constitution. Roger Sherman, of Connecticut' oppose the election of members of the national legislature by the people. The veopie, immediately, should have little in An aa v. -1 .. maj, UB auoul tne gov ci uinenu Elbrldge Gerry, of Massachusetts me evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. Th noni0 do not want virtue, but are the dupes i pretenaea patriots." Mr. Butler, of South Carolina "An election by the people is an lmpracti cuoie mode. jonn Kandolph. of Virginia "In tracing these evils to their origin, man findB il ln 108 turbulence iunico oi democracy. Mr. Dickinson, of Delaware"! mn aider a limited monarchy as one of the "est governments in the world." Mr. Gerry, of Massachusetts m 'he was afraid to aubmit the proposed wmsuiution to the people. In his anar. ter the people had me wildest ideas vi government, in the world . They wanieu to abolish the senate of Ma.a. chusetta and give the powers to the legislature." In these days we know how to sy j.atuo wun me people of colonial Massachusetts. We would like to abolish the senate and send the house of representatives to night school. rim: sitH! IlKOTUKISS ! PAT MOTS! 'God morrt In a mysterious way Mia wooden to perform. As if to emphasize the truthfulness of this seotlment we have this week, just before going to press, come into possesxlon of the details of the most damnable conspiracy that has ever bt n hatched In this country, and after careful inquiry, and earnest and thoughtful consideration of each sec tion of the plot we are firmly convinced tbat our information i reliable, that the liberties enj yed by Protestants in this country today are tottering, and tbat before tbe country is placed be yond the reach of those who are at the bottom of the conspiracy to wreck the uvernment, there will be hundreds of thousands of lives sacrificed, of homes mad'i desolate and of treasure spent. Today there is but one living man ho keeps the plot from being in full peration. Hi death may occur at any moment; it will occur when the Jesuits are ready to strike. To the end that the country may be uly warntd of the impending calam- ity, wnicn we snau ma&e so pium inai. ... l It l - 1 t - tLi e who runs may read and understand, we win puoiisn tne wee enuing Janu ary ZZ, a large extra eoiiton witu an exposure of the plot to overthrow this government and subvert our liberties by the sword. We have started detectives on the stent and have written to aitierent points for additional information, and hall have everything ready for a most tartling 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 rrom 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 A.MBUICAN 1'UHLISIIING CO., 1015 nowara ireei, a. On June 6 Mr. Gerry "admitted that it was necessary that the people should appoint one branch of the gov ernment in order to inspire them with the necessary confidence." Mark that utterance. It is the keynote to the proceedingsandoutcomeofthe conven tion. They gave the people the shadow of legislative authority and then stabbed to death with the senate, ex ecutive, veto power, supreme court and other checks the actual substance of popular rule. It was a month before the convention consented to a popu lar election for the dummy house of representatives. Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, an swered Mr. Gerry. He said, He wished for vigor in the government, but he wished that vigorous authority to flow immediately from the legiti mate source of authority. The gov ernment ought to possess not only, first, the force, but, second, the mind or sense of the people at large. The legislature ought to be the most ex act transcript of the whole society. Representation," he said, "is made necessary only because it is impossible for the people to act collectively." There was a demoeart. If alive to day he would be for direct legislation. In that convention he stood practical ly alone, none but the aged Franklin beside him. He was probably regard ed as a dangerous character and cer tainly made rio apparent impress on the convention. Mr. Madison was afraid the major ity would oppress the wealthy min ority. "In a republican government," he said, "the majority, If united, have always an opportunity. The only rem edy Is to enlarge the sphere, and thereby divide the community into so great a number of interests and par ties, that in the first place the major ity will not be likely, at the same mo ment, to have a common interest seP' arate from that of the whole, or of the minority; and in the second place, that in case they should have such an interst. they may not be so apt to unite in pursuit of it." That was Madison's idea of "major- j ity rule" and popular government. He wanted to distract the people that they could pass no measure, however pop ular. And he succeeded in doing so. Do you want to go back to James Mad ison for guidance and inspiration? Mr. Dickinson "wished the senate to consist of the most distinguished char acters, distinguished for their rank in life and their weight of property, and bearing as strong a likeness to the House of Lords as possible." There was a sterling old Democrat of the Grover Cleveland school. Mr. Gerry wanted "to provide some check in favor of the commercial in terests against the landed." He was accommodated. Mr. Randolph said "the democratic licentiousness of the state legislatures proved the necessity of a firm senate." Mr. Madison said he feared a seven-year term for a senator was not enough. His fear was that the popular branch would still be too great an overmatch lor it Alexander Hamilton addressed tne of such vital importance to eachcltisen that we urge upon you the need ef freely clrculatirg that issue in your immediate neighborhood. At least one million men should read tbe issue of January 21st. If you desire to help arouse the aleep ing Americans send in your order for as many copies as yoa caa use to good advantage. Order early ao we may know how many to print. We have lead in this fight in the time of peace in the hope of bringing about a pacific settlemeLt of tbe ques tions involved, but the men ln 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 acd 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 whe 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 whe are wealthy should not hesitate to back this movemtnt with their funds for war would leave them as 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 910.00 i. 500 ii it ti ioo it ii 50 it ii jo 7.50 S2.00 tl.25 .30 .05 Single copies Add 25 cents per hundred names when you wish us to write single wrap- pers and mall direct to your friends. Cash must accompany all orders. These prices barely cover expense of printing, unless papers were printed in larger lots than we anticipate printing. How many will you want? Ordernow. m. rsw i i m uiuaha, inxijij, convention on June 18. In part he said: "In his private opinion he had no scruple ln declaring, supported as he was. by the opinion of so many of the wise and good, that the British government was the best in the world, and he doubted much if any thing short of It would do in Amer ica. The members most tenacious ot republicanism, he observed, were aa loud as any in declaiming against the vices of democracy. Let one branch of the legislature hold their places for life, at least during good behavior. Let the executive also be for life." He was strongly in favor of a king. He then submitted a plan incorporating his Ideas. Much of it was practically adopted. Hamilton is now the patron saint of the Republican party. Mr. Mason said "the convention, though composed of so many distin guished characters, could not be expect ed to make a faultless government. He would prefer trusting to posterity the amendment of its defects rather than to push the experiment too far." And yet we are assured that the constitu tion is perfect. Mr. Rutledge, of South Carolina, had no faith ln tne people. With fine ego tism he said: "If this convention had been chosen by the people in districts, it is not to be supposed that such proper characters would have, been preferred." This calls to mind the fact that the people were not consulted, even in the selection of the men who framed a constitution for their govern ment, -t was not even ratified by a popular vote. It was never adopted by the people of the United States. Alexander Hamilton defended cor ruption. He said "it was known that one of the ablest politicians (Mr. Hume) had pronounced all that influ ence on the side of the crown which went under the name of corruption, an essential part of the weight wnich maintained the equilibrium of the constitution." There is no record that any delegate rebuked Hamilton for this frank avowal in favor of brib ery and official corruption. Mr. Sherman uttered a truth when he said: "Government is instituted for those who live under it. It ougm therefore to be constituted so as not to be dangerous to their liberties. The more permanency it has the worse, if it be a bad government" Mr. Ma son wanted a property qualification for senator. Later it was suggested that no man should be elected senator unless he was worth $100,000. Gouver neur Morris wanted a life senate, "so as to protect the rich against the peo ple. He thought the rule of represen tation ought to be so fixed as to se cure to the Atlantic states a contin ued supremacy over the states which would be formed in the west. Mr. Rut ledge said "property was certainly the principal object of society. If num bers should be made the rule ot rep resentation the Atlantic states would soon be subjected to the western." He wanted representation based on the taxes paid by the respective states and not on the number of citizens or vot ers. Morris said "there never was, nor never would be a civilized society