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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 .
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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
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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
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about a pacific settlemeLt of tbe ques
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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
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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
