"THE AMERICAN
Jew haj remained Impenetrable. Be
sides, be U almost la his second child
hood, and hia wife ia not much let
ter 'When I think.' resumed Fa'.her
d'AlgrlRny, "that for a century and a
half this house In the Kue Sa nt Fran
cois has remained walled up. and
that the rare of it has been transmit
ted from generation to generation in
this family of the Samuels I cannot
suppose that they have all been ignor
ant aa to who were and are the suc
cessive holders of these funds, now
become immense by aicuuiulation."
"You have seen. said Rodin, by
the notes upon this affair, that the
Order has always carefully followed it
up ever since ItiSi. At different peri
ods attempts have been made to ob
tain information upon subject not
fully explained in the note of Father
lJourdon. Hut this race of Jew guar
dians has ever remained dumb, and
we must therefore conclude that they
know nothing about if.
'That has always struck me as im
possible, for the ancestor of these
Samuels were present at the cloning of
the house a hundred and fifty years
ago. He was, according to the file a
servant or confidential clerk of l)e
Rennepont It Is Impossible that he
should not have known many things,
the tradition of which must havo been
preserved in the family.'
'If I were allowed to hazard a brief
observation,' began Rodin, humbly.
t 'Speak.'
'X Tew years ago we obtained cer
tain information through the confes
sional that the funds were in exist
ence, and that they had arisen to an
enormous amount.'
'Doubtless; and it was that which
called the attention of the Reverend
Father General so strongly to this
affair.'
'We know, then, what probably the
descendants of the family do not
the immense value of this inheri
tance." 'Yes,' answered Father d'AIgrigny,
'the person who certified this fact in
confession is worthy of belief. Only
lately, the same declaration was re
newed; but all efforts of the confes
sor could not obtain the name of the
trustee, or anything beyond the as
sertion that the money could not be
In more honest hands.
'It seems to me, then,' resumed Ro
din, 'that we are certain of what is
most important.'
And who knows if the holder of
this imense sum will appear tomorrow
in spite of the honesty ascribed to
him? The nearer the moment, the
more my anxiety increases. Ah!"
continued Father d'Aigrigny, after a
moments silence, 'the Interests con
cerned are so immense that the con
sequences of success are quite incalcu
lable. However, all that was possible
to do, has been at least tried.
To these words, which Father
d'Aigrigny addressed to Rodin, as if
asking for his assent, the soclus re
turned no answer.
The abbe looked at him with sur
prise, and said: 'Are you not of my
opinion could more have been at
tempted? Have we not gone to the
extreme limit of the possible?'
Rodin bowed respectively, but re
mained mute.
'If you think we have omitted some
precaution,' cried Father d'Aigrigny,
with a sort of uneasy Impatience,
speak out! We still have ume. Once
more, do you think it possible to do
more than I have done? All the
other descendants being removed
when Gabriel appears tomorrow in
the Rue Saint Francois, will he not
be the only representative of this fam
ily, and consequently the rightful pos
sessor or this immense fortune? Now
according to his act of renunciation
and the provisions of our statutes, it
is not to him, but to the order, that
these possessions must fall. Could I
have acted better, or in any other
manner? Speak frankly!'
'I cannot permit myself to offer an
opinion on this subject,' replied Ro
din humbly, and again bowing; 'the
success of the measures taken must
answer your reverence.'
Father d'Aigrigny shrugged his
shoulders and reproached himself for
having asked the advice of his writ
ing machine, that served him for a
secretary, and to whom he ascribed
only three qualities memory, discre
tion, and exactness. '
Louis XIV., the great king, pun
ished with the galleys those Protest
ants who, once converted, often by
force, afterwards returned to their
first belief. As for those Protestants
who remained in France, notwith
standing the rigor of the edicts
against them, they were deprived of
burial, dragged upon a hurdle, and
given to the dogs. E. S.
(To be continued.)
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ASSASSINATION
OF PRES. LINCOLN
Every Person Implicated
the Diabolical Plot a Ro
man Catholic.
In
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Chiniquy, Who was the Pres
ident' Close Friend.
Father Cninquy, the apostate Cath
olic priest, who has been lecturing In
llaltimore, in conversation with a
Morning Herald reporter, made a
tin in her of tttati'iut'iitg regarding the
assassination of Pres'dent Lincoln,
j which are not to be found in the his
j tories of the period, and accounts for
that lamentable tragedy:
"I am a French Canadian by birth."
said he to the reporter, "and was born
in Kamovaska, Canada, in 1S09. Iioth
of my parents were Catholics, and I
was, of course, brought up in that
faith. From a very early age I was
destined for the priesthood, and my
education was conducted with that end
always in view. Having been ordain
ed, I arose very rapidly in the esti
mation of my religious superiors as
well as in popular favor, and was soon
looked upon as one of the most prom
ising members of the Canadian priest
hood. My work In the cause of tem
perance brought me into special prom
inence, and I became widely known
all over Canada, and, indeed, in the
Catholic church everywhere.
"In 1851 Catholic bishops and clergy
from all over North America met in
secret conclave at Buffalo, N. Y., and
there the question was discussed, and
it was decided to seize the cities of
North America for the Catholic
church. The plan adopted was to
bring Catholic emigrants from Europe
in sufficient -numbers to gain control
of the city governments by popular
vote. The attempt was carried out to
some extent, and was successful at
least in New York. It was particu
larly the desire of the church to get
possession of the school fund in the
various cities in order to use it for
the benefit of Catholicism. The well
remembered struggle for the expulsion
of the Bible from the public schools
in Cincinnati in 1870 was the out
growth of the action of the conclave
in 1851.
"At this same conclave I was assign
ed to go to Illinois with a band of
French Canadian Catholics and to
found a colony or coionies. Colonista
also came from France, and early in
1852 I founded my colony at St. Anne,
Kankakee county, 111. A chapel or
church was built, and we had a con
gregation of about 500 souls.
"In 1858, after several years of
study and many trials. I determined
to leave the Church of Rome, whose
doctrines I no longer believed. It was
on Saturday evening that I reached
my final determination, and the next
morning I went Into the pulpit and
told my congregation of the step I
was about to take, and my reasons.
After talking to them for two hours
I put the matter to a vote, and all but
fifteen of my 300 parishioners ex
pressed their intention of following
me. This action, when it became
known, created no little excitement all
over the country. About a year later
we Joined the Chicago Presbytery, and
afterward the Canadian Presbytery
to which we still belong.
"Previous to this Abraham Lincoln
had defended me when I was prose
cuted by the church, and when, some
time after our withdrawal from the
church our colony was theatened with
destruction from famine, he came for
ward and for our benefit delivered a
lecture, in which he denounced the or
der of the Jesuits with the greatest
boldness. This made our former
friendship all the stronger.
"In 1862 a Canadian Jesuit priest
was converted through my teaching,
and from him I hrst learned of a plot
of that order to assasinaie Mr. Lin
coln. He told me that the plot was
first laid in 1861. I went at once to
Washington, and in a conference with
Mr. Lincoln warned him of what I had
learned. He told me that he was al
ready informed of the matter by Mr.
Samuel F. B. Morse, the telegraph in
ventor, who had heard it by chance
while in Rome. Mr. Morse was not a
Catholic.
"About a year afterward I convert
ed another Jesuit priest, who had ab
solutely no knowledge of any other
convert, and by him I was told the
same story. I again went to Wash
ington and warned the president.
After the asassination. while I was in
San Francisco, another Jesuit priest
gave me, for a third time, identically
the same account of the plot in the
order against the president. While I
was seeking information in regard to
the crime I met the Rev. F. A. Con
well, of Chicago, who related the fol
lowing: "Ninety miles northwest of St. Pajil,
Minn., is the little village of St.
Joseph, settled by Roman Catholics,
and with a college for the education
of priests. On the 14th of April, 1865,
at 6 d'clock in the afternoon, two men
drove up to the village hotel; one was
the Rev. F. A. Conwell, chaplain of
the first Minnesota regiment and the
other was Horace P. Bennett, of St.
Cloud about ten miles eastward.
While Mr. Bennett was attending to
the horse in the barn the landlord. J.
H. Linneman .who has charge of the
friary, and was purveyor for the
priests, told Chaplain Conwell that
President Lincoln and Secretary Sew
ard were assassinated. .And when
Mr. Bennett returned from the barn to
the tavern the landlord reiterated the
statement to both his guests.
this was not later than 6:30 n. m..
and the assassination of Lincoln did
not occur till about 10 p. m. Allow
ing for the difference in time between
St. Joseph and Washington the news
reached St. Joseph at least two hours
before it occurred.
The two men make affidavit of the
fact, sworn to September 6, and Octo
ber 18, 1883. Landlord Linneman,
purveyor for the priests, refuses to
swear, but makes a written declara
tion, October 20, 1883. duly signed,
saying that he told Conwell and Mr.
Bennett that 'he had hcaru this rumor
in his store from people who came in
and out; but he cannot remember
from whom.' That lapse of memory
probably saved the landlord s life. The
rpriesis of St. Joseph were cognizant
of the plot to assassinate Lincoln
and Seward.
"Without a single exception the con
spirators were Roman Catholics. It
is true that Atzeroth. Payne and Har
old asked for Protestant ministers
when they were to be hung, but they
had been considered Catholics till
then. John Wilkes Booth was a
proselyte to Catholicism, and so w ere j end u compromise was reached le
Atzeroth. Payne and Harold. But j fcrilti cousideintioii until a week
had their father coiiiifMors appeared ; friu today on the condition that the
with them on the scaffold that would
have opened the eyes of the American
people to clearly see that the assassin
ation of Lincoln aril Seward were
planned and executed by Jesuit p: tests.
The murderer were instructed to con-
ceal their religion. Such is the iloo-
trlne of the Catholic church. St.
" "It is often more to the glory of
Llguorl says:
God and the good of our neighbor to
conceal our religious faith, as when
we live among heretics we can more
easily do them good in that way; or
if by declaring our religion, we cause
some disturbance or deaths, or even
wrath of the tyrant Llguorl.
Theologia, II. 3.)
"After the murder Father Chiniquy
went to Washington in disguise. He
found that the influence of Rome at
the capital was almost supreme. The
only statesman who dared to face the
nefarious influence of Rome was Geu.
Baker. But several other statesmen
confessed that without doubt the Jes
uits were at the bottom of the plot;
and sometime this would appear so
clearly in evidence before the mili
tary tribunal that it was feared it
could not be kept from the public. Mrs
Surratt was a Catholic, and her house
was the common rendezvous of the
priests.
'Dr. Mudd, at whose place Booth
stopped in this flight, was a Catholic,
and so was Garrett, in whoso barn
Booth was killed.
"Booth, the assassin hiniHelf, was
confirmed in this very city of Balti
more. He was but the tool of the
Jesuits. He was taught by thein that
the pope had called Jeff Davis his
dear son, and had taken the southern
confederacy under his protection. He
was taught that Lincoln was an apos
tate, that he had been baptized In the
Catholic religion, had rebelled against
it and broken his oath of allegiance to
the pope. He was taught that It was
his religious duty to slay this infa
mous enemy of his church.
"Compare other murders known to
have been plotted and executed by
Jesuits with this one and you will
find that they resemble each other as
one drop of water resembles another.
Compare the last hours of the Jesuit,
Ravaillac, the assassin of Henry VI.,
who absolutely refused to repent,
though suffering the most horrible
tortures on the rack, with Booth, who,
with an unset broken log, the bone al
most puncturing the flesh, writes In
ins uany memorandum: 1 can never
repent, though we hated to kill. Our
country owed all its troubles to him
(Lincoln), and God simply made me
the instrument of his punishment.'
"I found that the influence of Rome
was almost supreme in Washington.
Several of the government men with
whom I conversed told me that they
had not the least doubt that the Jesu
its were at the bottom of the crime
lhey were afraid to let the crime
come out lest the priests should be
implicated, and in the event of their
execution they knew that riots, blood
fire and devastations must follow, and
these the country, in Its then divided
state could not sustain
Evading Real Issues.
The weakness of the case of those
who are vigorously opposing the im
migration restriction bill is shown
by their persistent refusal to meet
fairly and squarely the real and es
sential issue involved in the proposal
or an education test for new arrivals
The protest of the German societies
of Chicago and of the league recently
organized in New York, as well as
the arguments advanced 'n congress
by such men as Senator Caffrey, deal
with but one aspect of the problem
They harp upon the obvious and ad
mitted fact that illiteracy is not al
ways and necessarily a sign of vl
ciousness and incapacity, and indulge
in irrelevant emotional appeals to
principles which no friend of the edu
cational test dreams of surrendering.
That immigration has done much
for the development of the country is
not questioned by any sane man.
That it can and will do still more is
equally beyond dispute. That an edu
cational test if applied a hundred or
even fifty years ago, would have
barred out thousands of worthy, use
ful and desirable citizens, to the great
detriment of the country, is also
readily and cheerfully conceded. Why,
then, urge considerations that have
absolutely no bearing upon the Ques
tion we are called upon to settle here
and now
What is this essential question?
bimply this, whether or not the coun
try needs a rest from the work of ab
sorption and assimilation Imposed by
a practically unrestricted immigra
tion. Today we only exclude paupers,
criminals, diseased persons and con
tract laborers. If we need no further
restriction in the interest of the
American standard of wages and liv
ing, the educational test is indeed un
necessary and improper; but those
who admit that present restrictive
measures are inadequate are bound to
supply a better and fairer test than
that of ability to read and write, a
test so perfect as to exclude all un
worthy applicants and admit all
worthy ones. The champions of the
immigration bill recognize that here
and there injustice would result, but
they most emphatically deny that anv
great number of desirable immigrants
wosld be shut out "or that the law
would stop immigration. Are not the
labor organizations better authorities
on the need of further restriction than
the societies now fighting the Lwge
bill? Chicago Evening Post.
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MI5 CONFIRMATION H)I:5 OVI.R.
Senator Allen of rebrak Demands
a l ull Investigation.
WASHINGTON. I. C Jan. H
Almost the entire four hours of the
executive st-sslon of the senate toduy
were devoted to the indirect consid
eration of the iiomiuailoii of Joseph
McKcntia. now attorney general, to
be ii swim into justice of the supreme
court. The discussion was the result
of an effort oil the part of Senator
Alien of Ncbrafka tpip.) to secure a
postponement for twit wcks. In the
Nebraska senator should allow a vot
to be taken on that day.
The debate upon Mr. M Kennn's
nomination was precipitated by Sen
ator I liar, chairman of the comiult-
: tee on jud 'clary, who t ailed up
the-
nominal inn in accordance w ith his no
tice of yesterday and asked for Imme
diate action. In lining tills Mr. Hour
sMike briefly of the opposition to Mr.
Mclvenna, saying that the Judiciary
committee had Investigated most of
the charges made and had reached the
conclusion that they were without
foundation. He said that the greater
number of charges had been made by
the members of the Asierican Pro
tective association, und us they had
been founded solely tipou the fact
that Mr. McKenna was a Catholic
they had not been deemed worthy of
serious coiisidcrat'on. Mr. Hoar
dwelt at some length upon this point,
excoriating any man who would at
tempt to inject a question of religion
into a controversy over a man's fit
ness for olllce. He said that such an
effort was entirely un-American and
unpatriotic and should not for a mo
ment receive the consideration of fair
minded men.
Senator White of California also
spoke of the effort of the A. P. A. to
interfere with the course of the sen
ate in giving proper attention to a
question, the determination of which
slioud depend upon considerations of
fitness and Justice as between man
and man, rather than upon an ap
peal to bigotry, prejudice and a falso
claim of patriotism. He hud no pa
tience, he said, with men who held
the opinion that Catholics must nec
essarily consult the pope or some
other high functionary of the church
in every important transaction of
their lives, and ndded that he was
convinced that the American senate
would not be Influenced for a moment
by such representations tis an order
of the character of the A. P. A. would
make. Mr. McKenna's confirmation
should depend entirely upon different
considerations. As for himself" while
he did not contend that Mr. McKenna
was a giant In his legal attainments,
Btill he believed him to be an honor
able man, a competent lawyer and a
Just jurist, and he should support his
conflrmaf ion.
Here Mr. Allen Interposed an ob
jection to immediate action. He
called especial attention to an attack
made by the bar of the Pacific const,
which, he said, was deserving of more
scrutiny than had boen given it. He
also stated that he had understood
that the charge had been made that
large corporations bad been Instru
mental In securing Mr. McKenna's
nomination. He thought this matter
also should be looked into more thor
oughly than the senate had had op
portunity to do. Mr. Allen disclaimed
any intention to father any of the
charges made, but asserted that his
sole purpose was to secure time for
their proper investigation. He added
that he might himself vote for Mr.
McKenna's confirmation, but said
that before doing so he desired to be
convinced that the assertions made
derogatory to Mr. McKenna's char
acter as a jurist were without founda
tion. Immigration and Progress.
In view of the discussion which is
sure to be provoked by Senator
Lodge's immigration bill, the influ
ence of the foreign element 'n Ameri
can civilization, as investigated by
Dr. S. H. Hyde in the current number
of the Popular Science Monthly,
touches some points heretofore over
looked. In the first place he shows that the
rate of increase among the popula
tion before 1830 was greater than it
has been since, so that foreign Immi
gration is not responsible for the
rapid growth of the population.
But the earlier immigration con
tained a large proportion of agricul
turists, mechanics and skilled labor
ers, and the foreigner was really the
teacher and introducer of the skilled
trafts, and was even the teacher in
the common schools. This immigra
tion was in time followed by the more
ignorant, that became stranded In the
seaboard towns and from which
sprang the dependent and criminal
classes. Indiscriminate charity in
creased this evil, until it infected the
native population. But this "servi
ent class" indirectly fostered "the
higher advances in arts and material
prosperity" by doing the hard work
and affording leisure for the cultiva
tion of the arts and sciences and the
development of mercantile and com
mercial pursuits.
But of more special advantage is
the heterogeneousness of the popula
tion thus created. A mixed popula
tion is far more progressive than a
homogeneous population. There
never was a white homogeneous pop
ulation in this country. And "as the
national spirit acts upon the foreign
element, so the foreign element re
acts upon American civilization, and
the admixture of nationalities is the
primal cause of American progress."
Homogeneity causes stagnation.
The American people are not an in
digenous race, but a compound of
nearly all the European nations, all
of which have contributed a share to
the growth and development of the
country. Evils, too, may be traced to
tnem, but "you can t have an omlct
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