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THE AMERICAN ITBUSHKD WKKltLY SUBSCRIPTION RATKH: By mall, jvir Annum. - f U 00 lnvunnliiv in Adur. Knt hv F. O or Kprai M.mov pi , or JUnHtrHtWIIw AMKKU'AN HlHI.ISH INii i'O l"ubluhr, Irilft Howsnl Hlrtwt, Oinnlia N-1. JOHN C. THOMl'SON, Kdtuw. W, C. KKLX.EY, Bura MnM"r ' OMAHA. NKH, JANUAHY !H. I HUB. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE? For Prenldciit. W. S. 1 J n ton U Thomas K. Watson Wm. McKlnley OunulnKham It. Scoit I For Vice President, Cunningham R. Scott 2 Henry Calx 1-odge.. 1 Garret A. llohnrt J Wm. A. Stone. IVtm 1 Henry F. Bowers 10 Thomna J. Morgan 1 If each mibM-rll-er will vol and urge his friends to vote we run easily ar rive at a conclusion aa Ui who the patriotic clement would support In 1900. lirt us get together. It u bo drat In the field with a thoroughly American candidate. Thin paper will suport any man whom a majority of the patriot of tho country are willing to trust Who la your cholceT Speak out In meeting. Unless you do ec clesiastical politicians will control the next president, as they control the present administration. Admirers of James 0. Blaine can ob tain of us a beautiful history of that eminent statesman. Trice, $1.00. American Pub. Co., Omaha, Neb. 1 If you did not see the World'a Fair, why not have Its history and the ple tuera of all its magnificent buildings, grounds, scenery, ete.T Price, 11.50. American Tub. Co., Omaha, Neb. The first vote showing preference for president and vice-preeldent In 1900 has been received. It reads: W. B. Linton for president; Henry Cabot Lodge for vice-president. Iet us hear from you. Who is your cholco? For fifty cents we will send you a copy of the Atlas of the World, con taining the latest and most accurate maps of Cuba and the Klondike coun try, besides a great deal of useful and valuable information, American Pub. Co., Omaha. It now develops that Kosey is not for Judge linker for governor, as 1ms been reported, although he may be for him If he is nominated, but at the present time his preferred candidates are A. E. Cady and Geo. D. Molklejohn. This will not be unpleasant news to the Judge's many friends. If you want something nice as well as Interesting and Instructive, get Edith O'Gormnn's Convent Ufe Un veiled. Price, 1.25. We have sold hundreds of them and they always give satisfaction. Order from us American Pub. Co., Omaha, Neb. Who do you want to vote for for president in 1900? Fill out tho coupon In this issue and send It In. Let nt have a thorough American at the helm when Rome attempts to put her boast Into execution that In 1900 she will take this country and keep it We have arranged to supply the de mand for this Issue. We have plates made of It, and if we run out of pa pers today, we will print more tomor row. We intend to Bhow the Ameri can people what Rome really Is and what she Is doing. Every true patriot will take pleasure In lending a helping hand. Count Creighton knew what he was about when he elected Fred Sackett tax commissioner. Already the count's candidate has recommended the can cellation of the taxes on St. Joseph's hospital and upon the vacant property at 27th and l.eavenworth. which Is used as a playground by the Roman children who attend St. Peter's pa rochial school. We have a vacant tot where school children play constantly. Will Sackett recommend that our taxes be remitted? General Fitzhugh Ivee, the United States consul general at Havana, who was a gallant officer on the Confeder ate side during "the late unpleasant ness," has so deported himself during his official residence in Cuba a n dear himself to the people of America and of the Antilles. General Lee is no more a "rebel," but a proty loyal cit izen of the country whose interest and rights In Cuba he so Jealously and ably guards. His retention aa consul gen eral at Havana ia In every way cred itable to the McKinley administration. Hon. W. A. Saunders, ex-preaident of the Omaha city council, and Ml?s Jessie Peters of Mt Pleasant, Ia., WfTe tnarried Wednesday afternoon at th latter place. This wedding was a sur prise to many of tho most intimate friends of Mr. Sunders but we all join in wishing him all possible happiness. Mr. Saunders is one of Omaha's most successful attorneys and while a mem ber of the city council was one of the best reoreseaitailve of the people's Interests. Mr.. and Mrs. Saunders will be at home on North Nineteeth street after February 3rd. Just think, if each man and woman who reads this number of The Amen can would eend for ten copies for free distribution in their immediate neichborhood. what an awakening there would be among the Protestants. Can we count on you? Will you not do your part by awaking your imme diate friends and neighbors. Ten cop ies only cost 30 cents, and fifty copies onlv tl.25. We have the papers, lion hesitate to order. The work must be done and done well. We expect to Drint and sell 1,000.000 copies of this issue. We have dedicated our lives to this work, and. God being willing, we will awaken the American people, can we depend on you? THE CHURCH OF ROME HAs'the practice Is the ru nation of more re--e, mcDC rnn fufHY I .pectable women than all other Im- 40 SOLDIERS FOR EVERY ONE (II SERVING IN U. S. ARMYANDNAVY. .k ..i. - ,ms, " ! eitr. Americans, but before the Issue was mailed every rPf had been a d and since last Friday orders for that number have been raining upon us from every section or tne l u?.m State. We felt confident that we had printed enough and to spare, but we uiuhi admit we under-estimated the number of Americans who were awaite and were wining to spend a dollar or two in an effort to open the eyes of their neighbors. As a consequence we have orders for more than 6,000 exira papers which we will not be able to nil with the Issue of the Zlt in I, but they will be filled with the Issue of the TSth. which. In audition to the articles published last week, will nave a full page cartoon, some startling dls-' patches and mnny new and pointed editorials. The American of the 21st was a mode! paper, except for a few typo graphical errors, which were over- looked In the rush to go to press; but ramn to the rescue of the former In i conditions can possibly te to tne pnys the Issue of the 2Xth will far excel it'niaklng payment of indemnity to the leal man. That "city of monuments" In value and completeness. Of thlH ' latter. It may be that Russia desires l w'hlch the Roman Catholic primate week's nnner we have printed enough .imniv to nrotect thn Interest of her , of the United States has his official to flood the whole country. Can wo send some to your" friends? V(,ut r Inn orders we have received hvH been for tt.OO worth, but they . 1 1 ji.. .. k- .m in I nave raiiKeu bii ui num i ii 114 .10. and th Be order nas received , the same careful attention that has been bestowed upon the five and ten- dollar orders. We want you to help circulate this number of the American. It has things In It that none of your neigh bors have ever seen In print. Our farmer friends, and those living In small cities, towns and villages have had no way of knowing that their lib erties were being stolen from them. or that the Church of Romo has. In the United Slates, more than forty armed and drilled men for every one employed by the government The great dally papers of the cities and the weekly papers published in every hamlet in tho land have not dared to tell the truth, lest the Roman Catholics would boycott them and ruin their business, but we, trusting In Ood for aid and courage to tell the truth, and In the Protestants for their moral and financial assistance, have unmasked Rome as ahe was never unmasked be fore, and she stands before you today as the Implacable enemy of freedom, as the tireless opponont of civil and religious liberty, and as the corrupter of the home, the despoller of the na tion, and as the man of sin doscrlbed in Revelations. This being so, the duty of loyal, pa triotic, Trotestant Americans is as plain as day. They should prepare for the conflict that Is sure to come. They should wake their neighbors and make them realize that everything they hold dear may be taken from them without a struggle unless they cease being partisans and become In truth Americans. No annn men. no sane womnn "will remain Inactive after reading this Is sue of tho American. It should be your pleasure to see that they have an opportunity to read it. Your liber- ties should be as dear to you as ours are to us. If they are, will you not arouse your friends? We are not a coward, but we would tremble for the lives of our children did Jesuitism ever gain complete as cendancy In this country; and so will you tremble for your dear ones if you read carefully the canon law and the extreme oath of the JesuitJ, which arf pea'r In this Issue. Read them, then act We want your help In this great flght Againet the enemy of every form of freedom. Can we have it? SOME PLAIN WORDS TO MR. WILLIS. During a conversation with several gentlemen connected with the Y. M. C. of this city, the secretary of that association, Mr. Willis, referred to this paper as an Indecent paper, and gave that as his reason for refusing to allow It to be placed on file in the reading room of the Young Men's Christian association. Mr. Willis' excuse may serve his purpose, 1. e., may Keep me young men who affiliate with that associa tion In Ignorance of the papal designs against the civil and religious liberty of Protestant Americans, but it will not help the organization any. He may please the half dozen young Ro mans who go there for the sole pur pose of keeping such papers as The American from getting into the hands of the young men who go there to read and to be beyond the Influence or the esorts of other Roman Catholics, who are in equally aa good standing In the Roman church as are those young Jesuits who hover about the Y. M. C. C. in obedience of the commands of their superiors, but he will find that the Protestants of this community will not long tolerate a man or an organization that truckles to Rome. Mr. Willis may be a charming singer, but he will find sooner or later that a little spine ia as pleasing to the American eye as a sweet voice Is to the American ear. Mr. Willis' says this paper is Inde cent Will he tell us whether tne teachings of the Church of Rome are Indecent? We presume Mr. Wlll.s' father and mother were Protestants. In that case the Church of Rome teaches that his father and mother lived in a state or filthy concubinage. Mr. WMllis does not believe that. Neither do we. We think it a damnable slander, and we say so: but Mr. Willis thinks we are indecent because we say so. We don't. The truth Is never Indecent Again, the Church of Rome says that Mr. Willis Is an illegitimate, a bastard, simply because his father and mother were not married by a greasy, licentious, drunken priest. He knows that is not so. So do we. and we have the courage to say so; not only in Mr. Willis behalf, but in behalf of every boy and girl that was born of Protest ant parents. And. further, the Church of Rome claims the right to ask the wife if she has refused the marriage debt; the daughter if she has had intercourse with one of the opposite sex or with a beast; and we believe the claim and THE AMERICAN. moral agencies, and against U we have the American manhood to protest, ana yet the secretary of the Y. M. C. A. ran And no place for a paper that nRht. fifty-two weeks each year for j1.,.,,,,,,,, aKaln8t the vlI.. tanable and Irreligious doctrines of ,nB n,nian Cathoi.c church. Ws nve nothing but pity for a man like Willis, who finds nothing but bad In his mother's defender and who has nothing but love for .er tra ducers. We thank Ood that i.e gave us a backtione. and we only wonder He did et make eels out of such fellows as Willis. niPinMATIP. I There seems to be a determination on the part of the British government to reKnt the attempt of Russia to at-, tan superiority in China, and it is also, evident that the present Chinese dy- nwtv u tntterlns- almost on the verge of dissolution. It will be remem-1 bered that In the late war between ! China and Japan Russian financiers auhierta In the celestial kingdom and, bolleves It necessary to occupy some imnnri.ii nnrt Tha fhlneao have Lu hn Wee borrowers In the Lon- . . - t- i v ' nnn money mui nrm, mm nutMiiu una - , " , , " ltkewinn innre financial interests to.'lalt Uncle Sam s capital. And It Is protect. There Is also a large bal ance due Japan from the Chinese, and for this reason the latter will no doubt Bct in unison with England, both having already dispatched large fleets of warships to Chinese waters. Thus for a time the center of public Inter est In diplomatic affairs has beep transferred to the far east, and the war-cloud begins to look threatening. While all this Is going on the brp"h between King Humbert and the Vati can continues to widen. The pope In sists that the only solution of the present embarrassment of the Italian government la in the granting of "temporal power to the pope." which the king has no intention of granting, and it may finally result in the exile of the head of the Roman Catholic church before many moons and the confiscation of the pope's domain. It will be remembered that but a few weeks ago a report went the rounds of the dally press to the effect tha... a burglar had entered the Vatican and carried oit a considerable number of articles of value. Since then no fur ther mention of the affair has ap peared, and out of the silence has grown the suspicion that when the present pope dies or ia banished the king will find little of value witn which to replenish the Italian treas ury. The recent dispatch of the United States battle ship "Maine" to Cuban waters has caused no end of com ment Few people realized that your Uncle Sam had his weather eye on Cuban affairs, and that he had been holding a most formidable fleet of battle ships In the neighborhood of the Florida Dry Tortugas subiert to peremptory orders to move southward It is said that the visit of the "Maine Is intended only as a "friendly call," but the Spanish government does not seem inclined to that view. Whatever may be the object of the visit it will be looked upon as boding no good for Spain. DETERMINED TO RULE We have stated in this issue without the least equivocation, mental reserva tion or evasion of mind whatever that the Church of Rome had hatched a plot to overthrow this government; that the laity were arming and drilling to accomplish its overthrow by force of arms, and that the womea of the Roman Catholic church were raising a fund for carrying on the war. The charge is so serious, and the evidence so conclusive that Rome will attempt to use force to bring this country under the yoke of Rome that no eane man will pass it by without giving it the serious consideration which It merits. We expect loyal, patriotic and fear less Americans In every section of the country to give due credence and heed to this warning, which has been made as plain as the safety of the parties who have furnished the information would permit It is even more plain than the Roman church expected 'us to make it; and we trust no American will fail to call the attention or his friends to the danger ahead. We have not said that the trouble would begin today, nor tomorrow, nor next year, but we do say that the pope will be compelled to leave Italy;' that no European country will tolerate him and. as a conseauence, that it is the intention of the armed military orgaa lzatlons in the Roman Catholic church to see that he is permitted to land and to set up his throne In the United States. We say that they expect the "no popery" sentiment will be so Pro nounced that there will he bloodshed if he attempts to set foot on American soil, and that they will then take this country and lay it at the feet 6f the none, who will abolish our schools and wipe out those obnoxious laws relating to liberty of conscience, of press and of speech. It is for you, Americans, to eay whether this movement to install pop ery in this country shall be success ful, or whether it shall meet with Ig nominious defeat Silence at this time would be all nut criminal, and Americana who fail to raise their voices, wno remain iaie when there is work to do, do net de serve the liberties they are enjoying, and which Rome would deprive them of. Fr that reason we say, spread the news among your friends. Send them papers. Don't stop until ever man in the Union Is aware of the -dam-nable, the black-hearted treachery of the Roman Catholics, whom we have taken to our bosoms and warmed and fed when they were starving, and after they had been driven from other coun tries as criminals. Work! As you value your homes. .m, .oina mnr uvea as von value ... . .. i. vn- .loonimri TOUT iiuciucb, awnncu JUUl Divr. l.-B neighbors to a full realization of the danger, for danger there Is, and no man ran tell just when to expect It. Put it will come. LIGHT AMID THE CLOOM. The Roman Catholic hierarchy are dally conspiring to destroy the liber ties of the loyal citizens of the United State. To those Protestant mlnda that have not yet been awakened to the manifold dangers which menace our free Institutions this assertion will seem startling. Put what do we see at the very seat of the national gov ernment? The city of Washington is lying in the lap of Rome. Early In the present century the authorities of the American govern ment made a serious mistake when iney locatea me national capital ai Washington. The Potomac flats are rPnorted to be the source of unhealthy physical conditions; but Baltimore, whim contiguous to tne District Columbia, and which Is the center of power and influence of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in America, gen crates a moral atmosphere that is far more menacing to the health of the body politic than any bad climatic residence Is within a few hours' jour- ney of that beautiful city in which resides the president of the nation. R Is well known that James Cardinal f!lhlM-nfl nften Iaavas hla ennttnl tn undoubtedly "official business" con nected with the upbuilding and up holding of the papal monarchy that carries the cardinal thither. High Priest Gibbons does not visit Wash ington for his health; he goes to con fer with those In authority on some queetion which will have a bearing on the material prosperity and well being bf the papal hierarchy In these "infidel parts," apparently oblivious of the fact that his religion teaches that most of the members of the government at Waih'nglen are "in fidels" and will certainly be damned. Although at the tiina at which the national capital was flx'.-d at Wash ington the Roman Catholics of the region of Baltimore were already a powerful and iufiucntlil social body, the American statesmen of the period did not probably foresee the tremend ous power which was destined to bo wielded by the prelates of the papal capital, of the state of Maryland, and of tho nation at large. But it ia an ominous fact that the papal ablegate to America should chooao the city of Washington as his place of official residence for the double purpose, no doubt, of performing effective eavesdropping and "rubbernecking" work, and to be within hailing dis tance of the titular bead of the hierar chy. Mgr. Martinelll is in a sit uation to watch the progress of events at the seat of power of the American government, while High Priest Gib bons, as the nominal head of "the church" in the United States, is cltadeled near by. But even in Bal timore, where the Roman Catholics are so rich and so powerful, the Methodists are numerous and influ ential, and have served as vigilant sentinels on the watch-towers of our political Zion ever since the holding of the famous "Christmas Confer ence or 1784 the nrst conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in the United States. And the Meth odists of the nation now purpose to establish a great Protestant univers ity at Washington, which will have a decided tendency to retard and break down the power of the pope of Rome and to 'minimize the influence of the so-called Catholic university, located in the capital city. We wish the Methodist brethren Godspeed In their noble undertaking. There are also indications that a great national university will be es tablished at Washington under gov ernment auspices and superintend ence, thereby carrying out the will and purpose of George Washington, who left a sum of money to be ap plied to this project The presence of competent educators, imbued with the true spirit of American patriot Ism and filled with burning zeal for the cause of political purity, would have a salutary effect upon the mem bers of the Congress and upon the officials who may from time to time be entrusted with the administration of public affairs at Washington. A truly American national educational institution will seek to inculcate those principles of patriotism and of free citizenship which are so essential to constitute the youth of the land prop er defenders and true exemplars of civil and religious liberty. Let not any patriotic heart be cast down or wholly discouraged. Be not dismayed at the apparent all-power fulness of the Roman hierarchy in the United States, even in such cities as Baltimore and Washington. We have vigilant and valiant friends in all the great cities of the Union, though there is everywhere great need of the swelling of our ranks. The enemy is multiplying with pro digious rapidity, and is active and alert If each of our friends would faithfully and conscientiously per form the duty that lies nearest him, much good work would be accom plished which is now left unper formed. We must sow this country knee-deep with patriotic literature and with printed copies of the warn ings to which George Washington and other American patriots havo given solemn utterance. We must eeek, by every honorable means in our power, to win over to our principles the millions of Protestants who are unconscious of the dangers that sur round us and which threaten to de stroy us and our precious heritage. Let every patriot do his full duty, and all will be well with our land and nation, and we shall enjoy all those manifold blessings of which a benefl cent Providence designed we should be partakers. Who is your favorite for president In 1900? Paul, the greatest vicar of Christ the patron saint of Protestantism ana a citizen or no mean city, was one of the world's conspicuous heroes not because of any deeds of valor which he ever performed on the field of battle (for he was an apostle of ; peace and opposed to force as means of conquering men's mlnda) , - - 1 but because of his moral heroism, be- cause he possessed that indomitable splrtt which overcame obstacles and tomary vigilance in guarum m. difflcultiea that would have appalled tals of the A. P. A. against the en the ordinary mind, and because he ' trance of any man who is of doubtful never for one moment lorgoi nis high calling that be was divinely chosen to be the teacher and the ex emplar of the pure principles and re- guneratlng power of the new religion. His gospel was the antithesis of Ko- maoism. He was a Christian patriot, a loyal citizen. From the Apostle Paul's singleness of purpose and grandeur of conception of man's duty to his Creator and to society, we may given solemn utterance. We must gather Inspiration and courage to con tend valiantly for the maintenance of a high standard of civic pa triotism and public morality, and to seek to make our nation bright with new hopes and new realizations. Gen. Weyler built barbed wire fences to keep the Cuban patriots from invading his back yard. "The t roc ha general" who starved to death the women and children of his ene mies will not live long enough to get away from his own history, which has disgraced his nation and the civiliza tion of the country In which he lived. Chicago Inter-Ocean. But this same Gen. Weyler is a good Catholic," and "loyal to Spain." The starving to death of non-combatants and defenseless women and chil dren in Cuba met with the full appro val of the whole Spanish nation and of Rome. We all know what Spain, an alleged Christian nation, will do with rebels" and "heretics" who fall into the hands of her soldiery. What atrocious crimes and horrible cruelties the papist Spaniards can with per fect impunity commit, and yet remain in good and regular standing in the Holy Roman Catholic Church!" In the tragedy of "Richelieu" the Cardinal Duke of France Is made to declare In a great crisis that: "In the bright lexicon of youth there Is no such word as fail." And on the sword which Emperor William of Germany presented to one of hla sons last Christmas are inscribed the words, "Your strength belongs to the fatherland." The youth of our land are the bone and sinew of the nation "the rose and expectancy of the fair state" the hope of the American re public. To the rising generation we may confidently say: "Your strength belongs to the fatherland" that land in which you enjoy the Inestimable blessings of civil and religious liberty. Then buckle on your armor rally round the flag stand by the stars and stripes organize for self-protection repel the advances of every for eign foe. "In the bright lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail." We shall publish a complete exposure of the awful treatment, of the terrible abuse, heaped upon .American girls In Roman Catholic convents in our issue of March 4. The article will contain the sworn testimony of witnesses in the now celebrated Salina Clewett case which cannot be gratifying to either of St. Paul, Minn., which has attracted ! himself or the king of Italy. The lat widespread attention because of the j ter must feel that his royal dignity disgraceful and inhuman treatment I is dwarfed by the presence of the pope which the Roman catholic nuns ac- corded the poor, helpless creaturea who imagined they were going Into a religious institution when they entered the un-Godly place. American mothers should read that evidence. Their daughters should read it It will make their heart's blood run cold, for no fiend could exceed the average nun in heartlessness and cruelty, and Satan himself would not do what those girls swear the angelic sisters did. It is ter rible. Don't miss it A dispatch from Manilla, Philippine Islands, says: The revolt is very large ly against the friars. It is not neces sarily a movement hostile to the Ro man Church, although the feeling against the Franciscan monks is very intense. The Catapunan and other se cret political societies are engineering the finances of this movement and have a combined membership of 40,000 to 50,000. A good many Free Masons are members of these political organ izations, but no Masonic body, as such, ls identified with the movement No aid has been tendered by Masons in the United States or elsewhere. , Motley, In the preface of his "Rise of the Dutch Republic," correctly states that: "The splendid empire of Charles V. was erected upon the grave of liberty." And it is upon the grave of American liberty that the Roman hierarchy purposes to erect a sacer dotal despotism that shall reproduce a society worthy of those dark times when the will of the Roman pontiff actually took precedence of the will of the kings, governors, legislators and judges of the earth. The children of the ancient Cartha ginians were at a very early age com pelled by their patriotic parents to swear eternal enmity to Rome. There ls in our time a more potent Rome to which American patriotic parents ought, by their teaching and their ex ample, to constrain their rree-born. off spring to swear eternal enmity. Now that Leo XIII. has been con verted to republicanism politically, thereby taking ground against mon archal rule, tnere will be some curi osity to know whether he will vindi cate his consistency by abdicating authority as Supreme Pontiff of the papal church and establishing a form of republican church government in its stead. Chicago Tribune. The editor of this paper takes pleas ure in recommending to all patriots Rev. Christian's great anti-Roman book, entitled, "Americanism or Ro manism, Which?" It is bound in cloth, neatly printed on good paper, and It is full of facts. It ls interest ing. Price only $1.00. It ls worth $2.00. Order of American Pub. Co., Omaha, Neb If all Americans in the United States were zealous patriots, and if they were to view every question from a purely patriotic standpoint always regard less of party ties and party predilec tions, having the courage of their con victionsthere would never be any more "hard times" in this country. All our loyal friends, wherever they may dwell, will make a serious mis- take If they relax any of their cna- veracity, or oi nw sn to sit in council with freemen mere la the shadow of doubt - - xa greater, no more interesting. na more fearless exposure of Romanism wu eTPr written than that penned by Rev. Charlea Chiniquy and popularly known as "Fifty Years In the Church 0f Rome." Price $2.5. Send us $3 00 nd e. ., book. American Pub. Co., 1615 Howard St, Omaha. Neb. Kostello's awful book, "Convent Horrors and Secrets of the Confes sional," 50 cents. We sell it to awaken Protestants, but we hate to deal In such stuff. American Pub. Co., Omaha, Neb. . This edition can be bought In any number by friends wishing them. We will mall them to you in large bundlea or to your friends direct See price In another column. Yes, we have plenty of this issue. We can fill your order. Ten for 30 cents; fifty for $1.25; 100 for 2.00; 60 for 7.50; 1,000 for J10.00. ITALY AND THE POPE. Archbishop Ryan Discusses a New Italian Federation. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21. An ex traordinary degree of interest has been awakened by the suggestion made in the special cable dispatches from Rome and from London that the Vatican has decided upon a course of encouraging transformation of Italy from a mon archy into a republic in order event ually to bring about a restoration of the temporal power. Archbishop Ryan says: The Italian federation, with the pope at its head, ls not a new idea, but has been spoken and written about for many years. The only new feature la the republican character of the ru mored movement. As regards the at titude of Catholics in relation to the temporal power of the pope, I beg to refer to the following extract from a postoral of mine: "If the pope has the spiritual power to rule the Church of God he should have by Implication everything essen tial to the exercise of that spiritual power. If some amount of temporal power and independence of earthly do minion be essential to this freedom, and many great non-Catholic states men have so thought and said, then some such independent position ought to be possessed by the pontiff. He represents too much indirect temporal influence to be the subject of the king. "The first Napolean felt that he only needed the pope as a subject to be complete and permanent master of Europe. The pope's present position of neither "ruler nor subject is one that in the shadows of St. mer's and the Vatican the quinnal is lost. B"t thls ls not as !t should be, when proper order prevails. The power of earthly rulers is from God, as well as the pontiff's power. All power is from God, whether pontificial, royal or republican, and should be respected in its place. Hence, for pope and king the present position is one out of har mony with good order. "What, then, should be done? To give such guarantees as Victor Em manuel offered ls clearly folly, as a single vote of the Italian parliament might at any time make the pope sub ject. It has sometimes been advanced as a solution of the difficulty that to guarantee these guarantees by Euro pan treaty, so that not Italy alone, but all Europe would be back of them, might give the pope an independent position even stronger than he pos sessed before the Garibaldlans and Victor Emmanuel robbed him of his possessions. Sucn a treaty might pro tect aim from any future spoliation. However, Italy has never suggested such guarantee for her guarantees, and would probably resent its sugges tion as an intrusion and an insult. "Besides this fact, we must remem ber how treaties in the past have been disregarded, and how with the gov erning power of Europe, power half Infidel and anti-papal, it may be doubted whether these powers would enforce, as they should, the guaranteed rights. The subject is full of difficulty. The solution of the great past has been that the pope should be an inde pendent ruler. It is evidently his own solution. Not that he cares to be the temporal ruler of a pettv kingdom, for the sake of its little tinseled royalty, WHEN AS POPE HE RULES THE CATHOLIC WORLD. We are sure that he would prefer the pleasures Qf the Vatican library to those of a royal court. In the ordinary course of hu man life he Is nearing the portals of eternity, but he feels now more than ever that it is due to his sublime office to lift his voice In defense of the lib erty of the head of the church of Jesus Christ Your devoted servant In Christ P. J. RYAN. "Archbishop of Philadelphia." Too Personal. One of the women's patriotic soci eties held an open meeting in Wash ington recently, and the members were calleu upon to respond to various sen timents of a patriotic character. The woman who had the affair in charge notified each member of the toast she woua be expected to respond to ten days or bo before the meeting. To one young woman, says the Post, whom, as it happened, she dlu not know per sonally at all, she sent the toast, "Our Flag." The young woman received it, and at once went to call on the head of the society, in a state of great distress. She simply could not respond to the toast, she said. She didn't know whether a Joke was Intended, but she had been chaffed unmercifully about It already, and just simply wouldn't go near the meeting If she were to be called on to speak on that subject "Why, what on earth is wrong with that sentiment?" asked the head of the society. The pretty young woman hesitated,. I "Well," she said, "you see, I'm going to marry a man named Flagg." sne Diusnea.