AMERICAN.
a
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Hymn, are rebels la heart, when they
cannot be In (act; with very few ex
ceptions, they are publicly In faror of
lavery. I understand, now, why tbe
patriots of Prance, who d termiued tJ
ee the colore of liberty floatlcg ovor
their (treat and beautiful country, were
forced to hang or shoot almost all the
priests and the monks as the Irrecon
cilable enemies of liberty. For It Is
a fact, which is now evident to me,
that, with very few exceptions, every
priest and every true Roman Catholie
is a determined enemy of liberty.
Their extermination In Prance was one
of those terrible necessities which no
human wisdom could arold; It looks
to me now as an order from heaven to
save Prance, May God grant that the
same terrible necessity be never felt
In the United States! But there is a
thins; which is very certain; it is, that
If the American people could learn
what I know of the fierce hatred of
the generality of the priests of Rome
against our Institutions, our schools,
our most sacred rights, and our so
dearly bought liberties, they would
drive them away tomorrow from
among us, or they would shoot them
as traitors. But I keep those sad
secrets In my heart; you are the only
one to whom I reveal them, for I
know that you learned them before
I did. The history of these last thou
sand years tells us that wherever the
Church of Rome Is not a dagger to
pierce the bosom of a free nation she
js a stone to her neck, and a ball to
her feet, to paralyze her and prevent
her advance In the ways of civilization.
science, intelligence, happiness and
liberty."
But Lincoln did not know all the
secret work that Rome was doing to
destroy this nation.
He knew she was the friend
and adviser of the confederate states,
but he did not know that Maximilian
. was Into the conspiracy, and that he
and bis armies were waiting in Mex
ico until such time as both the con
federate and the Union forces would
he shattered, the treasuries of the re
spective sides depleted, and the peo
ple of the entire country panting for
a cessation of hostilities, when he
would cross the border, fall upon the
demoralized forces, and after a short
but sanguinary struggle build upon
the ruins of a once glorious re
public a monarchy, by and with the
consent of the pope.
We have said in another part of
this article that Irish Roman Catho
lies were always disloyal to every gov
rnment except that of the Church of
Rome.
We desire to reassert that and to
point to their conduct in the war with
Mexico.
Colonel Edwin A. Sherman states that
in that war a circular was distributed
among the Irish offering them land
if they woud desert the American
Sag; that a great many of them did
desert and tought under the Mexican
flag, were captured and branded on
the cheek with a hot iron, the char
acter of the brand being the letter
"D," to Indicate that they were de
serters. A man who cannot be trusted in
time of war Is a traitor In time of
peace.
The Irish are proving the truthful
ness of that assertion every day by
organizing exclusive Roman Catholic
military organizations for the pro
tection, defense or use of the pope of
Rome.
"But the pope of Rome has no use
for an armed body of men," you
say. "He is a spiritual and not a tem
poral sovereign."
He does not think so. The Irish
military organizations do not think
so. No loyal Roman Catholic does
think so. It is only uilnd Protestants
who believe that
The pope has always laid claim te
temporal sovereignty, otherwise what
Is the meaning of this declaration by
Pius IX.:
"The church has the right to avail
Itself of force, and to use the temporal
power for that purpose."
Pius said that in 1854.
Besides, the Canon law says that
the pope cannot be bound by a secu
lar prince.
Instead, the pope claims the right
to depose neretlcal rulers, and to give
their possessions to the faithful.
When the King of Italy entered
Rome at the head of a victorious army
In 1870, Pius IX. excommunicated and
cursed him with the regulation papal
curse.
By that act of the pope, and accord
ing to the doctrine of the church,
every one of his subjects who belong
to the Church of Rome were released
from their oaths of allegiance.
"When a man is excommunicated
for his apostacy, it follows from that
very fact that all those who are his
subjects are released from their oaths
of allegiance by which they were
bound to obey him." St Thomas,
Vol. 4, page 9L
But the damnable pretensions of
the church do not stop there.
The council of Lateran, A. D. 1215.
and know ye that each and every en
actment of all councils and of all
popes speaking ex cathedra, have been
revived by the pope's sitting in the
nineteenth century, and within your
knowledge If you are forty years of
age, that council declared:
"Monarchs so deposed by the pope
are converted into notorious tyrants,
and may be killed by the first who
can reach them."
A beautiful, a christian doctrine,
that!
And yet there are Protestants who
say that Rome is getting liberal.
And many of these Protestants are
Masons whom the present pope, Leo
xiii., has condemned to death and
to suffer confiscation of their goods.
In fact they have all been con
demned, cursed, anathematized and
ex-communlcated, and as such are
"tyrants and may be killed by the
f rst one who can reach them."
McKinley, the president of the
United States, is a Mason.
Should there be trouble between
Spain and this country, any member
of the Roman church could lawfully
kill him under the law of their
hurch would be compelled to commit
hat crime.
Likewise every high officer in the
army and navy, without, we believe,
single exception, (barring, of course,
the pope's warrior, topplngerl. be
long to the societies whose members
affiliate together under penalty of
death and conhscatlon of their goods.
By keeping the doctrine of the
Church of Koine firmly In mind, all o(
which have been re-enacted Inside of
forty-thre years, you can readily see
there is plenty of reason for believing
that the Church of Rome is all but
ready to strike the final blow against
leligious liberty.
For years she has been secretly
arming and drilling her men.
This is and has been known to
Protestants In the larger cities for a
long time, but as the great bulk of our
population is In small cities, towns,
villages and farming districts, Rome
has denied that her men were arming
and drilling for the sole purpose of
keeping the rural population in Ig
norance of her designs upon their lib
erties, their institutions, tbetr homes
and their lives.
But she has thrown off the mask.
On the heels of ber denials the
president of one of her numerous mil
itary organizations telegraphs the pres
ident that he has 100.000 armed and
drilled men ready to take the field
in defense of the Monroe doctrine
Before the echoes of her denials had
died away several friends, the business
manager of the American and this edi
tor were watching the members of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians drill In
their hall.
And what is the A. O. H.?
The first parsgraph of the pre
amble to its constitution and by-laws
contains this declaration:
"It behooves the Catholic children of
the Irish race to enroll themselves
beneath a common standard In the
cause of CHURCH, country and mu
tual aid."
Article 9 of the constitution says:
"NO person shall become a member
of this order who Is not IRISH OR OP
IRISH DESCENT through either par
ent and a PRACTICAL ROMAN
CATHOLIC."
The Hibernian Rifles are composed
of tbe able bodied men of the A. O. H
Article 1 of the rules governing the
Rifles reads:
"To control and encourage the for
mation and maintenance in the A. O.
H. of the United States of America an
unlimited number of independent in
fantry companies, its membership to
be composed of men in good standing
In our order, so as to afford to all
who may be admitted to its ranks the
opportunity of acquiring a thorough
knowledge of military drill and dis
cipllne according to Upton's tactics."
Begins to sound like war, don't it?
And this is what their papers say:
The Golden Manuel says:
"If the pope should declare war
against the government of the Unltod
States all true Roman Catholics would
be compelled to take the side of the
pope against the eovrnment.
Brownson, In the Roman Catholic
Quarterly Review, said: "It is the In
tentlon of the pope to possess this
country. In this Intention he Is alled
h.r the Jesuits and all the Cath
ollc priests and prelates, If they a e
faithful to their religion."
And this Is what their pries's say:
The Detroit Journal of November
17, 1S92, says: "Father Menard in St
Joachim's church In Detroit, Sunday,
November 6, 1892, said: "When the
church needed armed men to enlist as
crusaders, young men of the church
shouldered the musket and sabre and
obeyed the order of the church. When
the church wanted to get rid of the
Saracens the faithful arose en masse
and exterminated them. The church
may have to call on you to defend
your rights In this country, and I
know our young men will obey the
church again, and take up arms and
exterminate all the enemies of the
church."
The Chicago Tribune, May 3, 1896,
reports Priest Dorney as saying In his
sermon that he "believed there should
be no separation of the church and the
state," and here is the Inducement that
Rome holds out to the faithful to keep
from having them separated :
"Whoever dies In battle against the
unbelieving, merits the kingdom of
heaven."
Priest Bennett, of St. Patrick's Ro
man Catholic Church, Sterling, 111.,
made this bold statement to his con
gregation at the conclusion of mass
March 25:
"It was the Roman Catholics who
fought and won the Battle of Bunker
Hill, and we are NOW DRILLING
OUR BOYS TO BE PREPARED TO
FIGHT THE NEXT BUNKER HILL
ON AMERICAN SOIL."
But we think we hear you say, "Oh,
they can talk, but there Is no danger,
The pope does not have the power to
make them go contrary to their con
science. The laity will be loyal to
the flag."
We say you are wrong. The pope
has the power, more than that the
moat humble priest has the power.
The most besotted, immoral, criminal
priest In the Roman church can, accord
ing to Roman Catholic doctrine, save
or damn, souls. And every Roman
Catholic believes that, and, believing
that, would not hesitate a single In
stant to commit the most diabolical
crime If his priest told him its com
mission would be for the glory or the
welfare of the church.
To show you how strong, how bind
ing is the devotion of true Roman
Catholics to the will of their superiors,
we submit these two Items:
The first was an associated press
dispatch at the time the Turks were
murdering so many Christians, and
reads:
"London, April 11, 1896. A Constan
tinople special says that the Armenian
(Roman) Catholic patriarch has re
fused to resign at the command of the
Sultan. The Catholic patriarch de
clares that IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE
FOR HIM TO DISOBEY THE POPE'S
INJUNCTION TO REMAIN AT HIS
POST."
The other is a news item published
in an Omaha paper only this week:
"An illustration of the generalship
of the Jesuit order was shown in
Omaha recently. IT IS KNOWN that
the members of the Society of Jesus
are BOUND by oath to go to the ends
of the earth, If need be, at the
COMMAND of the general of
the order, but just how quick
ly and Implicitly these com
mands are obeyed Is not so well nn-
derstood. There was an exemplifica
tion of this at tbe house In Omaha a
few weeks ago. Father Mueffela, the
pastor of St John's church, tus been
quite a favorite with the cougrvgi.iou
and especially with the ch idren. Oue
day be unexpectedly received tot ice
to band over the church to bis suc
cessor and proceed to Honduras. With
in twenty-four hours of the lime the
order was received he bad left Omaha
and was on bis way ta his new tli'll
of work. World-Herald, Jan. 16, 8.
Could anything more fully explain
the complete, the absolute control ex
ercised by the church over its co.nmu-
nlcantsT Tbe popa say slay in o.ie
iustance, and although dcaih mibt
have been his p irtlon at any moment,
tbe patriarch refused to obey the slate
authority, because of the pope's In
junction for him to remain at his
post, thus affording a living example
that Romanists hold the laws of .he
church above the laws of the state,
a doctrine of the church of Rome of
so long standing and of so recent pro
mulgation that no American should
be in Ignorance of It
Leo XIII. specifically said In his en
cyclical Jan. 10. 1890. that
when the laws of the state
conflict with the Iswb of tbe
church, the laws of the church are to
be unhesitatingly obeyed; and General
Ulysses S. Grant, in ha "Pers nal
Memoirs," page 213, says: "No pol.t
Ical party can, or ought to exist when
one of its cornerstones is opposition
to freedom of thought and to 'the
right to worship God according to
tbe dictates of one's own conscience,'
or according to the creed of any re
ligious denomination whatever.
NEVERTHELESS, IF A SECT SETS
UP ITS LAWS AS BINDING ABOVE
THE STATE LAWS, WHEREVER
THE TWO COME IN CONFLICT THIS
CLAIM MUST BE RESISTED ANi)
SUPPRESSED AT WHATEVER
COST."
The American people believe Gen
eral Grant wrote words of wisdom
when he penned those lines and they
are ready to resist with all their power
and with all their might not only that
doctrine but those charged with put
ting it into execution In this country.
We say with General Grant, and we
expect every man who reads this ar
ticle will say wltn him, "when a sect
sets its laws up as binding above the
state laws it must be resisted at any
cost."
We Bhall go farther, and we believe
every loyal, patriotic American will go
with us: We will say that, God being
willing, np pope of Rome shall ever
make his abiding place In the land
that has been recognized as the cradle
of liberty.
We say this not without full knowl
edge that we will be branded by those
mistaken individuals, who regard Ro
manism as a religion, as Intolerant and
bigoted.
But since we know Romanism, Bince
we love liberty, and since we fear not
to tell the truth, we shall not object
to Jesuits the murderers of Abraham
Lincoln or the Jesuit sympathizers
branding us as anything but a paplHt.
That the conflict between the lovers
of liberty and the cohorts of mental
slavery Is drawing near, and will, un
less the signs of the times are mislead
ing, be in full force immediate'y after
the death of the present pope, which
may occur any day, we believe and be
cause of such belief admonish Ameri
cans everywhere to be on their guard.
Rome does not fight in the open.
Her first blow will be struck In the
dark. She will imitate the St. Bar
tholomew massacre.
Our leading statesmen and warriors
have always maintained that Rime
would attempt to overthrow our gov
ernment at some time In the future,
and John Ireland and other Roman
Catholics have declared in recent years
that in 1900 they would "take this
country and keep It"
That's what they've got their sol
diers for.
What, but Romanism, did General
Grant have in his mind when he said
to the Army of the Tennessee in 1876:
"If we are to have another contest
in the near future of our national ex
istence, I predict that the dividing
line will not be Mason and Dixon'B,
but It will be between patriotism and
Intelligence on one side and supersti
tion, ambition and Ignorance on the
other. Let all labor for the security
of free thought, free speech, free
press and pure morals; unfettered re
ligious sentiments and equal rights
and privileges for all men, irrespective
of nationality, color or religion."
We probably would be less
concerned about this matter did we
secure our Information that Rome is
collecting funds In this country today
to defray the expenses of war from a
less reliable source and did we not
know of our own knowledge that Ro
man Catholic men were drilling and
were armed.
But, relying implicitly upon those
from whom the information is re
ceived, and upon the reports of those
employed to get at the bottom of the
matter, we unhesitatingly declare that
! Rome is prepared to strike this coun
! try to its death.
I With the knowledge of her lnten-
i tion in our possession we would not
he doing our duty did we not sound
the alarm and advise you to be pre
pared for the worst
We can see, we can realize, that
Rome has gone so far that she will
never recede, and that the conflict,
though delayed for a time, will break
with added fury when least expected.
And yet it will not surprise eome of
us.
It will not surprise our friend at
Atchison who said, "God speed the
crisis."
It will not surprise any student of
papal history though it may cost
them their lives.
j But it is not for them we write. It
is for those who do not know Rome
bloody, terrible Rome.
I And they, poor things, will wonder
i who will be their leader, and we say:
I The needs of the hour always pro
duce the man!
I This was true In the time of Luther,
of Huss, of Lattlmer and of Collgny;
and lt was true, also, when Adolphus
and Garibaldi sprang Into prominence.
It was true, too. when the world
needed tbe Prince of Orange, and when
; it needed Oliver Cromwell. And when
the times demanded men to protest
j and war against human slavery, Owen
I Lovejoy, and old John Brown God
bless their memories stepped forth ta
laa their places upon the scroll of
time, flanked by curb patriots as Lin
coln and Grant and an army of true
and loyal rlt.zens.
As it was when Luther grand, no
ble, fearless Luther nailed his thiols
to the church door In Vl!tenterg, as
it was when the Prince of Orange went
forth In the defense of Prole ti nils
as it was when Garibaldi fought the
armies of the pope of Rome the man
of sin: as it was when Cromwell and
his hosts weut Into battle singing
psalms; when Adolphus withstood the
armies of his pop.-lle8ed opponents;
when John llrown left Ossowatt mil.
Kansas, to liberate the slaves, and
when Abraham Line iln by the stroke
of hla pin, and Ulysses 8. Grant by
the force of his unc.inquered arms,
demonstrated and settled for all time
to come that all men are created equal,
so It will be when the pope of Rome,
fleeing from Italy and seeking an asy
lum In this country, will be mot ly a
man or a band of men probably no
larger than John Brown's band, yet
equally as zealous and equal y as firm
in the belief that future ages will ray
that they were right and that man or
that band of men will have Inscribed
upon their banners "No popery," and
they will have enshrined In their
hearts deep love of liberty, and In their
minds due reverence for God.
And so we say, Amerlcnn freeman,
with all the glory of the past Ftre.m
Ing o'er us, with all the possibilities
of the future before us, we say,
"America forever! No popery!"
LOCAL SELF UOVl RNMf-NT.
Press Comment on J jdjre Scott's De
clslon
. , r. ,t i. -... '
Judge Scott of Omaha has rendered
a decision in favor of the citizens In
the singular mandamus case brought
by taxpayers to compel the city coun-
cil to appoint a new police board. The
present board, which was appointed gtltullonal right of municipal self-gov-by
the governor under a state law glv- ernment If the police -epartment Is
Ins: him power to create a commission
for the police government of Omaha,
is declareu to have no legal standing,
the law being unconstitutional. Judge
Scott docs not require the council to
act, but he holds that It Is constitu
tionally veBted with full power In tne
premises and Is at liberty to proceed
with the creation of a commission
regardless of the action of the gov
ernor. The decision is based on broad
principles and on the language of the
city's charter. Ixical, municipal self
government, the opinion declares. Is
an Inherent, Inalienable right, and the
legislature has no power to destroy it.
It may not comer upon the governor
power to appoint local officers of the
municipality. Once grant that the
stale can take charge of the police
department and lire department of a
city without the consent of the muni
cipality (asuming that the people can
surrender their right to self-government,
which Is doubtful), and It In
evitably folows that the suite can talco
charge of all the departments and
servants of the city through governor
made appointments
Tl.18, clearly, la
a reductlo ad absnrdum of the entire
case for state commissions to do local
work.
i
Of course, It is possible to regard
commissioners appointed under a state
law not as local, but as state officers,
but In that case the state ought to
pay their salaries. To make the cln
zens of Omaha pay these salaries is to
impose a tax without th" right of rep
resentation or choice. The police
power of the state does not warant aiy
such use of the taxing power. It is
limited by the fundamental rights of
the municipal subdivisions of the state
with regard to taxation and self-reg
ulation within the general laws. Chi
cago Evening Post.
The revolt of the people of Omaha
againRt state control of the police de
partment of that city threatens to re
sult In grave complications. After sev
eral years' experience with a metro
politan police law. during which the i
police force has become the instrument
of state politicians and has been the
prolific source of scandals that are
j; ,
ii.KKrH.-eu, uie siaie. ine laxpayers ap-
M,r , ui .m.ns ,or re.ier rrom , ""- " - ... iw i s nm- hnn on tne throne thnt he haa cauged
the onerous burden. nM Intimated to the sovereign.
Ir, answer to the plea Judge Scott nieiPal s 'Mlvlsions of the state." He of All8trla an Spain lhnt thelr former
decided in a mandamus case, which p mr. riKhts to the veto of the papal con
was brought to compel t..e city council " take charge of fhe clavcg naf, lim)mfi obgoletpP owlng to.
o appoint a new police board, that J"1, of thuU' ,be the failure of the powers in question,
the present board was unconsti tutional duties of policemen being public duties, to protm tne papal from Bpo.
8 tha no right whatever to act i a tho. gh paid for by the eity under a ; atl,'m of lts t(.mp,ra, p0WPT , 870.
The decision throws the control of Mate law then why cannot the state ; And ,f he entertains a warm feeling
the police and Are department back take charge of all these departments fnr pranrp it i, hPrn,P tho intt.r
into the hands of the city council. Al- .and servants of the city through , ap-! L,one among tne powers of Europe
though the Judge refused to Issue a ?"'n,me,a by the Rovernor? All j hM nPver yot officially signified Its
writ of mandnmus. he declared that the tha '8 is a leg.slaUve act prr ao,pptanrq f ,ne 8poilatn of the,
c.ty officials are vested with full con- ' jMing therefor Moreover, such a temporal power of the Holy See. Its
trol of all departments of municipal Policy of centralizing government ! falIure t0 do 80 constituting a sort of
service As a result of the decision , oiil,l necessarily result in the state llalPnt protPst. against the present con
the city council will appoint a new Riving the governor of the state the , ,mkm of affatrs ln UomP whrn M.
set of police commissioners. But the authority to appoint the mayor of the;o0unt9 in no 8ma mPasmre for lhft
police board backed by the populist ty. hostl...y which King Humbert. Senor
rr .. '. .w i i:K.nne u.e au-
thority of the court, and hence a con-
.ii -.1 .,elwe n me cuy ana sinie is im-
minent and may lead to grave conse
queuces.
If such a law Is unconstitutional in
Nebraska because it violates the nrin-
clple of municipal home rule It would ment 18 an inherent right, Judge Scott
also be unconstitutional in Illinois for Proceeds td argue that
the same reason. In 1867 the legisia- "Then it is as much of an inalien
ture of Illinois passed an act to estab- able rlS"t as Is the right of the people
lish a police commission in East St to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
Loui8, providing for the appointment P'ness, and the state cannot take that
by the governor of three commission- ! Inherent right of municipal self-gov-ers,
who were to control the police ernment from the people any more
department of tue city. In case of a than It can take from them their in
fallure of the city council to appropri- j alienable right to life, liberty and the
ate money to pay salaries and expenses Pursuit of happiness. Nor could the
of the commission the act gave the people of the municipality, by any
commissioners the power to Issue cer- means, surrender that right to tbe leg
tifieates of Indebtedness in the name islature of the state, or bind them-
of the city, whicn would be receivable selves in that regard by a constitu
in payment of taxes. Tbe court held tlonal provision alienating such right,
' the act unconstitutional.
I If it is unconstitutional to tax a
municipality to support a state police 1 So even if there were a eonstitu
commission, then the act creating such tlonal provision empowering the legis
, a commission is an invasion of the lature to impose a tax on a munici
I people's constitutional rights. ; Pality for local purposes without its
The decision of Judge Scott in the eonsent, the power would not exist
r U 1 , rr t Til. Vnt.-n0l.. . .
wiuaua case is a masieny one. me
attention oi xne legislature or Illinois.
; which 13 asked by the Tanner machine
;to perpetrate a similar outrage upon
I the people of Chicago, is invited to
this one paragraph In the decision:
"Such a doctrine as that will strike
' , m . . . ,
down free government, in that it is a
centralization of political power In the
state and inevitably leads to despot-
( Ism, in that it destroys local municipal
Kidney and Bladder Troubles Quickly Cured.
You Ma j Have a Sample Bottle of the Great Discovery Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp Root Sent Free tj Mail.
Men and women doctorthelr troubles
oof en without benefit, thai Miey r t
d acouraged nd kep leal. Io tnovt
ch rtxi er out nilsukt are med
io dot tiring and not knowing what
our trouble it or what makes u ! k.
Tbu unmistakable evideno. s of kidney
trouble are pain or dull ahe In the back,
Uio'rrquenidealre to punt water, scanty
supply, omartlng Irrl'atlon. A kidney
dbeate advance the face looks sallow
or pm, puff or dark circles under eye
the feet swell and aoim-tim. s the heart
MculaJly. Humid further evidence
t e needed to find out the cause of sick-re-,
then set urine aside for twenty
four hours; if there it a sediment or
M'ltltng It Is alno convincing proof that
your k d'iryt and bladder need doctor
ing. A fact often overlooked, Is that
women kuffer at much from kidney and
bladder trouble at men do.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, Is th dis
covery of the emlm-nt hylcUn and
soleutUtand ii not reoimmended for
elf-government, Imposes
taxation
upon the people, but denies them rep
resentation, and imposes unequal bur
dens of taxation upon the people of
the state municipalities if they come
h Inp,ro.m,,ftn
No matter what disclosures are made
by tbe senatorial investigating com
mittee now In session in th.s city, tuey
win nt luBtlfv a violation of the con
being badly administered the people
of Chicago have the power to change
the administration, and the grand jury
lias the power to Investigate charges
of corruption and blackmulllng against
the police. Chicago Times-Herald
The theory that the right of local
municipal self-government In this
country Is an Inherent right, which
exists without any need of ronstltu-
tloiia recognition. Is tho oasis of ti.e
decision which has Just been made by
Judge Scott of Omaha In a sua brought
to declare null and void the law 'rfi
atlng a municipal police and Are board
whose officers are appointed by the
governor, for that city.
Tne old doctrine was that munici
palities were agents of the state, cre
ated by It to perform certain local
governmental functions. It was as
sumed thnt tho state could grant a
municipality what powers It saw fit
and could take them away when It
saw fit. The control of a legislature
over municipalities regarding police
mauers was not disputed, and the
earlier state laws establishing metro -
polllan police boards were not attacked
n account of their alleged unconsti-
i iuinni
tutlonality.
But t.e doctrine of local self-government
of "home rule" has been
gaining ground, and legislative Inte--ference
with local affairs, which would
have passed unchallenged fifty years
ago, meets with energetic opposition
at this time, when the general assump
tion Is, as Judge Scott states, that
"The custom and usage of munici
palities respecting their local govern
. ment and political functions cannot be
.abrogated without their consent.'
Ten years ago the Nebraska legis
lature enacted a law authorizing the
governor to appoint a board of police
and fire commissioners for Omaha.
The legality of that measure, prece
dents for which had been furnished
by New York, Indiana and other
2S w!!k untilla8.1
when suit was brought to reauire the
city council to appoint the commis-
i sloners.
Judge
...Stt.bP,dB.ihat..the ,aw .of
a'1"87 18 null and void. He concedes
that . v,. i . ,. .
! " unce p. w oi ,ie
- . .r..,,.,, u. mayor
i rk, appointed by the
- .uu nooooy oojeetea.
'home rule" 11 f
u, ...
. " .-Ji '''iV"" me principle that
the right of local municiDal eovern-
, oecause wt
alienated."
, because what Is inalienable cannot be
" i iiiea me people Ot
j". vay iub salaries or cnmm
sloners, who cannot be local officers giving tun imn.'c.iiar ot a n-iiahieeure. Fit.
n"d who, if state officers, must be puidi "r- Sl '-p- n,.itKnon,ohio.
by the state. :C, CSIuak film Something that
I It will be seen that Judge Scott goes lQ O ollVCI UIUIC every housewife
farther In somerespects than any other : w.'is-' reiabie Kecipes: white Fruit
i.. . n.. r i C-aKe; Sr.i Fo.im CaK; Sunshine t ake;
Judge has yet gone. The case which ura, Wine; Kidrherrv mM; and Mine,
he has passed on will have to go to !uV; For a silver dim and one 2-oent
t aupreme court of Nebraska torT?T4w&
final settlement. A majority of Its j St . Omaha, Neb. I28t
everything, bui will he found just what
i net dt-d in t aci of kldnry and bla4
d r disorders or troubles due to weak
kidney, Mich a catarrh of the bladder,
gravel, rh-iiiuatUm and Hrfght's Dis
ease, which U the worst form of kldaey
trouble. It com U Inability to bold
urine and smarting In p-aing It, ana
promptly ovfrromet tost unples-ast
n'Cci.ho of be In a" coin polled to get ap
many timet during the nljfbt
The mild and extroordlnary effect I
thU great remedy U soon realised. II
rand" highest for Its wonderful cures.
Sold by oruirgisis, price fifty oetU ana
one dollar, H.i universally successful
la Sffarau-Iloot in quickly curing eve
the most dUtrcn.njf cases, that ta
prove Its wonderful merit you can bar
a sample bottle and a book, both seat
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Tne proprietors of this paper guars
Uie the genuineness of ihlaofTor.
members may not be prepared to agree
with Judge Scott. Chicago Tribune,
January 14.
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DEMOCRACY AT THE VATICAN.
The Pope's Change From Monarchist
to Republican Ideas
ROME, Jan. 18. Special Cable to.
the New York Journal.! The article
In the Clvllta Cattollca, the famous
Jesuit review, interpreting Leo XllL's
remarks in response to the Christmas
address of the cardinals as a procla
mation to tbe effect that the Vatlcaa.
wuuld prefer to see Italy constituted.
uu a rnttulilln rnlhni thim a tnnnBrph
to nave aUracted a grettt detl
more Bttent,on abrottd than here at
Uo wnere the deIcratlc leanings,
of Ul0 ntlft are we1 kuown and
..,. (lf nill(,h ........mwi,,,, flnrt mil
' untagonism on the part of the Collega,
of Cardinals. But a few weeks bars
elaimed since, on the occasion of re
ceiving a French pilgrimage of ao
callud Christian Socialists the strains,
of the "Marseillaise," the revolutionary,
song of Prance, which calls for the.
"death of all kings and tyrants," were
heard for the first time In papal his
tory resounding through tbe walla of'
the Vatican, to the horror of the con-
,., r,iinui .nH nroi-toa .nrf
t0 nmlllf(,Bt satisfaction of ths
j ,ir
, ",,,;, ,v,'o i. .,i m.h. .
numi,er of prayers offered up at
,hB Valirnn ,n llIlhaif nf ,hn monarch.
. -
of Europe on certain stated occasions
have been modified In such a manntr
that the words "nation" and "people"
are substituted for .those of "ruler1
and "sovereign." In France the al
most complete extinction of the royal
1st party Is due to the personal inter
vention of Io XIII., who In Instruct
ing the French clergy to explain ta
their flocks that it Is quite possible
to be a good Catholic and a true re
publican at one and the same time In
flicted a death blow to the hopes ot
both Prince Victor Bonaparte and ot
the duke of Orleans. Until the popj
made this pronouncement the PARISH
CLERGY THROUGHOUT FRANC
INVARIABLY FOUGHT FOR THK
ROnALIST CANDIDATES IN MUNK
nirAi runv!VPii avf didiii
UlENTARY ELECTIONS against the.
republican nominees. SINCE THAT
T1ME THEY ARE TO BE FOUND
i REPUBLIC, which pays them their
i .tinonHu
. siipenas.
lt ,s iikewlse since Leo XIII,
has
Crisp! and many of the leading lial-
ian gtatesmen manifest toward France.
, christian socialism originates with
the present pop' 8inre without hl
openly expressed approval lt would
havP been crushed out of existence at
Its very birth by the prelates, and llke-
wise by the curia here, who are bit
terly opposed thereto. A profound
student of the great social issues of
the day, Leo XIII., with an experience
unsurpassed, does not conceal his con
viction that the future welfare of the
church and of mankind lies wiia the
democracy rather than with anarchl
onlc forms of monarchy.
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