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THE AMERICAN. NOTES FROM THE BROATCH MOORES CASE The American U pleased to note that not all Roman Catholic are up holding the Mooree-Rwe water ma chine. The number of original "Broatc-h men" is increasing very rapidly since Acting Mayor Moores was cross-examined before Referee Clements. That scapular which Frank Moores liough'. of the sisters last spring f or j $25.00 did not save him from falling Into the trap set by Attorney Wright in that famous eroBS-exaniination. Did the acting mayor think he was in the confessional bos and that Attorney Wriebt was a father confes-1 eor? Wharton, his own attorney. was not "in it" In getting at the true inwardness of that defalcation. Tom Blackburn and the other cam paign orators who vouched for Frank Moores honesty last spring evidently had not seen those bank balances which were bu potted to show where he kept the fines and penalties and uther trust funds. It turns out that Miss Malone paid that $1818.83 to the county treasurer on that fatal Sunday. May 9th, 1897. This is the same as if paid by the act ing mayor himself. But why should .he be transacting 'business with the .acting mayor on Sundav? The Republicans of Nebraska who have felt that Congressman Chairman Mercer devoted too much time to upholding the Moores-Rosewater ma chine in Douglas county last fall, are furnished with additional cause for grievance In view of the corrup tion exposed in the Broatch-Mooree trial laat week. . The Omaha Bee last spring pub lished the carefully prepared state ments of Judges Fawcett and Keysor touching for the honesty of Frank E. Moores under the heading "In Whom Will You Put Your Trust." Since that cross-examination these gentle men doubtless wish that they had placed their trust in some one besides Moores and Rosewater. Acting Mayor Moores, in his testi mony before Supreme Court Referee Clements, attributed his troubles to Ae A. P. A. If Mr. Moores' own cor rupt official record had not been ob noxious to the principles of the A. P. A. no complaint would have been made against him. The A. P. A. is "both just and generous and in this rase its generosity is shown by the fact that Mr. Moores does not occupy a place in the penitentiary with Henry Bolln. The Christian sentiment of this community is outraged by the man ner in which acting mayor Moores a rifled with the bible while testifying to save his official head In the Broatch-Moores case. His plea of the baby act was expressed when in re ply to a question of his attorney as to how much knowledge he had of book keeping when he took the office of Clerk of the District Court, he said "I didn't know the difference between an appearance docket and the holy bible." At another time, with a pretense of hu mor, he admitted that he paid the $1818.83 to the county treasurer on ?he "Holy Sabbath day." Next to the rage which the Acting Mayor displayed when he found that he had made statements on cross- ex amination which amounted to a con fession of guilt, the Shylock of the Bee is deserving of note for his edi torial rantings. Wright and Ransom have made a center shot, that is very evident. But the Shylock will find out that this case has passed out of the realm of rotten politics, where his sway has been most effective. A ref eree who is more of a lawyer than a politician and a man with a keen, dis passionate legal mind who knows the dinerence between a hawk and a handsaw, between law and rot, has leen sent here to look into this mat ter, and the editor of the Bee need not expect to make a diversion by throw ing political mud at the complainant in the case. Stern justice is knock ing at the door of the miscreants who Dyspepsia Is Conquered By Hood's Sarsaparilla. "I have been a sufferer with dyspepsia. I could not eat anything without distress. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and after the nseof a few bottles of this med icine I am able to eat anyt hing I wish and my food does not distress me. Hood's Sarsaparilla has purified my blood and I believe it to be the best of medicines. I have felt better in every way since taking it." Eva Craig, Fort Scott, Kansas. "After trying niRny prescriptions for dyspepsia without benefit I got a bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla and found it gave me great relief. 1 continued taking it until I was cured." Mrs. Sarah Cable, Durachen, Kansas. If you have decided to take Hood's San saparilla do not buy any other instead. HOOCl'S barilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All drujwlsts. Trice, II ; six for $s. tiet only Iloml's. , , r-;n are the heat after-dinner IIOOU S I'll IS piiin, aid digMtlou. 'JSC have raided the city and county treas uries, and Rosewater's ravings will not affect the case one way or the other. In his testimony before the notary last Jul7 County Treasurer Helmrod Bald In effect that he refused to re ceive a bank check which was tend- ered to him In payment of fines," whereas, at the hearing before the ( referee last week he stated that the fines were paid by a check of John A. Creighton's, which was afterwards produced In evidence. Mr. Helmrod ought to explain this matter to the public, and he should also in justice to himself, explain who made the offi cial receipt which was presented to him to sign for the fines. It will be remembered that when a reporter called on Mr. Helmrod on the even ing of Sunday May 9th, to inquire about the payment he showed consid erable ill-feeling at being disturbed on Sunday, and finally, when pressed, admitted that he had received the money, but did not accept it until ad vised to do so by Judge Keysor. A great many people have been curious to know whether the report that the official receipt for those fines was to have been dated back before the elec tion, April 20th, 1897. That confer ence between Attorneys Connell, Wharton and Messrs. Rosewater and Moores inl the Bee office Sunday morning May 9th is when the payment was advised, and Mr Wharton ought to take the witness stand at the next sitting of the referee and make a clean breast of It. Those A. P. A.'s in the city hall who were tied up with Frank Moores Jn the City convention, find campaign, ndw realize that they Were being used to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the Roman machine. There are some good men in the city hall, but since the testimony of John A. Creigh ton in the Broatch-Moores case has disclosed his relationship with the head of the city government, they will now be expected to choose whom. they will serve the principles which they professed to have or the Count of the Roman Church. The shadow of Rome is upon them. They must assert their manhood and American independence. A dispatch from St. Louis, dated February 9th, announces the death of. Dr. R. L. Metcalfe, father of Mr. R. L. Metcalfe, editor of the World-Herald of Omaha Mr. Metcalfe, at the time of his death, was 71 years of age. Dur ing the civil war he served four years as surgeon in the Seventh Illinois in fantry, but of late years he has been an honored and respected citizen of the metropolis of Missouri. Mr. Met calfe will have the sympathy of a large circle of friends in the days of his grief for the death of his father. The Bee complains of the frequent holdups which citizens are subjected to on our streets. Every good citizen deplores such occurrences; but all have greater respect for the fellow who holds up a pedestrian who happens to have a few cents in his pockets, than they have for the fellow who holds up hundreds of poor widows and orphans for $13,500 of their sav ings, which they believed were secure from hold ups when in the vaults of a savings bank. The American people must handle the question of official corruption without gloves. Where Roman Cath olics are not strong enough in this country to control the election of '.of ficers of their own faith, they prefer and will support a servile and cor rupt Protestant. The Roman ship floats best in a sea of corruption. Chief Kipley, of the Chicago police force is a Roman Catholic, and had his children educated in a parochial school. Hence, Mayor Harrison, who is himself a brother-in-law of the Ro man Catholic church, will of course stand by ibis police chief, no matter If the chief utterly fails to enforce the laws and ordinances. We have plenty of the issue of Jan uary 28, containing the exposure of Rome's plot to take this country by the sword. Ten for 30 cents; fifty for $1.25; 100 for $2.25; 500 for $7.50; 1,000 for $10. Have you Bent any of that num ber to your friends? You should: They should not sleep longer. A personal friend of Senator Mc Comas, of Maryland, who is living in Omaha, has called and assured us that the Senator was a Protestant a Meth odistand a loyal, patriotic Ameri can. We shall wutch his course and see if his friend has over-estimated his patriotism. We hope he has not. The Russian Minister at Washing ton having been raised by the Czar to the rank of Ambassador, the I'nited States government has, under a law of the Congress of 1S90, created Kthau Allen Hitchcock, our minister to Rus sia, an Ambassador. A great many people are anxiously waiting and watching for a decision In the case brought before Judge Scott by Mrs. Shelby against Count Crelgh-ton. SHARPENED SWORDS. BY H. W HOWMAN. Popes are Policy men. Priests grow rich by fraud. Orpostng Home tt a proof of princi ple. There can be no real love for Amer ica when the pope Is the ruler. All papUU are bigoted no matter how liberal they may make out to be. Rome makes it a lellgleus du'y to oppose the public 'chool. Rome finds slander a better weapon than abjwle knife. Those who would lead men to oppose Rome must look up her record. It takes patriotism to stand out against papal tyranny. One of Rome's best hiding places it behind a pile of money. Take up any of your great world problems today and you will Dad the pope has his finger in the pie. There isn't much patriotism in the heart of the man who aids Rome in gaining; power in this country. The best remedy for national apathy is to let Rome Introduce some of her old methods of persecution. The papal praising- college professor is one of the pope's beet workers In this country. It is much easier to be contented with party pandering- to Romanism than to steadfastly oppose It. A narrow headed bigot is the pope's idea of a first class man. Thinkers al ways give the popes trouble. Where the publlo school tows one grain pf patriotism the parochial sows ten tare seeds ot treason. The man who lives only for himself is always opposed to reform measures. When a man has a heart big enough to love all mankind without respect to creed, he is too good for the pope. The politician who is always on the hunt for votes instead of feeling the pa triotic pulse will never fight political corruption. No man is living up to his political duties, who fails to oppose the enemies of national peace, purity and prosper ity. Tbe m,an who praises Martin Luther' and courts Gibbons or Ireland is a huge humbug. Some preachers never think it Is worth while to be a true Protestant in the pulpit. It is the Protestantism which fights Rome's errors against which the devil burls his invectives the hardest. Keep yourself well posted on Rome's latest movements and you can help check her fatal progress. There is no such thing as true prin ciple in the heart when there is no op position to wrong in the life. There is more political dynamite In an ounce of patriotic truth than in a ton of papal buncombe. People who are fishing for papal trade will tell you the devil is not a bad fellow if you treat him right. Superstition is a house without win dows. Rome tries to light it up by tbe use of wax candles. . Rome sours the milk of human kind ness by putting the vinegar of bigotry into it in youth. The father who is not interested in the publio school question, has never considered well the condition of the country without education for his children. When a man claims to love his coun try more than party, you can generally find out if he means it by running a good American on an opposite ticket in opposition to the papist on his party ticket. You can't probe sin with platitudes. Smooth words never made Rome howl. Popes can swallow sugar coated pills. He who opposes Rome opposes the foe of civil liberty. The man who prizes brain power should oppose pa rochial schools. Some of Rome's "silver-tongued ora tors" have Berpent-tongued hearts. By their mouths you can know them. Don't feed the papal lion on raw meat and then expect to wean it by giving It milk. The Jesuits no longer hide their hand; they have grown bold and inso lent, and the man who opposes them must suffer. As Romanism increases In this coun try civil liberty decreases. The right of free speech has almost disappeared. VonM Have Americans Arm. Rockford, Ills., Jan. 2!). The Amer ican of January 28 is before me, and 1 think it the moft important document ever issued to the American people. 1 1 shows very plainly where the sleepy Americans are drifting. We are fast going down into the mire of Roman political corruption. Our chief execu tive now in the White House is a Jes uit or a papist in disguioe. 1 look upon him as a traitor to our flag, our Repub lic and our institutions for he has turned away from the St. Louis plat form, violated his pledge to the Amer ican people and has shown himself an avowed enemy to those who put him at the head of our national affairs. Me Is our hireling, hired and paid by tLe people, and still he refuses to do the will of his employers. Now, what Is our duty Slmp'y discharge him from our service as soon as bis four years are up. Tbe old veterans tell us that eter nal vigilance Is the price of liberty, and the penalty of treason, death! Still the G. A. R. Is controlled by one-seventh of It membership. Rockford now bat an Irish postmast er and none but Irish need apply for a job there. In our city we have 0 f00 voter and of that number less than 700 are papist votes. Silll, none but Irish need apply for a job from the city. The A. P. A. vote in the city last spring for C. J. Klnnle for mayor was 2,600. Yet there is not one of those men em ployed by the city, so far as I have been able to learn. Last September William Clark of Rock Inland, 111., came here and lect ured for us nearly every evening for three weeks. He secured from the sheriff a permit to speak from the front steps of the court house, but the first lecture so enraged the papal Irish hoodlums that they filled tbe sheriff with "bug juice" and told him that Clark must stop. On the secnod night tbe mob was there in force. Tbe sher iff, his face red with whlckey and bis thumbs in his vest, with the boldness of a Peccl told Clark that free speech was at an end in Rockford. The mob was howling and making threat! ot death if Clark should try t) speak here again. He was arrested and fined $35 and costs, from which he took an ap peal to the circuit court. Clark was not tQ be, daunted by such treatment. He announced that he would speak on Seventh street from the band stand- that is where our loyal Swedes hold the fort. The papal mob flld, pot ap pear, but two Of the mayor's dogs came the first night and took Clark to tbe station. When the case came up for trial next day the jury proved to be loyal Americans and Clark won the victory. After that the mayor let him alone. He lectured seven nights in Republio hall. He was waylaid one nigtit by a mob that .hurled stones and brick-bats at him, and threatened to kill him bofore morning. But he still lives. May this work go on until the "irrepressible conflict" has passed and our liberties assured to us (or all time to come; and may God set Cuba free. What can we do? I have tried to or ganize a military company In our Coun ell but they seem to fear anything of that kind, I tell them we will be forced to do so, of we will be driven from our country, or, coward-like we will fall on our knees and beg the Lord to protect us, as did the Waldenses and Armenians in times gone by. Our peo ple seem to have a terrible fear of the papists. II, Are These fellows Romanists! NEW YORK, Feb. 4. A telegram from Washington says: Wylie B. Childers, United States attorney for the Territory of New Mexico, has just written the department of Justice the details of what he considers a dan gerous conspiracy. He relates in pre else official form that a secret agent of one of the big railroad corporations had Just informed him, with every particularity, that a secret organiza tion known as the American Patriotic League is gaining headway in tbe towns of Raton and Flossburg, N. M., and Trinidad and La Junta, Colo., and the surrounding country. This organ Izaion has for is motto "Liberty, land and leisure." In the district represented by the towns mentioned there are about 10, 000 miners and small farmers. Dur ing the A. R. U. strike It was one of the most turbulent portions of the country. Regular troops were sent there. The strikers were reduced to subjection, but they bitterly resented the invasion by the troops and have always threatened that when the next strike came they would teaeh the sol diers a lesson. Mr. Childers reports that the oath taken by the members of the American Patriotic League provides that each member shall within sixty days of his swearing allegiance equip himself with a 45-90 rifle and be ready for emer gencies. The oath also contemplates, says Mr. Childers, a struggle with the na tional government, as each member is pledged to proceed on orders to ac complish the death of the president and his cabinet by the use of dyna mite. As a part of their program the mem bers of the New Mexican contingent have applied to the adjutant general of the Territory to be enlisted in the National Guard of New Mexico, and to 1 supplied with arms and ammuni tion and one or two galling puns for battery purposes. Mr. Childers in forms the department that the threats of these men, high-flown though they be. are not to be treated lightlv. Is Marriage a Failure?" by Mrs. Al lies Vivers Swetland. M. I).; bourn! in Silk-finished cloth. Price $1.00 by mail. This is one of the most interesting volumes of recent publication and one which bears the imprint of an author of ability. Dr. Swctland's style is pe culiarly attractive, and the happy way In which she has blended the lives of the different characters places her la the front rank of semi-romantic story writers. No one ran read "Is Marriage a Failure" without feeling that life Is worth living after all. MIH.NIS.HIO.OO unclaimed money. I have the copy right regUt r of the above estate from the court of chancery in England, Ire land and Scotland, Germany, etc., for next of k la. For information send an cestor's name, nationality and enclose I! 00. Records searched and particu lars answered. Address, Farkinutom Power, Attorney, S nith Omaha, Nebraska. Davlight Train to Chicago. Befflanlmr Monday. February 7th, the Northwestern Line placed in ser vice a DAYLIGHT TRAIN to Chicago, leaving Omaha 7:00 a. in., Council Bluffs 7:25 a. m.. and arriving in Chi cago 5:45 p. m., making connections with evening trains for all points east. Dining car serve all meal. The afternoon limited trains at 4:45 and 6:30 arriving Chicago next morning at 7:45 and 9:30 a. m., respectively, still remain in service. City ticket office 1401 Farnam St. Don't Tulianw Nil and nmok lour I If Awif. To quit tolxteco eaaily and former, t mag oetlo. full of lite, nerve and vlnor, take No lo Use. tbe wonder-worker, that make week niea strong. All druggiate, Wo or II. Cure guaran teed. Hoort aqd sample free. Address Bterllng, Ke t. Co., cnicago or New York, Passengers arriving at Chicago by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R'y can, by tbe new 'Uslon Elevated Loop, reach any part pf the city, pr for a Ore cent fare can bo taken immediately to any of the large store In the down town district. A train will stop at the Rock Island Station every minute. These facilities can only be offered 'by the "Great Rock Island Route." Address JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago. Until the supply is exhausted, we will send to each subscriber sending us the names of five of his friends, accom panied by 253. for five sample copies of The American, one volume of "The Stenographer," a book containing the story of the life, trials, tribulation, Courtship, etc., of a stenographer. The book has 220 pages, Is elegantly bouSu In cloth, printed from good, clean type On a high grade of book-paper. We have 750 of them. Get your order in early. Regular price of such a book s, ordinarily, $1.25. You get it for nothing if you buy five samples. Don't send stamps of a larger denomination than 2 cents. Mot too Smooth. The tracks of the UNION PACIFIC are so smooth and the cars-furnished so complete that you can imagine your self In your own luxurious apartments at home. Inspect tbe Buffet Library and Smok ing Cars as they pass through Omaha every morning. Of the members of President Mc Kinley's Cabinet John D. Long, sec retary of the navy, Is said to be the only total abstainer from intoxicating liquors. There are no total abstainers from politics among the member a of the Pope's cabinet In America. America has never produced a more polished scholar, a greater logician or a grander Christian than A. Cleve land Coxe, Bishop of the Episcopal church for Western New York. Hi letters to Satolli have never been equalled by any living writer. We have those letters printed in pamphlet form. They make a book of 72 pages. We will send you one of those books If you will send us 25c. and the names of ten of your friends to whom we can send tarn pie copies of The American. Show your interest in this fight against political Romanism by Investing 25 cents in sample copies. The Baals of Wrlghta and Itleaanrea. British weights and measures those now in use in the I'nited States are based upon the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water, which Parliament, in the reign of George IV., decided to bo 25:?, 458 grain. Recent experi ments show that a cubic Inch of water at the temperature of maximum den sity equals 252. 2 li standard grains. On this account scientists are urging the readjustment of thcgallou. bushel, etc. A .llalrlitioiiia! luetic). Agent I have one lady tweniy years of age who has f'io.ooo in her own name. Customer Is she good looking? No. but she has got the consump tion.'' 'Ju?.t the kind of a wife to make me happy. Trot her out." Texas Sifting. Have you read Rev. Kostelo's great exposure of the Roman Confessional. We sell it. Price 50 cents. Most sen sational book ever published. Trans lations from Den, Ligourl, Kenrick and St. Thomas. Ohlv 50 cents We want to hear from every one o' our subscribers befoic January first. Have we heard from you? GREAT APES OF BORNEO. Orang -nutans. ' In Trwe Tfca'r I'evallir Mtnat r Mgkllag. "My acquaintance with ps has lcen chielly niailo In Borneo. " Ut I'rof. A. Ward, the famous natural science collector of KochcKlor, to a Washington Star reporter the other day. "That great island is tho home) of the orang which is tho most urhor enl of all monkey. The animals live, In tree altogether, rarely. If ever, visiting the ground. It taken two good marksmen to shoot one. Ik-chum they dodge around tho trunks. They do all their fighting aloft and It Is great fun to soe them drop the arm. fula of fruit they have gathered in con. test for Its ponaiMHioii. They art plentiful In tho low lands near the const It U rarely that anybody von. tures Into the interior, because then the head-hunting natives prowl. Among them each man Is required to have secured a head before he is per. milted to marry, and on this account the young gontlemnn savages am con. tiuually looking about for somebody to kill. This makes traveling diss grooable. "One of the most noticeable features of I'm landscape of Borneo Is tho nosts of o-ngH which are scattered about thlc 'ly among tho lull trows. From the!, number one might get a greatly exaggerated impression of the plenti ful ness of the spooles, unless It were) understood how and for what purpose) these roosting placos are constructed Tho beasts are greatly annoyed by Hies, from which they are able to pro tect the front part of their bodies with their hands, but they cannot keep th vicious insects from, biting them. In th rear, and to they gather a quantity of loaves and branches and make them Into oouohos to repose against among tho boughs. A protection of this sort sorves very well for a while but pre ently its material begins to decomposer and the decaying leaves attract the flies, which the ornng is so anxious to got rid of. Then hq is obliged to make another nost of frosh stuff, and so he may require dozens of them in tho course of a year. Inasmuch as he does not take tho trouble to remove tho old onos. they remain to adorn the tree top In which he swings about. Oritngs have a vory curious meth od of lighting. In thnlr conflicts among themselves, which are frequent, their effort Is always to seize tho fin gers of thoir adversaries nnd blte, them. A vory beautiful group of those animals at the National Muscuir mountod by Mr. HorQday, admirably in i .... t ... . . tf "'usiw-i a typical encounter of tb sort, it is owing to this nietnou qi battle that it is almost impossible to procure it fckln which does not lacks,, some of tho fingers. If defending itself against a man the beast will always attempt to grab the arms of hit human opponent, so as to chow off his fingers. For this purpose its jaw is exeoliently ndaptod, being enormously powerful and equipped with large in cisors. "Tho favorite food ot the orang is the 'durlon' fruit which is, perhaps, tho most delicious in the world, unit ing, ns it does, the flavors of the peach, tho pour, nod the strawberry. Llko most things nearly perfect how ever, this fruit has a drnwtmck namely, that It leaves a taste in tha mouth tho next day after it is eaten which is more abominable than can either be described or conceived. To protect Itself from tho rain the orang crooks its arms over its head. Tha hair on tho orang's upper arm point downward, while on the lower Hrm it points upward, the apparent .purpose) being to shed the rain liko a thatch when the attitude I have described U assumed. "The other great ape which make its homo In Borneo, is the gibbon, which Is a small animal compared with the orung. weighing only about forty or fifty pounds. It is very frail In Its bodily make-up. The head is set squarely upon tho shoulders, and it looks upward. When walking on the ground it balances itself along like a walker on tho tight rope. It re markable power of grasp and dexterity in using its hands is equally with the. shape of its cranium an index of its superior intelligence, perhaps because it is able to take hold of a greater number of things and examine them. Tho giblwn is it natural acrobat Its trapeze performances in trees are. himply marvelous. "The animals go in droves, whereas) oritngs live by families, undone of tho most interesting spectacles imaginabls is to see a troop of them crossing a grent gap in the forest by throwing themselves in succession through tha air, each one taking a swing or two to gather momentum before launching himself. Sq great is their agility that iu executing feats of this sort they seem liko birds. "Nniive.9 in the countries inhabited by great apes regard them always as human beings of inferior types, and it is for this reason that for a long ti'no it was found imposMlile to get hold of an entire gorilla skin, because the savages considered it )-e-igiouly ne cessary to cut off th.'haiius and feet of the animals wlvi they killed them, just as they i'.h w' their enemies, possibly for the p;u-;om of rendering them harmless in eao they t-houid by any chance count, to life again."' Tlie l-rat't tiirl Kritlue. The most remarkable natural hridga in the world is probably the ' Jisrel Ha.'ar. " which spans a gorge not far from the ruins of the Temple of Adon is in the iro inc of Lebanon. Syria It is a Hat piece (if limestone rock from !" to 15 feet lliick. perfectly arched on tin- under side. The gorge is alvut 150 feet across, and the bridge is 100 fed above the rushing torrent be'ow. It is surpassed, a- far magnitude is concerned, by the natural bridge in Rockbridge county, Virginia. This latter curiosity has an r b ot 200 feet and 210 feet above, tho water. - St Louis Kepublio.