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
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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
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In which she has blended the lives of
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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
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remain in service.
City ticket office 1401 Farnam St.
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Passengers arriving at Chicago by
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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."
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JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A.,
Chicago.
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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
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We will send you one of those books If
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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
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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.
