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Cunningham R. Scott 431
Uuen S. Pingree 2T.2
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J. D. Foraker 48
Thomas E. Watnon 1
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Thomas E. Watson 5
Cunnlnchara It. Soolt 6S2
II. F. Howe. 451
Garret A. Hobart 429
Robert T. Lincoln 204
John C. Thompson 1)7
John L. Webster 14B
Cov. Bradley 00
W. A. Stone (Ponn.) 08
W. S. Linton 01
Thomas J. Morgan 18
John P. Dolllver 18
J. J. Jones (Mo.) 15
Wm. M. Stewart 9
W. E. Mason 9
Henry M. Teller 8
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John T. Morgan (of Ala) 1
John II. Goar 1
O. F. Williams 1
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vice president. Lot us bo united In
1900. Now is the time to get together.
Do your own thinking and vote your
own sentiments.
See our advertisement on the eighth
page. Now is the time to act.
None of the "fighting editors" of
America who are so vociferously In
sisting that Uncle Sam shall now chas
tise Spain have, so far as we are able
to learn, volunteered to leave for the
theater of war.
No greater, no more Interesting, no
mors fearless exposure of Romanism
waa ever written than that penned by
Rev. Charlea Chlniquy and popularly
known aa "Fifty Years in the Church
of Rome." Price 12.25. Send us $2.00
and get the book. American Pub. Co..
1615 Howard St. Omaha. Neb.
. The Chicago Chronicle has been
"roasting" the advocates of the Lodge
Immigration restriction bill. The re
sponsible editor of the Chronicle, Ho
ratio W. Seymour, evidently enter
tains a dislike for those who would
protect the Interests of worthy Amor
lean worklngmen against the alien la
borers of Europe. What is the matter
with Seymour? Has he a Jesuit at
hits elbow?
There is nothing that pleases the
genial George West, of the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway more than to
be -able to say to the public, we have
as good service and as fast trains on
our line between Chicago, Omaha and
Denver, and between Denver, Omaha
and Chicago as any other line travers
ing the same territory. And that is
true today. The Northwestern Is of
the leaders a leader.
There Is no telling what the ma
chine men are going to make an editor
say. Last week we wrote in this
beautiful hand of ours which we are
egotistical enough to believe is plain
er than the handwriting of Horace
Greeley the word "red-handed" and
the intelligent operator translated it
into "red-headed." We can stand this.
But when the same artist with malice
aforethought or through thedensityof
his ignorance makes us refer to the
purest character In history as "the
immoral-man of Galilee." we all but
lose our temper. The word was iro
mortal, not immoral.
The editor of this paper takes pleas
ure In recommending to all patriots
Rev. Christian's great anti-Roman
hnok. entitled. "Americanism or Ro
manism. Which T" It U bound In
doth, neatly printed on good paper,
nd it is full of facta. It is Intern-
In. Price only SL00. It la worth
12.00. Order of American Pub. Co.
IS LIBIRTY STARK MAO?
TIm who are acquainted with our
friend lloldcn, the editor of Uberty,
know him to be an honeat and cour
ageous man. yet his bursts of passion
axaiuat the wealthy clan, not In
frequently mrtle his most ardent sup
porters Imratin rf their unexpected
virulence.
This editor has always had a kind
apot In his heart fur the Uberty man.
hut an Hem In his last Issue certainly
reached the pinnacle of preposterous
accusation, and that. too, against on
innocent of crime,.
It was the item referring to ths
crowning of Mrs. IAvlna Dempsey as
Queen of the Holland Dames. The act
was a society event which, occurred
In New York a couple of weeks ago,
and was no more Injurious to the prin
ciples of a republican or democratic
government than Is the crowning; if
"Ak-Sao-lW in Omaha during the
harvest or fall festivities.
The crowning of Mrs. Dompsey as
Queen of the Holland Dames was not
a crime; we do not think It was even
foolish. It certainly was not of suffi
cient moment to cause as sensible a
man an Mr. Hoi den to refer to Mra
Dempsey as one "of New York's lazy.
Immoral, lecherous paupers." With
out knowing Mrs. Dempsey and la
spite of her name, we want to go on
record as saying that she Is not im
moral; that she is not lecherous and
that aha la not lazy. We are willing
to wager that ahe U a good, pure, en
ergetic American girl, capable of lov
ing and being loved, and as pretty as
he la rich. Certainly no drons would
be chosen queen of aa busy a hive of
social bees aa we believe the Holland
Dames to bo.
We don't bolieve the rich are all
criminals. We don't believe they are
all immoral. If they were and if such
state had to be attained before one
could mingle in their society we would
prefer to remain as we are poor,
and dependent on those who believe
that the women who live beneath the
stars and atrlpes are the purest and
bent women in the world.
The editor of the Omaha American
cannot think that because a woman
possesses riches that she Is necessar
ily a prostitute. In fact he thinks the
Inference or the Inunndo a most out
rageous and gratuitous insult to some
of the best and purest American
women.
ARE THEY LOYAL?
There are alleged advanjeed and
liroitd-mlnded Journals that frequent
ly favor us with dissertations on the
un-American character and tendency
of the A. P. A. and kindred organiza
tions. All orders that have been In
stituted among men. are rightly
mlged by their principles, purposes,
plans, aims, objects, traditions and in
evitable tendencies. The actuating
and fundamental principles of the A.
P. A. are "living epistles, known and
read of all men." The proclaimed ob
jects of the A. P. A. are the real ob
jects of those who have subscribed to
the tenets of the order. Its consistent
members are all loyal to the flag, con
stitution and laws of the United States
of America. There Is no reasonable
doubt In the mind of the intelligent
and discriminating public as to the
general attitude of the order.
What about the real objects and de
signs of the Clan-na-Gael, the A. O.
H., the Catholic Knights, and the
Young Men's Institute? Are the mem
tiers of those orders laboring for the
betterment of the condition of any
class of people other than Roman
Catholics? Do the adherents of those
societies advocate the principle of civil
and religious liberty for the non
Catholic portion of mr population.
and have. they plejged themselves to
maintain and defend the gorernment
of the United Staea and the govern
ment of the state in which they live?
Have they really renouncd and ab
jured their allegiance to every foreign
king, prince, potenate, government and
ecclesiastical power? Would they take
up arms against an invading foe if that
foe were represented In and by a Rom
an Catholic power? Do they concede
to their Protestant fellow citizens the
same political rights which they claim
for themselves? Would they serve un
der Protestant generals and under
Protestant leaders? W think not.
We fear they have not divested their
minds of those teachings, those preju
dices and that bias which In their plas
tic youth were woven into the texture
of their being. As well expect figs to
grow on thistles as to look for the ex
pres8ion of exalted and disinterested
patriotism from those who have sworn
to acknowledge and to implicitly obey
the Pope of Rome and his priests. To
the mind of the enlightened and sin
gle hearted American loyalist it is "as
plain as a pikestaff" that no man who
willingly serves the pontiff of the Va
tican can acceptably serve the United
States Government and its flag.
Please bear in mind that the men
who howled loudest about preserving
the national honor a few short
months ago are the don goes of today
who are shouting for peace at the sac
rifice of all national honor. World
Herald. Wonder If it refers to those 100,-
Tbr lot Uu of fllnnco y Negro, lb brst known of Iho Spanish illustrated weekly papers to reach Cblcagfl, tonUlns the above
rtrtoon. Spain claims (bat the horrible rauaiiophe In Havana barbor was due either to unavoidable accident or to carelessness on
tht part of American seamen In handling eiplcslves. The Issue of Jan. 19 of El Correo Espanol, a newspaper of Meniro City, which Is
the orjsn of the small.but influential Spanish party la that republic, and which baa Just nnebed Chicago, contains a significant ar
ticle entitled "Armed Courtesies." of which an almost literal translation Is given below. It to only a coincidence that a Spaniard in
Madrid ahould have portrayed Uncle 8am in thi art of casting explcalves Into the water, ono of whlrb has Just barst near the water
Lne of the Maine, while another Spaniard in too Mexican capital was writing a veiled threat of what might happen to an American
vessel in Cuban waters, were It to anchor with any other than a friendly purpose. It is remarkable, however, ea a coincidence; and If
there were in Spain an organization to rorrcrpor.d with the Mafia of Sicily and Southern Italy1, there might be grounds for a belief that
tx.lb publications were Inspired by the foreknowledge of a great crime.
000 Irish Roman Catholics who tele
graphed Cleveland that they were
armed and drilled and ready to take
the field a&a'nst Protestant England
over the Venezuelan controversy.
They havn't peeped during the un
pleasantness with Roman Catholic
Spain. Are they only ready to war
upon Protestants?
LECKY'S SOUND VIEWS.
Lecky the historian, in the closing
words of his small volume "The Po
litical Value of History," makes some
observations which we would do well
to ponder. He snys:
"History is never more valuable
than when It enables us, standing as
on a height, to look beyond the smoke
and turmoil of our petty quarrels, and
to detect in the slow developments of
the past the great permanent forces
that are steadily bearing nations on
wards to Improvement or rt cay. The
strongest of the;ie fircjs tie the moral
ones. Mistakes in statesmanship,
military triumphs or disasters, no
doubt alec: materially the prosperity
of nations, but their permanent politi
cal well-being Is essentially the out
come of their moral sate. Its founda
tion Is laid in pure domestic life, in
commercial lncsr tv. ii a high lfnf
ard of moral wt an or public spir
it; in slmpi l."l.'s. in rourige, up
rightness, and !e!f hv .?. in a cer
tain 80undn-!r.s and moderation of
judgment, which springs quite as
much from character as from intellect.
If you would form a wie pdirmont of
the future of a nation, observe care
fully whether these qualities are in
creasing or decaying. Observe espec
ially what qualities count for most in
public life. Is character becoming of
greater or less importance? Are the
men who obtain the highest posts in
the nation men of whom in private
life and irrespective oi party compe
tent judges speak with Genuine re
spect? Are they men of sincere con
victions, sound judgment, consistent
lives, indisputable integrity, or are
they men who have won their posi
tions by the arts of a demagogue or
an intriguer; men of nimble tongues
and not earnest beliefs skillful, above
all things, in spreading their sails to
each passing breeze of popularity?
Such considerations as these are apt
to be forgotten in the fierce excite
ment of a party contest; but if his
tory has any meaning it is such con
siderations that affect most vitally the
permanent well-being of communities,
and it is by observing this moral cur
rent that you can best cast the horo
scope of a nation."
Certainly words of truth and sober
ness sentiments which afford food
for thought. And the questions which
a great mind has addressed primarily
to the English public are questions
which will suggest themselves to the
minds of patriotic American men in
the present posture of political affairs
in the New World.
Mrs .Phillica J. Clemens, wife of our
old and respected friend, Mr. A. Clem
ens, was burled from the family resl
dnce south of Elmwood Park last
Wednesday afternoon. All the early
settlers of this county will remember
Mrs. Clemens as a most estimable
woman, and will sympathize with Mr
riomona and his children in their
great loss.
Our friends, Frank, Will and George
Canning are mourning the death of
their father, which occured last Sat
urday in Council Bluffs, la. Mr. Can
ASK TI-II JESUITS.
nlng was one of the earliest as well
as one of the most respected citizens
of the Bluffs! He waa a true Ameri
can and stanch patriot
For fifty cents we will send you a
eopy 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.
Will Hobart Later en Crawl to the Igno-
rant Cuttle.
In the Republic Clan-na-Gael and
Hibernians' Boston organ of Jan. 1,
appeared the following editorial:
MISS CONNE'S TRIBULATIONS.
"Miss Maud Gonne's tour through
the United States was not a wholly tri
umphant march. She scored signal
successes with the people wherever she
appeared, it Is true, but her path has
been strewn with thorns as well as
roues. The vice-president of the
United States received her in Wash
ington, and was so ungallant as to
question her sincerity, and to suggest
that she should get married instead of
traveling alone over the world. He
wras brutal and bigoted enough also
to advise her to go home and take with
her the larger portion of her country
men now sojourning in this country.
Mr. Hobart who was unexpectedly ele
vated from the post of railroad attor
ney to the second position in the na
tion, should drop his offensive style
and learn to be a gentleman while he
is occupying his exalted station. When
Miss Gonne appeared in Boston, she
discovered that the committee in
charge of her Sunday evening meeting
had made preparations to convert it
Into a political rally. There was little
thought given to the sacred cause
which Miss Gonne is advocating. The
prime object was to utilize the gather
ing to elect a republican mayor in
Boston. Miss Gonne must not imagine
for a moment that the great mass of
the American people sympathize wlOi
such methods or strivings."
Vice-President Hobart, evidently.
saw through the conspiracy game,
worked so successfully for many years
by Jesuit priests and Irish political ag
itators, of pulling the wool over the
eyes of well meaning American citi
zens and extorting thousands of dol
lars annually from them, ostensibly
to be used to right the alleged wrongs
committed by the British government
in Ireland, but every dollar of it Is
known to have gone into the pockets
of these unworthy men. They may
have paid a few dollarstoClan-na-Gael
men for assassinating British states
men, and for dynamite to blow up
British government buildings.
Jesuit priests and Irishmen in this
country who feed at the public crib,
and who would be openly as disloyal
to the Stars and Stripes as they are to
the Union Jack, were it not for the
fact that they are permitted to run our
cities and everything else worth hav
ing in the shape of government offices
and fat jobs generally, and have co
operated with conspirators on the
other side of the water in fleecing the
American people and in filling their
own pockets with the plunder. At the
same time they were doing all they
could secretly to undermine establish
ed governments and institutions on
both sides of the Atlantic; supplanting
them with papal institutions.
For months before they brought
Miss Gonne over to beg money for
them, these conspirators, traitors, and
assassinators were busy preparing the
way for her special mission. One of
their principal tricks was to search out
some of the most miserable, tumble
down, ramshackle-looking shanties in
all parts of Ireland, that have not been
occupied for years except by goats,
Chicago Inter-Otean.
and to have them photographed and
reproduced in the dally papers In this
country, as "Irish tenants' homes in
the famine-stricken districts of Ire
Innd." Of course these pictures, ac
companied as they were by heart
touching talcs of the tenants' unbear
able burdens and sufferings, were
enough to soften the hardest American
heart and loosen his purse strings, and
enable Miss Gonne to travel all over
the country in paths strewn with
roses, in a land o'erflowing with
money. The articles also stated that
no relief was expected from the "ty
rant British government," and unless
the American people came to their res
cue, they were sure to die of hunger
this winter.
After such woeful tales were sent
broadcast all over the United States,
they felt assured that Miss Gonne
would gather in thousands of dollars.
But alas! for their hopes. The Ameri
can patriotic orders were on the alert,
and warned the people of the plot in
good time. The British authorities al
so exposed the false reports about the
famine, that did not exist except on
paper. So the only thing left for the
conspirators to do in their predica
ment, was to try and get Vice- Presi
dent Hobart to endorse Miss Gonne
and her mission, and commend her and
her object to the generosity of the
American people: thereby hoping to
counteract the efTeet of the good work
done by the patriotic orders, and re
gain the confidence and support of the
American people. Vice-President Ho
bart is a wade-awake man, and could
not be deceived by such fraudulent and
treacherous schemes. Miss Gonne com
plied with his advice as best she
could. She went back home to Ire
land. Jonathan in American Citizen.
Sonr Urape.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 15. The
House committee on military affairs
today, by a vote of 10 to 3, refused to
report favorably the OTell bill au
thorizing any denomination, sect, or
religion to erect a building for reli
gious worship on any military reser
vation In the country.
The action on the measure was pre
ceded by a protracted discussion. In
which Mr. Mahany led the arguments
in advocacy.
The vote on the motion to report the
bill to the House, with a recommen
dation that It pass, was as follows
Yeas Mahany and Sulzer, New York,
and Belknap, Illinois. Nays Hull,
Iowa; Marsh, Illinois; Griffin, Wis
consin; Fenton, Ohio; MeDonald, Ma
ryland; Brownlow and Cox, Tennes
see; Lenz, Ohio; Hay, Virginia; and
Jett. Illinois.
Mr. Mahany later introduced a reso
lution in the House, directing the sec
retary of war to remove immediately
all religious edifices from all military
reservations in the United States. His
object, he says, is to remove unjust
discriminations now in vogue, with the
idea that if one denomination is not
permitted the privilege of worship on
any of these tracts, no other should
be.
Mr. Mahany is at last of the opinion
that sour grapes are not good, and In
this matter we agree with him.
Cheers for Old tilery.
New York. Feb. 18. A most affect
ing instance of the heroic tension to
which the public is wrought over the
Maine incident occurred at Daly's
Theatre last night at Daly's, the the
atric home of conservatism, the pa
trons of which are not moved to over
excitement by matters of commonplace.
Between the performances of the new
curtain-raiser. "Lili Tse," and "The
Country Girl," at Daly's, the orches
tra struck up "The Star Spangled
Banner." The demonstration which
the playing of the great spirited old
song created in the audience was
nothing short of phenomenal. Men in
evening dress, and women in the
tiivtiiurf ranka rt vietV rose in their
seats and cheered like mad, cheered
until they were hoarse. Women, too,
added to the remarkable enthusiasm
by waving handkerchiefs and pro
grams. It was probably the most remark
able scene of IU kind ever wimessM!
in a local playhouse. There was muck
feeling displayed at other public
meetings. The Rev. John R. Paxtoa,
at the dinner given by Sheriff Dunn.
Jury at Delmonico'a last night, refer
ring to the Maine incident, said:
"Let us calmly reserve our judg
ment," said he, "and then If careful
investigation shows that we have been
offered the greatest insult in modem,
history, there are many of us, though
we followed 'Old Glory" once before,
not too old to follow her again, and If
the time comes we will not be founts
wanting.
Dr. Paxton had hardly ceased when
the company to a man rose to their
feet. and. with the wildest enthusi
asm, indorsed Dr. Paxton's senti
ments. Slart'ingirlmlnal Slatisties.
Crime among our foreign and col
ored elements was the subject discuss
ed by the president of the Texas State
University at the recent national pris
on congress. His facts were certainly
strange, though the statistical evi
dence adduced in their support could
not be questioned.
It appears that, while unasslmilated
foreigners and negroes contributed
little more than one-fourth of our
population, more than half of the
criminals are recruited from these two
classes. The foreign element is one
and a half times as criminal as the na
tive element, while the colored are
three times as criminal as the native
white. Does illiteracy account for
this disproportion? By no means.
The colored people that can read and
write are more criminal than the Illit
erate. Literacy brings contact with
the whites to a large extent, and this
Involves temptation. What is still
more curious, the negro is more crim
inal as a free man than he was as a
slave. This does not prove that freedom
is not the great blessing it Is generally
considered to be, but simply that the
first results of relaxation and removal
of the rigid control of the slave sys
tem were in the direction of license
and lawlessness.
The restraining effects of the slavery
system are shown in the fact that the
ratio of negro prisoners and paupers
to the colored population is consider
ably higher in the northern than In
the southern states. The negro Is
nearly three times as criminal in the
North Atlantic as in the South At
lantic states. Another striking in
duction from the statistical data ia
that the progress of the colored popu
lation in the decade investigated by
the last census coincided with an in
crease of criminality. In 1890 the col
ored people produced more criminals
than in 18S0.
No hasty conclusions can be baaed
on these disclosures, which only ap
parently conflict with accepted theo
ries as to the influence of education
and material Improvement. There te
no doubt that a study of the facta
would bring them into entire harmony
with these theories. Freedom may
have brought some evils in its train,
but considering the conditions under
which freedom was achieved, this Is
not to be marveled at. We must re
member that, as Macaulay said, the
remedy for the evils of liberty is in
greater liberty. Liberty has a disci
pline of its own, and the moral pro
gress of the negro under it is absolute
ly certain. Chicago Evening Post.
Bequest Is Legal.
Springfield, 111., Feb. 19. Amoag
the many opinions handed down at
the recent term or the supreme court
was one holding that bequest for
masses for the repose of the soul of
a deceased person are legal, on the
ground that they are charitable in
nature.
The case came before the supreme
court In the nature of an appeal from
the decision of Judge Horton of Chi
cago, ia the matter of Hoeffler et al.
against Clogan et al. Andrew Clogan
of Chicago died several years ago
and bequeathed to the Jesuit Holy
Family Church. West Twelfth and
May streets, Chicago, considerable
real estate and more than $1,000 in
money to be used for masses for the
repose of his soul and the souls of
other members of his family. The
property was to be sold.
The residuary legatee Instituted suit
in the Cook County circuit court
twelve months ago disputing the le
gality of the bequest. The Roman
Catholic Church held that bequests for
masses were within the law and re
sisted all attempts to set proceedings
combatting it aside.
In the will of Mr. Clogan the be
quest was made directly to the Holy
Family Church. As the Jesuit Church
of that name is not incorporated ui
der the laws of the state there is no
such entity known to the law, and the
bequest would therefore fall unless
proved to have been made for char
itable purposes. The case was heard
by Judge Horton and attracted wide
spread attention from the fact of lta
being the first of the kind probably
instituted in the United States. Judge
Horton held against the bequest, hold
ing that both devise and bequest wer
void, and entered a decree thereupon.
The case was taken to the supreme
court and resolved Itself upon the Is
sue, "Is a bequest for the saying of
masses for the repose of the soul of
a deceased person a charitable be
quest in a legal sense?"
The opinion of the supreme court
holds that such bequests are legal and
of a charitable nature.
"Is Marriage a Failure?" by Mrs. Ag
nes Vivers Swetland. M. D.; bound in
Silk-finished cloth. Price J1.00 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. Swetland's style is pe
culiarly attractive, and the happy way
in which she has blended the Uvea of
the different characters place her in
the front rank of semi-romantic story
writers. No one can read "Is Marriage
a Failure?" without feeling that life
is worth living after all.
Omant, Neb.