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About The American. (Omaha, Nebraska) 1891-1899 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1898)
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The pope of Borne Is longheaded, has wonderful political sagacity and ell understands his political and ec clesiastical relations in this country, and Is fully prepared to adapt his pol icy to existing circumstances. He has teen many yean In securing this in fluence and . power In politics which he now holds In this country, and midst all his reverses be has had a single eye to his one purpose and work ef ultimately bringing this land ott promise under the papal yoke; hut atlll he Is in no haste hut adopts the rery heat policy to that end. And he knows tery well that bold and defiant measures will not do here, and now, consequently, he professes great at tachment to American Institutions and government ... The papal policy first of . all is to keep itself hid as much . as possible from the active work of the licensed' saloons of this country, and to dis claim all. political responsibility in the matter and try to make the Protes tants of the old parties responsible for the whole thing. It is true that the Protestants are responsible for their own sins in voting with political par ties which stand on the license priif dple, but who is back of all this? I answer the papal hierarchy. And who runs the principal part of the liquor business? Roman Catholics. Hence the master Btroke of papal policy Is in being chief Instigator and most ef fective promoter of the licensed saloon system-for political ends without being noticed by the Protestants as such. The policy of the pope is to keep both the Democratic and Republican parties alive, giving political direction to each, so that on general election day he niay direct through his arch i blehops, it may be to swing over to the support of either party, as will be for the Interest of "the holy Catholic church." And this papal political in fluence is exerted so quietly in the regular voting way as to create little or no suspicion of Its despotic power in politics. The object of advancing 'k - f the papal interests in this quiet way is I I to keep, if possible, the four millions of the Protestant church and ministry asleep as to any proper sense of dan ger from Rome, so as not to arouse any general antagonism against it, and - V.-- ttiam all ahculrhpd In the DOlIt- IJU uroj; Mlbui -Vteal Interests of their own respective parties, giving no time ror consider ation of other Issues. And this sleepy attitude of Protestants as to the exist ing danger from Romanism makes the church press generally silent on this great and momentous subject, when It should flame out everywhere against the terrible curse of popery in any department of this government The present papal policy is to pro fess through the archbishops great po litical patriotism, love of temperance and temperance institutions, thereby blinding the eyes more or less of tem perance reformers, by hypocritical pretensions of reform, while at the ' same time he gives the papal screw In politics another turn, being careful to do it quietly so as not to arouse the sleepy Protestants before the proper time, for on this depends his future political triumph. This master stroke of policy is hav ing ltd designed effect all over the country, giving the impression to the great mass of Protestants that the Ro manists are being persecuted for their Mllrlon. therebv securlna the arm- $ MatYiv mnA tftan tliotp vvfM wtlfetl ATI. tables the papal helrarchy by its double dealing and wily maneuvering to give the papal screw still another turn In politics, secretly working with the Jesuits in Romanizing this govern ment in Its different branches without successful opposition from the sleepy Protestants. And while all things from the papal stand-point seem to he moving on nicely the pope can well WHY If Roman Catholics Are Loyal, as They Profess, What Did Arch bishop Ireland's Words Mean ? Washington, guished callers today was Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul. The noted prelate is earnestly working to prevent any conflict between Spain and the United States. He made a strong plea to the president against any action which might lead to hostili ties and declared that while a most liberal Catholic he considered IT IMPOLI TIC FOR THIS COUNTRY TO ENGAGE IN A CONFLICT WITH A NATION to which this country owed so much and WHOSE DOMINANT RELIGION HAD SO MANY ADHERENTS IN THIS COUNTRY It is believed that Archbishop Ireland's arguments will have some influence in. de termining the president's future action.- Minneapolis Times, afford to work and wait for the right time to come to strike a blow in order to add this great country to the num ber of papal states and perhaps make It the seat of the Vatican. PAPAL SUPREMACY. Papal supremacy is an unwelcome phrase to use In reference to the polit ical affairs of this country and yet, I firmly believe that papal supremacy will as surely take place as the sun will rise tomorrow unles sthe Protes tants of the land, the (treat American church and ministry, together with their friends awake to a proper sense of papal danger, and to arouse them selves to united action at the polls to turn the tide of political affairs before it is too late. This and this alone can possibly avert the terrible disaster which now threatens to destroy our liberties and even the Republic Itself. Just consider the controlling power in politics now exerted by the Roman Catholics over almost every large city of the nation, some of which I will name: New York, Washington, D. C, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Paul, New Or- Ijeana, : Mobile, Savannah, St Louie, Boston, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Al bany, Troy. Now all these and others are under the papal power, and it Is said that the cities rule the country and from the stand:point of these cit ies where is our country today? It seems apparent from the official ap pointments of President McKlnley that he must be very much under the papal Influence. And what do we find in congress, in the government build ing, in the army and navy? All con trolled to a great extent, If not en tirely by the papal power. We take a glance at the state legislatures, the municipal elections and the great dailies and there we see the corrupting hand of Rome. The Protestant min istry, the church, press and business men seem to be Ignorant of papal danger or they are muzzled in their utterances and dare not speak out against political Rome for fear of los ing ministerial, prestige, of being boy cotted In their business, and in fact the pope has even now stretched forth his polluted hands to grasp and hold most everything that we hold dear, home, free Institutions and country and we are deeply pained in heart to see all being gradually swept away from us by the great hypocritical usurper 01 the prerogatives of God and of the rights of humanity. But strange as It Is, the great body of Protestants, both of the church and ministry, con tinue to sleep on, apparently as un concerned as though no papal danger was near, and what shall the end be? If this deep sleep continues much longer to paralyze the political sensi bilities of the millions of Protestant voters the pope will soon have every thing In his own way. What then? Balloting will be at an end, and civil Institutions destroyed, our government broken up and a papal despotism es tablished upon Its ruins. Even today THIS COVERED THREAT ? Feb. 23 Times Special. One of President our politics, our managers of laws and our law-makers are largely under the papal power. Therefore if politics go on in the nation In this way it will be but a few years before the pope will give the papal screw one long turn in politics and the work will be accomp lished, the papal victory achieved and the pope of Rome will be the supreme ruler of the country. And what then? Let a few papal authorities answer this Question. "We can have the United States in ten years, and I want to give you thre pointa. tbe Indians, the Nogroes and the Public Schools." Archbishop Ireland In a speech at Rome, 1S92. "The church holds it unlawful that various sorts of divine worship should be on a par with the true religion he fore the law." Pope Leo XIII. "If Catholics ever gain sufficient majority in this ountry religious freedom will be at an end." Shep herd of the Valley, Official' Organ of the Bishop St Louis, 1851. "The day will come when the Ro man Catholics will take this country and build their Institutions over the grave of protestantism and then relig ious freedom is at an end." Bishop O'Connor, Pittsburg! I might extend these papal authori ties to any length but the foregoing are sufficient for my purpose. Hence it Is evident hat our national govern ment is fast passing into the hands of the papal power and its utter over throw will positively take place in tae near future unless the Protestants of this country awake from their long political slumber and unite at the polls to prevent It, which they can now do if they will. But will they do it? Will they I NATIONAL UNION PARTY. At the present day there are tnree, at least national sources of evil, m this country destructive to the well being cf the nation, the licensed liquor traffic, the papal power in politlcj and monopoly, the last of which space will not permit me to discuss in this arti cle. These sources of evil have a large following and are united in the main in politics against all national reforms and reformers. Many thousands of our best citizens are perfectly aware of this and have Instituted equally as many branches of national reform to coun teract, If possible, those sources of evil, hoping goon to triumph. But the fail ure of these reformers has been the want of a united ballot and efforts in their cause. Now so long as the sup porters of those sources of evil. re main united and the reformers divid ed at the polls, Just so long the ob structive forces of the nation will tri umph, growing worse and worse until the government is overthrown and passes into the hands of Its enemies. Now right here will not the politi cal reformers pause and reflect upon the utter futility of the suicHal policy of continuing divided at the polls m their national refers rork? Are thar not heartily sick of spending thtlr strength ; in this way, and will they not be will ing to make .almost any sacrifice of natural preference and feeling to duty and principle' for the sake of the I right and for national triumph? For it la undoubtedly certain that If these I reformers will nnite In their political I work and at the ballot box during the present year 1898 national victory in 1900 will be assured. But who are the j reformers? First: The antl-llcensed saloon voters who are willing to vote ; for the national suppression by law ; of the licensed drink traffic in the I nation. Second: All anti-papists, all voters who are opposed to having this j country come under the dominion of the papal power. Now nnless these different classes of reformers will goon nnite on some satisfactory basis of union In politics, will work and vote on the same line, no victory in any national reform is In sight. But all reformers should understand that it is the definite policy of the pope to keep these classes of reformers from uniting In politics, and to keep them morally insensible to papal dan ger In order to carry on his work more effectually In destroying the govern ment as we shall see further on. And hence all reformers should realize that If politics go on In this way much longer in this country the pope will surely wake up these good but sleepy Protestants who have been declaring no danger, no danger from Rome, and he may do It in a wav oulte unex pected by them when it will be too late to use the ballot in the struggle. The pope is even now almost ready to make a strike for papal triumph In this country; and we may be sure that when he gives the word to strike he will mean business, and when that time comes It will doubtless be found that the pope has everything to his hand to execute his orders to over throw this government by force of arms if necessary. ( But my Protestant fellow citizens, let me remind you of what you al ready know and believe, that this country U worth saving from Rome, but how shall It be done? We should be wtlling and anxious to know the truth of our national danger from Ro manism, end to this end we should stndv popery in all Its departments, should take American periodicals, should a'tend patriotic convention."! and vote according to our convictions of rteht Irrespective of circumstances. We should, as I see It. cease at once and forever to cast our ballots In fav or of licensed saloon parties, and vote for men of clear American principles at every time and place. And Just as soon as all classes of reformers will consent to this let them come together In convention and organize a great union political party on purely Ameri can and anti-saloon nrinrinlea grapple with the papacy and with papal saloon politics before the pope makes his bloody strike, with the as surance that this speedy union move ment will put an end to the licensed McKinleys distin saloon curse and the political papal power In this country. And here I inquire who Is the man and where is the "Moses" called In the providence of God, and chosen by the American anti-saloon patriots to unify freedom's hosts and to lead them on to glorious national victory? As I see it, God is now ready to work with the friends of the government to save it from licensed saloon drunkenness and papal despotism; and it remains to be seen whether or not this great people will be equal to Its glorious opportunity and work m harmony with Providence to that end. I have no doubt but God has the great patri otic leader now in training, who will, like Moses, come forth from his com parative obscurity as soon as the way is prepared for him to lead the united American hosts to national triumph over the allied forces of the licensed saloon and papal power in politics, There c.n be no doubt, I think, but the great union party, if formed, will be under the necessity of destroying In a legal way the papal licensed sa loon system In this country for the awo weighty reasons: First: to save the life of the nation which will be Just as necessary as it was for Lincoln to destroy slavery to save the Union, looking at it only from a financial and political standpoint. Second: De stroying the papal saloon system will make it comparatively easy to utterly overthrow the papal political power of the nation. It should be well understood that tne licensed saloon system of this country is principally a papal Insti tutlon, for more than three-fourths of the liquor dealers are Roman Catho lics, and the pope could destroy the whole licensed saloon business If he would; for one word from him. forbid ding the traffic upon the peril of their souls would he sufficient to close up every papal saloon in the land. But be it known to all that the none re gards the licensed saloon system as one of the most powerful means that can be devised to hasten the full fruition of his brightest hopes and fondest expectations of overthrowing the government and establishing popery In the nation. And he is doing his beet to give it that turn In politics by making the licensed saloon a neces sity in the old parties, and by keep ing Protestants voting with them, thus contributing the weight of their in fluence to corrupt an debauch the gov ernment and to place It, unconsciously it may ne, into the bands of the Rom an Jesuits. Therefore all who sunnort papal saloons In this way should real ize that in doing this they are In fact supporting the papal power. Therefore it would seem that the great union party. If one should be formed, cannot consistently leave the 240,000 papal saloons In full blast and expect to triumph, well knowing that wbat Rome wants In politics the Prot estants do not want and will not have at any cost And thus voting and working on true patriotic lines U united and well organized union party which I hope 4 III' be formed will tri umph in the :aear future, will long lire and be. a worthy example to all nations and the political glory of the worli. 11 NECESSITY-OK A UNION REFORM , ,. ; PARTY. The necetwlty of a union reform party In politics in essential in order to grapple euoremtfully with the three great national forces of evil, the papal power In politics, the licensed saloon system and oppressive monopoly. Just consider the utter Impossibility of the non-partisan and ' antl-Romanlst or ganisatlou of Itself alone destroying the papal power In politics. It would first be obliged to form Itself Into a political party, and even then undet existing circumstance what would be the prospect of national success? And even admitting that the anti-Roman-Uta did succeed in 'this, It would not by any means- secure true national re form, leaving the licensed saloon pow er and monopoly untouched. In Ilk manner how are the antl-salooa re formers of themselves alone going to destroy the licensed syster of the na tlon, Judging from the past and pros pects of the future? And If they should destroy It and that evil alone the na tlon would etui be on the very verge of ruin from the iipapat power and monopoly. Bo also respecting monop oly or the money question which Is great national evil; but how Is It post slble that the reformers on the money, question alone can win the day Id politics, and if they fild win in that one reform the political sword of corrup tion, death and damnation would be still pointing at the very heart of the nation. , Hence, if, the, foregoing principles are correct our reformers must change their line of work or they will fall to secure true national 1 reform. It Is a most remarkable fact that our reform ers do not eeotn to take any Interest in national ! reforms only the one In which they are 'especially engaged. To -Illustrate: ',The prohibition papers do not seem to know or have much con cern about the papal power in politics nor of oppressive monopoly which are so destructive to the nest interests of the country. It sems also that the patriotic American 1'eriodiralb have lit tle to say In opposition to the licensed liquor traffic which In connection with the papal power, now rule the politics of the country, causing great political corruption, poverty,, suffering and death In every nook and corner of the land. And the periodicals which es pecially oppose monopoly make no ' mention so far as I know of ny nation al evil outside of its particular issue with, the exception of the New Era of Springfield, Ohio, the organ of the Liberty party which does combine op position to two great national evils, the licensed saloon and oppressive monopoly, leaving nntouehed, however, the papal power In politics with all that It means to our civil institutions and to the national government. But after all, I do not blame the managers of these periodicals, for they are all right and are doing the best they cau under the circumstances, but I eay this only to show the stern necessity of the immediate organization of the great union party of national reform, for the couHummation of which all political reformers should unite to make such a party possible and suc cessful in overcoming the three great national evils, the papal power in pol itics, the licensed saloon and oppres sive monopoly. The times now Indicate that if a national unon party of reform ers is not organized and that soon, the allied forces of national evils will In some way destroy our free institutions, break up our civil government and es tablish a political despotism in all the land. WHICH REFORM ORGANIZATION WILL BB FIRST. I will now make the Inquiry, what national reform organization will! be first to declare its willingness to en. dorse this or some better plan for a great union party for the purpose of controlling the politics In the country In the interest of good government against papal rule, the licensed saloon system and business monopoly? Shall it be the great, the noble and patri otic American Protective Association. now generally known as the patrlotio American organisation, and its scores of kindred organizations and their friendB who agree with them In all the essential principles of true Ameri canism? Shall it be the anti-saloon reformers, Including the anti-saloon leaguers, the prohibition and liberty parties? orshallltbe the theantl-mo- nopoltst reformers? These questions are (Continued en Page S.)
