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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL, 1, 1898.
Number 22.
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WOULD OFFER SHIPS !
Member of England's Parli
ament. Would Help the'
United States.
Bev. Slattery and Ilia Wire the ex-Rom-iU
Received With Mob Ylelenee
Ib Many Scotch and English Cit
ies Going to Sweden.
. Yorkshire. Eng., Mch. 12. '98. Editor
Omaha American; Dear Sir: In my
hwt but short letter to you In answer
to your cablegram inquiring about my
arrest in Edinburgh, Scotland. I prom
ised when the whole thing was over
to send you a full account of the mat
ter. First of all, I was not arrested,
but I was summoned for exposing for
sale a pamphlet which was a transla
tion into English of the Roman The
ology used by Romish priests in the
confessional and which was consid
ered as obscene literature. I may add
that every word in any way obscene
was left out by me in the translation,
but I- left a space where the word
ought to be. The court condemned it,
but not as my work. It was con
demned as Roman Catholic theology
and unfit for publication. This wa9
exactly what the Romanists did not
expect, as they were sure they had me,
but it was all the other way. xNow
the eyes of the Protestants in Great
Britain are opened to the rottenness of
Rome, but I am not done with them
yet as the people are now demanding
that Rome's theology be brought be
fore the Houbb of Lords with a view
to its condemnation officially through
out the realms. This matter is now
being attended to by one of the Lords
themselves who is a very staunch Pro
testant A word about our trip might
be interesting to our western friends.
We sailed from Boston last October
in the ship "Canada" and had a very
enjoyable trip across the Atlantic. We
went direct to London and spent about
10 days sight-seeing; visited places of
historic interest and the graves of
England's dead kings and queens in
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Westminister Abbey. Here lie many
of England's mighty dead but none
grea(ter than that great' Protestant
king and hero, William of Orange. I
stood on his grave and his motto in
scribed on his banners flashed into
my mind; "The liberties of England
and the Protestant religion I will for
ever maintain." May not Americans
adopt the same motto by changing one
word, "The liberties of America and
the Protestant religion I will forever
maintain." We visited the House of
Parliament and the House of Lords,
the famous tower of London, St Paul'a
Cathedral and many other places.
London is a Babel and cannot be de
scribed in detail. It is the center of a
mighty empire and of great people.
We opened our meetings in Manchest er
and Rome's hell hounds began to
howl but they ha the wrong man. I
came over determined to fight it out
and so far I have got t.e best of them.
They confessed that they thought
when I saw the state of affairs there I
would run back to the States. That
would truly be a long run 3,000
miles but I dlu not run an inch.
A Roman Catholic inspector of po
lice closed the hall, but he opened it
again and that pretty quick too. Our
next place was Sheffield and there the
Romanists burst into the hall In a
body, filled the gallery and hooted and
yelled for about two hours and broke
up the meeting. We had to leave the
hall by a back way and get Into our
hotel next door through a window.
The mayor sent a letter forbidding the
meetings and I sent a letter to him
demanding protection and the lectures
were given. We next visited Liver
pool, Birkenhead. Bortle, Glajsgow,
and Edinburgh, where the case Jn
question about the pamphlet occurred.
Then we visited Holy Rood Palace,
once the home of Mary Queen of Scots.
and stood on the spot where Rizzio
was stabbed. We also visited the fa
mous and once impregnable fortress.
Edingburgh Castle. It is a fine old
pile and is now a military post Fom
there we came to Newcastle-on-Tyne
and then to Sunderland and thence to
Bradford, Yorkshire, where I am to.
night We had an awful time here,
iiie hall was wrecked, carriages that
belonged to some of the audience were
broken, sticks, stones, bricks, glass
and Romish oaths filled the air. This
did not deter us. We were kept in
the hall for almost 24 hours during the
lectures and we gave them, and we
will God willing give two extra lec
tures on Monday next
We will go from here to Leeds, then
to Hull, which is on the west coast,
and from there I will run over to Nor
way and Sweden to fill a few engage
ments there. I will speak in Latin
and a Lutheran minister will inter
pret. I will then return to England
and fill a few more engagements and
then home to Boston, the "Hub of toe
Universe." This country is in a fear
ful condition from Popery. No man
can fully describe the ruffianism of
Rome in England and I fear that our
States will become a second England
if we do not look sharp. I say to your
readers beware of Rome in America.
The Roman Catholic papers have
abused the United States for her ac
tion towards Spain. All the reputa
ble English papers are on our side and
one of the Protestant members of
Parliament rose yesterday in the
House and proposed giving the Eng
lish navy to America it she wanted it
I like the English people very much.
They look upon me aa one of them
selves, being born over here. I find
them very kindly disposed towards
America. I hope that the day is not
very distant when these two great
Protestant nations will be more close
ly bound together and then we could
sing in the words of the poet:
"For England and America
Let the nations clear the track,
Wed the Stars and Stripes forever
To old England's Union Jack."
Good bye. Pray for us and may
your labors for American light, liberty
Truer thon Kver, Today.
and progress be blessed with ' signal
success. I remain fraterally yours,
JOSEPH SLATTERY.
American Flags Barred by Rome.
Washington, D. C, March 4. The
Roman Congregation of the Holy
Office has just sent to this country a
decree regulating the use of flags in
decorating churches, which forbids
the use of National, State or other sec
ular emblems. The decree also pro
hibits the use of the unblessed banner
of private societies, and makes the
following rules for the blessing of
such banners as may be used in
churches:
They must be emblems of an organ
ization the statues of which are fully
approved by the Bishop; the society
must be under the Bishop's jurisdic
tion and must depend on his authority,
and the banner must have on it a dis
tinctly religious mark.
The decree admits that the Ameri
can flag is one which should be to all
Americans a glorious emblem, but
rules that it cannot therefore be con
sidered as a fitting decoration for the
House of God.
The mandate from Rome was Issued
in consequence of the friction between
Bishop McDonnell, of Brooklyn and
some of his people in consequence of
the Bishop's action in commanding
that an American flag with which a
cherub was decorated should be re
moved from the edifice. Philadelphia
Record.
The above pronouncement from
Rome, degrading the American flag,
under which the nunneries, monkeries
Houses of the Good Shepherd, and oth
er vice-breeding institutions of this
alien church flourish, will make inter
esting reading for G. A. R. men and
other patriotic citizens. It is time
that this Government should make
some pronouncements not regarding
the flag alone, but likewise in regard
to the incarceration of females and
helpless children in Rome's various
prison pens throughout our land.
Houtzdale Observer.
Every man who Is honest enough to
express his opinion of popery will dis
cover that the devil in it is not dead.j
MARGAHRT L SUKPUEKD
Thrills Large Audiences In
Washington Then Goes
to Baltimore, Md.
Chase Rots Points Out Wbj FomanUU
Establish Tbelr Institntion In This
Country Instead of the Roman
Countries of Europe.
Washington, D. C Editor Ameri
can: I Bend you herein a most re
markable article, cut out of the Wash
ington Times, issue of March 12, 1898:
"The Franciscan Monastery, at
Brookland. in short time will be an
accomplished fact. Last July the
Times published an exclusive account
of the project of this monastery and
the establishment of a branch of this
great Roman Catholic order of monks
in the District. The facts of the pur
chase of a fifty-acre tract, the MeCen
ey estate, in Brookland, by Dr. John
B. Lamer, for the order and the plans
in a genera way were given.
It was said at the time that there
was a great deal of surmise among
Catholics, and that there would be
more as to the intention of the order
in establishing a branch in this coun
try. The Times is enabled to state the
facts in advance of other publications
with regard to the new branch of the
order, and also to outline the plans
and the work alreay done at the site
of the monastery.
This American branch of the order
is intended as a training school for
novices of the order, from Belgium,
Italy, Austria and Spain, who are In
tended for the missions cf South Am
erica and the Holy Land. IT IS ES
TABLISHED IN AMERICA BE
CAUSE OF THE FREEDOM OF
THOUGHT IN THIS COUNTRY AND
THE FREEDOM FROM GOVERN
MENT INTERFERENCE THAT CAN
BE HAD IN NO OTHER COUNTRY.
This last clause, which I ask you to
put in italics or caps, shows thatthls
Franciscan order of Popery must come
to a Protestant country to enjoy that
measure of freedom, which popery it
self has driven out of every country
hi the world, where popery prevails!
Every one of these popish organi
zations is putting forth great efforts
to reduce this government to the same
slavish condition as Spain, Portugal
or Austria. I 1
The monastery will be affiliated with
the Catholic University for reasons of
policy, and the degrees of the monas
tery will be given by the university,
but there will be a separate govern
ment entirely, and the officers of, the
university will have no control or su
pervision over the order. The mon
astery will have two hundred people,
monks and novices. The prior will be
Dr. Godfrey Schilling.
The cornerstone of the main build
ing of the monastery will be laid some
time In the latter part of May. Mgr.
Martinelll will officiate at the cere
mony, which will be one of the most
magnificent Roman Catholic ceremon
lies ever held In this country. The
work on the building has already be
gun, and It will be so far advanced
durlns the summer that the monas
tery will be opened in October and the
school year begun.
The architect of the building is Slg.
Leonorl, who has been the architect
of nearly all the modern Franciscan
monasteries. He is an Italian and Is
famous in his country. The main
building will be a great square In the
severest monastic gothic style. It will
be two hundred feet each way and
two and a half stories. The building
will be around an inner court one
hundred feet square. The arrange
ment will be two sets of rooms, with
hall between, one set opening on the
outside and one set on the court, af
ter the manner of some of the cov
ernment buildings. On the first floor
will be the cells of the monks. Above
will be school rooms, lecture hall and
rooms for visitors.
There Is connected with the monas
tery a large tract of land which Is to
be cultivated by the monks and their
pupils. Already there Is a vineyard of
ten acres under cultivation.
The MHmaKb-ry Is a cherished plau
of the.oope and has been under con
sideration 1 ft many months. It will
be especially under Ills care and pa
tronage. Dr. Schilling will make oth
er needed arrangements while he Is in
Koine, but will be In this country
again before autumn.
The Franriman monks are one of
the oldest orders In the church. They
date bark to the middle ages and are
uarf. of the hlntory of Europe. They
are very strict In their forms and life
and are under vows of celibacy, pov
erty, abtrtlueBce and labor.
Note': Home is establishing her
self at, the nation's capltol.
' CHASE ROYS.
P. 8.- Mrs. Margaret Shepherd Is
delivering a series of stirring lectures
here, in Masonic Temple to crowded
and delighted houses. Her calm, ener
getic, earnest and yet pleading man
ner on the rostrum holds her audience
spellbouud, and the lessons she Is giv
ing will not soon bo forgotten.
We need more Margaret Shepherds
In the field, and yet not a newspaper
has noticed her by a single line, ex
cept n paid advertisements!
The senate committee on appropri
ation haH amended the House Bill,
providing for the expenses of the
District for 1898 and 1899. which gave
nothing to the Popish houses in the
District of Columbia, so as to give '
them their URual allowance. The sen
ators need to be chanced.
The Detective.
According to a Denver paper the
President Is having detectives to guard
him and discharging the police In uniform.-
ti Is not: the uniform that slm-
ply hurts a mun for this purpose, but
a greater danger lies In his being a
subject of a foreign ruler, yet living
here and claiming the protection of
the flag of this country.
If we may read between the lines,
and If the report In the Denver paper
is true, the President Ib having some
trouble from the Roman Catholic
Church. He has done many favors
for the followers of the pone, and they
seemed to think that they could do
anything with him, but the demand
of the putriiHic people of the land has
been stronger of late than the pope's
people' and the President has fallen
out with the faithful, because be Is
causing the United States to point
their heavy guns at a Roman Catholic
country. If b wants Congress to
help him deride the attitude the U. S.
shall assume, we may Infer that some
Roman Catholic has warned him that
if he strikes Spain, his fate will be
that of Lincoln and Garfield. And
then we will ee more plainly the plan
of a certain elans of Roman Catholics
if the President does not do exactly
what they want blm to do. tt would
be a good plan if these detectives were
to both watch for those who would
awasBinati and find the source from
which it rame and then not stop
where other committees have. Thi
Roman Cathoiit-s do not want war and
the papers wbii-h are Rome ruled are
blaming the president because he is
following the wishes of the men of
Wall street, whom they hate, and say
ing that the Wall street men are the
raime of the president trying to keep
tae United State from having war. It
f
war ran be averted It will be wise, but
the double dealing of the pagan pa
pists id In harmony with their past
history, and the business of the peop!-
of the United States is to tell them to
go to Rome if they wish to follow the
directions of the pope In politics, and
kill men because they will not follow
his directions. Mr. McKinley will
learn soon, if he does not already,
know it that the Roman Catholic cat
Ue are hard truck, and the sooner ho
says to them, that they can have equal
privileges and no more, the better it
will be for all concerned. E.
Kostello's awful book, "Convent
Horrors and Secrets of the Confes
sional," 50 cents. We sell It to awaken
Protestants, bat we hate to deal In
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