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OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 18'.8.
Nl7MBEK 24.
LEE, HANNA, McKINLEY
Three Men Who Are Being
Talked About By All
Americans.
Other Items or Interest Opinions Frei
Setae of the Leading IMprn Begard
Id; Papal Intervention.
The Lee family is one of the most il
lustrlous in American annala. The
founder of the family in this country
was Richard Lee, who was born in
England about 1590. He held high
civil office In that country and settled
In Virginia about 1645. Richard Hen
ry Lee, a conspicuous statesman of the
revolutionary period, was his great
grandson, as were also Francis L'ght
' foot Lee, a slgaer of the Declaration of
Independence, and Henry Lee, the
brilliant soldier popularly known as
"Light-Horse Harry," one of the he
roes of the wariof independence and the
eulogist of Georges Washington. His
son was General Robert E. Lee, who
was an uncle off General Fltzhugh Lee,
the famous consul general of the Unit
ed States at Havana. Loyal to-day to
the flag of a re united country and the
able protector on foreign soil of the In
terests of American citizens, General
Lee's one-time rebellion against the
United States Government is remem
bered no more against him. His recent
journey from Tampa to Washington
was marked by a series of popular ova
tions which were-as hearty and spon
taneous as any thatabave occurred in
the eventful history of this great na
tion. Mark Hanna, the factotum of Will
iam McKlnley, Is declared'by a Wash
ington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
to be considered an ex-officlo member
of the President's cabinet. Pity 'tis
true, for McKlnley is really badly hand
icapped by this bosom friend for whose
benefit and advantage the. venerable
John Sherman was shelved by being
made nominally "Secretary of State.
Hanna is said to be now attending all
the cabinet meetings. How exquisite
ly humiliating it must be to such men
as Seoretiry Sherman and Secretary
Gage to be compelled to submit to the
espionage of a "statement" of the cali
ber of Mark Hanna! The self-appointed
guardian of the1 "business interests" of
the country is destined to prove a
source of serious embarrassment to the
administration at 1 Washington. . The
Senate and . the House will decline to
be Hannaized, which Is to say that
ttey will not be bulldozed by any of the
satellites of thejman frjm Canton.
The course of the Tribune, Chronicle
and Journal, of Chicago, in this whole
Cuban business has been sound, honor
able and patriot!''. The attitude which
they have assumed on the question of
proper reparation and atonement for
the destruction of the battle-ship Maine
has been commendable. - They have
taken the high and tenable ground that
Spain is responsible for the blowing up
of the Maine and the appalling loss of
life that necessarily ensued.- The Tri
bune, Chronicle and Journal are news
papers which have steadily maintained
that the proper punishment to be meted
out to the Spaniards In the present ex
igency is aggressive and righteous war
a war that should be waged in the in
terests of humanity, olvlllzatloa and
freedom. - From the very day on which
the Maine was wickedly, criminally
and maliciously ' destroyed, those great
public journals have preached stalwart
American patriotism. Most of the
other Chicago dallies have been peace-at-any-price
advocate.
t
. Fitshugh Lee, during the progress of
his triumphal journey from the Floridan
coast to the national capital; was "way
laid" and "captured" by the enthusias
tic populace at one of the southern cit
ies, and was compelled to sake a
speech. The spokesman for the srowd
introduced the fataou oonaul M "Gen-
C ,-VWt stye cC war- ) . 7 C . . "" : "
UNCIvE SAM:
er- blew up our -liip, yet
keep you
you. "will terve!
eralLeeof the United States,"a happy
hit that was cheered to the echo. Our
people have come to regard the illus
trious Virginian as the embodiment of
American honor, chivalry, patriotism
and manhood. And American citizens
generally are so lost in admiration and
praise of the distinctively American
trails which General Lee has exhibited
at Havana, in the trying times there,
that they have almost forgotten he is
a Virginian, that he is a Democrat, or
that he ever was a "rebel." It is well
that it is so. We don't care anything
now about what General Lee was
thirty or more years ago. He is an
American patriot now. He has during
the past two years proved himself
worthy of any trust which the Ameri
can people may repose in him. He is
the hero of the hour.
Commenting on the President's Cu
ban message, the Chicago Times- Herald
of last Tuesday morning says among
other things: "At the bar of the
nations Spain cannot meet or reply to
this cogent presentation of facts. She
can only stand dumb before such a re
cital, or else she must plead guilty.
As for Congress, it must support the
President and give him the powers he
asks. Ho is so clear in his policy and
so fortified by precedent and logic that
it would be an act of treason to the
people for Congress to attempt to take
the direction of the affair out of his
hands." Oh, ho! The Congress o' the
United States is composed of about 500
members, and yet William McKlnley
is wiser, more level-headed and more
patriotic than they I Did you ever be
fore read such infinite nonsense? The
Times-Herald is evidently one of those
sheets that are determined the ''busi
ness' interests" of the country s'hafl' be
subserved at whatever sacrifice of
national honor, dignity and self-respect.
It thinks McKlnley is "conser
vative." Yes, he is; entirely too con
servative. A. B
NO PAPAL MEDIATIOK.
That Pope Leo may have made rep
resentations to the Spanish government
is not Improbable, but he la too wise in
the methods of diplomacy not to under
stand that under be cirtumstanees
Sixty days have natswecl nincc
from doing your duty. ChooHe, now, whom
could he be acceptable to the United
States as a mediator. Omaha Bee.
If there is to be mediation by the
pope it will undoubtedly be between
Spain and the Cubans fighting for their
Independence. Obviously, the pope
could not be a mediator between the
United States and Spain or In any in
ternational question. . So far as his re
lations to us are concerned he is a spir
itual sovereign only, and not in any
respect a temporal sovereign. New
York Sun.
It Is not impossible that if negotia
tions were once undertaken the pope's
influence, backed by that of the Euro
pean powers which are sincerely desir
ous of peace, would induce Spain to
grant Cuban independence. There is
no doubt that tremendous pressure to
that end would be brought upon Spain
if there appeared to be no other path
way to pjace. Minneapolis Tribune.
Of course, the suggestion that the
pope shall be chosen either to arbitrate
or to mediate between Spain and the
United States is not admissible. This
is not a Catholic country, and would
not be even though' a majority of its
inhabitants were Catholics. Spain, on
the other hand, is not only a Catholic
country but a Catholic power. She is
almost tbe only Catholic power that is
left in the sense of being a power which
is influenced in its secular politics by
considerations of the welfare of the
church. New York Times.
The pope has cabled Archbishop
Ireland to ga to Washington and urge
peace upon the authorities, .This is in
line,wlth the mission of the apostolic
see a mission of "Peace on earth, good
will to men." But why should not his
holiness make his appeal to "most
Catholic Spain," whose very king is his
godson, rather than to religiously con
glomerate America? This question is
the more pertinent inasmuch as the
one essential and imperative condition
of peace la that Spain shall cease her
barbarities, quit starting helpless men,
women and children, and abandon her
pretense of a right to rule Cuba with
tae nigh and cruel kaad. - If ike holy j
these Iriendw
father at Rome can persuade his god
son's government to this course there
will be no war and no occasion for war
between Spain and the United States.
New York World.
Mr. Echols, president of the National
A. P. A., may as well save his trip to
Washington sotar as mediation of the
pope between the United States and
Spain is concerned. The United Stat es
has nothing to "mediate," by the pope
or anybody else, and Mr. Echols will
simply make himself and his organisa
tion ridiculous by attacking the wind
mills. Chicago Tribune.
After Eighty Years.
Eighty years ago President Monrce
said of Spain's misgovernment of ber
American possessions:
"Spain's territory ought not to be
made instrumental, through her ina
bility to defend it, to purposes so in
jurious to the United States. To a
country over which ehe fails to main
tain her authority, and which ehe per
mits to be converted to tbe annoyance
of her neighbors, her jurisdiction for
the time necessarily ceases to exist."
From tbat day to this Spain's inabil
ity to defend and govern her American
possessions has become more and more
"Instrumental" "to purposes Injurious
to the United Slates."
From the early fifties until now there
has been an almost constant revolution
in Cuba. Buring all that time our
commercial interests have been im per
iled, our citizens have been menaced in
their lives and property, and our gov
ernment has been put to enormous
trouble and expense to prevent filiDus-
tering.
The existence of Spanish misrule In
Cuba has for eighty years been a men
ace to our national welfare and peace.
It is high time to end this nuisance
once for all. New York World.
Bradfleld Carries HU Case t'p.
In the case of Ellis H. Roberts, Treat
urer, etc., appellant, vs. Joseph Brad
field, in which the Court of Appeals
overruled the decision of Judge Hag
ner, a notice of appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United Stales has been
flied. Tna case Involve the oomroo-
th.oe murder
of yourn would
tion of the first amendment to tbe Con
stitution. ,
This case, according to Mr. Brad field
is an outgrowth of the controversy
over the question of erecting a Roman
Catholic chapel at West Point. He
says that in the decision of Attorney
General MrKenna there was an intima
tion that Congress had the powdr to
grant the license asked for by Arch
bishop Corrlgan, and tbat he then
promised to bring the question of the
power of Congress to grant licenses in
mortmain before the Supreme Court of
the United States, he contending that
the English law of mortmain and char
itable uses were, in effect, embodied in
tbe first amendment, and therefore
that the right to give any land, or
money arising out of land, or houses to
be built on land, to "religious houses"
or any establishment of religion, was
forbidden to Congress.
He says that he commenced the suit
last November in the hope of procuring
a decision of the Supreme Court before
the end of the present term. While he
did not anticipate an adverse opinion
from tbe Court of Appeals, he considers
himself fortunate in the fact tbat the
Court of Appeals deoided squarely and
unequivocally against his view, 90 that
In the Supreme Court of the United
States there may be no doubt as to the
real issue in the case.
M1CROGRAPHS.
One of the best church historlaos
writes, "this relation of Peter to ihe
Church of Rome is first alleged not
earlier than about 170." This was
rather late to have an important fact
to dawn upon them, about a hundred
years after they claim it occurred.
But as long as people can be made to
believe it it is all right.
He also writes in regard to the cb urch
at Rome, "no right of dictation or con
trol, no infallibility in interpreting the
Gospel, were conceded to It," and yet
the Roman Catholics want every one to
believe they have sole authority and
always have had it. The church at
Rome waa just the same m the churches
la other cities. - Rome was a large city
and for that reason had preoedanoe
over ministers and churchei U savnUer
cllle', and if she na ay superiority
she stole It and should be punished for
the act. Crank aoiur Woteiget an idea
they know more than nay one else.
a
While the Roman Catholic church
boast so muf h atotit Peter being the
first bUhop or pope U the letters of
Ignatlu, when he wan a prisoner and
on bis way to Rome where he was exe
cute'), and although he urged tbe poo
pie to obey their blhor, does not say
a word about there botug a bishop at
Rome. And yet one if these epistles
was to tbe christians, at Rome. The
Roman Catholic theory is similar to
the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, the feet
or foundation Is part iron and part clay,
aid will be the remit of the whole
business tumbling down sometime,
a a
Harnaek says, "In tbe east sre pos
sess no t proof that before the time of
Euseblus there is any idea of the offer
ing of tbe body of Christ in the Lord's
Supper." And yet the Roman church
claims to be the first church. Her
claims of this kind are a pack of false
statements she cannot sustain. She
had added, and continued to add from
heathen sources until the student looks
with surprise at this-Idolatrous religion
claiming to be the tirstehrlstlan church.
Her sacrifice theory cannot be sus
tained, either from the Bible or from
tradition which she loves so much be
cause of its elasticity and power of ac
commodation. Makes a Sensation in Church.
London, April 0. The anti-ritual Istic
crusade of Mr. John. Kensit has been
specially vigorous during holy week,
culminating in extraordinary scenes In
St. Cuthbert's church yesterday, Good
Friday, where, as customary during
past years, tbo conduct of the service
consisted la chanting St. John's story
of the paction on the same line as the
Oberammergau play, , the officiating
clergy taking tbe roles of Christ, Pi
latee and Cataphas,
One of tbe principal featurts is
known as the "veneration of the cross,"
and the crucifix was being removed
from the a'tr to the steps, where the
clergy, aco'ytes, and eongregation ad
vance In pairs, prostrate themselves,
and kiss the figure ol Christ. At the
tail of the procession was It'r. Kensit,
surrounded by a body of frier. d 9. They
advanced to the altar steps, but Instead
of kneeling Kensit horrified the con
gregation by suddenly selling the cru
cifix, raising it aloft, and frantically
rushing towards the tsoor, shouting:
'In the name of i-dr I denounce this
idolatry and popery ta the Church of
England. My God help nse."
A most painful scene ensued. A crowd
of people surrounded) Mr. Kensit and
people struck him and wrestled with
him, one man going so far as to thrust
a handkerchief Into Mr. Kensit 's mouth
n order to gag him. Finally tbe con
gregation rescued the crucifix and the
police entered the chureh and arrested
Mr. Kensit.
Think Tic tor ia A Catholic.
A special dispatch t) the Chicago In
ter Ocean from London, Eng., dated
April 9, says "the old story that Queen
Victoria is really a Roman Catholic
has been revived among the peasants
of the Riviera, with whom her majesty
is very popular. They are unable to
account for her regular visits to the
BQutb of France exoeptupon the theory
that she Is denied religious freedom at
home and comee to "make her Easter"
and be "shrived" by a Roman Catholic
bishop. Here majesty Is reported
stronger and in better health than for
a year past Of course there Is no
truth whatever In the - reports of her
conversion to the Rotmso church."
Belated te TreUfl.
Rev. Dr. Hugh Johnson, pastor of
Metropolitan churchy Washington, D.
C, is said to be a lineal descendant of
John TeUel, who aokt fctdutgencles by
the authority of Rome in the time ef
Luther, but Dr. Jehneoa- ha inherited
no taint of Romanians, as W evidenced
by his late Thanksgiving, sermon, in
which he scored IrveHgleo, indiscrim
inate emigration, the Mqsior power and
Jeeultia-a..Osai JsHttala,
