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Washington. I). C, Aug. 2 -I'rtii.
dent McKlnley; Deer Sir: A mighty
discontent li about to arise with tbe
American people on account of your
course In tbe Philippine and In Cuba.
Withdraw Governor Merrill and confer
tbe power on Agulnaldo. We are
fighting the Spaniard!, not the native.
You mutt not lacrlflee our men to tare
Spaniard!, Span I Mb Roman Catholic es
tate or monastic property. You can
not establish any latlng, free govern
ment In country, when the Komtn
church bai all, or nearly all, tbe lanl.
You muit Imitate Henry VIII. of Eng
land in tbli reipect. Confiscate thote
stolen land and return tbera thui to
tbe people. Tbli I doubtlei Agulnal.
do' design. Alt bin. In tbli and
you will bare him your friend and ally.
We must not court alliance with Spain
or Spaniard!. Tbe American people
will never have it. They will remem
ber tbe Maine. The Spaniard! are by
en an. Bee their course today in Porto
Rico uilng fire and iword on tbe na
tive! ai they march toward Ban Juan.
DiimliiCen. Sbafter at once, and ap
point tome educated man, who will at
once make frlendthlp with Gen, (iarcla,
for Agulnaldo doubtlei feart be will
b net ailde ai Garcia baa been. You
cannot powlMj hope for tbe friendship
of either the Cuban or Philippine if
you are tender of their enemiei the
Spaniard, and tbe Spanlih priesthood,
Sweep away every vcttlge of Spanish
power, greed and cruelty, and court
tbe friendship and alliance of tbo na
tive, leading them tchool teacher and
Cbrlitlan mlaliterr, Tbe American
people will utaln you In tbli course.
Your truly,
Chaaic Royh
Rome Net Hatlsflrd.
Tbe Herald arid Preibyter hi tbe
following regarding tbe work of tbe
Roman Cathollc nd Went Point:
"Juit before tbe adjournment of Con
grci a blllfwaa pasted granting to any
rellgloui denomination wishing to do
do tbe privilege of erecting chapel on
the government land at Went Point,
It leemod to many who voted for It
that It wai'only la accordance with tbe
general principle of our government,
which know no distinction among re
ligion denomination, and that bo-
cause the bill grant tbe lame prlvll
rge to all, therefore It could not be crlt
Iclied as'Javorlng Romanism. It teem
to u tbat tbl I ft mltake. There are
case where inch a course might be
luitlfled and merit approval, but not o
in tbl Initance. Tbe error I similar
to tbat made In tbe matter of the In
dian school. Tbe law gave no prefer
ence to the tcbooli of any donotnlna
tlon, but gave money to each according
to the number of scholar enrolled or
taught. It was soon found that it was
possible for onechurch to draw hun
dred of (thousand of dollar, while
other drew only ten of thousand, and
other would accept none. The Church
of Home posaessed certain advantage
wbioh made It practicable for It to
gather In ajfar larger number of pupil
than could any othor organization
Tbe Indian Education Hill bad to he
amended.
Bo, at West Point, no other ilonoml
nation want to build for Itself a cbapol
on those grounds. There I one tbera
now. which moot every demand, and
it i used by all In common, a desired.
But the Church of Homo Is not satisfied
with It, andjdemand another site for a
chapel of ita own, where It can store
it paraphernalia and set up It idol
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with oo fear of their belrg dlsturbod,
It I customary for PmanUt to Im
port tbelr statue and picture from
Europe, and, if tbe law ibould say that
'any person" Imparting statue of the
Virgin or religious unes should be re
lieved of the paymert it duty, It mljbt
be said that tbe law was fair to all, bo-
cause It permitted any denomination to
do the same thing; wbcrea, no other
tban Ihe one denomination wishes to
Import statues of tbe Virgin. So with
the embroidered stole and other gar
ments of tbe blthop arid priests. It I
not treating fell alike wben Itlsisld
that all ucb iball be Imported free of
duty; because only one class of people
desire to Import tbat kind of merchan
dise for religious purpose, and to en
act ucb law to play directly Into
the band of tbe Itomanlst. L."
Everybody mutt keep tbelr eye upon
the Itoman Catholic church, for if tbey
do not tbey will bring tbl nation to tbe
level of Hpaln. Itomolm mint be put
Into her pr oper place and kept there.
T. II. A.
New, Watch tbe ( hun l ef Heme,
Washington, I), C, Aug. 2.-Tbe
development of each day add to the
difficulties of tolving tbe Philippine
problem, and event before tbe conclus
ion of peace negotiation may make it
almost compulsory for tbe Unltod
States, a the dominant force In tbe
Island, to maintain control for the pur
pose of preventing anarchy or ft reign
of terror under the dictatorship of Ag
ulnaldo. Tbe powerful Influence of tbe
Itoman chnroh may yet be exercised on
tbe Spanish government with tbl end
In view, It I apparent that if the
United H tales should withdraw, It
would be difficult, if not Impossible, for
Bpaln to regain control of tbe Island
with her fleet destroyed and her mili
tary force Incapable of making any
headway against the Insurgent. ,
The insurgents are even more dissat
isfied with tbe representatives of the
Roman church In the Island than with
theHpanlsh colonial government, and
should A (f ulnaldo succeed in gaining
control there would bo grave danger of
violence directed against tho Roman
Catholic church and lis property.
Tbo Vatican at Romo tindenland
tbl and representation were today re
ceived by the United H talcs through
Mgr. Martlnelli, the papal delegate,
asking that care be taken by tbe
United State force to protect tbe
property of tbe church and the live of
the priest. Instructions In conformity
with these representation have been
sent to MaJoMiineral Merrfttand Ad
miral Dowey AND THKY WILL
PIIOTECT THKCIIUICII AND ITS
PUOI'EftTY within their line just a
thoy will protect the llveiand properly
of all other.
Itoman tathelle Church Not Afraid of
I nlted Mtate Rule.
Boston, Mass., Aug. 4.- Most Re v.
Kitbastlan Martlrelll, tie papal dele
gate In the United Staes,, arrived In
Ho ton last nlgbt, making ft short tay
with tbe Jesuit father of St, Mary'
church, Kndicott street. When asked
what would be the effect of tbe annex-
Ion of Porto Rico fo the United HUtci
heaniwered:
"lam not a polltlcan, and do not
know enough about the place to tell
whether It will be ft benefit to tbl
country to own It or not, A fart tbe
Interest of tbe Porto Rlcan I con
cerned, there I no doubt tbat tbey will
profit by tbe change,"
'Will the churcn luffer In any way
from tbo political change tbat are
likely to take plooe in the Philippine
and other Hpanish Islands?"
"I do not think that anyone who
know l be American people would for
a moment entertain thought that the
church will be In any way Interfered
with wherever tbe United States, by
conquest or purchase, acquire posses
lion, The change of government will
take plaoe, I tuppose; but I eipect to
lee everything else ge on a It ha In
the pait. Priests, a well a people,
will be a well treated a they are
here in the United Statat, and tbe
church will go on doing tbe good work
ibe ha done in the past, perhap with
little more freedom,"
West Point i gain.
Another man doe not want things
run at West Point th'rough tbe Roman
Catholic gutter and be write a fol
low ;
"I wa very sorry and Indignant to
see that the United State Senate,
among it last acts, paed a bill "per
mitting tbe Secretary of War, at bis
discretion, to have creeled on tbe Wct
Point reservation a building for rellg
lous worship," which, of course, means
for tho catholic church. Will you not
add another vigorous protest against It
In your editorial columns? and can not
such influence be brought upon the
present Secretary of War as to induce
him to refute it It would be strange
If he would consent when our last
United S'au Attorney General, who
wa catholic, refused to allow it, or,
as the law officer of the government,
ieclded against It, , O, I). G."
Tbe Itoman Catholic politician
spend much time for their church In
"log rolling," tot tbey may sometime
lie like the bear whostotd below a large
log and then with his fore-paw wa
getting honey from under it and turn
ing It (lowly toward hi bind feet,wben
the log rolled, from it owa weight,
caught Mr. IJr' bled feet, threw him
on bl back, rolled over blm and went
on down the mountain, Tbe bear
arose hi feet and looked at the log,
but did not say ft word, Tbl log-rolling
may tr at the Roman Catholic In
thl manner. A, M, It
The lllower.
The R'iman Catholic church can
blow her own horn a well a ft Chat
barn treet Jew tan do It for the "job
lot" he ho to sell. The Herald and
Presbyter ha the following:
"A correspondent I d Is' orbed by the
claim made by a catholic priest in ft re
cent public addresi that tbe oeg,"The
Star Spangled ISanner," wa written
by catholic, and "that It was tbe
catholic who sent out the first regi
ment to tbe war," It I not worth
while to be disturbed. Catholic do
not send out regiment. Tbey are not
mode up on denominational line. In
dividual catholic bve a right to en
list, but if tbey do so It is as American
citizen. It would be ttrange If tome
catholic should not enlist. There I
one thing certain, however, and that I
the Spanish soldiery, army and navy,
privates and officers, are catholics, and
a pretty spectacle tbey are making of
themselves, There I Catholicism pure
and simple, without the enlightening
and humane Influence of Protestant
civilization around It. If French Scott
Key was ft catholic, he wrote bl song
under the Influonue. Of American Prot-
estaritltm, anl not under tbe shadows
of papal despotism and the Kpar.isb In
qolsltlon."
The howty church can do much hut
they can howl the best. T, R. C.
I'rlde and Fall.
Poi Innocent III, averted that JIou
Ifaco VIII. pretcruled 'tijd had set the
papacy over kings and kingdom to
destroy and to rebuild" and that "sub
jection to the pontiiT wa Beceieary to
salvation." Rut the tide wa growing
trong against the papacy and what
could have boen done ft century before
could not m dona at thl time, Philip
the Fair of Krance burned the papal
bjUf, d laid bl "sacrilegious hand
on the pope' person," Tbe next pope,
elected secretly, pledged co operation
with Philip, and it was tbe tail wag
ging the dog, loNtoad of tbe dog wag
ging the tall, at tbl time. W few of
tbe Island could get out of tbe pope'
power tbey wjuld willingly burn all tbe
pope' bull he would send to them, but
there are many yet who have not tbelr
eye opened wide enough to ooe what
tbe Church of Borne Is and will continue
to aid it and (upportltali tbey possibly
can, P. I- T,
Two Halve.
In l.'I'S Wycllf said tbat tbe papacy,
a It was at tbat time, one pope In one
place and another In the other plaoe,
wa two halve of anti-Cbritt. It wo
antl-Cbrlst; It wa ftotf-papal; it wa
anti'Cbrlstlan, and anil-common sense
In general. Rut the Itoman Catholic
never forget ft good dd J while
they could not return tbe klndnes with
Interest, while be wa alive, bl body
wo taken up by them and burned and
theashe thrown In tbe brook Swift,
and were carried Into the Avon and
from tbe Avon Into the Severn and
from the Severn into the oca, to let all
the world know that tbe Itoman Cath
olic church never forget ft kind deed,
but alwey pay It back with interest,
and those ashes of Wtcllf could Inform
the world of this fact. Rut what will
tbe Roman church do when it la paid
up in compound Interest? Will it not
make Rome bowl? J. W, I.
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Literature.
There ha been much anti-papal lit
erature and one might judge there wa
enough of It to down tbe heretical
church, Ockham denied the claim of
the pope for temporal supremacy and
also for temporal power! he questioned
the need of any pope at all. He was
under Imiierlal protection, when he
wrote theso argument against tbe
man at Rome, who wanted to be a tem
poral ruler. And Dsn in In bl Ittth
Canto of bis Inferno, haul tbe Ro
man Catholic priest over the coal.
Home one must continue the constant
hammering until the eye of the people
are opened on the subject of Romanism
and they have the courage to judge
thing 'or themielve. Tbl might
cause the dog-collared gentlemen to
growl some, but they will not blto
much. T, II, IJ,
Tbe Cemmenrement.
The "captivity" la tbe Roman Cath
olic church wa tbe Initial step In the
downward grade of tbat corporation.
It ba ben going down ever since and
there I no cessation of thl movement
at tbe preoent time, Tbe overthrow of
one of the greatest Itoman Catholic
countrlna may lie another Important
step lo tbl docllne of (bo papacy. Let
it go on till they cannot control king,
emperor, and president any more and
let them attend to tbe thing shepherd'
of the Lord' flock should attend to,
and In a short time some other thing
may follow to show that tbe papacy,
like IOo XIIL, I on tbe shady side of
life. T. C. I,
Hew He Kaew.
Tbe patriotic office boy answered the
telephone,
"I It true," asked the voice at tbe
otber end, "tbat Admiral Dewey sunk
four German warship In Manila bay
today?"
"No, lr, It I not true," answered the
boy,
"You have received positive denial
then?" persisted tbe voice.
"Hadn't even heard tbat there wa
such ft story."
"Then, bow do you know tbat it Isn't
true?"
"Itecause the German bad six war
ship In Manila bay."-Kx.
Priest are iaOeu.
Chaplain Chid wick of the Cincinnati
Introduced to General Wilson two lead
ing Jesuit of Ponce,, representing
thousand church and their depend
ent in tbl province. The priest
wanted Information regarding their
tupport. Wilson said that under tbo
constitution of the United State It la
not possible to apply government money
for church purpwe,
I'helan Feeling hour.
Father Phelan of the Western Watch
man assures the timorous catholics of
tho Philippine islandstliat religion will
be held in more esteem after the Amer
ican occupation than it has toon for a
hundred year by tbe bastard Free Ma
son catholic who have represented
catholic Spain In those part.
To far 4 naatisilon rorvr.
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