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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Thirty Years In Hell + Or, From Darkness to Light + +Author: Bernard Fresenborg + +Release Date: March 23, 2006 [EBook #18040] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRTY YEARS IN HELL *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Geetu Melwani and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + +<table border="0" cellpadding="10" style="background-color: silver;" summary="Transcriber's Note"> +<tr> +<td valign="top"><b>Transcriber's Note:</b></td> +<td>A number of typographical errors found in the +original text have been corrected in this version. A <a href="#note">list</a> of these +errors is found at the end of this book.</td></tr></table> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 2]</span><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2"></a></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 256px;"> +<a name="fig1" id="fig1"/><a href="images/fig1.jpg"><img src="images/fig1_tb.jpg" width="256" height="400" alt="Yours in His name +Bernard Fresenborg." title="Yours in His name Bernard Fresenborg." /></a> +<span class="caption">Yours in His name<br />Bernard Fresenborg.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'>[Pg 3]</span><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3"></a></p> + + +<h1>"Thirty Years in Hell"</h1> + +<h3>... OR ...</h3> + +<h1>"From Darkness to Light."</h1> + +<h3>BY</h3> + +<h2>Ex-Priest, Bernard Fresenborg,</h2> + +<h5>Who for thirty long years tread the slippery and deceitful path<br /> +of abhorrent Catholicism, but who to-day stands at the<br /> +Vatican's door, with the torch of Protestant wisdom,<br /> +and denounces Popery with a tongue<br /> +livid with the power of<br /> +a living God.</h5> + +<h3>Like a Meteor From God's Throne,</h3> + +<h4>This great book has stirred America from center to circumference.</h4> + +<h3>About 400 Large Pages,</h3> + +<h4>And each Page a stinging rebuke to Roman Catholicism.</h4> + +<h5>Published by +North-American Book House, +St. Louis, Mo.</h5> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span><br /></p> + +<h5>Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1904, by</h5> +<h5>NORTH-AMERICAN BOOK HOUSE,</h5> +<h5>In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C.</h5> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>Author's Announcement.</h2> + + +<p>A structure of enlightenment is to be built in this land, which to +finish, every man of intellectual power must contribute.</p> + +<p>The structure which I refer to, is the structure of "SPIRITUAL +LIBERTY," as the spiritual part of man must have room to expand and +grow the same as any other God-given privilege that man is blessed +with.</p> + +<p>Unless we grow in faith we become dwarfs in the worship of God.</p> + +<p>Those who go forth into the world and profess to be the teachers of +men should be giants of intellect and fully prepared to contribute to +this monument of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY."</p> + +<p>These giants are the "KNIGHTS OF THE SPIRIT," who stand upon the +summit of righteousness and proclaim an intelligent God to a sinful +world.</p> + +<p>Many say they do not feel that they possess the ability to contribute +to this structure of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY," but I say, none who possess +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span>the power to reason are exempt, for if they cannot place in the arch +of this structure the golden "key-stone" that shall securely bind +this structure together, they can carry mortar or stones, which is as +imperative in this structure, as the polished "Cap stone" which shall +complete this great pyramid of emancipation.</p> + +<p>I do not crave to have my name engraven in bold letters upon the "Cap +stone" of this structure, but I do desire to contribute my mite +towards the completion of this grand structure of free thought, +which, when completed, will stand out upon the horizon of time as a +towering monument to Christ and his cause.</p> + +<p>Roman Catholicism, as taught by our modern priests and inspired by +the papal power at Rome is naught but the distant rumblings of an +antiquated chariot of darkness, as the teachings of this MONARCHICAL +creed has naught in view but the enslavement of reason for the +financial gain and benefit of the "Robed" few who claim the right to +think for the masses.</p> + +<p>For thirty long years I was bound to this bewitching spirit of +darkness by the chords of superstition and never dared to look above +my blind superiors for wisdom, until a "something" which I will call +"fate" broke the windows of my mental dungeon and permitted the light +of "SPIRITUAL LIBERTY" to filter through my being which awoke "reason +and common sense" from her long sleep of lethargy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now, what I once thought "Holy" I detest as abominable; What I once +worshipped, I now hate.</p> + +<p>It is not the glitter of gold nor the applaudits of the protestant +world that I crave, but it is the Master's approval that I desire. +Therefore I deem it my duty to both God and mankind to proclaim to +the world what I know of the awfulness of Roman Catholicism, and I +know enough to make my poor soul often wonder if I shall ever be +permitted to sing with the blest around that GREAT WHITE THRONE in +the New Jerusalem.</p> + +<p>As you peruse these pages, I pray that you may whisper a prayer to +God in my behalf, as I am now fifty-six years old and only a child in +wisdom.</p> + +<p>With pity for the blind hosts of Catholicism and a prayer upon my +lips for their deliverance from the trenches of paganism, I dedicate +this book to the world as coming from a heart which poured out its +youth's vitality upon the barren fields of superstition, and wasted +its vigor in serving only the god of myths. With a feeling of +brotherly love for the entire world, I am,</p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 6em;">Yours in His name,</span><br /></p> + +<p><span style="margin-left: 11em;">BERNARD FRESENBORG.</span><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>TABLE OF CONTENTS.</h2> + + +<table class="index" summary="table of contents"> +<tr> +<td></td><td></td><td class =" number"><b>Page</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#Chapter_I"><b>Chapter I. Who I Am, +What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>15</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_II">Chapter II. Some of the +Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the Name of Our Blessed Savior.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>33</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_III">Chapter III. All Children of Protestant Parents, +Declared Bastards by Catholicism.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>51</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_IV">Chapter IV. Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power +to Reason and You make Slaves of Humanity.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>65</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_V">Chapter V. Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>81</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_VI">Chapter VI. The Nations completely dominated by the Power +of the Pope, are Nations of Illegitimacy.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>97</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_VII">Chapter VII. The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto Rica and the Philippine Islands.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>109</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_VIII">Chapter VIII. Monasteries are often Criminals' Abode, and +Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>127</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_IX">Chapter IX. Unmarried Cussedness of the Roman +Priest-Craft.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>149</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_X">Chapter X. A Brazen Insult to God.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>171</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_XI">Chapter XI. The Characters of the Followers of +Catholicism, Compared to the Followers of Protestantism.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>181</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_XII">Chapter XII. Why the Teachers in our Public Schools +should not be Selected from the Ranks of Catholicism.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>193</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_XIII">Chapter XIII. The Influence of the Priesthood in America.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>223</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_XIV">Chapter XIV. The Chastity of the Home Invaded by the Lustfulness of the Priest-Craft.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>239</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_XV">Chapter XV. Nations which have been Disgraced by the Toleration of Popish Rule.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>255</b></td> +</tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><b><a href="#Chapter_XVI">Chapter XVI. Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.</a></b></td> +<td class =" number"><b>281</b></td> +</tr></table> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span><br /></p> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span><br /></p> + +<table class="index" summary="list of illustrations"> +<tr> +<td></td><td></td><td class =" number"><b>Page</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig1"><b>Author's Picture.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>2</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig2"><b>"What Shall I Do To Be Saved?"</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>14</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig3"><b>The Two Inspirations—The Holy Bible<br /> +and Catholicism.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>33</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig4"><b>The Unmarried Life of the Priest-Craft,<br /> +compared to the Married Life of<br />Protestant Ministers.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>50</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig5"><b>The Two Ways—"As the Twig is Bent, the<br />Tree's Incline."</b></a></td> +<td class =" number"><b>64</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig6"><b>Immorality of the Priest-Hood—With Romish<br /> +Lust, the Blossom of Virtue is Destroyed.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>80</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig7"><b>America's Ruin.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>96</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig8"><b>Free in Name Only—Take Their Chains Off<br /> +Uncle Sam, or You will always have<br />Trouble with Them.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>108</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig9"><b>Save The Girls—Batter Down the Doors of<br /> +Convents, and the Civilized World will<br />Stand Amazed.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>126</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig10"><b>Take Your Choice—The Christ of Protestantism<br /> +Compared to the God of Catholicism.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>148</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig11"><b>Being Ex-Communicated for Reading the<br /> +Bible—"May She Be Damned in her Mouth,<br />in Her Breast, in Her Heart, Etc., Etc."</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>170</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig12"><b>A Modern Judas—In His Wake, Misery always<br /> +Follows.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>180</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig13"><b>Foes to Knowledge—Like a Poisonous<br /> +Serpent, Etc., Etc.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>192</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig14"><b>Heathenish Practices—A Catholic "Dupe"<br /> +Kissing the Supposed Bone of St. Ann.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>222</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig15"><b>A Catholic Tool—Begging in the Name of<br /> +the Lord, but in Reality, to Support the<br />Priest-Craft, Etc.</b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>238</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig16"><b>Systematic Robbery—The Road to Glory along<br /> +the Catholic Highway, Etc. </b></a></td><td class =" number"><b>254</b></td></tr><tr> +<td colspan ="2"><a href="#fig17"><b>Uncle Sam—"Here is Your Next Fight Boys."</b></a> +</td><td class =" number"><b>280</b></td> +</tr></table> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 238px;"> +<a name="fig2" id="fig2"/><a href="images/fig2.jpg"><img src="images/fig2_tb.jpg" width="238" height="400" +alt=""WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED""The dawn of Protestantism upon Ex-Priest Fresenborg +after thirty years in the Roman Catholic Church."" title="" /></a> +<span class="caption">"WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED""</span></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_I" id="Chapter_I"></a>Chapter I.</h2> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> +<h3>Who I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am.</h3> + + +<p>My parents were Catholics, and for this reason I suppose, is why I +became a Catholic Priest.</p> + +<p>I was born in Germany, in 1847, thus you see I am now almost what the +world would call an old man—56 years old.</p> + +<p>A few years ago, I was of the opinion that my life had been well +spent, but to-day I firmly believe that the major part of my life has +been spent in erroneous doctrines and nonsensical teachings, as the +broad light of wisdom and independent thought has penetrated the dark +resources of my bewildered conception of right, and has caused me to +look upon things in general in an intelligent manner. Therefore, I +feel that my youth and the vig<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span>orous years of my manhood have been +spent in what one might term idolatry.</p> + +<p>From this time forward I am going to endeavor to undo, as near as +possible, what I have helped to accomplish in the past.</p> + +<p>In the first place, I desire to give the reader an idea of who I am, +as the reader is entitled to this knowledge, and in the second place +I want the reader to understand what I am, and in the third place to +understand why I am what I am, as there must be a reason for all +things.</p> + +<p>My ancestors came from Sweden, but becoming tired of religions +warfare under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, they settled in a +Catholic colony in Germany, in the southern part of the Dukedom of +Oldenburg, near the River Haase.</p> + +<p>The reader, if he be a Protestant, is familiar with Protestant +affiliations, and I am led to believe belongs to one of the many +Protestant denominations, known under the head of Methodist, Baptist, +Christian, United Brethren, Presbyterian, Free Baptist, or some one +of the many other Protestant<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> Churches. Therefore you can easily see +why it was that I became a Catholic, as I was taught it from my +infancy.</p> + +<p>My father, like his ancestors, lived in Essen, Oldenburg. Essen is a +town of considerable trade in grain, in fine Oldenburg horses and +Holstein cows, in fact, it is a town noted for its fine stock.</p> + +<p>The beautiful town of Essen has a considerable population. Two fine +rivers, which unite their rapid waters in its very midst, make it an +ideal spot to live.</p> + +<p>My relatives were among the first and best families of the Dukedom. +These families were by name Dickmann, Meyer, Junker and Mohlenkamp, +who are at the head of the intellectual and material movements of +that place. They are all related by marriage and intermarriage to the +Fresenborgs. My parents had ten children. This, however, may not +interest the reader, so I will confine myself to my own biography.</p> + +<p>The school to which I was sent was one of the leading schools and had +a world-wide reputation, especially of sending many scholars and +students<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> to the gymnasium and afterwards to universities for +different branches of sciences.</p> + +<p>It seems as though all of those who attended this school became +successful in their individual careers, as lawyers, doctors or some +other of the chosen avocations of life.</p> + +<p>I was raised, I might say, under the walls of the free City of +Bremen, and was inspired with the idea of freedom, and this, perhaps, +may be the reason why, when I have come to be an old man, that I have +shaken off this eternal bondage of Catholicism and launched my boat +so late in life upon the broad waters of Protestant freedom.</p> + +<p>As the son of a wealthy family, I was sent to the Gymnasium of Vechta +for higher studies, where I received the best education which Germany +could give to her sons, and from there I was dismissed with the +diploma of "Maturity" in 1870, which was a passport to any man +holding such a diploma in any scholarly community, for a diploma from +this institution meant all that it implied.</p> + +<p>After I had gone through a perfect study of Gymnasium, and after +having obtained my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> diploma, I could then decide for any career that +I might choose.</p> + +<p>About this time came the disturbance of all of Germany caused by "The +German-French War." Like every patriot, I volunteered as a soldier, +but the officers in the German army were practical men and they had +little use for unseasoned "student soldiers" in the field of action, +and I was left in garrisons where universities were situated, where I +had military practice for a few hours each day, and then could follow +my studies at the same time.</p> + +<p>Peace followed quickly after the Waterloo of Napoleon III at Sedan, +and this peace was restored quickly in the "fatherland," as not one +victorious Frenchman had crossed the "Rhine."</p> + +<p>I followed my favorite study, forestry and agriculture, for some +time, but as my parents and my forefathers, both on my father's and +mother's side, had been devout Catholics, I had an earnest longing to +become a Catholic Priest, as I desired to go forth in the world and +proclaim the cause of Christ, believing that Catholicism was the +only<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> church which had a right to establish her doctrines, and, of +course, cast my lot with this church, and to-day finds me an old man +with every vestige of childhood's faith shaken from center to +circumference, as I have lived in America so long and seen so much of +the intelligence of Protestantism, and so much of the deception of +Catholicism, I could not remain in the Catholic Church and be true to +my conception of what was right and wrong, therefore I laid aside, +with a degree of regret, the relics of Catholic barbarism.</p> + +<p>I discarded the Scapular and everything that has no more intelligent +meaning to it than the cungering devices of the heathen has towards +the uplifting of humanity and the civilization of the world.</p> + +<p>Many, many years ago my faith was shaken by what I had seen with my +own eyes and heard with my own ears, but I nursed my religious belief +from my mother's bosom; my religion was born and bred in my bones; +every drop of blood in my person was electrified in childhood by the +cungerings of Catholic legerdemain, and I was taught at my<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> mother's +knee to believe that there was no other church that had a ghost of a +chance of eternal salvation but the Catholic Church, and I was taught +that all Protestants were heretics and abominable in the sight of God +and sure of eternal damnation, unless they turned from their sins and +joined the Catholic Church.</p> + +<p>Ofttimes I would have my faith shaken by the actions of some lustful +priest, but I clung tenaciously to the religion of my mother and +refused to look beyond the horizon of Catholic superstition.</p> + +<p>About the time that I had fully made up my mind to become a priest, I +had my faith shaken in the priesthood to a great extent by a +scandalous happening near the College of Vechta, which concerned and +strictly involved one of the great dignitaries of Catholicism in my +college town, but I fought this feeling of dislike down and forced +myself to believe that what a priest or bishop did was all right in +the sight of God, but at the same time I had a feeling of distrust, +as I could not reconcile myself to believe that God would look with +compassion upon the acts of a dignitary more<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> readily than he would +upon the transgressions of his blind and duped followers, but +nevertheless I went ahead and prepared myself for the priesthood, +which I followed for thirty years.</p> + +<p>Right directly opposite the college which I was attending resided the +Very Rev. Harold. This reverend gentleman was a high dignitary in the +Catholic Church.</p> + +<p>We young priests had often heard it whispered about that Priest +Harold had in his house at different times a number of concubines, +which are nothing more nor less than lude women. We often saw ladies +around the mansion, dressed in the very height of fashion, and their +actions led us to believe that they were there at the solicitation of +Rev. Harold, as they were seen there at all times of the day and +night, and this certainly made a very strange impression upon us +young students, as there were so many different faces; one day we +would see two or three young girls, and the next day the same number +would be about the mansion, but different faces. All of we young +students endeavored not to believe the rumor, as we were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> Catholics +in every sense of the word, and we did not want to believe that +anything so degrading would be tolerated in the very mansion of one +of the officials who were teaching us.</p> + +<p>The acts of this dignitary became so flagrant that even the students +who were trying not to believe the scandal were forced to believe +there was something wrong about the mansion of this Catholic +dignitary.</p> + +<p>About this time there was a young priest by the name of Wulf, from +Rome, who was sent to Vechta and made secretary of this dignitary's +mansion, who, during the day, worked in the office of the mansion, +where court was held in cases of the Catholic Church and schools.</p> + +<p>He was soon familiar in and about the mansion and the surrounding +grounds and was given many privileges, and the dignitary seemed to +like him because he did not meddle with his vile conduct, and the +ladies who frequented this place also seemed to admire him. There was +a large lawn surrounding the mansion and at night-time a number of +vicious dogs were unchained to guard it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<p>The priest that was sent from Rome was soon on familiar terms with +the dogs and they would mind him and became as obedient as children, +and he was soon on such good terms with these dogs that he could +approach the house at any time, day or night, and one word from him +would cause them to sneak off to their kennels and not molest any who +desired to approach the mansion.</p> + +<p>The young priests of this college were determined to learn, if +possible, if this Catholic dignitary was guilty of the immoral +conduct that he was accused of, so they went to Wulf and explained to +him that they desired to make a personal investigation, and got this +young priest to promise that he would let them into the grounds one +night and also see that the dogs did not molest them.</p> + +<p>We selected a dark night and a few of us young priests slipped into +the lawn surrounding the mansion and placed a ladder up to the second +story window, as there was a bright light inside, and we determined +to learn, if possible, what was going on in this room.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>Dr. Wulf, the secretary, was the first to ascend, and there in this +room was the dignitary of the Catholic Church in a half drunken +condition, with two licentious and lude women, playing cards and +drinking wine, and the trio were in a half nude condition, and +frequently this dignitary of the Catholic Church would kiss these +harlots.</p> + +<p>After Dr. Wulf came down the ladder and told what he had seen, of +course the rest of us wished to become eye witnesses to the perfidy +of this vagabond of the Catholic Church.</p> + +<p>We would take time about going up the ladder to look at this sight, +and sometimes one would remain so long at the top of the ladder the +others would become restless and urge him to come down and give the +rest of us a chance.</p> + +<p>It seemed as though this Catholic dignitary and the women up stairs +within had implicit confidence in the dogs, and had no fear of +detection in their drunken orgy of immorality. This dignitary seemed +very drunk, and the ladies began to undress him preparatory to +putting him to bed. When<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> they had him undressed, one of them pulled +off her clothes and went to bed with him.</p> + +<p>The next morning the report in the form of affidavits was presented +to the parents of the girls, which caused a very great sensation, and +this bundle of infamy and abomination was forced to leave the city by +the parents of these daughters whom he had desecrated by his filthy +touch.</p> + +<p>It was afterwards learned that this state of affairs had existed in +this Catholic mansion for years past, and all that had transpired in +this mansion would blush the inhabitants of Sodom if it could be +told, but it is so filthy that it could not be repeated by any one +who had much respect for himself.</p> + +<p>After this dignitary had left the mansion there were a number of +children's skeletons unearthed in the park belonging to the mansion, +and one child's skeleton was found in the waters surrounding the +palace.</p> + +<p>No one was ever arrested for this awful, awful crime, as this +Catholic dignitary fled to some monastery and there was concealed +from the law's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> clutch, as there is no law whereby these monasteries +can be forced open and their criminals brought to justice.</p> + +<p>A monastery is a Catholic institution that may be used for divers +purposes, but for one great purpose, and a very heinous purpose, is +to hide and conceal Catholic officials who break the laws of their +country, as they can flee to these monasteries and there hide +themselves from the wrath of the civil government.</p> + +<p>It makes no difference how vile the culprits may be, these Catholic +institutions are always a refuge for them, and especially if the +culprit who has money or friends supply them with same, as the +Catholic Church is and always has been a great money machine, as +money, in the eyes of the Catholic dignitaries, covers up a multitude +of sins.</p> + +<p>You may not know it, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that the +monasteries never allow the officers of the civil laws to enter, and +suppose the officers did enter, the culprit would never be found, as +Catholic institutions are built with the purpose of sheltering her +abominable faithless in case these<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> criminals' desire to hide +themselves therein, as the convents, monasteries and cloisters have a +labyrinth which would mystify any one who was not used to these +underground passages.</p> + +<p>No one ever learned where the dignitary of this Catholic institution +at Vechta went, but we were thoroughly convinced that he was hiding +somewhere in a monastery.</p> + +<p>At this point in my religious training I perceived the nonsense of +celibacy, and the Apostle's injunction: "Nevertheless, to avoid +fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman +have her own husband." (I Cor. 7:2.) But the teachings of my +childhood caused me to believe that it would be sacrilegious upon my +part to even allow myself to believe that the Pope of Rome could +possibly make a mistake, therefore I did as all true Catholics are +expected to do, and forced myself to believe that all of the +abominations practiced by this church were godly.</p> + +<p>At this time I would conceal myself in privacy, and endeavor to +reason why a minister of the gospel should be expected to do things +which were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> unnatural and against the direct teachings of God, as we +find in <i>Gen. 21:18</i> that our Creator said: "It is not good that man +should be alone, I will make a helpmate for him," but whenever I +would undertake to study and try to convince myself of the +erroneousness of the Catholic doctrines, her teachings would loom up +and blind my intelligent conception of things, as I had been taught +that I should not question a single mandate that the Pope of Rome +should see fit to promulgate, therefore I made up my mind that it was +a sin for me to use the intelligence that God had given me, and I +resolved to follow the Catholic doctrine, regardless of what it might +lead me to, consequently I closed my eyes to reason and common sense +and became a blind and superstitious follower of Rome.</p> + +<p>When I came to America I beheld her great civilization and at once my +conception of intelligent action presented itself again, but I fought +hard to drive these feelings from my bosom, but the more I fought the +stronger I became convinced that I was wrong and that my early +training was wrong, and that the entire machinery and mechan<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span>ism of +the Catholic Church was founded upon abominations and superstitions, +but the teachings of my mother would prevail and I would slink back +into the trenches of Catholicism, and there I remained until less +than a year ago, when I resolved to burst the bands of iniquity and +walk out upon the plains of Protestantism, regardless of the deep +feelings of respect that I had for my early training.</p> + +<p>If God is an intelligent God, then we are expected to worship Him in +an intelligent manner, and if he is not an intelligent God, it is +impossible for Him to be a God, and if the Lord of Hosts is an +intelligent Creator and expects us, as His children, to worship Him +in an intelligent manner, the Catholic Church and all of her +followers are sinning against God every day, as her mode of worship +is steeped in the drugs of heathenish superstitions.</p> + +<p>In this volume I propose to set forth nothing but absolute truths, +and I call upon an intelligent God for my witness, and I am qualified +to make oath before any official that is qualified to bind me<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> under +oath that every word that appears in this volume shall be the truth +and nothing but the truth, so help me God.</p> + +<p>I will give $5,000.00 to any charitable institution named by any +state of the United States if any Catholic priest, bishop or cardinal +will prove by any of their church doctrines that I have misstated or +misrepresented the teachings of Catholicism in any letter, word or +sentence.</p> + +<p>I want to thoroughly impress the reader with the truthfulness of this +volume, so when he or she has perused these pages they may know that +it has been written by one who has served in the capacity of a +Catholic priest for the past thirty years, but who, to-day, stands +out upon the broad plains of spiritual emancipation, and from this +time forward will always be found upon the side of spiritual liberty +and following the doctrines of an intelligent God, and when my +earthly race is run I hope and pray to be ushered into the presence +of an intelligent God.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 241px;"> +<a name="fig3" id="fig3"/><a href="images/fig3.jpg"><img src="images/fig3_tb.jpg" width="241" height="400" alt=""THE TWO INSPIRATIONS."" +title=""THE TWO INSPIRATIONS."" /></a> +<span class="caption">"THE TWO INSPIRATIONS."</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_II" id="Chapter_II"></a>Chapter II.</h2> + +<h3>Some of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the Name of +Blessed Saviour.</h3> + + +<p>What I will now relate is not hear-say nor something that I have read +about, but it is something that <i> know about</i>, and which I +witnessed.</p> + +<p>It is a well-known fact that Catholicism endeavors to impress her +subjects with the miraculousness of latter day miracles, as she will +hold up the bones of some supposed Catholic Saint, and declare to her +benighted followers that if they worship these relics, they will work +wonders and cure the ailment of any affliction they may be possessed +of.</p> + +<p>For instance, they will take the bone of some Catholic Saint (?) and +admonish the followers of Catholicism to touch this bone, or to kiss +it, and declare to them that by so doing they will become<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> entirely +cured of any malady that may rack their person with misery.</p> + +<p>In fact, Catholicism will resort to all kinds of nonsensical +practices in order to completely keep their subjects in darkest +ignorance, which will enable the officials to "hoodwink" their +followers and make them believe anything the officials see fit to +teach them.</p> + +<p>I will now relate what I saw in Munster, Germany. The news spread all +through Germany that the "Mother Superior" of the house of Saint +Clement was living upon "Holy Communion" only.</p> + +<p>Now that the reader may understand what "Holy Communion" is, I will +here state that it is a thin wafer, used for sacramental purposes, +which would not weigh more than the one-hundredth part of an ounce, +and this is what they claimed the Mother Superior of the house of +Saint Clement was existing upon, she only taking one of these wafers +every twenty-four hours.</p> + +<p>Of course, this was given out by the dignitaries of the Catholic +Church in order to blind their fol<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span>lowers, and I desire to state +right here that I also believed that this was the fact until it was +demonstrated thoroughly that it was an infamous lie and that the +instigators were infamous impostors. However, pilgrimages started +from all directions to see this "Mother Superior," and when they +could not see her, they fought for the opportunity of praying in her +chapel. Some stayed for weeks and weeks to see her. Applications for +intercessions of all kinds of misery were sent to her, as these +simple "dupes" of Catholicism actually believed that this impostor +had the power to heal any ailment that might afflict them.</p> + +<p>There were thousands of fanatics who visited Munster and hung their +crutches on the chapel walls and declared they were cured of their +ailment. The blind claimed to see by her intercessions. It was +claimed that all, possessed of every kind and description of +ailments, could be cured if the one who was afflicted only had faith +in this Mother Superior's wonderful power?</p> + +<p>"The finger of God is in the land!" was the cry,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> and tens of +thousands of Catholics from all over the country gathered in Munster.</p> + +<p>There was a certain man by the name of Friedhoff who doubted the +proclaimed powers of this Mother Superior and boldly declared his +doubt, and the Catholic world was indignant over the audacity of such +a doubt. It was learned that the Mother Superior would allow but one +sister of the institution to come to her room, and also her Father +Confessor. By the way, it might be pertinent to say that the Mother +Superior was an extremely handsome young lady; in fact, very young +for the position she occupied.</p> + +<p>The guard that was placed over the Mother Superior was given +instructions by the Mayor of Munster to watch her closely and see +that she lived entirely upon "Holy Communion." The Protestant world +took an active part in this matter and gave close attention to the +guard that was over this "Mother Superior," as they were determined +to learn from whence originated this bold deception, as they were +thoroughly convinced that it was nothing more nor less than a +deception.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<p>The confessor of the "Mother Superior" was changed and the sister who +waited upon her was changed, and in a very short time the "Mother +Superior" asked for food; thus it began to dawn upon the public at +large that they had been grossly deceived, and they began to learn +that all of these miraculous cures (?) were brought about and +promulgated by the leaders of Catholicism. Numerous physicians were +taken into confidence and an examination was made of the "Mother +Superior," and it was learned that she was pregnant, and it was +proven that the child belonged to the priest in charge of the +convent, who, by the way, was the one this "Mother Superior" +confessed her sins to.</p> + +<p>This "Mother Superior" sat in her room and gave her orders to at +least two hundred sisters who were inmates of this institution.</p> + +<p>The Catholic world advertised this "fake" so thoroughly that every +house in and about Munster was filled to overflowing with pilgrims +who came there on the strength of this well-advertised "fake."</p> + +<p>Munster was the Mecca. Every train arriving<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span> brought in hundreds and +added great multitudes to the already great crowd. Some claimed that +the sight of the chapel, or even the sight of the hospital, healed +them.</p> + +<p>Even the newspapers began to report the wonderful miracles (?) that +were performed by this "Mother Superior."</p> + +<p>By this time the Protestants in Munster were getting very active and +denounced this worship in round terms, and set about to have an +investigation made, which was bitterly opposed by the Catholics. The +hotel keepers and shop keepers of Munster were bitterly opposed to +the Protestants' denunciation, as they were anxious for this "fake" +to be advertised as thoroughly as possible, as it was bringing them +in large revenues, as the thousands who were visiting Munster were +compelled to have raiment, food and lodging; but the denunciation of +this "fake" by the Protestants became so great that the bishop was +compelled, greatly against the wishes of the citizens of Munster, to +investigate, and this investigation brought forth enough to startle +the civilized world. How<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span>ever, it is only one of the many, many +colossal "fakes" that are promulgated by Catholicism. However, the +clamor of the Protestant world brought things to a crisis, as the +"Mother Superior" was ordered to stay in strict confinement and a +watch was placed over her.</p> + +<p>This brought matters to a climax and the "Mother Superior" confessed +that one of the inmates of the convent had secretly carried her food +during all of this time that she was claiming to exist on "Holy +Communion." Of course, this is only one of the tens of thousands of +such schemes that are practiced by Catholicism all over the world, +and the Protestants were not surprised and stated boldly and above +board that they knew there was some "scull-duggery" attached to all +of this "fake" miracle business.</p> + +<p>This "Mother Superior" fled from Munster, and it was learned that she +went to the City Rheine, on the river Ems, and gave birth to a child, +and the father of this child was the Catholic priest in charge of +this convent, who helped and was the prime instigator in giving out +to the world<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span> that the "Mother Superior" was performing miracles, +which was a malicious lie made of whole cloth and promulgated in +order to securely bind the followers of Catholicism to their +idolatrous belief.</p> + +<p>This is not the end of the "Mother Superior," as she afterwards +practiced in the open what she had practiced in this Catholic convent +at Munster, as she entered a house of ill fame in the City of Rheine +in Germany, and there led a life of shame as a harlot of the world; +however, she was only living the same life she had been living when +she was sailing under the name of "Mother Superior" in this convent +at Munster.</p> + +<p>Now, reader, if Catholicism would practice such abominations upon the +ignorant dupes of her followers in Munster, Germany, is it not +reasonable to suppose that she would practice them to-day wherever +she can fasten her hellish belief upon the minds of the people?</p> + +<p>Hardly a day passes over our heads but what we see in some newspaper +where Catholicism is brazenly declaring to the intelligent public +that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> miraculous cures are being performed by some "hoodoo saint" of +their idolatrous creed.</p> + +<p>One would believe that in enlightened America the Roman Church could +not wield such an idolatrous influence over her followers, but when +you stop to think that the children of Catholic parents are brought +up from infancy to believe all of this "hoodooism," it is not strange +that they fall into these idolatrous practices.</p> + +<p>When America learns that the majority of the convents and monasteries +of this country are used for the purpose of shielding and protecting +Catholic criminals, and for the purpose of Catholic dignitaries to +glut their lust upon the female inmates of these institutions, and +will exact and demand laws that will force a rigid examination every +thirty or sixty days of these institutions, then the world at large +will know and thoroughly understand that these institutions are +practically the homes of depravity and licentiousness.</p> + +<p>To give the reader more information in regard to what Catholicism +resorts to to impress their "dupes" with their idolatry, we want to +take up<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> their great magician, "St. Anthony." The Catholic priesthood +teaches their followers that St. Anthony's spirit possesses the power +to answer all prayers, in fact, to perform any favor the supplicant +may ask.</p> + +<p>Now, to illustrate what I mean, is this: Suppose you had lost your +pocketbook containing $50.00; the Catholic Church teaches that all +you have to do is to pay a few dimes into the priest's pocket and +then get down and pray to St. Anthony and you will at once learn +where your pocketbook is.</p> + +<p>Now, bear in mind that this praying to St. Anthony don't cut any ice +unless you pay something, as every prayer must be backed up by money, +and the more money paid the quicker action you can get on St. +Anthony.</p> + +<p>The Catholic Church calls it "St. Anthony's Bread Box," and right by +the side of this box they have a large number of small candles, and +you are supposed to drop the money into this box to pay for the +candles that St. Anthony uses when looking for what is lost, or to +light his path on his road to answer your prayer.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<p>These candles cost the priest from one-half cent to one cent each, +and the "dupe" will drop in from ten cents to ten dollars to have his +prayer answered, so you can see that the Catholic Church is a good +thing for the candle makers.</p> + +<p>We will now give you a few idiotic prayers that are offered to St. +Anthony by the followers of blind Catholicism.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"O, Glorious St. Anthony, noble Sunflower of divine +conformity, I salute thee in the name of the Queen of Angels +and of all the angelic choirs; and I thank Almighty God for +the grace bestowed on thee, that like to this Great Queen and +the angelic choirs thou wert ever conformed to His holy will. +I beseech thee that with this glorious Lady and all the +angelic choirs, thou wouldst approach the throne of God, +lovingly offer Him this my petition and strengthen it by +thine intercession.</p> + +<p>"OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY."</p> + + +<p>"I salute thee, Blessed Anthony, noble Narcissus-flower of +knowledge, in the name of all the patriarchs and prophets; +and I thank the good God for bestowing on thee, like to the +patriarchs and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> prophets, the gift of divine knowledge and of +foreseeing future events. I beseech thee that with the +patriarchs and prophets thou wouldst approach the throne of +God and by your united prayers and merits obtain for me this +my petition.</p> + +<p>"OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY."</p> + + +<p>"I salute thee, Blessed Anthony, noble Carnation-flower of +fervent love, in the name of all the holy apostles and +disciples of Christ; and I thank the most merciful Lord for +the great grace bestowed on thee, like unto that of the +apostles and disciples, when He chose thee to proclaim the +holy Gospel and to spread the Christian faith. I beseech thee +that with the apostles and disciples thou wouldst approach +the throne of God and by your united prayers and merits +obtain for me this my petition.</p> + +<p>"Our Father. Hail, Mary. Glory."</p></div> + + +<p>We will give you an instance of this "St. Anthony's" witchcraft +business that came under my personal observation. A lady was standing +upon a bridge that spans one of the many streams that rushes down +from the Adirondack Mountains, gaz<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span>ing at this crystal stream and +watching the fishes below, and while standing there she was toying +with a beautiful diamond ring that had been given her by her lover. +In a careless manner she allowed this ring to slip from her finger, +and it fell into the waters below.</p> + +<p>With a sudden cry those who were near her were attracted to the spot +and she explained to them her misfortune, and it was not long until +there was quite a crowd about her, offering their sympathy and also +their assistance.</p> + +<p>Some volunteered to wade into this stream and search for the ring, +which was done, and a number of buckets of mud were carried up out of +the stream from the point the lady had stated she had dropped her +ring, but the ring could not be found.</p> + +<p>At this point one of our Catholic "dupes" appeared and explained to +the lady that if she would put her trust in St. Anthony and would pay +$500, that St. Anthony would restore to her her ring.</p> + +<p>This lady being a Catholic also, of course, was easily persuaded to +do this, so they knelt down and prayed to St. Anthony and beseeched +him to re<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span>store the lost treasure, and it was not long until all of +those in the crowd that belonged to the Catholic Church were in +sympathy with this distressed lady, and they were also kneeling and +supplicating St. Anthony to restore the lost treasure. They prayed +for an hour, but still the lost treasure would not appear; then the +ringleader of this barbarous belief informed this lady that the ring +had been swallowed by a fish. He pretended to be inspired and claimed +that he could catch this identical fish with the bait of St. +Anthony's bread. Everything was soon prepared and the line was let +down into the water, and sure enough a good sized fish was caught +upon this St. Anthony's bait, and the crowd went into rapturous +delight, as they were quite sure they had the identical fish that had +swallowed the ring.</p> + +<p>As soon as the fish was caught a collection was raised by a priest +who was in the crowd for the benefit of "St. Anthony's Bread Box." +All of the Catholics in the crowd contributed, of course, as they +were afraid not to, for Catholics believe that if they do not do what +a priest tells them to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> they are sure to have something awful befall +them, and, of course, all of these Catholics believed in the +witchcraft of St. Anthony and believed that he was the actual +restorer of all lost things.</p> + +<p>The Protestants in the congregation were determined to see what was +inside of the fish, so they followed the one that carried it to a +butcher shop and the fish was cut open, but naught was found in it +but what is usually found in any old fish that never saw or heard +tell of a diamond ring.</p> + +<p>Now, this is one of the thousands—yea, tens of thousands of such +instances that are forced down the throats of the ignorant, +superstitions followers of Catholicism.</p> + +<p>Now, what I relate above is true in every conceivable manner, and not +one sentence or statement is misrepresented.</p> + +<p>This belief in the power of St. Anthony is simply abominable and +belongs to the dark ages of heathendom.</p> + + +<p>I have often wondered when I was acting as priest in the Catholic +Church why it was that Protestants, when they attended my church, +would<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> look on in wonderment and surprise, and I attributed this +wonderment to a desire upon the part of Protestantism to make fun and +villify the teachings of the Catholic Church, but I now realize that +this bewilderment came from minds which had been elevated far above +the cungerings of the Catholic Church, and I am now surprised that +the Protestants who visit Catholic churches are not more bewildered +and mystified, as the teachings of Protestantism are based upon the +inspirations derived from the Word of God and the teachings of +Catholicism are naught but the rumblings of the dark ages.</p> + +<p> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span></p> + +<p> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<p> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig4" id="fig4"/><a href="images/fig4.jpg"><img src="images/fig4_tb.jpg" width="400" height="244" +alt="The unmarried life of the Priestcraft compared +to the married life of a Protestant minister." title="The unmarried life of the Priestcraft compared +to the married life of a Protestant minister." /></a> +<span class="caption">The unmarried life of the Priestcraft compared +to the married life of a Protestant minister."</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_III" id="Chapter_III"></a>Chapter III.</h2> + +<h3>All Children of Protestant Parents Are +Declared Bastards by Catholicism.</h3> + + +<p>The Catholic Church declares that all of those who contract marriage +otherwise than in the presence of a Catholic Priest, that such +marriages are null and void.</p> + +<p>Catholicism further declares that your darling child, which is the +fruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a common +bastard.</p> + +<p>How do you Protestants like to hear this? How do you feel when you +know that this is the belief and opinion of all Catholic dignitaries, +and this belief is taught to all the Catholic world by those who +presume to dictate?</p> + +<p>Your darling baby boy or girl is branded as an illegitimate offspring +by Catholicism, simply because their parents were not united in +wedlock by<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as hell +itself.</p> + +<p>The reason why Catholicism so sternly demands that all should be +married by the priestcraft is from a monetary standpoint, as the +Catholic priest gets his fee, as he will not under any circumstances +unite any one in wedlock without a fee, and I have known in many +instances where the contracting parties were unable to pay a money +fee, and the grasping priestcraft would refuse to unite them in +marriage until they had given him some article of intrinsic value, +and I have often seen jewelry, silver-mounted pipes, watches and many +other things confiscated by the priestcraft before they would perform +the ceremony.</p> + +<p>It is strange to me, indeed, that America, which is and should be by +every law of justice and right, a Protestant nation, is so +unconcerned and so listless over the insults that Catholicism daily +offers Protestantism, for if it is not a most damnable insult to +stigmatize your offspring as bastards, then we are unable to discern +and distinguish between a brazen insult and a flattering compliment.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span></p> +<p>Whenever America learns the actual and true meaning of Catholicism +and her teachings, there will be an awakening among the Protestant +world that will make the four corners of the government of the United +States tremble with a righteous indignation.</p> + +<p>Now, if the offspring of that dear old mother is a bastard, then she +is nothing more nor less than a common whore, and you cannot arrive +at any other rational conclusion. This is only reasoning from +intelligent deductions; therefore, whenever Catholicism calls the +children of Protestant parents bastards simply because these parents +were not united in wedlock by a Catholic priest, they villify the +sacred name of father and mother, and trail in the slime of disgrace +the sweet memories of that sturdy old father and that angelic old +Protestant mother.</p> + +<p>I am at a loss to know and to understand how Protestantism can sit so +unconcernedly by with folded hands and allow this vulturous foe of +human rights and human privileges to brazenly rear its institutions +in Protestant America, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> teach such damnable doctrines about those +who have made America all she ever was, and is, or ever will be.</p> + +<p>A creed or doctrine that exists upon the dwarfed ambitions of its +followers is undoubtedly an institution which exists upon the carrion +of human miseries, and is a menace to a nation, which possesses the +godly ambitions that permeate the minds of Protestantism.</p> + +<p>We have in this country scores—yea, hundreds of Protestant fathers +and mothers who allow their children to attend Catholic schools, when +those who are teaching them in these Catholic institutions brazenly, +flagrantly and openly declare that those children are the offspring +of immorality, as they do not hesitate to say that all children are +bastards whose parents were not married by the priestcraft; but still +these Protestant parents allow their children to be taught by those +who villify and defame their parents' names.</p> + +<p>This is one of the strangest things that has ever come under my +observation in the United States, as the Protestant world in general +knows that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span> Catholicism teaches these things, and the Protestant +world also knows that under no circumstances nor conditions would +Catholicism allow their children to attend a Protestant college, but +Protestant parents go right ahead and allow their children to be +taught by a class of men and women who will boldly declare to these +children that their own parents are immoral, and that the teachings +of their youth were erroneous and would lead to everlasting +damnation.</p> + +<p>Is it not about time that the Protestant world was arousing +themselves from this lethargetic sleep of unconcern, or do you +propose to allow Catholicism to convince you, by her doctrines of +degeneracy, that she is right, and that you acknowledge her as right +by you sending your children to her institutions of learning?</p> + +<p>Catholicism has always made her boast that if she can control the +children until they are 7 to 10 years old, that they will control the +government in the future, and it seems as though Protestant America +is perfectly willing to risk the consequences, but let me sound a +warning in your ears<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span> in this chapter, which may not arouse you from +your national stupidity, but which, in after years, will rumble down +the avenues of the future the truthfulness of this assertion that +will make the Protestant world shudder. It is this: "<i>Unless you +guard the goddess of your American liberty with the patriotism of you +Protestant manhood, it will not be long until you will find this +government face to face with a problem more perplexing than the +government of France is wrestling with to-day, on account of this +Romish beast, whose jaws are dripping with the blood of doomed +ambition.</i>"</p> + +<p>Catholicism is like a thief in the night, as she goes about her +devastation of human rights with the tread of a thief and with the +cunning of a bold deceiver, which she is, and this country must +station trustworthy men upon the ramparts of this government to watch +her progress and batter down her foundation of superstition and +ignorance, or within the next fifty years America will find herself +bound hand and foot by this Romish creed of abominations, which has +caused every nation on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> the face of the earth that she has ever +controlled to wither and decay under her touch, like the tender plant +under the broiling rays of a tropical sun.</p> + +<p>I have a right to sound this warning, as I know whereof I speak, as I +have traveled this Romish road of despair for thirty years, and I +know her cunning and dastardly deception so well that her history and +her teachings are to me like the primer is to the school boy or girl.</p> + +<p>The warnings that I now sound in the ears of Protestant America are +not sounded by an alarmist, nor one who does not know whereof he +speaks, but these warnings come from one whose back has been lashed +for thirty long years with the whip of a Catholic tyrant, and I know +the history of Catholicism from beginning to end, for if one cannot +learn the history of an institution in thirty years' devout study, +then pray tell me of what use it is for man to apply himself to the +study of anything?</p> + +<p>I was once as devout a Catholic as I am to-day a Protestant, and I am +only a Protestant to-day because I was forced to become such, after +having<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> the scales of Catholicism brushed from my eyes, which had +been blinded by the superstition and fearful doctrines of this +abominable creed.</p> + +<p>Arouse, ye men and women of America, or else the time will come when +you will not be permitted to make a protest; when your wives and +mothers are declared whores by Catholicism, and your fathers and +brothers are declared whore-mongers and your children bastards!</p> + +<p>I have been a careful observer of events through my entire life, and +I never was more thoroughly convinced than to-day that we stand near +the threshold of Popish power in America, and I ask of the reader, +and of the Protestant world at large, Are we about to realize the +prediction made by the father of our country? Are we nearing the time +when liberty shall be bound to the stake by Catholicism? Are we +nearing the great Romish chasm that has swallowed up the hopes of +many nations? Are we nearing the crater of a Roman volcano that pours +out its desolation and devastation upon free men? Are we nearing the +inky night of servitude, where no light is possible, but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> the dim and +treacherous lamp of idolatrous Catholicism? Are we nearing the +stretch of waste lands that contains no friendly oasis for him who +seeks liberty? Are we building our own sepulchers to bury all the +hopes of liberty cherished by our forefathers? Are we willingly +carrying fuel for our own funeral pyres, there to be consumed by the +greedy and relentless ghouls of Catholicism?</p> + +<p>These are questions that demand an answer and demand an answer at +once, as we are far along the road to the end of human rights in +Protestant America, unless we call a halt and kindle anew the fires +of patriotism that have so long been unnoticed by those who have been +left in charge to guard our interests.</p> + +<p>Catholicism is a vile deceiver and a rank hypocrite, therefore we +must diligently watch her serpentine movements, for she will appear +where you least expect her, as she wraps about her the American flag +and other symbols of patriotism and goes about as a lamb in wolf's +clothing.</p> + +<p>I have no reason for writing this book only a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> desire to help undo +what I have already done in my fifty-six years of the past, and by +writing this book I have cut every tie that binds me to those whom I +have associated with since my childhood, therefore the reader must +know that what I am doing is being done in the name of right, justice +and the love I bear my fellowman and my adopted country, which is the +"Garden of Eden" of all the universe.</p> + +<p>"The fool doubts what a wise man tells him because the information is +new." You may doubt what I am telling you, but your doubt will cost +you your liberty.</p> + +<p>I have your cause at heart and I have no ambition to gratify, as I am +an old man and have no other desire than to help those who need help, +and I have come as a friend to talk to you around your firesides, +with no mission but that of truth.</p> + +<p>Many of us have never been told to our face that we were fools, but +because no man has been frank enough to tell us the truth is no +reason why we should not investigate what is told us, and which you +have no right nor reason to doubt.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> + +<p>The mission of this book is to get you to <i>think</i> and to examine and +pry into the past history of Catholicism, and when you have examined +the pages of Catholic history and then scrutinize her present, you +must know that her future promises no more than her past and present +would indicate her future to hold.</p> + +<p>This book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who +was a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant, +and we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor +to throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of +fear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no +better than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were +burned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the +awful deeds of that <i>awful creed</i>.</p> + +<p>We want you to consider this book as a friend, who has called at your +fireside to tell you <i>truths</i> that you should know, and which, if you +do not learn, will lower you and your posterity to the level of the +commonest slave and place over<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> the most brutal despots the world has +ever known, and these despots are nothing more nor less than the +Catholic Church.</p> + +<p>This book comes from a man who does not court the friendship of any +sect of class of men; therefore, it comes to you with intentions as +pure as it is possible for a book to come from the hands of a poor +mortal, who fears <i>nothing</i> but the wrath of a living God.</p> + +<p>Catholicism is taught her cunning from her childhood, as she is +taught to watch the ranks of Protestantism and whenever she finds a +weak spot, she turns her forces upon this weakened line, and is +further instructed never to weaken in her continual march of +devastation.</p> + +<p>Could the tears that have been shed on account of heartless +Catholicism be gathered in one body, the mighty oceans of the earth +would appear as silvery mountain brooks. Could the innocent blood of +Protestants shed by the heartless hand of Catholicism be congealed, +it would build a purple mountain that would cast a shadow the length +and breadth of this land.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span></p> + +<p>The nations of the earth have had wars from the creation of the +world, but the myriads of those who have fallen in all the battles of +the world would only be a small portion compared to the millions who +have laid down their lives that greedy, abhorrent Catholicism might +be appeased.</p> + +<p>It is time for us as <i>American freemen</i> to become free men in every +sense the word implies, and exercise both our franchise and our +brains in relegating this "Scarlet-Robed Hag of Rome" to her original +haunts.</p> + +<p>Will you perform your American duty and band together and become a +Protestant army and march out under the blood-stained banner of King +Emanuel and help to make America the greatest Protestant nation the +sun has ever shone upon?</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></p><p>Be men, and by your manhood you can, if you make the start now, lull +into <i>eternal sleep</i> this Romish power which villifies your ambitions +and brands your offspring with the stigma of disgrace.</p> + +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig5" id="fig5"/><a href="images/fig5.jpg"><img src="images/fig5_tb.jpg" width="400" height="250" +alt="THE TWO WAYS.—"As the Twig is Bent, the Tree's Incline."" +title="THE TWO WAYS.—"As the Twig is Bent, the Tree's Incline."" /></a> +<span class="caption">The Two Ways—"As the Twig is Bent, the<br />Tree's Incline.".</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_IV" id="Chapter_IV"></a>Chapter IV.</h2> + +<h3>Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power to Reason, +and You Make Slaves of Humanity.</h3> + + +<p>The men and women of the world, who have caused nations to advance +and prosper, have never been, nor never will be Catholics, unless she +discards her present mode of procedure, and this she will never do. +Whenever you tear the cloak of superstition and idolatry from the +form of Catholicism, you have naught left but the skeleton of +abominations.</p> + +<p>The men of science and of reason, all over the world, boldly accuse +the Roman Catholic Church of being the enemy of science, detesting it +and desiring to spread the mantle of ignorance over all those whom +she controls.</p> + +<p>The Church seems not to understand that everything finds its source +at the fountain of reason, as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> all things must originate from God, +and most assuredly the Supreme Being is an intelligent, reasonable +and rational God. The Catholic Church must resist, as a matter of +life or death, the progress of modern civilization, or else go down +in disgrace, for civilization and reason is a nightmare and an +everlasting enemy to Catholicism, as "scientific thought" makes her +doctrines and dogmas stand out as abominations.</p> + +<p>If the world is to depend upon the Romish Church for her +intellectuality, and for her philosophy, and for her scientific +resources, she will always be groping her way in darkness, as the +Popish church has never advanced one-hundredth part of an inch from +the trenches of ancient ignorance and superstitions, nor has she in +any material way been instrumental in advancing a single interest of +the masses which elevates, as her every cry and her combined efforts +have been to paralyze progress and scientific research, as she well +knows that to have the searchlight of reason turned upon her +mystified labyrinths of hoodooism, the world<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span> will behold the marks +of ignorance, superstition and barbarism upon her degraded form.</p> + +<p>Whenever an institution comes to believe that it is infallible and an +impossibility to err, then she settles back into the ruts of tyranny, +and whenever you find an individual or a body of individuals who +believe whatever they do is right, no matter what it may be, you will +find those who believe themselves ordained rulers of men, and +whenever this happens, the individual who believes this becomes a +tyrant, and tyranny belongs to the dark ages of heathendom, whence +Roman Catholicism originated.</p> + +<p>To demonstrate to the reader and give him or her some idea of the +tyrannical rule of Romanism, we will take the history of Galileo, +which every child, perhaps, is acquainted with.</p> + +<p>Galileo declared that the sun did not move, and this declaration +greatly insulted Pope Urban, who grew very angry, as this pope had +taught that the sun did move and that the earth stood still.</p> + +<p>The teachings of Galileo so angered the pope that he called together +an inquisitorial board and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> had Galileo tried by this Romish +tribunal, and Galileo was sentenced to imprisonment for what +Catholicism termed a heretical doctrine.</p> + +<p>Who was right—Catholicism or Galileo? Not a school boy or girl six +years old in this land but what knows that Catholicism was wrong, as +she usually is, but she would not have acknowledged her wrong had not +the world-at-large been thoroughly convinced of her error, which +would have brought her to the very feet of ridicule had she persisted +in teaching the doctrine promulgated by Pope Urban that "the sun did +move, and that the earth stood still."</p> + +<p>The Catholic Church is always desirous of evading questions which are +susceptible to debate, and which, by mature thought and deliberation, +can be analyzed, as she does not desire to come into contact with the +brains of any nation, but is satisfied to prey upon the ignorant and +superstitiously inclined, as those are her dupes and the ones from +whom she derives her revenue, and "revenue" is one of the main +perquisites of the Catholic Church, as this Romish institution is run +for the sole pur<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>pose of making serfs of men and controlling the +destiny of nations, so that the inhabitants may be forced to disgorge +their sustenance in her lap of greed, and it matters not how low she +brings her followers, nor what may be the hardships they have to +endure, just so she accomplishes her diabolical end.</p> + +<p>The reader may think it strange that a man who was born and raised a +Catholic, and who for thirty years officiated in the capacity of a +Catholic priest, could turn his back upon the creed of his +forefathers and so vehemently endeavor to destroy every vestige of +his childhood's doctrines, but this is no more unreasonable than it +was for Paul, in the twinkle of an eye, to turn from his wickedness +and become one of the chosen Apostles of Christ.</p> + +<p>Many years before I cut loose entirely from the Catholic Church my +faith in her abominations was at times almost threadbare, and I have +declared time and time again that never would I enter another +Catholic Church in the capacity of a priest, but as often as I +declared and made these resolves, just so often I broke them, as my +early training<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> and my superstitious fears would get the better of my +convictions, and I would be whipped back into the trenches of +superstition.</p> + +<p>I have often tried within the past ten years to "nag" those officials +who were above me into a paroxysm of fury and have them excommunicate +me, as I tried to make myself believe that it would be better to have +them throw me out of the church than to leave it on my own free will, +but it appeared as though they discerned by intentions and they would +not do as I desired, and at last I made up my mind that I would swing +out upon my own account from the dark shadows of this superstitious +belief, and every word of this book has been written without a single +charge preferred against me by the Catholic Church, therefore the +Catholic Church cannot declare that I was not in good standing as a +priest at the time this book was compiled.</p> + +<p>What I mean by "good standing" is that the robed monarchs who boldly +claim the power to damn the soul by excommunication, have not as yet +seen fit to eternally obliterate my prospects<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span> of ever entering the "New +Jerusalem," but as soon as this book is given to the reading public, +then those who wield the axe will let it fall with all the diabolical +vengeance of Roman hatred upon my head and declare the "pearly gates" +have been forever closed upon my depraved soul; but what I most desire +is to have the public understand that NOW, while I am writing this book, +I am considered AND AM BY ALL THE RIGHTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A PRIEST +AND ENJOY ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF CATHOLICITY AS SUCH.</p> + +<p>Why I so earnestly desire to impress this upon the minds of the +reader is that I know so well the trickery of those whom I write +about and I know full well that the Catholic officials will at once +endeavor to make the world believe that I am an outcast and in bad +standing with the Catholic Church.</p> + +<p>This book is being written in the year 1903, and I will make oath +before any court of record on earth to the truthfulness of the +statements herein set forth, and I will give ten thousand dollars to +any charitable institution in America if any priest, bishop or +archbishop on the face of the whole<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span> earth will make oath and prove +before any lawful tribunal of America if one word of the foregoing is +not true.</p> + +<p>Furthermore, I will give up all of my earthly possessions, which +amounts to several thousand dollars, if any priest, bishop or +archbishop living upon the face of the earth can prove before any +court of justice in America that I have not always endeavored to live +an exemplary life and rigidly taught the doctrines of the Catholic +faith, although at times my whole life rebelled at being compelled to +do so, but my whole training and long association would invariably +get the master of my reason and better judgment, and I would be +forced by my superstitious training back into the mystified +labyrinths of my childhood's education.</p> + +<p>I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of +reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the +heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind +paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "<i>slave of the +soul</i>" and "<i>tyrant of reason</i>."</p> + +<p>In this chapter we want to give the reader some<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span> idea of the +nonsensical and unreasonableness of the claims of Catholicism, so +that you may more fully understand how disgusting it is for a man who +endeavors to use his God-given abilities to submit to such +abominations.</p> + +<p>The Catholic Church depends more upon the saving power of the +Scapular than it does upon the saving power of Jesus Christ. Now, +this is a broad expression, but I know whereof I speak and I am +prepared to back up the assertion with facts.</p> + +<p>The Scapular is a veil or cape, which covers the shoulders. It was +worn as such by Monks and Nuns, over their dress, but which is best +known among Catholics as two little pieces of cloth worn out of +devotion, under ordinary garments, and connected by a string which +goes around the neck and hangs down, allowing this "trinket" to rest +upon the breast.</p> + +<p>Catholic children, from their infancy, are taught that this trinket +is a preventative against accident and disease, and they actually +believe it, and should they lose this "nothing" they at once be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span>come +miserable and will undergo any hardship to possess another.</p> + +<p>It was through the Carmelites (Monks) that this devotion began and I +believe that the history that I will relate in regard to it is the +first history ever repeated in this or any other country by an +ex-priest that ever lived or died.</p> + +<p>A man by the name of Simon Stock was elected to the generalship of +the Carmelite Order, and this same Simon Stock was considered a +Saint, and it is taught by Catholicism that the Virgin Mary appeared +to Simon Stock in a vision and exhibited this Scapular and gave Stock +to understand that it was to be worn by the Catholic world in the +future as a preventative against accident, disease and sudden death.</p> + +<p>There is another story which is told in regard to this Scapular, as +follows: It is said that the Virgin Mary appeared to Simon Stock in a +vision in behalf of the Carmelite Order, which at that time was in +great trouble, and gave to Stock a Scapular, which she bore in her +hand, in order that it could be worn, and which she guaranteed was +an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> order direct from God Almighty that the Carmelite Order should +wear this "trinket," which would be a preventative from any evil +overtaking any of those who did wear it, and further stating that all +of those who wore this Scapular "<i>shall never suffer eternal +burning</i>."</p> + +<p>It is further stated that Pope John XXII, in his famous Sabbatine +Bull, declared that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him and informed +him that all the members of the Carmelite Order who wore this +Scapular should be gotten out of purgatory by her on the Saturday +after their death, and this Pope winds up his declaration with the +following sentence: "I accept, corroborate and confirm, in the name +of Jesus Christ, for our Glorious Virgin Mary, who has granted this +great privilege to those who wear the Scapular."</p> + +<p>This abomination is nothing more nor less than a "tale of fiction," +and promulgated by men who know that it is a positive lie, but they +do it in order to mystify the ignorant and to compel them to remain +in darkest ignorance.</p> + +<p>Now, to convince the reader that Catholicism is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> as densely ignorant +to-day as it ever was, we will bring her history up to date.</p> + +<p>Pope Leo, in the good year of 1903, on his death bed, ordered this +Carmelite veil brought from Mount Carmel, that he might have +assistance from it in his dying hour, and declared that by the +assistance of this mythical Scapular that when he died he would go +straight to Heaven.</p> + +<p>You can take the history of the Roman Catholic Church from the +earliest days of its cussedness up to the present time, and you will +find that the same heathenish superstition that surrounded it +centuries ago still follows it to-day.</p> + +<p>Is there any proof that the Virgin Mary appeared to Simon Stock and +made to him the promise above related? No proof whatever, only the +cungered up proof of the officials of Catholicism, and the Sabbatine +Bull of Pope John has no more sense nor righteous meaning in it than +the ghost dance of the American Indian.</p> + +<p>The Scapular that we above refer to is not the only emblem of +heathendom that Catholicism resorts to, but we have a number of +others which the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> Protestant world knows but little about, and +especially the Protestants in America, as the Catholic officials do +not want "this Scapular business" talked about too much in this +country, for fear that the Protestant world will give it the +deserving ridicule that it should have. However, we have started out +to show up the teachings of Catholicism as they actually exist, and +the more light we turn upon this subject the more prominent her +abominations will become, consequently we want to mention these other +Scapulars.</p> + +<p>The first that we will mention is, "The Trinity of White Linen with +Red Cross;" the second is, "The Survite Scapular of Seven Dolors," +which is of black woolen stuff; the third is, "The Immaculate +Conception," which is of blue woolen cloth, and the fourth and last +Scapular is one that was originated in 1846 by a Sister of Charity in +Paris, France, who is said to have received a revelation from God +Almighty, and this one is called "The Red Scapular of the Passion."</p> + +<p>While American Catholics are a class far superior in intellect to the +Catholics of other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span> nations, they still tenaciously cling to the +inert Scapular and believe in its efficacy and power; however, the +Catholic Church is getting to have quite a number of these Scapulars, +which is causing the intelligent Catholics to become a little +doubtful as to which has the greatest "pulling power," and many of +them, in order to make no mistake, wear all five of them in a bunch; +thus they are assured that if one fails to get in its work another +will come to the rescue, and should they fall off of a train moving +60 miles an hour, this little bunch of woolen goods will save them +from a bruise, or should they drink a quart of the essence of +strychnine they would be saved from instant death by one of these +five Scapulars.</p> + +<p>You ask a Catholic to explain the merits of the Scapular and all they +can tell you is that if they die during the week that the Virgin Mary +will then take them to heaven on the Saturday following, but if they +happen to die on a Saturday, bear in mind that the Virgin Mary gives +them a cold shoulder until the next Saturday. Now, this is the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span> only +explanation that you can get a Catholic to give you in regard to a +Scapular.</p> + +<p>Is it any wonder that the power to reason is shattered by these +cungering devices of Catholicism, and do you wonder that the dense +ignorance of Catholic nations are completely under the power of this +angel of darkness?</p> + +<p>Let us repeat, in conclusion of this chapter, that Romanism is the +everlasting enemy of science and individual intellect, as she knows +full well that when the broad, effulgent light of Protestantism dawns +on the benighted minds of her followers that she at once loses her +grasp upon her "hood-winked" dupes, as it is impossible for the +teachings of Catholicism to exist side by side with the teachings of +Protestantism, provided that those who believe in these Romish +abominations care to look above the horizon of Romanism.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p> + +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 254px;"> +<a name="fig6" id="fig6"/><a href="images/fig6.jpg"><img src="images/fig6_tb.jpg" width="254" height="400" alt="IMMORALITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD— +With Romish lust, the blossom of virtue is destroyed." title="IMMORALITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD— +With Romish lust, the blossom of virtue is destroyed." /></a> +<span class="caption">IMMORALITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD—With Romish lust, the blossom of virtue is destroyed.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_V" id="Chapter_V"></a>Chapter V.</h2> + +<h3>Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.</h3> + + +<p>Blight girlhood and you destroy the usefulness of womankind. Tarnish +the sacredness of girlhood and you scar the purity of womanhood. +Deface the beautiful countenance of chastity, which is found in the +bosom of girlhood, and you not only mar the happiness of girlhood, +but you deface and obliterate the families of the future, for without +that priceless treasure, virtue, the eternal principles of conjugal +love becomes a barren waste without a single oasis.</p> + +<p>Oh, if I could but call about me in one vast throng the girls of this +land, and all other lands, who have had the first thought of +carnality planted in their bosom by the scheming Priestcraft, I would +have a throng of tear-faced mortals<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> that would rend the heart of +stone and stigmatize the cunning of Catholicism with a stigma blacker +than the lowering clouds of despair.</p> + +<p>When you force childhood to believe in the infallibility of the +priestcraft you educate the mind of that child to implicitly believe +in the officials of the Catholic Church, and when you gain the +implicit confidence you have established a belief that cannot be +easily eradicated, as this belief has become a part of that child, +and as it grows older, this erroneous belief grows in proportion to +the body, and by the time this child has arrived at the age of +maturity, she is as densely ignorant of the cunning of this doctrine +as she was when she first learned to repeat the Catechism with a +childish lisp.</p> + +<p>We desire to preface this chapter with common-sense arguments, so +that the reader may thoroughly understand how completely the female +element of the Catholic Church is under the control of the priesthood +of this institution.</p> + +<p>Priests are, as a rule, men of more than average intellect, and, as +they have no other calling nor no<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span> other avocation in life than to +make good impressions upon their members, they of course become +cunning in their art, especially with the female members of their +congregations, and more especially with their young and handsome +members.</p> + +<p>Imagine the power that a Catholic priest has over a young girl in her +teens—yea, over any female member of their congregation, when you +take into consideration the fact that from infancy these girls and +women have been taught that it is almost an absolute impossibility +for a priest to commit a sin.</p> + +<p>When you dwell upon the doctrines taught these girls and women it +will not be a matter of surprise that the priestcraft wields such a +powerful influence over them, as any one with this doctrine funneled +into them from childhood is open and ready to believe what the +priestcraft may tell them, and the individual is not to blame for +believing this, as they have been taught it by their parents from +infancy, and the officials of the Catholic Church have taught it; +then why should<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span> we be surprised at the dense ignorance upon the part +of these girls and women?</p> + +<p>Priests always try to impress their members with the idea that they +are infallible and that it is impossible for them to sin. They do +this for many reasons. First, in order that they may have their +congregations in humble submission to any of the demands of the +church, and, secondly, it enables them to accomplish any devilish +deed they may wish to accomplish under the guise of priestly +sanctity.</p> + +<p>It is no pleasant task to dwell upon this most distasteful and most +repulsive of all of the fallacies of Rome and the abominable +rottenness of the priesthood, but without giving a vivid description +of the cunning of the priestcraft in regard to the "Confessional" +would be treating the subject in a manner that would not do justice +to the abominations of her hideous doctrines; and to fail to touch +upon this subject would leave the greatest and most deadly weapon in +the hands of this band of devils.</p> + +<p>The Confessional Box is an emblem of pagan<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span>ism, as innumerable +trustworthy authorities prove that Roman Catholicism has pre-empted +this custom as well as many other of her practices from the dark ages +of paganism.</p> + +<p>Oricular confession was practiced centuries ago by the ancient +Babylonians, Egyptians, Mexicans, Peruvians and the Japanese—in +fact, it is not only an ancient custom, but one which belongs to the +darkest of the ancient ages, which should have been relegated to the +haunts of hell centuries ago.</p> + +<p>A priest once said: "Nobody should be surprised when we priests, +bishops and popes sink into the bottomless abyss of immorality, for +the celibacy of the priestcraft is only a cudgel in the hands of +Catholic officials to drive us to the haunts of immorality."</p> + +<p>A priest once said "that the Confessional is one of the most damnable +institutions that was ever permitted to exist, as these Confessionals +are only traps to lead the piously and morally-inclined priest to the +plains of immorality, for a priest is naught but man, and when he is +forced to compel women penitents to pour into his ears their every<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span> +thought, feeling, desire, emotion and act, it kindles the fires of +unholy thought upon the altars of his better ambitions and before he +knows it he has committed adultery and not only ruined his own soul, +but has been the implement in the hands of the devil to destroy the +virtue of innocent womanhood."</p> + +<p>He further states "that not only do the thoughts, feelings, emotions, +etc., have to be related, in all of their details, to the priest, and +perhaps a bad priest, but all circumstances leading to and the +results growing out of these thoughts, must be given in detail."</p> + +<p>The immorally inclined and licentious priest is not satisfied with +the female penitent enumerating only her mortal sins, but he insists +and forces the penitent to give circumstances, minutely describing +her thoughts and feelings of every-day life, which leads both the +penitent and the confessor to the lowlands of immorality.</p> + +<p>The priestcraft is instructed by the Romish Church not to allow the +penitent to conceal anything from them, and the priestcraft is given +in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span>structions to probe the penitent to the heart's core.</p> + +<p>In this chapter we propose to give you a little insight to the +character of one or two priests that I have personally known, and if +I dared and if it was possible to print the nasty history of a number +of priests that I have been acquainted with, I could fill this volume +with their depravity; but should I do so this book would not be +permitted to circulate through the mails of the United States. But I +will endeavor to clothe my recital of a few instances of priestly +immorality in language of chastity, but will make my recital plain +enough that any one who can read may understand.</p> + +<p>Rev. Chas. Kuhlman, who was pastor of a Catholic Church in +Edwardsville, Ill., was suspicioned of having become too intimate +with a sister of his own school, and this sister soon left the +sisterhood, and it was rumored that she went to St. Louis to evade +the birth of a child.</p> + +<p>This very same priest was caught in the act of adultery with a +married woman in his office in East St. Louis. He was at that time, +besides being<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span> pastor, the editor and publisher of a very important +Catholic paper called "<i>The Catholic Progress</i>." This immorality of +Priest Kuhlman became public property and formed such a nasty mess +that the Catholic bishop had to take some notice of it and the case +was tried before the Bishop of Alton, Ill., and Kuhlman was +excommunicated for life.</p> + +<p>This married woman gave testimony that was very damaging to the Rev. +Kuhlman and gave her evidence before a notary public, which cannot be +disputed, and it matters not how hard the Catholic Church may try to +villify these statements, they cannot overcome the truthfulness of +the same, as there are too many living witnesses at this time who +know that what I am relating is absolutely true.</p> + +<p>Rev. Kuhlman was not satisfied with the verdict of the bishop of +Alton, Ill., and appealed his case to Rome, and the bishop was indeed +glad to get rid of this dirty case and did not appear in Rome to +prosecute the case, and the Rev. Kuhlman won the case in Rome by +default, and this same Rev.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> Kuhlman became a Catholic priest in good +standing again and was permitted to officiate as a minister of the +gospel, with all of this abominable slime of immorality clinging to +his priestly garments.</p> + +<p>Now, bear in mind that Rev. Kuhlman, after having all of this +immorality laid at his door, was permitted by the Pope of Rome to go +right ahead with his priestly duties, but a short time after he won +his case at Rome there was an affidavit sworn out against Kuhlman by +a man in East St. Louis, averring that he had been again caught in +the act of adultery with another woman. This time the case was +reported to Bishop Janssen, of Belleville, Ill., and also to Cardinal +Martinelli, of Washington, D.C., but there was no attention paid to +it, and this Rev. Kuhlman was permitted to go right ahead in his +pastoral duties and is at the present time the pastor of a church in +East St. Louis and is also the spiritual director of a convent, which +contains many sisters and many pupils.</p> + +<p>Now, if what I have related is false, Rev. Chas. Kuhlman has redress +at law; and if I have libeled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> him he can make me suffer for the +crime, and he will not have to spend any money to locate my +whereabouts, as he is aware of my location at the present time and +can find me at any time that he desires to bring suit against me for +blackmail or any other crime that he sees fit to instigate against +me.</p> + +<p>It is no pleasant task to relate these very nauseating things, but it +is my aim and intention to so plainly and powerfully set forth the +deceit, cunning and dastardly deeds of Catholicism that I may be able +to open the eyes of not only the Protestant world but of Catholicism +at large, for there are thousands of the followers of the Pope who +are very weak in their faith, and if I can by the righteousness of my +cause, convince them that they are following the blind leaders of +paganism, I am absolutely certain that the Protestant ranks will have +an in-gathering of the hosts of Catholicism that will cause the +angels in heaven to shout hallelujahs of thanksgiving.</p> + +<p>Do not understand me to say, or to intimate, that there are no +sincere priests, as there are; but<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> their sincerity is founded upon +superstitious beliefs and erroneous doctrines, consequently their +sincerity and devoutness only helps to fasten the abominations of +Catholicism more completely upon humanity, as those who are candidly +sincere are held up to the Protestant world as models of Catholicism, +when, in fact, they are but exceptions to the general herd of +Catholic officials.</p> + +<p>To more plainly illustrate to the reader how fascinating and powerful +the teachings of Catholicism is upon the minds of man, I would +illustrate this by the power that parents have over a child. You +teach a child some doctrine, it matters not whether it is right or +wrong, and you will impress it with the truthfulness of this doctrine +in its childhood, and let it understand as it grows into manhood and +womanhood that this doctrine is absolutely true, and hedge it about +with superstitions confirming this doctrine, and the hosts of hell +can hardly convince it that its early teachings were wrong; so you +can easily see what a powerful influence Catholicism has over the +minds of its followers, as you must bear in mind that Catholicism<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span> +takes up the child when it is only a few days old and continually +hedges it about with emblems of ignorance and superstition and never +allows it to gaze above the horizon of this mass of erroneous +doctrine; therefore the child is not to blame for its implicit +confidence, but the cunning of those who practice this deception upon +this child is to blame, and the doctrine of Catholicism is what I am +assailing in this volume, for if I can be instrumental in opening the +eyes of those who have arrived at the years of accountability, I feel +sure that I can be instrumental in having those so reached declare to +their offspring that their first lessons have been altogether +erroneous, and if the Catholic parents will begin to teach their +children before they leave the parental roof that their first lessons +were erroneous it will not be so hard for the Protestant world to +finish the job and turn these hosts of darkness into the highways of +intellectuality.</p> + +<p>The reason that we have so many disgraceful happenings and immoral +incidents in the lives of the priestcraft is because of the absolute +confi<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span>dence that their followers have in them, as it is a well-known +fact that the female world has a greater confidence in humanity than +the male population, so it is an easy matter for any sane man or +woman to understand why an immoral priest, and one who has no regard +for honor, has such an easy task in accomplishing the ruin of those +whom he seeks to destroy.</p> + +<p>The paradise of the priestcraft is inky darkness, as they prefer +darkness to light, and by their actions, their every-day lives take +on the hue of midnight. If we can read God Almighty's hand-writing in +a legible manner, we believe that any intelligent man or woman can +discern in the countenance of a majority of the priestcraft a look +which is almost equal to a condemnation of their actions, as a large +majority are lacking of that manly frankness of countenance which is +found in the countenances of godly men.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span></p><p>In conclusion of this chapter, I beg to state that the Confessional +Box of the Romish Church is one of the darkest pages of the dark +history of Catholicism, and if this hideous chapter was removed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span> from +Romanism, three-fourths of her diabolical deeds would be eradicated; +but when you remove the "Confessional" you remove the charm for that +part of the priestcraft which exists upon the carrion of the human +family, and whenever you remove the "Confessional," the celibacy of +the church will be abandoned and the priestcraft will be allowed to +marry, as Protestant ministers are permitted to do, and when this is +done, instead of having a Roman Catholic Church, we will have a +Protestant denomination in its stead, and my prayer is that a just +God will hasten the day when this "<i>virtue trap</i>" will be relegated +to the dark recesses of paganism, from whence it came.</p> +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig7" id="fig7"/><a href="images/fig7.jpg"><img src="images/fig7_tb.jpg" width="400" height="257" alt="AMERICA'S RUIN." title="AMERICA'S RUIN." /></a> +<span class="caption">AMERICA'S RUIN.</span></div> + + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_VI" id="Chapter_VI"></a>Chapter VI.</h2> + +<h3>The Nations Completely Dominated by +the Power of the Pope Are Nations of Illegitimacy.</h3> + + +<p>In this chapter, we have before us the vision of two countries; one +is Protestant America and the other Catholic Ecuador.</p> + +<p>Protestant America stands upon a plane of morality and chastity, +which is pleasing to contemplate, and for which she can thank only +the principles of Protestantism, for Protestantism teaches, by both +precept and example, as she looks to the only true standard of +morality that ever existed, which is the Holy Bible. But Catholicism +looks only to a standard which the Pope of Rome sees fit to +establish, and a standard of morals which is set by mortal man, can +only be, at its best, a very inferior standard, as the licentiousness +and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span> lust of unholy man can never compare with that great and +infinitely good <i>being</i>, the Lord of Hosts.</p> + +<p>Broad education of the mind means a subduing of the passions, and +<i>broad</i> education is something that the Catholic Church fights +against, as she knows full well that to educate her masses would be +equivalent to losing her grasp upon their actions, for no man or +woman of a broad education and an individual intellectuality will +permit these hosts of darkness to dictate to them.</p> + +<p>Ignorance is the greatest breeder of crime known to the intelligence +of man, and it is an established fact that crime breeds immorality, +and immorality of course is the equivalent of illegitimacy, and +historical facts will bear me out in the assertion that the countries +which are absolutely under the power of the Pope are countries which +are densely ignorant, and again, as above stated, ignorance leads to +crime, and crime to immorality, and now we are back to the first +proposition and have proven without going further that "The nations +completely dominated by the power of the Pope are nations of +illegitimacy," but we<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span> propose to use historical records to convince +without the shadow of a doubt that our statements are true. However, +I do not need these historical facts, as I have traveled extensively +through Europe and many other countries, and I know whereof I speak, +by personal observation and by coming into personal contact with both +Catholic and Protestant nations. However, we are not going to be +satisfied with this alone, as we do not want the reader to rely +implicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to bring +facts to bear upon your mind which cannot be over-thrown, as +statistics are stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but fools +dispute.</p> + +<p>We propose to take statistics from the <i>Peabody Reporter</i>, which you +can corroborate with the official report of the United States +Commissioner of Education. The statistics that we above refer to +follow:</p> + +<p>"To every ten thousand inhabitants under the Roman Catholic school +system, there are 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers and 160 criminals, +while in the public school system we only find to every ten<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> thousand +inhabitants 350 illiterates, making a difference of 1,050 to every +ten thousand." Thus you see that what we have said in previous +chapters of this book in regard to Romanism being founded upon the +mountains of ignorance is true.</p> + +<p>Education in its literal meaning, means an infusion of intelligence +that lifts up the minds of man, and it is generally so accepted by +the world at large, but education, as far as Catholicism goes, means +only a rehearsal of abominations, which have been practiced upon the +followers of this creed for centuries in the past, and does not in the +least bear upon the principles of true education.</p> + +<p>The public school system is established on the principle that the +intelligence and virtue of the people constitutes the foundation of +free government.</p> + +<p>Our public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of +our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes. The +growth and prosperity which have characterized the first century of +our schools fulfills their mission.</p> + +<p>Education is the watchword of the hour among<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span> Protestants, but never +among Catholics. We must educate if we would elevate, and unless we +elevate the minds of men we will have humanity running riot with vice +and immorality, and this is why the Catholic nations of the earth are +found with their morals trailing in the slime of degeneracy.</p> + +<p>Our public schools are to-day the great assimilating power in this +country. We find in them children of all nationalities, and whether +they be English, Irish, Scotch, Danish, Norwegians, French, Italians, +or some other nationality, when they enter these institutions they +pass out of the school houses, scattered all over this land, +<i>Americans</i>, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make +anything but a <i>true American</i> out of a pupil who has been turned out +of the public schools of this country, and one who has been permitted +to assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these +schools.</p> + +<p>The influence of the public schools works rapidly upon childhood and +is felt through all of their after lives. A child who has been +educated in the public schools of this country is always an +unre<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span>lenting foe of caste, but the child who is educated in the +parochial schools is taught to look up to innumerable superiors, and +such an education dwarfs the minds of childhood and teaches them to +continually look to others for their individual happiness, but the +teachings of the public schools broaden the individual mind and gives +courage, which enables the child to swing out from the influence of +others and become a mighty power in the mechanism of the universe.</p> + +<p>We touch upon the public schools in this chapter, only in connection +with the dominating influence of the Pope over nations which he +completely rules, in order that the reader may thoroughly understand +that ignorance begets crime and crime begets illegitimacy, as we +expect to dwell more fully upon the education of nations in the +future, but we want the reader to begin at the "Alpha" of reason, so +that when he or she is through with this chapter that there will be +no doubt in their minds as to why the power of the Pope breeds +illegitimacy among his followers.</p> + +<p>We have contrasted the difference in morals of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span> the inhabitants, +which are completely dominated by Roman Catholicism, to that of the +inhabitants of Protestant America, but we have made this comparison +in a general way; but we now want to select a country which for its +absolutism of Catholic monarchy has no comparison, and that country +is Ecuador.</p> + +<p>In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete hold upon the +inhabitants that they will not allow Protestantism taught, and the +consequence of her tyranny is that out of every 100 children born in +that country, seventy-five are bastards or illegitimate and have no +idea of their father, and the immorality of the priestcraft is so +vile that their actions are absolutely passed over without notice, as +there is scarcely a single priest to be found in that country but who +is the father of from ten to twenty-five and thirty children; but +still the Roman Church continues to forbid her priests to wed, when +they know full well that celibacy in the Catholic Church is the cause +of all of this degeneracy.</p> + +<p>This state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span> alone, but the same +state of affairs exists throughout the length and breadth of all +Catholic nations which are completely under the power of the Pope.</p> + +<p>Italy, for instance, which is the home of the Pope and which has been +the home of the Catholic Church since the existence of her +abominations, is one of the most immoral countries that ever +besmirched the face of the earth.</p> + +<p>The first lesson that a Catholic child is taught is "<i>hate</i>," and +that lesson is directed at Protestantism; therefore, is it any wonder +that the education of Catholicism only reaches out far enough to +hoodwink the student and does not elevate him or her above the +festering mess which surrounds it?</p> + +<p>We want, to repeat the statement that the Roman Catholic Church does +not want to educate anybody, nor will it do so, where it is not under +the pressure of Protestant influence. However, the American people +demand figures and facts before they will be convinced; so as further +evidence of the truthfulness of what we are telling you, we propose +to quote from a report of the minister of education in Italy, made +some few years ago. This<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span> report is true in every particular, and +bear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic himself. +The report follows:</p> + +<p>"Of every 1,000 males in the province of Lombardy, 539 only were able +to read, and 461 did not even know their letters. Of every 1,000 +females, only 426 could read and 574 could not read, neither did they +know their letters.</p> + +<p>"In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000 males, only 165 were able +to read and 835 could not, and out of every 1,000 females, only 62 +could read and 938 could not read and did not know their alphabet. +Taking this report, you will find that out of every 100, only about +10 were able to read.</p> + +<p>"In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only 3,500,000 could read and +write, and the rest did not know their alphabet, and to-day Spain, +another country which is completely dominated by the power of Rome, +has a population of ignorant dupes, as 80 per cent of the population +of Spain cannot read and write.</p> + +<p>"In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, this same record is +repeated, as in other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span> Catholic nations. In European countries where +Protestantism is taught there is but one out of every ten that cannot +read and write, but in the same countries, where Catholicism has +absolute sway, there is but one out of every 125 that can read and +write.</p> + +<p>"In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there are 315 +inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while in six Roman +Catholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to every +2,715 people.</p> + +<p>"It is estimated that at least seven-eighths of the twenty million +inhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of the countries of +Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the north and west parts of South +America, are unable to read, and in Mexico alone 90 per cent of the +inhabitants cannot read nor write, neither do they know their +alphabet;" thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does for the +countries which she controls.</p> + +<p>We are writing this book, believing that an intelligent class of +people will read it, and if such is true, we believe that it is +useless for us to try to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> demonstrate further why the countries which +are completely controlled by Catholicism are countries of +illegitimacy, for an intelligent reader knows full well that +ignorance is the greatest brooder of immorality known to man, and, of +course, immorality means illegitimacy, and we believe that we have +thoroughly demonstrated to the mind of the reader that Catholicism +spreads a cloak of ignorance and superstition wherever she is allowed +to rule supreme, and if this is the case, then the natural +consequences of such a state of affairs is illegitimacy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span></p> + +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig8" id="fig8"/><a href="images/fig8.jpg"><img src="images/fig8_tb.jpg" width="400" height="273" alt="FREE IN NAME ONLY" title="FREE IN NAME ONLY" /></a> +<span class="caption">FREE IN NAME ONLY.</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_VII" id="Chapter_VII"></a>Chapter VII.</h2> + +<h3>The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto +Rico and the Philippine Islands.</h3> + + +<p>It makes my heart sick when I realize that the Government of the +United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon the +Islands of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and, after +all, these Islands are still in the grasp and the filthy embrace of +the Vatican at Rome.</p> + +<p>Not only fabulous amounts of money have been spent by the United +States upon these Islands, but hundreds of our noble boys in blue +have given up their lives in battle and by the scourge of disease, +and still Catholicism has absolute sway in these far-away countries.</p> + +<p>These islands have been under the immediate control of Popery for +hundreds of years, but when the Government of the United States took +charge<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span> of them, their inhabitants had advanced no further in +intellectuality and the freedom of free men than they were centuries +ago.</p> + +<p>It may sound strange to the average reader when I declare that all of +the lives lost and all of the money expended by the United States +upon Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands was brought about by +the tyrannical rule of Rome, for it was by her abominations that Cuba +rebelled, which was the prime cause of the interference by the +government of the United States; therefore you can readily see why it +is that I claim that Catholicism is to blame for the part that the +government of the United States took in the affairs of these +countries, and what puzzles me so much is why the government of the +United States still permits Catholicism to control the destinies of +these countries, when the officials of this government know full well +that had it not been for abhorrent Catholicism that Cuba would never +have rebelled and that Porto Rico would have been satisfied, and that +the Philippine Islands would not to-day belong to the United States; +but, instead of this gov<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span>ernment trying to remedy the great wrong +done to the inhabitants of these countries, it went right ahead and +allowed the bone of contention to remain, and to-day finds this +government not only permitting Catholicism to continue to practice +her abominations in these countries, but this government is +instrumental in sending Catholic teachers over to these countries, +when, if this country would do its whole duty, it would not permit +Catholicism to take any part in the affairs of these countries.</p> + +<p>Archbishop Chapelle was shipped to the Philippine Islands with all +the pomp of a ruler, and so was Archbishop J.J. Harty, whom I am +personally acquainted with, and whom I have been on intimate terms +with for a number of years, and this man Harty is to-day in the +Philippine Islands ruling with the same tyrannical hand that has +characterized Romanism for centuries past, and whose rule is only +symbolic to ruin, as the interests of the inhabitants of these +countries are never considered, as it is Rome's ambition and only +de<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span>sire to keep them under the heel of perpetual tyranny.</p> + +<p>We would like to know why Archbishop Chapelle should be given the +best stateroom in a transport ship sailing for Manila, while our +pure-blooded, honest, sincere Protestant boys who wear the blue were +huddled together like so many cattle.</p> + +<p>Ah, this is the reason: Archbishop Chapelle is an emissary of the +Pope of Rome and stands ready at all times to serve the wishes and +obey the orders of that Italian pontiff, and our officials were aware +of this fact and they did not want to stir up the Catholic officials +for fear of losing a few votes, as both of our old parties have sunk +so low into the quagmire of filth that they would allow their country +to sink to the level of Romish abominations if they thought by so +doing they could control the Catholic vote for either party.</p> + +<p>Was one of your boys on this transport ship? Was your kith and kin +aboard this vessel that showed this ungodly discrimination between +the soldier boy who wrung a poor mother's heart by leaving the +parental fireside? If such was the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> case, you can vividly see the +injustice done to these brave lads in favor of this Archbishop +Chapelle, as these boys were on their way to this terrible land of +disease and death to help plant the emblem of liberty upon the +ramparts of these far-away Islands, and this same Archbishop Chapelle +was on his way to destroy the influence of these boys' mission.</p> + +<p>The time is not far distant until the Protestant world will wake up +to the realization that they have been humbled before this Italian +pontiff for the simple reason that our officials are willing to cater +to Catholicism in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands for the +sake of votes.</p> + +<p>We do not care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, this +chapter should fire your blood to the fullest extent, for I am +telling you truths, and if you have got the common decency of the +most ignorant liberty-loving American you will right now make a +resolve that Protestant America must redeem her pledge to Cuba, Porto +Rico and the Philippine Islands to liberate them not only from the +hardships placed upon them by a foreign na<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span>tion, but liberate them +from the bonds of Catholicism, which not only binds the body, but +chains the soul with the fetters of ignorance and superstition.</p> + +<p>When it became known that the government of the United States was to +interfere in the affairs of Cuba, the Catholic Church put all of her +machinery to work immediately in order to fool Uncle Sam and cajole +him into dealing only with the government of Spain, which would +permit Catholicism to exist in these Islands, and the pages of +history only tell us too well how successfully she laid her plans, as +to-day we have the awful spectacle of beholding the government of the +United States playing the part of "protector," while she is quietly +aiding the identical institution which caused the misery in these +far-away countries.</p> + +<p>What I tell you in this chapter is true, as I was a Catholic priest +and was on the inside of the workings of Catholicism at that time, +and what I relate is not guess work nor imagination, but it is plain, +unvarnished and unadulterated truths, and the American people will +sooner or later wake up to the realization of these awful truths, for +just so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span> long as the United States permits Catholicism to control the +destinies of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, just that +long turmoil and misery will remain in these tropical regions, for +Catholicism has sworn by all of her imaginary saints that +Protestantism shall never rule these countries, and so far she has +carried out her threat truly and well, as Protestantism to-day has no +more control over the inhabitants of these islands than she did +before the damnable creed of the Pope was molested by the appearance +of Dewey's guns at Manila.</p> + +<p>Can you expect these countries to grow in greatness, and can you +expect the inhabitants of these countries to become giants in +intellect when they practice the cungerings of Catholicism?</p> + +<p>We want to give the reader an insight in this chapter to what +Catholicism practices in this country and in other countries that are +not near so densely ignorant as Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine +Islands, and then you can have an idea of what the inhabitants of +these countries may expect in the way of advancement from +Catholicism,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span> and what I will repeat is the abominations that I have +helped to practice myself for thirty years; therefore I know whereof +I speak and no man dare dispute.</p> + +<p>We will take a Catholic cemetery, for instance, and in order that the +ground may be sanctified and fit to receive the dead bodies of those +who believe in the Catholic faith a bishop must sanctify this earth +and consecrate it before it is fit to conceal the body of one of the +Pope's followers.</p> + +<p>Our Savior has declared that "From earth we came, and to earth we +shall return," and there was no proviso made that before we should +return to earth that it would have to be consecrated by a human +being, as any man or woman of intelligence knows full well that what +the Lord our God has made cannot be improved upon by the idiotic +chant and superstitious rant of a Catholic bishop.</p> + +<p>It matters not how godly nor how piously a Protestant may have lived, +Catholicism teaches that it is an abomination to bury a Protestant in +a Catholic cemetery, and one of her laws is that to bury a heretic +(which means Protestant) in a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span> Catholic cemetery is unlawful, and the +Catholic Popes instruct that the remains of any Protestant buried in +a Catholic cemetery shall, if they can be distinguished, be removed, +and if they can not be distinguished, that the cemetery shall be +cleansed by sprinkling holy water over the ground, and bear in mind +that this holy water is to receive its cleansing power from some +priest or bishop, who perhaps is as immoral as hell.</p> + +<p>In Canada, some time since, the laws of that country forcibly +effected the burial of a Protestant in a Catholic cemetery, and the +bishop of that diocese, by the name of Bourget, declared that portion +of the cemetery as "<i>desecrated and filthy</i>" and forbade any priest +to step his foot upon the ground.</p> + +<p>Now, do you expect an institution which teaches such doctrines to +elevate a nation above their own doctrine? If you do, you are +expecting something unreasonable, and if the inhabitants of Cuba, +Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are not to be elevated above +such abominations can the future hold anything for them but misery?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span></p> + +<p>There is but one thing that beats a bishop's consecration of a +graveyard, and that is money, and money only; but a few dollars will +turn the trick and will open up the ground in a Catholic cemetery for +a heretic, and enough money will turn the entire cemetery into a +Protestant graveyard.</p> + +<p>In the City of St. Louis there is a Catholic cemetery called +"Calvary," and lots twelve feet square are sold at from $50 to $1,000 +each. A lot was bought by a Protestant whose son died and who was +baptized in his last hour by a Catholic nurse. While his people were +Protestants, they consented, since he had been baptized into the +Catholic Church, that they would give him a Catholic burial, and a +priest by the name of Ward performed the ceremony. Now, bear in mind +that the father of this young man had bought a lot large enough for +his whole family to be buried there, when they should die, as he, of +course, wanted his entire family to be buried together, but the +Catholic Church would not consent to consecrate any part of that lot +but the grave in which the young man was buried that was baptized on<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span> +his death bed, simply because the remainder of the family were +Protestants; but for money they consecrated a portion of this lot, +four feet wide and six and one-half feet long, but the remainder of +this lot was not consecrated, therefore you will see that money in +the Catholic Church has as much power to consecrate the earth as doth +the bishopric and priestcraft.</p> + +<p>Ah, what abominations! but still this Government expects Cuba, Porto +Rico and the Philippine Islands to be elevated to the standard of +manhood and womanhood by this class of ghouls.</p> + +<p>Now, if we could halt with the recital of only a few abominations, my +task, perhaps, would not be so disgusting, but had I the endurance to +live on, until I were a thousand years old, and could write what I +know and have experienced in the ranks of Catholicism, I would be +unable to portray to the reader all of her abominations.</p> + +<p>The Catholic Church is a church of show and glamor, and of +nonsensical doctrines, and not a church of God and of holy worship.</p> + +<p>Many believe that Catholicism has taught all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> of her cungerings for +centuries past, and this is the case, but bear in mind, that +Catholicism often has to have new "fakes," in order to make the money +slide out of the pockets of their "dupes" more easily, so they get up +new intrigues and modern shows for this purpose, and the fake that +works the best is the one that they work the hardest, as I solemnly +declare that the Catholic Church as a whole is a money proposition +upon the part of those who teach her abominations, and I further +declare that it is a "graft" conceived by minds that are more cunning +and deceptive than any class of men upon the face of the whole earth.</p> + +<p>The Catholic Church changes its form of worship like cheap chop +houses change their bills of fare, as they are after "suckers," and +if one bait will not get them, they throw out another, and the pomp +and show of the church is to catch the eye and not to save the soul.</p> + +<p>Not long since, the Catholic Church, with singular devotion, turned +its attention to the five wounds of Christ, and immediately after +giving these five wounds their solicitous attention, they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> bade their +followers to have recourse to the sacred heart of Jesus, and in +hundreds of Catholic Churches you will find to-day a statue made in +the likeness of Christ, with a heart attached over the breast, and +this heart is illuminated by electricity or candle, and the followers +of Catholicism absolutely worship this mechanism of man, and it has +proven a great drawing card, and you can rest assured that +Catholicism is pushing the scheme along good and hard, and "The St. +Anthony Bread Box" hoax is another scheme that is not very old, but +which the Catholic Church has found to be another great paying +investment, and they are working "St. Anthony" for all that he is +worth.</p> + +<p>Now, can any man or woman of intelligence believe that the +inhabitants of these islands can ever expect to become men and women +of affairs—men and women of individuality—and men and women of +intellectuality? If you can give a rational reason why these +countries should ever expect to be elevated to the standard of +greatness under such influences and under the tutelage of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> such an +institution, then the road to greatness must be a very easy one to +travel.</p> + +<p>The Catholic Church is conducted on about the same principle as Dun's +and Bradstreet's mercantile agencies, as they go into the minutest +detail to keep record of the affairs of the country, so that they may +know the weakest as well as the strongest points of their creed, so +that they may at all times be prepared to exercise the greatest +influence at the proper time, and what makes this creed so dangerous, +is that they impress upon their dupes that the church is "eternal +law," and they hold out the crown of glory on high as a reward for +following their doctrine, and this is the most dangerous and damnable +scheme ever perpetrated by mortal, for when you force a man or woman +to believe that you hold in your hands their future destiny, you have +them to the point where you can force them to do your bidding, and +this is exactly what Catholicism does to her followers, and this is +the reason why Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands can never +expect to go higher in the scale of morality and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span> intellectuality +than they are at the present time, if the Government of the United +States permits this troop of ghouls to continue to be their masters.</p> + +<p>We believe that we have in this chapter made, it plain to the reader +why the influence of Catholicism should be remotely removed from +these islands, and if I am right, the Government of the United States +is everlastingly wrong in permitting Catholicism to retain her hold +upon the throats of the inhabitants of these islands, and I +undoubtedly am right, as I know whereof I speak, as I have trod the +deceptive road of Catholicism for the past thirty years, and I dare +not tell in this book all that I know of her cunning in regard to +these far-away countries, as I would have to use language so plain +that I could not expect this volume to pass through the mails, as the +priestcraft in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are an +immoral set, as a whole, and treat the female population of these +islands in a manner that breeds immorality from generation to +generation, and the awful part of this immorality<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span> is that those who +commit it with the priestcraft do not consider that it is a wrong, as +they have been taught that it is no sin to do as the priestcraft +demands, therefore it is ten thousand times worse than if the sin was +committed with the knowledge of the fact that it was a sin, as the +mother or father who is aware of the fact that they are sinners will +not teach their offspring to commit the sins that they are guilty of, +but when they are not aware of the fact that they are committing a +sin, of course, they allow their children to believe that their +actions are in harmony with the teachings of God, therefore this +damnable practice goes on and on, from generation to generation, and +this is why the morals, intelligence and progress of Cuba, Porto Rico +and the Philippine Islands, are to-day on the same plane of depravity +as they were centuries ago, and no one is to blame for this carnality +and debauchery of the inhabitants of these islands but the Roman +Catholic Church, and until the Government of the United States shall +declare and back up her declaration by Protestant manhood, the +inhabitants of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span> these islands will never know of the beauties of +chastity and morality and the wonderful blessings that are held in +store for them by embracing Protestantism.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p><p>May the Lord of Hosts hasten the day when the eyes of those who rule +in Protestant America may be opened to the awful sins they are +committing, by allowing Romanism to hover over these islands with her +vulturous and carnivorous appetite of depravity, and may the time +soon come when the Government of the United States shall proclaim to +the Vatican at Rome that this veil of abomination shall be lifted +from the inhabitants of these islands; and when this is done, the +goddess of liberty that has made Protestant America what she is +to-day, will hover over these far-away islands of the sea, and new +life will pulsate in the veins of these Romish-ridden countries.</p> +<p><br /></p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig9" id="fig9"/><a href="images/fig9.jpg"><img src="images/fig9_tb.jpg" width="400" height="250" alt=""SAVE THE GIRLS"! +"Batter down the Convent doors of Catholicism and +the civilized world will stand amazed."" title="SAVE THE GIRLS!" /></a> +<span class="caption">SAVE THE GIRLS!<br />Batter down the Convent doors of Catholicism and +the civilized world will stand amazed.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_VIII" id="Chapter_VIII"></a>Chapter VIII.</h2> + +<h3>Monasteries Are Often the Abode of Criminals, and +Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.</h3> + + +<p>When I was living beneath the folds of the black banner of +Catholicism, I sincerely and devoutly believed that to shield a +Catholic criminal was a righteous and Godly calling, as I believed +that to prevent the civil law from taking hold of the criminal career +of a Catholic official, for his short-comings, was but an act of +Godly justice.</p> + +<p>I also believed that anything that was done between the walls of a +Nunnery was sanctified by the approval of those who were higher in +authority in the Catholic Church than myself; therefore, the things +which I now realize are both criminal and immoral, as well as utterly +detestable, I at one time considered righteous, simply because my +education had been confined to the narrow channels of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span> bigotry, and +the effulgency of Biblical knowledge had never penetrated my +Romish-inspired perceptibilities.</p> + +<p>I believe that I will make many assertions in this chapter that have +never been made before, but there will not be an assertion made but +what is true; however, there will be many that will arise from the +trenches of Catholicism to denounce the truthfulness of them, but I +know whereof I speak, and I defy any mortal man to successfully +dispute what I may state.</p> + +<p>This chapter will relate to monasteries and nunneries, which in olden +times were called "asylums."</p> + +<p>These asylums are used by Catholicism to scuffle criminals of their +following into, in defiance of law and justice, as these asylums are +notorious among those who are on the inside workings of this creed, +as to places where Catholic criminals can be concealed without fear +of having the civil law bring them to justice, as these places are a +retreat for Catholic criminals who are pursued by the ministers of +justice, and where, so long as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span> they remain, they cannot be arrested; +but in order to elevate these "asylums" to the plane of religion, +they, are called by different names which are <i>misnomers</i>, and are +only raised to the level of religious institutions to cover up the +infamy of their actual missions, as Catholicism has learned that as +long as she can throw around and about herself a religious glamor, +that she is permitted to go ahead and violate the laws of man without +molestation.</p> + +<p>The "asylums" of olden times were intended as retreats for those who +were persecuted for their religious belief, but the mission of these +institutions became useless, under the splendid and godly progress of +Protestantism, as Protestantism planted her banner of enlightenment +under the glorious leadership of Martin Luther, and such institutions +were done away with, but Catholicism turned these asylums, which were +once a protection to the persecuted followers of Christ, and +converted them into an abode for Catholic criminals.</p> + +<p>There is scarcely a man or woman in America<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span> but what has heard of +Wm. Morgan, who lived at Batavia, in Western New York, who, it was +claimed, wrote an expose of Freemasonry, and who, the Catholic Church +claims, was killed by the Masonic fraternity for writing this expose.</p> + +<p>The fact of the matter is that this book was prepared by the Catholic +Church for electioneering purposes, and it served their scheme well +and truly.</p> + +<p>It is history that Morgan disappeared very suddenly, and the Catholic +Church gave it out that he had been killed by the Masonic fraternity, +which is untrue, as Wm. Morgan was spirited away, and the trick was +turned by Catholicism.</p> + +<p>"Wm. Morgan" became the issue for the campaign, and it was narrated +around that Morgan was conveyed in a carriage from Batavia to Niagara +by Freemasons, and there drowned in Lake Ontario.</p> + +<p>A body was produced near the mouth of the Niagara River, but a friend +of Wm. Morgan, who knew him well, by the name of Mrs. Wm. G. Barr, +denied that the body that was found at the mouth<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span> of the Niagara +River, was that of Morgan, and a devout Catholic remarked at the +post-mortem examination that "It was a good enough Morgan until after +the election."</p> + +<p>A rigid investigation was made and no one was ever convicted of +murdering Morgan.</p> + +<p>The result of the election was that Catholicism carried her point. +The Catholic Church had turned by this excitement the eyes of the +world towards Freemasonry, and claimed that Morgan's fate was caused +by the Masonic fraternity.</p> + +<p>When I came to America, I was given instructions in regard to secret +societies, and the Morgan case was gone over with me in detail, and I +was given "The Bulls" of three popes, which excluded all members of +Freemasons from the Catholic Church, and all who belonged to the +Masonic fraternity were denied even a Christian burial by the +Catholic Church.</p> + +<p>I was told by a priest, who was in good standing, that the Masons had +in their meetings a literal devil concealed in a box, and that when +they would meet, they would stick pins in a picture of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span> some supposed +"traitor" and shriek out in their madness: "Die like Morgan!"</p> + +<p>Mrs. Wm. G. Barr was called to identify the supposed body of Wm. +Morgan, which was found at the mouth of the Niagara River.</p> + +<p>Her husband, Wm. G. Barr, was an old dry goods man and once ran for +governor of the State of Kansas, but was defeated because his wife +had declared "that Wm. Morgan's body had never been discovered at the +mouth of the Niagara River, and further declared that it was a +'fake,' pure and simple, and gotten up by Catholicism in order to +villify the Masonic fraternity."</p> + +<p>I had always been of an investigating turn of mind, and the stories +that were told to me in regard to Wm. Morgan did not sound right, so +I took the train for Topeka, Kans., where Mrs. Wm. G. Barr lived, and +this is the story that she related to me in great emotion:</p> + +<p>Mrs. Barr told me that she was a friend of Wm. Morgan, and that she +was called to identify his body, but instead of finding the corpse of +Wm. Morgan, on the seashore, she found the body of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> some one else and +not that of Morgan, and she further told me that Wm. Morgan, before +his disappearance, had written her that he was persuaded by a number +of Catholic priests to leave the Masons, and that he, to his sorrow, +had followed their advice, and that these priests had written a book, +and insisted that he should publish it, but he never did give his +consent, and stated that he never would; however, the book appeared, +and the fact of the matter is that it was a clumsy forgery by the +priestcraft of Catholicism.</p> + +<p>This book appeared in print, and Wm. Morgan became frightened, as he +realized that should the country at large believe that he was the +author of this book, he would be considered as a traitor, and he +became frightened and did not know what to do, and about this time +two Catholic priests approached him, and persuaded him to leave the +country, and they took him to "a Trappist monastery," near Montreal, +Canada.</p> + +<p>He remained there quite a time, and left Canada and went to Asia, and +he was seen and identified in Asia years after Catholicism had +declared<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> that he had been murdered by the Masonic fraternity.</p> + +<p>I do not remember of ever reading this history before, and I am under +the impression that I am the first man—in fact, I know that I am the +first man who was for thirty years a Catholic priest that ever gave +this information to the public.</p> + +<p>Now, if a monastery in Canada would be turned into a lie and a +deception in order that the Catholic Church might carry out her +diabolical and cunning schemes, what can we expect of other +monasteries?</p> + +<p>If this history attaches itself to a monastery like that in Canada, +what must be the condition of the monasteries and nunneries of +nations which have not the enlightenment that Canada has?</p> + +<p>I desire to call to the attention of the reader a little history that +is not exceedingly old, and which every boy and girl is acquainted +with, as it has transpired in the past ten years—yea, later.</p> + +<p>It was in the afternoon of a December day, in 1900. A boy, Edward +Cudahy, Jr., was walking to his father's mansion and was invited to +step into a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> buggy and was informed that he was under arrest. This +boy was then and there abducted, and this abduction became known by +the boy remaining away from his home that night.</p> + +<p>The police and detectives of Omaha and the detectives from Chicago +and other cities were busy on the case day and night. Days and weeks +passed and nothing came to light except letters from the ones who had +kidnapped this boy, asking for a ransom of $25,000, and stating that +if this sum of money in gold was not forthcoming, that the boy's eyes +would be put out and he would forever lose his sight.</p> + +<p>This last threat startled the poor, heart-broken mother, and as the +time approached for these devils to put into execution their threat, +this poor frantic mother insisted that her millionaire husband, +Edward Cudahy, Sr., give up the $25,000 and save her precious boy's +eyesight.</p> + +<p>Her husband resisted as long as he could, but at last took the +$25,000 in gold and stepped into his buggy, with the signal lantern, +and drove to a certain spot, designated by Pat Crow, who is the one<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span> +who abducted Cudahy, and with this $25,000 bought his boy's liberty, +and this boy was brought from that cottage on Grover street, unhurt, +and Pat Crow made away with his $25,000 in gold.</p> + +<p>Cudahy was called up a number of times by telephone and was +threatened that if he did not withdraw the reward that he was +offering for Pat Crow's arrest that there would be something awful +befall him; but he resisted and would not withdraw his offer of +reward, consequently this made it necessary for Pat Crow and Eddy +McGehee, alias Burns, to leave the country.</p> + +<p>These men were known in Omaha, St. Joe, Kansas City, St. Louis and +Chicago, not only by a number of their ilk, but also to the police +forces, consequently the nets of the law were stretched all over the +United States for these abductors.</p> + +<p>On December 28 it was reported from La Salle, Ills., that Pat Crow +was arrested. Kansas City police promised his arrest before sunset, +but he was not arrested.</p> + +<p>There were 80,000,000 people looking for Pat Crow, but he took a +Pullman sleeper and traveled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> to New York, and from there sailed on a +first-class ticket for Europe and spent a good time in London, from +whence he went to South Africa and played a deceptive role in the +English-African war.</p> + +<p>Now, I am going to relate something that will make one's blood boil +with indignation and the cold sweat stand out with the clamminess of +death, but what I tell you is true.</p> + +<p>Priest Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in St. Louis, was +president of the "Emmet" celebration in the year 1902.</p> + +<p>After a speech by Judge Ryan of St. Louis, and a most eloquent +address by a priest, who had been a young Boer officer, he inspired +Irish patriotism by an elegant appeal against "Old England." He was +indeed an orator who, by his recitation, held the audience for an +hour. I was one who was nearest to him on the platform and +congratulated him on his powerful speech.</p> + +<p>After the applause from his Irish friends, as he had called them, he +decided to leave with me for his hotel, and I was stopping at St. +Patrick's par<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span>sonage, so we both had to go in the same direction.</p> + +<p>I had become interested in the fellow while he was delivering his +speech and I became much more interested in him in our car ride, +together, to the Lindell Hotel, and he invited me to stop off with +him awhile at the Lindell Hotel, and we were soon engaged in all +kinds of discussions, both religious and political. He was a +"Dutchman" and had asked his government of Holland for a leave of +absence to fight in the Boer war, which was granted him, and to prove +the truthfulness of this assertion he showed me a wound on his breast +which had not yet healed.</p> + +<p>He remarked that he came "nearly" telling in his address at the +"Emmet" meeting about the miraculous escape of Pat Crow to South +Africa, and stated that if it had not been for the bad impression Pat +Crow had made in America, he would have told of the trick that had +been turned to gain him his freedom and rob some one in America of +the reward that had been put on his head by Millionaire Cudahy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p> + +<p>The following is his story he told me as near as I can remember it:</p> + +<p>"One night I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, and stayed with Pat +Crow in the same room. I knew that it was Pat Crow and did not intend +to have much to do with him, but he noticed me and I became +interested in him, and he spoke to me about matters, and the +millionaire's boy being abducted, and the ransom that he received, +and his escape to Africa.</p> + +<p>"He remarked that I would realize from his name that he was an Irish +Catholic, and stated that he had gone through the Catholic schools +and was a 'brother' in the cloisters, and stated that this was his +strong point in never being caught in his daring undertakings.</p> + +<p>"He stated that when they received their $25,000 ransom from Cudahy +that it was divided at the cottage where the crime was committed. He +stated that it cost him quite a sum of money to stay with friends a +few days in Omaha, but that he soon disguised himself as an inmate of +the Jesuit College, a school for Catholic boys.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span></p> + +<p>"He stated that he traveled on a 'permit' as Father O'Connor to +Kansas City, and stated that from there he went to St. Louis, +disguised as a Catholic priest, and that the conductors on the train +spoke to him as 'How do you do, Father?'</p> + +<p>"When I arrived in St. Louis I went to St. Anthony's Church, where +you can obtain most anything from that saint. I rang the bell for +confession. I confessed all kinds of things. I confessed to murder, +robbery, kidnapping, and the Father Confessor was impressed with me +because I was a 'big fish' in my line, and because I had done no harm +to the millionaire's boy. I told the inmates of St. Anthony's Church +that I wanted to make confession and do penance the remainder of my +life.</p> + +<p>"A brother came with the scissors and I received the 'tonsure' for +the third time, which left only a circle of hair around my head, and +no Pinkerton detective, or even Bertillion himself could have +identified me.</p> + +<p>"In a short time I left this St. Anthony Church in a 'Catholic +Habit,' which disguised me as a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> Catholic official, and I went to +Omaha and passed myself off as 'Brother Clement from St. Louis.'</p> + +<p>"When I reached Omaha I had no trouble in passing myself off as +'Brother Clement.'</p> + +<p>"After I had remained there awhile I excused myself and in my +priestly robes I walked to the banks of the Missouri River and raised +my buried treasure, as I had left a part of the money that I received +from Cudahy buried near the river, and I took the train to St. Louis, +and from there to New York, and from New York I took a German steamer +to Southampton.</p> + +<p>"I stayed in London two weeks and read in the papers all about Pat +Crow. London was not the place for a man like me, as I had been there +before, and they knew me; so I sailed for the diamond fields of South +Africa, where I am now free, by the system of 'asylums' (which are +Catholic monasteries) of the Catholic Church. Pat Crow wound up his +story by telling me that if I ever needed to try this plan that I +could do it, and stated that the Catholic Church was the refuge of +criminals."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now, bear in mind, the reason that the Catholic Church is such a +refuge for criminals is because no police or detective is ever +allowed to cross over the door-sills into these places of Catholic +refuge, where the worst chapters of crime never will be told, and +where these criminals flee to avoid the punishment of their crimes.</p> + +<p>This is the first time in the history of the world that this awful +history in regard to Pat Crow and Catholicism was ever given to the +reading public.</p> + +<p>Catholicism teaches, and acts accordingly, that if a confessor +forgives the sins of these criminals that God has taken away all +guilt from their heinous crimes and that the civil laws have no right +to punish these criminals after a Catholic priest has forgiven their +sins, and on this damnable dogma, Catholicism bases her right for the +existence of these "asylums."</p> + +<p>I want to give the reader a little history in regard to the +assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Wilkes Booth, a Roman Catholic, was +the assassin of President Lincoln. The Roman Catholic Church, under +the mask of Democracy, was always be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span>lieved to be responsible for +this diabolical assassination. In fact, it is believed, and the +belief is well founded, that through the "inquisition" in the City of +Rome that a plot was laid to destroy the republican form of +government of the United States, and the assassination of Abraham +Lincoln was the first step, and the plotting on this side of the +water was done in Catholic houses, adorned with crucifixes, religious +saints, religious statues, religious relics, and rosaries, scapulars, +holy water pots, and medals of Catholicism innumerable.</p> + +<p>It was in the house of Mrs. Surratt, located in the very heart of +Washington, D.C., that the officers of this government proceeded +after the assassination of President Lincoln, and bear in mind that +Mrs. Surratt was a Roman Catholic, and the occupants of this house +were arrested. The ones who were arrested were; Mrs. Surratt, a Roman +Catholic; her daughter, Anna, a Roman Catholic; Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a +Roman Catholic, and Miss Hollahan, a Roman Catholic. Before the +officers had left this house a light knock was heard<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span> at the door and +a young man appeared in disguise, as he was dressed as a common +laborer and carried a pick upon his shoulder; his hands were white +and soft and he was also arrested, and his name was Powell, another +Roman Catholic.</p> + +<p>John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was a Roman Catholic, consequently +the belief is undoubtedly well founded that not only the scheme to +assassinate Abraham Lincoln was laid in the City of Rome by Roman +Catholics, but was carried into execution by the same set in this +country.</p> + +<p>Booth, after the assassination, fled to Surrattsville to the hotel of +Mrs. Surratt, and there a Roman Catholic woman had concealed a +carbine. Mr. Surratt, at Washington, had warned the folks at the +hotel that the weapon would be called for the night of Abraham +Lincoln's assassination, which is <i>prima facie</i> evidence of the plot +to assassinate Lincoln. After the assassination Booth fled, but on +the eastern shores of the Potomac he was concealed in a Roman +Catholic Church for nearly a week. As we relate this history, which +is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span> true, the evidence becomes more damaging against Roman +Catholicism.</p> + +<p>The finale of this national tragedy was that Herald, Powell and Mrs. +Surratt were hung, and Dr. Mudd and O'Laughlin were committed to +life-long imprisonment, and all of these were Roman Catholics.</p> + +<p>The question now arises, How did John H. Surratt escape from the same +fate of Herald, Powell and Mrs. Surratt? <i>I will tell you!</i> John H. +Surratt escaped by the assistance of Catholic officials and went to +Canada, and was concealed in a "Trappist cloister" near Montreal, and +remained there until 1865, when, as a Priest, he went to Liverpool.</p> + +<p>In the spring of 1866, Mr. Wm. H. Seward was informed by a Mr. King, +at Rome, Italy, that John H. Surratt had enlisted in the Papal +Guards, under the name of John Watson. He was arrested at Teroli, in +Italy, but escaped by plunging down a ravine twenty-three feet deep.</p> + +<p>He was wounded by the fall and crawled off to a monastery and +remained there until he was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span> healed and then resumed his flight. +After his wounds healed, he went to Egypt, as he was not satisfied +with Italy, and was there captured by our minister, Mr. Hale, and +sent to America.</p> + +<p>I could go on and on, giving you history of lesser importance that +this, which occurs week in and week out, month in and month out, and +year in and year out, and which is strictly connected with the +Catholic Church, but what I have given you are truths, and +indisputable truths, which should be evidence enough of the awfulness +of monasteries of this and other countries, and a class of men who +will commit such dastardly deeds in the monasteries would not +hesitate to slaughter innocent virtue in the nunneries of this +country.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span></p><p>I could give you history in regard to the nunneries that would make +the cheek of virtue blush with shame, but to give you this history I +would have to use language that I do not desire to use, as I want to +keep the minds and morals of the girls of this country as pure as +possible; but from this chapter, Protestant fathers and mothers must +know what Roman Catholicism consists of, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> Catholic fathers and +mothers who are not everlastingly blinded by the false light of this +damnable creed should rally from their lethargetic walks of +debauchery and snatch their children from the Romish mire of +degradation and place them upon the Protestant highways, which lead +to the beauties of individual and collective greatness.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig10" id="fig10"/><a href="images/fig10.jpg"><img src="images/fig10_tb.jpg" width="400" height="246" +alt="The Christ of Protestantism compared to the God of Catholicism.—TAKE YOUR CHOICE." title="" /></a> +<span class="caption">The Christ of Protestantism compared to the God of Catholicism.<br /> +TAKE YOUR CHOICE.</span><br /></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_IX" id="Chapter_IX"></a>Chapter IX.</h2> + +<h3>Un-Married Cussedness of the Roman Priest-Craft.</h3> + + +<p>In the Book of Books, we find that the Lord of Hosts declares that, +"It is not good for man to dwell alone," and our Heavenly Father also +teaches us that "Every man should have one wife."</p> + +<p>Now, the Good Lord was either right or wrong when He made this +declaration, and who is there that would declare that the Lord was +mistaken in His injunction? Not one! Therefore, we must acknowledge +that either the Lord our God made a declaration that was nonsensical +and unreasonable, or else the Roman Priestcraft is living a life +which is diagonally contrary to the commands and demands of God +Almighty, for when the Roman Church declares that her Priests shall +not wed, they at once set up a rule for their teachers which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span> is in +violation, to not only the laws of God, but laws of man, as the +silent whisperings of man's nature demands a helpmate. The heathen +nations of the earth who are not acquainted with the sanctity of the +marriage vow, have a longing for the companionship of the opposite +sex, and this longing cannot be termed anything but "a godly love," +as this feeling was placed in the bosom of humanity by a divine +being, and whenever this desire is thwarted, you have disturbed the +most blissful inspiration of the human family; but the Roman Catholic +Church would have us believe that a few of the human family have been +ordained by God to live recluses, or, as we may term it, "unmarried +hermits."</p> + +<p>Catholicism, with all her damnable dogmas and creeds, cannot change +that God-given impulse that was planted in the bosom of man, when +Adam was created in the Garden of Eden, and the more Roman +Catholicism endeavors to eradicate that feeling, the greater her sins +become, for it is a most damnable sin to try to force man to +eradicate from his bosom this everlasting and godly<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span> craving for the +love of the opposite sex, and as long as "man is born of woman," just +so long that inspiration will live in the bosom of mankind, and just +so long as Roman Catholicism endeavors to force humanity to purge +itself of this blessed longing, just so long the mark of deception, +depravity and ungodliness will be left upon the brow of this Romish +demon.</p> + +<p>This chapter is one that must be written in a delicate manner, which +prohibits me from becoming emphatic and explicit, for should I allow +myself to write exactly what I have seen, and the truths that exist +in regard to Romish hellishness, and the deeds of the unmarried +cussedness of Catholicism, I would have to resort to language that +would be unchaste, but I have in mind a story that was told some time +ago, by a young lady, who had spent a number of years in a convent, +which I will relate word for word as she gave it, and which will be +only the history over and over again of thousands—yea, tens of +thousands of girls who have had the same experience as this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span> poor +mortal, only perhaps had new agonies added to their lives.</p> + +<p>The history of this girl's life in a convent is more than pathetic, +from the fact that her father on his deathbed requested that she be +placed in a convent by her mother, which was done, and her +sufferings, the reader will see, were not a fault of hers, but the +fault of her parents, who had been raised to believe in the +diabolical teachings of Roman Catholicism, but who did not know that +these teachings were only echoes of the dark ages of paganism, +therefore you will see that this poor girl's history is laden with a +sadness for which she is not to blame, and the fault can only be laid +at the fountain head, as her parents were sincere in their belief, +and did not, of course, realize that they were helping to ruin their +darling girl's future.</p> + +<p>I will now relate her history, as near as possible, the way she gave +it, which will be symbolic of the history of thousands of other +girls, and which is absolutely true. Her story follows:</p> + +<p>"When one becomes an inmate of a convent,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span> they become a prisoner, as +every act is scrutinized by the mother superior, and you have no +privilege any more than if you were a convict and placed behind the +bars for some heinous crime. With this exception, however, you are +allowed to receive letters from a priest without having the letter +opened and read before it reaches you, as there is always some mark +to distinguish a letter received from a priest, but all letters that +you write and all letters that you receive, unless they bear the mark +indicating that they have been sent by a priest, are carefully read, +and if the contents of either the letter you write, or the one that +has been written to you does not meet with the arbitrary opinion of +the "mother superior," they are destroyed, and you never have the +opportunity of sending the one that you have written, or to receive +the one that has been written to you, unless they can pass the +inspection of the "mother superior," who is nothing more nor less +than an agent of the Pope of Rome, as she receives her instructions +from the priestcraft, and they receive their instructions from the +Pope of Rome.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span>"</p> + +<p>When an inmate of a convent receives a letter from a priest it is +handed her without being opened, as the "mother superior" is +instructed not to open such letters, and is told that all such +letters, of course, relate to the spiritual welfare of the nun.</p> + +<p>In these letters the priest will tell the nun what day he will call +to give her a <i>general confession</i>. As soon as such a letter is +received the nun informs the "mother superior" that on a certain day +Priest So-and-So will visit her, and, of course, this "mother +superior" gives the permission, and on the day that the priest is to +arrive, this nun is excused from all duties for that day, and when +the priest arrives he is shown into what is called the <i>Retreat +Parlor</i>; and no matter how long he remains there, no one will disturb +him. He is supposed to be <i>talking</i> with his penitent on the welfare +of her soul. Ah, could any one look through the door, they would find +this priest with his arms about the form of this fair penitent, or +perhaps in a far more compromising position!</p> + +<p>Right here the reader may ask if these nuns are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span> willing to submit to +the embraces of these priests?</p> + +<p>I will allow this girl to answer this question in her own language, +and her answer is this:</p> + +<p>"I answer that in fifteen out of twenty cases—No! But she is there +helpless; the priest has seen her somewhere in the garb of a nun and +has taken a fancy to her, and whether she be willing or not, he +compels her to allow him to satisfy his hellish passion!"</p> + +<p>This girl continues by exclaiming: "Oh God! Great God! When I think +of this system—this system born of the devil and nurtured by +hell—and realize that under the cloak of religion it is stealing +away our liberty, entering into our homes, ruining our womanhood and +girlhood, and painting childish purity with the brush of immorality, +and defiling everything with which it comes in contact, I then become +a mad woman, and I become as a venomous serpent, wanting revenge for +what has been done to me, and it seems as if I cannot remain quiet, +but, closing my eyes and ears to everything, as I have no redress, I +am compelled to warn thousands who may come after<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> me, of their fate, +should they take up convent life, which is a hell upon earth and a +blotch as black as the shadows of hell to any land."</p> + +<p>The same lady who related the above, and a great deal more which I +cannot tell in this chapter, gave an account of the sufferings of +another nun, who was in the same convent with her, and I now learn +that the same story that I will now relate has been told to others.</p> + +<p>Reader, you must bear in mind that convents have many tortures +outside of the torturing conscience on account of having the virtue +of their inmates destroyed. The teachings of Catholicism lead people +to practice self-infliction upon their person in order to appease a +living God, as they seem to worship a living God the same as the +pagans would worship a God of stone, or a ferocious God in the form +of some carnivorous beast, and in order to atone for their sins, +these inmates of the nunneries are taught that they must bear +self-infliction; in fact, Catholicism teaches her followers that in +order that any of them shall receive<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span> absolute pardon, that they must +resort to heathenish practices.</p> + +<p>As stated above, the same lady whom we speak of in the first part of +this chapter, relates her experience with a sister nun, who endured +self-torture, believing that it was an outward demonstration of +godliness. Her story follows:</p> + +<p>"I call to mind a case of cruelty under the guise of devotion that +happened in our convent. A consecrated penitent, Sister Madeline, had +been for some time a victim of consumption. She was a beautiful girl, +and her exquisitely sweet voice could be heard in church every +Sunday, taking part in the high mass. Poor Sister Madeline! How many +humiliations she received! How often she was censured for leaving her +work unfinished when she was not able to do it, and how I have pitied +her as she tried to eat the bread and dripping we had for supper. +Failing in the attempt, I would notice the tears gather in her eyes. +Oh, how often I longed to be able to obtain some little delicacy for +her! but dared not ask for it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span> Her gentle, patient, suffering face +will never fade from my memory.</p> + +<p>"One Sunday evening she and I were walking in the garden after +benediction. She felt more than usually weak, and, therefore, I could +offer her my arm to lean upon.</p> + +<p>"'Dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she said, 'I think our blessed +Lord is soon going to come for me.'</p> + +<p>"I tried to cheer her by telling her that it might be His will to +restore her again to health and strength.</p> + +<p>"'No, dear Sister,' she replied; 'and oh, I do not want to stay. I +long to see my Master's face. At night, when I lay awake in pain, I +long, oh, so much, that I might go!'</p> + +<p>"'Sister Madeline,' I said, 'you have been happy here, have you not? +You love your present life?'</p> + +<p>"We had seated ourselves by this time in a little grotto made up in +honor of 'Our Lady of Lourdes.' She buried her face in her hands, and +I saw the tears trickling between her fingers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span></p> + +<p>"My own eyes filled with tears; I know not why.</p> + +<p>"At last, raising up her head, she said: 'I have tried my best to be +contented; but oh! Sister Adelaide, it has been a bitter struggle. It +is wrong in me to give way thus; but I cannot help it. May Our Lady +pity me! I want you to promise, dear Sister, that you will say a +rosary for me every day for a year after I am dead, and one communion +every month.'</p> + +<p>"'I will gladly do this for you, Sister Madeline,' I answered. 'Tell +me,' I continued, 'is there any particular day you prefer?'</p> + +<p>"'Yes,' she replied, 'I would like your Friday communion. Promise me +that on the anniversary of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, my patron +saint, you will offer your communion for me.'</p> + +<p>"I promised her this and she seemed more satisfied.</p> + +<p>"'I know,' she said, 'that I shall have a long purgatory.' She +shuddered as she spoke. 'And oh! I do hope the dear sisters will +remember me in their prayers and communions.'</p> + +<p>"'Dear Sister Madeline,' I said at last, 'purga<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span>tory is better than +hell and our Blessed Lady will intercede for you.'</p> + +<p>"'Yes, dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she said, 'you are right; but +oh!' she continued, 'I cannot help the shudder that passes through me +as I think of the suffering I shall be in for years, especially after +the mortifications I have practiced here, the discipline I have +applied to myself, the days I have abstained from food, the prayers I +have offered, the tears I have shed; and now, as death approaches, +there is no other prospect before me than a long term of purgatorial +punishment. Besides, the punishment will be all the greater since I +have given away to an unnatural thought.'</p> + +<p>"'And what, may I ask, do you call an unnatural thought?'</p> + +<p>"'Sister Magdalene Adelaide, come close to me.'</p> + +<p>"I rose from my chair and knelt down beside her.</p> + +<p>"'Dear sister, I have endeavored to bear my cross,' she commenced, +speaking with difficulty; 'But oh! sister, I dread the end; I have so +much<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span> to expiate; and oh!' she continued, her voice now choked with +sobs, 'if only I could have my mother near me; if only I could hear +her voice once more; it is so long since I have seen her. I have +asked for any letter that may have come, but they tell me none has +arrived, and oh! I don't think mother has quite forgotten me.'</p> + +<p>"I durst not trust myself to speak; my heart was too full. At last I +said, 'Dear sister, do not grieve thus; our Blessed Lady will +intercede for you. Remember, in coming here your purpose, even as +mine, was to make reparation for sin. You and I have both suffered. +Be brave now, dear, and now that the end is near do not take away +from God's glory by fearing for the future.'</p> + +<p>"'I know it is wrong to grieve so much, Sister Magdalene Adelaide, +but oh, I am so weak! Will you read a meditation for me?'</p> + +<p>"I took up the book and did as she requested. Soon she fell into a +sleep which lasted about one hour, and again I commenced saying my +rosary beads. Presently I heard her murmur, and, listening, I heard +her whisper, 'My feet! oh, my feet!'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span> I arose from my chair and +removed the sheet with the intention of rubbing her limbs; as I did +so her feet were disclosed. A thrill of horror passed through my +being as I looked at them, for they were all cut, festered and +bruised; a fearful suspicion took possession of me, and, stooping +down, I picked up her infirmary shoes. On examination I discovered in +them pieces of broken glass; a thrill akin to horror ran through my +whole frame. I held the shoes in my hands and looked at the pale, +suffering face of Adeline as she lay there on her bed, and this +evening the whole scene rises before me—the little infirmary with +its clean, white floor, a few cheap prints of the stations of the +cross hanging on the otherwise bare walls, the two or three small +iron bedsteads, then the white wooden altar upon which was spread a +white linen cloth embroidered with red; the two statues, one of 'Our +Lady of Dolours' and the second of St. Joseph, the patron of happy +deaths. In the center of the altar was a vase with a few cheap paper +flowers.</p> + +<p>"Yes, it comes to me most vividly. There she<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> lay, the sin of her +past life being that she, too, had been deceived at the altars of +Rome—a victim of priestly solicitation in the confessional. Even as +she lay there in the last stages of consumption, traces of what had +at one time been a beautiful face were clearly discernible. What had +she not suffered for years! Who could tell the many weary hours of +heart anguish she had passed through? And yet she was young—hardly +twenty-five years old. She had given up all that was near and dear, +and, for the years she had lived in the convent, she had tried to +appease God's justice for her early sin by mortifying and chastising +herself in a way that can only find a parallel in the doctrines of +Buddha. Oh, Madeline! poor, wounded, betrayed one! Who can wonder, as +you lay there with the fever of consumption running and coursing +through your veins, that, in spite of all the teachings and practices +of self-denial in the convent life in which you had lived so many +years, yet, when the hour of death drew nigh and your soul was +hovering on the borders of the unknown eternity, your thoughts once +more went back to the old<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> home-scenes, and you longed, as only a +child can, for the sight of a mother's face, the sound of a mother's +voice, the cool, soothing touch of a mother's hand passing over your +brow? They tried to crush down the natural love that God placed in +your heart for your mother, but they could not. The use of the +discipline caused the blood to flow and gave you physical suffering; +fasting and long prayers made you weak, and thus incapable of +exercising will-power; and, when no other eye but God's was upon you, +when struggling with the desire to leave forever the hateful prison +walls of the convent, the bitter tears forced their way. Then, +kneeling before the statue of the 'Mother of Sorrows,' you pleaded +with her to help and intercede for you. What comfort did you get? +What hope? What consolation? <i>None!</i> You might make good confessions +and communions, practice all the self-denials required of one in your +vocation, and the only thing that the church could give you, the only +gleam of <i>hope</i> she could offer, was that, through your works of +supererogation, your purgatory would be less<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span>ened; and now, wasted +through suffering and consumption, dreading the punishment of +purgatory, endeavoring in your dying state to do something to lessen +its pangs, you have walked with glass in your shoes and your poor +feet give evidence of the agony you endured. And this is +Christianity!</p> + +<p>"I applied cold cloths to her feet; I sat down in the dimly-lighted +infirmary by the side of her bed, and, holding the fevered and +trembling hand, I, in my ignorance, tried to give her some comfort. I +promised to remember her in my intentions, my communions, and at the +sacrifice of the Mass. I spoke to her of the mercy and compassion of +Mary, the 'Mother of Sorrows,' and tried to give her hope by pointing +to her as mediator between her soul and Christ, but I could see that +she received no satisfaction, no assurance. Then her eyes closed and +she dozed for a few minutes, only to wake with a moan of pain—'Oh, +my feet! oh, my feet!' And then again, 'If only I could see my +mother!' would issue from her parched and cracked lips.</p> + +<p>"And so I sat through the night, soothing her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span> as well as I knew how, +and repeating aspirations for her, until the dawn crept in and the +nuns' bell rang out at 4:30 o'clock, arousing the inmates. The +quietness and deep stillness still remained throughout the +institution, the sisters and penitents walking in the dimly-lighted +cloisters with soft tread and down-cast eyes, as if in the land of +the silent dead and not the living."</p> + +<p>As I write I wonder how it was possible for me to endure the paganism +of Catholicism for thirty years, and the only rational reason I can +give for this endurance is that I, like thousands of these poor nuns +whom I have just written about, was raised to believe that the +teachings of Catholicism were right and the only road that lead to +eternal glory; therefore I look with pity and compassion upon those +black-garbed nuns when I behold them tramping the streets of our +large cities, as I realize that they actually believe they are +performing God's work, when the truth of the matter is that they are +only following the practices of heathen nations.</p> + +<p>I could go on and write a thousand pages upon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> "The Unmarried +Cussedness of the Roman Priestcraft," and each page would be as black +as the shadows of hell, but I deem it unnecessary, as I have +confidence in those who may read this book that they will believe +every word of what I have written, therefore it is unnecessary for me +to dwell longer upon the hideousness of celibacy.</p> + +<p>In conclusion, I desire to say that so long as Roman Catholicism +demands that her priestcraft shall not wed, just so long the +priestcraft will remain vultures of virtue and just so long convents +will be turned into carnivals of vice.</p> + +<p>It is only natural that such should be the case, as both the +priestcraft and the inhabitants of our convents are brought up from +childhood to believe in the absurdities of Roman Catholicism, and to +believe that all of their many sins can be pardoned by the cungerings +of this Romish doctrine.</p> + +<p>My prayer is that the government of the United States may learn in +the near future that the broad light of Protestant inspection must +penetrate these recesses of darkness before we can ever have them +cleansed of their immorality, and this in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span>spection must be made +often, and I sincerely believe that the time is not far distant when +Protestant America will demand that Catholicism shall do away with +her monasteries and nunneries, unless she submits to a rigid +examination of her actions, and whenever she submits it will be +because she is forced to submit, and whenever she is forced to do so, +these monasteries and convents will be closed up, as Protestant +America will not allow nor permit these plague spots to exist to +pollute the fair name of America when she learns of their actual +mission.</p> + +<p> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span></p> + +<p> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span></p> + +<p><br /></p> +<p> <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 249px;"> +<a name="fig11" id="fig11"/><a href="images/fig11.jpg"><img src="images/fig11_tb.jpg" width="249" height="400" alt="Being Excommunicated For Reading The Bible." +title="Being Excommunicated For Reading The Bible." /></a> +<span class="caption">Being Excommunicated For Reading The Bible.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_X" id="Chapter_X"></a>Chapter X.</h2> + +<h3>A Brazen Insult to God.</h3> + + +<p>Catholicism teaches that the Pope of Rome is infallible and cannot +sin, neither can he make a mistake. This claim, if true, would place +the Pope of Rome, who is nothing more nor less than a human being, +upon the same footing as Jesus Christ.</p> + +<p>The Bible says, "There are none pure; no, not one." Now, if the claim +of Catholicism that the Pope of Rome is infallible, is true, then the +Bible is a myth and a mockery.</p> + +<p>If Catholicism's claim that the Pope of Rome is infallible, is true, +then God is not an impartial God, for if He is an impartial God He +would not bestow upon any of His mortals the gift of purity, without +being ready to bestow the same gift upon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> all of those who are +deserving, and who by their righteousness deserve this grand and +princely distinction.</p> + +<p>We want to use a little common sense and a philosophy that can be +assimilated by any man or woman of ordinary intelligence.</p> + +<p>The Bible does not relate in any verse or chapter that any one can +reach the point of infallibility during life. Now, is not this true? +And if it is, then the claim of Catholicism that the Pope of Rome is +infallible is a lie, woven in the devil's loom.</p> + +<p>We want to prove to our readers that this claim is one founded upon +fallacious grounds, as the Pope of Rome is elected by the cardinals +of the Catholic Church, who are human and who are often as immoral as +the devil; therefore the infallibility of the Pope rests in human +hands, for it is by these cardinals that the Pope is created, +therefore you will see that by the ballot of these cardinals the Pope +derives his infallibility, and not from any power of God Almighty, +consequent<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span>ly this proclaimed infallibility of the Pope rests in the +hands of these cardinals.</p> + +<p>Now, to illustrate this damnable doctrine and show it up in its rabid +ignorance, we will suppose that when Pope Pius X was elected Pope of +Rome that if some other priest had received a majority of one of the +votes of the cardinals, Pope Pius X would never have had this +blessing from God, but he would only have missed it one vote, +therefore you will see that this infallibility which was about to +rest on Pope Pius X, but did not, would have been snatched from him +by the failure of one cardinal to vote for him.</p> + +<p>Now, any man or woman of ordinary "horse sense" can see that God +Almighty has nothing whatever to do with filling the office of the +Pope, and this infallibility rests altogether with the pulling power +that the candidate for Pope exercises over the cardinals, as it is an +indisputable fact that there is as much political chicanery in the +election of a Pope as there is in the election of a justice of the +peace at a township election.</p> + +<p>We want to learn just how far this infallibility<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span> of the Pope goes. +If a man is infallible he can not make a mistake, and I can prove by +every man of broadmindedness and intelligence that the Popes of Rome, +for centuries past, have made nothing but mistakes, and their +mistakes have been not only ruinous to those whom they profess to +teach, but their mistakes have had a tendency to paralyze the +righteous ambitions of every nation to which their influence has +extended. If the claim of Catholicism is true that her Popes are +infallible, then we must acknowledge that this great gift was +received from God Almighty, and we cannot believe such nonsense when +we are aware of the fact that these Popes are elected by the +cardinals, and the election of a Pope depends upon the tactics and +schemes of these cardinals; then, pray, tell us how any man who has +been raised up under the arch-light of Protestantism, or who has had +the searchlight of Protestant intelligence penetrate his soul, can +for a moment believe in the infallibility of the Pope?</p> + +<p>I sincerely believe, in fact, I know that there are millions who +believe this damnable doctrine,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span> as I can honestly say that I at one +time believed it myself. But those who do believe it are those who +have been raised beneath the dark shadows of superstition, and my +mission in writing this book is to brush the cobwebs of ignorance +from these dwarfed minds and help to point them to "<i>the Lamb of God +who taketh away the sins of the world</i>," and if I can be instrumental +in this mission I will not only open the eyes of the followers of +Catholicism, but I will put stiffening into the backbone of +Protestantism and help them to brand this idolatrous doctrine of +Catholicism wherever she may dare to rear her abominable head.</p> + +<p>The great danger in teaching that the Pope is infallible is in making +thieves and murderers of our citizens, for if Catholicism is right in +teaching her followers that the Pope of Rome is infallible, this +doctrine is bound to have an influence that is awful in its effect, +for whenever a man or woman believes in the infallibility of the Pope +they are bound to believe in the infallibility of all things that he +creates; therefore you will see that this doctrine is far-reaching in +its effects, for if a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span> Pope is infallible the bishops which he +creates are infallible, and if the bishops which he creates are +infallible, the priests which they create are infallible, and +whenever we teach a nation this abomination we have a nation of +people which believes that there is no sin so heinous which they may +commit but which may be forgiven by the priesthood, as they have +learned to believe that all things created by the Pope are +infallible, simply because they have been created by the Pope, and +whenever you preach a doctrine that has such effect upon the +inhabitants of any country you will have a set of inhabitants who +will commit crime without hesitation, as they are assured that by +paying a few dollars into the coffers of the priest they can have +their sins pardoned, and whenever you cause a nation to believe this, +you at once have a nation of criminals.</p> + +<p>It is, in my estimation, absolutely impossible for an individual who +believes in such a damnable doctrine to become a pure, patriotic +American citizen. Now, this may seem to the reader a very broad +assertion and one that may appear too broad to be substantiated, but +I propose to demon<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span>strate to you that it is only a natural +consequence, and if we fail to make this point clear to the reader's +mind we will not ask them to believe it.</p> + +<p>In the first place, we desire to say that the Catholic religion—if +religion it can be termed—is founded upon the rock of superstition. +Every code of their church doctrine teaches that the Pope is +infallible and cannot err, which is absurd, and not only absurd, but +a festering lie, for no man or woman who believes in the teachings of +the Holy Bible can believe in such a doctrine, and whenever a man or +woman does believe in the infallibility of the Pope and believes that +the Pope cannot err, he or she believes that the Pope is superhuman, +and such we know cannot be the case as long as there is life in the +body, as we are all liable to the Adamic sin, as the world at large +was cursed with the Adamic sin in the Garden of Eden.</p> + +<p>Now, we want to deal in simple facts and truths that are so simple +that the commonest man of ordinary intelligence can understand.</p> + +<p>Now, if the Pope of Rome is infallible, he is immortal, and if every +action of this Pope is pure,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span> then everything that is created by him +must be pure; and if such is the case, I was at one time as pure as +Jesus Christ Himself, as I for thirty years was a Roman Catholic +priest and a creature created by a Roman Catholic Pope. Every man and +woman of very ordinary intelligence knows that neither I nor any +other priest ever was pure; in fact, that man has never lived or died +who could claim infallibility and purity so long as life was left in +his body.</p> + +<p>If the doctrines of Catholicism are correct then we have no use for a +God any longer, as we already have a Pope; and should Pope Pius X die +to-day the cardinals to-morrow, or some day in the near future, would +elect another Pope, who would take the place of Jesus Christ Himself, +according to their doctrine; and if such doctrines are true, then the +human family in the future and the unborn millions could be saved as +easily without God as they could with Him, as the Pope would perform +that mission himself.</p> + +<p>There are thousands—yea, tens of thousands, who send handkerchiefs +and trinkets each year<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span> to Rome to be blessed (?) by the Pope, and +who believe that by having some article which has been blessed (?) by +this presumptuous vagabond will prevent them from being overtaken by +bad luck, ill health or any other misfortune that besets the path of +man.</p> + +<p>Now, if the Pope of Rome has the power to bless and sanctify a piece +of cloth, a ring, or any dead and inert object, he undoubtedly is +"<i>the real thing</i>," and if such is the case the Bible is a lie, the +gospel a fallacy, and God Almighty becomes a hireling, and we have no +further need of a God.</p> + +<p>What can we expect of the followers of Catholicism who believe in +this hellish doctrine, and what can we expect of a nation which is +controlled by those who teach and preach such abominations?</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span></p><p>An institution which will teach such damnable ignorance and practice +such superstitious paganism is a plague spot and a curse to any +country, and the man or set of men who claim that the Pope is +infallible offers "<i>a brazen insult to God</i>."</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 245px;"> +<a name="fig12" id="fig12"/><a href="images/fig12.jpg"><img src="images/fig12_tb.jpg" width="245" height="400" alt="A MODERN JUDAS.— +In his wake, misery always follows." title="A MODERN JUDAS.—In his wake, misery always follows." /></a> +<span class="caption">A MODERN JUDAS.—In his wake, misery always follows.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_XI" id="Chapter_XI"></a>Chapter XI.</h2> + +<h3>The Characters of the Followers of Catholicism Compared +to the Followers of Protestantism.</h3> + + +<p>I believe that I am not presuming too much when I consider myself +authority on the subject of "Character," as I have had the privilege +of studying the characters of the followers of both Catholic and +Protestant countries, as I have traveled extensively over both Europe +and America and have had occasion to compare the characters of the +followers of the Pope to the characters of the followers of Jesus +Christ, and the comparison is one that will lead any sane man, or +woman, and one who desires to reach a true verdict, to arrive at the +conclusion that it is a physical impossibility for any man or woman +who depends upon mortal wisdom for their inspiration to ever attain +the broadness and purity of character that the man or<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span> woman who +lives beneath the shadow of the Cross, and who looks to a living God +for their wisdom.</p> + +<p>Character is not a spontaneous fungus which grows without proper +care, as character is an essential that must be cultivated in the +fertile soil of morality, as there is no code of morals which will +stand the crucial test of godliness unless it springs from the +eternal injunctions laid down in the Holy Bible, and without morals +an individual as well as a nation loses its identity among the good +of the land, and when this happens, society in general is the loser, +for whenever we degrade society we degrade ourselves, for there is no +man or woman so strong and powerful in their individuality but what +they can become besmirched and contaminated, to a degree at least, by +the association of those who have been lowered in the scale of +morality by the lack of this most precious jewel of the human family.</p> + +<p>We are aware of the fact that Protestantism is not exempt from sin, +as we are well aware that we will find sinners of all degrees in the +Protestant ranks, but we make the assertion, without fear of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> +contradiction, that the characters in general of the followers of +Protestantism are many times superior to the characters in general of +the followers of Romanism.</p> + +<p>We will take the large cities in the United States as an +illustration, and we will find that the saloon-keepers, comparatively +speaking, are from the ranks of Catholicism, and to engage in the +saloon business is no bar to a member of the Catholic Church, for if +this saloon-keeper, no matter if he runs a wine-room in connection +with his saloon and is responsible for the downfall of an army of +precious girls, he is considered a fit subject for heaven by the +Catholic Church provided he liberally donates to the support of this +damnable institution.</p> + +<p>Statistics show that ninety-four bar-rooms out of every one hundred +in America are owned and controlled by the followers of Romanism. As +Catholicism establishes and builds character out of money, she makes +money her god, and as long as her followers liberally support the +great army of Catholic dignitaries they are taught that they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span> have +performed the essential part in the establishment of character; thus +you can see what the result of this doctrine would lead to, and you +have demonstrations of this doctrine in this country, and more +especially in other countries where Catholicism is solely responsible +for the condition of the inhabitants.</p> + +<p>Everything that is not in the Bible is taken by the Catholic Church +from the heathens and the Jews, and you will find the doctrines and +the practices of Catholicism founded upon heathenish practices and +not upon the broad plane of morals taught by Jesus Christ.</p> + +<p>Those who may read this book, and who are not acquainted with the +characters of the rabble of Catholicism, we would be glad to have +them go to any of our large cities and visit some of the districts of +these cities which are inhabited by the followers of Romanism, and +there you will find a class whose countenances alone would condemn +them in any criminal court of the land, as they are men and women who +are made up of a foreign element and from the criminal districts of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span> +European countries, and who are as ignorant as rams and glory in +their ignorance, and who have no idea of patriotism and of loyalty to +country, and only have an idea and desire to worship the images and +symbols of Catholicism, and any man or body of men, or any nation, +who will practice this heathenish worship cannot possess character.</p> + +<p>I have traveled extensively over the United States and over European +countries which are controlled by the Pope, and if I could vividly +portray the characters of Catholicism and Protestantism the +comparison would resemble the countenance of the criminal compared to +the innocent and loveable features of a girl baby.</p> + +<p>Catholicism poisons the very atmosphere that surrounds her followers, +and she is not satisfied by confining her contaminating influences to +her own followers, but she is everlastingly stretching her filthy +grasp to pull Protestantism down to her degraded level. Catholicism +lowers the standard of public opinion. She makes war on morality and +virtue, which destroys character. Catholicism countenances +wrong-doings. Catholicism tolerates<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span> evil and rewards vice, and it is +a well-known fact that "evil communications corrupt good manners," +and if this is the case, then is it any wonder that the characters of +the followers of Catholicism cannot, nor never will, favorably +compare to the followers of Protestantism?</p> + +<p>I am about to make an assertion that will perhaps shock those who are +not familiar with the teachings of Catholicism, but I make it without +fear of contradiction, as I know whereof I speak, as I have traveled +the Papist road for thirty years, and I declare to you with all +sincerity and honesty that Rome would not go far wrong if she counted +in her membership 95 per cent of the men and women who are on their +road to hell, and if this assertion is true, and if I have not +overdrawn my estimation, then, pray, tell me what we can expect in +the future in this country should such characters as I have just +portrayed be permitted to dominate this government.</p> + +<p>Every Roman Catholic that is born in the world comes into the world +alienated from God and God's teachings, and is taught from infancy +not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span> to depend upon God Almighty for guidance, but to depend upon +Romanism for their everlasting future, and with such doctrines +everlastingly funnelled into childhood, what can we expect of the +child when it has grown to maturity?</p> + +<p>Protestant children are born into the world of parents who look above +the horizon of earthly things for their inspirations, and these +children are taught from infancy that they must look to an all-wise +God for succor and support; but Popery ignores all of this and +teaches by heathenish symbols and by paganic practices. Thus it is an +easy matter for any sane man or woman to understand why character +cannot be found in such a class.</p> + +<p>The followers of Catholicism are taught that by the payment of a few +dimes they can have their sins remitted and pardoned; thus you will +see that crime has no terrors for such a class, as they believe that +when they have committed a crime all they have to do is to go to the +priestcraft and have their sins pardoned, in exchange for per<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span>haps a +part of the money which they gained in their criminal transaction.</p> + +<p>To rule such men, no religion is required. A Romanist does not look +to God Almighty for his salvation, but to the church, and the church +gives him her unbounded sanction to commit sin, provided that he +returns after he commits the crime and pays a few dollars to have his +sins pardoned.</p> + +<p>A Roman Catholic can swear, break the Sabbath, dishonor his parents, +lie, steal, commit adultery, get drunk and commit any other crime +that he chooses, provided that he returns to the confessional box and +pays for having his sins pardoned.</p> + +<p>Now, what can you expect of a class of men and women who believe in +this doctrine, and can you expect to find anything but the character +of a criminal or a degenerate? If you do, you are undoubtedly as +ignorant as the followers of Romanism, as it is a physical +impossibility to reasonably expect a man or woman who has been taught +these abominations to ever make men and women of character who will +adorn this or any other nation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span></p> + +<p>One of the rulers of England, Charles II, died with prostitutes about +him and died a disgrace to England and to himself, but Rome glorified +in him as one of her converts. The more of Rome a man or woman +possesses, and the less of God, the more the Roman Catholic Church +glorifies in him.</p> + +<p>Catholicism is a coward—yea, a cringing coward—when not surrounded +by large numbers of her followers, as she has no excuse for her +existence and cannot defend herself by intelligent and godly +arguments, and the only way she can defend herself is by numbers; but +whenever she can resort to physical and brutal strength, she then +makes a fight which crimsons the earth with blood, and Protestantism +pays the penalty, and the reason why those in the country and in +sparsely settled districts do not know more of the hellishness of +Catholicism is because this creed cannot intelligently defend itself +and will not take issue with Protestantism unless she can take issue +by brutal power, but in our cities we have an exhibition of the +diabolical deeds of Catholicism, as the majority of our municipal +elections are con<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span>trolled by the followers of Catholicism, as Rome's +followers congregate in our large cities, because they love darkness +better than light, and they infest the "tough" sections of our cities +and control our municipal elections by brute force, which is +sanctioned by the priestcraft.</p> + +<p>We will take it for granted that the inhabitants of the United States +know more of Mexico than any other nation which is priest-ridden, so +we desire to dwell for a short time upon the characters of the +Mexican peon. You will find Mexico, which lays right across from +Texas on the Rio Grande River, a dividing line between ignorance and +intelligence, crime and godliness, and morality and immorality; +however, that part of Texas which lays near the Mexican border has +become contaminated to a great degree by these Mexican "dupes" who +follow the black flag of Romanism; but the difference in character, +in manhood, in womanhood, in intelligence and everything which +distinguishes right from wrong is so marked and so plain that one +does not have to look twice to see the difference, and there is no +cause nor no reason<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span> for this great difference in character, in +manhood and womanhood but the teachings of Rome.</p> + +<p>If we expect America to retain her place among the nations of +intelligence and nations of greatness, and nations of goodness and +godliness, we must be character-builders, for without character we +can never expect to reach the zenith of godliness, and without +godliness individual greatness is an impossibility.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span></p><p>Catholicism paints the countenances of her followers with the brush +of ignorance and criminality.</p> +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<a name="fig13" id="fig13"/><a href="images/fig13.jpg"><img src="images/fig13_tb.jpg" width="400" height="245" alt="FOES TO KNOWLEDGE." title="FOES TO KNOWLEDGE" /></a> +<span class="caption">FOES TO KNOWLEDGE.</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_XII" id="Chapter_XII"></a>Chapter XII.</h2> + +<h3>Why Teachers in Our Public Schools Should Not Be<br /> +Selected from the Ranks of Catholicism.</h3> + + +<p>The Catholic world does not hesitate in declaring that our public +schools in this country are "Sinks of Iniquity," "Schools of Vice," +and "Nurseries of Hell;" then why should the followers of Catholicism +be permitted to teach in our public schools?</p> + +<p>This is a question that ought to vitally interest every Protestant +father and mother in this land, and the time is not far distant until +they will become interested, for just as sure as God reigns, the time +is not far in the future when Catholicism will endeavor to close up +the public schools of this land and establish her nurseries of +darkness and superstition in their stead.</p> + +<p>If the public schools of this country are not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> good enough for the +children of Catholic parents, it seems to me that the Protestant +parents of this country should see to it that their children are <i>too +good</i> to be taught by Catholic teachers.</p> + +<p>Why is it that the Pope does not promulgate one of his "holy bulls" +and excommunicate those of his believers who take the money so freely +for their services from the public schools of this country?</p> + +<p>Oh, no; the Pope and the priestcraft are perfectly willing, so long +as Protestants have the power to maintain those schools, that their +"jesuitical dupes" shall receive the money that is set aside for +these schools. My blood fairly boils with unbounded indignation when +I think of the hard, harsh, and ungodly slurs that Catholicism is +ever ready to throw at our public school system, and then see blind +Protestants help to place a Catholic teacher in one of our schools.</p> + +<p>We propose to give facts and figures in this chapter that we hope +will open the eyes of drowsy, unconcerned Protestants, and help them +and their children to apply the brakes to their downward<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span> course, and +spike the guns of the Vatican with American manhood.</p> + +<p>We hope by the time you are through with this chapter you will be +ready to make inquiries as to who is to teach your children in the +public schools. Let me ask you, Mr. Protestant, if you ever heard of +a Protestant teaching in a Catholic school? Oh, no! But then you will +fold your hands and be content to allow your children to be taught by +a man or woman who secretly despises the public school system. Shame! +Ten thousand times we exclaim you should be ashamed for not asserting +your American and God-given privileges of Protestantism gained for +you through the blood of your forefathers!</p> + +<p>A general system of education, such as affords all alike an +opportunity to cultivate and expand the intellect, the poor as well +as the rich, is, beyond all question, one of the greatest blessings +that any nation can enjoy. Such a system had its birth in America +while it was yet comparatively free from the blighting influence of a +religio-political corporation whose whole history is one +uninterrupted<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> and relentless war upon every system of education +which broadens the intellect and causes people to think. In America +was born the public free school system, and from the date of its +birth, in 1695, to the present, it has been the means of giving to +this nation its most renowned statesmen, jurists, patriots, +agriculturists, teachers and divines. It is one of the principal +agents by which the United States of America has been enabled to +advance to the first rank in all things that make a nation great.</p> + +<p>But against this most sacred product of American liberty Rome lifts +her unholy hands. Against our schools she hurls her worst anathemas. +But it is our purpose in this chapter to let the Roman Catholic +Church speak for itself. Its language is plain and needs no +interpretation. Listen to Rome's damnable utterances:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"These public schools are devouring fires and pits of +destruction. They ought to go back to the devil, from whence +they came."—<i>The Freeman's Journal.</i></p> + +<p>"If your son or daughter is attending a state<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> school you may +be sure that you are violating your duty as Catholic parents +and conducting to the everlasting anguish and despair of your +child. Take it away. Let it rather never know how to write +its name than to become the bound and chained slave of +satan."—<i>The Shepherd of the Valley.</i></p> + +<p>"The common schools of this country are sinks of moral +pollution and nurseries of hell."—<i>Chicago Tablet.</i></p> + +<p>"The public or common school system is a swindle on the +people, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters of +morals, and should be abolished forthwith."—<i>New York +Tablet.</i></p> + +<p>"The hideous fetish, called the public school, is only an +ugly idol after all."—<i>Colorado Catholic.</i></p> + +<p>"It will be a glorious day for Roman Catholics in this +country when, under the laws of justice and morality, our +school system shall be shivered to pieces."—<i>Catholic +Telegraph.</i></p> + +<p>"We hold education to be a function of the church and not of +the state, and in our case we do<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> not and will not accept the +state as an educator."—<i>New York Tablet.</i></p> + +<p>They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are +evil. Listen to the snarls of Rome's "dupes:"</p> + +<p>"Unless you suppress the public school system as at present +conducted, it will prove the damnation of this +country."—<i>Father Walker.</i></p> + +<p>"I frankly confess that the Catholics stand before the +country as the enemies of the public schools."—<i>Father +Phelan.</i></p> + +<p>"The duty of all loyal, God-fearing Christian men (Roman +Catholics) then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against +this common foe."—<i>Father Gleason.</i></p> + +<p>"The public schools have produced nothing but a godless +generation of thieves and blackguards."—<i>Priest Schauer.</i></p> + +<p>"I would as soon administer the sacrament to a dog as to +Catholics who send their children to public +schools."—<i>Priest Walker.</i></p> + +<p>"The public school system must be destroyed. It must be done +by stopping Bible reading, Psalm<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> singing and eliminating +objectionable books."—<i>Priest Phelan.</i></p> + +<p>"To rescue these little ones out of the grasp of that monster +(the public school), of that popular idol, is our +work."—<i>Bishop John Hennessy.</i></p> + +<p>"We can have the United States in ten years. And I want to +give you three points for your consideration: The Negroes, +the Indians and the public schools."—<i>Bishop Ireland.</i></p> + +<p>"Emphatically a social plague."—<i>Archbishop Perche.</i></p> + +<p>"A ripe knowledge of the cathechism, minus Massachusetts +education, is preferable to her education, minus the +catechism."—<i>Cardinal Antonelli.</i></p> + +<p>"The common school system of the United States is the worst +in the world."—<i>Cardinal Manning.</i></p> + +<p>"The catechism alone is essential for the education of the +people."—<i>Cardinal Antonelli.</i></p> + +<p>"We must take part in the elections. Move in solid mass in +every state pledged to sustain the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span> integrity of the public +schools."—<i>Cardinal McCloskey.</i></p> + +<p>"The Roman Church alone is endowed with power to educate the +young."—<i>Cardinal McCloskey.</i></p> + +<p>"Education outside of the control of the Roman Catholic +Church is a damnable heresy."—<i>Pius IX.</i></p> + +<p>"Public schools open to all children for the education of the +young should be under the control of the Romish Church, and +should not be subject to civil power, nor made to conform to +the opinions of the ages."—<i>Pope Pius IX.</i></p> + +<p>"When I see them drag from me the children, the poor little +children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my +heart."—<i>Pope Pius IX.</i></p> + +<p>"It is desirable, therefore, venerable brethren, that in +concert with your colleagues in the Episcopate, your efforts +and your zeal guard Catholic children from frequenting +schools in which their religious instruction is neglected and +open danger incurred of spiritual loss. Therefore we +vehemently desire, as has already been intimated to you by +the propaganda, that in approaching Episcopal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span> meetings you +carefully discuss the measure that may best help to attain +this end. We wish you also to use earnest efforts that the +civil magistrates, who know full well that nothing is more +advantageous to the commonwealth than religion should +provide, by the enactment of wise laws, that the office of +teachings, which is carried on at the expense of the public, +including consequently the contributions of Catholics, should +contain nothing that stands in the way of their conscience or +runs foul of their religion."—<i>Pope Leo XIII.</i></p></div> + +<p>We could go on and quote diabolical denunciations of our public +schools from hundreds and thousands of Catholic officials, as the +followers of Rome make no "bones" of declaring their animosity +towards the public schools of this country, and they are only waiting +for the time to arrive when they will be able to wipe from the face +of the earth every vestige of our public schools, and place in their +stead their parochial schools, which are nothing more nor less than +"mills of ignorance" and "institutions of superstition."</p> + +<p>An institution of learning is something that is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> not desired by +Catholicism, for whenever you educate you destroy the doctrines of +Romanism, as the hosts of Catholicism cannot stand the searchlight of +wisdom, for whenever you educate the followers of Catholicism they +become disgusted with their dogmas of damnation.</p> + +<p>Our public schools are the bulwarks of this government, and all that +we are to-day, and all that we may expect to be in the future, has +come and must come by and through the public schools, which are the +dearest institutions that adorn this country.</p> + +<p>There must be no sectarianism, whether political or religious, in our +public schools, but there must be truth and duty there. The +unchanging and undying maxim of moral rectitude should be taught to +every child. It is not enough that a boy or girl should be educated +mentally. The safety of our nation, as well as his own usefulness and +happiness, demand that they should be trained to habits of +truthfulness and develop a fine standard of honor. They should be +inspired to form exalted ideals of manhood and womanhood, charity, +rectitude and godliness, and made strong in the reso<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span>lution to defend +the truth, which is never found in parochial schools, as the Catholic +doctrine always tends to humiliate her followers.</p> + +<p>The time has come when the pupils of our public schools must be +taught the love of country, and Catholicism does not teach this, but +the reverse. The children of this nation must learn to love their +native land. To whom shall we look for the inculcation of those +patriotic sentiments which should inspire the heart of every American +citizen? Not to Catholicism, by any means, but to the three hundred +thousand teachers of our public schools.</p> + +<p>Over every school house in hamlet and city, in country and town, in +the North and in the South, in the East and in the West, the American +flag should kiss the morning breeze. Place it where twenty millions +of children will see it every day, and learn to love it as the emblem +of all that is great and good. It will represent to us and to all the +world, in a new and peculiar manner, the great fundamental truth that +the bulwark of our liberties is in the education of our people.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span></p> + +<p>The war of the revolution was fought to establish our nationality. +Incalculable blood and treasure have been spent to establish and keep +our national life intact, and the national policy with relation to +our public schools is part and parcel of that all-absorbing +determination to secure the perpetuity of the state. Men make better +citizens for being educated. The higher the popular intellect is +raised the more intelligent and independent will be its vote. The +stronger the source of government, the stronger the government. If +the "bayonets that think" are the most potent, the "ballots that +think" are the most beneficent.</p> + +<p>Every victory which our nation has won has been a victory of the +public schools and a death knock to Catholicism. They have been the +nursery not only of our statesmen, but of our patriots and soldiers. +They are an American institution and are destined to live as long as +the republic survives. There is no other American institution that +American people would sooner fight for and die for than that which +secures an educated and intelligent nationality. Let us maintain +inviolate our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span> public schools to the end that our nation may ever be +the home of liberty, "the land of benedictions."</p> + +<p>In the unbounded universe of God's domain there are manifold +diversities, and yet there is an essential unity that binds the world +together; there is a common point where all matter unites.</p> + +<p>As there is great freedom and diversity permitted in the unity of +nature, so, in our country of religious and political freedom, we +must grant the greatest latitude possible to the individual +conscience in personal, religious and civil rights consistent with +good government. But that there must be a code of morality common to +all as the basis of our civilized jurisprudence, in which the rights +of all center or unite and are equally protected, every reasonable +mind must admit. But where do we get our ideas of what is morally +right, and what is morally wrong, as the basis of our common law and +jurisprudence? What book or books contain the best code of morals? We +answer, the Bible. For the excellency of the morality of the Bible +has been admitted by the most dis<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span>tinguished men who have opposed its +supernatural revelation, among whom are Gibbon, Byron, Carlyle, Lord +Bollingbroke, Napoleon Bonaparte, Goethe and Renan. Thomas Jefferson, +speaking of Christ as a teacher, said: "He set forth the sublime +ideas of the Supreme Being, aphorisms and precepts of the purest +morality."</p> + +<p>Catholicism says: "No Bible shall be taught in the public schools," +but demands that she be allowed to proclaim her dogmas.</p> + +<p>Benjamin Franklin, five weeks before his death, said of Christ: "I +think His system of morals, and His religion, as He left them, are +the best the world ever saw or is likely to see." The services of the +Bible in behalf of human rights and freedom, and in reforming and +purifying jurisprudence and politics, have been recognized by many of +the most distinguished historians, jurists and statesmen.</p> + +<p>As the makers of our laws and the founders of our government have +accepted the moral code of the Bible as the basis of our +jurisprudence, and have forbidden the union of church and state, and +have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span> left every citizen free to "worship God according to the +dictates of his own conscience," so long as he does not interfere +with the rights of others or violate the moral code common to all +citizens, for the law cannot allow a person to murder or steal, or +burn human sacrifices, or be a polygamist, or commit any other public +crime, even if the dictates of his conscience should lead him into +such a form of religion, because the moral code of the Bible is the +basis of our jurisprudence, and it forbids such things.</p> + +<p>Therefore, we demand that the "book of books" be kept where the +rising generation shall come under its moral teaching without party +or sectarian comment, so that all may understand the fundamental +principles upon which the science of our common law rests, and thus +one of the objects of the order is "to maintain the public school +system of the United States and to prevent sectarian interference +therewith, and upholding the reading of the Holy Bible therein."</p> + +<p>The argument that the reading of the Bible in the public school +should be abolished because it is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> objectionable to the conscience of +some comes only from the Church of Rome, and applies with equal force +against the moral code of jurisprudence, because it is objectionable +to the conscience of the anarchist, and the conscience of the +anarchist is just as sacred and entitled to as much respect, under +the law, in this free country of ours as the conscience of any one +else.</p> + +<p>We have just as much right to take the moral code out of our common +jurisprudence as to take the Bible out of our public schools, because +the moral code of the Bible is the moral code of our common law.</p> + +<p>We desire the Bible to be kept in the school as the standard of moral +truth, as the dictionary is kept there as the standard of words and +their definitions. As the unabridged dictionary contains all the +words of the English language, so the Bible contains all the truths +of Christianity. Every book has a part of the words of the +dictionary, so every Christian creed has a part of the truths of the +Bible. As there never was a book written that contained all of the +words of the dictionary, so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span> there never was a creed written that +contained all the truths of the Bible. Therefore, as the dictionary +and not the books is the standard for words and their meaning, so the +Bible, and not the creeds, is the standard of moral truth. A man can +take the words in the dictionary and write a bad book, but that is +not the fault of the dictionary, but of the man. A person may take +passages of Scripture and misapplied truths and write a bad creed, +but that is not the fault of the Bible, but of the creed-maker. But +every man who takes the Bible as a whole has a complete standard of +moral truths.</p> + +<p>It is claimed that the Bible should not be read in the school because +there are passages that are not proper to be read before children, or +a promiscuous audience, but this is only claimed by Catholicism. Yes, +and there are words in the dictionary that it would be just as +improper to use and define before children or a promiscuous audience +as any passage in the Bible. Therefore, it would be just as +reasonable to exclude the dictionary as the Bible from the school +room on this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span> hypocritical argument in favor of false modesty.</p> + +<p>The man's conscience that will object to the reading of the Bible in +the public school will ultimately object to the moral code of our +jurisprudence, and such a conscience is dangerous to our form of +government, inimical to the best interests of society and good +government, as has been clearly demonstrated in the past. The Mormons +claimed the right under our constitution to live in polygamy, as that +was their religion and the way they served God according to the +"dictates of their own conscience." But the supreme court decided +they could not worship God according to the dictates of their +conscience if their worship was a violation of the moral code common +to all. Thus all must submit to the moral code irrespective of their +individual conscience. So the Bible should be read in the public +schools, irrespective of the conscience of any, until the majority of +the government of the people, for the people and by the people shall +say: "Away with your Bible, away with your Sabbath, away with your +Christian jurisprudence, and give us infidel,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span> revolutionary France, +or lawless anarchy, or the inquisition of the dark ages!"</p> + +<p>Our public school is the mill that is to grind out this standard of +morality, knowledge and patriotism common to all. Hence we must have +the Bible in it as the standard of morality, and primary principles +of literature, science and art, the standard of knowledge, and the +American flag and its essential principles as the standard of +patriotism. Our American school system is like a great paper mill, +into which are cast rags of all kinds and colors, but which lose +their special identity and come out white paper, having a common +identity. So we want the children of the state, of whatever +nationality, color or religion, to pass through this great moral, +intellectual and patriotic mill, or transforming process, and thus +lose their foreign peculiarities and come out not as Germans, Irish, +English, Huns or Poles, but as Americans, having the common identity +of morality, knowledge and patriotism that is essential to true +American citizenship and good government stamped upon their minds, +and when they<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span> pass through this mill of purification they then begin +to lose confidence in the heathenish doctrines of Catholicism.</p> + +<p>In a government where the people are the rulers, intelligence and +education are necessary to maintain the nation's stability. Under +this belief, the public school system of the United States was +founded.</p> + +<p>Following are expressions of prominent Americans on the general +subject of popular education:</p> + +<p>President Hays: "I am firmly convinced that the subject of popular +education deserves the earnest attention of the people of the whole +country, with a view to wise and comprehensive action by the +government of the United States. The means at the command of the +local and state authorities are in many cases wholly inadequate to +deal with the question. The magnitude of the evil to be eradicated is +not, I apprehend, generally and fully understood."</p> + +<p>President Garfield: "Next in importance to freedom and justice is +popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be +perma<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span>nently maintained. Its interests are intrusted to the state and +to the voluntary action of the people. Whatever help the nation can +justly afford should be generously given to aid the states in +supporting common schools, but it would be unjust to our people and +dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenue of +the nation of the states to the support of sectarian schools. The +separation of the church and the state in everything relating to +taxation should be absolute."</p> + +<p>Dr. Strong: "Free schools are one of the cornerstones of our +government."</p> + +<p>Washington's Farewell Address: "Promote them as an object of primary +importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In +proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public +opinion, it is essential that public opinions should be enlightened."</p> + +<p>Calhoun: "In proportion as a people are ignorant, stupid, debased, +corrupt, exposed to violence within and danger without, the power +necessary for a government to possess in order to preserve society +against anarchy and destruction be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span>comes greater and greater, and +individual liberty, less and less, until the lowest condition is +reached, when absolute and despotic power becomes necessary on the +part of the government and individual liberty extinct."</p> + +<p>The church of Rome wants to rule by tyranny so that she can force her +"dupes" to do her bidding.</p> + +<p>No subject could be of more interest to American citizens to-day than +that of foreign immigration to America. Every section of the country +has felt, to some degree, the demoralizing effect of the free +admission of aliens, unsuited morally and mentally for participating +in a government of the people.</p> + +<p>The consensus of opinion among all classes of good citizens is that +some restrictive measures should be adopted, and this can be effected +only by popular agitation and demand.</p> + +<p>Read what some prominent men of the country have said on the subject:</p> + +<p>Hon. Wm. E. Chandler: "We should prepare ourselves with wisdom and +vigor to enforce com<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span>pletely such laws of exclusion as we have +adopted. We should throw our strongest force into a stricter +administration of those laws so that no man and no family shall pass +through the Ellis Island doors, or into any seaport, or across the +Canadian or Mexican borders, who is a pauper or likely to become +such. One method of stricter administration should be the requirement +that all immigrants before leaving their own countries shall obtain +consular certificates abroad, showing their right to enter the United +States."</p> + +<p>Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge: "You ask me for a few words on the subject of +immigration. My opinion has been stated at length, both in speeches +in Congress and in review articles, but I am very glad to restate it +in the briefest possible form. I think that immigration to this +country is increasing too fast on one hand and deteriorating on the +other. We are ready to welcome every honest immigrant who comes to +make a home and become an American citizen, but I believe that the +present immigration ought to be sifted and restricted much more than +it is, both as a protection to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span> quality of our citizenship and to +the rates of wages to our workingmen."</p> + +<p>Hon. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of Census: "The unrestricted +admission of the diseased, half-fed swarms of helpless humanity from +the purlieus of Southern European cities is the dangerous phase of +immigration. If continued, it will prove a curse and blight to +American citizenship and American institutions. There was a time in +our history when the better class of foreign immigrants and our own +population was able to swallow up the less desirable class, but it +takes no great discernment now to see the congested spots here and +there on our body politic. In this lies the danger. Such a change in +the character of immigration as herein shown cannot have taken place +without materially affecting the entire immigration problem, and the +sooner our statesmen get to the bottom of the present condition of +affairs, the better for the republic."</p> + +<p>Rev. Josiah Strong, D.D.: "It is immigration which has fed fat the +liquor power, and there is a liquor vote. Immigration furnishes most +of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span> victims of Mormonism, and there is a Mormon vote. Immigration +is the strength of the Catholic Church, and there is a Catholic vote. +Immigration is the mother and nurse of American anarchy, and there is +to be an anarchist vote. Immigration tends strongly to the cities and +gives to them their political complexion, and there is no more +serious menace to our civilization than our rabble-ruled cities."</p> + +<p>Samuel Gompers, President American Federation of Labor: "It almost +grieves me even to recommend the slightest restriction to the full +and free immigration of anyone who desires to escape from the +iniquitous conditions from which he may suffer, but the progress of +our civilization is hanging in the balance, and intelligent and brave +men should not be afraid to express themselves to secure us against +results which may be appalling. Unrestricted immigration injures the +people of our country and does no good to the people of other +countries. It injures all."</p> + +<p>A.S. Draper: "I would hang the flag in every school room, and I would +spend an occasional hour<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span> in singing our best patriotic songs, in +declaiming the masterpieces of our national oratory, and rehearsing +the proud story of our national life."</p> + +<p>Francis Marion: "Men will always fight for their government according +to their sense of its value. To value it right, they must understand +it. This they cannot do without education."</p> + +<p>Winship: "The public school is the one force, is the only force, that +can unify all classes and conditions of society. Here we have the +children of the nation in their entirety, and we can, if we will, +teach them in the schools so much of the grandeur of our possession, +of the heroic in our history, of the brilliant in our prosperity, of +the fascinating in our traditions, that the fathers of the future +will be willing to vote for and die, if necessary, for the American +idea; that the mothers of the future will teach their sons to develop +our resources by industry, to honor the active duties of private and +public system, because it lies at the foundation of our national +existence."</p> + +<p>Where does the vicious element which is found in this country come +from, and to what church<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span> does it belong? Ah, 98 per cent of those +whom we call anarchists can trace their origin from foreign +countries, and they are always identified with the Roman Catholic +Church.</p> + +<p>Wherever you find a national disturbance, and wherever you find the +spirit of anarchy in this country, you will find a spot where Roman +Catholicism exists, as her teachings are anarchistic, as she teaches +her followers a doctrine that is as sure to lead to anarchy as water +is to flow down hill.</p> + +<p>Catholicism teaches her children that our public schools are "plague +spots" and "nurseries of hell," and impresses upon their minds that +education, in a broad sense, is not essential, and also teaches them +that they must look to the priestcraft for their education, and at +the same time the priestcraft is instructed by the Pope of Rome that +a broad-gauge education is not permissible to be given to the +followers of Catholicism, and the Pope of Rome teaches her bishopric +and her priestcraft that they must fight the public school system, +and in its stead erect the parochial schools<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span> of Rome, which are +nothing more nor less than schools of dogmas, and these dogmas are +incubators of anarchy, for without education and without love of +country, anarchy is as certain to follow as the day is certain to +follow night, but still Protestantism stands idly by and allows +Catholicism to villify her institutions, and at the same time permits +Catholicism to place her followers in a position to draw salaries +from the institutions which they despise and hate with the venom of +hell.</p> + +<p>It is my object and my aim to arouse Protestantism to a sense of +their duty, and if I can do this I will feel that I have accomplished +a task that will eventually call forth the plaudits of the American +people, for as sure as God reigns, just that sure our public schools +will be crushed out of existence by Catholicism unless Protestant +America raises her voice and her strong arm in defense of our public +school system, and against the encroachment of the damnable and +diabolical doctrines of Catholicism.</p> + +<p>Our greatest American statesmen, our greatest<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> American patriots, our +greatest American thinkers, our wisest and most loyal citizens, and +our grandest old mothers are Protestants, and born of Protestant +stock; then why should we hesitate to denounce this anarchistic demon +of Rome, when we know what she thinks of our American institutions, +and when we are absolutely certain that if it was within her power +she would crash into dust everything that is near and dear to +Protestantism?</p> + +<p>Arouse, ye Protestant hosts, and buckle on the armor of your +forefathers and march out in a solid body of Protestant warriors and +fight to the death the encroachment of Romish rule and force her back +into the trenches of her degradation, and compel her to remain within +the border of the countries which she has desolated by her hellish +dogmas, and purge the shores of the "home of the brave and the land +of the free" of this scarlet-robed hag, who would paralyze our +American institutions which are near and dear to every pure American, +both man and woman, who dwells beneath the folds of the American +flag.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span></p> + +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 248px;"> +<a name="fig14" id="fig14"/><a href="images/fig14.jpg"><img src="images/fig14_tb.jpg" width="248" height="400" alt="HEATHENISH PRACTICES. +A dupe kissing the supposed bone of "Saint Ann" to cure Rheumatism." title="HEATHENISH PRACTICES. A dupe kissing the supposed bone of "Saint Ann" to cure Rheumatism." /></a> +<span class="caption">Heathenish Practices.</span></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_XIII" id="Chapter_XIII"></a>Chapter XIII.</h2> + +<h3>The Influence of the Priesthood of +America Upon the Morals of This Country.</h3> + + +<p>An institution which is allowed to flourish in this country, should +be an institution whose teachers are in harmony with the fundamental +principles of godliness, morality and liberty, and unless they are, +the teachers at once become traitors.</p> + +<p>Now, is not this common sense logic and every-day philosophy?</p> + +<p>We want to investigate and see if this logic and philosophy is not +reasonable and founded upon common sense, and if we find that it is, +then any man or woman of intelligence must acknowledge that if the +teachings and the fundamental principles of a free country are +correct, then the doctrines of Catholicism are altogether wrong, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span> +the sooner the American people can arrive at this conclusion, the +better it will be for us, for if the teachings of our Protestant +forefathers are right, and the teachings of Rome are wrong, the +quicker we can eradicate and stamp out these popish doctrines, the +better it will be for our posterity.</p> + +<p>If this country is a home for those who love liberty, then the +influence of the priesthood of America is detrimental to the +fundamental principles of America, as Catholicism does not teach +patriotism and loyalty of country, as the burden of her teachings is, +"Loyalty to the Pope," and the Pope of Rome, who is at the head of +the Catholic Church; is a despot pure and simple—yea, he is worse +than a despot, as he rules his followers by a superstitious belief, +which teaches that not only the body of Rome's followers is subject +to the Pope's every whim, but the soul as well is directly under the +control of this despotic sovereign.</p> + +<p>A Roman Catholic form of government is more despotic than a monarchy +which is ruled by an absolute despot, as these monarchs who have +abso<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span>lute sway in the affairs of the state only are satisfied with +this absolutism, but not so with Catholicism, as she haunts her +followers to the grave and then demands of their surviving relatives +that homage be paid her in order to keep their dead out of the +regions of despair.</p> + +<p>It matters not how strong we are in our endeavors to do right, the +commission of wrong under our nose will corrupt to a certain extent +the morals of the young, and I say without fear of contradiction that +the priestcraft of this and every other country are, as a whole, a +set of men whose morality is below par; however, I sincerely believe +that there are some few who are chaste, but I am sorry to say that +this class is greatly in the minority; and why should it be +otherwise, as the priesthood is composed of men who are mortal, and +the vow of celibacy which they must take before they enter the +priesthood is an unnatural and an unreasonable vow, and one which is +not kept sacred by one out of every fifty; thus you will see at once +that the priestcraft is a cancer upon the body of morality, for +whenever the young and rising<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span> generation learns that those who are +supposed to teach them in chastity and morality, are men who will +commit the very sins which they have been taught are heinous. Then, +what can you expect of future generations, and what must eventually +be the morals of a country which is controlled by the priestcraft?</p> + +<p>We do not have to confine ourselves to the recital of the immorality +of the priestcraft of foreign countries, but we could mention scores +of cases that have happened in this country and which will continue +to happen as long as the Romish Church demands the vows of celibacy +by the priestcraft.</p> + +<p>We will give you an instance of the practices of Romanism in this +country which happened no later than November of this year (1903), +and if I had the space, I could fill this volume full of such actions +by the priestcraft.</p> + +<p>Priest Geo. D. Sander, of St. Leonard's Catholic Church, Hamburg +avenue and Jefferson street, Brooklyn, New York, was known in that +city as a devout Catholic priest, and he was also known in Far Hills, +New Jersey, as a race horse man, by the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> name of "Geo. West," who was +interested in a stock farm, on which lived a woman known as "Mrs. +Geo. West," but her right name is Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who formerly +belonged to Priest Sander's church, but disappeared from Brooklyn +very mysteriously, and whose whereabouts had been unknown to her +family and her friends, until it was learned that she was living on +this stock farm at Far Hills, N.J., and bore the fictitious name by +which this priest was known.</p> + +<p>The double life of Priest Sander began in 1901. Then Jos. C. Peck, +racer and raiser of trotting horses, met this priest in Albany, who +wore the ordinary garb of a citizen. They met at the race track, +which was not a very good recommendation to say the least of it, for +the Rev. Father Sander. Peck found that this priest was a keen judge +of horses and their love for horses established a bond of friendship +between them.</p> + +<p>In Baltimore, a short time afterwards, these two men again met at the +race track. Peck told Priest Sander that he had just sold a stock +farm at Millington, N.J., and contemplated buying an<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span>other. Sander +told Peck that he was the owner of a fine mare named "Ethel Burns," +and that he would place her on Peck's farm if he purchased it. He +told Peck that his mare had a track record of 2:20-1/4 and a trial +record of 2:16.</p> + +<p>Peck informed this priest that he was a bachelor. Priest Sander +proposed that they should keep house jointly and said that he would +provide a housekeeper and share the expense of the establishment. He +was the guardian, he said, of a Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who had had some +trouble with her husband and who wanted to get away from Brooklyn. He +informed Peck that this lady had a young son, and that he would bring +both the mother and son to the farm at Far Hills, N.J.</p> + +<p>It was obvious that the priest could not indulge in his love for fast +horses, and make regular visits to the stock farm in his priestly +robes, as he knew it would cause considerable comment; so this priest +suggested to Peck that Mrs. Kipp be called "Mrs. Geo. West," and that +it be given out to the neighbors that she was the wife of a drummer +for a large mercantile house in New York, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span> further stated that he +could visit this woman as "George West," and not create any comment.</p> + +<p>The trainmen became acquainted with this priest and considered him a +"good fellow," as he was always smoking and played the part of a +"drummer" in an elegant manner, and these trainmen came to know "Geo. +West" as Peck's partner in the race horse business.</p> + +<p>The merchants about Far Hills knew this priest as the husband of +"Mrs. West," and when this priest would put in his appearance at Far +Hills, the neighbors, of course, thought it was nothing more than +natural that "Mrs. West's" husband should come to see her whenever he +could get an opportunity to get off of the road.</p> + +<p>The accounts for the supplies of the household were billed sometimes +to "Geo. West" and sometimes to Jos. C. Peck, thus you will see that +Priest Sander acknowledged by these bills that he was "Geo. West."</p> + +<p>This story got to be noised about, and the Protestant element of +Brooklyn as well as Priest Sander's flock became very much interested +in <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span>the tale, and sent a reporter out to interview Jos. C. Peck, and +the first question this reporter asked him was, "Is that the picture +of your sister?" pointing to a portrait of the woman hanging on the +wall. "No," he replied. "That is Mrs. West." The reporter asked if it +was not the picture of Mrs. Mamie Kipp. Peck hesitated, his lips +trembling, and he began to look very nervous, then he gave way +completely and said: "Yes, it is Mrs. Mamie Kipp." "How does she come +here under the name of 'Mrs. West,' and who is 'Mr. West?'" was then +asked, which Peck refused to answer.</p> + +<p>With these facts in hand, the reporter returned to Brooklyn and +sought Priest Sander in his parlor, in his parish residence, and the +first question he asked him was this: "You own a trotting horse out +at Far Hills, N.J., don't you?" The answer was, "Yes." "Don't you own +a string of trotting horses?" The answer was, "Certainly not! Who +told you that?" The reporter replied, "Oh, no; you don't own a string +of horses as Priest Sander, but as 'Geo. West,' don't you?" Priest +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span>Sander tried to look surprised, and he folded a slip of paper he +held in his hand and got very nervous and replied, "Now, that is a +pretty story, isn't it; who told you all this?"</p> + +<p>The reporter laid before him all the facts he had gathered at Far +Hills, and demanded that he affirm or deny the story. Then this +priest said, "I may as well confess; it will be the ruin of me; it +will take the bread out of my mouth, but you have got it absolutely +straight." The reporter asked Priest Sander if he positively didn't +know that this woman who sailed under the name of "Mrs. Geo. West" +wasn't Mrs. Mamie Kipp.</p> + +<p>This priest, not being content with the dastardly part that he had +played in his immoral conduct with Mrs. Kipp, absolutely denied that +it was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and further declared that he knew nothing +about her, except that she was the "housekeeper" at Peck's farm, and +why she was called "Mrs. West" he did not know; thus you will see +that while he was guilty of immorality with Mrs. Mamie Kipp, he also +was a notorious liar; but bear in mind that this same Priest Sander +was still<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span> at this time presiding over a Catholic church in Brooklyn.</p> + +<p>The reporter was determined to lead him out as far as possible so he +repeated again, "Are you absolutely positive that 'Mrs. West' at +Peck's farm is not Mrs. Mamie Kipp?"</p> + +<p>This priest replied that he was "positive," and stated that this +woman at Peck's farm was Peck's housekeeper, and further stated that +he did not know anything about her at all, when he knew as well as he +knew that he was living that he had been the cause of her forsaking +her husband in Brooklyn, and also had been instrumental in her going +to Far Hills, N.J., where he could live his life of shame without +molestation.</p> + +<p>After this vagabond had made this denial, Mr. Peck was again seen at +Far Hills, N.J., and emphatically stated that Priest Sander had told +him that this woman was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and that he knew that this +priest was living in adultery with her.</p> + +<p>What is the consequence? Did the Roman Catholic Church excommunicate +this bundle of perfidy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span> for immorality? Ah, no! As the "moguls" and +"high up" officials of Catholicism are cognizant of the fact that the +priestcraft are, as a whole, the most immoral set of men that ever +infested the face of the earth. Now, what can we expect of the morals +of a country which has for its leaders and teachers men of this +caliber? We might as well expect our daughters to become women of +virtue and godliness, who were raised in houses of ill fame, as to +expect young men and women to become men and women of morality and +chastity, who have for their teachers such men as Priest Sander of +Brooklyn, New York.</p> + +<p>There is no denying the fact that Catholicism has already a strong +hold upon the affairs of this country, as we find the hydra-headed +demon in every branch of our government, and since such is the case, +it is folly to deny the fact that if Catholicism is what we have +shown it to be, that her influence is demoralizing, and the influence +of the priesthood of America upon the morals of this country is bound +to be detrimental, and who will deny the truthfulness of my +assertions, as I have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span> not misstated a single paragraph in this book; +and if this is true, what shall we expect of the present generation +and the generations that are yet unborn, if we permit Catholicism to +make as great headway in the future as she has in the past?</p> + +<p>We call to mind another case which belongs to the history of to-day, +and in this chapter we desire to refer to the present sins of the +priestcraft, as history teems with the abominations of the +priestcraft immorality, but in this chapter we want to thoroughly +convince the reader that the same immorality that has existed in the +ranks of Catholicism in bygone centuries, is to-day as degrading and +as rampant as it ever was, and if we can do this, we feel satisfied +that we will impress the Protestant world with the importance of +overthrowing the power of the Pope, and erecting in its stead the +true spirit of Protestantism, whose influence will not blight the +characters of our boys and girls, but which will make of them an army +of giants, ever ready to battle for the chastity of our American +homes.</p> + +<p>One of the most fashionable Roman Catholic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span> churches in New York City +is "St. Cecilia's," situated on North Henry and Herbert streets.</p> + +<p>Only a few years ago the organist of this church went to the room of +the priest in charge, in company with a little boy. The priest +informed this boy to stay down stairs, and invited the organist to +his parlor, near which were his living rooms. This priest locked the +door behind him, and without a moment's warning, leaped upon her like +a beast and attempted to bear her down upon the sofa and commit an +assault, but her cries frightened him away.</p> + +<p>With flushed face she rushed from this priest's room and passed the +servant, out into the street, with the priest begging her to say +nothing about what had happened. We want to know if this attempted +crime injured the priest in the estimation of Catholicism? Not by any +means, as he continued to serve the church in the capacity of priest, +after both this girl's father and mother had publicly denounced him +as a seducer of virtue.</p> + +<p>The entire congregation learned of this priest's attempted assault +upon virtue, but this degrading<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> notoriety did not injure him in the +least, as his services are just as crowded as they were before. This +outrage was carried before the bishop of the diocese in which this +church was situated, but nothing was done.</p> + +<p>The priest which we refer to was a drunkard, and he drank as deeply +after this attempted assault as before, and in a short time he +assaulted a 12-year-old girl, and not long after that he assaulted +his servant, who was a girl 18 years of age, and continued his raid +upon her virtue until one day, while in a drunken spree, he struck +her and injured her, and she made public the actions of this human +viper, who had been parading in the robes of a priest.</p> + +<p>Did this exposure disgrace him in the eyes of the Catholic officials +who were above him? Not at all, as he continued to serve this New +York church without molestation, and it was a notorious fact, and +known by the members of his church what he was accused of, but still +hundreds of boys and girls, young men and young women, and old men +and old<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span> women, bowed at the feet of this depraved devil and +confessed their sins.</p> + +<p>If we cared, we could write from now until our old arm would become +palsied with age, and each chapter would be a new story of the +perfidy and hellishness of the priestcraft, as every age reeks with +the stench of their immorality, and the countries which are +completely under the power of the Pope of Rome are only the shadows +of what this country will become if this demon of darkness is not +halted, for the influence of the priesthood in America upon the +morals of this country will spread its blight over the face of our +fair land until our nation's morals will be a nauseating sight to +behold.</p> + +<p>Reader, remember what I tell you to-day: that unless the spirit of +Protestantism takes a firm stand in this land against Catholicism, we +will find our Protestant hopes and ambitions within the near future +paralyzed by the infusion of Rome's immorality.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span></p> +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 243px;"> +<a name="fig15" id="fig15"/><a href="images/fig15.jpg"> +<img src="images/fig15_tb.jpg" width="243" height="400" alt=""A CATHOLIC TOOL." +"Begging in the name of the Lord, but in reality to support the +Priestcraft in their idleness."" title="A CATHOLIC TOOL. Begging in the name of the Lord, but in reality to support the Priestcraft in their idleness." /></a> +<span class="caption">"A CATHOLIC TOOL.""Begging in the name of the Lord, but in reality to support the +Priestcraft in their idleness."</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_XIV" id="Chapter_XIV"></a>Chapter XIV.</h2> + +<h3>The Chastity of the Home Invaded by the Lustfulness of the +Priest-Craft.</h3> + + +<p>Catholicism begins to teach her children from their infancy that no +act of their officials is impure; thus their followers grow up to +believe that any advancement made by these officials are made in +behalf of the salvation of their souls, consequently it is an easy +matter for the Priestcraft to make the female members of their +congregation believe that whatever they may do or say is done and +said through a righteous motive, and no stigma of disgrace can +possibly attach itself to the act.</p> + +<p>With this erroneous doctrine funneled into the minds of the female +members of the Catholic Church, is it any wonder that the Priestcraft +exerts a wonderful power over these members? And<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span> is it any wonder +that thousands of trusting and confiding wives and daughters are +forced to the level of immorality by this belief?</p> + +<p>As an introduction to this chapter, and in order to make the conduct +of the priestcraft in general thoroughly understood, so that the +reader may know what character of men I refer to, I will give a part +of a story told by a nun who had been in a convent for a number of +years.</p> + +<p>I repeat what this nun related in order that the reader may not be +compelled to take my statements alone. Her story follows:</p> + +<p>"It was customary with the sisters in our convent to give the bishop +and priests of my diocese a grand dinner once every year. Of course, +this entailed a great deal of extra work upon our part; however, we +were glad to undergo these hardships, as I thought at that time that +it was a part of my religion. The finest delicacies of the season and +the choicest wines graced the table. The dinner was always served in +the dining-room of the priest of the house. The bishop would usually +arrive along in the afternoon about<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> two or three o'clock. We would +spread scarlet felt upon the floor of the cloister in honor of the +occasion, and the drawing room would be banked with the rarest +flowers; the dining table would groan beneath its rich silver and +cut-glass."</p> + +<p>Now, bear in mind that what I am going to tell you is what happened +when there were a number of priests together with their bishop in +their midst, and it is a well known fact that "numbers" is often a +check to the actions and ungodly inclinations of many, but if what +this nun related is true, with an assemblage of a score or more of +priests, with their bishop in their midst, then what could be +expected of one of these priests alone in the presence of a female +whom he preferred? I make this statement so that the reader can draw +an intelligent conclusion. I will now proceed with the nun's story:</p> + +<p>"This annual dinner would be made an occasion for great rejoicing and +recreation on the part of the holy ecclesiastics. Everything was all +right as long as the meal was in progress, but as soon as the sisters +who had waited on them had withdrawn,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span> after placing an abundance of +wine, whiskey and cigars on the table, then all restraint would be +set aside and these holy fathers (?) would then exchange confidences +as to the latest items of news they had gathered in the confessional +from Catholic servants employed in Protestant families, and, without +mentioning any names, would repeat, amid shouts of drunken laughter, +the sins that some of their female penitents had confessed.</p> + +<p>"We nuns would often put our ears to the key-hole and listen to the +stories that were being told by the priests, and upon my word, I +never in all my life heard as many dirty, immoral, filthy stories +told as these vagabond priests would repeat, and it always seemed as +though the bishop heartily enjoyed them.</p> + +<p>"These carousals would proceed for hours. The whiskey bowl would be +placed in the center of the table, then these drunken priests would +sing songs which were vileness personified."</p> + +<p>I feel that it is not necessary for me to go further to convince any +one of my readers that the lustfulness of the priestcraft is a menace +to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> the chastity of womankind, for if this nun has told the truth, +and which I know from past experiences is true, and which I also know +is a recital that could be intensified ten thousand times over, if +the whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told in this +volume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what I +have seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by +broken-hearted "sisters" who have come to me with tears in their eyes +and with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries.</p> + +<p>"I know of a nun who spent many years in a convent, who declared that +on many occasions the priests would come to the convent and demand +that a number of the nuns even do worse than expose their entire +person; however, I cannot conceive of a demand that would be more +degrading than this of forcing those benighted souls to prostitute +their persons for the gratification of those who pretend to be the +followers of a crucified Christ."</p> + +<p>In relating her experience, I understand that a nun who had been +confined in a convent for years<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> made the following declaration: +"That the superior of the seminary would often come and inform us +nuns that an order had been received from the Pope to request those +nuns who possessed the greatest devotion and faith to perform some +particular deeds, which he would name in our presence, but which no +moral or decent person could ever endure to speak of, and I cannot +repeat what these demands often were, as I would have to resort to +language so filthy that it would blush the cheek of one who was +hardened in sin."</p> + +<p>Now, if those who sail under the garb of righteousness would go so +far that the inmates of the convents, who are there believing they +are doing the work of God, would rebel against the priests' +immorality, then what can we expect of the priestcraft when they are +in the presence of your wife, daughter or sister, whom they may +prefer, and who has been taught to believe that every act of the +priestcraft is sanctified by God Almighty?</p> + +<p>We want to bring the history of Catholicism down as near to the +present time as possible, so<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> the reader may understand the +confidence the "dupes" of Catholicism have in the priestcraft, for, +as stated in a previous chapter of this book, it is a well-known fact +that the feminine world in general have more confidence in humanity +than the male population, but to demonstrate to the reader what +implicit confidence the male members of Catholicism have in the +priestcraft, we call attention to Ed Butler, of the State of +Missouri, who resides in St. Louis.</p> + +<p>Ed Butler is a full-fledged Catholic and believes in Catholicism +twenty-four hours each day. By the way, it may be necessary for us to +refresh the readers' mind of the fact that Ed Butler of St. Louis, +Mo., is considered one of the most high-handed "boodlers" in America, +and who has had a number of his "dupes" placed in the state +penitentiary and kept himself out of the same institution by a +"technicality." But to go back to the point that we wanted to make, +we will just say that a Catholic priest in the City of St. Louis by +the name of Coffey had a falling out with Butler over some thing or +another, and in order to get even<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span> with him he took sides against +Butler and said many harsh but true things about him. One day a +reporter of one of the St. Louis newspapers met Butler and called his +attention to what Priest Coffey had said about him, and the only +answer that Butler gave this reporter was: "Father Coffey is a +Catholic priest and I have nothing to say, and if he should spit in +my face I would not resent the action, as I was born and raised a +Catholic, and do not believe that a Catholic priest can commit a +sin."</p> + +<p>Now, if a man of Ed Butler's intellect can be brought up in this land +of intelligence to believe such abominations in regard to a Catholic +priest, is it not reasonable to suppose that the female members of +the Catholic Church would have a severe task in defending their +virtue should a priest desire to destroy it, by telling them "that no +act of his could defile them, as it was impossible for him to sin?"</p> + +<p>Now, reader, you may not know just what kind of treatment from the +Catholic Church I will receive for writing this book, but as soon as it +is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span> placed upon the market the Catholic Church will "excommunicate" me; +however, it may be possible that the reader does not understand what a +horrible curse this excommunication is, but in order that you may +thoroughly understand what I mean I will repeat, word for word, what +some Catholic official will declare against me for writing this book, +which will further go to show the reader the vileness of this damnable +creed, and which will also go to convince the reader what fear the +followers of Catholicism have of the priestcraft, which will more fully +convince you that timid, unsuspecting woman, who has been brought up to +believe in the paganism of Catholicism, can be easily led to yield to +the lustful desires of the priestcraft, for fear that by refusing his +request that he would pronounce this terrible curse upon her, which she +has been taught would forever damn her eternal soul.</p> + +<p>The curse of excommunication which I am certain to receive at the +hands of Catholicism for writing this book follows:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot"><p>"By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy +Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of +our Savior, and all of the Celestial Virtues, Angels, +Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Cherubim and +Seraphim, and of all the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of +all the Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, who +in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the +new songs of the Holy Martyrs and Holy Confessors, and of all +the Holy Virgins, and of all the Saints, together with the +Holy Elect of God, may he, Bernard Fresenborg, be damned!</p> + +<p>"We excommunicate and anathematize him from the threshold of +the Holy Church of God Almighty. We sequester him, that he +may be tormented, disposed, and be delivered over with Dathan +and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord, 'Depart +from us, we desire none of thy ways;' as a fire is quenched +with water, so let the light of him be put out for ever more, +unless it shall repent him and make satisfaction!</p> + +<p>"May the Father, who creates man, curse him!</p> + +<p>"May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span></p> + +<p>"May the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in baptism, curse him!</p> + +<p>"May the Holy Cross, which Christ for our salvation, +triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him!</p> + +<p>"May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and the Mother of God, curse +him!</p> + +<p>"May St. Michael, the Advocate of the Holy Souls, curse him!</p> + +<p>"May all the Angels, Principalities and Powers, and all +Heavenly Armies curse him!</p> + +<p>"May the glorious band of the Patriarchs and Prophets curse +him!</p> + +<p>"May St. John the Precursor, and St. John the Baptist, and +St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, and all other of +Christ's Apostles together, curse him!</p> + +<p>"And may the rest of the Disciples and Evangelists, who by +their preaching converted the universe, and the holy and +wonderful company of Martyrs and Confessors, who by their +works are found pleasing to God Almighty; may the holy choir +of the Holy Virgins, who, for the honor of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span> Christ, have +despised the things of the world, damn him!</p> + +<p>"May all the Saints from the beginning of the world to +everlasting ages who are found to be beloved of God, damn +him!</p> + +<p>"May he be damned wherever he be, whether in the house or in +the alley, in the woods or in the water, or in the church!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed in living and dying!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry, in +being thirsty, in fasting and sleeping, in slumbering, and in +sitting, in living, in working, in resting, and ... and in +blood-letting!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed in his hair; cursed be he in his brains and +his vertex, in his temples, in his eyebrows, in his cheeks, +in his jaw bones, in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders, +in his lips, in his shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers!</p> + +<p>"May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span> in his heart, +and appurtenances, down to the very stomach!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed in his ... and his ... in his thighs, in +his ... and his ... and in his knees, and his legs, and his +feet, and toe-nails!</p> + +<p>"May he be cursed in all his joints and articulations of the +members; from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet +may there be no soundness!</p> + +<p>"May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of His +majesty, curse him!</p> + +<p>"And may Heaven, with all the powers that move therein, rise +up against him, and curse and damn him, unless he repent and +make satisfaction! Amen! So be it! Be it so! Amen! Amen! +Amen!"</p></div> + +<p>I have given you the diabolical "curse" of excommunication, word for +word; thus you can see how un-Christlike the Catholic Church is.</p> + +<p>As I have before said in this chapter, the foregoing is the curse +that will fall to my lot as soon as this book is placed upon the +market, thus the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> reader can see that my motives for writing this +book must come from a pure incentive, or else I would not willingly +cut myself asunder from all of those whom I have associated with +during my life. This task is not one that I enjoy, as it breaks my +heart to realize that I have all through my life been burdened down +with this load of superstitious filth, but I could not in justice to +myself and in justice to a living God refrain from the task, after I +had had my eyes opened to the beauties of Protestantism.</p> + +<p>With tears in my eyes and with a heart full of sadness, I remember +the angelic face of my old mother, as she conscientiously taught me +my first Catechism and directed my feet in the paths of what she +sincerely believed righteousness, and believing in a just God, I knew +that He has taken her to His bosom in His home beyond the skies, for +what she taught me she sincerely believed, as she never had her eyes +opened to the abominations of the creed of which I write, and I do +not believe that a just God would damn the soul of a pure mother who +honestly taught what she con<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span>scientiously believed, but the +priestcraft in general are men who are above the average in +intellect, and are men whom I believe have often had had the same +thoughts relative to the doctrines of Catholicism that I had long, +long years before I cut loose from the teachings of Rome; however, +the priestcraft is not to be excused from their raid upon virtue by +ignorance, as they are taught the lessons of chastity in their +childhood, but the bond of celibacy which binds them in an unnatural +way, and the hellish doctrines taught by the Catholic Church that the +priestcraft cannot sin, turns them into pirates upon virtue.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span></p><p>When we take into consideration the fact that all of the teachings of +Catholicism lead to not only implicit confidence in the purity of the +priestcraft, but carry with them the cudgel of destruction of the +soul of her followers, if they do not submit to her teachings and +demands, we can then realize why it is that the chastity of the home +becomes a rendezvous for those of the priestcraft who deliberately +ravish virtue to gratify their inhuman lust.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 258px;"> +<a name="fig16" id="fig16"/><a href="images/fig16.jpg"> +<img src="images/fig16_tb.jpg" width="258" height="400" alt=""SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY." +"The road to Glory along a Catholic highway is an expensive trip."" title="SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY. The road to Glory along a Catholic highway is an expensive trip." /></a> +<span class="caption">"SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY."</span></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_XV" id="Chapter_XV"></a>Chapter XV.</h2> + +<h3>Nations Which Have Been Disgraced +by the Toleration of Popish Rule.</h3> + + +<p>There is no nation on the face of God's green earth to-day which has +been enslaved by the power of Popery, and which has been burdened by +an idle and worthless army of Priests, Monks and Nuns, but what would +have become, not only tired, but disgusted with their burden, if they +had ever been permitted to mingle and commingle with Protestant +countries, and learn that Protestantism leads to individual +intellectuality and collective greatness.</p> + +<p>It is true, however, that there are many countries in South America +that have been Priest-ridden for centuries, and who are as heavily +burdened to-day with this ancient parasite as ever, who offer not a +single protest, but the only reason<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span> for this is that Catholicism has +always forbidden these priest-ridden nations to make any advancement +towards Protestantism, which has been instrumental in keeping these +nations under the complete control of the Vatican; thus you will see +they have never been permitted to taste of the grandeur of +Protestantism.</p> + +<p>We will take France for instance, which was at one time one of the +most priest-ridden countries on earth, but which is to-day +endeavoring to extract herself from the meshes of this damnable +creed, as the intelligent statesmen of France have learned that +Catholicism is only another name for ignorance and superstition, and +they have also learned that so long as the affairs of France remain +under the control of papal power, just that long advancement and +greatness stand aloof from the portals of their country, so in the +past two years the government officials have removed tens of +thousands of the Pope's hirelings from authority and have closed up +hundreds of parochial schools.</p> + +<p>Now, if Catholicism is such a glorious creed,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span> why is it that France +is so anxious to get rid of her influence? Ah! France has learned by +coming in contact with Protestant countries that she need not expect +to ever become a great nation if she permits popery to control her +affairs.</p> + +<p>Italy, the home of the Pope, has begun to wince under the Vatican's +rule, as her national back is getting raw by the saddle of this +diabolical creed. The inhabitants of Italy have been for the past few +years protesting against the high-handedness of Catholicism, and the +officials have begun to take notice of this vulture of humanity, and +my predictions are that within a very short time Italy will do as +France has done and close up the monasteries and convents, for just +as long as these institutions are allowed to keep open house, and +dictate to the inhabitants of Italy, just that long we may expect the +immigrants who come over from Italy to bear the Vatican's mark of +vice, immorality and criminality.</p> + +<p>Go to Ellis Island and watch the immigrant ships from Catholic +nations as they vomit forth their load of human carrion upon the fair +shores of this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span> country, and your heart will become sick with fear, +as this class that hails from the nations of popery are a class, as a +whole, that will disgrace and ruin any nation on earth, as these +immigrants are men and women who have no conception of a free +country, as they are men and women who have never been taught to look +above the horizon of Catholicism; therefore they land upon the shores +of America as criminals and not as citizens, and you cannot make pure +American citizens out of them until you boil this hellish creed from +their system by the fire of patriotism, and this cannot be done as +long as this country permits Catholicism to run her mills of +degeneracy unmolested upon our shores.</p> + +<p>All of our large cities are infested more or less with this +"scarlet-robed hag of hell," and more especially our eastern cities, +as this foreign herd of the Pope's followers land in eastern ports +and spread themselves out like a blanket, reeking with a moral stench +over the eastern borders of this country, and they make a specialty +of settling in our eastern cities.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span></p> + +<p>We will take Boston, Mass., for instance, as there is but very little +difference in the "rabble" of that city and the immoral degenerate +class that infests the densely populated centers of Catholic +countries.</p> + +<p>Several notorious cases of open defiance of civil law and violation +of civil rights by the tools of popery have recently occurred in +Boston. One of these is the escape of two girls from the so-called +"House of the Good Shepherd," in Roxbury, and the re-capture of these +girls by a policeman.</p> + +<p>Now, bear in mind that this "House of the Good Shepherd" is a +Catholic institution, pure and simple, but these girls who escaped +from this "plague house," were arrested by the police and returned to +this Catholic dungeon without the semblance of law.</p> + +<p>On questioning "The Mother Superior," she said that the girls were +not committed to the institution by the courts, but by "the church." +The question then arose: Has the Roman Catholic Church the right to +give sentence of imprison<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span>ment with hard labor as a penalty? For this +is exactly what imprisonment in this "House of the Good Shepherd" +means; therefore, if these girls so sentenced escape, what right has +a <i>city policeman</i> to arrest and carry them back to this Catholic +institution, which exists without the semblance of a State law and +without an iota of moral law? Are the policemen of the cities of +Massachusetts servants of the Roman Catholic Church? Have the courts +the right to sentence prisoners to Catholic prisons, and after +sentence, have the prisoners no right? Many of them are kept for +life, or until too old to work, and then they are set adrift to +become public charges upon a Protestant country, after the Roman +Catholic Church has made hundreds of dollars from the labor of these +unfortunates.</p> + +<p>We want to call attention to another flagrant case, which happened in +the north end of Boston not long since.</p> + +<p>A few months since, a Protestant Italian family in the north end of +Boston was about to move to New York. There were two children and +the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span> wife soon expected to become mother again. She expressed the +wish that some one would care for one of her children for a few +weeks, until she got well and was settled in her new home. A neighbor +sent a woman to her who offered to care for the children, and when +this little one was turned over to her, she took it straightway to +the home for destitute Catholic children, on Harrison avenue, in +Boston. In a month the mother called for her baby and was told that +it was "up in the country," and was requested to leave it there for a +month, and was told that it would be good for the child. She +consented to this, believing that the fresh air would be good for her +baby, but she was an uneducated woman and was inclined to believe +what others said, as she was an honest lady herself, but she did not +know the trickery of the Catholic Church, so when she was asked to +sign a paper, she readily agreed to it, not thinking that she was +giving her own blood and flesh away.</p> + +<p>In a month she came on from New York to get her baby and was told +that she could not have it,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span> and was further told that she had signed +a paper giving it away. Then the husband came on from New York and +demanded the child, but was refused. He then appealed to the pastor +of the Italian Methodist Church, on Hanover street, Boston. The two +went to a very prominent Romanist office-holder, who was chairman of +the trustees of this so-called "Catholic Home." This man draws seven +thousand dollars per year from the city, and is elected largely +through Protestant influence, simply because Protestantism believes +that she can reform Catholicism by being liberal with her; but oh! +Liberty! what crimes are perpetrated in thy name! This Boston +official, after much talk with this Italian father, told him to bring +a letter from a priest, and that he would see what he could do. The +Italian said, "I am a Protestant," at which the official became very +indignant, but after a little more talk said: "Bring a letter of +recommendation from a minister." This Italian father got a good, +strong letter commending his character from a Protestant minister in +New York, and one who already<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span> knew him, and went this time alone to +this Boston official.</p> + +<p>In about an hour this heart-broken father appeared before a Methodist +minister in tears, saying: "He will not give me my child. He said I +am a bad man for becoming a Protestant, and that by doing so I have +proven that I am unfit to care for my children, and when I gave him +my letter from the Protestant minister, he said: 'I will not take the +word of a Protestant minister!'"</p> + +<p>Now, if what we have related is true, which I know to be absolutely +true in every particular, would happen in the United States of +America, "the land of the free and the home of the brave," you might +know what would happen in a Catholic country which is completely +under the tyrannical and damnable rule of the Pope.</p> + +<p>A minister informs us that on three occasions lately, children have +come to him and told him that an Irish public school teacher in +Boston had forbidden them to attend Protestant services, as their +parents were at one time Roman Catholics,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span> and that this talk from +this Romish school teacher was had during school hours.</p> + +<p>What we need in this country is a "vigilance committee," and we need +it badly, and we need it right away, and this committee should be +instructed to impeach every public official who endeavors to usurp +the law in favor of Roman Catholicism.</p> + +<p>The brightest minds of the past, and the brightest minds of the +present have pointed out to Protestant America the dangers of +Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed their warning, when +we see upon every side evidences of moral decay and national +degeneracy by permitting this "Romish hag" to supervise and +superintend the affairs of this nation.</p> + +<p>Protestant European nations have for many years beheld the despotic +march of Catholicism in America, and this country for a number of +years has been the laughing stock of Protestant European countries +for permitting this brazen demon to tread up and down the avenues of +our liberties without molestation.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span></p> + +<p>A few years before Bismarck of Germany died, he, in a public speech +delivered in the German parliament, pointed out that the Roman +Catholic Church was only free in America, and for the benefit of the +reader we will quote a part of this great statesman's speech:</p> + +<p>"The Pope being purely a religious chief, there is no occasion to +keep a permanent political representative at his port. Things, +indeed, might have been left <i>in status quo</i> had not the present Pope +thought it fit to revive the ancient struggle of the papacy with the +temporal power, and more especially with the German empire. The +spirit emanating the papacy in this campaign is too well known to +require comment; still we would tell the house a story, which has +long been kept a secret, but which had better be made public. In +1869, when the Wurtemberg government had occasion to complain of the +action of the papacy, the Wurtemberg envoy at Munich was instructed +to make representations, and in a conversation which passed between +the envoy and the nuncio; <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span>the latter said, 'The Roman Church is free +only in America.'"</p> + +<p>This nuncio further stated that the Roman Catholic Church in all +other countries had to look to revolution as the sole means to retain +her position. This, then, was the view of the priestly diplomatist +stationed at Munich in 1869, and formerly representing the Vatican at +Paris.</p> + +<p>Bismarck further stated: "I know from the very best sources that the +Emperor Napoleon was dragged into the war very much against his will +by the influence of Jesuit priests."</p> + +<p>Who can deny these statements, as Bismarck was a man who made the +study of Catholicism a part of his life, and he was a man who was of +rugged character and undaunted courage, and a man whom the world at +large believed.</p> + +<p>There has not been a war for centuries past but what the cunning hand +of popery has been mixed up with the blood shed in these wars, as +popery never misses an opportunity to take sides with the nation +which represents Catholicism, as this creed of abominations will +resort to blood<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span>shed if by so doing she believes she can carry her +point and establish her rule of despotism.</p> + +<p>If America will take a lesson from France she will be taught a lesson +that will save this country from passing through the same ordeal that +France is passing through to-day, and unless the government of the +United States begins in the near future to suppress this giant of +darkness, Roman Catholicism, we will within the next fifty years have +to resort to the same means that Combes of France is resorting to, to +annihilate the serpent of Catholicism from our shores, or else meekly +submit to being dragged down to the level of Roman Catholicism, which +is equivalent to losing our identity as a government, and taking our +places among the nations noted only for either ignorance, vice or +criminality.</p> + +<p>Catholicism does not believe in a free country. Catholicism does not +believe in a country of the people, by the people and for the people, +as such a country is not the natural abode for this detestable creed.</p> + +<p>Catholicism believes in a country which is ruled<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span> by a monarch, as +she then only has to control the monarch himself, and this is why the +Catholic clergy and the Catholic officials, from the smallest to the +greatest, are in sympathy with Russia, as the Russian government is a +most complete monarchy, and the emperor is an absolute monarch, and +this is why Catholicism is always ready to toss up her hat in glee +for the success of the Russian army.</p> + +<p>Catholic prelates all along the line, up to the Pope himself, have +been trying to make Americans believe that Russia is deserving of our +sympathy, but her solicitude in behalf of Russia is only a +sympathetic shriek for her own polluted carcass.</p> + +<p>Catholicism never sympathizes with any nation nor any individual who +have for their motto "Emancipation," as emancipation means to +Catholicism a vital blow to her teachings, as slavery of both body +and soul is Rome's uppermost desire.</p> + +<p>Can we expect Catholicism to change her abominations without force? +Most assuredly not, as<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span> her every inspiration comes from a set of men +who know no more about loyalty to country than her dupes know about a +living God, as the Pope is a native born Italian, and her cardinals +are recruited from the ranks of Italy's king-ruled inhabitants, +consequently it is impossible to expect the Pope of Rome or those +cardinals to recommend anything in harmony with the teachings of +Protestant America, as they are strangers to Protestantism and +American manhood; therefore it would be as reasonable to expect +sunlight in the caverns of the earth as to expect Rome to recommend a +doctrine which would be beneficial to humanity.</p> + +<p>When I declare to the American people that unless this country in the +near future makes a combined effort to stamp out the political +intrigue of Catholicism, or it will not be long until America will +find her every interest tied tight and fast to the carcass of +Romanism; I do so because I feel that it is my duty to warn this +country of her awful fate, for just as sure as God reigns, just that +sure Catholicism has America "spotted" as her vic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span>tim, as this spirit +of darkness has for many years in the past made her boast that +"America is Rome's future possession."</p> + +<p>There is not a nation on the face of the earth which has permitted +Rome to plant her banner of infamy unmolested but what has been +disgraced by the toleration of her creed, and America cannot expect +to meet with a better fate.</p> + +<p>The dangers that beset the path of America's future are in the form +of a political serpent, as Rome has learned to know that by holding +out the "vote bait" to our politicians, that she can retain the +balance of power, as she has long since learned that as long as she +can be instrumental in keeping two political parties, both largely +made up of Protestants, and fighting each other, that she can +associate herself with one or the other by offering this party the +undivided suffrage of Catholicism, and by this act she can gradually +get control of the offices of this land, and this is her main object, +for if she can control the officials, she will see that such laws are +passed as will enable her to coil her slimy self about the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span> vitals of +Protestant America, and just as long as the Protestant denominations +allow themselves to be made Protestant simpletons of, just that long +Catholicism will fool Protestant hosts by offering the "vote bait" to +the politician.</p> + +<p>Whenever Protestantism learns that she has a common cause to +champion, and a common enemy to fight, then we will have an "American +party" on one side, and a "Catholic party" on the other, and when +this time comes, Catholicism will be deprived of her cudgel of +deception, and will have to fight her battles without the assistance +of "<i>Protestant partisan fools</i>," and will cease to believe that she +belongs to either this or that political party. Protestantism is a +band of American patriots, and should only have the welfare of +Protestantism at heart.</p> + +<p>Catholicism, if left alone without the assistance of Protestant +votes, could not turn a wheel in the affairs of this country, but by +permitting Romanism to make Protestantism believe in one of two +political parties thus dividing the Protestant votes, Catholicism is +allowed to hold the bal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span>ance of power and dictate terms to a +Protestant country.</p> + +<p>Shame, eternal shame upon the hosts of Protestantism for permitting +themselves to be made fools of by the Romish Church, as this is +exactly what the hosts of Protestantism are allowing Catholicism to +do with her!</p> + +<p>Now, I know whereof I speak, as I have been on the inside of politics +in our large cities, and especially in the City of St. Louis, and +Catholicism's scheme is always to allow the cities to elect a +Protestant mayor, but they always endeavor to elect the other +officials.</p> + +<p>Oh, could I but whisper into the ears of every Protestant in America +and make them understand what I know of the cunning and deception of +Catholicism I would march an army of Protestants to the polls at our +elections that would represent a mighty army of patriotism; but just +so long as Protestantism permits Catholicism to make her believe that +it is necessary to have two or more political parties, just that long +we will have partisan block-heads, and as long as this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span> state of +affairs exists, just that long the cunning schemes of Catholicism +will be able to control the balance of power, which will disgrace the +fair name of Protestant America.</p> + +<p>I solemnly declare that there never has been a nation completely +under the control of Romanism but what has been disgraced by that +toleration, and America will live to realize the truthfulness of this +assertion unless she becomes "Protestant patriots" instead of +"prattling partisans."</p> + +<p>To give the reader a better idea of what happens in countries +absolutely controlled by Catholicism, and to more thoroughly convince +the reader that what I have said is true in regard to nations which +have been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule, I desire to +repeat a little history that is not many months old, which happened +in the United States, where it is supposed that man and woman can +worship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, and if +what we are going to relate happens in this free land, what do you +suppose is the condition in Catholic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span> countries that are completely +under the control of the Pope?</p> + +<p>In Worcester, Mass., not long since, a 19-year-old girl by the name +of Maggie Barry received a public whipping from her mother for +attending services of the Salvation Army.</p> + +<p>Miss Maggie Barry, who is 19 years of age, had been for some time +occasionally attending the meetings of the Salvation Army, and was +desirous of becoming a member of the corps, having been converted a +short time since.</p> + +<p>Her parents were Irish Roman Catholics and insisted that Maggie +should remain a Romanist. They regarded the Salvation Army, which is +purely non-sectarian, as a Protestant organization, and they were +determined that their daughter should have nothing to do with it, and +forbade her attending any of the meetings.</p> + +<p>On a Sunday evening not long since she attended the services of the +Salvation Army at No. 5 Commercial street, where there were at least +250 people present. While the commander of the corps was reading from +the Bible, Miss Barry's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span> mother came through the doorway and down to +the front row of seats near the corner of the platform, where Maggie +was sitting, and grabbed her daughter by the arm and began to pound +her over the head, and at once proceeded to pull the girl from the +hall and down the stairs into the street, all the time unmercifully +beating the poor girl over the head and shoulders.</p> + +<p>The incident happened so quickly that for a moment the audience could +not realize what was taking place, but as soon as the audience could +gather their wits, there was a rush made for the street.</p> + +<p>After the meeting had adjourned many of the attendants found Miss +Barry in the street weeping like her heart would break and afraid to +return to her home.</p> + +<p>She told the audience that as soon as she reached the street where a +number of relatives were waiting for her that she broke away from her +mother and fled.</p> + +<p>A policeman was called into consultation relative to the case and +stated that as Maggie was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span> under twenty-one years of age, that she +had better be taken to her parents at 125 Salem street, and two +policemen accompanied her to her home.</p> + +<p>It is stated that Miss Barry has received many unmerciful beatings +because she attended these religious meetings, and her old Romish +mother, while dragging her down the stairs that Sunday night, +threatened to do her bodily harm if she ever attended these meetings +again.</p> + +<p>A few days after this disgraceful and un-American spectacle happened +in the streets of Worcester, a notice in the Central District Court +appeared that "<i>Miss Margaret Barry was charged with being a stubborn +child and was sentenced to the Woman's Prison at Shearborn. She +appealed and furnished a bail. The girl was arrested on the complaint +of her mother because she would not stay away from the meetings of +the Salvation Army</i>."</p> + +<p>Now, reader, you have a case right in the United States of America +where a poor girl was sentenced to prison for attending a Protestant +meeting. What do you think of a judge of a court<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span> who will sentence a +child to a State prison for attending a Protestant meeting?</p> + +<p>We know what you think if you are a pure Protestant, and we know that +your blood boils with pure indignation; but you cannot expect any +relief from this state of affairs and you can only expect to see +things grow worse if you continue to be "partisans" instead of +"patriots."</p> + +<p>If such things are now happening in the State of Massachusetts, how +long will it be before the Protestant churches in this country will +be closed up by the order of the Pope, and how long will it be before +those who attend Protestant meetings will be liable to arrest and +thrown into prison, as it was during the dark ages when the Roman +Catholic Church had full control?</p> + +<p>Authentic history, and history that cannot be denied nor disputed, +nor even questioned, gives the appalling record of 70,500,000 +Protestants who were slain by the greatest curse the world has ever +known—Roman Catholicism.</p> + +<p>We, in America, cannot expect anything bet<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span>ter until we have a set of +Protestant preachers who will practice what they pretend to believe.</p> + +<p>Our Protestant ministers of to-day are weak-kneed, weak-spined, +"nothings," who have not enough religion nor backbone to take a firm +stand against Catholicism, and until we have such men we will +continue to see "Maggie Barrys" dragged from Protestant meetings and +publicly whipped by parents, and then sentenced to imprisonment by +judges elected by Roman Catholics.</p> + +<p>Again we want to repeat the head lines of this chapter for the +benefit of those who are weak-kneed and who are entirely "spineless:" +"<i>Nations who have been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule</i>," +and we leave it to the reader to decide whether this headline is a +misnomer or not, as we have offered you evidence in this chapter that +should convince any right-thinking man or woman that if the Roman +Catholic Church has grown so bold in America, with the ink upon the +Declaration of Independence scarcely dry, what shall we expect for +our posterity if there is not<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span> a stand made by Protestantism to halt +this "emperor of darkness" in his march of devastation?</p> + +<p>This black-winged vulture of human rights is growing bolder day by +day by being permitted by Protestantism to separate and divide the +Protestant vote among different parties, and combining the hosts of +Catholicism for an onslaught against everything American in order to +control the affairs of this country. If you will listen you can +almost hear the death rattle of Protestantism as the serpent of Rome +has so gently entwined her slimy self about the throat of our +American goddess of liberty that the death rattle is almost +perceptible.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span></p><p>Strike while you have the power, and do not delay, or else the time +is not far distant when the once powerful arm of Protestantism will +be paralyzed by the infusion of Roman virus.</p> + +<p><br /></p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 244px;"> +<a name="fig17" id="fig17"/><a href="images/fig17.jpg"> +<img src="images/fig17_tb.jpg" width="244" height="400" alt="UNCLE SAM—"Here is your next fight boys."" title="UNCLE SAM—"Here is your next fight boys."" /></a> +<span class="caption">UNCLE SAM—"Here is your next fight boys."</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="Chapter_XVI" id="Chapter_XVI"></a>Chapter XVI.</h2> + +<h3>Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.</h3> + + +<p>We can only judge the future of nations and institutions by the past +and present, and if we are to judge Catholicism by her past, and if +we are honest with ourselves, we cannot paint a future without +producing a panoramic view that is dreadful to behold, as Catholicism +in the past has been an institution which always endeavored to rule +by the tyranny of oppression, and her decisions and mandates to-day +are the same as they were during the inquisitorial days when our +Protestant forefathers were burned at the state for disobeying the +commands of Catholic officials.</p> + +<p>Catholicism makes her boast that she never changes; then what are we +to expect the future to bring forth, if her dogmas of damnation are +al<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span>lowed to fasten her intolerable hold upon this country: for if she +"never changes," and we are compelled to judge her future by her +past, which is the only rational conclusion that can be arrived at, +then we can expect nothing more than to behold her future trail +stained with the blood of Protestants, as such has been her history +of the past.</p> + +<p>It is our purpose in this chapter to give the reader an authentic +epitome of a few of the doctrines and facts which we defy Roman +Catholicism to successfully deny, as what we propose to give you is +Roman Catholic law, and if such is Roman Catholic law, then we will +have no trouble in establishing the fact that no loyal Catholics can +possibly be loyal American citizens; therefore should not be placed +in a position where they can carry out the mandates and dictates of +the Church of Rome, for whenever they are placed in power and +thoroughly believe in the laws of Catholicism they can not possibly +be naught but traitors to our American form of government.</p> + +<p>We propose to give the reader "Canon Law"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span> to establish our +statements, as we are as well acquainted with the laws that govern +Roman Catholicism—yea, better than we are with the laws that govern +this country, as we for fifty-six years have been directly influenced +by this "Canon Law," and for the past thirty years, or since we +became a Roman Catholic priest, have been a servant and an +executioner of this law; therefore, I know whereof I speak, and no +man dare deny my statements.</p> + +<p>The first declaration of this "Canon Law" is: "<i>All human power is +from evil and must therefore be standing under the Pope.</i>"</p> + +<p>You will thus see that the first declaration of the "Canon Law" is to +place the human family as a whole, under the tyrannical control of +Catholicism.</p> + +<p>Another declaration of this law is: "<i>The state has not the right to +leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he +shall deem true.</i>"</p> + +<p>In this declaration, you will further see that Roman Catholicism +would, if it was within her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span> power, take from the American citizen +the right to worship a true and living God.</p> + +<p>The next law that we will refer to is as follows: "<i>The state has not +the right to establish a church separate from the Pope.</i>"</p> + +<p>Again you will see that Rome's idea is to force all of humanity to +bow at the feet of her creed.</p> + +<p>Again she declares in her "Canonistic Laws:" "<i>That the state has not +the right to assist the inmates of monasteries and convents to +abandon them.</i>"</p> + +<p>Again you will see that Catholicism desires to usurp the rights of +the courts and establish prisons of their own without a semblance of +law.</p> + +<p>Once more this "Canonistic Law" thunders forth her monarchial law as +follows: "<i>The Roman Catholic church has the right to require the +state not to leave every man free to profess his own religion.</i>"</p> + +<p>Again the reader will see that Roman Catholicism with her iron hand +demands this nation to force and compel every man, woman and child +that lives under that old red, white and blue flag,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span> which was bought +by the blood of our forefathers, to humbly bow to this heathenish +creed.</p> + +<p>The next, and one of the most damnable laws found among the +"Canonistic Laws" of Catholicism, is as follows; "<i>Roman Catholicism +has the right to exercise her power without permission or consent of +the state.</i>"</p> + +<p>Within this Romish law any one can easily discern her monarchial +designs, as she boldly and flagrantly declares that she has the right +to do as she sees fit, without even being molested or questioned by +the laws of this country.</p> + +<p>Further on in the "Canon Laws" of Catholicism we find the following: +"<i>Roman Catholicism has the right to prevent the foundation of any +national church not subject to the direct authority of the Roman +pontiff.</i>"</p> + +<p>Thus the reader will see that the Protestant churches of America +exist only by and through the numerical power of Protestantism, but +should Romanism ever become powerful enough in this country she +would, within the twinkling of an eye,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span> destroy or confiscate every +Protestant church now in existence.</p> + +<p>Further along in this Romish "Canon Law" we find that she strikes at +the dearest institutions of our land, as follows: "<i>The Roman +Catholic church has the right to deprive the civil authorities of the +entire government of the public schools.</i>"</p> + +<p>The reader will see by this declaration that should Catholicism ever +come in control of the affairs of this government that our public +schools, which are the bulwarks of our American government, would +have their very foundations rooted up and scattered to the four winds +of the earth.</p> + +<p>The most devilish and damnable law, in my estimation, that is to be +found upon the statute books of Catholicism is the following: "<i>Roman +Catholicism has the right to require that the Roman Catholic religion +shall be</i> <span class="smcap">the only religion</span> <i>of the nation, to the exclusion +of all others</i>."</p> + +<p>We have the entire principles of Catholicism embodied in this last +"Canonistic Law," as Roman Catholicism's aim and intention is to put +this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span> declaration into effect as soon as she can become powerful +enough to execute her plans.</p> + +<p>In my estimation, the next "Canon Law" that I will quote, is the one +most detrimental to our American form of government, as it is a law, +when put into execution, that will throttle every ambition and +strangle every hope that now permeates the bosom of Protestantism, +and it is one that should freeze the very flesh and blood of +Protestantism to the bone's marrow. It is as follows: <i>"Roman +Catholicism has the power to require the nation not to permit free +expression of opinions."</i></p> + +<p>In this last law, which is found upon the statute books of Roman +Catholicism, we have a declaration from her rulers that would deprive +you and your posterity from expressing an opinion in regard to Roman +Catholicism; that is, if that opinion did not coincide with her +abominations, and an institution which would place such a law upon +her statute books is an institution which would burn and flay alive +those who would disregard this law; thus the reader may have some +idea of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span> what he or she may expect should their posterity ever live +to see America pass into the ungodly clutches of this unholy demon.</p> + +<p>The history of Roman Catholicism in the past plainly demonstrates +what she has done and how well and awful she has carried out her laws +herein quoted, and Catholicism makes her brags that she "<i>never +changes</i>," consequently the only reason why these laws are not put +into execution in the United States is the lack of physical power, +and whenever Roman Catholicism reaches the point in the history of +this country where she possesses this physical power, Protestantism +will feel her tyrannical heel upon their necks.</p> + +<p>That the reader may thoroughly understand and realize that Roman +Catholicism of to-day is the same as Roman Catholicism was hundreds +of years ago, we desire to quote a letter written by Pope Leo XIII +during his reign, which will thoroughly demonstrate to the reader +that Roman Catholicism of the present retains all of her harshness +and cussedness that she possessed when our forefathers were burned at +the stake and our<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span> mothers were punished for worshiping a true and +living God, Pope Leo's letter follows:</p> + +<p>"<i>The teachings given by the Apostolic See, whether contained in the +syllabus and other acts of our illustrious predecessors, or in our +encyclical letters, has given clear guidance to the faith as to what +should be their thoughts and their conduct in the midst of the +difficulties of time and events. There they will find a rule for the +direction of their minds and their work.</i>"</p> + +<p>The reader will see from this letter from Pope Leo XIII that he +reiterates to his followers the "Canonistic Law" laid down by his +predecessors, making it obligatory upon the followers of Catholicism +to put in practice to-day the hellish doctrines of Roman Catholicism +of the past.</p> + +<p>If Catholicism depends upon numbers and physical strength to +accomplish her ends, then what must this country expect when such a +time arrives, as Catholicism can govern by the power of physical +strength?</p> + +<p>Will we have any one to blame for what Catholicism does to this +country when such time arrives?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span> Ah, No! No one but Protestantism, +for if America, which is a Protestant country, sits idly by and +permits Romanism to reach a point where she can control the affairs +of this government, it will be on the account of the lethargy and +imbecility of Protestantism, as we have it within our power to-day to +halt this Emperor of Darkness before that time arrives, but the +question is, will we do it?</p> + +<p>The history of other nations which have been controlled by +Catholicism should be enough, not only to frighten the Protestant +hosts, but to paralyze them with fear, as the pages of history teem +with the awfulness of Rome's rule, wherever she has been permitted to +become master.</p> + +<p>France, which has been priest-ridden for centuries, is now at this +time in the throes of a national convulsion, brought about by the +tyranny of Romanism.</p> + +<p>Now, if Rome is such an abominable master and such a tyrant that +France has to deport the priestcraft and close up her institutions, +is it not time that the United States was taking some step to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span> +protect her offspring from this vulture of human rights!</p> + +<p>This country is undoubtedly a Protestant country, and if it is a +great country, which no man dares to deny, she surely owes her +greatness to Protestantism.</p> + +<p>Our soul is poured into this chapter, as we never were more in +earnest than we are at this time, as we can shade our eyes and look +down the avenues of the past and behold naught but skeletons of +protestant despair on every byway which has been traveled by +Romanism, and when we behold this mighty waste of despair we can not +conceive how the United States of America can expect to fare better +than have the nations of the past, unless she exerts her American and +Protestant manhood and gives Roman Catholicism to understand that it +is time to halt, and, in the name of an intelligent God, forbid her +to transgress further upon the rights of this country.</p> + +<p>In this chapter we will endeavor to be explicit and above all +truthful, and we ask God to give us courage to present facts in a way +that will fan to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span> life again the patriotism that has been lulled to +sleep by the bat-like wings of Roman Catholicism.</p> + +<p>We hope that this little volume may arouse unconcerned Protestantism +to a realization of the fact that our public officials are year by +year forcing her nearer and nearer the great chasm of Roman despair, +and if we can be instrumental in this great undertaking we will feel +that when our race is done, that we have fought a good fight, and +will be remembered by the Protestant world as a man who taught a +doctrine which was the salvation of Protestant America.</p> + +<p>Roman Catholicism has no politics, as she is ever ready and willing +to join hands with any party that will guarantee her more complete +control of national affairs, as she teaches her followers that +whenever they find that the Republican party will grant her requests +that they should be Republicans, and she also teaches them that +whenever the Democratic party or any other party will enter into a +contract with her and grant her the right of way of devastation, that +they should be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> Democrats, or be adherents to whatever party grants +them the most power.</p> + +<p>Roman Catholicism wraps herself about the smaller officials and +wheedles herself into the good graces of the small officials by +promising them the Catholic vote, and by so doing she is able to +control the officials higher up in power, and in this manner she +reaches the highest officials of the land, as we find to-day the +boa-constrictor of Catholicism wrapped about every official at +Washington city, from the President of the United States on down.</p> + +<p>Suppose that the Pope and his tribe of liberty-destroyers realized +that the officials of America were Protestants, and implicitly +believed and lived up to the teachings of Protestantism; do you think +that she would presume to approach our Protestant officials and +demand their support in behalf of her damnable creed, or do you +suppose that she would dare to send her emissaries into the halls of +our national congress and brazenly approach those Protestant +officials? Ah, never! as Catholicism is a base coward and never +makes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span> her appearance only where she is assured that her overtures +will be gracefully received.</p> + +<p>Protestant America! do you not believe that you have granted Romanism +her requests long enough, and do you not realize that unless you +throttle this carnivorous beast of human rights within the near +future that your protests will only be received with ridicule and +jeers?</p> + +<p>Protestantism from this day forward should resolve that her ballot in +the future should be a Protestant ballot, and whenever she has +reasons to believe that there is one place upon their ticket that is +tainted with the abominations of Romanism they should be dropped as +though they were a poisonous reptile.</p> + +<p>It matters not what the office may be that is to be filled and what +power it carries with it, Protestantism should find out whether or +not the applicant believes in Protestantism, and learn, if possible, +whether they or their family are tainted with the virus of Roman +Catholicism, and if you should find that the taint extends to any +part of their family then scratch them off your ballot, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span> by so +doing you will help to woo back the spirit of both Protestantism and +patriotism, as one is symbolic of the other.</p> + +<p>It may seem strange and also untrue for me to make the statement that +there are cities in the United States which are as completely under +the control of the Pope of Rome as Rome herself, but such is the +case, and the city of St. Louis, Mo., is one of them, as Romanism +rules the inhabitants of that city with a despotism that is only +equaled in a nation where the pontiff of Rome is an acknowledged +ruler.</p> + +<p>During the last election in the city of St. Louis I was a Catholic +priest, and was in the Catholic confidence, and I declare to you as a +man of truth and before a living God that it was understood between +the Catholic church and those who controlled the Democratic party +that the Protestants should elect the present mayor, Rolla Wells, but +that Catholicism was to be permitted to name the other officials, or +at least enough to control the city government.</p> + +<p>Now, is there any politics in such an agreement?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span> Ah, no; but the +only object in this secret agreement was a desire upon the part of +Roman Catholicism to control the revenues of the city of St. Louis, +as Catholicism is a money machine and endeavors to keep her exchequer +full by preying upon the ignorance of her followers.</p> + +<p>I have mentioned St. Louis only for the simple reason that it is a +recent happening, but there are a score of other cities in the United +States of America which are controlled by Catholicism on the same +principle, as Romanism joins hands with either the Republican or +Democratic party if she sees a chance to put her hellish schemes and +dogmas into practice.</p> + +<p>That the reader may know what element controls the municipal +governments of our cities we desire to call attention to the fact +that over one-half of the officials of our large American cities are +direct representatives of Roman Catholicism, and over two-thirds of +all the policemen of these cities are the Pope's followers.</p> + +<p>Why does this state of affairs exist? Ah, it is because the +Protestant voter has "politics" in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span>stead of "principles"; therefore +you yourself are to blame for this awful state of affairs.</p> + +<p>Yes, I say that you are to blame, for you are a voter and you pretend +to represent Protestantism but still will permit yourself to be made +tools of in behalf of Roman Catholicism; then am I not right in +declaring that you are to blame for this state of affairs that exists +in our large cities?</p> + +<p>In our municipal elections you will find Roman Catholicism courting +the political power which has the greatest chance of electing their +candidates; it matters not what party it may be, as Roman Catholicism +has no politics, as her only desire is power, and it does not matter +from what source she receives it, so long as it is granted her, as +Romanism is like a chameleon, as she will change her political color +to suit her surroundings if she is assured that she will be permitted +to inject her deadly virus into the veins of Protestantism.</p> + +<p>If Roman Catholicism can extract a promise from a Republican +candidate they are Republicans; but, on the other hand, if they can +make a Democrat do their bidding, they are Democrats;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span> and if they +can "wiggle" into the Populists' favor, they are Populists; in fact, +they are any and everything that will serve their purpose and help to +bind and throttle Protestant principles.</p> + +<p>The nation of France is making history to-day, and each line and page +of this history is a warning to Protestant America, as every page of +this history is covered with the slime of Roman Catholicism, for had +it not been for her tyrannical despotism, France would not have had +to close up the monasteries and convents of that nation, but on +account of her teachings, and in order to protect the rising +generations from her influence, not only have the convents and +monasteries had to be closed, but the schools which teach her +damnable dogmas have been closed.</p> + +<p>We do not have to cross the ocean and visit European countries to +learn of Roman Catholicism's depravity, but we can stand upon the +southern shore of the United States, almost in hailing distance of +Cuba, and there behold the shores of a country which had to rebel +against the hellishness of Roman Catholicism, as Cuba would to-day<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span> +belong to Spain had it not been for Roman Catholicism, as it was her +abominations that continually kept Cuba in a feverish ferment.</p> + +<p>It was Spain's ungodliness that brought about the Spanish-American +war, and Spain's ungodliness was taught her by Romanism.</p> + +<p>The West India islands were the progenies of Spain, and the Spanish +government permitted the Papists to control these islands with her +dogmas of instructions, which were directly instrumental in +continually keeping the spirit of anarchy alive.</p> + +<p>The only reason that Roman Catholicism does not control this country +with her tyrannical hand is on account of numerical numbers, for did +Rome believe that she could rule this country to-day, before the sun +would set to-morrow night this would be a nation of serfs instead of +a nation of independent men and women.</p> + +<p>I perhaps have made my declarations broader and stronger than any man +of the present day, but I am fresh from the ranks of Catholicism and +I know her cunning, and since I have forsaken her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span> blind leadership +and drank deep from the well of Protestantism, I have resolved that +no stone shall go unturned that will help me to convince America of +her great danger which shadows her future by permitting this Romish +despot to flood this country with not only her blind followers, but +by being permitted to brazenly denounce everything that is near and +dear to this country, as her brazen denunciations of our American +institutions is nothing more nor less than treason, and which should +be treated as such.</p> + +<p>To give the reader some idea of what Roman Catholicism will do if she +ever has the power, we quote an article which appeared in a Catholic +journal known as "<i>The Catholic Citizen</i>," of Milwaukee, Wis.</p> + +<p>Now, if Catholicism has at this time become so brazen that she dares +offer the Protestant world the insults that is contained in this +article, what shall we expect if this damnable creed ever becomes +powerful enough to control by physical strength? The article follows:</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot"><p>"Protestantism in Cuba? What good will it do there? If only +the good it has wrought elsewhere, Heaven help the Cubans! +Protestantism is nothing but a disorganizer and a pathway to +infidelity and atheism. This is the only reason of its +existence. As a positive moral force, it is a farce. It has +never converted a single nation, but it has unconverted +Protestants themselves with a holy vengeance. Berlin has +75,000 church goers out of 2,000,000 people; London 400,000 +out of 6,000,000 and so on. 'Without baptism you can not +enter Heaven,' says the Scripture, and lo! thanks to +Protestantism, nearly 60,000,000 people in the United States +are not baptized. A nice system (for the devil), that +produces such results—results as fatal to the heathen as to +the Christian. Protestantism found the Sandwich islands with +400,000 people. Where are they now? Gone. A million Macris in +New Zealand. Where are they? Gone. Seven million Indians in +the United States. Where are they? Gone.</p> + +<p>"On the other hand, the friars found 300,000 natives in the +Philippines 400 years ago, and there are 9,000,000 now; +12,000,000 Indians south of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span> Rio Grande, and there are +50,000,000 now. 'By their fruits you shall know them.' In +view of such facts, we think Protestants should leave +'Boonioboola Gha' alone and confine their proselytizing to +unfortunates nearer home. An American is just as well worth +saving as a Cuban or a Chinaman any day."</p></div> + +<p>"<i>The American Citizen</i>," a journal published in Boston, Mass., made +the following comment on this article, which appeared in this Roman +Catholic journal:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The above is as good a specimen of papal logic as we have +ever seen—and it is the real thing.</p> + +<p>"'It has never converted a single nation!' Christianity is +not supposed to convert nations—it converts individuals. +Mohammedanism converted (?) many nations by the sword, and +popery attempted to do it by the inquisition, but +failed—except in the case of the Jews and Moors in Spain, +which it 'converted' into beggars and refugees.</p> + +<p>"Rome 'converted' the Albigenses from being peaceful and +industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in +Europe—and the handful<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span> defied and defeated the best papal +armies of Europe.</p> + +<p>"But how about England, and Scotland, and Scandinavia, and +the Netherlands, and many other nations—were they not all +papal at one time, but converted through reformation? How +about the Huguenots—the very flower of France; the +Protestant Irish, the very salvation of the Emerald +Isle—were not these all at one time Romanists—converted to +Protestantism?</p> + +<p>"Read the record of Rome's 'conversions' in Mexico, in +Central America, in South America, as told by Prescott and +other historians—the introduction of slavery by the papal +church, and the unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon the +Indians, or aborigines, of the countries mentioned. Read, in +United States senate document 190, the record of Rome's +'conversions' in the Philippines—a work which has made every +Filipino a bitter hater of the priests.</p> + +<p>"'The Indians of the United States!' Have they ever been +Protestants? Have not the priests had control of them since +this land was discover<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span>ed? Are not the vices which have +killed them—apart from war—the peculiar vices of popery, +especially drunkenness? What good have the priests wrought +among them? Take California as an example, where these +priests enslaved tens of thousands of the Indians for the +sole purpose of enriching their church!</p> + +<p>"This is a matter of history—of undeniable history. If the +American Indians were slain in battle, in nine cases out of +ten the Jesuits instigated them to the deeds which brought on +the war. While Prescott's 'Mexico' and 'Peru' are accessible +in our libraries, popery had better be dumb.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span>"That the Filipinos have increased from 300,000 to 9,000,000 +and the South Americans from 12,000,000 to 50,000,000, may be +true, for all travelers tell us that it is no uncommon thing +to find a priest with a halfscore of concubines and fifty +children. Certainly these priests have an advantage over +Protestant missionaries in this respect. The pagans would +naturally follow the example of their 'spiritual' advisers. +Oh, yes, the population certainly increases where the +priestcraft live."</p></div> + +<p>The Roman Catholic church says that the priests shall not wed, but at +the same time the priestcraft fathers an army of children.</p> + +<p>The Philippine islands is a nation of heathens, and Catholicism has +been in charge of these islands for centuries, and to-day they are +worse off than they were before Catholicism planted her black banner +in their midst.</p> + +<p>Wherever you find intellectuality, morality and civilization in its +fullest meaning, you will find a country where Protestantism is the +predominating doctrine, as Catholicism can not exist only in the +"underbrush" of ignorance and vice.</p> + +<p>The greatest menace this country has to contend with is the influx of +Rome's followers from other nations, and unless our immigration laws +are remedied it will not be long until Rome will be able, by physical +strength, to enumerate the United States as one of her countries, as +each succeeding year tens of thousands of the followers of Rome from +Italy and other priest-ridden countries flock to our shores to +practice in this country the abominations taught them in their +childhood.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span></p> + +<p>France's woes and miseries have been expected for years by men of +intelligence and men who could read the signs of the times, as Rome's +influence was year by year growing more intolerable, and it was only +a matter of time when France would be forced to either permit herself +to be dragged down to the level of the debased teachings of +Catholicism or else by a heroic effort boldly stamp out this Romish +creed of damnation, and the latter course is the one she has chosen +to pursue, and to-day finds the Roman Catholic church despised and +detested by every intelligent and patriotic Frenchman of the land.</p> + +<p>In July 1874, Eugene Lawrence, in the columns of "<i>Harper's Weekly</i>," +made a prediction that ought to convince every sane man and woman in +this land that the woes of France are directly traceable to the Roman +Catholic church, as Mr. Lawrence was a historian of national repute, +and a man who was a patriot whom the American eagle was proud of, and +for the benefit of the readers of my little book I desire to quote in +full this prediction made thirty years ago, as to-day finds<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span> Mr. +Lawrence's prediction being fulfilled in every particular, and Roman +Catholicism is the incarnate fiend that has forced this prediction to +come true. Mr. Lawrence's article follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Papal church is chiefly responsible for the decadence of +the French mind. The priests have long controlled the +education of the nation and have striven to shut it out from +all contact with the culture of America, Germany and England. +Under the rule of Napoleon III, the Jesuits obtained the +guidance of nearly all the secondary colleges; Protestant +schools were sedulously discouraged, and nothing was taught +that could offend the mediaeval tastes of Rome. When, two +years ago, the French republicans had resolved to found a +free and compulsory system of instruction for all France as +the chief want of the nation, the papal bishops and priests +suppressed the measure by all their arts. They were resolved +to have no education which they could not control. The +republican movement failed; Bishop Dupanloup and his +associates succeeded once more in shutting out the light of +knowledge from the peo<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span>ple, and have sown the fires of +warfare in the place of mental progress and moral culture.</p> + +<p>"France, which has often made the most rapid progress toward +reform, has also been the most successful leader of modern +reaction. Its revolutions have set in motion all other +nations, but have failed to purify itself. It is enslaved by +a single church and ruled by Roman superstition. At the +recent assembly at Paris, of all the hierarchy of France, of +Jesuits, Dominicans, Monks and prelates, it was resolved that +all the strength of the papal party should be given to an +effort to grasp the control of the higher education of the +people, and make every college and seminary the teacher of +the worship of the Sacred Heart; to confine instruction +within the limits of Roman theology, and shut out more +strictly than ever before the light of modern progress. At a +great and powerful meeting of all the Roman Catholic editors +of France, a similar policy was resolved upon. By a strange +revulsion of sentiment the press was made to advocate its own +restriction or repression. The papal editors apparently sigh<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> +for a return of the mediaeval practices when Francis I. +burned ardent printers in Paris, and the Sorbonne would have +banished the printing press from France forever. The Roman +Catholic papers invoke the restoration of the Bourbons and of +the temporal power of the Pope, and in the ardor of a new +spirit of martyrdom offered themselves up to a spiritual +bondage that must end in their own slow destruction and the +death of the national intellect They would enforce anew that +policy if isolation which has filled France with impurity, +and left it the prey of emperors and marshals, princes and +priests.</p> + +<p>"France has thus displayed, since its first revolution, a +most remarkable contest. The spirit of freedom has more than +once placed its people in front of human progress, and ever +again the spirit of reaction has dragged them back into the +abyss of mental and moral decay. Its priests have invariably +triumphed over its reformers. The Roman church has always +held a supremacy above the law. Of all the national +institutions, it has alone preserved its freedom of action +unimpaired.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span> It receives an enormous subsidy from the state. +While all other associations are held under a strict +subjection, while political meetings are scarcely allowed, +while the press is silenced, while Protestant churches can +hold no assemblies or synods except by the connivance of the +government, while Protestant churches are forbidden to have +either bell or steeple, the Roman priesthood hold their +councils and assemblies unrestrained, and cover the land with +their sodalities, their societies, their processions, and +their pilgrimages. The church is the only well-organized +political party. Its agents are active in every commune. Its +severe discipline produces order through all its hosts of +Jesuits, monks and priests. Its confessors rule in the +palaces of the wealthy and the hovels of the peasants. It +forbids education, it stifles thought, it inculcates a +pitiless severity against Protestants and reformers; and with +natural indignation the leading Republicans point to the +dominant church as the chief source of all the woes of +France, as sacrificing the morals, integrity and mental +elevation of the nation to the single<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span> purpose of maintaining +the ascendency of a foreign Pope. The French Republicans have +been forced to see that the Papal church is the necessary foe +of freedom. It would be well if our own people could learn +from their experience, and guard with strict vigilance their +institutions from the secret and open assaults of a foreign +priesthood.</p> + +<p>"There is no doubt, at least in the minds of the French +Republicans, that to the intrigues of the Papal faction is +due the disordered and hopeless condition of the nation. +Gambetta's paper, <i>La Republique</i>, assures its readers that +the assembly is ruled by a party devoted wholly to the +ecclesiastical interests; that they labor only to reduce the +whole country to an abject submission to Rome, and are ready +to accomplish their aims by measures fatal to the peace of +France. It asserts that the priesthood forms a league as +rigorous as that over which the Guises ruled and against +which the Huguenots struggled; that the church has its +myriads of societies, committees, agents, an overflowing +treasury, the favor of the government, a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span> single aim—an +infallible ruler. It calls upon the people, if they would be +free, to strike down the hydra that preys upon the state. The +policy of Bismarck, indeed, finds its best defense in the +condition of France. If the interference of the papal faction +proves so disastrous to the welfare of the French people, it +is plainly the interest of Germany to crush it forever by all +the resources of statesmanship. If the rule of papal Rome be +so intolerable to its friends, what might it not accomplish +in the dominions of its opponents? France may yet learn from +its neighbors over the Rhine the only path to freedom. What +it seems most to need is a Bismarck."</p></div> + +<p>If in 1874, Mr. Lawrence, after making a thorough study of the +conditions of France, could so accurately prophecy what would happen +thirty years hence, the conditions at that time must have been indeed +very palpable, but no more so than they are in America to-day, as +Roman Catholicism within the past ten years has made greater strides +in strangling American liberties than she ever has in any twenty-five +years, before, as this<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span> creed of abominations has been losing its +hold upon not only the throats of France, but of Italy as well. As +she has made the effort of her life to plant the seeds of anarchy and +revolution in the bosom of her followers in the United States, in +order that she may at the proper time, and as soon as she believes +she is numerically strong enough to overcome by physical force, to +strike a blow that will paralyze every ambition of Protestantism in +this country.</p> + +<p>Hundreds of the best and wisest men this country has ever known have +been for years warning the United States of her dangers from +Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed the warning, but +bear in mind that unless this country does heed this warning and halt +the Czar of Darkness, we will live to see the time when we will have +to resort to arms to protect our Protestant interests.</p> + +<p>The nation of France has swung out from the power of the Vatican, and +is to-day defying the Pope of Rome and daring him to do his worst, +and France is a nation that has always been a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span> Catholic nation and +controlled by her abominations, but she has woke up to the fact that +unless this hellish doctrine is stamped out from her shores that she +will become a nation of mental pygmies and nonentities, as she has +long since learned that Catholicism is nothing more nor less than a +poisonous breath that withers intellect and causes nations to decay +and sink to the level of Romish degeneracy.</p> + +<p>It seems as though the Vatican will not learn that the world moves, +as the Vatican is determined that Italy shall not appear above the +horizon of papal abhorrence.</p> + +<p>It is hard for the Vatican to learn that the world moves and that +Italy moves with it. In its final resolution, the quarrel between the +Pope and the French government is based on the recognition of the +king of Italy as the sole sovereign in Rome, but the Pope is as +determined that him and his reign of darkness shall be the only +acknowledged ruler of Italy.</p> + +<p>President Loubet of France, the executive of this Catholic nation, +gave great offense to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span> Vatican, by visiting the king of Italy, +who is in the eyes of the church a usurper.</p> + +<p>According to the Vatican's standards, the kingdom of Italy is not an +accomplished fact, as the Vatican refuses to recognize any government +in Italy save that which he chooses to establish and build up out of +the filth and abominations of Roman Catholicism.</p> + +<p>The Pope declares himself to be the only legitimate sovereign in +Rome, but the Italian government has for a number of years been +learning that the power of the Vatican is a power of darkness, +emanating from the putridness of paganism, and which is detrimental +to any nation that aspires to individual intellectuality, morality +and greatness.</p> + +<p>The reader must bear in mind that Italy is the home of the Pope, and +the home of Popes, and that Rome is the city of Popes, archbishops +and cardinals.</p> + +<p>This statement can not be denied by any living man, and since it is +true, we want to learn something of the inhabitants of Rome, so that +we may be prepared to judge whether Roman Catholicism<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span> is beneficial +or detrimental to those whom she rules.</p> + +<p>We make the statement without fear of successful denial, that Roman +Catholicism is a power which withers the hopes and ambitions of any +nation, which is so unlucky as to fall under her tyrannical tread, as +Romanism is a power for evil, unequaled by any creed of deviltry and +diabolical cunning ever conceived by mortal man.</p> + +<p>We have made the statement that the city of Rome was one of the most +immoral and ungodly cities under the shining canopy of Heaven, and we +have also made the statement that Rome is the home of popes, +archbishops and cardinals, and we propose to prove to the reader +that, while Rome is the home of Roman Catholic officials, that she is +also the home of the libertine and immoral.</p> + +<p>We also propose to prove that the immorality of the inhabitants of +Rome is taught them by the Catholic officials of Rome, as we are not +writing of what we have learned from the mouth of others, but we are +writing of what we know by the power of sight, as we have visited +Rome more than once<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span> in the official capacity of Roman Catholicism, +and we make this statement with a living God as our witness, that +Roman Catholicism is responsible for the immorality found in the city +of Rome, and this immorality is not confined alone to the city +outside the walls of the Vatican, as this atmosphere of immorality +and degradation permeates the very atmosphere of the Vatican, as +illegitimacy is found within the walls of the Vatican, as well as +without.</p> + +<p>Rome is a city of popes, cardinals, archbishops, priests, monks, +friars and ecclesiastical students.</p> + +<p>In the city of Rome, which is the home of popes, there are 39 +cardinals, 35 archbishops, 1,469 priests, 2,832 monks and friars, +2,000 nuns and 1,000 ecclesiastical students, making in all 7,576 +teachers of this abomination; and for every 4,375 children born in +the city of Rome, 3,160 are bastards, and for every 750 people in the +city of Rome, there is a murder committed during the year; thus you +will see that this herd of Catholic teachers are not only teachers of +immorality and degradation, but are also responsible for murder,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span> as +such a pestilence of immorality will lead to murder.</p> + +<p>Is it any wonder that France and Italy are to-day struggling with +this polluted beast in order to free themselves from her filthy +grasp? Is it any wonder that France has closed up the monasteries, +convents and schools of this abomination!</p> + +<p>With such nations as France and Italy declaring to their inhabitants +that Catholicism is not only a nuisance but a menace to intelligence +and morality, what can this government expect in the future if she +permits Romanism to continue to flourish in the future as she has in +the past?</p> + +<p>This book is not written by a man who seeks notoriety, or a man who +is writing from a prejudiced standpoint, but we are writing from what +we know of the awfulness of Catholicism, as fifty-six long years have +rolled into eternity since I began to worship at the feet of this +immoral hag; therefore, the reader must know that it is not a +pleasant task to acknowledge before the world that we have been not +only fifty-six years a follower of this creed of abominations, but +for thirty long<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span> years we helped to fasten this creed upon the human +family.</p> + +<p>I wish that it was within my power to become a spirit, which would +enable me to navigate the air and whisper my warnings into the ears +of Protestant America, for no nation on the face of the earth needs +the warning as badly as the United States, as day by day, week by +week, month by month and year by year the Vatican's shadow grows +longer and longer upon our shores, and wherever this shadow of +paganish darkness stretches itself you will find the withered hopes +of man, as Roman Catholicism's only ambition is to place humanity at +her feet, which will enable her to bind her followers with the cords +of superstition and ignorance, as she exists upon the blasted hopes +of those whom she rules.</p> + +<p>If what I have told you in the pages of this book is true, then is it +not time for Protestant America to arouse herself from her lethargy +and buckle on the armor of righteousness and patriotism and go forth +to battle this "Strumpet of Sin" with the valor of our American +forefathers?<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span></p> + +<p>I have prayerfully endeavored to lay bare the sins of Roman +Catholicism, and the only hindrance I have encountered in my efforts +is on the account of not being more familiar with the English +language, as I am a German born, and my power of expressing myself in +the English language is materially hindered by being educated in +Germany, but thank God that education does not stand in the way of a +living God helping the foreign tongue to express itself in a manner +which can be understood.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to inform the reader who I am, what I am, and why I +am what I am, and have taken up the abominations of Catholicism and +treated these abominations in a manner that I hope will carry +conviction to the hearts of the reader, as I am qualified to go +before not only any official who has the power to administer an oath +and to make oath to the truthfulness of every assertion made herein, +but I am willing to meet my God around the great white throne in +Heaven and stand upon the declarations herein contained.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to give the Protestant reader<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg 321]</a></span> to understand that +his offspring are considered bastards, and their parents persons who +live in immorality, by not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and +being married by the priestcraft.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to tear the mask of ignorance from the bleared and +polluted features of Romanism and show her up in all of her +detestible ugliness.</p> + +<p>I have in my weak manner endeavored to try to warn our American +fathers and mothers of the great danger of the "confession," as the +confessional is the stepping stone that leads to Romish abominations, +as it is there that the seed of immoral thought is planted and it is +there that the purity of girlhood is first tarnished, and if I can +arouse Protestant mothers and fathers of this land to these awful +sinks of iniquity I will consider that I have been instrumental in +helping to obliterate one of the greatest evils known to the human +family.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to point out to Protestant America the awful +mistake made by the United States in permitting Roman Catholicism to +con<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg 322]</a></span>tinue her debauchery in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine +Islands, as I declare to the reader with eyes wet with grief that not +only the flower of our army is being sacrificed in these far away +islands, but that millions of dollars are being spent upon these +islands and that Roman Catholicism is being benefited by this great +expenditure of Protestant money, as the Pope of Rome is as powerful +in these islands to-day as he ever was, and every intelligent +Protestant in this land who has made this subject a study knows full +well that had it not been for Roman Catholicism and her outrages, +that the Spanish-American war would never have been fought.</p> + +<p>I have earnestly tried to make the reader understand that the +monasteries in this country are often the abodes of criminals, and +the nunneries of this land are the slaughter pens of virtue, and I +trust that my readers will read it in the spirit that I have written +it, and if such is the case I know that this little book will be +instrumental in not only opening the eyes of drowsy Protestantism, +but it will be instrumental in turning thou<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span>sands of Roman Catholics +from the error of their ways and pointing them to "the Lamb of God +that taketh away the sins of the world."</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to demonstrate to the reader that celibacy upon the +part of the priestcraft is one of the most damnable crimes known to +civilization, as it is the unmarried cussedness of the Roman Catholic +priests that is instrumental in the slaughter of virtue.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to prove to the reader that the Roman Catholic +Church is a living infamous insult to an all-wise God, by claiming +that the Pope of Rome is an infallible being, and I believe that if +the reader has read my book with a determination of discarding that +which is bad and holding to that which is good, that he or she will +close this book with an enlightened conception of this devilish creed +which would have its followers believe that the Pope of Rome is on an +equality with Jesus Christ.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to lead the reader from clime to clime, so that he +or she might behold the characters of the followers of Rome, and by +compari<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg 324]</a></span>son I have endeavored to convince the reader that the +characters of the followers of Roman Catholicism are not nor never +can be on a par with the character of Protestantism, as Roman +Catholicism follows the teachings of paganism, born in the kennel of +filthiness and surrounded and led by a class of men who glut their +lust upon the virtue of their "dupes," while Protestantism is led by +the lowly Nazarine, whose teachings have made Protestant America all +that she is to-day or ever will be.</p> + +<p>I have endeavored to point out to the readers of this little volume +the sin of Protestantism, permitting Catholicism to control our +public schools and teach our children doctrines that will be +instrumental in strangling their ambitions and paralyzing their +aspirations, which is near and dear to Protestant America.</p> + +<p>I have from the bottom of an honest heart endeavored to impress upon +the reader the awful influence that the priestcraft of America has +upon the morals of this country, and I trust that this task has not +been a useless one, for America has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg 325]</a></span> no plague that is so deadly to +patriotism as this black-garbed army of priests, who tramp up and +down the length and breadth of this land, seeking whom they may +devour.</p> + +<p>With every drop of blood in my old veins electrified with a desire to +serve a living God, I have endeavored to warn Protestant America of +the lustfulness of the priestcraft, who without a blush of shame +invade the chastity of our American homes, and by the hellishness of +this Romish doctrine pollute the wives and daughters of this fair +land.</p> + +<p>I have pointed out the dangers which beset this nation by the +toleration of Popish rule, and have compared Protestant nations with +the nations which have been morally damned and disgraced by Romanism, +and I trust that my comparisons will lead an intelligent public to +see the dangers that beset this country unless Romanism is relegated +to the everlasting haunts of oblivion.</p> + +<p>In conclusion I desire to say to the reader that he or she will never +know of the diabolical cunning of this Romish doctrine, for it is +impossible<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg 326]</a></span> for mortal man who has traveled this road of debauchery +to ever portray in print to the public what he has seen along this +journey of ignorance, superstition and immorality, as no man who has +the welfare of the young and rising generation at heart would sink so +low as to write all of the awfulness that I have seen upon my journey +for thirty years upon this Romish highway of carnality, as every turn +in the path that leads through this desert of desolation is strewn +with the bleached bones of ambition.</p> + +<p>There is not an oasis in this vast stretch of Romish desolation, as +her every ambition is to rule by superstition, ignorance and tyranny.</p> + +<p>Again I would warn Protestant America that we are nearing the +trenches of physical strength, and unless we infuse into our +Protestant manhood the liquid fires of Protestantism, the time is not +far distant when the Bunker Hill that was made famous by the blood of +our forefathers will have her base dripping wet with the blood of +Protestantism, in defense of the principles that have<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg 327]</a></span> made America +all that she ever has been, all that she is, and all that she may +hope to be.</p> + +<p>Can we expect anything else should Roman Catholicism ever become +numerically strong enough to rule by physical strength? The answer to +this question must come from the pages of Romish history, and this +history has every page wet with Protestant blood shed by this Monarch +of Darkness, as 75,000,000 Protestants to-day sleep beneath the sod +of the universe, bearing the scars of Romish torture.</p> + +<p>My task is done; my warning has been sounded; my prayers have been +offered, and now in the evening of old age, when life's sun is +slipping down behind the horizon of earthly things, I find myself +surrounded with the faces of new friends, but in the dim far away I +behold the countenance of my Lord beckoning me to that rest beyond +the skies, where I hope to receive a full pardon from a God I so +recently learned to serve.</p> + +<p>For the sake of right, I bade farewell to the associations of my +childhood, but in doing so I have been permitted to taste of +realities that were<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg 328]</a></span> bought for the human race "By the blood of the +Lamb," and I feel assured that when this earthly race is over that I +will be taken home to glory, where I will be permitted to sing the +songs of the new Jerusalem, and my prayer is that this little volume +may march on down the ages after I am gone, to warn the generations +that are yet unborn of the damnable teachings of Romanism, and be +instrumental in wooing away from this human viper those who have been +taught to worship at the feet of this hydra-headed monster, Roman +Catholicism.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg 329]</a></span></p> + + +<h3>THE LIE NAILED.</h3> + +<p>Catholicism is circulating a lie that BERNARD FRESENBORG +never was a Catholic Priest. Here is a copy of a Check given +Mr. Fresenborg by ARCHBISHOP J.J. HARTY, for saying "Mass" in +1903. J.J. Harty is now an Archbishop in the Philippine Islands +and one of Rome's big guns.</p> + +<p>Archbishop Harty at the time this Check was given was Priest in +charge of ST. LEO'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, St. Louis, Mo.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"><a name="fig18" id="fig18"/><a href="images/fig18.jpg"> +<img src="images/fig18_tb.jpg" width="400" height="149" alt="Check" title="" /></a></div> + + +<p>[I will give $1,000 to any man, woman or child who will prove +that this statement untrue.]</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg 330]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>THE END.</h2> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h4><a name="note" id="note">TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES</a></h4> + + +<p><b>Typographical Errors Corrected</b></p> + +<p>The following typographical errors in the text were corrected as +detailed here.</p> + +<p>On the cover page, "circumfrence" was corrected to "circumference" in +the following text: "This great book has stirred America from center +to circumference."</p> + +<p>In the Author's Announcement, "enlightment" was corrected to +"enlightenment" in "A structure of enlightenment ..."</p> + +<p>On page 18, "Catholocism" was corrected to "Catholicism" in the +following text: "... that I have shaken off this eternal bondage of +Catholicism ..."</p> + +<p>On page 20, "ledgerdemain" was corrected to "legerdemain" in the +following text: "... Catholic legerdemain, and I was taught ..."</p> + +<p>On page 22, "Herold" was corrected to "Harold" to be consistent with +other mentions of this name on the same page.</p> + +<p>On page 28, "crimnials" was corrected to "criminals'" in the following +text: "... built with the purpose of sheltering her abominable +faithless in case these criminals' desire to hide themselves ..."</p> + +<p>On page 34, "hodwink" was corrected to "hoodwink" in the following text: +"... which will enable the officials to "hoodwink" their followers ..."</p> + +<p>On page 94, the text "carion" was corrected to "carrion" in the +following text: "... that part of the priestcraft which exists upon the +carrion of the human family ..."</p> + +<p>In the first paragraph of chapter VI (on page 97) "Ecquador" was +corrected to "Ecuador" in the following text: "In this chapter, we have +before us the vision of two countries; one is Protestant America and the +other Catholic Ecuador."</p> + +<p>On page 128, "asylumns" was corrected to "asylums" in the following +text: "The "asylums" of olden times were intended as retreats ..."</p> + +<p>On page 136, "Crowe" was corrected to "Crow" to be consistent with other +mentions of this name.</p> + +<p>On page 138, "absense" was corrected to "absence" in the following +text: "... asked his government of Holland for a leave of +absence to fight in the Boer war ..."</p> + +<p>On page 141, "sytem" was corrected to "system" in the following text: +"... so I sailed for the diamond fields of South Africa, where I am +now free, by the system ..."</p> + +<p>Also on page 141, the word "by" was corrected to "my" in the following +text: "... I walked to the banks of the Missouri River and raised +my buried treasure ..."</p> + +<p>On page 147, "degredation" was corrected to "degradation" in the +following text: "... snatch their children from the Romish mire of +degradation ..."</p> + +<p>On page 173, Pope "Piux" was corrected Pope "Pius."</p> + +<p>On page 214, the word "concensus" was corrected to "consensus" in the +following text: "The consensus of opinion among all classes ..."</p> + +<p>On page 219, "broad-guage" was corrected to "broad-gauge."</p> + +<p>On page 255, "paracite" was corrected to "parasite" in the following +text: "... who are as heavily burdened to-day with this ancient +parasite ..."</p> + +<p>On page 259, two instances of "instiution" were corrected to +"institution."</p> + +<p>On page 277, "Massachuetts" was corrected to "Massachusetts" in the +following text: "If such things are now happening in the State +of Massachusetts ..."</p> + +<p>On page 297, "Ctholicism" was corrected to "Catholicism" in the +following text: "... permit yourself to be made tools of in behalf +of Roman Catholicism ..."</p> + +<p>On page 285, "blod" was corrected to "blood" in the following text: +"... every man, woman and child that lives under that old red, white +and blue flag, which was bought by the blood of our forefathers ..."</p> + +<p>Also on page 285, "boldy" was corrected to "boldly" in the following +text: "... as she boldly and flagrantly declares that she ..."</p> + +<p>On page 293, "emmissaries" was corrected to "emissaries" in the following +text: "... send her emissaries into the halls ..."</p> + +<p>On page 306, "convice" was corrected to "convince" in the +following text: "... made a prediction that ought to convince every +sane man and woman ..."</p> + +<p>On page 311, "hopless" was corrected to "hopeless" in the following +text: "... the intrigues of the Papal faction is due the disordered +and hopeless condition ..."</p> + +<p>On page 312, "interefrence" was corrected to "interference" in the +following text: "If the interference of the papal faction ..."</p> + +<p>On page 320, "expres" was corrected to "express" in the following +text: "... helping the foreign tongue to express itself ..."</p> + +<p>On page 321, "detestible" was corrected to "detestable" in the following +text: "... in all of her detestible ugliness."</p> + +<p>On page 322, "sacrified" was corrected to "sacrificed" in the following +text: "... the flower of our army is being sacrificed ..."<br /><br /></p> + + +<p><b>Errors Left Unchanged In The Text</b></p> + +<p>"Villify" and "villified" are consistently spelled with two lls and +are used multiple times by the author. They have been left unchanged.</p> + +<p>The word "lude" appears twice and is left unchanged.</p> + +<p>The word "cungering" is spelled consistently and is used in multiple +places in this book. This word has been left unchanged.</p> + +<p>The word "disorganizer" appears in a quoted passage, and is left +unchanged.</p> + +<p>The following words each appear once, and are left unchanged: +"cathechism;" "effulgency;" "engraven;" "jesuitical;" +"Macris;" "Oricular;" "perceptibilities."</p> + +<p>Both spellings of the word "Savior" and "Saviour" are used in this book.</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Thirty Years In Hell, by Bernard Fresenborg + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRTY YEARS IN HELL *** + +***** This file should be named 18040-h.htm or 18040-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/0/4/18040/ + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Geetu Melwani and +the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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