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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Thirty Years In Hell, by Bernard Fresenborg
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+Title: Thirty Years In Hell
+       Or, From Darkness to Light
+
+Author: Bernard Fresenborg
+
+Release Date: March 23, 2006 [EBook #18040]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THIRTY YEARS IN HELL ***
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+Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Geetu Melwani and
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+[Illustration: Yours in His name
+Bernard Fresenborg.]
+
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+
+                  "Thirty Years in Hell"
+
+                       ... OR ...
+
+                 "From Darkness to Light."
+
+                           BY
+
+              Ex-Priest, Bernard Fresenborg,
+
+
+  Who for thirty long years tread the slippery and deceitful path
+     of abhorrent Catholicism, but who to-day stands at the
+       Vatican's door, with the torch of Protestant wisdom,
+            and denounces Popery with a tongue
+                livid with the power of
+                     a living God.
+
+           Like a Meteor From God's Throne,
+
+ This great book has stirred America from center to circumference.
+
+               About 400 Large Pages,
+
+   And each Page a stinging rebuke to Roman Catholicism.
+
+
+                     Published by
+              North-American Book House,
+                    St. Louis, Mo.
+
+  Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1904, by
+             NORTH-AMERICAN BOOK HOUSE,
+ In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note: A number of typographical errors found in the
+original text have been corrected in this version. A list of these
+errors is provided at the end of the book.
+
+
+
+
+
+Author's Announcement.
+
+
+A structure of enlightenment is to be built in this land, which to
+finish, every man of intellectual power must contribute.
+
+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.
+
+Unless we grow in faith we become dwarfs in the worship of God.
+
+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."
+
+These giants are the "KNIGHTS OF THE SPIRIT," who stand upon the
+summit of righteousness and proclaim an intelligent God to a sinful
+world.
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, what I once thought "Holy" I detest as abominable; What I once
+worshipped, I now hate.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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,
+
+            Yours in His name,
+
+                      BERNARD FRESENBORG.
+
+
+
+
+
+TABLE OF CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER I.
+                                               Page.
+Who I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What
+I Am.                                          15
+
+CHAPTER II.
+
+Some of the Abominations of Catholicism
+Carried On in the Name of Our Blessed
+Savior.                                        33
+
+CHAPTER III.
+
+All Children of Protestant Parents,
+Declared Bastards by Catholicism.              51
+
+CHAPTER IV.
+
+Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power
+to Reason and You make Slaves of Humanity.     65
+
+CHAPTER V.
+
+Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.     81
+
+CHAPTER VI.
+
+The Nations completely dominated by the Power
+of the Pope, are Nations of Illegitimacy.      97
+
+CHAPTER VII.
+
+The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto Rica
+and the Philippine Islands.                   109
+
+CHAPTER VIII.
+
+Monasteries are often Criminals' Abode, and
+Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.       127
+
+CHAPTER IX.
+
+Unmarried Cussedness of the Roman
+Priest-Craft.                                 149
+
+CHAPTER X.
+
+A Brazen Insult to God.                       171
+
+CHAPTER XI.
+
+The Characters of the Followers of
+Catholicism, Compared to the Followers
+of Protestantism.                             181
+
+CHAPTER XII.
+
+Why the Teachers in our Public Schools
+should not be Selected from the Ranks
+of Catholicism.                               193
+
+CHAPTER XIII.
+
+The Influence of the Priesthood in America.   223
+
+CHAPTER XIV.
+
+The Chastity of the Home Invaded by
+the Lustfulness of the Priest-Craft.          239
+
+CHAPTER XV.
+
+Nations which have been Disgraced by the
+Toleration of Popish Rule.                    255
+
+CHAPTER XVI.
+
+Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.    281
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+                                             Page
+Author's Picture.                               2
+
+"What Shall I Do To Be Saved?"                 14
+
+The Two Inspirations--The Holy Bible
+and Catholicism.                               33
+
+The Unmarried Life of the Priest-Craft,
+compared to the Married Life of
+Protestant Ministers.                          50
+
+The Two Ways--"As the Twig is Bent, the
+Tree's Incline."                               64
+
+Immorality of the Priest-Hood--With Romish
+Lust, the Blossom of Virtue is Destroyed.      80
+
+America's Ruin.                                96
+
+Free in Name Only--Take Their Chains Off
+Uncle Sam, or You will always have
+Trouble with Them.                            108
+
+Save The Girls--Batter Down the Doors of
+Convents, and the Civilized World will
+Stand Amazed.                                 126
+
+Take Your Choice--The Christ of Protestantism
+Compared to the God of Catholicism.           148
+
+Being Ex-Communicated for Reading the
+Bible--"May She Be Damned in her Mouth,
+in Her Breast, in Her Heart, Etc., Etc."      170
+
+A Modern Judas--In His Wake, Misery always
+Follows.                                      180
+
+Foes to Knowledge--Like a Poisonous
+Serpent, Etc., Etc.                           192
+
+Heathenish Practices--A Catholic "Dupe"
+Kissing the Supposed Bone of St. Ann.         222
+
+A Catholic Tool--Begging in the Name of
+the Lord, but in Reality, to Support the
+Priest-Craft, Etc.                            238
+
+Systematic Robbery--The Road to Glory along
+the Catholic Highway, Etc.                    254
+
+Uncle Sam--"Here is Your Next Fight Boys."    280
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED"
+"The dawn of Protestantism upon Ex-Priest Fresenborg
+after thirty years in the Roman Catholic Church."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter I.
+
+Who I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am.
+
+
+My parents were Catholics, and for this reason I suppose, is why I
+became a Catholic Priest.
+
+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.
+
+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 vigorous years of my manhood have been
+spent in what one might term idolatry.
+
+From this time forward I am going to endeavor to undo, as near as
+possible, what I have helped to accomplish in the past.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 Churches. Therefore you can easily see
+why it was that I became a Catholic, as I was taught it from my
+infancy.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 to the gymnasium and afterwards to universities for
+different branches of sciences.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+After I had gone through a perfect study of Gymnasium, and after
+having obtained my diploma, I could then decide for any career that
+I might choose.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 they had him undressed, one of them pulled
+off her clothes and went to bed with him.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 clutch, as there is no law whereby these monasteries
+can be forced open and their criminals brought to justice.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 unnatural and against the direct teachings of God, as we
+find in _Gen. 21:18_ 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.
+
+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 mechanism 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 under
+oath that every word that appears in this volume shall be the truth
+and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: "THE TWO INSPIRATIONS."
+PROTESTANTISM looks to the Holy Bible _for_
+Wisdom--CATHOLICISM to the Pope!]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter II.
+
+Some of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the Name of
+Blessed Saviour.
+
+
+What I will now relate is not hear-say nor something that I have read
+about, but it is something that _I know about_, and which I
+witnessed.
+
+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.
+
+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 entirely
+cured of any malady that may rack their person with misery.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Of course, this was given out by the dignitaries of the Catholic
+Church in order to blind their followers, 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.
+
+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?
+
+"The finger of God is in the land!" was the cry, and tens of
+thousands of Catholics from all over the country gathered in Munster.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+This "Mother Superior" sat in her room and gave her orders to at
+least two hundred sisters who were inmates of this institution.
+
+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."
+
+Munster was the Mecca. Every train arriving 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.
+
+Even the newspapers began to report the wonderful miracles (?) that
+were performed by this "Mother Superior."
+
+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. However, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+Hardly a day passes over our heads but what we see in some newspaper
+where Catholicism is brazenly declaring to the intelligent public
+that miraculous cures are being performed by some "hoodoo saint" of
+their idolatrous creed.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+We will now give you a few idiotic prayers that are offered to St.
+Anthony by the followers of blind Catholicism.
+
+    "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.
+
+    "OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY."
+
+
+    "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 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.
+
+    "OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY."
+
+
+    "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.
+
+    "Our Father. Hail, Mary. Glory."
+
+
+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, gazing 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 restore 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, what I relate above is true in every conceivable manner, and not
+one sentence or statement is misrepresented.
+
+This belief in the power of St. Anthony is simply abominable and
+belongs to the dark ages of heathendom.
+
+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 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.
+
+[Illustration: "A LICENTIOUS PRIEST."
+"A PROTESTANT PREACHER'S HOME"
+"The unmarried life of the Priestcraft compared
+to the married life of a Protestant minister."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter III.
+
+All Children of Protestant Parents Are
+Declared Bastards by Catholicism.
+
+
+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.
+
+Catholicism further declares that your darling child, which is the
+fruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a common
+bastard.
+
+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?
+
+Your darling baby boy or girl is branded as an illegitimate offspring
+by Catholicism, simply because their parents were not united in
+wedlock by a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as hell
+itself.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 teach such damnable doctrines about those
+who have made America all she ever was, and is, or ever will be.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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?
+
+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 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: "_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._"
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+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 the scales of Catholicism brushed from my eyes, which had
+been blinded by the superstition and fearful doctrines of this
+abominable creed.
+
+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!
+
+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 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?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+I have no reason for writing this book only a 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.
+
+"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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The mission of this book is to get you to _think_ 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.
+
+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 _awful creed_.
+
+We want you to consider this book as a friend, who has called at your
+fireside to tell you _truths_ 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 the most brutal despots the world has
+ever known, and these despots are nothing more nor less than the
+Catholic Church.
+
+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 _nothing_ but the wrath of a living God.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+It is time for us as _American freemen_ 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.
+
+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?
+
+Be men, and by your manhood you can, if you make the start now, lull
+into _eternal sleep_ this Romish power which villifies your ambitions
+and brands your offspring with the stigma of disgrace.
+
+[Illustration:
+"LOOK TO JESUS."                "THE POPE AND ME."
+"As the Twig is bent         the Tree's inclined."
+                   THE TWO WAYS.]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter IV.
+
+Tear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power to Reason,
+and You Make Slaves of Humanity.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Church seems not to understand that everything finds its source
+at the fountain of reason, as 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.
+
+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 will behold the marks
+of ignorance, superstition and barbarism upon her degraded form.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The teachings of Galileo so angered the pope that he called together
+an inquisitorial board and had Galileo tried by this Romish
+tribunal, and Galileo was sentenced to imprisonment for what
+Catholicism termed a heretical doctrine.
+
+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."
+
+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 purpose 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 and my superstitious fears would get the better of my
+convictions, and I would be whipped back into the trenches of
+superstition.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 earth will make oath and prove
+before any lawful tribunal of America if one word of the foregoing is
+not true.
+
+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.
+
+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 "_slave of the
+soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_."
+
+In this chapter we want to give the reader some 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 become
+miserable and will undergo any hardship to possess another.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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 "_shall never suffer eternal
+burning_."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+Now, to convince the reader that Catholicism is as densely ignorant
+to-day as it ever was, we will bring her history up to date.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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."
+
+While American Catholics are a class far superior in intellect to the
+Catholics of other 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.
+
+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 only
+explanation that you can get a Catholic to give you in regard to a
+Scapular.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: IMMORALITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD--
+With Romish lust, the blossom of virtue is destroyed.]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter V.
+
+Innocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.
+
+
+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.
+
+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 that would rend the heart of
+stone and stigmatize the cunning of Catholicism with a stigma blacker
+than the lowering clouds of despair.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Priests are, as a rule, men of more than average intellect, and, as
+they have no other calling nor no 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 we be surprised at the dense ignorance upon the part
+of these girls and women?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Confessional Box is an emblem of paganism, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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
+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."
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+The priestcraft is instructed by the Romish Church not to allow the
+penitent to conceal anything from them, and the priestcraft is given
+instructions to probe the penitent to the heart's core.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 pastor, the editor and publisher of a very important
+Catholic paper called "_The Catholic Progress_." 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.
+
+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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, if what I have related is false, Rev. Chas. Kuhlman has redress
+at law; and if I have libeled 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.
+
+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.
+
+Do not understand me to say, or to intimate, that there are no
+sincere priests, as there are; but 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.
+
+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
+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.
+
+The reason that we have so many disgraceful happenings and immoral
+incidents in the lives of the priestcraft is because of the absolute
+confidence 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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 "_virtue trap_" will be relegated
+to the dark recesses of paganism, from whence it came.
+
+[Illustration: "AMERICA'S RUIN."
+UNCLE SAM--"I am afraid these people will be the ruination
+of this country unless I stop them from coming over."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter VI.
+
+The Nations Completely Dominated by
+the Power of the Pope Are Nations of Illegitimacy.
+
+
+In this chapter, we have before us the vision of two countries; one
+is Protestant America and the other Catholic Ecuador.
+
+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 lust of unholy man can never compare with that great and
+infinitely good _being_, the Lord of Hosts.
+
+Broad education of the mind means a subduing of the passions, and
+_broad_ 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+We propose to take statistics from the _Peabody Reporter_, which you
+can corroborate with the official report of the United States
+Commissioner of Education. The statistics that we above refer to
+follow:
+
+"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 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.
+
+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.
+
+The public school system is established on the principle that the
+intelligence and virtue of the people constitutes the foundation of
+free government.
+
+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.
+
+Education is the watchword of the hour among 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.
+
+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,
+_Americans_, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make
+anything but a _true American_ 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.
+
+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
+unrelenting 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.
+
+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.
+
+We have contrasted the difference in morals of 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.
+
+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.
+
+This state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador 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.
+
+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.
+
+The first lesson that a Catholic child is taught is "_hate_," 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?
+
+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 report is true in every particular, and
+bear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic himself.
+The report follows:
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, this same record is
+repeated, as in other 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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+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 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.
+
+[Illustration: "FREE IN NAME ONLY."
+"Take their chains off, UNCLE SAM, or you will
+always have trouble with them."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter VII.
+
+The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto
+Rico and the Philippine Islands.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+These islands have been under the immediate control of Popery for
+hundreds of years, but when the Government of the United States took
+charge of them, their inhabitants had advanced no further in
+intellectuality and the freedom of free men than they were centuries
+ago.
+
+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 government 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.
+
+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
+desire to keep them under the heel of perpetual tyranny.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 nation, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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?
+
+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, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 "_desecrated and filthy_" and forbade any priest
+to step his foot upon the ground.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The Catholic Church is a church of show and glamor, and of
+nonsensical doctrines, and not a church of God and of holy worship.
+
+Many believe that Catholicism has taught all 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 such an
+institution, then the road to greatness must be a very easy one to
+travel.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 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 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.
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: "SAVE THE GIRLS"!
+"Batter down the Convent doors of Catholicism and
+the civilized world will stand amazed."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter VIII.
+
+Monasteries Are Often the Abode of Criminals, and
+Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.
+
+
+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.
+
+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 bigotry, and
+the effulgency of Biblical knowledge had never penetrated my
+Romish-inspired perceptibilities.
+
+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.
+
+This chapter will relate to monasteries and nunneries, which in olden
+times were called "asylums."
+
+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 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 _misnomers_, 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.
+
+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.
+
+There is scarcely a man or woman in America 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+"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.
+
+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 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."
+
+A rigid investigation was made and no one was ever convicted of
+murdering Morgan.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 some supposed
+"traitor" and shriek out in their madness: "Die like Morgan!"
+
+Mrs. Wm. G. Barr was called to identify the supposed body of Wm.
+Morgan, which was found at the mouth of the Niagara River.
+
+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."
+
+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:
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 that he had been murdered by the Masonic fraternity.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+There were 80,000,000 people looking for Pat Crow, but he took a
+Pullman sleeper and traveled 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.
+
+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.
+
+Priest Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in St. Louis, was
+president of the "Emmet" celebration in the year 1902.
+
+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.
+
+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 parsonage, so we both had to go in the same direction.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The following is his story he told me as near as I can remember it:
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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?'
+
+"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.
+
+"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.
+
+"In a short time I left this St. Anthony Church in a 'Catholic
+Habit,' which disguised me as a Catholic official, and I went to
+Omaha and passed myself off as 'Brother Clement from St. Louis.'
+
+"When I reached Omaha I had no trouble in passing myself off as
+'Brother Clement.'
+
+"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.
+
+"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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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 believed 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 _prima facie_ 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 true, the evidence becomes more damaging against Roman
+Catholicism.
+
+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.
+
+The question now arises, How did John H. Surratt escape from the same
+fate of Herald, Powell and Mrs. Surratt? _I will tell you!_ 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.
+
+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.
+
+He was wounded by the fall and crawled off to a monastery and
+remained there until he was 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+[Illustration:
+                 CHRIST            POPE
+The Christ of Protestantism compared to the God of Catholicism.
+                    TAKE YOUR CHOICE.]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter IX.
+
+Un-Married Cussedness of the Roman Priest-Craft.
+
+
+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."
+
+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 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."
+
+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 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.
+
+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 poor
+mortal, only perhaps had new agonies added to their lives.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+"When one becomes an inmate of a convent, 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."
+
+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.
+
+In these letters the priest will tell the nun what day he will call
+to give her a _general confession_. 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 _Retreat
+Parlor_; and no matter how long he remains there, no one will disturb
+him. He is supposed to be _talking_ 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!
+
+Right here the reader may ask if these nuns are willing to submit to
+the embraces of these priests?
+
+I will allow this girl to answer this question in her own language,
+and her answer is this:
+
+"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!"
+
+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 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."
+
+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.
+
+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 absolute pardon, that they must
+resort to heathenish practices.
+
+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:
+
+"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. Her gentle, patient, suffering face
+will never fade from my memory.
+
+"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.
+
+"'Dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she said, 'I think our blessed
+Lord is soon going to come for me.'
+
+"I tried to cheer her by telling her that it might be His will to
+restore her again to health and strength.
+
+"'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!'
+
+"'Sister Madeline,' I said, 'you have been happy here, have you not?
+You love your present life?'
+
+"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.
+
+"My own eyes filled with tears; I know not why.
+
+"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.'
+
+"'I will gladly do this for you, Sister Madeline,' I answered. 'Tell
+me,' I continued, 'is there any particular day you prefer?'
+
+"'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.'
+
+"I promised her this and she seemed more satisfied.
+
+"'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.'
+
+"'Dear Sister Madeline,' I said at last, 'purgatory is better than
+hell and our Blessed Lady will intercede for you.'
+
+"'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.'
+
+"'And what, may I ask, do you call an unnatural thought?'
+
+"'Sister Magdalene Adelaide, come close to me.'
+
+"I rose from my chair and knelt down beside her.
+
+"'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 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.'
+
+"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.'
+
+"'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?'
+
+"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!' 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.
+
+"Yes, it comes to me most vividly. There she 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 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? _None!_ 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 _hope_ she could offer, was that, through your works of
+supererogation, your purgatory would be lessened; 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!
+
+"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.
+
+"And so I sat through the night, soothing her 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."
+
+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.
+
+I could go on and write a thousand pages upon "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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 inspection 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.
+
+[Illustration: "BEING EXCOMMUNICATED FOR READING THE BIBLE."
+"May she be damned in her mouth, in her breast, in
+her heart and down to her very stomach. Etc. Etc."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter X.
+
+A Brazen Insult to God.
+
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 all of those who are
+deserving, and who by their righteousness deserve this grand and
+princely distinction.
+
+We want to use a little common sense and a philosophy that can be
+assimilated by any man or woman of ordinary intelligence.
+
+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.
+
+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,
+consequently this proclaimed infallibility of the Pope rests in the
+hands of these cardinals.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+We want to learn just how far this infallibility 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?
+
+I sincerely believe, in fact, I know that there are millions who
+believe this damnable doctrine, 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 "_the Lamb of God
+who taketh away the sins of the world_," 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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 demonstrate 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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, we want to deal in simple facts and truths that are so simple
+that the commonest man of ordinary intelligence can understand.
+
+Now, if the Pope of Rome is infallible, he is immortal, and if every
+action of this Pope is pure, 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.
+
+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.
+
+There are thousands--yea, tens of thousands, who send handkerchiefs
+and trinkets each year 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.
+
+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
+"_the real thing_," 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.
+
+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?
+
+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 "_a brazen insult to God_."
+
+[Illustration: "A MODERN JUDAS."
+In his wake, misery always follows.]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XI.
+
+The Characters of the Followers of Catholicism Compared
+to the Followers of Protestantism.
+
+
+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 woman who
+lives beneath the shadow of the Cross, and who looks to a living God
+for their wisdom.
+
+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.
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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?
+
+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.
+
+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 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?
+
+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.
+
+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 perhaps a
+part of the money which they gained in their criminal transaction.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 controlled 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.
+
+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 for this great difference in character, in
+manhood and womanhood but the teachings of Rome.
+
+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.
+
+Catholicism paints the countenances of her followers with the brush
+of ignorance and criminality.
+
+[Illustration: "FOES TO KNOWLEDGE."
+"Like a poisonous serpent Catholicism is endeavoring
+to inoculate our public schools, with the virus of ignorance."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XII.
+
+Why Teachers in Our Public Schools Should Not Be
+Selected from the Ranks of Catholicism.
+
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+If the public schools of this country are not 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 _too
+good_ to be taught by Catholic teachers.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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 course, and
+spike the guns of the Vatican with American manhood.
+
+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!
+
+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 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.
+
+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:
+
+    "These public schools are devouring fires and pits of
+    destruction. They ought to go back to the devil, from whence
+    they came."--_The Freeman's Journal._
+
+    "If your son or daughter is attending a state 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."--_The Shepherd of the Valley._
+
+    "The common schools of this country are sinks of moral
+    pollution and nurseries of hell."--_Chicago Tablet._
+
+    "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."--_New York
+    Tablet._
+
+    "The hideous fetish, called the public school, is only an
+    ugly idol after all."--_Colorado Catholic._
+
+    "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."--_Catholic
+    Telegraph._
+
+    "We hold education to be a function of the church and not of
+    the state, and in our case we do not and will not accept the
+    state as an educator."--_New York Tablet._
+
+    They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are
+    evil. Listen to the snarls of Rome's "dupes:"
+
+    "Unless you suppress the public school system as at present
+    conducted, it will prove the damnation of this
+    country."--_Father Walker._
+
+    "I frankly confess that the Catholics stand before the
+    country as the enemies of the public schools."--_Father
+    Phelan._
+
+    "The duty of all loyal, God-fearing Christian men (Roman
+    Catholics) then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against
+    this common foe."--_Father Gleason._
+
+    "The public schools have produced nothing but a godless
+    generation of thieves and blackguards."--_Priest Schauer._
+
+    "I would as soon administer the sacrament to a dog as to
+    Catholics who send their children to public
+    schools."--_Priest Walker._
+
+    "The public school system must be destroyed. It must be done
+    by stopping Bible reading, Psalm singing and eliminating
+    objectionable books."--_Priest Phelan._
+
+    "To rescue these little ones out of the grasp of that monster
+    (the public school), of that popular idol, is our
+    work."--_Bishop John Hennessy._
+
+    "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."--_Bishop Ireland._
+
+    "Emphatically a social plague."--_Archbishop Perche._
+
+    "A ripe knowledge of the cathechism, minus Massachusetts
+    education, is preferable to her education, minus the
+    catechism."--_Cardinal Antonelli._
+
+    "The common school system of the United States is the worst
+    in the world."--_Cardinal Manning._
+
+    "The catechism alone is essential for the education of the
+    people."--_Cardinal Antonelli._
+
+    "We must take part in the elections. Move in solid mass in
+    every state pledged to sustain the integrity of the public
+    schools."--_Cardinal McCloskey._
+
+    "The Roman Church alone is endowed with power to educate the
+    young."--_Cardinal McCloskey._
+
+    "Education outside of the control of the Roman Catholic
+    Church is a damnable heresy."--_Pius IX._
+
+    "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."--_Pope Pius IX._
+
+    "When I see them drag from me the children, the poor little
+    children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my
+    heart."--_Pope Pius IX._
+
+    "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 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."--_Pope Leo XIII._
+
+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."
+
+An institution of learning is something that is 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 resolution to defend
+the truth, which is never found in parochial schools, as the Catholic
+doctrine always tends to humiliate her followers.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 public schools to the end that our nation may ever be
+the home of liberty, "the land of benedictions."
+
+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.
+
+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 distinguished 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."
+
+Catholicism says: "No Bible shall be taught in the public schools,"
+but demands that she be allowed to proclaim her dogmas.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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."
+
+The argument that the reading of the Bible in the public school
+should be abolished because it is 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 hypocritical argument in favor of false modesty.
+
+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, revolutionary France,
+or lawless anarchy, or the inquisition of the dark ages!"
+
+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 pass through this mill of purification they then begin
+to lose confidence in the heathenish doctrines of Catholicism.
+
+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.
+
+Following are expressions of prominent Americans on the general
+subject of popular education:
+
+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."
+
+President Garfield: "Next in importance to freedom and justice is
+popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be
+permanently 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."
+
+Dr. Strong: "Free schools are one of the cornerstones of our
+government."
+
+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."
+
+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 becomes 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."
+
+The church of Rome wants to rule by tyranny so that she can force her
+"dupes" to do her bidding.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Read what some prominent men of the country have said on the subject:
+
+Hon. Wm. E. Chandler: "We should prepare ourselves with wisdom and
+vigor to enforce completely 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."
+
+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 quality of our citizenship and to
+the rates of wages to our workingmen."
+
+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."
+
+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 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."
+
+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."
+
+A.S. Draper: "I would hang the flag in every school room, and I would
+spend an occasional hour in singing our best patriotic songs, in
+declaiming the masterpieces of our national oratory, and rehearsing
+the proud story of our national life."
+
+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."
+
+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."
+
+Where does the vicious element which is found in this country come
+from, and to what church 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+Our greatest American statesmen, our greatest 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?
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: "HEATHENISH PRACTICES."
+"A dupe kissing the supposed bone of "Saint Ann"
+to cure Rheumatism."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XIII.
+
+The Influence of the Priesthood of
+America Upon the Morals of This Country.
+
+
+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.
+
+Now, is not this common sense logic and every-day philosophy?
+
+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
+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.
+
+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.
+
+A Roman Catholic form of government is more despotic than a monarchy
+which is ruled by an absolute despot, as these monarchs who have
+absolute 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.
+
+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 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?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 another. 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 further stated that he
+could visit this woman as "George West," and not create any comment.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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 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.
+
+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
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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 at this time presiding over a Catholic church in Brooklyn.
+
+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?"
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+What is the consequence? Did the Roman Catholic Church excommunicate
+this bundle of perfidy 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.
+
+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 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?
+
+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.
+
+One of the most fashionable Roman Catholic churches in New York City
+is "St. Cecilia's," situated on North Henry and Herbert streets.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+The entire congregation learned of this priest's attempted assault
+upon virtue, but this degrading 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 women, bowed at the feet of this depraved devil and
+confessed their sins.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: "A CATHOLIC TOOL."
+"Begging in the name of the Lord, but in reality to support the
+Priestcraft in their idleness."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XIV.
+
+The Chastity of the Home Invaded by the Lustfulness of the
+Priest-Craft.
+
+
+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.
+
+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 is it any wonder
+that thousands of trusting and confiding wives and daughters are
+forced to the level of immorality by this belief?
+
+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.
+
+I repeat what this nun related in order that the reader may not be
+compelled to take my statements alone. Her story follows:
+
+"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 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."
+
+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:
+
+"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, 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.
+
+"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.
+
+"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."
+
+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 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.
+
+"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."
+
+In relating her experience, I understand that a nun who had been
+confined in a convent for years 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."
+
+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?
+
+We want to bring the history of Catholicism down as near to the
+present time as possible, so 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.
+
+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 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."
+
+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?"
+
+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 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.
+
+The curse of excommunication which I am certain to receive at the
+hands of Catholicism for writing this book follows:
+
+    "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!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "May the Father, who creates man, curse him!
+
+    "May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him!
+
+    "May the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in baptism, curse him!
+
+    "May the Holy Cross, which Christ for our salvation,
+    triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him!
+
+    "May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and the Mother of God, curse
+    him!
+
+    "May St. Michael, the Advocate of the Holy Souls, curse him!
+
+    "May all the Angels, Principalities and Powers, and all
+    Heavenly Armies curse him!
+
+    "May the glorious band of the Patriarchs and Prophets curse
+    him!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "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 Christ, have
+    despised the things of the world, damn him!
+
+    "May all the Saints from the beginning of the world to
+    everlasting ages who are found to be beloved of God, damn
+    him!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "May he be cursed in living and dying!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body!
+
+    "May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart,
+    and appurtenances, down to the very stomach!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "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!
+
+    "May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of His
+    majesty, curse him!
+
+    "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!"
+
+I have given you the diabolical "curse" of excommunication, word for
+word; thus you can see how un-Christlike the Catholic Church is.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 conscientiously 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.
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: "SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY."
+"The road to Glory along a Catholic highway
+is an expensive trip."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XV.
+
+Nations Which Have Been Disgraced
+by the Toleration of Popish Rule.
+
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, if Catholicism is such a glorious creed, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 imprisonment 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 _city policeman_ 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.
+
+We want to call attention to another flagrant case, which happened in
+the north end of Boston not long since.
+
+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 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.
+
+In a month she came on from New York to get her baby and was told
+that she could not have it, 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 knew him, and went this time alone to
+this Boston official.
+
+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!'"
+
+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.
+
+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, and that this talk from
+this Romish school teacher was had during school hours.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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:
+
+"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 _in status quo_ 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; the latter said, 'The Roman Church is free
+only in America.'"
+
+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.
+
+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."
+
+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.
+
+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 bloodshed if by so doing she believes she can carry her
+point and establish her rule of despotism.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Catholicism believes in a country which is ruled 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Can we expect Catholicism to change her abominations without force?
+Most assuredly not, as 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.
+
+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 victim, as this spirit
+of darkness has for many years in the past made her boast that
+"America is Rome's future possession."
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 "_Protestant partisan fools_," 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.
+
+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 balance of power and dictate terms to a
+Protestant country.
+
+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!
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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."
+
+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 countries that are completely
+under the control of the Pope?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+A policeman was called into consultation relative to the case and
+stated that as Maggie was 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 "_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_."
+
+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 who will sentence a
+child to a State prison for attending a Protestant meeting?
+
+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."
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+We, in America, cannot expect anything better until we have a set of
+Protestant preachers who will practice what they pretend to believe.
+
+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.
+
+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:"
+"_Nations who have been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule_,"
+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 a stand made by Protestantism to halt
+this "emperor of darkness" in his march of devastation?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+[Illustration: UNCLE SAM--"Here is your next fight boys."]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter XVI.
+
+Nearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.
+
+
+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.
+
+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
+allowed 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.
+
+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.
+
+We propose to give the reader "Canon Law" 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.
+
+The first declaration of this "Canon Law" is: "_All human power is
+from evil and must therefore be standing under the Pope_."
+
+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.
+
+Another declaration of this law is: "_The state has not the right to
+leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he
+shall deem true_."
+
+In this declaration, you will further see that Roman Catholicism
+would, if it was within her power, take from the American citizen
+the right to worship a true and living God.
+
+The next law that we will refer to is as follows: "_The state has not
+the right to establish a church separate from the Pope_."
+
+Again you will see that Rome's idea is to force all of humanity to
+bow at the feet of her creed.
+
+Again she declares in her "Canonistic Laws:" "_That the state has not
+the right to assist the inmates of monasteries and convents to
+abandon them_."
+
+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.
+
+Once more this "Canonistic Law" thunders forth her monarchial law as
+follows: "_The Roman Catholic church has the right to require the
+state not to leave every man free to profess his own religion_."
+
+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, which was bought
+by the blood of our forefathers, to humbly bow to this heathenish
+creed.
+
+The next, and one of the most damnable laws found among the
+"Canonistic Laws" of Catholicism, is as follows: "_Roman Catholicism
+has the right to exercise her power without permission or consent of
+the state_."
+
+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.
+
+Further on in the "Canon Laws" of Catholicism we find the following:
+"_Roman Catholicism has the right to prevent the foundation of any
+national church not subject to the direct authority of the Roman
+pontiff_."
+
+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, destroy or confiscate every
+Protestant church now in existence.
+
+Further along in this Romish "Canon Law" we find that she strikes at
+the dearest institutions of our land, as follows: "_The Roman
+Catholic church has the right to deprive the civil authorities of the
+entire government of the public schools_."
+
+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.
+
+The most devilish and damnable law, in my estimation, that is to be
+found upon the statute books of Catholicism is the following: "_Roman
+Catholicism has the right to require that the Roman Catholic religion
+shall be THE ONLY RELIGION of the nation, to the exclusion
+of all others_."
+
+We have the entire principles of Catholicism embodied in this last
+"Canonistic Law," as Roman Catholicism's aim and intention is to put
+this declaration into effect as soon as she can become powerful
+enough to execute her plans.
+
+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: "_Roman
+Catholicism has the power to require the nation not to permit free
+expression of opinions_."
+
+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 what he or she may expect should their posterity ever live
+to see America pass into the ungodly clutches of this unholy demon.
+
+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 "_never
+changes_," 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.
+
+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 mothers were punished for worshiping a true and
+living God, Pope Leo's letter follows:
+
+"_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._"
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+Will we have any one to blame for what Catholicism does to this
+country when such time arrives? 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?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+protect her offspring from this vulture of human rights!
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 life again the patriotism that has been lulled to
+sleep by the bat-like wings of Roman Catholicism.
+
+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.
+
+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 Democrats, or be adherents to whatever party grants
+them the most power.
+
+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.
+
+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 her appearance only where she is assured that her overtures
+will be gracefully received.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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 by so
+doing you will help to woo back the spirit of both Protestantism and
+patriotism, as one is symbolic of the other.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Now, is there any politics in such an agreement? 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Why does this state of affairs exist? Ah, it is because the
+Protestant voter has "politics" instead of "principles"; therefore
+you yourself are to blame for this awful state of affairs.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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; 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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+belong to Spain had it not been for Roman Catholicism, as it was her
+abominations that continually kept Cuba in a feverish ferment.
+
+It was Spain's ungodliness that brought about the Spanish-American
+war, and Spain's ungodliness was taught her by Romanism.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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 "_The Catholic Citizen_," of Milwaukee, Wis.
+
+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:
+
+    "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.
+
+    "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 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."
+
+"_The American Citizen_," a journal published in Boston, Mass., made
+the following comment on this article, which appeared in this Roman
+Catholic journal:
+
+    "The above is as good a specimen of papal logic as we have
+    ever seen--and it is the real thing.
+
+    "'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.
+
+    "Rome 'converted' the Albigenses from being peaceful and
+    industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in
+    Europe--and the handful defied and defeated the best papal
+    armies of Europe.
+
+    "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?
+
+    "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.
+
+    "'The Indians of the United States!' Have they ever been
+    Protestants? Have not the priests had control of them since
+    this land was discovered? 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!
+
+    "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.
+
+    "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."
+
+The Roman Catholic church says that the priests shall not wed, but at
+the same time the priestcraft fathers an army of children.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+In July 1874, Eugene Lawrence, in the columns of "_Harper's Weekly_,"
+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 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:
+
+    "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 people, and have sown the fires of
+    warfare in the place of mental progress and moral culture.
+
+    "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
+    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.
+
+    "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. 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 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.
+
+    "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, _La Republique_, 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 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."
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+President Loubet of France, the executive of this Catholic nation,
+gave great offense to the Vatican, by visiting the king of Italy,
+who is in the eyes of the church a usurper.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 is beneficial
+or detrimental to those whom she rules.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+Rome is a city of popes, cardinals, archbishops, priests, monks,
+friars and ecclesiastical students.
+
+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, as
+such a pestilence of immorality will lead to murder.
+
+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!
+
+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?
+
+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 years we helped to fasten this creed upon the human
+family.
+
+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.
+
+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?
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+I have endeavored to give the Protestant reader 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+I have endeavored to point out to Protestant America the awful
+mistake made by the United States in permitting Roman Catholicism to
+continue 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.
+
+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 thousands 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."
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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
+comparison 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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+There is not an oasis in this vast stretch of Romish desolation, as
+her every ambition is to rule by superstition, ignorance and tyranny.
+
+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 made America
+all that she ever has been, all that she is, and all that she may
+hope to be.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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 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.
+
+
+THE LIE NAILED.
+
+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.
+
+Archbishop Harty at the time this Check was given was Priest in
+charge of ST. LEO'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, St. Louis, Mo.
+
+[Illustration: Check]
+
+[I will give $1,000 to any man, woman or child who will prove
+that this statement untrue.]
+
+
+
+
+THE END.
+
+
+
+
+       * * * * *
+
+TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
+
+
+TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS CORRECTED
+
+The following typographical errors in the text were corrected as
+detailed here.
+
+On the cover page, "circumfrence" was corrected to "circumference" in
+the following text: "This great book has stirred America from center
+to circumference."
+
+In the Author's Announcement, "enlightment" was corrected to
+"enlightenment" in "A structure of enlightenment ..."
+
+On page 18, "Catholocism" was corrected to "Catholicism" in the
+following text: "... that I have shaken off this eternal bondage of
+Catholicism ..."
+
+On page 20, "ledgerdemain" was corrected to "legerdemain" in the
+following text: "... Catholic legerdemain, and I was taught ..."
+
+On page 22, "Herold" was corrected to "Harold" to be consistent with
+other mentions of this name on the same page.
+
+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 ..."
+
+On page 34, "hodwink" was corrected to "hoodwink" in the following text:
+"... which will enable the officials to "hoodwink" their followers ..."
+
+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 ..."
+
+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."
+
+On page 128, "asylumns" was corrected to "asylums" in the following
+text: "The "asylums" of olden times were intended as retreats ..."
+
+On page 136, "Crowe" was corrected to "Crow" to be consistent with other
+mentions of this name.
+
+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 ..."
+
+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 ..."
+
+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 ..."
+
+On page 147, "degredation" was corrected to "degradation" in the
+following text: "... snatch their children from the Romish mire of
+degradation ..."
+
+On page 173, Pope "Piux" was corrected Pope "Pius."
+
+On page 214, the word "concensus" was corrected to "consensus" in the
+following text: "The consensus of opinion among all classes ..."
+
+On page 219, "broad-guage" was corrected to "broad-gauge."
+
+On page 255, "paracite" was corrected to "parasite" in the following
+text: "... who are as heavily burdened to-day with this ancient
+parasite ..."
+
+On page 259, two instances of "instiution" were corrected to
+"institution."
+
+On page 277, "Massachuetts" was corrected to "Massachusetts" in the
+following text: "If such things are now happening in the State
+of Massachusetts ..."
+
+On page 297, "Ctholicism" was corrected to "Catholicism" in the
+following text: "... permit yourself to be made tools of in behalf
+of Roman Catholicism ..."
+
+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 ..."
+
+Also on page 285, "boldy" was corrected to "boldly" in the following
+text: "... as she boldly and flagrantly declares that she ..."
+
+On page 293, "emmissaries" was corrected to "emissaries" in the
+following text: "... send her emissaries into the halls ..."
+
+On page 306, "convice" was corrected to "convince" in the
+following text: "... made a prediction that ought to convince every
+sane man and woman ..."
+
+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 ..."
+
+On page 312, "interefrence" was corrected to "interference" in the
+following text: "If the interference of the papal faction ..."
+
+On page 320, "expres" was corrected to "express" in the following
+text: "... helping the foreign tongue to express itself ..."
+
+On page 321, "detestible" was corrected to "detestable" in the following
+text: "... in all of her detestible ugliness."
+
+On page 322, "sacrified" was corrected to "sacrificed" in the following
+text: "... the flower of our army is being sacrificed ..."
+
+
+ERRORS LEFT UNCHANGED IN THE TEXT
+
+"Villify" and "villified" are consistently spelled with two lls and
+are used multiple times by the author. They have been left unchanged.
+
+The word "lude" appears twice and is left unchanged.
+
+The word "cungering" is spelled consistently and is used in multiple
+places in this book. This word has been left unchanged.
+
+The word "disorganizer" appears in a quoted passage, and is left
+unchanged.
+
+The following words each appear once, and are left unchanged:
+"cathechism;" "effulgency;" "engraven;" "jesuitical;"
+"Macris;" "Oricular;" "perceptibilities."
+
+Both spellings of the word "Savior" and "Saviour" are used in this book.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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