{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_18040/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_18040","id":"gutenberg_18040","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18040","summary":null,"tags":["Anti-Catholicism","Category: Biographies","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Catholic Church -- Controversial literature","Catholic ex-priests"],"text":"Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Geetu Melwani and\nthe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at\nhttp://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: Yours in His name\nBernard Fresenborg.]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                  \"Thirty Years in Hell\"\n\n                       ... OR ...\n\n                 \"From Darkness to Light.\"\n\n                           BY\n\n              Ex-Priest, Bernard Fresenborg,\n\n\n  Who for thirty long years tread the slippery and deceitful path\n     of abhorrent Catholicism, but who to-day stands at the\n       Vatican's door, with the torch of Protestant wisdom,\n            and denounces Popery with a tongue\n                livid with the power of\n                     a living God.\n\n           Like a Meteor From God's Throne,\n\n This great book has stirred America from center to circumference.\n\n               About 400 Large Pages,\n\n   And each Page a stinging rebuke to Roman Catholicism.\n\n\n                     Published by\n              North-American Book House,\n                    St. Louis, Mo.\n\n  Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1904, by\n             NORTH-AMERICAN BOOK HOUSE,\n In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington, D.C.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber's Note: A number of typographical errors found in the\noriginal text have been corrected in this version. A list of these\nerrors is provided at the end of the book.\n\n\n\n\n\nAuthor's Announcement.\n\n\nA structure of enlightenment is to be built in this land, which to\nfinish, every man of intellectual power must contribute.\n\nThe structure which I refer to, is the structure of \"SPIRITUAL\nLIBERTY,\" as the spiritual part of man must have room to expand and\ngrow the same as any other God-given privilege that man is blessed\nwith.\n\nUnless we grow in faith we become dwarfs in the worship of God.\n\nThose who go forth into the world and profess to be the teachers of\nmen should be giants of intellect and fully prepared to contribute to\nthis monument of \"SPIRITUAL LIBERTY.\"\n\nThese giants are the \"KNIGHTS OF THE SPIRIT,\" who stand upon the\nsummit of righteousness and proclaim an intelligent God to a sinful\nworld.\n\nMany say they do not feel that they possess the ability to contribute\nto this structure of \"SPIRITUAL LIBERTY,\" but I say, none who possess\nthe power to reason are exempt, for if they cannot place in the arch\nof this structure the golden \"key-stone\" that shall securely bind\nthis structure together, they can carry mortar or stones, which is as\nimperative in this structure, as the polished \"Cap stone\" which shall\ncomplete this great pyramid of emancipation.\n\nI do not crave to have my name engraven in bold letters upon the \"Cap\nstone\" of this structure, but I do desire to contribute my mite\ntowards the completion of this grand structure of free thought,\nwhich, when completed, will stand out upon the horizon of time as a\ntowering monument to Christ and his cause.\n\nRoman Catholicism, as taught by our modern priests and inspired by\nthe papal power at Rome is naught but the distant rumblings of an\nantiquated chariot of darkness, as the teachings of this MONARCHICAL\ncreed has naught in view but the enslavement of reason for the\nfinancial gain and benefit of the \"Robed\" few who claim the right to\nthink for the masses.\n\nFor thirty long years I was bound to this bewitching spirit of\ndarkness by the chords of superstition and never dared to look above\nmy blind superiors for wisdom, until a \"something\" which I will call\n\"fate\" broke the windows of my mental dungeon and permitted the light\nof \"SPIRITUAL LIBERTY\" to filter through my being which awoke \"reason\nand common sense\" from her long sleep of lethargy.\n\nNow, what I once thought \"Holy\" I detest as abominable; What I once\nworshipped, I now hate.\n\nIt is not the glitter of gold nor the applaudits of the protestant\nworld that I crave, but it is the Master's approval that I desire.\nTherefore I deem it my duty to both God and mankind to proclaim to\nthe world what I know of the awfulness of Roman Catholicism, and I\nknow enough to make my poor soul often wonder if I shall ever be\npermitted to sing with the blest around that GREAT WHITE THRONE in\nthe New Jerusalem.\n\nAs you peruse these pages, I pray that you may whisper a prayer to\nGod in my behalf, as I am now fifty-six years old and only a child in\nwisdom.\n\nWith pity for the blind hosts of Catholicism and a prayer upon my\nlips for their deliverance from the trenches of paganism, I dedicate\nthis book to the world as coming from a heart which poured out its\nyouth's vitality upon the barren fields of superstition, and wasted\nits vigor in serving only the god of myths. With a feeling of\nbrotherly love for the entire world, I am,\n\n            Yours in His name,\n\n                      BERNARD FRESENBORG.\n\n\n\n\n\nTABLE OF CONTENTS.\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n                                               Page.\nWho I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What\nI Am.                                          15\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nSome of the Abominations of Catholicism\nCarried On in the Name of Our Blessed\nSavior.                                        33\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nAll Children of Protestant Parents,\nDeclared Bastards by Catholicism.              51\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nTear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power\nto Reason and You make Slaves of Humanity.     65\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nInnocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.     81\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nThe Nations completely dominated by the Power\nof the Pope, are Nations of Illegitimacy.      97\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nThe Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto Rica\nand the Philippine Islands.                   109\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nMonasteries are often Criminals' Abode, and\nNunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.       127\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nUnmarried Cussedness of the Roman\nPriest-Craft.                                 149\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nA Brazen Insult to God.                       171\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nThe Characters of the Followers of\nCatholicism, Compared to the Followers\nof Protestantism.                             181\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nWhy the Teachers in our Public Schools\nshould not be Selected from the Ranks\nof Catholicism.                               193\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nThe Influence of the Priesthood in America.   223\n\nCHAPTER XIV.\n\nThe Chastity of the Home Invaded by\nthe Lustfulness of the Priest-Craft.          239\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nNations which have been Disgraced by the\nToleration of Popish Rule.                    255\n\nCHAPTER XVI.\n\nNearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.    281\n\n\n\n\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\n\n                                             Page\nAuthor's Picture.                               2\n\n\"What Shall I Do To Be Saved?\"                 14\n\nThe Two Inspirations--The Holy Bible\nand Catholicism.                               33\n\nThe Unmarried Life of the Priest-Craft,\ncompared to the Married Life of\nProtestant Ministers.                          50\n\nThe Two Ways--\"As the Twig is Bent, the\nTree's Incline.\"                               64\n\nImmorality of the Priest-Hood--With Romish\nLust, the Blossom of Virtue is Destroyed.      80\n\nAmerica's Ruin.                                96\n\nFree in Name Only--Take Their Chains Off\nUncle Sam, or You will always have\nTrouble with Them.                            108\n\nSave The Girls--Batter Down the Doors of\nConvents, and the Civilized World will\nStand Amazed.                                 126\n\nTake Your Choice--The Christ of Protestantism\nCompared to the God of Catholicism.           148\n\nBeing Ex-Communicated for Reading the\nBible--\"May She Be Damned in her Mouth,\nin Her Breast, in Her Heart, Etc., Etc.\"      170\n\nA Modern Judas--In His Wake, Misery always\nFollows.                                      180\n\nFoes to Knowledge--Like a Poisonous\nSerpent, Etc., Etc.                           192\n\nHeathenish Practices--A Catholic \"Dupe\"\nKissing the Supposed Bone of St. Ann.         222\n\nA Catholic Tool--Begging in the Name of\nthe Lord, but in Reality, to Support the\nPriest-Craft, Etc.                            238\n\nSystematic Robbery--The Road to Glory along\nthe Catholic Highway, Etc.                    254\n\nUncle Sam--\"Here is Your Next Fight Boys.\"    280\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: \"WHAT SHALL I DO TO BE SAVED\"\n\"The dawn of Protestantism upon Ex-Priest Fresenborg\nafter thirty years in the Roman Catholic Church.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter I.\n\nWho I Am, What I Am, and Why I Am What I Am.\n\n\nMy parents were Catholics, and for this reason I suppose, is why I\nbecame a Catholic Priest.\n\nI was born in Germany, in 1847, thus you see I am now almost what the\nworld would call an old man--56 years old.\n\nA few years ago, I was of the opinion that my life had been well\nspent, but to-day I firmly believe that the major part of my life has\nbeen spent in erroneous doctrines and nonsensical teachings, as the\nbroad light of wisdom and independent thought has penetrated the dark\nresources of my bewildered conception of right, and has caused me to\nlook upon things in general in an intelligent manner. Therefore, I\nfeel that my youth and the vigorous years of my manhood have been\nspent in what one might term idolatry.\n\nFrom this time forward I am going to endeavor to undo, as near as\npossible, what I have helped to accomplish in the past.\n\nIn the first place, I desire to give the reader an idea of who I am,\nas the reader is entitled to this knowledge, and in the second place\nI want the reader to understand what I am, and in the third place to\nunderstand why I am what I am, as there must be a reason for all\nthings.\n\nMy ancestors came from Sweden, but becoming tired of religions\nwarfare under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, they settled in a\nCatholic colony in Germany, in the southern part of the Dukedom of\nOldenburg, near the River Haase.\n\nThe reader, if he be a Protestant, is familiar with Protestant\naffiliations, and I am led to believe belongs to one of the many\nProtestant denominations, known under the head of Methodist, Baptist,\nChristian, United Brethren, Presbyterian, Free Baptist, or some one\nof the many other Protestant Churches. Therefore you can easily see\nwhy it was that I became a Catholic, as I was taught it from my\ninfancy.\n\nMy father, like his ancestors, lived in Essen, Oldenburg. Essen is a\ntown of considerable trade in grain, in fine Oldenburg horses and\nHolstein cows, in fact, it is a town noted for its fine stock.\n\nThe beautiful town of Essen has a considerable population. Two fine\nrivers, which unite their rapid waters in its very midst, make it an\nideal spot to live.\n\nMy relatives were among the first and best families of the Dukedom.\nThese families were by name Dickmann, Meyer, Junker and Mohlenkamp,\nwho are at the head of the intellectual and material movements of\nthat place. They are all related by marriage and intermarriage to the\nFresenborgs. My parents had ten children. This, however, may not\ninterest the reader, so I will confine myself to my own biography.\n\nThe school to which I was sent was one of the leading schools and had\na world-wide reputation, especially of sending many scholars and\nstudents to the gymnasium and afterwards to universities for\ndifferent branches of sciences.\n\nIt seems as though all of those who attended this school became\nsuccessful in their individual careers, as lawyers, doctors or some\nother of the chosen avocations of life.\n\nI was raised, I might say, under the walls of the free City of\nBremen, and was inspired with the idea of freedom, and this, perhaps,\nmay be the reason why, when I have come to be an old man, that I have\nshaken off this eternal bondage of Catholicism and launched my boat\nso late in life upon the broad waters of Protestant freedom.\n\nAs the son of a wealthy family, I was sent to the Gymnasium of Vechta\nfor higher studies, where I received the best education which Germany\ncould give to her sons, and from there I was dismissed with the\ndiploma of \"Maturity\" in 1870, which was a passport to any man\nholding such a diploma in any scholarly community, for a diploma from\nthis institution meant all that it implied.\n\nAfter I had gone through a perfect study of Gymnasium, and after\nhaving obtained my diploma, I could then decide for any career that\nI might choose.\n\nAbout this time came the disturbance of all of Germany caused by \"The\nGerman-French War.\" Like every patriot, I volunteered as a soldier,\nbut the officers in the German army were practical men and they had\nlittle use for unseasoned \"student soldiers\" in the field of action,\nand I was left in garrisons where universities were situated, where I\nhad military practice for a few hours each day, and then could follow\nmy studies at the same time.\n\nPeace followed quickly after the Waterloo of Napoleon III at Sedan,\nand this peace was restored quickly in the \"fatherland,\" as not one\nvictorious Frenchman had crossed the \"Rhine.\"\n\nI followed my favorite study, forestry and agriculture, for some\ntime, but as my parents and my forefathers, both on my father's and\nmother's side, had been devout Catholics, I had an earnest longing to\nbecome a Catholic Priest, as I desired to go forth in the world and\nproclaim the cause of Christ, believing that Catholicism was the\nonly church which had a right to establish her doctrines, and, of\ncourse, cast my lot with this church, and to-day finds me an old man\nwith every vestige of childhood's faith shaken from center to\ncircumference, as I have lived in America so long and seen so much of\nthe intelligence of Protestantism, and so much of the deception of\nCatholicism, I could not remain in the Catholic Church and be true to\nmy conception of what was right and wrong, therefore I laid aside,\nwith a degree of regret, the relics of Catholic barbarism.\n\nI discarded the Scapular and everything that has no more intelligent\nmeaning to it than the cungering devices of the heathen has towards\nthe uplifting of humanity and the civilization of the world.\n\nMany, many years ago my faith was shaken by what I had seen with my\nown eyes and heard with my own ears, but I nursed my religious belief\nfrom my mother's bosom; my religion was born and bred in my bones;\nevery drop of blood in my person was electrified in childhood by the\ncungerings of Catholic legerdemain, and I was taught at my mother's\nknee to believe that there was no other church that had a ghost of a\nchance of eternal salvation but the Catholic Church, and I was taught\nthat all Protestants were heretics and abominable in the sight of God\nand sure of eternal damnation, unless they turned from their sins and\njoined the Catholic Church.\n\nOfttimes I would have my faith shaken by the actions of some lustful\npriest, but I clung tenaciously to the religion of my mother and\nrefused to look beyond the horizon of Catholic superstition.\n\nAbout the time that I had fully made up my mind to become a priest, I\nhad my faith shaken in the priesthood to a great extent by a\nscandalous happening near the College of Vechta, which concerned and\nstrictly involved one of the great dignitaries of Catholicism in my\ncollege town, but I fought this feeling of dislike down and forced\nmyself to believe that what a priest or bishop did was all right in\nthe sight of God, but at the same time I had a feeling of distrust,\nas I could not reconcile myself to believe that God would look with\ncompassion upon the acts of a dignitary more readily than he would\nupon the transgressions of his blind and duped followers, but\nnevertheless I went ahead and prepared myself for the priesthood,\nwhich I followed for thirty years.\n\nRight directly opposite the college which I was attending resided the\nVery Rev. Harold. This reverend gentleman was a high dignitary in the\nCatholic Church.\n\nWe young priests had often heard it whispered about that Priest\nHarold had in his house at different times a number of concubines,\nwhich are nothing more nor less than lude women. We often saw ladies\naround the mansion, dressed in the very height of fashion, and their\nactions led us to believe that they were there at the solicitation of\nRev. Harold, as they were seen there at all times of the day and\nnight, and this certainly made a very strange impression upon us\nyoung students, as there were so many different faces; one day we\nwould see two or three young girls, and the next day the same number\nwould be about the mansion, but different faces. All of we young\nstudents endeavored not to believe the rumor, as we were Catholics\nin every sense of the word, and we did not want to believe that\nanything so degrading would be tolerated in the very mansion of one\nof the officials who were teaching us.\n\nThe acts of this dignitary became so flagrant that even the students\nwho were trying not to believe the scandal were forced to believe\nthere was something wrong about the mansion of this Catholic\ndignitary.\n\nAbout this time there was a young priest by the name of Wulf, from\nRome, who was sent to Vechta and made secretary of this dignitary's\nmansion, who, during the day, worked in the office of the mansion,\nwhere court was held in cases of the Catholic Church and schools.\n\nHe was soon familiar in and about the mansion and the surrounding\ngrounds and was given many privileges, and the dignitary seemed to\nlike him because he did not meddle with his vile conduct, and the\nladies who frequented this place also seemed to admire him. There was\na large lawn surrounding the mansion and at night-time a number of\nvicious dogs were unchained to guard it.\n\nThe priest that was sent from Rome was soon on familiar terms with\nthe dogs and they would mind him and became as obedient as children,\nand he was soon on such good terms with these dogs that he could\napproach the house at any time, day or night, and one word from him\nwould cause them to sneak off to their kennels and not molest any who\ndesired to approach the mansion.\n\nThe young priests of this college were determined to learn, if\npossible, if this Catholic dignitary was guilty of the immoral\nconduct that he was accused of, so they went to Wulf and explained to\nhim that they desired to make a personal investigation, and got this\nyoung priest to promise that he would let them into the grounds one\nnight and also see that the dogs did not molest them.\n\nWe selected a dark night and a few of us young priests slipped into\nthe lawn surrounding the mansion and placed a ladder up to the second\nstory window, as there was a bright light inside, and we determined\nto learn, if possible, what was going on in this room.\n\nDr. Wulf, the secretary, was the first to ascend, and there in this\nroom was the dignitary of the Catholic Church in a half drunken\ncondition, with two licentious and lude women, playing cards and\ndrinking wine, and the trio were in a half nude condition, and\nfrequently this dignitary of the Catholic Church would kiss these\nharlots.\n\nAfter Dr. Wulf came down the ladder and told what he had seen, of\ncourse the rest of us wished to become eye witnesses to the perfidy\nof this vagabond of the Catholic Church.\n\nWe would take time about going up the ladder to look at this sight,\nand sometimes one would remain so long at the top of the ladder the\nothers would become restless and urge him to come down and give the\nrest of us a chance.\n\nIt seemed as though this Catholic dignitary and the women up stairs\nwithin had implicit confidence in the dogs, and had no fear of\ndetection in their drunken orgy of immorality. This dignitary seemed\nvery drunk, and the ladies began to undress him preparatory to\nputting him to bed. When they had him undressed, one of them pulled\noff her clothes and went to bed with him.\n\nThe next morning the report in the form of affidavits was presented\nto the parents of the girls, which caused a very great sensation, and\nthis bundle of infamy and abomination was forced to leave the city by\nthe parents of these daughters whom he had desecrated by his filthy\ntouch.\n\nIt was afterwards learned that this state of affairs had existed in\nthis Catholic mansion for years past, and all that had transpired in\nthis mansion would blush the inhabitants of Sodom if it could be\ntold, but it is so filthy that it could not be repeated by any one\nwho had much respect for himself.\n\nAfter this dignitary had left the mansion there were a number of\nchildren's skeletons unearthed in the park belonging to the mansion,\nand one child's skeleton was found in the waters surrounding the\npalace.\n\nNo one was ever arrested for this awful, awful crime, as this\nCatholic dignitary fled to some monastery and there was concealed\nfrom the law's clutch, as there is no law whereby these monasteries\ncan be forced open and their criminals brought to justice.\n\nA monastery is a Catholic institution that may be used for divers\npurposes, but for one great purpose, and a very heinous purpose, is\nto hide and conceal Catholic officials who break the laws of their\ncountry, as they can flee to these monasteries and there hide\nthemselves from the wrath of the civil government.\n\nIt makes no difference how vile the culprits may be, these Catholic\ninstitutions are always a refuge for them, and especially if the\nculprit who has money or friends supply them with same, as the\nCatholic Church is and always has been a great money machine, as\nmoney, in the eyes of the Catholic dignitaries, covers up a multitude\nof sins.\n\nYou may not know it, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that the\nmonasteries never allow the officers of the civil laws to enter, and\nsuppose the officers did enter, the culprit would never be found, as\nCatholic institutions are built with the purpose of sheltering her\nabominable faithless in case these criminals' desire to hide\nthemselves therein, as the convents, monasteries and cloisters have a\nlabyrinth which would mystify any one who was not used to these\nunderground passages.\n\nNo one ever learned where the dignitary of this Catholic institution\nat Vechta went, but we were thoroughly convinced that he was hiding\nsomewhere in a monastery.\n\nAt this point in my religious training I perceived the nonsense of\ncelibacy, and the Apostle's injunction: \"Nevertheless, to avoid\nfornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman\nhave her own husband.\" (I Cor. 7:2.) But the teachings of my\nchildhood caused me to believe that it would be sacrilegious upon my\npart to even allow myself to believe that the Pope of Rome could\npossibly make a mistake, therefore I did as all true Catholics are\nexpected to do, and forced myself to believe that all of the\nabominations practiced by this church were godly.\n\nAt this time I would conceal myself in privacy, and endeavor to\nreason why a minister of the gospel should be expected to do things\nwhich were unnatural and against the direct teachings of God, as we\nfind in _Gen. 21:18_ that our Creator said: \"It is not good that man\nshould be alone, I will make a helpmate for him,\" but whenever I\nwould undertake to study and try to convince myself of the\nerroneousness of the Catholic doctrines, her teachings would loom up\nand blind my intelligent conception of things, as I had been taught\nthat I should not question a single mandate that the Pope of Rome\nshould see fit to promulgate, therefore I made up my mind that it was\na sin for me to use the intelligence that God had given me, and I\nresolved to follow the Catholic doctrine, regardless of what it might\nlead me to, consequently I closed my eyes to reason and common sense\nand became a blind and superstitious follower of Rome.\n\nWhen I came to America I beheld her great civilization and at once my\nconception of intelligent action presented itself again, but I fought\nhard to drive these feelings from my bosom, but the more I fought the\nstronger I became convinced that I was wrong and that my early\ntraining was wrong, and that the entire machinery and mechanism of\nthe Catholic Church was founded upon abominations and superstitions,\nbut the teachings of my mother would prevail and I would slink back\ninto the trenches of Catholicism, and there I remained until less\nthan a year ago, when I resolved to burst the bands of iniquity and\nwalk out upon the plains of Protestantism, regardless of the deep\nfeelings of respect that I had for my early training.\n\nIf God is an intelligent God, then we are expected to worship Him in\nan intelligent manner, and if he is not an intelligent God, it is\nimpossible for Him to be a God, and if the Lord of Hosts is an\nintelligent Creator and expects us, as His children, to worship Him\nin an intelligent manner, the Catholic Church and all of her\nfollowers are sinning against God every day, as her mode of worship\nis steeped in the drugs of heathenish superstitions.\n\nIn this volume I propose to set forth nothing but absolute truths,\nand I call upon an intelligent God for my witness, and I am qualified\nto make oath before any official that is qualified to bind me under\noath that every word that appears in this volume shall be the truth\nand nothing but the truth, so help me God.\n\nI will give $5,000.00 to any charitable institution named by any\nstate of the United States if any Catholic priest, bishop or cardinal\nwill prove by any of their church doctrines that I have misstated or\nmisrepresented the teachings of Catholicism in any letter, word or\nsentence.\n\nI want to thoroughly impress the reader with the truthfulness of this\nvolume, so when he or she has perused these pages they may know that\nit has been written by one who has served in the capacity of a\nCatholic priest for the past thirty years, but who, to-day, stands\nout upon the broad plains of spiritual emancipation, and from this\ntime forward will always be found upon the side of spiritual liberty\nand following the doctrines of an intelligent God, and when my\nearthly race is run I hope and pray to be ushered into the presence\nof an intelligent God.\n\n[Illustration: \"THE TWO INSPIRATIONS.\"\nPROTESTANTISM looks to the Holy Bible _for_\nWisdom--CATHOLICISM to the Pope!]\n\n\n\n\nChapter II.\n\nSome of the Abominations of Catholicism Carried On in the Name of\nBlessed Saviour.\n\n\nWhat I will now relate is not hear-say nor something that I have read\nabout, but it is something that _I know about_, and which I\nwitnessed.\n\nIt is a well-known fact that Catholicism endeavors to impress her\nsubjects with the miraculousness of latter day miracles, as she will\nhold up the bones of some supposed Catholic Saint, and declare to her\nbenighted followers that if they worship these relics, they will work\nwonders and cure the ailment of any affliction they may be possessed\nof.\n\nFor instance, they will take the bone of some Catholic Saint (?) and\nadmonish the followers of Catholicism to touch this bone, or to kiss\nit, and declare to them that by so doing they will become entirely\ncured of any malady that may rack their person with misery.\n\nIn fact, Catholicism will resort to all kinds of nonsensical\npractices in order to completely keep their subjects in darkest\nignorance, which will enable the officials to \"hoodwink\" their\nfollowers and make them believe anything the officials see fit to\nteach them.\n\nI will now relate what I saw in Munster, Germany. The news spread all\nthrough Germany that the \"Mother Superior\" of the house of Saint\nClement was living upon \"Holy Communion\" only.\n\nNow that the reader may understand what \"Holy Communion\" is, I will\nhere state that it is a thin wafer, used for sacramental purposes,\nwhich would not weigh more than the one-hundredth part of an ounce,\nand this is what they claimed the Mother Superior of the house of\nSaint Clement was existing upon, she only taking one of these wafers\nevery twenty-four hours.\n\nOf course, this was given out by the dignitaries of the Catholic\nChurch in order to blind their followers, and I desire to state\nright here that I also believed that this was the fact until it was\ndemonstrated thoroughly that it was an infamous lie and that the\ninstigators were infamous impostors. However, pilgrimages started\nfrom all directions to see this \"Mother Superior,\" and when they\ncould not see her, they fought for the opportunity of praying in her\nchapel. Some stayed for weeks and weeks to see her. Applications for\nintercessions of all kinds of misery were sent to her, as these\nsimple \"dupes\" of Catholicism actually believed that this impostor\nhad the power to heal any ailment that might afflict them.\n\nThere were thousands of fanatics who visited Munster and hung their\ncrutches on the chapel walls and declared they were cured of their\nailment. The blind claimed to see by her intercessions. It was\nclaimed that all, possessed of every kind and description of\nailments, could be cured if the one who was afflicted only had faith\nin this Mother Superior's wonderful power?\n\n\"The finger of God is in the land!\" was the cry, and tens of\nthousands of Catholics from all over the country gathered in Munster.\n\nThere was a certain man by the name of Friedhoff who doubted the\nproclaimed powers of this Mother Superior and boldly declared his\ndoubt, and the Catholic world was indignant over the audacity of such\na doubt. It was learned that the Mother Superior would allow but one\nsister of the institution to come to her room, and also her Father\nConfessor. By the way, it might be pertinent to say that the Mother\nSuperior was an extremely handsome young lady; in fact, very young\nfor the position she occupied.\n\nThe guard that was placed over the Mother Superior was given\ninstructions by the Mayor of Munster to watch her closely and see\nthat she lived entirely upon \"Holy Communion.\" The Protestant world\ntook an active part in this matter and gave close attention to the\nguard that was over this \"Mother Superior,\" as they were determined\nto learn from whence originated this bold deception, as they were\nthoroughly convinced that it was nothing more nor less than a\ndeception.\n\nThe confessor of the \"Mother Superior\" was changed and the sister who\nwaited upon her was changed, and in a very short time the \"Mother\nSuperior\" asked for food; thus it began to dawn upon the public at\nlarge that they had been grossly deceived, and they began to learn\nthat all of these miraculous cures (?) were brought about and\npromulgated by the leaders of Catholicism. Numerous physicians were\ntaken into confidence and an examination was made of the \"Mother\nSuperior,\" and it was learned that she was pregnant, and it was\nproven that the child belonged to the priest in charge of the\nconvent, who, by the way, was the one this \"Mother Superior\"\nconfessed her sins to.\n\nThis \"Mother Superior\" sat in her room and gave her orders to at\nleast two hundred sisters who were inmates of this institution.\n\nThe Catholic world advertised this \"fake\" so thoroughly that every\nhouse in and about Munster was filled to overflowing with pilgrims\nwho came there on the strength of this well-advertised \"fake.\"\n\nMunster was the Mecca. Every train arriving brought in hundreds and\nadded great multitudes to the already great crowd. Some claimed that\nthe sight of the chapel, or even the sight of the hospital, healed\nthem.\n\nEven the newspapers began to report the wonderful miracles (?) that\nwere performed by this \"Mother Superior.\"\n\nBy this time the Protestants in Munster were getting very active and\ndenounced this worship in round terms, and set about to have an\ninvestigation made, which was bitterly opposed by the Catholics. The\nhotel keepers and shop keepers of Munster were bitterly opposed to\nthe Protestants' denunciation, as they were anxious for this \"fake\"\nto be advertised as thoroughly as possible, as it was bringing them\nin large revenues, as the thousands who were visiting Munster were\ncompelled to have raiment, food and lodging; but the denunciation of\nthis \"fake\" by the Protestants became so great that the bishop was\ncompelled, greatly against the wishes of the citizens of Munster, to\ninvestigate, and this investigation brought forth enough to startle\nthe civilized world. However, it is only one of the many, many\ncolossal \"fakes\" that are promulgated by Catholicism. However, the\nclamor of the Protestant world brought things to a crisis, as the\n\"Mother Superior\" was ordered to stay in strict confinement and a\nwatch was placed over her.\n\nThis brought matters to a climax and the \"Mother Superior\" confessed\nthat one of the inmates of the convent had secretly carried her food\nduring all of this time that she was claiming to exist on \"Holy\nCommunion.\" Of course, this is only one of the tens of thousands of\nsuch schemes that are practiced by Catholicism all over the world,\nand the Protestants were not surprised and stated boldly and above\nboard that they knew there was some \"scull-duggery\" attached to all\nof this \"fake\" miracle business.\n\nThis \"Mother Superior\" fled from Munster, and it was learned that she\nwent to the City Rheine, on the river Ems, and gave birth to a child,\nand the father of this child was the Catholic priest in charge of\nthis convent, who helped and was the prime instigator in giving out\nto the world that the \"Mother Superior\" was performing miracles,\nwhich was a malicious lie made of whole cloth and promulgated in\norder to securely bind the followers of Catholicism to their\nidolatrous belief.\n\nThis is not the end of the \"Mother Superior,\" as she afterwards\npracticed in the open what she had practiced in this Catholic convent\nat Munster, as she entered a house of ill fame in the City of Rheine\nin Germany, and there led a life of shame as a harlot of the world;\nhowever, she was only living the same life she had been living when\nshe was sailing under the name of \"Mother Superior\" in this convent\nat Munster.\n\nNow, reader, if Catholicism would practice such abominations upon the\nignorant dupes of her followers in Munster, Germany, is it not\nreasonable to suppose that she would practice them to-day wherever\nshe can fasten her hellish belief upon the minds of the people?\n\nHardly a day passes over our heads but what we see in some newspaper\nwhere Catholicism is brazenly declaring to the intelligent public\nthat miraculous cures are being performed by some \"hoodoo saint\" of\ntheir idolatrous creed.\n\nOne would believe that in enlightened America the Roman Church could\nnot wield such an idolatrous influence over her followers, but when\nyou stop to think that the children of Catholic parents are brought\nup from infancy to believe all of this \"hoodooism,\" it is not strange\nthat they fall into these idolatrous practices.\n\nWhen America learns that the majority of the convents and monasteries\nof this country are used for the purpose of shielding and protecting\nCatholic criminals, and for the purpose of Catholic dignitaries to\nglut their lust upon the female inmates of these institutions, and\nwill exact and demand laws that will force a rigid examination every\nthirty or sixty days of these institutions, then the world at large\nwill know and thoroughly understand that these institutions are\npractically the homes of depravity and licentiousness.\n\nTo give the reader more information in regard to what Catholicism\nresorts to to impress their \"dupes\" with their idolatry, we want to\ntake up their great magician, \"St. Anthony.\" The Catholic priesthood\nteaches their followers that St. Anthony's spirit possesses the power\nto answer all prayers, in fact, to perform any favor the supplicant\nmay ask.\n\nNow, to illustrate what I mean, is this: Suppose you had lost your\npocketbook containing $50.00; the Catholic Church teaches that all\nyou have to do is to pay a few dimes into the priest's pocket and\nthen get down and pray to St. Anthony and you will at once learn\nwhere your pocketbook is.\n\nNow, bear in mind that this praying to St. Anthony don't cut any ice\nunless you pay something, as every prayer must be backed up by money,\nand the more money paid the quicker action you can get on St.\nAnthony.\n\nThe Catholic Church calls it \"St. Anthony's Bread Box,\" and right by\nthe side of this box they have a large number of small candles, and\nyou are supposed to drop the money into this box to pay for the\ncandles that St. Anthony uses when looking for what is lost, or to\nlight his path on his road to answer your prayer.\n\nThese candles cost the priest from one-half cent to one cent each,\nand the \"dupe\" will drop in from ten cents to ten dollars to have his\nprayer answered, so you can see that the Catholic Church is a good\nthing for the candle makers.\n\nWe will now give you a few idiotic prayers that are offered to St.\nAnthony by the followers of blind Catholicism.\n\n    \"O, Glorious St. Anthony, noble Sunflower of divine\n    conformity, I salute thee in the name of the Queen of Angels\n    and of all the angelic choirs; and I thank Almighty God for\n    the grace bestowed on thee, that like to this Great Queen and\n    the angelic choirs thou wert ever conformed to His holy will.\n    I beseech thee that with this glorious Lady and all the\n    angelic choirs, thou wouldst approach the throne of God,\n    lovingly offer Him this my petition and strengthen it by\n    thine intercession.\n\n    \"OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY.\"\n\n\n    \"I salute thee, Blessed Anthony, noble Narcissus-flower of\n    knowledge, in the name of all the patriarchs and prophets;\n    and I thank the good God for bestowing on thee, like to the\n    patriarchs and prophets, the gift of divine knowledge and of\n    foreseeing future events. I beseech thee that with the\n    patriarchs and prophets thou wouldst approach the throne of\n    God and by your united prayers and merits obtain for me this\n    my petition.\n\n    \"OUR FATHER. HAIL, MARY. GLORY.\"\n\n\n    \"I salute thee, Blessed Anthony, noble Carnation-flower of\n    fervent love, in the name of all the holy apostles and\n    disciples of Christ; and I thank the most merciful Lord for\n    the great grace bestowed on thee, like unto that of the\n    apostles and disciples, when He chose thee to proclaim the\n    holy Gospel and to spread the Christian faith. I beseech thee\n    that with the apostles and disciples thou wouldst approach\n    the throne of God and by your united prayers and merits\n    obtain for me this my petition.\n\n    \"Our Father. Hail, Mary. Glory.\"\n\n\nWe will give you an instance of this \"St. Anthony's\" witchcraft\nbusiness that came under my personal observation. A lady was standing\nupon a bridge that spans one of the many streams that rushes down\nfrom the Adirondack Mountains, gazing at this crystal stream and\nwatching the fishes below, and while standing there she was toying\nwith a beautiful diamond ring that had been given her by her lover.\nIn a careless manner she allowed this ring to slip from her finger,\nand it fell into the waters below.\n\nWith a sudden cry those who were near her were attracted to the spot\nand she explained to them her misfortune, and it was not long until\nthere was quite a crowd about her, offering their sympathy and also\ntheir assistance.\n\nSome volunteered to wade into this stream and search for the ring,\nwhich was done, and a number of buckets of mud were carried up out of\nthe stream from the point the lady had stated she had dropped her\nring, but the ring could not be found.\n\nAt this point one of our Catholic \"dupes\" appeared and explained to\nthe lady that if she would put her trust in St. Anthony and would pay\n$500, that St. Anthony would restore to her her ring.\n\nThis lady being a Catholic also, of course, was easily persuaded to\ndo this, so they knelt down and prayed to St. Anthony and beseeched\nhim to restore the lost treasure, and it was not long until all of\nthose in the crowd that belonged to the Catholic Church were in\nsympathy with this distressed lady, and they were also kneeling and\nsupplicating St. Anthony to restore the lost treasure. They prayed\nfor an hour, but still the lost treasure would not appear; then the\nringleader of this barbarous belief informed this lady that the ring\nhad been swallowed by a fish. He pretended to be inspired and claimed\nthat he could catch this identical fish with the bait of St.\nAnthony's bread. Everything was soon prepared and the line was let\ndown into the water, and sure enough a good sized fish was caught\nupon this St. Anthony's bait, and the crowd went into rapturous\ndelight, as they were quite sure they had the identical fish that had\nswallowed the ring.\n\nAs soon as the fish was caught a collection was raised by a priest\nwho was in the crowd for the benefit of \"St. Anthony's Bread Box.\"\nAll of the Catholics in the crowd contributed, of course, as they\nwere afraid not to, for Catholics believe that if they do not do what\na priest tells them to they are sure to have something awful befall\nthem, and, of course, all of these Catholics believed in the\nwitchcraft of St. Anthony and believed that he was the actual\nrestorer of all lost things.\n\nThe Protestants in the congregation were determined to see what was\ninside of the fish, so they followed the one that carried it to a\nbutcher shop and the fish was cut open, but naught was found in it\nbut what is usually found in any old fish that never saw or heard\ntell of a diamond ring.\n\nNow, this is one of the thousands--yea, tens of thousands of such\ninstances that are forced down the throats of the ignorant,\nsuperstitions followers of Catholicism.\n\nNow, what I relate above is true in every conceivable manner, and not\none sentence or statement is misrepresented.\n\nThis belief in the power of St. Anthony is simply abominable and\nbelongs to the dark ages of heathendom.\n\nI have often wondered when I was acting as priest in the Catholic\nChurch why it was that Protestants, when they attended my church,\nwould look on in wonderment and surprise, and I attributed this\nwonderment to a desire upon the part of Protestantism to make fun and\nvillify the teachings of the Catholic Church, but I now realize that\nthis bewilderment came from minds which had been elevated far above\nthe cungerings of the Catholic Church, and I am now surprised that\nthe Protestants who visit Catholic churches are not more bewildered\nand mystified, as the teachings of Protestantism are based upon the\ninspirations derived from the Word of God and the teachings of\nCatholicism are naught but the rumblings of the dark ages.\n\n[Illustration: \"A LICENTIOUS PRIEST.\"\n\"A PROTESTANT PREACHER'S HOME\"\n\"The unmarried life of the Priestcraft compared\nto the married life of a Protestant minister.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter III.\n\nAll Children of Protestant Parents Are\nDeclared Bastards by Catholicism.\n\n\nThe Catholic Church declares that all of those who contract marriage\notherwise than in the presence of a Catholic Priest, that such\nmarriages are null and void.\n\nCatholicism further declares that your darling child, which is the\nfruit of your marriage, is nothing more nor less than a common\nbastard.\n\nHow do you Protestants like to hear this? How do you feel when you\nknow that this is the belief and opinion of all Catholic dignitaries,\nand this belief is taught to all the Catholic world by those who\npresume to dictate?\n\nYour darling baby boy or girl is branded as an illegitimate offspring\nby Catholicism, simply because their parents were not united in\nwedlock by a Catholic Priest, who perhaps is as immoral as hell\nitself.\n\nThe reason why Catholicism so sternly demands that all should be\nmarried by the priestcraft is from a monetary standpoint, as the\nCatholic priest gets his fee, as he will not under any circumstances\nunite any one in wedlock without a fee, and I have known in many\ninstances where the contracting parties were unable to pay a money\nfee, and the grasping priestcraft would refuse to unite them in\nmarriage until they had given him some article of intrinsic value,\nand I have often seen jewelry, silver-mounted pipes, watches and many\nother things confiscated by the priestcraft before they would perform\nthe ceremony.\n\nIt is strange to me, indeed, that America, which is and should be by\nevery law of justice and right, a Protestant nation, is so\nunconcerned and so listless over the insults that Catholicism daily\noffers Protestantism, for if it is not a most damnable insult to\nstigmatize your offspring as bastards, then we are unable to discern\nand distinguish between a brazen insult and a flattering compliment.\n\nWhenever America learns the actual and true meaning of Catholicism\nand her teachings, there will be an awakening among the Protestant\nworld that will make the four corners of the government of the United\nStates tremble with a righteous indignation.\n\nNow, if the offspring of that dear old mother is a bastard, then she\nis nothing more nor less than a common whore, and you cannot arrive\nat any other rational conclusion. This is only reasoning from\nintelligent deductions; therefore, whenever Catholicism calls the\nchildren of Protestant parents bastards simply because these parents\nwere not united in wedlock by a Catholic priest, they villify the\nsacred name of father and mother, and trail in the slime of disgrace\nthe sweet memories of that sturdy old father and that angelic old\nProtestant mother.\n\nI am at a loss to know and to understand how Protestantism can sit so\nunconcernedly by with folded hands and allow this vulturous foe of\nhuman rights and human privileges to brazenly rear its institutions\nin Protestant America, and teach such damnable doctrines about those\nwho have made America all she ever was, and is, or ever will be.\n\nA creed or doctrine that exists upon the dwarfed ambitions of its\nfollowers is undoubtedly an institution which exists upon the carrion\nof human miseries, and is a menace to a nation, which possesses the\ngodly ambitions that permeate the minds of Protestantism.\n\nWe have in this country scores--yea, hundreds of Protestant fathers\nand mothers who allow their children to attend Catholic schools, when\nthose who are teaching them in these Catholic institutions brazenly,\nflagrantly and openly declare that those children are the offspring\nof immorality, as they do not hesitate to say that all children are\nbastards whose parents were not married by the priestcraft; but still\nthese Protestant parents allow their children to be taught by those\nwho villify and defame their parents' names.\n\nThis is one of the strangest things that has ever come under my\nobservation in the United States, as the Protestant world in general\nknows that Catholicism teaches these things, and the Protestant\nworld also knows that under no circumstances nor conditions would\nCatholicism allow their children to attend a Protestant college, but\nProtestant parents go right ahead and allow their children to be\ntaught by a class of men and women who will boldly declare to these\nchildren that their own parents are immoral, and that the teachings\nof their youth were erroneous and would lead to everlasting\ndamnation.\n\nIs it not about time that the Protestant world was arousing\nthemselves from this lethargetic sleep of unconcern, or do you\npropose to allow Catholicism to convince you, by her doctrines of\ndegeneracy, that she is right, and that you acknowledge her as right\nby you sending your children to her institutions of learning?\n\nCatholicism has always made her boast that if she can control the\nchildren until they are 7 to 10 years old, that they will control the\ngovernment in the future, and it seems as though Protestant America\nis perfectly willing to risk the consequences, but let me sound a\nwarning in your ears in this chapter, which may not arouse you from\nyour national stupidity, but which, in after years, will rumble down\nthe avenues of the future the truthfulness of this assertion that\nwill make the Protestant world shudder. It is this: \"_Unless you\nguard the goddess of your American liberty with the patriotism of you\nProtestant manhood, it will not be long until you will find this\ngovernment face to face with a problem more perplexing than the\ngovernment of France is wrestling with to-day, on account of this\nRomish beast, whose jaws are dripping with the blood of doomed\nambition._\"\n\nCatholicism is like a thief in the night, as she goes about her\ndevastation of human rights with the tread of a thief and with the\ncunning of a bold deceiver, which she is, and this country must\nstation trustworthy men upon the ramparts of this government to watch\nher progress and batter down her foundation of superstition and\nignorance, or within the next fifty years America will find herself\nbound hand and foot by this Romish creed of abominations, which has\ncaused every nation on the face of the earth that she has ever\ncontrolled to wither and decay under her touch, like the tender plant\nunder the broiling rays of a tropical sun.\n\nI have a right to sound this warning, as I know whereof I speak, as I\nhave traveled this Romish road of despair for thirty years, and I\nknow her cunning and dastardly deception so well that her history and\nher teachings are to me like the primer is to the school boy or girl.\n\nThe warnings that I now sound in the ears of Protestant America are\nnot sounded by an alarmist, nor one who does not know whereof he\nspeaks, but these warnings come from one whose back has been lashed\nfor thirty long years with the whip of a Catholic tyrant, and I know\nthe history of Catholicism from beginning to end, for if one cannot\nlearn the history of an institution in thirty years' devout study,\nthen pray tell me of what use it is for man to apply himself to the\nstudy of anything?\n\nI was once as devout a Catholic as I am to-day a Protestant, and I am\nonly a Protestant to-day because I was forced to become such, after\nhaving the scales of Catholicism brushed from my eyes, which had\nbeen blinded by the superstition and fearful doctrines of this\nabominable creed.\n\nArouse, ye men and women of America, or else the time will come when\nyou will not be permitted to make a protest; when your wives and\nmothers are declared whores by Catholicism, and your fathers and\nbrothers are declared whore-mongers and your children bastards!\n\nI have been a careful observer of events through my entire life, and\nI never was more thoroughly convinced than to-day that we stand near\nthe threshold of Popish power in America, and I ask of the reader,\nand of the Protestant world at large, Are we about to realize the\nprediction made by the father of our country? Are we nearing the time\nwhen liberty shall be bound to the stake by Catholicism? Are we\nnearing the great Romish chasm that has swallowed up the hopes of\nmany nations? Are we nearing the crater of a Roman volcano that pours\nout its desolation and devastation upon free men? Are we nearing the\ninky night of servitude, where no light is possible, but the dim and\ntreacherous lamp of idolatrous Catholicism? Are we nearing the\nstretch of waste lands that contains no friendly oasis for him who\nseeks liberty? Are we building our own sepulchers to bury all the\nhopes of liberty cherished by our forefathers? Are we willingly\ncarrying fuel for our own funeral pyres, there to be consumed by the\ngreedy and relentless ghouls of Catholicism?\n\nThese are questions that demand an answer and demand an answer at\nonce, as we are far along the road to the end of human rights in\nProtestant America, unless we call a halt and kindle anew the fires\nof patriotism that have so long been unnoticed by those who have been\nleft in charge to guard our interests.\n\nCatholicism is a vile deceiver and a rank hypocrite, therefore we\nmust diligently watch her serpentine movements, for she will appear\nwhere you least expect her, as she wraps about her the American flag\nand other symbols of patriotism and goes about as a lamb in wolf's\nclothing.\n\nI have no reason for writing this book only a desire to help undo\nwhat I have already done in my fifty-six years of the past, and by\nwriting this book I have cut every tie that binds me to those whom I\nhave associated with since my childhood, therefore the reader must\nknow that what I am doing is being done in the name of right, justice\nand the love I bear my fellowman and my adopted country, which is the\n\"Garden of Eden\" of all the universe.\n\n\"The fool doubts what a wise man tells him because the information is\nnew.\" You may doubt what I am telling you, but your doubt will cost\nyou your liberty.\n\nI have your cause at heart and I have no ambition to gratify, as I am\nan old man and have no other desire than to help those who need help,\nand I have come as a friend to talk to you around your firesides,\nwith no mission but that of truth.\n\nMany of us have never been told to our face that we were fools, but\nbecause no man has been frank enough to tell us the truth is no\nreason why we should not investigate what is told us, and which you\nhave no right nor reason to doubt.\n\nThe mission of this book is to get you to _think_ and to examine and\npry into the past history of Catholicism, and when you have examined\nthe pages of Catholic history and then scrutinize her present, you\nmust know that her future promises no more than her past and present\nwould indicate her future to hold.\n\nThis book is written from a Protestant standpoint, but by a man who\nwas a Catholic fifty-six years before he ever became a Protestant,\nand we feel absolutely certain that the Catholic world will endeavor\nto throttle its circulation, but we have laid aside every vestige of\nfear from that standpoint and have made up our mind that we are no\nbetter than Martin Luther, and thousands of Protestants who were\nburned at the stake by Catholicism for proclaiming to the world the\nawful deeds of that _awful creed_.\n\nWe want you to consider this book as a friend, who has called at your\nfireside to tell you _truths_ that you should know, and which, if you\ndo not learn, will lower you and your posterity to the level of the\ncommonest slave and place over the most brutal despots the world has\never known, and these despots are nothing more nor less than the\nCatholic Church.\n\nThis book comes from a man who does not court the friendship of any\nsect of class of men; therefore, it comes to you with intentions as\npure as it is possible for a book to come from the hands of a poor\nmortal, who fears _nothing_ but the wrath of a living God.\n\nCatholicism is taught her cunning from her childhood, as she is\ntaught to watch the ranks of Protestantism and whenever she finds a\nweak spot, she turns her forces upon this weakened line, and is\nfurther instructed never to weaken in her continual march of\ndevastation.\n\nCould the tears that have been shed on account of heartless\nCatholicism be gathered in one body, the mighty oceans of the earth\nwould appear as silvery mountain brooks. Could the innocent blood of\nProtestants shed by the heartless hand of Catholicism be congealed,\nit would build a purple mountain that would cast a shadow the length\nand breadth of this land.\n\nThe nations of the earth have had wars from the creation of the\nworld, but the myriads of those who have fallen in all the battles of\nthe world would only be a small portion compared to the millions who\nhave laid down their lives that greedy, abhorrent Catholicism might\nbe appeased.\n\nIt is time for us as _American freemen_ to become free men in every\nsense the word implies, and exercise both our franchise and our\nbrains in relegating this \"Scarlet-Robed Hag of Rome\" to her original\nhaunts.\n\nWill you perform your American duty and band together and become a\nProtestant army and march out under the blood-stained banner of King\nEmanuel and help to make America the greatest Protestant nation the\nsun has ever shone upon?\n\nBe men, and by your manhood you can, if you make the start now, lull\ninto _eternal sleep_ this Romish power which villifies your ambitions\nand brands your offspring with the stigma of disgrace.\n\n[Illustration:\n\"LOOK TO JESUS.\"                \"THE POPE AND ME.\"\n\"As the Twig is bent         the Tree's inclined.\"\n                   THE TWO WAYS.]\n\n\n\n\nChapter IV.\n\nTear from the Citadel of Reason, the Power to Reason,\nand You Make Slaves of Humanity.\n\n\nThe men and women of the world, who have caused nations to advance\nand prosper, have never been, nor never will be Catholics, unless she\ndiscards her present mode of procedure, and this she will never do.\nWhenever you tear the cloak of superstition and idolatry from the\nform of Catholicism, you have naught left but the skeleton of\nabominations.\n\nThe men of science and of reason, all over the world, boldly accuse\nthe Roman Catholic Church of being the enemy of science, detesting it\nand desiring to spread the mantle of ignorance over all those whom\nshe controls.\n\nThe Church seems not to understand that everything finds its source\nat the fountain of reason, as all things must originate from God,\nand most assuredly the Supreme Being is an intelligent, reasonable\nand rational God. The Catholic Church must resist, as a matter of\nlife or death, the progress of modern civilization, or else go down\nin disgrace, for civilization and reason is a nightmare and an\neverlasting enemy to Catholicism, as \"scientific thought\" makes her\ndoctrines and dogmas stand out as abominations.\n\nIf the world is to depend upon the Romish Church for her\nintellectuality, and for her philosophy, and for her scientific\nresources, she will always be groping her way in darkness, as the\nPopish church has never advanced one-hundredth part of an inch from\nthe trenches of ancient ignorance and superstitions, nor has she in\nany material way been instrumental in advancing a single interest of\nthe masses which elevates, as her every cry and her combined efforts\nhave been to paralyze progress and scientific research, as she well\nknows that to have the searchlight of reason turned upon her\nmystified labyrinths of hoodooism, the world will behold the marks\nof ignorance, superstition and barbarism upon her degraded form.\n\nWhenever an institution comes to believe that it is infallible and an\nimpossibility to err, then she settles back into the ruts of tyranny,\nand whenever you find an individual or a body of individuals who\nbelieve whatever they do is right, no matter what it may be, you will\nfind those who believe themselves ordained rulers of men, and\nwhenever this happens, the individual who believes this becomes a\ntyrant, and tyranny belongs to the dark ages of heathendom, whence\nRoman Catholicism originated.\n\nTo demonstrate to the reader and give him or her some idea of the\ntyrannical rule of Romanism, we will take the history of Galileo,\nwhich every child, perhaps, is acquainted with.\n\nGalileo declared that the sun did not move, and this declaration\ngreatly insulted Pope Urban, who grew very angry, as this pope had\ntaught that the sun did move and that the earth stood still.\n\nThe teachings of Galileo so angered the pope that he called together\nan inquisitorial board and had Galileo tried by this Romish\ntribunal, and Galileo was sentenced to imprisonment for what\nCatholicism termed a heretical doctrine.\n\nWho was right--Catholicism or Galileo? Not a school boy or girl six\nyears old in this land but what knows that Catholicism was wrong, as\nshe usually is, but she would not have acknowledged her wrong had not\nthe world-at-large been thoroughly convinced of her error, which\nwould have brought her to the very feet of ridicule had she persisted\nin teaching the doctrine promulgated by Pope Urban that \"the sun did\nmove, and that the earth stood still.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church is always desirous of evading questions which are\nsusceptible to debate, and which, by mature thought and deliberation,\ncan be analyzed, as she does not desire to come into contact with the\nbrains of any nation, but is satisfied to prey upon the ignorant and\nsuperstitiously inclined, as those are her dupes and the ones from\nwhom she derives her revenue, and \"revenue\" is one of the main\nperquisites of the Catholic Church, as this Romish institution is run\nfor the sole purpose of making serfs of men and controlling the\ndestiny of nations, so that the inhabitants may be forced to disgorge\ntheir sustenance in her lap of greed, and it matters not how low she\nbrings her followers, nor what may be the hardships they have to\nendure, just so she accomplishes her diabolical end.\n\nThe reader may think it strange that a man who was born and raised a\nCatholic, and who for thirty years officiated in the capacity of a\nCatholic priest, could turn his back upon the creed of his\nforefathers and so vehemently endeavor to destroy every vestige of\nhis childhood's doctrines, but this is no more unreasonable than it\nwas for Paul, in the twinkle of an eye, to turn from his wickedness\nand become one of the chosen Apostles of Christ.\n\nMany years before I cut loose entirely from the Catholic Church my\nfaith in her abominations was at times almost threadbare, and I have\ndeclared time and time again that never would I enter another\nCatholic Church in the capacity of a priest, but as often as I\ndeclared and made these resolves, just so often I broke them, as my\nearly training and my superstitious fears would get the better of my\nconvictions, and I would be whipped back into the trenches of\nsuperstition.\n\nI have often tried within the past ten years to \"nag\" those officials\nwho were above me into a paroxysm of fury and have them excommunicate\nme, as I tried to make myself believe that it would be better to have\nthem throw me out of the church than to leave it on my own free will,\nbut it appeared as though they discerned by intentions and they would\nnot do as I desired, and at last I made up my mind that I would swing\nout upon my own account from the dark shadows of this superstitious\nbelief, and every word of this book has been written without a single\ncharge preferred against me by the Catholic Church, therefore the\nCatholic Church cannot declare that I was not in good standing as a\npriest at the time this book was compiled.\n\nWhat I mean by \"good standing\" is that the robed monarchs who boldly\nclaim the power to damn the soul by excommunication, have not as yet\nseen fit to eternally obliterate my prospects of ever entering the \"New\nJerusalem,\" but as soon as this book is given to the reading public,\nthen those who wield the axe will let it fall with all the diabolical\nvengeance of Roman hatred upon my head and declare the \"pearly gates\"\nhave been forever closed upon my depraved soul; but what I most desire\nis to have the public understand that NOW, while I am writing this book,\nI am considered AND AM BY ALL THE RIGHTS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH A PRIEST\nAND ENJOY ALL THE PRIVILEGES OF CATHOLICITY AS SUCH.\n\nWhy I so earnestly desire to impress this upon the minds of the\nreader is that I know so well the trickery of those whom I write\nabout and I know full well that the Catholic officials will at once\nendeavor to make the world believe that I am an outcast and in bad\nstanding with the Catholic Church.\n\nThis book is being written in the year 1903, and I will make oath\nbefore any court of record on earth to the truthfulness of the\nstatements herein set forth, and I will give ten thousand dollars to\nany charitable institution in America if any priest, bishop or\narchbishop on the face of the whole earth will make oath and prove\nbefore any lawful tribunal of America if one word of the foregoing is\nnot true.\n\nFurthermore, I will give up all of my earthly possessions, which\namounts to several thousand dollars, if any priest, bishop or\narchbishop living upon the face of the earth can prove before any\ncourt of justice in America that I have not always endeavored to live\nan exemplary life and rigidly taught the doctrines of the Catholic\nfaith, although at times my whole life rebelled at being compelled to\ndo so, but my whole training and long association would invariably\nget the master of my reason and better judgment, and I would be\nforced by my superstitious training back into the mystified\nlabyrinths of my childhood's education.\n\nI stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of\nreason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the\nheathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind\npaganism, and resolved to break the chain of this \"_slave of the\nsoul_\" and \"_tyrant of reason_.\"\n\nIn this chapter we want to give the reader some idea of the\nnonsensical and unreasonableness of the claims of Catholicism, so\nthat you may more fully understand how disgusting it is for a man who\nendeavors to use his God-given abilities to submit to such\nabominations.\n\nThe Catholic Church depends more upon the saving power of the\nScapular than it does upon the saving power of Jesus Christ. Now,\nthis is a broad expression, but I know whereof I speak and I am\nprepared to back up the assertion with facts.\n\nThe Scapular is a veil or cape, which covers the shoulders. It was\nworn as such by Monks and Nuns, over their dress, but which is best\nknown among Catholics as two little pieces of cloth worn out of\ndevotion, under ordinary garments, and connected by a string which\ngoes around the neck and hangs down, allowing this \"trinket\" to rest\nupon the breast.\n\nCatholic children, from their infancy, are taught that this trinket\nis a preventative against accident and disease, and they actually\nbelieve it, and should they lose this \"nothing\" they at once become\nmiserable and will undergo any hardship to possess another.\n\nIt was through the Carmelites (Monks) that this devotion began and I\nbelieve that the history that I will relate in regard to it is the\nfirst history ever repeated in this or any other country by an\nex-priest that ever lived or died.\n\nA man by the name of Simon Stock was elected to the generalship of\nthe Carmelite Order, and this same Simon Stock was considered a\nSaint, and it is taught by Catholicism that the Virgin Mary appeared\nto Simon Stock in a vision and exhibited this Scapular and gave Stock\nto understand that it was to be worn by the Catholic world in the\nfuture as a preventative against accident, disease and sudden death.\n\nThere is another story which is told in regard to this Scapular, as\nfollows: It is said that the Virgin Mary appeared to Simon Stock in a\nvision in behalf of the Carmelite Order, which at that time was in\ngreat trouble, and gave to Stock a Scapular, which she bore in her\nhand, in order that it could be worn, and which she guaranteed was\nan order direct from God Almighty that the Carmelite Order should\nwear this \"trinket,\" which would be a preventative from any evil\novertaking any of those who did wear it, and further stating that all\nof those who wore this Scapular \"_shall never suffer eternal\nburning_.\"\n\nIt is further stated that Pope John XXII, in his famous Sabbatine\nBull, declared that the Virgin Mary had appeared to him and informed\nhim that all the members of the Carmelite Order who wore this\nScapular should be gotten out of purgatory by her on the Saturday\nafter their death, and this Pope winds up his declaration with the\nfollowing sentence: \"I accept, corroborate and confirm, in the name\nof Jesus Christ, for our Glorious Virgin Mary, who has granted this\ngreat privilege to those who wear the Scapular.\"\n\nThis abomination is nothing more nor less than a \"tale of fiction,\"\nand promulgated by men who know that it is a positive lie, but they\ndo it in order to mystify the ignorant and to compel them to remain\nin darkest ignorance.\n\nNow, to convince the reader that Catholicism is as densely ignorant\nto-day as it ever was, we will bring her history up to date.\n\nPope Leo, in the good year of 1903, on his death bed, ordered this\nCarmelite veil brought from Mount Carmel, that he might have\nassistance from it in his dying hour, and declared that by the\nassistance of this mythical Scapular that when he died he would go\nstraight to Heaven.\n\nYou can take the history of the Roman Catholic Church from the\nearliest days of its cussedness up to the present time, and you will\nfind that the same heathenish superstition that surrounded it\ncenturies ago still follows it to-day.\n\nIs there any proof that the Virgin Mary appeared to Simon Stock and\nmade to him the promise above related? No proof whatever, only the\ncungered up proof of the officials of Catholicism, and the Sabbatine\nBull of Pope John has no more sense nor righteous meaning in it than\nthe ghost dance of the American Indian.\n\nThe Scapular that we above refer to is not the only emblem of\nheathendom that Catholicism resorts to, but we have a number of\nothers which the Protestant world knows but little about, and\nespecially the Protestants in America, as the Catholic officials do\nnot want \"this Scapular business\" talked about too much in this\ncountry, for fear that the Protestant world will give it the\ndeserving ridicule that it should have. However, we have started out\nto show up the teachings of Catholicism as they actually exist, and\nthe more light we turn upon this subject the more prominent her\nabominations will become, consequently we want to mention these other\nScapulars.\n\nThe first that we will mention is, \"The Trinity of White Linen with\nRed Cross;\" the second is, \"The Survite Scapular of Seven Dolors,\"\nwhich is of black woolen stuff; the third is, \"The Immaculate\nConception,\" which is of blue woolen cloth, and the fourth and last\nScapular is one that was originated in 1846 by a Sister of Charity in\nParis, France, who is said to have received a revelation from God\nAlmighty, and this one is called \"The Red Scapular of the Passion.\"\n\nWhile American Catholics are a class far superior in intellect to the\nCatholics of other nations, they still tenaciously cling to the\ninert Scapular and believe in its efficacy and power; however, the\nCatholic Church is getting to have quite a number of these Scapulars,\nwhich is causing the intelligent Catholics to become a little\ndoubtful as to which has the greatest \"pulling power,\" and many of\nthem, in order to make no mistake, wear all five of them in a bunch;\nthus they are assured that if one fails to get in its work another\nwill come to the rescue, and should they fall off of a train moving\n60 miles an hour, this little bunch of woolen goods will save them\nfrom a bruise, or should they drink a quart of the essence of\nstrychnine they would be saved from instant death by one of these\nfive Scapulars.\n\nYou ask a Catholic to explain the merits of the Scapular and all they\ncan tell you is that if they die during the week that the Virgin Mary\nwill then take them to heaven on the Saturday following, but if they\nhappen to die on a Saturday, bear in mind that the Virgin Mary gives\nthem a cold shoulder until the next Saturday. Now, this is the only\nexplanation that you can get a Catholic to give you in regard to a\nScapular.\n\nIs it any wonder that the power to reason is shattered by these\ncungering devices of Catholicism, and do you wonder that the dense\nignorance of Catholic nations are completely under the power of this\nangel of darkness?\n\nLet us repeat, in conclusion of this chapter, that Romanism is the\neverlasting enemy of science and individual intellect, as she knows\nfull well that when the broad, effulgent light of Protestantism dawns\non the benighted minds of her followers that she at once loses her\ngrasp upon her \"hood-winked\" dupes, as it is impossible for the\nteachings of Catholicism to exist side by side with the teachings of\nProtestantism, provided that those who believe in these Romish\nabominations care to look above the horizon of Romanism.\n\n[Illustration: IMMORALITY OF THE PRIESTHOOD--\nWith Romish lust, the blossom of virtue is destroyed.]\n\n\n\n\nChapter V.\n\nInnocent Girlhood at the Confessional Box.\n\n\nBlight girlhood and you destroy the usefulness of womankind. Tarnish\nthe sacredness of girlhood and you scar the purity of womanhood.\nDeface the beautiful countenance of chastity, which is found in the\nbosom of girlhood, and you not only mar the happiness of girlhood,\nbut you deface and obliterate the families of the future, for without\nthat priceless treasure, virtue, the eternal principles of conjugal\nlove becomes a barren waste without a single oasis.\n\nOh, if I could but call about me in one vast throng the girls of this\nland, and all other lands, who have had the first thought of\ncarnality planted in their bosom by the scheming Priestcraft, I would\nhave a throng of tear-faced mortals that would rend the heart of\nstone and stigmatize the cunning of Catholicism with a stigma blacker\nthan the lowering clouds of despair.\n\nWhen you force childhood to believe in the infallibility of the\npriestcraft you educate the mind of that child to implicitly believe\nin the officials of the Catholic Church, and when you gain the\nimplicit confidence you have established a belief that cannot be\neasily eradicated, as this belief has become a part of that child,\nand as it grows older, this erroneous belief grows in proportion to\nthe body, and by the time this child has arrived at the age of\nmaturity, she is as densely ignorant of the cunning of this doctrine\nas she was when she first learned to repeat the Catechism with a\nchildish lisp.\n\nWe desire to preface this chapter with common-sense arguments, so\nthat the reader may thoroughly understand how completely the female\nelement of the Catholic Church is under the control of the priesthood\nof this institution.\n\nPriests are, as a rule, men of more than average intellect, and, as\nthey have no other calling nor no other avocation in life than to\nmake good impressions upon their members, they of course become\ncunning in their art, especially with the female members of their\ncongregations, and more especially with their young and handsome\nmembers.\n\nImagine the power that a Catholic priest has over a young girl in her\nteens--yea, over any female member of their congregation, when you\ntake into consideration the fact that from infancy these girls and\nwomen have been taught that it is almost an absolute impossibility\nfor a priest to commit a sin.\n\nWhen you dwell upon the doctrines taught these girls and women it\nwill not be a matter of surprise that the priestcraft wields such a\npowerful influence over them, as any one with this doctrine funneled\ninto them from childhood is open and ready to believe what the\npriestcraft may tell them, and the individual is not to blame for\nbelieving this, as they have been taught it by their parents from\ninfancy, and the officials of the Catholic Church have taught it;\nthen why should we be surprised at the dense ignorance upon the part\nof these girls and women?\n\nPriests always try to impress their members with the idea that they\nare infallible and that it is impossible for them to sin. They do\nthis for many reasons. First, in order that they may have their\ncongregations in humble submission to any of the demands of the\nchurch, and, secondly, it enables them to accomplish any devilish\ndeed they may wish to accomplish under the guise of priestly\nsanctity.\n\nIt is no pleasant task to dwell upon this most distasteful and most\nrepulsive of all of the fallacies of Rome and the abominable\nrottenness of the priesthood, but without giving a vivid description\nof the cunning of the priestcraft in regard to the \"Confessional\"\nwould be treating the subject in a manner that would not do justice\nto the abominations of her hideous doctrines; and to fail to touch\nupon this subject would leave the greatest and most deadly weapon in\nthe hands of this band of devils.\n\nThe Confessional Box is an emblem of paganism, as innumerable\ntrustworthy authorities prove that Roman Catholicism has pre-empted\nthis custom as well as many other of her practices from the dark ages\nof paganism.\n\nOricular confession was practiced centuries ago by the ancient\nBabylonians, Egyptians, Mexicans, Peruvians and the Japanese--in\nfact, it is not only an ancient custom, but one which belongs to the\ndarkest of the ancient ages, which should have been relegated to the\nhaunts of hell centuries ago.\n\nA priest once said: \"Nobody should be surprised when we priests,\nbishops and popes sink into the bottomless abyss of immorality, for\nthe celibacy of the priestcraft is only a cudgel in the hands of\nCatholic officials to drive us to the haunts of immorality.\"\n\nA priest once said \"that the Confessional is one of the most damnable\ninstitutions that was ever permitted to exist, as these Confessionals\nare only traps to lead the piously and morally-inclined priest to the\nplains of immorality, for a priest is naught but man, and when he is\nforced to compel women penitents to pour into his ears their every\nthought, feeling, desire, emotion and act, it kindles the fires of\nunholy thought upon the altars of his better ambitions and before he\nknows it he has committed adultery and not only ruined his own soul,\nbut has been the implement in the hands of the devil to destroy the\nvirtue of innocent womanhood.\"\n\nHe further states \"that not only do the thoughts, feelings, emotions,\netc., have to be related, in all of their details, to the priest, and\nperhaps a bad priest, but all circumstances leading to and the\nresults growing out of these thoughts, must be given in detail.\"\n\nThe immorally inclined and licentious priest is not satisfied with\nthe female penitent enumerating only her mortal sins, but he insists\nand forces the penitent to give circumstances, minutely describing\nher thoughts and feelings of every-day life, which leads both the\npenitent and the confessor to the lowlands of immorality.\n\nThe priestcraft is instructed by the Romish Church not to allow the\npenitent to conceal anything from them, and the priestcraft is given\ninstructions to probe the penitent to the heart's core.\n\nIn this chapter we propose to give you a little insight to the\ncharacter of one or two priests that I have personally known, and if\nI dared and if it was possible to print the nasty history of a number\nof priests that I have been acquainted with, I could fill this volume\nwith their depravity; but should I do so this book would not be\npermitted to circulate through the mails of the United States. But I\nwill endeavor to clothe my recital of a few instances of priestly\nimmorality in language of chastity, but will make my recital plain\nenough that any one who can read may understand.\n\nRev. Chas. Kuhlman, who was pastor of a Catholic Church in\nEdwardsville, Ill., was suspicioned of having become too intimate\nwith a sister of his own school, and this sister soon left the\nsisterhood, and it was rumored that she went to St. Louis to evade\nthe birth of a child.\n\nThis very same priest was caught in the act of adultery with a\nmarried woman in his office in East St. Louis. He was at that time,\nbesides being pastor, the editor and publisher of a very important\nCatholic paper called \"_The Catholic Progress_.\" This immorality of\nPriest Kuhlman became public property and formed such a nasty mess\nthat the Catholic bishop had to take some notice of it and the case\nwas tried before the Bishop of Alton, Ill., and Kuhlman was\nexcommunicated for life.\n\nThis married woman gave testimony that was very damaging to the Rev.\nKuhlman and gave her evidence before a notary public, which cannot be\ndisputed, and it matters not how hard the Catholic Church may try to\nvillify these statements, they cannot overcome the truthfulness of\nthe same, as there are too many living witnesses at this time who\nknow that what I am relating is absolutely true.\n\nRev. Kuhlman was not satisfied with the verdict of the bishop of\nAlton, Ill., and appealed his case to Rome, and the bishop was indeed\nglad to get rid of this dirty case and did not appear in Rome to\nprosecute the case, and the Rev. Kuhlman won the case in Rome by\ndefault, and this same Rev. Kuhlman became a Catholic priest in good\nstanding again and was permitted to officiate as a minister of the\ngospel, with all of this abominable slime of immorality clinging to\nhis priestly garments.\n\nNow, bear in mind that Rev. Kuhlman, after having all of this\nimmorality laid at his door, was permitted by the Pope of Rome to go\nright ahead with his priestly duties, but a short time after he won\nhis case at Rome there was an affidavit sworn out against Kuhlman by\na man in East St. Louis, averring that he had been again caught in\nthe act of adultery with another woman. This time the case was\nreported to Bishop Janssen, of Belleville, Ill., and also to Cardinal\nMartinelli, of Washington, D.C., but there was no attention paid to\nit, and this Rev. Kuhlman was permitted to go right ahead in his\npastoral duties and is at the present time the pastor of a church in\nEast St. Louis and is also the spiritual director of a convent, which\ncontains many sisters and many pupils.\n\nNow, if what I have related is false, Rev. Chas. Kuhlman has redress\nat law; and if I have libeled him he can make me suffer for the\ncrime, and he will not have to spend any money to locate my\nwhereabouts, as he is aware of my location at the present time and\ncan find me at any time that he desires to bring suit against me for\nblackmail or any other crime that he sees fit to instigate against\nme.\n\nIt is no pleasant task to relate these very nauseating things, but it\nis my aim and intention to so plainly and powerfully set forth the\ndeceit, cunning and dastardly deeds of Catholicism that I may be able\nto open the eyes of not only the Protestant world but of Catholicism\nat large, for there are thousands of the followers of the Pope who\nare very weak in their faith, and if I can by the righteousness of my\ncause, convince them that they are following the blind leaders of\npaganism, I am absolutely certain that the Protestant ranks will have\nan in-gathering of the hosts of Catholicism that will cause the\nangels in heaven to shout hallelujahs of thanksgiving.\n\nDo not understand me to say, or to intimate, that there are no\nsincere priests, as there are; but their sincerity is founded upon\nsuperstitious beliefs and erroneous doctrines, consequently their\nsincerity and devoutness only helps to fasten the abominations of\nCatholicism more completely upon humanity, as those who are candidly\nsincere are held up to the Protestant world as models of Catholicism,\nwhen, in fact, they are but exceptions to the general herd of\nCatholic officials.\n\nTo more plainly illustrate to the reader how fascinating and powerful\nthe teachings of Catholicism is upon the minds of man, I would\nillustrate this by the power that parents have over a child. You\nteach a child some doctrine, it matters not whether it is right or\nwrong, and you will impress it with the truthfulness of this doctrine\nin its childhood, and let it understand as it grows into manhood and\nwomanhood that this doctrine is absolutely true, and hedge it about\nwith superstitions confirming this doctrine, and the hosts of hell\ncan hardly convince it that its early teachings were wrong; so you\ncan easily see what a powerful influence Catholicism has over the\nminds of its followers, as you must bear in mind that Catholicism\ntakes up the child when it is only a few days old and continually\nhedges it about with emblems of ignorance and superstition and never\nallows it to gaze above the horizon of this mass of erroneous\ndoctrine; therefore the child is not to blame for its implicit\nconfidence, but the cunning of those who practice this deception upon\nthis child is to blame, and the doctrine of Catholicism is what I am\nassailing in this volume, for if I can be instrumental in opening the\neyes of those who have arrived at the years of accountability, I feel\nsure that I can be instrumental in having those so reached declare to\ntheir offspring that their first lessons have been altogether\nerroneous, and if the Catholic parents will begin to teach their\nchildren before they leave the parental roof that their first lessons\nwere erroneous it will not be so hard for the Protestant world to\nfinish the job and turn these hosts of darkness into the highways of\nintellectuality.\n\nThe reason that we have so many disgraceful happenings and immoral\nincidents in the lives of the priestcraft is because of the absolute\nconfidence that their followers have in them, as it is a well-known\nfact that the female world has a greater confidence in humanity than\nthe male population, so it is an easy matter for any sane man or\nwoman to understand why an immoral priest, and one who has no regard\nfor honor, has such an easy task in accomplishing the ruin of those\nwhom he seeks to destroy.\n\nThe paradise of the priestcraft is inky darkness, as they prefer\ndarkness to light, and by their actions, their every-day lives take\non the hue of midnight. If we can read God Almighty's hand-writing in\na legible manner, we believe that any intelligent man or woman can\ndiscern in the countenance of a majority of the priestcraft a look\nwhich is almost equal to a condemnation of their actions, as a large\nmajority are lacking of that manly frankness of countenance which is\nfound in the countenances of godly men.\n\nIn conclusion of this chapter, I beg to state that the Confessional\nBox of the Romish Church is one of the darkest pages of the dark\nhistory of Catholicism, and if this hideous chapter was removed from\nRomanism, three-fourths of her diabolical deeds would be eradicated;\nbut when you remove the \"Confessional\" you remove the charm for that\npart of the priestcraft which exists upon the carrion of the human\nfamily, and whenever you remove the \"Confessional,\" the celibacy of\nthe church will be abandoned and the priestcraft will be allowed to\nmarry, as Protestant ministers are permitted to do, and when this is\ndone, instead of having a Roman Catholic Church, we will have a\nProtestant denomination in its stead, and my prayer is that a just\nGod will hasten the day when this \"_virtue trap_\" will be relegated\nto the dark recesses of paganism, from whence it came.\n\n[Illustration: \"AMERICA'S RUIN.\"\nUNCLE SAM--\"I am afraid these people will be the ruination\nof this country unless I stop them from coming over.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter VI.\n\nThe Nations Completely Dominated by\nthe Power of the Pope Are Nations of Illegitimacy.\n\n\nIn this chapter, we have before us the vision of two countries; one\nis Protestant America and the other Catholic Ecuador.\n\nProtestant America stands upon a plane of morality and chastity,\nwhich is pleasing to contemplate, and for which she can thank only\nthe principles of Protestantism, for Protestantism teaches, by both\nprecept and example, as she looks to the only true standard of\nmorality that ever existed, which is the Holy Bible. But Catholicism\nlooks only to a standard which the Pope of Rome sees fit to\nestablish, and a standard of morals which is set by mortal man, can\nonly be, at its best, a very inferior standard, as the licentiousness\nand lust of unholy man can never compare with that great and\ninfinitely good _being_, the Lord of Hosts.\n\nBroad education of the mind means a subduing of the passions, and\n_broad_ education is something that the Catholic Church fights\nagainst, as she knows full well that to educate her masses would be\nequivalent to losing her grasp upon their actions, for no man or\nwoman of a broad education and an individual intellectuality will\npermit these hosts of darkness to dictate to them.\n\nIgnorance is the greatest breeder of crime known to the intelligence\nof man, and it is an established fact that crime breeds immorality,\nand immorality of course is the equivalent of illegitimacy, and\nhistorical facts will bear me out in the assertion that the countries\nwhich are absolutely under the power of the Pope are countries which\nare densely ignorant, and again, as above stated, ignorance leads to\ncrime, and crime to immorality, and now we are back to the first\nproposition and have proven without going further that \"The nations\ncompletely dominated by the power of the Pope are nations of\nillegitimacy,\" but we propose to use historical records to convince\nwithout the shadow of a doubt that our statements are true. However,\nI do not need these historical facts, as I have traveled extensively\nthrough Europe and many other countries, and I know whereof I speak,\nby personal observation and by coming into personal contact with both\nCatholic and Protestant nations. However, we are not going to be\nsatisfied with this alone, as we do not want the reader to rely\nimplicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to bring\nfacts to bear upon your mind which cannot be over-thrown, as\nstatistics are stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but fools\ndispute.\n\nWe propose to take statistics from the _Peabody Reporter_, which you\ncan corroborate with the official report of the United States\nCommissioner of Education. The statistics that we above refer to\nfollow:\n\n\"To every ten thousand inhabitants under the Roman Catholic school\nsystem, there are 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers and 160 criminals,\nwhile in the public school system we only find to every ten thousand\ninhabitants 350 illiterates, making a difference of 1,050 to every\nten thousand.\" Thus you see that what we have said in previous\nchapters of this book in regard to Romanism being founded upon the\nmountains of ignorance is true.\n\nEducation in its literal meaning, means an infusion of intelligence\nthat lifts up the minds of man, and it is generally so accepted by\nthe world at large, but education, as far as Catholicism goes, means\nonly a rehearsal of abominations, which have been practiced upon the\nfollowers of this creed for centuries in the past, and does not in the\nleast bear upon the principles of true education.\n\nThe public school system is established on the principle that the\nintelligence and virtue of the people constitutes the foundation of\nfree government.\n\nOur public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of\nour American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes. The\ngrowth and prosperity which have characterized the first century of\nour schools fulfills their mission.\n\nEducation is the watchword of the hour among Protestants, but never\namong Catholics. We must educate if we would elevate, and unless we\nelevate the minds of men we will have humanity running riot with vice\nand immorality, and this is why the Catholic nations of the earth are\nfound with their morals trailing in the slime of degeneracy.\n\nOur public schools are to-day the great assimilating power in this\ncountry. We find in them children of all nationalities, and whether\nthey be English, Irish, Scotch, Danish, Norwegians, French, Italians,\nor some other nationality, when they enter these institutions they\npass out of the school houses, scattered all over this land,\n_Americans_, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make\nanything but a _true American_ out of a pupil who has been turned out\nof the public schools of this country, and one who has been permitted\nto assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these\nschools.\n\nThe influence of the public schools works rapidly upon childhood and\nis felt through all of their after lives. A child who has been\neducated in the public schools of this country is always an\nunrelenting foe of caste, but the child who is educated in the\nparochial schools is taught to look up to innumerable superiors, and\nsuch an education dwarfs the minds of childhood and teaches them to\ncontinually look to others for their individual happiness, but the\nteachings of the public schools broaden the individual mind and gives\ncourage, which enables the child to swing out from the influence of\nothers and become a mighty power in the mechanism of the universe.\n\nWe touch upon the public schools in this chapter, only in connection\nwith the dominating influence of the Pope over nations which he\ncompletely rules, in order that the reader may thoroughly understand\nthat ignorance begets crime and crime begets illegitimacy, as we\nexpect to dwell more fully upon the education of nations in the\nfuture, but we want the reader to begin at the \"Alpha\" of reason, so\nthat when he or she is through with this chapter that there will be\nno doubt in their minds as to why the power of the Pope breeds\nillegitimacy among his followers.\n\nWe have contrasted the difference in morals of the inhabitants,\nwhich are completely dominated by Roman Catholicism, to that of the\ninhabitants of Protestant America, but we have made this comparison\nin a general way; but we now want to select a country which for its\nabsolutism of Catholic monarchy has no comparison, and that country\nis Ecuador.\n\nIn Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete hold upon the\ninhabitants that they will not allow Protestantism taught, and the\nconsequence of her tyranny is that out of every 100 children born in\nthat country, seventy-five are bastards or illegitimate and have no\nidea of their father, and the immorality of the priestcraft is so\nvile that their actions are absolutely passed over without notice, as\nthere is scarcely a single priest to be found in that country but who\nis the father of from ten to twenty-five and thirty children; but\nstill the Roman Church continues to forbid her priests to wed, when\nthey know full well that celibacy in the Catholic Church is the cause\nof all of this degeneracy.\n\nThis state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador alone, but the same\nstate of affairs exists throughout the length and breadth of all\nCatholic nations which are completely under the power of the Pope.\n\nItaly, for instance, which is the home of the Pope and which has been\nthe home of the Catholic Church since the existence of her\nabominations, is one of the most immoral countries that ever\nbesmirched the face of the earth.\n\nThe first lesson that a Catholic child is taught is \"_hate_,\" and\nthat lesson is directed at Protestantism; therefore, is it any wonder\nthat the education of Catholicism only reaches out far enough to\nhoodwink the student and does not elevate him or her above the\nfestering mess which surrounds it?\n\nWe want, to repeat the statement that the Roman Catholic Church does\nnot want to educate anybody, nor will it do so, where it is not under\nthe pressure of Protestant influence. However, the American people\ndemand figures and facts before they will be convinced; so as further\nevidence of the truthfulness of what we are telling you, we propose\nto quote from a report of the minister of education in Italy, made\nsome few years ago. This report is true in every particular, and\nbear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic himself.\nThe report follows:\n\n\"Of every 1,000 males in the province of Lombardy, 539 only were able\nto read, and 461 did not even know their letters. Of every 1,000\nfemales, only 426 could read and 574 could not read, neither did they\nknow their letters.\n\n\"In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000 males, only 165 were able\nto read and 835 could not, and out of every 1,000 females, only 62\ncould read and 938 could not read and did not know their alphabet.\nTaking this report, you will find that out of every 100, only about\n10 were able to read.\n\n\"In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only 3,500,000 could read and\nwrite, and the rest did not know their alphabet, and to-day Spain,\nanother country which is completely dominated by the power of Rome,\nhas a population of ignorant dupes, as 80 per cent of the population\nof Spain cannot read and write.\n\n\"In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, this same record is\nrepeated, as in other Catholic nations. In European countries where\nProtestantism is taught there is but one out of every ten that cannot\nread and write, but in the same countries, where Catholicism has\nabsolute sway, there is but one out of every 125 that can read and\nwrite.\n\n\"In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there are 315\ninhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while in six Roman\nCatholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to every\n2,715 people.\n\n\"It is estimated that at least seven-eighths of the twenty million\ninhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of the countries of\nMexico, Cuba, Central America and the north and west parts of South\nAmerica, are unable to read, and in Mexico alone 90 per cent of the\ninhabitants cannot read nor write, neither do they know their\nalphabet;\" thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does for the\ncountries which she controls.\n\nWe are writing this book, believing that an intelligent class of\npeople will read it, and if such is true, we believe that it is\nuseless for us to try to demonstrate further why the countries which\nare completely controlled by Catholicism are countries of\nillegitimacy, for an intelligent reader knows full well that\nignorance is the greatest brooder of immorality known to man, and, of\ncourse, immorality means illegitimacy, and we believe that we have\nthoroughly demonstrated to the mind of the reader that Catholicism\nspreads a cloak of ignorance and superstition wherever she is allowed\nto rule supreme, and if this is the case, then the natural\nconsequences of such a state of affairs is illegitimacy.\n\n[Illustration: \"FREE IN NAME ONLY.\"\n\"Take their chains off, UNCLE SAM, or you will\nalways have trouble with them.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter VII.\n\nThe Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto\nRico and the Philippine Islands.\n\n\nIt makes my heart sick when I realize that the Government of the\nUnited States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon the\nIslands of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and, after\nall, these Islands are still in the grasp and the filthy embrace of\nthe Vatican at Rome.\n\nNot only fabulous amounts of money have been spent by the United\nStates upon these Islands, but hundreds of our noble boys in blue\nhave given up their lives in battle and by the scourge of disease,\nand still Catholicism has absolute sway in these far-away countries.\n\nThese islands have been under the immediate control of Popery for\nhundreds of years, but when the Government of the United States took\ncharge of them, their inhabitants had advanced no further in\nintellectuality and the freedom of free men than they were centuries\nago.\n\nIt may sound strange to the average reader when I declare that all of\nthe lives lost and all of the money expended by the United States\nupon Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands was brought about by\nthe tyrannical rule of Rome, for it was by her abominations that Cuba\nrebelled, which was the prime cause of the interference by the\ngovernment of the United States; therefore you can readily see why it\nis that I claim that Catholicism is to blame for the part that the\ngovernment of the United States took in the affairs of these\ncountries, and what puzzles me so much is why the government of the\nUnited States still permits Catholicism to control the destinies of\nthese countries, when the officials of this government know full well\nthat had it not been for abhorrent Catholicism that Cuba would never\nhave rebelled and that Porto Rico would have been satisfied, and that\nthe Philippine Islands would not to-day belong to the United States;\nbut, instead of this government trying to remedy the great wrong\ndone to the inhabitants of these countries, it went right ahead and\nallowed the bone of contention to remain, and to-day finds this\ngovernment not only permitting Catholicism to continue to practice\nher abominations in these countries, but this government is\ninstrumental in sending Catholic teachers over to these countries,\nwhen, if this country would do its whole duty, it would not permit\nCatholicism to take any part in the affairs of these countries.\n\nArchbishop Chapelle was shipped to the Philippine Islands with all\nthe pomp of a ruler, and so was Archbishop J.J. Harty, whom I am\npersonally acquainted with, and whom I have been on intimate terms\nwith for a number of years, and this man Harty is to-day in the\nPhilippine Islands ruling with the same tyrannical hand that has\ncharacterized Romanism for centuries past, and whose rule is only\nsymbolic to ruin, as the interests of the inhabitants of these\ncountries are never considered, as it is Rome's ambition and only\ndesire to keep them under the heel of perpetual tyranny.\n\nWe would like to know why Archbishop Chapelle should be given the\nbest stateroom in a transport ship sailing for Manila, while our\npure-blooded, honest, sincere Protestant boys who wear the blue were\nhuddled together like so many cattle.\n\nAh, this is the reason: Archbishop Chapelle is an emissary of the\nPope of Rome and stands ready at all times to serve the wishes and\nobey the orders of that Italian pontiff, and our officials were aware\nof this fact and they did not want to stir up the Catholic officials\nfor fear of losing a few votes, as both of our old parties have sunk\nso low into the quagmire of filth that they would allow their country\nto sink to the level of Romish abominations if they thought by so\ndoing they could control the Catholic vote for either party.\n\nWas one of your boys on this transport ship? Was your kith and kin\naboard this vessel that showed this ungodly discrimination between\nthe soldier boy who wrung a poor mother's heart by leaving the\nparental fireside? If such was the case, you can vividly see the\ninjustice done to these brave lads in favor of this Archbishop\nChapelle, as these boys were on their way to this terrible land of\ndisease and death to help plant the emblem of liberty upon the\nramparts of these far-away Islands, and this same Archbishop Chapelle\nwas on his way to destroy the influence of these boys' mission.\n\nThe time is not far distant until the Protestant world will wake up\nto the realization that they have been humbled before this Italian\npontiff for the simple reason that our officials are willing to cater\nto Catholicism in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands for the\nsake of votes.\n\nWe do not care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, this\nchapter should fire your blood to the fullest extent, for I am\ntelling you truths, and if you have got the common decency of the\nmost ignorant liberty-loving American you will right now make a\nresolve that Protestant America must redeem her pledge to Cuba, Porto\nRico and the Philippine Islands to liberate them not only from the\nhardships placed upon them by a foreign nation, but liberate them\nfrom the bonds of Catholicism, which not only binds the body, but\nchains the soul with the fetters of ignorance and superstition.\n\nWhen it became known that the government of the United States was to\ninterfere in the affairs of Cuba, the Catholic Church put all of her\nmachinery to work immediately in order to fool Uncle Sam and cajole\nhim into dealing only with the government of Spain, which would\npermit Catholicism to exist in these Islands, and the pages of\nhistory only tell us too well how successfully she laid her plans, as\nto-day we have the awful spectacle of beholding the government of the\nUnited States playing the part of \"protector,\" while she is quietly\naiding the identical institution which caused the misery in these\nfar-away countries.\n\nWhat I tell you in this chapter is true, as I was a Catholic priest\nand was on the inside of the workings of Catholicism at that time,\nand what I relate is not guess work nor imagination, but it is plain,\nunvarnished and unadulterated truths, and the American people will\nsooner or later wake up to the realization of these awful truths, for\njust so long as the United States permits Catholicism to control the\ndestinies of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, just that\nlong turmoil and misery will remain in these tropical regions, for\nCatholicism has sworn by all of her imaginary saints that\nProtestantism shall never rule these countries, and so far she has\ncarried out her threat truly and well, as Protestantism to-day has no\nmore control over the inhabitants of these islands than she did\nbefore the damnable creed of the Pope was molested by the appearance\nof Dewey's guns at Manila.\n\nCan you expect these countries to grow in greatness, and can you\nexpect the inhabitants of these countries to become giants in\nintellect when they practice the cungerings of Catholicism?\n\nWe want to give the reader an insight in this chapter to what\nCatholicism practices in this country and in other countries that are\nnot near so densely ignorant as Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine\nIslands, and then you can have an idea of what the inhabitants of\nthese countries may expect in the way of advancement from\nCatholicism, and what I will repeat is the abominations that I have\nhelped to practice myself for thirty years; therefore I know whereof\nI speak and no man dare dispute.\n\nWe will take a Catholic cemetery, for instance, and in order that the\nground may be sanctified and fit to receive the dead bodies of those\nwho believe in the Catholic faith a bishop must sanctify this earth\nand consecrate it before it is fit to conceal the body of one of the\nPope's followers.\n\nOur Savior has declared that \"From earth we came, and to earth we\nshall return,\" and there was no proviso made that before we should\nreturn to earth that it would have to be consecrated by a human\nbeing, as any man or woman of intelligence knows full well that what\nthe Lord our God has made cannot be improved upon by the idiotic\nchant and superstitious rant of a Catholic bishop.\n\nIt matters not how godly nor how piously a Protestant may have lived,\nCatholicism teaches that it is an abomination to bury a Protestant in\na Catholic cemetery, and one of her laws is that to bury a heretic\n(which means Protestant) in a Catholic cemetery is unlawful, and the\nCatholic Popes instruct that the remains of any Protestant buried in\na Catholic cemetery shall, if they can be distinguished, be removed,\nand if they can not be distinguished, that the cemetery shall be\ncleansed by sprinkling holy water over the ground, and bear in mind\nthat this holy water is to receive its cleansing power from some\npriest or bishop, who perhaps is as immoral as hell.\n\nIn Canada, some time since, the laws of that country forcibly\neffected the burial of a Protestant in a Catholic cemetery, and the\nbishop of that diocese, by the name of Bourget, declared that portion\nof the cemetery as \"_desecrated and filthy_\" and forbade any priest\nto step his foot upon the ground.\n\nNow, do you expect an institution which teaches such doctrines to\nelevate a nation above their own doctrine? If you do, you are\nexpecting something unreasonable, and if the inhabitants of Cuba,\nPorto Rico and the Philippine Islands are not to be elevated above\nsuch abominations can the future hold anything for them but misery?\n\nThere is but one thing that beats a bishop's consecration of a\ngraveyard, and that is money, and money only; but a few dollars will\nturn the trick and will open up the ground in a Catholic cemetery for\na heretic, and enough money will turn the entire cemetery into a\nProtestant graveyard.\n\nIn the City of St. Louis there is a Catholic cemetery called\n\"Calvary,\" and lots twelve feet square are sold at from $50 to $1,000\neach. A lot was bought by a Protestant whose son died and who was\nbaptized in his last hour by a Catholic nurse. While his people were\nProtestants, they consented, since he had been baptized into the\nCatholic Church, that they would give him a Catholic burial, and a\npriest by the name of Ward performed the ceremony. Now, bear in mind\nthat the father of this young man had bought a lot large enough for\nhis whole family to be buried there, when they should die, as he, of\ncourse, wanted his entire family to be buried together, but the\nCatholic Church would not consent to consecrate any part of that lot\nbut the grave in which the young man was buried that was baptized on\nhis death bed, simply because the remainder of the family were\nProtestants; but for money they consecrated a portion of this lot,\nfour feet wide and six and one-half feet long, but the remainder of\nthis lot was not consecrated, therefore you will see that money in\nthe Catholic Church has as much power to consecrate the earth as doth\nthe bishopric and priestcraft.\n\nAh, what abominations! but still this Government expects Cuba, Porto\nRico and the Philippine Islands to be elevated to the standard of\nmanhood and womanhood by this class of ghouls.\n\nNow, if we could halt with the recital of only a few abominations, my\ntask, perhaps, would not be so disgusting, but had I the endurance to\nlive on, until I were a thousand years old, and could write what I\nknow and have experienced in the ranks of Catholicism, I would be\nunable to portray to the reader all of her abominations.\n\nThe Catholic Church is a church of show and glamor, and of\nnonsensical doctrines, and not a church of God and of holy worship.\n\nMany believe that Catholicism has taught all of her cungerings for\ncenturies past, and this is the case, but bear in mind, that\nCatholicism often has to have new \"fakes,\" in order to make the money\nslide out of the pockets of their \"dupes\" more easily, so they get up\nnew intrigues and modern shows for this purpose, and the fake that\nworks the best is the one that they work the hardest, as I solemnly\ndeclare that the Catholic Church as a whole is a money proposition\nupon the part of those who teach her abominations, and I further\ndeclare that it is a \"graft\" conceived by minds that are more cunning\nand deceptive than any class of men upon the face of the whole earth.\n\nThe Catholic Church changes its form of worship like cheap chop\nhouses change their bills of fare, as they are after \"suckers,\" and\nif one bait will not get them, they throw out another, and the pomp\nand show of the church is to catch the eye and not to save the soul.\n\nNot long since, the Catholic Church, with singular devotion, turned\nits attention to the five wounds of Christ, and immediately after\ngiving these five wounds their solicitous attention, they bade their\nfollowers to have recourse to the sacred heart of Jesus, and in\nhundreds of Catholic Churches you will find to-day a statue made in\nthe likeness of Christ, with a heart attached over the breast, and\nthis heart is illuminated by electricity or candle, and the followers\nof Catholicism absolutely worship this mechanism of man, and it has\nproven a great drawing card, and you can rest assured that\nCatholicism is pushing the scheme along good and hard, and \"The St.\nAnthony Bread Box\" hoax is another scheme that is not very old, but\nwhich the Catholic Church has found to be another great paying\ninvestment, and they are working \"St. Anthony\" for all that he is\nworth.\n\nNow, can any man or woman of intelligence believe that the\ninhabitants of these islands can ever expect to become men and women\nof affairs--men and women of individuality--and men and women of\nintellectuality? If you can give a rational reason why these\ncountries should ever expect to be elevated to the standard of\ngreatness under such influences and under the tutelage of such an\ninstitution, then the road to greatness must be a very easy one to\ntravel.\n\nThe Catholic Church is conducted on about the same principle as Dun's\nand Bradstreet's mercantile agencies, as they go into the minutest\ndetail to keep record of the affairs of the country, so that they may\nknow the weakest as well as the strongest points of their creed, so\nthat they may at all times be prepared to exercise the greatest\ninfluence at the proper time, and what makes this creed so dangerous,\nis that they impress upon their dupes that the church is \"eternal\nlaw,\" and they hold out the crown of glory on high as a reward for\nfollowing their doctrine, and this is the most dangerous and damnable\nscheme ever perpetrated by mortal, for when you force a man or woman\nto believe that you hold in your hands their future destiny, you have\nthem to the point where you can force them to do your bidding, and\nthis is exactly what Catholicism does to her followers, and this is\nthe reason why Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands can never\nexpect to go higher in the scale of morality and intellectuality\nthan they are at the present time, if the Government of the United\nStates permits this troop of ghouls to continue to be their masters.\n\nWe believe that we have in this chapter made, it plain to the reader\nwhy the influence of Catholicism should be remotely removed from\nthese islands, and if I am right, the Government of the United States\nis everlastingly wrong in permitting Catholicism to retain her hold\nupon the throats of the inhabitants of these islands, and I\nundoubtedly am right, as I know whereof I speak, as I have trod the\ndeceptive road of Catholicism for the past thirty years, and I dare\nnot tell in this book all that I know of her cunning in regard to\nthese far-away countries, as I would have to use language so plain\nthat I could not expect this volume to pass through the mails, as the\npriestcraft in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are an\nimmoral set, as a whole, and treat the female population of these\nislands in a manner that breeds immorality from generation to\ngeneration, and the awful part of this immorality is that those who\ncommit it with the priestcraft do not consider that it is a wrong, as\nthey have been taught that it is no sin to do as the priestcraft\ndemands, therefore it is ten thousand times worse than if the sin was\ncommitted with the knowledge of the fact that it was a sin, as the\nmother or father who is aware of the fact that they are sinners will\nnot teach their offspring to commit the sins that they are guilty of,\nbut when they are not aware of the fact that they are committing a\nsin, of course, they allow their children to believe that their\nactions are in harmony with the teachings of God, therefore this\ndamnable practice goes on and on, from generation to generation, and\nthis is why the morals, intelligence and progress of Cuba, Porto Rico\nand the Philippine Islands, are to-day on the same plane of depravity\nas they were centuries ago, and no one is to blame for this carnality\nand debauchery of the inhabitants of these islands but the Roman\nCatholic Church, and until the Government of the United States shall\ndeclare and back up her declaration by Protestant manhood, the\ninhabitants of these islands will never know of the beauties of\nchastity and morality and the wonderful blessings that are held in\nstore for them by embracing Protestantism.\n\nMay the Lord of Hosts hasten the day when the eyes of those who rule\nin Protestant America may be opened to the awful sins they are\ncommitting, by allowing Romanism to hover over these islands with her\nvulturous and carnivorous appetite of depravity, and may the time\nsoon come when the Government of the United States shall proclaim to\nthe Vatican at Rome that this veil of abomination shall be lifted\nfrom the inhabitants of these islands; and when this is done, the\ngoddess of liberty that has made Protestant America what she is\nto-day, will hover over these far-away islands of the sea, and new\nlife will pulsate in the veins of these Romish-ridden countries.\n\n[Illustration: \"SAVE THE GIRLS\"!\n\"Batter down the Convent doors of Catholicism and\nthe civilized world will stand amazed.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter VIII.\n\nMonasteries Are Often the Abode of Criminals, and\nNunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.\n\n\nWhen I was living beneath the folds of the black banner of\nCatholicism, I sincerely and devoutly believed that to shield a\nCatholic criminal was a righteous and Godly calling, as I believed\nthat to prevent the civil law from taking hold of the criminal career\nof a Catholic official, for his short-comings, was but an act of\nGodly justice.\n\nI also believed that anything that was done between the walls of a\nNunnery was sanctified by the approval of those who were higher in\nauthority in the Catholic Church than myself; therefore, the things\nwhich I now realize are both criminal and immoral, as well as utterly\ndetestable, I at one time considered righteous, simply because my\neducation had been confined to the narrow channels of bigotry, and\nthe effulgency of Biblical knowledge had never penetrated my\nRomish-inspired perceptibilities.\n\nI believe that I will make many assertions in this chapter that have\nnever been made before, but there will not be an assertion made but\nwhat is true; however, there will be many that will arise from the\ntrenches of Catholicism to denounce the truthfulness of them, but I\nknow whereof I speak, and I defy any mortal man to successfully\ndispute what I may state.\n\nThis chapter will relate to monasteries and nunneries, which in olden\ntimes were called \"asylums.\"\n\nThese asylums are used by Catholicism to scuffle criminals of their\nfollowing into, in defiance of law and justice, as these asylums are\nnotorious among those who are on the inside workings of this creed,\nas to places where Catholic criminals can be concealed without fear\nof having the civil law bring them to justice, as these places are a\nretreat for Catholic criminals who are pursued by the ministers of\njustice, and where, so long as they remain, they cannot be arrested;\nbut in order to elevate these \"asylums\" to the plane of religion,\nthey, are called by different names which are _misnomers_, and are\nonly raised to the level of religious institutions to cover up the\ninfamy of their actual missions, as Catholicism has learned that as\nlong as she can throw around and about herself a religious glamor,\nthat she is permitted to go ahead and violate the laws of man without\nmolestation.\n\nThe \"asylums\" of olden times were intended as retreats for those who\nwere persecuted for their religious belief, but the mission of these\ninstitutions became useless, under the splendid and godly progress of\nProtestantism, as Protestantism planted her banner of enlightenment\nunder the glorious leadership of Martin Luther, and such institutions\nwere done away with, but Catholicism turned these asylums, which were\nonce a protection to the persecuted followers of Christ, and\nconverted them into an abode for Catholic criminals.\n\nThere is scarcely a man or woman in America but what has heard of\nWm. Morgan, who lived at Batavia, in Western New York, who, it was\nclaimed, wrote an expose of Freemasonry, and who, the Catholic Church\nclaims, was killed by the Masonic fraternity for writing this expose.\n\nThe fact of the matter is that this book was prepared by the Catholic\nChurch for electioneering purposes, and it served their scheme well\nand truly.\n\nIt is history that Morgan disappeared very suddenly, and the Catholic\nChurch gave it out that he had been killed by the Masonic fraternity,\nwhich is untrue, as Wm. Morgan was spirited away, and the trick was\nturned by Catholicism.\n\n\"Wm. Morgan\" became the issue for the campaign, and it was narrated\naround that Morgan was conveyed in a carriage from Batavia to Niagara\nby Freemasons, and there drowned in Lake Ontario.\n\nA body was produced near the mouth of the Niagara River, but a friend\nof Wm. Morgan, who knew him well, by the name of Mrs. Wm. G. Barr,\ndenied that the body that was found at the mouth of the Niagara\nRiver, was that of Morgan, and a devout Catholic remarked at the\npost-mortem examination that \"It was a good enough Morgan until after\nthe election.\"\n\nA rigid investigation was made and no one was ever convicted of\nmurdering Morgan.\n\nThe result of the election was that Catholicism carried her point.\nThe Catholic Church had turned by this excitement the eyes of the\nworld towards Freemasonry, and claimed that Morgan's fate was caused\nby the Masonic fraternity.\n\nWhen I came to America, I was given instructions in regard to secret\nsocieties, and the Morgan case was gone over with me in detail, and I\nwas given \"The Bulls\" of three popes, which excluded all members of\nFreemasons from the Catholic Church, and all who belonged to the\nMasonic fraternity were denied even a Christian burial by the\nCatholic Church.\n\nI was told by a priest, who was in good standing, that the Masons had\nin their meetings a literal devil concealed in a box, and that when\nthey would meet, they would stick pins in a picture of some supposed\n\"traitor\" and shriek out in their madness: \"Die like Morgan!\"\n\nMrs. Wm. G. Barr was called to identify the supposed body of Wm.\nMorgan, which was found at the mouth of the Niagara River.\n\nHer husband, Wm. G. Barr, was an old dry goods man and once ran for\ngovernor of the State of Kansas, but was defeated because his wife\nhad declared \"that Wm. Morgan's body had never been discovered at the\nmouth of the Niagara River, and further declared that it was a\n'fake,' pure and simple, and gotten up by Catholicism in order to\nvillify the Masonic fraternity.\"\n\nI had always been of an investigating turn of mind, and the stories\nthat were told to me in regard to Wm. Morgan did not sound right, so\nI took the train for Topeka, Kans., where Mrs. Wm. G. Barr lived, and\nthis is the story that she related to me in great emotion:\n\nMrs. Barr told me that she was a friend of Wm. Morgan, and that she\nwas called to identify his body, but instead of finding the corpse of\nWm. Morgan, on the seashore, she found the body of some one else and\nnot that of Morgan, and she further told me that Wm. Morgan, before\nhis disappearance, had written her that he was persuaded by a number\nof Catholic priests to leave the Masons, and that he, to his sorrow,\nhad followed their advice, and that these priests had written a book,\nand insisted that he should publish it, but he never did give his\nconsent, and stated that he never would; however, the book appeared,\nand the fact of the matter is that it was a clumsy forgery by the\npriestcraft of Catholicism.\n\nThis book appeared in print, and Wm. Morgan became frightened, as he\nrealized that should the country at large believe that he was the\nauthor of this book, he would be considered as a traitor, and he\nbecame frightened and did not know what to do, and about this time\ntwo Catholic priests approached him, and persuaded him to leave the\ncountry, and they took him to \"a Trappist monastery,\" near Montreal,\nCanada.\n\nHe remained there quite a time, and left Canada and went to Asia, and\nhe was seen and identified in Asia years after Catholicism had\ndeclared that he had been murdered by the Masonic fraternity.\n\nI do not remember of ever reading this history before, and I am under\nthe impression that I am the first man--in fact, I know that I am the\nfirst man who was for thirty years a Catholic priest that ever gave\nthis information to the public.\n\nNow, if a monastery in Canada would be turned into a lie and a\ndeception in order that the Catholic Church might carry out her\ndiabolical and cunning schemes, what can we expect of other\nmonasteries?\n\nIf this history attaches itself to a monastery like that in Canada,\nwhat must be the condition of the monasteries and nunneries of\nnations which have not the enlightenment that Canada has?\n\nI desire to call to the attention of the reader a little history that\nis not exceedingly old, and which every boy and girl is acquainted\nwith, as it has transpired in the past ten years--yea, later.\n\nIt was in the afternoon of a December day, in 1900. A boy, Edward\nCudahy, Jr., was walking to his father's mansion and was invited to\nstep into a buggy and was informed that he was under arrest. This\nboy was then and there abducted, and this abduction became known by\nthe boy remaining away from his home that night.\n\nThe police and detectives of Omaha and the detectives from Chicago\nand other cities were busy on the case day and night. Days and weeks\npassed and nothing came to light except letters from the ones who had\nkidnapped this boy, asking for a ransom of $25,000, and stating that\nif this sum of money in gold was not forthcoming, that the boy's eyes\nwould be put out and he would forever lose his sight.\n\nThis last threat startled the poor, heart-broken mother, and as the\ntime approached for these devils to put into execution their threat,\nthis poor frantic mother insisted that her millionaire husband,\nEdward Cudahy, Sr., give up the $25,000 and save her precious boy's\neyesight.\n\nHer husband resisted as long as he could, but at last took the\n$25,000 in gold and stepped into his buggy, with the signal lantern,\nand drove to a certain spot, designated by Pat Crow, who is the one\nwho abducted Cudahy, and with this $25,000 bought his boy's liberty,\nand this boy was brought from that cottage on Grover street, unhurt,\nand Pat Crow made away with his $25,000 in gold.\n\nCudahy was called up a number of times by telephone and was\nthreatened that if he did not withdraw the reward that he was\noffering for Pat Crow's arrest that there would be something awful\nbefall him; but he resisted and would not withdraw his offer of\nreward, consequently this made it necessary for Pat Crow and Eddy\nMcGehee, alias Burns, to leave the country.\n\nThese men were known in Omaha, St. Joe, Kansas City, St. Louis and\nChicago, not only by a number of their ilk, but also to the police\nforces, consequently the nets of the law were stretched all over the\nUnited States for these abductors.\n\nOn December 28 it was reported from La Salle, Ills., that Pat Crow\nwas arrested. Kansas City police promised his arrest before sunset,\nbut he was not arrested.\n\nThere were 80,000,000 people looking for Pat Crow, but he took a\nPullman sleeper and traveled to New York, and from there sailed on a\nfirst-class ticket for Europe and spent a good time in London, from\nwhence he went to South Africa and played a deceptive role in the\nEnglish-African war.\n\nNow, I am going to relate something that will make one's blood boil\nwith indignation and the cold sweat stand out with the clamminess of\ndeath, but what I tell you is true.\n\nPriest Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in St. Louis, was\npresident of the \"Emmet\" celebration in the year 1902.\n\nAfter a speech by Judge Ryan of St. Louis, and a most eloquent\naddress by a priest, who had been a young Boer officer, he inspired\nIrish patriotism by an elegant appeal against \"Old England.\" He was\nindeed an orator who, by his recitation, held the audience for an\nhour. I was one who was nearest to him on the platform and\ncongratulated him on his powerful speech.\n\nAfter the applause from his Irish friends, as he had called them, he\ndecided to leave with me for his hotel, and I was stopping at St.\nPatrick's parsonage, so we both had to go in the same direction.\n\nI had become interested in the fellow while he was delivering his\nspeech and I became much more interested in him in our car ride,\ntogether, to the Lindell Hotel, and he invited me to stop off with\nhim awhile at the Lindell Hotel, and we were soon engaged in all\nkinds of discussions, both religious and political. He was a\n\"Dutchman\" and had asked his government of Holland for a leave of\nabsence to fight in the Boer war, which was granted him, and to prove\nthe truthfulness of this assertion he showed me a wound on his breast\nwhich had not yet healed.\n\nHe remarked that he came \"nearly\" telling in his address at the\n\"Emmet\" meeting about the miraculous escape of Pat Crow to South\nAfrica, and stated that if it had not been for the bad impression Pat\nCrow had made in America, he would have told of the trick that had\nbeen turned to gain him his freedom and rob some one in America of\nthe reward that had been put on his head by Millionaire Cudahy.\n\nThe following is his story he told me as near as I can remember it:\n\n\"One night I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, and stayed with Pat\nCrow in the same room. I knew that it was Pat Crow and did not intend\nto have much to do with him, but he noticed me and I became\ninterested in him, and he spoke to me about matters, and the\nmillionaire's boy being abducted, and the ransom that he received,\nand his escape to Africa.\n\n\"He remarked that I would realize from his name that he was an Irish\nCatholic, and stated that he had gone through the Catholic schools\nand was a 'brother' in the cloisters, and stated that this was his\nstrong point in never being caught in his daring undertakings.\n\n\"He stated that when they received their $25,000 ransom from Cudahy\nthat it was divided at the cottage where the crime was committed. He\nstated that it cost him quite a sum of money to stay with friends a\nfew days in Omaha, but that he soon disguised himself as an inmate of\nthe Jesuit College, a school for Catholic boys.\n\n\"He stated that he traveled on a 'permit' as Father O'Connor to\nKansas City, and stated that from there he went to St. Louis,\ndisguised as a Catholic priest, and that the conductors on the train\nspoke to him as 'How do you do, Father?'\n\n\"When I arrived in St. Louis I went to St. Anthony's Church, where\nyou can obtain most anything from that saint. I rang the bell for\nconfession. I confessed all kinds of things. I confessed to murder,\nrobbery, kidnapping, and the Father Confessor was impressed with me\nbecause I was a 'big fish' in my line, and because I had done no harm\nto the millionaire's boy. I told the inmates of St. Anthony's Church\nthat I wanted to make confession and do penance the remainder of my\nlife.\n\n\"A brother came with the scissors and I received the 'tonsure' for\nthe third time, which left only a circle of hair around my head, and\nno Pinkerton detective, or even Bertillion himself could have\nidentified me.\n\n\"In a short time I left this St. Anthony Church in a 'Catholic\nHabit,' which disguised me as a Catholic official, and I went to\nOmaha and passed myself off as 'Brother Clement from St. Louis.'\n\n\"When I reached Omaha I had no trouble in passing myself off as\n'Brother Clement.'\n\n\"After I had remained there awhile I excused myself and in my\npriestly robes I walked to the banks of the Missouri River and raised\nmy buried treasure, as I had left a part of the money that I received\nfrom Cudahy buried near the river, and I took the train to St. Louis,\nand from there to New York, and from New York I took a German steamer\nto Southampton.\n\n\"I stayed in London two weeks and read in the papers all about Pat\nCrow. London was not the place for a man like me, as I had been there\nbefore, and they knew me; so I sailed for the diamond fields of South\nAfrica, where I am now free, by the system of 'asylums' (which are\nCatholic monasteries) of the Catholic Church. Pat Crow wound up his\nstory by telling me that if I ever needed to try this plan that I\ncould do it, and stated that the Catholic Church was the refuge of\ncriminals.\"\n\nNow, bear in mind, the reason that the Catholic Church is such a\nrefuge for criminals is because no police or detective is ever\nallowed to cross over the door-sills into these places of Catholic\nrefuge, where the worst chapters of crime never will be told, and\nwhere these criminals flee to avoid the punishment of their crimes.\n\nThis is the first time in the history of the world that this awful\nhistory in regard to Pat Crow and Catholicism was ever given to the\nreading public.\n\nCatholicism teaches, and acts accordingly, that if a confessor\nforgives the sins of these criminals that God has taken away all\nguilt from their heinous crimes and that the civil laws have no right\nto punish these criminals after a Catholic priest has forgiven their\nsins, and on this damnable dogma, Catholicism bases her right for the\nexistence of these \"asylums.\"\n\nI want to give the reader a little history in regard to the\nassassination of Abraham Lincoln. Wilkes Booth, a Roman Catholic, was\nthe assassin of President Lincoln. The Roman Catholic Church, under\nthe mask of Democracy, was always believed to be responsible for\nthis diabolical assassination. In fact, it is believed, and the\nbelief is well founded, that through the \"inquisition\" in the City of\nRome that a plot was laid to destroy the republican form of\ngovernment of the United States, and the assassination of Abraham\nLincoln was the first step, and the plotting on this side of the\nwater was done in Catholic houses, adorned with crucifixes, religious\nsaints, religious statues, religious relics, and rosaries, scapulars,\nholy water pots, and medals of Catholicism innumerable.\n\nIt was in the house of Mrs. Surratt, located in the very heart of\nWashington, D.C., that the officers of this government proceeded\nafter the assassination of President Lincoln, and bear in mind that\nMrs. Surratt was a Roman Catholic, and the occupants of this house\nwere arrested. The ones who were arrested were; Mrs. Surratt, a Roman\nCatholic; her daughter, Anna, a Roman Catholic; Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a\nRoman Catholic, and Miss Hollahan, a Roman Catholic. Before the\nofficers had left this house a light knock was heard at the door and\na young man appeared in disguise, as he was dressed as a common\nlaborer and carried a pick upon his shoulder; his hands were white\nand soft and he was also arrested, and his name was Powell, another\nRoman Catholic.\n\nJohn Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was a Roman Catholic, consequently\nthe belief is undoubtedly well founded that not only the scheme to\nassassinate Abraham Lincoln was laid in the City of Rome by Roman\nCatholics, but was carried into execution by the same set in this\ncountry.\n\nBooth, after the assassination, fled to Surrattsville to the hotel of\nMrs. Surratt, and there a Roman Catholic woman had concealed a\ncarbine. Mr. Surratt, at Washington, had warned the folks at the\nhotel that the weapon would be called for the night of Abraham\nLincoln's assassination, which is _prima facie_ evidence of the plot\nto assassinate Lincoln. After the assassination Booth fled, but on\nthe eastern shores of the Potomac he was concealed in a Roman\nCatholic Church for nearly a week. As we relate this history, which\nis true, the evidence becomes more damaging against Roman\nCatholicism.\n\nThe finale of this national tragedy was that Herald, Powell and Mrs.\nSurratt were hung, and Dr. Mudd and O'Laughlin were committed to\nlife-long imprisonment, and all of these were Roman Catholics.\n\nThe question now arises, How did John H. Surratt escape from the same\nfate of Herald, Powell and Mrs. Surratt? _I will tell you!_ John H.\nSurratt escaped by the assistance of Catholic officials and went to\nCanada, and was concealed in a \"Trappist cloister\" near Montreal, and\nremained there until 1865, when, as a Priest, he went to Liverpool.\n\nIn the spring of 1866, Mr. Wm. H. Seward was informed by a Mr. King,\nat Rome, Italy, that John H. Surratt had enlisted in the Papal\nGuards, under the name of John Watson. He was arrested at Teroli, in\nItaly, but escaped by plunging down a ravine twenty-three feet deep.\n\nHe was wounded by the fall and crawled off to a monastery and\nremained there until he was healed and then resumed his flight.\nAfter his wounds healed, he went to Egypt, as he was not satisfied\nwith Italy, and was there captured by our minister, Mr. Hale, and\nsent to America.\n\nI could go on and on, giving you history of lesser importance that\nthis, which occurs week in and week out, month in and month out, and\nyear in and year out, and which is strictly connected with the\nCatholic Church, but what I have given you are truths, and\nindisputable truths, which should be evidence enough of the awfulness\nof monasteries of this and other countries, and a class of men who\nwill commit such dastardly deeds in the monasteries would not\nhesitate to slaughter innocent virtue in the nunneries of this\ncountry.\n\nI could give you history in regard to the nunneries that would make\nthe cheek of virtue blush with shame, but to give you this history I\nwould have to use language that I do not desire to use, as I want to\nkeep the minds and morals of the girls of this country as pure as\npossible; but from this chapter, Protestant fathers and mothers must\nknow what Roman Catholicism consists of, and Catholic fathers and\nmothers who are not everlastingly blinded by the false light of this\ndamnable creed should rally from their lethargetic walks of\ndebauchery and snatch their children from the Romish mire of\ndegradation and place them upon the Protestant highways, which lead\nto the beauties of individual and collective greatness.\n\n[Illustration:\n                 CHRIST            POPE\nThe Christ of Protestantism compared to the God of Catholicism.\n                    TAKE YOUR CHOICE.]\n\n\n\n\nChapter IX.\n\nUn-Married Cussedness of the Roman Priest-Craft.\n\n\nIn the Book of Books, we find that the Lord of Hosts declares that,\n\"It is not good for man to dwell alone,\" and our Heavenly Father also\nteaches us that \"Every man should have one wife.\"\n\nNow, the Good Lord was either right or wrong when He made this\ndeclaration, and who is there that would declare that the Lord was\nmistaken in His injunction? Not one! Therefore, we must acknowledge\nthat either the Lord our God made a declaration that was nonsensical\nand unreasonable, or else the Roman Priestcraft is living a life\nwhich is diagonally contrary to the commands and demands of God\nAlmighty, for when the Roman Church declares that her Priests shall\nnot wed, they at once set up a rule for their teachers which is in\nviolation, to not only the laws of God, but laws of man, as the\nsilent whisperings of man's nature demands a helpmate. The heathen\nnations of the earth who are not acquainted with the sanctity of the\nmarriage vow, have a longing for the companionship of the opposite\nsex, and this longing cannot be termed anything but \"a godly love,\"\nas this feeling was placed in the bosom of humanity by a divine\nbeing, and whenever this desire is thwarted, you have disturbed the\nmost blissful inspiration of the human family; but the Roman Catholic\nChurch would have us believe that a few of the human family have been\nordained by God to live recluses, or, as we may term it, \"unmarried\nhermits.\"\n\nCatholicism, with all her damnable dogmas and creeds, cannot change\nthat God-given impulse that was planted in the bosom of man, when\nAdam was created in the Garden of Eden, and the more Roman\nCatholicism endeavors to eradicate that feeling, the greater her sins\nbecome, for it is a most damnable sin to try to force man to\neradicate from his bosom this everlasting and godly craving for the\nlove of the opposite sex, and as long as \"man is born of woman,\" just\nso long that inspiration will live in the bosom of mankind, and just\nso long as Roman Catholicism endeavors to force humanity to purge\nitself of this blessed longing, just so long the mark of deception,\ndepravity and ungodliness will be left upon the brow of this Romish\ndemon.\n\nThis chapter is one that must be written in a delicate manner, which\nprohibits me from becoming emphatic and explicit, for should I allow\nmyself to write exactly what I have seen, and the truths that exist\nin regard to Romish hellishness, and the deeds of the unmarried\ncussedness of Catholicism, I would have to resort to language that\nwould be unchaste, but I have in mind a story that was told some time\nago, by a young lady, who had spent a number of years in a convent,\nwhich I will relate word for word as she gave it, and which will be\nonly the history over and over again of thousands--yea, tens of\nthousands of girls who have had the same experience as this poor\nmortal, only perhaps had new agonies added to their lives.\n\nThe history of this girl's life in a convent is more than pathetic,\nfrom the fact that her father on his deathbed requested that she be\nplaced in a convent by her mother, which was done, and her\nsufferings, the reader will see, were not a fault of hers, but the\nfault of her parents, who had been raised to believe in the\ndiabolical teachings of Roman Catholicism, but who did not know that\nthese teachings were only echoes of the dark ages of paganism,\ntherefore you will see that this poor girl's history is laden with a\nsadness for which she is not to blame, and the fault can only be laid\nat the fountain head, as her parents were sincere in their belief,\nand did not, of course, realize that they were helping to ruin their\ndarling girl's future.\n\nI will now relate her history, as near as possible, the way she gave\nit, which will be symbolic of the history of thousands of other\ngirls, and which is absolutely true. Her story follows:\n\n\"When one becomes an inmate of a convent, they become a prisoner, as\nevery act is scrutinized by the mother superior, and you have no\nprivilege any more than if you were a convict and placed behind the\nbars for some heinous crime. With this exception, however, you are\nallowed to receive letters from a priest without having the letter\nopened and read before it reaches you, as there is always some mark\nto distinguish a letter received from a priest, but all letters that\nyou write and all letters that you receive, unless they bear the mark\nindicating that they have been sent by a priest, are carefully read,\nand if the contents of either the letter you write, or the one that\nhas been written to you does not meet with the arbitrary opinion of\nthe \"mother superior,\" they are destroyed, and you never have the\nopportunity of sending the one that you have written, or to receive\nthe one that has been written to you, unless they can pass the\ninspection of the \"mother superior,\" who is nothing more nor less\nthan an agent of the Pope of Rome, as she receives her instructions\nfrom the priestcraft, and they receive their instructions from the\nPope of Rome.\"\n\nWhen an inmate of a convent receives a letter from a priest it is\nhanded her without being opened, as the \"mother superior\" is\ninstructed not to open such letters, and is told that all such\nletters, of course, relate to the spiritual welfare of the nun.\n\nIn these letters the priest will tell the nun what day he will call\nto give her a _general confession_. As soon as such a letter is\nreceived the nun informs the \"mother superior\" that on a certain day\nPriest So-and-So will visit her, and, of course, this \"mother\nsuperior\" gives the permission, and on the day that the priest is to\narrive, this nun is excused from all duties for that day, and when\nthe priest arrives he is shown into what is called the _Retreat\nParlor_; and no matter how long he remains there, no one will disturb\nhim. He is supposed to be _talking_ with his penitent on the welfare\nof her soul. Ah, could any one look through the door, they would find\nthis priest with his arms about the form of this fair penitent, or\nperhaps in a far more compromising position!\n\nRight here the reader may ask if these nuns are willing to submit to\nthe embraces of these priests?\n\nI will allow this girl to answer this question in her own language,\nand her answer is this:\n\n\"I answer that in fifteen out of twenty cases--No! But she is there\nhelpless; the priest has seen her somewhere in the garb of a nun and\nhas taken a fancy to her, and whether she be willing or not, he\ncompels her to allow him to satisfy his hellish passion!\"\n\nThis girl continues by exclaiming: \"Oh God! Great God! When I think\nof this system--this system born of the devil and nurtured by\nhell--and realize that under the cloak of religion it is stealing\naway our liberty, entering into our homes, ruining our womanhood and\ngirlhood, and painting childish purity with the brush of immorality,\nand defiling everything with which it comes in contact, I then become\na mad woman, and I become as a venomous serpent, wanting revenge for\nwhat has been done to me, and it seems as if I cannot remain quiet,\nbut, closing my eyes and ears to everything, as I have no redress, I\nam compelled to warn thousands who may come after me, of their fate,\nshould they take up convent life, which is a hell upon earth and a\nblotch as black as the shadows of hell to any land.\"\n\nThe same lady who related the above, and a great deal more which I\ncannot tell in this chapter, gave an account of the sufferings of\nanother nun, who was in the same convent with her, and I now learn\nthat the same story that I will now relate has been told to others.\n\nReader, you must bear in mind that convents have many tortures\noutside of the torturing conscience on account of having the virtue\nof their inmates destroyed. The teachings of Catholicism lead people\nto practice self-infliction upon their person in order to appease a\nliving God, as they seem to worship a living God the same as the\npagans would worship a God of stone, or a ferocious God in the form\nof some carnivorous beast, and in order to atone for their sins,\nthese inmates of the nunneries are taught that they must bear\nself-infliction; in fact, Catholicism teaches her followers that in\norder that any of them shall receive absolute pardon, that they must\nresort to heathenish practices.\n\nAs stated above, the same lady whom we speak of in the first part of\nthis chapter, relates her experience with a sister nun, who endured\nself-torture, believing that it was an outward demonstration of\ngodliness. Her story follows:\n\n\"I call to mind a case of cruelty under the guise of devotion that\nhappened in our convent. A consecrated penitent, Sister Madeline, had\nbeen for some time a victim of consumption. She was a beautiful girl,\nand her exquisitely sweet voice could be heard in church every\nSunday, taking part in the high mass. Poor Sister Madeline! How many\nhumiliations she received! How often she was censured for leaving her\nwork unfinished when she was not able to do it, and how I have pitied\nher as she tried to eat the bread and dripping we had for supper.\nFailing in the attempt, I would notice the tears gather in her eyes.\nOh, how often I longed to be able to obtain some little delicacy for\nher! but dared not ask for it. Her gentle, patient, suffering face\nwill never fade from my memory.\n\n\"One Sunday evening she and I were walking in the garden after\nbenediction. She felt more than usually weak, and, therefore, I could\noffer her my arm to lean upon.\n\n\"'Dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she said, 'I think our blessed\nLord is soon going to come for me.'\n\n\"I tried to cheer her by telling her that it might be His will to\nrestore her again to health and strength.\n\n\"'No, dear Sister,' she replied; 'and oh, I do not want to stay. I\nlong to see my Master's face. At night, when I lay awake in pain, I\nlong, oh, so much, that I might go!'\n\n\"'Sister Madeline,' I said, 'you have been happy here, have you not?\nYou love your present life?'\n\n\"We had seated ourselves by this time in a little grotto made up in\nhonor of 'Our Lady of Lourdes.' She buried her face in her hands, and\nI saw the tears trickling between her fingers.\n\n\"My own eyes filled with tears; I know not why.\n\n\"At last, raising up her head, she said: 'I have tried my best to be\ncontented; but oh! Sister Adelaide, it has been a bitter struggle. It\nis wrong in me to give way thus; but I cannot help it. May Our Lady\npity me! I want you to promise, dear Sister, that you will say a\nrosary for me every day for a year after I am dead, and one communion\nevery month.'\n\n\"'I will gladly do this for you, Sister Madeline,' I answered. 'Tell\nme,' I continued, 'is there any particular day you prefer?'\n\n\"'Yes,' she replied, 'I would like your Friday communion. Promise me\nthat on the anniversary of the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, my patron\nsaint, you will offer your communion for me.'\n\n\"I promised her this and she seemed more satisfied.\n\n\"'I know,' she said, 'that I shall have a long purgatory.' She\nshuddered as she spoke. 'And oh! I do hope the dear sisters will\nremember me in their prayers and communions.'\n\n\"'Dear Sister Madeline,' I said at last, 'purgatory is better than\nhell and our Blessed Lady will intercede for you.'\n\n\"'Yes, dear Sister Magdalene Adelaide,' she said, 'you are right; but\noh!' she continued, 'I cannot help the shudder that passes through me\nas I think of the suffering I shall be in for years, especially after\nthe mortifications I have practiced here, the discipline I have\napplied to myself, the days I have abstained from food, the prayers I\nhave offered, the tears I have shed; and now, as death approaches,\nthere is no other prospect before me than a long term of purgatorial\npunishment. Besides, the punishment will be all the greater since I\nhave given away to an unnatural thought.'\n\n\"'And what, may I ask, do you call an unnatural thought?'\n\n\"'Sister Magdalene Adelaide, come close to me.'\n\n\"I rose from my chair and knelt down beside her.\n\n\"'Dear sister, I have endeavored to bear my cross,' she commenced,\nspeaking with difficulty; 'But oh! sister, I dread the end; I have so\nmuch to expiate; and oh!' she continued, her voice now choked with\nsobs, 'if only I could have my mother near me; if only I could hear\nher voice once more; it is so long since I have seen her. I have\nasked for any letter that may have come, but they tell me none has\narrived, and oh! I don't think mother has quite forgotten me.'\n\n\"I durst not trust myself to speak; my heart was too full. At last I\nsaid, 'Dear sister, do not grieve thus; our Blessed Lady will\nintercede for you. Remember, in coming here your purpose, even as\nmine, was to make reparation for sin. You and I have both suffered.\nBe brave now, dear, and now that the end is near do not take away\nfrom God's glory by fearing for the future.'\n\n\"'I know it is wrong to grieve so much, Sister Magdalene Adelaide,\nbut oh, I am so weak! Will you read a meditation for me?'\n\n\"I took up the book and did as she requested. Soon she fell into a\nsleep which lasted about one hour, and again I commenced saying my\nrosary beads. Presently I heard her murmur, and, listening, I heard\nher whisper, 'My feet! oh, my feet!' I arose from my chair and\nremoved the sheet with the intention of rubbing her limbs; as I did\nso her feet were disclosed. A thrill of horror passed through my\nbeing as I looked at them, for they were all cut, festered and\nbruised; a fearful suspicion took possession of me, and, stooping\ndown, I picked up her infirmary shoes. On examination I discovered in\nthem pieces of broken glass; a thrill akin to horror ran through my\nwhole frame. I held the shoes in my hands and looked at the pale,\nsuffering face of Adeline as she lay there on her bed, and this\nevening the whole scene rises before me--the little infirmary with\nits clean, white floor, a few cheap prints of the stations of the\ncross hanging on the otherwise bare walls, the two or three small\niron bedsteads, then the white wooden altar upon which was spread a\nwhite linen cloth embroidered with red; the two statues, one of 'Our\nLady of Dolours' and the second of St. Joseph, the patron of happy\ndeaths. In the center of the altar was a vase with a few cheap paper\nflowers.\n\n\"Yes, it comes to me most vividly. There she lay, the sin of her\npast life being that she, too, had been deceived at the altars of\nRome--a victim of priestly solicitation in the confessional. Even as\nshe lay there in the last stages of consumption, traces of what had\nat one time been a beautiful face were clearly discernible. What had\nshe not suffered for years! Who could tell the many weary hours of\nheart anguish she had passed through? And yet she was young--hardly\ntwenty-five years old. She had given up all that was near and dear,\nand, for the years she had lived in the convent, she had tried to\nappease God's justice for her early sin by mortifying and chastising\nherself in a way that can only find a parallel in the doctrines of\nBuddha. Oh, Madeline! poor, wounded, betrayed one! Who can wonder, as\nyou lay there with the fever of consumption running and coursing\nthrough your veins, that, in spite of all the teachings and practices\nof self-denial in the convent life in which you had lived so many\nyears, yet, when the hour of death drew nigh and your soul was\nhovering on the borders of the unknown eternity, your thoughts once\nmore went back to the old home-scenes, and you longed, as only a\nchild can, for the sight of a mother's face, the sound of a mother's\nvoice, the cool, soothing touch of a mother's hand passing over your\nbrow? They tried to crush down the natural love that God placed in\nyour heart for your mother, but they could not. The use of the\ndiscipline caused the blood to flow and gave you physical suffering;\nfasting and long prayers made you weak, and thus incapable of\nexercising will-power; and, when no other eye but God's was upon you,\nwhen struggling with the desire to leave forever the hateful prison\nwalls of the convent, the bitter tears forced their way. Then,\nkneeling before the statue of the 'Mother of Sorrows,' you pleaded\nwith her to help and intercede for you. What comfort did you get?\nWhat hope? What consolation? _None!_ You might make good confessions\nand communions, practice all the self-denials required of one in your\nvocation, and the only thing that the church could give you, the only\ngleam of _hope_ she could offer, was that, through your works of\nsupererogation, your purgatory would be lessened; and now, wasted\nthrough suffering and consumption, dreading the punishment of\npurgatory, endeavoring in your dying state to do something to lessen\nits pangs, you have walked with glass in your shoes and your poor\nfeet give evidence of the agony you endured. And this is\nChristianity!\n\n\"I applied cold cloths to her feet; I sat down in the dimly-lighted\ninfirmary by the side of her bed, and, holding the fevered and\ntrembling hand, I, in my ignorance, tried to give her some comfort. I\npromised to remember her in my intentions, my communions, and at the\nsacrifice of the Mass. I spoke to her of the mercy and compassion of\nMary, the 'Mother of Sorrows,' and tried to give her hope by pointing\nto her as mediator between her soul and Christ, but I could see that\nshe received no satisfaction, no assurance. Then her eyes closed and\nshe dozed for a few minutes, only to wake with a moan of pain--'Oh,\nmy feet! oh, my feet!' And then again, 'If only I could see my\nmother!' would issue from her parched and cracked lips.\n\n\"And so I sat through the night, soothing her as well as I knew how,\nand repeating aspirations for her, until the dawn crept in and the\nnuns' bell rang out at 4:30 o'clock, arousing the inmates. The\nquietness and deep stillness still remained throughout the\ninstitution, the sisters and penitents walking in the dimly-lighted\ncloisters with soft tread and down-cast eyes, as if in the land of\nthe silent dead and not the living.\"\n\nAs I write I wonder how it was possible for me to endure the paganism\nof Catholicism for thirty years, and the only rational reason I can\ngive for this endurance is that I, like thousands of these poor nuns\nwhom I have just written about, was raised to believe that the\nteachings of Catholicism were right and the only road that lead to\neternal glory; therefore I look with pity and compassion upon those\nblack-garbed nuns when I behold them tramping the streets of our\nlarge cities, as I realize that they actually believe they are\nperforming God's work, when the truth of the matter is that they are\nonly following the practices of heathen nations.\n\nI could go on and write a thousand pages upon \"The Unmarried\nCussedness of the Roman Priestcraft,\" and each page would be as black\nas the shadows of hell, but I deem it unnecessary, as I have\nconfidence in those who may read this book that they will believe\nevery word of what I have written, therefore it is unnecessary for me\nto dwell longer upon the hideousness of celibacy.\n\nIn conclusion, I desire to say that so long as Roman Catholicism\ndemands that her priestcraft shall not wed, just so long the\npriestcraft will remain vultures of virtue and just so long convents\nwill be turned into carnivals of vice.\n\nIt is only natural that such should be the case, as both the\npriestcraft and the inhabitants of our convents are brought up from\nchildhood to believe in the absurdities of Roman Catholicism, and to\nbelieve that all of their many sins can be pardoned by the cungerings\nof this Romish doctrine.\n\nMy prayer is that the government of the United States may learn in\nthe near future that the broad light of Protestant inspection must\npenetrate these recesses of darkness before we can ever have them\ncleansed of their immorality, and this inspection must be made\noften, and I sincerely believe that the time is not far distant when\nProtestant America will demand that Catholicism shall do away with\nher monasteries and nunneries, unless she submits to a rigid\nexamination of her actions, and whenever she submits it will be\nbecause she is forced to submit, and whenever she is forced to do so,\nthese monasteries and convents will be closed up, as Protestant\nAmerica will not allow nor permit these plague spots to exist to\npollute the fair name of America when she learns of their actual\nmission.\n\n[Illustration: \"BEING EXCOMMUNICATED FOR READING THE BIBLE.\"\n\"May she be damned in her mouth, in her breast, in\nher heart and down to her very stomach. Etc. Etc.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter X.\n\nA Brazen Insult to God.\n\n\nCatholicism teaches that the Pope of Rome is infallible and cannot\nsin, neither can he make a mistake. This claim, if true, would place\nthe Pope of Rome, who is nothing more nor less than a human being,\nupon the same footing as Jesus Christ.\n\nThe Bible says, \"There are none pure; no, not one.\" Now, if the claim\nof Catholicism that the Pope of Rome is infallible, is true, then the\nBible is a myth and a mockery.\n\nIf Catholicism's claim that the Pope of Rome is infallible, is true,\nthen God is not an impartial God, for if He is an impartial God He\nwould not bestow upon any of His mortals the gift of purity, without\nbeing ready to bestow the same gift upon all of those who are\ndeserving, and who by their righteousness deserve this grand and\nprincely distinction.\n\nWe want to use a little common sense and a philosophy that can be\nassimilated by any man or woman of ordinary intelligence.\n\nThe Bible does not relate in any verse or chapter that any one can\nreach the point of infallibility during life. Now, is not this true?\nAnd if it is, then the claim of Catholicism that the Pope of Rome is\ninfallible is a lie, woven in the devil's loom.\n\nWe want to prove to our readers that this claim is one founded upon\nfallacious grounds, as the Pope of Rome is elected by the cardinals\nof the Catholic Church, who are human and who are often as immoral as\nthe devil; therefore the infallibility of the Pope rests in human\nhands, for it is by these cardinals that the Pope is created,\ntherefore you will see that by the ballot of these cardinals the Pope\nderives his infallibility, and not from any power of God Almighty,\nconsequently this proclaimed infallibility of the Pope rests in the\nhands of these cardinals.\n\nNow, to illustrate this damnable doctrine and show it up in its rabid\nignorance, we will suppose that when Pope Pius X was elected Pope of\nRome that if some other priest had received a majority of one of the\nvotes of the cardinals, Pope Pius X would never have had this\nblessing from God, but he would only have missed it one vote,\ntherefore you will see that this infallibility which was about to\nrest on Pope Pius X, but did not, would have been snatched from him\nby the failure of one cardinal to vote for him.\n\nNow, any man or woman of ordinary \"horse sense\" can see that God\nAlmighty has nothing whatever to do with filling the office of the\nPope, and this infallibility rests altogether with the pulling power\nthat the candidate for Pope exercises over the cardinals, as it is an\nindisputable fact that there is as much political chicanery in the\nelection of a Pope as there is in the election of a justice of the\npeace at a township election.\n\nWe want to learn just how far this infallibility of the Pope goes.\nIf a man is infallible he can not make a mistake, and I can prove by\nevery man of broadmindedness and intelligence that the Popes of Rome,\nfor centuries past, have made nothing but mistakes, and their\nmistakes have been not only ruinous to those whom they profess to\nteach, but their mistakes have had a tendency to paralyze the\nrighteous ambitions of every nation to which their influence has\nextended. If the claim of Catholicism is true that her Popes are\ninfallible, then we must acknowledge that this great gift was\nreceived from God Almighty, and we cannot believe such nonsense when\nwe are aware of the fact that these Popes are elected by the\ncardinals, and the election of a Pope depends upon the tactics and\nschemes of these cardinals; then, pray, tell us how any man who has\nbeen raised up under the arch-light of Protestantism, or who has had\nthe searchlight of Protestant intelligence penetrate his soul, can\nfor a moment believe in the infallibility of the Pope?\n\nI sincerely believe, in fact, I know that there are millions who\nbelieve this damnable doctrine, as I can honestly say that I at one\ntime believed it myself. But those who do believe it are those who\nhave been raised beneath the dark shadows of superstition, and my\nmission in writing this book is to brush the cobwebs of ignorance\nfrom these dwarfed minds and help to point them to \"_the Lamb of God\nwho taketh away the sins of the world_,\" and if I can be instrumental\nin this mission I will not only open the eyes of the followers of\nCatholicism, but I will put stiffening into the backbone of\nProtestantism and help them to brand this idolatrous doctrine of\nCatholicism wherever she may dare to rear her abominable head.\n\nThe great danger in teaching that the Pope is infallible is in making\nthieves and murderers of our citizens, for if Catholicism is right in\nteaching her followers that the Pope of Rome is infallible, this\ndoctrine is bound to have an influence that is awful in its effect,\nfor whenever a man or woman believes in the infallibility of the Pope\nthey are bound to believe in the infallibility of all things that he\ncreates; therefore you will see that this doctrine is far-reaching in\nits effects, for if a Pope is infallible the bishops which he\ncreates are infallible, and if the bishops which he creates are\ninfallible, the priests which they create are infallible, and\nwhenever we teach a nation this abomination we have a nation of\npeople which believes that there is no sin so heinous which they may\ncommit but which may be forgiven by the priesthood, as they have\nlearned to believe that all things created by the Pope are\ninfallible, simply because they have been created by the Pope, and\nwhenever you preach a doctrine that has such effect upon the\ninhabitants of any country you will have a set of inhabitants who\nwill commit crime without hesitation, as they are assured that by\npaying a few dollars into the coffers of the priest they can have\ntheir sins pardoned, and whenever you cause a nation to believe this,\nyou at once have a nation of criminals.\n\nIt is, in my estimation, absolutely impossible for an individual who\nbelieves in such a damnable doctrine to become a pure, patriotic\nAmerican citizen. Now, this may seem to the reader a very broad\nassertion and one that may appear too broad to be substantiated, but\nI propose to demonstrate to you that it is only a natural\nconsequence, and if we fail to make this point clear to the reader's\nmind we will not ask them to believe it.\n\nIn the first place, we desire to say that the Catholic religion--if\nreligion it can be termed--is founded upon the rock of superstition.\nEvery code of their church doctrine teaches that the Pope is\ninfallible and cannot err, which is absurd, and not only absurd, but\na festering lie, for no man or woman who believes in the teachings of\nthe Holy Bible can believe in such a doctrine, and whenever a man or\nwoman does believe in the infallibility of the Pope and believes that\nthe Pope cannot err, he or she believes that the Pope is superhuman,\nand such we know cannot be the case as long as there is life in the\nbody, as we are all liable to the Adamic sin, as the world at large\nwas cursed with the Adamic sin in the Garden of Eden.\n\nNow, we want to deal in simple facts and truths that are so simple\nthat the commonest man of ordinary intelligence can understand.\n\nNow, if the Pope of Rome is infallible, he is immortal, and if every\naction of this Pope is pure, then everything that is created by him\nmust be pure; and if such is the case, I was at one time as pure as\nJesus Christ Himself, as I for thirty years was a Roman Catholic\npriest and a creature created by a Roman Catholic Pope. Every man and\nwoman of very ordinary intelligence knows that neither I nor any\nother priest ever was pure; in fact, that man has never lived or died\nwho could claim infallibility and purity so long as life was left in\nhis body.\n\nIf the doctrines of Catholicism are correct then we have no use for a\nGod any longer, as we already have a Pope; and should Pope Pius X die\nto-day the cardinals to-morrow, or some day in the near future, would\nelect another Pope, who would take the place of Jesus Christ Himself,\naccording to their doctrine; and if such doctrines are true, then the\nhuman family in the future and the unborn millions could be saved as\neasily without God as they could with Him, as the Pope would perform\nthat mission himself.\n\nThere are thousands--yea, tens of thousands, who send handkerchiefs\nand trinkets each year to Rome to be blessed (?) by the Pope, and\nwho believe that by having some article which has been blessed (?) by\nthis presumptuous vagabond will prevent them from being overtaken by\nbad luck, ill health or any other misfortune that besets the path of\nman.\n\nNow, if the Pope of Rome has the power to bless and sanctify a piece\nof cloth, a ring, or any dead and inert object, he undoubtedly is\n\"_the real thing_,\" and if such is the case the Bible is a lie, the\ngospel a fallacy, and God Almighty becomes a hireling, and we have no\nfurther need of a God.\n\nWhat can we expect of the followers of Catholicism who believe in\nthis hellish doctrine, and what can we expect of a nation which is\ncontrolled by those who teach and preach such abominations?\n\nAn institution which will teach such damnable ignorance and practice\nsuch superstitious paganism is a plague spot and a curse to any\ncountry, and the man or set of men who claim that the Pope is\ninfallible offers \"_a brazen insult to God_.\"\n\n[Illustration: \"A MODERN JUDAS.\"\nIn his wake, misery always follows.]\n\n\n\n\nChapter XI.\n\nThe Characters of the Followers of Catholicism Compared\nto the Followers of Protestantism.\n\n\nI believe that I am not presuming too much when I consider myself\nauthority on the subject of \"Character,\" as I have had the privilege\nof studying the characters of the followers of both Catholic and\nProtestant countries, as I have traveled extensively over both Europe\nand America and have had occasion to compare the characters of the\nfollowers of the Pope to the characters of the followers of Jesus\nChrist, and the comparison is one that will lead any sane man, or\nwoman, and one who desires to reach a true verdict, to arrive at the\nconclusion that it is a physical impossibility for any man or woman\nwho depends upon mortal wisdom for their inspiration to ever attain\nthe broadness and purity of character that the man or woman who\nlives beneath the shadow of the Cross, and who looks to a living God\nfor their wisdom.\n\nCharacter is not a spontaneous fungus which grows without proper\ncare, as character is an essential that must be cultivated in the\nfertile soil of morality, as there is no code of morals which will\nstand the crucial test of godliness unless it springs from the\neternal injunctions laid down in the Holy Bible, and without morals\nan individual as well as a nation loses its identity among the good\nof the land, and when this happens, society in general is the loser,\nfor whenever we degrade society we degrade ourselves, for there is no\nman or woman so strong and powerful in their individuality but what\nthey can become besmirched and contaminated, to a degree at least, by\nthe association of those who have been lowered in the scale of\nmorality by the lack of this most precious jewel of the human family.\n\nWe are aware of the fact that Protestantism is not exempt from sin,\nas we are well aware that we will find sinners of all degrees in the\nProtestant ranks, but we make the assertion, without fear of\ncontradiction, that the characters in general of the followers of\nProtestantism are many times superior to the characters in general of\nthe followers of Romanism.\n\nWe will take the large cities in the United States as an\nillustration, and we will find that the saloon-keepers, comparatively\nspeaking, are from the ranks of Catholicism, and to engage in the\nsaloon business is no bar to a member of the Catholic Church, for if\nthis saloon-keeper, no matter if he runs a wine-room in connection\nwith his saloon and is responsible for the downfall of an army of\nprecious girls, he is considered a fit subject for heaven by the\nCatholic Church provided he liberally donates to the support of this\ndamnable institution.\n\nStatistics show that ninety-four bar-rooms out of every one hundred\nin America are owned and controlled by the followers of Romanism. As\nCatholicism establishes and builds character out of money, she makes\nmoney her god, and as long as her followers liberally support the\ngreat army of Catholic dignitaries they are taught that they have\nperformed the essential part in the establishment of character; thus\nyou can see what the result of this doctrine would lead to, and you\nhave demonstrations of this doctrine in this country, and more\nespecially in other countries where Catholicism is solely responsible\nfor the condition of the inhabitants.\n\nEverything that is not in the Bible is taken by the Catholic Church\nfrom the heathens and the Jews, and you will find the doctrines and\nthe practices of Catholicism founded upon heathenish practices and\nnot upon the broad plane of morals taught by Jesus Christ.\n\nThose who may read this book, and who are not acquainted with the\ncharacters of the rabble of Catholicism, we would be glad to have\nthem go to any of our large cities and visit some of the districts of\nthese cities which are inhabited by the followers of Romanism, and\nthere you will find a class whose countenances alone would condemn\nthem in any criminal court of the land, as they are men and women who\nare made up of a foreign element and from the criminal districts of\nEuropean countries, and who are as ignorant as rams and glory in\ntheir ignorance, and who have no idea of patriotism and of loyalty to\ncountry, and only have an idea and desire to worship the images and\nsymbols of Catholicism, and any man or body of men, or any nation,\nwho will practice this heathenish worship cannot possess character.\n\nI have traveled extensively over the United States and over European\ncountries which are controlled by the Pope, and if I could vividly\nportray the characters of Catholicism and Protestantism the\ncomparison would resemble the countenance of the criminal compared to\nthe innocent and loveable features of a girl baby.\n\nCatholicism poisons the very atmosphere that surrounds her followers,\nand she is not satisfied by confining her contaminating influences to\nher own followers, but she is everlastingly stretching her filthy\ngrasp to pull Protestantism down to her degraded level. Catholicism\nlowers the standard of public opinion. She makes war on morality and\nvirtue, which destroys character. Catholicism countenances\nwrong-doings. Catholicism tolerates evil and rewards vice, and it is\na well-known fact that \"evil communications corrupt good manners,\"\nand if this is the case, then is it any wonder that the characters of\nthe followers of Catholicism cannot, nor never will, favorably\ncompare to the followers of Protestantism?\n\nI am about to make an assertion that will perhaps shock those who are\nnot familiar with the teachings of Catholicism, but I make it without\nfear of contradiction, as I know whereof I speak, as I have traveled\nthe Papist road for thirty years, and I declare to you with all\nsincerity and honesty that Rome would not go far wrong if she counted\nin her membership 95 per cent of the men and women who are on their\nroad to hell, and if this assertion is true, and if I have not\noverdrawn my estimation, then, pray, tell me what we can expect in\nthe future in this country should such characters as I have just\nportrayed be permitted to dominate this government.\n\nEvery Roman Catholic that is born in the world comes into the world\nalienated from God and God's teachings, and is taught from infancy\nnot to depend upon God Almighty for guidance, but to depend upon\nRomanism for their everlasting future, and with such doctrines\neverlastingly funnelled into childhood, what can we expect of the\nchild when it has grown to maturity?\n\nProtestant children are born into the world of parents who look above\nthe horizon of earthly things for their inspirations, and these\nchildren are taught from infancy that they must look to an all-wise\nGod for succor and support; but Popery ignores all of this and\nteaches by heathenish symbols and by paganic practices. Thus it is an\neasy matter for any sane man or woman to understand why character\ncannot be found in such a class.\n\nThe followers of Catholicism are taught that by the payment of a few\ndimes they can have their sins remitted and pardoned; thus you will\nsee that crime has no terrors for such a class, as they believe that\nwhen they have committed a crime all they have to do is to go to the\npriestcraft and have their sins pardoned, in exchange for perhaps a\npart of the money which they gained in their criminal transaction.\n\nTo rule such men, no religion is required. A Romanist does not look\nto God Almighty for his salvation, but to the church, and the church\ngives him her unbounded sanction to commit sin, provided that he\nreturns after he commits the crime and pays a few dollars to have his\nsins pardoned.\n\nA Roman Catholic can swear, break the Sabbath, dishonor his parents,\nlie, steal, commit adultery, get drunk and commit any other crime\nthat he chooses, provided that he returns to the confessional box and\npays for having his sins pardoned.\n\nNow, what can you expect of a class of men and women who believe in\nthis doctrine, and can you expect to find anything but the character\nof a criminal or a degenerate? If you do, you are undoubtedly as\nignorant as the followers of Romanism, as it is a physical\nimpossibility to reasonably expect a man or woman who has been taught\nthese abominations to ever make men and women of character who will\nadorn this or any other nation.\n\nOne of the rulers of England, Charles II, died with prostitutes about\nhim and died a disgrace to England and to himself, but Rome glorified\nin him as one of her converts. The more of Rome a man or woman\npossesses, and the less of God, the more the Roman Catholic Church\nglorifies in him.\n\nCatholicism is a coward--yea, a cringing coward--when not surrounded\nby large numbers of her followers, as she has no excuse for her\nexistence and cannot defend herself by intelligent and godly\narguments, and the only way she can defend herself is by numbers; but\nwhenever she can resort to physical and brutal strength, she then\nmakes a fight which crimsons the earth with blood, and Protestantism\npays the penalty, and the reason why those in the country and in\nsparsely settled districts do not know more of the hellishness of\nCatholicism is because this creed cannot intelligently defend itself\nand will not take issue with Protestantism unless she can take issue\nby brutal power, but in our cities we have an exhibition of the\ndiabolical deeds of Catholicism, as the majority of our municipal\nelections are controlled by the followers of Catholicism, as Rome's\nfollowers congregate in our large cities, because they love darkness\nbetter than light, and they infest the \"tough\" sections of our cities\nand control our municipal elections by brute force, which is\nsanctioned by the priestcraft.\n\nWe will take it for granted that the inhabitants of the United States\nknow more of Mexico than any other nation which is priest-ridden, so\nwe desire to dwell for a short time upon the characters of the\nMexican peon. You will find Mexico, which lays right across from\nTexas on the Rio Grande River, a dividing line between ignorance and\nintelligence, crime and godliness, and morality and immorality;\nhowever, that part of Texas which lays near the Mexican border has\nbecome contaminated to a great degree by these Mexican \"dupes\" who\nfollow the black flag of Romanism; but the difference in character,\nin manhood, in womanhood, in intelligence and everything which\ndistinguishes right from wrong is so marked and so plain that one\ndoes not have to look twice to see the difference, and there is no\ncause nor no reason for this great difference in character, in\nmanhood and womanhood but the teachings of Rome.\n\nIf we expect America to retain her place among the nations of\nintelligence and nations of greatness, and nations of goodness and\ngodliness, we must be character-builders, for without character we\ncan never expect to reach the zenith of godliness, and without\ngodliness individual greatness is an impossibility.\n\nCatholicism paints the countenances of her followers with the brush\nof ignorance and criminality.\n\n[Illustration: \"FOES TO KNOWLEDGE.\"\n\"Like a poisonous serpent Catholicism is endeavoring\nto inoculate our public schools, with the virus of ignorance.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter XII.\n\nWhy Teachers in Our Public Schools Should Not Be\nSelected from the Ranks of Catholicism.\n\n\nThe Catholic world does not hesitate in declaring that our public\nschools in this country are \"Sinks of Iniquity,\" \"Schools of Vice,\"\nand \"Nurseries of Hell;\" then why should the followers of Catholicism\nbe permitted to teach in our public schools?\n\nThis is a question that ought to vitally interest every Protestant\nfather and mother in this land, and the time is not far distant until\nthey will become interested, for just as sure as God reigns, the time\nis not far in the future when Catholicism will endeavor to close up\nthe public schools of this land and establish her nurseries of\ndarkness and superstition in their stead.\n\nIf the public schools of this country are not good enough for the\nchildren of Catholic parents, it seems to me that the Protestant\nparents of this country should see to it that their children are _too\ngood_ to be taught by Catholic teachers.\n\nWhy is it that the Pope does not promulgate one of his \"holy bulls\"\nand excommunicate those of his believers who take the money so freely\nfor their services from the public schools of this country?\n\nOh, no; the Pope and the priestcraft are perfectly willing, so long\nas Protestants have the power to maintain those schools, that their\n\"jesuitical dupes\" shall receive the money that is set aside for\nthese schools. My blood fairly boils with unbounded indignation when\nI think of the hard, harsh, and ungodly slurs that Catholicism is\never ready to throw at our public school system, and then see blind\nProtestants help to place a Catholic teacher in one of our schools.\n\nWe propose to give facts and figures in this chapter that we hope\nwill open the eyes of drowsy, unconcerned Protestants, and help them\nand their children to apply the brakes to their downward course, and\nspike the guns of the Vatican with American manhood.\n\nWe hope by the time you are through with this chapter you will be\nready to make inquiries as to who is to teach your children in the\npublic schools. Let me ask you, Mr. Protestant, if you ever heard of\na Protestant teaching in a Catholic school? Oh, no! But then you will\nfold your hands and be content to allow your children to be taught by\na man or woman who secretly despises the public school system. Shame!\nTen thousand times we exclaim you should be ashamed for not asserting\nyour American and God-given privileges of Protestantism gained for\nyou through the blood of your forefathers!\n\nA general system of education, such as affords all alike an\nopportunity to cultivate and expand the intellect, the poor as well\nas the rich, is, beyond all question, one of the greatest blessings\nthat any nation can enjoy. Such a system had its birth in America\nwhile it was yet comparatively free from the blighting influence of a\nreligio-political corporation whose whole history is one\nuninterrupted and relentless war upon every system of education\nwhich broadens the intellect and causes people to think. In America\nwas born the public free school system, and from the date of its\nbirth, in 1695, to the present, it has been the means of giving to\nthis nation its most renowned statesmen, jurists, patriots,\nagriculturists, teachers and divines. It is one of the principal\nagents by which the United States of America has been enabled to\nadvance to the first rank in all things that make a nation great.\n\nBut against this most sacred product of American liberty Rome lifts\nher unholy hands. Against our schools she hurls her worst anathemas.\nBut it is our purpose in this chapter to let the Roman Catholic\nChurch speak for itself. Its language is plain and needs no\ninterpretation. Listen to Rome's damnable utterances:\n\n    \"These public schools are devouring fires and pits of\n    destruction. They ought to go back to the devil, from whence\n    they came.\"--_The Freeman's Journal._\n\n    \"If your son or daughter is attending a state school you may\n    be sure that you are violating your duty as Catholic parents\n    and conducting to the everlasting anguish and despair of your\n    child. Take it away. Let it rather never know how to write\n    its name than to become the bound and chained slave of\n    satan.\"--_The Shepherd of the Valley._\n\n    \"The common schools of this country are sinks of moral\n    pollution and nurseries of hell.\"--_Chicago Tablet._\n\n    \"The public or common school system is a swindle on the\n    people, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters of\n    morals, and should be abolished forthwith.\"--_New York\n    Tablet._\n\n    \"The hideous fetish, called the public school, is only an\n    ugly idol after all.\"--_Colorado Catholic._\n\n    \"It will be a glorious day for Roman Catholics in this\n    country when, under the laws of justice and morality, our\n    school system shall be shivered to pieces.\"--_Catholic\n    Telegraph._\n\n    \"We hold education to be a function of the church and not of\n    the state, and in our case we do not and will not accept the\n    state as an educator.\"--_New York Tablet._\n\n    They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are\n    evil. Listen to the snarls of Rome's \"dupes:\"\n\n    \"Unless you suppress the public school system as at present\n    conducted, it will prove the damnation of this\n    country.\"--_Father Walker._\n\n    \"I frankly confess that the Catholics stand before the\n    country as the enemies of the public schools.\"--_Father\n    Phelan._\n\n    \"The duty of all loyal, God-fearing Christian men (Roman\n    Catholics) then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against\n    this common foe.\"--_Father Gleason._\n\n    \"The public schools have produced nothing but a godless\n    generation of thieves and blackguards.\"--_Priest Schauer._\n\n    \"I would as soon administer the sacrament to a dog as to\n    Catholics who send their children to public\n    schools.\"--_Priest Walker._\n\n    \"The public school system must be destroyed. It must be done\n    by stopping Bible reading, Psalm singing and eliminating\n    objectionable books.\"--_Priest Phelan._\n\n    \"To rescue these little ones out of the grasp of that monster\n    (the public school), of that popular idol, is our\n    work.\"--_Bishop John Hennessy._\n\n    \"We can have the United States in ten years. And I want to\n    give you three points for your consideration: The Negroes,\n    the Indians and the public schools.\"--_Bishop Ireland._\n\n    \"Emphatically a social plague.\"--_Archbishop Perche._\n\n    \"A ripe knowledge of the cathechism, minus Massachusetts\n    education, is preferable to her education, minus the\n    catechism.\"--_Cardinal Antonelli._\n\n    \"The common school system of the United States is the worst\n    in the world.\"--_Cardinal Manning._\n\n    \"The catechism alone is essential for the education of the\n    people.\"--_Cardinal Antonelli._\n\n    \"We must take part in the elections. Move in solid mass in\n    every state pledged to sustain the integrity of the public\n    schools.\"--_Cardinal McCloskey._\n\n    \"The Roman Church alone is endowed with power to educate the\n    young.\"--_Cardinal McCloskey._\n\n    \"Education outside of the control of the Roman Catholic\n    Church is a damnable heresy.\"--_Pius IX._\n\n    \"Public schools open to all children for the education of the\n    young should be under the control of the Romish Church, and\n    should not be subject to civil power, nor made to conform to\n    the opinions of the ages.\"--_Pope Pius IX._\n\n    \"When I see them drag from me the children, the poor little\n    children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my\n    heart.\"--_Pope Pius IX._\n\n    \"It is desirable, therefore, venerable brethren, that in\n    concert with your colleagues in the Episcopate, your efforts\n    and your zeal guard Catholic children from frequenting\n    schools in which their religious instruction is neglected and\n    open danger incurred of spiritual loss. Therefore we\n    vehemently desire, as has already been intimated to you by\n    the propaganda, that in approaching Episcopal meetings you\n    carefully discuss the measure that may best help to attain\n    this end. We wish you also to use earnest efforts that the\n    civil magistrates, who know full well that nothing is more\n    advantageous to the commonwealth than religion should\n    provide, by the enactment of wise laws, that the office of\n    teachings, which is carried on at the expense of the public,\n    including consequently the contributions of Catholics, should\n    contain nothing that stands in the way of their conscience or\n    runs foul of their religion.\"--_Pope Leo XIII._\n\nWe could go on and quote diabolical denunciations of our public\nschools from hundreds and thousands of Catholic officials, as the\nfollowers of Rome make no \"bones\" of declaring their animosity\ntowards the public schools of this country, and they are only waiting\nfor the time to arrive when they will be able to wipe from the face\nof the earth every vestige of our public schools, and place in their\nstead their parochial schools, which are nothing more nor less than\n\"mills of ignorance\" and \"institutions of superstition.\"\n\nAn institution of learning is something that is not desired by\nCatholicism, for whenever you educate you destroy the doctrines of\nRomanism, as the hosts of Catholicism cannot stand the searchlight of\nwisdom, for whenever you educate the followers of Catholicism they\nbecome disgusted with their dogmas of damnation.\n\nOur public schools are the bulwarks of this government, and all that\nwe are to-day, and all that we may expect to be in the future, has\ncome and must come by and through the public schools, which are the\ndearest institutions that adorn this country.\n\nThere must be no sectarianism, whether political or religious, in our\npublic schools, but there must be truth and duty there. The\nunchanging and undying maxim of moral rectitude should be taught to\nevery child. It is not enough that a boy or girl should be educated\nmentally. The safety of our nation, as well as his own usefulness and\nhappiness, demand that they should be trained to habits of\ntruthfulness and develop a fine standard of honor. They should be\ninspired to form exalted ideals of manhood and womanhood, charity,\nrectitude and godliness, and made strong in the resolution to defend\nthe truth, which is never found in parochial schools, as the Catholic\ndoctrine always tends to humiliate her followers.\n\nThe time has come when the pupils of our public schools must be\ntaught the love of country, and Catholicism does not teach this, but\nthe reverse. The children of this nation must learn to love their\nnative land. To whom shall we look for the inculcation of those\npatriotic sentiments which should inspire the heart of every American\ncitizen? Not to Catholicism, by any means, but to the three hundred\nthousand teachers of our public schools.\n\nOver every school house in hamlet and city, in country and town, in\nthe North and in the South, in the East and in the West, the American\nflag should kiss the morning breeze. Place it where twenty millions\nof children will see it every day, and learn to love it as the emblem\nof all that is great and good. It will represent to us and to all the\nworld, in a new and peculiar manner, the great fundamental truth that\nthe bulwark of our liberties is in the education of our people.\n\nThe war of the revolution was fought to establish our nationality.\nIncalculable blood and treasure have been spent to establish and keep\nour national life intact, and the national policy with relation to\nour public schools is part and parcel of that all-absorbing\ndetermination to secure the perpetuity of the state. Men make better\ncitizens for being educated. The higher the popular intellect is\nraised the more intelligent and independent will be its vote. The\nstronger the source of government, the stronger the government. If\nthe \"bayonets that think\" are the most potent, the \"ballots that\nthink\" are the most beneficent.\n\nEvery victory which our nation has won has been a victory of the\npublic schools and a death knock to Catholicism. They have been the\nnursery not only of our statesmen, but of our patriots and soldiers.\nThey are an American institution and are destined to live as long as\nthe republic survives. There is no other American institution that\nAmerican people would sooner fight for and die for than that which\nsecures an educated and intelligent nationality. Let us maintain\ninviolate our public schools to the end that our nation may ever be\nthe home of liberty, \"the land of benedictions.\"\n\nIn the unbounded universe of God's domain there are manifold\ndiversities, and yet there is an essential unity that binds the world\ntogether; there is a common point where all matter unites.\n\nAs there is great freedom and diversity permitted in the unity of\nnature, so, in our country of religious and political freedom, we\nmust grant the greatest latitude possible to the individual\nconscience in personal, religious and civil rights consistent with\ngood government. But that there must be a code of morality common to\nall as the basis of our civilized jurisprudence, in which the rights\nof all center or unite and are equally protected, every reasonable\nmind must admit. But where do we get our ideas of what is morally\nright, and what is morally wrong, as the basis of our common law and\njurisprudence? What book or books contain the best code of morals? We\nanswer, the Bible. For the excellency of the morality of the Bible\nhas been admitted by the most distinguished men who have opposed its\nsupernatural revelation, among whom are Gibbon, Byron, Carlyle, Lord\nBollingbroke, Napoleon Bonaparte, Goethe and Renan. Thomas Jefferson,\nspeaking of Christ as a teacher, said: \"He set forth the sublime\nideas of the Supreme Being, aphorisms and precepts of the purest\nmorality.\"\n\nCatholicism says: \"No Bible shall be taught in the public schools,\"\nbut demands that she be allowed to proclaim her dogmas.\n\nBenjamin Franklin, five weeks before his death, said of Christ: \"I\nthink His system of morals, and His religion, as He left them, are\nthe best the world ever saw or is likely to see.\" The services of the\nBible in behalf of human rights and freedom, and in reforming and\npurifying jurisprudence and politics, have been recognized by many of\nthe most distinguished historians, jurists and statesmen.\n\nAs the makers of our laws and the founders of our government have\naccepted the moral code of the Bible as the basis of our\njurisprudence, and have forbidden the union of church and state, and\nhave left every citizen free to \"worship God according to the\ndictates of his own conscience,\" so long as he does not interfere\nwith the rights of others or violate the moral code common to all\ncitizens, for the law cannot allow a person to murder or steal, or\nburn human sacrifices, or be a polygamist, or commit any other public\ncrime, even if the dictates of his conscience should lead him into\nsuch a form of religion, because the moral code of the Bible is the\nbasis of our jurisprudence, and it forbids such things.\n\nTherefore, we demand that the \"book of books\" be kept where the\nrising generation shall come under its moral teaching without party\nor sectarian comment, so that all may understand the fundamental\nprinciples upon which the science of our common law rests, and thus\none of the objects of the order is \"to maintain the public school\nsystem of the United States and to prevent sectarian interference\ntherewith, and upholding the reading of the Holy Bible therein.\"\n\nThe argument that the reading of the Bible in the public school\nshould be abolished because it is objectionable to the conscience of\nsome comes only from the Church of Rome, and applies with equal force\nagainst the moral code of jurisprudence, because it is objectionable\nto the conscience of the anarchist, and the conscience of the\nanarchist is just as sacred and entitled to as much respect, under\nthe law, in this free country of ours as the conscience of any one\nelse.\n\nWe have just as much right to take the moral code out of our common\njurisprudence as to take the Bible out of our public schools, because\nthe moral code of the Bible is the moral code of our common law.\n\nWe desire the Bible to be kept in the school as the standard of moral\ntruth, as the dictionary is kept there as the standard of words and\ntheir definitions. As the unabridged dictionary contains all the\nwords of the English language, so the Bible contains all the truths\nof Christianity. Every book has a part of the words of the\ndictionary, so every Christian creed has a part of the truths of the\nBible. As there never was a book written that contained all of the\nwords of the dictionary, so there never was a creed written that\ncontained all the truths of the Bible. Therefore, as the dictionary\nand not the books is the standard for words and their meaning, so the\nBible, and not the creeds, is the standard of moral truth. A man can\ntake the words in the dictionary and write a bad book, but that is\nnot the fault of the dictionary, but of the man. A person may take\npassages of Scripture and misapplied truths and write a bad creed,\nbut that is not the fault of the Bible, but of the creed-maker. But\nevery man who takes the Bible as a whole has a complete standard of\nmoral truths.\n\nIt is claimed that the Bible should not be read in the school because\nthere are passages that are not proper to be read before children, or\na promiscuous audience, but this is only claimed by Catholicism. Yes,\nand there are words in the dictionary that it would be just as\nimproper to use and define before children or a promiscuous audience\nas any passage in the Bible. Therefore, it would be just as\nreasonable to exclude the dictionary as the Bible from the school\nroom on this hypocritical argument in favor of false modesty.\n\nThe man's conscience that will object to the reading of the Bible in\nthe public school will ultimately object to the moral code of our\njurisprudence, and such a conscience is dangerous to our form of\ngovernment, inimical to the best interests of society and good\ngovernment, as has been clearly demonstrated in the past. The Mormons\nclaimed the right under our constitution to live in polygamy, as that\nwas their religion and the way they served God according to the\n\"dictates of their own conscience.\" But the supreme court decided\nthey could not worship God according to the dictates of their\nconscience if their worship was a violation of the moral code common\nto all. Thus all must submit to the moral code irrespective of their\nindividual conscience. So the Bible should be read in the public\nschools, irrespective of the conscience of any, until the majority of\nthe government of the people, for the people and by the people shall\nsay: \"Away with your Bible, away with your Sabbath, away with your\nChristian jurisprudence, and give us infidel, revolutionary France,\nor lawless anarchy, or the inquisition of the dark ages!\"\n\nOur public school is the mill that is to grind out this standard of\nmorality, knowledge and patriotism common to all. Hence we must have\nthe Bible in it as the standard of morality, and primary principles\nof literature, science and art, the standard of knowledge, and the\nAmerican flag and its essential principles as the standard of\npatriotism. Our American school system is like a great paper mill,\ninto which are cast rags of all kinds and colors, but which lose\ntheir special identity and come out white paper, having a common\nidentity. So we want the children of the state, of whatever\nnationality, color or religion, to pass through this great moral,\nintellectual and patriotic mill, or transforming process, and thus\nlose their foreign peculiarities and come out not as Germans, Irish,\nEnglish, Huns or Poles, but as Americans, having the common identity\nof morality, knowledge and patriotism that is essential to true\nAmerican citizenship and good government stamped upon their minds,\nand when they pass through this mill of purification they then begin\nto lose confidence in the heathenish doctrines of Catholicism.\n\nIn a government where the people are the rulers, intelligence and\neducation are necessary to maintain the nation's stability. Under\nthis belief, the public school system of the United States was\nfounded.\n\nFollowing are expressions of prominent Americans on the general\nsubject of popular education:\n\nPresident Hays: \"I am firmly convinced that the subject of popular\neducation deserves the earnest attention of the people of the whole\ncountry, with a view to wise and comprehensive action by the\ngovernment of the United States. The means at the command of the\nlocal and state authorities are in many cases wholly inadequate to\ndeal with the question. The magnitude of the evil to be eradicated is\nnot, I apprehend, generally and fully understood.\"\n\nPresident Garfield: \"Next in importance to freedom and justice is\npopular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be\npermanently maintained. Its interests are intrusted to the state and\nto the voluntary action of the people. Whatever help the nation can\njustly afford should be generously given to aid the states in\nsupporting common schools, but it would be unjust to our people and\ndangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of the revenue of\nthe nation of the states to the support of sectarian schools. The\nseparation of the church and the state in everything relating to\ntaxation should be absolute.\"\n\nDr. Strong: \"Free schools are one of the cornerstones of our\ngovernment.\"\n\nWashington's Farewell Address: \"Promote them as an object of primary\nimportance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In\nproportion as the structure of a government gives force to public\nopinion, it is essential that public opinions should be enlightened.\"\n\nCalhoun: \"In proportion as a people are ignorant, stupid, debased,\ncorrupt, exposed to violence within and danger without, the power\nnecessary for a government to possess in order to preserve society\nagainst anarchy and destruction becomes greater and greater, and\nindividual liberty, less and less, until the lowest condition is\nreached, when absolute and despotic power becomes necessary on the\npart of the government and individual liberty extinct.\"\n\nThe church of Rome wants to rule by tyranny so that she can force her\n\"dupes\" to do her bidding.\n\nNo subject could be of more interest to American citizens to-day than\nthat of foreign immigration to America. Every section of the country\nhas felt, to some degree, the demoralizing effect of the free\nadmission of aliens, unsuited morally and mentally for participating\nin a government of the people.\n\nThe consensus of opinion among all classes of good citizens is that\nsome restrictive measures should be adopted, and this can be effected\nonly by popular agitation and demand.\n\nRead what some prominent men of the country have said on the subject:\n\nHon. Wm. E. Chandler: \"We should prepare ourselves with wisdom and\nvigor to enforce completely such laws of exclusion as we have\nadopted. We should throw our strongest force into a stricter\nadministration of those laws so that no man and no family shall pass\nthrough the Ellis Island doors, or into any seaport, or across the\nCanadian or Mexican borders, who is a pauper or likely to become\nsuch. One method of stricter administration should be the requirement\nthat all immigrants before leaving their own countries shall obtain\nconsular certificates abroad, showing their right to enter the United\nStates.\"\n\nHon. Henry Cabot Lodge: \"You ask me for a few words on the subject of\nimmigration. My opinion has been stated at length, both in speeches\nin Congress and in review articles, but I am very glad to restate it\nin the briefest possible form. I think that immigration to this\ncountry is increasing too fast on one hand and deteriorating on the\nother. We are ready to welcome every honest immigrant who comes to\nmake a home and become an American citizen, but I believe that the\npresent immigration ought to be sifted and restricted much more than\nit is, both as a protection to the quality of our citizenship and to\nthe rates of wages to our workingmen.\"\n\nHon. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of Census: \"The unrestricted\nadmission of the diseased, half-fed swarms of helpless humanity from\nthe purlieus of Southern European cities is the dangerous phase of\nimmigration. If continued, it will prove a curse and blight to\nAmerican citizenship and American institutions. There was a time in\nour history when the better class of foreign immigrants and our own\npopulation was able to swallow up the less desirable class, but it\ntakes no great discernment now to see the congested spots here and\nthere on our body politic. In this lies the danger. Such a change in\nthe character of immigration as herein shown cannot have taken place\nwithout materially affecting the entire immigration problem, and the\nsooner our statesmen get to the bottom of the present condition of\naffairs, the better for the republic.\"\n\nRev. Josiah Strong, D.D.: \"It is immigration which has fed fat the\nliquor power, and there is a liquor vote. Immigration furnishes most\nof the victims of Mormonism, and there is a Mormon vote. Immigration\nis the strength of the Catholic Church, and there is a Catholic vote.\nImmigration is the mother and nurse of American anarchy, and there is\nto be an anarchist vote. Immigration tends strongly to the cities and\ngives to them their political complexion, and there is no more\nserious menace to our civilization than our rabble-ruled cities.\"\n\nSamuel Gompers, President American Federation of Labor: \"It almost\ngrieves me even to recommend the slightest restriction to the full\nand free immigration of anyone who desires to escape from the\niniquitous conditions from which he may suffer, but the progress of\nour civilization is hanging in the balance, and intelligent and brave\nmen should not be afraid to express themselves to secure us against\nresults which may be appalling. Unrestricted immigration injures the\npeople of our country and does no good to the people of other\ncountries. It injures all.\"\n\nA.S. Draper: \"I would hang the flag in every school room, and I would\nspend an occasional hour in singing our best patriotic songs, in\ndeclaiming the masterpieces of our national oratory, and rehearsing\nthe proud story of our national life.\"\n\nFrancis Marion: \"Men will always fight for their government according\nto their sense of its value. To value it right, they must understand\nit. This they cannot do without education.\"\n\nWinship: \"The public school is the one force, is the only force, that\ncan unify all classes and conditions of society. Here we have the\nchildren of the nation in their entirety, and we can, if we will,\nteach them in the schools so much of the grandeur of our possession,\nof the heroic in our history, of the brilliant in our prosperity, of\nthe fascinating in our traditions, that the fathers of the future\nwill be willing to vote for and die, if necessary, for the American\nidea; that the mothers of the future will teach their sons to develop\nour resources by industry, to honor the active duties of private and\npublic system, because it lies at the foundation of our national\nexistence.\"\n\nWhere does the vicious element which is found in this country come\nfrom, and to what church does it belong? Ah, 98 per cent of those\nwhom we call anarchists can trace their origin from foreign\ncountries, and they are always identified with the Roman Catholic\nChurch.\n\nWherever you find a national disturbance, and wherever you find the\nspirit of anarchy in this country, you will find a spot where Roman\nCatholicism exists, as her teachings are anarchistic, as she teaches\nher followers a doctrine that is as sure to lead to anarchy as water\nis to flow down hill.\n\nCatholicism teaches her children that our public schools are \"plague\nspots\" and \"nurseries of hell,\" and impresses upon their minds that\neducation, in a broad sense, is not essential, and also teaches them\nthat they must look to the priestcraft for their education, and at\nthe same time the priestcraft is instructed by the Pope of Rome that\na broad-gauge education is not permissible to be given to the\nfollowers of Catholicism, and the Pope of Rome teaches her bishopric\nand her priestcraft that they must fight the public school system,\nand in its stead erect the parochial schools of Rome, which are\nnothing more nor less than schools of dogmas, and these dogmas are\nincubators of anarchy, for without education and without love of\ncountry, anarchy is as certain to follow as the day is certain to\nfollow night, but still Protestantism stands idly by and allows\nCatholicism to villify her institutions, and at the same time permits\nCatholicism to place her followers in a position to draw salaries\nfrom the institutions which they despise and hate with the venom of\nhell.\n\nIt is my object and my aim to arouse Protestantism to a sense of\ntheir duty, and if I can do this I will feel that I have accomplished\na task that will eventually call forth the plaudits of the American\npeople, for as sure as God reigns, just that sure our public schools\nwill be crushed out of existence by Catholicism unless Protestant\nAmerica raises her voice and her strong arm in defense of our public\nschool system, and against the encroachment of the damnable and\ndiabolical doctrines of Catholicism.\n\nOur greatest American statesmen, our greatest American patriots, our\ngreatest American thinkers, our wisest and most loyal citizens, and\nour grandest old mothers are Protestants, and born of Protestant\nstock; then why should we hesitate to denounce this anarchistic demon\nof Rome, when we know what she thinks of our American institutions,\nand when we are absolutely certain that if it was within her power\nshe would crash into dust everything that is near and dear to\nProtestantism?\n\nArouse, ye Protestant hosts, and buckle on the armor of your\nforefathers and march out in a solid body of Protestant warriors and\nfight to the death the encroachment of Romish rule and force her back\ninto the trenches of her degradation, and compel her to remain within\nthe border of the countries which she has desolated by her hellish\ndogmas, and purge the shores of the \"home of the brave and the land\nof the free\" of this scarlet-robed hag, who would paralyze our\nAmerican institutions which are near and dear to every pure American,\nboth man and woman, who dwells beneath the folds of the American\nflag.\n\n[Illustration: \"HEATHENISH PRACTICES.\"\n\"A dupe kissing the supposed bone of \"Saint Ann\"\nto cure Rheumatism.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter XIII.\n\nThe Influence of the Priesthood of\nAmerica Upon the Morals of This Country.\n\n\nAn institution which is allowed to flourish in this country, should\nbe an institution whose teachers are in harmony with the fundamental\nprinciples of godliness, morality and liberty, and unless they are,\nthe teachers at once become traitors.\n\nNow, is not this common sense logic and every-day philosophy?\n\nWe want to investigate and see if this logic and philosophy is not\nreasonable and founded upon common sense, and if we find that it is,\nthen any man or woman of intelligence must acknowledge that if the\nteachings and the fundamental principles of a free country are\ncorrect, then the doctrines of Catholicism are altogether wrong, and\nthe sooner the American people can arrive at this conclusion, the\nbetter it will be for us, for if the teachings of our Protestant\nforefathers are right, and the teachings of Rome are wrong, the\nquicker we can eradicate and stamp out these popish doctrines, the\nbetter it will be for our posterity.\n\nIf this country is a home for those who love liberty, then the\ninfluence of the priesthood of America is detrimental to the\nfundamental principles of America, as Catholicism does not teach\npatriotism and loyalty of country, as the burden of her teachings is,\n\"Loyalty to the Pope,\" and the Pope of Rome, who is at the head of\nthe Catholic Church; is a despot pure and simple--yea, he is worse\nthan a despot, as he rules his followers by a superstitious belief,\nwhich teaches that not only the body of Rome's followers is subject\nto the Pope's every whim, but the soul as well is directly under the\ncontrol of this despotic sovereign.\n\nA Roman Catholic form of government is more despotic than a monarchy\nwhich is ruled by an absolute despot, as these monarchs who have\nabsolute sway in the affairs of the state only are satisfied with\nthis absolutism, but not so with Catholicism, as she haunts her\nfollowers to the grave and then demands of their surviving relatives\nthat homage be paid her in order to keep their dead out of the\nregions of despair.\n\nIt matters not how strong we are in our endeavors to do right, the\ncommission of wrong under our nose will corrupt to a certain extent\nthe morals of the young, and I say without fear of contradiction that\nthe priestcraft of this and every other country are, as a whole, a\nset of men whose morality is below par; however, I sincerely believe\nthat there are some few who are chaste, but I am sorry to say that\nthis class is greatly in the minority; and why should it be\notherwise, as the priesthood is composed of men who are mortal, and\nthe vow of celibacy which they must take before they enter the\npriesthood is an unnatural and an unreasonable vow, and one which is\nnot kept sacred by one out of every fifty; thus you will see at once\nthat the priestcraft is a cancer upon the body of morality, for\nwhenever the young and rising generation learns that those who are\nsupposed to teach them in chastity and morality, are men who will\ncommit the very sins which they have been taught are heinous. Then,\nwhat can you expect of future generations, and what must eventually\nbe the morals of a country which is controlled by the priestcraft?\n\nWe do not have to confine ourselves to the recital of the immorality\nof the priestcraft of foreign countries, but we could mention scores\nof cases that have happened in this country and which will continue\nto happen as long as the Romish Church demands the vows of celibacy\nby the priestcraft.\n\nWe will give you an instance of the practices of Romanism in this\ncountry which happened no later than November of this year (1903),\nand if I had the space, I could fill this volume full of such actions\nby the priestcraft.\n\nPriest Geo. D. Sander, of St. Leonard's Catholic Church, Hamburg\navenue and Jefferson street, Brooklyn, New York, was known in that\ncity as a devout Catholic priest, and he was also known in Far Hills,\nNew Jersey, as a race horse man, by the name of \"Geo. West,\" who was\ninterested in a stock farm, on which lived a woman known as \"Mrs.\nGeo. West,\" but her right name is Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who formerly\nbelonged to Priest Sander's church, but disappeared from Brooklyn\nvery mysteriously, and whose whereabouts had been unknown to her\nfamily and her friends, until it was learned that she was living on\nthis stock farm at Far Hills, N.J., and bore the fictitious name by\nwhich this priest was known.\n\nThe double life of Priest Sander began in 1901. Then Jos. C. Peck,\nracer and raiser of trotting horses, met this priest in Albany, who\nwore the ordinary garb of a citizen. They met at the race track,\nwhich was not a very good recommendation to say the least of it, for\nthe Rev. Father Sander. Peck found that this priest was a keen judge\nof horses and their love for horses established a bond of friendship\nbetween them.\n\nIn Baltimore, a short time afterwards, these two men again met at the\nrace track. Peck told Priest Sander that he had just sold a stock\nfarm at Millington, N.J., and contemplated buying another. Sander\ntold Peck that he was the owner of a fine mare named \"Ethel Burns,\"\nand that he would place her on Peck's farm if he purchased it. He\ntold Peck that his mare had a track record of 2:20-1/4 and a trial\nrecord of 2:16.\n\nPeck informed this priest that he was a bachelor. Priest Sander\nproposed that they should keep house jointly and said that he would\nprovide a housekeeper and share the expense of the establishment. He\nwas the guardian, he said, of a Mrs. Mamie Kipp, who had had some\ntrouble with her husband and who wanted to get away from Brooklyn. He\ninformed Peck that this lady had a young son, and that he would bring\nboth the mother and son to the farm at Far Hills, N.J.\n\nIt was obvious that the priest could not indulge in his love for fast\nhorses, and make regular visits to the stock farm in his priestly\nrobes, as he knew it would cause considerable comment; so this priest\nsuggested to Peck that Mrs. Kipp be called \"Mrs. Geo. West,\" and that\nit be given out to the neighbors that she was the wife of a drummer\nfor a large mercantile house in New York, and further stated that he\ncould visit this woman as \"George West,\" and not create any comment.\n\nThe trainmen became acquainted with this priest and considered him a\n\"good fellow,\" as he was always smoking and played the part of a\n\"drummer\" in an elegant manner, and these trainmen came to know \"Geo.\nWest\" as Peck's partner in the race horse business.\n\nThe merchants about Far Hills knew this priest as the husband of\n\"Mrs. West,\" and when this priest would put in his appearance at Far\nHills, the neighbors, of course, thought it was nothing more than\nnatural that \"Mrs. West's\" husband should come to see her whenever he\ncould get an opportunity to get off of the road.\n\nThe accounts for the supplies of the household were billed sometimes\nto \"Geo. West\" and sometimes to Jos. C. Peck, thus you will see that\nPriest Sander acknowledged by these bills that he was \"Geo. West.\"\n\nThis story got to be noised about, and the Protestant element of\nBrooklyn as well as Priest Sander's flock became very much interested\nin the tale, and sent a reporter out to interview Jos. C. Peck, and\nthe first question this reporter asked him was, \"Is that the picture\nof your sister?\" pointing to a portrait of the woman hanging on the\nwall. \"No,\" he replied. \"That is Mrs. West.\" The reporter asked if it\nwas not the picture of Mrs. Mamie Kipp. Peck hesitated, his lips\ntrembling, and he began to look very nervous, then he gave way\ncompletely and said: \"Yes, it is Mrs. Mamie Kipp.\" \"How does she come\nhere under the name of 'Mrs. West,' and who is 'Mr. West?'\" was then\nasked, which Peck refused to answer.\n\nWith these facts in hand, the reporter returned to Brooklyn and\nsought Priest Sander in his parlor, in his parish residence, and the\nfirst question he asked him was this: \"You own a trotting horse out\nat Far Hills, N.J., don't you?\" The answer was, \"Yes.\" \"Don't you own\na string of trotting horses?\" The answer was, \"Certainly not! Who\ntold you that?\" The reporter replied, \"Oh, no; you don't own a string\nof horses as Priest Sander, but as 'Geo. West,' don't you?\" Priest\nSander tried to look surprised, and he folded a slip of paper he\nheld in his hand and got very nervous and replied, \"Now, that is a\npretty story, isn't it; who told you all this?\"\n\nThe reporter laid before him all the facts he had gathered at Far\nHills, and demanded that he affirm or deny the story. Then this\npriest said, \"I may as well confess; it will be the ruin of me; it\nwill take the bread out of my mouth, but you have got it absolutely\nstraight.\" The reporter asked Priest Sander if he positively didn't\nknow that this woman who sailed under the name of \"Mrs. Geo. West\"\nwasn't Mrs. Mamie Kipp.\n\nThis priest, not being content with the dastardly part that he had\nplayed in his immoral conduct with Mrs. Kipp, absolutely denied that\nit was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and further declared that he knew nothing\nabout her, except that she was the \"housekeeper\" at Peck's farm, and\nwhy she was called \"Mrs. West\" he did not know; thus you will see\nthat while he was guilty of immorality with Mrs. Mamie Kipp, he also\nwas a notorious liar; but bear in mind that this same Priest Sander\nwas still at this time presiding over a Catholic church in Brooklyn.\n\nThe reporter was determined to lead him out as far as possible so he\nrepeated again, \"Are you absolutely positive that 'Mrs. West' at\nPeck's farm is not Mrs. Mamie Kipp?\"\n\nThis priest replied that he was \"positive,\" and stated that this\nwoman at Peck's farm was Peck's housekeeper, and further stated that\nhe did not know anything about her at all, when he knew as well as he\nknew that he was living that he had been the cause of her forsaking\nher husband in Brooklyn, and also had been instrumental in her going\nto Far Hills, N.J., where he could live his life of shame without\nmolestation.\n\nAfter this vagabond had made this denial, Mr. Peck was again seen at\nFar Hills, N.J., and emphatically stated that Priest Sander had told\nhim that this woman was Mrs. Mamie Kipp, and that he knew that this\npriest was living in adultery with her.\n\nWhat is the consequence? Did the Roman Catholic Church excommunicate\nthis bundle of perfidy for immorality? Ah, no! As the \"moguls\" and\n\"high up\" officials of Catholicism are cognizant of the fact that the\npriestcraft are, as a whole, the most immoral set of men that ever\ninfested the face of the earth. Now, what can we expect of the morals\nof a country which has for its leaders and teachers men of this\ncaliber? We might as well expect our daughters to become women of\nvirtue and godliness, who were raised in houses of ill fame, as to\nexpect young men and women to become men and women of morality and\nchastity, who have for their teachers such men as Priest Sander of\nBrooklyn, New York.\n\nThere is no denying the fact that Catholicism has already a strong\nhold upon the affairs of this country, as we find the hydra-headed\ndemon in every branch of our government, and since such is the case,\nit is folly to deny the fact that if Catholicism is what we have\nshown it to be, that her influence is demoralizing, and the influence\nof the priesthood of America upon the morals of this country is bound\nto be detrimental, and who will deny the truthfulness of my\nassertions, as I have not misstated a single paragraph in this book;\nand if this is true, what shall we expect of the present generation\nand the generations that are yet unborn, if we permit Catholicism to\nmake as great headway in the future as she has in the past?\n\nWe call to mind another case which belongs to the history of to-day,\nand in this chapter we desire to refer to the present sins of the\npriestcraft, as history teems with the abominations of the\npriestcraft immorality, but in this chapter we want to thoroughly\nconvince the reader that the same immorality that has existed in the\nranks of Catholicism in bygone centuries, is to-day as degrading and\nas rampant as it ever was, and if we can do this, we feel satisfied\nthat we will impress the Protestant world with the importance of\noverthrowing the power of the Pope, and erecting in its stead the\ntrue spirit of Protestantism, whose influence will not blight the\ncharacters of our boys and girls, but which will make of them an army\nof giants, ever ready to battle for the chastity of our American\nhomes.\n\nOne of the most fashionable Roman Catholic churches in New York City\nis \"St. Cecilia's,\" situated on North Henry and Herbert streets.\n\nOnly a few years ago the organist of this church went to the room of\nthe priest in charge, in company with a little boy. The priest\ninformed this boy to stay down stairs, and invited the organist to\nhis parlor, near which were his living rooms. This priest locked the\ndoor behind him, and without a moment's warning, leaped upon her like\na beast and attempted to bear her down upon the sofa and commit an\nassault, but her cries frightened him away.\n\nWith flushed face she rushed from this priest's room and passed the\nservant, out into the street, with the priest begging her to say\nnothing about what had happened. We want to know if this attempted\ncrime injured the priest in the estimation of Catholicism? Not by any\nmeans, as he continued to serve the church in the capacity of priest,\nafter both this girl's father and mother had publicly denounced him\nas a seducer of virtue.\n\nThe entire congregation learned of this priest's attempted assault\nupon virtue, but this degrading notoriety did not injure him in the\nleast, as his services are just as crowded as they were before. This\noutrage was carried before the bishop of the diocese in which this\nchurch was situated, but nothing was done.\n\nThe priest which we refer to was a drunkard, and he drank as deeply\nafter this attempted assault as before, and in a short time he\nassaulted a 12-year-old girl, and not long after that he assaulted\nhis servant, who was a girl 18 years of age, and continued his raid\nupon her virtue until one day, while in a drunken spree, he struck\nher and injured her, and she made public the actions of this human\nviper, who had been parading in the robes of a priest.\n\nDid this exposure disgrace him in the eyes of the Catholic officials\nwho were above him? Not at all, as he continued to serve this New\nYork church without molestation, and it was a notorious fact, and\nknown by the members of his church what he was accused of, but still\nhundreds of boys and girls, young men and young women, and old men\nand old women, bowed at the feet of this depraved devil and\nconfessed their sins.\n\nIf we cared, we could write from now until our old arm would become\npalsied with age, and each chapter would be a new story of the\nperfidy and hellishness of the priestcraft, as every age reeks with\nthe stench of their immorality, and the countries which are\ncompletely under the power of the Pope of Rome are only the shadows\nof what this country will become if this demon of darkness is not\nhalted, for the influence of the priesthood in America upon the\nmorals of this country will spread its blight over the face of our\nfair land until our nation's morals will be a nauseating sight to\nbehold.\n\nReader, remember what I tell you to-day: that unless the spirit of\nProtestantism takes a firm stand in this land against Catholicism, we\nwill find our Protestant hopes and ambitions within the near future\nparalyzed by the infusion of Rome's immorality.\n\n[Illustration: \"A CATHOLIC TOOL.\"\n\"Begging in the name of the Lord, but in reality to support the\nPriestcraft in their idleness.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter XIV.\n\nThe Chastity of the Home Invaded by the Lustfulness of the\nPriest-Craft.\n\n\nCatholicism begins to teach her children from their infancy that no\nact of their officials is impure; thus their followers grow up to\nbelieve that any advancement made by these officials are made in\nbehalf of the salvation of their souls, consequently it is an easy\nmatter for the Priestcraft to make the female members of their\ncongregation believe that whatever they may do or say is done and\nsaid through a righteous motive, and no stigma of disgrace can\npossibly attach itself to the act.\n\nWith this erroneous doctrine funneled into the minds of the female\nmembers of the Catholic Church, is it any wonder that the Priestcraft\nexerts a wonderful power over these members? And is it any wonder\nthat thousands of trusting and confiding wives and daughters are\nforced to the level of immorality by this belief?\n\nAs an introduction to this chapter, and in order to make the conduct\nof the priestcraft in general thoroughly understood, so that the\nreader may know what character of men I refer to, I will give a part\nof a story told by a nun who had been in a convent for a number of\nyears.\n\nI repeat what this nun related in order that the reader may not be\ncompelled to take my statements alone. Her story follows:\n\n\"It was customary with the sisters in our convent to give the bishop\nand priests of my diocese a grand dinner once every year. Of course,\nthis entailed a great deal of extra work upon our part; however, we\nwere glad to undergo these hardships, as I thought at that time that\nit was a part of my religion. The finest delicacies of the season and\nthe choicest wines graced the table. The dinner was always served in\nthe dining-room of the priest of the house. The bishop would usually\narrive along in the afternoon about two or three o'clock. We would\nspread scarlet felt upon the floor of the cloister in honor of the\noccasion, and the drawing room would be banked with the rarest\nflowers; the dining table would groan beneath its rich silver and\ncut-glass.\"\n\nNow, bear in mind that what I am going to tell you is what happened\nwhen there were a number of priests together with their bishop in\ntheir midst, and it is a well known fact that \"numbers\" is often a\ncheck to the actions and ungodly inclinations of many, but if what\nthis nun related is true, with an assemblage of a score or more of\npriests, with their bishop in their midst, then what could be\nexpected of one of these priests alone in the presence of a female\nwhom he preferred? I make this statement so that the reader can draw\nan intelligent conclusion. I will now proceed with the nun's story:\n\n\"This annual dinner would be made an occasion for great rejoicing and\nrecreation on the part of the holy ecclesiastics. Everything was all\nright as long as the meal was in progress, but as soon as the sisters\nwho had waited on them had withdrawn, after placing an abundance of\nwine, whiskey and cigars on the table, then all restraint would be\nset aside and these holy fathers (?) would then exchange confidences\nas to the latest items of news they had gathered in the confessional\nfrom Catholic servants employed in Protestant families, and, without\nmentioning any names, would repeat, amid shouts of drunken laughter,\nthe sins that some of their female penitents had confessed.\n\n\"We nuns would often put our ears to the key-hole and listen to the\nstories that were being told by the priests, and upon my word, I\nnever in all my life heard as many dirty, immoral, filthy stories\ntold as these vagabond priests would repeat, and it always seemed as\nthough the bishop heartily enjoyed them.\n\n\"These carousals would proceed for hours. The whiskey bowl would be\nplaced in the center of the table, then these drunken priests would\nsing songs which were vileness personified.\"\n\nI feel that it is not necessary for me to go further to convince any\none of my readers that the lustfulness of the priestcraft is a menace\nto the chastity of womankind, for if this nun has told the truth,\nand which I know from past experiences is true, and which I also know\nis a recital that could be intensified ten thousand times over, if\nthe whole truth could be told, but which cannot be told in this\nvolume, as I have too much respect for my readers to recite what I\nhave seen with my own eyes and what I have had repeated to me by\nbroken-hearted \"sisters\" who have come to me with tears in their eyes\nand with sighs in their throats to tell me of their miseries.\n\n\"I know of a nun who spent many years in a convent, who declared that\non many occasions the priests would come to the convent and demand\nthat a number of the nuns even do worse than expose their entire\nperson; however, I cannot conceive of a demand that would be more\ndegrading than this of forcing those benighted souls to prostitute\ntheir persons for the gratification of those who pretend to be the\nfollowers of a crucified Christ.\"\n\nIn relating her experience, I understand that a nun who had been\nconfined in a convent for years made the following declaration:\n\"That the superior of the seminary would often come and inform us\nnuns that an order had been received from the Pope to request those\nnuns who possessed the greatest devotion and faith to perform some\nparticular deeds, which he would name in our presence, but which no\nmoral or decent person could ever endure to speak of, and I cannot\nrepeat what these demands often were, as I would have to resort to\nlanguage so filthy that it would blush the cheek of one who was\nhardened in sin.\"\n\nNow, if those who sail under the garb of righteousness would go so\nfar that the inmates of the convents, who are there believing they\nare doing the work of God, would rebel against the priests'\nimmorality, then what can we expect of the priestcraft when they are\nin the presence of your wife, daughter or sister, whom they may\nprefer, and who has been taught to believe that every act of the\npriestcraft is sanctified by God Almighty?\n\nWe want to bring the history of Catholicism down as near to the\npresent time as possible, so the reader may understand the\nconfidence the \"dupes\" of Catholicism have in the priestcraft, for,\nas stated in a previous chapter of this book, it is a well-known fact\nthat the feminine world in general have more confidence in humanity\nthan the male population, but to demonstrate to the reader what\nimplicit confidence the male members of Catholicism have in the\npriestcraft, we call attention to Ed Butler, of the State of\nMissouri, who resides in St. Louis.\n\nEd Butler is a full-fledged Catholic and believes in Catholicism\ntwenty-four hours each day. By the way, it may be necessary for us to\nrefresh the readers' mind of the fact that Ed Butler of St. Louis,\nMo., is considered one of the most high-handed \"boodlers\" in America,\nand who has had a number of his \"dupes\" placed in the state\npenitentiary and kept himself out of the same institution by a\n\"technicality.\" But to go back to the point that we wanted to make,\nwe will just say that a Catholic priest in the City of St. Louis by\nthe name of Coffey had a falling out with Butler over some thing or\nanother, and in order to get even with him he took sides against\nButler and said many harsh but true things about him. One day a\nreporter of one of the St. Louis newspapers met Butler and called his\nattention to what Priest Coffey had said about him, and the only\nanswer that Butler gave this reporter was: \"Father Coffey is a\nCatholic priest and I have nothing to say, and if he should spit in\nmy face I would not resent the action, as I was born and raised a\nCatholic, and do not believe that a Catholic priest can commit a\nsin.\"\n\nNow, if a man of Ed Butler's intellect can be brought up in this land\nof intelligence to believe such abominations in regard to a Catholic\npriest, is it not reasonable to suppose that the female members of\nthe Catholic Church would have a severe task in defending their\nvirtue should a priest desire to destroy it, by telling them \"that no\nact of his could defile them, as it was impossible for him to sin?\"\n\nNow, reader, you may not know just what kind of treatment from the\nCatholic Church I will receive for writing this book, but as soon as it\nis placed upon the market the Catholic Church will \"excommunicate\" me;\nhowever, it may be possible that the reader does not understand what a\nhorrible curse this excommunication is, but in order that you may\nthoroughly understand what I mean I will repeat, word for word, what\nsome Catholic official will declare against me for writing this book,\nwhich will further go to show the reader the vileness of this damnable\ncreed, and which will also go to convince the reader what fear the\nfollowers of Catholicism have of the priestcraft, which will more fully\nconvince you that timid, unsuspecting woman, who has been brought up to\nbelieve in the paganism of Catholicism, can be easily led to yield to\nthe lustful desires of the priestcraft, for fear that by refusing his\nrequest that he would pronounce this terrible curse upon her, which she\nhas been taught would forever damn her eternal soul.\n\nThe curse of excommunication which I am certain to receive at the\nhands of Catholicism for writing this book follows:\n\n    \"By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy\n    Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of\n    our Savior, and all of the Celestial Virtues, Angels,\n    Archangels, Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Cherubim and\n    Seraphim, and of all the Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and of\n    all the Apostles and Evangelists, of the Holy Innocents, who\n    in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the\n    new songs of the Holy Martyrs and Holy Confessors, and of all\n    the Holy Virgins, and of all the Saints, together with the\n    Holy Elect of God, may he, Bernard Fresenborg, be damned!\n\n    \"We excommunicate and anathematize him from the threshold of\n    the Holy Church of God Almighty. We sequester him, that he\n    may be tormented, disposed, and be delivered over with Dathan\n    and Abiram, and with those who say unto the Lord, 'Depart\n    from us, we desire none of thy ways;' as a fire is quenched\n    with water, so let the light of him be put out for ever more,\n    unless it shall repent him and make satisfaction!\n\n    \"May the Father, who creates man, curse him!\n\n    \"May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him!\n\n    \"May the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in baptism, curse him!\n\n    \"May the Holy Cross, which Christ for our salvation,\n    triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him!\n\n    \"May the Holy Mary, ever Virgin and the Mother of God, curse\n    him!\n\n    \"May St. Michael, the Advocate of the Holy Souls, curse him!\n\n    \"May all the Angels, Principalities and Powers, and all\n    Heavenly Armies curse him!\n\n    \"May the glorious band of the Patriarchs and Prophets curse\n    him!\n\n    \"May St. John the Precursor, and St. John the Baptist, and\n    St. Peter, and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, and all other of\n    Christ's Apostles together, curse him!\n\n    \"And may the rest of the Disciples and Evangelists, who by\n    their preaching converted the universe, and the holy and\n    wonderful company of Martyrs and Confessors, who by their\n    works are found pleasing to God Almighty; may the holy choir\n    of the Holy Virgins, who, for the honor of Christ, have\n    despised the things of the world, damn him!\n\n    \"May all the Saints from the beginning of the world to\n    everlasting ages who are found to be beloved of God, damn\n    him!\n\n    \"May he be damned wherever he be, whether in the house or in\n    the alley, in the woods or in the water, or in the church!\n\n    \"May he be cursed in living and dying!\n\n    \"May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry, in\n    being thirsty, in fasting and sleeping, in slumbering, and in\n    sitting, in living, in working, in resting, and ... and in\n    blood-letting!\n\n    \"May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body!\n\n    \"May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly!\n\n    \"May he be cursed in his hair; cursed be he in his brains and\n    his vertex, in his temples, in his eyebrows, in his cheeks,\n    in his jaw bones, in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders,\n    in his lips, in his shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers!\n\n    \"May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart,\n    and appurtenances, down to the very stomach!\n\n    \"May he be cursed in his ... and his ... in his thighs, in\n    his ... and his ... and in his knees, and his legs, and his\n    feet, and toe-nails!\n\n    \"May he be cursed in all his joints and articulations of the\n    members; from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet\n    may there be no soundness!\n\n    \"May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of His\n    majesty, curse him!\n\n    \"And may Heaven, with all the powers that move therein, rise\n    up against him, and curse and damn him, unless he repent and\n    make satisfaction! Amen! So be it! Be it so! Amen! Amen!\n    Amen!\"\n\nI have given you the diabolical \"curse\" of excommunication, word for\nword; thus you can see how un-Christlike the Catholic Church is.\n\nAs I have before said in this chapter, the foregoing is the curse\nthat will fall to my lot as soon as this book is placed upon the\nmarket, thus the reader can see that my motives for writing this\nbook must come from a pure incentive, or else I would not willingly\ncut myself asunder from all of those whom I have associated with\nduring my life. This task is not one that I enjoy, as it breaks my\nheart to realize that I have all through my life been burdened down\nwith this load of superstitious filth, but I could not in justice to\nmyself and in justice to a living God refrain from the task, after I\nhad had my eyes opened to the beauties of Protestantism.\n\nWith tears in my eyes and with a heart full of sadness, I remember\nthe angelic face of my old mother, as she conscientiously taught me\nmy first Catechism and directed my feet in the paths of what she\nsincerely believed righteousness, and believing in a just God, I knew\nthat He has taken her to His bosom in His home beyond the skies, for\nwhat she taught me she sincerely believed, as she never had her eyes\nopened to the abominations of the creed of which I write, and I do\nnot believe that a just God would damn the soul of a pure mother who\nhonestly taught what she conscientiously believed, but the\npriestcraft in general are men who are above the average in\nintellect, and are men whom I believe have often had had the same\nthoughts relative to the doctrines of Catholicism that I had long,\nlong years before I cut loose from the teachings of Rome; however,\nthe priestcraft is not to be excused from their raid upon virtue by\nignorance, as they are taught the lessons of chastity in their\nchildhood, but the bond of celibacy which binds them in an unnatural\nway, and the hellish doctrines taught by the Catholic Church that the\npriestcraft cannot sin, turns them into pirates upon virtue.\n\nWhen we take into consideration the fact that all of the teachings of\nCatholicism lead to not only implicit confidence in the purity of the\npriestcraft, but carry with them the cudgel of destruction of the\nsoul of her followers, if they do not submit to her teachings and\ndemands, we can then realize why it is that the chastity of the home\nbecomes a rendezvous for those of the priestcraft who deliberately\nravish virtue to gratify their inhuman lust.\n\n[Illustration: \"SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY.\"\n\"The road to Glory along a Catholic highway\nis an expensive trip.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter XV.\n\nNations Which Have Been Disgraced\nby the Toleration of Popish Rule.\n\n\nThere is no nation on the face of God's green earth to-day which has\nbeen enslaved by the power of Popery, and which has been burdened by\nan idle and worthless army of Priests, Monks and Nuns, but what would\nhave become, not only tired, but disgusted with their burden, if they\nhad ever been permitted to mingle and commingle with Protestant\ncountries, and learn that Protestantism leads to individual\nintellectuality and collective greatness.\n\nIt is true, however, that there are many countries in South America\nthat have been Priest-ridden for centuries, and who are as heavily\nburdened to-day with this ancient parasite as ever, who offer not a\nsingle protest, but the only reason for this is that Catholicism has\nalways forbidden these priest-ridden nations to make any advancement\ntowards Protestantism, which has been instrumental in keeping these\nnations under the complete control of the Vatican; thus you will see\nthey have never been permitted to taste of the grandeur of\nProtestantism.\n\nWe will take France for instance, which was at one time one of the\nmost priest-ridden countries on earth, but which is to-day\nendeavoring to extract herself from the meshes of this damnable\ncreed, as the intelligent statesmen of France have learned that\nCatholicism is only another name for ignorance and superstition, and\nthey have also learned that so long as the affairs of France remain\nunder the control of papal power, just that long advancement and\ngreatness stand aloof from the portals of their country, so in the\npast two years the government officials have removed tens of\nthousands of the Pope's hirelings from authority and have closed up\nhundreds of parochial schools.\n\nNow, if Catholicism is such a glorious creed, why is it that France\nis so anxious to get rid of her influence? Ah! France has learned by\ncoming in contact with Protestant countries that she need not expect\nto ever become a great nation if she permits popery to control her\naffairs.\n\nItaly, the home of the Pope, has begun to wince under the Vatican's\nrule, as her national back is getting raw by the saddle of this\ndiabolical creed. The inhabitants of Italy have been for the past few\nyears protesting against the high-handedness of Catholicism, and the\nofficials have begun to take notice of this vulture of humanity, and\nmy predictions are that within a very short time Italy will do as\nFrance has done and close up the monasteries and convents, for just\nas long as these institutions are allowed to keep open house, and\ndictate to the inhabitants of Italy, just that long we may expect the\nimmigrants who come over from Italy to bear the Vatican's mark of\nvice, immorality and criminality.\n\nGo to Ellis Island and watch the immigrant ships from Catholic\nnations as they vomit forth their load of human carrion upon the fair\nshores of this country, and your heart will become sick with fear,\nas this class that hails from the nations of popery are a class, as a\nwhole, that will disgrace and ruin any nation on earth, as these\nimmigrants are men and women who have no conception of a free\ncountry, as they are men and women who have never been taught to look\nabove the horizon of Catholicism; therefore they land upon the shores\nof America as criminals and not as citizens, and you cannot make pure\nAmerican citizens out of them until you boil this hellish creed from\ntheir system by the fire of patriotism, and this cannot be done as\nlong as this country permits Catholicism to run her mills of\ndegeneracy unmolested upon our shores.\n\nAll of our large cities are infested more or less with this\n\"scarlet-robed hag of hell,\" and more especially our eastern cities,\nas this foreign herd of the Pope's followers land in eastern ports\nand spread themselves out like a blanket, reeking with a moral stench\nover the eastern borders of this country, and they make a specialty\nof settling in our eastern cities.\n\nWe will take Boston, Mass., for instance, as there is but very little\ndifference in the \"rabble\" of that city and the immoral degenerate\nclass that infests the densely populated centers of Catholic\ncountries.\n\nSeveral notorious cases of open defiance of civil law and violation\nof civil rights by the tools of popery have recently occurred in\nBoston. One of these is the escape of two girls from the so-called\n\"House of the Good Shepherd,\" in Roxbury, and the re-capture of these\ngirls by a policeman.\n\nNow, bear in mind that this \"House of the Good Shepherd\" is a\nCatholic institution, pure and simple, but these girls who escaped\nfrom this \"plague house,\" were arrested by the police and returned to\nthis Catholic dungeon without the semblance of law.\n\nOn questioning \"The Mother Superior,\" she said that the girls were\nnot committed to the institution by the courts, but by \"the church.\"\nThe question then arose: Has the Roman Catholic Church the right to\ngive sentence of imprisonment with hard labor as a penalty? For this\nis exactly what imprisonment in this \"House of the Good Shepherd\"\nmeans; therefore, if these girls so sentenced escape, what right has\na _city policeman_ to arrest and carry them back to this Catholic\ninstitution, which exists without the semblance of a State law and\nwithout an iota of moral law? Are the policemen of the cities of\nMassachusetts servants of the Roman Catholic Church? Have the courts\nthe right to sentence prisoners to Catholic prisons, and after\nsentence, have the prisoners no right? Many of them are kept for\nlife, or until too old to work, and then they are set adrift to\nbecome public charges upon a Protestant country, after the Roman\nCatholic Church has made hundreds of dollars from the labor of these\nunfortunates.\n\nWe want to call attention to another flagrant case, which happened in\nthe north end of Boston not long since.\n\nA few months since, a Protestant Italian family in the north end of\nBoston was about to move to New York. There were two children and\nthe wife soon expected to become mother again. She expressed the\nwish that some one would care for one of her children for a few\nweeks, until she got well and was settled in her new home. A neighbor\nsent a woman to her who offered to care for the children, and when\nthis little one was turned over to her, she took it straightway to\nthe home for destitute Catholic children, on Harrison avenue, in\nBoston. In a month the mother called for her baby and was told that\nit was \"up in the country,\" and was requested to leave it there for a\nmonth, and was told that it would be good for the child. She\nconsented to this, believing that the fresh air would be good for her\nbaby, but she was an uneducated woman and was inclined to believe\nwhat others said, as she was an honest lady herself, but she did not\nknow the trickery of the Catholic Church, so when she was asked to\nsign a paper, she readily agreed to it, not thinking that she was\ngiving her own blood and flesh away.\n\nIn a month she came on from New York to get her baby and was told\nthat she could not have it, and was further told that she had signed\na paper giving it away. Then the husband came on from New York and\ndemanded the child, but was refused. He then appealed to the pastor\nof the Italian Methodist Church, on Hanover street, Boston. The two\nwent to a very prominent Romanist office-holder, who was chairman of\nthe trustees of this so-called \"Catholic Home.\" This man draws seven\nthousand dollars per year from the city, and is elected largely\nthrough Protestant influence, simply because Protestantism believes\nthat she can reform Catholicism by being liberal with her; but oh!\nLiberty! what crimes are perpetrated in thy name! This Boston\nofficial, after much talk with this Italian father, told him to bring\na letter from a priest, and that he would see what he could do. The\nItalian said, \"I am a Protestant,\" at which the official became very\nindignant, but after a little more talk said: \"Bring a letter of\nrecommendation from a minister.\" This Italian father got a good,\nstrong letter commending his character from a Protestant minister in\nNew York, and one who already knew him, and went this time alone to\nthis Boston official.\n\nIn about an hour this heart-broken father appeared before a Methodist\nminister in tears, saying: \"He will not give me my child. He said I\nam a bad man for becoming a Protestant, and that by doing so I have\nproven that I am unfit to care for my children, and when I gave him\nmy letter from the Protestant minister, he said: 'I will not take the\nword of a Protestant minister!'\"\n\nNow, if what we have related is true, which I know to be absolutely\ntrue in every particular, would happen in the United States of\nAmerica, \"the land of the free and the home of the brave,\" you might\nknow what would happen in a Catholic country which is completely\nunder the tyrannical and damnable rule of the Pope.\n\nA minister informs us that on three occasions lately, children have\ncome to him and told him that an Irish public school teacher in\nBoston had forbidden them to attend Protestant services, as their\nparents were at one time Roman Catholics, and that this talk from\nthis Romish school teacher was had during school hours.\n\nWhat we need in this country is a \"vigilance committee,\" and we need\nit badly, and we need it right away, and this committee should be\ninstructed to impeach every public official who endeavors to usurp\nthe law in favor of Roman Catholicism.\n\nThe brightest minds of the past, and the brightest minds of the\npresent have pointed out to Protestant America the dangers of\nRomanism, but it seems as though we will not heed their warning, when\nwe see upon every side evidences of moral decay and national\ndegeneracy by permitting this \"Romish hag\" to supervise and\nsuperintend the affairs of this nation.\n\nProtestant European nations have for many years beheld the despotic\nmarch of Catholicism in America, and this country for a number of\nyears has been the laughing stock of Protestant European countries\nfor permitting this brazen demon to tread up and down the avenues of\nour liberties without molestation.\n\nA few years before Bismarck of Germany died, he, in a public speech\ndelivered in the German parliament, pointed out that the Roman\nCatholic Church was only free in America, and for the benefit of the\nreader we will quote a part of this great statesman's speech:\n\n\"The Pope being purely a religious chief, there is no occasion to\nkeep a permanent political representative at his port. Things,\nindeed, might have been left _in status quo_ had not the present Pope\nthought it fit to revive the ancient struggle of the papacy with the\ntemporal power, and more especially with the German empire. The\nspirit emanating the papacy in this campaign is too well known to\nrequire comment; still we would tell the house a story, which has\nlong been kept a secret, but which had better be made public. In\n1869, when the Wurtemberg government had occasion to complain of the\naction of the papacy, the Wurtemberg envoy at Munich was instructed\nto make representations, and in a conversation which passed between\nthe envoy and the nuncio; the latter said, 'The Roman Church is free\nonly in America.'\"\n\nThis nuncio further stated that the Roman Catholic Church in all\nother countries had to look to revolution as the sole means to retain\nher position. This, then, was the view of the priestly diplomatist\nstationed at Munich in 1869, and formerly representing the Vatican at\nParis.\n\nBismarck further stated: \"I know from the very best sources that the\nEmperor Napoleon was dragged into the war very much against his will\nby the influence of Jesuit priests.\"\n\nWho can deny these statements, as Bismarck was a man who made the\nstudy of Catholicism a part of his life, and he was a man who was of\nrugged character and undaunted courage, and a man whom the world at\nlarge believed.\n\nThere has not been a war for centuries past but what the cunning hand\nof popery has been mixed up with the blood shed in these wars, as\npopery never misses an opportunity to take sides with the nation\nwhich represents Catholicism, as this creed of abominations will\nresort to bloodshed if by so doing she believes she can carry her\npoint and establish her rule of despotism.\n\nIf America will take a lesson from France she will be taught a lesson\nthat will save this country from passing through the same ordeal that\nFrance is passing through to-day, and unless the government of the\nUnited States begins in the near future to suppress this giant of\ndarkness, Roman Catholicism, we will within the next fifty years have\nto resort to the same means that Combes of France is resorting to, to\nannihilate the serpent of Catholicism from our shores, or else meekly\nsubmit to being dragged down to the level of Roman Catholicism, which\nis equivalent to losing our identity as a government, and taking our\nplaces among the nations noted only for either ignorance, vice or\ncriminality.\n\nCatholicism does not believe in a free country. Catholicism does not\nbelieve in a country of the people, by the people and for the people,\nas such a country is not the natural abode for this detestable creed.\n\nCatholicism believes in a country which is ruled by a monarch, as\nshe then only has to control the monarch himself, and this is why the\nCatholic clergy and the Catholic officials, from the smallest to the\ngreatest, are in sympathy with Russia, as the Russian government is a\nmost complete monarchy, and the emperor is an absolute monarch, and\nthis is why Catholicism is always ready to toss up her hat in glee\nfor the success of the Russian army.\n\nCatholic prelates all along the line, up to the Pope himself, have\nbeen trying to make Americans believe that Russia is deserving of our\nsympathy, but her solicitude in behalf of Russia is only a\nsympathetic shriek for her own polluted carcass.\n\nCatholicism never sympathizes with any nation nor any individual who\nhave for their motto \"Emancipation,\" as emancipation means to\nCatholicism a vital blow to her teachings, as slavery of both body\nand soul is Rome's uppermost desire.\n\nCan we expect Catholicism to change her abominations without force?\nMost assuredly not, as her every inspiration comes from a set of men\nwho know no more about loyalty to country than her dupes know about a\nliving God, as the Pope is a native born Italian, and her cardinals\nare recruited from the ranks of Italy's king-ruled inhabitants,\nconsequently it is impossible to expect the Pope of Rome or those\ncardinals to recommend anything in harmony with the teachings of\nProtestant America, as they are strangers to Protestantism and\nAmerican manhood; therefore it would be as reasonable to expect\nsunlight in the caverns of the earth as to expect Rome to recommend a\ndoctrine which would be beneficial to humanity.\n\nWhen I declare to the American people that unless this country in the\nnear future makes a combined effort to stamp out the political\nintrigue of Catholicism, or it will not be long until America will\nfind her every interest tied tight and fast to the carcass of\nRomanism; I do so because I feel that it is my duty to warn this\ncountry of her awful fate, for just as sure as God reigns, just that\nsure Catholicism has America \"spotted\" as her victim, as this spirit\nof darkness has for many years in the past made her boast that\n\"America is Rome's future possession.\"\n\nThere is not a nation on the face of the earth which has permitted\nRome to plant her banner of infamy unmolested but what has been\ndisgraced by the toleration of her creed, and America cannot expect\nto meet with a better fate.\n\nThe dangers that beset the path of America's future are in the form\nof a political serpent, as Rome has learned to know that by holding\nout the \"vote bait\" to our politicians, that she can retain the\nbalance of power, as she has long since learned that as long as she\ncan be instrumental in keeping two political parties, both largely\nmade up of Protestants, and fighting each other, that she can\nassociate herself with one or the other by offering this party the\nundivided suffrage of Catholicism, and by this act she can gradually\nget control of the offices of this land, and this is her main object,\nfor if she can control the officials, she will see that such laws are\npassed as will enable her to coil her slimy self about the vitals of\nProtestant America, and just as long as the Protestant denominations\nallow themselves to be made Protestant simpletons of, just that long\nCatholicism will fool Protestant hosts by offering the \"vote bait\" to\nthe politician.\n\nWhenever Protestantism learns that she has a common cause to\nchampion, and a common enemy to fight, then we will have an \"American\nparty\" on one side, and a \"Catholic party\" on the other, and when\nthis time comes, Catholicism will be deprived of her cudgel of\ndeception, and will have to fight her battles without the assistance\nof \"_Protestant partisan fools_,\" and will cease to believe that she\nbelongs to either this or that political party. Protestantism is a\nband of American patriots, and should only have the welfare of\nProtestantism at heart.\n\nCatholicism, if left alone without the assistance of Protestant\nvotes, could not turn a wheel in the affairs of this country, but by\npermitting Romanism to make Protestantism believe in one of two\npolitical parties thus dividing the Protestant votes, Catholicism is\nallowed to hold the balance of power and dictate terms to a\nProtestant country.\n\nShame, eternal shame upon the hosts of Protestantism for permitting\nthemselves to be made fools of by the Romish Church, as this is\nexactly what the hosts of Protestantism are allowing Catholicism to\ndo with her!\n\nNow, I know whereof I speak, as I have been on the inside of politics\nin our large cities, and especially in the City of St. Louis, and\nCatholicism's scheme is always to allow the cities to elect a\nProtestant mayor, but they always endeavor to elect the other\nofficials.\n\nOh, could I but whisper into the ears of every Protestant in America\nand make them understand what I know of the cunning and deception of\nCatholicism I would march an army of Protestants to the polls at our\nelections that would represent a mighty army of patriotism; but just\nso long as Protestantism permits Catholicism to make her believe that\nit is necessary to have two or more political parties, just that long\nwe will have partisan block-heads, and as long as this state of\naffairs exists, just that long the cunning schemes of Catholicism\nwill be able to control the balance of power, which will disgrace the\nfair name of Protestant America.\n\nI solemnly declare that there never has been a nation completely\nunder the control of Romanism but what has been disgraced by that\ntoleration, and America will live to realize the truthfulness of this\nassertion unless she becomes \"Protestant patriots\" instead of\n\"prattling partisans.\"\n\nTo give the reader a better idea of what happens in countries\nabsolutely controlled by Catholicism, and to more thoroughly convince\nthe reader that what I have said is true in regard to nations which\nhave been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule, I desire to\nrepeat a little history that is not many months old, which happened\nin the United States, where it is supposed that man and woman can\nworship God according to the dictates of their own conscience, and if\nwhat we are going to relate happens in this free land, what do you\nsuppose is the condition in Catholic countries that are completely\nunder the control of the Pope?\n\nIn Worcester, Mass., not long since, a 19-year-old girl by the name\nof Maggie Barry received a public whipping from her mother for\nattending services of the Salvation Army.\n\nMiss Maggie Barry, who is 19 years of age, had been for some time\noccasionally attending the meetings of the Salvation Army, and was\ndesirous of becoming a member of the corps, having been converted a\nshort time since.\n\nHer parents were Irish Roman Catholics and insisted that Maggie\nshould remain a Romanist. They regarded the Salvation Army, which is\npurely non-sectarian, as a Protestant organization, and they were\ndetermined that their daughter should have nothing to do with it, and\nforbade her attending any of the meetings.\n\nOn a Sunday evening not long since she attended the services of the\nSalvation Army at No. 5 Commercial street, where there were at least\n250 people present. While the commander of the corps was reading from\nthe Bible, Miss Barry's mother came through the doorway and down to\nthe front row of seats near the corner of the platform, where Maggie\nwas sitting, and grabbed her daughter by the arm and began to pound\nher over the head, and at once proceeded to pull the girl from the\nhall and down the stairs into the street, all the time unmercifully\nbeating the poor girl over the head and shoulders.\n\nThe incident happened so quickly that for a moment the audience could\nnot realize what was taking place, but as soon as the audience could\ngather their wits, there was a rush made for the street.\n\nAfter the meeting had adjourned many of the attendants found Miss\nBarry in the street weeping like her heart would break and afraid to\nreturn to her home.\n\nShe told the audience that as soon as she reached the street where a\nnumber of relatives were waiting for her that she broke away from her\nmother and fled.\n\nA policeman was called into consultation relative to the case and\nstated that as Maggie was under twenty-one years of age, that she\nhad better be taken to her parents at 125 Salem street, and two\npolicemen accompanied her to her home.\n\nIt is stated that Miss Barry has received many unmerciful beatings\nbecause she attended these religious meetings, and her old Romish\nmother, while dragging her down the stairs that Sunday night,\nthreatened to do her bodily harm if she ever attended these meetings\nagain.\n\nA few days after this disgraceful and un-American spectacle happened\nin the streets of Worcester, a notice in the Central District Court\nappeared that \"_Miss Margaret Barry was charged with being a stubborn\nchild and was sentenced to the Woman's Prison at Shearborn. She\nappealed and furnished a bail. The girl was arrested on the complaint\nof her mother because she would not stay away from the meetings of\nthe Salvation Army_.\"\n\nNow, reader, you have a case right in the United States of America\nwhere a poor girl was sentenced to prison for attending a Protestant\nmeeting. What do you think of a judge of a court who will sentence a\nchild to a State prison for attending a Protestant meeting?\n\nWe know what you think if you are a pure Protestant, and we know that\nyour blood boils with pure indignation; but you cannot expect any\nrelief from this state of affairs and you can only expect to see\nthings grow worse if you continue to be \"partisans\" instead of\n\"patriots.\"\n\nIf such things are now happening in the State of Massachusetts, how\nlong will it be before the Protestant churches in this country will\nbe closed up by the order of the Pope, and how long will it be before\nthose who attend Protestant meetings will be liable to arrest and\nthrown into prison, as it was during the dark ages when the Roman\nCatholic Church had full control?\n\nAuthentic history, and history that cannot be denied nor disputed,\nnor even questioned, gives the appalling record of 70,500,000\nProtestants who were slain by the greatest curse the world has ever\nknown--Roman Catholicism.\n\nWe, in America, cannot expect anything better until we have a set of\nProtestant preachers who will practice what they pretend to believe.\n\nOur Protestant ministers of to-day are weak-kneed, weak-spined,\n\"nothings,\" who have not enough religion nor backbone to take a firm\nstand against Catholicism, and until we have such men we will\ncontinue to see \"Maggie Barrys\" dragged from Protestant meetings and\npublicly whipped by parents, and then sentenced to imprisonment by\njudges elected by Roman Catholics.\n\nAgain we want to repeat the head lines of this chapter for the\nbenefit of those who are weak-kneed and who are entirely \"spineless:\"\n\"_Nations who have been disgraced by the toleration of popish rule_,\"\nand we leave it to the reader to decide whether this headline is a\nmisnomer or not, as we have offered you evidence in this chapter that\nshould convince any right-thinking man or woman that if the Roman\nCatholic Church has grown so bold in America, with the ink upon the\nDeclaration of Independence scarcely dry, what shall we expect for\nour posterity if there is not a stand made by Protestantism to halt\nthis \"emperor of darkness\" in his march of devastation?\n\nThis black-winged vulture of human rights is growing bolder day by\nday by being permitted by Protestantism to separate and divide the\nProtestant vote among different parties, and combining the hosts of\nCatholicism for an onslaught against everything American in order to\ncontrol the affairs of this country. If you will listen you can\nalmost hear the death rattle of Protestantism as the serpent of Rome\nhas so gently entwined her slimy self about the throat of our\nAmerican goddess of liberty that the death rattle is almost\nperceptible.\n\nStrike while you have the power, and do not delay, or else the time\nis not far distant when the once powerful arm of Protestantism will\nbe paralyzed by the infusion of Roman virus.\n\n[Illustration: UNCLE SAM--\"Here is your next fight boys.\"]\n\n\n\n\nChapter XVI.\n\nNearing the Trenches of Physical Strength.\n\n\nWe can only judge the future of nations and institutions by the past\nand present, and if we are to judge Catholicism by her past, and if\nwe are honest with ourselves, we cannot paint a future without\nproducing a panoramic view that is dreadful to behold, as Catholicism\nin the past has been an institution which always endeavored to rule\nby the tyranny of oppression, and her decisions and mandates to-day\nare the same as they were during the inquisitorial days when our\nProtestant forefathers were burned at the state for disobeying the\ncommands of Catholic officials.\n\nCatholicism makes her boast that she never changes; then what are we\nto expect the future to bring forth, if her dogmas of damnation are\nallowed to fasten her intolerable hold upon this country: for if she\n\"never changes,\" and we are compelled to judge her future by her\npast, which is the only rational conclusion that can be arrived at,\nthen we can expect nothing more than to behold her future trail\nstained with the blood of Protestants, as such has been her history\nof the past.\n\nIt is our purpose in this chapter to give the reader an authentic\nepitome of a few of the doctrines and facts which we defy Roman\nCatholicism to successfully deny, as what we propose to give you is\nRoman Catholic law, and if such is Roman Catholic law, then we will\nhave no trouble in establishing the fact that no loyal Catholics can\npossibly be loyal American citizens; therefore should not be placed\nin a position where they can carry out the mandates and dictates of\nthe Church of Rome, for whenever they are placed in power and\nthoroughly believe in the laws of Catholicism they can not possibly\nbe naught but traitors to our American form of government.\n\nWe propose to give the reader \"Canon Law\" to establish our\nstatements, as we are as well acquainted with the laws that govern\nRoman Catholicism--yea, better than we are with the laws that govern\nthis country, as we for fifty-six years have been directly influenced\nby this \"Canon Law,\" and for the past thirty years, or since we\nbecame a Roman Catholic priest, have been a servant and an\nexecutioner of this law; therefore, I know whereof I speak, and no\nman dare deny my statements.\n\nThe first declaration of this \"Canon Law\" is: \"_All human power is\nfrom evil and must therefore be standing under the Pope_.\"\n\nYou will thus see that the first declaration of the \"Canon Law\" is to\nplace the human family as a whole, under the tyrannical control of\nCatholicism.\n\nAnother declaration of this law is: \"_The state has not the right to\nleave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he\nshall deem true_.\"\n\nIn this declaration, you will further see that Roman Catholicism\nwould, if it was within her power, take from the American citizen\nthe right to worship a true and living God.\n\nThe next law that we will refer to is as follows: \"_The state has not\nthe right to establish a church separate from the Pope_.\"\n\nAgain you will see that Rome's idea is to force all of humanity to\nbow at the feet of her creed.\n\nAgain she declares in her \"Canonistic Laws:\" \"_That the state has not\nthe right to assist the inmates of monasteries and convents to\nabandon them_.\"\n\nAgain you will see that Catholicism desires to usurp the rights of\nthe courts and establish prisons of their own without a semblance of\nlaw.\n\nOnce more this \"Canonistic Law\" thunders forth her monarchial law as\nfollows: \"_The Roman Catholic church has the right to require the\nstate not to leave every man free to profess his own religion_.\"\n\nAgain the reader will see that Roman Catholicism with her iron hand\ndemands this nation to force and compel every man, woman and child\nthat lives under that old red, white and blue flag, which was bought\nby the blood of our forefathers, to humbly bow to this heathenish\ncreed.\n\nThe next, and one of the most damnable laws found among the\n\"Canonistic Laws\" of Catholicism, is as follows: \"_Roman Catholicism\nhas the right to exercise her power without permission or consent of\nthe state_.\"\n\nWithin this Romish law any one can easily discern her monarchial\ndesigns, as she boldly and flagrantly declares that she has the right\nto do as she sees fit, without even being molested or questioned by\nthe laws of this country.\n\nFurther on in the \"Canon Laws\" of Catholicism we find the following:\n\"_Roman Catholicism has the right to prevent the foundation of any\nnational church not subject to the direct authority of the Roman\npontiff_.\"\n\nThus the reader will see that the Protestant churches of America\nexist only by and through the numerical power of Protestantism, but\nshould Romanism ever become powerful enough in this country she\nwould, within the twinkling of an eye, destroy or confiscate every\nProtestant church now in existence.\n\nFurther along in this Romish \"Canon Law\" we find that she strikes at\nthe dearest institutions of our land, as follows: \"_The Roman\nCatholic church has the right to deprive the civil authorities of the\nentire government of the public schools_.\"\n\nThe reader will see by this declaration that should Catholicism ever\ncome in control of the affairs of this government that our public\nschools, which are the bulwarks of our American government, would\nhave their very foundations rooted up and scattered to the four winds\nof the earth.\n\nThe most devilish and damnable law, in my estimation, that is to be\nfound upon the statute books of Catholicism is the following: \"_Roman\nCatholicism has the right to require that the Roman Catholic religion\nshall be THE ONLY RELIGION of the nation, to the exclusion\nof all others_.\"\n\nWe have the entire principles of Catholicism embodied in this last\n\"Canonistic Law,\" as Roman Catholicism's aim and intention is to put\nthis declaration into effect as soon as she can become powerful\nenough to execute her plans.\n\nIn my estimation, the next \"Canon Law\" that I will quote, is the one\nmost detrimental to our American form of government, as it is a law,\nwhen put into execution, that will throttle every ambition and\nstrangle every hope that now permeates the bosom of Protestantism,\nand it is one that should freeze the very flesh and blood of\nProtestantism to the bone's marrow. It is as follows: \"_Roman\nCatholicism has the power to require the nation not to permit free\nexpression of opinions_.\"\n\nIn this last law, which is found upon the statute books of Roman\nCatholicism, we have a declaration from her rulers that would deprive\nyou and your posterity from expressing an opinion in regard to Roman\nCatholicism; that is, if that opinion did not coincide with her\nabominations, and an institution which would place such a law upon\nher statute books is an institution which would burn and flay alive\nthose who would disregard this law; thus the reader may have some\nidea of what he or she may expect should their posterity ever live\nto see America pass into the ungodly clutches of this unholy demon.\n\nThe history of Roman Catholicism in the past plainly demonstrates\nwhat she has done and how well and awful she has carried out her laws\nherein quoted, and Catholicism makes her brags that she \"_never\nchanges_,\" consequently the only reason why these laws are not put\ninto execution in the United States is the lack of physical power,\nand whenever Roman Catholicism reaches the point in the history of\nthis country where she possesses this physical power, Protestantism\nwill feel her tyrannical heel upon their necks.\n\nThat the reader may thoroughly understand and realize that Roman\nCatholicism of to-day is the same as Roman Catholicism was hundreds\nof years ago, we desire to quote a letter written by Pope Leo XIII\nduring his reign, which will thoroughly demonstrate to the reader\nthat Roman Catholicism of the present retains all of her harshness\nand cussedness that she possessed when our forefathers were burned at\nthe stake and our mothers were punished for worshiping a true and\nliving God, Pope Leo's letter follows:\n\n\"_The teachings given by the Apostolic See, whether contained in the\nsyllabus and other acts of our illustrious predecessors, or in our\nencyclical letters, has given clear guidance to the faith as to what\nshould be their thoughts and their conduct in the midst of the\ndifficulties of time and events. There they will find a rule for the\ndirection of their minds and their work._\"\n\nThe reader will see from this letter from Pope Leo XIII that he\nreiterates to his followers the \"Canonistic Law\" laid down by his\npredecessors, making it obligatory upon the followers of Catholicism\nto put in practice to-day the hellish doctrines of Roman Catholicism\nof the past.\n\nIf Catholicism depends upon numbers and physical strength to\naccomplish her ends, then what must this country expect when such a\ntime arrives, as Catholicism can govern by the power of physical\nstrength?\n\nWill we have any one to blame for what Catholicism does to this\ncountry when such time arrives? Ah, No! No one but Protestantism,\nfor if America, which is a Protestant country, sits idly by and\npermits Romanism to reach a point where she can control the affairs\nof this government, it will be on the account of the lethargy and\nimbecility of Protestantism, as we have it within our power to-day to\nhalt this Emperor of Darkness before that time arrives, but the\nquestion is, will we do it?\n\nThe history of other nations which have been controlled by\nCatholicism should be enough, not only to frighten the Protestant\nhosts, but to paralyze them with fear, as the pages of history teem\nwith the awfulness of Rome's rule, wherever she has been permitted to\nbecome master.\n\nFrance, which has been priest-ridden for centuries, is now at this\ntime in the throes of a national convulsion, brought about by the\ntyranny of Romanism.\n\nNow, if Rome is such an abominable master and such a tyrant that\nFrance has to deport the priestcraft and close up her institutions,\nis it not time that the United States was taking some step to\nprotect her offspring from this vulture of human rights!\n\nThis country is undoubtedly a Protestant country, and if it is a\ngreat country, which no man dares to deny, she surely owes her\ngreatness to Protestantism.\n\nOur soul is poured into this chapter, as we never were more in\nearnest than we are at this time, as we can shade our eyes and look\ndown the avenues of the past and behold naught but skeletons of\nprotestant despair on every byway which has been traveled by\nRomanism, and when we behold this mighty waste of despair we can not\nconceive how the United States of America can expect to fare better\nthan have the nations of the past, unless she exerts her American and\nProtestant manhood and gives Roman Catholicism to understand that it\nis time to halt, and, in the name of an intelligent God, forbid her\nto transgress further upon the rights of this country.\n\nIn this chapter we will endeavor to be explicit and above all\ntruthful, and we ask God to give us courage to present facts in a way\nthat will fan to life again the patriotism that has been lulled to\nsleep by the bat-like wings of Roman Catholicism.\n\nWe hope that this little volume may arouse unconcerned Protestantism\nto a realization of the fact that our public officials are year by\nyear forcing her nearer and nearer the great chasm of Roman despair,\nand if we can be instrumental in this great undertaking we will feel\nthat when our race is done, that we have fought a good fight, and\nwill be remembered by the Protestant world as a man who taught a\ndoctrine which was the salvation of Protestant America.\n\nRoman Catholicism has no politics, as she is ever ready and willing\nto join hands with any party that will guarantee her more complete\ncontrol of national affairs, as she teaches her followers that\nwhenever they find that the Republican party will grant her requests\nthat they should be Republicans, and she also teaches them that\nwhenever the Democratic party or any other party will enter into a\ncontract with her and grant her the right of way of devastation, that\nthey should be Democrats, or be adherents to whatever party grants\nthem the most power.\n\nRoman Catholicism wraps herself about the smaller officials and\nwheedles herself into the good graces of the small officials by\npromising them the Catholic vote, and by so doing she is able to\ncontrol the officials higher up in power, and in this manner she\nreaches the highest officials of the land, as we find to-day the\nboa-constrictor of Catholicism wrapped about every official at\nWashington city, from the President of the United States on down.\n\nSuppose that the Pope and his tribe of liberty-destroyers realized\nthat the officials of America were Protestants, and implicitly\nbelieved and lived up to the teachings of Protestantism; do you think\nthat she would presume to approach our Protestant officials and\ndemand their support in behalf of her damnable creed, or do you\nsuppose that she would dare to send her emissaries into the halls of\nour national congress and brazenly approach those Protestant\nofficials? Ah, never! as Catholicism is a base coward and never\nmakes her appearance only where she is assured that her overtures\nwill be gracefully received.\n\nProtestant America! do you not believe that you have granted Romanism\nher requests long enough, and do you not realize that unless you\nthrottle this carnivorous beast of human rights within the near\nfuture that your protests will only be received with ridicule and\njeers?\n\nProtestantism from this day forward should resolve that her ballot in\nthe future should be a Protestant ballot, and whenever she has\nreasons to believe that there is one place upon their ticket that is\ntainted with the abominations of Romanism they should be dropped as\nthough they were a poisonous reptile.\n\nIt matters not what the office may be that is to be filled and what\npower it carries with it, Protestantism should find out whether or\nnot the applicant believes in Protestantism, and learn, if possible,\nwhether they or their family are tainted with the virus of Roman\nCatholicism, and if you should find that the taint extends to any\npart of their family then scratch them off your ballot, and by so\ndoing you will help to woo back the spirit of both Protestantism and\npatriotism, as one is symbolic of the other.\n\nIt may seem strange and also untrue for me to make the statement that\nthere are cities in the United States which are as completely under\nthe control of the Pope of Rome as Rome herself, but such is the\ncase, and the city of St. Louis, Mo., is one of them, as Romanism\nrules the inhabitants of that city with a despotism that is only\nequaled in a nation where the pontiff of Rome is an acknowledged\nruler.\n\nDuring the last election in the city of St. Louis I was a Catholic\npriest, and was in the Catholic confidence, and I declare to you as a\nman of truth and before a living God that it was understood between\nthe Catholic church and those who controlled the Democratic party\nthat the Protestants should elect the present mayor, Rolla Wells, but\nthat Catholicism was to be permitted to name the other officials, or\nat least enough to control the city government.\n\nNow, is there any politics in such an agreement? Ah, no; but the\nonly object in this secret agreement was a desire upon the part of\nRoman Catholicism to control the revenues of the city of St. Louis,\nas Catholicism is a money machine and endeavors to keep her exchequer\nfull by preying upon the ignorance of her followers.\n\nI have mentioned St. Louis only for the simple reason that it is a\nrecent happening, but there are a score of other cities in the United\nStates of America which are controlled by Catholicism on the same\nprinciple, as Romanism joins hands with either the Republican or\nDemocratic party if she sees a chance to put her hellish schemes and\ndogmas into practice.\n\nThat the reader may know what element controls the municipal\ngovernments of our cities we desire to call attention to the fact\nthat over one-half of the officials of our large American cities are\ndirect representatives of Roman Catholicism, and over two-thirds of\nall the policemen of these cities are the Pope's followers.\n\nWhy does this state of affairs exist? Ah, it is because the\nProtestant voter has \"politics\" instead of \"principles\"; therefore\nyou yourself are to blame for this awful state of affairs.\n\nYes, I say that you are to blame, for you are a voter and you pretend\nto represent Protestantism but still will permit yourself to be made\ntools of in behalf of Roman Catholicism; then am I not right in\ndeclaring that you are to blame for this state of affairs that exists\nin our large cities?\n\nIn our municipal elections you will find Roman Catholicism courting\nthe political power which has the greatest chance of electing their\ncandidates; it matters not what party it may be, as Roman Catholicism\nhas no politics, as her only desire is power, and it does not matter\nfrom what source she receives it, so long as it is granted her, as\nRomanism is like a chameleon, as she will change her political color\nto suit her surroundings if she is assured that she will be permitted\nto inject her deadly virus into the veins of Protestantism.\n\nIf Roman Catholicism can extract a promise from a Republican\ncandidate they are Republicans; but, on the other hand, if they can\nmake a Democrat do their bidding, they are Democrats; and if they\ncan \"wiggle\" into the Populists' favor, they are Populists; in fact,\nthey are any and everything that will serve their purpose and help to\nbind and throttle Protestant principles.\n\nThe nation of France is making history to-day, and each line and page\nof this history is a warning to Protestant America, as every page of\nthis history is covered with the slime of Roman Catholicism, for had\nit not been for her tyrannical despotism, France would not have had\nto close up the monasteries and convents of that nation, but on\naccount of her teachings, and in order to protect the rising\ngenerations from her influence, not only have the convents and\nmonasteries had to be closed, but the schools which teach her\ndamnable dogmas have been closed.\n\nWe do not have to cross the ocean and visit European countries to\nlearn of Roman Catholicism's depravity, but we can stand upon the\nsouthern shore of the United States, almost in hailing distance of\nCuba, and there behold the shores of a country which had to rebel\nagainst the hellishness of Roman Catholicism, as Cuba would to-day\nbelong to Spain had it not been for Roman Catholicism, as it was her\nabominations that continually kept Cuba in a feverish ferment.\n\nIt was Spain's ungodliness that brought about the Spanish-American\nwar, and Spain's ungodliness was taught her by Romanism.\n\nThe West India islands were the progenies of Spain, and the Spanish\ngovernment permitted the Papists to control these islands with her\ndogmas of instructions, which were directly instrumental in\ncontinually keeping the spirit of anarchy alive.\n\nThe only reason that Roman Catholicism does not control this country\nwith her tyrannical hand is on account of numerical numbers, for did\nRome believe that she could rule this country to-day, before the sun\nwould set to-morrow night this would be a nation of serfs instead of\na nation of independent men and women.\n\nI perhaps have made my declarations broader and stronger than any man\nof the present day, but I am fresh from the ranks of Catholicism and\nI know her cunning, and since I have forsaken her blind leadership\nand drank deep from the well of Protestantism, I have resolved that\nno stone shall go unturned that will help me to convince America of\nher great danger which shadows her future by permitting this Romish\ndespot to flood this country with not only her blind followers, but\nby being permitted to brazenly denounce everything that is near and\ndear to this country, as her brazen denunciations of our American\ninstitutions is nothing more nor less than treason, and which should\nbe treated as such.\n\nTo give the reader some idea of what Roman Catholicism will do if she\never has the power, we quote an article which appeared in a Catholic\njournal known as \"_The Catholic Citizen_,\" of Milwaukee, Wis.\n\nNow, if Catholicism has at this time become so brazen that she dares\noffer the Protestant world the insults that is contained in this\narticle, what shall we expect if this damnable creed ever becomes\npowerful enough to control by physical strength? The article follows:\n\n    \"Protestantism in Cuba? What good will it do there? If only\n    the good it has wrought elsewhere, Heaven help the Cubans!\n    Protestantism is nothing but a disorganizer and a pathway to\n    infidelity and atheism. This is the only reason of its\n    existence. As a positive moral force, it is a farce. It has\n    never converted a single nation, but it has unconverted\n    Protestants themselves with a holy vengeance. Berlin has\n    75,000 church goers out of 2,000,000 people; London 400,000\n    out of 6,000,000 and so on. 'Without baptism you can not\n    enter Heaven,' says the Scripture, and lo! thanks to\n    Protestantism, nearly 60,000,000 people in the United States\n    are not baptized. A nice system (for the devil), that\n    produces such results--results as fatal to the heathen as to\n    the Christian. Protestantism found the Sandwich islands with\n    400,000 people. Where are they now? Gone. A million Macris in\n    New Zealand. Where are they? Gone. Seven million Indians in\n    the United States. Where are they? Gone.\n\n    \"On the other hand, the friars found 300,000 natives in the\n    Philippines 400 years ago, and there are 9,000,000 now;\n    12,000,000 Indians south of the Rio Grande, and there are\n    50,000,000 now. 'By their fruits you shall know them.' In\n    view of such facts, we think Protestants should leave\n    'Boonioboola Gha' alone and confine their proselytizing to\n    unfortunates nearer home. An American is just as well worth\n    saving as a Cuban or a Chinaman any day.\"\n\n\"_The American Citizen_,\" a journal published in Boston, Mass., made\nthe following comment on this article, which appeared in this Roman\nCatholic journal:\n\n    \"The above is as good a specimen of papal logic as we have\n    ever seen--and it is the real thing.\n\n    \"'It has never converted a single nation!' Christianity is\n    not supposed to convert nations--it converts individuals.\n    Mohammedanism converted (?) many nations by the sword, and\n    popery attempted to do it by the inquisition, but\n    failed--except in the case of the Jews and Moors in Spain,\n    which it 'converted' into beggars and refugees.\n\n    \"Rome 'converted' the Albigenses from being peaceful and\n    industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in\n    Europe--and the handful defied and defeated the best papal\n    armies of Europe.\n\n    \"But how about England, and Scotland, and Scandinavia, and\n    the Netherlands, and many other nations--were they not all\n    papal at one time, but converted through reformation? How\n    about the Huguenots--the very flower of France; the\n    Protestant Irish, the very salvation of the Emerald\n    Isle--were not these all at one time Romanists--converted to\n    Protestantism?\n\n    \"Read the record of Rome's 'conversions' in Mexico, in\n    Central America, in South America, as told by Prescott and\n    other historians--the introduction of slavery by the papal\n    church, and the unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon the\n    Indians, or aborigines, of the countries mentioned. Read, in\n    United States senate document 190, the record of Rome's\n    'conversions' in the Philippines--a work which has made every\n    Filipino a bitter hater of the priests.\n\n    \"'The Indians of the United States!' Have they ever been\n    Protestants? Have not the priests had control of them since\n    this land was discovered? Are not the vices which have\n    killed them--apart from war--the peculiar vices of popery,\n    especially drunkenness? What good have the priests wrought\n    among them? Take California as an example, where these\n    priests enslaved tens of thousands of the Indians for the\n    sole purpose of enriching their church!\n\n    \"This is a matter of history--of undeniable history. If the\n    American Indians were slain in battle, in nine cases out of\n    ten the Jesuits instigated them to the deeds which brought on\n    the war. While Prescott's 'Mexico' and 'Peru' are accessible\n    in our libraries, popery had better be dumb.\n\n    \"That the Filipinos have increased from 300,000 to 9,000,000\n    and the South Americans from 12,000,000 to 50,000,000, may be\n    true, for all travelers tell us that it is no uncommon thing\n    to find a priest with a halfscore of concubines and fifty\n    children. Certainly these priests have an advantage over\n    Protestant missionaries in this respect. The pagans would\n    naturally follow the example of their 'spiritual' advisers.\n    Oh, yes, the population certainly increases where the\n    priestcraft live.\"\n\nThe Roman Catholic church says that the priests shall not wed, but at\nthe same time the priestcraft fathers an army of children.\n\nThe Philippine islands is a nation of heathens, and Catholicism has\nbeen in charge of these islands for centuries, and to-day they are\nworse off than they were before Catholicism planted her black banner\nin their midst.\n\nWherever you find intellectuality, morality and civilization in its\nfullest meaning, you will find a country where Protestantism is the\npredominating doctrine, as Catholicism can not exist only in the\n\"underbrush\" of ignorance and vice.\n\nThe greatest menace this country has to contend with is the influx of\nRome's followers from other nations, and unless our immigration laws\nare remedied it will not be long until Rome will be able, by physical\nstrength, to enumerate the United States as one of her countries, as\neach succeeding year tens of thousands of the followers of Rome from\nItaly and other priest-ridden countries flock to our shores to\npractice in this country the abominations taught them in their\nchildhood.\n\nFrance's woes and miseries have been expected for years by men of\nintelligence and men who could read the signs of the times, as Rome's\ninfluence was year by year growing more intolerable, and it was only\na matter of time when France would be forced to either permit herself\nto be dragged down to the level of the debased teachings of\nCatholicism or else by a heroic effort boldly stamp out this Romish\ncreed of damnation, and the latter course is the one she has chosen\nto pursue, and to-day finds the Roman Catholic church despised and\ndetested by every intelligent and patriotic Frenchman of the land.\n\nIn July 1874, Eugene Lawrence, in the columns of \"_Harper's Weekly_,\"\nmade a prediction that ought to convince every sane man and woman in\nthis land that the woes of France are directly traceable to the Roman\nCatholic church, as Mr. Lawrence was a historian of national repute,\nand a man who was a patriot whom the American eagle was proud of, and\nfor the benefit of the readers of my little book I desire to quote in\nfull this prediction made thirty years ago, as to-day finds Mr.\nLawrence's prediction being fulfilled in every particular, and Roman\nCatholicism is the incarnate fiend that has forced this prediction to\ncome true. Mr. Lawrence's article follows:\n\n    \"The Papal church is chiefly responsible for the decadence of\n    the French mind. The priests have long controlled the\n    education of the nation and have striven to shut it out from\n    all contact with the culture of America, Germany and England.\n    Under the rule of Napoleon III, the Jesuits obtained the\n    guidance of nearly all the secondary colleges; Protestant\n    schools were sedulously discouraged, and nothing was taught\n    that could offend the mediaeval tastes of Rome. When, two\n    years ago, the French republicans had resolved to found a\n    free and compulsory system of instruction for all France as\n    the chief want of the nation, the papal bishops and priests\n    suppressed the measure by all their arts. They were resolved\n    to have no education which they could not control. The\n    republican movement failed; Bishop Dupanloup and his\n    associates succeeded once more in shutting out the light of\n    knowledge from the people, and have sown the fires of\n    warfare in the place of mental progress and moral culture.\n\n    \"France, which has often made the most rapid progress toward\n    reform, has also been the most successful leader of modern\n    reaction. Its revolutions have set in motion all other\n    nations, but have failed to purify itself. It is enslaved by\n    a single church and ruled by Roman superstition. At the\n    recent assembly at Paris, of all the hierarchy of France, of\n    Jesuits, Dominicans, Monks and prelates, it was resolved that\n    all the strength of the papal party should be given to an\n    effort to grasp the control of the higher education of the\n    people, and make every college and seminary the teacher of\n    the worship of the Sacred Heart; to confine instruction\n    within the limits of Roman theology, and shut out more\n    strictly than ever before the light of modern progress. At a\n    great and powerful meeting of all the Roman Catholic editors\n    of France, a similar policy was resolved upon. By a strange\n    revulsion of sentiment the press was made to advocate its own\n    restriction or repression. The papal editors apparently sigh\n    for a return of the mediaeval practices when Francis I.\n    burned ardent printers in Paris, and the Sorbonne would have\n    banished the printing press from France forever. The Roman\n    Catholic papers invoke the restoration of the Bourbons and of\n    the temporal power of the Pope, and in the ardor of a new\n    spirit of martyrdom offered themselves up to a spiritual\n    bondage that must end in their own slow destruction and the\n    death of the national intellect They would enforce anew that\n    policy if isolation which has filled France with impurity,\n    and left it the prey of emperors and marshals, princes and\n    priests.\n\n    \"France has thus displayed, since its first revolution, a\n    most remarkable contest. The spirit of freedom has more than\n    once placed its people in front of human progress, and ever\n    again the spirit of reaction has dragged them back into the\n    abyss of mental and moral decay. Its priests have invariably\n    triumphed over its reformers. The Roman church has always\n    held a supremacy above the law. Of all the national\n    institutions, it has alone preserved its freedom of action\n    unimpaired. It receives an enormous subsidy from the state.\n    While all other associations are held under a strict\n    subjection, while political meetings are scarcely allowed,\n    while the press is silenced, while Protestant churches can\n    hold no assemblies or synods except by the connivance of the\n    government, while Protestant churches are forbidden to have\n    either bell or steeple, the Roman priesthood hold their\n    councils and assemblies unrestrained, and cover the land with\n    their sodalities, their societies, their processions, and\n    their pilgrimages. The church is the only well-organized\n    political party. Its agents are active in every commune. Its\n    severe discipline produces order through all its hosts of\n    Jesuits, monks and priests. Its confessors rule in the\n    palaces of the wealthy and the hovels of the peasants. It\n    forbids education, it stifles thought, it inculcates a\n    pitiless severity against Protestants and reformers; and with\n    natural indignation the leading Republicans point to the\n    dominant church as the chief source of all the woes of\n    France, as sacrificing the morals, integrity and mental\n    elevation of the nation to the single purpose of maintaining\n    the ascendency of a foreign Pope. The French Republicans have\n    been forced to see that the Papal church is the necessary foe\n    of freedom. It would be well if our own people could learn\n    from their experience, and guard with strict vigilance their\n    institutions from the secret and open assaults of a foreign\n    priesthood.\n\n    \"There is no doubt, at least in the minds of the French\n    Republicans, that to the intrigues of the Papal faction is\n    due the disordered and hopeless condition of the nation.\n    Gambetta's paper, _La Republique_, assures its readers that\n    the assembly is ruled by a party devoted wholly to the\n    ecclesiastical interests; that they labor only to reduce the\n    whole country to an abject submission to Rome, and are ready\n    to accomplish their aims by measures fatal to the peace of\n    France. It asserts that the priesthood forms a league as\n    rigorous as that over which the Guises ruled and against\n    which the Huguenots struggled; that the church has its\n    myriads of societies, committees, agents, an overflowing\n    treasury, the favor of the government, a single aim--an\n    infallible ruler. It calls upon the people, if they would be\n    free, to strike down the hydra that preys upon the state. The\n    policy of Bismarck, indeed, finds its best defense in the\n    condition of France. If the interference of the papal faction\n    proves so disastrous to the welfare of the French people, it\n    is plainly the interest of Germany to crush it forever by all\n    the resources of statesmanship. If the rule of papal Rome be\n    so intolerable to its friends, what might it not accomplish\n    in the dominions of its opponents? France may yet learn from\n    its neighbors over the Rhine the only path to freedom. What\n    it seems most to need is a Bismarck.\"\n\nIf in 1874, Mr. Lawrence, after making a thorough study of the\nconditions of France, could so accurately prophecy what would happen\nthirty years hence, the conditions at that time must have been indeed\nvery palpable, but no more so than they are in America to-day, as\nRoman Catholicism within the past ten years has made greater strides\nin strangling American liberties than she ever has in any twenty-five\nyears, before, as this creed of abominations has been losing its\nhold upon not only the throats of France, but of Italy as well. As\nshe has made the effort of her life to plant the seeds of anarchy and\nrevolution in the bosom of her followers in the United States, in\norder that she may at the proper time, and as soon as she believes\nshe is numerically strong enough to overcome by physical force, to\nstrike a blow that will paralyze every ambition of Protestantism in\nthis country.\n\nHundreds of the best and wisest men this country has ever known have\nbeen for years warning the United States of her dangers from\nRomanism, but it seems as though we will not heed the warning, but\nbear in mind that unless this country does heed this warning and halt\nthe Czar of Darkness, we will live to see the time when we will have\nto resort to arms to protect our Protestant interests.\n\nThe nation of France has swung out from the power of the Vatican, and\nis to-day defying the Pope of Rome and daring him to do his worst,\nand France is a nation that has always been a Catholic nation and\ncontrolled by her abominations, but she has woke up to the fact that\nunless this hellish doctrine is stamped out from her shores that she\nwill become a nation of mental pygmies and nonentities, as she has\nlong since learned that Catholicism is nothing more nor less than a\npoisonous breath that withers intellect and causes nations to decay\nand sink to the level of Romish degeneracy.\n\nIt seems as though the Vatican will not learn that the world moves,\nas the Vatican is determined that Italy shall not appear above the\nhorizon of papal abhorrence.\n\nIt is hard for the Vatican to learn that the world moves and that\nItaly moves with it. In its final resolution, the quarrel between the\nPope and the French government is based on the recognition of the\nking of Italy as the sole sovereign in Rome, but the Pope is as\ndetermined that him and his reign of darkness shall be the only\nacknowledged ruler of Italy.\n\nPresident Loubet of France, the executive of this Catholic nation,\ngave great offense to the Vatican, by visiting the king of Italy,\nwho is in the eyes of the church a usurper.\n\nAccording to the Vatican's standards, the kingdom of Italy is not an\naccomplished fact, as the Vatican refuses to recognize any government\nin Italy save that which he chooses to establish and build up out of\nthe filth and abominations of Roman Catholicism.\n\nThe Pope declares himself to be the only legitimate sovereign in\nRome, but the Italian government has for a number of years been\nlearning that the power of the Vatican is a power of darkness,\nemanating from the putridness of paganism, and which is detrimental\nto any nation that aspires to individual intellectuality, morality\nand greatness.\n\nThe reader must bear in mind that Italy is the home of the Pope, and\nthe home of Popes, and that Rome is the city of Popes, archbishops\nand cardinals.\n\nThis statement can not be denied by any living man, and since it is\ntrue, we want to learn something of the inhabitants of Rome, so that\nwe may be prepared to judge whether Roman Catholicism is beneficial\nor detrimental to those whom she rules.\n\nWe make the statement without fear of successful denial, that Roman\nCatholicism is a power which withers the hopes and ambitions of any\nnation, which is so unlucky as to fall under her tyrannical tread, as\nRomanism is a power for evil, unequaled by any creed of deviltry and\ndiabolical cunning ever conceived by mortal man.\n\nWe have made the statement that the city of Rome was one of the most\nimmoral and ungodly cities under the shining canopy of Heaven, and we\nhave also made the statement that Rome is the home of popes,\narchbishops and cardinals, and we propose to prove to the reader\nthat, while Rome is the home of Roman Catholic officials, that she is\nalso the home of the libertine and immoral.\n\nWe also propose to prove that the immorality of the inhabitants of\nRome is taught them by the Catholic officials of Rome, as we are not\nwriting of what we have learned from the mouth of others, but we are\nwriting of what we know by the power of sight, as we have visited\nRome more than once in the official capacity of Roman Catholicism,\nand we make this statement with a living God as our witness, that\nRoman Catholicism is responsible for the immorality found in the city\nof Rome, and this immorality is not confined alone to the city\noutside the walls of the Vatican, as this atmosphere of immorality\nand degradation permeates the very atmosphere of the Vatican, as\nillegitimacy is found within the walls of the Vatican, as well as\nwithout.\n\nRome is a city of popes, cardinals, archbishops, priests, monks,\nfriars and ecclesiastical students.\n\nIn the city of Rome, which is the home of popes, there are 39\ncardinals, 35 archbishops, 1,469 priests, 2,832 monks and friars,\n2,000 nuns and 1,000 ecclesiastical students, making in all 7,576\nteachers of this abomination; and for every 4,375 children born in\nthe city of Rome, 3,160 are bastards, and for every 750 people in the\ncity of Rome, there is a murder committed during the year; thus you\nwill see that this herd of Catholic teachers are not only teachers of\nimmorality and degradation, but are also responsible for murder, as\nsuch a pestilence of immorality will lead to murder.\n\nIs it any wonder that France and Italy are to-day struggling with\nthis polluted beast in order to free themselves from her filthy\ngrasp? Is it any wonder that France has closed up the monasteries,\nconvents and schools of this abomination!\n\nWith such nations as France and Italy declaring to their inhabitants\nthat Catholicism is not only a nuisance but a menace to intelligence\nand morality, what can this government expect in the future if she\npermits Romanism to continue to flourish in the future as she has in\nthe past?\n\nThis book is not written by a man who seeks notoriety, or a man who\nis writing from a prejudiced standpoint, but we are writing from what\nwe know of the awfulness of Catholicism, as fifty-six long years have\nrolled into eternity since I began to worship at the feet of this\nimmoral hag; therefore, the reader must know that it is not a\npleasant task to acknowledge before the world that we have been not\nonly fifty-six years a follower of this creed of abominations, but\nfor thirty long years we helped to fasten this creed upon the human\nfamily.\n\nI wish that it was within my power to become a spirit, which would\nenable me to navigate the air and whisper my warnings into the ears\nof Protestant America, for no nation on the face of the earth needs\nthe warning as badly as the United States, as day by day, week by\nweek, month by month and year by year the Vatican's shadow grows\nlonger and longer upon our shores, and wherever this shadow of\npaganish darkness stretches itself you will find the withered hopes\nof man, as Roman Catholicism's only ambition is to place humanity at\nher feet, which will enable her to bind her followers with the cords\nof superstition and ignorance, as she exists upon the blasted hopes\nof those whom she rules.\n\nIf what I have told you in the pages of this book is true, then is it\nnot time for Protestant America to arouse herself from her lethargy\nand buckle on the armor of righteousness and patriotism and go forth\nto battle this \"Strumpet of Sin\" with the valor of our American\nforefathers?\n\nI have prayerfully endeavored to lay bare the sins of Roman\nCatholicism, and the only hindrance I have encountered in my efforts\nis on the account of not being more familiar with the English\nlanguage, as I am a German born, and my power of expressing myself in\nthe English language is materially hindered by being educated in\nGermany, but thank God that education does not stand in the way of a\nliving God helping the foreign tongue to express itself in a manner\nwhich can be understood.\n\nI have endeavored to inform the reader who I am, what I am, and why I\nam what I am, and have taken up the abominations of Catholicism and\ntreated these abominations in a manner that I hope will carry\nconviction to the hearts of the reader, as I am qualified to go\nbefore not only any official who has the power to administer an oath\nand to make oath to the truthfulness of every assertion made herein,\nbut I am willing to meet my God around the great white throne in\nHeaven and stand upon the declarations herein contained.\n\nI have endeavored to give the Protestant reader to understand that\nhis offspring are considered bastards, and their parents persons who\nlive in immorality, by not belonging to the Roman Catholic Church and\nbeing married by the priestcraft.\n\nI have endeavored to tear the mask of ignorance from the bleared and\npolluted features of Romanism and show her up in all of her\ndetestible ugliness.\n\nI have in my weak manner endeavored to try to warn our American\nfathers and mothers of the great danger of the \"confession,\" as the\nconfessional is the stepping stone that leads to Romish abominations,\nas it is there that the seed of immoral thought is planted and it is\nthere that the purity of girlhood is first tarnished, and if I can\narouse Protestant mothers and fathers of this land to these awful\nsinks of iniquity I will consider that I have been instrumental in\nhelping to obliterate one of the greatest evils known to the human\nfamily.\n\nI have endeavored to point out to Protestant America the awful\nmistake made by the United States in permitting Roman Catholicism to\ncontinue her debauchery in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine\nIslands, as I declare to the reader with eyes wet with grief that not\nonly the flower of our army is being sacrificed in these far away\nislands, but that millions of dollars are being spent upon these\nislands and that Roman Catholicism is being benefited by this great\nexpenditure of Protestant money, as the Pope of Rome is as powerful\nin these islands to-day as he ever was, and every intelligent\nProtestant in this land who has made this subject a study knows full\nwell that had it not been for Roman Catholicism and her outrages,\nthat the Spanish-American war would never have been fought.\n\nI have earnestly tried to make the reader understand that the\nmonasteries in this country are often the abodes of criminals, and\nthe nunneries of this land are the slaughter pens of virtue, and I\ntrust that my readers will read it in the spirit that I have written\nit, and if such is the case I know that this little book will be\ninstrumental in not only opening the eyes of drowsy Protestantism,\nbut it will be instrumental in turning thousands of Roman Catholics\nfrom the error of their ways and pointing them to \"the Lamb of God\nthat taketh away the sins of the world.\"\n\nI have endeavored to demonstrate to the reader that celibacy upon the\npart of the priestcraft is one of the most damnable crimes known to\ncivilization, as it is the unmarried cussedness of the Roman Catholic\npriests that is instrumental in the slaughter of virtue.\n\nI have endeavored to prove to the reader that the Roman Catholic\nChurch is a living infamous insult to an all-wise God, by claiming\nthat the Pope of Rome is an infallible being, and I believe that if\nthe reader has read my book with a determination of discarding that\nwhich is bad and holding to that which is good, that he or she will\nclose this book with an enlightened conception of this devilish creed\nwhich would have its followers believe that the Pope of Rome is on an\nequality with Jesus Christ.\n\nI have endeavored to lead the reader from clime to clime, so that he\nor she might behold the characters of the followers of Rome, and by\ncomparison I have endeavored to convince the reader that the\ncharacters of the followers of Roman Catholicism are not nor never\ncan be on a par with the character of Protestantism, as Roman\nCatholicism follows the teachings of paganism, born in the kennel of\nfilthiness and surrounded and led by a class of men who glut their\nlust upon the virtue of their \"dupes,\" while Protestantism is led by\nthe lowly Nazarine, whose teachings have made Protestant America all\nthat she is to-day or ever will be.\n\nI have endeavored to point out to the readers of this little volume\nthe sin of Protestantism, permitting Catholicism to control our\npublic schools and teach our children doctrines that will be\ninstrumental in strangling their ambitions and paralyzing their\naspirations, which is near and dear to Protestant America.\n\nI have from the bottom of an honest heart endeavored to impress upon\nthe reader the awful influence that the priestcraft of America has\nupon the morals of this country, and I trust that this task has not\nbeen a useless one, for America has no plague that is so deadly to\npatriotism as this black-garbed army of priests, who tramp up and\ndown the length and breadth of this land, seeking whom they may\ndevour.\n\nWith every drop of blood in my old veins electrified with a desire to\nserve a living God, I have endeavored to warn Protestant America of\nthe lustfulness of the priestcraft, who without a blush of shame\ninvade the chastity of our American homes, and by the hellishness of\nthis Romish doctrine pollute the wives and daughters of this fair\nland.\n\nI have pointed out the dangers which beset this nation by the\ntoleration of Popish rule, and have compared Protestant nations with\nthe nations which have been morally damned and disgraced by Romanism,\nand I trust that my comparisons will lead an intelligent public to\nsee the dangers that beset this country unless Romanism is relegated\nto the everlasting haunts of oblivion.\n\nIn conclusion I desire to say to the reader that he or she will never\nknow of the diabolical cunning of this Romish doctrine, for it is\nimpossible for mortal man who has traveled this road of debauchery\nto ever portray in print to the public what he has seen along this\njourney of ignorance, superstition and immorality, as no man who has\nthe welfare of the young and rising generation at heart would sink so\nlow as to write all of the awfulness that I have seen upon my journey\nfor thirty years upon this Romish highway of carnality, as every turn\nin the path that leads through this desert of desolation is strewn\nwith the bleached bones of ambition.\n\nThere is not an oasis in this vast stretch of Romish desolation, as\nher every ambition is to rule by superstition, ignorance and tyranny.\n\nAgain I would warn Protestant America that we are nearing the\ntrenches of physical strength, and unless we infuse into our\nProtestant manhood the liquid fires of Protestantism, the time is not\nfar distant when the Bunker Hill that was made famous by the blood of\nour forefathers will have her base dripping wet with the blood of\nProtestantism, in defense of the principles that have made America\nall that she ever has been, all that she is, and all that she may\nhope to be.\n\nCan we expect anything else should Roman Catholicism ever become\nnumerically strong enough to rule by physical strength? The answer to\nthis question must come from the pages of Romish history, and this\nhistory has every page wet with Protestant blood shed by this Monarch\nof Darkness, as 75,000,000 Protestants to-day sleep beneath the sod\nof the universe, bearing the scars of Romish torture.\n\nMy task is done; my warning has been sounded; my prayers have been\noffered, and now in the evening of old age, when life's sun is\nslipping down behind the horizon of earthly things, I find myself\nsurrounded with the faces of new friends, but in the dim far away I\nbehold the countenance of my Lord beckoning me to that rest beyond\nthe skies, where I hope to receive a full pardon from a God I so\nrecently learned to serve.\n\nFor the sake of right, I bade farewell to the associations of my\nchildhood, but in doing so I have been permitted to taste of\nrealities that were bought for the human race \"By the blood of the\nLamb,\" and I feel assured that when this earthly race is over that I\nwill be taken home to glory, where I will be permitted to sing the\nsongs of the new Jerusalem, and my prayer is that this little volume\nmay march on down the ages after I am gone, to warn the generations\nthat are yet unborn of the damnable teachings of Romanism, and be\ninstrumental in wooing away from this human viper those who have been\ntaught to worship at the feet of this hydra-headed monster, Roman\nCatholicism.\n\n\nTHE LIE NAILED.\n\nCatholicism is circulating a lie that BERNARD FRESENBORG\nnever was a Catholic Priest. Here is a copy of a Check given\nMr. Fresenborg by ARCHBISHOP J.J. HARTY, for saying \"Mass\" in\n1903. J.J. Harty is now an Archbishop in the Philippine Islands\nand one of Rome's big guns.\n\nArchbishop Harty at the time this Check was given was Priest in\ncharge of ST. LEO'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, St. Louis, Mo.\n\n[Illustration: Check]\n\n[I will give $1,000 to any man, woman or child who will prove\nthat this statement untrue.]\n\n\n\n\nTHE END.\n\n\n\n\n       * * * * *\n\nTRANSCRIBER'S NOTES\n\n\nTYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS CORRECTED\n\nThe following typographical errors in the text were corrected as\ndetailed here.\n\nOn the cover page, \"circumfrence\" was corrected to \"circumference\" in\nthe following text: \"This great book has stirred America from center\nto circumference.\"\n\nIn the Author's Announcement, \"enlightment\" was corrected to\n\"enlightenment\" in \"A structure of enlightenment ...\"\n\nOn page 18, \"Catholocism\" was corrected to \"Catholicism\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... that I have shaken off this eternal bondage of\nCatholicism ...\"\n\nOn page 20, \"ledgerdemain\" was corrected to \"legerdemain\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... Catholic legerdemain, and I was taught ...\"\n\nOn page 22, \"Herold\" was corrected to \"Harold\" to be consistent with\nother mentions of this name on the same page.\n\nOn page 28, \"crimnials\" was corrected to \"criminals'\" in the following\ntext: \"... built with the purpose of sheltering her abominable\nfaithless in case these criminals' desire to hide themselves ...\"\n\nOn page 34, \"hodwink\" was corrected to \"hoodwink\" in the following text:\n\"... which will enable the officials to \"hoodwink\" their followers ...\"\n\nOn page 94, the text \"carion\" was corrected to \"carrion\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... that part of the priestcraft which exists upon the\ncarrion of the human family ...\"\n\nIn the first paragraph of chapter VI (on page 97) \"Ecquador\" was\ncorrected to \"Ecuador\" in the following text: \"In this chapter, we have\nbefore us the vision of two countries; one is Protestant America and the\nother Catholic Ecuador.\"\n\nOn page 128, \"asylumns\" was corrected to \"asylums\" in the following\ntext: \"The \"asylums\" of olden times were intended as retreats ...\"\n\nOn page 136, \"Crowe\" was corrected to \"Crow\" to be consistent with other\nmentions of this name.\n\nOn page 138, \"absense\" was corrected to \"absence\" in the following\ntext: \"... asked his government of Holland for a leave of\nabsence to fight in the Boer war ...\"\n\nOn page 141, \"sytem\" was corrected to \"system\" in the following text:\n\"... so I sailed for the diamond fields of South Africa, where I am\nnow free, by the system ...\"\n\nAlso on page 141, the word \"by\" was corrected to \"my\" in the following\ntext: \"... I walked to the banks of the Missouri River and raised\nmy buried treasure ...\"\n\nOn page 147, \"degredation\" was corrected to \"degradation\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... snatch their children from the Romish mire of\ndegradation ...\"\n\nOn page 173, Pope \"Piux\" was corrected Pope \"Pius.\"\n\nOn page 214, the word \"concensus\" was corrected to \"consensus\" in the\nfollowing text: \"The consensus of opinion among all classes ...\"\n\nOn page 219, \"broad-guage\" was corrected to \"broad-gauge.\"\n\nOn page 255, \"paracite\" was corrected to \"parasite\" in the following\ntext: \"... who are as heavily burdened to-day with this ancient\nparasite ...\"\n\nOn page 259, two instances of \"instiution\" were corrected to\n\"institution.\"\n\nOn page 277, \"Massachuetts\" was corrected to \"Massachusetts\" in the\nfollowing text: \"If such things are now happening in the State\nof Massachusetts ...\"\n\nOn page 297, \"Ctholicism\" was corrected to \"Catholicism\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... permit yourself to be made tools of in behalf\nof Roman Catholicism ...\"\n\nOn page 285, \"blod\" was corrected to \"blood\" in the following text:\n\"... every man, woman and child that lives under that old red, white\nand blue flag, which was bought by the blood of our forefathers ...\"\n\nAlso on page 285, \"boldy\" was corrected to \"boldly\" in the following\ntext: \"... as she boldly and flagrantly declares that she ...\"\n\nOn page 293, \"emmissaries\" was corrected to \"emissaries\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... send her emissaries into the halls ...\"\n\nOn page 306, \"convice\" was corrected to \"convince\" in the\nfollowing text: \"... made a prediction that ought to convince every\nsane man and woman ...\"\n\nOn page 311, \"hopless\" was corrected to \"hopeless\" in the following\ntext: \"... the intrigues of the Papal faction is due the disordered\nand hopeless condition ...\"\n\nOn page 312, \"interefrence\" was corrected to \"interference\" in the\nfollowing text: \"If the interference of the papal faction ...\"\n\nOn page 320, \"expres\" was corrected to \"express\" in the following\ntext: \"... helping the foreign tongue to express itself ...\"\n\nOn page 321, \"detestible\" was corrected to \"detestable\" in the following\ntext: \"... in all of her detestible ugliness.\"\n\nOn page 322, \"sacrified\" was corrected to \"sacrificed\" in the following\ntext: \"... the flower of our army is being sacrificed ...\"\n\n\nERRORS LEFT UNCHANGED IN THE TEXT\n\n\"Villify\" and \"villified\" are consistently spelled with two lls and\nare used multiple times by the author. They have been left unchanged.\n\nThe word \"lude\" appears twice and is left unchanged.\n\nThe word \"cungering\" is spelled consistently and is used in multiple\nplaces in this book. This word has been left unchanged.\n\nThe word \"disorganizer\" appears in a quoted passage, and is left\nunchanged.\n\nThe following words each appear once, and are left unchanged:\n\"cathechism;\" \"effulgency;\" \"engraven;\" \"jesuitical;\"\n\"Macris;\" \"Oricular;\" \"perceptibilities.\"\n\nBoth spellings of the word \"Savior\" and \"Saviour\" are used in this book.","title":"\"Thirty Years In Hell\" Or, \"From Darkness to Light\"","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":55831}