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A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the Peopie and for Honesty in Governmental Affairs.
VOL. VI! NO. 7.
Salisbury N, O., Wednesday, February 1st, 1911.
Wm. H. Stewart, Editor,
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AMERICANISM, ROMANISM AND PROTEST
AUTISM.
Aiiricia Catholics Being Set Aside for
Foreigners. Efforts to Control America.
Written for the PreBbyteriau
Standard by Dr . Juan Ortz del
Gonzales,
(Continued from last week.)
And the Pope oonld Idestroy
inch an American an Christian
oonoeption of Catholicism, and
could destroy it 'without any pro
tett from Protestantism, without
any complaint from the American
press, and without any criticism
from American politicians . The
Pope dared and succeeded
in doing what he could not have
dared to do and certainly would
not have succeeded in doing either
in France or Spain or even in
Itatly itself. And the conse
quences of each tyrannical con
demnation were exceeding disas
trous. From that time on the
American church has lost her in
dependence and treadom mote
than any other Roman Catholic
churoh in the world today.
Catholics in America are en
croached upon by Romanism
many times more than any other
Catholics upon the earth, All
bishops and important writers,
who were suspected of American
ism in some way or another, were
obliged to apologize. The best
American churchmen were dis
regarded and set aside, and the
most rabid and subservient Ro
manists were promoted aud ex
alted. ' The Pope spies upon
American Catholics, whether
bishops.or laymen, as thd Span
ish Inquisit on of old upon their
victims. The most bigoted Ro
man element, such as friars and
nuns, are coming' to America by
hundreds and thousands, and
Romanian has today in America
more friars and nuns than France
Spain and Portugal taken togeth
er, and more schools, academies
and universities Conducted by
friars, nuns and priests than there
are in all Latin Europe. Roman
ism can teach here such danger
ous doctrines without any criti
cism as cannot be taught oven iu
Mexico. Every important office,
honor and teaching position
among Roman American Catho
lics is held more frequently by
foreigners than by Americans.
Romanism, after having de
feated Americanism, was able to
oommit these two national
crimes : First, to drive away the
Bible from public schools and
univetsities. Oh, how dangerous
and fearful is such a blow ! Sec
ond, to organize the Roman sec
tarian school against the public
sohool syBtem; and today Roman
ism has sectarian schools in
which the narrowest Roman in
tolerance and superstition are
tausht to several millions of
Amerioan children .
" And Romanism is not yet satis
fied. It has oreated the religious,
political organization of the
Knishts of Uolumbus, wno are
obliged under oath to maintain
the papal supremacy in America.
Think of more than 300,00 Ameri
can citizens who have promised
under the most solemn vows to
promote and to mantain the po
litical claims of the Papaoy in
America . Romanism is muzzling
the public, press. Read the most
important American papers, as I
did for about one year, and you
will find that today in America
the words of Cardinal Gibbons,
the articles of Archbishop Ireland
and the doctrines of the Roman
uatnono- cnurcn weign many
times more upon publio thought
than everything done and written
by all ProteBtants taken together.
No more than six months ago
there came to America an ex-Jesuit,
who is by all means many
times more important than Car
dinal Newman was. He (the ex
Jesuit) speaks French, Spanish,
Italian, English, and also knows
Latin, Hebrew and Greek, He
has bean a successful teacher in
the most .important educational
centres of the world. He is a
writer of exceeding ability. He
was co-editor ot the most impor
tant paper in the world
He
came here, and no paper has
called the attention of the public
to bii coming as it deserved .He
was a convert from Romanism to
Protestantism, and it was enough
to be reticent . Had it been a
contrary case, every paper would
have exalted and magnified him .
They even persecute. When I
began to write some articles about
Romanism, although I never
abused them, although I yielded
all honor to everybody, they
threatened to ruin the paper
wh ch wis publishing my arti
cles, and they succeeded . When
the publisher of my book present
ed it to the publio, though the
most important Protestant papers
recommended and praised it, es
pecially because it was written
without bitterness against Ro
manism, they threatened again to
rain the publisher, and they suc
ceeded. I have received many
anonymous letters during several
months threating me to death for
no other crime but telling the
truth. They have threatened to
destroy Roosevelt as a politician,
for no other crime but to be
American and folio American
feelings in Rome.
We can say without exaggera
tion, as the present papal dele
gate said in Rome some months
ago, ' The most submissive and
faithful Romanists of the world
today are the American Catho
lics "
In view of these facts, and be
cause I have written several arti
cles dealing with the advance
munt of Romunism in America,
I have been asked by Protestants
what I think of the future of
America in regard to Protestant
ism and Romanism. Through
such questions and through the
way in which my answers have
been received I find that there are
two different parties among
American politics, which think
and fee very differently about
this vital and national subject.
There is one party, perhaps the
most numerous and most power
ful among Protestants, which
too confident, .too hopeful,
which disregards completely the
increase in number and in power
of the Roman Catholics by say
ing that they are only foreigners,
and have not yet touched Ameri
can thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
This Protestant party behevas
confidently that Protestants are
able to control and even defeat
every time they wish the influence-!
and purposes of Roman Catholics.
The opinion 'of this party is en
tirely false, yea, even absurd.
Catholics iu America are enor
mously influencing even the pur
est and most mature Americans.
They are already mastering the
largest cities of the naiion, such
as New York, Chicago, Boston,
New Orleans, and in America
more than anywhere else the
largest cities not only influence,
but practically control the whole
nation . They are already power
ful enough in some American
States to legislate according to
their pleasure. They are muz
zling the national press, and
molding the social thought in
America through books, artioles,
BcnwOis ana so on in suon a way
that they ought to be considered
as one of the most influential fac
tors of national affairs.
There is another party, perhaps
the most faithful and consistent
among Protestants, which believe
tbat tne future of America is
dreadful and hopeless, They say
that we have realized the danger
too late: that Catholics are al
ready masters of the situation
that they have not only succeeded
in driving away the Bible from
public schools and social Amen
can thought, but they are now
succeeding also in exalting Ro
man though and feeling in the
daily papers, public schools
national libraries and everywhere
transforming the most liberal
noble and Protestant nation into
the most papal feud or country.
The opinions of this party are
not entirely consistent with the
facta. They overestimate the
power, influenoe and oontrol of
. Catholics . I am not an optimist.
I feel sure that soon the Amer
ican nation will be obliged to
fight bitter and bloody political
battles to protect herself from
the Roman encroachment. But
I am also very far from leing a
pessimist. Protestantism is not
dead in America, as some writers
say, but is simply dormant.
However, America is not yet con
trolled by Catholics. When
Protestantism awakes, and Amer
ca realizes the danger, then the
victory will be ours, and a won
derful and national one, When
I see Protestantism making its
marvelous fight against alcohol,
and doing suon noble, moral and
national battle against foreigner,
Catholics and neutral people, and
doing it with success, I cannot
believe that Protestantism is
dead. When I see the Sunday
school systems in which millions
of American children and adult
people are studying th,e Word of
God Sunday after Sunday, I can
not doubt that Protestantism is
yet living, and living a whole
some and divine life. When I
see the American people march
ing to conquer the world for
Christ, and marching throngh the
Protestant call in so many mis?
sionary conventions, If cannot
hesitate in believing that the
American people are still Protes
tant, and following Protestant
ism. I believa tbat tinre is yet
time to fight for the flag of God
and the prosperity of America.
Only a few words about the
fight. If we would succeed in
our fight, we must lore Roman
Catholics with Christian love
and make our fight through the
Word of God . Ob I I would nev
er abuse Roman Catholics, I
ova them whh all my heart and
soul. My beloved mothar is yet
Catholic. Two of my brothers
are Roman Catholic priests, and
two of my sisters are Roman
Catholic nuns. My best friends
are Roman Catholic. Every
thing dearest to me is Roman
Catholic I love them and I am
ready to die for them, and hope
to spend all my life preaching the
Gospel among them. I know
that they are decieved, and the
first victims of the system . Mil-
ions of native American Catho
ics are more faithful to America
than to Rome, and are more
ready to fight, and even die for
their country than for their Pope.
They need light Teach them
with earnest and patient Chris
tian love, and they will bo uni
ted rather to Protestantism to
gave the nation than to Roman
ism to ruin it. Oh, give then
the Bible, and they will follow
youl Oh, restore the Bible in
American pub'ic thought In
troduce it again in American
public schools. L9t your princi
pal fight be for the Bible. Fight
if you like the noble fight against,
alcohol. Fight against immora
lity, bribery and so oo, but do
not forget to fight for the Bihle,
for that is our principal Protes
tant fight Protestantism is noth
ing more aud nothing Iobs than
to think and feel and do accord
ing to the Bible. In a word,
make the Bible the book of the
American people, as it was in the
paat, and then you will save
them, you and the nation .
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NEWS ABOUT WASHINGTON.
The Democrats are Arranging Tbings So as
to Conduct Affairs Harmoniously.
Washington, Jan. 80 The
Democratic caucus last week, it
is but fa'"r to say was as harmo
nious as well ordered, with subse
quent events a? seemly, as such
incidents have attached to any
party organization in Congress.
The Democrats have organized
the Ways and Means Committee
according to the will of the ma
jority of their party, on a tariff.
for-revenue-onlv-basis. As far
then as concerns the House the
issue will be quite clearly drawn
against the long maintained the
ory and practice of protection .
The Democratc tariff-tackling
oommittee will, therefore fight it
out on that line all next sum
mer. And we all shall Bee what
all we all shall see.
The membership of the other
Btanding committees, sixty ono in
number, except the majority part
of the Rules Committ-e, will not
be chosen until Congress meets
in regular session next December.
As now understood the policy of
th9 Ways and Means Committee
in its augmented pow3r as a Com
mittee on Committees will be,
while striving forharmony to se
lect committee members with
chief reference to seniority of
committee service and with due
regard to generally admitted pe
culiar fitness for particular com
mittee duties.
Following this policy, the rauk
iug D -mocrat of the minority of
each oommittee is ;a line for pro
motion to its chairmanship, and
except in-few instances it is not
doubted that this course will be
followed. There are two chair
mmships which will probfbly
prove bones of contention to em
barrass the committee-making
oommittee, that of Appropriations
and that of Hirer- and Harbor3.
John J. Fitzgerald, of New York,
first of the present minority of
the former committee, has a rival
aspirant in Albert S. Burleson.
of Texas, next in order. Burle
son mainly bases Mb claim upo?
party regularity, opposing Fitz
gerald as having at the organiza
tion of the House in March 1909.
ed off 23 Democrats to vote with
Speaker Cannon against the ma
ority of Democrats combined
with a majority of so-called Rt
publican insurgents in a revision
of the House rules.
While, as to the Rivers anH
Harbor Committeee, Samuel M.
Sparkman, of Florida, is th
ranking" Democrat and was one
of the 23 voting as did Fritzer
ald, he is in danger of displace
ment because Joseph E. Ransdeil,
of Louisiana, next in rank, was
not only regular iu the rules con
test, but enjoys the distinction of
remarkably high fitness for the
post. His friends are urging him
for the chairmanship upon the
ground of spgeial aptitude unre
mitting diligence and sagacious
comprehension of the great pub
lic works handled bv the com.
mittee. They think it is but the
need of just and proper recogni
tion that the popular president
of the National Rivers and Har
bors Congress should be made the
chairman of the Rivers and Har
bors Committee.
Mrs. Eddy Interred at Lake Halcyon.
Usmbridge, MaBs., Jan 25. In
a concrete graye on the shores of
Lake Haloyon, in Mount Auburn
cemetery, there was laid today, a
bronze casket containing the body
of Mrs. Baksr Eddy, foundt-r of
a i oi ' l : n - j
tua nuriB&iau ouieuce aenomina
tion. On the casket rested
bronze box enclosing a complete
set of the works of Mrs. Eddy,
together with all recent Christian
Science publications, while the
silver plate beneath gave her
name and the date of her birth
The eeremony was attended by
the directors of the church and a
Bcore of its strongest supporters .
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RED CROSS SACRED.
Protest Against Red Cross Sausage Cas
ings, Tooib Brushes, Dynamffe Penalties.
The American Red Cross has
requested the Solioitor General of
the United States to advise it as
to the proper steps for the en
forcement of that seetion of its
federal charter relating to the use
of its emblem and name for ad
vertising purposes by manufactu
rers, retailers, physicians, chari
table organizations, barbers, and
otherB.
i is believed that many per
sons who use the emblem or the
name of the Red Cross for adver
tising purposes do so in ignorance
ot the fact that such use is for
bidden by law with penalties for
violation which, in aggravated
oases, may be a fine of $500 and
imprisonment for one year. The
scope of the law is shown by the
following extract:
"It shall be unlawful for any
person, corporation, or associ
ation other than the American
National Red Cross and its duly
authorized employees and agents
and the army and navy sanitary
and hospital authorities of the
United States, for the purpose of
trade or as an advertisement to
induce the sale of any article
whatsoever, or for any business or
charitable purpose to use within
the territory of the United States
of America and its exterior po
sessious the emblem of the Greek
Red Cross on a white ground, or
any sigu of insignia made or col
ored in imitation thereof, or of
the words 'Red Cross' or 'Geneva
Cross,' or any combination of
these words."
The United States has entered
into a treaty with all the civilized
governments of the world to pre
vent the use of the emblem and
name of the Red Cross except as
above stated, and this law is in
tended as a means of complying
with the terms of the treaty.
Already there are evidences
that public sentiment is respond
ing to this movement to respect
the peculiar significance of the
Red Cross and to protect it
against abuse. The American
Medical Association, the Ameri
can Hospital Association, and
the Association of Military Sur
geons have put themselves on rec
ord in favor of the movement.
Ambulances in New York have
given up the Red Croi s and have
adopted the green St. Andrew's
cross instead. The Retail Drug
gists' Association and the MaBter
Barbers' Association have pajsed
resolutions urging their mem t era
to refrain from the use of the sym
bol of the Red Cross.
From many sources are comiug
protests against the use' of thiB
emblem, which means so much
to the soldier on the battlefield
and the sufferer in time of disas
ter, as an advertisement of such
things as dynamite, sausage cas
ings, kindling wood, toilet paper,
washboards, stove?, shoes, mineral
water, toothbrushes, and the like.
The officers of the American Red
Cross are hoping that the ex
ample of a great department store
in Los Angeles may be wideJy
Allowed. The proprietor of thiB
store has declined to carry iu
stock any article bearing the Red
Cross as a trade mark.
The Greatest Good for the Smallest Amount.
Martha Beuley Bruere, in an
article in "Success Magazine, en
titled VTne Family Clearing
House," describes how a young
woman solved the problem of liv
ing to the best advantage on a
small salary by "standardizing"
the family. Father aud mother
aud two children. Animal in
come $1,200. Monthly income
$100.
We have no doubt that a fami
ly could manage to drag along on
the pitiful Bum ol $100 per month,
but will Success how pleaBe get
busy and tell how the millions of
familiea who receive only $30 to
$50 a month are going to squeeze
the ends together. Martha
should nave her article appended
to the declaration of indepen
dence. We Buppose Success paj s
double rates for such great il-luminosity.
ANOTHER BOY MARVEL.
Nicholas Wiener, Only 16 Years Old Has
Wonderful Record.
Harvard is not the only univer
sity with a youthful scholastio
marvel, such as William James
Sidis, for in Nicholas Wiener Cor
nell possesses a student who cele
brated his sixteenth birthday an
niversary last Saturday and who
iB taking second-year graduate
work. He was graduated from a
Massachusetts high school when
only 11 years old, and completed
the regular four-year course at
Tufts College in three years, leav
ing that institution at an earlier
age than that at which Sidis will
recieve his degree at Harvard.
After one year of graduate study
at Harvard he won the Sage grad
uate scholarship at Cornell and
this fall he cam 9 to Ithaca.
The master of several lan
guages, many scienotP and most
theoretical mathematics, Wiener
is specializing in philosophy at
Cornell with a view to teaching
that subject. His program of
study consists of courses in em
piricism, rationalism, ethics, the
history of philosophy, experimen
tal psychology, and as subsidiary
subjects reading Plato in the
original, German reading and the
theorys of functions in mathe
matics. Young Wiener's father, Prof .
Leo Wiener, of Harvard, is a Rus
sian, like his colleague, Prof.
Boris Sidis, father of William
James Sidis, and his mother was
bora m Kansas City, Mo. Prof
fessor Wiener is assistant profes
sor of Slavic languages at Har
vard, formerly teaching romance
and Germanic languages at Mis
s ari State University.
At IB months young Wiener
knew his alphabet; he could read
and write English at two and a
half yeirs. and when 4 years old
he waf- acquainted with most
arithmetic and some French.
From 5 to 6 years of ag he was
in the second grade in the country
school t Foxborough, Mass.t and
when 7 he passed through the
third and fourth grades, staying
in the later only one or two weeks
Then for half a year he was un
able to do any reading by order
of an oculist, who feared the boy
was becoming nearsighted. Dur
ing this period he was tutored in
chemistry, Latin, history and
English, and as soon as he could
read again hecommenced geome
try and trigonometry and was
I 11 1 1j'1
wen aiong iu analytical geometry
before entering at 9 as a special
student the high school at Ayar,
Mass.
There in his first year he stud
ied Caesar and Cicero, English
history and advanced algebra. In
his second year he entered the
senior class, taking up Virgil,
German, English and solid geome
try, and striding the American
history himself. Upon gradua
tion at 11, he entered Tufts Col
lege.
The first year at . Tufts he
studied advanced mathematics,
metaphysics, history, Greek and
English ; the second year the same
except English with physics, po
litical economy, French and Lat
in. His third year was devoted
to organic chemistry vertebrate
anatomy, Greek, Latin Philoso
phy and calculus.
In spite of his unusual mental
attainments and his very thor
ough general education, he. is a
normal, healthy boy. New York
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DRUNKENNESS DECREASED OYER 66 PER
CENT. IN SALISBURY.
Comparison of Warrants Issued and Nuaber
of Drunks for 1908 Md 1910.
Probably the best method of as
certaining the value of a measure
or policy, is by a fair comparison
of results under the different con
ditions. To say that prohibition,
though admittedly not enforced
as thoroughly as it should be, or
as infringements on other laws is,
has oreated better conditions gen
erally in Salisbury and Rowan
County, is but a very indifferent
expression oi the facts. Only re
cently we published a statement
which showed that the banks of
Salisbury, and we believe is true
in the county also, had much
larger deposits than ever before
in their history . This is a re
sult prophesied by prohibition
ists. No one can say for a cer
tainty that this surplus money
evidenced by increased depoiits
would have all been spent' for
whiskey, fines, doctor's bills, loss
time and other items oommon
among those who use it, nor can
it be sucee8sfully denied that
prohibition is not largely respon
sible for this new and bettered
condition, financially, morally
and healthfully.
As to the matter of decreased
crime. Who can fail to see in the
figures given below a great im
provement in general oonditiona
and the helping hand extended to
hundreds of victims to the habit,
and their families who suffered in
various ways indirectly? The
following figures are taken from
the police records xt Salisbury,
for the year 1908, when the city
had eighteen or twenty saloons,
besides a number of distilleries
and wholesale houses, and 1909
and 1910, when no such places
exiset dlegally, though the illegal
traffic seems to flourish : thanks
to the Bupreme court judges,
month 908 1909" 1910
Jan. Warrants-48 42
Drunks 63 23
Feb. Warrants 98 40
Drunks 78 28
Mch. Warrants 66 54
Drunks 47 26
April Wan ants 106 48
Drunks 62 ' 26
May Warrants 111 54
Drunks 72 25
June Warrants 115 48 34
Drunks 52 17 23
July Warrants 127 86 38
Drunks 74 31 19
Aug, Warrants 78 70 47
Drunks 42 26 22
Sept. Warrants 94 88 46
Drunks 56 17 21
Oct. Warrants 130 55 66
Drunks 98 22 27
Nov. Warrants 120 .51 89
Drunks 80. 26 . 16
Deo. Warrants 186 49 41
Drunks 118 22 28
Total Warnts. 1,814 847 544
Total Drunks 882 161 2842
Per ctg. drks. 63.81 46.39 52.2
As we only have the figures for
six months of 1009, we will leave
it out of further consideration
and make the comparisons be
tween the years 1908 and 1910:
In 1908 there were 1314 arrests
f r various crimes, 832, or 63.81
per cent, of these were for
drunks, and 1910 there .were.
544 arrests, 284, or 52.22 per
cent, of these were for drunks
which makes the comparison
quite marked . For instance,
in 1908 there 1314 arrests and in
1910 544, or a decrease of 770, or
nearly 58.6 per cent . in arrests,
of which only 284 were drunks, a
net decrease in drunkenness of
nearly 66 per cent.
This, it seems to us is a show
ing that ought to prove to the
most skeptical the great benefit
of prohibition. Though very in
differently enforced here. How
much better would conditions be
should the legislature outlaw the,
clubs and near beer joints?
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