The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-03-24

of his origin and position, his equality
to God. and all the deep and subtle
mysteries, and chicanery of the religion
so called-of which he is the head, is
taught; Our churches have become the
shrine at which the devotees of one of
the darkest systems of theology that ever
cursed the world come to bow themselves
before graUen images and pictures of
saints and relics, an idolitry as sad to
behold, as that which makes sacred the
waters of the Ganges, or transition
from beneath the crushing wheels of
jugernaut to realms of bliss-somewhere
in the unknown hereafter.
National stagnation and depression
in all business relations exist everywhere.
The armed minions of the Pope whose
seat is at Washington, patrol our streets,
our citizens are dragged before the in
QUESTION the rack, the thumb-scretos, and
the .ohip, are the eonvicting witnesses,
and each mornings sun arises upon an
ether victim OF the au-to-deje. Young
ladies of fortune are spirited away to
some convent, to become the mistress of
some designing priest, while her fortune
is swallowed in the avaricious NAV of
mother church. Lazy monks in cowl
and gown stand at every street corner to
sell the indulgences of the church, while
a herd of driveling priests are waiting
for shilling to pardon him of the faith
who with the dagger wet in the sheath
with the blood of his last victim core to
seek absolution, that with light heart
he may seek an other on whom to try
the temper of his steel. Our cities are
thronged with lazaroni as wretched, as
filthy and as murderous as any that ever
infested Italy in her darkest bondage to
popery. While it Is estimated in protes-
tant England but four murders are com.
mitted to every million of inhabitants,
in Papal France there are thirty-one, in
Lombardy forty-fve, in Sicily ninety; in
the Papal States, under the Immediate
watch and control of the Pope, one hun
dred to million, and in Naples, equally
under him, two hundred, just fifty times
as many as in England. And now why
this sad picture that we have drawn of
our beloved country, what is its cause
The Punishment of the BIBLE from our
Schools did it, it was the beginning,
We know what Popery is, we see what
it has done, and is doing in countries
where 1T has the power, it will do the
same here when it gets the power, and
the hue and cry about Bibles in the
Schools is the first master stroke toward
the con pletion of what they aim to do
Iu December last, in Puebla, Mexico, a
catholic mob attacked protestant con.
gregation during service, led on by
priests, and an effort was made to burn
the professionals, using Bibles for fuel, and
this not in Europe, but in North America.
In countries where Romanism is supreme
they have no bibles in their schools, and
but few schools, and their religion is as
poor as their education. In Italy it is
religion to kissa priests hand or the hem
of his robe, to adore crucifiX, to abstain
from certain food on certain days, and to
pay church dues. Piety and profligacy
grow up together there. The brigand
goes fresh from his prayers to Mary, 70
rob and murder, no where is the Virgin
more fervently adored than in the
prisons of the malefactors. The first de-
mand made by "a new conner, on entering
the cell, is for penny to furnish oil for
the Virgins lamp.-Twenty-6ve years
ago the Romanists in this country were
as one to twenty-five of our population
they are now said to be one to six and a
half They are now about seven millions.
According to governmental returns Ro-
man Catholics double once in ten years.
Seventyive years ago there was not a
Roman Catholic Bishop in this country,
now there seven arch bishops, forty-one
bishops, seventy-two seminaries, fourteen
hundred Shoots, three thousand churches,
with property worth forty millions of
dollars.
Priest Hecker said in lecture, 1--WE
number seven millions in this country,
and in fifteen years we will take this
country, and build our institutions over
the grave OF Professionalism. They have
commenced building over that grave,
by banishing the Bible from our Schools.
The city of New York gave $4,000
to Romanists, and property on Fifth
Avenue for cathedral valued at $4,000
900. The common council RENTED
$4,000, dollars tax on catholic church,
and refused to remit $500. on protestant
church. In Brooklyn cathedral is being
built at cost of 100000. The Legis-
lature of New Yprk gave the Catholic
schools of the City ST., $50, and for the
reason stated in former letter, the
state is under Catholic control. Father
Hecker said in his lecture in New York
in 1900 we will have a majority here,
and be bound to take this country and
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