The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-30
AMERICAN ,STATES1LEN.
An Interesting and Curious Lecture by
Dr. KrOhn.
AtchisOn Champion


\ very large audience of more than
avs<age intelligence assembled at the
Kansas Avenue Methodist church last
evening to listen to lecture on Ameri-
can Statesmen by DR.. Phillip Krohn, the
pastor. The object of the lecture was
10 raise funds to perfect the heating ap-
paratus of the church. There is no
doubt that the furnace will be erected,
for the sum accruing must have been q
large one,
The lecture was curious one, and we
venture TO say a complete surprise to
all present. lnstesd of giving his aud
fence personal "reminiscences of great
statesmen, he described with admirable
clearness and force the Irish, German
and American politician, wire puller,
ballot box stulfer and corruptionist of
New York City. To the 1rishman he
gave the name Of HoOlihan, and after de-
scribing his origin and infancy among
the boys pigs and hens of Ireland, he
brought him to America, and followed
him as a saloon keeper, ward politician,
ballot box stuffer, and striker for an I'M
scrupulous leader. This man, he said,
although wholly Indifferent to human
law, was awed and subdued by the au-
thority of his church-a power which
he could not understand and dared not
defy. This Hoolihan, although he
would violate the ballot box and SUBJ
vert the will of the freeman, would not
dare to run counter to the will of the
priest at the altar, or fail to bow submits
sively at the shrine of his faith. He re-
garded him as character dangerous &c
the freedom of our country, and fatal 10
the existence of purity and decency in
politics.
The German agitator and reformer
was described as Carl Adolph Schaus-
mann, of Swinefall in little duchy of
Germany, where the people did nothing
for the most part, from the Duke down,
but kick and be kicked, A slave in his
own country he migrated to America
to escape the CONSUMPTION, and join
ing himslf to lot of malcontents of
his own stamp, he set to work to over
throw all the things that have made this
country what it is, and establish an
archy under the specious name of re-
form. The speaker accompanied this
worthy also in his career, and gave an
excellent imitation of speech in bro
ken English, delivered by Carl at lib
eral reform meeting, which was receiv-
ed with applause. This foreign impor-
tation, the lecturer said, attacked every
thing that Americans were taught to re-
vere-the church, the Sunday school,
the Bible and even the Lords day. He
regarded this type of American states-
men as especially dangerous. Mr.. Hoo
Than would overthrow our public
schools and elevate Irishmen to all the
offices of the country, if he could have
his way, but he would preserve and in
crease the imperial sway of the church.
Mr. Schausmann would sweep this great
institution away, and under the specious
cry of reform and personal liberty, turn
the Sabbath into aday devoted to drunk
enness and vicious pleasures. Carl
Adolph and all his class should be swept
out of political power by the uprising
of the free and honest people who exist
in every country, and especially in this.
The specimen copy of his class, the
inscriptions, time serving, grasping,
traitOr0us politician. with power and
brains enough to lead the other two
types, DIR. Krohn found in the late Fer
nando Wood and his brother Ben, of
New York. OF course the Doctor did
not mention their names, but his de-
scriptiou of their characters was perfect
and their physical appearance was also
graphically drawn
The speaker said that an American
excells IN whatever he undertakes; that
he dives deeper and comes up quicker
and dryer than any other man on earth.
As a trickster and cheat the American
dIstanced both Hoolihan and Schaus-
mann. In the arts of depravity and cor
rupiion he far surpassed both; but by
the superiority of his intellect he led
them by the nose. They were his ready
tools. and by their Vaccinations elected
him to power.
Many persons in the audience recog-
nized in the Doctors description the
tall, cold, calculating Fernandy, and the
bloated, sensual form of Ben, the prince
of lottery dealers. Ben was his brothers
go-between, and did the dirty work at
the ward meetings and primaries. The
speaker followed the American through
The devious ways by which he rose
to cmlnence in the national legislature;
noted bis career in that body; his death,
and the return of his remains to New
York. escorted by the usual congress
sIonal committee which disposed of the
customary quantity of champaign
After describing the characteristics of
these American statesmen, the Doctor
rccapitulaied their dangerous tenden-
eies, and closed a very Interesting and
excellent effort by an eloquent appeal to
homes citizens TO rise up and remove
from power the H0olihans, Schaus-
MAINS and their American leaders who
threatened the citadel of our liberties
because the seniries slept on their posts
At the close Of his lecture DIR. Krohn
was warmly applauded and congratu-
lated by many of his audience.