St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-22

and cleyerly executed. They are in
tended to deceive, and admirably are
they adapted to their purpose. For ex-
ample, notice these, the first two ques-
tiOns in the circular:
Are you ProteStantfrOm principle and
from choice?
Are you in favor of preserving consti-
tutional liberty and maintaining the
government of the United States?
In answer to the first, unless a nan be
a Hebrew, a Catholic or what is termed
a Pagan, his reply will be yes. unhes-
itatingly. Every good citizen, of what
ever nationality, will affirmatively reply
to the second. Then the subject is
opened a little further by this seemingly
bold and abrupt question::
Do you regard ROmanism as the enc
my of civic and religious liberty?
Before the one Intercepted has time
to think Oh that question. n requiring
a little reflection before it can be an
swered honestly, this is thrown at him:
Is it not, in your opinion, unwise and
unsafe to appoint to civil, political or
military office in this country men who
and who have sworn to obey him?
This question is intended to deceive,
inasmuch as the last part of it-''men
who owe allegiance to the pope of Rome
and who have sworn to obey him"-
enunciates a falsehood which has long
been exploded. That false statement is
injected into the question for the pur-
pose of Immediately %preiudicing the
mind of the person questioned and Undue
ing him to assent to the preceding ques-
ton without weighing the matter i'll
his mind. By this time the
person to whom these questions
are put begins to suspect that an effort
is being made to arouse his prejudices.
To dispel such an impression is the aim
of the next two questions, designed to
make him believe that the objects of
this society are commendable, since
these two questions are such as all good
citizens say yes to-. Here they are:
Are you in favor of maintaining the
principle of one general unSectarian
free school organization?
Are you opposed to all attempts to use
the public funds for any sectarian pur-
pose whatever?
No one could say no to them and theil
mission to diSabuse the mind of the III
dividual of any suspicion that he is be-
ing tricked, is accomplished. Through
the agency of these skillfully con.
structed questions, a feeling of patriot
ism has been aroused, and the man falls
a victim to the specious arguments
poured into his ear by the agent of the
society, who knows to strike while the
iron is hot. That this is all true has
been attested by men who have
joined the society, and who have
afterward said that it was moi
at all what they deemed it to be whe1
they consented to become members
The real objects of the organization ar
not revealed until later, when a man:
sense of the solemnity of an oath lead'
him to either continue his connection
with it, or, at least, say nothing about i
to others.
The object of the order as outlined il
one of the confidential letters to depu
ties, is ''to elect men to office-national
state and local-who are pledged to GU
principles" But the society goes evel
further than that. 1t prescribes TIN
duties of members in business affairs
as witnessed by this, from this letter t,
deputies:
There is an additional feature in tn
obligation-that is. that we assist on,
another in business and other pursuit
in life. political. ETC."
If a members grocer happens to be
Catholic, he must refuse to buy his te
and his sugar and his vegetables an,
his flour of him, yer If he sell bette
SOOuS tildl uO iliS COLlpCtllOIos LIZ &c
still nearer to the point, Anthony Kelly
should be b%Oycotted. No true anti
Catholic should buy groceries of him
This applies. as well. to those wht
sympathiZe with Catholics. No consist
ent anti-Catholic can ride to st. Pau
on the Great Northern short lin
trains because j. j. HIPS famil
are Catholics, and Mr.. Hill naturall
sympathizes with, and feels friendl,
toward. them. Members of labor OF
CARNATIONS have been prosecuted be
cause they advised the b%oycotting Q
some manufacturers goods or of som
store, because of injuries. fanciful Q