The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-02-24

that comes hero for the purpose of
making an honest living, and to sup
port our American Institutions, but we
have no place and we do not want
men who come here to tear them
down. We do not want this fair
soil of ours to be used as a
dumping ground of the Anarchist
and Socialist. We propose to main
tain the purity of this fair land TINT
God has given us. No room for Anar-
ehists; no room for men who come
here to tear down our institutions, but
room for all who are willing to re-
ceiye the stars and stripes. We want
such to come; we want others to stay
away.
In the second place, our text implies
that in this plantation there are plants
which God has not planted. Somehow
weeds will spring up, and, IL left
alone, they Will choke out the grain
| II left alone il will crowd out the
plants which God has planted. The
very traditions the text refers to are
the plants that crowd out the sublime
property which God has given, and
which ought to make them grow
This land of ours was a Para
disc until sin was planted In IL;
now we call 1t vale OF tears.
We have been shedding blood.
This vale OF tears; man has made this
change. Mans inhumanity to man
/ has made countless millions mourn.
1t Is startling fact that more blood
has been shed in our day than at any
period of the past. The field in which
we live Is full Of some plants which
God has not planted. Idolatry, Infi-
deity, Materialism, Anarchy, Social
ism, Mormonism, Rumism and Ro-
manism. Are these Gods plants? Did
God plant these things In American
soilY No, never. These plants seriously
menace our institutions LIST, Rumism.
That is u bad plant. 1t Is prominent
factor in American politics to-day.
The saloon controls our politics. Our
nominations are made up largely OF
the saloon, and our candidates are
suggested largely by the saLeon, aud
| many OF the elections are held next
door to the saloon,a and our Legislature
Is estimated to be on the side OF the
saloon.
This is an evil that destroys wherever
IL touches, racks our homes, corrupts
our government and produces crime
and disloyalty. II is poisonous. This
is plant God has not planted. II Is u
plant that has been trtlnsplanted here.
The saloon Is foreign institution.
Romanists. It is bad plant; God
Almighty never planted it. The saloon
keepers do not claim that it was
planted by God. Who planted IT?
None other than the devil. 1t is the
duty OF every patriot TO pluck this
plant up by the root. Nothing short
of complete purity of the law will
cure the cause. II is hard to pluck IL
up. | know its roots are now being
planted among moneyed institutions.
II must come up; it will come up; God,
Almighty has the lever OF truth, and II
will come up. The other Is Romanism.
Somebody said that preachers were
afraid to enter room where there
was lecture by an ex-priest. The
reason was not there was because /
had an official engagement at the
church. Whether OF not ! was afraid
to go you may judge for yourselves
after l anu through.
The seed plant is Romanism and 1t
will drift into affinity with the saloon.
This Is plant that claims to he plant
ed by the Lord. 1t claims to be the
only plant, the only church. Now,
Professionalism denies this; denies that
RomaHiSm Is the Church of God.
There is n vital, eternal difference be-
tween Professionalism and Romanlsm.
! grant that there are some good peo-
pie in the Roman Catholic Church.
So there are in heathendom. / am
ready to admit that there me some
good things in the Catholic Church.
So there arc in heathendom. Some
body also asks: What reasons have
you quoted that this plant is not OF
the Fathers planting| l take the
fruits We shall know them.n The doc
trina n fhnf ahIITnh Ia iur0nlNy
trary to the plain teachings of Gods
words. TrHditionsS penance for sins,
Saints Mass for dead souls, ahsolu-
ton, infallibllity cleansing authority
in the Pope. Tney claim that where
the Pope gives remission IL is Just as
binding as II you saw ii in the Bible.
Purgatory, worship of images, pen
ance for sins, may be clearly traced
to heathendom. They existed in heath
endom before the christian era.
What are the practical fruitsS Well,
| stand aghast. i have no language
that is emphatic enough to describe
the record of that church. 1t has
record OF intolerance and corruption
second to no other institution ON the
face of the earth. Read their history
and you will find this statement Is
only half way reaching the truth of
their monasterial evils. Prominent
Institutions of that church show their
Righteousness in Matching crime and
infamy. Their institutions are of pub
lie interest though they had to be ban
ished from several governments in
Europe. That church has been ready
to step as low as necessary to raise
funds. Only few weeks lgo the head
of the church in this diocese appointed
means and plans to raise money, which
was in such direct opposition to the
laws that the United States mails
would not carry them. Yet the bishop
Of that church appoints it to raise
money. Many of our Protestant peo-
pie helped pay the bill. That is the
way they did II. Thank God, not one
penny OF mine went for IL. II was an
lniquitous measure.
In Baltimore man died some time
since; his wife went to the priest, paid
him money and had him say mass with
the delusion that though her husband
was In Purgatory the priest was going
to get lin out. 1t was robbery. Why
money IS charity III that church. Ii
covers moro dollars and cents. than any
other thing. With the civil authorities
the Pope is II King, and they are afraid
to refuse to carry out the Pope's bid
ding, They would be Just the same
to day il our civil authorities were the
same us they were then. l stand here
this morning before my God. / say that
there are no means OF terror which the
Roman Catholic Church has not ein-
ployed.