The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-02

them at the tails 81 forses. right in hi.
America of ours. Whyp my friends, could
any man think todaNoof getting up an
anti-Puritan party Pr the strength Of these
Then my friend objects to the infallibility
of the pope. Well do mot believe that any
man in this world is, freq from the capacity.
of making mistakes ITO err is human -
But as understand, the i1fallibility of the
pope, it is simply ,thiSy that he represents
the ultimate authority, just as our su-
preme court at Washington represents the
ultimate authority Aponf a question at law.
(Applause) If you ere to have a consoli-
dated church you haves got to have some
ultimate authority. from which there is no
appeal. applause, and, cries of rightly
So much for that. ri. II
Now, my friend. see, has been posted
by some of my old Opponents here. and
good-naturedly refers to the fact, as he
says, that I have been a member Of all
parties. Naughter) Well, that is not
strictly true. His informants have misin-
formed him. I never belonged to but two
parties, the Republican party up to the
Greeley campaign, and the independent
party ever since. (Applause.) + say the
Independent party, for it included the
Greenbackers, the free silver men, the
Changers, and now under the name Of the
Peoples party, but it is the same party.
QLaughter) Something like the Irishman
who named his daughter Mary, Bridget,
Susan and Jane, but he says, "There is
only one of her" Oaughter) And so, my
friends, this element that 1 have belonged
to has been in a formative condition, and
1t has always been fighting oppression and
injustice. Applause) And time has justi-
fed it. There was a time l stood alone on
this platform. Today L have % electoral
votes behind me- and million and twenty
thousand votes in the last campaign. Cap
plause) But my brother here tells YOU
voted md for
Thank God, he cannot bring any such
charge against me. Great laughter) I
have done some mean things in my time.
but l never did anything quite SO mean as
that Renewed laughter) Why, my
friends, If l had voted for Grover Cleye-
land, and was now going around on the
stump making A P. A. speeches, 1 would
GO AND HANG MYSELF
on the nearest lamp post. Continued
laughter) Bob Ingersoll, you know, has a
very eloquent lecture about the mistakes
of Moses. 1 think l will get one up and
call it the mistakes of Sims Renewed
laughter)
Well, he says that this party is liberal
party, this A. P. A. party, and that it
does not prosecute anybody-that il has no
personal hostility to Catholics as such.
Now just let me read to you a sentence
from their oath that they take when swear
ing in member: THAT will not employ
Roman Catholic in any capacity if 1 can
L t.. v.
my friends if he gets all the Pedestrians
together into this A. P A. society," where
in thunder will the Catholics be? Gaugh-
ter) What will they they do for a living?
There is only one out of ten They will
have to lick their paws, like bears in the
winter, for something to eat. Renewed
laughter) He is not opposed to the Catho-
lies, but is opposed to giving them any
work or anything to eat. Renewed laugh
ter) He believes in freedom of conscience
stomach iC C,nty y
Why. my friends this is ridiculous
Naughter) And the last thing he tells you
he must pardon me for using the phrase-and
the most ridiculous of all is that our money
troubles are due to the fear of the Pope
OaughterD Why, my friends, just think
of it. The fall in the price of silver-the
Pope did it. Q4aughter) The fall in the
price of wheat-the Pope did it. 0.aughter)
The fall in the price of Minneapolis real es-
tate-Pope's responsible. daughter and ap-
plauseD The hungry men on the street cor
ners, twas the Pope that took the sub
stance out of their mouth. Gaughtero
Why. my friends 1t is shocking shocking.
Qaughter,) that my good friend here can
find any fellows to believe any such non
sense. l will tell you what made this trou-
BILE; it was the money power that did it.
the powers of the old world the great
banking classes who in demonetizng silver
cut off one half of the money of the world
and threw it away. (Applause.) And this
A. p A. government is to keep the people
thinking of this question. Applause)
England is at the back of it, and she is
doing the same thing here that she did in
Ireland when for centuries she kept the
people in subjections by telling them to
fight over religion and tear each other to
pieces. Why, cases have actually occurred
where they rioted just they were rioting
the other day in Kansas City and killing
each other, and it was proved that the
leaders on both sides had English money in
their pockets. Applause.) My friends, it is
all wrong, and there is no reason and no
sense in it. l have to anticipate a little for
the professor has more time than 1 have
and l shall have but twenty minutes to re-
ply to his fifty-minute speech, and I draw
from my experience of former debate
with him. He told at Milwaukee that q
Catholic could not be citizen of this coun-
try because he the abject slave of the
Pope, and would do whatever the papal
clerk told him to do, and therefore he could
not be good citizen. Then he went on in
the next breath and told us that the Catho-
lies of the Catholic countries, mark YOU
where there are no Protestants, compare
lively speaking, the Catholic countries of
Spain, of Italy and Mexico, that those Cath
olics had arisen and robbed the Pope and
the church of all its possessions, and had
taken the side of liberty against the church
My friends. if those men are good citizens
there, much &c
OVERTHROW THE WEALTH OF THE
CHURCH,
why would they not be good citizens in
America? Appause) 1 want my friend
to answer that question. Let me read to
you an extract from his speech at Ash
land. He says the MeXicans passed laws to
deprive the priests of their fees for marry
ing, buryng, and forth. They are all
Catholics, the MeXicans, but they took the
government in hand and relieved the peo-
pie of the tax and made the people free
and started the people in liberty-these
Catholics. Now, that he says was Catholic
Mexico, that is what she has done with the
Roman Catholic Church, but if you saw
that the Roman Catholic Church in Amer
lea is the same church Cardinal Gibbons
does not say so. He said some few weeks
ago that the Catholic Church was the same
today she was when Columbus discover
ed America. (Applause) He says again.
Mexico found the Roman Catholic Church
in possession of very nearly one-third of
the wealth of the country, and the Next
can congress went to work and nationaIized
of saying that they took possession of the
church property, so the church property in
Mexico was nationalized. Now, this is a
Roman Catholic country. If the Roman
Catholics of Mexico not the slaves to
the church. why in Gods name should they
be in this free, intelligent America? ZAP
plause.) And 1 would say to you, gentle
men of the A. P. A, that this terror that
is put upon your souls, this old pope, who
is he? An old man IS years of age, with
out a foot of land in this world he can
call his own He had some states that
were given to him thousand years ago by
Charemagne. The Catholic nation of tia
ly, under a Catholic king, Victor Emanuel,
stripped him of every foot of those prop
critics. Here 1 have my friends testimony
in that same speech at Ashland where he
says that today Pope Leo XIII. dare not