The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-09-11
ISSUES OF THE DAY
Roman Catholicism and Foreign Immi-
grafton are the Leading Ones
SAYS This Correspondent.

Roman Catholicism and Foreign AMllA-
grafton are the Leading Ones,
Says This Correspondent.
correspondence of the Progress ive Farmer.
WINSTON, N. @.
The one grand issue in American
politics to day is Roman Catholicism.
All other issues-the tariff, the silver
question and the national banking
questionable into utter insignihcance
before this powerful and subtle mon
ster, Romanism.
To saw that Catholics are good citl-
g or a become good citizens of
our country, is preposterous, when we
contemplate the policy of the Pope OF
Rome against free government, coupled
with the allegiance which every Cath
Ole gives to This highness." Every
American knows, or must be taught,
that Catholics acknowledge themselves
subject to the Pope and feel themselves
bound by all the terrorizing supersti-
tions of the Romish church to obey its
canons in preference to the laws of any
nation, and that the Pope has the di-
vine right to use physical force to
maintain the DEGREES of the church and
annihilate every other form of govern
ment except that which recognizes the
Pope as its head. And that Catholics
will put this policy into execution
whenever and wherever they dare to
do it is shown by their history, and
what Romanism has done she will do
again is reasonable to believe and
should awaken us to the dangers that
beset us from this source.
The warning uttered by Lafayette,
while our government was yet in its
infancy, is coming back to us now and
we are forced to apprecia e the wisdom
of his words when he said: IF the
liberties Of the American people are
ever destroyed, they will fall into the
hands of the Roman clergy"
We people of the South cannot ap.
preciate these dangers, because we
have had, as yet, little to do with
Romanism, but this Shiny octopus is
reaching for Us and the time to avoid
its grasp is now, by the use of the bal
lot and by requiring every candidate
who comes before US to be q protestant
before we vote for him.
In some parts of the North, New
York particularly, Romanism has
taken hold with the tenacity of a bull
deg and is even now asserting ita per
niciou5 claims, and this state of affairs
has been brought about by men voting
for Catholics under the cloak of some
n Of the political parties. A Cath
olic as a candidate never discovers his
religion but poses as a Democrat, a
Republican, a Populist or a Prohibi-
ZIONIST, but the moment he is elected
his Catholicism crops out and he uses
his power for Romanism. This is the
Pope's ruse and every plan is laid by
him and communicated to the people
through the priests, and they are
bound by the most rigid oaths to obev
his mandates.
Romanists possess by far a more
subtle and powerful influence than all
of the political parties combined. Let
every man, Of whatever political faith,
draw the line at Romanism and refuse
to vote for a Catholic, no matter to
what party he belongs. In other words,
let US make Romanism the first issue
and foreign immigration the second in
u political affairs.
I couple foreign immigration with
Romanism, because it is n of the
Peoples weapons with which he creates
majorities when he cannot get con
verts.
Ascertain what the mans religion is
who asks for your vote, and fyou find
him a Romanist, drop him as you
would a serpent. JOHN L. BEARD.