The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-27


If 80 our conclusions may be wrong
Still we must take facts as we find
them, and if they are not true,
acknowledge the error when proved to
be so.
Father Hecker in the Catholic
World of July 1870, says that the Gro
man Catholic is to WELD his vote for
the purpose of securing Catholic
ascendancy in this country" DR.. o.
A. Brownson in his Catholic Review of
of July 1864 says that undoubtedly
it is the intention of the Pope to
possess this country. In this intention
he is aided by the Jesuits and all the
Catholic prelates and priests" And
DR.. Brownson said that "every article
relating to the church be submitted to
the Bishop, for his inspection, approval
and Endorsement" Again in his Es-
says, page $50 and 1888, DR.. Brownson
says" The people need governing,
and must be governed. They must
have master, and this master is the
Pope of Rome, whom the Almighty
God has placed us under to obey.
Now to show that they are working
to this end, the following from the
Chicago Inter-Ocean concerning the
holdings of the Catholics in that city,
is in point: "They fill the Offices Of
the mayor, chief of police, chief of fire
department, postmaster, States attor-
ney, clerks of the circuit, probate and
superior courts, a number of the judges,
forty-five of the sixty-eight aldermen,
sixty-seven per cent. of the school
teachers, eighty per cent. of the fire
department, ninety per cent. of the
police force, and nearly all the candi-
dates for possible future places. Now,
if anybody says that a minority sect
gets all these plums and preference
without secret organization working
necessarily and ubiquitously to that
end, then we must admit that Ameri-
cans import, and do not produce,
their supply of brains"
The New York Mail and Express of
November Z, 1888, says: The Roman
Catholics have taken the city. They
already have every member of the
board of tax commissioners. They
have for years had and still have the
control of the board eff aldermen. They
have the mayor, the sheriff, the comp
troller, the counsel to the corporation,
the whole board of tax assessors, the
superintendent of the street cleaning
department, the commissioner of pub
lie works, the clerk of the beard of al
derman, the superintendent of the bu-
reau of elections, several of the justices
o. the supreme, superior, and common
pleas courts, the control of the board
of estimate and apportionment, the
majority in many of the ward boards
of school trustees, large portion of
the board of education, the control of
the department Of charities and cor
rections, the majority of the police
force, the control of the fire depart
ment, of the board of street openings,
the whole of the armory board, the
register of deeds, the commissioner of
jurors, one half the commissioners of
accounts, supervisor of the city record,
the collector of the port, the sub-treas-
ury, majority of the commissioners of
the sinking fund, the majority of the
delegation in congress, and in the
state senate and assembly,"
So on it is said that they have cap
tured nearly every strategic power in
the country, as Boston, Connecticut
cities, and largely so of Baltimore.
Cleveland, Milwaukee and others.
1t is claimed that there are from six
to twelve million Catholics in the
country. If this is so and this part.
from one tenth to one fifth, are ruling
the country, does it not show that.
that church is a political as well as a
religious BODY. If this ia an CON MO
blame some people if they feel that
SUCH minority ought not to be allow
cd to rule the majority, or if they
organize for this purpose. From the
publications I opine that politics, not
religion, is the subject in Mason
County. NE
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