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

dealer we have any record of. daughter
and applause) He preceded Menage. Oong
and continued applause) Now,
then no n I'M my friends impof re
the name of that Christ who died on the
cross, praying for those who had killed him,
not to be party to this cruel and insen-
safe persecution, persecution that
SWears to one part of community never
to give dollar or a days work to
the other part. Uong and continued ap-
plause.)
MIR. SIMS SECOND ADDRESS.
Mr.. Sims final address was as follows:
1 find my honorable opponent has raised
quite a storm, but it doesn't seem to have
altered the facts or the affirmations which
1 laid down for him. He has built straw
man, and he has pummelled him to his
satisfaction Then he created mouse and
marked it A. P. A, and brought out can
non to shoot it, and 1 think the cannon
burst Now, I have got to come to solid
facts and proofs without regard to much
that has been said. Professionalism has been
accused of being a prosecutor. l just want
you to go home with one thing in your
hats, and that is that there was no Pro-
testantism until the Roman Catholic church
had ChrstianiZed the world for over 1,OOO
years. Applauseo l want you TO see to-
night that she was guilty of putting into
the hearts of men the spirit of persecution.
The Professionalism of today is not a spirit
Of persecution from the fact that IL mas
been so long separated from that chufch
So much for Professionalism. Now, for that
story regarding Sheridan. l received 1t from
two generals-I am not going to give their
names for / haven't permission to do 1t
who were present at his death bed and wit
nesses But that is neither here nor there
Phil Sheridan may have been a Roman
Catholic as Carroll was Roman Catholic,
Eos, hoy, ho6
lies who have been good liberal men, but
they were never counted by the Roman
Catholic Church good Catholics
We find in Italy that the Catholics are
divided into two classes, one class who
vote. and another class who are not al
lowed to take any part in the government
because the pope forbids it. We find dis
position today on the part of the papacy
and of the propaganda at Rome TO brlng
these Italians over to our country and
colonize them here, and make them voters
in the Roman Catholic army of voters.
They haven't got the privilege over in
Italy because the Italian government is
utterly altogether condemned by the papa
cy Then there are Roman Catholics in
France that object entirely to the course
of the French government, and the Roman
Catholics of America have described in
American Roman Catholic papers the
French government as a precarlous gov
eminent, and the institutions as ruled by
Masonry so that these men are pronounced
by the Church Of France as not Catholics.
I declare to you that q good Catholic could
not be a good American citizen. And now
1 am going to give You little of the
church's teachings-the pope's claim. First,
he claims to have all power And to Illus
trate let me describe him as having a but
ton which he touches; the cardinals obey
him. The cardinals touch their button, and
the archbishops obey them The archbishops
touch their button, ard the bishops obey
them. The bishops touch their buttons,
and the priests obey them. The priests
touch their buttons and the people obey
them. Now I want to ask you if that is
consistent with the line of our American
institutions in this republic? Here the peo-
pie touch the buttons. Sometimes a Cleve-
land appears, and sometimes a Harrison.
The people touch the button again, and
Cleveland is told to take excursion up
Salt Creek and they have another man.
But who touches the buttons-the pope or
the people? The people. Our system is
entirely and altogether opposed to the Ro-
man Catholic system, because our system
begins with the people, while the Roman
Catholic system begins with the pope. And
it begins with him as a representative of
God He is vice rege It and Christs vicar.
1t begins with HIM as supreme quantity,
and he is supposed to rule over the ma
tiOns of the earth.
The Roman Catholic Church is a dual in
stitution. She is double in her language,
and double in her life. She often says one
thing, and
MEANS ENTIRELY OPPOSITE.
She talks liberty, and she means bondage.
She talks bondage, and she means liberty.
Our liberty she decides and declares to be
bondage. Her bondage she declares to be
liberty, the liberty of God. Now, this claim
cannot be overlooked, and especially when.
as 1 shall show you tonight, the pope him
self has spoken upon this subject. My hon
orable friend declares that some light
headed people have gotten up these things
Well, presume the pope, then, according
to him, will be considered a little light
headed. But do not believe it. The pope
is not light headed. He is one of the clev-
crest statesmen today in this world. He is
a politician, a diplomatist. He understands
what he is doing. But we are told he has
only nine or ten millions of people here.
WE'LL look at the city of Boston. He has
80 per cent of his people ruling and govern
ing offices; 80 per cent Of his people ruling
and governing in the city of New York.
He has such control in the city OF New
York that the Chicago Herald, a Demo-
cratic paper, and paper that takes sides
against the A. P. A strongly, declared the
other day that it hoped that Illinois would
never come to the place that New York
city is in today, the union of church and
state, and that the Catholic Church. Gap
pIause) Look at the city of ST. Paul. How
much have the PrOteStantS got to do with
the government of st. Paul? l admit they
have got very eloquent, a very able, and
a very acute Irshman here for archbishop.
man that pours honey into one ear and
something else into the other. l admit that
But that is no reason why the Catholic
Church should control the city of St Paul.
or WHY it should have larger control in
the city of Minneapolis than their per cent
age of population represents. That is no
reason why the government and congress
should be nominating and appointing to
nearly all the postoffices of our land today
Roman Catholics. That is no reason why
Protestants should be shut out from the Of
fees until at the present moment l believe
the statistics give so per cent Of Roman
Catholics in offices throughout our country.
What does all this mean? 1t means that
the Roman Catholic Church, in seeking the
balance of power. is working under direc-
tions and is working for an end 1t means
that she Is working into our government
We look back to certain convention held
Ia 1853 in the city of Buffalo, and we find
there at that convention that a certain
leading bishop, rising In the convention,
mapped out the plan of the Catholic church
in America. He says, I'VE will call our
faithful Irish from all parts of the world.
we will colonize our people in the large
cities" Well, they have cOloniZed them,
while the American people seemed to sleep.
But God is awake and the handwriting is
upon the wall in our nation today; the
Roman Catholic church Is weighed in the