Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-11

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requsition. Oahbound societies took a hand
! in It too. And here Is this entire political
| force, some OF them influenced by one con-
siderauon ane some by another, filling the
| state and the party for week with the
| tumut and riot of unbridled tongues IN order
that this governor, who had been commits
stoned In pursuance to the command of the
sovereign people should be robbed Uf some
of his prerogatives, that he should be humil-
lated in the face Of the people Of this coun-
try, that II should go out over this great land
that Silas A. Hocomb, though elected. was
UNIT to administer the high Office as his pre-
decessors had administered 1t.
UNWORTHY THE PARTY.
This party, born in the nations peril: this
party that in the deepest hours of our DIS
tress stood up for the great principles Of
! manhood addressing Mr.. HalD. for you were
in your cradle and you may laugh at these
| memores-this party whose great names
! ill the armament with its deeds Of glory, even
as the stars at night fill the irmament of
the heavens and shine as brightly, tramples
| under foot the highest obligations in the midst
OF these conditions in order to put an indiB-
| nifty upon the chief executive. and therefore
| upon the fame Of this commonwealth. Why
sir, 1t was out OF such soil as this that this
| legislation sprung, manured with the most
vicious motives, bearing the most bitter
| fruit through motives of factional and per
sona hate and of religious fsaaticism. en-
| couraged by an organization that has been
very active in all these days, an organiza
ton that l am told commands the suffrages
| of many thousands Of our citizens. an organi-
cation conceived in the proposition that man
may be prescribed under these stars and stripes
because of his religious sentiments.
LAS | look back over the history of the
past | find that for centuries these religious
! contentious ragged with unabated fury. Men
were burned at the stake, others incarcerated
| in dungeons while every device which hellish
| ingenuity could invent brought into oper-
alton by these religious fanatics aud the fol-
| lowers of religious sects to crush the liberty
| Of conscience, the right of religious freedom
| No matter which church or what religious
sect or denomination was in authority, the per-
secution was pitiless. Indeed, a religious war
means that under pretense Of being inspired
by the highest and holiest OF human motives
| the darkest passions which lie in the human
| heart are aroused and turned loose to prey
| upon society. We hear a great deal these
days about prescribing men because of their
devotion to the Catholic church
| why. my friends, are you not being mis-
| led? Are we not being swept too far into
these religious troubles and contests. Had
| we not better return to the principles Of our
government and to the history of the past
and see whether we afford to keep up
this struggle Whatever charges may be
brought against the temporal aggressions of
| that great church, 1t must be conceded that
| viewed in the light of history, it is one of
| the greatest institutions ever established and
| maintained among men, All along, even back
| in the time when the wave of darkness
| swept over the middle centuries when the
| hordes of barbarians from the north overran
| the civilization of the south, when the earth
seemed to have been swept of its aphelion
! Instance from the great moral centers of
| truth and justice 1t was in the converts and
monasteries of this great church that art and
| literature and poetry and science found an
| asylum, and when the deluge of devastation
ana destruction had rolled past from these
sahctuaries the world again recovered its
| treasures of art and learning from which has
| sprung our magnificent civilization
STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY.
| why, sir, when observe the struggles of
| the people of the world for free government
l behold an island in the sea, largely inhab-
| ited by Irish Catholics, and as l look their
heroic struggles through centuries for liberty
| ana independent government pass in review
| and while listen the earth rings with their
| burning protests against oppression and their
| eloquent appeals for humanity. 1t seems
as though at times, inspired by the memories
or great ieaders-of the Grattcns, the O'Con-
nors and the Parnels-these heroic people
| were fighting the battles of liberty and good
| government for all the world beside and at
| times as IL the very isle itself, sanctified by
| the words and deeds of these heroic rays,
| was but a vision of brightness fixed amid
tumutous waters. but filling the skies with a
| radiance that reveals to all the glory of those
| who wage eternal warfare In behalf Of i'm
/ mortal principles. And It is the men born
OF this land and their descendants who are
10 be prescribed because, true to the tradi-
tions Of their fathers and revering the church
In which they have been reared, they dare
to worship under the stars and stripes accord
| ing to the dictates of their conscience A
| church which for many centuries has carried
| the gospel OF the living Christ into every
| corner OF the world; whose priests have been
| found In every wilderness and in the noun
tain Businesses; whose silent sisterhood like
| angels of mercy, have walked amid the suffer
| ing and the dying of pestlence stricken cities
minlstering to their wants; whose institutions
| or charity are wide open to all the afflicted
| who, like the Son of Man have not where
| to lay their heads. and whose Institutions of
| learning, in which the children of the church
as we'll as the children of other churches, are
trained and qualified for the duties pertaining
| to the highest citizenship. are found in every
| community in every part of the civilized
| world.
PRESCRIPTION WILL NOT DO.
"Ah, my friends, it will not do to prescribe
| these people on account of their religious con-
victions. If Catholic is good enough to
| fight for the republic and to die for the re-
| public, then he is good enough to old office
in the republic. The names of tle children Of
this church are borne upon the roll Of honor
| of many lands and their deeds in war and in
| peace add lustre to the fame of many peo-
| pie. Indeed, what memory is more inspiring
| in the history of our own country than that
| or the gallant Sheridan, ! ldinG down peace
| full valley; riding to meet his defeated troops
| in their mad ru1h from a victorious foe
| what more inspiriting that when this gallant
leader, riding in the midst of the Wild rout-
| his voice thrilling above the bugle's note as
1 he recalled his panic-stricken soldiers to an
| other charge that swept field just lost, and
won a glorious triumph for the nation.
| And yet a man need only be an Irish Cath
| Ollie and he cannot hold Office. cannot teach
| school, cannot hold any position of honor,
| and we doing it, notwithstanding we
have struggled up to the present point
| through centuries of religious intolerance and
| oppression and war, Notwithstanding we have
| declared over and over again in our constitu-
| tion and in our laws that this is free coun-
| try, and That every man shall be guaranteed
religious liberty. I cannot believe that the
struggle can continue much longer. | believe
| that an awakened sense of justice and a
spirit of fair play will yet prevail in the
counseis of my fellow citizens and that we
will soon dismiss this issue from further con-
| sideration."
MADE THEM VERY EXPRESSIVE.
| How the Decision Affected the
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