Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-13

OF poverty, chastity and obedience The next
two years are spent In a POSTGRADUATE course
OF ancient and modern literature; then three
years are devoted TO logic. metaphysics,
, ethics, the higher mathematics astronomy
physics and chemistry. After this the scho-
lastic, being then some 25 years old on an
average. spends five years as a professor
/ or project OF discipline among college stu
! dents. Four years OF theology follow after
which he is ordained priest. One year
more Is given 10 further studies in spirit
uallty and establishment In the noyitiate.
Then he Is allowed to take his last VOWS
and Is ready to enter upon the exercise OF
those duties to which the Jesuits owe the
warm love OF earnest Catholics. and the
fear and hatred OF the world at large,
The number OF Jesuit priests thus employed
within the boundaries OF the United states
Is about GiO with these we are chiefly
concerned They exercise most of that in
fluence for good or evil which Is no doubt
very great in reality, and appears still
greater In the mists conjured up by fervent
lmaglnations from the marshy soil OF ig-
norance. Let me adjust my x-rays so that
In their bright light may count and locate
all the skeleton bones OF this dark hand.
/ see II extending It's grasp over the en-.
tire map OF our beloved country; 2SO Jesuits
are scattered over its eastern portions, 152
over It's center, 60 over the south SO are in
California, AZ in New Mexico and Colorado
52 among the Indian tribes of the Rocky
mountains, some so more along the borders
OF Canada, and few in far Alaska. doing
such work in our day as Marquette did in
his. There are about $40 in all.
THE MISSOURI PROVINCE.
Take a glance over the central portion
OF the United States, the part denomnated
on the Jesuit map, "the province of Mis-
souri, They are distributed as follows:
81 Louis, Mo, has thirty-siX; st. Charles
Mo, two; Kansas City, Mo, two; Floris-
SAINT, Mo, where the Novitiate is situated,
to-
Marys, Kan, seven: Detroit, Mich,
twelve; Cincinnati, o., nineteen; Milwaukee,
WIS., thirteena Omaha, twelve. OF the
thirty-siN put down for st. Louis, six are
over on the move. giving missions in cities
and towns, wherever their services are in
vited. One of these is Father Thomas Ew-
ing Sherman, the eldest son of General
sherman. This is the little regular army |
OF JeSuits that causes 50 much dread to |
tho Omaha Christian Advocate and the |
Patrottc Sons of America. Why is this |
band so efficient? Not because It Is a |
secret society; that notion is a myth there |
are no secret grips or signs or passwords |
whatever, and no more secrets than be-
long 20 any business firm. But II is a |
band OF picked and trained men, No one
is accepted among them who Is not a
promising subject. OF pure blood sound
mind, sound body and bright parts; and he
goes through seventeen years of further
training. Then they obey every command
VI VI thc'r olHce WIN military precision.
Obedience to their order Is their watch
word; prompt and perfect OF obedience
they carry 1t into everyday life as soldiers
carry 1t into battle Theirs is more per-
feet than tho soldiers for no one among
them has right to any rank or Office Like
the ten Grecian leaders who commanded day
by day in turn, he who is an officer today |
Is In the ranks tomorrow. The cause is all |
with them, and that cause they understand
10 20 be the extension of the kingdom of
Ghrlst in the hearts of men. History
speaks Of many bold little army that
achieved wonderful success: such seems TO
bo their bond.
GHOST STORIES.
Yet even all this Is, humanity speaking in
adequate to explain their efficiency for good
,r evil. Therefore all manners Of secret
ieViccs are eNcogitated. They must plot
md scheme, ply the dagger here and use
poison there; make kings and mobiles and
politicians their skillful tools. Senator
Blair few years ago said in a speech to
he senate, that he saw then and there eight |
i've Jesuits On tho floor of the house. Have
NC not lately had occasion in our own city
o SEQ how such stories are fabricated? In
he fall of 1894. when political excitement
an high In our midst rumor had been
spread in Omaha that a reasonable plot
'xisted to murder inofrensive citizens. The
'aper stated that a large number of these ,
raitors drilled every night at the Jesuit
institution called Creighton college. OF
curse, most people understood 1t was an
Election fake. Many others blndly believed
: TO be fact, and some may, perhaps TO
heir dying day tell their children and
how they once actually lived
n city whore the Jesuits were plotting
murder and bloodshed.
Whether the editor of the Omaha Chris
Ian Advocate is one OF these can only be
but his alleged discovery of
eSuit conspiracy to capture the govern
nent OF the United States has no more
oundation in fact than has the plot to
rench the streets Of Omaha in human gore