The San Francisco call., 1896-03-30

of Swedes. 1t has been my pleasure to
travel through this Northwest country OF
yours, where the Swedes and Danes have
settled in abundance, and there are no
people who make better citizens. The
trouble with the Roman church is that the
Scandinavians can read and write. II
had my way / would invite sucn people as
the Scandinavlans to come to this country
and would invite certain others to leave
The Scandinavians do not spend their
money for whisky, and they do not appear
in our police courts. The Scandinavian Is
the product of Professionalism, and the class
who usually fill our police courts is the
product of Romanism.
'The Irish village at the Worlds falr
was not a fair representation OF the lrlsh
al home. 1t was simply a scheme OF the
infamous priesthood of Rome to extort
money from the Irish of this country to
put into their own pockets.
Miss NJ. T. Elder, an honest Catholic
and niece of Archbishop Elder OF Clneln-
natl, in paper read at the Worlds s FAIR
Congress, stated truth that every metro
politan Protestant paper of note has re-
printed, but which has never yet been
printed in Catholic paper: In this paper
she said: My contention is that we have
no hold on the agricultural masses Of
course they haven't. Their hold is on the
liquor traffic. Why, 84.7 per cent OF all
the people engaged in the liquor business
in this country are Romanists IN good
standing.
1--WE have an organization in this coun-
try-the W. G. T. U. / am in sympathy
with it, but it win never have its desire
consummated if it makes an alliance with
Romanism. Archbishop Corrigan says
that for hundreds OF years the Roman
Catholic church has been one great tenn
perance organization" [Laughter.l
The speaker then claimed that in Dover.
\. H.-a city in prohibition State and
with population of Il, ,000-there were 800
saloons, and that 2S7 OF them were IN the
hands of ''Romanists." "If you expect to
curtaii that business" he said, "you must
never form an alliance with Rome.
81 am in favor of universal suffrage and
always have been, but if the women form
an alliance with Rome 1 am against
woman suffrage We must first kill Ro-
manism and then have woman suffrage.
This honest opinion of this young lady
then went on to ask, Why is it that the
greatest men OF our Nation are not Catho-
lies? 1t is because the best men are from
the rural stock and the rural stock is sub
stantially Protestant. She then advises
the Catholics to stop whining about secret
societies, and says further: The great men
OF this country are and will continue to be
Protestants.' Amen, say L. She said fur
ther: i do not mean by this men OF
wealth, but men of brains and influence.
When l see the large hoodlum element
among the Catholics, l feel in no mood 20
give taffy to them. When [ see the num-
Der OF Catholics in the liquor traffic can't
talk buncombe.
Major RYAN then read two stories of
miracles from a Catholic book entitled
'GIories OF Man." which he said were read
to classes Of Catholic children. He termed
them the veriesL nonsense and said that 1t
was such things that the A. P. A. sought
to change. I'VE demand" he said, that
our teachers shall be intelligent men and
women. No wonder that the Junior
Order of American Mechanics of Pennsyl-
vania asked that such teachers as those
have described as reading absurd stories
tG children should not be allowed to enter
the public schools. There should be such
law in every State of the Union. APP
plausel. We can stand many things. but
we can't stand such things as that.
''In closing let me say, be loyal to the
cause OF American patriotism. Let no
miserable politician get you OFF the track
you have taken. Don't have anything to
do with any party that atfiliates with the
hierarchy OF Rome. 1t may be that out OF
this movement may rise party that Will
be composed OF the best men of all parties. |
Strike down, l say, the party that is
always catering to the worst elements. l
see by one OF your papers that the Irish
the other day demanded representation
on a certain ticket. Why do not the Ger
mans or other nationalities demand such
q thing? Strike down this element. Kill
il. If you don't it viii kill every cher
ished principle of our Government. Put |
no man on your ticket who is not an
Americana mean native or adopted
men who devote their life, time and brains
to the public good.
Whether | shall ever see you again on
this Pacific coast | know not, but shall
think of you. On your next election day l
shall probably be at Washington and 1
will climb to the apex of the great monu-
ment there that l may see the smoke of
battle go up above the field of victory won
by the a. P. A. of California"