Year: 1875

SENAIOR MUM.


II was with no little difficulty that Mr. Num- said to
be state Deputy and Senator OF the organization
found. The Manhattan Gas Company is well scattered
over the city, and il in of the workshops of
that company at the loot Of West Eighteenth street.
that Mr. Mum was discovered, the HERALD reporter
having traced him from the Office in Irving place. Mr.
Mum is gentleman seventy years of age, but does
not look to be moro than fifty. When the HERALD
porter made known to him that be desired nfor-
nation about the organization known the order Of
the American Union Mr. Mum expressed his inability
TO comply with the request, for the that he
not official OF the Order being merely simple
Der, and neither State Deputy nor a Senator


'Did you read the HERALD OF Tuesday,"
/. "Yes' answered Mr. Mum II did, and 1t is just
The it with the Know Nothing organization
aud all other secret organizations intended do good
The newspapers get hold OF idea and then 60 on to
talk about it, not knowing nything about the real facts
Di the have yet a single thing writ
ten about the Masonic Society, the Odd Fellows, the
Order OF United Americans the Order OF the United
American Mechanics especially Of the Masons or Odd
Fellows, which in the least betrayed any of their
secrets or their method Of working. Know NothngIsm
destroyed by the politicians, but it would be rather
difficult thing now Tor politician to get admission
into the Order OF American Mechanics Now, to tho
Order OF the American union SO far as know, 1t Is
benevolent organization, whose object is 10 protect
American institutions as they are and not allow them
10 be tampered with or course the schools are
american institution, and We will struggle with might
and main to preserve them they have been handed
down to Us.


lis the difficulty the retention OF the Bible in the
schoolsYp


my dear sir, when we found an effort being made to
take the Bible out OF the schools knew at what
coming That would be, had the Catholic hierarchy
succeeded, merely the entering wedge The Catholic
priests wanted, and still want to get control OF the
teaching Of our youth We resolved that they shall
not We have no unfrendness in the world against
our Catholic brethren, am daily associated with
Catholics and esteem them and they esteem me- We
do not wish to interfere with them in the practise OF
their religious worship But you must remember that
they ought to take things as they found them. This
a Protestant country and when our forefathers
founded 1t When our Catholic brethren came here
from Europe opened our arms to them and received
them with welcome; opened our schools and they
glad TO enter them. Fifty years ago when was going
70 school had Roman Catholics for my school fellows
We never cashed and yet the Bible was in the schools
then why should the Catholics seek TO throw it
outY Is IL not plain that there Is some occult purpose
which is not explained and which cannot be explained
except the theory that the Church OF Rome wants 10
gain ascendancy school systemr That we Will
never permit / notice and other Americans notice
that this attempt the part Of the Church OF Rome has
been made just at the time when European governments
have been successfully lighting against the connection
between Church and state We are resolved upon hav-
ing no union between the State and any religious de-
nomination whatever. We will not have here the
scenes OF which occurred in the old countries
and which drove foreathers hther TO seek home.
Look the countries in which the schools are at the
present moment under pohtico-relgious DONNA
ION and then look al our schools az home These
schools superior any form OF public education in
the world leading object OF the order OF the Ameri,
can Union Is TO maintain them intact TO preserve them
for our children ourselves found them, and to
hand them down 70 postery as national inheritance"


II notice in tho published statement hat there is
considerable hostility manifested toward Catholics In
the intatory formula Of the organization" said the
reporter3


$50 far as am personally concerned, said MT Mum,
~ have heard anything AZ all like what is repre-
sentedn


lis there not an implied agreement Of hostility
toward Catholic citizens in matters social and polt
calYn


mot in the least / have never heard OF any such
thing The iarthest we to promise 70 protect our
American institutions against all aggression from Rome
or anywhere else, for believe them TO be the best
and grandest In the world At the Same time 80 lar
as am personally concerned, believe that the Church
OF Rome would subdue us TO its ways u IL could.
! am persuaded that that Church has within
her grasp the influence Of the politicians, and that u
needs determined stand 10 stop at the very threshold
this advance.upon the schools Had the old Order Of
Know Notbngs never been broken 10. and had ~