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 Three Essenlials to National Perpetuity anH Power. 
 
 
 A Free Ballot. 
 A Free School. 
 A Free Church. 
 
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 A DISCOURSE DELIVERED IN CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, NEW 
 
 YORK, ON T 'ANKHGIVINQ DAY, NOV. 27, 1890, ^,^ -*-»>^ 
 
 By Rkv. R. S. MacAbthur, D. D.c(^' 361B9Q- ' , 
 
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 Price, 10 ccnU, Hcnt by mail on receipt of price. $6.50 per 100, by cxpresB. 
 
 NEW TORK : 
 lOTT, PllINTEU AND PuBlIBHER, 
 
 463 Hudson Street, 
 1890. 
 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 This Sermon is published by request. The subject here 
 discussed is a most vital one, and deserves a fuller consid- 
 eration than our time on Thanksgiving Day would permit 
 us to give it. With more time for discussion, many 
 points could have been more carefully elaborated. 
 
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 Tiree Essentials to Natioial Perpetuity aiil Poier. 
 
 II 
 
 'fKXT : " T/icn the chief en pt a in mine and mid unto him, 
 Ti'll i)ic,(ir/ thou a Ihman? He said, Yea. Ami 
 /he chief aip/aiii (tiiswrrcu', With n (jrcat ,wm obtained 
 I thiti freedom. A nd Paul said, lint I iuasfree born." 
 —Acts 'i'l : 27, 28. » 
 
 The Apostle Paul rejoiced in the privilege of his Roman 
 citizenship, lie had informed the Tribune that he was a 
 native of Tarsus, and in answer to the question, " Art thou 
 a Roman ?" he answered, " Yea." The Tribune informs 
 him that by a great price he had obtained that privilege, 
 and Paul replied, "But I was free born." He was a 
 Roman citizen in virtue of his birth. The city of Tarsus 
 seems to have been endowed with the privileges of a free 
 city by Augustus Cii'sar. The free cities were accustomed 
 to use their own laws, to be exempt from Roman guards, 
 and to select their own magistrates. They were oblige.? 
 simply to recognize the supremacy of the government and to 
 give aid in time of war. Possibly this privilege was conferred 
 upon some of Paul's ancestors as the reward of distinguished 
 military services, but of this we are not sure. It is enough 
 to know that he was " free born," and that he iiighly prized 
 his privileges. So ought we to appreciate the blessing of citi- 
 zenship in America. It is an honor to be prized and a 
 privilege to be exercised. If the eminent Apostle felt a just 
 
iNTiinnucrioN. 
 
 prido in knowing tlmt ho was a Roman citizen, should not 
 any man to-day feol prouder in Baying, I am an American 
 citizen? Ho who wears worthily the badge of American 
 citizenship is greater tlian he who wore tlie crown of the 
 CiDsars. Let every citizen of this Uepublic see to it that 
 ho does not misuse his high privilege, or lightly esteem the 
 honor of American citizenship. 
 
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 nerican 
 ncrican 
 1 of tho 
 I it that 
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 1, -A FREE BALLOT. 
 
 AMONd tho c88ontial8 to National Perpetuity and Tower 
 of which wo shall speak, in the fiiHt plaee, ia a KuKE Ww- 
 lOT We do not regard tlie ri-ht of 8nlTraj;e as an em-n- 
 tial, inherent, fundamental right of humanity. As a nuit- 
 ter of fact, this right is controlled l.y tho Constitution ot 
 the general (iovornment and by the laws of theseveral States. 
 Discrimination has been made against women, against aliens 
 who have not been naturalized, against minors, and against 
 those who are insane. The State an.l the general (rovern- 
 mont thus illustrate their right to declare wlio shall and 
 who shall not exercise this privilege. It is a privilege 
 which ought to bo greatly aiiprcciated, and which oughtal- 
 ways to be rightly exercised. We would like to sec a law 
 passed making the exercise of the right of suffrage obliga- 
 tory It ought not to be left to the option and convenience 
 of individual citizens. If voters were taxed an amount in 
 proportion to the value of their property, which tax would 
 be remitted when they discharged the duty of voting, we 
 would have fewer inllucntial citizens who do not take the 
 trouble either to register or to vote. Such men do not de- 
 serve to have good government. Were it not that the innocent 
 suffer with the guilty, wo should be glad to see these indif- 
 ferent citizens paying tribute, as we all now are doing, to 
 the men who graciously condescend to control public affairs 
 in this city. Many of our intelligent and wealthy citizens 
 are largely to blame for the condition of municipal affairs 
 which we now see, and which gives us merite.l reproach 
 throughout the civilized world. 
 
A Film: n.\r.LOT. 
 
 Tho frootloni of tlio ballot nmy also bo ilestroyed by 
 ignorance. Wc ahoiiid bo gliid to soo ii property or iin in- 
 tolligonco (luiilitication lieforo tiio right to voto should bo 
 couforrotl. Tho tontloiicy of the timo, wo know, is toward 
 tho extension of tlie right of suffrage on tho other side of 
 tho Atlantic ; but notwithstanding tliis tendency, we are 
 free to say that we would rather eco this right cir- 
 cumscribed than enlarged. A man who will not take 
 tho trouble, in this enlightened ago and country, to learn 
 to read ought not to have tiio right to cast a ballot. Ex- 
 cept a man can read the Constitution of \\\o United States 
 and the ballot whicii ho is about to cast he ought to have 
 no ballot in his hand. It was not a little amusing, althougli 
 altogether saddening, during our last municipal election, to 
 sec men carefully coached before going into tho booth, and 
 to SCO tho paster which their instructors wished them to 
 voto separated from otlicr pasters and stowed away careful- 
 ly in their hats because thoy were unable to read a single 
 name printed thereon. In some instances, some odorous 
 fluid was poured upon the pastor which they were instruct- 
 ed to vote so that they might bo able to separate it from 
 the others. Thus their noses rendered them a service when 
 ignorance blinded their eyes. These arc tho men who to- 
 day are your rulers, citizens of New York. 
 
 In some States, as we shall hereafter see, there is even 
 now an intelligence qualification. The qualification on 
 which we now insist might throw out large numbers of ig- 
 norant black men in the South, and almost equally large 
 numbers of equally ignorant white men, some in the South 
 and some in tho North. But the country can afford to do 
 without the votes of such men. 
 
 The freedom of the ballot may also be prevented by polit- 
 ical bossism. This tendency may work in two ways. In 
 one case it may be the bossism of the opposite party which 
 practically disfranchises large numbers of ignorant and 
 
A FUF.K Ti ALLOT 
 
 ) destroyed by 
 lorty or im in- 
 iroto flliould 1)0 
 now, is toward 
 ) otlicr side of 
 iidency, wo ivro 
 this riglit cir- 
 
 will not tai<o 
 uiitry, to learn 
 
 a ballot. Ex- 
 3 United States 
 3 ought to havo 
 using, although 
 ipal election, to 
 
 tiio booth, and 
 wished them to 
 d away careful- 
 to read a single 
 , sonio odorous 
 y were instruct- 
 jparato it from 
 n a service when 
 men who to- 
 k. 
 
 e, there is even 
 :iualiflcation on 
 
 numbers of ig- 
 )8t equally largo 
 [we in the South 
 3an afford to do 
 
 ivented by polit- 
 
 two ways. In 
 
 site party which 
 
 f ignorant and 
 
 timid voters. That thousands of eolorcd inin are pra(fti<uil- 
 ly (lisfranchiHed, no one familiar with tho facts will deny. 
 Wlu'ther they ought to have received the l)all»,t when they 
 did iH a ([uestion which we will not here discuss; l)ur that 
 now they ought to ex(U'ciso that right is a statement which 
 no unprejudiced man will attempt to deny. It is a crime 
 against the (-onstitution and u ('ritne against the liberty of 
 the I{epubli(! when large numbers of men are in this way 
 through business threats, through social ostracism, and 
 through danger to limi) and life prevented from exercising 
 the rights of suffrage. If it took all the power of tho na- 
 tioiud government to enforc(( Amendments to the Constitu- 
 tion, I should say, " fiot them bo enforced, so long as they 
 are laws of the laiul," Are white men afraid of the suprem- 
 acy of black men if tliey have their rights ? Surely 
 thoy will not make so humiliating a confession. I 
 ask no favors for the black man. I demand for him 
 justice. Where is the boasted chivalry of the South ? 
 Where is tho manliness, where the Christianity of this 
 nation ? Daro wo longer treat our black l)rother so un- 
 fairly i* In the name of honesty, maniiiie(<*i, expediency 
 and Christianity, I demand justice for tho Negro. But 
 political bossism operates in another way to destroy the 
 freedom of tho ballot : It may cause a party to make 
 nominations which tho best men in the party cannot 
 endorse. They must, therefore, either vote with the other 
 party or lose their vote entirely. 1'hore are times when a 
 party should rise as one man to repudiate the methods of 
 its leaders. I must say that I give the Republicans of 
 Pennsylvania great honor that they had the courage so to 
 do. When a man who, in the opinion of many, was the 
 tool of another who, in their opinion, had not a clear polit- 
 ical record, became a candidate for the highest office in the 
 State, the members of that party rose in their majesty and 
 defeated him in a State where their majority is usually almost 
 
10 
 
 A FREE BALLOT. 
 
 overwhelming. There is a marked difference between the 
 Republican and Democratic parties. In this city, when a 
 man was renominated for the highest municipal othce a 
 man who was spoken of in several of the papers almost daily, 
 and in at least one pulpit, as "a self-confessed criminal 
 (this language is not mine, I only (i«otc it) his party rose 
 in its majority and re-elected him. In Pennsylvania, he 
 man was repudiated by his party ; in New York City, the 
 man is re-elected by his party with an increased ma3ority 
 
 Political parties must have their leaders; we are not 
 ioiniug in a senseless outcry against political leaders. All 
 men who have to do with earthly affairs know that every 
 great enterprise must have leaders; but there are eaders 
 and leaders; and a Free Hallot will insist upon leaders 
 who are worthy of the honors which their fellow-cit.zens 
 thus confer upon them. The late Gen. Hancock gave us a 
 noble phrase when he spoke of "a Free Ballot and a fan- 
 count." Unfortunately, this idea has remained m certain 
 sections largely a matter of sentiment ; unfortunately it has 
 not been reduced to actual experience. Thous^inds in our 
 country to-day who have a right, according to the law of the 
 land, to cast a ballot, are practically disfranchised, ihp 
 question of suilrage we know is not yet permanently settled. 
 It ought to receive now fuller and freer discussion than it 
 has hitherto had. Originally, the Constitution of the 
 United States left each State to regulate the franchise for 
 its own citizens ; but the 14th Amendment took a step in 
 advance, declaring that "No State shall make or enforce 
 any law wl.ich shall abridge the privileges and immun;tie8 
 of the citizens of the United States." The loth Amend- 
 ment adds, "The right of citizens of the T nited States 
 to vote shall not be abridged by the United States, nor by 
 any State on account of race, or color, or previous condition 
 of servitude." Who will affirm that this Amendment is 
 not violated in every State and national election ? Such 
 
5rence between the 
 1 this city, when a 
 municipal ottice, a 
 papers almost daily, 
 confessed criminal" 
 3 it) his party rose 
 I Pennsylvania, the 
 [ew York City, the 
 noreased majority, 
 eaders ; we are not 
 litical leaders. All 
 rs know that every 
 it there are leaders 
 
 insist upon leaders 
 their fellow-citizens 
 . Hancock gave us a 
 ;e Ballot and a fair 
 ! remained in certain 
 
 unfortunately it has 
 
 Thousands in our 
 iing to the law of the 
 disfranchised, Thp 
 permanently settled, 
 ir discussion than it 
 Constitution of the 
 ate the franchise for 
 [ment took a step in 
 liall make or enforce 
 eges and immunities 
 ' The loth Amend- 
 of the United States 
 Jnited States, nor by 
 , or previous condition 
 
 this Amendment is 
 onal election ? Such 
 
 A FREE BALLOT. 
 
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 violation is now practically accepted without much discus- 
 sion. 
 
 Again I ask : Are white men afraid of the supremacy of 
 black men ? Do tliey not dare give black men an e(|ual 
 chance in this country 't Is this not the land of the free ? 
 Is this not supposed to be the home of the brave ? What 
 right have we to put upon the bla(!k man any race disa- 
 bilities which we refuse to accept for ourselves ? Let there 
 be one rule for all. Men are to be judged not by color but 
 by character. The race question applies to the North as 
 well as to the South. Great race questions have to be met and 
 settled in this city of New York every time an election is 
 held. If men may be practically disfranchised in one part 
 of the country on account of race, why may they not be 
 disfranchised in another part of the country for the same 
 reason ? It is still the prerogative of the State, with the 
 exception made by the loth Amendment, to determine who 
 shall enjoy the franchise. In their Constitutions, the dif- 
 ferent States are to a large extent uniform in regulating 
 the conditions in which the suffrage shall be exercised. In 
 some Western States, the franchise is given to those who 
 have resided in the State for a given time, say one year or 
 more, but have not as yet become citizens in the strict 
 sense. In Connecticut and Massachusetts a rudimentary 
 education is required of the voter, while for many years in 
 Rhode Island, a property qualification was essential to the 
 right of suffrage. In 1879, Massachusetts passed a law 
 which gave women a right to take part in all town matters 
 and to exercise the right of voting at the election of school 
 officers. Similar privileges have been accorded to women in 
 other States. The right to vote ought to be much more 
 highly esteemed than it is by the average American citizen, 
 and should be exercised in the fear of God and with the 
 determination to use tiiis power in the light of intelligence 
 and conscience. A Feek Ballot is one of the pillars of 
 
^5j A FREE BALLOT 
 
 our national fabric. To displace it would be to i"^P«"Hne 
 Structure If the government is to remain stable, men 
 mrt betble to cast'a Fukk BA.LOxandit must be coun ed 
 Toast. The ballot-box is the Ark of the Covenant o the 
 Ame an Hepublic, and the man who tampers with it 
 p "ityl-ikes a blow at the heart of American liberty, and 
 •it the sacred interests of humanity. , • ^- , 
 
 AFKKKBAU.OTmaybc prevented also by ecclesnistieal 
 despotism. We believe that ministers have a ^Jg^; ^^ ;^^'^. 
 dut es and privileges of other citizens of the United States , 
 btTeSisdenoiuinations ought not, as suc^. o appear 
 
 Katzer of Wisconsin, said in substance at a ^oe- -b o 
 meeting, that whoever would not vote against he Bennett 
 raw^e would regard as personally and officially an enemy 
 ;Ti;e Roman Catholic Cluirch, he went beyond his rights 
 ^r^i^ling ecclesiastical despotism to iiiter^i. w.h e 
 rights of suffrage of American citizens. Of tin. we shall 
 speak more fully later. 
 
to imperil fne 
 n stable, men 
 list be counted 
 ivenant of the 
 ipers with its 
 in liberty, and 
 
 y ecclesiasticiil 
 right to all the 
 United States ; 
 uch, to appear 
 atholic Bishop 
 I recent publio 
 ist the Bennett 
 sially an enemy 
 yond his rights 
 Lerfere with the 
 »f this we shall 
 
 II.— A FBEE SCHOOL. 
 
 No intelligent American will deny that the Ku?:e Sciiooi. 
 is another essential to the perpetuity of our nation. This is 
 not the time nor place for going into details as to what is 
 to be taught in the public school ; hut we may say, in gen- 
 eral, that its object is to fit American citizens for the dis- 
 charge of their duties as citizens. The State must protect 
 itself and guard against, dangers to its existence and proper 
 functions. It is very certain that sectarian education ought 
 not to be given in public schools, or in any way at the ex- 
 pense of public funds. Tlicrc are, however, certain great 
 moral principles which will be admitted by Gentile and 
 Jew, by Protestant and Romanist, by atheist and believer 
 alike. Those great principles of ethics can be taught in 
 our public schools. All will agree that a life of truthful- 
 ness rather than of falsehood, and a life of purity rather 
 than of vice, is to be commended, and the principles which 
 lead to such a life can be taught without doing violence to 
 any man's conscience. Such a work on ethics might be 
 prepared for use in our public schools which would receive 
 the endorsement of all intelligent men and women in our 
 community. We do not insist upon the retention of the Bible 
 in the pul)lic schools ; read in the perfunctory manner in 
 which it is often read, the reading is of little value. We insist 
 upon an entire separation of distinctive religious instruc- 
 tion from secular study in our public school. This is the 
 only tenable position for us to take against the Romanist 
 on the one side and tlie secularist on the other. Religious 
 
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 ^1 FRKK SCIIODL. 
 
 education can be cared for by the various churches, and to 
 them this duty belongs ; but every one who is to be a citi- 
 zen needs a sutbcient amount of general instruction to 
 enable him to perform his duties as such, lie must be 
 sutliciently instructed to be competent to enact and enforce 
 hiws for tiie protection of the community ; to understand 
 tlie nature and rights of property ; and to carry on and 
 develop all forms of industry. Such an education as this, 
 the public school can give, and must give if it is true to 
 its highest purposes. In a government like ours which is 
 '« of the people, by the people, and for the people, the 
 gain of such an education as this cannot be over-estimated. 
 Can any better system of education be substituted for that 
 now enjoyed by 'the American people? We are opposed 
 even to the technical and professional education of citizens 
 at the expense of the community as a whole. Whether our 
 Normal Schools and Free Colleges should continue to be 
 supported by the State, is a question to which opposing 
 answers can well be given. My own thought is, that only 
 rudimentary education is the function of the State ; that 
 the community has no more right to be taxed that young 
 men and women may have technical and professional educa- 
 tion as they enter their social and business careers, than if 
 the community were taxed to furnish each young man or 
 woman with a capital of hundreds of dollars. If we take 
 the position here assumed in regard to the public school, 
 it does not seem possible that any one can urge a reasonable 
 objection against it. ,, ^n ^ ^t 
 
 But we must acknowlege the fact that the Church of 
 Home is the deadly foe of the public school system. We 
 have no desire here to say anything unkind nor unfair 
 against that Church, and so long as she confines herself to 
 the teaching of religion, we shall not utter a sing e word 
 aeainst her. As religionists, we have no criticism to make 
 ou our Roman Catholic citizens; but when they become 
 
ihurches, ami to 
 3 is to be a uiti- 
 iiistructiou to 
 . lie must be 
 :iiict and enforce 
 ; to ujulerstaml 
 
 carry on and 
 ducation as this, 
 if it is true to 
 ;e ours which is 
 ;he people," the 
 3 over-estimated, 
 istituted for that 
 We are opposed 
 ;ation of citizens 
 e. Whether our 
 [ continue to be 
 
 which opposing 
 gilt is, that only 
 ■ the State ; that 
 axed that young 
 rofessional educa- 
 s careers, than if 
 h young man or 
 lars. If we take 
 le public school, 
 
 urge a reasonable 
 
 ,t the Church of 
 lool system. We 
 ikind nor unfair 
 ionfines herself to 
 ter a single word 
 
 1 criticism to make 
 when they become 
 
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 15 
 
 politicians, and endeavor to destroy American institutions, 
 wo have a right to raise our voices against them, and 
 thousands of American (citizens will raise their voices with 
 authority against their present intrusions and usurpations. 
 That no one may think I am speaking without authority, 
 I shall, at this point, quote from distinguished ecclesiastics 
 in that Church in proof of all the statements that I shall 
 make. Hear what the late Pope lias said : 
 
 " The people are not the source of civil power." — Piv.f 
 IX., Eve. 39. 
 
 " The T?omish Church and ner ecclesiastics have a right 
 to immunity from civil law ' — Pnta IX., Enc. 30. 
 
 "Education outside thj control of the Roman Catholic 
 Church is a damnable heresy." — Pope's^ SyUnhis. 
 
 " The Homish ('hurch has a right to exercise its author- 
 ity witliout having any limits set to it by the civil power." 
 —Pins IX., Enc. 10. 
 
 " The Romish Church has a right to interfere in the 
 discipline of the public schools, and in the arrangement of 
 the studies of the public schools, and in the choice of 
 teachers for these schools." — Pope Pins IX., Enc. 45. 
 
 "Public schools open to all children for the education of 
 the young should be under tiie control of the Romish 
 Church, and should nor, be subject to the civil power, nor 
 made to conform to the opinions of the age." — Pope Pius 
 IX., Enc. 47. 
 
 Similar statements from the present Pope, Leo XIII., 
 could be given also. 
 
 Monsignor Capel, a very distinguished Roman Catholic, 
 
 said : 
 
 " I am pursuing a careful study of your school system. 
 The result is there is going to be a tight. There are a good 
 many Catholics in this country. * * Your school sjjs- 
 tem is inadequate for them and they are going to leave it. 
 Suppose the Church should send out a command to start 
 schools in every parish, to establish and support parochial 
 schools and send all Catholics to them. * * It can be 
 
16 
 
 A FREE SCHOOL. 
 
 done by the utterance of a word as sharp as the click of a 
 trigger." 
 
 Listen now to Archbishop Perciie, of New Orleans : 
 "Our public scliool system * * is emphatically a 
 social plague. It is no system of education at all, but the 
 simple and direct negation of such, since it excludes all 
 creed, without which education * * is impossible. Tlie 
 public school system is not imperfect only, it ia also vicious. 
 * * Your very blood would curdle in your veins at the 
 bare recital, * * of tiie scandals of which they are the 
 scene." (pp. O-l and '.>'> J. of F.) 
 
 Listen, also, to another authority of the Komish Church, 
 Archbishop Elder, of Cincinnati : 
 
 " On this subject we have no new instruction to give. 
 The declarations of the Holy Mother church have been of late 
 years so numerous and clear tliat there is nothing for a 
 Catholic but to obey them or renounce his religion. * He 
 that will not hear the church, let.iiim be to thee as a hea- 
 then and a j)ublican.' * * Where Catholic schools can be 
 established it is a sin to send Catholic children to other 
 schools. * * God grant that our fellow citizens may see, 
 before it is too late, how this method of rearing children 
 (that is in public schools) is helping the desolating march 
 of dislionesty and every immorality through the land." 
 (pp. 82 and 83, J. of F.) 
 
 Our friend Dr. C. 0. Brown, in his admirable tract en- 
 titled " The Public Schools and Their Foes," says : 
 
 " Now as to the significance of this world-wide move- 
 ment ; what does it mean here in America? What is its 
 bearing on our cherished free-school system? It means 
 first of all that the Catholic authorities are preparing the 
 way and withdrawing Catholic children as rapidly as possi- 
 ble. Hundreds of thousands have already been withdrawn, 
 and the work is to go on, if they can have their way, until 
 not a Catholic child remains in the public schools. How 
 is this to be done? By that tremendous enginery of Rome, 
 the power of the keys. Absolution is to be denied — is 
 now as far as prudent being denied — to parents who refuse 
 to take their children out of the public schools. Hear the 
 decree of the synod held in Louisville, October 22, 1879 ; 
 
) as the click of a 
 
 New Orleans : 
 ia emphatically a 
 tion at all, but the 
 iico it excludes all 
 8 impossible. Tlie 
 ily, it i3 also vicious, 
 in your veins at the 
 which they are the 
 
 he Komish Church, 
 
 istruction to give, 
 ■ch have been of late 
 e is nothing for a 
 his religion. *He 
 e to thee as a hea- 
 holic schools can be 
 c children to other 
 w citizens may see, 
 if rearing children 
 desolating march 
 irough the land." 
 
 admirable tract en- 
 ''oes," says : 
 world-wide move- 
 erica? What is its 
 system? It means 
 are preparing the 
 as rapidly as possi- 
 iy been withdrawn, 
 ,ve their wa}', until 
 blic schools. How 
 enginery of Rome, 
 i to be denied — is 
 parents who refuse 
 schools. Hear the 
 October 22, 1879 ; 
 
 .1 FRRK SCHOOL. 
 
 17 
 
 Absolution IS to bo denied to parents or guardians who 
 presume to send their children under niiu" years old to a 
 public school in ,1 place where there exists a Catholic 
 school. Archbishop (Jilmnre. of Cleveland, in his Lenten 
 pastoral of lS,;j, devoted largely to education, says: <If 
 parents either through contempt for the priest or disregard 
 tor the laws of the church, or for trilling reasons, refuse to 
 
 send their children to a Catholi 
 
 school, then in such cases 
 
 lorize confessors to refuse the sacraments to 
 such parents as thus despise the laws of the church and 
 (lisol)ey the command of both priest and bishops " 
 
 "Bishop Uosecrans said, in 187:5. 'The faithful are re- 
 quired byconforMiiiig to the words of Christ's Vicegerent 
 (the pope) tlieir head and the head of all the faithful, to 
 l)reak down these schools, by doing their bounden duty,' 
 etc. But lest you should say, 'these are subordinate's,' 
 hearken now to the wor.ls of the I'ope. the ' infallible ' 
 head of the Roman church, he says: "['he Roman church' 
 lias the right to interfere in the discipline of the public 
 schoos and in the choice of the teachers of these public 
 schools. Public schools open to all children, for the edu- 
 cation of the youiiir, should be under the control of the 
 Roman church and should not be subject to the civil 
 power, nor made to conform to the opinions of the age.'" 
 (Encyclicals A LV and A LVIl.) ^ 
 
 Dr. Brown further adds : 
 
 " Americans are not easily disturbed. They are slow to 
 arouse to a great danger. But when such utterances as 
 these, which I have quoted this evening, are fairly before 
 them, they wake up. When they hear the authorities of 
 Uome, coolly projiosing to sell our school proi)erty nnder 
 the hammer and to be themselves the purchasers, they will 
 want to know about that. When they hear our schools 
 assailed by the vilest calumnies and epithets, they will en- 
 quire whence the slander proceeds. When they hear the 
 highest Roman authorities declaring that all education be- 
 longs to their church and that it is the duty of Catholics to 
 break aown our public schools, to the end that their 
 church may control education in this country, — they will 
 be angry The masses of the people will soon comprehend 
 the breadth and the significance of this movement against 
 
18 
 
 A FREE SCHOOL. 
 
 our schoola. Then let the power wliich has invadca our 
 civil rights, to iissiiil the schools, bo (|uick to withdraw to 
 its own spiritual domain ! Americans are long-sufTering; 
 but there is one thing tlicy will not tolonite : tlicv will not 
 endun^ eccilesiastical interference with our civil rights. 
 What would become of American liberties if the views, 
 which I have this evening (juoted, could become operative 
 in this land ? Where would be our lil)erties if every Pro- 
 testant clergyman was endowed with power to order his 
 people what to do and what not to do, on pain of losing 
 their souls, as Catholic priests order their Hocks ? Where 
 will be our liberties when the right, claimed l)y the Pope, 
 to interfere in all the affairs of our puljlic schools, ia once 
 admitted?" 
 
 " If Leo XIII. ia testing this matter, of his supremacy 
 over millions of our citizens, liy this movement on our 
 schools, it is well that we are coming to understaml it. 
 Why did Father Ilecker say in 1870, ' there is, ere long, to 
 be a state religion in this country and that state religion is 
 to be Roman Catholic?' What mean sucli utterances? 
 What is their bearing on this simultaneous movement 
 against our schools throughout the land ? Let each free 
 American citizen draw his own conclusions. 
 
 "The third plenary council of Baltimore (1885). Iti its 
 decree on 'ways and means of promoting j)arochial schools.' 
 says: ' Let priests love their schools * * Let them 
 teach the catechism and Bible histor- themselves.' But 
 the prime doctrine of that 'Catechism ' is thcsuiirenuicy of 
 the Pope on earth. That is taught to all who learn the 
 catechism. Listen then to one of the utterancesof Pius IX. 
 jind see if it is ])roper teaching for those who are being 
 trained for citizenship in a country where freedom of speech 
 and worship are the very sheet-anchor of our liberties. 
 January 1, 1870, Cardinal Antonelli for Pius IX. wrote the 
 bishop of Nicaragua that 'freedom of education and wor- 
 ship are both contrary to the laws of God and the 
 church." 
 
 "We must press another question which will disclose 
 another reason why we can never consent to a division of 
 the fund. Rome asks the state to hand over to her mil- 
 lions of dollars from the public fund for tcuchiiig purposes. 
 When a person applies for a vucancy in the teaching force 
 
has invadca our 
 to withdraw to 
 3 loiij;j-8ufT('ring; 
 ;e : they will not 
 our civil rijflits. 
 es if the views, 
 )ooonio operative 
 ies if every Pro- 
 ber to order his 
 I pain of losinj; 
 llocks ? Where 
 led l)y the I'oi)e, 
 schools, is once 
 
 )f his supremacy 
 ovement on our 
 ) understand it. 
 TO is, ere long, to 
 ,t state religion is 
 sucli utterances ? 
 neous movement 
 ? Let each free 
 
 IS. 
 
 ore (1885), in its 
 larochial schools.' 
 * * Let them 
 themselves.' But 
 
 I thesuiirenuicy of 
 
 II who learn the 
 rancesof Pius IX. 
 e who are being 
 fi'eedomof s{)eech 
 
 of our liberties, 
 'ius IX. wrote the 
 lucation and wor- 
 )f God and the 
 
 Inch will disclose 
 , to a division of 
 over to her mil- 
 tciichiiig purposes, 
 he teaching force 
 
 A FRKK SCHOOL. 
 
 10 
 
 I: 
 
 of our schools, his record and capacity are examined. lie 
 must stand or fall l)y the record. INnne has been in the 
 tcacliJMg business a long time. What is lu-r re<'()r(i ? Ire- 
 land has been under her tutelage for centuries. What is the 
 )erceiitage of illiteracy in Ireland ? Portugal has been 
 largely subject to Roiue for centuries. What of propor- 
 tionate inteiligeiice and ignoraiu'e there ? What of Spain? 
 What of Hrazil ^ What of .Mexico ^ What of our own 
 New Mexico, where, until a few years ago, b'omi' had been 
 undisturbed iu her school tea(!liing 't Aew .Mexico, after 
 three <;enturies of b'ornish teaching, reported in 1880 sixty 
 per cent, of her populatioji over ten years old who could 
 neither read nor write. Even tliat represented a very rapid 
 improvement over the rejioit of Ls^o, on whicdi the 'agent 
 in chiu-ge of statistics of education ' remarks : ' The change 
 in New .Mexicu) mny be safely attributed to the establish- 
 ment of common schools.'" When the common schools 
 come there is great improvenu'nt at once. (Compend. 
 10th census. II, lO.'K) I.'ome's record as a .school teacher 
 does not warrant her (iemand for millions of our scliool 
 money. Compare with New Mexico the States where 
 Catholicism has not been permitted to control education— 
 where the public school has jirevailed." 
 
 Dr. Hrown also calls attention to the fact that near 
 Dubuque, Iowa, there are public schools in which text 
 books are used which are filled with the distinctive teach- 
 ing of the Iioman church, Imoks with this prayer: "Holy 
 Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the 
 hour of our death.— Amen." And catecliisms with lessons 
 "on coiitirmation," and other instructions to show that the 
 Catholic (duinth is the only true church, with instruction 
 regarding i)ower to grant indulgence and other abominable 
 teachings of the Uoman church. What must American 
 citizens think of such usur{)ations P Are we still to sleep 
 on while our sacred rights are tiius trampled on by these 
 sisters and priests ? 
 
 I have given these quotations in full from recognized 
 authorities in the Eoman church. I might have made 
 
'20 
 
 ,1 /•7.' /■;/•; scifodL 
 
 them vory .nu.-h fuller Btill, The Uwi Ik that it ia now .le- 
 crml that tlir in.l.lic hcI.ooIs, so fur as tl.c li.inan cluurli 
 is .■oncenu-l. slmll pni.Mi.'ally 1..' .Icstroyi'.l. If Ho.na.usts 
 insist upon lakin- thnr .-luMron out of t!.o i.ul.lic sclmols. 
 we should ho g\m\ to havo thorn insist also on taking teach- 
 ers wlio aro Wonuinisis out of their plaees in the puhlio 
 sehools. On the contmrv, they take the uttnost pains, 
 „sin.r overy available means, to get Catholic, teachers into 
 our schools, an.l. as is clearly shown by the last quotation 
 „uule, thev en.leavor to sniu^Rle in their Cate.-hisni and to 
 have it tauKht in s.'liools supi.orte.l by public; money. I am 
 no alarmist, l)ut the time has come wiien we must recoKuizo 
 these facts and sound a warning to all our citizens. Presi- 
 dent r.rant wisely said at Des xMoinos, Iowa, in IHTC : 
 
 " If we are to have another contest in the near future of 
 onr national existence, I predict that the dividing line wi 1 
 m'tbo Mason and Dixon's, but it will be between patriot- 
 is,n and intelligence on the one side and superstition and 
 ambition and ignorance on tlie other. 
 
 "Encourage free schools. and resolve that not one dollar 
 appropriated to them shall be applied to tlie H'|i;Po'; « 
 any sectarian school, resolve that any child m the and 
 may got a common-school education, unmixed with atlieis- 
 tic," pagan or sectarian teachings. Kc^'P the «»'";;f i)";' 
 state forever sei.arate.' (Speech before Army of e - 
 nessec isrc) It was he who lirst proposed a constitu- 
 tional' amendment, directly forbidding -'<-h jibiises as we 
 have examined tliis evening. President <-f>''f'' ™ 
 monument has just been dedicated, was also ' alar ned 
 when he wrote, in his letter of m^cepta.icc duly 1^, IHhU, 
 'It would be dangon.ns to our institutions to apply any 
 portion of the revenue of the Nation or of the State to ho 
 
 up ort of sectarian schools.' Lafayette, that noble spirited 
 son of France, himself a Romanist was 'alarmed long 
 years before either when he said, 'If the liberties of o 
 American people are ever destroyed they will fall by the 
 hands of the Uomish clergy.' "-0«/- Couniry. 
 
is that it ia nowde- 
 
 tlif Kimiin cliiirt'li 
 )Vih1. If lloniiiiiists 
 f the piiblit; soliooU, 
 iilso on takiiif,' teach- 
 liiccrt in till! i)iil)lii! 
 the utmost pains, 
 .tholii' teachers into 
 y tlie hi8t quotation 
 L«ir Catecliisin and to 
 public; money. I am 
 en we must reco{,Mii7.o 
 
 our citizens. I'rcsi- 
 
 lowa, in IHTC: 
 
 in the near future of 
 the dividing line will 
 1 l)c between iKitriot- 
 ii\d superstition and 
 
 A Fllh'h' sciioui.. 
 
 Wlnit relifTfiousljody dare interfere with the pulilic school 
 system which has been so lonj,' reco^MUzed as one of the in- 
 stitutions ol' this iieimlilic:-' Shall ij,'norant foreii,'ners, from 
 ignorant Woiuish countries, tlius destroy distinctive Amer- 
 ican institutions? Against Homanists as fellow citizens, I 
 have no won! of criticism to oiler ; but against IJomanisin 
 as a system, in the name of all that is American, I say let 
 us lift up our voices ; let us close against it every door, and 
 determine that this country consecratc(l lotig ago to 
 freedom by the blood of our fathers and more lately 
 by the blood of fathers, brothers and sons, shall stand 
 for freedom even though to jjreserve it blood must be 
 
 shed again. 
 
 vo that not one dollar 
 icd to the support of 
 iiy (diild in the land 
 unmixed with atheis- 
 \.WY the church and 
 lefore Army of Ten- 
 proposed a constitu- 
 ig such abuses as we 
 idi-nt (iartield, whose 
 , was also ' alarmed ' 
 3ptrtiicc duly \'i, IHSU, 
 titutions to apply any 
 or of the State to the 
 jtte, that noble spirited 
 it, was ' alarmed ' long 
 If the liberties of the 
 1 they will fall by the 
 • Counlry. 
 
Ill,- A FREE CHURCH, 
 
 By a FuKic Cnuncir, wonioim iiclmn'li tlmt hIiiiII bo free 
 to worHliip (ind iicconliiij^ to tlio (lictatcs of coiiscit'tK-o 
 without tlic iiili'rft'rt'ti({i of iiiiy civil auliiority. 'I'lic union 
 of cliiircli and Sluti' iuis l)ei'n i)r()(lu(;tiv(' of iiarni in cvory 
 country in tlio world whoro such union iixi.sts or Iuih existed 
 Tho separation helwccn cliuicli and State in Kiif^land 
 must come al)out before nuiuy years sball [)ass. vMready 
 the Chureh of England is diweHtablisbed in Ireland, and 
 tho Church of Seotland must shortly be disestablisiied in 
 Scotland. It is a gross injustice that non-eonforniists in 
 Enghind must support tlu'ir own ciiurches by voluntary 
 olTerings, and at tiio sanio time bo tithed for tho support of 
 a church in whose jirineiples tliey do not believe. The 
 horrible condition of what (ieneral IJootli calls "the sub- 
 merged Tenth " shows that the Churcli of Kiigland is not 
 making good use of its enormous wealth and great prestige 
 in that relation. This country has shown the jjossibility 
 of maintaining a free state alongside of a free church. 
 For this object our Haptist fathers suffered fines, imprison- 
 ments and personal violence again ami again in this coun- 
 try. They were at one time almost the only defeiulers of 
 tlio separation of church and State. This doctrine which 
 is now considered as distinctively American was at one 
 time almost exclusively Jiaptist. Many of the Puritans 
 who tied from persecution had no distinct conception of 
 true religious liberty. They desired liberty for themselves 
 and they were willing to inflict punishment upon all who 
 dilTered from them. One has only to remember that 
 in 1651, Dr. John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and James 
 
UURCH, 
 
 irch that gliiill bo free 
 
 ictiiti'S of coiiscii'in'o 
 iiitliority. 'I'lic union 
 ;tivo of liiirni in every 
 ti exists or liiva oxinted 
 il Stiitc^ in KnijliUHl 
 hIiuH [Kisa. Already 
 islied in Ireland, and 
 y be disestabliHlied in 
 it non-e.onforniista in 
 liiireheH liy voluntary 
 lied for the support of 
 ilo not believe. The 
 Jootb rails " the sub- 
 rch of Kngland is not 
 1th and great prestige 
 iliown the possibility 
 le of a free chureh. 
 Ifered fines, iniprison- 
 iiil again in this eoun- 
 the only defenders of 
 This doctrine which 
 \nieric'an was at one 
 faiiy of the Puritans 
 listinct conception of 
 liberty for themselves 
 ishment upon all who 
 ly to remember that 
 \ Holmes uud James 
 
 .1 FllKK cilifif'U. 
 
 Crandall Knffered almost nntoM tortures because thoy re- 
 fused in the exercise of their Christian liberty to recognise 
 the authority of tlu! State. 
 
 We know that Clarke was find £'H), Holmes £'M) and 
 Crandall ITt. Should they refuse to pay they were to bo 
 horsewhipped at sight. Clarke stood stripped at the whip- 
 ping-post till the sight so moved a kind-hearted gentle- 
 man that he olTeredasumof moneyto save hitn from the tor- 
 ture. * ♦ * i^incroft assorts that he was whi|)ped "unmer- 
 cifully," and Cov. Jenks says, " that for some days, if not 
 some weeks, ho could not rest except upon his knoes and 
 el I tows." 
 
 Dr. Taylor thus describes the treatment meted out 
 to the Maptist ministers in Virginia: they "were fined, 
 pelted, beaten, imprisoned, poisoned and hunted with 
 dogs ; their congregations were assaulted and dispersed ; 
 the solenin ordinance of Maptism was rudely interrupted, 
 both administrators and canclidates being plunged and hold 
 beneath the wattT till nearly dead ; they suffered mock 
 trials, and even in Courts of .Justice, were subjected to in- 
 dignities not unlike those inllicted by tho infamous Jef- 
 freys." At (!ul|)epper our fathers suffered persecution 
 beyond description. (Jlay, Pickett and the Craigs are names 
 which shine undimnied by time in Baptist history. On the 
 very spot where stood the prison which held the heroic Ire- 
 land, and through whose iron gates he preached the gospel 
 to the people, there is now a Baptist niciting-house in which 
 the word of God is proclaimed to those whose religious 
 liberty was obtained at the price of blood. 
 
 We know also that Roger Williams endured exposures and 
 sufferings that are now almost inconceivable inhisdetermina- 
 tion to secure for himself and for tlie world, tho priceless boon 
 of soul liberty. Wo are now confronted with opposite doc- 
 trines concerning the relation of the church and the State. 
 We have a section of the Protestant Episcopal Church in- 
 
24 
 
 A ruEE riiuRC'ii. 
 
 sisting upon appropriating for that body the namo " Ihe 
 American Churcli." We arc glad to believe that this de- 
 sire applies to only a part of that clnircli. The name, should 
 it bo adopted, would be simply a misnomer. Tlu-re cannot 
 be in this Republic such a body as the American Church. 
 What does such language mean ? Certainly nothing which 
 can receive the endorsement of sound common sense or 
 fraternal Christian feeling. Hut we have the Church of 
 Home going still further. The recent election in th c State 
 of Wisconsin shows that that church made a determined 
 effort as a cliurch to control the State for its own purposes. 
 The issue was there distinctly made between Americanism 
 and foreignism, between Romanism and Protestantism, be- 
 tween a free State or a Stat e under the control of the church. 
 Governor Hoar was the candidate of all friends of the Amer- 
 ican system of education. He insisted upon Home Rule, 
 not Rome Rule; upon an American and not an Italian educa- 
 tion. All questions of tariff and political economy, and 
 matters of that sort were entirely set aside. He discusse.l 
 nothing that was purely and solely a party issue ; but he 
 canvassed the State on liehalf of the public schools, and 
 he urged the need of an American education for every 
 American citizen. He well knew that in large portions of 
 the country, children were growing up to manhood ignor- 
 ant of the language and laws of the country. He knew that 
 in a little time these ignorant boys would bo voters and vir- 
 tually law-makers. He knew that tliis rapidly growing 
 population was non-American in language, non-American 
 in sympathy, and would be non-American in its exercise of 
 
 the suffrage. . ^ ^ ^t t 
 
 Under this impulse, he made his campaign on behalf of 
 the school-house and the rights and duties of American 
 citizenship. His judgment and his conscience were in the 
 issue, but it is supposed that he is beaten ; it is feared that 
 the friends of ignorance and fanaticism have triumphed. 
 
_-;r»«i«t5S'--- 
 
 ly the name " The 
 ■iieve that this do- 
 
 Tho name, should 
 
 lor. Tlu-re cannot 
 
 Americiin Church. 
 
 linly nothing which 
 
 common sense or 
 lave the Church of 
 Blcction in the State 
 made a determined 
 or its own purposes, 
 itwecn Americanism 
 i1 Protestantism, be- 
 )ntrol of the church, 
 friends oftheAmer- 
 d upon Home Kule, 
 not an Italian educa- 
 itical economy, and 
 .side. He discussed 
 party issue ; but he 
 public schools, and 
 education for every 
 ; in large portions of 
 ) to manhood ignor- 
 mtry. He knew that 
 lid bo voters and vir- 
 his rapidly growing 
 ;uage, non-American 
 ican in its exercise of 
 
 impaign on behalf cf 
 duties of American 
 Miscience were in the 
 ten ; it is feared that 
 sm liave triumphed. 
 
 A FREE CIIURCIT. 
 
 25 
 
 There is a bare possibility that, by a recent discovery, the 
 legislature may have a majority of one which will preserve 
 the Bennett Law. It would seem that no intelligent 
 American citizen, apart from all party question, can for a 
 moment doubt that that law is a desirable piece of legisla- 
 tion. Who can doubt that the English language should 
 be maintained as the language of this (sountry ? Who can 
 douljt that our public schools should be taught in the use 
 of the English tongue? Are we to continue to give men 
 the ballot without requiring them to road the language of 
 our country? Are we to permit such men to reverse the 
 legislation of past generations? Shall they be allowed to 
 strike down all that is distinctively American, and to 
 Europeanize this land? Helieve me, the present outlook 
 is not hopeful. Believe me, that the jdan is to secure a 
 division of the school fund and to give IJoman Catholics 
 and others the opportunity of teaching their distinctive 
 dogmas at the expense of the State. It is a serious mat- 
 ter when the majority of Germans are willing to follow the 
 lead of Lutheran and Roman teachers going along such 
 a line as this. It is a serious matter when the Pope of 
 Rome can determine who shall be Mayor of a city. Gover- 
 nor of a State, and, perluips. President of the United 
 States. It is a serious matter for all Americans to consider 
 when the laws issuing from the Vatican are to determine 
 the decision of great national questions in the American 
 Republic. It is a serious matter when a so-called mission- 
 ary organization in Washington under the direction of the 
 Roman Church is practically a system of lobbyists to secure 
 money from the public treasury for the support of Roman 
 Catholic schools among the Indians. 
 
 We do not wonder that the venerable Bishop Coxe should 
 use sucii strong language ae tlie following quotation con- 
 tains : 
 
 "It makes my soul burn," said Bishop Coxe, in closing, 
 
• 1 
 
 26 
 
 A FREE CnURCIT 
 
 " when I read the action of the United States Senators who 
 hist winter appropriated $400,000 for Romish missions 
 among our Indians, and $150,000 for other denominations, 
 saying that the Romisli were the best. 'I'he action of tliose 
 Senators was infamons. If they think Romish missions are 
 the best, all I would Siiy is, look at ILiyti." 
 
 What has tlie Church of Rome to show in the way of the 
 improvement of the people among whom it labors to justify 
 it in its claims to give education to Americsm citizens ? To 
 what country will it tnrii as a proof of the beneficent effects 
 of its years of domination ? Every country in wliicli it is 
 dominant is ignorant, poor, and vicious. Tiiis statement 
 can be abundantly justified by historical references. 
 
 The Chicago iHter-Ocean, Nov. 1, has the following sig- 
 nificant fact from Berlin, Wis. : 
 
 "The Polish priest at Berlin, which has the largest Cath- 
 olic church in the State, has distributed the following cir- 
 cular letter in (Jerman to his people who are ignorant 
 enough to believe it : 
 
 "'The time is not far when the Roman churches, by or- 
 der of the Pope, will refu.se to pay the school taxes, and sooner 
 than pay the agent or collector, put a bullet through his 
 breast. This order can come at any time from Rome, and 
 it will come so suddenly as the pulling of the trigger of a 
 gun, and, of course, this will be obeyed, as it comes from 
 God Almighty.'" 
 
 This man took his cue and part of his language from 
 Monsignor Capel, whom we have already quoted. 
 
 The Herald and Presbyter givis us the following as illus- 
 strating the same unpatriotic purpose : 
 
 " ' You are Catholics first and Americans afterward.' So 
 said a Roman priest in Chicago to his flock recently. This 
 suggests that if a man is a 'Catholic first' — that is, owes 
 his civil ami spiritual allegiance to Rome — what business 
 has he with American citizenship at any time ? " 
 
 Fatiu'r Walker of New York says : 
 
 " The public schools are godless, and they who send their 
 children to them cannot expect the mercy of God. I would 
 
7. 
 
 id States Senators who 
 for Homish missions 
 other denominations, 
 'I'he aetion of tliose 
 k Romish missions are 
 :ayti." 
 
 how in the way of ilie 
 lOm it labors to justify 
 nericiiu citizens ? To 
 : the beneficent effects 
 ountry in wiiicli it is 
 ous. Tiiis statement 
 cal references, 
 has the following sig- 
 
 1 has the largest Cath- 
 ted the following cir- 
 ple who are ignorant 
 
 jman chnrches, by or- 
 3hool taxes, and sooner 
 a bullet tlirough his 
 time from Kome, and 
 ig of the trigger of a 
 ^ed, as it comes from 
 
 )f his language from 
 
 ady quoted. 
 
 the following as illus- 
 
 ricans afterward.' So 
 3 flock recently. This 
 a first' — that is, owes 
 liome — what l)usincss 
 my time ? " 
 
 lid they who send their 
 ercy of God. I would 
 
 A FREE CnURGIT. 
 
 27 
 
 as soon administer the sacrament to a dog as to such a 
 Catholic." 
 
 Bishop Coxe further says as illustrative of the point 
 that I now make : 
 
 "For 400 years," said Bishop Coxe, "has the name of 
 Christ been known upon this island, and for 400 years have 
 the people been in the hands of the Romish church, and 
 yet I was informed upon good authority that two-thirds 
 of the men who packed the cathedrals were heathen, devil- 
 worshipers, voudooists and cannibals, who worshiped 
 there within the very walls of the cathedrals their heathen 
 god, Voudoo. 
 
 " The belief of the lower class Ilaytiens, the bishop said, 
 IS that there are two devils, the black one and the white 
 one. By baptizing a child it is made proof against the 
 wiles of the white devil, but to protect it from the black 
 one, a sacrifice must be made to Voudoo. So, some time 
 before the Ist of January, a child is taken and fattened, 
 and then, about New Year's day, it is sacrificed to Voudoo, 
 and its ilesh is eaten by those taking part in the ceremony. 
 This is supposed to propitiate their heathen god. One 
 president of the island, in trying to put a stop to these 
 performaiujes, had eighteen men shot, but he was shortly 
 obliged to leave in order to save himself from the fury of 
 the people." 
 
 Again I say that I have no unkind feeling toward Rom- 
 anists as fellow citizens. I would take from them none of 
 their rights ; but by the grace of God I shall not permit 
 them to take from us our rights. We have come into con- 
 flict with them on American soil, and in every such con- 
 flict they have been beaten. The moment the issue is 
 fairly joined, their non-American, medieval, and Italian 
 ideas must go to the wall. The danger is that they shall 
 steal a march upon us unawares. To be fore-warned in 
 this case is to be fore-armed. A recent writer in the Horn- 
 iletic Review reminds us that they came into conflict with us 
 in the early history of America when the South was largely 
 held by the Spaniards and the French. There was at the 
 
A FRF.K CHURCH. 
 
 siimo time a great Catholic Empire stretching uver tlie 
 North. Jesuit explorers had " built a chain of forts from 
 the St. Lawrence to tlie Ohio, and claimtd all the West 
 for Prance and the Mother Church." At that same time, 
 France, .S[)ain, Austria and Poland were united in a league 
 against Prussia, and a part of the liope was the extinction 
 of Protestantism in America. Then it was that Kngland 
 came to the help of Frederick. And this writer adds that 
 (iod raised up William Pitt, a linure of solitary grandeur, 
 to be His instrument to throw the whole force of England 
 on the side of Frederick and to make possible the victory 
 of llossbach and the Germany of to-day. It was Pitt who 
 carved out a British Empire from India. It was Pitt who 
 met Louis XIV on the Heights of Abraham and put an end 
 to the dreams of a I-'rench Empire in America. Once more 
 did the dream of a Catholic Empire in this Wesicrn world 
 emanate from the brains and stir the hearts of European 
 Romanists. 
 
 In the dark days of '02 and 'G3, when we were struggling 
 for national life, were violent hands laid upon a sister re- 
 public in the name of the Roman church. We have no 
 fear of the Roman church if only Protestants will be alive 
 to their duty. Romanists feel the necessity of speaking 
 some patriotic words, hence their recent utterances in the 
 Catholic Congress at Boston. To-day, if eitlur the Meth- 
 odist or Baptist denomination were counted according to 
 the methods of computation employed in the Roman 
 church, it v/ould outnumber the ifoman church. But that 
 Church moves as a unit. It is a tremendous machine. It 
 is a two-edged sword whose point, as Joseph Cook has 
 said, is everywhere and whose hilt is in the Vatican. 
 
 We go a step further than even some Baptists would fol- 
 low. We claim entire separation between church and 
 State. The Bai)tist and the American principle carried to 
 its practical application would so separate between church 
 
trctchinj; uvcr the 
 chain of forts from 
 iiiiitu all the West 
 At that saiiiu tiiue, 
 ; united in a Icaguo 
 was the extinction 
 
 was that Knglanil 
 lis writer adds that 
 
 solitary grandeur, 
 lo force of Englaiul 
 possible the victory 
 ^•. It was Pitt who 
 a. It was l*itt wlio 
 luiin and put an end 
 luerica. Once more 
 
 tliis Wesicrn world 
 liearts of European 
 
 I we were struggling 
 id upon II sister re- 
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 ;estants will be alive 
 3cessity of speaking 
 it utterances in the 
 
 if either the Meth- 
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 ludous machine. It 
 as Joseph Cook has 
 
 in the Vatican. 
 3 Baptists would fol- 
 etween church and 
 
 principle carried to 
 ate between church 
 
 .1 FBEE cnrnrn. 
 
 so 
 
 and State that cliurch property would not be free from 
 taxation. ^Ve have no riglit to tax atheists for the supjiort 
 of Christian cliiirches We know that they receive bone- 
 fits from them, but we still insist that the churches will 
 gain vastly liy standing aloof from the State. This is the 
 logical oiiteonie of our position, and for one. I am quite 
 prepared to press the priii('i|)le to this extreme. This is to 
 be one of lht> live subjects for discussion for the next five 
 years. It is already upon us. Let us meet it in the spirit 
 of an enligliti'iied jiatriotisin, and in a common love for 
 what is right. 'Plie subject is too grave to be left to mere 
 sentimentalizing. 
 
 New York Hcrahl says : 
 
 "Church property should not be free. The church 
 building should pay for the protection of the law ((uite as 
 much as tbe comitiiig-houso or dwelling of the private 
 gentleman," 
 
 The New York Indvpendcnf quotes the above and adds : 
 
 "This is simply just. There is no suflicient reason why 
 cliurcb projierty should be exempted from all taxation, and 
 therel)y an increased tax-burden be imposed upon other 
 tax-paying jiroperty." 
 
 We atlirm that no consistent TJomanist can be a loyal 
 citizen of the American Ii'epublic. Doubtless there are 
 loyal Romanists but their American loyalty is at the 
 expense of their ecclesiastical consistency. When a Rom- 
 anist takes the oath of allegiance to our Constitution in 
 hecoming an American citizen he does so with mental re- 
 servations. He must do so. His lirst allegiance is to the 
 Pope, who is himself the subject of a foreign government. 
 
 Cavour gave us a fine phrase when he spoke of " a free 
 church in a free state ; " and a greater than Cavour lias 
 said, " Render, therefore, unto Caesar the things which are 
 Ctesar's, and unto (rod the things which are God's." 
 
80 
 
 STATEMENTS. 
 
 STATEMENTS. 
 
 Thiit it may dourly be seen that wo have not exiigger- 
 ated tho spirit or too strongly uccoiitiiatod tiie moiiiods of 
 tlie Uomisii Cliiircli as a i)olitical system vigorously at war 
 with the genius of Aniericiiii institutions, we append tiio 
 following statoments, which speak for themselves : 
 
 Voice of tlie Ciirdiiiiils. 
 
 " Stand by the Ciitholic schools."— C'cn't/Z/iai McVlo^kcy. 
 
 " We iinisl tiike part in elections." — Qtrdinal AfcCloKkey. 
 
 " Tlic Ciitccliisni alone is esseutiiil for the education of the people." 
 — Carditiiil Antonelli. 
 
 "The church alone is endowed with the power to educate the 
 j'oung." — CiirdiKnl Mt'Clonkcy. 
 
 "The comiiion scliool system of the United Stales is the worst in 
 the world." — Cardinal Manniii;/. 
 
 "A ripe knowledge of the Catechism, minus Massacliusetts educa- 
 tion, is preferable to her education, minus the Catechism." — Cardi- 
 nal AntiinelU. 
 
 " We must take part in the elections. Move in solid mass in every 
 State against the party pledged to sustain the integrity of the public 
 schools." — Cardinal .VcCl'inkei/. 
 
 " Uationalism, or rather Atlieism, of the State consists in the exclu- 
 sion from the civil governnieiil of a religioiis influence ; above all, 
 that of the Church of Jesus Christ, or, in otlier words, the separation 
 of the State from thi; Church, absolute independence of the State 
 with regard to the Church, which means the oppression of the Church 
 by the Slate "—Cardinal Maaninr/. 
 
 Voice of tlie Councils. 
 
 "All who maintain the liberty of the press, Sit Anathema" (Let 
 
 them ba damned).— Gr«^oj;v. '^'^J. "'"' Pin^, \^M. 
 
 "■ Those who a8,sert the liberty of conscience and of religious wor- 
 ship. Sit Anathema." — Pins, 1864. 
 
 " All who advocate the liberty of speech. Sit Anatliema." — Sylla- 
 bus, Marnh, 1851 ; Prop, btxuc, Encyclical, 1864. 
 
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 " All who Insist that marriage not sacramentally contracted has 
 binding force, Sit Anathema "—I hid. Prop. Ixxiii. 
 
 " All who maintain that in countries culled Catholic, the free exer- 
 else of of otiier religions may laudably be allowed, Sit Anathema."— 
 Ihid. Prop. Irviii. 
 
 " All who assert that the Pope ouRht to come to terms with prog- 
 ress, liberalism, and modern civilization. Sit Anathema." — Ibid, 
 Prop. Ixxt. 
 
 The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore, 1S60. ascribed to the pub- 
 lic schools "that corruption of morals which we have to deplore in 
 tlioso of tender years." 
 
 The Second Provincial Conncilof Orer/on, 1881, said that " swearing, 
 cursing, and profane expressions are distinctive marks of public 
 school children." 
 
 The Sacred Congregation of Propaganda, in its instructions to the 
 American Risliops. 1875, iissigns as a reason why the Roman Catho- 
 lic Church is hostile to the public schools, that "teachers indiscrimi- 
 nately of every s<-t are employed, who are left free to sow errors 
 and the seeds of vice in tender minds." 
 
 Voice of Romish Priests. 
 
 " The public schools have produced nothing but a godless genera- 
 tion of thieves and blackguards."- Pncs/ Sehaner. 
 
 •' Uidess you suppress the public school system as at present con- 
 ducted, it will prove the damnation of this comnvy."- Father 
 
 Walker. 
 
 " I frankly confess that the Catholics stand before the country as 
 the enemies of the public fichoo]s."~ Father Phelan. 
 
 "You ((Catholics) mtibt refuse to give a vote for any man who is 
 not for free denominational education."— i^'-tMer Boylan. 
 
 " These so-called public schools are not public schools, but infldel 
 and sectarian. Catholic parents who send their children to such 
 schools are guilty of m(u-tal sin."-7?««. Dr. Frul. 
 
 '• The duty of all loyal, God fearing. Christian men (Koman Catho- 
 lics) then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against this common 
 {oe."—FatJier Oleason, of Oakland, Cal. 
 
 •• When the State steps in and assumes the role of school teacher, 
 then there is tlie invasion of the individual right, the invasion of the 
 domestic rights of the church, and the invasion of the divine rights. 
 
 
STA rEMExrs. 
 
 The public school is subversive of the rights of the iiKlividiml, sub- 
 versive of the rights of liie family, suliverslve of tlie lij^lits of re- 
 ligion, subver.sive of the divine rights of God himself." —Jiev- 
 Failier McUarthi/. 
 
 Tlie Voice of Sttitcsiiicn. 
 
 Daniel Wcljster once siiid, "The public schools are a preveutive 
 of anarchy, piiuperisiii, vice iind crime." 
 
 " Keep your iiiiiids open to the hglit, and your scliools brigh j 
 historic atul divine Innh." -ChenKi: 
 
 " Leave tlie matter of religion to the family altar, llie eliurch and 
 tlie private school siipporled entirely by private contribution. Keep 
 the Slate and llie (•hurcli forever separate. " — U. S. (Irani. 
 
 " In a country where the oriranic law, like ours, proclaims absolute 
 freedom of religion, we have no riglit to appropriate any of tlie pub- 
 lic money or land to sectaiian scliools," — Df.rter A. Jfairkins. 
 
 " Uesolved, That universal education is a necessity of our Govern- 
 ment, and that the American free school system should be main- 
 tained and preserved as a safe-guard of American liberty." — Ameiiean 
 PaHy Platform. 
 
 " It seems to me that this (.school) (piestion ought to be s "'jd in 
 some definite and comprehensive way, and the only settlemt..' that 
 can be final is the complete victory for Non-8eetarian Schools. I am 
 sure this will be demanded by llie American people at all liuzards, 
 and at any cost." — James G. Blaine. 
 
 
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