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During the last election in the city of St. Louis I was a Catholic
priest, and was in the Catholic confidence, and I declare to you as a
man of truth and before a living God that it was understood between
the Catholic church and those who controlled the Democratic party
that the Protestants should elect the present mayor, Rolla Wells, but
that Catholicism was to be permitted to name the other officials, or
at least enough to control the city government.

Now, is there any politics in such an agreement? Ah, no; but the
only object in this secret agreement was a desire upon the part of
Roman Catholicism to control the revenues of the city of St. Louis,
as Catholicism is a money machine and endeavors to keep her exchequer
full by preying upon the ignorance of her followers.

I have mentioned St. Louis only for the simple reason that it is a
recent happening, but there are a score of other cities in the United
States of America which are controlled by Catholicism on the same
principle, as Romanism joins hands with either the Republican or
Democratic party if she sees a chance to put her hellish schemes and
dogmas into practice.

That the reader may know what element controls the municipal
governments of our cities we desire to call attention to the fact
that over one-half of the officials of our large American cities are
direct representatives of Roman Catholicism, and over two-thirds of
all the policemen of these cities are the Pope's followers.

Why does this state of affairs exist? Ah, it is because the
Protestant voter has "politics" instead of "principles"; therefore
you yourself are to blame for this awful state of affairs.

Yes, I say that you are to blame, for you are a voter and you pretend
to represent Protestantism but still will permit yourself to be made
tools of in behalf of Roman Catholicism; then am I not right in
declaring that you are to blame for this state of affairs that exists
in our large cities?

In our municipal elections you will find Roman Catholicism courting
the political power which has the greatest chance of electing their
candidates; it matters not what party it may be, as Roman Catholicism
has no politics, as her only desire is power, and it does not matter
from what source she receives it, so long as it is granted her, as
Romanism is like a chameleon, as she will change her political color
to suit her surroundings if she is assured that she will be permitted
to inject her deadly virus into the veins of Protestantism.

If Roman Catholicism can extract a promise from a Republican
candidate they are Republicans; but, on the other hand, if they can
make a Democrat do their bidding, they are Democrats; and if they
can "wiggle" into the Populists' favor, they are Populists; in fact,
they are any and everything that will serve their purpose and help to
bind and throttle Protestant principles.

The nation of France is making history to-day, and each line and page
of this history is a warning to Protestant America, as every page of
this history is covered with the slime of Roman Catholicism, for had
it not been for her tyrannical despotism, France would not have had
to close up the monasteries and convents of that nation, but on
account of her teachings, and in order to protect the rising
generations from her influence, not only have the convents and
monasteries had to be closed, but the schools which teach her
damnable dogmas have been closed.

We do not have to cross the ocean and visit European countries to
learn of Roman Catholicism's depravity, but we can stand upon the
southern shore of the United States, almost in hailing distance of
Cuba, and there behold the shores of a country which had to rebel
against the hellishness of Roman Catholicism, as Cuba would to-day
belong to Spain had it not been for Roman Catholicism, as it was her
abominations that continually kept Cuba in a feverish ferment.

It was Spain's ungodliness that brought about the Spanish-American
war, and Spain's ungodliness was taught her by Romanism.

The West India islands were the progenies of Spain, and the Spanish
government permitted the Papists to control these islands with her
dogmas of instructions, which were directly instrumental in
continually keeping the spirit of anarchy alive.

The only reason that Roman Catholicism does not control this country
with her tyrannical hand is on account of numerical numbers, for did
Rome believe that she could rule this country to-day, before the sun
would set to-morrow night this would be a nation of serfs instead of
a nation of independent men and women.

I perhaps have made my declarations broader and stronger than any man
of the present day, but I am fresh from the ranks of Catholicism and
I know her cunning, and since I have forsaken her blind leadership
and drank deep from the well of Protestantism, I have resolved that
no stone shall go unturned that will help me to convince America of
her great danger which shadows her future by permitting this Romish
despot to flood this country with not only her blind followers, but
by being permitted to brazenly denounce everything that is near and
dear to this country, as her brazen denunciations of our American
institutions is nothing more nor less than treason, and which should
be treated as such.

To give the reader some idea of what Roman Catholicism will do if she
ever has the power, we quote an article which appeared in a Catholic
journal known as "_The Catholic Citizen_," of Milwaukee, Wis.

Now, if Catholicism has at this time become so brazen that she dares
offer the Protestant world the insults that is contained in this
article, what shall we expect if this damnable creed ever becomes
powerful enough to control by physical strength? The article follows:

"Protestantism in Cuba? What good will it do there? If only
the good it has wrought elsewhere, Heaven help the Cubans!
Protestantism is nothing but a disorganizer and a pathway to
infidelity and atheism. This is the only reason of its
existence. As a positive moral force, it is a farce. It has
never converted a single nation, but it has unconverted
Protestants themselves with a holy vengeance. Berlin has
75,000 church goers out of 2,000,000 people; London 400,000
out of 6,000,000 and so on. 'Without baptism you can not
enter Heaven,' says the Scripture, and lo! thanks to
Protestantism, nearly 60,000,000 people in the United States
are not baptized. A nice system (for the devil), that
produces such results--results as fatal to the heathen as to
the Christian. Protestantism found the Sandwich islands with
400,000 people. Where are they now? Gone. A million Macris in
New Zealand. Where are they? Gone. Seven million Indians in
the United States. Where are they? Gone.

"On the other hand, the friars found 300,000 natives in the
Philippines 400 years ago, and there are 9,000,000 now;
12,000,000 Indians south of the Rio Grande, and there are
50,000,000 now. 'By their fruits you shall know them.' In
view of such facts, we think Protestants should leave
'Boonioboola Gha' alone and confine their proselytizing to
unfortunates nearer home. An American is just as well worth
saving as a Cuban or a Chinaman any day."

"_The American Citizen_," a journal published in Boston, Mass., made
the following comment on this article, which appeared in this Roman
Catholic journal:

"The above is as good a specimen of papal logic as we have
ever seen--and it is the real thing.

"'It has never converted a single nation!' Christianity is
not supposed to convert nations--it converts individuals.
Mohammedanism converted (?) many nations by the sword, and
popery attempted to do it by the inquisition, but
failed--except in the case of the Jews and Moors in Spain,
which it 'converted' into beggars and refugees.

"Rome 'converted' the Albigenses from being peaceful and
industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in
Europe--and the handful defied and defeated the best papal
armies of Europe.

"But how about England, and Scotland, and Scandinavia, and
the Netherlands, and many other nations--were they not all
papal at one time, but converted through reformation? How
about the Huguenots--the very flower of France; the
Protestant Irish, the very salvation of the Emerald
Isle--were not these all at one time Romanists--converted to
Protestantism?

"Read the record of Rome's 'conversions' in Mexico, in
Central America, in South America, as told by Prescott and
other historians--the introduction of slavery by the papal
church, and the unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon the
Indians, or aborigines, of the countries mentioned. Read, in
United States senate document 190, the record of Rome's
'conversions' in the Philippines--a work which has made every
Filipino a bitter hater of the priests.

"'The Indians of the United States!' Have they ever been
Protestants? Have not the priests had control of them since
this land was discovered? Are not the vices which have
killed them--apart from war--the peculiar vices of popery,
especially drunkenness? What good have the priests wrought
among them? Take California as an example, where these
priests enslaved tens of thousands of the Indians for the
sole purpose of enriching their church!

"This is a matter of history--of undeniable history. If the
American Indians were slain in battle, in nine cases out of
ten the Jesuits instigated them to the deeds which brought on
the war. While Prescott's 'Mexico' and 'Peru' are accessible
in our libraries, popery had better be dumb.

"That the Filipinos have increased from 300,000 to 9,000,000
and the South Americans from 12,000,000 to 50,000,000, may be
true, for all travelers tell us that it is no uncommon thing
to find a priest with a halfscore of concubines and fifty
children. Certainly these priests have an advantage over
Protestant missionaries in this respect. The pagans would
naturally follow the example of their 'spiritual' advisers.
Oh, yes, the population certainly increases where the
priestcraft live."

The Roman Catholic church says that the priests shall not wed, but at
the same time the priestcraft fathers an army of children.

The Philippine islands is a nation of heathens, and Catholicism has
been in charge of these islands for centuries, and to-day they are
worse off than they were before Catholicism planted her black banner
in their midst.

Wherever you find intellectuality, morality and civilization in its
fullest meaning, you will find a country where Protestantism is the
predominating doctrine, as Catholicism can not exist only in the
"underbrush" of ignorance and vice.

The greatest menace this country has to contend with is the influx of
Rome's followers from other nations, and unless our immigration laws
are remedied it will not be long until Rome will be able, by physical
strength, to enumerate the United States as one of her countries, as
each succeeding year tens of thousands of the followers of Rome from
Italy and other priest-ridden countries flock to our shores to
practice in this country the abominations taught them in their
childhood.

France's woes and miseries have been expected for years by men of
intelligence and men who could read the signs of the times, as Rome's
influence was year by year growing more intolerable, and it was only
a matter of time when France would be forced to either permit herself
to be dragged down to the level of the debased teachings of
Catholicism or else by a heroic effort boldly stamp out this Romish
creed of damnation, and the latter course is the one she has chosen
to pursue, and to-day finds the Roman Catholic church despised and
detested by every intelligent and patriotic Frenchman of the land.

In July 1874, Eugene Lawrence, in the columns of "_Harper's Weekly_,"
made a prediction that ought to convince every sane man and woman in
this land that the woes of France are directly traceable to the Roman
Catholic church, as Mr. Lawrence was a historian of national repute,
and a man who was a patriot whom the American eagle was proud of, and
for the benefit of the readers of my little book I desire to quote in
full this prediction made thirty years ago, as to-day finds Mr.
Lawrence's prediction being fulfilled in every particular, and Roman
Catholicism is the incarnate fiend that has forced this prediction to
come true. Mr. Lawrence's article follows:

"The Papal church is chiefly responsible for the decadence of
the French mind. The priests have long controlled the
education of the nation and have striven to shut it out from
all contact with the culture of America, Germany and England.
Under the rule of Napoleon III, the Jesuits obtained the
guidance of nearly all the secondary colleges; Protestant
schools were sedulously discouraged, and nothing was taught
that could offend the mediaeval tastes of Rome. When, two
years ago, the French republicans had resolved to found a
free and compulsory system of instruction for all France as
the chief want of the nation, the papal bishops and priests
suppressed the measure by all their arts. They were resolved
to have no education which they could not control. The
republican movement failed; Bishop Dupanloup and his
associates succeeded once more in shutting out the light of
knowledge from the people, and have sown the fires of
warfare in the place of mental progress and moral culture.

"France, which has often made the most rapid progress toward
reform, has also been the most successful leader of modern
reaction. Its revolutions have set in motion all other
nations, but have failed to purify itself. It is enslaved by
a single church and ruled by Roman superstition. At the
recent assembly at Paris, of all the hierarchy of France, of
Jesuits, Dominicans, Monks and prelates, it was resolved that
all the strength of the papal party should be given to an
effort to grasp the control of the higher education of the
people, and make every college and seminary the teacher of
the worship of the Sacred Heart; to confine instruction
within the limits of Roman theology, and shut out more
strictly than ever before the light of modern progress. At a
great and powerful meeting of all the Roman Catholic editors
of France, a similar policy was resolved upon. By a strange
revulsion of sentiment the press was made to advocate its own
restriction or repression. The papal editors apparently sigh
for a return of the mediaeval practices when Francis I.
burned ardent printers in Paris, and the Sorbonne would have
banished the printing press from France forever. The Roman
Catholic papers invoke the restoration of the Bourbons and of
the temporal power of the Pope, and in the ardor of a new
spirit of martyrdom offered themselves up to a spiritual
bondage that must end in their own slow destruction and the
death of the national intellect They would enforce anew that
policy if isolation which has filled France with impurity,
and left it the prey of emperors and marshals, princes and
priests.

"France has thus displayed, since its first revolution, a
most remarkable contest. The spirit of freedom has more than
once placed its people in front of human progress, and ever
again the spirit of reaction has dragged them back into the
abyss of mental and moral decay. Its priests have invariably
triumphed over its reformers. The Roman church has always
held a supremacy above the law. Of all the national
institutions, it has alone preserved its freedom of action
unimpaired. It receives an enormous subsidy from the state.
While all other associations are held under a strict
subjection, while political meetings are scarcely allowed,
while the press is silenced, while Protestant churches can
hold no assemblies or synods except by the connivance of the
government, while Protestant churches are forbidden to have
either bell or steeple, the Roman priesthood hold their
councils and assemblies unrestrained, and cover the land with
their sodalities, their societies, their processions, and
their pilgrimages. The church is the only well-organized
political party. Its agents are active in every commune. Its
severe discipline produces order through all its hosts of
Jesuits, monks and priests. Its confessors rule in the
palaces of the wealthy and the hovels of the peasants. It
forbids education, it stifles thought, it inculcates a
pitiless severity against Protestants and reformers; and with
natural indignation the leading Republicans point to the
dominant church as the chief source of all the woes of
France, as sacrificing the morals, integrity and mental
elevation of the nation to the single purpose of maintaining
the ascendency of a foreign Pope. The French Republicans have
been forced to see that the Papal church is the necessary foe
of freedom. It would be well if our own people could learn
from their experience, and guard with strict vigilance their
institutions from the secret and open assaults of a foreign
priesthood.

"There is no doubt, at least in the minds of the French
Republicans, that to the intrigues of the Papal faction is
due the disordered and hopeless condition of the nation.
Gambetta's paper, _La Republique_, assures its readers that
the assembly is ruled by a party devoted wholly to the
ecclesiastical interests; that they labor only to reduce the
whole country to an abject submission to Rome, and are ready
to accomplish their aims by measures fatal to the peace of
France. It asserts that the priesthood forms a league as
rigorous as that over which the Guises ruled and against
which the Huguenots struggled; that the church has its
myriads of societies, committees, agents, an overflowing
treasury, the favor of the government, a single aim--an
infallible ruler. It calls upon the people, if they would be
free, to strike down the hydra that preys upon the state. The
policy of Bismarck, indeed, finds its best defense in the
condition of France. If the interference of the papal faction
proves so disastrous to the welfare of the French people, it
is plainly the interest of Germany to crush it forever by all
the resources of statesmanship. If the rule of papal Rome be
so intolerable to its friends, what might it not accomplish
in the dominions of its opponents? France may yet learn from
its neighbors over the Rhine the only path to freedom. What
it seems most to need is a Bismarck."

If in 1874, Mr. Lawrence, after making a thorough study of the
conditions of France, could so accurately prophecy what would happen
thirty years hence, the conditions at that time must have been indeed
very palpable, but no more so than they are in America to-day, as
Roman Catholicism within the past ten years has made greater strides
in strangling American liberties than she ever has in any twenty-five
years, before, as this creed of abominations has been losing its
hold upon not only the throats of France, but of Italy as well. As
she has made the effort of her life to plant the seeds of anarchy and
revolution in the bosom of her followers in the United States, in
order that she may at the proper time, and as soon as she believes
she is numerically strong enough to overcome by physical force, to
strike a blow that will paralyze every ambition of Protestantism in
this country.

Hundreds of the best and wisest men this country has ever known have
been for years warning the United States of her dangers from
Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed the warning, but
bear in mind that unless this country does heed this warning and halt
the Czar of Darkness, we will live to see the time when we will have
to resort to arms to protect our Protestant interests.

The nation of France has swung out from the power of the Vatican, and
is to-day defying the Pope of Rome and daring him to do his worst,
and France is a nation that has always been a Catholic nation and
controlled by her abominations, but she has woke up to the fact that
unless this hellish doctrine is stamped out from her shores that she
will become a nation of mental pygmies and nonentities, as she has
long since learned that Catholicism is nothing more nor less than a
poisonous breath that withers intellect and causes nations to decay
and sink to the level of Romish degeneracy.

It seems as though the Vatican will not learn that the world moves,
as the Vatican is determined that Italy shall not appear above the
horizon of papal abhorrence.

It is hard for the Vatican to learn that the world moves and that
Italy moves with it. In its final resolution, the quarrel between the
Pope and the French government is based on the recognition of the
king of Italy as the sole sovereign in Rome, but the Pope is as
determined that him and his reign of darkness shall be the only
acknowledged ruler of Italy.

President Loubet of France, the executive of this Catholic nation,
gave great offense to the Vatican, by visiting the king of Italy,
who is in the eyes of the church a usurper.

According to the Vatican's standards, the kingdom of Italy is not an
accomplished fact, as the Vatican refuses to recognize any government
in Italy save that which he chooses to establish and build up out of
the filth and abominations of Roman Catholicism.

The Pope declares himself to be the only legitimate sovereign in
Rome, but the Italian government has for a number of years been
learning that the power of the Vatican is a power of darkness,
emanating from the putridness of paganism, and which is detrimental
to any nation that aspires to individual intellectuality, morality
and greatness.

The reader must bear in mind that Italy is the home of the Pope, and
the home of Popes, and that Rome is the city of Popes, archbishops
and cardinals.

This statement can not be denied by any living man, and since it is
true, we want to learn something of the inhabitants of Rome, so that
we may be prepared to judge whether Roman Catholicism is beneficial
or detrimental to those whom she rules.

We make the statement without fear of successful denial, that Roman
Catholicism is a power which withers the hopes and ambitions of any
nation, which is so unlucky as to fall under her tyrannical tread, as
Romanism is a power for evil, unequaled by any creed of deviltry and
diabolical cunning ever conceived by mortal man.

We have made the statement that the city of Rome was one of the most
immoral and ungodly cities under the shining canopy of Heaven, and we
have also made the statement that Rome is the home of popes,
archbishops and cardinals, and we propose to prove to the reader
that, while Rome is the home of Roman Catholic officials, that she is
also the home of the libertine and immoral.

We also propose to prove that the immorality of the inhabitants of
Rome is taught them by the Catholic officials of Rome, as we are not
writing of what we have learned from the mouth of others, but we are
writing of what we know by the power of sight, as we have visited
Rome more than once in the official capacity of Roman Catholicism,
and we make this statement with a living God as our witness, that
Roman Catholicism is responsible for the immorality found in the city
of Rome, and this immorality is not confined alone to the city
outside the walls of the Vatican, as this atmosphere of immorality
and degradation permeates the very atmosphere of the Vatican, as
illegitimacy is found within the walls of the Vatican, as well as
without.

Rome is a city of popes, cardinals, archbishops, priests, monks,
friars and ecclesiastical students.

In the city of Rome, which is the home of popes, there are 39
cardinals, 35 archbishops, 1,469 priests, 2,832 monks and friars,
2,000 nuns and 1,000 ecclesiastical students, making in all 7,576
teachers of this abomination; and for every 4,375 children born in
the city of Rome, 3,160 are bastards, and for every 750 people in the
city of Rome, there is a murder committed during the year; thus you
will see that this herd of Catholic teachers are not only teachers of
immorality and degradation, but are also responsible for murder, as
such a pestilence of immorality will lead to murder.

Is it any wonder that France and Italy are to-day struggling with
this polluted beast in order to free themselves from her filthy
grasp? Is it any wonder that France has closed up the monasteries,
convents and schools of this abomination!

With such nations as France and Italy declaring to their inhabitants
that Catholicism is not only a nuisance but a menace to intelligence
and morality, what can this government expect in the future if she
permits Romanism to continue to flourish in the future as she has in
the past?

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