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He further states "that not only do the thoughts, feelings, emotions,
etc., have to be related, in all of their details, to the priest, and
perhaps a bad priest, but all circumstances leading to and the
results growing out of these thoughts, must be given in detail."

The immorally inclined and licentious priest is not satisfied with
the female penitent enumerating only her mortal sins, but he insists
and forces the penitent to give circumstances, minutely describing
her thoughts and feelings of every-day life, which leads both the
penitent and the confessor to the lowlands of immorality.

The priestcraft is instructed by the Romish Church not to allow the
penitent to conceal anything from them, and the priestcraft is given
instructions to probe the penitent to the heart's core.

In this chapter we propose to give you a little insight to the
character of one or two priests that I have personally known, and if
I dared and if it was possible to print the nasty history of a number
of priests that I have been acquainted with, I could fill this volume
with their depravity; but should I do so this book would not be
permitted to circulate through the mails of the United States. But I
will endeavor to clothe my recital of a few instances of priestly
immorality in language of chastity, but will make my recital plain
enough that any one who can read may understand.

Rev. Chas. Kuhlman, who was pastor of a Catholic Church in
Edwardsville, Ill., was suspicioned of having become too intimate
with a sister of his own school, and this sister soon left the
sisterhood, and it was rumored that she went to St. Louis to evade
the birth of a child.

This very same priest was caught in the act of adultery with a
married woman in his office in East St. Louis. He was at that time,
besides being pastor, the editor and publisher of a very important
Catholic paper called "_The Catholic Progress_." This immorality of
Priest Kuhlman became public property and formed such a nasty mess
that the Catholic bishop had to take some notice of it and the case
was tried before the Bishop of Alton, Ill., and Kuhlman was
excommunicated for life.

This married woman gave testimony that was very damaging to the Rev.
Kuhlman and gave her evidence before a notary public, which cannot be
disputed, and it matters not how hard the Catholic Church may try to
villify these statements, they cannot overcome the truthfulness of
the same, as there are too many living witnesses at this time who
know that what I am relating is absolutely true.

Rev. Kuhlman was not satisfied with the verdict of the bishop of
Alton, Ill., and appealed his case to Rome, and the bishop was indeed
glad to get rid of this dirty case and did not appear in Rome to
prosecute the case, and the Rev. Kuhlman won the case in Rome by
default, and this same Rev. Kuhlman became a Catholic priest in good
standing again and was permitted to officiate as a minister of the
gospel, with all of this abominable slime of immorality clinging to
his priestly garments.

Now, bear in mind that Rev. Kuhlman, after having all of this
immorality laid at his door, was permitted by the Pope of Rome to go
right ahead with his priestly duties, but a short time after he won
his case at Rome there was an affidavit sworn out against Kuhlman by
a man in East St. Louis, averring that he had been again caught in
the act of adultery with another woman. This time the case was
reported to Bishop Janssen, of Belleville, Ill., and also to Cardinal
Martinelli, of Washington, D.C., but there was no attention paid to
it, and this Rev. Kuhlman was permitted to go right ahead in his
pastoral duties and is at the present time the pastor of a church in
East St. Louis and is also the spiritual director of a convent, which
contains many sisters and many pupils.

Now, if what I have related is false, Rev. Chas. Kuhlman has redress
at law; and if I have libeled him he can make me suffer for the
crime, and he will not have to spend any money to locate my
whereabouts, as he is aware of my location at the present time and
can find me at any time that he desires to bring suit against me for
blackmail or any other crime that he sees fit to instigate against
me.

It is no pleasant task to relate these very nauseating things, but it
is my aim and intention to so plainly and powerfully set forth the
deceit, cunning and dastardly deeds of Catholicism that I may be able
to open the eyes of not only the Protestant world but of Catholicism
at large, for there are thousands of the followers of the Pope who
are very weak in their faith, and if I can by the righteousness of my
cause, convince them that they are following the blind leaders of
paganism, I am absolutely certain that the Protestant ranks will have
an in-gathering of the hosts of Catholicism that will cause the
angels in heaven to shout hallelujahs of thanksgiving.

Do not understand me to say, or to intimate, that there are no
sincere priests, as there are; but their sincerity is founded upon
superstitious beliefs and erroneous doctrines, consequently their
sincerity and devoutness only helps to fasten the abominations of
Catholicism more completely upon humanity, as those who are candidly
sincere are held up to the Protestant world as models of Catholicism,
when, in fact, they are but exceptions to the general herd of
Catholic officials.

To more plainly illustrate to the reader how fascinating and powerful
the teachings of Catholicism is upon the minds of man, I would
illustrate this by the power that parents have over a child. You
teach a child some doctrine, it matters not whether it is right or
wrong, and you will impress it with the truthfulness of this doctrine
in its childhood, and let it understand as it grows into manhood and
womanhood that this doctrine is absolutely true, and hedge it about
with superstitions confirming this doctrine, and the hosts of hell
can hardly convince it that its early teachings were wrong; so you
can easily see what a powerful influence Catholicism has over the
minds of its followers, as you must bear in mind that Catholicism
takes up the child when it is only a few days old and continually
hedges it about with emblems of ignorance and superstition and never
allows it to gaze above the horizon of this mass of erroneous
doctrine; therefore the child is not to blame for its implicit
confidence, but the cunning of those who practice this deception upon
this child is to blame, and the doctrine of Catholicism is what I am
assailing in this volume, for if I can be instrumental in opening the
eyes of those who have arrived at the years of accountability, I feel
sure that I can be instrumental in having those so reached declare to
their offspring that their first lessons have been altogether
erroneous, and if the Catholic parents will begin to teach their
children before they leave the parental roof that their first lessons
were erroneous it will not be so hard for the Protestant world to
finish the job and turn these hosts of darkness into the highways of
intellectuality.

The reason that we have so many disgraceful happenings and immoral
incidents in the lives of the priestcraft is because of the absolute
confidence that their followers have in them, as it is a well-known
fact that the female world has a greater confidence in humanity than
the male population, so it is an easy matter for any sane man or
woman to understand why an immoral priest, and one who has no regard
for honor, has such an easy task in accomplishing the ruin of those
whom he seeks to destroy.

The paradise of the priestcraft is inky darkness, as they prefer
darkness to light, and by their actions, their every-day lives take
on the hue of midnight. If we can read God Almighty's hand-writing in
a legible manner, we believe that any intelligent man or woman can
discern in the countenance of a majority of the priestcraft a look
which is almost equal to a condemnation of their actions, as a large
majority are lacking of that manly frankness of countenance which is
found in the countenances of godly men.

In conclusion of this chapter, I beg to state that the Confessional
Box of the Romish Church is one of the darkest pages of the dark
history of Catholicism, and if this hideous chapter was removed from
Romanism, three-fourths of her diabolical deeds would be eradicated;
but when you remove the "Confessional" you remove the charm for that
part of the priestcraft which exists upon the carrion of the human
family, and whenever you remove the "Confessional," the celibacy of
the church will be abandoned and the priestcraft will be allowed to
marry, as Protestant ministers are permitted to do, and when this is
done, instead of having a Roman Catholic Church, we will have a
Protestant denomination in its stead, and my prayer is that a just
God will hasten the day when this "_virtue trap_" will be relegated
to the dark recesses of paganism, from whence it came.

[Illustration: "AMERICA'S RUIN."
UNCLE SAM--"I am afraid these people will be the ruination
of this country unless I stop them from coming over."]




Chapter VI.

The Nations Completely Dominated by
the Power of the Pope Are Nations of Illegitimacy.


In this chapter, we have before us the vision of two countries; one
is Protestant America and the other Catholic Ecuador.

Protestant America stands upon a plane of morality and chastity,
which is pleasing to contemplate, and for which she can thank only
the principles of Protestantism, for Protestantism teaches, by both
precept and example, as she looks to the only true standard of
morality that ever existed, which is the Holy Bible. But Catholicism
looks only to a standard which the Pope of Rome sees fit to
establish, and a standard of morals which is set by mortal man, can
only be, at its best, a very inferior standard, as the licentiousness
and lust of unholy man can never compare with that great and
infinitely good _being_, the Lord of Hosts.

Broad education of the mind means a subduing of the passions, and
_broad_ education is something that the Catholic Church fights
against, as she knows full well that to educate her masses would be
equivalent to losing her grasp upon their actions, for no man or
woman of a broad education and an individual intellectuality will
permit these hosts of darkness to dictate to them.

Ignorance is the greatest breeder of crime known to the intelligence
of man, and it is an established fact that crime breeds immorality,
and immorality of course is the equivalent of illegitimacy, and
historical facts will bear me out in the assertion that the countries
which are absolutely under the power of the Pope are countries which
are densely ignorant, and again, as above stated, ignorance leads to
crime, and crime to immorality, and now we are back to the first
proposition and have proven without going further that "The nations
completely dominated by the power of the Pope are nations of
illegitimacy," but we propose to use historical records to convince
without the shadow of a doubt that our statements are true. However,
I do not need these historical facts, as I have traveled extensively
through Europe and many other countries, and I know whereof I speak,
by personal observation and by coming into personal contact with both
Catholic and Protestant nations. However, we are not going to be
satisfied with this alone, as we do not want the reader to rely
implicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to bring
facts to bear upon your mind which cannot be over-thrown, as
statistics are stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but fools
dispute.

We propose to take statistics from the _Peabody Reporter_, which you
can corroborate with the official report of the United States
Commissioner of Education. The statistics that we above refer to
follow:

"To every ten thousand inhabitants under the Roman Catholic school
system, there are 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers and 160 criminals,
while in the public school system we only find to every ten thousand
inhabitants 350 illiterates, making a difference of 1,050 to every
ten thousand." Thus you see that what we have said in previous
chapters of this book in regard to Romanism being founded upon the
mountains of ignorance is true.

Education in its literal meaning, means an infusion of intelligence
that lifts up the minds of man, and it is generally so accepted by
the world at large, but education, as far as Catholicism goes, means
only a rehearsal of abominations, which have been practiced upon the
followers of this creed for centuries in the past, and does not in the
least bear upon the principles of true education.

The public school system is established on the principle that the
intelligence and virtue of the people constitutes the foundation of
free government.

Our public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of
our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes. The
growth and prosperity which have characterized the first century of
our schools fulfills their mission.

Education is the watchword of the hour among Protestants, but never
among Catholics. We must educate if we would elevate, and unless we
elevate the minds of men we will have humanity running riot with vice
and immorality, and this is why the Catholic nations of the earth are
found with their morals trailing in the slime of degeneracy.

Our public schools are to-day the great assimilating power in this
country. We find in them children of all nationalities, and whether
they be English, Irish, Scotch, Danish, Norwegians, French, Italians,
or some other nationality, when they enter these institutions they
pass out of the school houses, scattered all over this land,
_Americans_, one and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make
anything but a _true American_ out of a pupil who has been turned out
of the public schools of this country, and one who has been permitted
to assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these
schools.

The influence of the public schools works rapidly upon childhood and
is felt through all of their after lives. A child who has been
educated in the public schools of this country is always an
unrelenting foe of caste, but the child who is educated in the
parochial schools is taught to look up to innumerable superiors, and
such an education dwarfs the minds of childhood and teaches them to
continually look to others for their individual happiness, but the
teachings of the public schools broaden the individual mind and gives
courage, which enables the child to swing out from the influence of
others and become a mighty power in the mechanism of the universe.

We touch upon the public schools in this chapter, only in connection
with the dominating influence of the Pope over nations which he
completely rules, in order that the reader may thoroughly understand
that ignorance begets crime and crime begets illegitimacy, as we
expect to dwell more fully upon the education of nations in the
future, but we want the reader to begin at the "Alpha" of reason, so
that when he or she is through with this chapter that there will be
no doubt in their minds as to why the power of the Pope breeds
illegitimacy among his followers.

We have contrasted the difference in morals of the inhabitants,
which are completely dominated by Roman Catholicism, to that of the
inhabitants of Protestant America, but we have made this comparison
in a general way; but we now want to select a country which for its
absolutism of Catholic monarchy has no comparison, and that country
is Ecuador.

In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete hold upon the
inhabitants that they will not allow Protestantism taught, and the
consequence of her tyranny is that out of every 100 children born in
that country, seventy-five are bastards or illegitimate and have no
idea of their father, and the immorality of the priestcraft is so
vile that their actions are absolutely passed over without notice, as
there is scarcely a single priest to be found in that country but who
is the father of from ten to twenty-five and thirty children; but
still the Roman Church continues to forbid her priests to wed, when
they know full well that celibacy in the Catholic Church is the cause
of all of this degeneracy.

This state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador alone, but the same
state of affairs exists throughout the length and breadth of all
Catholic nations which are completely under the power of the Pope.

Italy, for instance, which is the home of the Pope and which has been
the home of the Catholic Church since the existence of her
abominations, is one of the most immoral countries that ever
besmirched the face of the earth.

The first lesson that a Catholic child is taught is "_hate_," and
that lesson is directed at Protestantism; therefore, is it any wonder
that the education of Catholicism only reaches out far enough to
hoodwink the student and does not elevate him or her above the
festering mess which surrounds it?

We want, to repeat the statement that the Roman Catholic Church does
not want to educate anybody, nor will it do so, where it is not under
the pressure of Protestant influence. However, the American people
demand figures and facts before they will be convinced; so as further
evidence of the truthfulness of what we are telling you, we propose
to quote from a report of the minister of education in Italy, made
some few years ago. This report is true in every particular, and
bear in mind that this minister of education was a Catholic himself.
The report follows:

"Of every 1,000 males in the province of Lombardy, 539 only were able
to read, and 461 did not even know their letters. Of every 1,000
females, only 426 could read and 574 could not read, neither did they
know their letters.

"In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000 males, only 165 were able
to read and 835 could not, and out of every 1,000 females, only 62
could read and 938 could not read and did not know their alphabet.
Taking this report, you will find that out of every 100, only about
10 were able to read.

"In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only 3,500,000 could read and
write, and the rest did not know their alphabet, and to-day Spain,
another country which is completely dominated by the power of Rome,
has a population of ignorant dupes, as 80 per cent of the population
of Spain cannot read and write.

"In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, this same record is
repeated, as in other Catholic nations. In European countries where
Protestantism is taught there is but one out of every ten that cannot
read and write, but in the same countries, where Catholicism has
absolute sway, there is but one out of every 125 that can read and
write.

"In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there are 315
inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while in six Roman
Catholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to every
2,715 people.

"It is estimated that at least seven-eighths of the twenty million
inhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of the countries of
Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the north and west parts of South
America, are unable to read, and in Mexico alone 90 per cent of the
inhabitants cannot read nor write, neither do they know their
alphabet;" thus you can see what Roman Catholicism does for the
countries which she controls.

We are writing this book, believing that an intelligent class of
people will read it, and if such is true, we believe that it is
useless for us to try to demonstrate further why the countries which
are completely controlled by Catholicism are countries of
illegitimacy, for an intelligent reader knows full well that
ignorance is the greatest brooder of immorality known to man, and, of
course, immorality means illegitimacy, and we believe that we have
thoroughly demonstrated to the mind of the reader that Catholicism
spreads a cloak of ignorance and superstition wherever she is allowed
to rule supreme, and if this is the case, then the natural
consequences of such a state of affairs is illegitimacy.

[Illustration: "FREE IN NAME ONLY."
"Take their chains off, UNCLE SAM, or you will
always have trouble with them."]




Chapter VII.

The Power of the Pope in Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands.


It makes my heart sick when I realize that the Government of the
United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon the
Islands of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and, after
all, these Islands are still in the grasp and the filthy embrace of
the Vatican at Rome.

Not only fabulous amounts of money have been spent by the United
States upon these Islands, but hundreds of our noble boys in blue
have given up their lives in battle and by the scourge of disease,
and still Catholicism has absolute sway in these far-away countries.

These islands have been under the immediate control of Popery for
hundreds of years, but when the Government of the United States took
charge of them, their inhabitants had advanced no further in
intellectuality and the freedom of free men than they were centuries
ago.

It may sound strange to the average reader when I declare that all of
the lives lost and all of the money expended by the United States
upon Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands was brought about by
the tyrannical rule of Rome, for it was by her abominations that Cuba
rebelled, which was the prime cause of the interference by the
government of the United States; therefore you can readily see why it
is that I claim that Catholicism is to blame for the part that the
government of the United States took in the affairs of these
countries, and what puzzles me so much is why the government of the
United States still permits Catholicism to control the destinies of
these countries, when the officials of this government know full well
that had it not been for abhorrent Catholicism that Cuba would never
have rebelled and that Porto Rico would have been satisfied, and that
the Philippine Islands would not to-day belong to the United States;
but, instead of this government trying to remedy the great wrong
done to the inhabitants of these countries, it went right ahead and
allowed the bone of contention to remain, and to-day finds this
government not only permitting Catholicism to continue to practice
her abominations in these countries, but this government is
instrumental in sending Catholic teachers over to these countries,
when, if this country would do its whole duty, it would not permit
Catholicism to take any part in the affairs of these countries.

Archbishop Chapelle was shipped to the Philippine Islands with all
the pomp of a ruler, and so was Archbishop J.J. Harty, whom I am
personally acquainted with, and whom I have been on intimate terms
with for a number of years, and this man Harty is to-day in the
Philippine Islands ruling with the same tyrannical hand that has
characterized Romanism for centuries past, and whose rule is only
symbolic to ruin, as the interests of the inhabitants of these
countries are never considered, as it is Rome's ambition and only
desire to keep them under the heel of perpetual tyranny.

We would like to know why Archbishop Chapelle should be given the
best stateroom in a transport ship sailing for Manila, while our
pure-blooded, honest, sincere Protestant boys who wear the blue were
huddled together like so many cattle.

Ah, this is the reason: Archbishop Chapelle is an emissary of the
Pope of Rome and stands ready at all times to serve the wishes and
obey the orders of that Italian pontiff, and our officials were aware
of this fact and they did not want to stir up the Catholic officials
for fear of losing a few votes, as both of our old parties have sunk
so low into the quagmire of filth that they would allow their country
to sink to the level of Romish abominations if they thought by so
doing they could control the Catholic vote for either party.

Was one of your boys on this transport ship? Was your kith and kin
aboard this vessel that showed this ungodly discrimination between
the soldier boy who wrung a poor mother's heart by leaving the
parental fireside? If such was the case, you can vividly see the
injustice done to these brave lads in favor of this Archbishop
Chapelle, as these boys were on their way to this terrible land of
disease and death to help plant the emblem of liberty upon the
ramparts of these far-away Islands, and this same Archbishop Chapelle
was on his way to destroy the influence of these boys' mission.

The time is not far distant until the Protestant world will wake up
to the realization that they have been humbled before this Italian
pontiff for the simple reason that our officials are willing to cater
to Catholicism in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands for the
sake of votes.

We do not care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, this
chapter should fire your blood to the fullest extent, for I am
telling you truths, and if you have got the common decency of the
most ignorant liberty-loving American you will right now make a
resolve that Protestant America must redeem her pledge to Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands to liberate them not only from the
hardships placed upon them by a foreign nation, but liberate them
from the bonds of Catholicism, which not only binds the body, but
chains the soul with the fetters of ignorance and superstition.

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