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When it became known that the government of the United States was to
interfere in the affairs of Cuba, the Catholic Church put all of her
machinery to work immediately in order to fool Uncle Sam and cajole
him into dealing only with the government of Spain, which would
permit Catholicism to exist in these Islands, and the pages of
history only tell us too well how successfully she laid her plans, as
to-day we have the awful spectacle of beholding the government of the
United States playing the part of "protector," while she is quietly
aiding the identical institution which caused the misery in these
far-away countries.

What I tell you in this chapter is true, as I was a Catholic priest
and was on the inside of the workings of Catholicism at that time,
and what I relate is not guess work nor imagination, but it is plain,
unvarnished and unadulterated truths, and the American people will
sooner or later wake up to the realization of these awful truths, for
just so long as the United States permits Catholicism to control the
destinies of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, just that
long turmoil and misery will remain in these tropical regions, for
Catholicism has sworn by all of her imaginary saints that
Protestantism shall never rule these countries, and so far she has
carried out her threat truly and well, as Protestantism to-day has no
more control over the inhabitants of these islands than she did
before the damnable creed of the Pope was molested by the appearance
of Dewey's guns at Manila.

Can you expect these countries to grow in greatness, and can you
expect the inhabitants of these countries to become giants in
intellect when they practice the cungerings of Catholicism?

We want to give the reader an insight in this chapter to what
Catholicism practices in this country and in other countries that are
not near so densely ignorant as Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine
Islands, and then you can have an idea of what the inhabitants of
these countries may expect in the way of advancement from
Catholicism, and what I will repeat is the abominations that I have
helped to practice myself for thirty years; therefore I know whereof
I speak and no man dare dispute.

We will take a Catholic cemetery, for instance, and in order that the
ground may be sanctified and fit to receive the dead bodies of those
who believe in the Catholic faith a bishop must sanctify this earth
and consecrate it before it is fit to conceal the body of one of the
Pope's followers.

Our Savior has declared that "From earth we came, and to earth we
shall return," and there was no proviso made that before we should
return to earth that it would have to be consecrated by a human
being, as any man or woman of intelligence knows full well that what
the Lord our God has made cannot be improved upon by the idiotic
chant and superstitious rant of a Catholic bishop.

It matters not how godly nor how piously a Protestant may have lived,
Catholicism teaches that it is an abomination to bury a Protestant in
a Catholic cemetery, and one of her laws is that to bury a heretic
(which means Protestant) in a Catholic cemetery is unlawful, and the
Catholic Popes instruct that the remains of any Protestant buried in
a Catholic cemetery shall, if they can be distinguished, be removed,
and if they can not be distinguished, that the cemetery shall be
cleansed by sprinkling holy water over the ground, and bear in mind
that this holy water is to receive its cleansing power from some
priest or bishop, who perhaps is as immoral as hell.

In Canada, some time since, the laws of that country forcibly
effected the burial of a Protestant in a Catholic cemetery, and the
bishop of that diocese, by the name of Bourget, declared that portion
of the cemetery as "_desecrated and filthy_" and forbade any priest
to step his foot upon the ground.

Now, do you expect an institution which teaches such doctrines to
elevate a nation above their own doctrine? If you do, you are
expecting something unreasonable, and if the inhabitants of Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are not to be elevated above
such abominations can the future hold anything for them but misery?

There is but one thing that beats a bishop's consecration of a
graveyard, and that is money, and money only; but a few dollars will
turn the trick and will open up the ground in a Catholic cemetery for
a heretic, and enough money will turn the entire cemetery into a
Protestant graveyard.

In the City of St. Louis there is a Catholic cemetery called
"Calvary," and lots twelve feet square are sold at from $50 to $1,000
each. A lot was bought by a Protestant whose son died and who was
baptized in his last hour by a Catholic nurse. While his people were
Protestants, they consented, since he had been baptized into the
Catholic Church, that they would give him a Catholic burial, and a
priest by the name of Ward performed the ceremony. Now, bear in mind
that the father of this young man had bought a lot large enough for
his whole family to be buried there, when they should die, as he, of
course, wanted his entire family to be buried together, but the
Catholic Church would not consent to consecrate any part of that lot
but the grave in which the young man was buried that was baptized on
his death bed, simply because the remainder of the family were
Protestants; but for money they consecrated a portion of this lot,
four feet wide and six and one-half feet long, but the remainder of
this lot was not consecrated, therefore you will see that money in
the Catholic Church has as much power to consecrate the earth as doth
the bishopric and priestcraft.

Ah, what abominations! but still this Government expects Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands to be elevated to the standard of
manhood and womanhood by this class of ghouls.

Now, if we could halt with the recital of only a few abominations, my
task, perhaps, would not be so disgusting, but had I the endurance to
live on, until I were a thousand years old, and could write what I
know and have experienced in the ranks of Catholicism, I would be
unable to portray to the reader all of her abominations.

The Catholic Church is a church of show and glamor, and of
nonsensical doctrines, and not a church of God and of holy worship.

Many believe that Catholicism has taught all of her cungerings for
centuries past, and this is the case, but bear in mind, that
Catholicism often has to have new "fakes," in order to make the money
slide out of the pockets of their "dupes" more easily, so they get up
new intrigues and modern shows for this purpose, and the fake that
works the best is the one that they work the hardest, as I solemnly
declare that the Catholic Church as a whole is a money proposition
upon the part of those who teach her abominations, and I further
declare that it is a "graft" conceived by minds that are more cunning
and deceptive than any class of men upon the face of the whole earth.

The Catholic Church changes its form of worship like cheap chop
houses change their bills of fare, as they are after "suckers," and
if one bait will not get them, they throw out another, and the pomp
and show of the church is to catch the eye and not to save the soul.

Not long since, the Catholic Church, with singular devotion, turned
its attention to the five wounds of Christ, and immediately after
giving these five wounds their solicitous attention, they bade their
followers to have recourse to the sacred heart of Jesus, and in
hundreds of Catholic Churches you will find to-day a statue made in
the likeness of Christ, with a heart attached over the breast, and
this heart is illuminated by electricity or candle, and the followers
of Catholicism absolutely worship this mechanism of man, and it has
proven a great drawing card, and you can rest assured that
Catholicism is pushing the scheme along good and hard, and "The St.
Anthony Bread Box" hoax is another scheme that is not very old, but
which the Catholic Church has found to be another great paying
investment, and they are working "St. Anthony" for all that he is
worth.

Now, can any man or woman of intelligence believe that the
inhabitants of these islands can ever expect to become men and women
of affairs--men and women of individuality--and men and women of
intellectuality? If you can give a rational reason why these
countries should ever expect to be elevated to the standard of
greatness under such influences and under the tutelage of such an
institution, then the road to greatness must be a very easy one to
travel.

The Catholic Church is conducted on about the same principle as Dun's
and Bradstreet's mercantile agencies, as they go into the minutest
detail to keep record of the affairs of the country, so that they may
know the weakest as well as the strongest points of their creed, so
that they may at all times be prepared to exercise the greatest
influence at the proper time, and what makes this creed so dangerous,
is that they impress upon their dupes that the church is "eternal
law," and they hold out the crown of glory on high as a reward for
following their doctrine, and this is the most dangerous and damnable
scheme ever perpetrated by mortal, for when you force a man or woman
to believe that you hold in your hands their future destiny, you have
them to the point where you can force them to do your bidding, and
this is exactly what Catholicism does to her followers, and this is
the reason why Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands can never
expect to go higher in the scale of morality and intellectuality
than they are at the present time, if the Government of the United
States permits this troop of ghouls to continue to be their masters.

We believe that we have in this chapter made, it plain to the reader
why the influence of Catholicism should be remotely removed from
these islands, and if I am right, the Government of the United States
is everlastingly wrong in permitting Catholicism to retain her hold
upon the throats of the inhabitants of these islands, and I
undoubtedly am right, as I know whereof I speak, as I have trod the
deceptive road of Catholicism for the past thirty years, and I dare
not tell in this book all that I know of her cunning in regard to
these far-away countries, as I would have to use language so plain
that I could not expect this volume to pass through the mails, as the
priestcraft in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands are an
immoral set, as a whole, and treat the female population of these
islands in a manner that breeds immorality from generation to
generation, and the awful part of this immorality is that those who
commit it with the priestcraft do not consider that it is a wrong, as
they have been taught that it is no sin to do as the priestcraft
demands, therefore it is ten thousand times worse than if the sin was
committed with the knowledge of the fact that it was a sin, as the
mother or father who is aware of the fact that they are sinners will
not teach their offspring to commit the sins that they are guilty of,
but when they are not aware of the fact that they are committing a
sin, of course, they allow their children to believe that their
actions are in harmony with the teachings of God, therefore this
damnable practice goes on and on, from generation to generation, and
this is why the morals, intelligence and progress of Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippine Islands, are to-day on the same plane of depravity
as they were centuries ago, and no one is to blame for this carnality
and debauchery of the inhabitants of these islands but the Roman
Catholic Church, and until the Government of the United States shall
declare and back up her declaration by Protestant manhood, the
inhabitants of these islands will never know of the beauties of
chastity and morality and the wonderful blessings that are held in
store for them by embracing Protestantism.

May the Lord of Hosts hasten the day when the eyes of those who rule
in Protestant America may be opened to the awful sins they are
committing, by allowing Romanism to hover over these islands with her
vulturous and carnivorous appetite of depravity, and may the time
soon come when the Government of the United States shall proclaim to
the Vatican at Rome that this veil of abomination shall be lifted
from the inhabitants of these islands; and when this is done, the
goddess of liberty that has made Protestant America what she is
to-day, will hover over these far-away islands of the sea, and new
life will pulsate in the veins of these Romish-ridden countries.

[Illustration: "SAVE THE GIRLS"!
"Batter down the Convent doors of Catholicism and
the civilized world will stand amazed."]




Chapter VIII.

Monasteries Are Often the Abode of Criminals, and
Nunneries the Slaughter Pens of Virtue.


When I was living beneath the folds of the black banner of
Catholicism, I sincerely and devoutly believed that to shield a
Catholic criminal was a righteous and Godly calling, as I believed
that to prevent the civil law from taking hold of the criminal career
of a Catholic official, for his short-comings, was but an act of
Godly justice.

I also believed that anything that was done between the walls of a
Nunnery was sanctified by the approval of those who were higher in
authority in the Catholic Church than myself; therefore, the things
which I now realize are both criminal and immoral, as well as utterly
detestable, I at one time considered righteous, simply because my
education had been confined to the narrow channels of bigotry, and
the effulgency of Biblical knowledge had never penetrated my
Romish-inspired perceptibilities.

I believe that I will make many assertions in this chapter that have
never been made before, but there will not be an assertion made but
what is true; however, there will be many that will arise from the
trenches of Catholicism to denounce the truthfulness of them, but I
know whereof I speak, and I defy any mortal man to successfully
dispute what I may state.

This chapter will relate to monasteries and nunneries, which in olden
times were called "asylums."

These asylums are used by Catholicism to scuffle criminals of their
following into, in defiance of law and justice, as these asylums are
notorious among those who are on the inside workings of this creed,
as to places where Catholic criminals can be concealed without fear
of having the civil law bring them to justice, as these places are a
retreat for Catholic criminals who are pursued by the ministers of
justice, and where, so long as they remain, they cannot be arrested;
but in order to elevate these "asylums" to the plane of religion,
they, are called by different names which are _misnomers_, and are
only raised to the level of religious institutions to cover up the
infamy of their actual missions, as Catholicism has learned that as
long as she can throw around and about herself a religious glamor,
that she is permitted to go ahead and violate the laws of man without
molestation.

The "asylums" of olden times were intended as retreats for those who
were persecuted for their religious belief, but the mission of these
institutions became useless, under the splendid and godly progress of
Protestantism, as Protestantism planted her banner of enlightenment
under the glorious leadership of Martin Luther, and such institutions
were done away with, but Catholicism turned these asylums, which were
once a protection to the persecuted followers of Christ, and
converted them into an abode for Catholic criminals.

There is scarcely a man or woman in America but what has heard of
Wm. Morgan, who lived at Batavia, in Western New York, who, it was
claimed, wrote an expose of Freemasonry, and who, the Catholic Church
claims, was killed by the Masonic fraternity for writing this expose.

The fact of the matter is that this book was prepared by the Catholic
Church for electioneering purposes, and it served their scheme well
and truly.

It is history that Morgan disappeared very suddenly, and the Catholic
Church gave it out that he had been killed by the Masonic fraternity,
which is untrue, as Wm. Morgan was spirited away, and the trick was
turned by Catholicism.

"Wm. Morgan" became the issue for the campaign, and it was narrated
around that Morgan was conveyed in a carriage from Batavia to Niagara
by Freemasons, and there drowned in Lake Ontario.

A body was produced near the mouth of the Niagara River, but a friend
of Wm. Morgan, who knew him well, by the name of Mrs. Wm. G. Barr,
denied that the body that was found at the mouth of the Niagara
River, was that of Morgan, and a devout Catholic remarked at the
post-mortem examination that "It was a good enough Morgan until after
the election."

A rigid investigation was made and no one was ever convicted of
murdering Morgan.

The result of the election was that Catholicism carried her point.
The Catholic Church had turned by this excitement the eyes of the
world towards Freemasonry, and claimed that Morgan's fate was caused
by the Masonic fraternity.

When I came to America, I was given instructions in regard to secret
societies, and the Morgan case was gone over with me in detail, and I
was given "The Bulls" of three popes, which excluded all members of
Freemasons from the Catholic Church, and all who belonged to the
Masonic fraternity were denied even a Christian burial by the
Catholic Church.

I was told by a priest, who was in good standing, that the Masons had
in their meetings a literal devil concealed in a box, and that when
they would meet, they would stick pins in a picture of some supposed
"traitor" and shriek out in their madness: "Die like Morgan!"

Mrs. Wm. G. Barr was called to identify the supposed body of Wm.
Morgan, which was found at the mouth of the Niagara River.

Her husband, Wm. G. Barr, was an old dry goods man and once ran for
governor of the State of Kansas, but was defeated because his wife
had declared "that Wm. Morgan's body had never been discovered at the
mouth of the Niagara River, and further declared that it was a
'fake,' pure and simple, and gotten up by Catholicism in order to
villify the Masonic fraternity."

I had always been of an investigating turn of mind, and the stories
that were told to me in regard to Wm. Morgan did not sound right, so
I took the train for Topeka, Kans., where Mrs. Wm. G. Barr lived, and
this is the story that she related to me in great emotion:

Mrs. Barr told me that she was a friend of Wm. Morgan, and that she
was called to identify his body, but instead of finding the corpse of
Wm. Morgan, on the seashore, she found the body of some one else and
not that of Morgan, and she further told me that Wm. Morgan, before
his disappearance, had written her that he was persuaded by a number
of Catholic priests to leave the Masons, and that he, to his sorrow,
had followed their advice, and that these priests had written a book,
and insisted that he should publish it, but he never did give his
consent, and stated that he never would; however, the book appeared,
and the fact of the matter is that it was a clumsy forgery by the
priestcraft of Catholicism.

This book appeared in print, and Wm. Morgan became frightened, as he
realized that should the country at large believe that he was the
author of this book, he would be considered as a traitor, and he
became frightened and did not know what to do, and about this time
two Catholic priests approached him, and persuaded him to leave the
country, and they took him to "a Trappist monastery," near Montreal,
Canada.

He remained there quite a time, and left Canada and went to Asia, and
he was seen and identified in Asia years after Catholicism had
declared that he had been murdered by the Masonic fraternity.

I do not remember of ever reading this history before, and I am under
the impression that I am the first man--in fact, I know that I am the
first man who was for thirty years a Catholic priest that ever gave
this information to the public.

Now, if a monastery in Canada would be turned into a lie and a
deception in order that the Catholic Church might carry out her
diabolical and cunning schemes, what can we expect of other
monasteries?

If this history attaches itself to a monastery like that in Canada,
what must be the condition of the monasteries and nunneries of
nations which have not the enlightenment that Canada has?

I desire to call to the attention of the reader a little history that
is not exceedingly old, and which every boy and girl is acquainted
with, as it has transpired in the past ten years--yea, later.

It was in the afternoon of a December day, in 1900. A boy, Edward
Cudahy, Jr., was walking to his father's mansion and was invited to
step into a buggy and was informed that he was under arrest. This
boy was then and there abducted, and this abduction became known by
the boy remaining away from his home that night.

The police and detectives of Omaha and the detectives from Chicago
and other cities were busy on the case day and night. Days and weeks
passed and nothing came to light except letters from the ones who had
kidnapped this boy, asking for a ransom of $25,000, and stating that
if this sum of money in gold was not forthcoming, that the boy's eyes
would be put out and he would forever lose his sight.

This last threat startled the poor, heart-broken mother, and as the
time approached for these devils to put into execution their threat,
this poor frantic mother insisted that her millionaire husband,
Edward Cudahy, Sr., give up the $25,000 and save her precious boy's
eyesight.

Her husband resisted as long as he could, but at last took the
$25,000 in gold and stepped into his buggy, with the signal lantern,
and drove to a certain spot, designated by Pat Crow, who is the one
who abducted Cudahy, and with this $25,000 bought his boy's liberty,
and this boy was brought from that cottage on Grover street, unhurt,
and Pat Crow made away with his $25,000 in gold.

Cudahy was called up a number of times by telephone and was
threatened that if he did not withdraw the reward that he was
offering for Pat Crow's arrest that there would be something awful
befall him; but he resisted and would not withdraw his offer of
reward, consequently this made it necessary for Pat Crow and Eddy
McGehee, alias Burns, to leave the country.

These men were known in Omaha, St. Joe, Kansas City, St. Louis and
Chicago, not only by a number of their ilk, but also to the police
forces, consequently the nets of the law were stretched all over the
United States for these abductors.

On December 28 it was reported from La Salle, Ills., that Pat Crow
was arrested. Kansas City police promised his arrest before sunset,
but he was not arrested.

There were 80,000,000 people looking for Pat Crow, but he took a
Pullman sleeper and traveled to New York, and from there sailed on a
first-class ticket for Europe and spent a good time in London, from
whence he went to South Africa and played a deceptive role in the
English-African war.

Now, I am going to relate something that will make one's blood boil
with indignation and the cold sweat stand out with the clamminess of
death, but what I tell you is true.

Priest Dempsey, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in St. Louis, was
president of the "Emmet" celebration in the year 1902.

After a speech by Judge Ryan of St. Louis, and a most eloquent
address by a priest, who had been a young Boer officer, he inspired
Irish patriotism by an elegant appeal against "Old England." He was
indeed an orator who, by his recitation, held the audience for an
hour. I was one who was nearest to him on the platform and
congratulated him on his powerful speech.

After the applause from his Irish friends, as he had called them, he
decided to leave with me for his hotel, and I was stopping at St.
Patrick's parsonage, so we both had to go in the same direction.

I had become interested in the fellow while he was delivering his
speech and I became much more interested in him in our car ride,
together, to the Lindell Hotel, and he invited me to stop off with
him awhile at the Lindell Hotel, and we were soon engaged in all
kinds of discussions, both religious and political. He was a
"Dutchman" and had asked his government of Holland for a leave of
absence to fight in the Boer war, which was granted him, and to prove
the truthfulness of this assertion he showed me a wound on his breast
which had not yet healed.

He remarked that he came "nearly" telling in his address at the
"Emmet" meeting about the miraculous escape of Pat Crow to South
Africa, and stated that if it had not been for the bad impression Pat
Crow had made in America, he would have told of the trick that had
been turned to gain him his freedom and rob some one in America of
the reward that had been put on his head by Millionaire Cudahy.

The following is his story he told me as near as I can remember it:

"One night I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, and stayed with Pat
Crow in the same room. I knew that it was Pat Crow and did not intend
to have much to do with him, but he noticed me and I became
interested in him, and he spoke to me about matters, and the
millionaire's boy being abducted, and the ransom that he received,
and his escape to Africa.

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