,illustration3 ,yours in ,his name      
,bernard ,fresenborg4                   
,thirty ,years in ,hell                 
444 ,,or 444                   ,from    
,darkness to ,light4                    
,,by                ,ex-,priest1        
,bernard ,fresenborg1     ,who for      
thirty long years tread the slippery and
 deceitful path      of abhorrent       
,catholicism1 but who to-day stands at  
the        ,vatican's door1 with the    
torch of ,protestant wisdom1            
and denounces ,popery with a tongue     
livid with the power of                 
a living ,god4             ,like a      
,meteor ,from ,god's ,throne1   ,this   
great book has stirred ,america from    
center to circumference4                
,about #djj ,large ,pages1     ,and each
 ,page a stinging rebuke to ,roman      
,catholicism4                           
,published by                           
,north-,american ,book ,house1          
,st4 ,louis1 ,mo4    ,entered according 
to act of ,congress in the year #aijd1  

by              ,,north-,,american      
,,book ,,house1  ,in the ,office of the 
,librarian of ,congress1 ,washington1   
,d4,c4     ,transcriber's ,note3 ,a     
number of typographical errors found in 
the original text have been corrected in
 this version4 ,a list of these errors  
is provided at the end of the book4     
,author's ,announcement4   ,a structure 
of enlightenment is to be built in this 
land1 which to finish1 every man of     
intellectual power must contribute4     
,the structure which ,i refer to1 is the
 structure of ,,spiritual ,,liberty1 as 
the spiritual part of man must have room
 to expand and grow the same as any     
other ,god-given privilege that man is  
blessed with4  ,unless we grow in faith 
we become dwarfs in the worship of ,god4
  ,those who go forth into the world and
 profess to be the teachers of men      
should be giants of intellect and fully 
prepared to contribute to this monument 
of ,,spiritual ,,liberty4  ,these giants
 are the ,,knights ,,of ,,the ,,spirit1 

who stand upon the summit of            
righteousness and proclaim an           
intelligent ,god to a sinful world4     
,many say they do not feel that they    
possess the ability to contribute to    
this structure of ,,spiritual ,,liberty1
 but ,i say1 none who possess the power 
to reason are exempt1 for if they cannot
 place in the arch of this structure the
 golden key-stone that shall securely   
bind this structure together1 they can  
carry mortar or stones1 which is as     
imperative in this structure1 as the    
polished ,cap stone which shall complete
 this great pyramid of emancipation4  ,i
 do not crave to have my name engraven  
in bold letters upon the ,cap stone of  
this structure1 but ,i do desire to     
contribute my mite towards the          
completion of this grand structure of   
free thought1 which1 when completed1    
will stand out upon the horizon of time 
as a towering monument to ,christ and   
his cause4  ,roman ,catholicism1 as     
taught by our modern priests and        

inspired by the papal power at ,rome is 
naught but the distant rumblings of an  
antiquated chariot of darkness1 as the  
teachings of this ,,monarchical creed   
has naught in view but the enslavement  
of reason for the financial gain and    
benefit of the ,robed few who claim the 
right to think for the masses4  ,for    
thirty long years ,i was bound to this  
bewitching spirit of darkness by the    
chords of superstition and never dared  
to look above my blind superiors for    
wisdom1 until a something which ,i will 
call fate broke the windows of my mental
 dungeon and permitted the light of     
,,spiritual ,,liberty to filter through 
my being which awoke reason and common  
sense from her long sleep of lethargy4  
,now1 what ,i once thought ,holy ,i     
detest as abominable2 ,what ,i once     
worshipped1 ,i now hate4  ,it is not the
 glitter of gold nor the applaudits of  
the protestant world that ,i crave1 but 
it is the ,master's approval that ,i    
desire4 ,therefore ,i deem it my duty to

 both ,god and mankind to proclaim to   
the world what ,i know of the awfulness 
of ,roman ,catholicism1 and ,i know     
enough to make my poor soul often wonder
 if ,i shall ever be permitted to sing  
with the blest around that ,,great      
,,white ,,throne in the ,new ,jerusalem4
  ,as you peruse these pages1 ,i pray   
that you may whisper a prayer to ,god in
 my behalf1 as ,i am now fifty-six years
 old and only a child in wisdom4  ,with 
pity for the blind hosts of ,catholicism
 and a prayer upon my lips for their    
deliverance from the trenches of        
paganism1 ,i dedicate this book to the  
world as coming from a heart which      
poured out its youth's vitality upon the
 barren fields of superstition1 and     
wasted its vigor in serving only the god
 of myths4 ,with a feeling of brotherly 
love for the entire world1 ,i am1       
,yours in ,his name1                    
,,bernard ,,fresenborg4      ,,table    
,,of ,,contents4   ,,chapter ,i4        
,page4 ,who ,i ,am1 ,what ,i ,am1 and   

,why ,i ,am ,what ,i ,am4               
#ae  ,,chapter ,,ii4  ,some of the      
,abominations of ,catholicism ,carried  
,on in the ,name of ,our ,blessed       
,savior4                                
#cc  ,,chapter ,,iii4  ,all ,children of
 ,protestant ,parents1 ,declared        
,bastards by ,catholicism4              
#ea  ,,chapter ,,iv4  ,tear from the    
,citadel of ,reason1 the ,power to      
,reason and ,you make ,slaves of        
,humanity4     #fe  ,,chapter ,v4       
,innocent ,girlhood at the ,confessional
 ,box4     #ha  ,,chapter ,,vi4  ,the   
,nations completely dominated by the    
,power of the ,pope1 are ,nations of    
,illegitimacy4      #ig  ,,chapter      
,,vii4  ,the ,power of the ,pope in     
,cuba1 ,porto ,rica and the ,philippine 
,islands4                   #aji        
,,chapter ,,viii4  ,monasteries are     
often ,criminals' ,abode1 and ,nunneries
 the ,slaughter ,pens of ,virtue4       
#abg  ,,chapter ,,ix4  ,unmarried       
,cussedness of the ,roman               

,priest-,craft4                         
#adi  ,,chapter ,x4  ,a ,brazen ,insult 
to ,god4                       #aga     
,,chapter ,,xi4  ,the ,characters of the
 ,followers of ,catholicism1 ,compared  
to the ,followers of ,protestantism4    
#aha  ,,chapter ,,xii4  ,why the        
,teachers in our ,public ,schools should
 not be ,selected from the ,ranks of    
,catholicism4                           
#aic  ,,chapter ,,xiii4  ,the ,influence
 of the ,priesthood in ,america4   #bbc 
,,chapter ,,xiv4  ,the ,chastity of the 
,home ,invaded by the ,lustfulness of   
the ,priest-,craft4          #bci       
,,chapter ,,xv4  ,nations which have    
been ,disgraced by the ,toleration of   
,popish ,rule4                    #bee  
,,chapter ,,xvi4  ,nearing the ,trenches
 of ,physical ,strength4    #bha        
,,list ,,of ,,illustrations4            
,page ,author's ,picture4               
#b  ,what ,shall ,i ,do ,to ,be ,saved8 
#ad  ,the ,two ,inspirations--,the ,holy
 ,bible and ,catholicism4               

#cc  ,the ,unmarried ,life of the       
,priest-,craft1 compared to the ,married
 ,life of ,protestant ,ministers4       
#ej  ,the ,two ,ways--,as the ,twig is  
,bent1 the ,tree's ,incline4            
#fd  ,immorality of the                 
,priest-,hood--,with ,romish ,lust1 the 
,blossom of ,virtue is ,destroyed4      
#hj  ,america's ,ruin4                  
#if  ,free in ,name ,only--,take ,their 
,chains ,off ,uncle ,sam1 or ,you will  
always have ,trouble with ,them4        
#ajh  ,save ,the ,girls--,batter ,down  
the ,doors of ,convents1 and the        
,civilized ,world will ,stand ,amazed4  
#abf  ,take ,your ,choice--,the ,christ 
of ,protestantism ,compared to the ,god 
of ,catholicism4           #adh  ,being 
,ex-,communicated for ,reading the      
,bible--,may ,she ,be ,damned in her    
,mouth1 in ,her ,breast1 in ,her ,heart1
 ,etc41 ,etc4      #agj  ,a ,modern     
,judas--,in ,his ,wake1 ,misery always  
,follows4                               
#ahj  ,foes to ,knowledge--,like a      

,poisonous ,serpent1 ,etc41 ,etc4       
#aib  ,heathenish ,practices--,a        
,catholic ,dupe ,kissing the ,supposed  
,bone of ,st4 ,ann4         #bbb  ,a    
,catholic ,tool--,begging in the ,name  
of the ,lord1 but in ,reality1 to       
,support the ,priest-,craft1 ,etc4      
#bch  ,systematic ,robbery--,the ,road  
to ,glory along the ,catholic ,highway1 
,etc4                    #bed  ,uncle   
,sam--,here is ,your ,next ,fight ,boys4
    #bhj     ,illustration3 ,,what      
,,shall ,i ,,do ,,to ,,be ,,saved ,the  
dawn of ,protestantism upon ,ex-,priest 
,fresenborg after thirty years in the   
,roman ,catholic ,church4     ,chapter  
,i4  ,who ,i ,am1 ,what ,i ,am1 and ,why
 ,i ,am ,what ,i ,am4   ,my parents were
 ,catholics1 and for this reason ,i     
suppose1 is why ,i became a ,catholic   
,priest4  ,i was born in ,germany1 in   
#ahdg1 thus you see ,i am now almost    
what the world would call an old        
man--#ef years old4  ,a few years ago1  
,i was of the opinion that my life had  

been well spent1 but to-day ,i firmly   
believe that the major part of my life  
has been spent in erroneous doctrines   
and nonsensical teachings1 as the broad 
light of wisdom and independent thought 
has penetrated the dark resources of my 
bewildered conception of right1 and has 
caused me to look upon things in general
 in an intelligent manner4 ,therefore1  
,i feel that my youth and the vigorous  
years of my manhood have been spent in  
what one might term idolatry4  ,from    
this time forward ,i am going to        
endeavor to undo1 as near as possible1  
what ,i have helped to accomplish in the
 past4  ,in the first place1 ,i desire  
to give the reader an idea of who ,i am1
 as the reader is entitled to this      
knowledge1 and in the second place ,i   
want the reader to understand what ,i   
am1 and in the third place to understand
 why ,i am what ,i am1 as there must be 
a reason for all things4  ,my ancestors 
came from ,sweden1 but becoming tired of
 religions warfare under ,gustavus      

,adolphus1 ,king of ,sweden1 they       
settled in a ,catholic colony in        
,germany1 in the southern part of the   
,dukedom of ,oldenburg1 near the ,river 
,haase4  ,the reader1 if he be a        
,protestant1 is familiar with           
,protestant affiliations1 and ,i am led 
to believe belongs to one of the many   
,protestant denominations1 known under  
the head of ,methodist1 ,baptist1       
,christian1 ,united ,brethren1          
,presbyterian1 ,free ,baptist1 or some  
one of the many other ,protestant       
,churches4 ,therefore you can easily see
 why it was that ,i became a ,catholic1 
as ,i was taught it from my infancy4    
,my father1 like his ancestors1 lived in
 ,essen1 ,oldenburg4 ,essen is a town of
 considerable trade in grain1 in fine   
,oldenburg horses and ,holstein cows1 in
 fact1 it is a town noted for its fine  
stock4  ,the beautiful town of ,essen   
has a considerable population4 ,two fine
 rivers1 which unite their rapid waters 
in its very midst1 make it an ideal spot

 to live4  ,my relatives were among the 
first and best families of the ,dukedom4
 ,these families were by name ,dickmann1
 ,meyer1 ,junker and ,mohlenkamp1 who   
are at the head of the intellectual and 
material movements of that place4 ,they 
are all related by marriage and         
intermarriage to the ,fresenborgs4 ,my  
parents had ten children4 ,this1        
however1 may not interest the reader1 so
 ,i will confine myself to my own       
biography4  ,the school to which ,i was 
sent was one of the leading schools and 
had a world-wide reputation1 especially 
of sending many scholars and students to
 the gymnasium and afterwards to        
universities for different branches of  
sciences4  ,it seems as though all of   
those who attended this school became   
successful in their individual careers1 
as lawyers1 doctors or some other of the
 chosen avocations of life4  ,i was     
raised1 ,i might say1 under the walls of
 the free ,city of ,bremen1 and was     
inspired with the idea of freedom1 and  

this1 perhaps1 may be the reason why1   
when ,i have come to be an old man1 that
 ,i have shaken off this eternal bondage
 of ,catholicism and launched my boat so
 late in life upon the broad waters of  
,protestant freedom4  ,as the son of a  
wealthy family1 ,i was sent to the      
,gymnasium of ,vechta for higher        
studies1 where ,i received the best     
education which ,germany could give to  
her sons1 and from there ,i was         
dismissed with the diploma of ,maturity 
in #ahgj1 which was a passport to any   
man holding such a diploma in any       
scholarly community1 for a diploma from 
this institution meant all that it      
implied4  ,after ,i had gone through a  
perfect study of ,gymnasium1 and after  
having obtained my diploma1 ,i could    
then decide for any career that ,i might
 choose4  ,about this time came the     
disturbance of all of ,germany caused by
 ,the ,german-,french ,war4 ,like every 
patriot1 ,i volunteered as a soldier1   
but the officers in the ,german army    

were practical men and they had little  
use for unseasoned student soldiers in  
the field of action1 and ,i was left in 
garrisons where universities were       
situated1 where ,i had military practice
 for a few hours each day1 and then     
could follow my studies at the same     
time4  ,peace followed quickly after the
 ,waterloo of ,napoleon ,,iii at ,sedan1
 and this peace was restored quickly in 
the fatherland1 as not one victorious   
,frenchman had crossed the ,rhine4  ,i  
followed my favorite study1 forestry and
 agriculture1 for some time1 but as my  
parents and my forefathers1 both on my  
father's and mother's side1 had been    
devout ,catholics1 ,i had an earnest    
longing to become a ,catholic ,priest1  
as ,i desired to go forth in the world  
and proclaim the cause of ,christ1      
believing that ,catholicism was the only
 church which had a right to establish  
her doctrines1 and1 of course1 cast my  
lot with this church1 and to-day finds  
me an old man with every vestige of     

childhood's faith shaken from center to 
circumference1 as ,i have lived in      
,america so long and seen so much of the
 intelligence of ,protestantism1 and so 
much of the deception of ,catholicism1  
,i could not remain in the ,catholic    
,church and be true to my conception of 
what was right and wrong1 therefore ,i  
laid aside1 with a degree of regret1 the
 relics of ,catholic barbarism4  ,i     
discarded the ,scapular and everything  
that has no more intelligent meaning to 
it than the cungering devices of the    
heathen has towards the uplifting of    
humanity and the civilization of the    
world4  ,many1 many years ago my faith  
was shaken by what ,i had seen with my  
own eyes and heard with my own ears1 but
 ,i nursed my religious belief from my  
mother's bosom2 my religion was born and
 bred in my bones2 every drop of blood  
in my person was electrified in         
childhood by the cungerings of ,catholic
 legerdemain1 and ,i was taught at my   
mother's knee to believe that there was 

no other church that had a ghost of a   
chance of eternal salvation but the     
,catholic ,church1 and ,i was taught    
that all ,protestants were heretics and 
abominable in the sight of ,god and sure
 of eternal damnation1 unless they      
turned from their sins and joined the   
,catholic ,church4  ,ofttimes ,i would  
have my faith shaken by the actions of  
some lustful priest1 but ,i clung       
tenaciously to the religion of my mother
 and refused to look beyond the horizon 
of ,catholic superstition4  ,about the  
time that ,i had fully made up my mind  
to become a priest1 ,i had my faith     
shaken in the priesthood to a great     
extent by a scandalous happening near   
the ,college of ,vechta1 which concerned
 and strictly involved one of the great 
dignitaries of ,catholicism in my       
college town1 but ,i fought this feeling
 of dislike down and forced myself to   
believe that what a priest or bishop did
 was all right in the sight of ,god1 but
 at the same time ,i had a feeling of   

distrust1 as ,i could not reconcile     
myself to believe that ,god would look  
with compassion upon the acts of a      
dignitary more readily than he would    
upon the transgressions of his blind and
 duped followers1 but nevertheless ,i   
went ahead and prepared myself for the  
priesthood1 which ,i followed for thirty
 years4  ,right directly opposite the   
college which ,i was attending resided  
the ,very ,rev4 ,harold4 ,this reverend 
gentleman was a high dignitary in the   
,catholic ,church4  ,we young priests   
had often heard it whispered about that 
,priest ,harold had in his house at     
different times a number of concubines1 
which are nothing more nor less than    
lude women4 ,we often saw ladies around 
the mansion1 dressed in the very height 
of fashion1 and their actions led us to 
believe that they were there at the     
solicitation of ,rev4 ,harold1 as they  
were seen there at all times of the day 
and night1 and this certainly made a    
very strange impression upon us young   

students1 as there were so many         
different faces2 one day we would see   
two or three young girls1 and the next  
day the same number would be about the  
mansion1 but different faces4 ,all of we
 young students endeavored not to       
believe the rumor1 as we were ,catholics
 in every sense of the word1 and we did 
not want to believe that anything so    
degrading would be tolerated in the very
 mansion of one of the officials who    
were teaching us4  ,the acts of this    
dignitary became so flagrant that even  
the students who were trying not to     
believe the scandal were forced to      
believe there was something wrong about 
the mansion of this ,catholic dignitary4
  ,about this time there was a young    
priest by the name of ,wulf1 from ,rome1
 who was sent to ,vechta and made       
secretary of this dignitary's mansion1  
who1 during the day1 worked in the      
office of the mansion1 where court was  
held in cases of the ,catholic ,church  
and schools4  ,he was soon familiar in  

and about the mansion and the           
surrounding grounds and was given many  
privileges1 and the dignitary seemed to 
like him because he did not meddle with 
his vile conduct1 and the ladies who    
frequented this place also seemed to    
admire him4 ,there was a large lawn     
surrounding the mansion and at          
night-time a number of vicious dogs were
 unchained to guard it4  ,the priest    
that was sent from ,rome was soon on    
familiar terms with the dogs and they   
would mind him and became as obedient as
 children1 and he was soon on such good 
terms with these dogs that he could     
approach the house at any time1 day or  
night1 and one word from him would cause
 them to sneak off to their kennels and 
not molest any who desired to approach  
the mansion4  ,the young priests of this
 college were determined to learn1 if   
possible1 if this ,catholic dignitary   
was guilty of the immoral conduct that  
he was accused of1 so they went to ,wulf
 and explained to him that they desired 

to make a personal investigation1 and   
got this young priest to promise that he
 would let them into the grounds one    
night and also see that the dogs did not
 molest them4  ,we selected a dark night
 and a few of us young priests slipped  
into the lawn surrounding the mansion   
and placed a ladder up to the second    
story window1 as there was a bright     
light inside1 and we determined to      
learn1 if possible1 what was going on in
 this room4  ,dr4 ,wulf1 the secretary1 
was the first to ascend1 and there in   
this room was the dignitary of the      
,catholic ,church in a half drunken     
condition1 with two licentious and lude 
women1 playing cards and drinking wine1 
and the trio were in a half nude        
condition1 and frequently this dignitary
 of the ,catholic ,church would kiss    
these harlots4  ,after ,dr4 ,wulf came  
down the ladder and told what he had    
seen1 of course the rest of us wished to
 become eye witnesses to the perfidy of 
this vagabond of the ,catholic ,church4 

,we would take time about going up the  
ladder to look at this sight1 and       
sometimes one would remain so long at   
the top of the ladder the others would  
become restless and urge him to come    
down and give the rest of us a chance4  
,it seemed as though this ,catholic     
dignitary and the women up stairs within
 had implicit confidence in the dogs1   
and had no fear of detection in their   
drunken orgy of immorality4 ,this       
dignitary seemed very drunk1 and the    
ladies began to undress him preparatory 
to putting him to bed4 ,when they had   
him undressed1 one of them pulled off   
her clothes and went to bed with him4   
,the next morning the report in the form
 of affidavits was presented to the     
parents of the girls1 which caused a    
very great sensation1 and this bundle of
 infamy and abomination was forced to   
leave the city by the parents of these  
daughters whom he had desecrated by his 
filthy touch4  ,it was afterwards       
learned that this state of affairs had  

existed in this ,catholic mansion for   
years past1 and all that had transpired 
in this mansion would blush the         
inhabitants of ,sodom if it could be    
told1 but it is so filthy that it could 
not be repeated by any one who had much 
respect for himself4  ,after this       
dignitary had left the mansion there    
were a number of children's skeletons   
unearthed in the park belonging to the  
mansion1 and one child's skeleton was   
found in the waters surrounding the     
palace4  ,no one was ever arrested for  
this awful1 awful crime1 as this        
,catholic dignitary fled to some        
monastery and there was concealed from  
the law's clutch1 as there is no law    
whereby these monasteries can be forced 
open and their criminals brought to     
justice4  ,a monastery is a ,catholic   
institution that may be used for divers 
purposes1 but for one great purpose1 and
 a very heinous purpose1 is to hide and 
conceal ,catholic officials who break   
the laws of their country1 as they can  

flee to these monasteries and there hide
 themselves from the wrath of the civil 
government4  ,it makes no difference how
 vile the culprits may be1 these        
,catholic institutions are always a     
refuge for them1 and especially if the  
culprit who has money or friends supply 
them with same1 as the ,catholic ,church
 is and always has been a great money   
machine1 as money1 in the eyes of the   
,catholic dignitaries1 covers up a      
multitude of sins4  ,you may not know   
it1 but it is a fact1 nevertheless1 that
 the monasteries never allow the        
officers of the civil laws to enter1 and
 suppose the officers did enter1 the    
culprit would never be found1 as        
,catholic institutions are built with   
the purpose of sheltering her abominable
 faithless in case these criminals'     
desire to hide themselves therein1 as   
the convents1 monasteries and cloisters 
have a labyrinth which would mystify any
 one who was not used to these          
underground passages4  ,no one ever     

learned where the dignitary of this     
,catholic institution at ,vechta went1  
but we were thoroughly convinced that he
 was hiding somewhere in a monastery4   
,at this point in my religious training 
,i perceived the nonsense of celibacy1  
and the ,apostle's injunction3          
,nevertheless1 to avoid fornication1 let
 every man have his own wife1 and let   
every woman have her own husband4 7,i   
,cor4 #g3b47 ,but the teachings of my   
childhood caused me to believe that it  
would be sacrilegious upon my part to   
even allow myself to believe that the   
,pope of ,rome could possibly make a    
mistake1 therefore ,i did as all true   
,catholics are expected to do1 and      
forced myself to believe that all of the
 abominations practiced by this church  
were godly4  ,at this time ,i would     
conceal myself in privacy1 and endeavor 
to reason why a minister of the gospel  
should be expected to do things which   
were unnatural and against the direct   
teachings of ,god1 as we find in ,gen4  

#ba3ah that our ,creator said3 ,it is   
not good that man should be alone1 ,i   
will make a helpmate for him1 but       
whenever ,i would undertake to study and
 try to convince myself of the          
erroneousness of the ,catholic          
doctrines1 her teachings would loom up  
and blind my intelligent conception of  
things1 as ,i had been taught that ,i   
should not question a single mandate    
that the ,pope of ,rome should see fit  
to promulgate1 therefore ,i made up my  
mind that it was a sin for me to use the
 intelligence that ,god had given me1   
and ,i resolved to follow the ,catholic 
doctrine1 regardless of what it might   
lead me to1 consequently ,i closed my   
eyes to reason and common sense and     
became a blind and superstitious        
follower of ,rome4  ,when ,i came to    
,america ,i beheld her great            
civilization and at once my conception  
of intelligent action presented itself  
again1 but ,i fought hard to drive these
 feelings from my bosom1 but the more ,i

 fought the stronger ,i became convinced
 that ,i was wrong and that my early    
training was wrong1 and that the entire 
machinery and mechanism of the ,catholic
 ,church was founded upon abominations  
and superstitions1 but the teachings of 
my mother would prevail and ,i would    
slink back into the trenches of         
,catholicism1 and there ,i remained     
until less than a year ago1 when ,i     
resolved to burst the bands of iniquity 
and walk out upon the plains of         
,protestantism1 regardless of the deep  
feelings of respect that ,i had for my  
early training4  ,if ,god is an         
intelligent ,god1 then we are expected  
to worship ,him in an intelligent       
manner1 and if he is not an intelligent 
,god1 it is impossible for ,him to be a 
,god1 and if the ,lord of ,hosts is an  
intelligent ,creator and expects us1 as 
,his children1 to worship ,him in an    
intelligent manner1 the ,catholic       
,church and all of her followers are    
sinning against ,god every day1 as her  

mode of worship is steeped in the drugs 
of heathenish superstitions4  ,in this  
volume ,i propose to set forth nothing  
but absolute truths1 and ,i call upon an
 intelligent ,god for my witness1 and ,i
 am qualified to make oath before any   
official that is qualified to bind me   
under oath that every word that appears 
in this volume shall be the truth and   
nothing but the truth1 so help me ,god4 
,i will give #e1jjj4jj to any charitable
 institution named by any state of the  
,united ,states if any ,catholic priest1
 bishop or cardinal will prove by any of
 their church doctrines that ,i have    
misstated or misrepresented the         
teachings of ,catholicism in any letter1
 word or sentence4  ,i want to          
thoroughly impress the reader with the  
truthfulness of this volume1 so when he 
or she has perused these pages they may 
know that it has been written by one who
 has served in the capacity of a        
,catholic priest for the past thirty    
years1 but who1 to-day1 stands out upon 

the broad plains of spiritual           
emancipation1 and from this time forward
 will always be found upon the side of  
spiritual liberty and following the     
doctrines of an intelligent ,god1 and   
when my earthly race is run ,i hope and 
pray to be ushered into the presence of 
an intelligent ,god4  ,illustration3    
,,the ,,two ,,inspirations4             
,,protestantism looks to the ,holy      
,bible for ,wisdom--,,catholicism to the
 ,pope6     ,chapter ,,ii4  ,some of the
 ,abominations of ,catholicism ,carried 
,on in the ,name of ,blessed ,saviour4  
,what ,i will now relate is not hear-say
 nor something that ,i have read about1 
but it is something that ,i know about1 
and which ,i witnessed4  ,it is a       
well-known fact that ,catholicism       
endeavors to impress her subjects with  
the miraculousness of latter day        
miracles1 as she will hold up the bones 
of some supposed ,catholic ,saint1 and  
declare to her benighted followers that 
if they worship these relics1 they will 

work wonders and cure the ailment of any
 affliction they may be possessed of4   
,for instance1 they will take the bone  
of some ,catholic ,saint 787 and        
admonish the followers of ,catholicism  
to touch this bone1 or to kiss it1 and  
declare to them that by so doing they   
will become entirely cured of any malady
 that may rack their person with misery4
  ,in fact1 ,catholicism will resort to 
all kinds of nonsensical practices in   
order to completely keep their subjects 
in darkest ignorance1 which will enable 
the officials to hoodwink their         
followers and make them believe anything
 the officials see fit to teach them4   
,i will now relate what ,i saw in       
,munster1 ,germany4 ,the news spread all
 through ,germany that the ,mother      
,superior of the house of ,saint        
,clement was living upon ,holy          
,communion only4  ,now that the reader  
may understand what ,holy ,communion is1
 ,i will here state that it is a thin   
wafer1 used for sacramental purposes1   

which would not weigh more than the     
one-hundredth part of an ounce1 and this
 is what they claimed the ,mother       
,superior of the house of ,saint        
,clement was existing upon1 she only    
taking one of these wafers every        
twenty-four hours4  ,of course1 this was
 given out by the dignitaries of the    
,catholic ,church in order to blind     
their followers1 and ,i desire to state 
right here that ,i also believed that   
this was the fact until it was          
demonstrated thoroughly that it was an  
infamous lie and that the instigators   
were infamous impostors4 ,however1      
pilgrimages started from all directions 
to see this ,mother ,superior1 and when 
they could not see her1 they fought for 
the opportunity of praying in her       
chapel4 ,some stayed for weeks and weeks
 to see her4 ,applications for          
intercessions of all kinds of misery    
were sent to her1 as these simple dupes 
of ,catholicism actually believed that  
this impostor had the power to heal any 

ailment that might afflict them4  ,there
 were thousands of fanatics who visited 
,munster and hung their crutches on the 
chapel walls and declared they were     
cured of their ailment4 ,the blind      
claimed to see by her intercessions4 ,it
 was claimed that all1 possessed of     
every kind and description of ailments1 
could be cured if the one who was       
afflicted only had faith in this ,mother
 ,superior's wonderful power8  ,the     
finger of ,god is in the land6 was the  
cry1 and tens of thousands of ,catholics
 from all over the country gathered in  
,munster4  ,there was a certain man by  
the name of ,friedhoff who doubted the  
proclaimed powers of this ,mother       
,superior and boldly declared his doubt1
 and the ,catholic world was indignant  
over the audacity of such a doubt4 ,it  
was learned that the ,mother ,superior  
would allow but one sister of the       
institution to come to her room1 and    
also her ,father ,confessor4 ,by the    
way1 it might be pertinent to say that  

the ,mother ,superior was an extremely  
handsome young lady2 in fact1 very young
 for the position she occupied4  ,the   
guard that was placed over the ,mother  
,superior was given instructions by the 
,mayor of ,munster to watch her closely 
and see that she lived entirely upon    
,holy ,communion4 ,the ,protestant world
 took an active part in this matter and 
gave close attention to the guard that  
was over this ,mother ,superior1 as they
 were determined to learn from whence   
originated this bold deception1 as they 
were thoroughly convinced that it was   
nothing more nor less than a deception4 
,the confessor of the ,mother ,superior 
was changed and the sister who waited   
upon her was changed1 and in a very     
short time the ,mother ,superior asked  
for food2 thus it began to dawn upon the
 public at large that they had been     
grossly deceived1 and they began to     
learn that all of these miraculous cures
 787 were brought about and promulgated 
by the leaders of ,catholicism4         

,numerous physicians were taken into    
confidence and an examination was made  
of the ,mother ,superior1 and it was    
learned that she was pregnant1 and it   
was proven that the child belonged to   
the priest in charge of the convent1    
who1 by the way1 was the one this       
,mother ,superior confessed her sins to4
  ,this ,mother ,superior sat in her    
room and gave her orders to at least two
 hundred sisters who were inmates of    
this institution4  ,the ,catholic world 
advertised this fake so thoroughly that 
every house in and about ,munster was   
filled to overflowing with pilgrims who 
came there on the strength of this      
well-advertised fake4  ,munster was the 
,mecca4 ,every train arriving brought in
 hundreds and added great multitudes to 
the already great crowd4 ,some claimed  
that the sight of the chapel1 or even   
the sight of the hospital1 healed them4 
,even the newspapers began to report the
 wonderful miracles 787 that were       
performed by this ,mother ,superior4    

,by this time the ,protestants in       
,munster were getting very active and   
denounced this worship in round terms1  
and set about to have an investigation  
made1 which was bitterly opposed by the 
,catholics4 ,the hotel keepers and shop 
keepers of ,munster were bitterly       
opposed to the ,protestants'            
denunciation1 as they were anxious for  
this fake to be advertised as thoroughly
 as possible1 as it was bringing them in
 large revenues1 as the thousands who   
were visiting ,munster were compelled to
 have raiment1 food and lodging2 but the
 denunciation of this fake by the       
,protestants became so great that the   
bishop was compelled1 greatly against   
the wishes of the citizens of ,munster1 
to investigate1 and this investigation  
brought forth enough to startle the     
civilized world4 ,however1 it is only   
one of the many1 many colossal fakes    
that are promulgated by ,catholicism4   
,however1 the clamor of the ,protestant 
world brought things to a crisis1 as the

 ,mother ,superior was ordered to stay  
in strict confinement and a watch was   
placed over her4  ,this brought matters 
to a climax and the ,mother ,superior   
confessed that one of the inmates of the
 convent had secretly carried her food  
during all of this time that she was    
claiming to exist on ,holy ,communion4  
,of course1 this is only one of the tens
 of thousands of such schemes that are  
practiced by ,catholicism all over the  
world1 and the ,protestants were not    
surprised and stated boldly and above   
board that they knew there was some     
scull-duggery attached to all of this   
fake miracle business4  ,this ,mother   
,superior fled from ,munster1 and it was
 learned that she went to the ,city     
,rheine1 on the river ,ems1 and gave    
birth to a child1 and the father of this
 child was the ,catholic priest in      
charge of this convent1 who helped and  
was the prime instigator in giving out  
to the world that the ,mother ,superior 
was performing miracles1 which was a    

malicious lie made of whole cloth and   
promulgated in order to securely bind   
the followers of ,catholicism to their  
idolatrous belief4  ,this is not the end
 of the ,mother ,superior1 as she       
afterwards practiced in the open what   
she had practiced in this ,catholic     
convent at ,munster1 as she entered a   
house of ill fame in the ,city of       
,rheine in ,germany1 and there led a    
life of shame as a harlot of the world2 
however1 she was only living the same   
life she had been living when she was   
sailing under the name of ,mother       
,superior in this convent at ,munster4  
,now1 reader1 if ,catholicism would     
practice such abominations upon the     
ignorant dupes of her followers in      
,munster1 ,germany1 is it not reasonable
 to suppose that she would practice them
 to-day wherever she can fasten her     
hellish belief upon the minds of the    
people8  ,hardly a day passes over our  
heads but what we see in some newspaper 
where ,catholicism is brazenly declaring

 to the intelligent public that         
miraculous cures are being performed by 
some hoodoo saint of their idolatrous   
creed4  ,one would believe that in      
enlightened ,america the ,roman ,church 
could not wield such an idolatrous      
influence over her followers1 but when  
you stop to think that the children of  
,catholic parents are brought up from   
infancy to believe all of this          
hoodooism1 it is not strange that they  
fall into these idolatrous practices4   
,when ,america learns that the majority 
of the convents and monasteries of this 
country are used for the purpose of     
shielding and protecting ,catholic      
criminals1 and for the purpose of       
,catholic dignitaries to glut their lust
 upon the female inmates of these       
institutions1 and will exact and demand 
laws that will force a rigid examination
 every thirty or sixty days of these    
institutions1 then the world at large   
will know and thoroughly understand that
 these institutions are practically the 

homes of depravity and licentiousness4  
,to give the reader more information in 
regard to what ,catholicism resorts to  
to impress their dupes with their       
idolatry1 we want to take up their great
 magician1 ,st4 ,anthony4 ,the ,catholic
 priesthood teaches their followers that
 ,st4 ,anthony's spirit possesses the   
power to answer all prayers1 in fact1 to
 perform any favor the supplicant may   
ask4  ,now1 to illustrate what ,i mean1 
is this3 ,suppose you had lost your     
pocketbook containing #ej4jj2 the       
,catholic ,church teaches that all you  
have to do is to pay a few dimes into   
the priest's pocket and then get down   
and pray to ,st4 ,anthony and you will  
at once learn where your pocketbook is4 
,now1 bear in mind that this praying to 
,st4 ,anthony don't cut any ice unless  
you pay something1 as every prayer must 
be backed up by money1 and the more     
money paid the quicker action you can   
get on ,st4 ,anthony4  ,the ,catholic   
,church calls it ,st4 ,anthony's ,bread 

,box1 and right by the side of this box 
they have a large number of small       
candles1 and you are supposed to drop   
the money into this box to pay for the  
candles that ,st4 ,anthony uses when    
looking for what is lost1 or to light   
his path on his road to answer your     
prayer4  ,these candles cost the priest 
from one-half cent to one cent each1 and
 the dupe will drop in from ten cents to
 ten dollars to have his prayer         
answered1 so you can see that the       
,catholic ,church is a good thing for   
the candle makers4  ,we will now give   
you a few idiotic prayers that are      
offered to ,st4 ,anthony by the         
followers of blind ,catholicism4        
,o1 ,glorious ,st4 ,anthony1 noble      
,sunflower of divine     conformity1 ,i 
salute thee in the name of the ,queen of
 ,angels     and of all the angelic     
choirs2 and ,i thank ,almighty ,god for 
the grace bestowed on thee1 that like to
 this ,great ,queen and     the angelic 
choirs thou wert ever conformed to ,his 

holy will4     ,i beseech thee that with
 this glorious ,lady and all the        
angelic choirs1 thou wouldst approach   
the throne of ,god1     lovingly offer  
,him this my petition and strengthen it 
by     thine intercession4      ,,our   
,,father4 ,,hail1 ,,mary4 ,,glory4      
,i salute thee1 ,blessed ,anthony1 noble
 ,narcissus-flower of     knowledge1 in 
the name of all the patriarchs and      
prophets2     and ,i thank the good ,god
 for bestowing on thee1 like to the     
patriarchs and prophets1 the gift of    
divine knowledge and of     foreseeing  
future events4 ,i beseech thee that with
 the     patriarchs and prophets thou   
wouldst approach the throne of     ,god 
and by your united prayers and merits   
obtain for me this     my petition4     
,,our ,,father4 ,,hail1 ,,mary4 ,,glory4
       ,i salute thee1 ,blessed         
,anthony1 noble ,carnation-flower of    
fervent love1 in the name of all the    
holy apostles and     disciples of      
,christ2 and ,i thank the most merciful 

,lord for     the great grace bestowed  
on thee1 like unto that of the          
apostles and disciples1 when ,he chose  
thee to proclaim the     holy ,gospel   
and to spread the ,christian faith4 ,i  
beseech thee     that with the apostles 
and disciples thou wouldst approach     
the throne of ,god and by your united   
prayers and merits     obtain for me    
this my petition4      ,our ,father4    
,hail1 ,mary4 ,glory4   ,we will give   
you an instance of this ,st4 ,anthony's 
witchcraft business that came under my  
personal observation4 ,a lady was       
standing upon a bridge that spans one of
 the many streams that rushes down from 
the ,adirondack ,mountains1 gazing at   
this crystal stream and watching the    
fishes below1 and while standing there  
she was toying with a beautiful diamond 
ring that had been given her by her     
lover4 ,in a careless manner she allowed
 this ring to slip from her finger1 and 
it fell into the waters below4  ,with a 
sudden cry those who were near her were 

attracted to the spot and she explained 
to them her misfortune1 and it was not  
long until there was quite a crowd about
 her1 offering their sympathy and also  
their assistance4  ,some volunteered to 
wade into this stream and search for the
 ring1 which was done1 and a number of  
buckets of mud were carried up out of   
the stream from the point the lady had  
stated she had dropped her ring1 but the
 ring could not be found4  ,at this     
point one of our ,catholic dupes        
appeared and explained to the lady that 
if she would put her trust in ,st4      
,anthony and would pay #ejj1 that ,st4  
,anthony would restore to her her ring4 
,this lady being a ,catholic also1 of   
course1 was easily persuaded to do this1
 so they knelt down and prayed to ,st4  
,anthony and beseeched him to restore   
the lost treasure1 and it was not long  
until all of those in the crowd that    
belonged to the ,catholic ,church were  
in sympathy with this distressed lady1  
and they were also kneeling and         

supplicating ,st4 ,anthony to restore   
the lost treasure4 ,they prayed for an  
hour1 but still the lost treasure would 
not appear2 then the ringleader of this 
barbarous belief informed this lady that
 the ring had been swallowed by a fish4 
,he pretended to be inspired and claimed
 that he could catch this identical fish
 with the bait of ,st4 ,anthony's bread4
 ,everything was soon prepared and the  
line was let down into the water1 and   
sure enough a good sized fish was caught
 upon this ,st4 ,anthony's bait1 and the
 crowd went into rapturous delight1 as  
they were quite sure they had the       
identical fish that had swallowed the   
ring4  ,as soon as the fish was caught a
 collection was raised by a priest who  
was in the crowd for the benefit of ,st4
 ,anthony's ,bread ,box4 ,all of the    
,catholics in the crowd contributed1 of 
course1 as they were afraid not to1 for 
,catholics believe that if they do not  
do what a priest tells them to they are 
sure to have something awful befall     

them1 and1 of course1 all of these      
,catholics believed in the witchcraft of
 ,st4 ,anthony and believed that he was 
the actual restorer of all lost things4 
,the ,protestants in the congregation   
were determined to see what was inside  
of the fish1 so they followed the one   
that carried it to a butcher shop and   
the fish was cut open1 but naught was   
found in it but what is usually found in
 any old fish that never saw or heard   
tell of a diamond ring4  ,now1 this is  
one of the thousands--yea1 tens of      
thousands of such instances that are    
forced down the throats of the ignorant1
 superstitions followers of             
,catholicism4  ,now1 what ,i relate     
above is true in every conceivable      
manner1 and not one sentence or         
statement is misrepresented4  ,this     
belief in the power of ,st4 ,anthony is 
simply abominable and belongs to the    
dark ages of heathendom4  ,i have often 
wondered when ,i was acting as priest in
 the ,catholic ,church why it was that  

,protestants1 when they attended my     
church1 would look on in wonderment and 
surprise1 and ,i attributed this        
wonderment to a desire upon the part of 
,protestantism to make fun and villify  
the teachings of the ,catholic ,church1 
but ,i now realize that this            
bewilderment came from minds which had  
been elevated far above the cungerings  
of the ,catholic ,church1 and ,i am now 
surprised that the ,protestants who     
visit ,catholic churches are not more   
bewildered and mystified1 as the        
teachings of ,protestantism are based   
upon the inspirations derived from the  
,word of ,god and the teachings of      
,catholicism are naught but the         
rumblings of the dark ages4             
,illustration3 ,a ,,licentious ,,priest4
 ,a ,,protestant ,,preacher',s ,,home   
,the unmarried life of the ,priestcraft 
compared to the married life of a       
,protestant minister4     ,chapter      
,,iii4  ,all ,children of ,protestant   
,parents ,are ,declared ,bastards by    

,catholicism4   ,the ,catholic ,church  
declares that all of those who contract 
marriage otherwise than in the presence 
of a ,catholic ,priest1 that such       
marriages are null and void4            
,catholicism further declares that your 
darling child1 which is the fruit of    
your marriage1 is nothing more nor less 
than a common bastard4  ,how do you     
,protestants like to hear this8 ,how do 
you feel when you know that this is the 
belief and opinion of all ,catholic     
dignitaries1 and this belief is taught  
to all the ,catholic world by those who 
presume to dictate8  ,your darling baby 
boy or girl is branded as an            
illegitimate offspring by ,catholicism1 
simply because their parents were not   
united in wedlock by a ,catholic        
,priest1 who perhaps is as immoral as   
hell itself4  ,the reason why           
,catholicism so sternly demands that all
 should be married by the priestcraft is
 from a monetary standpoint1 as the     
,catholic priest gets his fee1 as he    

will not under any circumstances unite  
any one in wedlock without a fee1 and ,i
 have known in many instances where the 
contracting parties were unable to pay a
 money fee1 and the grasping priestcraft
 would refuse to unite them in marriage 
until they had given him some article of
 intrinsic value1 and ,i have often seen
 jewelry1 silver-mounted pipes1 watches 
and many other things confiscated by the
 priestcraft before they would perform  
the ceremony4  ,it is strange to me1    
indeed1 that ,america1 which is and     
should be by every law of justice and   
right1 a ,protestant nation1 is so      
unconcerned and so listless over the    
insults that ,catholicism daily offers  
,protestantism1 for if it is not a most 
damnable insult to stigmatize your      
offspring as bastards1 then we are      
unable to discern and distinguish       
between a brazen insult and a flattering
 compliment4  ,whenever ,america learns 
the actual and true meaning of          
,catholicism and her teachings1 there   

will be an awakening among the          
,protestant world that will make the    
four corners of the government of the   
,united ,states tremble with a righteous
 indignation4  ,now1 if the offspring of
 that dear old mother is a bastard1 then
 she is nothing more nor less than a    
common whore1 and you cannot arrive at  
any other rational conclusion4 ,this is 
only reasoning from intelligent         
deductions2 therefore1 whenever         
,catholicism calls the children of      
,protestant parents bastards simply     
because these parents were not united in
 wedlock by a ,catholic priest1 they    
villify the sacred name of father and   
mother1 and trail in the slime of       
disgrace the sweet memories of that     
sturdy old father and that angelic old  
,protestant mother4  ,i am at a loss to 
know and to understand how              
,protestantism can sit so unconcernedly 
by with folded hands and allow this     
vulturous foe of human rights and human 
privileges to brazenly rear its         

institutions in ,protestant ,america1   
and teach such damnable doctrines about 
those who have made ,america all she    
ever was1 and is1 or ever will be4  ,a  
creed or doctrine that exists upon the  
dwarfed ambitions of its followers is   
undoubtedly an institution which exists 
upon the carrion of human miseries1 and 
is a menace to a nation1 which possesses
 the godly ambitions that permeate the  
minds of ,protestantism4  ,we have in   
this country scores--yea1 hundreds of   
,protestant fathers and mothers who     
allow their children to attend ,catholic
 schools1 when those who are teaching   
them in these ,catholic institutions    
brazenly1 flagrantly and openly declare 
that those children are the offspring of
 immorality1 as they do not hesitate to 
say that all children are bastards whose
 parents were not married by the        
priestcraft2 but still these ,protestant
 parents allow their children to be     
taught by those who villify and defame  
their parents' names4  ,this is one of  

the strangest things that has ever come 
under my observation in the ,united     
,states1 as the ,protestant world in    
general knows that ,catholicism teaches 
these things1 and the ,protestant world 
also knows that under no circumstances  
nor conditions would ,catholicism allow 
their children to attend a ,protestant  
college1 but ,protestant parents go     
right ahead and allow their children to 
be taught by a class of men and women   
who will boldly declare to these        
children that their own parents are     
immoral1 and that the teachings of their
 youth were erroneous and would lead to 
everlasting damnation4  ,is it not about
 time that the ,protestant world was    
arousing themselves from this           
lethargetic sleep of unconcern1 or do   
you propose to allow ,catholicism to    
convince you1 by her doctrines of       
degeneracy1 that she is right1 and that 
you acknowledge her as right by you     
sending your children to her            
institutions of learning8  ,catholicism 

has always made her boast that if she   
can control the children until they are 
#g to #aj years old1 that they will     
control the government in the future1   
and it seems as though ,protestant      
,america is perfectly willing to risk   
the consequences1 but let me sound a    
warning in your ears in this chapter1   
which may not arouse you from your      
national stupidity1 but which1 in after 
years1 will rumble down the avenues of  
the future the truthfulness of this     
assertion that will make the ,protestant
 world shudder4 ,it is this3 ,unless you
 guard the goddess of your ,american    
liberty with the patriotism of you      
,protestant manhood1 it will not be long
 until you will find this government    
face to face with a problem more        
perplexing than the government of       
,france is wrestling with to-day1 on    
account of this ,romish beast1 whose    
jaws are dripping with the blood of     
doomed ambition4  ,catholicism is like a
 thief in the night1 as she goes about  

her devastation of human rights with the
 tread of a thief and with the cunning  
of a bold deceiver1 which she is1 and   
this country must station trustworthy   
men upon the ramparts of this government
 to watch her progress and batter down  
her foundation of superstition and      
ignorance1 or within the next fifty     
years ,america will find herself bound  
hand and foot by this ,romish creed of  
abominations1 which has caused every    
nation on the face of the earth that she
 has ever controlled to wither and decay
 under her touch1 like the tender plant 
under the broiling rays of a tropical   
sun4  ,i have a right to sound this     
warning1 as ,i know whereof ,i speak1 as
 ,i have traveled this ,romish road of  
despair for thirty years1 and ,i know   
her cunning and dastardly deception so  
well that her history and her teachings 
are to me like the primer is to the     
school boy or girl4  ,the warnings that 
,i now sound in the ears of ,protestant 
,america are not sounded by an alarmist1

 nor one who does not know whereof he   
speaks1 but these warnings come from one
 whose back has been lashed for thirty  
long years with the whip of a ,catholic 
tyrant1 and ,i know the history of      
,catholicism from beginning to end1 for 
if one cannot learn the history of an   
institution in thirty years' devout     
study1 then pray tell me of what use it 
is for man to apply himself to the study
 of anything8  ,i was once as devout a  
,catholic as ,i am to-day a ,protestant1
 and ,i am only a ,protestant to-day    
because ,i was forced to become such1   
after having the scales of ,catholicism 
brushed from my eyes1 which had been    
blinded by the superstition and fearful 
doctrines of this abominable creed4     
,arouse1 ye men and women of ,america1  
or else the time will come when you will
 not be permitted to make a protest2    
when your wives and mothers are declared
 whores by ,catholicism1 and your       
fathers and brothers are declared       
whore-mongers and your children         

bastards6  ,i have been a careful       
observer of events through my entire    
life1 and ,i never was more thoroughly  
convinced than to-day that we stand near
 the threshold of ,popish power in      
,america1 and ,i ask of the reader1 and 
of the ,protestant world at large1 ,are 
we about to realize the prediction made 
by the father of our country8 ,are we   
nearing the time when liberty shall be  
bound to the stake by ,catholicism8 ,are
 we nearing the great ,romish chasm that
 has swallowed up the hopes of many     
nations8 ,are we nearing the crater of a
 ,roman volcano that pours out its      
desolation and devastation upon free    
men8 ,are we nearing the inky night of  
servitude1 where no light is possible1  
but the dim and treacherous lamp of     
idolatrous ,catholicism8 ,are we nearing
 the stretch of waste lands that        
contains no friendly oasis for him who  
seeks liberty8 ,are we building our own 
sepulchers to bury all the hopes of     
liberty cherished by our forefathers8   

,are we willingly carrying fuel for our 
own funeral pyres1 there to be consumed 
by the greedy and relentless ghouls of  
,catholicism8  ,these are questions that
 demand an answer and demand an answer  
at once1 as we are far along the road to
 the end of human rights in ,protestant 
,america1 unless we call a halt and     
kindle anew the fires of patriotism that
 have so long been unnoticed by those   
who have been left in charge to guard   
our interests4  ,catholicism is a vile  
deceiver and a rank hypocrite1 therefore
 we must diligently watch her serpentine
 movements1 for she will appear where   
you least expect her1 as she wraps about
 her the ,american flag and other       
symbols of patriotism and goes about as 
a lamb in wolf's clothing4  ,i have no  
reason for writing this book only a     
desire to help undo what ,i have already
 done in my fifty-six years of the past1
 and by writing this book ,i have cut   
every tie that binds me to those whom ,i
 have associated with since my          

childhood1 therefore the reader must    
know that what ,i am doing is being done
 in the name of right1 justice and the  
love ,i bear my fellowman and my adopted
 country1 which is the ,garden of ,eden 
of all the universe4  ,the fool doubts  
what a wise man tells him because the   
information is new4 ,you may doubt what 
,i am telling you1 but your doubt will  
cost you your liberty4  ,i have your    
cause at heart and ,i have no ambition  
to gratify1 as ,i am an old man and have
 no other desire than to help those who 
need help1 and ,i have come as a friend 
to talk to you around your firesides1   
with no mission but that of truth4      
,many of us have never been told to our 
face that we were fools1 but because no 
man has been frank enough to tell us the
 truth is no reason why we should not   
investigate what is told us1 and which  
you have no right nor reason to doubt4  
,the mission of this book is to get you 
to think and to examine and pry into the
 past history of ,catholicism1 and when 

you have examined the pages of ,catholic
 history and then scrutinize her        
present1 you must know that her future  
promises no more than her past and      
present would indicate her future to    
hold4  ,this book is written from a     
,protestant standpoint1 but by a man who
 was a ,catholic fifty-six years before 
he ever became a ,protestant1 and we    
feel absolutely certain that the        
,catholic world will endeavor to        
throttle its circulation1 but we have   
laid aside every vestige of fear from   
that standpoint and have made up our    
mind that we are no better than ,martin 
,luther1 and thousands of ,protestants  
who were burned at the stake by         
,catholicism for proclaiming to the     
world the awful deeds of that awful     
creed4  ,we want you to consider this   
book as a friend1 who has called at your
 fireside to tell you truths that you   
should know1 and which1 if you do not   
learn1 will lower you and your posterity
 to the level of the commonest slave and

 place over the most brutal despots the 
world has ever known1 and these despots 
are nothing more nor less than the      
,catholic ,church4  ,this book comes    
from a man who does not court the       
friendship of any sect of class of men2 
therefore1 it comes to you with         
intentions as pure as it is possible for
 a book to come from the hands of a poor
 mortal1 who fears nothing but the wrath
 of a living ,god4  ,catholicism is     
taught her cunning from her childhood1  
as she is taught to watch the ranks of  
,protestantism and whenever she finds a 
weak spot1 she turns her forces upon    
this weakened line1 and is further      
instructed never to weaken in her       
continual march of devastation4  ,could 
the tears that have been shed on account
 of heartless ,catholicism be gathered  
in one body1 the mighty oceans of the   
earth would appear as silvery mountain  
brooks4 ,could the innocent blood of    
,protestants shed by the heartless hand 
of ,catholicism be congealed1 it would  

build a purple mountain that would cast 
a shadow the length and breadth of this 
land4  ,the nations of the earth have   
had wars from the creation of the world1
 but the myriads of those who have      
fallen in all the battles of the world  
would only be a small portion compared  
to the millions who have laid down their
 lives that greedy1 abhorrent           
,catholicism might be appeased4  ,it is 
time for us as ,american freemen to     
become free men in every sense the word 
implies1 and exercise both our franchise
 and our brains in relegating this      
,scarlet-,robed ,hag of ,rome to her    
original haunts4  ,will you perform your
 ,american duty and band together and   
become a ,protestant army and march out 
under the blood-stained banner of ,king 
,emanuel and help to make ,america the  
greatest ,protestant nation the sun has 
ever shone upon8  ,be men1 and by your  
manhood you can1 if you make the start  
now1 lull into eternal sleep this       
,romish power which villifies your      

ambitions and brands your offspring with
 the stigma of disgrace4  ,illustration3
 ,,look ,,to ,,jesus4                   
,,the ,,pope ,,and ,,me4 ,as the ,twig  
is bent         the ,tree's inclined4   
,,the ,,two ,,ways4     ,chapter ,,iv4  
,tear from the ,citadel of ,reason1 the 
,power to ,reason1 and ,you ,make       
,slaves of ,humanity4   ,the men and    
women of the world1 who have caused     
nations to advance and prosper1 have    
never been1 nor never will be           
,catholics1 unless she discards her     
present mode of procedure1 and this she 
will never do4 ,whenever you tear the   
cloak of superstition and idolatry from 
the form of ,catholicism1 you have      
naught left but the skeleton of         
abominations4  ,the men of science and  
of reason1 all over the world1 boldly   
accuse the ,roman ,catholic ,church of  
being the enemy of science1 detesting it
 and desiring to spread the mantle of   
ignorance over all those whom she       
controls4  ,the ,church seems not to    

understand that everything finds its    
source at the fountain of reason1 as all
 things must originate from ,god1 and   
most assuredly the ,supreme ,being is an
 intelligent1 reasonable and rational   
,god4 ,the ,catholic ,church must       
resist1 as a matter of life or death1   
the progress of modern civilization1 or 
else go down in disgrace1 for           
civilization and reason is a nightmare  
and an everlasting enemy to             
,catholicism1 as scientific thought     
makes her doctrines and dogmas stand out
 as abominations4  ,if the world is to  
depend upon the ,romish ,church for her 
intellectuality1 and for her philosophy1
 and for her scientific resources1 she  
will always be groping her way in       
darkness1 as the ,popish church has     
never advanced one-hundredth part of an 
inch from the trenches of ancient       
ignorance and superstitions1 nor has she
 in any material way been instrumental  
in advancing a single interest of the   
masses which elevates1 as her every cry 

and her combined efforts have been to   
paralyze progress and scientific        
research1 as she well knows that to have
 the searchlight of reason turned upon  
her mystified labyrinths of hoodooism1  
the world will behold the marks of      
ignorance1 superstition and barbarism   
upon her degraded form4  ,whenever an   
institution comes to believe that it is 
infallible and an impossibility to err1 
then she settles back into the ruts of  
tyranny1 and whenever you find an       
individual or a body of individuals who 
believe whatever they do is right1 no   
matter what it may be1 you will find    
those who believe themselves ordained   
rulers of men1 and whenever this        
happens1 the individual who believes    
this becomes a tyrant1 and tyranny      
belongs to the dark ages of heathendom1 
whence ,roman ,catholicism originated4  
,to demonstrate to the reader and give  
him or her some idea of the tyrannical  
rule of ,romanism1 we will take the     
history of ,galileo1 which every child1 

perhaps1 is acquainted with4  ,galileo  
declared that the sun did not move1 and 
this declaration greatly insulted ,pope 
,urban1 who grew very angry1 as this    
pope had taught that the sun did move   
and that the earth stood still4  ,the   
teachings of ,galileo so angered the    
pope that he called together an         
inquisitorial board and had ,galileo    
tried by this ,romish tribunal1 and     
,galileo was sentenced to imprisonment  
for what ,catholicism termed a heretical
 doctrine4  ,who was right--,catholicism
 or ,galileo8 ,not a school boy or girl 
six years old in this land but what     
knows that ,catholicism was wrong1 as   
she usually is1 but she would not have  
acknowledged her wrong had not the      
world-at-large been thoroughly convinced
 of her error1 which would have brought 
her to the very feet of ridicule had she
 persisted in teaching the doctrine     
promulgated by ,pope ,urban that the sun
 did move1 and that the earth stood     
still4  ,the ,catholic ,church is always

 desirous of evading questions which are
 susceptible to debate1 and which1 by   
mature thought and deliberation1 can be 
analyzed1 as she does not desire to come
 into contact with the brains of any    
nation1 but is satisfied to prey upon   
the ignorant and superstitiously        
inclined1 as those are her dupes and the
 ones from whom she derives her revenue1
 and revenue is one of the main         
perquisites of the ,catholic ,church1 as
 this ,romish institution is run for the
 sole purpose of making serfs of men and
 controlling the destiny of nations1 so 
that the inhabitants may be forced to   
disgorge their sustenance in her lap of 
greed1 and it matters not how low she   
brings her followers1 nor what may be   
the hardships they have to endure1 just 
so she accomplishes her diabolical end4 
,the reader may think it strange that a 
man who was born and raised a ,catholic1
 and who for thirty years officiated in 
the capacity of a ,catholic priest1     
could turn his back upon the creed of   

his forefathers and so vehemently       
endeavor to destroy every vestige of his
 childhood's doctrines1 but this is no  
more unreasonable than it was for ,paul1
 in the twinkle of an eye1 to turn from 
his wickedness and become one of the    
chosen ,apostles of ,christ4  ,many     
years before ,i cut loose entirely from 
the ,catholic ,church my faith in her   
abominations was at times almost        
threadbare1 and ,i have declared time   
and time again that never would ,i enter
 another ,catholic ,church in the       
capacity of a priest1 but as often as ,i
 declared and made these resolves1 just 
so often ,i broke them1 as my early     
training and my superstitious fears     
would get the better of my convictions1 
and ,i would be whipped back into the   
trenches of superstition4  ,i have often
 tried within the past ten years to nag 
those officials who were above me into a
 paroxysm of fury and have them         
excommunicate me1 as ,i tried to make   
myself believe that it would be better  

to have them throw me out of the church 
than to leave it on my own free will1   
but it appeared as though they discerned
 by intentions and they would not do as 
,i desired1 and at last ,i made up my   
mind that ,i would swing out upon my own
 account from the dark shadows of this  
superstitious belief1 and every word of 
this book has been written without a    
single charge preferred against me by   
the ,catholic ,church1 therefore the    
,catholic ,church cannot declare that ,i
 was not in good standing as a priest at
 the time this book was compiled4  ,what
 ,i mean by good standing is that the   
robed monarchs who boldly claim the     
power to damn the soul by               
excommunication1 have not as yet seen   
fit to eternally obliterate my prospects
 of ever entering the ,new ,jerusalem1  
but as soon as this book is given to the
 reading public1 then those who wield   
the axe will let it fall with all the   
diabolical vengeance of ,roman hatred   
upon my head and declare the pearly     

gates have been forever closed upon my  
depraved soul2 but what ,i most desire  
is to have the public understand that   
,,now1 while ,i am writing this book1 ,i
 am considered ,,and ,,am ,,by ,,all    
,,the ,,rights ,,of ,,the ,,catholic    
,,church ,a ,,priest ,,and ,,enjoy ,,all
 ,,the ,,privileges ,,of ,,catholicity  
,,as ,,such4  ,why ,i so earnestly      
desire to impress this upon the minds of
 the reader is that ,i know so well the 
trickery of those whom ,i write about   
and ,i know full well that the ,catholic
 officials will at once endeavor to make
 the world believe that ,i am an outcast
 and in bad standing with the ,catholic 
,church4  ,this book is being written in
 the year #aijc1 and ,i will make oath  
before any court of record on earth to  
the truthfulness of the statements      
herein set forth1 and ,i will give ten  
thousand dollars to any charitable      
institution in ,america if any priest1  
bishop or archbishop on the face of the 
whole earth will make oath and prove    

before any lawful tribunal of ,america  
if one word of the foregoing is not     
true4  ,furthermore1 ,i will give up all
 of my earthly possessions1 which       
amounts to several thousand dollars1 if 
any priest1 bishop or archbishop living 
upon the face of the earth can prove    
before any court of justice in ,america 
that ,i have not always endeavored to   
live an exemplary life and rigidly      
taught the doctrines of the ,catholic   
faith1 although at times my whole life  
rebelled at being compelled to do so1   
but my whole training and long          
association would invariably get the    
master of my reason and better judgment1
 and ,i would be forced by my           
superstitious training back into the    
mystified labyrinths of my childhood's  
education4  ,i stood it until ,i became 
tortured day and night by the prod of   
reason1 then ,i quietly left the church 
and bade farewell to the heathen        
,scapular and the ten thousand other    
trinkets of blind paganism1 and resolved

 to break the chain of this slave of the
 soul and tyrant of reason4  ,in this   
chapter we want to give the reader some 
idea of the nonsensical and             
unreasonableness of the claims of       
,catholicism1 so that you may more fully
 understand how disgusting it is for a  
man who endeavors to use his ,god-given 
abilities to submit to such             
abominations4  ,the ,catholic ,church   
depends more upon the saving power of   
the ,scapular than it does upon the     
saving power of ,jesus ,christ4 ,now1   
this is a broad expression1 but ,i know 
whereof ,i speak and ,i am prepared to  
back up the assertion with facts4  ,the 
,scapular is a veil or cape1 which      
covers the shoulders4 ,it was worn as   
such by ,monks and ,nuns1 over their    
dress1 but which is best known among    
,catholics as two little pieces of cloth
 worn out of devotion1 under ordinary   
garments1 and connected by a string     
which goes around the neck and hangs    
down1 allowing this trinket to rest upon

 the breast4  ,catholic children1 from  
their infancy1 are taught that this     
trinket is a preventative against       
accident and disease1 and they actually 
believe it1 and should they lose this   
nothing they at once become miserable   
and will undergo any hardship to possess
 another4  ,it was through the          
,carmelites 7,monks7 that this devotion 
began and ,i believe that the history   
that ,i will relate in regard to it is  
the first history ever repeated in this 
or any other country by an ex-priest    
that ever lived or died4  ,a man by the 
name of ,simon ,stock was elected to the
 generalship of the ,carmelite ,order1  
and this same ,simon ,stock was         
considered a ,saint1 and it is taught by
 ,catholicism that the ,virgin ,mary    
appeared to ,simon ,stock in a vision   
and exhibited this ,scapular and gave   
,stock to understand that it was to be  
worn by the ,catholic world in the      
future as a preventative against        
accident1 disease and sudden death4     

,there is another story which is told in
 regard to this ,scapular1 as follows3  
,it is said that the ,virgin ,mary      
appeared to ,simon ,stock in a vision in
 behalf of the ,carmelite ,order1 which 
at that time was in great trouble1 and  
gave to ,stock a ,scapular1 which she   
bore in her hand1 in order that it could
 be worn1 and which she guaranteed was  
an order direct from ,god ,almighty that
 the ,carmelite ,order should wear this 
trinket1 which would be a preventative  
from any evil overtaking any of those   
who did wear it1 and further stating    
that all of those who wore this         
,scapular shall never suffer eternal    
burning4  ,it is further stated that    
,pope ,john ,,xxii1 in his famous       
,sabbatine ,bull1 declared that the     
,virgin ,mary had appeared to him and   
informed him that all the members of the
 ,carmelite ,order who wore this        
,scapular should be gotten out of       
purgatory by her on the ,saturday after 
their death1 and this ,pope winds up his

 declaration with the following         
sentence3 ,i accept1 corroborate and    
confirm1 in the name of ,jesus ,christ1 
for our ,glorious ,virgin ,mary1 who has
 granted this great privilege to those  
who wear the ,scapular4  ,this          
abomination is nothing more nor less    
than a tale of fiction1 and promulgated 
by men who know that it is a positive   
lie1 but they do it in order to mystify 
the ignorant and to compel them to      
remain in darkest ignorance4  ,now1 to  
convince the reader that ,catholicism is
 as densely ignorant to-day as it ever  
was1 we will bring her history up to    
date4  ,pope ,leo1 in the good year of  
#aijc1 on his death bed1 ordered this   
,carmelite veil brought from ,mount     
,carmel1 that he might have assistance  
from it in his dying hour1 and declared 
that by the assistance of this mythical 
,scapular that when he died he would go 
straight to ,heaven4  ,you can take the 
history of the ,roman ,catholic ,church 
from the earliest days of its cussedness

 up to the present time1 and you will   
find that the same heathenish           
superstition that surrounded it         
centuries ago still follows it to-day4  
,is there any proof that the ,virgin    
,mary appeared to ,simon ,stock and made
 to him the promise above related8 ,no  
proof whatever1 only the cungered up    
proof of the officials of ,catholicism1 
and the ,sabbatine ,bull of ,pope ,john 
has no more sense nor righteous meaning 
in it than the ghost dance of the       
,american ,indian4  ,the ,scapular that 
we above refer to is not the only emblem
 of heathendom that ,catholicism resorts
 to1 but we have a number of others     
which the ,protestant world knows but   
little about1 and especially the        
,protestants in ,america1 as the        
,catholic officials do not want this    
,scapular business talked about too much
 in this country1 for fear that the     
,protestant world will give it the      
deserving ridicule that it should have4 
,however1 we have started out to show up

 the teachings of ,catholicism as they  
actually exist1 and the more light we   
turn upon this subject the more         
prominent her abominations will become1 
consequently we want to mention these   
other ,scapulars4  ,the first that we   
will mention is1 ,the ,trinity of ,white
 ,linen with ,red ,cross2 the second is1
 ,the ,survite ,scapular of ,seven      
,dolors1 which is of black woolen stuff2
 the third is1 ,the ,immaculate         
,conception1 which is of blue woolen    
cloth1 and the fourth and last ,scapular
 is one that was originated in #ahdf by 
a ,sister of ,charity in ,paris1        
,france1 who is said to have received a 
revelation from ,god ,almighty1 and this
 one is called ,the ,red ,scapular of   
the ,passion4  ,while ,american         
,catholics are a class far superior in  
intellect to the ,catholics of other    
nations1 they still tenaciously cling to
 the inert ,scapular and believe in its 
efficacy and power2 however1 the        
,catholic ,church is getting to have    

quite a number of these ,scapulars1     
which is causing the intelligent        
,catholics to become a little doubtful  
as to which has the greatest pulling    
power1 and many of them1 in order to    
make no mistake1 wear all five of them  
in a bunch2 thus they are assured that  
if one fails to get in its work another 
will come to the rescue1 and should they
 fall off of a train moving #fj miles an
 hour1 this little bunch of woolen goods
 will save them from a bruise1 or should
 they drink a quart of the essence of   
strychnine they would be saved from     
instant death by one of these five      
,scapulars4  ,you ask a ,catholic to    
explain the merits of the ,scapular and 
all they can tell you is that if they   
die during the week that the ,virgin    
,mary will then take them to heaven on  
the ,saturday following1 but if they    
happen to die on a ,saturday1 bear in   
mind that the ,virgin ,mary gives them a
 cold shoulder until the next ,saturday4
 ,now1 this is the only explanation that

 you can get a ,catholic to give you in 
regard to a ,scapular4  ,is it any      
wonder that the power to reason is      
shattered by these cungering devices of 
,catholicism1 and do you wonder that the
 dense ignorance of ,catholic nations   
are completely under the power of this  
angel of darkness8  ,let us repeat1 in  
conclusion of this chapter1 that        
,romanism is the everlasting enemy of   
science and individual intellect1 as she
 knows full well that when the broad1   
effulgent light of ,protestantism dawns 
on the benighted minds of her followers 
that she at once loses her grasp upon   
her hood-winked dupes1 as it is         
impossible for the teachings of         
,catholicism to exist side by side with 
the teachings of ,protestantism1        
provided that those who believe in these
 ,romish abominations care to look above
 the horizon of ,romanism4              
,illustration3 ,,immorality ,,of ,,the  
,,priesthood-- ,with ,romish lust1 the  
blossom of virtue is destroyed4         

,chapter ,v4  ,innocent ,girlhood at the
 ,confessional ,box4   ,blight girlhood 
and you destroy the usefulness of       
womankind4 ,tarnish the sacredness of   
girlhood and you scar the purity of     
womanhood4 ,deface the beautiful        
countenance of chastity1 which is found 
in the bosom of girlhood1 and you not   
only mar the happiness of girlhood1 but 
you deface and obliterate the families  
of the future1 for without that         
priceless treasure1 virtue1 the eternal 
principles of conjugal love becomes a   
barren waste without a single oasis4    
,oh1 if ,i could but call about me in   
one vast throng the girls of this land1 
and all other lands1 who have had the   
first thought of carnality planted in   
their bosom by the scheming             
,priestcraft1 ,i would have a throng of 
tear-faced mortals that would rend the  
heart of stone and stigmatize the       
cunning of ,catholicism with a stigma   
blacker than the lowering clouds of     
despair4  ,when you force childhood to  

believe in the infallibility of the     
priestcraft you educate the mind of that
 child to implicitly believe in the     
officials of the ,catholic ,church1 and 
when you gain the implicit confidence   
you have established a belief that      
cannot be easily eradicated1 as this    
belief has become a part of that child1 
and as it grows older1 this erroneous   
belief grows in proportion to the body1 
and by the time this child has arrived  
at the age of maturity1 she is as       
densely ignorant of the cunning of this 
doctrine as she was when she first      
learned to repeat the ,catechism with a 
childish lisp4  ,we desire to preface   
this chapter with common-sense          
arguments1 so that the reader may       
thoroughly understand how completely the
 female element of the ,catholic ,church
 is under the control of the priesthood 
of this institution4  ,priests are1 as a
 rule1 men of more than average         
intellect1 and1 as they have no other   
calling nor no other avocation in life  

than to make good impressions upon their
 members1 they of course become cunning 
in their art1 especially with the female
 members of their congregations1 and    
more especially with their young and    
handsome members4  ,imagine the power   
that a ,catholic priest has over a young
 girl in her teens--yea1 over any female
 member of their congregation1 when you 
take into consideration the fact that   
from infancy these girls and women have 
been taught that it is almost an        
absolute impossibility for a priest to  
commit a sin4  ,when you dwell upon the 
doctrines taught these girls and women  
it will not be a matter of surprise that
 the priestcraft wields such a powerful 
influence over them1 as any one with    
this doctrine funneled into them from   
childhood is open and ready to believe  
what the priestcraft may tell them1 and 
the individual is not to blame for      
believing this1 as they have been taught
 it by their parents from infancy1 and  
the officials of the ,catholic ,church  

have taught it2 then why should we be   
surprised at the dense ignorance upon   
the part of these girls and women8      
,priests always try to impress their    
members with the idea that they are     
infallible and that it is impossible for
 them to sin4 ,they do this for many    
reasons4 ,first1 in order that they may 
have their congregations in humble      
submission to any of the demands of the 
church1 and1 secondly1 it enables them  
to accomplish any devilish deed they may
 wish to accomplish under the guise of  
priestly sanctity4  ,it is no pleasant  
task to dwell upon this most distasteful
 and most repulsive of all of the       
fallacies of ,rome and the abominable   
rottenness of the priesthood1 but       
without giving a vivid description of   
the cunning of the priestcraft in regard
 to the ,confessional would be treating 
the subject in a manner that would not  
do justice to the abominations of her   
hideous doctrines2 and to fail to touch 
upon this subject would leave the       

greatest and most deadly weapon in the  
hands of this band of devils4  ,the     
,confessional ,box is an emblem of      
paganism1 as innumerable trustworthy    
authorities prove that ,roman           
,catholicism has pre-empted this custom 
as well as many other of her practices  
from the dark ages of paganism4         
,oricular confession was practiced      
centuries ago by the ancient            
,babylonians1 ,egyptians1 ,mexicans1    
,peruvians and the ,japanese--in fact1  
it is not only an ancient custom1 but   
one which belongs to the darkest of the 
ancient ages1 which should have been    
relegated to the haunts of hell         
centuries ago4  ,a priest once said3    
,nobody should be surprised when we     
priests1 bishops and popes sink into the
 bottomless abyss of immorality1 for the
 celibacy of the priestcraft is only a  
cudgel in the hands of ,catholic        
officials to drive us to the haunts of  
immorality4  ,a priest once said that   
the ,confessional is one of the most    

damnable institutions that was ever     
permitted to exist1 as these            
,confessionals are only traps to lead   
the piously and morally-inclined priest 
to the plains of immorality1 for a      
priest is naught but man1 and when he is
 forced to compel women penitents to    
pour into his ears their every thought1 
feeling1 desire1 emotion and act1 it    
kindles the fires of unholy thought upon
 the altars of his better ambitions and 
before he knows it he has committed     
adultery and not only ruined his own    
soul1 but has been the implement in the 
hands of the devil to destroy the virtue
 of innocent womanhood4  ,he further    
states that not only do the thoughts1   
feelings1 emotions1 etc41 have to be    
related1 in all of their details1 to the
 priest1 and perhaps a bad priest1 but  
all circumstances leading to and the    
results growing out of these thoughts1  
must be given in detail4  ,the immorally
 inclined and licentious priest is not  
satisfied with the female penitent      

enumerating only her mortal sins1 but he
 insists and forces the penitent to give
 circumstances1 minutely describing her 
thoughts and feelings of every-day life1
 which leads both the penitent and the  
confessor to the lowlands of immorality4
  ,the priestcraft is instructed by the 
,romish ,church not to allow the        
penitent to conceal anything from them1 
and the priestcraft is given            
instructions to probe the penitent to   
the heart's core4  ,in this chapter we  
propose to give you a little insight to 
the character of one or two priests that
 ,i have personally known1 and if ,i    
dared and if it was possible to print   
the nasty history of a number of priests
 that ,i have been acquainted with1 ,i  
could fill this volume with their       
depravity2 but should ,i do so this book
 would not be permitted to circulate    
through the mails of the ,united        
,states4 ,but ,i will endeavor to clothe
 my recital of a few instances of       
priestly immorality in language of      

chastity1 but will make my recital plain
 enough that any one who can read may   
understand4  ,rev4 ,chas4 ,kuhlman1 who 
was pastor of a ,catholic ,church in    
,edwardsville1 ,ill41 was suspicioned of
 having become too intimate with a      
sister of his own school1 and this      
sister soon left the sisterhood1 and it 
was rumored that she went to ,st4 ,louis
 to evade the birth of a child4  ,this  
very same priest was caught in the act  
of adultery with a married woman in his 
office in ,east ,st4 ,louis4 ,he was at 
that time1 besides being pastor1 the    
editor and publisher of a very important
 ,catholic paper called ,the ,catholic  
,progress4 ,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 ,alton1 ,ill41 and ,kuhlman 
was excommunicated for life4  ,this     
married woman gave testimony that was   
very damaging to the ,rev4 ,kuhlman and 

gave her evidence before a notary       
public1 which cannot be disputed1 and it
 matters not how hard the ,catholic     
,church may try to villify these        
statements1 they cannot overcome the    
truthfulness of the same1 as there are  
too many living witnesses at this time  
who know that what ,i am relating is    
absolutely true4  ,rev4 ,kuhlman was not
 satisfied with the verdict of the      
bishop of ,alton1 ,ill41 and appealed   
his case to ,rome1 and the bishop was   
indeed glad to get rid of this dirty    
case and did not appear in ,rome to     
prosecute the case1 and the ,rev4       
,kuhlman won the case in ,rome by       
default1 and this same ,rev4 ,kuhlman   
became a ,catholic priest in good       
standing again and was permitted to     
officiate as a minister of the gospel1  
with all of this abominable slime of    
immorality clinging to his priestly     
garments4  ,now1 bear in mind that ,rev4
 ,kuhlman1 after having all of this     
immorality laid at his door1 was        

permitted by the ,pope of ,rome to go   
right ahead with his priestly duties1   
but a short time after he won his case  
at ,rome there was an affidavit sworn   
out against ,kuhlman by a man in ,east  
,st4 ,louis1 averring that he had been  
again caught in the act of adultery with
 another woman4 ,this time the case was 
reported to ,bishop ,janssen1 of        
,belleville1 ,ill41 and also to         
,cardinal ,martinelli1 of ,washington1  
,d4,c41 but there was no attention paid 
to it1 and this ,rev4 ,kuhlman was      
permitted to go right ahead in his      
pastoral duties and is at the present   
time the pastor of a church in ,east    
,st4 ,louis and is also the spiritual   
director of a convent1 which contains   
many sisters and many pupils4  ,now1 if 
what ,i have related is false1 ,rev4    
,chas4 ,kuhlman has redress at law2 and 
if ,i have libeled him he can make me   
suffer for the crime1 and he will not   
have to spend any money to locate my    
whereabouts1 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 me4  ,it is no        
pleasant task to relate these very      
nauseating things1 but it is my aim and 
intention to so plainly and powerfully  
set forth the deceit1 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 large1 for there are    
thousands of the followers of the ,pope 
who are very weak in their faith1 and if
 ,i can by the righteousness of my      
cause1 convince them that they are      
following the blind leaders of paganism1
 ,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       
thanksgiving4  ,do not understand me to 
say1 or to intimate1 that there are no  

sincere priests1 as there are2 but their
 sincerity is founded upon superstitious
 beliefs and erroneous doctrines1       
consequently their sincerity and        
devoutness only helps to fasten the     
abominations of ,catholicism more       
completely upon humanity1 as those who  
are candidly sincere are held up to the 
,protestant world as models of          
,catholicism1 when1 in fact1 they are   
but exceptions to the general herd of   
,catholic officials4  ,to more plainly  
illustrate to the reader how fascinating
 and powerful the teachings of          
,catholicism is upon the minds of man1  
,i would illustrate this by the power   
that parents have over a child4 ,you    
teach a child some doctrine1 it matters 
not whether it is right or wrong1 and   
you will impress it with the            
truthfulness of this doctrine in its    
childhood1 and let it understand as it  
grows into manhood and womanhood that   
this doctrine is absolutely true1 and   
hedge it about with superstitions       

confirming this doctrine1 and the hosts 
of hell can hardly convince it that its 
early teachings were wrong2 so you can  
easily see what a powerful influence    
,catholicism has over the minds of its  
followers1 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 doctrine2        
therefore the child is not to blame for 
its implicit confidence1 but the cunning
 of those who practice this deception   
upon this child is to blame1 and the    
doctrine of ,catholicism is what ,i am  
assailing in this volume1 for if ,i can 
be instrumental in opening the eyes of  
those who have arrived at the years of  
accountability1 ,i feel sure that ,i can
 be instrumental in having those so     
reached declare to their offspring that 
their first lessons have been altogether
 erroneous1 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  
intellectuality4  ,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 
them1 as it is a well-known fact that   
the female world has a greater          
confidence in humanity than the male    
population1 so it is an easy matter for 
any sane man or woman to understand why 
an immoral priest1 and one who has no   
regard for honor1 has such an easy task 
in accomplishing the ruin of those whom 
he seeks to destroy4  ,the paradise of  
the priestcraft is inky darkness1 as    
they prefer darkness to light1 and by   
their actions1 their every-day lives    
take on the hue of midnight4 ,if we can 
read ,god ,almighty's hand-writing in a 

legible manner1 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 actions1 as 
a large majority are lacking of that    
manly frankness of countenance which is 
found in the countenances of godly men4 
,in conclusion of this chapter1 ,i beg  
to state that the ,confessional ,box of 
the ,romish ,church is one of the       
darkest pages of the dark history of    
,catholicism1 and if this hideous       
chapter was removed from ,romanism1     
three-fourths of her diabolical deeds   
would be eradicated2 but when you remove
 the ,confessional you remove the charm 
for that part of the priestcraft which  
exists upon the carrion of the human    
family1 and whenever you remove the     
,confessional1 the celibacy of the      
church will be abandoned and the        
priestcraft will be allowed to marry1 as
 ,protestant ministers are permitted to 
do1 and when this is done1 instead of   

having a ,roman ,catholic ,church1 we   
will have a ,protestant denomination in 
its stead1 and my prayer is that a just 
,god will hasten the day when this      
virtue trap will be relegated to the    
dark recesses of paganism1 from whence  
it came4  ,illustration3 ,,america',s   
,,ruin4 ,,uncle ,,sam--,i am afraid     
these people will be the ruination of   
this country unless ,i stop them from   
coming over4     ,chapter ,,vi4  ,the   
,nations ,completely ,dominated by the  
,power of the ,pope ,are ,nations of    
,illegitimacy4   ,in this chapter1 we   
have before us the vision of two        
countries2 one is ,protestant ,america  
and the other ,catholic ,ecuador4       
,protestant ,america stands upon a plane
 of morality and chastity1 which is     
pleasing to contemplate1 and for which  
she can thank only the principles of    
,protestantism1 for ,protestantism      
teaches1 by both precept and example1 as
 she looks to the only true standard of 
morality that ever existed1 which is the

 ,holy ,bible4 ,but ,catholicism looks  
only to a standard which the ,pope of   
,rome sees fit to establish1 and a      
standard of morals which is set by      
mortal man1 can only be1 at its best1 a 
very inferior standard1 as the          
licentiousness and lust of unholy man   
can never compare with that great and   
infinitely good being1 the ,lord of     
,hosts4  ,broad education of the mind   
means a subduing of the passions1 and   
broad education is something that the   
,catholic ,church fights against1 as she
 knows full well that to educate her    
masses would be equivalent to losing her
 grasp upon their actions1 for no man or
 woman of a broad education and an      
individual intellectuality will permit  
these hosts of darkness to dictate to   
them4  ,ignorance is the greatest       
breeder of crime known to the           
intelligence of man1 and it is an       
established fact that crime breeds      
immorality1 and immorality of course is 
the equivalent of illegitimacy1 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         
ignorant1 and again1 as above stated1   
ignorance leads to crime1 and crime to  
immorality1 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 illegitimacy1 but 
we propose to use historical records to 
convince without the shadow of a doubt  
that our statements are true4 ,however1 
,i do not need these historical facts1  
as ,i have traveled extensively through 
,europe and many other countries1 and ,i
 know whereof ,i speak1 by personal     
observation and by coming into personal 
contact with both ,catholic and         
,protestant nations4 ,however1 we are   
not going to be satisfied with this     
alone1 as we do not want the reader to  
rely implicitly upon our individual     
statements1 but we propose to bring     

facts to bear upon your mind which      
cannot be over-thrown1 as statistics are
 stubborn and unyielding facts1 which   
none but fools dispute4  ,we propose to 
take statistics from the ,peabody       
,reporter1 which you can corroborate    
with the official report of the ,united 
,states ,commissioner of ,education4    
,the statistics that we above refer to  
follow3  ,to every ten thousand         
inhabitants under the ,roman ,catholic  
school system1 there are #a1djj         
illiterates1 #daj paupers and #afj      
criminals1 while in the public school   
system we only find to every ten        
thousand inhabitants #cej illiterates1  
making a difference of #a1jej to every  
ten thousand4 ,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 true4  ,education in its literal     
meaning1 means an infusion of           
intelligence that lifts up the minds of 
man1 and it is generally so accepted by 

the world at large1 but education1 as   
far as ,catholicism goes1 means only a  
rehearsal of abominations1 which have   
been practiced upon the followers of    
this creed for centuries in the past1   
and does not in the least bear upon the 
principles of true education4  ,the     
public school system is established on  
the principle that the intelligence and 
virtue of the people constitutes the    
foundation of free government4  ,our    
public schools therefore form one of the
 chief cornerstones of our ,american    
republic2 they are the sheet anchor of  
our hopes4 ,the growth and prosperity   
which have characterized the first      
century of our schools fulfills their   
mission4  ,education is the watchword of
 the hour among ,protestants1 but never 
among ,catholics4 ,we must educate if we
 would elevate1 and unless we elevate   
the minds of men we will have humanity  
running riot with vice and immorality1  
and this is why the ,catholic nations of
 the earth are found with their morals  

trailing in the slime of degeneracy4    
,our public schools are to-day the great
 assimilating power in this country4 ,we
 find in them children of all           
nationalities1 and whether they be      
,english1 ,irish1 ,scotch1 ,danish1     
,norwegians1 ,french1 ,italians1 or some
 other nationality1 when they enter     
these institutions they pass out of the 
school houses1 scattered all over this  
land1 ,americans1 one and all1 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 country1 and one who has
 been permitted to assimilate the       
doctrines of broad education taught in  
these schools4  ,the influence of the   
public schools works rapidly upon       
childhood and is felt through all of    
their after lives4 ,a child who has been
 educated in the public schools of this 
country is always an unrelenting foe of 
caste1 but the child who is educated in 
the parochial schools is taught to look 

up to innumerable superiors1 and such an
 education dwarfs the minds of childhood
 and teaches them to continually look to
 others for their individual happiness1 
but the teachings of the public schools 
broaden the individual mind and gives   
courage1 which enables the child to     
swing out from the influence of others  
and become a mighty power in the        
mechanism of the universe4  ,we touch   
upon the public schools in this chapter1
 only in connection with the dominating 
influence of the ,pope over nations     
which he completely rules1 in order that
 the reader may thoroughly understand   
that ignorance begets crime and crime   
begets illegitimacy1 as we expect to    
dwell more fully upon the education of  
nations in the future1 but we want the  
reader to begin at the ,alpha of reason1
 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 
followers4  ,we have contrasted the     

difference in morals of the inhabitants1
 which are completely dominated by      
,roman ,catholicism1 to that of the     
inhabitants of ,protestant ,america1 but
 we have made this comparison in a      
general way2 but we now want to select a
 country which for its absolutism of    
,catholic monarchy has no comparison1   
and that country is ,ecuador4  ,in      
,ecuador the ,catholic ,church has such 
a complete hold upon the inhabitants    
that they will not allow ,protestantism 
taught1 and the consequence of her      
tyranny is that out of every #ajj       
children born in that country1          
seventy-five are bastards or            
illegitimate and have no idea of their  
father1 and the immorality of the       
priestcraft is so vile that their       
actions are absolutely passed over      
without notice1 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 children2 
but still the ,roman ,church continues  

to forbid her priests to wed1 when they 
know full well that celibacy in the     
,catholic ,church is the cause of all of
 this degeneracy4  ,this state of       
affairs is not confined to ,ecuador     
alone1 but the same state of affairs    
exists throughout the length and breadth
 of all ,catholic nations which are     
completely under the power of the ,pope4
  ,italy1 for instance1 which is the    
home of the ,pope and which has been the
 home of the ,catholic ,church since the
 existence of her abominations1 is one  
of the most immoral countries that ever 
besmirched the face of the earth4  ,the 
first lesson that a ,catholic child is  
taught is hate1 and that lesson is      
directed at ,protestantism2 therefore1  
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 it8  ,we want1 to  
repeat the statement that the ,roman    
,catholic ,church does not want to      

educate anybody1 nor will it do so1     
where it is not under the pressure of   
,protestant influence4 ,however1 the    
,american people demand figures and     
facts before they will be convinced2 so 
as further evidence of the truthfulness 
of what we are telling you1 we propose  
to quote from a report of the minister  
of education in ,italy1 made some few   
years ago4 ,this report is true in every
 particular1 and bear in mind that this 
minister of education was a ,catholic   
himself4 ,the report follows3  ,of every
 #a1jjj males in the province of        
,lombardy1 #eci only were able to read1 
and #dfa did not even know their        
letters4 ,of every #a1jjj females1 only 
#dbf could read and #egd could not read1
 neither did they know their letters4   
,in ,naples and ,sicily1 out of every   
#a1jjj males1 only #afe were able to    
read and #hce could not1 and out of     
every #a1jjj females1 only #fb could    
read and #ich could not read and did not
 know their alphabet4 ,taking this      

report1 you will find that out of every 
#ajj1 only about #aj were able to read4 
,in #ahfd1 out of #ba1jjj1jjj people1   
only #c1ejj1jjj could read and write1   
and the rest did not know their         
alphabet1 and to-day ,spain1 another    
country which is completely dominated by
 the power of ,rome1 has a population of
 ignorant dupes1 as #hj per cent of the 
population of ,spain cannot read and    
write4  ,in ,ireland1 where the ,romish 
,church is dominant1 this same record is
 repeated1 as in other ,catholic        
nations4 ,in ,european countries where  
,protestantism is taught there is but   
one out of every ten that cannot read   
and write1 but in the same countries1   
where ,catholicism has absolute sway1   
there is but one out of every #abe that 
can read and write4  ,in six leading    
,protestant countries of ,europe there  
are #cae inhabitants to every newspaper 
or magazine1 while in six ,roman        
,catholic countries in ,europe there is 
but one newspaper to every #b1gae       

people4  ,it is estimated that at least 
seven-eighths of the twenty million     
inhabitants in ,spanish-,america1 which 
consists of the countries of ,mexico1   
,cuba1 ,central ,america and the north  
and west parts of ,south ,america1 are  
unable to read1 and in ,mexico alone #ij
 per cent of the inhabitants cannot read
 nor write1 neither do they know their  
alphabet2 thus you can see what ,roman  
,catholicism does for the countries     
which she controls4  ,we are writing    
this book1 believing that an intelligent
 class of people will read it1 and if   
such is true1 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 illegitimacy1 for an   
intelligent reader knows full well that 
ignorance is the greatest brooder of    
immorality known to man1 and1 of course1
 immorality means illegitimacy1 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 supreme1 and if this 
is the case1 then the natural           
consequences of such a state of affairs 
is illegitimacy4  ,illustration3 ,,free 
,,in ,,name ,,only4 ,take their chains  
off1 ,,uncle ,,sam1 or you will always  
have trouble with them4     ,chapter    
,,vii4  ,the ,power of the ,pope in     
,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the ,philippine 
,islands4   ,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
 ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the ,philippine
 ,islands1 and1 after all1 these        
,islands are still in the grasp and the 
filthy embrace of the ,vatican at ,rome4
  ,not only fabulous amounts of money   
have been spent by the ,united ,states  
upon these ,islands1 but hundreds of our
 noble boys in blue have given up their 
lives in battle and by the scourge of   
disease1 and still ,catholicism has     

absolute sway in these far-away         
countries4  ,these islands have been    
under the immediate control of ,popery  
for hundreds of years1 but when the     
,government of the ,united ,states took 
charge of them1 their inhabitants had   
advanced no further in intellectuality  
and the freedom of free men than they   
were centuries ago4  ,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 ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and   
the ,philippine ,islands was brought    
about by the tyrannical rule of ,rome1  
for it was by her abominations that     
,cuba rebelled1 which was the prime     
cause of the interference by the        
government of the ,united ,states2      
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 countries1 and what    
puzzles me so much is why the government

 of the ,united ,states still permits   
,catholicism to control the destinies of
 these countries1 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      
satisfied1 and that the ,philippine     
,islands would not to-day belong to the 
,united ,states2 but1 instead of this   
government trying to remedy the great   
wrong done to the inhabitants of these  
countries1 it went right ahead and      
allowed the bone of contention to       
remain1 and to-day finds this government
 not only permitting ,catholicism to    
continue to practice her abominations in
 these countries1 but this government is
 instrumental in sending ,catholic      
teachers over to these countries1 when1 
if this country would do its whole duty1
 it would not permit ,catholicism to    
take any part in the affairs of these   
countries4  ,archbishop ,chapelle was   
shipped to the ,philippine ,islands with

 all the pomp of a ruler1 and so was    
,archbishop ,j4,j4 ,harty1 whom ,i am   
personally acquainted with1 and whom ,i 
have been on intimate terms with for a  
number of years1 and this man ,harty is 
to-day in the ,philippine ,islands      
ruling with the same tyrannical hand    
that has characterized ,romanism for    
centuries past1 and whose rule is only  
symbolic to ruin1 as the interests of   
the inhabitants of these countries are  
never considered1 as it is ,rome's      
ambition and only desire to keep them   
under the heel of perpetual tyranny4    
,we would like to know why ,archbishop  
,chapelle should be given the best      
stateroom in a transport ship sailing   
for ,manila1 while our pure-blooded1    
honest1 sincere ,protestant boys who    
wear the blue were huddled together like
 so many cattle4  ,ah1 this is the      
reason3 ,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 pontiff1 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 votes1 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 party4  ,was  
one of your boys on this transport ship8
 ,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 fireside8 ,if such 
was the case1 you can vividly see the   
injustice done to these brave lads in   
favor of this ,archbishop ,chapelle1 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 ,islands1
 and this same ,archbishop ,chapelle was
 on his way to destroy the influence of 

these boys' mission4  ,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 ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico  
and the ,philippine ,islands for the    
sake of votes4  ,we do not care whether 
you are a ,republican or a ,democrat1   
this chapter should fire your blood to  
the fullest extent1 for ,i am telling   
you truths1 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      
,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the ,philippine 
,islands to liberate them not only from 
the hardships placed upon them by a     
foreign nation1 but liberate them from  
the bonds of ,catholicism1 which not    
only binds the body1 but chains the soul
 with the fetters of ignorance and      
superstition4  ,when it became known    

that the government of the ,united      
,states was to interfere in the affairs 
of ,cuba1 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 ,spain1 which would permit           
,catholicism to exist in these ,islands1
 and the pages of history only tell us  
too well how successfully she laid her  
plans1 as to-day we have the awful      
spectacle of beholding the government of
 the ,united ,states playing the part of
 protector1 while she is quietly aiding 
the identical institution which caused  
the misery in these far-away countries4 
,what ,i tell you in this chapter is    
true1 as ,i was a ,catholic priest and  
was on the inside of the workings of    
,catholicism at that time1 and what ,i  
relate is not guess work nor            
imagination1 but it is plain1           
unvarnished and unadulterated truths1   
and the ,american people will sooner or 
later wake up to the realization of     

these awful truths1 for just so long as 
the ,united ,states permits ,catholicism
 to control the destinies of ,cuba1     
,porto ,rico and the ,philippine        
,islands1 just that long turmoil and    
misery will remain in these tropical    
regions1 for ,catholicism has sworn by  
all of her imaginary saints that        
,protestantism shall never rule these   
countries1 and so far she has carried   
out her threat truly and well1 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 ,manila4 
,can you expect these countries to grow 
in greatness1 and can you expect the    
inhabitants of these countries to become
 giants in intellect when they practice 
the cungerings of ,catholicism8  ,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 ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the 
,philippine ,islands1 and then you can  
have an idea of what the inhabitants of 
these countries may expect in the way of
 advancement from ,catholicism1 and what
 ,i will repeat is the abominations that
 ,i have helped to practice myself for  
thirty years2 therefore ,i know whereof 
,i speak and no man dare dispute4  ,we  
will take a ,catholic cemetery1 for     
instance1 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 followers4  ,our ,savior has   
declared that ,from earth we came1 and  
to earth we shall return1 and there was 
no proviso made that before we should   
return to earth that it would have to be
 consecrated by a human being1 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 bishop4  ,it matters not how
 godly nor how piously a ,protestant may
 have lived1 ,catholicism teaches that  
it is an abomination to bury a          
,protestant in a ,catholic cemetery1 and
 one of her laws is that to bury a      
heretic 7which means ,protestant7 in a  
,catholic cemetery is unlawful1 and the 
,catholic ,popes instruct that the      
remains of any ,protestant buried in a  
,catholic cemetery shall1 if they can be
 distinguished1 be removed1 and if they 
can not be distinguished1 that the      
cemetery shall be cleansed by sprinkling
 holy water over the ground1 and bear in
 mind that this holy water is to receive
 its cleansing power from some priest or
 bishop1 who perhaps is as immoral as   
hell4  ,in ,canada1 some time since1 the
 laws of that country forcibly effected 
the burial of a ,protestant in a        
,catholic cemetery1 and the bishop of   
that diocese1 by the name of ,bourget1  
declared that portion of the cemetery as

 desecrated and filthy and forbade any  
priest to step his foot upon the ground4
  ,now1 do you expect an institution    
which teaches such doctrines to elevate 
a nation above their own doctrine8 ,if  
you do1 you are expecting something     
unreasonable1 and if the inhabitants of 
,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the ,philippine 
,islands are not to be elevated above   
such abominations can the future hold   
anything for them but misery8  ,there is
 but one thing that beats a bishop's    
consecration of a graveyard1 and that is
 money1 and money only2 but a few       
dollars will turn the trick and will    
open up the ground in a ,catholic       
cemetery for a heretic1 and enough money
 will turn the entire cemetery into a   
,protestant graveyard4  ,in the ,city of
 ,st4 ,louis there is a ,catholic       
cemetery called ,calvary1 and lots      
twelve feet square are sold at from #ej 
to #a1jjj each4 ,a lot was bought by a  
,protestant whose son died and who was  
baptized in his last hour by a ,catholic

 nurse4 ,while his people were          
,protestants1 they consented1 since he  
had been baptized into the ,catholic    
,church1 that they would give him a     
,catholic burial1 and a priest by the   
name of ,ward performed the ceremony4   
,now1 bear in mind that the father of   
this young man had bought a lot large   
enough for his whole family to be buried
 there1 when they should die1 as he1 of 
course1 wanted his entire family to be  
buried together1 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 bed1 simply       
because the remainder of the family were
 ,protestants2 but for money they       
consecrated a portion of this lot1 four 
feet wide and six and one-half feet     
long1 but the remainder of this lot was 
not consecrated1 therefore you will see 
that money in the ,catholic ,church has 
as much power to consecrate the earth as
 doth the bishopric and priestcraft4    

,ah1 what abominations6 but still this  
,government expects ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico 
and the ,philippine ,islands to be      
elevated to the standard of manhood and 
womanhood by this class of ghouls4      
,now1 if we could halt with the recital 
of only a few abominations1 my task1    
perhaps1 would not be so disgusting1 but
 had ,i the endurance to live on1 until 
,i were a thousand years old1 and could 
write what ,i know and have experienced 
in the ranks of ,catholicism1 ,i would  
be unable to portray to the reader all  
of her abominations4  ,the ,catholic    
,church is a church of show and glamor1 
and of nonsensical doctrines1 and not a 
church of ,god and of holy worship4     
,many believe that ,catholicism has     
taught all of her cungerings for        
centuries past1 and this is the case1   
but bear in mind1 that ,catholicism     
often has to have new fakes1 in order to
 make the money slide out of the pockets
 of their dupes more easily1 so they get
 up new intrigues and modern shows for  

this purpose1 and the fake that works   
the best is the one that they work the  
hardest1 as ,i solemnly declare that the
 ,catholic ,church as a whole is a money
 proposition upon the part of those who 
teach her abominations1 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 earth4  ,the         
,catholic ,church changes its form of   
worship like cheap chop houses change   
their bills of fare1 as they are after  
suckers1 and if one bait will not get   
them1 they throw out another1 and the   
pomp and show of the church is to catch 
the eye and not to save the soul4  ,not 
long since1 the ,catholic ,church1 with 
singular devotion1 turned its attention 
to the five wounds of ,christ1 and      
immediately after giving these five     
wounds their solicitous attention1 they 
bade their followers to have recourse to
 the sacred heart of ,jesus1 and in     
hundreds of ,catholic ,churches you will

 find to-day a statue made in the       
likeness of ,christ1 with a heart       
attached over the breast1 and this heart
 is illuminated by electricity or       
candle1 and the followers of            
,catholicism absolutely worship this    
mechanism of man1 and it has proven a   
great drawing card1 and you can rest    
assured that ,catholicism is pushing the
 scheme along good and hard1 and ,the   
,st4 ,anthony ,bread ,box hoax is       
another scheme that is not very old1 but
 which the ,catholic ,church has found  
to be another great paying investment1  
and they are working ,st4 ,anthony for  
all that he is worth4  ,now1 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     
intellectuality8 ,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 institution1 then the road to   
greatness must be a very easy one to    
travel4  ,the ,catholic ,church is      
conducted on about the same principle as
 ,dun's and ,bradstreet's mercantile    
agencies1 as they go into the minutest  
detail to keep record of the affairs of 
the country1 so that they may know the  
weakest as well as the strongest points 
of their creed1 so that they may at all 
times be prepared to exercise the       
greatest influence at the proper time1  
and what makes this creed so dangerous1 
is that they impress upon their dupes   
that the church is eternal law1 and they
 hold out the crown of glory on high as 
a reward for following their doctrine1  
and this is the most dangerous and      
damnable scheme ever perpetrated by     
mortal1 for when you force a man or     
woman to believe that you hold in your  
hands their future destiny1 you have    
them to the point where you can force   
them to do your bidding1 and this is    

exactly what ,catholicism does to her   
followers1 and this is the reason why   
,cuba1 ,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 time1 if the ,government of the 
,united ,states permits this troop of   
ghouls to continue to be their masters4 
,we believe that we have in this chapter
 made1 it plain to the reader why the   
influence of ,catholicism should be     
remotely removed from these islands1 and
 if ,i am right1 the ,government of the 
,united ,states is everlastingly wrong  
in permitting ,catholicism to retain her
 hold upon the throats of the           
inhabitants of these islands1 and ,i    
undoubtedly am right1 as ,i know whereof
 ,i speak1 as ,i have trod the deceptive
 road of ,catholicism for the past      
thirty years1 and ,i dare not tell in   
this book all that ,i know of her       
cunning in regard to these far-away     
countries1 as ,i would have to use      

language so plain that ,i could not     
expect this volume to pass through the  
mails1 as the priestcraft in ,cuba1     
,porto ,rico and the ,philippine        
,islands are an immoral set1 as a whole1
 and treat the female population of     
these islands in a manner that breeds   
immorality from generation to           
generation1 and the awful part of this  
immorality is that those who commit it  
with the priestcraft do not consider    
that it is a wrong1 as they have been   
taught that it is no sin to do as the   
priestcraft demands1 therefore it is ten
 thousand times worse than if the sin   
was committed with the knowledge of the 
fact that it was a sin1 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 of1 but when they are not    
aware of the fact that they are         
committing a sin1 of course1 they allow 
their children to believe that their    
actions are in harmony with the         

teachings of ,god1 therefore this       
damnable practice goes on and on1 from  
generation to generation1 and this is   
why the morals1 intelligence and        
progress of ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the 
,philippine ,islands1 are to-day on the 
same plane of depravity as they were    
centuries ago1 and no one is to blame   
for this carnality and debauchery of the
 inhabitants of these islands but the   
,roman ,catholic ,church1 and until the 
,government of the ,united ,states shall
 declare and back up her declaration by 
,protestant manhood1 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            
,protestantism4  ,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
 committing1 by allowing ,romanism to   
hover over these islands with her       
vulturous and carnivorous appetite of   

depravity1 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 islands2 and when this is done1   
the goddess of liberty that has made    
,protestant ,america what she is to-day1
 will hover over these far-away islands 
of the sea1 and new life will pulsate in
 the veins of these ,romish-ridden      
countries4  ,illustration3 ,,save ,,the 
,,girls6 ,batter down the ,convent doors
 of ,catholicism and the civilized world
 will stand amazed4     ,chapter ,,viii4
  ,monasteries ,are ,often the ,abode of
 ,criminals1 and ,nunneries the         
,slaughter ,pens of ,virtue4   ,when ,i 
was living beneath the folds of the     
black banner of ,catholicism1 ,i        
sincerely and devoutly believed that to 
shield a ,catholic criminal was a       
righteous and ,godly calling1 as ,i     
believed that to prevent the civil law  
from taking hold of the criminal career 

of a ,catholic official1 for his        
short-comings1 was but an act of ,godly 
justice4  ,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 myself2     
therefore1 the things which ,i now      
realize are both criminal and immoral1  
as well as utterly detestable1 ,i at one
 time considered righteous1 simply      
because my education had been confined  
to the narrow channels of bigotry1 and  
the effulgency of ,biblical knowledge   
had never penetrated my ,romish-inspired
 perceptibilities4  ,i believe that ,i  
will make many assertions in this       
chapter that have never been made       
before1 but there will not be an        
assertion made but what is true2        
however1 there will be many that will   
arise from the trenches of ,catholicism 
to denounce the truthfulness of them1   
but ,i know whereof ,i speak1 and ,i    
defy any mortal man to successfully     

dispute what ,i may state4  ,this       
chapter will relate to monasteries and  
nunneries1 which in olden times were    
called asylums4  ,these asylums are used
 by ,catholicism to scuffle criminals of
 their following into1 in defiance of   
law and justice1 as these asylums are   
notorious among those who are on the    
inside workings of this creed1 as to    
places where ,catholic criminals can be 
concealed without fear of having the    
civil law bring them to justice1 as     
these places are a retreat for ,catholic
 criminals who are pursued by the       
ministers of justice1 and where1 so long
 as they remain1 they cannot be         
arrested2 but in order to elevate these 
asylums to the plane of religion1 they1 
are called by different names which are 
misnomers1 and are only raised to the   
level of religious institutions to cover
 up the infamy of their actual missions1
 as ,catholicism has learned that as    
long as she can throw around and about  
herself a religious glamor1 that she is 

permitted to go ahead and violate the   
laws of man without molestation4  ,the  
asylums of olden times were intended as 
retreats for those who were persecuted  
for their religious belief1 but the     
mission of these institutions became    
useless1 under the splendid and godly   
progress of ,protestantism1 as          
,protestantism planted her banner of    
enlightenment under the glorious        
leadership of ,martin ,luther1 and such 
institutions were done away with1 but   
,catholicism turned these asylums1 which
 were once a protection to the          
persecuted followers of ,christ1 and    
converted them into an abode for        
,catholic criminals4  ,there is scarcely
 a man or woman in ,america but what has
 heard of ,wm4 ,morgan1 who lived at    
,batavia1 in ,western ,new ,york1 who1  
it was claimed1 wrote an expose of      
,freemasonry1 and who1 the ,catholic    
,church claims1 was killed by the       
,masonic fraternity for writing this    
expose4  ,the fact of the matter is that

 this book was prepared by the ,catholic
 ,church for electioneering purposes1   
and it served their scheme well and     
truly4  ,it is history that ,morgan     
disappeared very suddenly1 and the      
,catholic ,church gave it out that he   
had been killed by the ,masonic         
fraternity1 which is untrue1 as ,wm4    
,morgan was spirited away1 and the trick
 was turned by ,catholicism4  ,wm4      
,morgan became the issue for the        
campaign1 and it was narrated around    
that ,morgan was conveyed in a carriage 
from ,batavia to ,niagara by            
,freemasons1 and there drowned in ,lake 
,ontario4  ,a body was produced near the
 mouth of the ,niagara ,river1 but a    
friend of ,wm4 ,morgan1 who knew him    
well1 by the name of ,mrs4 ,wm4 ,g4     
,barr1 denied that the body that was    
found at the mouth of the ,niagara      
,river1 was that of ,morgan1 and a      
devout ,catholic remarked at the        
post-mortem examination that ,it was a  
good enough ,morgan until after the     

election4  ,a rigid investigation was   
made and no one was ever convicted of   
murdering ,morgan4  ,the result of the  
election was that ,catholicism carried  
her point4 ,the ,catholic ,church had   
turned by this excitement the eyes of   
the world towards ,freemasonry1 and     
claimed that ,morgan's fate was caused  
by the ,masonic fraternity4  ,when ,i   
came to ,america1 ,i was given          
instructions in regard to secret        
societies1 and the ,morgan case was gone
 over with me in detail1 and ,i was     
given ,the ,bulls of three popes1 which 
excluded all members of ,freemasons from
 the ,catholic ,church1 and all who     
belonged to the ,masonic fraternity were
 denied even a ,christian burial by the 
,catholic ,church4  ,i was told by a    
priest1 who was in good standing1 that  
the ,masons had in their meetings a     
literal devil concealed in a box1 and   
that when they would meet1 they would   
stick pins in a picture of some supposed
 traitor and shriek out in their        

madness3 ,die like ,morgan6  ,mrs4 ,wm4 
,g4 ,barr was called to identify the    
supposed body of ,wm4 ,morgan1 which was
 found at the mouth of the ,niagara     
,river4  ,her husband1 ,wm4 ,g4 ,barr1  
was an old dry goods man and once ran   
for governor of the ,state of ,kansas1  
but was defeated because his wife had   
declared that ,wm4 ,morgan's body had   
never been discovered at the mouth of   
the ,niagara ,river1 and further        
declared that it was a 'fake1' pure and 
simple1 and gotten up by ,catholicism in
 order to villify the ,masonic          
fraternity4  ,i had always been of an   
investigating turn of mind1 and the     
stories that were told to me in regard  
to ,wm4 ,morgan did not sound right1 so 
,i took the train for ,topeka1 ,kans41  
where ,mrs4 ,wm4 ,g4 ,barr lived1 and   
this is the story that she related to me
 in great emotion3  ,mrs4 ,barr told me 
that she was a friend of ,wm4 ,morgan1  
and that she was called to identify his 
body1 but instead of finding the corpse 

of ,wm4 ,morgan1 on the seashore1 she   
found the body of some one else and not 
that of ,morgan1 and she further told me
 that ,wm4 ,morgan1 before his          
disappearance1 had written her that he  
was persuaded by a number of ,catholic  
priests to leave the ,masons1 and that  
he1 to his sorrow1 had followed their   
advice1 and that these priests had      
written a book1 and insisted that he    
should publish it1 but he never did give
 his consent1 and stated that he never  
would2 however1 the book appeared1 and  
the fact of the matter is that it was a 
clumsy forgery by the priestcraft of    
,catholicism4  ,this book appeared in   
print1 and ,wm4 ,morgan became          
frightened1 as he realized that should  
the country at large believe that he was
 the author of this book1 he would be   
considered as a traitor1 and he became  
frightened and did not know what to do1 
and about this time two ,catholic       
priests approached him1 and persuaded   
him to leave the country1 and they took 

him to a ,trappist monastery1 near      
,montreal1 ,canada4  ,he remained there 
quite a time1 and left ,canada and went 
to ,asia1 and he was seen and identified
 in ,asia years after ,catholicism had  
declared that he had been murdered by   
the ,masonic fraternity4  ,i do not     
remember of ever reading this history   
before1 and ,i am under the impression  
that ,i am the first man--in fact1 ,i   
know that ,i am the first man who was   
for thirty years a ,catholic priest that
 ever gave this information to the      
public4  ,now1 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 schemes1 what can we expect 
of other monasteries8  ,if this history 
attaches itself to a monastery like that
 in ,canada1 what must be the condition 
of the monasteries and nunneries of     
nations which have not the enlightenment
 that ,canada has8  ,i desire to call to
 the attention of the reader a little   

history that is not exceedingly old1 and
 which every boy and girl is acquainted 
with1 as it has transpired in the past  
ten years--yea1 later4  ,it was in the  
afternoon of a ,december day1 in #aijj4 
,a boy1 ,edward ,cudahy1 ,jr41 was      
walking to his father's mansion and was 
invited to step into a buggy and was    
informed that he was under arrest4 ,this
 boy was then and there abducted1 and   
this abduction became known by the boy  
remaining away from his home that night4
  ,the police and detectives of ,omaha  
and the detectives from ,chicago and    
other cities were busy on the case day  
and night4 ,days and weeks passed and   
nothing came to light except letters    
from the ones who had kidnapped this    
boy1 asking for a ransom of #be1jjj1 and
 stating that if this sum of money in   
gold was not forthcoming1 that the boy's
 eyes would be put out and he would     
forever lose his sight4  ,this last     
threat startled the poor1 heart-broken  
mother1 and as the time approached for  

these devils to put into execution their
 threat1 this poor frantic mother       
insisted that her millionaire husband1  
,edward ,cudahy1 ,sr41 give up the      
#be1jjj and save her precious boy's     
eyesight4  ,her husband resisted as long
 as he could1 but at last took the      
#be1jjj in gold and stepped into his    
buggy1 with the signal lantern1 and     
drove to a certain spot1 designated by  
,pat ,crow1 who is the one who abducted 
,cudahy1 and with this #be1jjj bought   
his boy's liberty1 and this boy was     
brought from that cottage on ,grover    
street1 unhurt1 and ,pat ,crow made away
 with his #be1jjj in gold4  ,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 him2 but
 he resisted and would not withdraw his 
offer of reward1 consequently this made 
it necessary for ,pat ,crow and ,eddy   
,mc,gehee1 alias ,burns1 to leave the   

country4  ,these men were known in      
,omaha1 ,st4 ,joe1 ,kansas ,city1 ,st4  
,louis and ,chicago1 not only by a      
number of their ilk1 but also to the    
police forces1 consequently the nets of 
the law were stretched all over the     
,united ,states for these abductors4    
,on ,december #bh it was reported from  
,la ,salle1 ,ills41 that ,pat ,crow was 
arrested4 ,kansas ,city police promised 
his arrest before sunset1 but he was not
 arrested4  ,there were #hj1jjj1jjj     
people looking for ,pat ,crow1 but he   
took a ,pullman sleeper and traveled to 
,new ,york1 and from there sailed on a  
first-class ticket for ,europe and spent
 a good time in ,london1 from whence he 
went to ,south ,africa and played a     
deceptive role in the ,english-,african 
war4  ,now1 ,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 death1
 but what ,i tell you is true4  ,priest 
,dempsey1 pastor of ,st4 ,patrick's     

,church in ,st4 ,louis1 was president of
 the ,emmet celebration in the year     
#aijb4  ,after a speech by ,judge ,ryan 
of ,st4 ,louis1 and a most eloquent     
address by a priest1 who had been a     
young ,boer officer1 he inspired ,irish 
patriotism by an elegant appeal against 
,old ,england4 ,he was indeed an orator 
who1 by his recitation1 held the        
audience for an hour4 ,i was one who was
 nearest to him on the platform and     
congratulated him on his powerful       
speech4  ,after the applause from his   
,irish friends1 as he had called them1  
he decided to leave with me for his     
hotel1 and ,i was stopping at ,st4      
,patrick's parsonage1 so we both had to 
go in the same direction4  ,i had become
 interested in the fellow while he was  
delivering his speech and ,i became much
 more interested in him in our car ride1
 together1 to the ,lindell ,hotel1 and  
he invited me to stop off with him      
awhile at the ,lindell ,hotel1 and we   
were soon engaged in all kinds of       

discussions1 both religious and         
political4 ,he was a ,dutchman and had  
asked his government of ,holland for a  
leave of absence to fight in the ,boer  
war1 which was granted him1 and to prove
 the truthfulness of this assertion he  
showed me a wound on his breast which   
had not yet healed4  ,he remarked that  
he came nearly telling in his address at
 the ,emmet meeting about the miraculous
 escape of ,pat ,crow to ,south ,africa1
 and stated that if it had not been for 
the bad impression ,pat ,crow had made  
in ,america1 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 ,cudahy4  ,the     
following is his story he told me as    
near as ,i can remember it3  ,one night 
,i was in ,johannesburg1 ,south ,africa1
 and stayed with ,pat ,crow in the same 
room4 ,i knew that it was ,pat ,crow and
 did not intend to have much to do with 
him1 but he noticed me and ,i became    

interested in him1 and he spoke to me   
about matters1 and the millionaire's boy
 being abducted1 and the ransom that he 
received1 and his escape to ,africa4    
,he remarked that ,i would realize from 
his name that he was an ,irish          
,catholic1 and stated that he had gone  
through the ,catholic schools and was a 
'brother' in the cloisters1 and stated  
that this was his strong point in never 
being caught in his daring undertakings4
  ,he stated that when they received    
their #be1jjj ransom from ,cudahy that  
it was divided at the cottage where the 
crime was committed4 ,he stated that it 
cost him quite a sum of money to stay   
with friends a few days in ,omaha1 but  
that he soon disguised himself as an    
inmate of the ,jesuit ,college1 a school
 for ,catholic boys4  ,he stated that he
 traveled on a 'permit' as ,father      
,o',connor to ,kansas ,city1 and stated 
that from there he went to ,st4 ,louis1 
disguised as a ,catholic priest1 and    
that the conductors on the train spoke  

to him as ',how do you do1 ,father8'    
,when ,i arrived in ,st4 ,louis ,i went 
to ,st4 ,anthony's ,church1 where you   
can obtain most anything from that      
saint4 ,i rang the bell for confession4 
,i confessed all kinds of things4 ,i    
confessed to murder1 robbery1           
kidnapping1 and the ,father ,confessor  
was impressed with me because ,i was a  
'big fish' in my line1 and because ,i   
had done no harm to the millionaire's   
boy4 ,i told the inmates of ,st4        
,anthony's ,church that ,i wanted to    
make confession and do penance the      
remainder of my life4  ,a brother came  
with the scissors and ,i received the   
'tonsure' for the third time1 which left
 only a circle of hair around my head1  
and no ,pinkerton detective1 or even    
,bertillion himself could have          
identified me4  ,in a short time ,i left
 this ,st4 ,anthony ,church in a        
',catholic ,habit1' which disguised me  
as a ,catholic official1 and ,i went to 
,omaha and passed myself off as         

',brother ,clement from ,st4 ,louis4'   
,when ,i reached ,omaha ,i had no       
trouble in passing myself off as        
',brother ,clement4'  ,after ,i had     
remained there awhile ,i excused myself 
and in my priestly robes ,i walked to   
the banks of the ,missouri ,river and   
raised my buried treasure1 as ,i had    
left a part of the money that ,i        
received from ,cudahy buried near the   
river1 and ,i took the train to ,st4    
,louis1 and from there to ,new ,york1   
and from ,new ,york ,i took a ,german   
steamer to ,southampton4  ,i stayed in  
,london two weeks and read in the papers
 all about ,pat ,crow4 ,london was not  
the place for a man like me1 as ,i had  
been there before1 and they knew me2 so 
,i sailed for the diamond fields of     
,south ,africa1 where ,i am now free1 by
 the system of 'asylums' 7which are     
,catholic monasteries7 of the ,catholic 
,church4 ,pat ,crow wound up his story  
by telling me that if ,i ever needed to 
try this plan that ,i could do it1 and  

stated that the ,catholic ,church was   
the refuge of criminals4  ,now1 bear in 
mind1 the reason that the ,catholic     
,church is such a refuge for criminals  
is because no police or detective is    
ever allowed to cross over the          
door-sills into these places of         
,catholic refuge1 where the worst       
chapters of crime never will be told1   
and where these criminals flee to avoid 
the punishment of their crimes4  ,this  
is the first time in the history of the 
world that this awful history in regard 
to ,pat ,crow and ,catholicism was ever 
given to the reading public4            
,catholicism teaches1 and acts          
accordingly1 that if a confessor        
forgives the sins of these criminals    
that ,god has taken away all guilt from 
their heinous crimes and that the civil 
laws have no right to punish these      
criminals after a ,catholic priest has  
forgiven their sins1 and on this        
damnable dogma1 ,catholicism bases her  
right for the existence of these        

asylums4  ,i want to give the reader a  
little history in regard to the         
assassination of ,abraham ,lincoln4     
,wilkes ,booth1 a ,roman ,catholic1 was 
the assassin of ,president ,lincoln4    
,the ,roman ,catholic ,church1 under the
 mask of ,democracy1 was always believed
 to be responsible for this diabolical  
assassination4 ,in fact1 it is believed1
 and the belief is well founded1 that   
through the inquisition in the ,city of 
,rome that a plot was laid to destroy   
the republican form of government of the
 ,united ,states1 and the assassination 
of ,abraham ,lincoln was the first step1
 and the plotting on this side of the   
water was done in ,catholic houses1     
adorned with crucifixes1 religious      
saints1 religious statues1 religious    
relics1 and rosaries1 scapulars1 holy   
water pots1 and medals of ,catholicism  
innumerable4  ,it was in the house of   
,mrs4 ,surratt1 located in the very     
heart of ,washington1 ,d4,c41 that the  
officers of this government proceeded   

after the assassination of ,president   
,lincoln1 and bear in mind that ,mrs4   
,surratt was a ,roman ,catholic1 and the
 occupants of this house were arrested4 
,the ones who were arrested were2 ,mrs4 
,surratt1 a ,roman ,catholic2 her       
daughter1 ,anna1 a ,roman ,catholic2    
,mrs4 ,fitzpatrick1 a ,roman ,catholic1 
and ,miss ,hollahan1 a ,roman ,catholic4
 ,before the officers had left this     
house a light knock was heard at the    
door and a young man appeared in        
disguise1 as he was dressed as a common 
laborer and carried a pick upon his     
shoulder2 his hands were white and soft 
and he was also arrested1 and his name  
was ,powell1 another ,roman ,catholic4  
,john ,wilkes ,booth1 the assassin1 was 
a ,roman ,catholic1 consequently the    
belief is undoubtedly well founded that 
not only the scheme to assassinate      
,abraham ,lincoln was laid in the ,city 
of ,rome by ,roman ,catholics1 but was  
carried into execution by the same set  
in this country4  ,booth1 after the     

assassination1 fled to ,surrattsville to
 the hotel of ,mrs4 ,surratt1 and there 
a ,roman ,catholic woman had concealed a
 carbine4 ,mr4 ,surratt1 at ,washington1
 had warned the folks at the hotel that 
the weapon would be called for the night
 of ,abraham ,lincoln's assassination1  
which is prima facie evidence of the    
plot to assassinate ,lincoln4 ,after the
 assassination ,booth fled1 but on the  
eastern shores of the ,potomac he was   
concealed in a ,roman ,catholic ,church 
for nearly a week4 ,as we relate this   
history1 which is true1 the evidence    
becomes more damaging against ,roman    
,catholicism4  ,the finale of this      
national tragedy was that ,herald1      
,powell and ,mrs4 ,surratt were hung1   
and ,dr4 ,mudd and ,o',laughlin were    
committed to life-long imprisonment1 and
 all of these were ,roman ,catholics4   
,the question now arises1 ,how did ,john
 ,h4 ,surratt escape from the same fate 
of ,herald1 ,powell and ,mrs4 ,surratt8 
,i will tell you6 ,john ,h4 ,surratt    

escaped by the assistance of ,catholic  
officials and went to ,canada1 and was  
concealed in a ,trappist cloister near  
,montreal1 and remained there until     
#ahfe1 when1 as a ,priest1 he went to   
,liverpool4  ,in the spring of #ahff1   
,mr4 ,wm4 ,h4 ,seward was informed by a 
,mr4 ,king1 at ,rome1 ,italy1 that ,john
 ,h4 ,surratt had enlisted in the ,papal
 ,guards1 under the name of ,john       
,watson4 ,he was arrested at ,teroli1 in
 ,italy1 but escaped by plunging down a 
ravine twenty-three feet deep4  ,he was 
wounded by the fall and crawled off to a
 monastery and remained there until he  
was healed and then resumed his flight4 
,after his wounds healed1 he went to    
,egypt1 as he was not satisfied with    
,italy1 and was there captured by our   
minister1 ,mr4 ,hale1 and sent to       
,america4  ,i could go on and on1 giving
 you history of lesser importance that  
this1 which occurs week in and week out1
 month in and month out1 and year in and
 year out1 and which is strictly        

connected with the ,catholic ,church1   
but what ,i have given you are truths1  
and indisputable truths1 which should be
 evidence enough of the awfulness of    
monasteries of this and other countries1
 and a class of men who will commit such
 dastardly deeds in the monasteries     
would not hesitate to slaughter innocent
 virtue in the nunneries of this        
country4  ,i could give you history in  
regard to the nunneries that would make 
the cheek of virtue blush with shame1   
but to give you this history ,i would   
have to use language that ,i do not     
desire to use1 as ,i want to keep the   
minds and morals of the girls of this   
country as pure as possible2 but from   
this chapter1 ,protestant fathers and   
mothers must know what ,roman           
,catholicism consists of1 and ,catholic 
fathers and mothers who are not         
everlastingly blinded by the false light
 of this damnable creed should rally    
from their lethargetic walks of         
debauchery and snatch their children    

from the ,romish mire of degradation and
 place them upon the ,protestant        
highways1 which lead to the beauties of 
individual and collective greatness4    
,illustration3                  ,,christ
            ,,pope ,the ,christ of      
,protestantism compared to the ,god of  
,catholicism4                     ,,take
 ,,your ,,choice4     ,chapter ,,ix4    
,un-,married ,cussedness of the ,roman  
,priest-,craft4   ,in the ,book of      
,books1 we find that the ,lord of ,hosts
 declares that1 ,it is not good for man 
to dwell alone1 and our ,heavenly       
,father also teaches us that ,every man 
should have one wife4  ,now1 the ,good  
,lord was either right or wrong when ,he
 made this declaration1 and who is there
 that would declare that the ,lord was  
mistaken in ,his injunction8 ,not one6  
,therefore1 we must acknowledge that    
either the ,lord our ,god made a        
declaration that was nonsensical and    
unreasonable1 or else the ,roman        
,priestcraft is living a life which is  

diagonally contrary to the commands and 
demands of ,god ,almighty1 for when the 
,roman ,church declares that her        
,priests shall not wed1 they at once set
 up a rule for their teachers which is  
in violation1 to not only the laws of   
,god1 but laws of man1 as the silent    
whisperings of man's nature demands a   
helpmate4 ,the heathen nations of the   
earth who are not acquainted with the   
sanctity of the marriage vow1 have a    
longing for the companionship of the    
opposite sex1 and this longing cannot be
 termed anything but a godly love1 as   
this feeling was placed in the bosom of 
humanity by a divine being1 and whenever
 this desire is thwarted1 you have      
disturbed the most blissful inspiration 
of the human family2 but the ,roman     
,catholic ,church would have us believe 
that a few of the human family have been
 ordained by ,god to live recluses1 or1 
as we may term it1 unmarried hermits4   
,catholicism1 with all her damnable     
dogmas and creeds1 cannot change that   

,god-given impulse that was planted in  
the bosom of man1 when ,adam was created
 in the ,garden of ,eden1 and the more  
,roman ,catholicism endeavors to        
eradicate that feeling1 the greater her 
sins become1 for it is a most damnable  
sin to try to force man to eradicate    
from his bosom this everlasting and     
godly craving for the love of the       
opposite sex1 and as long as man is born
 of woman1 just so long that inspiration
 will live in the bosom of mankind1 and 
just so long as ,roman ,catholicism     
endeavors to force humanity to purge    
itself of this blessed longing1 just so 
long the mark of deception1 depravity   
and ungodliness will be left upon the   
brow of this ,romish demon4  ,this      
chapter is one that must be written in a
 delicate manner1 which prohibits me    
from becoming emphatic and explicit1 for
 should ,i allow myself to write exactly
 what ,i have seen1 and the truths that 
exist in regard to ,romish hellishness1 
and the deeds of the unmarried          

cussedness of ,catholicism1 ,i would    
have to resort to language that would be
 unchaste1 but ,i have in mind a story  
that was told some time ago1 by a young 
lady1 who had spent a number of years in
 a convent1 which ,i will relate word   
for word as she gave it1 and which will 
be only the history over and over again 
of thousands--yea1 tens of thousands of 
girls who have had the same experience  
as this poor mortal1 only perhaps had   
new agonies added to their lives4  ,the 
history of this girl's life in a convent
 is more than pathetic1 from the fact   
that her father on his deathbed         
requested that she be placed in a       
convent by her mother1 which was done1  
and her sufferings1 the reader will see1
 were not a fault of hers1 but the fault
 of her parents1 who had been raised to 
believe in the diabolical teachings of  
,roman ,catholicism1 but who did not    
know that these teachings were only     
echoes of the dark ages of paganism1    
therefore you will see that this poor   

girl's history is laden with a sadness  
for which she is not to blame1 and the  
fault can only be laid at the fountain  
head1 as her parents were sincere in    
their belief1 and did not1 of course1   
realize that they were helping to ruin  
their darling girl's future4  ,i will   
now relate her history1 as near as      
possible1 the way she gave it1 which    
will be symbolic of the history of      
thousands of other girls1 and which is  
absolutely true4 ,her story follows3    
,when one becomes an inmate of a        
convent1 they become a prisoner1 as     
every act is scrutinized by the mother  
superior1 and you have no privilege any 
more than if you were a convict and     
placed behind the bars for some heinous 
crime4 ,with this exception1 however1   
you are allowed to receive letters from 
a priest without having the letter      
opened and read before it reaches you1  
as there is always some mark to         
distinguish a letter received from a    
priest1 but all letters that you write  

and all letters that you receive1 unless
 they bear the mark indicating that they
 have been sent by a priest1 are        
carefully read1 and if the contents of  
either the letter you write1 or the one 
that has been written to you does not   
meet with the arbitrary opinion of the  
mother superior1 they are destroyed1 and
 you never have the opportunity of      
sending the one that you have written1  
or to receive the one that has been     
written to you1 unless they can pass the
 inspection of the mother superior1 who 
is nothing more nor less than an agent  
of the ,pope of ,rome1 as she receives  
her instructions from the priestcraft1  
and they receive their instructions from
 the ,pope of ,rome4  ,when an inmate of
 a convent receives a letter from a     
priest it is handed her without being   
opened1 as the mother superior is       
instructed not to open such letters1 and
 is told that all such letters1 of      
course1 relate to the spiritual welfare 
of the nun4  ,in these letters the      

priest will tell the nun what day he    
will call to give her a general         
confession4 ,as soon as such a letter is
 received the nun informs the mother    
superior that on a certain day ,priest  
,so-and-,so will visit her1 and1 of     
course1 this mother superior gives the  
permission1 and on the day that the     
priest is to arrive1 this nun is excused
 from all duties for that day1 and when 
the priest arrives he is shown into what
 is called the ,retreat ,parlor2 and no 
matter how long he remains there1 no one
 will disturb him4 ,he is supposed to be
 talking with his penitent on the       
welfare of her soul4 ,ah1 could any one 
look through the door1 they would find  
this priest with his arms about the form
 of this fair penitent1 or perhaps in a 
far more compromising position6  ,right 
here the reader may ask if these nuns   
are willing to submit to the embraces of
 these priests8  ,i will allow this girl
 to answer this question in her own     
language1 and her answer is this3  ,i   

answer that in fifteen out of twenty    
cases--,no6 ,but she is there helpless2 
the priest has seen her somewhere in the
 garb of a nun and has taken a fancy to 
her1 and whether she be willing or not1 
he compels her to allow him to satisfy  
his hellish passion6  ,this girl        
continues by exclaiming3 ,oh ,god6      
,great ,god6 ,when ,i think of this     
system--this system born of the devil   
and nurtured by hell--and realize that  
under the cloak of religion it is       
stealing away our liberty1 entering into
 our homes1 ruining our womanhood and   
girlhood1 and painting childish purity  
with the brush of immorality1 and       
defiling everything with which it comes 
in contact1 ,i then become a mad woman1 
and ,i become as a venomous serpent1    
wanting revenge for what has been done  
to me1 and it seems as if ,i cannot     
remain quiet1 but1 closing my eyes and  
ears to everything1 as ,i have no       
redress1 ,i am compelled to warn        
thousands who may come after me1 of     

their fate1 should they take up convent 
life1 which is a hell upon earth and a  
blotch as black as the shadows of hell  
to any land4  ,the same lady who related
 the above1 and a great deal more which 
,i cannot tell in this chapter1 gave an 
account of the sufferings of another    
nun1 who was in the same convent with   
her1 and ,i now learn that the same     
story that ,i will now relate has been  
told to others4  ,reader1 you must bear 
in mind that convents have many tortures
 outside of the torturing conscience on 
account of having the virtue of their   
inmates destroyed4 ,the teachings of    
,catholicism lead people to practice    
self-infliction upon their person in    
order to appease a living ,god1 as they 
seem to worship a living ,god the same  
as the pagans would worship a ,god of   
stone1 or a ferocious ,god in the form  
of some carnivorous beast1 and in order 
to atone for their sins1 these inmates  
of the nunneries are taught that they   
must bear self-infliction2 in fact1     

,catholicism teaches her followers that 
in order that any of them shall receive 
absolute pardon1 that they must resort  
to heathenish practices4  ,as stated    
above1 the same lady whom we speak of in
 the first part of this chapter1 relates
 her experience with a sister nun1 who  
endured self-torture1 believing that it 
was an outward demonstration of         
godliness4 ,her story follows3  ,i call 
to mind a case of cruelty under the     
guise of devotion that happened in our  
convent4 ,a consecrated penitent1       
,sister ,madeline1 had been for some    
time a victim of consumption4 ,she was a
 beautiful girl1 and her exquisitely    
sweet voice could be heard in church    
every ,sunday1 taking part in the high  
mass4 ,poor ,sister ,madeline6 ,how many
 humiliations she received6 ,how often  
she was censured for leaving her work   
unfinished when she was not able to do  
it1 and how ,i have pitied her as she   
tried to eat the bread and dripping we  
had for supper4 ,failing in the attempt1

 ,i would notice the tears gather in her
 eyes4 ,oh1 how often ,i longed to be   
able to obtain some little delicacy for 
her6 but dared not ask for it4 ,her     
gentle1 patient1 suffering face will    
never fade from my memory4  ,one ,sunday
 evening she and ,i were walking in the 
garden after benediction4 ,she felt more
 than usually weak1 and1 therefore1 ,i  
could offer her my arm to lean upon4    
',dear ,sister ,magdalene ,adelaide1'   
she said1 ',i think our blessed ,lord is
 soon going to come for me4'  ,i tried  
to cheer her by telling her that it     
might be ,his will to restore her again 
to health and strength4  ',no1 dear     
,sister1' she replied2 'and oh1 ,i do   
not want to stay4 ,i long to see my     
,master's face4 ,at night1 when ,i lay  
awake in pain1 ,i long1 oh1 so much1    
that ,i might go6'  ',sister ,madeline1'
 ,i said1 'you have been happy here1    
have you not8 ,you love your present    
life8'  ,we had seated ourselves by this
 time in a little grotto made up in     

honor of ',our ,lady of ,lourdes4' ,she 
buried her face in her hands1 and ,i saw
 the tears trickling between her        
fingers4  ,my own eyes filled with      
tears2 ,i know not why4  ,at last1      
raising up her head1 she said3 ',i have 
tried my best to be contented2 but oh6  
,sister ,adelaide1 it has been a bitter 
struggle4 ,it is wrong in me to give way
 thus2 but ,i cannot help it4 ,may ,our 
,lady pity me6 ,i want you to promise1  
dear ,sister1 that you will say a rosary
 for me every day for a year after ,i am
 dead1 and one communion every month4'  
',i will gladly do this for you1 ,sister
 ,madeline1' ,i answered4 ',tell me1' ,i
 continued1 'is there any particular day
 you prefer8'  ',yes1' she replied1 ',i 
would like your ,friday communion4      
,promise me that on the anniversary of  
the feast of ,st4 ,mary ,magdalene1 my  
patron saint1 you will offer your       
communion for me4'  ,i promised her this
 and she seemed more satisfied4  ',i    
know1' she said1 'that ,i shall have a  

long purgatory4' ,she shuddered as she  
spoke4 ',and oh6 ,i do hope the dear    
sisters will remember me in their       
prayers and communions4'  ',dear ,sister
 ,madeline1' ,i said at last1 'purgatory
 is better than hell and our ,blessed   
,lady will intercede for you4'  ',yes1  
dear ,sister ,magdalene ,adelaide1' she 
said1 'you are right2 but oh6' she      
continued1 ',i cannot help the shudder  
that passes through me as ,i think of   
the suffering ,i shall be in for years1 
especially after the mortifications ,i  
have practiced here1 the discipline ,i  
have applied to myself1 the days ,i have
 abstained from food1 the prayers ,i    
have offered1 the tears ,i have shed2   
and now1 as death approaches1 there is  
no other prospect before me than a long 
term of purgatorial punishment4         
,besides1 the punishment will be all the
 greater since ,i have given away to an 
unnatural thought4'  ',and what1 may ,i 
ask1 do you call an unnatural thought8' 
',sister ,magdalene ,adelaide1 come     

close to me4'  ,i rose from my chair and
 knelt down beside her4  ',dear sister1 
,i have endeavored to bear my cross1'   
she commenced1 speaking with difficulty2
 ',but oh6 sister1 ,i dread the end2 ,i 
have so much to expiate2 and oh6' she   
continued1 her voice now choked with    
sobs1 'if only ,i could have my mother  
near me2 if only ,i could hear her voice
 once more2 it is so long since ,i have 
seen her4 ,i have asked for any letter  
that may have come1 but they tell me    
none has arrived1 and oh6 ,i don't think
 mother has quite forgotten me4'  ,i    
durst not trust myself to speak2 my     
heart was too full4 ,at last ,i said1   
',dear sister1 do not grieve thus2 our  
,blessed ,lady will intercede for you4  
,remember1 in coming here your purpose1 
even as mine1 was to make reparation for
 sin4 ,you and ,i have both suffered4   
,be brave now1 dear1 and now that the   
end is near do not take away from ,god's
 glory by fearing for the future4'  ',i 
know it is wrong to grieve so much1     

,sister ,magdalene ,adelaide1 but oh1 ,i
 am so weak6 ,will you read a meditation
 for me8'  ,i took up the book and did  
as she requested4 ,soon she fell into a 
sleep which lasted about one hour1 and  
again ,i commenced saying my rosary     
beads4 ,presently ,i heard her murmur1  
and1 listening1 ,i heard her whisper1   
',my feet6 oh1 my feet6' ,i arose from  
my chair and removed the sheet with the 
intention of rubbing her limbs2 as ,i   
did so her feet were disclosed4 ,a      
thrill of horror passed through my being
 as ,i looked at them1 for they were all
 cut1 festered and bruised2 a fearful   
suspicion took possession of me1 and1   
stooping down1 ,i picked up her         
infirmary shoes4 ,on examination ,i     
discovered in them pieces of broken     
glass2 a thrill akin to horror ran      
through my whole frame4 ,i held the     
shoes in my hands and looked at the     
pale1 suffering face of ,adeline as she 
lay there on her bed1 and this evening  
the whole scene rises before me--the    

little infirmary with its clean1 white  
floor1 a few cheap prints of the        
stations of the cross hanging on the    
otherwise bare walls1 the two or three  
small iron bedsteads1 then the white    
wooden altar upon which was spread a    
white linen cloth embroidered with red2 
the two statues1 one of ',our ,lady of  
,dolours' and the second of ,st4        
,joseph1 the patron of happy deaths4 ,in
 the center of the altar was a vase with
 a few cheap paper flowers4  ,yes1 it   
comes to me most vividly4 ,there she    
lay1 the sin of her past life being that
 she1 too1 had been deceived at the     
altars of ,rome--a victim of priestly   
solicitation in the confessional4 ,even 
as she lay there in the last stages of  
consumption1 traces of what had at one  
time been a beautiful face were clearly 
discernible4 ,what had she not suffered 
for years6 ,who could tell the many     
weary hours of heart anguish she had    
passed through8 ,and yet she was        
young--hardly twenty-five years old4    

,she had given up all that was near and 
dear1 and1 for the years she had lived  
in the convent1 she had tried to appease
 ,god's justice for her early sin by    
mortifying and chastising herself in a  
way that can only find a parallel in the
 doctrines of ,buddha4 ,oh1 ,madeline6  
poor1 wounded1 betrayed one6 ,who can   
wonder1 as you lay there with the fever 
of consumption running and coursing     
through your veins1 that1 in spite of   
all the teachings and practices of      
self-denial in the convent life in which
 you had lived so many years1 yet1 when 
the hour of death drew nigh and your    
soul was hovering on the borders of the 
unknown eternity1 your thoughts once    
more went back to the old home-scenes1  
and you longed1 as only a child can1 for
 the sight of a mother's face1 the sound
 of a mother's voice1 the cool1 soothing
 touch of a mother's hand passing over  
your brow8 ,they tried to crush down the
 natural love that ,god placed in your  
heart for your mother1 but they could   

not4 ,the use of the discipline caused  
the blood to flow and gave you physical 
suffering2 fasting and long prayers made
 you weak1 and thus incapable of        
exercising will-power2 and1 when no     
other eye but ,god's was upon you1 when 
struggling with the desire to leave     
forever the hateful prison walls of the 
convent1 the bitter tears forced their  
way4 ,then1 kneeling before the statue  
of the ',mother of ,sorrows1' you       
pleaded with her to help and intercede  
for you4 ,what comfort did you get8     
,what hope8 ,what consolation8 ,none6   
,you might make good confessions and    
communions1 practice all the            
self-denials required of one in your    
vocation1 and the only thing that the   
church could give you1 the only gleam of
 hope she could offer1 was that1 through
 your works of supererogation1 your     
purgatory would be lessened2 and now1   
wasted through suffering and            
consumption1 dreading the punishment of 
purgatory1 endeavoring in your dying    

state to do something to lessen its     
pangs1 you have walked with glass in    
your shoes and your poor feet give      
evidence of the agony you endured4 ,and 
this is ,christianity6  ,i applied cold 
cloths to her feet2 ,i sat down in the  
dimly-lighted infirmary by the side of  
her bed1 and1 holding the fevered and   
trembling hand1 ,i1 in my ignorance1    
tried to give her some comfort4 ,i      
promised to remember her in my          
intentions1 my communions1 and at the   
sacrifice of the ,mass4 ,i spoke to her 
of the mercy and compassion of ,mary1   
the ',mother of ,sorrows1' and tried to 
give her hope by pointing to her as     
mediator between her soul and ,christ1  
but ,i could see that she received no   
satisfaction1 no assurance4 ,then her   
eyes closed and she dozed for a few     
minutes1 only to wake with a moan of    
pain--',oh1 my feet6 oh1 my feet6' ,and 
then again1 ',if only ,i could see my   
mother6' would issue from her parched   
and cracked lips4  ,and so ,i sat       

through the night1 soothing her as well 
as ,i knew how1 and repeating           
aspirations for her1 until the dawn     
crept in and the nuns' bell rang out at 
#d3cj o'clock1 arousing the inmates4    
,the quietness and deep stillness still 
remained throughout the institution1 the
 sisters and penitents walking in the   
dimly-lighted cloisters with soft tread 
and down-cast eyes1 as if in the land of
 the silent dead and not the living4    
,as ,i write ,i wonder how it was       
possible for me to endure the paganism  
of ,catholicism for thirty years1 and   
the only rational reason ,i can give for
 this endurance is that ,i1 like        
thousands of these poor nuns whom ,i    
have just written about1 was raised to  
believe that the teachings of           
,catholicism were right and the only    
road that lead to eternal glory2        
therefore ,i look with pity and         
compassion upon those black-garbed nuns 
when ,i behold them tramping the streets
 of our large cities1 as ,i realize that

 they actually believe they are         
performing ,god's work1 when the truth  
of the matter is that they are only     
following the practices of heathen      
nations4  ,i could go on and write a    
thousand pages upon ,the ,unmarried     
,cussedness of the ,roman ,priestcraft1 
and each page would be as black as the  
shadows of hell1 but ,i deem it         
unnecessary1 as ,i have confidence in   
those who may read this book that they  
will believe every word of what ,i have 
written1 therefore it is unnecessary for
 me to dwell longer upon the hideousness
 of celibacy4  ,in conclusion1 ,i desire
 to say that so long as ,roman          
,catholicism demands that her           
priestcraft shall not wed1 just so long 
the priestcraft will remain vultures of 
virtue and just so long convents will be
 turned into carnivals of vice4  ,it is 
only natural that such should be the    
case1 as both the priestcraft and the   
inhabitants of our convents are brought 
up from childhood to believe in the     

absurdities of ,roman ,catholicism1 and 
to believe that all of their many sins  
can be pardoned by the cungerings of    
this ,romish doctrine4  ,my prayer is   
that the government of the ,united      
,states may learn in the near future    
that the broad light of ,protestant     
inspection must penetrate these recesses
 of darkness before we can ever have    
them cleansed of their immorality1 and  
this inspection must be made often1 and 
,i sincerely believe that the time is   
not far distant when ,protestant        
,america will demand that ,catholicism  
shall do away with her monasteries and  
nunneries1 unless she submits to a rigid
 examination of her actions1 and        
whenever she submits it will be because 
she is forced to submit1 and whenever   
she is forced to do so1 these           
monasteries and convents will be closed 
up1 as ,protestant ,america will not    
allow nor permit these plague spots to  
exist to pollute the fair name of       
,america when she learns of their actual

 mission4  ,illustration3 ,,being       
,,excommunicated ,,for ,,reading ,,the  
,,bible4 ,may she be damned in her      
mouth1 in her breast1 in her heart and  
down to her very stomach4 ,etc4 ,etc4   
,chapter ,x4  ,a ,brazen ,insult to     
,god4   ,catholicism teaches that the   
,pope of ,rome is infallible and cannot 
sin1 neither can he make a mistake4     
,this claim1 if true1 would place the   
,pope of ,rome1 who is nothing more nor 
less than a human being1 upon the same  
footing as ,jesus ,christ4  ,the ,bible 
says1 ,there are none pure2 no1 not one4
 ,now1 if the claim of ,catholicism that
 the ,pope of ,rome is infallible1 is   
true1 then the ,bible is a myth and a   
mockery4  ,if ,catholicism's claim that 
the ,pope of ,rome is infallible1 is    
true1 then ,god is not an impartial     
,god1 for if ,he is an impartial ,god   
,he would not bestow upon any of ,his   
mortals the gift of purity1 without     
being ready to bestow the same gift upon
 all of those who are deserving1 and who

 by their righteousness deserve this    
grand and princely distinction4  ,we    
want to use a little common sense and a 
philosophy that can be assimilated by   
any man or woman of ordinary            
intelligence4  ,the ,bible does not     
relate in any verse or chapter that any 
one can reach the point of infallibility
 during life4 ,now1 is not this true8   
,and if it is1 then the claim of        
,catholicism that the ,pope of ,rome is 
infallible is a lie1 woven in the       
devil's loom4  ,we want to prove to our 
readers that this claim is one founded  
upon fallacious grounds1 as the ,pope of
 ,rome is elected by the cardinals of   
the ,catholic ,church1 who are human and
 who are often as immoral as the devil2 
therefore the infallibility of the ,pope
 rests in human hands1 for it is by     
these cardinals that the ,pope is       
created1 therefore you will see that by 
the ballot of these cardinals the ,pope 
derives his infallibility1 and not from 
any power of ,god ,almighty1            

consequently this proclaimed            
infallibility of the ,pope rests in the 
hands of these cardinals4  ,now1 to     
illustrate this damnable doctrine and   
show it up in its rabid ignorance1 we   
will suppose that when ,pope ,pius ,x   
was elected ,pope of ,rome that if some 
other priest had received a majority of 
one of the votes of the cardinals1 ,pope
 ,pius ,x would never have had this     
blessing from ,god1 but he would only   
have missed it one vote1 therefore you  
will see that this infallibility which  
was about to rest on ,pope ,pius ,x1 but
 did not1 would have been snatched from 
him by the failure of one cardinal to   
vote for him4  ,now1 any man or woman of
 ordinary horse sense can see that ,god 
,almighty has nothing whatever to do    
with filling the office of the ,pope1   
and this infallibility rests altogether 
with the pulling power that the         
candidate for ,pope exercises over the  
cardinals1 as it is an indisputable fact
 that there is as much political        

chicanery in the election of a ,pope as 
there is in the election of a justice of
 the peace at a township election4  ,we 
want to learn just how far this         
infallibility of the ,pope goes4 ,if a  
man is infallible he can not make a     
mistake1 and ,i can prove by every man  
of broadmindedness and intelligence that
 the ,popes of ,rome1 for centuries     
past1 have made nothing but mistakes1   
and their mistakes have been not only   
ruinous to those whom they profess to   
teach1 but their mistakes have had a    
tendency to paralyze the righteous      
ambitions of every nation to which their
 influence has extended4 ,if the claim  
of ,catholicism is true that her ,popes 
are infallible1 then we must acknowledge
 that this great gift was received from 
,god ,almighty1 and we cannot believe   
such nonsense when we are aware of the  
fact that these ,popes are elected by   
the cardinals1 and the election of a    
,pope depends upon the tactics and      
schemes of these cardinals2 then1 pray1 

tell us how any man who has been raised 
up under the arch-light of              
,protestantism1 or who has had the      
searchlight of ,protestant intelligence 
penetrate his soul1 can for a moment    
believe in the infallibility of the     
,pope8  ,i sincerely believe1 in fact1  
,i know that there are millions who     
believe this damnable doctrine1 as ,i   
can honestly say that ,i at one time    
believed it myself4 ,but those who do   
believe it are those who have been      
raised beneath the dark shadows of      
superstition1 and my mission in writing 
this book is to brush the cobwebs of    
ignorance from these dwarfed minds and  
help to point them to the ,lamb of ,god 
who taketh away the sins of the world1  
and if ,i can be instrumental in this   
mission ,i will not only open the eyes  
of the followers of ,catholicism1 but ,i
 will put stiffening into the backbone  
of ,protestantism and help them to brand
 this idolatrous doctrine of            
,catholicism wherever she may dare to   

rear her abominable head4  ,the great   
danger in teaching that the ,pope is    
infallible is in making thieves and     
murderers of our citizens1 for if       
,catholicism is right in teaching her   
followers that the ,pope of ,rome is    
infallible1 this doctrine is bound to   
have an influence that is awful in its  
effect1 for whenever a man or woman     
believes in the infallibility of the    
,pope they are bound to believe in the  
infallibility of all things that he     
creates2 therefore you will see that    
this doctrine is far-reaching in its    
effects1 for if a ,pope is infallible   
the bishops which he creates are        
infallible1 and if the bishops which he 
creates are infallible1 the priests     
which they create are infallible1 and   
whenever we teach a nation this         
abomination we have a nation of people  
which believes that there is no sin so  
heinous which they may commit but which 
may be forgiven by the priesthood1 as   
they have learned to believe that all   

things created by the ,pope are         
infallible1 simply because they have    
been created by the ,pope1 and whenever 
you preach a doctrine that has such     
effect upon the inhabitants of any      
country you will have a set of          
inhabitants who will commit crime       
without hesitation1 as they are assured 
that by paying a few dollars into the   
coffers of the priest they can have     
their sins pardoned1 and whenever you   
cause a nation to believe this1 you at  
once have a nation of criminals4  ,it   
is1 in my estimation1 absolutely        
impossible for an individual who        
believes in such a damnable doctrine to 
become a pure1 patriotic ,american      
citizen4 ,now1 this may seem to the     
reader a very broad assertion and one   
that may appear too broad to be         
substantiated1 but ,i propose to        
demonstrate to you that it is only a    
natural consequence1 and if we fail to  
make this point clear to the reader's   
mind we will not ask them to believe it4

  ,in the first place1 we desire to say 
that the ,catholic religion--if religion
 it can be termed--is founded upon the  
rock of superstition4 ,every code of    
their church doctrine teaches that the  
,pope is infallible and cannot err1     
which is absurd1 and not only absurd1   
but a festering lie1 for no man or woman
 who believes in the teachings of the   
,holy ,bible can believe in such a      
doctrine1 and whenever a man or woman   
does believe in the infallibility of the
 ,pope and believes that the ,pope      
cannot err1 he or she believes that the 
,pope is superhuman1 and such we know   
cannot be the case as long as there is  
life in the body1 as we are all liable  
to the ,adamic sin1 as the world at     
large was cursed with the ,adamic sin in
 the ,garden of ,eden4  ,now1 we want to
 deal in simple facts and truths that   
are so simple that the commonest man of 
ordinary intelligence can understand4   
,now1 if the ,pope of ,rome is          
infallible1 he is immortal1 and if every

 action of this ,pope is pure1 then     
everything that is created by him must  
be pure2 and if such is the case1 ,i was
 at one time as pure as ,jesus ,christ  
,himself1 as ,i for thirty years was a  
,roman ,catholic priest and a creature  
created by a ,roman ,catholic ,pope4    
,every man and woman of very ordinary   
intelligence knows that neither ,i nor  
any other priest ever was pure2 in fact1
 that man has never lived or died who   
could claim infallibility and purity so 
long as life was left in his body4  ,if 
the doctrines of ,catholicism are       
correct then we have no use for a ,god  
any longer1 as we already have a ,pope2 
and should ,pope ,pius ,x die to-day the
 cardinals to-morrow1 or some day in the
 near future1 would elect another ,pope1
 who would take the place of ,jesus     
,christ ,himself1 according to their    
doctrine2 and if such doctrines are     
true1 then the human family in the      
future and the unborn millions could be 
saved as easily without ,god as they    

could with ,him1 as the ,pope would     
perform that mission himself4  ,there   
are thousands--yea1 tens of thousands1  
who send handkerchiefs and trinkets each
 year to ,rome to be blessed 787 by the 
,pope1 and who believe that by having   
some article which has been blessed 787 
by this presumptuous vagabond will      
prevent them from being overtaken by bad
 luck1 ill health or any other          
misfortune that besets the path of man4 
,now1 if the ,pope of ,rome has the     
power to bless and sanctify a piece of  
cloth1 a ring1 or any dead and inert    
object1 he undoubtedly is the real      
thing1 and if such is the case the      
,bible is a lie1 the gospel a fallacy1  
and ,god ,almighty becomes a hireling1  
and we have no further need of a ,god4  
,what can we expect of the followers of 
,catholicism who believe in this hellish
 doctrine1 and what can we expect of a  
nation which is controlled by those who 
teach and preach such abominations8  ,an
 institution which will teach such      

damnable ignorance and practice such    
superstitious paganism is a plague spot 
and a curse to any country1 and the man 
or set of men who claim that the ,pope  
is infallible offers a brazen insult to 
,god4  ,illustration3 ,a ,,modern       
,,judas4 ,in his wake1 misery always    
follows4     ,chapter ,,xi4  ,the       
,characters of the ,followers of        
,catholicism ,compared to the ,followers
 of ,protestantism4   ,i believe that ,i
 am not presuming too much when ,i      
consider myself authority on the subject
 of ,character1 as ,i have had the      
privilege of studying the characters of 
the followers of both ,catholic and     
,protestant countries1 as ,i have       
traveled extensively over both ,europe  
and ,america and have had occasion to   
compare the characters of the followers 
of the ,pope to the characters of the   
followers of ,jesus ,christ1 and the    
comparison is one that will lead any    
sane man1 or woman1 and one who desires 
to reach a true verdict1 to arrive at   

the conclusion that it is a physical    
impossibility for any man or woman who  
depends upon mortal wisdom for their    
inspiration to ever attain the broadness
 and purity of character that the man or
 woman who lives beneath the shadow of  
the ,cross1 and who looks to a living   
,god for their wisdom4  ,character is   
not a spontaneous fungus which grows    
without proper care1 as character is an 
essential that must be cultivated in the
 fertile soil of morality1 as there is  
no code of morals which will stand the  
crucial test of godliness unless it     
springs from the eternal injunctions    
laid down in the ,holy ,bible1 and      
without morals an individual as well as 
a nation loses its identity among the   
good of the land1 and when this happens1
 society in general is the loser1 for   
whenever we degrade society we degrade  
ourselves1 for there is no man or woman 
so strong and powerful in their         
individuality but what they can become  
besmirched and contaminated1 to a degree

 at least1 by the association of those  
who have been lowered in the scale of   
morality by the lack of this most       
precious jewel of the human family4  ,we
 are aware of the fact that             
,protestantism is not exempt from sin1  
as we are well aware that we will find  
sinners of all degrees in the           
,protestant ranks1 but we make the      
assertion1 without fear of              
contradiction1 that the characters in   
general of the followers of             
,protestantism are many times superior  
to the characters in general of the     
followers of ,romanism4  ,we will take  
the large cities in the ,united ,states 
as an illustration1 and we will find    
that the saloon-keepers1 comparatively  
speaking1 are from the ranks of         
,catholicism1 and to engage in the      
saloon business is no bar to a member of
 the ,catholic ,church1 for if this     
saloon-keeper1 no matter if he runs a   
wine-room in connection with his saloon 
and is responsible for the downfall of  

an army of precious girls1 he is        
considered a fit subject for heaven by  
the ,catholic ,church provided he       
liberally donates to the support of this
 damnable institution4  ,statistics show
 that ninety-four bar-rooms out of every
 one hundred in ,america are owned and  
controlled by the followers of          
,romanism4 ,as ,catholicism establishes 
and builds character out of money1 she  
makes money her god1 and as long as her 
followers liberally support the great   
army of ,catholic dignitaries they are  
taught that they have performed the     
essential part in the establishment of  
character2 thus you can see what the    
result of this doctrine would lead to1  
and you have demonstrations of this     
doctrine in this country1 and more      
especially in other countries where     
,catholicism is solely responsible for  
the condition of the inhabitants4       
,everything that is not in the ,bible is
 taken by the ,catholic ,church from the
 heathens and the ,jews1 and you will   

find the doctrines and the practices of 
,catholicism founded upon heathenish    
practices and not upon the broad plane  
of morals taught by ,jesus ,christ4     
,those who may read this book1 and who  
are not acquainted with the characters  
of the rabble of ,catholicism1 we would 
be glad to have them go to any of our   
large cities and visit some of the      
districts of these cities which are     
inhabited by the followers of ,romanism1
 and there you will find a class whose  
countenances alone would condemn them in
 any criminal court of the land1 as they
 are men and women who are made up of a 
foreign element and from the criminal   
districts of ,european countries1 and   
who are as ignorant as rams and glory in
 their ignorance1 and who have no idea  
of patriotism and of loyalty to country1
 and only have an idea and desire to    
worship the images and symbols of       
,catholicism1 and any man or body of    
men1 or any nation1 who will practice   
this heathenish worship cannot possess  

character4  ,i have traveled extensively
 over the ,united ,states and over      
,european countries which are controlled
 by the ,pope1 and if ,i could vividly  
portray the characters of ,catholicism  
and ,protestantism the comparison would 
resemble the countenance of the criminal
 compared to the innocent and loveable  
features of a girl baby4  ,catholicism  
poisons the very atmosphere that        
surrounds her followers1 and she is not 
satisfied by confining her contaminating
 influences to her own followers1 but   
she is everlastingly stretching her     
filthy grasp to pull ,protestantism down
 to her degraded level4 ,catholicism    
lowers the standard of public opinion4  
,she makes war on morality and virtue1  
which destroys character4 ,catholicism  
countenances wrong-doings4 ,catholicism 
tolerates evil and rewards vice1 and it 
is a well-known fact that evil          
communications corrupt good manners1 and
 if this is the case1 then is it any    
wonder that the characters of the       

followers of ,catholicism cannot1 nor   
never will1 favorably compare to the    
followers of ,protestantism8  ,i am     
about to make an assertion that will    
perhaps shock those who are not familiar
 with the teachings of ,catholicism1 but
 ,i make it without fear of             
contradiction1 as ,i know whereof ,i    
speak1 as ,i have traveled the ,papist  
road for thirty years1 and ,i declare to
 you with all sincerity and honesty that
 ,rome would not go far wrong if she    
counted in her membership #ie per cent  
of the men and women who are on their   
road to hell1 and if this assertion is  
true1 and if ,i have not overdrawn my   
estimation1 then1 pray1 tell me what we 
can expect in the future in this country
 should such characters as ,i have just 
portrayed be permitted to dominate this 
government4  ,every ,roman ,catholic    
that is born in the world comes into the
 world alienated from ,god and ,god's   
teachings1 and is taught from infancy   
not to depend upon ,god ,almighty for   

guidance1 but to depend upon ,romanism  
for their everlasting future1 and with  
such doctrines everlastingly funnelled  
into childhood1 what can we expect of   
the child when it has grown to maturity8
  ,protestant children are born into the
 world of parents who look above the    
horizon of earthly things for their     
inspirations1 and these children are    
taught from infancy that they must look 
to an all-wise ,god for succor and      
support2 but ,popery ignores all of this
 and teaches by heathenish symbols and  
by paganic practices4 ,thus it is an    
easy matter for any sane man or woman to
 understand why character cannot be     
found in such a class4  ,the followers  
of ,catholicism are taught that by the  
payment of a few dimes they can have    
their sins remitted and pardoned2 thus  
you will see that crime has no terrors  
for such a class1 as they believe that  
when they have committed a crime all    
they have to do is to go to the         
priestcraft and have their sins         

pardoned1 in exchange for perhaps a part
 of the money which they gained in their
 criminal transaction4  ,to rule such   
men1 no religion is required4 ,a        
,romanist does not look to ,god         
,almighty for his salvation1 but to the 
church1 and the church gives him her    
unbounded sanction to commit sin1       
provided that he returns after he       
commits the crime and pays a few dollars
 to have his sins pardoned4  ,a ,roman  
,catholic can swear1 break the ,sabbath1
 dishonor his parents1 lie1 steal1      
commit adultery1 get drunk and commit   
any other crime that he chooses1        
provided that he returns to the         
confessional box and pays for having his
 sins pardoned4  ,now1 what can you     
expect of a class of men and women who  
believe in this doctrine1 and can you   
expect to find anything but the         
character of a criminal or a degenerate8
 ,if you do1 you are undoubtedly as     
ignorant as the followers of ,romanism1 
as it is a physical impossibility to    

reasonably expect a man or woman who has
 been taught these abominations to ever 
make men and women of character who will
 adorn this or any other nation4  ,one  
of the rulers of ,england1 ,charles     
,,ii1 died with prostitutes about him   
and died a disgrace to ,england and to  
himself1 but ,rome glorified in him as  
one of her converts4 ,the more of ,rome 
a man or woman possesses1 and the less  
of ,god1 the more the ,roman ,catholic  
,church glorifies in him4  ,catholicism 
is a coward--yea1 a cringing            
coward--when not surrounded by large    
numbers of her followers1 as she has no 
excuse for her existence and cannot     
defend herself by intelligent and godly 
arguments1 and the only way she can     
defend herself is by numbers2 but       
whenever she can resort to physical and 
brutal strength1 she then makes a fight 
which crimsons the earth with blood1 and
 ,protestantism pays the penalty1 and   
the reason why those in the country and 
in sparsely settled districts do not    

know more of the hellishness of         
,catholicism is because this creed      
cannot intelligently defend itself and  
will not take issue with ,protestantism 
unless she can take issue by brutal     
power1 but in our cities we have an     
exhibition of the diabolical deeds of   
,catholicism1 as the majority of our    
municipal elections are controlled by   
the followers of ,catholicism1 as       
,rome's followers congregate in our     
large cities1 because they love darkness
 better than light1 and they infest the 
tough sections of our cities and control
 our municipal elections by brute force1
 which is sanctioned by the priestcraft4
  ,we will take it for granted that the 
inhabitants of the ,united ,states know 
more of ,mexico than any other nation   
which is priest-ridden1 so we desire to 
dwell for a short time upon the         
characters of the ,mexican peon4 ,you   
will find ,mexico1 which lays right     
across from ,texas on the ,rio ,grande  
,river1 a dividing line between         

ignorance and intelligence1 crime and   
godliness1 and morality and immorality2 
however1 that part of ,texas which lays 
near the ,mexican border has become     
contaminated to a great degree by these 
,mexican dupes who follow the black flag
 of ,romanism2 but the difference in    
character1 in manhood1 in womanhood1 in 
intelligence and everything which       
distinguishes right from wrong is so    
marked and so plain that one does not   
have to look twice to see the           
difference1 and there is no cause nor no
 reason for this great difference in    
character1 in manhood and womanhood but 
the teachings of ,rome4  ,if we expect  
,america to retain her place among the  
nations of intelligence and nations of  
greatness1 and nations of goodness and  
godliness1 we must be                   
character-builders1 for without         
character we can never expect to reach  
the zenith of godliness1 and without    
godliness individual greatness is an    
impossibility4  ,catholicism paints the 

countenances of her followers with the  
brush of ignorance and criminality4     
,illustration3 ,,foes ,,to ,,knowledge4 
,like a poisonous serpent ,catholicism  
is endeavoring to inoculate our public  
schools1 with the virus of ignorance4   
,chapter ,,xii4  ,why ,teachers in ,our 
,public ,schools ,should ,not ,be       
,selected from the ,ranks of            
,catholicism4   ,the ,catholic world    
does not hesitate in declaring that our 
public schools in this country are      
,sinks of ,iniquity1 ,schools of ,vice1 
and ,nurseries of ,hell2 then why should
 the followers of ,catholicism be       
permitted to teach in our public        
schools8  ,this is a question that ought
 to vitally interest every ,protestant  
father and mother in this land1 and the 
time is not far distant until they will 
become interested1 for just as sure as  
,god reigns1 the time is not far in the 
future when ,catholicism will endeavor  
to close up the public schools of this  
land and establish her nurseries of     

darkness and superstition in their      
stead4  ,if the public schools of this  
country are not good enough for the     
children of ,catholic parents1 it seems 
to me that the ,protestant parents of   
this country should see to it that their
 children are too good to be taught by  
,catholic teachers4  ,why is it that the
 ,pope does not promulgate one of his   
holy bulls and excommunicate those of   
his believers who take the money so     
freely for their services from the      
public schools of this country8  ,oh1   
no2 the ,pope and the priestcraft are   
perfectly willing1 so long as           
,protestants have the power to maintain 
those schools1 that their jesuitical    
dupes shall receive the money that is   
set aside for these schools4 ,my blood  
fairly boils with unbounded indignation 
when ,i think of the hard1 harsh1 and   
ungodly slurs that ,catholicism is ever 
ready to throw at our public school     
system1 and then see blind ,protestants 
help to place a ,catholic teacher in one

 of our schools4  ,we propose to give   
facts and figures in this chapter that  
we hope will open the eyes of drowsy1   
unconcerned ,protestants1 and help them 
and their children to apply the brakes  
to their downward course1 and spike the 
guns of the ,vatican with ,american     
manhood4  ,we hope by the time you are  
through with this chapter you will be   
ready to make inquiries as to who is to 
teach your children in the public       
schools4 ,let me ask you1 ,mr4          
,protestant1 if you ever heard of a     
,protestant teaching in a ,catholic     
school8 ,oh1 no6 ,but then you will fold
 your hands and be content to allow your
 children to be taught by a man or woman
 who secretly despises the public school
 system4 ,shame6 ,ten thousand times we 
exclaim you should be ashamed for not   
asserting your ,american and ,god-given 
privileges of ,protestantism gained for 
you through the blood of your           
forefathers6  ,a general system of      
education1 such as affords all alike an 

opportunity to cultivate and expand the 
intellect1 the poor as well as the rich1
 is1 beyond all question1 one of the    
greatest blessings that any nation can  
enjoy4 ,such a system had its birth in  
,america while it was yet comparatively 
free from the blighting influence of a  
religio-political corporation whose     
whole history is one uninterrupted and  
relentless war upon every system of     
education which broadens the intellect  
and causes people to think4 ,in ,america
 was born the public free school system1
 and from the date of its birth1 in     
#afie1 to the present1 it has been the  
means of giving to this nation its most 
renowned statesmen1 jurists1 patriots1  
agriculturists1 teachers and divines4   
,it is one of the principal agents by   
which the ,united ,states of ,america   
has been enabled to advance to the first
 rank in all things that make a nation  
great4  ,but against this most sacred   
product of ,american liberty ,rome lifts
 her unholy hands4 ,against our schools 

she hurls her worst anathemas4 ,but it  
is our purpose in this chapter to let   
the ,roman ,catholic ,church speak for  
itself4 ,its language is plain and needs
 no interpretation4 ,listen to ,rome's  
damnable utterances3      ,these public 
schools are devouring fires and pits of 
destruction4 ,they ought to go back to  
the devil1 from whence     they         
came4--,the ,freeman's ,journal4        
,if your son or daughter is attending a 
state school you may     be sure that   
you are violating your duty as ,catholic
 parents     and conducting to the      
everlasting anguish and despair of your 
child4 ,take it away4 ,let it rather    
never know how to write     its name    
than to become the bound and chained    
slave of     satan4--,the ,shepherd of  
the ,valley4      ,the common schools of
 this country are sinks of moral        
pollution and nurseries of              
hell4--,chicago ,tablet4      ,the      
public or common school system is a     
swindle on the     people1 an outrage on

 justice1 a foul disgrace in matters of 
morals1 and should be abolished         
forthwith4--,new ,york     ,tablet4     
,the hideous fetish1 called the public  
school1 is only an     ugly idol after  
all4--,colorado ,catholic4      ,it will
 be a glorious day for ,roman ,catholics
 in this     country when1 under the    
laws of justice and morality1 our       
school system shall be shivered to      
pieces4--,catholic     ,telegraph4      
,we hold education to be a function of  
the church and not of     the state1 and
 in our case we do not and will not     
accept the     state as an              
educator4--,new ,york ,tablet4          
,they love darkness rather than light   
because their deeds are     evil4       
,listen to the snarls of ,rome's dupes3 
,unless you suppress the public school  
system as at present     conducted1 it  
will prove the damnation of this        
country4--,father ,walker4      ,i      
frankly confess that the ,catholics     
stand before the     country as the     

enemies of the public schools4--,father 
,phelan4      ,the duty of all loyal1   
,god-fearing ,christian men 7,roman     
,catholics7 then1 ,i repeat it1 is to   
make common cause against     this      
common foe4--,father ,gleason4      ,the
 public schools have produced nothing   
but a godless     generation of thieves 
and blackguards4--,priest ,schauer4     
,i would as soon administer the         
sacrament to a dog as to     ,catholics 
who send their children to public       
schools4--,priest ,walker4      ,the    
public school system must be destroyed4 
,it must be done     by stopping ,bible 
reading1 ,psalm singing and eliminating 
objectionable books4--,priest ,phelan4  
,to rescue these little ones out of the 
grasp of that monster     7the public   
school71 of that popular idol1 is our   
work4--,bishop ,john ,hennessy4      ,we
 can have the ,united ,states in ten    
years4 ,and ,i want to     give you     
three points for your consideration3    
,the ,negroes1     the ,indians and the 

public schools4--,bishop ,ireland4      
,emphatically a social                  
plague4--,archbishop ,perche4      ,a   
ripe knowledge of the cathechism1 minus 
,massachusetts     education1 is        
preferable to her education1 minus the  
catechism4--,cardinal ,antonelli4       
,the common school system of the ,united
 ,states is the worst     in the        
world4--,cardinal ,manning4      ,the   
catechism alone is essential for the    
education of the     people4--,cardinal 
,antonelli4      ,we must take part in  
the elections4 ,move in solid mass in   
every state pledged to sustain the      
integrity of the public                 
schools4--,cardinal ,mc,closkey4        
,the ,roman ,church alone is endowed    
with power to educate the               
young4--,cardinal ,mc,closkey4          
,education outside of the control of the
 ,roman ,catholic     ,church is a      
damnable heresy4--,pius ,,ix4           
,public schools open to all children for
 the education of the     young should  

be under the control of the ,romish     
,church1 and     should not be subject  
to civil power1 nor made to conform to  
the opinions of the ages4--,pope ,pius  
,,ix4      ,when ,i see them drag from  
me the children1 the poor little        
children1 and give them an infidel      
education1 it breaks my                 
heart4--,pope ,pius ,,ix4      ,it is   
desirable1 therefore1 venerable         
brethren1 that in     concert with your 
colleagues in the ,episcopate1 your     
efforts     and your zeal guard         
,catholic children from frequenting     
schools in which their religious        
instruction is neglected and     open   
danger incurred of spiritual loss4      
,therefore we     vehemently desire1 as 
has already been intimated to you by    
the propaganda1 that in approaching     
,episcopal meetings you     carefully   
discuss the measure that may best help  
to attain     this end4 ,we wish you    
also to use earnest efforts that the    
civil magistrates1 who know full well   

that nothing is more     advantageous to
 the commonwealth than religion should  
provide1 by the enactment of wise laws1 
that the office of     teachings1 which 
is carried on at the expense of the     
public1     including consequently the  
contributions of ,catholics1 should     
contain nothing that stands in the way  
of their conscience or     runs foul of 
their religion4--,pope ,leo ,,xiii4  ,we
 could go on and quote diabolical       
denunciations of our public schools from
 hundreds and thousands of ,catholic    
officials1 as the followers of ,rome    
make no bones of declaring their        
animosity towards the public schools of 
this country1 and they are only waiting 
for the time to arrive when they will be
 able to wipe from the face of the earth
 every vestige of our public schools1   
and place in their stead their parochial
 schools1 which are nothing more nor    
less than mills of ignorance and        
institutions of superstition4  ,an      
institution of learning is something    

that is not desired by ,catholicism1 for
 whenever you educate you destroy the   
doctrines of ,romanism1 as the hosts of 
,catholicism cannot stand the           
searchlight of wisdom1 for whenever you 
educate the followers of ,catholicism   
they become disgusted with their dogmas 
of damnation4  ,our public schools are  
the bulwarks of this government1 and all
 that we are to-day1 and all that we may
 expect to be in the future1 has come   
and must come by and through the public 
schools1 which are the dearest          
institutions that adorn this country4   
,there must be no sectarianism1 whether 
political or religious1 in our public   
schools1 but there must be truth and    
duty there4 ,the unchanging and undying 
maxim of moral rectitude should be      
taught to every child4 ,it is not enough
 that a boy or girl should be educated  
mentally4 ,the safety of our nation1 as 
well as his own usefulness and          
happiness1 demand that they should be   
trained to habits of truthfulness and   

develop a fine standard of honor4 ,they 
should be inspired to form exalted      
ideals of manhood and womanhood1        
charity1 rectitude and godliness1 and   
made strong in the resolution to defend 
the truth1 which is never found in      
parochial schools1 as the ,catholic     
doctrine always tends to humiliate her  
followers4  ,the time has come when the 
pupils of our public schools must be    
taught the love of country1 and         
,catholicism does not teach this1 but   
the reverse4 ,the children of this      
nation must learn to love their native  
land4 ,to whom shall we look for the    
inculcation of those patriotic          
sentiments which should inspire the     
heart of every ,american citizen8 ,not  
to ,catholicism1 by any means1 but to   
the three hundred thousand teachers of  
our public schools4  ,over every school 
house in hamlet and city1 in country and
 town1 in the ,north and in the ,south1 
in the ,east and in the ,west1 the      
,american flag should kiss the morning  

breeze4 ,place it where twenty millions 
of children will see it every day1 and  
learn to love it as the emblem of all   
that is great and good4 ,it will        
represent to us and to all the world1 in
 a new and peculiar manner1 the great   
fundamental truth that the bulwark of   
our liberties is in the education of our
 people4  ,the war of the revolution was
 fought to establish our nationality4   
,incalculable blood and treasure have   
been spent to establish and keep our    
national life intact1 and the national  
policy with relation to our public      
schools is part and parcel of that      
all-absorbing determination to secure   
the perpetuity of the state4 ,men make  
better citizens for being educated4 ,the
 higher the popular intellect is raised 
the more intelligent and independent    
will be its vote4 ,the stronger the     
source of government1 the stronger the  
government4 ,if the bayonets that think 
are the most potent1 the ballots that   
think are the most beneficent4  ,every  

victory which our nation has won has    
been a victory of the public schools and
 a death knock to ,catholicism4 ,they   
have been the nursery not only of our   
statesmen1 but of our patriots and      
soldiers4 ,they are an ,american        
institution and are destined to live as 
long as the republic survives4 ,there is
 no other ,american institution that    
,american people would sooner fight for 
and die for than that which secures an  
educated and intelligent nationality4   
,let us maintain inviolate our public   
schools to the end that our nation may  
ever be the home of liberty1 the land of
 benedictions4  ,in the unbounded       
universe of ,god's domain there are     
manifold diversities1 and yet there is  
an essential unity that binds the world 
together2 there is a common point where 
all matter unites4  ,as there is great  
freedom and diversity permitted in the  
unity of nature1 so1 in our country of  
religious and political freedom1 we must
 grant the greatest latitude possible to

 the individual conscience in personal1 
religious and civil rights consistent   
with good government4 ,but that there   
must be a code of morality common to all
 as the basis of our civilized          
jurisprudence1 in which the rights of   
all center or unite and are equally     
protected1 every reasonable mind must   
admit4 ,but where do we get our ideas of
 what is morally right1 and what is     
morally wrong1 as the basis of our      
common law and jurisprudence8 ,what book
 or books contain the best code of      
morals8 ,we answer1 the ,bible4 ,for the
 excellency of the morality of the      
,bible has been admitted by the most    
distinguished men who have opposed its  
supernatural revelation1 among whom are 
,gibbon1 ,byron1 ,carlyle1 ,lord        
,bollingbroke1 ,napoleon ,bonaparte1    
,goethe and ,renan4 ,thomas ,jefferson1 
speaking of ,christ as a teacher1 said3 
,he set forth the sublime ideas of the  
,supreme ,being1 aphorisms and precepts 
of the purest morality4  ,catholicism   

says3 ,no ,bible shall be taught in the 
public schools1 but demands that she be 
allowed to proclaim her dogmas4         
,benjamin ,franklin1 five weeks before  
his death1 said of ,christ3 ,i think    
,his system of morals1 and ,his         
religion1 as ,he left them1 are the best
 the world ever saw or is likely to see4
 ,the services of the ,bible in behalf  
of human rights and freedom1 and in     
reforming and purifying jurisprudence   
and politics1 have been recognized by   
many of the most distinguished          
historians1 jurists and statesmen4  ,as 
the makers of our laws and the founders 
of our government have accepted the     
moral code of the ,bible as the basis of
 our jurisprudence1 and have forbidden  
the union of church and state1 and have 
left every citizen free to worship ,god 
according to the dictates of his own    
conscience1 so long as he does not      
interfere with the rights of others or  
violate the moral code common to all    
citizens1 for the law cannot allow a    

person to murder or steal1 or burn human
 sacrifices1 or be a polygamist1 or     
commit any other public crime1 even if  
the dictates of his conscience should   
lead him into such a form of religion1  
because the moral code of the ,bible is 
the basis of our jurisprudence1 and it  
forbids such things4  ,therefore1 we    
demand that the book of books be kept   
where the rising generation shall come  
under its moral teaching without party  
or sectarian comment1 so that all may   
understand the fundamental principles   
upon which the science of our common law
 rests1 and thus one of the objects of  
the order is to maintain the public     
school system of the ,united ,states and
 to prevent sectarian interference      
therewith1 and upholding the reading of 
the ,holy ,bible therein4  ,the argument
 that the reading of the ,bible in the  
public school should be abolished       
because it is objectionable to the      
conscience of some comes only from the  
,church of ,rome1 and applies with equal

 force against the moral code of        
jurisprudence1 because it is            
objectionable to the conscience of the  
anarchist1 and the conscience of the    
anarchist is just as sacred and entitled
 to as much respect1 under the law1 in  
this free country of ours as the        
conscience of any one else4  ,we have   
just as much right to take the moral    
code out of our common jurisprudence as 
to take the ,bible out of our public    
schools1 because the moral code of the  
,bible is the moral code of our common  
law4  ,we desire the ,bible to be kept  
in the school as the standard of moral  
truth1 as the dictionary is kept there  
as the standard of words and their      
definitions4 ,as the unabridged         
dictionary contains all the words of the
 ,english language1 so the ,bible       
contains all the truths of              
,christianity4 ,every book has a part of
 the words of the dictionary1 so every  
,christian creed has a part of the      
truths of the ,bible4 ,as there never   

was a book written that contained all of
 the words of the dictionary1 so there  
never was a creed written that contained
 all the truths of the ,bible4          
,therefore1 as the dictionary and not   
the books is the standard for words and 
their meaning1 so the ,bible1 and not   
the creeds1 is the standard of moral    
truth4 ,a man can take the words in the 
dictionary and write a bad book1 but    
that is not the fault of the dictionary1
 but of the man4 ,a person may take     
passages of ,scripture and misapplied   
truths and write a bad creed1 but that  
is not the fault of the ,bible1 but of  
the creed-maker4 ,but every man who     
takes the ,bible as a whole has a       
complete standard of moral truths4  ,it 
is claimed that the ,bible should not be
 read in the school because there are   
passages that are not proper to be read 
before children1 or a promiscuous       
audience1 but this is only claimed by   
,catholicism4 ,yes1 and there are words 
in the dictionary that it would be just 

as improper to use and define before    
children or a promiscuous audience as   
any passage in the ,bible4 ,therefore1  
it would be just as reasonable to       
exclude the dictionary as the ,bible    
from the school room on this            
hypocritical argument in favor of false 
modesty4  ,the man's conscience that    
will object to the reading of the ,bible
 in the public school will ultimately   
object to the moral code of our         
jurisprudence1 and such a conscience is 
dangerous to our form of government1    
inimical to the best interests of       
society and good government1 as has been
 clearly demonstrated in the past4 ,the 
,mormons claimed the right under our    
constitution to live in polygamy1 as    
that was their religion and the way they
 served ,god according to the dictates  
of their own conscience4 ,but the       
supreme court decided they could not    
worship ,god according to the dictates  
of their conscience if their worship was
 a violation of the moral code common to

 all4 ,thus all must submit to the moral
 code irrespective of their individual  
conscience4 ,so the ,bible should be    
read in the public schools1 irrespective
 of the conscience of any1 until the    
majority of the government of the       
people1 for the people and by the people
 shall say3 ,away with your ,bible1 away
 with your ,sabbath1 away with your     
,christian jurisprudence1 and give us   
infidel1 revolutionary ,france1 or      
lawless anarchy1 or the inquisition of  
the dark ages6  ,our public school is   
the mill that is to grind out this      
standard of morality1 knowledge and     
patriotism common to all4 ,hence we must
 have the ,bible in it as the standard  
of morality1 and primary principles of  
literature1 science and art1 the        
standard of knowledge1 and the ,american
 flag and its essential principles as   
the standard of patriotism4 ,our        
,american school system is like a great 
paper mill1 into which are cast rags of 
all kinds and colors1 but which lose    

their special identity and come out     
white paper1 having a common identity4  
,so we want the children of the state1  
of whatever nationality1 color or       
religion1 to pass through this great    
moral1 intellectual and patriotic mill1 
or transforming process1 and thus lose  
their foreign peculiarities and come out
 not as ,germans1 ,irish1 ,english1     
,huns or ,poles1 but as ,americans1     
having the common identity of morality1 
knowledge and patriotism that is        
essential to true ,american citizenship 
and good government stamped upon their  
minds1 and when they pass through this  
mill of purification they then begin to 
lose confidence in the heathenish       
doctrines of ,catholicism4  ,in a       
government where the people are the     
rulers1 intelligence and education are  
necessary to maintain the nation's      
stability4 ,under this belief1 the      
public school system of the ,united     
,states was founded4  ,following are    
expressions of prominent ,americans on  

the general subject of popular          
education3  ,president ,hays3 ,i am     
firmly convinced that the subject of    
popular education deserves the earnest  
attention of the people of the whole    
country1 with a view to wise and        
comprehensive action by the government  
of the ,united ,states4 ,the means at   
the command of the local and state      
authorities are in many cases wholly    
inadequate to deal with the question4   
,the magnitude of the evil to be        
eradicated is not1 ,i apprehend1        
generally and fully understood4         
,president ,garfield3 ,next in          
importance to freedom and justice is    
popular education1 without which neither
 freedom nor justice can be permanently 
maintained4 ,its interests are intrusted
 to the state and to the voluntary      
action of the people4 ,whatever help the
 nation can justly afford should be     
generously given to aid the states in   
supporting common schools1 but it would 
be unjust to our people and dangerous to

 our institutions to apply any portion  
of the revenue of the nation of the     
states to the support of sectarian      
schools4 ,the separation of the church  
and the state in everything relating to 
taxation should be absolute4  ,dr4      
,strong3 ,free schools are one of the   
cornerstones of our government4         
,washington's ,farewell ,address3       
,promote them as an object of primary   
importance1 institutions for the general
 diffusion of knowledge4 ,in proportion 
as the structure of a government gives  
force to public opinion1 it is essential
 that public opinions should be         
enlightened4  ,calhoun3 ,in proportion  
as a people are ignorant1 stupid1       
debased1 corrupt1 exposed to violence   
within and danger without1 the power    
necessary for a government to possess in
 order to preserve society against      
anarchy and destruction becomes greater 
and greater1 and individual liberty1    
less and less1 until the lowest         
condition is reached1 when absolute and 

despotic power becomes necessary on the 
part of the government and individual   
liberty extinct4  ,the church of ,rome  
wants to rule by tyranny so that she can
 force her dupes to do her bidding4  ,no
 subject could be of more interest to   
,american citizens to-day than that of  
foreign immigration to ,america4 ,every 
section of the country has felt1 to some
 degree1 the demoralizing effect of the 
free admission of aliens1 unsuited      
morally and mentally for participating  
in a government of the people4  ,the    
consensus of opinion among all classes  
of good citizens is that some           
restrictive measures should be adopted1 
and this can be effected only by popular
 agitation and demand4  ,read what some 
prominent men of the country have said  
on the subject3  ,hon4 ,wm4 ,e4         
,chandler3 ,we should prepare ourselves 
with wisdom and vigor to enforce        
completely such laws of exclusion as we 
have adopted4 ,we should throw our      
strongest force into a stricter         

administration of those laws so that no 
man and no family shall pass through the
 ,ellis ,island doors1 or into any      
seaport1 or across the ,canadian or     
,mexican borders1 who is a pauper or    
likely to become such4 ,one method of   
stricter administration should be the   
requirement that all immigrants before  
leaving their own countries shall obtain
 consular certificates abroad1 showing  
their right to enter the ,united        
,states4  ,hon4 ,henry ,cabot ,lodge3   
,you ask me for a few words on the      
subject of immigration4 ,my opinion has 
been stated at length1 both in speeches 
in ,congress and in review articles1 but
 ,i am very glad to restate it in the   
briefest possible form4 ,i think that   
immigration to this country is          
increasing too fast on one hand and     
deteriorating on the other4 ,we are     
ready to welcome every honest immigrant 
who comes to make a home and become an  
,american citizen1 but ,i believe that  
the present immigration ought to be     

sifted and restricted much more than it 
is1 both as a protection to the quality 
of our citizenship and to the rates of  
wages to our workingmen4  ,hon4 ,robert 
,p4 ,porter1 ,superintendent of ,census3
 ,the unrestricted admission of the     
diseased1 half-fed swarms of helpless   
humanity from the purlieus of ,southern 
,european cities is the dangerous phase 
of immigration4 ,if continued1 it will  
prove a curse and blight to ,american   
citizenship and ,american institutions4 
,there was a time in our history when   
the better class of foreign immigrants  
and our own population was able to      
swallow up the less desirable class1 but
 it takes no great discernment now to   
see the congested spots here and there  
on our body politic4 ,in this lies the  
danger4 ,such a change in the character 
of immigration as herein shown cannot   
have taken place without materially     
affecting the entire immigration        
problem1 and the sooner our statesmen   
get to the bottom of the present        

condition of affairs1 the better for the
 republic4  ,rev4 ,josiah ,strong1      
,d4,d43 ,it is immigration which has fed
 fat the liquor power1 and there is a   
liquor vote4 ,immigration furnishes most
 of the victims of ,mormonism1 and there
 is a ,mormon vote4 ,immigration is the 
strength of the ,catholic ,church1 and  
there is a ,catholic vote4 ,immigration 
is the mother and nurse of ,american    
anarchy1 and there is to be an anarchist
 vote4 ,immigration tends strongly to   
the cities and gives to them their      
political complexion1 and there is no   
more serious menace to our civilization 
than our rabble-ruled cities4  ,samuel  
,gompers1 ,president ,american          
,federation of ,labor3 ,it almost       
grieves me even to recommend the        
slightest restriction to the full and   
free immigration of anyone who desires  
to escape from the iniquitous conditions
 from which he may suffer1 but the      
progress of our civilization is hanging 
in the balance1 and intelligent and     

brave men should not be afraid to       
express themselves to secure us against 
results which may be appalling4         
,unrestricted immigration injures the   
people of our country and does no good  
to the people of other countries4 ,it   
injures all4  ,a4,s4 ,draper3 ,i would  
hang the flag in every school room1 and 
,i would spend an occasional hour in    
singing our best patriotic songs1 in    
declaiming the masterpieces of our      
national oratory1 and rehearsing the    
proud story of our national life4       
,francis ,marion3 ,men will always fight
 for their government according to their
 sense of its value4 ,to value it right1
 they must understand it4 ,this they    
cannot do without education4  ,winship3 
,the public school is the one force1 is 
the only force1 that can unify all      
classes and conditions of society4 ,here
 we have the children of the nation in  
their entirety1 and we can1 if we will1 
teach them in the schools so much of the
 grandeur of our possession1 of the     

heroic in our history1 of the brilliant 
in our prosperity1 of the fascinating in
 our traditions1 that the fathers of the
 future will be willing to vote for and 
die1 if necessary1 for the ,american    
idea2 that the mothers of the future    
will teach their sons to develop our    
resources by industry1 to honor the     
active duties of private and public     
system1 because it lies at the          
foundation of our national existence4   
,where does the vicious element which is
 found in this country come from1 and to
 what church does it belong8 ,ah1 #ih   
per cent of those whom we call          
anarchists can trace their origin from  
foreign countries1 and they are always  
identified with the ,roman ,catholic    
,church4  ,wherever you find a national 
disturbance1 and wherever you find the  
spirit of anarchy in this country1 you  
will find a spot where ,roman           
,catholicism exists1 as her teachings   
are anarchistic1 as she teaches her     
followers a doctrine that is as sure to 

lead to anarchy as water is to flow down
 hill4  ,catholicism teaches her        
children that our public schools are    
plague spots and nurseries of hell1 and 
impresses upon their minds that         
education1 in a broad sense1 is not     
essential1 and also teaches them that   
they must look to the priestcraft for   
their education1 and at the same time   
the priestcraft is instructed by the    
,pope of ,rome that a broad-gauge       
education is not permissible to be given
 to the followers of ,catholicism1 and  
the ,pope of ,rome teaches her bishopric
 and her priestcraft that they must     
fight the public school system1 and in  
its stead erect the parochial schools of
 ,rome1 which are nothing more nor less 
than schools of dogmas1 and these dogmas
 are incubators of anarchy1 for without 
education and without love of country1  
anarchy is as certain to follow as the  
day is certain to follow night1 but     
still ,protestantism stands idly by and 
allows ,catholicism to villify her      

institutions1 and at the same time      
permits ,catholicism to place her       
followers in a position to draw salaries
 from the institutions which they       
despise and hate with the venom of hell4
  ,it is my object and my aim to arouse 
,protestantism to a sense of their duty1
 and if ,i can do this ,i will feel that
 ,i have accomplished a task that will  
eventually call forth the plaudits of   
the ,american people1 for as sure as    
,god reigns1 just that sure our public  
schools will be crushed out of existence
 by ,catholicism unless ,protestant     
,america raises her voice and her strong
 arm in defense of our public school    
system1 and against the encroachment of 
the damnable and diabolical doctrines of
 ,catholicism4  ,our greatest ,american 
statesmen1 our greatest ,american       
patriots1 our greatest ,american        
thinkers1 our wisest and most loyal     
citizens1 and our grandest old mothers  
are ,protestants1 and born of           
,protestant stock2 then why should we   

hesitate to denounce this anarchistic   
demon of ,rome1 when we know what she   
thinks of our ,american institutions1   
and when we are absolutely certain that 
if it was within her power she would    
crash into dust everything that is near 
and dear to ,protestantism8  ,arouse1 ye
 ,protestant hosts1 and buckle on the   
armor of your forefathers and march out 
in a solid body of ,protestant warriors 
and fight to the death the encroachment 
of ,romish rule and force her back into 
the trenches of her degradation1 and    
compel her to remain within the border  
of the countries which she has desolated
 by her hellish dogmas1 and purge the   
shores of the home of the brave and the 
land of the free of this scarlet-robed  
hag1 who would paralyze our ,american   
institutions which are near and dear to 
every pure ,american1 both man and      
woman1 who dwells beneath the folds of  
the ,american flag4  ,illustration3     
,,heathenish ,,practices4 ,a dupe       
kissing the supposed bone of ,saint ,ann

 to cure ,rheumatism4     ,chapter      
,,xiii4  ,the ,influence of the         
,priesthood of ,america ,upon the       
,morals of ,this ,country4   ,an        
institution which is allowed to flourish
 in this country1 should be an          
institution whose teachers are in       
harmony with the fundamental principles 
of godliness1 morality and liberty1 and 
unless they are1 the teachers at once   
become traitors4  ,now1 is not this     
common sense logic and every-day        
philosophy8  ,we want to investigate and
 see if this logic and philosophy is not
 reasonable and founded upon common     
sense1 and if we find that it is1 then  
any man or woman of intelligence must   
acknowledge that if the teachings and   
the fundamental principles of a free    
country are correct1 then the doctrines 
of ,catholicism are altogether wrong1   
and the sooner the ,american people can 
arrive at this conclusion1 the better it
 will be for us1 for if the teachings of
 our ,protestant forefathers are right1 

and the teachings of ,rome are wrong1   
the quicker we can eradicate and stamp  
out these popish doctrines1 the better  
it will be for our posterity4  ,if this 
country is a home for those who love    
liberty1 then the influence of the      
priesthood of ,america is detrimental to
 the fundamental principles of ,america1
 as ,catholicism does not teach         
patriotism and loyalty of country1 as   
the burden of her teachings is1 ,loyalty
 to the ,pope1 and the ,pope of ,rome1  
who is at the head of the ,catholic     
,church2 is a despot pure and           
simple--yea1 he is worse than a despot1 
as he rules his followers by a          
superstitious belief1 which teaches that
 not only the body of ,rome's followers 
is subject to the ,pope's every whim1   
but the soul as well is directly under  
the control of this despotic sovereign4 
,a ,roman ,catholic form of government  
is more despotic than a monarchy which  
is ruled by an absolute despot1 as these
 monarchs who have absolute sway in the 

affairs of the state only are satisfied 
with this absolutism1 but not so with   
,catholicism1 as she haunts her         
followers to the grave and then demands 
of their surviving relatives that homage
 be paid her in order to keep their dead
 out of the regions of despair4  ,it    
matters not how strong we are in our    
endeavors to do right1 the commission of
 wrong under our nose will corrupt to a 
certain extent the morals of the young1 
and ,i say without fear of contradiction
 that the priestcraft of this and every 
other country are1 as a whole1 a set of 
men whose morality is below par2        
however1 ,i sincerely believe that there
 are some few who are chaste1 but ,i am 
sorry to say that this class is greatly 
in the minority2 and why should it be   
otherwise1 as the priesthood is composed
 of men who are mortal1 and the vow of  
celibacy which they must take before    
they enter the priesthood is an         
unnatural and an unreasonable vow1 and  
one which is not kept sacred by one out 

of every fifty2 thus you will see at    
once that the priestcraft is a cancer   
upon the body of morality1 for whenever 
the young and rising generation learns  
that those who are supposed to teach    
them in chastity and morality1 are men  
who will commit the very sins which they
 have been taught are heinous4 ,then1   
what can you expect of future           
generations1 and what must eventually be
 the morals of a country which is       
controlled by the priestcraft8  ,we do  
not have to confine ourselves to the    
recital of the immorality of the        
priestcraft of foreign countries1 but we
 could mention scores of cases that have
 happened in this country and which will
 continue to happen as long as the      
,romish ,church demands the vows of     
celibacy by the priestcraft4  ,we will  
give you an instance of the practices of
 ,romanism in this country which        
happened no later than ,november of this
 year 7#aijc71 and if ,i had the space1 
,i could fill this volume full of such  

actions by the priestcraft4  ,priest    
,geo4 ,d4 ,sander1 of ,st4 ,leonard's   
,catholic ,church1 ,hamburg avenue and  
,jefferson street1 ,brooklyn1 ,new      
,york1 was known in that city as a      
devout ,catholic priest1 and he was also
 known in ,far ,hills1 ,new ,jersey1 as 
a race horse man1 by the name of ,geo4  
,west1 who was interested in a stock    
farm1 on which lived a woman known as   
,mrs4 ,geo4 ,west1 but her right name is
 ,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp1 who formerly       
belonged to ,priest ,sander's church1   
but disappeared from ,brooklyn very     
mysteriously1 and whose whereabouts had 
been unknown to her family and her      
friends1 until it was learned that she  
was living on this stock farm at ,far   
,hills1 ,n4,j41 and bore the fictitious 
name by which this priest was known4    
,the double life of ,priest ,sander     
began in #aija4 ,then ,jos4 ,c4 ,peck1  
racer and raiser of trotting horses1 met
 this priest in ,albany1 who wore the   
ordinary garb of a citizen4 ,they met at

 the race track1 which was not a very   
good recommendation to say the least of 
it1 for the ,rev4 ,father ,sander4 ,peck
 found that this priest was a keen judge
 of horses and their love for horses    
established a bond of friendship between
 them4  ,in ,baltimore1 a short time    
afterwards1 these two men again met at  
the race track4 ,peck told ,priest      
,sander that he had just sold a stock   
farm at ,millington1 ,n4,j41 and        
contemplated buying another4 ,sander    
told ,peck that he was the owner of a   
fine mare named ,ethel ,burns1 and that 
he would place her on ,peck's farm if he
 purchased it4 ,he told ,peck that his  
mare had a track record of #b3bj-a_/d   
and a trial record of #b3af4  ,peck     
informed this priest that he was a      
bachelor4 ,priest ,sander proposed that 
they should keep house jointly and said 
that he would provide a housekeeper and 
share the expense of the establishment4 
,he was the guardian1 he said1 of a     
,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp1 who had had some    

trouble with her husband and who wanted 
to get away from ,brooklyn4 ,he informed
 ,peck that this lady had a young son1  
and that he would bring both the mother 
and son to the farm at ,far ,hills1     
,n4,j4  ,it was obvious that the priest 
could not indulge in his love for fast  
horses1 and make regular visits to the  
stock farm in his priestly robes1 as he 
knew it would cause considerable        
comment2 so this priest suggested to    
,peck that ,mrs4 ,kipp be called ,mrs4  
,geo4 ,west1 and that it be given out to
 the neighbors that she was the wife of 
a drummer for a large mercantile house  
in ,new ,york1 and further stated that  
he could visit this woman as ,george    
,west1 and not create any comment4  ,the
 trainmen became acquainted with this   
priest and considered him a good fellow1
 as he was always smoking and played the
 part of a drummer in an elegant manner1
 and these trainmen came to know ,geo4  
,west as ,peck's partner in the race    
horse business4  ,the merchants about   

,far ,hills knew this priest as the     
husband of ,mrs4 ,west1 and when this   
priest would put in his appearance at   
,far ,hills1 the neighbors1 of course1  
thought it was nothing more than natural
 that ,mrs4 ,west's husband should come 
to see her whenever he could get an     
opportunity to get off of the road4     
,the accounts for the supplies of the   
household were billed sometimes to ,geo4
 ,west and sometimes to ,jos4 ,c4 ,peck1
 thus you will see that ,priest ,sander 
acknowledged by these bills that he was 
,geo4 ,west4  ,this story got to be     
noised about1 and the ,protestant       
element of ,brooklyn as well as ,priest 
,sander's flock became very much        
interested in the tale1 and sent a      
reporter out to interview ,jos4 ,c4     
,peck1 and the first question this      
reporter asked him was1 ,is that the    
picture of your sister8 pointing to a   
portrait of the woman hanging on the    
wall4 ,no1 he replied4 ,that is ,mrs4   
,west4 ,the reporter asked if it was not

 the picture of ,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp4     
,peck hesitated1 his lips trembling1 and
 he began to look very nervous1 then he 
gave way completely and said3 ,yes1 it  
is ,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp4 ,how does she    
come here under the name of ',mrs4      
,west1' and who is ',mr4 ,west8' was    
then asked1 which ,peck refused to      
answer4  ,with these facts in hand1 the 
reporter returned to ,brooklyn and      
sought ,priest ,sander in his parlor1 in
 his parish residence1 and the first    
question he asked him was this3 ,you own
 a trotting horse out at ,far ,hills1   
,n4,j41 don't you8 ,the answer was1     
,yes4 ,don't you own a string of        
trotting horses8 ,the answer was1       
,certainly not6 ,who told you that8 ,the
 reporter replied1 ,oh1 no2 you don't   
own a string of horses as ,priest       
,sander1 but as ',geo4 ,west1' don't    
you8 ,priest ,sander tried to look      
surprised1 and he folded a slip of paper
 he held in his hand and got very       
nervous and replied1 ,now1 that is a    

pretty story1 isn't it2 who told you all
 this8  ,the reporter laid before him   
all the facts he had gathered at ,far   
,hills1 and demanded that he affirm or  
deny the story4 ,then this priest said1 
,i may as well confess2 it will be the  
ruin of me2 it will take the bread out  
of my mouth1 but you have got it        
absolutely straight4 ,the reporter asked
 ,priest ,sander if he positively didn't
 know that this woman who sailed under  
the name of ,mrs4 ,geo4 ,west wasn't    
,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp4  ,this priest1 not  
being content with the dastardly part   
that he had played in his immoral       
conduct with ,mrs4 ,kipp1 absolutely    
denied that it was ,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp1  
and further declared that he knew       
nothing about her1 except that she was  
the housekeeper at ,peck's farm1 and why
 she was called ,mrs4 ,west he did not  
know2 thus you will see that while he   
was guilty of immorality with ,mrs4     
,mamie ,kipp1 he also was a notorious   
liar2 but bear in mind that this same   

,priest ,sander was still at this time  
presiding over a ,catholic church in    
,brooklyn4  ,the reporter was determined
 to lead him out as far as possible so  
he repeated again1 ,are you absolutely  
positive that ',mrs4 ,west' at ,peck's  
farm is not ,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp8  ,this  
priest replied that he was positive1 and
 stated that this woman at ,peck's farm 
was ,peck's housekeeper1 and further    
stated that he did not know anything    
about her at all1 when he knew as well  
as he knew that he was living that he   
had been the cause of her forsaking her 
husband in ,brooklyn1 and also had been 
instrumental in her going to ,far       
,hills1 ,n4,j41 where he could live his 
life of shame without molestation4      
,after this vagabond had made this      
denial1 ,mr4 ,peck was again seen at    
,far ,hills1 ,n4,j41 and emphatically   
stated that ,priest ,sander had told him
 that this woman was ,mrs4 ,mamie ,kipp1
 and that he knew that this priest was  
living in adultery with her4  ,what is  

the consequence8 ,did the ,roman        
,catholic ,church excommunicate this    
bundle of perfidy for immorality8 ,ah1  
no6 ,as the moguls and high up officials
 of ,catholicism are cognizant of the   
fact that the priestcraft are1 as a     
whole1 the most immoral set of men that 
ever infested the face of the earth4    
,now1 what can we expect of the morals  
of a country which has for its leaders  
and teachers men of this caliber8 ,we   
might as well expect our daughters to   
become women of virtue and godliness1   
who were raised in houses of ill fame1  
as to expect young men and women to     
become men and women of morality and    
chastity1 who have for their teachers   
such men as ,priest ,sander of          
,brooklyn1 ,new ,york4  ,there is no    
denying the fact that ,catholicism has  
already a strong hold upon the affairs  
of this country1 as we find the         
hydra-headed demon in every branch of   
our government1 and since such is the   
case1 it is folly to deny the fact that 

if ,catholicism is what we have shown it
 to be1 that her influence is           
demoralizing1 and the influence of the  
priesthood of ,america upon the morals  
of this country is bound to be          
detrimental1 and who will deny the      
truthfulness of my assertions1 as ,i    
have not misstated a single paragraph in
 this book2 and if this is true1 what   
shall we expect of the present          
generation and the generations that are 
yet unborn1 if we permit ,catholicism to
 make as great headway in the future as 
she has in the past8  ,we call to mind  
another case which belongs to the       
history of to-day1 and in this chapter  
we desire to refer to the present sins  
of the priestcraft1 as history teems    
with the abominations of the priestcraft
 immorality1 but in this chapter we want
 to thoroughly convince the reader that 
the same immorality that has existed in 
the ranks of ,catholicism in bygone     
centuries1 is to-day as degrading and as
 rampant as it ever was1 and if we can  

do this1 we feel satisfied that we will 
impress the ,protestant world with the  
importance of overthrowing the power of 
the ,pope1 and erecting in its stead the
 true spirit of ,protestantism1 whose   
influence will not blight the characters
 of our boys and girls1 but which will  
make of them an army of giants1 ever    
ready to battle for the chastity of our 
,american homes4  ,one of the most      
fashionable ,roman ,catholic churches in
 ,new ,york ,city is ,st4 ,cecilia's1   
situated on ,north ,henry and ,herbert  
streets4  ,only a few years ago the     
organist of this church went to the room
 of the priest in charge1 in company    
with a little boy4 ,the priest informed 
this boy to stay down stairs1 and       
invited the organist to his parlor1 near
 which were his living rooms4 ,this     
priest locked the door behind him1 and  
without a moment's warning1 leaped upon 
her like a beast and attempted to bear  
her down upon the sofa and commit an    
assault1 but her cries frightened him   

away4  ,with flushed face she rushed    
from this priest's room and passed the  
servant1 out into the street1 with the  
priest begging her to say nothing about 
what had happened4 ,we want to know if  
this attempted crime injured the priest 
in the estimation of ,catholicism8 ,not 
by any means1 as he continued to serve  
the church in the capacity of priest1   
after both this girl's father and mother
 had publicly denounced him as a seducer
 of virtue4  ,the entire congregation   
learned of this priest's attempted      
assault upon virtue1 but this degrading 
notoriety did not injure him in the     
least1 as his services are just as      
crowded as they were before4 ,this      
outrage was carried before the bishop of
 the diocese in which this church was   
situated1 but nothing was done4  ,the   
priest which we refer to was a drunkard1
 and he drank as deeply after this      
attempted assault as before1 and in a   
short time he assaulted a #ab-year-old  
girl1 and not long after that he        

assaulted his servant1 who was a girl   
#ah years of age1 and continued his raid
 upon her virtue until one day1 while in
 a drunken spree1 he struck her and     
injured her1 and she made public the    
actions of this human viper1 who had    
been parading in the robes of a priest4 
,did this exposure disgrace him in the  
eyes of the ,catholic officials who were
 above him8 ,not at all1 as he continued
 to serve this ,new ,york church without
 molestation1 and it was a notorious    
fact1 and known by the members of his   
church what he was accused of1 but still
 hundreds of boys and girls1 young men  
and young women1 and old men and old    
women1 bowed at the feet of this        
depraved devil and confessed their sins4
  ,if we cared1 we could write from now 
until our old arm would become palsied  
with age1 and each chapter would be a   
new story of the perfidy and hellishness
 of the priestcraft1 as every age reeks 
with the stench of their immorality1 and
 the countries which are completely     

under the power of the ,pope of ,rome   
are only the shadows of what this       
country will become if this demon of    
darkness is not halted1 for the         
influence of the priesthood in ,america 
upon the morals of this country will    
spread its blight over the face of our  
fair land until our nation's morals will
 be a nauseating sight to behold4       
,reader1 remember what ,i tell you      
to-day3 that unless the spirit of       
,protestantism takes a firm stand in    
this land against ,catholicism1 we will 
find our ,protestant hopes and ambitions
 within the near future paralyzed by the
 infusion of ,rome's immorality4        
,illustration3 ,a ,,catholic ,,tool4    
,begging in the name of the ,lord1 but  
in reality to support the ,priestcraft  
in their idleness4     ,chapter ,,xiv4  
,the ,chastity of the ,home ,invaded by 
the ,lustfulness of the ,priest-,craft4 
,catholicism begins to teach her        
children from their infancy that no act 
of their officials is impure2 thus their

 followers grow up to believe that any  
advancement made by these officials are 
made in behalf of the salvation of their
 souls1 consequently it is an easy      
matter for the ,priestcraft to make the 
female members of their congregation    
believe that whatever they may do or say
 is done and said through a righteous   
motive1 and no stigma of disgrace can   
possibly attach itself to the act4      
,with this erroneous doctrine funneled  
into the minds of the female members of 
the ,catholic ,church1 is it any wonder 
that the ,priestcraft exerts a wonderful
 power over these members8 ,and is it   
any wonder that thousands of trusting   
and confiding wives and daughters are   
forced to the level of immorality by    
this belief8  ,as an introduction to    
this chapter1 and in order to make the  
conduct of the priestcraft in general   
thoroughly understood1 so that the      
reader may know what character of men ,i
 refer to1 ,i will give a part of a     
story told by a nun who had been in a   

convent for a number of years4  ,i      
repeat what this nun related in order   
that the reader may not be compelled to 
take my statements alone4 ,her story    
follows3  ,it was customary with the    
sisters in our convent to give the      
bishop and priests of my diocese a grand
 dinner once every year4 ,of course1    
this entailed a great deal of extra work
 upon our part2 however1 we were glad to
 undergo these hardships1 as ,i thought 
at that time that it was a part of my   
religion4 ,the finest delicacies of the 
season and the choicest wines graced the
 table4 ,the dinner was always served in
 the dining-room of the priest of the   
house4 ,the bishop would usually arrive 
along in the afternoon about two or     
three o'clock4 ,we would spread scarlet 
felt upon the floor of the cloister in  
honor of the occasion1 and the drawing  
room would be banked with the rarest    
flowers2 the dining table would groan   
beneath its rich silver and cut-glass4  
,now1 bear in mind that what ,i am going

 to tell you is what happened when there
 were a number of priests together with 
their bishop in their midst1 and it is a
 well known fact that numbers is often a
 check to the actions and ungodly       
inclinations of many1 but if what this  
nun related is true1 with an assemblage 
of a score or more of priests1 with     
their bishop in their midst1 then what  
could be expected of one of these       
priests alone in the presence of a      
female whom he preferred8 ,i make this  
statement so that the reader can draw an
 intelligent conclusion4 ,i will now    
proceed with the nun's story3  ,this    
annual dinner would be made an occasion 
for great rejoicing and recreation on   
the part of the holy ecclesiastics4     
,everything was all right as long as the
 meal was in progress1 but as soon as   
the sisters who had waited on them had  
withdrawn1 after placing an abundance of
 wine1 whiskey and cigars on the table1 
then all restraint would be set aside   
and these holy fathers 787 would then   

exchange confidences as to the latest   
items of news they had gathered in the  
confessional from ,catholic servants    
employed in ,protestant families1 and1  
without mentioning any names1 would     
repeat1 amid shouts of drunken laughter1
 the sins that some of their female     
penitents had confessed4  ,we nuns would
 often put our ears to the key-hole and 
listen to the stories that were being   
told by the priests1 and upon my word1  
,i never in all my life heard as many   
dirty1 immoral1 filthy stories told as  
these vagabond priests would repeat1 and
 it always seemed as though the bishop  
heartily enjoyed them4  ,these carousals
 would proceed for hours4 ,the whiskey  
bowl would be placed in the center of   
the table1 then these drunken priests   
would sing songs which were vileness    
personified4  ,i feel that it is not    
necessary for me to go further to       
convince any one of my readers that the 
lustfulness of the priestcraft is a     
menace to the chastity of womankind1 for

 if this nun has told the truth1 and    
which ,i know from past experiences is  
true1 and which ,i also know is a       
recital that could be intensified ten   
thousand times over1 if the whole truth 
could be told1 but which cannot be told 
in this volume1 as ,i have too much     
respect for my readers to recite what ,i
 have seen with my own eyes and what ,i 
have had repeated to me by              
broken-hearted sisters who have come to 
me with tears in their eyes and with    
sighs in their throats to tell me of    
their miseries4  ,i know of a nun who   
spent many years in a convent1 who      
declared that on many occasions the     
priests would come to the convent and   
demand that a number of the nuns even do
 worse than expose their entire person2 
however1 ,i cannot conceive of a demand 
that would be more degrading than this  
of forcing those benighted souls to     
prostitute their persons for the        
gratification of those who pretend to be
 the followers of a crucified ,christ4  

,in relating her experience1 ,i         
understand that a nun who had been      
confined in a convent for years made the
 following declaration3 ,that the       
superior of the seminary would often    
come and inform us nuns that an order   
had been received from the ,pope to     
request those nuns who possessed the    
greatest devotion and faith to perform  
some particular deeds1 which he would   
name in our presence1 but which no moral
 or decent person could ever endure to  
speak of1 and ,i cannot repeat what     
these demands often were1 as ,i would   
have to resort to language so filthy    
that it would blush the cheek of one who
 was hardened in sin4  ,now1 if those   
who sail under the garb of righteousness
 would go so far that the inmates of the
 convents1 who are there believing they 
are doing the work of ,god1 would rebel 
against the priests' immorality1 then   
what can we expect of the priestcraft   
when they are in the presence of your   
wife1 daughter or sister1 whom they may 

prefer1 and who has been taught to      
believe that every act of the           
priestcraft is sanctified by ,god       
,almighty8  ,we want to bring the       
history of ,catholicism down as near to 
the present time as possible1 so the    
reader may understand the confidence the
 dupes of ,catholicism have in the      
priestcraft1 for1 as stated in a        
previous chapter of this book1 it is a  
well-known fact that the feminine world 
in general have more confidence in      
humanity than the male population1 but  
to demonstrate to the reader what       
implicit confidence the male members of 
,catholicism have in the priestcraft1 we
 call attention to ,ed ,butler1 of the  
,state of ,missouri1 who resides in ,st4
 ,louis4  ,ed ,butler is a full-fledged 
,catholic and believes in ,catholicism  
twenty-four hours each day4 ,by the way1
 it may be necessary for us to refresh  
the readers' mind of the fact that ,ed  
,butler of ,st4 ,louis1 ,mo41 is        
considered one of the most high-handed  

boodlers in ,america1 and who has had a 
number of his dupes placed in the state 
penitentiary and kept himself out of the
 same institution by a technicality4    
,but to go back to the point that we    
wanted to make1 we will just say that a 
,catholic priest in the ,city of ,st4   
,louis by the name of ,coffey had a     
falling out with ,butler over some thing
 or another1 and in order to get even   
with him he took sides against ,butler  
and said many harsh but true things     
about him4 ,one day a reporter of one of
 the ,st4 ,louis newspapers met ,butler 
and called his attention to what ,priest
 ,coffey had said about him1 and the    
only answer that ,butler gave this      
reporter was3 ,father ,coffey is a      
,catholic priest and ,i have nothing to 
say1 and if he should spit in my face ,i
 would not resent the action1 as ,i was 
born and raised a ,catholic1 and do not 
believe that a ,catholic priest can     
commit a sin4  ,now1 if a man of ,ed    
,butler's intellect can be brought up in

 this land of intelligence to believe   
such abominations in regard to a        
,catholic priest1 is it not reasonable  
to suppose that the female members of   
the ,catholic ,church would have a      
severe task in defending their virtue   
should a priest desire to destroy it1 by
 telling them that no act of his could  
defile them1 as it was impossible for   
him to sin8  ,now1 reader1 you may not  
know just what kind of treatment from   
the ,catholic ,church ,i will receive   
for writing this book1 but as soon as it
 is placed upon the market the ,catholic
 ,church will excommunicate me2 however1
 it may be possible that the reader does
 not understand what a horrible curse   
this excommunication is1 but in order   
that you may thoroughly understand what 
,i mean ,i will repeat1 word for word1  
what some ,catholic official will       
declare against me for writing this     
book1 which will further go to show the 
reader the vileness of this damnable    
creed1 and which will also go to        

convince the reader what fear the       
followers of ,catholicism have of the   
priestcraft1 which will more fully      
convince you that timid1 unsuspecting   
woman1 who has been brought up to       
believe in the paganism of ,catholicism1
 can be easily led to yield to the      
lustful desires of the priestcraft1 for 
fear that by refusing his request that  
he would pronounce this terrible curse  
upon her1 which she has been taught     
would forever damn her eternal soul4    
,the curse of excommunication which ,i  
am certain to receive at the hands of   
,catholicism for writing this book      
follows3      ,by the authority of ,god 
,almighty1 the ,father1 ,son and ,holy  
,ghost1 and the undefiled ,virgin ,mary1
 mother and patroness of     our        
,savior1 and all of the ,celestial      
,virtues1 ,angels1     ,archangels1     
,thrones1 ,dominions1 ,powers1 ,cherubim
 and     ,seraphim1 and of all the ,holy
 ,patriarchs1 ,prophets1 and of     all 
the ,apostles and ,evangelists1 of the  

,holy ,innocents1 who     in the sight  
of the ,holy ,lamb are found worthy to  
sing the     new songs of the ,holy     
,martyrs and ,holy ,confessors1 and of  
all     the ,holy ,virgins1 and of all  
the ,saints1 together with the     ,holy
 ,elect of ,god1 may he1 ,bernard       
,fresenborg1 be damned6      ,we        
excommunicate and anathematize him from 
the threshold of     the ,holy ,church  
of ,god ,almighty4 ,we sequester him1   
that he     may be tormented1 disposed1 
and be delivered over with ,dathan      
and ,abiram1 and with those who say unto
 the ,lord1 ',depart     from us1 we    
desire none of thy ways2' as a fire is  
quenched     with water1 so let the     
light of him be put out for ever more1  
unless it shall repent him and make     
satisfaction6      ,may the ,father1 who
 creates man1 curse him6      ,may the  
,son1 who suffered for us1 curse him6   
,may the ,holy ,ghost1 who is poured out
 in baptism1 curse him6      ,may the   
,holy ,cross1 which ,christ for our     

salvation1     triumphing over his      
enemies1 ascended1 curse him6      ,may 
the ,holy ,mary1 ever ,virgin and the   
,mother of ,god1 curse     him6         
,may ,st4 ,michael1 the ,advocate of the
 ,holy ,souls1 curse him6      ,may all 
the ,angels1 ,principalities and        
,powers1 and all     ,heavenly ,armies  
curse him6      ,may the glorious band  
of the ,patriarchs and ,prophets curse  
him6      ,may ,st4 ,john the           
,precursor1 and ,st4 ,john the ,baptist1
 and     ,st4 ,peter1 and ,st4 ,paul1   
and ,st4 ,andrew1 and all other of      
,christ's ,apostles together1 curse him6
      ,and may the rest of the          
,disciples and ,evangelists1 who by     
their preaching converted the universe1 
and the holy and     wonderful company  
of ,martyrs and ,confessors1 who by     
their     works are found pleasing to   
,god ,almighty2 may the holy choir      
of the ,holy ,virgins1 who1 for the     
honor of ,christ1 have     despised the 
things of the world1 damn him6      ,may

 all the ,saints from the beginning of  
the world to     everlasting ages who   
are found to be beloved of ,god1 damn   
him6      ,may he be damned wherever he 
be1 whether in the house or in     the  
alley1 in the woods or in the water1 or 
in the church6      ,may he be cursed in
 living and dying6      ,may he be      
cursed in eating and drinking1 in being 
hungry1 in     being thirsty1 in fasting
 and sleeping1 in slumbering1 and in    
sitting1 in living1 in working1 in      
resting1 and 444 and in                 
blood-letting6      ,may he be cursed in
 all the faculties of his body6         
,may he be cursed inwardly and          
outwardly6      ,may he be cursed in his
 hair2 cursed be he in his brains and   
his vertex1 in his temples1 in his      
eyebrows1 in his cheeks1     in his jaw 
bones1 in his nostrils1 in his teeth and
 grinders1     in his lips1 in his      
shoulders1 in his arms1 in his fingers6 
,may he be damned in his mouth1 in his  
breast1 in his heart1     and           

appurtenances1 down to the very stomach6
      ,may he be cursed in his 444 and  
his 444 in his thighs1 in     his 444   
and his 444 and in his knees1 and his   
legs1 and his     feet1 and toe-nails6  
,may he be cursed in all his joints and 
articulations of the     members2 from  
the crown of his head to the soles of   
his feet     may there be no soundness6 
,may the ,son of the living ,god1 with  
all the glory of ,his     majesty1 curse
 him6      ,and may ,heaven1 with all   
the powers that move therein1 rise      
up against him1 and curse and damn him1 
unless he repent and     make           
satisfaction6 ,amen6 ,so be it6 ,be it  
so6 ,amen6 ,amen6     ,amen6  ,i have   
given you the diabolical curse of       
excommunication1 word for word2 thus you
 can see how un-,christlike the         
,catholic ,church is4  ,as ,i have      
before said in this chapter1 the        
foregoing is the curse that will fall to
 my lot as soon as this book is placed  
upon the market1 thus the reader can see

 that my motives for writing this book  
must come from a pure incentive1 or else
 ,i would not willingly cut myself      
asunder from all of those whom ,i have  
associated with during my life4 ,this   
task is not one that ,i enjoy1 as it    
breaks my heart to realize that ,i have 
all through my life been burdened down  
with this load of superstitious filth1  
but ,i could not in justice to myself   
and in justice to a living ,god refrain 
from the task1 after ,i had had my eyes 
opened to the beauties of               
,protestantism4  ,with tears in my eyes 
and with a heart full of sadness1 ,i    
remember the angelic face of my old     
mother1 as she conscientiously taught me
 my first ,catechism and directed my    
feet in the paths of what she sincerely 
believed righteousness1 and believing in
 a just ,god1 ,i knew that ,he has taken
 her to ,his bosom in ,his home beyond  
the skies1 for what she taught me she   
sincerely believed1 as she never had her
 eyes opened to the abominations of the 

creed of which ,i write1 and ,i do not  
believe that a just ,god would damn the 
soul of a pure mother who honestly      
taught what she conscientiously         
believed1 but the priestcraft in general
 are men who are above the average in   
intellect1 and are men whom ,i believe  
have often had had the same thoughts    
relative to the doctrines of            
,catholicism that ,i had long1 long     
years before ,i cut loose from the      
teachings of ,rome2 however1 the        
priestcraft is not to be excused from   
their raid upon virtue by ignorance1 as 
they are taught the lessons of chastity 
in their childhood1 but the bond of     
celibacy which binds them in an         
unnatural way1 and the hellish doctrines
 taught by the ,catholic ,church that   
the priestcraft cannot sin1 turns them  
into pirates upon virtue4  ,when we take
 into consideration the fact that all of
 the teachings of ,catholicism lead to  
not only implicit confidence in the     
purity of the priestcraft1 but carry    

with them the cudgel of destruction of  
the soul of her followers1 if they do   
not submit to her teachings and demands1
 we can then realize why it is that the 
chastity of the home becomes a          
rendezvous for those of the priestcraft 
who deliberately ravish virtue to       
gratify their inhuman lust4             
,illustration3 ,,systematic ,,robbery4  
,the road to ,glory along a ,catholic   
highway is an expensive trip4           
,chapter ,,xv4  ,nations ,which ,have   
,been ,disgraced by the ,toleration of  
,popish ,rule4   ,there is no nation on 
the face of ,god's green earth to-day   
which has been enslaved by the power of 
,popery1 and which has been burdened by 
an idle and worthless army of ,priests1 
,monks and ,nuns1 but what would have   
become1 not only tired1 but disgusted   
with their burden1 if they had ever been
 permitted to mingle and commingle with 
,protestant countries1 and learn that   
,protestantism leads to individual      
intellectuality and collective          

greatness4  ,it is true1 however1 that  
there are many countries in ,south      
,america that have been ,priest-ridden  
for centuries1 and who are as heavily   
burdened to-day with this ancient       
parasite as ever1 who offer not a single
 protest1 but the only reason for this  
is that ,catholicism has always         
forbidden these priest-ridden nations to
 make any advancement towards           
,protestantism1 which has been          
instrumental in keeping these nations   
under the complete control of the       
,vatican2 thus you will see they have   
never been permitted to taste of the    
grandeur of ,protestantism4  ,we will   
take ,france for instance1 which was at 
one time one of the most priest-ridden  
countries on earth1 but which is to-day 
endeavoring to extract herself from the 
meshes of this damnable creed1 as the   
intelligent statesmen of ,france have   
learned that ,catholicism is only       
another name for ignorance and          
superstition1 and they have also learned

 that so long as the affairs of ,france 
remain under the control of papal power1
 just that long advancement and         
greatness stand aloof from the portals  
of their country1 so in the past two    
years the government officials have     
removed tens of thousands of the ,pope's
 hirelings from authority and have      
closed up hundreds of parochial schools4
  ,now1 if ,catholicism is such a       
glorious creed1 why is it that ,france  
is so anxious to get rid of her         
influence8 ,ah6 ,france has learned by  
coming in contact with ,protestant      
countries that she need not expect to   
ever become a great nation if she       
permits popery to control her affairs4  
,italy1 the home of the ,pope1 has begun
 to wince under the ,vatican's rule1 as 
her national back is getting raw by the 
saddle of this diabolical creed4 ,the   
inhabitants of ,italy have been for the 
past few years protesting against the   
high-handedness of ,catholicism1 and the
 officials have begun to take notice of 

this vulture of humanity1 and my        
predictions are that within a very short
 time ,italy will do as ,france has done
 and close up the monasteries and       
convents1 for just as long as these     
institutions are allowed to keep open   
house1 and dictate to the inhabitants of
 ,italy1 just that long we may expect   
the immigrants who come over from ,italy
 to bear the ,vatican's mark of vice1   
immorality and criminality4  ,go to     
,ellis ,island and watch the immigrant  
ships from ,catholic nations as they    
vomit forth their load of human carrion 
upon the fair shores of this country1   
and your heart will become sick with    
fear1 as this class that hails from the 
nations of popery are a class1 as a     
whole1 that will disgrace and ruin any  
nation on earth1 as these immigrants are
 men and women who have no conception of
 a free country1 as they are men and    
women who have never been taught to look
 above the horizon of ,catholicism2     
therefore they land upon the shores of  

,america as criminals and not as        
citizens1 and you cannot make pure      
,american citizens out of them until you
 boil this hellish creed from their     
system by the fire of patriotism1 and   
this cannot be done as long as this     
country permits ,catholicism to run her 
mills of degeneracy unmolested upon our 
shores4  ,all of our large cities are   
infested more or less with this         
scarlet-robed hag of hell1 and more     
especially our eastern cities1 as this  
foreign herd of the ,pope's followers   
land in eastern ports and spread        
themselves out like a blanket1 reeking  
with a moral stench over the eastern    
borders of this country1 and they make a
 specialty of settling in our eastern   
cities4  ,we will take ,boston1 ,mass41 
for instance1 as there is but very      
little difference in the rabble of that 
city and the immoral degenerate class   
that infests the densely populated      
centers of ,catholic countries4         
,several notorious cases of open        

defiance of civil law and violation of  
civil rights by the tools of popery have
 recently occurred in ,boston4 ,one of  
these is the escape of two girls from   
the so-called ,house of the ,good       
,shepherd1 in ,roxbury1 and the         
re-capture of these girls by a          
policeman4  ,now1 bear in mind that this
 ,house of the ,good ,shepherd is a     
,catholic institution1 pure and simple1 
but these girls who escaped from this   
plague house1 were arrested by the      
police and returned to this ,catholic   
dungeon without the semblance of law4   
,on questioning ,the ,mother ,superior1 
she said that the girls were not        
committed to the institution by the     
courts1 but by the church4 ,the question
 then arose3 ,has the ,roman ,catholic  
,church the right to give sentence of   
imprisonment with hard labor as a       
penalty8 ,for this is exactly what      
imprisonment in this ,house of the ,good
 ,shepherd means2 therefore1 if these   
girls so sentenced escape1 what right   

has a city policeman to arrest and carry
 them back to this ,catholic            
institution1 which exists without the   
semblance of a ,state law and without an
 iota of moral law8 ,are the policemen  
of the cities of ,massachusetts servants
 of the ,roman ,catholic ,church8 ,have 
the courts the right to sentence        
prisoners to ,catholic prisons1 and     
after sentence1 have the prisoners no   
right8 ,many of them are kept for life1 
or until too old to work1 and then they 
are set adrift to become public charges 
upon a ,protestant country1 after the   
,roman ,catholic ,church has made       
hundreds of dollars from the labor of   
these unfortunates4  ,we want to call   
attention to another flagrant case1     
which happened in the north end of      
,boston not long since4  ,a few months  
since1 a ,protestant ,italian family in 
the north end of ,boston was about to   
move to ,new ,york4 ,there were two     
children and the wife soon expected to  
become mother again4 ,she expressed the 

wish that some one would care for one of
 her children for a few weeks1 until she
 got well and was settled in her new    
home4 ,a neighbor sent a woman to her   
who offered to care for the children1   
and when this little one was turned over
 to her1 she took it straightway to the 
home for destitute ,catholic children1  
on ,harrison avenue1 in ,boston4 ,in a  
month the mother called for her baby and
 was told that it was up in the country1
 and was requested to leave it there for
 a month1 and was told that it would be 
good for the child4 ,she consented to   
this1 believing that the fresh air would
 be good for her baby1 but she was an   
uneducated woman and was inclined to    
believe what others said1 as she was an 
honest lady herself1 but she did not    
know the trickery of the ,catholic      
,church1 so when she was asked to sign a
 paper1 she readily agreed to it1 not   
thinking that she was giving her own    
blood and flesh away4  ,in a month she  
came on from ,new ,york to get her baby 

and was told that she could not have it1
 and was further told that she had      
signed a paper giving it away4 ,then the
 husband came on from ,new ,york and    
demanded the child1 but was refused4 ,he
 then appealed to the pastor of the     
,italian ,methodist ,church1 on ,hanover
 street1 ,boston4 ,the two went to a    
very prominent ,romanist office-holder1 
who was chairman of the trustees of this
 so-called ,catholic ,home4 ,this man   
draws seven thousand dollars per year   
from the city1 and is elected largely   
through ,protestant influence1 simply   
because ,protestantism believes that she
 can reform ,catholicism by being       
liberal with her2 but oh6 ,liberty6 what
 crimes are perpetrated in thy name6    
,this ,boston official1 after much talk 
with this ,italian father1 told him to  
bring a letter from a priest1 and that  
he would see what he could do4 ,the     
,italian said1 ,i am a ,protestant1 at  
which the official became very          
indignant1 but after a little more talk 

said3 ,bring a letter of recommendation 
from a minister4 ,this ,italian father  
got a good1 strong letter commending his
 character from a ,protestant minister  
in ,new ,york1 and one who already knew 
him1 and went this time alone to this   
,boston official4  ,in about an hour    
this heart-broken father appeared before
 a ,methodist minister in tears1 saying3
 ,he will not give me my child4 ,he said
 ,i am a bad man for becoming a         
,protestant1 and that by doing so ,i    
have proven that ,i am unfit to care for
 my children1 and when ,i gave him my   
letter from the ,protestant minister1 he
 said3 ',i will not take the word of a  
,protestant minister6'  ,now1 if what we
 have related is true1 which ,i know to 
be absolutely true in every particular1 
would happen in the ,united ,states of  
,america1 the land of the free and the  
home of the brave1 you might know what  
would happen in a ,catholic country     
which is completely under the tyrannical
 and damnable rule of the ,pope4  ,a    

minister informs us that on three       
occasions lately1 children have come to 
him and told him that an ,irish public  
school teacher in ,boston had forbidden 
them to attend ,protestant services1 as 
their parents were at one time ,roman   
,catholics1 and that this talk from this
 ,romish school teacher was had during  
school hours4  ,what we need in this    
country is a vigilance committee1 and we
 need it badly1 and we need it right    
away1 and this committee should be      
instructed to impeach every public      
official who endeavors to usurp the law 
in favor of ,roman ,catholicism4  ,the  
brightest minds of the past1 and the    
brightest minds of the present have     
pointed out to ,protestant ,america the 
dangers of ,romanism1 but it seems as   
though we will not heed their warning1  
when we see upon every side evidences of
 moral decay and national degeneracy by 
permitting this ,romish hag to supervise
 and superintend the affairs of this    
nation4  ,protestant ,european nations  

have for many years beheld the despotic 
march of ,catholicism in ,america1 and  
this country for a number of years has  
been the laughing stock of ,protestant  
,european countries for permitting this 
brazen demon to tread up and down the   
avenues of our liberties without        
molestation4  ,a few years before       
,bismarck of ,germany died1 he1 in a    
public speech delivered in the ,german  
parliament1 pointed out that the ,roman 
,catholic ,church was only free in      
,america1 and for the benefit of the    
reader we will quote a part of this     
great statesman's speech3  ,the ,pope   
being purely a religious chief1 there is
 no occasion to keep a permanent        
political representative at his port4   
,things1 indeed1 might have been left in
 status quo had not the present ,pope   
thought it fit to revive the ancient    
struggle of the papacy with the temporal
 power1 and more especially with the    
,german empire4 ,the spirit emanating   
the papacy in this campaign is too well 

known to require comment2 still we would
 tell the house a story1 which has long 
been kept a secret1 but which had better
 be made public4 ,in #ahfi1 when the    
,wurtemberg government had occasion to  
complain of the action of the papacy1   
the ,wurtemberg envoy at ,munich was    
instructed to make representations1 and 
in a conversation which passed between  
the envoy and the nuncio2 the latter    
said1 ',the ,roman ,church is free only 
in ,america4'  ,this nuncio further     
stated that the ,roman ,catholic ,church
 in all other countries had to look to  
revolution as the sole means to retain  
her position4 ,this1 then1 was the view 
of the priestly diplomatist stationed at
 ,munich in #ahfi1 and formerly         
representing the ,vatican at ,paris4    
,bismarck further stated3 ,i know from  
the very best sources that the ,emperor 
,napoleon was dragged into the war very 
much against his will by the influence  
of ,jesuit priests4  ,who can deny these
 statements1 as ,bismarck was a man who 

made the study of ,catholicism a part of
 his life1 and he was a man who was of  
rugged character and undaunted courage1 
and a man whom the world at large       
believed4  ,there has not been a war for
 centuries past but what the cunning    
hand of popery has been mixed up with   
the blood shed in these wars1 as popery 
never misses an opportunity to take     
sides with the nation which represents  
,catholicism1 as this creed of          
abominations will resort to bloodshed if
 by so doing she believes she can carry 
her point and establish her rule of     
despotism4  ,if ,america will take a    
lesson from ,france she will be taught a
 lesson that will save this country from
 passing through the same ordeal that   
,france is passing through to-day1 and  
unless the government of the ,united    
,states begins in the near future to    
suppress this giant of darkness1 ,roman 
,catholicism1 we will within the next   
fifty years have to resort to the same  
means that ,combes of ,france is        

resorting to1 to annihilate the serpent 
of ,catholicism from our shores1 or else
 meekly submit to being dragged down to 
the level of ,roman ,catholicism1 which 
is equivalent to losing our identity as 
a government1 and taking our places     
among the nations noted only for either 
ignorance1 vice or criminality4         
,catholicism does not believe in a free 
country4 ,catholicism does not believe  
in a country of the people1 by the      
people and for the people1 as such a    
country is not the natural abode for    
this detestable creed4  ,catholicism    
believes in a country which is ruled by 
a monarch1 as she then only has to      
control the monarch himself1 and this is
 why the ,catholic clergy and the       
,catholic officials1 from the smallest  
to the greatest1 are in sympathy with   
,russia1 as the ,russian government is a
 most complete monarchy1 and the emperor
 is an absolute monarch1 and this is why
 ,catholicism is always ready to toss up
 her hat in glee for the success of the 

,russian army4  ,catholic prelates all  
along the line1 up to the ,pope himself1
 have been trying to make ,americans    
believe that ,russia is deserving of our
 sympathy1 but her solicitude in behalf 
of ,russia is only a sympathetic shriek 
for her own polluted carcass4           
,catholicism never sympathizes with any 
nation nor any individual who have for  
their motto ,emancipation1 as           
emancipation means to ,catholicism a    
vital blow to her teachings1 as slavery 
of both body and soul is ,rome's        
uppermost desire4  ,can we expect       
,catholicism to change her abominations 
without force8 ,most assuredly not1 as  
her every inspiration comes from a set  
of men who know no more about loyalty to
 country than her dupes know about a    
living ,god1 as the ,pope is a native   
born ,italian1 and her cardinals are    
recruited from the ranks of ,italy's    
king-ruled inhabitants1 consequently it 
is impossible to expect the ,pope of    
,rome or those cardinals to recommend   

anything in harmony with the teachings  
of ,protestant ,america1 as they are    
strangers to ,protestantism and         
,american manhood2 therefore it would be
 as reasonable to expect sunlight in the
 caverns of the earth as to expect ,rome
 to recommend a doctrine which would be 
beneficial to humanity4  ,when ,i       
declare to the ,american people that    
unless this country in the near future  
makes a combined effort to stamp out the
 political intrigue of ,catholicism1 or 
it will not be long until ,america will 
find her every interest tied tight and  
fast to the carcass of ,romanism2 ,i do 
so because ,i feel that it is my duty to
 warn this country of her awful fate1   
for just as sure as ,god reigns1 just   
that sure ,catholicism has ,america     
spotted as her victim1 as this spirit of
 darkness has for many years in the past
 made her boast that ,america is ,rome's
 future possession4  ,there is not a    
nation on the face of the earth which   
has permitted ,rome to plant her banner 

of infamy unmolested but what has been  
disgraced by the toleration of her      
creed1 and ,america cannot expect to    
meet with a better fate4  ,the dangers  
that beset the path of ,america's future
 are in the form of a political serpent1
 as ,rome has learned to know that by   
holding out the vote bait to our        
politicians1 that she can retain the    
balance of power1 as she has long since 
learned that as long as she can be      
instrumental in keeping two political   
parties1 both largely made up of        
,protestants1 and fighting each other1  
that she can associate herself with one 
or the other by offering this party the 
undivided suffrage of ,catholicism1 and 
by this act she can gradually get       
control of the offices of this land1 and
 this is her main object1 for if she can
 control the officials1 she will see    
that such laws are passed as will enable
 her to coil her slimy self about the   
vitals of ,protestant ,america1 and just
 as long as the ,protestant             

denominations allow themselves to be    
made ,protestant simpletons of1 just    
that long ,catholicism will fool        
,protestant hosts by offering the vote  
bait to the politician4  ,whenever      
,protestantism learns that she has a    
common cause to champion1 and a common  
enemy to fight1 then we will have an    
,american party on one side1 and a      
,catholic party on the other1 and when  
this time comes1 ,catholicism will be   
deprived of her cudgel of deception1 and
 will have to fight her battles without 
the assistance of ,protestant partisan  
fools1 and will cease to believe that   
she belongs to either this or that      
political party4 ,protestantism is a    
band of ,american patriots1 and should  
only have the welfare of ,protestantism 
at heart4  ,catholicism1 if left alone  
without the assistance of ,protestant   
votes1 could not turn a wheel in the    
affairs of this country1 but by         
permitting ,romanism to make            
,protestantism believe in one of two    

political parties thus dividing the     
,protestant votes1 ,catholicism is      
allowed to hold the balance of power and
 dictate terms to a ,protestant country4
  ,shame1 eternal shame upon the hosts  
of ,protestantism for permitting        
themselves to be made fools of by the   
,romish ,church1 as this is exactly what
 the hosts of ,protestantism are        
allowing ,catholicism to do with her6   
,now1 ,i know whereof ,i speak1 as ,i   
have been on the inside of politics in  
our large cities1 and especially in the 
,city of ,st4 ,louis1 and ,catholicism's
 scheme is always to allow the cities to
 elect a ,protestant mayor1 but they    
always endeavor to elect the other      
officials4  ,oh1 could ,i but whisper   
into the ears of every ,protestant in   
,america and make them understand what  
,i know of the cunning and deception of 
,catholicism ,i would march an army of  
,protestants to the polls at our        
elections that would represent a mighty 
army of patriotism2 but just so long as 

,protestantism permits ,catholicism to  
make her believe that it is necessary to
 have two or more political parties1    
just that long we will have partisan    
block-heads1 and as long as this state  
of affairs exists1 just that long the   
cunning schemes of ,catholicism will be 
able to control the balance of power1   
which will disgrace the fair name of    
,protestant ,america4  ,i solemnly      
declare that there never has been a     
nation completely under the control of  
,romanism but what has been disgraced by
 that toleration1 and ,america will live
 to realize the truthfulness of this    
assertion unless she becomes ,protestant
 patriots instead of prattling          
partisans4  ,to give the reader a better
 idea of what happens in countries      
absolutely controlled by ,catholicism1  
and to more thoroughly convince the     
reader that what ,i have said is true in
 regard to nations which have been      
disgraced by the toleration of popish   
rule1 ,i desire to repeat a little      

history that is not many months old1    
which happened in the ,united ,states1  
where it is supposed that man and woman 
can worship ,god according to the       
dictates of their own conscience1 and if
 what we are going to relate happens in 
this free land1 what do you suppose is  
the condition in ,catholic countries    
that are completely under the control of
 the ,pope8  ,in ,worcester1 ,mass41 not
 long since1 a #ai-year-old girl by the 
name of ,maggie ,barry received a public
 whipping from her mother for attending 
services of the ,salvation ,army4  ,miss
 ,maggie ,barry1 who is #ai years of    
age1 had been for some time occasionally
 attending the meetings of the          
,salvation ,army1 and was desirous of   
becoming a member of the corps1 having  
been converted a short time since4  ,her
 parents were ,irish ,roman ,catholics  
and insisted that ,maggie should remain 
a ,romanist4 ,they regarded the         
,salvation ,army1 which is purely       
non-sectarian1 as a ,protestant         

organization1 and they were determined  
that their daughter should have nothing 
to do with it1 and forbade her attending
 any of the meetings4  ,on a ,sunday    
evening not long since she attended the 
services of the ,salvation ,army at ,no4
 #e ,commercial street1 where there were
 at least #bej people present4 ,while   
the commander of the corps was reading  
from the ,bible1 ,miss ,barry's mother  
came through the doorway and down to the
 front row of seats near the corner of  
the platform1 where ,maggie was sitting1
 and grabbed her daughter by the arm and
 began to pound her over the head1 and  
at once proceeded to pull the girl from 
the hall and down the stairs into the   
street1 all the time unmercifully       
beating the poor girl over the head and 
shoulders4  ,the incident happened so   
quickly that for a moment the audience  
could not realize what was taking place1
 but as soon as the audience could      
gather their wits1 there was a rush made
 for the street4  ,after the meeting had

 adjourned many of the attendants found 
,miss ,barry in the street weeping like 
her heart would break and afraid to     
return to her home4  ,she told the      
audience that as soon as she reached the
 street where a number of relatives were
 waiting for her that she broke away    
from her mother and fled4  ,a policeman 
was called into consultation relative to
 the case and stated that as ,maggie was
 under twenty-one years of age1 that she
 had better be taken to her parents at  
#abe ,salem street1 and two policemen   
accompanied her to her home4  ,it is    
stated that ,miss ,barry has received   
many unmerciful beatings because she    
attended these religious meetings1 and  
her old ,romish mother1 while dragging  
her down the stairs that ,sunday night1 
threatened to do her bodily harm if she 
ever attended these meetings again4  ,a 
few days after this disgraceful and     
un-,american spectacle happened in the  
streets of ,worcester1 a notice in the  
,central ,district ,court appeared that 

,miss ,margaret ,barry was charged with 
being a stubborn child and was sentenced
 to the ,woman's ,prison at ,shearborn4 
,she appealed and furnished a bail4 ,the
 girl was arrested on the complaint of  
her mother because she would not stay   
away from the meetings of the ,salvation
 ,army4  ,now1 reader1 you have a case  
right in the ,united ,states of ,america
 where a poor girl was sentenced to     
prison for attending a ,protestant      
meeting4 ,what do you think of a judge  
of a court who will sentence a child to 
a ,state prison for attending a         
,protestant meeting8  ,we know what you 
think if you are a pure ,protestant1 and
 we know that your blood boils with pure
 indignation2 but you cannot expect any 
relief from this state of affairs and   
you can only expect to see things grow  
worse if you continue to be partisans   
instead of patriots4  ,if such things   
are now happening in the ,state of      
,massachusetts1 how long will it be     
before the ,protestant churches in this 

country will be closed up by the order  
of the ,pope1 and how long will it be   
before those who attend ,protestant     
meetings will be liable to arrest and   
thrown into prison1 as it was during the
 dark ages when the ,roman ,catholic    
,church had full control8  ,authentic   
history1 and history that cannot be     
denied nor disputed1 nor even           
questioned1 gives the appalling record  
of #gj1ejj1jjj ,protestants who were    
slain by the greatest curse the world   
has ever known--,roman ,catholicism4    
,we1 in ,america1 cannot expect anything
 better until we have a set of          
,protestant preachers who will practice 
what they pretend to believe4  ,our     
,protestant ministers of to-day are     
weak-kneed1 weak-spined1 nothings1 who  
have not enough religion nor backbone to
 take a firm stand against ,catholicism1
 and until we have such men we will     
continue to see ,maggie ,barrys dragged 
from ,protestant meetings and publicly  
whipped by parents1 and then sentenced  

to imprisonment by judges elected by    
,roman ,catholics4  ,again we want to   
repeat the head lines of this chapter   
for the benefit of those who are        
weak-kneed and who are entirely         
spineless3 ,nations who have been       
disgraced by the toleration of popish   
rule1 and we leave it to the reader to  
decide whether this headline is a       
misnomer or not1 as we have offered you 
evidence in this chapter that should    
convince any right-thinking man or woman
 that if the ,roman ,catholic ,church   
has grown so bold in ,america1 with the 
ink upon the ,declaration of            
,independence scarcely dry1 what shall  
we expect for our posterity if there is 
not a stand made by ,protestantism to   
halt this emperor of darkness in his    
march of devastation8  ,this            
black-winged vulture of human rights is 
growing bolder day by day by being      
permitted by ,protestantism to separate 
and divide the ,protestant vote among   
different parties1 and combining the    

hosts of ,catholicism for an onslaught  
against everything ,american in order to
 control the affairs of this country4   
,if you will listen you can almost hear 
the death rattle of ,protestantism as   
the serpent of ,rome has so gently      
entwined her slimy self about the throat
 of our ,american goddess of liberty    
that the death rattle is almost         
perceptible4  ,strike while you have the
 power1 and do not delay1 or else the   
time is not far distant when the once   
powerful arm of ,protestantism will be  
paralyzed by the infusion of ,roman     
virus4  ,illustration3 ,,uncle          
,,sam--,here is your next fight boys4   
,chapter ,,xvi4  ,nearing the ,trenches 
of ,physical ,strength4   ,we can only  
judge the future of nations and         
institutions by the past and present1   
and if we are to judge ,catholicism by  
her past1 and if we are honest with     
ourselves1 we cannot paint a future     
without producing a panoramic view that 
is dreadful to behold1 as ,catholicism  

in the past has been an institution     
which always endeavored to rule by the  
tyranny of oppression1 and her decisions
 and mandates to-day are the same as    
they were during the inquisitorial days 
when our ,protestant forefathers were   
burned at the state for disobeying the  
commands of ,catholic officials4        
,catholicism makes her boast that she   
never changes2 then what are we to      
expect the future to bring forth1 if her
 dogmas of damnation are allowed to     
fasten her intolerable hold upon this   
country3 for if she never changes1 and  
we are compelled to judge her future by 
her past1 which is the only rational    
conclusion that can be arrived at1 then 
we can expect nothing more than to      
behold her future trail stained with the
 blood of ,protestants1 as such has been
 her history of the past4  ,it is our   
purpose in this chapter to give the     
reader an authentic epitome of a few of 
the doctrines and facts which we defy   
,roman ,catholicism to successfully     

deny1 as what we propose to give you is 
,roman ,catholic law1 and if such is    
,roman ,catholic law1 then we will have 
no trouble in establishing the fact that
 no loyal ,catholics can possibly be    
loyal ,american citizens2 therefore     
should not be placed in a position where
 they can carry out the mandates and    
dictates of the ,church of ,rome1 for   
whenever they are placed in power and   
thoroughly believe in the laws of       
,catholicism they can not possibly be   
naught but traitors to our ,american    
form of government4  ,we propose to give
 the reader ,canon ,law to establish our
 statements1 as we are as well          
acquainted with the laws that govern    
,roman ,catholicism--yea1 better than we
 are with the laws that govern this     
country1 as we for fifty-six years have 
been directly influenced by this ,canon 
,law1 and for the past thirty years1 or 
since we became a ,roman ,catholic      
priest1 have been a servant and an      
executioner of this law2 therefore1 ,i  

know whereof ,i speak1 and no man dare  
deny my statements4  ,the first         
declaration of this ,canon ,law is3 ,all
 human power is from evil and must      
therefore be standing under the ,pope4  
,you will thus see that the first       
declaration of the ,canon ,law is to    
place the human family as a whole1 under
 the tyrannical control of ,catholicism4
  ,another declaration of this law is3  
,the state has not the right to leave   
every man free to profess and embrace   
whatever religion he shall deem true4   
,in this declaration1 you will further  
see that ,roman ,catholicism would1 if  
it was within her power1 take from the  
,american citizen the right to worship a
 true and living ,god4  ,the next law   
that we will refer to is as follows3    
,the state has not the right to         
establish a church separate from the    
,pope4  ,again you will see that ,rome's
 idea is to force all of humanity to bow
 at the feet of her creed4  ,again she  
declares in her ,canonistic ,laws3 ,that

 the state has not the right to assist  
the inmates of monasteries and convents 
to abandon them4  ,again you will see   
that ,catholicism desires to usurp the  
rights of the courts and establish      
prisons of their own without a semblance
 of law4  ,once more this ,canonistic   
,law thunders forth her monarchial law  
as follows3 ,the ,roman ,catholic church
 has the right to require the state not 
to leave every man free to profess his  
own religion4  ,again the reader will   
see that ,roman ,catholicism with her   
iron hand demands this nation to force  
and compel every man1 woman and child   
that lives under that old red1 white and
 blue flag1 which was bought by the     
blood of our forefathers1 to humbly bow 
to this heathenish creed4  ,the next1   
and one of the most damnable laws found 
among the ,canonistic ,laws of          
,catholicism1 is as follows3 ,roman     
,catholicism has the right to exercise  
her power without permission or consent 
of the state4  ,within this ,romish law 

any one can easily discern her          
monarchial designs1 as she boldly and   
flagrantly declares that she has the    
right to do as she sees fit1 without    
even being molested or questioned by the
 laws of this country4  ,further on in  
the ,canon ,laws of ,catholicism we find
 the following3 ,roman ,catholicism has 
the right to prevent the foundation of  
any national church not subject to the  
direct authority of the ,roman pontiff4 
,thus the reader will see that the      
,protestant churches of ,america exist  
only by and through the numerical power 
of ,protestantism1 but should ,romanism 
ever become powerful enough in this     
country she would1 within the twinkling 
of an eye1 destroy or confiscate every  
,protestant church now in existence4    
,further along in this ,romish ,canon   
,law we find that she strikes at the    
dearest institutions of our land1 as    
follows3 ,the ,roman ,catholic church   
has the right to deprive the civil      
authorities of the entire government of 

the public schools4  ,the reader will   
see by this declaration that should     
,catholicism ever come in control of the
 affairs of this government that our    
public schools1 which are the bulwarks  
of our ,american government1 would have 
their very foundations rooted up and    
scattered to the four winds of the      
earth4  ,the most devilish and damnable 
law1 in my estimation1 that is to be    
found upon the statute books of         
,catholicism is the following3 ,roman   
,catholicism has the right to require   
that the ,roman ,catholic religion shall
 be ,,the ,,only ,,religion of the      
nation1 to the exclusion of all others4 
,we have the entire principles of       
,catholicism embodied in this last      
,canonistic ,law1 as ,roman             
,catholicism's aim and intention is to  
put this declaration into effect as soon
 as she can become powerful enough to   
execute her plans4  ,in my estimation1  
the next ,canon ,law that ,i will quote1
 is the one most detrimental to our     

,american form of government1 as it is a
 law1 when put into execution1 that will
 throttle every ambition and strangle   
every hope that now permeates the bosom 
of ,protestantism1 and it is one that   
should freeze the very flesh and blood  
of ,protestantism to the bone's marrow4 
,it is as follows3 ,roman ,catholicism  
has the power to require the nation not 
to permit free expression of opinions4  
,in this last law1 which is found upon  
the statute books of ,roman             
,catholicism1 we have a declaration from
 her rulers that would deprive you and  
your posterity from expressing an       
opinion in regard to ,roman             
,catholicism2 that is1 if that opinion  
did not coincide with her abominations1 
and an institution which would place    
such a law upon her statute books is an 
institution which would burn and flay   
alive those who would disregard this    
law2 thus the reader may have some idea 
of what he or she may expect should     
their posterity ever live to see        

,america pass into the ungodly clutches 
of this unholy demon4  ,the history of  
,roman ,catholicism in the past plainly 
demonstrates what she has done and how  
well and awful she has carried out her  
laws herein quoted1 and ,catholicism    
makes her brags that she never changes1 
consequently the only reason why these  
laws are not put into execution in the  
,united ,states is the lack of physical 
power1 and whenever ,roman ,catholicism 
reaches the point in the history of this
 country where she possesses this       
physical power1 ,protestantism will feel
 her tyrannical heel upon their necks4  
,that the reader may thoroughly         
understand and realize that ,roman      
,catholicism of to-day is the same as   
,roman ,catholicism was hundreds of     
years ago1 we desire to quote a letter  
written by ,pope ,leo ,,xiii during his 
reign1 which will thoroughly demonstrate
 to the reader that ,roman ,catholicism 
of the present retains all of her       
harshness and cussedness that she       

possessed when our forefathers were     
burned at the stake and our mothers were
 punished for worshiping a true and     
living ,god1 ,pope ,leo's letter        
follows3  ,the teachings given by the   
,apostolic ,see1 whether contained in   
the syllabus and other acts of our      
illustrious predecessors1 or in our     
encyclical letters1 has given clear     
guidance to the faith as to what should 
be their thoughts and their conduct in  
the midst of the difficulties of time   
and events4 ,there they will find a rule
 for the direction of their minds and   
their work4  ,the reader will see from  
this letter from ,pope ,leo ,,xiii that 
he reiterates to his followers the      
,canonistic ,law laid down by his       
predecessors1 making it obligatory upon 
the followers of ,catholicism to put in 
practice to-day the hellish doctrines of
 ,roman ,catholicism of the past4  ,if  
,catholicism depends upon numbers and   
physical strength to accomplish her     
ends1 then what must this country expect

 when such a time arrives1 as           
,catholicism can govern by the power of 
physical strength8  ,will we have any   
one to blame for what ,catholicism does 
to this country when such time arrives8 
,ah1 ,no6 ,no one but ,protestantism1   
for if ,america1 which is a ,protestant 
country1 sits idly by and permits       
,romanism to reach a point where she can
 control the affairs of this government1
 it will be on the account of the       
lethargy and imbecility of              
,protestantism1 as we have it within our
 power to-day to halt this ,emperor of  
,darkness before that time arrives1 but 
the question is1 will we do it8  ,the   
history of other nations which have been
 controlled by ,catholicism should be   
enough1 not only to frighten the        
,protestant hosts1 but to paralyze them 
with fear1 as the pages of history teem 
with the awfulness of ,rome's rule1     
wherever she has been permitted to      
become master4  ,france1 which has been 
priest-ridden for centuries1 is now at  

this time in the throes of a national   
convulsion1 brought about by the tyranny
 of ,romanism4  ,now1 if ,rome is such  
an abominable master and such a tyrant  
that ,france has to deport the          
priestcraft and close up her            
institutions1 is it not time that the   
,united ,states was taking some step to 
protect her offspring from this vulture 
of human rights6  ,this country is      
undoubtedly a ,protestant country1 and  
if it is a great country1 which no man  
dares to deny1 she surely owes her      
greatness to ,protestantism4  ,our soul 
is poured into this chapter1 as we never
 were more in earnest than we are at    
this time1 as we can shade our eyes and 
look down the avenues of the past and   
behold naught but skeletons of          
protestant despair on every byway which 
has been traveled by ,romanism1 and when
 we behold this mighty waste of despair 
we can not conceive how the ,united     
,states of ,america can expect to fare  
better than have the nations of the     

past1 unless she exerts her ,american   
and ,protestant manhood and gives ,roman
 ,catholicism to understand that it is  
time to halt1 and1 in the name of an    
intelligent ,god1 forbid her to         
transgress further upon the rights of   
this country4  ,in this chapter we will 
endeavor to be explicit and above all   
truthful1 and we ask ,god to give us    
courage to present facts in a way that  
will fan to life again the patriotism   
that has been lulled to sleep by the    
bat-like wings of ,roman ,catholicism4  
,we hope that this little volume may    
arouse unconcerned ,protestantism to a  
realization of the fact that our public 
officials are year by year forcing her  
nearer and nearer the great chasm of    
,roman despair1 and if we can be        
instrumental in this great undertaking  
we will feel that when our race is done1
 that we have fought a good fight1 and  
will be remembered by the ,protestant   
world as a man who taught a doctrine    
which was the salvation of ,protestant  

,america4  ,roman ,catholicism has no   
politics1 as she is ever ready and      
willing to join hands with any party    
that will guarantee her more complete   
control of national affairs1 as she     
teaches her followers that whenever they
 find that the ,republican party will   
grant her requests that they should be  
,republicans1 and she also teaches them 
that whenever the ,democratic party or  
any other party will enter into a       
contract with her and grant her the     
right of way of devastation1 that they  
should be ,democrats1 or be adherents to
 whatever party grants them the most    
power4  ,roman ,catholicism wraps       
herself about the smaller officials and 
wheedles herself into the good graces of
 the small officials by promising them  
the ,catholic vote1 and by so doing she 
is able to control the officials higher 
up in power1 and in this manner she     
reaches the highest officials of the    
land1 as we find to-day the             
boa-constrictor of ,catholicism wrapped 

about every official at ,washington     
city1 from the ,president of the ,united
 ,states on down4  ,suppose that the    
,pope and his tribe of                  
liberty-destroyers realized that the    
officials of ,america were ,protestants1
 and implicitly believed and lived up to
 the teachings of ,protestantism2 do you
 think that she would presume to        
approach our ,protestant officials and  
demand their support in behalf of her   
damnable creed1 or do you suppose that  
she would dare to send her emissaries   
into the halls of our national congress 
and brazenly approach those ,protestant 
officials8 ,ah1 never6 as ,catholicism  
is a base coward and never makes her    
appearance only where she is assured    
that her overtures will be gracefully   
received4  ,protestant ,america6 do you 
not believe that you have granted       
,romanism her requests long enough1 and 
do you not realize that unless you      
throttle this carnivorous beast of human
 rights within the near future that your

 protests will only be received with    
ridicule and jeers8  ,protestantism from
 this day forward should resolve that   
her ballot in the future should be a    
,protestant ballot1 and whenever she has
 reasons to believe that there is one   
place upon their ticket that is tainted 
with the abominations of ,romanism they 
should be dropped as though they were a 
poisonous reptile4  ,it matters not what
 the office may be that is to be filled 
and what power it carries with it1      
,protestantism should find out whether  
or not the applicant believes in        
,protestantism1 and learn1 if possible1 
whether they or their family are tainted
 with the virus of ,roman ,catholicism1 
and if you should find that the taint   
extends to any part of their family then
 scratch them off your ballot1 and by so
 doing you will help to woo back the    
spirit of both ,protestantism and       
patriotism1 as one is symbolic of the   
other4  ,it may seem strange and also   
untrue for me to make the statement that

 there are cities in the ,united ,states
 which are as completely under the      
control of the ,pope of ,rome as ,rome  
herself1 but such is the case1 and the  
city of ,st4 ,louis1 ,mo41 is one of    
them1 as ,romanism rules the inhabitants
 of that city with a despotism that is  
only equaled in a nation where the      
pontiff of ,rome is an acknowledged     
ruler4  ,during the last election in the
 city of ,st4 ,louis ,i was a ,catholic 
priest1 and was in the ,catholic        
confidence1 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 mayor1 ,rolla ,wells1 but that  
,catholicism was to be permitted to name
 the other officials1 or at least enough
 to control the city government4  ,now1 
is there any politics in such an        
agreement8 ,ah1 no2 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 ,st4
 ,louis1 as ,catholicism is a money     
machine and endeavors to keep her       
exchequer full by preying upon the      
ignorance of her followers4  ,i have    
mentioned ,st4 ,louis only for the      
simple reason that it is a recent       
happening1 but there are a score of     
other cities in the ,united ,states of  
,america which are controlled by        
,catholicism on the same principle1 as  
,romanism joins hands with either the   
,republican or ,democratic party if she 
sees a chance to put her hellish schemes
 and dogmas into practice4  ,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 ,catholicism1 
and over two-thirds of all the policemen
 of these cities are the ,pope's        
followers4  ,why does this state of     

affairs exist8 ,ah1 it is because the   
,protestant voter has politics instead  
of principles2 therefore you yourself   
are to blame for this awful state of    
affairs4  ,yes1 ,i say that you are to  
blame1 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            
,catholicism2 then am ,i not right in   
declaring that you are to blame for this
 state of affairs that exists in our    
large cities8  ,in our municipal        
elections you will find ,roman          
,catholicism courting the political     
power which has the greatest chance of  
electing their candidates2 it matters   
not what party it may be1 as ,roman     
,catholicism has no politics1 as her    
only desire is power1 and it does not   
matter from what source she receives it1
 so long as it is granted her1 as       
,romanism is like a chameleon1 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          
,protestantism4  ,if ,roman ,catholicism
 can extract a promise from a           
,republican candidate they are          
,republicans2 but1 on the other hand1 if
 they can make a ,democrat do their     
bidding1 they are ,democrats2 and if    
they can wiggle into the ,populists'    
favor1 they are ,populists2 in fact1    
they are any and everything that will   
serve their purpose and help to bind and
 throttle ,protestant principles4  ,the 
nation of ,france is making history     
to-day1 and each line and page of this  
history is a warning to ,protestant     
,america1 as every page of this history 
is covered with the slime of ,roman     
,catholicism1 for had it not been for   
her tyrannical despotism1 ,france would 
not have had to close up the monasteries
 and convents of that nation1 but on    
account of her teachings1 and in order  
to protect the rising generations from  
her influence1 not only have the        

convents and monasteries had to be      
closed1 but the schools which teach her 
damnable dogmas have been closed4  ,we  
do not have to cross the ocean and visit
 ,european countries to learn of ,roman 
,catholicism's depravity1 but we can    
stand upon the southern shore of the    
,united ,states1 almost in hailing      
distance of ,cuba1 and there behold the 
shores of a country which had to rebel  
against the hellishness of ,roman       
,catholicism1 as ,cuba would to-day     
belong to ,spain had it not been for    
,roman ,catholicism1 as it was her      
abominations that continually kept ,cuba
 in a feverish ferment4  ,it was        
,spain's ungodliness that brought about 
the ,spanish-,american war1 and ,spain's
 ungodliness was taught her by          
,romanism4  ,the ,west ,india islands   
were the progenies of ,spain1 and the   
,spanish government permitted the       
,papists to control these islands with  
her dogmas of instructions1 which were  
directly instrumental in continually    

keeping the spirit of anarchy alive4    
,the only reason that ,roman            
,catholicism does not control this      
country with her tyrannical hand is on  
account of numerical numbers1 for did   
,rome believe that she could rule this  
country to-day1 before the sun would set
 to-morrow night this would be a nation 
of serfs instead of a nation of         
independent men and women4  ,i perhaps  
have made my declarations broader and   
stronger than any man of the present    
day1 but ,i am fresh from the ranks of  
,catholicism and ,i know her cunning1   
and since ,i have forsaken her blind    
leadership and drank deep from the well 
of ,protestantism1 ,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   
followers1 but by being permitted to    
brazenly denounce everything that is    
near and dear to this country1 as her   

brazen denunciations of our ,american   
institutions is nothing more nor less   
than treason1 and which should be       
treated as such4  ,to give the reader   
some idea of what ,roman ,catholicism   
will do if she ever has the power1 we   
quote an article which appeared in a    
,catholic journal known as ,the         
,catholic ,citizen1 of ,milwaukee1 ,wis4
  ,now1 if ,catholicism has at this time
 become so brazen that she dares offer  
the ,protestant world the insults that  
is contained in this article1 what shall
 we expect if this damnable creed ever  
becomes powerful enough to control by   
physical strength8 ,the article follows3
      ,protestantism in ,cuba8 ,what    
good will it do there8 ,if only     the 
good it has wrought elsewhere1 ,heaven  
help the ,cubans6     ,protestantism is 
nothing but a disorganizer and a pathway
 to     infidelity and atheism4 ,this is
 the only reason of its     existence4  
,as a positive moral force1 it is a     
farce4 ,it has     never converted a    

single nation1 but it has unconverted   
,protestants themselves with a holy     
vengeance4 ,berlin has     #ge1jjj      
church goers out of #b1jjj1jjj people2  
,london #djj1jjj     out of #f1jjj1jjj  
and so on4 ',without baptism you can not
     enter ,heaven1' says the           
,scripture1 and lo6 thanks to           
,protestantism1 nearly #fj1jjj1jjj      
people in the ,united ,states     are   
not baptized4 ,a nice system 7for the   
devil71 that     produces such          
results--results as fatal to the heathen
 as to     the ,christian4              
,protestantism found the ,sandwich      
islands with     #djj1jjj people4 ,where
 are they now8 ,gone4 ,a million ,macris
 in     ,new ,zealand4 ,where are they8 
,gone4 ,seven million ,indians in       
the ,united ,states4 ,where are they8   
,gone4      ,on the other hand1 the     
friars found #cjj1jjj natives in the    
,philippines #djj years ago1 and there  
are #i1jjj1jjj now2     #ab1jjj1jjj     
,indians south of the ,rio ,grande1 and 

there are     #ej1jjj1jjj now4 ',by     
their fruits you shall know them4' ,in  
view of such facts1 we think            
,protestants should leave               
',boonioboola ,gha' alone and confine   
their proselytizing to     unfortunates 
nearer home4 ,an ,american is just as   
well worth     saving as a ,cuban or a  
,chinaman any day4  ,the ,american      
,citizen1 a journal published in        
,boston1 ,mass41 made the following     
comment on this article1 which appeared 
in this ,roman ,catholic journal3       
,the above is as good a specimen of     
papal logic as we have     ever         
seen--and it is the real thing4         
',it has never converted a single       
nation6' ,christianity is     not       
supposed to convert nations--it converts
 individuals4     ,mohammedanism        
converted 787 many nations by the sword1
 and     popery attempted to do it by   
the inquisition1 but     failed--except 
in the case of the ,jews and ,moors in  
,spain1     which it 'converted' into   

beggars and refugees4      ,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   
,europe4      ,but how about ,england1  
and ,scotland1 and ,scandinavia1 and    
the ,netherlands1 and many other        
nations--were they not all     papal at 
one time1 but converted through         
reformation8 ,how     about the         
,huguenots--the very flower of ,france2 
the     ,protestant ,irish1 the very    
salvation of the ,emerald               
,isle--were not these all at one time   
,romanists--converted to                
,protestantism8      ,read the record of
 ,rome's 'conversions' in ,mexico1 in   
,central ,america1 in ,south ,america1  
as told by ,prescott and     other      
historians--the introduction of slavery 
by the papal     church1 and the        
unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon  
the     ,indians1 or aborigines1 of the 

countries mentioned4 ,read1 in          
,united ,states senate document #aij1   
the record of ,rome's     'conversions' 
in the ,philippines--a work which has   
made every     ,filipino a bitter hater 
of the priests4      ',the ,indians of  
the ,united ,states6' ,have they ever   
been     ,protestants8 ,have not the    
priests had control of them since       
this land was discovered8 ,are not the  
vices which have     killed them--apart 
from war--the peculiar vices of popery1 
especially drunkenness8 ,what good have 
the priests wrought     among them8     
,take ,california as an example1 where  
these     priests enslaved tens of      
thousands of the ,indians for the       
sole purpose of enriching their church6 
,this is a matter of history--of        
undeniable history4 ,if the             
,american ,indians were slain in battle1
 in nine cases out of     ten the       
,jesuits instigated them to the deeds   
which brought on     the war4 ,while    
,prescott's ',mexico' and ',peru' are   

accessible     in our libraries1 popery 
had better be dumb4      ,that the      
,filipinos have increased from #cjj1jjj 
to #i1jjj1jjj     and the ,south        
,americans from #ab1jjj1jjj to          
#ej1jjj1jjj1 may be     true1 for all   
travelers tell us that it is no uncommon
 thing     to find a priest with a      
halfscore of concubines and fifty       
children4 ,certainly these priests have 
an advantage over     ,protestant       
missionaries in this respect4 ,the      
pagans would     naturally follow the   
example of their 'spiritual' advisers4  
,oh1 yes1 the population certainly      
increases where the     priestcraft     
live4  ,the ,roman ,catholic church says
 that the priests shall not wed1 but at 
the same time the priestcraft fathers an
 army of children4  ,the ,philippine    
islands is a nation of heathens1 and    
,catholicism has been in charge of these
 islands for centuries1 and to-day they 
are worse off than they were before     
,catholicism planted her black banner in

 their midst4  ,wherever you find       
intellectuality1 morality and           
civilization in its fullest meaning1 you
 will find a country where              
,protestantism is the predominating     
doctrine1 as ,catholicism can not exist 
only in the underbrush of ignorance and 
vice4  ,the greatest menace this country
 has to contend with is the influx of   
,rome's followers from other nations1   
and unless our immigration laws are     
remedied it will not be long until ,rome
 will be able1 by physical strength1 to 
enumerate the ,united ,states as one of 
her countries1 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       
childhood4  ,france's woes and miseries 
have been expected for years by men of  
intelligence and men who could read the 
signs of the times1 as ,rome's influence
 was year by year growing more          

intolerable1 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 damnation1 and the latter      
course is the one she has chosen to     
pursue1 and to-day finds the ,roman     
,catholic church despised and detested  
by every intelligent and patriotic      
,frenchman of the land4  ,in ,july      
#ahgd1 ,eugene ,lawrence1 in the columns
 of ,harper's ,weekly1 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 church1 as ,mr4        
,lawrence was a historian of national   
repute1 and a man who was a patriot whom
 the ,american eagle was proud of1 and  
for the benefit of the readers of my    
little book ,i desire to quote in full  
this prediction made thirty years ago1  
as to-day finds ,mr4 ,lawrence's        

prediction being fulfilled in every     
particular1 and ,roman ,catholicism is  
the incarnate fiend that has forced this
 prediction to come true4 ,mr4          
,lawrence's article follows3      ,the  
,papal church is chiefly responsible for
 the decadence of     the ,french mind4 
,the priests have long controlled the   
education of the nation and have striven
 to shut it out from     all contact    
with the culture of ,america1 ,germany  
and ,england4     ,under the rule of    
,napoleon ,,iii1 the ,jesuits obtained  
the     guidance of nearly all the      
secondary colleges2 ,protestant         
schools were sedulously discouraged1 and
 nothing was taught     that could      
offend the mediaeval tastes of ,rome4   
,when1 two     years ago1 the ,french   
republicans had resolved to found a     
free and compulsory system of           
instruction for all ,france as     the  
chief want of the nation1 the papal     
bishops and priests     suppressed the  
measure by all their arts4 ,they were   

resolved     to have no education which 
they could not control4 ,the            
republican movement failed2 ,bishop     
,dupanloup and his     associates       
succeeded once more in shutting out the 
light of     knowledge from the people1 
and have sown the fires of     warfare  
in the place of mental progress and     
moral culture4      ,france1 which has  
often made the most rapid progress      
toward     reform1 has also been the    
most successful leader of modern        
reaction4 ,its revolutions have set in  
motion all other     nations1 but have  
failed to purify itself4 ,it is enslaved
 by     a single church and ruled by    
,roman superstition4 ,at the     recent 
assembly at ,paris1 of all the hierarchy
 of ,france1 of     ,jesuits1           
,dominicans1 ,monks and prelates1 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     people1 and 
make every college and seminary the     

teacher of     the worship of the       
,sacred ,heart2 to confine instruction  
within the limits of ,roman theology1   
and shut out more     strictly than ever
 before the light of modern progress4   
,at a     great and powerful meeting of 
all the ,roman ,catholic editors     of 
,france1 a similar policy was resolved  
upon4 ,by a strange     revulsion of    
sentiment the press was made to advocate
 its own     restriction or repression4 
,the papal editors apparently sigh      
for a return of the mediaeval practices 
when ,francis ,i4     burned ardent     
printers in ,paris1 and the ,sorbonne   
would have     banished the printing    
press from ,france forever4 ,the ,roman 
,catholic papers invoke the restoration 
of the ,bourbons and of     the temporal
 power of the ,pope1 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 impurity1       
and left it the prey of emperors and    
marshals1 princes and     priests4      
,france has thus displayed1 since its   
first revolution1 a     most remarkable 
contest4 ,the spirit of freedom has more
 than     once placed its people in     
front of human progress1 and ever       
again the spirit of reaction has dragged
 them back into the     abyss of mental 
and moral decay4 ,its priests have      
invariably     triumphed over its       
reformers4 ,the ,roman church has always
     held a supremacy above the law4 ,of
 all the national     institutions1 it  
has alone preserved its freedom of      
action     unimpaired4 ,it receives an  
enormous subsidy from the state4        
,while all other associations are held  
under a strict     subjection1 while    
political meetings are scarcely allowed1
     while the press is silenced1 while 
,protestant churches can     hold no    
assemblies or synods except by the      

connivance of the     government1 while 
,protestant churches are forbidden to   
have     either bell or steeple1 the    
,roman priesthood hold their            
councils and assemblies unrestrained1   
and cover the land with     their       
sodalities1 their societies1 their      
processions1 and     their pilgrimages4 
,the church is the only well-organized  
political party4 ,its agents are active 
in every commune4 ,its     severe       
discipline produces order through all   
its hosts of     ,jesuits1 monks and    
priests4 ,its confessors rule in the    
palaces of the wealthy and the hovels of
 the peasants4 ,it     forbids          
education1 it stifles thought1 it       
inculcates a     pitiless severity      
against ,protestants and reformers2 and 
with     natural indignation the leading
 ,republicans point to the     dominant 
church as the chief source of all the   
woes of     ,france1 as sacrificing the 
morals1 integrity and mental            
elevation of the nation to the single   

purpose of maintaining     the          
ascendency of a foreign ,pope4 ,the     
,french ,republicans have     been      
forced to see that the ,papal church is 
the necessary foe     of freedom4 ,it   
would be well if our own people could   
learn     from their experience1 and    
guard with strict vigilance their       
institutions from the secret and open   
assaults of a foreign     priesthood4   
,there is no doubt1 at least in the     
minds of the ,french     ,republicans1  
that to the intrigues of the ,papal     
faction is     due the disordered and   
hopeless condition of the nation4       
,gambetta's paper1 ,la ,republique1     
assures its readers that     the        
assembly is ruled by a party devoted    
wholly to the     ecclesiastical        
interests2 that they labor only to      
reduce the     whole country to an      
abject submission to ,rome1 and are     
ready     to accomplish their aims by   
measures fatal to the peace of          
,france4 ,it asserts that the priesthood

 forms a league as     rigorous as that 
over which the ,guises ruled and against
     which the ,huguenots struggled2    
that the church has its     myriads of  
societies1 committees1 agents1 an       
overflowing     treasury1 the favor of  
the government1 a single aim--an        
infallible ruler4 ,it calls upon the    
people1 if they would be     free1 to   
strike down the hydra that preys upon   
the state4 ,the     policy of ,bismarck1
 indeed1 finds its best defense in the  
condition of ,france4 ,if the           
interference of the papal faction       
proves so disastrous to the welfare of  
the ,french people1 it     is plainly   
the interest of ,germany to crush it    
forever by all     the resources of     
statesmanship4 ,if the rule of papal    
,rome be     so intolerable to its      
friends1 what might it not accomplish   
in the dominions of its opponents8      
,france may yet learn from     its      
neighbors over the ,rhine the only path 
to freedom4 ,what     it seems most to  

need is a ,bismarck4  ,if in #ahgd1 ,mr4
 ,lawrence1 after making a thorough     
study of the conditions of ,france1     
could so accurately prophecy what would 
happen thirty years hence1 the          
conditions at that time must have been  
indeed very palpable1 but no more so    
than they are in ,america to-day1 as    
,roman ,catholicism within the past ten 
years has made greater strides in       
strangling ,american liberties than she 
ever has in any twenty-five years1      
before1 as this creed of abominations   
has been losing its hold upon not only  
the throats of ,france1 but of ,italy as
 well4 ,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 ,states1 in    
order that she may at the proper time1  
and as soon as she believes she is      
numerically strong enough to overcome by
 physical force1 to strike a blow that  
will paralyze every ambition of         
,protestantism in this country4         

,hundreds of the best and wisest men    
this country has ever known have been   
for years warning the ,united ,states of
 her dangers from ,romanism1 but it     
seems as though we will not heed the    
warning1 but bear in mind that unless   
this country does heed this warning and 
halt the ,czar of ,darkness1 we will    
live to see the time when we will have  
to resort to arms to protect our        
,protestant interests4  ,the nation of  
,france has swung out from the power of 
the ,vatican1 and is to-day defying the 
,pope of ,rome and daring him to do his 
worst1 and ,france is a nation that has 
always been a ,catholic nation and      
controlled by her abominations1 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 nonentities1 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        
degeneracy4  ,it seems as though the    
,vatican will not learn that the world  
moves1 as the ,vatican is determined    
that ,italy shall not appear above the  
horizon of papal abhorrence4  ,it is    
hard for the ,vatican to learn that the 
world moves and that ,italy moves with  
it4 ,in its final resolution1 the       
quarrel between the ,pope and the       
,french government is based on the      
recognition of the king of ,italy as the
 sole sovereign in ,rome1 but the ,pope 
is as determined that him and his reign 
of darkness shall be the only           
acknowledged ruler of ,italy4           
,president ,loubet of ,france1 the      
executive of this ,catholic nation1 gave
 great offense to the ,vatican1 by      
visiting the king of ,italy1 who is in  
the eyes of the church a usurper4       
,according to the ,vatican's standards1 
the kingdom of ,italy is not an         
accomplished fact1 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 ,catholicism4
  ,the ,pope declares himself to be the 
only legitimate sovereign in ,rome1 but 
the ,italian government has for a number
 of years been learning that the power  
of the ,vatican is a power of darkness1 
emanating from the putridness of        
paganism1 and which is detrimental to   
any nation that aspires to individual   
intellectuality1 morality and greatness4
  ,the reader must bear in mind that    
,italy is the home of the ,pope1 and the
 home of ,popes1 and that ,rome is the  
city of ,popes1 archbishops and         
cardinals4  ,this statement can not be  
denied by any living man1 and since it  
is true1 we want to learn something of  
the inhabitants of ,rome1 so that we may
 be prepared to judge whether ,roman    
,catholicism is beneficial or           
detrimental to those whom she rules4    
,we make the statement without fear of  
successful denial1 that ,roman          

,catholicism is a power which withers   
the hopes and ambitions of any nation1  
which is so unlucky as to fall under her
 tyrannical tread1 as ,romanism is a    
power for evil1 unequaled by any creed  
of deviltry and diabolical cunning ever 
conceived by mortal man4  ,we have made 
the statement that the city of ,rome was
 one of the most immoral and ungodly    
cities under the shining canopy of      
,heaven1 and we have also made the      
statement that ,rome is the home of     
popes1 archbishops and cardinals1 and we
 propose to prove to the reader that1   
while ,rome is the home of ,roman       
,catholic officials1 that she is also   
the home of the libertine and immoral4  
,we also propose to prove that the      
immorality of the inhabitants of ,rome  
is taught them by the ,catholic         
officials of ,rome1 as we are not       
writing of what we have learned from the
 mouth of others1 but we are writing of 
what we know by the power of sight1 as  
we have visited ,rome more than once in 

the official capacity of ,roman         
,catholicism1 and we make this statement
 with a living ,god as our witness1 that
 ,roman ,catholicism is responsible for 
the immorality found in the city of     
,rome1 and this immorality is not       
confined alone to the city outside the  
walls of the ,vatican1 as this          
atmosphere of immorality and degradation
 permeates the very atmosphere of the   
,vatican1 as illegitimacy is found      
within the walls of the ,vatican1 as    
well as without4  ,rome is a city of    
popes1 cardinals1 archbishops1 priests1 
monks1 friars and ecclesiastical        
students4  ,in the city of ,rome1 which 
is the home of popes1 there are #ci     
cardinals1 #ce archbishops1 #a1dfi      
priests1 #b1hcb monks and friars1 #b1jjj
 nuns and #a1jjj ecclesiastical         
students1 making in all #g1egf teachers 
of this abomination2 and for every      
#d1cge children born in the city of     
,rome1 #c1afj are bastards1 and for     
every #gej people in the city of ,rome1 

there is a murder committed during the  
year2 thus you will see that this herd  
of ,catholic teachers are not only      
teachers of immorality and degradation1 
but are also responsible for murder1 as 
such a pestilence of immorality will    
lead to murder4  ,is it any wonder that 
,france and ,italy are to-day struggling
 with this polluted beast in order to   
free themselves from her filthy grasp8  
,is it any wonder that ,france has      
closed up the monasteries1 convents and 
schools of this abomination6  ,with such
 nations as ,france and ,italy declaring
 to their inhabitants that ,catholicism 
is not only a nuisance but a menace to  
intelligence and morality1 what can this
 government expect in the future if she 
permits ,romanism to continue to        
flourish in the future as she has in the
 past8  ,this book is not written by a  
man who seeks notoriety1 or a man who is
 writing from a prejudiced standpoint1  
but we are writing from what we know of 
the awfulness of ,catholicism1 as       

fifty-six long years have rolled into   
eternity since ,i began to worship at   
the feet of this immoral hag2 therefore1
 the reader must know that it is not a  
pleasant task to acknowledge before the 
world that we have been not only        
fifty-six years a follower of this creed
 of abominations1 but for thirty long   
years we helped to fasten this creed    
upon the human family4  ,i wish that it 
was within my power to become a spirit1 
which would enable me to navigate the   
air and whisper my warnings into the    
ears of ,protestant ,america1 for no    
nation on the face of the earth needs   
the warning as badly as the ,united     
,states1 as day by day1 week by week1   
month by month and year by year the     
,vatican's shadow grows longer and      
longer upon our shores1 and wherever    
this shadow of paganish darkness        
stretches itself you will find the      
withered hopes of man1 as ,roman        
,catholicism's only ambition is to place
 humanity at her feet1 which will enable

 her to bind her followers with the     
cords of superstition and ignorance1 as 
she exists upon the blasted hopes of    
those whom she rules4  ,if what ,i have 
told you in the pages of this book is   
true1 then is it not time for           
,protestant ,america to arouse herself  
from her lethargy and buckle on the     
armor of righteousness and patriotism   
and go forth to battle this ,strumpet of
 ,sin with the valor of our ,american   
forefathers8  ,i have prayerfully       
endeavored to lay bare the sins of      
,roman ,catholicism1 and the only       
hindrance ,i have encountered in my     
efforts is on the account of not being  
more familiar with the ,english         
language1 as ,i am a ,german born1 and  
my power of expressing myself in the    
,english language is materially hindered
 by being educated in ,germany1 but     
thank ,god that education does not stand
 in the way of a living ,god helping the
 foreign tongue to express itself in a  
manner which can be understood4  ,i have

 endeavored to inform the reader who ,i 
am1 what ,i am1 and why ,i am what ,i   
am1 and have taken up the abominations  
of ,catholicism and treated these       
abominations in a manner that ,i hope   
will carry conviction to the hearts of  
the reader1 as ,i am qualified to go    
before not only any official who has the
 power to administer an oath and to make
 oath to the truthfulness of every      
assertion made herein1 but ,i am willing
 to meet my ,god around the great white 
throne in ,heaven and stand upon the    
declarations herein contained4  ,i have 
endeavored to give the ,protestant      
reader to understand that his offspring 
are considered bastards1 and their      
parents persons who live in immorality1 
by not belonging to the ,roman ,catholic
 ,church and being married by the       
priestcraft4  ,i have endeavored to tear
 the mask of ignorance from the bleared 
and polluted features of ,romanism and  
show her up in all of her detestible    
ugliness4  ,i have in my weak manner    

endeavored to try to warn our ,american 
fathers and mothers of the great danger 
of the confession1 as the confessional  
is the stepping stone that leads to     
,romish abominations1 as it is there    
that the seed of immoral thought is     
planted and it is there that the purity 
of girlhood is first tarnished1 and if  
,i can arouse ,protestant mothers and   
fathers of this land to these awful     
sinks of iniquity ,i will consider that 
,i have been instrumental in helping to 
obliterate one of the greatest evils    
known to the human family4  ,i have     
endeavored to point out to ,protestant  
,america the awful mistake made by the  
,united ,states in permitting ,roman    
,catholicism to continue her debauchery 
in ,cuba1 ,porto ,rico and the          
,philippine ,islands1 as ,i declare to  
the reader with eyes wet with grief that
 not only the flower of our army is     
being sacrificed in these far away      
islands1 but that millions of dollars   
are being spent upon these islands and  

that ,roman ,catholicism is being       
benefited by this great expenditure of  
,protestant money1 as the ,pope of ,rome
 is as powerful in these islands to-day 
as he ever was1 and every intelligent   
,protestant in this land who has made   
this subject a study knows full well    
that had it not been for ,roman         
,catholicism and her outrages1 that the 
,spanish-,american war would never have 
been fought4  ,i have earnestly tried to
 make the reader understand that the    
monasteries in this country are often   
the abodes of criminals1 and the        
nunneries of this land are the slaughter
 pens of virtue1 and ,i trust that my   
readers will read it in the spirit that 
,i have written it1 and if such is the  
case ,i know that this little book will 
be instrumental in not only opening the 
eyes of drowsy ,protestantism1 but it   
will be instrumental in turning         
thousands of ,roman ,catholics from the 
error of their ways and pointing them to
 the ,lamb of ,god that taketh away the 

sins of the world4  ,i have endeavored  
to demonstrate to the reader that       
celibacy upon the part of the           
priestcraft is one of the most damnable 
crimes known to civilization1 as it is  
the unmarried cussedness of the ,roman  
,catholic priests that is instrumental  
in the slaughter of virtue4  ,i have    
endeavored to prove to the reader that  
the ,roman ,catholic ,church is a living
 infamous insult to an all-wise ,god1 by
 claiming that the ,pope of ,rome is an 
infallible being1 and ,i believe that if
 the reader has read my book with a     
determination of discarding that which  
is bad and holding to that which is     
good1 that he or she will close this    
book with an enlightened conception of  
this devilish creed which would have its
 followers believe that the ,pope of    
,rome is on an equality with ,jesus     
,christ4  ,i have endeavored to lead the
 reader from clime to clime1 so that he 
or she might behold the characters of   
the followers of ,rome1 and by          

comparison ,i have endeavored to        
convince the reader that the characters 
of the followers of ,roman ,catholicism 
are not nor never can be on a par with  
the character of ,protestantism1 as     
,roman ,catholicism follows the         
teachings of paganism1 born in the      
kennel of filthiness and surrounded and 
led by a class of men who glut their    
lust upon the virtue of their dupes1    
while ,protestantism is led by the lowly
 ,nazarine1 whose teachings have made   
,protestant ,america all that she is    
to-day or ever will be4  ,i have        
endeavored to point out to the readers  
of this little volume the sin of        
,protestantism1 permitting ,catholicism 
to control our public schools and teach 
our children doctrines that will be     
instrumental in strangling their        
ambitions and paralyzing their          
aspirations1 which is near and dear to  
,protestant ,america4  ,i have from the 
bottom of an honest heart endeavored to 
impress upon the reader the awful       

influence that the priestcraft of       
,america has upon the morals of this    
country1 and ,i trust that this task has
 not been a useless one1 for ,america   
has no plague that is so deadly to      
patriotism as this black-garbed army of 
priests1 who tramp up and down the      
length and breadth of this land1 seeking
 whom they may devour4  ,with every drop
 of blood in my old veins electrified   
with a desire to serve a living ,god1 ,i
 have endeavored to warn ,protestant    
,america of the lustfulness of the      
priestcraft1 who without a blush of     
shame invade the chastity of our        
,american homes1 and by the hellishness 
of this ,romish doctrine pollute the    
wives and daughters of this fair land4  
,i have pointed out the dangers which   
beset this nation by the toleration of  
,popish rule1 and have compared         
,protestant nations with the nations    
which have been morally damned and      
disgraced by ,romanism1 and ,i trust    
that my comparisons will lead an        

intelligent public to see the dangers   
that beset this country unless ,romanism
 is relegated to the everlasting haunts 
of oblivion4  ,in conclusion ,i desire  
to say to the reader that he or she will
 never know of the diabolical cunning of
 this ,romish doctrine1 for it is       
impossible for mortal man who has       
traveled this road of debauchery to ever
 portray in print to the public what he 
has seen along this journey of          
ignorance1 superstition and immorality1 
as no man who has the welfare of the    
young and rising generation at heart    
would sink so low as to write all of the
 awfulness that ,i have seen upon my    
journey for thirty years upon this      
,romish highway of carnality1 as every  
turn in the path that leads through this
 desert of desolation is strewn with the
 bleached bones of ambition4  ,there is 
not an oasis in this vast stretch of    
,romish desolation1 as her every        
ambition is to rule by superstition1    
ignorance and tyranny4  ,again ,i would 

warn ,protestant ,america that we are   
nearing the trenches of physical        
strength1 and unless we infuse into our 
,protestant manhood the liquid fires of 
,protestantism1 the time is not far     
distant when the ,bunker ,hill that was 
made famous by the blood of our         
forefathers will have her base dripping 
wet with the blood of ,protestantism1 in
 defense of the principles that have    
made ,america all that she ever has     
been1 all that she is1 and all that she 
may hope to be4  ,can we expect anything
 else should ,roman ,catholicism ever   
become numerically strong enough to rule
 by physical strength8 ,the answer to   
this question must come from the pages  
of ,romish history1 and this history has
 every page wet with ,protestant blood  
shed by this ,monarch of ,darkness1 as  
#ge1jjj1jjj ,protestants to-day sleep   
beneath the sod of the universe1 bearing
 the scars of ,romish torture4  ,my task
 is done2 my warning has been sounded2  
my prayers have been offered1 and now in

 the evening of old age1 when life's sun
 is slipping down behind the horizon of 
earthly things1 ,i find myself          
surrounded with the faces of new        
friends1 but in the dim far away ,i     
behold the countenance of my ,lord      
beckoning me to that rest beyond the    
skies1 where ,i hope to receive a full  
pardon from a ,god ,i so recently       
learned to serve4  ,for the sake of     
right1 ,i bade farewell to the          
associations of my childhood1 but in    
doing so ,i have been permitted to taste
 of realities that were bought for the  
human race ,by the blood of the ,lamb1  
and ,i feel assured that when this      
earthly race is over that ,i will be    
taken home to glory1 where ,i will be   
permitted to sing the songs of the new  
,jerusalem1 and my prayer is that this  
little volume may march on down the ages
 after ,i am gone1 to warn the          
generations that are yet unborn of the  
damnable teachings of ,romanism1 and be 
instrumental in wooing away from this   

human viper those who have been taught  
to worship at the feet of this          
hydra-headed monster1 ,roman            
,catholicism4   ,,the ,,lie ,,nailed4   
,catholicism is circulating a lie that  
,,bernard ,,fresenborg never was a      
,catholic ,priest4 ,here is a copy of a 
,check given ,mr4 ,fresenborg by        
,,archbishop ,j4,j4 ,,harty1 for saying 
,mass in #aijc4 ,j4,j4 ,harty is now an 
,archbishop in the ,philippine ,islands 
and one of ,rome's big guns4            
,archbishop ,harty at the time this     
,check was given was ,priest in charge  
of ,,st4 ,,leo',s ,,catholic ,,church1  
,st4 ,louis1 ,mo4  ,illustration3 ,check
  ,i will give #a1jjj to any man1 woman 
or child who will prove that this       
statement untrue4     ,,the ,,end4      
99 99 99 99 99  ,,transcriber',s ,,notes
   ,,typographical ,,errors ,,corrected 
,the following typographical errors in  
the text were corrected as detailed     
here4  ,on the cover page1 circumfrence 
was corrected to circumference in the   

following text3 ,this great book has    
stirred ,america from center to         
circumference4  ,in the ,author's       
,announcement1 enlightment was corrected
 to enlightenment in ,a structure of    
enlightenment 444  ,on page #ah1        
,catholocism was corrected to           
,catholicism in the following text3 444 
that ,i have shaken off this eternal    
bondage of ,catholicism 444  ,on page   
#bj1 ledgerdemain was corrected to      
legerdemain in the following text3 444  
,catholic legerdemain1 and ,i was taught
 444  ,on page #bb1 ,herold was         
corrected to ,harold to be consistent   
with other mentions of this name on the 
same page4  ,on page #bh1 crimnials was 
corrected to criminals' in the following
 text3 444 built with the purpose of    
sheltering her abominable faithless in  
case these criminals' desire to hide    
themselves 444  ,on page #cd1 hodwink   
was corrected to hoodwink in the        
following text3 444 which will enable   
the officials to hoodwink their         

followers 444  ,on page #id1 the text   
carion was corrected to carrion in the  
following text3 444 that part of the    
priestcraft which exists upon the       
carrion of the human family 444  ,in the
 first paragraph of chapter ,,vi 7on    
page #ig7 ,ecquador was corrected to    
,ecuador in the following text3 ,in this
 chapter1 we have before us the vision  
of two countries2 one is ,protestant    
,america and the other ,catholic        
,ecuador4  ,on page #abh1 asylumns was  
corrected to asylums in the following   
text3 ,the asylums of olden times were  
intended as retreats 444  ,on page #acf1
 ,crowe was corrected to ,crow to be    
consistent with other mentions of this  
name4  ,on page #ach1 absense was       
corrected to absence in the following   
text3 444 asked his government of       
,holland for a leave of absence to fight
 in the ,boer war 444  ,on page #ada1   
sytem was corrected to system in the    
following text3 444 so ,i sailed for the
 diamond fields of ,south ,africa1 where

 ,i am now free1 by the system 444      
,also on page #ada1 the word by was     
corrected to my in the following text3  
444 ,i walked to the banks of the       
,missouri ,river and raised my buried   
treasure 444  ,on page #adg1 degredation
 was corrected to degradation in the    
following text3 444 snatch their        
children from the ,romish mire of       
degradation 444  ,on page #agc1 ,pope   
,piux was corrected ,pope ,pius4  ,on   
page #bad1 the word concensus was       
corrected to consensus in the following 
text3 ,the consensus of opinion among   
all classes 444  ,on page #bai1         
broad-guage was corrected to            
broad-gauge4  ,on page #bee1 paracite   
was corrected to parasite in the        
following text3 444 who are as heavily  
burdened to-day with this ancient       
parasite 444  ,on page #bei1 two        
instances of instiution were corrected  
to institution4  ,on page #bgg1         
,massachuetts was corrected to          
,massachusetts in the following text3   

,if such things are now happening in the
 ,state of ,massachusetts 444  ,on page 
#big1 ,ctholicism was corrected to      
,catholicism in the following text3 444 
permit yourself to be made tools of in  
behalf of ,roman ,catholicism 444  ,on  
page #bhe1 blod was corrected to blood  
in the following text3 444 every man1   
woman and child that lives under that   
old red1 white and blue flag1 which was 
bought by the blood of our forefathers  
444  ,also on page #bhe1 boldy was      
corrected to boldly in the following    
text3 444 as she boldly and flagrantly  
declares that she 444  ,on page #bic1   
emmissaries was corrected to emissaries 
in the following text3 444 send her     
emissaries into the halls 444  ,on page 
#cjf1 convice was corrected to convince 
in the following text3 444 made a       
prediction that ought to convince every 
sane man and woman 444  ,on page #caa1  
hopless was corrected to hopeless in the
 following text3 444 the intrigues of   
the ,papal faction is due the disordered

 and hopeless condition 444  ,on page   
#cab1 interefrence was corrected to     
interference in the following text3 ,if 
the interference of the papal faction   
444  ,on page #cbj1 expres was corrected
 to express in the following text3 444  
helping the foreign tongue to express   
itself 444  ,on page #cba1 detestible   
was corrected to detestable in the      
following text3 444 in all of her       
detestible ugliness4  ,on page #cbb1    
sacrified was corrected to sacrificed in
 the following text3 444 the flower of  
our army is being sacrificed 444        
,,errors ,,left ,,unchanged ,,in ,,the  
,,text  ,villify and villified are      
consistently spelled with two lls and   
are used multiple times by the author4  
,they have been left unchanged4  ,the   
word lude appears twice and is left     
unchanged4  ,the word cungering is      
spelled consistently and is used in     
multiple places in this book4 ,this word
 has been left unchanged4  ,the word    
disorganizer appears in a quoted        

passage1 and is left unchanged4  ,the   
following words each appear once1 and   
are left unchanged3 cathechism2         
effulgency2 engraven2 jesuitical2       
,macris2 ,oricular2 perceptibilities4   
,both spellings of the word ,savior and 
,saviour are used in this book4