PUBLISHER'S FORWARD - This book was first printed for "the trade"
in 1903 by the author, Ex-Priest Bernard Fresenborg.
     Our interest in this book is in its accuracy or prophecy,
nor in its rhetorical structure.  The author was German-born, and
stated that his English is therefore faulty.  This explains his
long sentences, and his divergence from good grammatical
structure.  We should excuse him for this, for he gave us an
invaluable document in the expose' of Romanism, and its aims to
control all of humanity... [Note: This exposition of the (un)holy
Roman Empire has been concentrated and condensed even further for
this file, although efforts were taken to retain all of the most
important facts.  Even though there are many grounds for
condemnation of the political and economic injustices which have
been carried out by Rome over the centuries; such as those
documented by the author, the publishers and others, the very
fact that 'religion' is being used and twisted as a 'tool' to
bring about such political change as well as economic gain will
doubtless mean that many Roman Catholics will be offended by such
revelations and condemnations.  But since Rome insists that in
it's case there should be NO SEPARATION between Church, State and
Bank, the condemnations of one must therefore be the
condemnations of all.  And if Catholics are offended by this, as
they say, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen!" -
Branton].
     In offering this work we do not necessarily express
agreement with the author's religious views, or with his
advocating the teaching of religion in the public schools.  We
are distributing the book, not as a religious work, but to give
an ex-Catholic priest's warning as to what Americans can expect
from the Roman Catholic Church in her aim "to make America
Catholic." [In other words the publishers seem to be concerned
mainly with Rome's Anti-American political agenda - Branton]
     Those who are familiar with Rome's encroachments upon our
liberties, and its intentions to fully curb freedoms as we know
them, will see in these pages that "Rome NEVER changes."  Quite
apparent is the Church of Rome's motto, "The end sanctifies the
means."  Today the Vatican is stronger than it was when Bernard
Fresenborg wrote THIRTY YEARS IN HELL.
     Our government officials give ex-Communists every
opportunity to expose Communism; they should five ex-Raman-
Catholic priests the same opportunity to expose freedom's No. 1
Enemy, the FASCIST Church of ROME. - Heritage Manor,
Incorporated., Sanford Station., Los Angeles 5,  California. 
January, 1960:


                       THIRTY YEARS IN HELL
                 by Ex-Priest Bernard Fresenborg

My parents were Catholics, and for this reason I suppose, is why
I became a Catholic Priest.
     I was born in Germany, in 1847, thus you see I am now almost
what the world would call an old man--56 years old.
     A few years ago, I was of the opinion that my life had been
well spent, but today I firmly believe that the major part of my
life has been spent in erroneous doctrines and nonsensical
teachings, as the broad light of wisdom and independent thought
has penetrated the dark resources of my bewildered conception of
right, and has cause me to look upon things in general in an
intelligent manner.  Therefore, I feel that my youth and the
vigorous years of my manhood have been spent in what one might
term idolatry.
     From this time forward I am going to endeavor to undo, as
near as possible, what I have helped to accomplish in the past.
     ...My ancestors came from Sweden, but becoming tired of
religious warfare under Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, they
settled in a Catholic colony in Germany, in the southern part of
the Dukedom of Oldenburg, near the River Haase...
     My relatives were among the first and best families of the
Dukedom.  These families were by name Dickmann, Meyer, Junker and
Mohlenkamp, who are at the head of the intellectual and material
movements of that place.  They are all related by marriage and
inter-marriage to the Fresenborgs.  My parents had ten children.
     ...I was raised, I might say, under the walls of the free
Coty of Bremen, and was inspired with the idea of freedom, and
this, perhaps, may be the reason why, when I have come to be an
old man, that I have shaken off this eternal bondage of
Catholicism and launched my boat so late in life upon the broad
waters of Protestant freedom.
     ...I followed my favorite study, forestry and agriculture,
for some time, but as my parents and my forefathers, both on my
father's and my mother's side, had been devoted Catholics, I had
an earnest longing to become a Catholic Priest, as I desired to
go forth in the world and proclaim the cause of Christ, believing
that Catholicism was the only church which had the right to
establish her doctrines, and of course, cast my lot with this
church, and today finds me an old man with every vestige of
childhood's faith shaken from center to circumference.  As I have
lived in America so long and seen so much of the intelligence of
Protestantism, and so much of the deception of Catholicism, I
could not remain in the Catholic Church and be true to my
conception of what was right and wrong, therefore I laid aside,
with a degree, with a degree of regret, the relics of Catholic
barbarism.
     ...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 Church, and I was taught that all
Protestants were heretics and abominable in the sight of God and
sure to eternal damnation, unless they turned from their sins and
joined the Catholic Church.  Ofttimes I would have my faith
shaken by the actions of some lustful priest, but I clung
tenaciously to the religion of my mother and refused to look
beyond the horizon of Catholic superstition.
     (Author gives an account of how a number of young priests,
including himself, were able to get proof of the immoral conduct
with women of a high dignitary in the Catholic Church, the Very
Rev. Harold, also of a priest's drinking.)
     It was afterwards learned that this state of affairs had
existed in this Catholic mansion for years past...and after this
dignitary had left the mansion there were a number of children's
skeletons unearthed in the park belonging to the mansion, and one
child's skeleton was found in the waters surrounding the palace
[Note: Chick Publications documents similar accounts of human
sacrifice of children by 'Mother goddess' worshipping Roman
priests - Branton].  NO ONE was ever arrested for this awful
crime, as this Catholic dignitary flew to a monastery and there
WAS CONCEALED from the law's clutch, as there is NO LAW whereby
these monasteries can be forced open and their criminals brought
to justice.
     A monastery is a Catholic institution that may be used for
divers purposes, but one great purpose, and a very heinous
purpose, is to hide and conceal Catholic officials who break the
laws of their country, as they can flee to these monasteries and
there hide themselves from the wrath of the civil government.
     It makes no difference how vile the culprits may be, these
Catholic institutions are always a refuge for them, and
especially if the culprit who has money or friends supply them
with same, as the Catholic Church is and ALWAYS has been a great
money machine, as money in the eyes of the Catholic dignitaries,
covers a multitude of sins.
     You may not know it, but it is a fact, nevertheless, that
the monasteries NEVER allow the officers of the civil laws to
enter, and suppose the officers did enter, the culprit would
never be found, AS CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS ARE BUILT with the
purpose of sheltering her abominable faithless in case these
criminals desire to hide themselves therein, AS THE CONVENTS,
MONASTERIES [abbys? - Branton] AND CLOISTERS HAVE A LABYRINTH
WHICH WOULD MYSTIFY ANY ONE WHO WAS NOT USED TO THESE UNDERGROUND
PASSAGES.
     [Note: The following relative information comes from the
Thompson Chain-Reference BIBLE, and describes a series of ancient
catacombs below the city of Rome itself.  During the persecutions
of the early Christians under Nero and other Roman emperors, the
New Testament Christians took advantage of these catacombs to
escape persecution, but as time passed and Roman 'Imperialism'
made its subtle 'phase' into Roman 'Catholicism' these
Christians, many of whom had been Romans themselves, lost
possession of the Catacombs.  Today some of these underground
structures are connected by subways, and according to ex-Jesuits
like Alberto Rivera, the Roman Church now has possession of these
catacombs.  Many of them are restricted, especially those beneath
the Vatican, and are used as the world headquarters of Jesuit
Lodge, which allegedly uses some of the deeper ones for bizarre
initiation rituals similar to those practices by the ancient
Egyptian 'mystery society' in the subterranean chambers below
that nation.  Author Ralph Woodrow, author of 'BABYLON MYSTERY
RELIGION', in fact documents NUMEROUS connections between ancient
Babylonian Practices as they were later established in Egypt, and
then in pagan Rome, and finally incorporated into the Roman
Church itself.  According to Thompson: "The catacombs were
discovered, and began to be excavated, in the 16th century, and
since 1950 have been excavated rather extensively.  Our knowledge
of these underground cities is incomplete, due to the fact there
there are so many of them, and that they are so extensive. 
However, a vast store of knowledge has been accumulated from
these excavations--enough to fill many books.  There are about
six million persons buried in about sixty catacombs (Roman,
Christian, and Jewish).  Each of these has a rather obscure
entrance, from which a stairway leads down to subterranean
tunnels and galleries.  These branch off at right angles to each
other, creating a network of tunnels and streets, and here and
there a chapel.  There are as many as four levels, each of which
is connected by a stairway.  On each of these levels there is an
immense maze of these narrow subterranean tunnels--so many that
if all of the tunnels in all of the catacombs were placed end to
end they would extend about 587 miles." - Branton]
     No one has ever learned where the dignitary of this Catholic
institution at Vechta went, but we were thoroughly convinced that
he (the Very Rev. Harold) has hiding somewhere in a monastery.
     At this point in my religious training I perceived the
nonsense of celibacy, and the Apostle's injunction:
"Nevertheless,
to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let
every woman have her own husband." (I Cor. 7:2)  But the
teachings of my childhood cause 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 mistake, therefore I did
as all true Catholics are expected to do, and forced myself to
believe that all of the abominations practiced by this church
were godly.
     At this time I would conceal myself in privacy 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
God, as we find in Gen. 21:18 that our Creator said: "It is not
good that man should be alone, I will make a helpmate for him"
[Note: Traditionally Eve was taken out of Adam's side, not his
heel or his head, but his side indicating that woman were EQUALS
of man.  The Creator in his divine wisdom established this
pattern not only as a means of propagating the race, but that the
commitment between ONE man and ONE woman for life should be an 
teaching ground for both to share the Life they receive with each
other, and that through the provision of this Divine Life both
should compliment each other.  Women have intellectual and
physical weaknesses which can be strengthened by the right man;
while men have emotional and unstabilizing weaknesses which can
be strengthened by the right woman.  This is why scripture states
that a man and woman united body, soul and spirit before God are
'one flesh' and 'one spirit'.  This is what true Christianity
teaches, although the Apostles do speak of men and women who are
so devoted to God that He alone can provide for their weaknesses,
or those who do not necessarily desire or 'need' a mate.  This is
largely based on the individuals own prerogative, and it
certainly
is not a sin to remain single and unmarried as long as Divine Law
concerning relationships are honored.  However when 'religion'
attempts to FORCE one through extreme pressure into getting
married and having children or remaining unmarried without
children, they have overstepped their bounds.  This pressure and
control of ones desire or lack thereof for a family life might be
acceptable in dictatorial Socialist-Communist countries such as
Red China, but NOT in an enlightened society like the American
Republic - Branton], but whenever I would undertake to study and
try to convince myself of the erroneousness of the Catholic
doctrines, her teachings would loom up and blind my intelligent
conception of things, as I had been taught that I should not
question a single mandate that the Pope of Rome should see fit to
promulgate; therefore I made up my mind that it was a sin for me
to use the intelligence that God had given me, and I resolved to
follow the Catholic doctrine, regardless of what it might lead me
to.  Consequently I closed my eyes to reason and common sense and
became a blind and superstitious follower of Rome.
     When I came to America I beheld her great civilization and
at once my conception of intelligent action presented itself
again, but I fought hard to drive these feelings from my bosom
but the more I fought the stronger I became convinced that I was
wrong and my early training was wrong, and that the entire
machinery and mechanism of the Catholic Church was founded upon
abominations and superstitions, but the teachings of my mother
would prevail and I would slink back into the trenches of
Catholicism, and there I remained until less than a year ago,
when I resolved to bust the bands of iniquity and walk out upon
the plains of Protestantism, regardless of the deep feelings of
respect that I had for my early training.
     If God is an intelligent God, then we are expected to
worship Him in an intelligent manner, and if He is not an
intelligent God, it is impossible for Him to be God, and if the
Lord of Hosts is an intelligent Creator and expects us, as His
children, to worship Him in an intelligent manner, the Catholic
Church and all of her followers are sinning against God every
day, as her mode of worship is steeped in the drugs of heathenish
superstitions [Note: God does not judge man or woman by being
'born' into a false system, although if they follow teachings
which they know in their conscience are wrong they are largely to
blame.  Christianity teaches that generational 'curses' can be
passed down through the generations until the line of corruption
is intentionally ended by ones faith in God.  However according
to Christian theology this does not mean that man is fully judged
by God for the sins of the fathers, except in a 'physical' sense.
For instance, Adam's 'fall' cursed all humanity with physical-
mental death and degeneration, like a genetically 'inherited'
disease of corruption, however the soul-spirit does not come
under the curse of this ancient blood-line, since it/they are
supernatural in origin and are not part of the genetic line, and
so in the end mankind itself is solely responsible for their--his
or her--eternal spiritual fate regardless of 'Adam's sins' -
Branton]. 
     In this volume I propose to set forth nothing but absolute
truths, and I call upon an intelligent God for my witness, 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 truth, so help me God.
     I will give $5,000.00 to any charitable institution named by
any state of the United States if any Catholic priest, bishop or
cardinal will prove by any of their church doctrines that I have
misstated or misrepresented the teachings of Catholicism in any
letter, word or sentence.
     I want to thoroughly impress the reader with the
truthfulness of this volume, 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
years, but who, today, stands out upon the broad plains [the
Rock] of spiritual emancipation, and from this time forward will
always be found upon the side of spiritual liberty and following
the doctrines of an intelligent God, and when my earthly race is
run I hope and pray to be ushered into the presence of an
intelligent God.
     Protestantism looks to the Holy Bible for wisdom. 
Catholicism looks to the Pope... Ignorance is the greatest
breeder of crime known to the intelligence of man, and it is an
established fact that crime breeds immorality, and immorality of
course is the equivalent of illegitimacy, and historical facts
will bear me out in the assertion that countries which are
absolutely under the power of the Pope are countries which are
densely ignorant [and, we might add, countries where there is
little or no middle class, where a great chasm exists between
both rich and poor and clergy and laity - Branton], and again, as
above stated, ignorance leads to crime, and crime to immorality,
and now we are back to the first proposition and have proven
without going further that 'The nations completely dominated by
the power of the Pope are nations of illegitimacy', but we
propose to use historical records to convince without the shadow
of a doubt that our statements are true.  However, I do not need
these historical facts, as I have traveled extensively through
Europe and many other countries, and I know whereof I speak, by
personal observation and by coming into personal contact with
both Catholic and Protestant nations.  However we are not going
to be satisfied with this alone, as we do not want the reader to
rely implicitly upon our individual statements, but we propose to
bring facts to bear upon your mind which cannot be overthrown, as
statistics are stubborn and unyielding facts, which none but
fools dispute.
     We propose to take statistics from the PEABODY REPORTER,
which you can corroborate with the official report of the United
States Commissioner of Education.  The statistics that we above
refer to follow:
     "To every ten thousand inhabitants under the Roman Catholic
school system, there are 1,400 illiterates, 410 paupers and 160
criminals, while in the public school system we only find to
every ten thousand inhabitants 350 illiterates, making a
difference of 1,050 to every ten thousand."  Thus you see that
what we have said...in regard to Romanism being founded upon the
mountains of ignorance is true.
     Education in its literal meaning, means an infusion of
intelligence that lifts up the minds of man, and it is generally
so accepted by the world at large, but education, as far as
Catholicism goes, means only a rehearsal of abominations, which
have been practiced upon the followers of this creed for
centuries in the past, and does not in the least bear upon the
principles of true education.
     The public school system is established on the principle
that the intelligence and virtue of the people constitute the
foundation of free government.
     Our public schools therefore form one of the chief corner-
stones of our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our
hopes.  The growth and prosperity which have characterized the
first century of our schools fulfill their mission.
     Education is the watchword of the hour among Protestants,
but never among Catholics.  We must educate if we would elevate,
and unless we elevate the minds of men we will have humanity
running riot with vice and immorality, and this is why the
Catholic nations of the earth are found with their morals
trailing in the slime of degeneracy.
     Our public schools are today the great assimilating power in
this country.  We find in them children of all nationalities, and
whether they be English, Irish, Scotch, Danish, Norwegians,
French Italians, or some other nationality, when they enter these
institutions they pass out of the school houses, AMERICANS, one
and all, as it is absolutely impossible to make anything but a
true American out of a pupil who has been turned out of the
public schools of this country, and one who has been permitted to
assimilate the doctrines of broad education taught in these
schools [This is true, although one need not give up their own
national cultures and identities to become 'American' as America
is a unified-diversity of all human races, cultures and
personalities.  When and if it ceases to allow one to have their
own cultural personality, THEN America will be nothing less than
a socialist-fascist dictatorship where individuality will be
forbidden as the 'socialized' public cower under the iron fist of
a 'fascist' dictator - Branton].
     The influence of the public schools works rapidly upon
childhood and is felt through all of their...lives [afterwards]. 
A child who has been educated in the parochial schools is taught
to look up to innumerable superiors, and such an education dwarfs
the minds of childhood and teaches them to continually look to
others for their individual happiness, but the teachings of the
public schools broaden the individual mind and give courage,
which enables the child to awing out from the influence of others
and become a mighty power in the mechanism of the universe.
     We touch upon the public schools in this chapter, only in
connection with the dominating influence of the Pope over nations
which he completely rules [One unsavory thought which we might
interject here is that Roman-controlled nations have usually been
the first to conquer and exploit new continents and frontiers. 
If this is the case and the nature of 'the Beast' is that it
continually devours but is NEVER satisfied, then it would be
reasonable to assume that Rome as it has done since the most
ancient times would continue in its attempts to conquer every
frontier which would possibly manifest itself.  Could this in
part explain the many accounts suggesting that the Jesuit-
inspired 'Illuminati' and its puppet the 'Club of ROME' has
access to vessels capable of interplanetary flight, which will no
doubt be (or have been?) used to exploit the extraterrestrial
realm and/or the subterraneous realm as it has done in the
International realm? - Branton], in order that the reader may
thoroughly understand that ignorance begets crime and crime
begets illegitimacy, as we expect to dwell more fully upon the
education of nations in the future, but we want the reader to
begin at the "Alpha" of reason, so that when he or she is through
with this chapter that there will be no doubt in their minds as
to why the power of the Pope breeds illegitimacy among his
followers.
     We have contrasted the difference in morals of the
inhabitants, which are completely dominated by Roman Catholicism,
to that of the inhabitants of Protestant America, but we have
made this comparison in a general way; but we now want to select
a country which for its absolutism of Catholic monarchy has no
comparison, and that country is Ecuador.     
     In Ecuador the Catholic Church has such a complete hold upon
the inhabitants that they will not allow Protestantism taught,
and the consequence of her tyranny is that out of every 100
children born in that country, seventy-five are bastards or
illegitimate and have no idea of their father, and the immorality
of the priestcraft is so vile that their actions are absolutely
passed over without notice, as there is scarcely a single priest
to be found in that country but who is the father of from ten to
twenty-five and thirty children; but still the Roman Church
continues to forbid her priests to wed, when they know full well
that celibacy in the Catholic Church is the cause of all this
degeneracy.
     This state of affairs is not confined to Ecuador alone, but
the same state of affairs exists throughout the length and
breadth of all Catholic nations which are completely under the
power of the Pope.
     Italy, for instance, which is the home of the Pope and which
has been the home of the Catholic Church since the existence of
her abominations, is one of the most immoral countries that ever
besmirched the face of the earth.
     The first lesson that a Catholic child is taught is "hate",
and that lesson is directed at Protestantism [in this sense, one
cannot entirely blame the lay Catholic for his hatred of
Protestantism and American Republicanism, since they have been
'indoctrinated' to accept this filth based on false arguments,
even in the face of Christs command to love one's enemies -
Branton]; therefore, is it any wonder that the education of
Catholicism only reaches out far enough to hoodwink the student
and does not elevate him or her above the festering mass which
surrounds it?
     We want to repeat the statement that the Roman Catholic
Church does not want to educate anybody, nor will it do so, where
it is not under the pressure of Protestant influence.  However,
the American people demand figures and facts before they will be
convinced; so as further evidence of the truthfulness of what we
are telling you, we propose to quote from a report of the
minister of education in Italy, made some years ago.  This report
is true in every particular, and bear in mind that this minister
of education was a Catholic himself.  The report follows:
     "Of every 1,000 males in the province of Lombardy, 539 only
were able to read, and 461 did not even know their letters.  Of
every 1,000 females, only 426 could read and 574 could not read,
neither did they know their letters.
     "In Naples and Sicily, out of every 1,000 males, only 165
were able to read and 835 could not, and out of every 1,000
females, only 62 could read and 938 could not read and did not
know their alphabet.  Taking this report, you will find that out
of every 100, only about 10 were able to read.
     "In 1864, out of 21,000,000 people, only 3,500,000 could
read and write, and the rest did not know their alphabet, and
today Spain, another country which is completely dominated by the
power of Rome [as in the time of the Spanish Conquistadors
Cortez, Pizarro, and Coronado - Branton], has a population of
ignorant dupes, as 80 per cent of the population of Spain cannot
read and write.
     "In Ireland, where the Romish Church is dominant, this same
record is repeated, as in other Catholic nations.  In European
countries where Protestantism is taught there is but one out of
every ten that CANNOT read and write, but in the same countries,
where Catholicism has absolute sway, there is but one out of
every, there is but one out of every 125 that CAN read and write.
     "In six leading Protestant countries of Europe there are 315
inhabitants to every newspaper or magazine, while in six Roman
Catholic countries in Europe there is but one newspaper to every
2,715 people.
     "It is estimated that at least seven-eights of the
20,000,000 inhabitants in Spanish-America, which consists of the
countries of Mexico, Cuba, Central America and the north and west
parts of South America, are unable to read, and in Mexico alone
90 per cent of the inhabitants cannot read or write, neither do
they know their alphabet;" thus you can see what Roman
Catholicism does for the countries which [it] controls....
     It makes my heart sick when I realize that the Government of
the United States had spent hundreds of millions of dollars upon
the Islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and,
after all, these Islands are still in the grasp and the filthy
embrace of the Vatican at Rome.
     Not only fabulous amounts of money have been spent by the
United States upon these Islands, but hundreds of our noble boys
in blue have given up their lives in battle and by the scourge of
disease, and still Catholicism has absolute sway in these faraway
countries.
     These islands have been under the immediate control of
Popery for hundreds of years, but when the Government of the
United States took charge of them, their inhabitants had advanced
no further in intellectuality and the freedom of free men than
they were centuries ago.
     It may sound strange to the average reader when I declare
that all of the lives lost and all of the money expended by the
United States upon Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands
was brought about by the tyrannical rule of Rome, for it was by
her abominations that Cuba rebelled [Note: 'ex-Jesuit' priest
Alberto Rivera, incidentally states that he learned that Fidel
Castro was a 'lay' Jesuit - Branton], which was the prime cause
of the interference by the government of the United States;
therefore you can readily see why it is that I claim that
Catholicism is to blame for the part that the government of the
United States took in the affairs of these countries, and what
puzzles me so much is why the government of the United States
still permits Catholicism to control the destinies of these
countries, when the officials of this government know full well
that had it not been for abhorrent Catholicism that Cuba would
never have rebelled and that Puerto Rico would have been
satisfied, and the Philippine Islands would not today belong to
the United States; but, instead of this government trying to
remedy the great wrong done to the inhabitants of these
countries, it went right ahead and allowed the bone of contention
to remain, and today finds this government not only permitting
Catholicism to continue to practice her abominations in these
countries, but this government is instrumental in sending
Catholic teachers over to these countries, when, if this country
would do its whole duty, it would not permit Catholicism to take
any part in the affairs of these countries.
     Archbishop Chapelle was shipped to the Philippine Islands
with all the pomp of a RULER, and so was Archbishop J. J. Harty,
whom I am personally acquainted with, and whom I have been on
intimate terms with for a number of years, and this man Harty is
today in the Philippine Island ruling with the same tyrannical
hand that his characterized Romanism for centuries past, and
whose rule is only symbolic of ruin, as the interests of the
inhabitants of these countries are never considered, as it is
Rome's ambition and only desire to keep them under the heel of
perpetual tyranny.
     We would like to know why Archbishop Chapelle should be
given the best stateroom in a transport ship sailing for Manila,
while our pure-blooded, honest, sincere Protestant boys who wear
the blue were huddled together like so many cattle.
     Ah, this is the reason: Archbishop Chapelle is an emissary
of the Pope of Rome and stands ready at all times to serve the
wishes and obey the orders of that Italian pontiff, and our
officials were aware of this fact and they did not want to stir
up the Catholic officials for fear of losing a few votes, as both
of our old parties have sunk so low into the quagmire of filth
that they would allow their country to sink to the level of
Romish abominations if they thought by doing so they could
control the Catholic vote for either party.
     ...The time is not far distant until the Protestant world
will wake up to the realization that they have been humbled
before this Italian pontiff for the simple reason that our
officials are willing to cater to Catholicism in Cuba, Puerto
Rico and the Philippine Islands for the sake of votes.
     We do not care whether you are a Republican or a Democrat,
this chapter should fire your blood to the fullest extent, for I
am telling you truths, and if you have got the common decency of
the most ignorant liberty-living American you will right now make
a resolve that Protestant America must redeem her pledge to Cuba,
Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands to liberate them not only
from the hardships placed upon them by a foreign nation, but
liberate them from the bonds of Catholicism, which not only binds
the body, but chains the soul with the fetters of ignorance and
superstition.
     When it became known that the government of the United
States was to interfere in the affairs of Cuba, the Catholic
Church put all of her machinery to work immediately in order to
feel Uncle Sam and cajole him into dealing only with the
government of Spain, which would permit Catholicism to exist in
these Islands, and the pages of history only tell us too well how
successfully she laid her plans, as today we have the awful
spectacle of beholding he government of the United States playing
the part of "protector", while she is quietly aiding the
identical institution which caused the misery in these far-away
countries.
     ...We want to give the reader an insight...as to what
Catholicism practices in this country and in other countries that
are not near so densely ignorant as Cuba, Puerto Rico and the
Philippine Islands, and then you can have an idea of what the
inhabitants of these countries may expect in the way of
advancement from Catholicism, and what I will repeat is the
abominations that I have helped to practice myself for thirty
years; therefore I know whereof I speak and no man dare dispute.
     We will take a Catholic cemetery, for instance, and in order
that the ground may be sanctified and fit to receive the dead
bodies of those who believe in the Catholic faith a bishop must
sanctify this earth and consecrate it before it is fit to conceal
the body of the Pope's followers.
     ...In Canada, some time since, the laws of that country
forcibly effected the burial of a Protestant in a Catholic
cemetery, and the bishop of that diocese, by the name of BOURGET,
declared THAT portion of the cemetery as "DESECRATED AND FILTHY"
and forbade any priest to step his foot upon the ground [Note:
These are the kinds of priests who would most likely, had they
lived at that time, been among the group of Pharisees who accused
Jesus of being possessed by demons.  Not because he was breaking
the laws of Moses, but because he threatened their god-like hold
upon the mis-led masses of Israelites of that time.  Jesus said
that they were like white tombs, beautiful on the outside yet
full of dead men's bones within; who shut up the kingdom of God
to men, and searching the world to make a disciple they made them
two-fold the child of hell that they themselves were.  This is
not to say that Christ did not love such men, since He loves all
men.  He even loved Judas, the one who betrayed him.  But with
such men Jesus used fiery condemnation as that was the only thing
left that could get through their hardened hearts, since they did
not respond to his compassionate approaches earlier - Branton]
     Now, do you expect an institution which teaches such
doctrines to elevate a nation above their own doctrine?  If you
do, you are expecting something unreasonable, and if the
inhabitants of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands are
not to be elevated above such abominations can the future hold
anything for them but misery?
     ...Now, if we could halt with the recital of only a few
abominations, my task, perhaps, would not be so disgusting, but
hat I the endurance to live on, until I were a thousand years
old, and could write of what I know and have experienced in the
ranks of Catholicism, I would be unable to portray to the reader
all of her abominations.  
     The Catholic Church is a church of show and glamour, and
nonsensical doctrines, and not a church of God and holy worship.
     Many believe that Catholicism has taught all of her
conjurings for centuries past, and this is the case, but bear in
mind, that Catholicism often has to have new "fakes", in order to
make the money slide out of the pockets of their "dupes" more
easily, so they get up new intrigues and modern shows for this
purpose, and the fake that works the best is the one that they
work the hardest, as I solemnly declare that the Catholic Church
as a whole is a money proposition upon the part of those who
teach her abominations and I further declare that it is a "graft"
conceived by minds that are more cunning and deceptive than any
class of men upon the face of the earth.
     The Catholic Church changes its form of worship like cheap
chop houses change their bills of fare, as they are after
"suckers", and if one bait will not get them, they throw out
another, and the pomp and show of the church is to catch the eye
AND NOT to save the soul.
     Not long since, the Catholic Church, with singular devotion,
turned its devotions to the five wounds of Christ, and
immediately after giving these five wounds their solicitous
attention, they bade their followers to have recourse to the
sacred heart of Jesus, and in hundreds of Catholic Churches you
will find today a statue made in the likeness of Christ [Note:
This idolatry in itself is a defiance of one of the ten
commandments, as God commanded Israel that they were not to make
and worship any engraven image of anything in heaven, in the
seas, or on or under the earth.  Instead we are to look to Gods
WORD for a spiritual revelation of Himself, not to physical
representations which are lies since ANY attempt by a finite
being to 'picture' the infinite God can only result in an
infinitely degrading of his true glory - Branton], with a heart
attached over the breast, and this heart is illuminated by
electricity or candle, and the followers of Catholicism
absolutely worship this mechanism of man, and it has proven a
great drawing card, and you can rest assured that Catholicism is
pushing the scheme along good and hard, and "The St. Anthony
Bread
Box" hoax is another scheme that is not very old, but which the
Catholic Church has found to be another great paying investment
[And certainly the saints in heaven do not appreciate their
names, much less the name of their KING OF KINGS Himself, being
used to fill the pockets of the industrial-religious
establishment - Branton], and they are working "St. Anthony" for
all that he is worth.
     Now, can any man or woman of intelligence believe that the
inhabitants of these islands can ever expect to become men and
women of affairs--men and women of individuality--and men and
women of intellectuality?  If you can give a rational reason why
these countries should ever expect to be elevated to the standard
of greatness under such influences and under the tutelage of such
an institution, then the road to greatness must be very easy to
travel [One passage which might be relevant here is II
Corinthians 11:3,13-15 - "But I fear, lest by any means, as THE
SERPENT beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should
be corrupted FROM THE SIMPLICITY that is in Christ... For such
are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves
into the apostles of Christ.  And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light.  Therefore it is no great
thing if his ministers also be transformed into the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." -
Branton].
     The Catholic Church is conducted on about the same principle
as Dun's and Bradstreet's mercantile agencies, as they go into
the minutest detail to keep record of the affairs of the country,
so that they may know the weakest as well as the strongest points
of their creed, so that they may at all times be prepared to
exercise the greatest influence at the proper time, and what
makes this creed dangerous, is that they impress upon their dupes
that the church is "eternal law", and they hold out the crown of
glory on high as a reward for following their doctrine, and this
is the most dangerous and damnable scheme ever perpetrated by
mortal [men], for when you force a man or woman to believe that
YOU hold in your hands their future destiny, you have them to the
point where YOU can force them to do YOUR bidding [play god],
and this is exactly what Catholicism does to her followers, and
this is the reason why Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine
Islands can never expect to go higher in the scale of morality
and intellectuality than they are at the present time, if the
Government of the United States permits this troop of ghouls to
continue to be their masters.
     We believe that we have in this chapter made it plain to the
reader why the influence of Catholicism should be remotely
removed from these islands, and if I am right, the Government of
the United States is everlastingly wrong in permitting
Catholicism to retain her hold upon the throats of the
inhabitants of these islands, and I undoubtedly am right, as I
know whereof I speak, as I have tried the deceptive road of
Catholicism for the past thirty years, and I dare not tell in
this book all that I know of her cunning in regard to these far-
away countries, as I would have to use language so plain that I
could not expect this volume to pass through the mails, as the
priestcraft of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine Islands are
an immoral set, as a whole, and treat the female population of
these islands in a manner that breeds immorality from generation
to generation, and the awful part of this immorality is that
those who commit it with the priestcraft do not consider that it
is wrong, as they have been taught that it is no sin to do as the
priestcraft demands, therefore it is ten thousand times worse
than
if the sin was committed with the knowledge of the fact that it
was sin, as the mother or father who is aware of the fact that
they are sinners will not teach their offspring to commit the
sins they are guilty of, but when they are not aware of the fact
that they are committing sin, of course, they will allow their
children to believe that their actions are in harmony with the
teachings of God, therefore this damnable practice goes on and
on, from generation to generation, and this is why the morals,
intelligence and progress of Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine
Islands, are today on the same plane of depravity as they were
centuries ago, and no one is to blame but the Roman Catholic
Church, and until the Government of the United States shall
declare and back up her declaration by Protestant manhood, the
inhabitants of these islands will never know of the beauties of
chastity and morality and the wonderful blessings that are held
in store for them by embracing Protestantism.
     May the Lord of Hosts hasten the day when the eyes of those
who rule in Protestant America may be opened to the awful sins
they are committing, by allowing Romanism to hover over these
islands with her vulturous and carnivorous appetite of depravity,
and may the time soon come when the Government of the United
States shall proclaim to the Vatican at Rome that this veil of
abomination shall be lifted from the inhabitants of these
islands;
     ...When I was living beneath the folds of the black banner
of Catholicism, I sincerely and devoutly believed that to shield
a Catholic criminal was a righteous and Godly calling, as I
believed that to prevent the civil law from taking hold of the
criminal career of a Catholic official, for his short-comings,
was but an act of Godly Justice.
     I also believed that anything that was done between the
walls of a Nunnery was sanctified by the approval of those who
were higher in authority in the Catholic Church than myself;
therefore, the things which I now realize are both criminal and
immoral, as well as utterly detestable, I at one time considered
righteous, simply because my education had been confined to the
narrow channels of bigotry, and the effulgency of Biblical
knowledge had never penetrated my Romish-inspired
perceptibilities.
     I believe that I will make many assertions...that have never
been made before, but there will not be an assertion made but
what is true; however, there will be many that will arise from
the trenches of Catholicism, to denounce the truthfulness of
them,
but I know whereof I speak, and I defy any mortal man to
successfully dispute what I may state.
     This chapter will relate to monasteries and nunneries, which
in olden times were called "asylums".
     These asylums are used by Catholicism to scuffle criminals
of their following into, in defiance of law and justice, as these
asylums are notorious among those who are on the inside workings
of this creed, as to places where Catholic criminals can be
concealed without fear of having the civil law bring them to
justice, as these places are a retreat for Catholic criminals who
are pursued by the ministers of justice, and where, so long as
they remain, they cannot be arrested; but they are called by
different names which are MISNOMERS, and are only raised to the
level of religious institutions to cover up the infamy of their
actual mission, as Catholicism has learned that as long as she
can THROW around and about herself a religious glamour, that she
is permitted to go ahead and violate the laws of man without
molestation."
     (Note: At this point the author gives a rather lengthy
description of the events surrounding the disappearance of
William Morgan in Batavia, New York.  Fresenborg believes, based
on his own investigation into the matter, that the Roman Church
was behind the incident.  Apparently the incident occurred during
a time of intense Roman infiltration of the Masonic Lodges, and
was used to divert attention away from Rome and to the lesser
evil of Masonry.  The author suggests that Morgan may not have
died, but was spirited away to a Tappist Monastery in Montreal,
Canada and eventually to Asia, after he was pressured by Roman
priests to leave the lodge and was given an expository book to
publish which was "a clumsy forgery of the priestcraft of
Catholicism."  This is, apparently, yet another evidence of Roman
manipulation, infiltration and eventual control of the Masonic
lodges - Branton).
     ...Now, if a monastery in Canada would be turned into a lie
and a deception in order that the Catholic Church might carry out
her diabolical and cunning schemes, what can we expect of other
monasteries?
     If this history attaches itself to a monastery like that in
Canada what must be the condition of the monasteries and
nunneries of nations which have not the enlightenment that Canada
has?
     ...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 refuge,
where the worst chapters of crime never will be told, and where
these criminals flee to avoid the punishment of their crimes.
     ...I want to give the reader a little history in regard to
the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.  Wilkes Booth, a Roman
Catholic, was the assassin of President Lincoln.  The Roman
Catholic Church, under the mask of Democracy, was always believed
to be responsible for this diabolical assassination.  In fact, it
is believed, and the belief is well founded, that through the
"inquisition" in the City of Rome that a plat was laid to destroy
the Republican form of government of the United States, and the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln was the first step, and the
plotting on this side of the water was done in Catholic houses,
adorned with crucifixes, religious saints, religious statues,
religious relics, and rosaries, scapulars, holy water pots, and
medals of Catholicism innumerable.
     It was in the house of Mrs. Surratt, located in the very
heart of Washington D.C., that the officers of this government
proceeded after the assassination of President Lincoln, and bear
in mind that Mrs. Surratt was a Roman Catholic, and the occupants
of this house were arrested.  The ones who were arrested were:
Mrs. Surratt, a Roman Catholic; her daughter, Anna, a Roman
Catholic; Mrs. Fitzpatrick, a Roman Catholic, and Miss Hollahan,
a Roman Catholic.  Before the officers had left this house a
light knock was heard at the door and a young man appeared in
disguise, as he was dressed as a common laborer and carried a
pick upon his shoulder; his hands were white and soft and he was
also arrested, and his name was Powell, another Roman Catholic.
     John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, was a Roman Catholic,
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 Catholics, but was carried into execution by the
same set in this country.
     Booth, after the assassination, fled to Surratsville TO THE
HOTEL OF MRS. SURRATT, AND THERE A ROMAN CATHOLIC WOMAN HAD
CONCEALED A CARBINE.  Mr. SURRATT, at Washington, had warned the
folks at the hotel that THE WEAPON WOULD BE CALLED FOR the night
of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, which is PRIMA FACIE evidence
of the plot to assassinate Lincoln.  After the assassination
Booth fled, but on the eastern shores of the Potomac he was
concealed in a Roman Catholic Church for nearly a week.  As we
relate this history, which is true, the evidence becomes more
damaging against Roman Catholicism.
     The finale of this national tragedy was that Herald, Powell
and Mrs. Surratt were hung, and Dr. Mudd and O'Laughlin were
committed to life-long imprisonment, and all of these were Roman
Catholics.
     The question now arises, How did John H. Surratt escape from
the same fate [as] Herald, Powell and Mrs. Surratt?  I WILL TELL
YOU!  John H. Surratt escaped by the assistance of Catholic
officials and went to Canada, and was concealed in a "Trappist
cloister" near Montreal, and remained there until 1965, when as a
Priest, he went to Liverpool.
     In the spring of 1866, Mr. Wm. H. Seward was informed by a
Mr. King at Rome, Italy, that John H. Surratt had enlisted in the
Papal Guards, under the name of John Watson.  He was arrested at
Teroli, in Italy, but escaped by plunging down a ravine twenty-
three feet deep.
     He was wounded by the fall and crawled off to a monastery
and remained there until he was healed and then resumed his
flight.  After his wounds healed, he went to Egypt, as he was not
satisfied with Italy, and was there captured by our minister, Mr.
Hale, and sent to America.
     I could go on and on, giving you history of lesser
importance than this, which occurs week in and week out, month
in and month out, and year in and year out, and which is strictly
connected with the Catholic Church, but what I have given you are
truths, and indisputable truths, which should be evidence enough
of the awfulness of monasteries of this and other countries, 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 country.
     ...As I write I wonder how it was possible for me to endure
the paganism of Catholicism for THIRTY YEARS, and the only
rational reason I can give for this endurance is that I, like
thousands of these poor nuns whom I have just written about, was
raised to believe that the teachings of Catholicism were right
and the only road that lead to eternal glory; therefore I look
with pity and compassion upon these black-garbed nuns when I
behold them tramping the streets of our large cities, as I
realize
that they actually believe they are performing God's work, when
the truth of the matter is that they are only following the
practices of heathen nations.
     If Catholicism's claim that the Pope of Rome is infallible,
is true, then God is not an impartial God, for if He is an
impartial God He would not bestow upon any of His mortals the
gift of purity, without being ready to bestow the same gift upon
all of those who are deserving, and who by their righteousness
deserve this grand and princely distinction.
     ...We want to prove to our readers that this claim is one
founded upon fallacious grounds, as the Pope of Rome is elected
by
the cardinals of the Catholic Church, who are human and who are
often as immoral as the devil; therefore the infallibility of the
Pope rests in human hands, for it is by these cardinals that the
Pope is created, therefore you will see that by the ballot of
these cardinals the Pope derives his infallibility, and not from
any power of God Almighty, consequently this proclaimed
infallibility of the Pope rests in the hands of these cardinals.
     ...The great danger in teaching that the Pope is infallible
is in making thieves and murderers of our citizens, for if
Catholicism is right in teaching her followers that the Pope of
Rome is infallible, this doctrine is bound to have an influence
that is awful in its effect, 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 creates [including Papal
license to attack Protestant Christians - Branton], therefore
you will see that this doctrine is far-reaching in its effects,
for if a Pope is infallible the bishops which he creates are
infallible, and if the bishops which he creates are infallible,
the priests which they create are infallible, 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 priesthood as they have learned
to believe that all things created by the Pope are infallible,
simply because they have been created by the pope, and whenever
you preach a doctrine that has such effect upon the inhabitants
you will commit crime without hesitation, as they are assured
that by paying a few dollars into the coffers of the priest they
can have their sins pardoned [Note: This not only tends to take
away from the horridness of sin in the minds of the people, but
also from the purity of God who is absolutely uncorrupt.  God
views sin like an AIDS virus.  Even one tiny virus or 'sin' or
even an evil thought or desire like the one which Lucifer
entertained is capable of bringing about a chain-reaction of
multiplication and destruction which could potentially be
infinite or endless, like one little spark having the potential
to burn down an entire forest.  So, because of His absolute JUST
nature God must place the infinite penalty upon the potentially
infinite destruction resulting from 'sin', which had corrupted
this once absolutely perfect universe.  However the Almighty God
Himself, being infinite, bore the infinite price of pain so that
we might not have to succumb to eternal soul-death as a result. 
Therefore to put a monetary price on 'sin' is a horrible
perversion of God's perfectly just nature.  It is also to say
that Christ's infinite--only an infinite being could experience
infinite suffering, that suffering went far beyond the physical--
sacrifice at Calvary was NOT SUFFICIENT to take away the sins of
men - Branton], and whenever you cause a nation to believe this,
you at once have a nation of criminals.
     It is, in my estimation, absolutely impossible for an
individual who believes in such a damnable doctrine to become a
pure patriotic American citizen...
     The followers of Catholicism are taught that by the payment
of a few dimes they can have their sins remitted and pardoned;
thus you will see that crime has no terrors for such a class, 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 pardoned,
in exchange for perhaps a part of the money which THEY GAINED in
their criminal transaction.
     To rule such men, no religion is required.  A Romanist does
not look to God Almighty for his salvation, but to the church
[organizational institution], and the church gives him her
unbounded sanction to commit sin, provided that he returns after
he commits the crime and PAYS a few dollars to have his sins
pardoned.
     A Roman Catholic can swear, break the Sabbath, dishonor his
parents, lie, steal, commit adultery, get drunk and commit any
other crime that he chooses, provided that he returns to the
confessional box and pays for having his sins pardoned.
     ....Catholicism is a coward--yea, a cringing coward--when
not surrounded by large numbers of her followers, as she had no
excuse for her existence and cannot defend herself by intelligent
and godly arguments, and the only way she can defend herself is
in numbers; but whenever she can resort to physical and brutal
strength, she then makes a fight which crimsons the earth with
blood, and Protestantism pays the penalty, 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 power, but in
our cities we have an exhibition of the diabolical deeds of
Catholicism, as the majority of our municipal elections are
controlled by the followers of Catholicism, as Rome's followers
congregate in our large cities, because they love darkness better
than light, and they infest the "tough" sections of our cities
and control our municipal elections by brute force, which is
sanctioned by the priestcraft.
     "Foes to Knowledge" -- Like a poisonous serpent, Catholicism
is endeavoring to inoculate our public schools with the virus of
ignorance.
     The Catholic world does not hesitate in declaring that our
public schools in this country are "Sinks of Iniquity", "Schools
of Vice", and "Nurseries of Hell;" then why should the followers
of Catholicism be permitted to teach in our PUBLIC schools?
     This is a question that ought to vitally interest every
Protestant father and mother in this land, and the time is not
far distant until they will become interested, for just as sure
as God reigns, 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
stead.
     If the public schools of this country are not good enough
for the children of Catholic parents, 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 teachers.
     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 country?
     Oh, no; the Pope and the priestcraft are perfectly willing,
so long as Protestants have the power to MAINTAIN [pay for -
Branton] those schools, that their "jesuitical dupes" shall
receive the money that is set aside for these schools.  My blood
fairly boils with unbounded indignation when I think of the hard,
harsh, and ungodly slurs that Catholicism is ever ready to throw
at our public school system, and then see blind Protestants help
to place a Catholic teacher in one of our schools.
     We propose to give facts and figures in this chapter that we
hope will open the eyes of drowsy, unconcerned Protestants, and
help them and their children to apply the brakes to their
downward course, and spike the guns of the Vatican with American
manhood.
     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 schools.  Let me ask you, Mr. Protestant,
if you ever heard of a Protestant teaching in a Catholic school? 
Oh, no!  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 system... 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 forefathers!
     A general system of education, such as affords all alike an
opportunity to cultivate and expand the intellect, the poor as
well as the rich, is, beyond all question, one of the greatest
blessings that any nation can enjoy.  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
think.  In America was born the public free school system, and
from the date of its birth, in 1696, to the present, it has been
the means of giving to this nation its most renowned statesmen,
jurists, patriots, agriculturists, teachers and divines.  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 great.
     But against this most sacred product of American liberty
Rome lifts her unholy hands.  Against our schools she hurls her
worst anathemas.  But it is our purpose...to let the Roman
Catholic Church speak for itself.  Its language is plain and
needs no interpretation.  Listen to Rome's damnable utterances
[Take note of the accusations against the PUBLIC school system as
practiced through the separation of Church and State, then try to
find within these quotes the 'reasons' or 'foundations' upon
which such accusations are made.  You will find none - Branton]:
     "These public schools are devouring fires and pits of
destruction.  They ought to go back to the devil, from whence
they came." - THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
     "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 child. 
Take IT away.  Let IT rather never know how to write ITS name
than become the bound and chained slave of satan." - THE SHEPHERD
OF THE VALLEY.
     "The common schools of this country are sinks of moral
pollution and nurseries of hell." - CHICAGO TABLET.
     "The public or common school system is a swindle on the
people, an outrage on justice, a foul disgrace in matters of
morals, and should be abolished forthwith." - NEW YORK TABLET.
     "The hideous fetish, called the public school, is only an
ugly idol after all." - COLORADO CATHOLIC.
     "It will be a glorious day for Roman Catholics in this
country when, under the laws of justice and morality, our school
system shall be SHIVERED TO PIECES." -- CATHOLIC TELEGRAPH.
     "We hold education to be a function of THE [Roman] CHURCH
and not of the state, and in our case we do not and will not
accept the state as an educator." - NEW YORK TABLET.
     They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are
evil.  Listen to the snarls of Rome's "dupes":
     "Unless you suppress the public school system as at present
conducted, it will prove the damnation of this country." - Father
Walker.
     "I frankly confess that the Catholics stand before the
country as THE ENEMIES of the public schools." - Father Phelan.
     "The duty of all loyal, God-fearing Christian men (Roman
Catholics) then, I repeat it, is to make common cause against
this common foe." - Father Gleason.
     "The public schools have produced NOTHING BUT a GODLESS
generation of thieves and blackguards." - Priest Schauer.
     "I would as soon administer the sacrament TO A DOG as to
Catholics who send their children to public schools." - Priest
Walker.
     "The public school system MUST BE DESTROYED.  It must be
done BY STOPPING BIBLE READING, Psalm singing and eliminating
objectional books." - Phelan. [This betrays Roman Catholicism as
the REAL power behind the attempts to take Bible reading, the
pledge of allegiance, etc., out of the public schools through the
argument of 'separation of church and state' when in fact they
intend to bring the 'state' under the control of the Roman
'church'.  This is as hypocritical as hell itself if you ask us -
Branton]
     "To rescue these little ones [including non-Catholics -
Branton] out of the grasp of that monster (the public school), of
that popular idol, is our work." - Bishop John Hennessy.
     "WE [ROME] CAN HAVE THE UNITED STATES IN TEN YEARS.  An I
want to give you three points for your consideration: The
Negroes, the Indians, and the public schools." - Bishop Ireland.
     "Emphatically a social plague." - Archbishop Perche.
     "A ripe knowledge of the catechism, minus Massachusetts
education, is preferable to her education, minus the
catechism." - Cardinal Antonelli.
     "The common school system of the United States is the worst
in the world." - Cardinal Manning.
     "The catechism ALONE is essential for the education of the
people." - Cardinal Antonelli.
     "We must take part in the elections.  Move in solid mass in
every state pledged to sustain THE INTEGRITY of the public
schools." - Cardinal McCloskey.
     "The ROMAN Church ALONE is endowed with the power to educate
THE YOUNG." - Cardinal McCloskey.
     "Education outside of THE CONTROL OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH is a damnable heresy." - Pius IX.
     "Public schools open to all children for the education of
the YOUNG should be UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE ROMISH CHURCH, and
should not be subject to civil power, nor made to conform to the
opinion of the ages." - Pope Pius IX.
     "When I see them drag FROM ME the children, the poor little
children, and give them an infidel education, it breaks my
heart." - Pope Pius IX.
     "It is desirable, therefore, venerable brethren, that in
concert with your colleagues in the Episcopate, your efforts and
your zeal guard Catholic children from frequenting schools in
which their religious instruction is neglected and open danger
incurred of spiritual loss.  Therefore we VEHEMENTLY desire, as
has already been intimated to you by the propaganda, that in
approaching Episcopal meetings you carefully discuss the measure
that may best help to attain this end.  We with you also to use
earnest efforts that the civil magistrates, who know full well
that nothing is more advantageous to the commonwealth than
religion should provide, by the enactment of wise laws, that the
office of teaching, which is carried on at the expense of the
public, including consequently the contributions of Catholics,
should contain nothing that stands in the way of their conscience
or runs foul of their religion." - Pope Leo XIII.
     We could go on and quote diabolical denunciations of our
public schools from hundreds and thousands of Catholic officials,
as the followers of Rome make no "bones" of declaring their
animosity towards the public schools of this country, 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
schools, and place in their stead their parochial schools, which
are nothing more nor less than "mills of ignorance" and
"institutions of superstition."
     An institution of learning is something that is not desired
by Catholicism, for whenever you educate you destroy the
doctrines of Romanism, as the hosts of Catholicism cannot stand
the searchlight of WISDOM, for whenever you educate the followers
of Catholicism they become disgusted with their dogmas and
damnation.
     Our public schools are the bulwarks of this government, and
all that we are today, and all that we may expect to be in the
future, has come and must come by and through the public schools,
which are the dearest institutions that adorn this country.
     There must be no sectarianism, whether political or
religious, in our public schools, but there must be truth and
duty there.  The unchanging and undying maxim of moral rectitude
[upon which the legal system itself is based for the protection
of individual liberties - Branton] should be taught to every
child.  It is not enough that a boy or girl should be educated
mentally.  The safety of our nation, as well as his own
usefulness and happiness, demand that they should be trained to
habits of truthfulness and develop a fine standard of honor. 
They should be inspired to form exalted ideals of manhood and
womanhood, charity, rectitude and godliness, and made strong in
the resolution to defend the truth, which is never found in
parochial schools, as the Catholic doctrine always tends to
HUMILIATE her followers.
     The time has come when the public schools must be taught the
love of country, and Catholicism does not teach this, but the
reverse.  The children of this nation must learn to love their
native land.  To whom shall we look for the inculcation of those
patriotic sentiments which should inspire the heart of every
American citizen?  Not to Catholicism, by any means, but to the
three hundred thousand [possibly more at this late date -
Branton] teachers of our public schools.
     Over every school house in hamlet and city, in country and
town, in the North and in the South, in the East and in the West,
the American flag should kiss the morning breeze.  Place it where
twenty millions of children will see it every day, and learn to
love it as the emblem of all that is great and good.  It will
represent to us and to all the world, in a new and peculiar
manner, the great fundamental truth that the bulwark of our
liberties is in the education of our people.
     The war of the revolution was fought to establish our
nationality.  Incalculable blood and treasure have been spent to
establish and keep our national life intact, 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
state.  Men make better citizens for being educated.  The higher
the popular intellect is raised the more intelligent and
independent will be its vote.  The stronger the source of
government, the stronger the government.  If the "bayonets that
think" are the most potent, the "ballots that think" are the most
beneficent.
     Every victory which our nation has won has been a victory of
the public schools and a death knock to Catholicism.  They have
been the nursery not only to our statesmen, but of our patriots
and soldiers.  They are an American institution and are destined
to live as long as the republic survives.  There is no other
American institution that American people would sooner fight for
and die for than that which secures an educated and intelligent
nationality.  Let us maintain inviolate our public schools to the
end that our nation may ever be the home of liberty, "the land of
benedictions."
     In the unbounded universe of God's domain there are manifold
diversity permitted in the unity of nature, so, in our country of
religious and political freedom, we must grant the greatest
latitude possible to the individual conscience [to the extent
that they do not violate the freedom, privacy, health or life of
any other human being both OLD and YOUNG - Branton] in personal,
religious and civil rights consistent with good government.  But
that there must be a code of morality common to all as the basis
of our civilized jurisprudence, in which the rights of all center
or unite and are equally protected, every reasonable mind must
admit.  But where do we get our ideas of what is morally right,
and what is morally wrong, as the basis of our common law and
jurisprudence?  What book or books contain the best code of
morals?  We answer, the Bible.  For the excellency of the
morality of the Bible has been admitted by the most distinguished
men who have opposed its supernatural revelation, among whom are
Gibbon, Byron, Carlyle, Lord Bollingbroke, Napoleon Bonaparte,
Goeth and Renan [Note: The ten commandments, for instance,
surpass any other set of rules which have been conceived to
protect the individual LIFE and LIBERTY of men and women. 
Whether or not the founders of the American Justice system
were Christian, they saw these 'commandments' as the best
foundation upon which to build the legal system of the United
States, if not the world - Branton].  Thomas Jefferson, speaking
of Christ as a Teacher, said: "He set forth the sublime ideas of
the Supreme Being, aphorisms and precepts of the purest
morality."
     Catholicism says: "NO BIBLE SHALL BE TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS," but DEMANDS that she be allowed to proclaim her DOGMAS.
     Benjamin Franklin, five weeks before his death, said of
Christ: "I think His system of morals, and His religion, as He
left them, are the best the world ever saw and is likely to see."
The services of the Bible IN BEHALF OF human rights and freedom,
and in reforming and purifying jurisprudence and politics, have
been recognized by many of the most distinguished historians,
jurists and statesman.
     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
jurisprudence, and have forbidden the union of church and state,
and have left every citizen free to "worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience," SO LONG AS HE DOES NOT INTERFERE
WITH THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS OR VIOLATE THE MORAL CODE COMMON TO ALL
CITIZENS, for the law cannot allow a person to MURDER AND STEAL,
or burn HUMAN SACRIFICES, or be a POLYGAMIST [That is to steal
another man's destined or potential mate.  The Bible never
condones polygamy, contrary to popular opinion, but instead
warned against the ancient practice which is unfair to women and
was common in the Middle East among many nations and tribes of
the time.  All those in scripture who insisted upon it later
suffered because of it - Branton], or commit any other public
crime, even if the dictates of his conscience should lead him
into such a form of religion, because the moral code of the Bible
is the basis of our jurisprudence, and it forbids such things.
     Therefore, we demand that the "Book of books" be kept where
the rising generation shall come under its moral teaching without
party or sectarian comment, so that all may understand the
fundamental principles upon which the science of our common law
rests, 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 therewith, and upholding the reading of
the Holy Bible [both as a moral code and an accurate history
book] therein."
     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 ROME, and
applies with equal force against the moral code of jurisprudence,
because it is objectionable to the conscience of the anarchist,
and the conscience of the anarchist is just as sacred and
entitled to as much respect, under the law, in this free country
of ours as the conscience of any one else [Although whatever
one's belief system is, it must give way to the belief system of
the majority since the majority vote is the constitutional method
for national policy.  This is why many groups attempt to
manipulate politics, the media, deception and so on in order to
FORCE upon the people their own views through misrepresentation. 
If this nation desires to become a Roman Catholic nation and
throw into the trash the separation of Church and State, then
this must be brought about through the MAJORITY vote as this is
the PEOPLE'S government.  Of course whatever decision the
majority of the people make, they must be prepared for the
temporal and spiritual consequences of their decisions and will
have no one to blame for themselves for the good or evil of those
consequences - Branton].
     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
schools, because the moral code of the Bible is the moral code of
our common law.
     We desire the Bible to be kept in the school as the standard
of moral truth, as the dictionary is kept there as the standard
of words and their definitions.  As the unabridged dictionary
contains all the words of the English language, so the Bible
contains all the truths of Christianity.  Every book had a part
of the words of the dictionary, so every 'Christian' creed has a
part of the truths of the Bible.  As there never was a book
written that contained all the words of the dictionary, so there
never was a creed written that contained ALL the truths of the
Bible.  Therefore, as the dictionary and not the books is the
standard for words and their meaning, so the Bible, and not the
creeds, is the standard of moral truth [And besides, the writers
who penned the 66 books which make up the Bible were the few if
not the only ancient peoples who bothered to set forth an
inspired set of morals which respected the EQUALLY the life and
liberties of each individual person.  Unlike most other ancient
philosophers and religionists whose tendencies were to enforce
the destruction of individuality in favor of uniformity under a
political or religious human despot - Branton].  A man can take
the words in the dictionary and write a bad book, but that is not
the fault of the dictionary, but of the man.  A person may take
passages of Scripture [out of context with the whole - Branton]
and misapplied truths and write a bad creed, but that is not the
fault of the Bible, but of the creed-maker.  Every man who takes
the Bible AS A WHOLE has a complete standard of moral truths
[That is, a code for perfect justice and mercy - Branton].
     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 children, or a promiscuous audience, but this is only
claimed by Catholicism.  Yes, and there are words in the
dictionary that it would be just as improper to use to define
before children or a promiscuous audience as any passage in the
Bible.  Therefore, 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 modesty.
     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 jurisprudence, and such a conscience is dangerous to
our form of government, inimical to the BEST INTERESTS of society
and good government, as has been clearly demonstrated in the
past.  The Mormons claimed the right under our constitution to
live in polygamy, as that was their religion and the way they
served God according to the "dictates of their own conscience." 
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 all [This is true
also with every other religion, including the 'Roman' religion
especially which is the worst violator of the 'national
conscience' - Branton].  Thus ALL must submit to moral code
COMMON TO ALL.  Thus ALL must submit to science.  So the Bible
should be read in the public schools, irrespective of the
conscience of ANY, until THE MAJORITY of the government OF THE
PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE shall say: "Away with
your Bible, away with you Sabbath, away with your Christian
jurisprudence, and give us infidel revolutionary France, or
lawless anarchy, or the inquisition of the dark ages!" [Although
many accuse the 'government' of injustice, the people or public
must remember regardless of how much they might resist the
thought, that THEY are largely to blame for any problems this
nation may be facing, since THEY are the ones who failed to act
when the early 'cries in the wilderness' warning of a conspiracy
against America went unheeded; cries made by the few to the deaf
ears of those who were too caught up in themselves than to worry
about their fellow Americans or even their own posterity, and who
would rather believe the media manipulators and monopolizers who
told them they need not be disturbed by such 'fanatical paranoid'
talk, and that such a fantastic thing 'could not happen here', as
the public was wooed back into their apathetic slumber - Branton]
     ...In a government where the people are the rulers,
intelligence and education are necessary to maintain the nation's
stability.  Under this belief, the public school system of the
United States was founded.
     Following are expressions of prominent Americans on the
general subject of popular education.
     PRESIDENT HAYES: "I am firmly convinced that the subject of
popular education deserves the EARNEST attention of the people of
the whole country, with a view to wise and comprehensive action
by the government of the United States.  The means at the command
of the local and state authorities are in many cases wholly
inadequate to deal with the question.  The magnitude of THE EVIL
to be eradicated is not, I apprehend, generally and fully
understood."
     PRESIDENT GARFIELD: "Next in importance to freedom and
justice is popular EDUCATION, WITHOUT WHICH neither freedom and
justice can be permanently maintained.  Its interests are
intrusted to the state and to THE VOLUNTARY ACTION OF THE PEOPLE.

Whatever help the nation can justly afford should be generously
given to aide the states in supporting common schools, 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 schools.  The separation of the
church and the state in everything relating to taxation should be
absolute."
     DR. STRONG: "FREE SCHOOLS are one of the corner-stones of
our government."
     WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS: "Promote them as an object of
primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of
knowledge.  In proportion as the structure of a government gives
force to PUBLIC OPINION, it is essential that public opinion
should be enlightened."
     CALHOUN: "In proportion as a people are ignorant, stupid,
debased, corrupt, exposed to violence within and danger without,
the power necessary for a government to possess in order to
preserve society against anarchy and destruction becomes greater
and greater, and individual liberty less and less, until the
lowest condition is reached, when absolute and despotic power
becomes necessary on the part of the government and individual
liberty extinct."
     The church of Rome wants to RULE by tyranny so that she can
force her "dupes" to do her bidding.
     No subject could be of more interest to American citizens
today than that of foreign immigration to America.  Every section
of the country has felt, to some degree, the demoralizing effect
of the free admission of aliens, unsuited morally and mentally
for participating in a government of the people. [Note: here the
author portrays a slightly more hardline view of immigration than
perhaps the view some of the founding fathers may have had, who
realized that America was founded on the immigration of oppressed
peoples from other countries.  However the author, an immigrant
himself, is correct in his assessment that there is a difference
between oppressed refuges genuinely seeking a better life AND the
'fifth column' infiltrators of despotic countries who no doubt
entered America on the orders of their higher-ups in alien
nations SOLELY for the purpose of destroying the Constitutional
self-rule of Americans.  Doing their all to make this free (or
once free!?) nation submissive to a foreign power, they often
serve for no other reward than an inflated ego which craves to be
seen as a 'hero' in the eyes of their fellow foreign countrymen -
Branton]
     The consensus of opinion among all classes of good citizens
is that some restrictive measures should be adopted, and this can
be effected only by popular agitation and demand.
     Read what some prominent men of the country have said on the
subject: 
     HON. WM. E. CHANDLER: "We should prepare ourselves with
wisdom and vigor to enforce completely such laws of exclusion as
we have adopted.  We should throw our strongest force into a
stricter administration of those laws so that no man and family
shall pass through the Ellis Island doors, or into any seaport,
or across the Canadian or Mexican borders, who is a pauper or
likely to become such.  One method of stricter administration
should be the requirement that all immigrants before leaving
their own countries shall obtain consular certificates abroad,
showing their right to enter the United States."
     HON. HENRY CABOT LODGE: "You ask me for a few words on the
subject of immigration.  My opinion has been stated at length,
both in speeches in Congress and in review articles, but I am
very glad to restate it in the briefest possible form.  I think
that immigration to this country is increasing too fast on one
hand and deteriorating on the other.  We are ready to welcome
every honest immigrant who comes to make a home and become an
American citizen, but I believe that the present immigration
ought to be sifted and restricted much more than it is, both as a
protection to the quality of our citizenship and to the rates of
wages to our workingmen."
     HON. ROBERT P. PORTER, Superintendent of Census: "The
unrestricted admission of the diseased, half-fed swarms of
helpless humanity from the purlieus of Southern European cities
is the dangerous phase of immigration.  If continued, it will
prove a curse and blight to American citizenship and American
institutions.  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 class, but it takes no great
discernment now to see the congested spots here and there on our
body politic.  In this lies the danger.  Such a change in the
character of immigrants as herein shown cannot have taken place
without materially affecting the entire immigration problem, and
the sooner our statesmen get to the bottom of the present
condition of affairs, the better for the republic."
     REV. JOSIAH STRONG, D. D.: "It is immigration which has fed
fat the liquor power, and there is a liquor vote.  Immigration
furnishes most of the victims of Mormonism, and there is a Mormon
vote.  Immigration is the strength of the Catholic Church, and
there is a Catholic vote.  Immigration is the mother and nurse of
American anarchy, and there is to be an anarchist vote. 
Immigration tends strongly to the cities and gives to them their
political complexion and there is no more menace to our
civilization than our rabble-ruled cities."
     SAMUEL GOMPERS, President, American Federation of Labor: "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 suffer, but the
progress of our civilization is hanging in the balance, and
intelligent and brave men should not be afraid to express
themselves to secure us against results which may be appalling. 
Unrestricted immigration injures the people of our country and
does no good to the people of other countries.  It injures all."
     A. S. DRAPER: "I would hang the flag in every school room,
and I would spend an occasional hour in singing our best
patriotic songs, in declaiming the masterpieces of our national
oratory, and rehearsing the proud story of our national life."
     FRANCIS MARION: "Men will always fight for their government
according to their sense of value.  To value it right, they must
understand it.  This they cannot do without education.
     WINSHIP: "The public school is the one force, is the only
force, that can unify all classes and conditions of society. 
Here we have the children of the nation in their entirety, and we
can, if we will, teach them in the schools so much of the
grandeur of our possession, of the heroic in our history, of the
brilliant in our prosperity, of the fascinating in our
traditions, that the gathers of the future will be willing to
vote for and die, if necessary, for the American idea; that the
mothers of the future will teach their sons to develop our
resources by industry, to honor the active duties of private and
public system, because it lies at the foundation of our national
existence."
     Where does the vicious element which is found in this
country come from, and to what church does it belong?  Ah, 98 per
cent of those whom we call anarchists can trace their origin from
foreign countries, and they are always identified with the Roman
Catholic Church.
     Wherever you find a national disturbance, and wherever you
find the spirit of anarchy in this country, you will find a spot
where Roman Catholicism exists, and her teachings are
anarchistic, as she teaches her followers a doctrine that is as
sure to lead to anarchy as water is to flow down hill.
     Catholicism teaches her children that our public schools
are "plague spots" and "nurseries of hell," and impresses upon
their minds that education, in a broad sense, is not essential,
and also teaches them that they must look to the priestcraft for
their education, and at the same time the priestcraft is
instructed by the Pope that a broad-gauge education is not
permissible to be given to the followers of Catholicism ["My
people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." - Hosea 4:6], and
the Pope of Rome teaches her bishopric and her priestcraft that
they must fight the public school system, and in its stead erect
the parochial schools of ROME, which are nothing more nor less
than schools of dogmas, and these dogmas are incubators of
anarchy, for without education and without love of country,
anarchy [Feudalism as existed during the Dark Ages - Branton] is
as certain to follow as the day is certain to follow night, but
still Protestantism stands idly by and allows Catholicism to
vilify her institutions, and at the same time permits Catholicism
to place fer followers in a position to draw salaries from the
institutions which they despise and hate with the venom of hell.
     It is my object and my aim to arouse Protestantism to a
sense of their duty, and if I can do this I will feel that I have
accomplished a task that will eventually call forth the plaudit
of the American people, for as sure as God reigns, 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 system, and against
the encroachment of the damnable and diabolical doctrines of
Catholicism.
     Our greatest American statesmen, our greatest American
patriots, our greatest American thinkers, our wisest and most
loyal citizens, and our grandest old mothers are Protestants, and
born of Protestant stock; then why should we hesitate to denounce
this anarchistic demon of Rome, when we know what she thinks of
our American institutions, and when we are absolutely certain
that if it was within her power she would crush to dust
everything that is near and dear to Protestantism?
     Arouse, ye Protestant hosts, and buckle on the armor of your
fore-fathers 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 degradation, and compel her to
remain within the border of the countries which she had desolated
by her hellish dogmas, and purge the shores of the "home of the
brave and the land of the free" of this scarlet-robed hag, who
would paralyze our American institutions which are near and dear
to every pure American, both man and woman, who dwells beneath
the folds of the American flag.
     An institution which is allowed to flourish in this country,
should be an institution whose teachers are in harmony with the
fundamental principles of godliness, morality and liberty, and
unless they are, the teachers at once become traitors.
     Now, is this not common sense logic and everyday philosophy?
     We want to investigate and see if this logic and philosophy
is not reasonable and founded upon common sense, and if we find
that it  is, then any man or woman of intelligence must
acknowledge that if the teachings and the fundamental principles
of a free country are correct, then the doctrines of Catholicism
are altogether wrong, and the sooner the American people can
arrive at this conclusion, the better it will be for us [The VERY
REASON that most of the early Americans fled Europe was to escape
the STATE ENFORCED religious system which absolutely refused to
allow free worship according to one's conscience.  This is the
very thing which, according to Dr. John Coleman and others, the
old-line 'Blue Blood' despotic families of Europe who once
reigned as the ruling class of the ancient Roman Empire, are
trying to do away with - Branton], for if the teachings of our
Protestant forefathers are right, and the teachings of Rome are
wrong, the quicker we can eradicate and stamp out these popish
doctrines, the better it will be for our posterity.
     If this country is a home for those who love liberty, then
the influence of the priesthood of America is detrimental to the
fundamental principles of America, as Catholicism does not teach
patriotism and loyalty of country, as the burden of her teachings
is, "Loyalty to the POPE," and the Pope of ROME, who is at the
head of the Catholic Church is a despot pure and simple--yea, he
is worse than a despot, as he rules his followers by
superstitious belief, which teaches that not only the body of
Rome's followers is subject to the Pope's every whim, but the
soul as well is directly under the control of this despotic
sovereign.
     A Roman Catholic form of government is more despotic than a
monarchy which is ruled by an absolute despot, as these monarchs
who have absolute sway in the affairs of the state only are
satisfied with this absolution, but not so with Catholicism, 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 despair.
     It matters not how strong we are in our endeavors to do
right, the commission of wrong under our nose will corrupt to a
certain extent the morals of the young, and I say without fear
of contradiction that the priestcraft of this and every other
country are, as a whole, a set of men whose morality is below
par; however, I sincerely believe that there are some few who are
chaste, but I am sorry to say that this class is greatly in the
minority; and why should it be otherwise, as the priesthood is
composed of men who are mortal, and the vow of celibacy
[religious command or forbidding against marriage such as the one
which is condemned in I Timothy 4:1-3 - Branton] which they must
take BEFORE they enter the priesthood is an unnatural and
unreasonable vow, and one which is not kept sacred... thus you
will see at one that the priestcraft is a cancer upon the body of
morality, for whenever the young and rising generation learns
that those who are supposed to teach them in chastity and
morality, are men who will commit the very sins which they have
been taught are heinous; the, what can you expect of future
generations, and what must eventually be the morals of a country
which is controlled by the priestcraft?
     We do not have to confine ourselves to the recital of the
immorality of the priestcraft of foreign countries, 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 priestcraft.
     (The author goes on to name priests guilty of immoral
practices, which we are not including; our target is the ROMAN
Catholic Church, NOT duped followers of this pagan organization.)
     ...There is no denying the fact that Catholicism has already
a strong hold upon the affairs of this country, as we find the
hydra-headed demon in every branch of our government, and since
such is the case, it is folly to deny the fact that if
Catholicism is what we have shown it to be, that her influence is
demoralizing, and the influence of the priesthood of America upon
the morals of this country is bound to be detrimental, and who
will deny the truthfulness of my assertions, as I have not
misstated a single paragraph in this book; and, if this is true,
what shell we expect of the present generation and the
generations that are yet unborn, if we permit Catholicism to make
as great headway in the future as she has in the past?
     In we cared, we could write from now until our old arm would
become palsied with age, and each chapter would be a new story of
the perfidy and hellishness of the priestcraft, as every age
reeks with the stench of their immorality, and the countries
which are completely under the power of the Pope of Rome are only
shadows of what this country will become if this demon of
darkness is not halted, for the influence of the priestcraft 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 behold.
     Reader, remember what I tell you today; that unless the
spirit of Protestantism [either political or spiritual 'Protest'-
antism - Branton] takes a firm stand in this land against
Catholicism, we will find our Protestant hopes and ambitions
within the near future paralyzed by the infusion of Rome's
immorality.
     (More about the immoralities of priests.  Quotes a "full-
fledged" Catholic "who kept himself out of the state penitentiary
by a 'technicality', when told that a certain priest had said
harsh things about him: "Father C--- is a Catholic priest and I
have nothing to say, and if he should spit in my face I would not
resent the action, as I was born and raised a Catholic, and do
not believe a Catholic priest can commit a sin.")
     ....Now, reader you may not know just what kind of treatment
from the Catholic Church I will receive for writing this book,
but as soon as it is placed upon the market the Catholic Church
will "excommunicate" me; however, it may be possible that the
reader does not understand what a horrible curse this
excommunication is, but in order that you may thoroughly
understand what I mean I will repeat, word for word, what some
Catholic official will declare against me for writing this book,
which will further go to show the reader the vileness of this
damnable creed, and which will also go to convince the reader
what fear the followers of Catholicism have of the priestcraft,
which will more fully convince you that [a] timid, unsuspecting
woman, who has been brought up to believe in the paganism of
Catholicism, can be easily led to yield to the lustful desires of
the priestcraft, for fear that by refusing his request that he
would pronounce this terrible curse upon her, which she had been
taught would forever damn her eternal soul.
     The curse of excommunication which I am certain to receive
at the hands of Catholicism for writing this book follows [Note:
The following refers to 'Mary' as a goddess equal with or higher
than Christ himself, worthy to be prayed to.  We suppose that the
Roman churches' claim of the divinity of the so-called 'Mother of
God' makes her part of the 'Quadrinity', according to
Catholicism.  Rome still does not admit that the term 'Madonna'
was actually an ancient title used in ancient pagan 'Mother
Goddess' worship, nor does it admit that 'Mary' had children by
'natural' means after giving birth to Christ as a virgin.  This
would seemingly, according to Rome's perversion of scripture,
make the imperfect Joseph the 'Father of God' and Joseph's 
father the 'Grandfather of God', and so on.  And since Mary was
was, according to Romanism, absolutely sinless then why not
worship Mary's mother as the 'Mother of the Goddess' and so on? 
Or her children as the children of the 'Mother of Heaven'?  And
since the 'Saints' are also gods worthy of worship and objects of
prayer then we see Catholicism is nothing more than confusing
Babel[on] and a veiled version of ancient Babylonian pantheism
which denies the singularity of the Godhead, attempting to hide
behind the veneer of 'Christianity' like a wolf in sheeps
clothing.  According to the New Testament Mary was righteous, but
not 'perfect', and since Jesus was born of God, by the Spirit,
through a virgin he was not corrupted by the blood-line of human
men, which would otherwise have been passed down from father to
child - Branton]:
     "By the authority of God Almighty, the Father, Son and Holy
Ghost, and the undefiled Virgin Mary, mother and patroness of our
Savior, and all of the Celestial Virtues, Angels, Archangels,
Thrones, Dominions, Powers, Cherubim and Seraphim, and all the
Holy Patriarchs, Prophets, and all the Apostles and Evangelists,
of the Holy Innocents, who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are
found worthy to sing the new songs of the Holy Martyrs and Holy
Confessors, and of all the Holy Virgins, and of all Saints,
together with the Holy Elect of God, may he, Bernard Fresenborg,
be damned!
     "We excommunicate and anathematize him from the threshold of
the Holy Church of God Almighty.  We sequester him, that he may
be tormented, disposed, and be delivered over with Dathan and
Abiram, and with those who say undo the Lord [the Pope? -
Branton], 'Depart from us, we desire none of thy ways'; as a fire
is quenched with water, so let the light of him be put our for
ever more, unless it shall repent him and make satisfaction!
     "May the Father, who creates man, curse him!
     "May the Son, who suffered for us, curse him!
     "May the Holy Ghost, who is poured out in baptism, curse
him!
     "May the Holy Cross, which Christ for our salvation,
triumphing over his enemies, ascended, curse him!
     "May the Holy Mary, EVER Virgin and the MOTHER of God, curse
him!
     "May St. Michael, the Advocate of the Holy Souls, curse him!
     "May all the Angels, Principalities and Powers, and all
Heavenly Armies curse him!
     "May the glorious bend of the Patriarchs and Prophets curse
him!
     "May St. John the Precursor, and St. John the Baptist, and
St. Peter and St. Paul, and St. Andrew, and all other of Christ's
Apostles together, curse him!
     "And may the rest of the Disciples and Evangelists, who by
preaching converted the universe, and the holy and wonderful
company of Martyrs and Confessors, who by their works are found
pleasing to God Almighty; may the holy choir of the Holy Virgins,
who, for the honor of Christ, have despised the things of the
world, damn him!
     "May all the Saints from the beginning of the world to
everlasting ages who are found to be beloved of God, damn him!
     "May he be damned wherever he be, whether in the house or
in the alley, in the woods or in the water, or in the church!
     "May he be cursed in living and dying!
     "May he be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry,
in being thirsty, in fasting and sleeping, in slumbering, and in
sitting, in living, in working, in resting, and.... and in
bloodletting!
     "May he be cursed in all the faculties of his body!
     "May he be cursed inwardly and outwardly!
     "May he be cursed in his hair; cursed be he in his brains
and his vertex, in his temples, in his eyebrows, in his cheeks,
in his jaw bones, in his nostrils, in his teeth and grinders, in
his lips, in his shoulders, in his arms, in his fingers!
     "May he be damned in his mouth, in his breast, in his heart,
and appurtenances, down to the very stomach!
     "May he be cursed in his....and his....in his thighs, in
his....and his.... and in his knees, and his legs, and his feet
and toenails!
     "May he be cursed in all his joints and articulations of the
members; from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet may
there be no soundness!
     "May the Son of the living God, with all the glory of His
majesty, curse him!
     "And may Heaven, with all the powers that move therein, rise
up against him, and curse and damn him, unless he repent and make
satisfaction!  Amen!  So be it!  Be it so!  Amen!  Amen!  Amen!"
[When one reads such curses and incantations which Rome has
directed against 'heretics' in the past in an attempt to
intimidate them and condemn them--like the sons of the 'Accuser'
that they are--for turning from the Roman Emperor-Pontiff to the
Holy Bible, one must feel a sense of the depravity of the
hypocrites of Rome.  Unfortunately for them the Holy Word states:
"Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have
used deceit; the poison of ASPS (SERPENTS) is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of CURSING and BITTERNESS." - ROMANS 3:13-14;
also "...I will bless them that bless thee (speaking of physical
and spiritual Israel), and curse him that curseth thee." -
Genesis 12:3.  In other words Rome, in spitting forth such
reptilian venom and curses against those who follow the LIVING
WORD, the same WORD which Rome always seeks to pervert and
suppress, is actually bringing these very curses upon itself! 
There may be some in the Roman hierarchy who have convinced
themselves that they are 'doing God service' by destroying
Protestantism, but there are others in the innermost core who
KNOW that they are doing evil, those who are the leading members
of the ancient 'Illuminated' Babylonian Mystery Religion.  These
are KNOWINGLY using 'religion' as a device to propagate their
ancient 'Babylromean' Empire, they are those who KNOW of the
fallacy of the rituals and dogmas of Romanism, because THEY are
the ones who invented them! - Branton] 
     I have given you the diabolical "curse" of ex-communication
WORD FOR WORD; thus you can see how un-Christian the Catholic
Church is.
     As I have said before in this chapter, the foregoing is the
curse that will fall to my lot as soon as this book is placed
upon the market, thus the reader can see that my motives for
writing this book must come from a pure incentive, or else I will
not willingly cut myself asunder from all of those whom I have
associated with during my life.  This task is not one that I
enjoy, as it breaks my heart to realize that I have all through
my life been burdened down with this load of superstitious filth,
but I could not in justice to myself and in justice to a living
God refrain from the task, after I had my eyes opened to the
beauties of Protestantism.
     ...When we take into consideration the fact that all the
teaching os Catholicism lead to not only implicit confidence in
the purity of priestcraft, but carry with them the cudgel of
destruction of the souls of her followers, if they do not submit
to her teachings and demands, 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 and gratify their
inhuman lust.
     There is no nation on the face of God's green earth today
which has been enslaved by the power of Popery, and which has
been burdened by an idle and worthless army of Priests, Monks and
Nuns, but what would have become, not only tired, but disgusted
with their burden, if they had ever been permitted to mingle and
commingle with Protestant countries, and learn that Protestantism
leads to individual intellectuality and collective greatness.
     It is true, however, that there are many countries in South
America that have been Priest-ridden for centuries, and who are
as heavily burdened today with this ancient parasite as ever, who
offer not a single protest, but the only reason for this is that
Catholicism has always forbidden these priest-ridden nations to
make any advancement towards Protestantism, which has been
instrumental in keeping these nations under the complete control
of the Vatican; thus you will see they have never been permitted
to taste of the grandeur of Protestantism.
     We will take France for instance, which was at one time one
of the most priest-ridden countries on earth, but which is today
endeavoring to extract herself from the meshes of this damnable
creed, as the intelligent statesmen of France have learned that
Catholicism is only another name for ignorance and superstition,
and they have also learned that so long as the affairs of France
remain under the control of papal power, just that long
advancement and greatness stand aloof from the portals of their
country, so in the past two years [before this manuscript was
originally completed - Branton] the government officials have
removed tens of thousands of the Pope's hirelings from authority
and have closed up hundreds of parochial schools [One might
wonder if this had anything to do with the largely Jesuit-
infiltrated Nazi movement's invasion and pillaging of France
during World War II? - Branton].
     Now, if Catholicism is such a glorious creed, why is it that
France is so anxious to get rid of her influence?  Ah!  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 affairs.
     Italy, the hope of the Pope, has begun to wince under the
Vatican's rule, as her national back is getting raw by the saddle
of this diabolical creed.  The inhabitants of Italy have been for
the past few years protesting against the high-handedness of
Catholicism, and the officials have begun to take notice of this
vulture of humanity, and my predictions are that within a very
short time Italy will do as France has done and close up the
monasteries and convents [Although this might be an honorable
hope on the part of the author, unfortunately as we write this in
1992 Romanism still holds sway throughout much of Italy -
Branton], for just as long as these institutions are allowed to
keep an open house, and dictate to the inhabitants of Italy, just
that long we may expect the immigrants who come over from Italy
to bear the Vatican's mark of vice, immorality and criminality.
     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 country, and your heart will become
sick with fear, as this class that hails from the nations of
popery are a class as a whole, that will disgrace and ruin any
nation on earth, as these immigrants are men and women who have
no conception of a free country, as they are men and women who
have never been taught to look above the horizon of Catholicism;
therefore they land upon the shores of America as criminals and
not as citizens, and you cannot make pure American citizens out
of them until you boil this hellish creed from their system by
the fire of patriotism, and this cannot be done as long as this
country permits Catholicism to run her mills of degeneracy
unmolested upon out shores.
     All of our large cities are infested more or less with this
"scarlet-robed hag of hell," and more especially our eastern
cities, as this foreign herd of the Pope's followers land in
eastern ports, and spread themselves out like a blanket, reeking
with a moral stench over the eastern borders of this country, and
they make a specialty of settling in our eastern cities.
     We will take BOSTON, MASS., for instance, 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 countries.
     Several notorious cases of open defiance of civil law and
violation of civil rights by the tools of popery have recently
occurred in Boston.  One of these is the ESCAPE of two girls from
the so-called "House of the Good Shepherd," in Roxbury [No doubt
this is affiliated with the First Church of Roxbury, an ancient
abby in the North Section of Boston which was built in 1631 -
Branton], and the RECAPTURE of these girls by POLICEMEN.
     Now, bear in mind that this "House of the Good Shepherd" is
a Catholic institution, pure and simple, but these girls who
escaped from this "plague house", were ARRESTED BY POLICE and
RETURNED to the Catholic dungeon without the semblance of law
[One can see here how the legal system has been corrupted by the
influence of Romanism and it's spawn socialism.  It is no secret
to those in the 'Patriotic' movement that one of Socialisms
strategies is to corrupt the legal systems of the nations which
they would conquer, and allow criminals to run rampant and foment
anarchy throughout that country.  An obvious example of the
corruption of a once-great legal system is that of convicted
murderers who are released 'on bail' after a few months or years
in prison, free to kill again, when their crimes are deserving of
life imprisonment at the VERY LEAST.  The ONLY logical reason for
this travesty is a complete DISREGARD for justice and the GREED
of the legal system which is more interested in filling its own
pockets with 'bail' money rather than giving family members of
the victims the peace of knowing that the murderers have been put
away for LIFE.  Instead many of them are forced to face the daily
terror of knowing that these cancers on society are free to do
whatever they will.  One must wonder if Roman-Socialism might not
be behind such attempts to reward convicted murderers for their
crimes. - Branton].
     On questioning "The Mother Superior," she said that the
girls were NOT committed to the institution by the courts, but by
"the Church."  The question then arose: Has the Roman Catholic
Church the right to give sentence of imprisonment with hard labor
as a penalty?  For this is exactly what imprisonment in the
"House of the Good Shepherd" means; therefore, if these girls so
sentenced escape, what right has a CITY POLICEMAN to arrest and
carry them back to the CATHOLIC institution, which exists without
the semblance of a State law and without an iota of moral law? 
Are the policemen of the cities of Massachusetts servants of the
ROMAN Catholic Church?  Have the courts the right to sentence
prisoners to Catholic prisons, and after sentence, have the
prisoners no right?  Many of them are kept for life, or until too
old to work, and then they are set adrift to become charges upon
a Protestant country, after the Roman Catholic Church has made
hundreds of dollars from the labor of these unfortunates.
     We want to call attention to another flagrant case, which
happened in the NORTH END of Boston not long since [This tragic
incident just proves the old point: "Give the devil and inch and
he'll take a mile!" - Branton].
     A few months since, a Protestant Italian family in the north
end of Boston was about to move to New York.  There were two
children and the wife soon expected to become a mother again. 
She expressed the wish that someone would care for one of her
children FOR A FEW WEEKS, until she got well and was settled in
her new home.  A neighbor sent a woman to her who offered to care
for the child, and when this little one was turned over to her,
she took it straightway to the home for destitute Catholic
children, on Harrison avenue, in Boston.  In a month the mother
called for her baby and was told that is was "up in the country,"
and was requested to leave it there for a month, and was told
that it would be good for the child.  She consented to this,
believing that the fresh air would be good for her baby, but she
was an uneducated woman and was inclined to believe what others
said, as she was an honest lady herself, but she did not know the
trickery of the Catholic Church, so when she was asked to sign a
paper, she readily agreed to it, not thinking she was giving her
own bleed and flesh away.
     In a month she came on from New York to get her baby and was
told that she could not have it, and was further told that she
had signed a paper giving it away.  Then the husband came on from
New York and demanded the child, but was refused.  He then
appealed to the pastor of the Italian Methodist Church, on
Hanover Street, Boston.  The two went to a very prominent
Romanist office-holder, who was chairman of the trustees of this
so-called "Catholic Home."  This man draws seven thousand dollars
per year from the city [in 1903 this was quite a substantial
paycheck - Branton], and is elected largely through Protestant
influence, simply because Protestantism believes that she can
reform Catholicism by being liberal with her; but oh!  Liberty! 
what crimes are perpetrated in thy name!  This Boston official,
after much talk with this Italian father, told him to bring a
letter from a PRIEST, and that he would SEE WHAT HE COULD DO. 
The Italian said, "I am a Protestant," at which the official
became VERY INDIGNANT, but after a little more talk said: "Bring
a letter of recommendation from a  minister."  This Italian
father god a good, strong letter commending his character from a
Protestant minister in New York, and one who already knew him,
and went this time alone to the Boston official.
     In about an hour this heart-broken father appeared before a
Methodist minister in tears, saying: "He will not give me my
child.  He said I am a bad man for becoming a Protestant, and
that by doing so I HAVE PROVEN THAT I AM UNFIT TO CARE FOR MY
CHILDREN, and when I gave him my letter from the Protestant
minister, he said: 'I WILL NOT TAKE THE WORD OF A PROTESTANT
MINISTER.'"
     Now, if what we have related is true, which I know to be
absolutely true in every particular, would happen in the United
States of America, "the land of the free and the home of the
brave," you might know what would happen in a Catholic country
which is COMPLETELY under the tyrannical and damnable rule of the
Pope.
     A minister informs us that on three occasions lately,
children have come to him and told him that an Irish public
school teacher in Boston had forbidden them to attend Protestant
services, as their parents were at one time Roman Catholics and
that this talk from this Romish school teacher was had during
school hours.
     What we need in this country is a "vigilance committee," and
we need it badly, and we need it right away, and this committee
should be instructed to impeach every public official who
endeavors to usurp the law in favor of Roman Catholicism.
     The brightest minds of the past, and the brightest minds of
the present have pointed out to Protestant America the dangers of
Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed their warning,
when we see upon every side evidence of moral decay and national
degeneracy by permitting this "Romish hag" to supervise and
superintend the affairs of this nation.
     Protestant European nations have for many years behold this
despotic march of Catholicism in America, 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 molestation.
     A few years before Bismarck of Germany died, he, in a public
speech delivered in the German parliament, pointed out that the
Roman Catholic Church was only free in America, and for the
benefit of the reader we will quote part of this great
statesman's speech:
     "The pope being purely a religious chief [? - Branton],
there is no occasion to keep a permanent political representative
at his port.  Things, indeed, might have been left IN STATUS QUO
had not the present Pope thought it fit to revive the ancient
struggle of the papacy with temporal power, and more especially
with the German empire.  The spirit emanating the papacy in this
campaign is too well known to require comment; still we would
tell the house a story, which has long been kept a secret, but
which had better be made public.  In 1869, when the Wurtemberg
government had occasion to complain of the action of the papacy,
the Wurtemberg envoy at Munich was instructed to make
representations, and in a conversation which passed between the
envoy and the nuncio, the latter said: 'The Roman Church is free
only in America.'"
     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 POSITION.  This, than, was the view of the priestly
diplomatist stationed at Munich in 1869, and formerly
representing the Vatican at Paris.
     Bismarck further stated: "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 priests."
     Who can deny these statements. as Bismarck was a man who
made the study of Catholicism a part of his life, and he was a
man who was of rugged character and undaunted courage, and a man
whom the world at large believed.
     There has not been a war for centuries past but what the
cunning hand of popery had been mixed up with the blood shed in
these wars, as POPERY NEVER MISSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE SIDES
WITH THE NATION WHICH REPRESENTS CATHOLICISM, as this creed of
abominations will resort to bloodshed if by doing so she believes
she can carry her point and establish her rule of despotism.
     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 today, and UNLESS the
government of the United States begins in the near future to
suppress this giant of darkness, Roman Catholicism, we will
WITHIN THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS have to resort to the same means that
Combes of France is resorting to, to annihilate the serpent of
Catholicism from our shores, or else meekly submit to being
dragged down to the level of Roman Catholicism, which is
equivalent to loving our identity as a government, and taking our
place among the nations noted only for either ignorance, vice or
criminality.
     Catholicism does not believe in a free country.  Catholicism
does not believe in a country of the people, by the people and
for the people, as such a country is not the natural abode for
this detestable creed.
     Catholicism believes in a country which is ruled by a
monarch, as she then only has to control the monarch himself [Is
this why Rome is trying so hard to destroy government by the
people the world over in favor of 'World' government, the
entirety of which could be controlled through a relatively few
world leaders or even a single dictator? - Branton], and this is
why the Catholic clergy and the Catholic officials, from the
smallest to the greatest, are in sympathy with Russia, as the
Russian government is a most complete monarchy, and the emperor
is an absolute monarch, and this is why Catholicism is always
ready to toss up her hat in glee for the success of the Russian
army.
     Catholic prelates all along the line, up to the Pope
himself, have been trying to make Americans believe that Russia
is deserving of our sympathy, but her solicitude in behalf of
Russia is only a sympathetic shriek of her own polluted carcass.
     Catholicism never sympathizes with any nation nor any
individual who have for their motto "Emancipation," as
emancipation means to Catholicism a vital blow to her teachings,
as slavery of both body and soul is ROME's uppermost desire.
     CAN WE EXPECT CATHOLICISM TO CHANGE HER ABOMINATION WITHOUT
FORCE?  Most assuredly not, 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 God, as [at least up to the time when
this manuscript was written - Branton] the Pope is a native born
Italian and her cardinals are recruited from the ranks of Italy's
king-ruled inhabitants, consequently it is impossible to expect
the Pope of Rome or those cardinals to recommend anything in
harmony with the teachings of Protestant America, as they are
stranger to Protestantism and American manhood; 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 humanity [Since the 'seven headed' serpent of Rome
has NEVER changed its predatory nature in all of the thousands of
years it has existed, how can some believe that at this late date
it can be 'converted'?  This is why ancient scripture states in
Jeremiah and Revelation that Rome will one day become a desolate
wasteland, a poisoned desert incapable of supporting any human
inhabitant.  This may sound strange to some, but in this nuclear
age its not hard to imagine that the Roman empire which has WAGED
RELENTLESS WAR AGAINST EVERY NATION ON EARTH, whether in the open
or in secret, will eventually reap the destruction it has sowed. 
Whether this will be brought about by God, the devil, man or
simply by the universal law of retribution such a fate of this
universally corrupting empire would not be too hard to envision. 
However God in keeping with his gracious nature and not willing
for any to perish, has plead will all men to 'come out of her',
and to leave this gargantuan IDOL of a city which ever feeds off
the rotting caucuses of the poor and oppressed of the world,
before his promised destruction falls upon it - Branton]
     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 Catholicism, or it will not be long
until America will find her every interest tied tight and fast to
the carcass of Romanism; I do so because I feel that it is my
duty to warn this country of her awful fate, for just as sure as
God reigns... CATHOLICISM HAS AMERICA "SPOTTED" AS HER VICTIM as
this spirit of darkness has for many years in the past made her
boast that "America is Rome's future possession."
     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 creed, and America
cannot expect to meet with a better fate.
     The dangers that beset the path of America's future are in
the form of a political serpent, as Rome has learned to know that
by holding out the "vote bait" to our politicians, that she can
retain the balance of power, as she as long since learned that as
long as she can be instrumental in keeping two political parties,
both largely made up of Protestants, and fighting each other,
that she can associate herself with one or the other by offering
this party the undivided suffrage of Catholicism, and by this act
she can gradually get control of the offices of this land, and
this is her main object, for IF SHE CAN CONTROL THE OFFICIALS,
SHE WILL SEE THAT SUCH LAWS ARE PASSED AS WILL ENABLE HER TO COIL
HER SLIMY SELF ABOUT THE VITALS OF PROTESTANT AMERICA, and just
as long as the Protestant denominations allow themselves to be
made Protestant-simpletons of, just that long Catholicism will
foot Protestant hosts by offering the "vote bait" to the
politician.
     Whenever Protestantism learns that she has a common cause to
champion, and a common enemy to fight, then we will have an
"American party" on one side, and a "Catholic party" on the
other, and when this time comes, Catholicism will be deprived of
her cudgel of deception, and will have to fight her battles
without the assistance of "PROTESTANT PARTISAN FOOLS," and will
cease to believe that she belongs to either this or that
political party.  Protestantism is a band of American patriots,
and should have only the welfare of Protestantism at heart.
     CATHOLICISM, if left alone WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF
PROTESTANT VOTES, WOULD NOT TURN A WHEEL IN THE AFFAIRS OF THIS
COUNTRY, but by permitting Romanism to make Protestantism believe
in one of two political parties thus avoiding the Protestant
votes, CATHOLICISM IS ALLOWED TO HOLD THE BALANCE OF POWER AND
DICTATE TERMS TO A PROTESTANT COUNTRY.
     Shame, eternal shame upon the hosts of Protestantism for
permitting themselves to be made fools of by the Romish Church,
as this is exactly what the hosts of Protestantism are allowing
Catholicism to do with her!
     Now, I know whereof I speak, as I have been on the inside of
politics in our large cities, and especially in the CITY OF ST.
LOUIS, and Catholicism's scheme is always to allow the cities to
elect a Protestant mayor, but they always endeavor to elect the
other officials.
     Oh, 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
patriotism; but just so long as protestantism permits Catholicism
to make her believe that it is necessary to have two or more
political parties, just that long we will have partisan block-
heads, and as long as this state of affairs exists, just that
long the cunning schemes of Catholicism will be able to control
the balance of power, which will disgrace the fair name of
Protestant America.
     I solemnly declare that there never has been a nation
completely under the control of Romanism but what has been
disgraced by that toleration, and America will live to realize
the truthfulness of this assertion unless she becomes "Protestant
patriots" instead of "prattling partisans."
     To give the reader a better idea of what happens in
countries absolutely controlled by Catholicism, and to more
thoroughly convince the reader that what I have said is true by
the toleration of popish rule, I desire to repeat a little
history that is not many months old, which happened in the United
States, where it is supposed that man and women can worship God
according to the dictates of their own consciences, and if what
we are going to relate happens in this free land, what do you
suppose is the condition in Catholic countries that are
completely
under the control of the Pope?
     In Worcester, Mass., not long since, a 19-year old girl by
the name of Maggie Barry received a public whipping from her
mother for attending services of the Salvation Army.
     Miss Maggie Barry, who is 19 years of age, had been for some
time occasionally attending the meetings of the Salvation Army,
and was desirous of becoming a member of the corps, having been
converted a short time since.
     Her parents were Irish Roman Catholics and insisted that
Maggie should remain a Romanist.  They regarded the Salvation
Army, which is purely non-sectarian, as a Protestant
organization, and they were determined that their daughter should
have nothing to do with it, and forbade her attending any
meetings.
     On a Sunday evening not long since she attended the services
of the Salvation Army at No. 5 Commercial street, where there
were at least 250 people present.  While the commander of the
corps was reading from the Bible, Miss Barry's mother came
through the doorway and down to the front row of seats near the
corner of the platform, where Maggie was sitting, and grabbed her
daughter by the arm and began to pound her over the head, and at
once proceeded to pull the girl from the hall and down the stairs
into the street, all the time unmercifully beating the poor girl
over the head and shoulders.
     The incident happened so quickly that for a moment the
audience could not realize what was taking place, but as soon as
the audience could gather their wits, there was a rush made for
the street.
     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 home.
     She told the audience that as soon as she reached the street
where a number of relatives were waiting for her she broke away
from her mother and fled.
     A policeman was called into consultation relative to the
case and stated that as Maggie was under twenty-one years of age,
that she had better be taken to her parents at 125 Salem street,
and two policemen accompanied her to her home.
     It is stated that Miss Barry has received many unmerciful
beatings because she attended these religious meetings, and her
old Romish mother, while dragging her down the stairs that Sunday
night, threatened to do her bodily harm if she ever attended
these meetings again.
     A few days after this disgraceful and un-American spectacle
happened in the streets of Worcester, 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 Shearborn.  She appealed and furnished bail.  The girl
was arrested on complaint of her mother because she would not
stay away from the meetings of the Salvation Army."
     Now, reader, you have a case right in the United States of
America where a poor girl was sentenced to prison for attending a
Protestant meeting.  What do you think of a judge of a course who
will sentence a child to a State prison for attending a
Protestant meeting?
     We know what you think if you are a pure Protestant, and we
know that your blood boils with pure indignation; 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 "patriots."
     If such things are now happening in the State of
Massachusetts, HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE THE PROTESTANT CHURCHES
IN THIS COUNTRY WILL BE CLOSED UP BY THE ORDER OF THE POPE, and
HOW LONG WILL IT BE BEFORE THOSE WHO ATTEND PROTESTANT MEETINGS
WILL BE LIABLE TO ARREST AND THROWN INTO PRISON, as it was during
the dark ages when the Roman Catholic Church had FULL control?
     Authentic history, and history that cannot be denied nor
disputed, nor even questioned, gives the appalling record of
70,500,000 Protestants who were slain by the greatest curse the
world has ever known--Roman Catholicism [That is, by Roman
Catholic 'inquisitions' - Branton].
     WE, in America, CANNOT EXPECT ANYTHING BETTER UNTIL WE HAVE
A SET OF PROTESTANT PREACHERS WHO WILL PRACTICE WHAT THEY PRETEND
TO BELIEVE.
     Our Protestant ministers of today are weak-kneed, weak-
spined, "nothings," who have not enough religion nor backbone to
take a firm stand against Catholicism, and until we have such men
we will continue to see "Maggie Barrys" dragged from Protestant
meetings and publicly whipped by parents, and then sentenced to
imprisonment by judges elected by Roman Catholics.
     ...we have offered you evidence...that should convince any
right-thinking man or woman that if the Roman Catholic Church has
grown so bold in America, with the ink upon the Declaration of
INDEPENDENCE scarcely dry, 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 devastation?
     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 parties, and combining
the hosts of Catholicism for an onslaught against everything
American in order to control the affairs of this country. 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...liberty that the death rattle
is almost imperceptible.
     STRIKE WHILE YOU HAVE THE POWER, and do not delay, or else
the time is not far distant when the once powerful arm of
Protestantism will be paralyzed by the infusion of the Roman
virus.
     We can only judge the future of nations and institutions by
the past and present, and if we are to judge Catholicism by her
past, and if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot paint a
future without producing a panoramic view that is dreadful to
behold, as Catholicism in the past has been an institution which
always endeavored to rule by the tyranny of oppression, and her
decisions and mandates today are the same as they were during the
inquisitorial days when our Protestant forefathers were burned at
the stake for disobeying the commands of Catholic officials.
     Catholicism makes her boast that she never changes; then
what are we to expect the future to bring forth, if her dogmas of
damnation are allowed to fasten her intolerable hold upon this
country?  for if she "never changes," and we are compelled to
judge her future by her past, which is the only rational
conclusion that can be arrived at, then we can expect nothing
more than to behold her future trail stained with the blood of
Protestants, as such has been her history of the past.
     It is our purpose...to give the reader an authentic epitome
of a few of the doctrines and facts which we defy Roman
Catholicism to successfully deny, as what we propose to give you
is Roman Catholic law, and if such is Roman Catholic law, then we
will have no trouble in establishing the fact that no loyal
Catholics can possibly be loyal American citizens; therefore
should not be placed in position where they can carry out the
mandates and dictates of the Church of Rome, for whenever they
are placed in power and thoroughly believed in the laws of
Catholicism they cannot possibly be naught but traitors to our
American form of government.
     We propose to give the reader "Canon Law" to establish our
statements, as we are as well acquainted with the laws that
govern
Roman Catholicism--yea, better then we are with the laws that
govern this country, as we for fifty-six years have been directly
influenced by this "Canon Law", and for the past thirty years, or
since we became a Catholic priest, have been a servant and an
executioner of this law; therefore, I know whereof I speak, and
no man dare deny my statements.
     The first declaration of this "Canon Law" is: "ALL HUMAN
POWER IS FROM EVIL AND MUST THEREFORE BE STANDING UNDER THE
POPE."
     You will thus see that the first declaration of the "Canon
Law" is to place the human family as a whole, under the
tyrannical control of Catholicism.
     Another declaration of this law is: "THE STATE HAS NOT THE
RIGHT TO LEAVE EVERY MAN FREE TO PROFESS AND EMBRACE WHATEVER
RELIGION HE SHALL DEEM TRUE."
     In this declaration, you will further see that Roman
Catholicism would, if it was within her power, take from the
American citizen the right to worship a true and living God.
     The next law that we will refer to is as follows: "THE STATE
HAS NOT THE RIGHT TO ESTABLISH A CHURCH SEPARATE FROM THE POPE."
     Again you will see that Rome's idea is to force all of
humanity to bow at the fe of her creed.
     Again she declares in her "Canonistic Laws": "THAT THE STATE
HAS NOT THE RIGHT TO ASSIST THE 'INMATES' OF MONASTERIES AND
CONVENTS TO ABANDON THEM."
     Again you will see that Rome's idea is to force all to usurp
the right os the courts and establish prisons of their own
without a semblance of law.
     Once more this "Canonistic Law" thunders forth her
monarchical law as follows: "THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS THE
RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE STATE NOT TO LEAVE EVERY MAN FREE TO PROFESS
HIS OWN RELIGION."
     Again the reader will see that Roman Catholicism with her
iron hand demands this nation to force and compel every man,
woman and child that lives under that old red, white and blue
flag, which was bought by the blood of our forefathers, to
humbly bow to this heathenish creed.
     The next, and one of the mast damnable laws found among the
"Canonistic Laws" of Catholicism, is as follows: "ROMAN
CATHOLICISM HAS THE RIGHT TO EXERCISE HER POWER WITHOUT
PERMISSION OR CONSENT OF THE STATE."
     Within this Romish law any one can easily discern her
monarchical designs, as she boldly and flagrantly declares that
she has the right to do as she sees fit, without even being
molested or questioned by the laws of this country [The question
is then, which 'Law' will prevail?  The Divinely-inspired
American LAW of the CONSTITUTION, or the completely opposing
serpent inspired 'law' of the papal-pontifical-empirical neo-
Roman empire!? - Branton].
     Further on in the "Canon Laws" of Catholicism we find the
following: "ROMAN CATHOLICISM HAS THE RIGHT TO PREVENT THE
FOUNDATION OF ANY NATIONAL CHURCH NOT SUBJECT TO THE DIRECT
AUTHORITY OF THE ROMAN PONTIFF."
     Thus the reader will see that the Protestant churches of
America exist only by and through the numerical power of
Protestantism, but SHOULD ROMANISM EVER BECOME POWERFUL ENOUGH IN
THIS COUNTRY SHE WOULD, within the twinkling of an eye, DESTROY
OR CONFISCATE EVERY PROTESTANT CHURCH now in existence.
     Further along in the Romish "Canon Law" we find that she
strikes at the dearest institutions of our land, as follows: "THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HAS THE RIGHT TO DEPRIVE THE CIVIL
AUTHORITIES OF THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS."
     The reader will see by this declaration that should
Catholicism ever come in control of the affairs of this
government that our public schools, which are the bulwarks of our
American government, would have their very foundations rooted up
and scattered to the four winds of the earth.
     The most devilish and damnable law, in my estimation, that
is to be found upon the stature books of Catholicism is the
following: "ROMAN CATHOLICISM HAS THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THAT THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION SHALL BE THE 'ONLY' RELIGION OF THE
NATION, TO THE 'EXCLUSION' OF ALL OTHERS."
     We have the entire principles of Catholicism embodies in
this last "Canonistic Law," 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 plans.
     In my estimation, the next "Canon Law" that I will quote, is
the one most detrimental to our American form of government, as
it is a law, when put into execution, that will throttle every
ambition and strangle every hope that now permeates the bosom of
Protestants and it is one that should freeze the very flesh and
blood of Protestantism to the bone's marrow.  It is as follows:
"ROMAN CATHOLICISM HAS THE POWER TO REQUIRE THE NATION 'NOT' TO
PERMIT FREE EXPRESSION OF OPINIONS."
     In this last law, which is found upon the statute books of
Roman Catholicism, we have a declaration from her rulers that
would deprive you and your posterity from expressing an opinion
in regard to Roman Catholicism, that is, if that opinion did not
coincide with her abominations, 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 law;
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 demon.
     The history of Roman Catholicism in the past plainly
demonstrates what she had done and how well and awful she has
carried out her laws herein quoted, and Catholicism makes her
brag that she "NEVER CHANGES," consequently the only reason why
these laws are not put into execution in the United States is the
lack of physical power, and WHENEVER ROMAN CATHOLICISM REACHES
THE POINT in the history of this country WHERE SHE POSSESSES this
PHYSICAL POWER, PROTESTANTISM WILL FEEL HER TYRANNICAL HEEL UPON
THEIR NECKS.
     That the reader may thoroughly understand and realize that
Roman Catholicism of today is the same as Roman Catholicism was
hundreds of years ago, we desire to quote a letter written by
Pope Leo XIII during his reign, 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 worshipping a true and living God.  Pope Leo's
letter follows:
     "The teachings given by the Apostolic See, whether contained
in the syllabus and other acts of our illustrious PREDECESSORS,
or in our encyclical letters, has given clear guidance to the
faith as to what should be the thoughts and their conduct in the
midst of the difficulties of time and events.  There they will
find a rule for the direction of their minds and their work." 
     The reader will see from this letter from Pope Leo XIII that
he reiterates to his followers the "Canonistic Law" laid down by
his predecessors, making it obligatory upon the followers of
Catholicism to put in practice TODAY the hellish doctrines of
Roman Catholicism of the past.
     If Catholicism depends upon numbers and physical strength to
accomplish her ends, then what must this country expect when such
a time arrives, as Catholicism can govern by the power of
physical strength?
     Will we have any one to blame for what Catholicism does to
this country when such time arrives?  Ah, No!  No one but
Protestantism, for IF AMERICA, which is a Protestant country,
SITS IDLY BY AND PERMITS ROMANISM TO REACH A POINT WHERE SHE CAN
CONTROL THE AFFAIRS OF THIS GOVERNMENT, IT WILL BE ON THE ACCOUNT
OF THE LETHARGY AND IMBECILITY OF PROTESTANTISM, as we have it
within our power today to halt this Emperor of Darkness before
that time arrives, but the question is, will we do it?
     The history of other nations which have been controlled by
Catholicism should be enough, not only to frighten the Protestant
hosts, but to paralyze them with fear, as the pages of history
teem with the awfulness of Rome's rule, wherever she had been
permitted to become master.
     France, which has been priest-ridden for centuries, is now
at this time in the throes of a national convulsion, brought
about by the tyranny of Romanism.
     Now, if Rome is such an abominable master and such a tyrant
that France has to deport the priestcraft and close up her
institutions, is it not time that the United States was taking
some steps to protect her offspring from thus vulture of human
rights?
     This country is undoubtedly a Protestant country, and if it
is a great country, which no man dares to deny, she surely owes
her greatness to Protestantism.
     Our soul is poured into this [book], as we never were more
in earnest than we are at this time, 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
Romanism, 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 the nations of the past, unless she exerts her
American and Protestant manhood and gives Roman Catholicism to
understand that it is time to halt, and, in the name of an
intelligent God, forbid her to transgress further upon the rights
of this country.
     In this chapter we will endeavor to be explicit and above
all truthful, 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 Catholicism.
     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 despair, and if we can be instrumental in
this great undertaking we will feel that when our race is done,
that we have fought a good fight, and will be remembered by the
Protestant world as a man who taught a doctrine which was the
salvation of Protestant America.
     Roman Catholicism has no politics, as she is ever ready and
willing to join hands with any party that will guarantee her more
complete control of national affairs, as she teaches her
followers that whenever they find that the Republican party will
grant her requests that they should be Republicans, 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 devastation, that they should be Democrats, or be
adherents to whatever party grants them the most power.
     Romans Catholicism wraps herself about the smaller officials
and wheedles herself into the good graces of the small officials
by promising them the Catholic vote, and by so doing she is able
to control the officials higher up in power, and in this manner
she reaches the highest officials of the land, as WE FIND TODAY
THE BOA CONSTRICTOR OF CATHOLICISM WRAPPED ABOUT EVERY OFFICIAL
AT WASHINGTON city, FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE UNITED STATES ON
DOWN.
     Suppose the Pope and his tribe of liberty-destroyers realize
that the officials of America were Protestants, and implicitly
believed and lived up to the teachings of Protestantism; do you
think that she would presume to approach our Protestant officials
and demand their support in behold of her damnable creed, or do
you suppose that she would dare to send her emissaries into the
halls of our national congress and brazenly approach those
Protestant officials?  Ah, never!  as CATHOLICISM IS A BASE
COWARD and never makes her appearance except where she is assured
that her overtures will be gracefully received.
     Protestant America!  do you not believe that you have
granted Romanism her requests long enough, 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 jeers?
     PROTESTANTISM FROM THIS DAY FORWARD SHOULD RESOLVE THAT HER
BALLOT in the future SHOULD BE A PROTESTANT BALLOT, 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 REPTILE.
     It matters not what office may be that is to be filled and
what power it carries with it, Protestantism should find out
whether or not the applicant believes in Protestantism
['protests' against the political and/or spiritual policies of
Rome - Branton], and learn, if possible whether they or their
family are tainted with the virus of Roman Catholicism, and if
you should find that the taint extends to any part of their
family then scratch them off your ballot, and by so doing you
will help to woo back the spirit of both Protestantism and
patriotism, as one is symbolic of the other.
     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 HERSELF,
but such is the case, AND THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MO., IS ONE OF
THEM, as Romanism rules the inhabitants of that city with a
despotism which is only equaled in a nation where the pontiff of
Rome is an acknowledged ruler.
     During the last election in the city of St. Louis I was a
Catholic priest, and was in the Catholic confidence, and I
declare to you as a man of truth and before a living God that it
was understood between the Catholic church and those who
controlled the Democratic party that the Protestants should elect
the present major, Rolla Wells, but that Catholicism was to be
permitted to name the other officials, or at least enough to
control the city government.
     Now, is there any politics in such an agreement?
     Ah, no; but the only object in this secret agreement was a
desire upon the part of Roman Catholicism to control the REVENUES
of the city of city of St. Louis, as CATHOLICISM IS A MONEY
MACHINE and endeavors to keep her exchequer full of preying upon
the ignorance of her followers [Note: A popular phrase among
world conspirators is: "Give me control over the money and I
won't care whose elected."  Even these conspirators know that he
who controls the economy controls the government - Branton].
     I have mentioned St. Louis only for the simple reason that
it is a great happening, but there are a score of other cities in
the United States of America which are controlled by Catholicism
on the same principle, as ROMANISM JOINS HANDS WITH EITHER THE
REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRATIC PARTY IF SHE SEES A CHANCE TO PUT HER
HELLISH SCHEMES AND DOGMAS INTO PRACTICE.
     That the reader may know what element controls the municipal
governments of our cities we desire to call attention that over
one-half of the officials of our large American cities are direct
representatives of Roman Catholicism, and over two-thirds of all
the policemen of these cities are the Pope's followers.
     Why does this state of affairs exist?  Ah, IT IS BECAUSE THE
PROTESTANT VOTER HAS "POLITICS" INSTEAD OF "PRINCIPLES";
therefore you yourself are to blame for this awful state of
affairs.
     Yes, I say that you are to blame, for you are a voter and
pretend to represent Protestantism but still will permit yourself
to be made tools of in behalf of Roman Catholicism; then am I not
right in declaring that you are to blame for this state of
affairs that exists in our large cities?
     In our municipal elections you will find Roman Catholicism
courting the political power which has the greatest chance of
electing their candidates; it matters not what party it may be,
as Roman Catholicism has no politics, as her only desire is power
and it does not matter from what source she receives it, so long
as it is granted her, as Romanism is like a chameleon, as she
will change her political color to suit her surroundings if she
is assured that she will be permitted to inject her deadly virus
into the veins of Protestantism.
     If Roman Catholicism can extract a promise from a Republican
candidate they are Republicans; but, on the other hand, if they
can made a Democrat do their bidding, they are Democrats; and if
they can "wiggle" into the Populists' favor, they are Populists;
in fact, they are any and everything that will serve their
purpose and help to bind and throttle Protestant principles.
     The nation of France is making history today, and each line
and every page of this history is a warning to Protestant
America, as every page of this history is covered with the slime
of Roman Catholicism, for had it not been for her tyrannical
despotism, France would not have had to close up the monasteries
and convents of that nation, but on account of her teachings, and
in order to protect the rising generations from her influence,
not only have the convents and monasteries had to be closed, but
the schools which teach her damnable dogmas have been closed.    
     We do not have to cross the ocean and visit European
countries to learn of Roman Catholicism's depravity, but we can
stand upon the southern shore of the United States, almost within
hailing distance of CUBA, and there behold the shores of a
country which had to rebel against the hellishness of Roman
Catholicism, as Cuba would today belong to Spain had it not been
for Roman Catholicism, as it was her abominations that
continually kept Cuba in a feverish ferment.
     It was Spain's ungodliness that brought about the Spanish-
American war, and Spain's ungodliness was taught her by Romanism.
     The West India islands were the progenies of Spain, and the
Spanish government permitted the Papists to control these islands
with her dogmas of instructions, which were directly instrumental
in continually keeping the spirit of anarchy alive.
     The only reason that Roman Catholicism does not control this
country with her tyrannical hand is on account of numerical
numbers, for did Rome believe that she could rule this country
today, before the sun would set tomorrow night this would be a
nation of serfs instead of a nation od independent men and women.
     I have perhaps made my declarations broader and stronger
than any man of the present day, but I am fresh from the ranks of
Catholicism and I know her cunning, and since I have forsaken her
blind leadership and drank deeply from the well of Protestantism,
I have resolved that no stone shall go unturned that will help me
convince America of her great danger which shadows her future by
permitting this Romish despot to flood this country with not only
her blind followers but by being permitted to brazenly denounce
everything that is near and ear to this country, as her brazen
denunciations of our American institutions is nothing more nor
less than treason, and which should be treated as such.
     To give the reader some idea of what Roman Catholicism will
do if ever she has the power, we quote an article which appeared
in a Catholic journal known as THE CATHOLIC CITIZEN, of
Milwaukee, Wis.
     Now, if Catholicism has at this time become so brazen that
she dares offer the Protestant world the insults that is confined
in this article, what shall we expect if this damnable creed ever
becomes so powerful enough to control by physical strength?  The
article follows:
     "Protestantism in CUBA?  What good will it do there?  If
only the good it has wrought elsewhere, Heaven help the Cubans! 
PROTESTANTISM IS NOTHING BUT A DISORGANIZER AND A PATHWAY TO
INFIDELITY AND ATHEISM.  This is the only reason of its
existence.  As a positive moral force, it is a farce.  It has
never converted a single nation, but it has unconverted
Protestants themselves with a holy vengeance.  Dublin has 75,000
churchgoers out of 2,000,000 people; London 400,000 out of
6,000,000 and so on.  'Without baptism you cannot enter Heaven,'
says the Scripture, and lo!  thanks to Protestantism, nearly
60,000,000 people in the United States are not baptized.  A nice
system (for the devil), that produces such results--results as
fatal to the heathen as to the Christian.  Protestantism found
the Sandwich Islands with 400,000 people.  Where are they now? 
Gone.  A million Macris in New Zealand.  Where are they?  Gone. 
Seven million Indians in the United States.  Where are they now? 
Gone. [Tell that to 4,000,000 million Navahos, who survived in
spite of the persecution they received at the hand of the POPE-
WORSHIPPING Spanish Conqueror Coronado - Branton]
     "On the other hand, the friars found 300,000 natives in the
Philippines 400 years ago, and there are 9,000,000 now;
12,000,000 Indians south of the Rio Grande, and there are
50,000,000 now.  By their fruits shall you know them.  In view of
such facts, we think Protestants should leave 'Boonioboola Gha'
alone and confine their proselyting to unfortunates nearer home. 
An American is just as well worth saving as a Cuban or a Chinaman
any day."
     THE AMERICAN CITIZEN, a journal published in Boston, Mass.,
made the following comment on this article which appeared in this
Roman Catholic journal [THE CATHOLIC CITIZEN]:
     "The above is as good a specimen of papal logic as we have
ever seen--and it is the real thing.
     "'It has never converted a single nation!'
     "Christianity is not supposed to convert nations--it
converts individuals.  Mohammedanism converted (?) many nations
by the sword, and popery attempted to do it by the inquisition,
but failed--except in the case of the Jews and Moors in Spain,
which it 'converted' into beggars and refugees.
     "Rome 'converted' the Albigenses from being peaceful and
industrious citizens into the best mountain warriors in Europe--
and the handful defied and defeated the best papal armies of
Europe.   
     "But how about England, and Scotland, and Scandinavia, and
the Netherlands, and many other nations--were they not all papal
at one time, but converted through reformation?  How about the
Huguenots--the very flower of France; the Protestant Irish, the
very salvation of the Emerald Isle--were not these all at one
time Romanists---converted to Protestantism?
     "Read the record of Rome's 'conversions' in Mexico, in
Central America, in South America, as told by Prescott and other
historians--the introduction of slavery by the papal church, and
the unspeakable cruelties perpetrated upon the Indians, or
Aborigines [natives], of the countries mentioned.  Read, in the
United States Senate document 190, the record of Rome's
'conversions' in the Philippines--a work which has made every
Filipino a better hater of the priests.
     "'The Indians of the United States!'  Have they every been
Protestants?  Have not the priests had control of them since this
land was discovered?  Are not the vices which have killed them--
apart from war--the peculiar vices of popery, especially
drunkenness?  What good have the priests wrought among them? 
Take California as an example, where these priests enslaved tens
of thousands of the Indians for the sole purpose of enriching
their church!
     "This is a matter of history--of undeniable history.  If the
American Indians were slain in battle, in nine cases out of ten
the Jesuits instigated them to the deeds which brought on the
war, While Prescott's 'Mexico' and 'Peru' are accessible in our
libraries, popery had better be dumb.
     "That the Filipinos have increased from 300,000 to 9,000,000
and the South Americans from 12,000,000 to 50,000,000, may be
true, for all travelers tell us that it is no uncommon thing to
find a priest with a halfscore of concubines and fifty children. 
Certainly these priests have an advantage over Protestant
missionaries in this respect.  The pagans would naturally follow
the example of their 'spiritual' advisers.  Oh, yes, the
population certainly increases where the priestcraft live."
     The Roman Catholic church says that the priests shall not
wed, but at the same time the priestcraft fathers an army of
children.
     The Philippine Islands is a nation of heathens, and
Catholicism has been in charge of these islands for centuries,
and today they are worse off than they were before Catholicism
planted her black banner in their midst.     
     Wherever you find intellectuality, morality and civilization
in its fullest meaning, you will find a doctrine, as Catholicism
cannot exist only in the country where Protestantism is the
predominating [faith]... 
     The greatest menace this country has to contend with is the
influx of Rome's followers from other nations, and unless our
immigration laws are remedied IT WILL NOT BE LONG UNTIL ROME WILL
BE ABLE, BY PHYSICAL STRENGTH, TO ENUMERATE THE UNITED STATES AS
ONE OF HER COUNTRIES, as each succeeding year tens of thousands
of the followers of Rome from Italy and other priest-ridden
countries flock to our shores to practice in this country the
abominations taught them in their childhood.
     France's woes and miseries have been expected for years by
men of intelligence and men who could read the signs of the
times, as Rome's influence was year by year growing more
intolerable, and it was only a matter of time when France would
be forced to either permit herself to be dragged down to the
level of the debased teachings of Catholicism or else by a heroic
effort boldly stamp out this Romish creed of damnation, and the
latter course is the one she has chosen to pursue, and today
finds the Roman Catholic church despised and detested by every
intelligent and patriotic Frenchman of the land [Although my own
ancestors originally came from France, I/we attribute our disgust
of the 7-headed dragon of Revelation 17, or Rome, to common sense
and obvious fact rather than to an 'inherited' abhorrence of the
draconian neo-Roman Empire - Branton].
     In July 1874, Eugene Lawrence, in the columns of HARPER'S
WEEKLY, made a prediction that ought to convince every sane man
and woman in this land that the woes of France are directly
traceable to the Roman Catholic church, as Mr. Lawrence was a
historical of national repute, and a man who was a patriot when
the American eagle was proud of, and for the benefit of the
readers of by little book I desire to quote in full this
prediction made thirty years ago, as today finds Mr. Lawrence's
prediction being fulfilled in every particular, and Roman
Catholicism is the incarnate fiend that has forced this
prediction to come true.  Mr. Lawrence's article follows:
     "The Papal church is chiefly responsible for the decadence
of the French mind.  The priests have long controlled the
education of the nation and have striven to cut it out from all
contract with the culture of America, Germany and England.  Under
the rule of Napoleon III, the Jesuits obtained the guidance of
nearly all the secondary colleges; Protestant schools were
sedulously discouraged, and nothing was taught that could offend
the mediaeval tastes of Rome.  When, two years old, the French
republicans had resolved to found a free and compulsory system of
instruction for all France as the chief want of the nation, the
papal bishops and priests suppressed the measure by all their
arts.  They were resolved to have NO EDUCATION WHICH THEY COULD
NOT CONTROL.  The republican movement failed; Bishop Dupanloup
and his associates succeeded once more in shutting out the light
of knowledge from the people, and have sown the fires of warfare
in the place of mental progress and moral culture.
     "France, which has often made the most rapid progress toward
reform, has also been the most successful leader of modern
reaction.  Its revolutions have set in motion all other nations,
but have failed to purify itself.  It is enslaved by a single
church and ruled by Roman superstition.  At the recent assembly
at Paris, of all the hierarchy of France, of Jesuits, Dominicans,
monks and prelates, it was resolved that the strength of the
papal party should be given to an effort to grasp the control of
the higher education of the people, and make every college and
seminary the teacher of the worship of the Sacred Heart; to
confine instruction within the limits of Roman theology, and shut
out more strictly than ever before, the light of modern progress.

At a great and powerful meeting of all the Roman Catholic editors
of France, a similar policy was resolved upon.  By a strange
revulsion of sentiment the press was made to advocate its own
restriction of repression.  The papal editors apparently sigh for
the return of the mediaeval practices when Francis I. burned
ardent printers in Paris, and the Sorbonne would have banished
the printing press from France forever.
     "The Roman Catholic papers invoke the restoration of the
Bourbons and the temporal power of the Pope, and in the ardor of
a new spirit of martyrdom offered themselves up to a spiritual
bondage that must end in their own slow destruction and the death
of the national intellect.  They would enforce anew that policy
of
isolation which has filled France with impurity, and left it the
prey of emperors and marshals, princes and priests.
     "France has thus displayed, since its first revolution, a
most remarkable contest.  The spirit of freedom has more than
once placed its people in front of human progress, and ever again
the spirit of reaction had dragged them back into the abyss of
mental and moral decay.  Its priests have invariably triumphed
over its reformers.  The Roman Church has always held a supremacy
above the law.  Of all the national institutions, it has alone
preserved its freedom of action unimpaired.  It receives an
enormous subsidy from the state.  While all other associations
are held under a strict subjection, while political meetings are
scarcely allowed, while the press is silenced, while Protestant
churches can hold no assemblies of synods except by the
connivance of the government, while Protestant churches are
forbidden to have either bell or steeple, the Roman priesthood
hold their councils and assemblies unrestricted, and cover the
land with their sodalities, their societies, their processions,
and their pilgrimages.  THE CHURCH IS THE ONLY WELL-ORGANIZED
POLITICAL PARTY.  ITS AGENTS ARE ACTIVE IN EVERY COMMUNITY.  ITS
SEVERE DISCIPLINE PRODUCES ORDER THROUGH ALL ITS HOSTS OF
JESUITS, MONKS AND PRIESTS.  ITS CONFESSORS RULE IN THE PALACES
OF THE WEALTHY AND THE HOVELS OF THE PEASANTS.  It forbids
education, it stifles thought, it inculcates a pitiless severity
against Protestants and reformers; and with natural indignation
the leading Republicans point to the dominant church as the chief
source of all the woes of France, as sacrificing the morals,
integrity and mental elevation of the nation to the single
purpose of maintaining the ascendancy of the foreign Pope.  The
French Republicans have been forced to see that the Papal church
is the necessary foe of freedom.  IT WOULD BE WELL IF OUR OWN
PEOPLE COULD LEARN FROM THEIR EXPERIENCE, AND GUARD WITH STRICT
VIGILANCE THEIR INSTITUTIONS FROM THE SECRET AND OPEN ASSAULTS OF
A FOREIGN PRIESTHOOD.
     "There is no doubt, as least in the minds of the French
Republicans that the intrigues of the Papal faction is due [to]
the disordered and hopeless condition of the nation.  Gambetta's
paper, LA REPUBLIQUE, assures its readers that the assembly is
ruled by a party wholly devoted to the ecclesiastical interests;
that they labor only to reduce the whole country to an abject
submission to Rome, and are ready to accomplish their aims by
measures fatal to the peace of France.  It asserts that the
priesthood forms a league as rigorous as that over which the
Guises ruled and against which the Huguenots [who were
slaughtered by the tens of thousands during the 'inquisitions' -
Branton] struggled; that the church has its myriads of societies,
committees, agents, an overflowing treasury, the favor of the
government, a single aim---an infallible ruler.  It calls upon
the people, if they would be free, to strike down the hydra that
preys upon the state.  The policy of Bismarck, indeed, finds its
best defense in the condition of France.  It the interference of
the papal faction proves so disastrous to the welfare of the
French people, it is plainly the interest of Germany to crush it
forever by all the resources of statesmanship [The Germanic
'tribes' such as the Vandals and Lollards were one of the most
threatening forces which brought about the decline of the Roman
Empire through attacks and raids upon that city before it turned
chameleon and rebounded into the present neo-Roman Empire
'Church'. - Branton].  If the rule of papal Rome be so
intolerable to its friends, what might it not accomplish in the
dominions of its opponents?  France may yet learn from its
neighbors over the Rhine the only path to freedom.  What it seems
most to need is a Bismarck."  
     If in 1874, Mr. Lawrence, after making a thorough study of
the conditions of France, could so accurately prophecy what would
happen thirty years hence, the conditions at that time must have
been indeed very palpable, but no more so than they are in
America today, as Roman Catholicism within the past ten years has
made greater strides in strangling American liberties than she
ever has in any twenty-five years before, as this creed of
abominations has been losing its hold upon not only the throats
of France, but of Italy was well.  AS SHE HAS MADE THE EFFORT OF
HER LIFE TO PLANT THE SEEDS OF ANARCHY AND REVOLUTION IN THE
BOSOM OF HER FOLLOWERS IN THE UNITES STATES, IN ORDER THAT SHE
MAY AT THE PROPER TIME, AND AS SOON AS SHE BELIEVES SHE IS
NUMERICALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME BY PHYSICAL FORCE, TO
STRIKE A BLOW THAT WILL PARALYZE EVERY AMBITION OF PROTESTANTISM
IN THIS COUNTRY.
     Hundreds of the best and wisest men this country has ever
known have been for years warning the United States of her
dangers from Romanism, but it seems as though we will not heed
the warning, but bear in mind that UNLESS THIS COUNTRY DOES NOT
HEED THIS WARNING AND HALT THE CZAR OF DARKNESS, WE WILL LIVE TO
SEE THE TIME WHEN WE WILL HAVE TO RESORT TO ARMS to protect our
Protestant interests.
     The nation of France has swung out from the power of the
Vatican, and is today defying the Pope of Rome and daring him to
do his worst, and France is a nation that has always been a
Catholic nation and controlled by her ambitions, but she has woke
up to the fact that unless this hellish doctrine is stamped our
from her shores that she will become a cation of mental pygmies
and nonentities, as she has long since learned that Catholicism
is nothing more nor less than a poisonous breath that withers
intellect and causes nations to decay and sink to the level of
Romish degeneracy.
     It seems as though the Vatican will not learn that the world
moves, as the Vatican is determined that Italy shall not appear
above the horizon of papal abhorrence.
     It is hard for the Vatican to learn that the world moves and
that Italy moves with it.  In its final resolution, the quarrel
between the Pope and the French government is based on the
recognition of the king of Italy as the sole sovereign in Rome,
but the Pope is as determined that he, and his reign of darkness,
shall be the only acknowledged ruler of Italy.
     President Loubet, of France, the executive of this Catholic
nation, gave great offense to the Vatican by visiting the king of
Italy, who is in the eyes of the church a usurper.
     According to the Vatican's standards, the kingdom of Italy
is not an accomplished fact, as the Vatican refuses to recognize
any government in Italy save that which he chooses to establish
and build up out of the filth and abominations of Roman
Catholicism.
     The Pope declares himself to be the only legitimate
sovereign in Rome, but the Italian government has for a number of
years been learning that the power of the Vatican is a power of
darkness, emanating from the putridness of paganism, and which is
detrimental to any nation that aspires to individual
intellectuality, morality and greatness.
     The reader must bear in mind that Italy is the home of the
Pope, and the home of Popes, and that Rome is the city of Popes,
archbishops and cardinals.
     This statement cannot be denied by any living man, and since
it is true, we went to learn something of the inhabitants of
Rome, so that we may be prepared to judge whether Roman
Catholicism is beneficial to those whom she rules.
     We make the statement without fear of successful denial,
that Roman Catholicism is a power for evil, unequaled by any
creed of deviltry and diabolical cunning ever conceived by mortal
man.
     We have made the statement that the city of ROME was one of
the most immoral and ungodly cities under the shining canopy of
Heaven, and we have also made the statement that Rome is the home
of popes, archbishops and cardinals, and we propose to prove to
the reader that, while Rome is the home of Roman Catholic
officials, that she is also the home of the libertine and
immoral.
     We also propose to prove that the immorality of the
inhabitants of Rome is taught them by the Catholic officials of
Rome, as we are not writing of what we know by the power of
sight, as we have visited Rome more than once in the official
capacity of Roman Catholicism, and we make this statement with a
living God as our witness, that Roman Catholicism is responsible
for the immorality found in the city of Rome, and this immorality
is not confined alone to the city outside the walls of the
Vatican, as this atmosphere of immorality and degradation
permeates the very atmosphere of the Vatican, as illegitimacy is
found within the walls of the Vatican, as well as without.
     Rome is a city of popes, cardinals, archbishops, priests,
monks, friars and ecclesiastical students.
     In the city of Rome, which is the home of popes, there are
39 cardinals, 35 archbishops, 1,469 priests, 2,832 monks and
friars, 2,000 nuns and 1,000 ecclesiastical students, making in
all 7,575 teachers of this abomination; and for every 4,375
children born in the city of rome, 3,160 are bastards [No wonder
Rev. 17 calls the 7-hilled city of Rome the 'Great Whore' which
sits atop the 'Beast' or the 7-headed 'dragon', apparently a
'whore' in both physical and spiritual terms - Branton], and for
every 750 people in the city of Rome, there is a murder committed
during the year; thus you will see that this herd of Catholic
teachers are not only teachers of immorality and degradation, but
are also responsible for murder, as such a pestilence of
immorality will lead to murder.
     It is any wonder that France and italy are today struggling
with this polluted BEAST in order to free themselves from her
filthy grasp?  Is it any wonder that France has closed up the
monasteries, convents and schools of this abomination?
     With such nations as France and Italy declaring to their
inhabitants that Catholicism is not only a nuisance but a menace
to intelligence and morality, WHAT CAN THIS GOVERNMENT EXPECT IN
THE FUTURE IF SHE PERMITS ROMANISM TO CONTINUE TO FLOURISH in the
future?
     This book is not written by a man who seeks notoriety, or a
man who is writing from a prejudiced standpoint, but we are
writing from what we know of the awfulness of Catholicism, as
fifty-six long years have rolled into eternity since I began to
worship at the feet of this immoral hag; therefore, 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 abominations, but for thirty long years we
helped to fasten this creed upon the human family.
     I wish it was within my power to become a spirit, which
would enable me to navigate the air and whisper my warnings into
the ears of Protestant America, for no nation on the face of the
earth needs the warning as badly as the United States, as day by
day, week by week, month by month and year by year the Vatican's
shadow grows longer and longer upon our shores, and wherever this
shadow of paganish darkness stretches itself you will find the
withered hopes of man, as Roman Catholicism's only ambition is to
place humanity at her feet, which will enable her to bind her
followers with the cords of superstition and ignorance, as she
exists upon the blasted hopes of those whom she rules.
     If what I have told you in the pages of this book [document]
is true, 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 forefathers?
     I have prayerfully endeavored to lay bare the sins of Roman
Catholicism, and the only hinderance I have encountered in my
efforts is on account of not being more familiar with the English
language, as I am a German born, and my power of expressing
myself in the English language is materially hindered by being
educated in Germany, 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 understood.
     I have endeavored to inform the reader who I am, what I am,
and why I am what I am, and have taken up the abominations of
Catholicism and treated these abominations in a matter that I
hope will carry conviction to the hearts of the reader, as I am
qualified to go before now only any official who has the power to
administer an oath and to make oath to the truthfulness of every
assertion made herein, but I am willing to meet my God around the
great white throne in Heaven and stand upon the declarations
herein contained.
     I have endeavored to give the Protestant reader to
understand that his offspring are considered bastards, and their
parents persons who live in immorality, by not belonging to the
Roman Catholic Church and being married by priestcraft.
     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 detestable ugliness.
     I have in my weak manner endeavored to try to warn our
American fathers and mothers of the great danger of the
"confession," as the confessional is the stepping stone that
leads to Romish abominations, as it is there that the seed of
immoral thought is planted and it is there that the purity of
girlhood is first tarnished, 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 family.
     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 CUBA, Puerto Rico and
the Philippine Islands, 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 islands, but that millions of
dollars are being spent upon these islands and that Roman
Catholicism is being benefitted by this great expenditure of
Protestant money, as the Pope of Rome is as powerful in these
islands today as he ever was, 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 outrages, that the
Spanish-American war would never have been fought.
     I have earnestly tried to make the reader understand that
the monasteries in this country are often the abodes of
criminals, and the nunneries of this island are the slaughter
pens of virtue, and I trust that my readers will read it in the
spirit that I have written it, and if such is the case I know
that this little book will be instrumental in not only opening
the eyes of drowsy Protestantism, 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 world."
     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 civilization, as it is the unmarried cussedness
of the Roman Catholic priests that is instrumental in the
slaughter of virtue.
     I have endeavored to prove to the reader that the Roman
Catholic Church is a living infamous insult to an all-wise God,
by claiming that the Pole of Rome is an infallible being, and I
believe that if the reader has read my 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
Christ.
     I have endeavored to lead the reader from clime to clime, so
that he or she might behold the characters of the followers of
Rome, and by comparison I have endeavored to convince the reader
that the characters of the followers of Roman Catholicism are not
nor ever can be on a par with the character of Protestantism, as
Roman Catholicism follows the teachings of paganism, born in the
kennel of filthiness and surrounded and led by a class of men who
glut their lust upon the virtue of the "dupes", while
Protestantism is led by the lowly Nazarene, whose teachings have
made protestant America all that she is today or ever will be.   
     I have endeavored to point out to the readers of this little
volume the sin of Protestantism in permitting Catholicism to
control our public schools and teach our children doctrines that
will be instrumental in strangling their ambitions and paralyzing
their aspirations, which is near and dear to Protestant America.
     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 country, and I trust that
this task has not been a useless one, for America has no plague
that is so deadly to patriotism as this black-garbed army of
priests, who tramp up and down the length and breadth of this
land, seeking whom they may devour.
     With every drop of blood in my old veins electrified with a
desire to serve a living God, I have endeavored to warn
Protestant America of the lustfulness of the Priestcraft, who
without a blush of shame invade the chastity of our American
homes, and by the hellishness of this Romish doctrine pollute the
wives and daughters of this fair land.
     I have pointed out the dangers which beset this nation by
the toleration of Popish rule, and have compared Protestant
nations with the nations which have been morally damned and
disgraces by Romanism, 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
oblivion.
     In conclusion I desire to say to the reader that he or she
will never know of the diabolical cunning of this Romish
doctrine, 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 ignorance, superstition
and immorality, 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 carnality, as every turn in the path
that leads through this desert of desolation is strewn with the
bleached bones of ambition.
     There is not an oasis in this vast stretch of Romish
desolation, as her every ambition is to rule by superstition,
ignorance and tyranny.
     Again I would warn Protestant America that we are nearing
the trenches of physical strength, and unless we infuse into our
Protestant manhood the liquid fires of Protestantism, 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 with the
blood of Protestantism, in defense of the principles that have
made America all that she ever has been, all that she is, and all
that she may hope to be.
     Can we expect anything else should Roman Catholicism every
become numerically strong enough to rule by physical strength? 
The answer to this question must come from the pages of Romish
history, and this history has every page wet with Protestant
blood shed by this Monarch of Darkness, as 75,000,000 Protestants
today sleep beneath the sod of the universe, bearing the scars of
Romish torture.
     My task is done; my warning has been sounded; my prayers
have been offered, and now in the evening of old age, when life's
sun is slipping down behind the horizon of earthly thins, I find
myself surrounded with the faces of new friens, but in the dim
far away I behold the countenance of my Lord beckoning me to that
rest beyond the skies, where I hope to receive a full pardon from
a God I so recently learned to serve.
     For the sake of right, I bade farewell to the associations
of my childhood, but in so doing I have been permitted to taste
of realities that were bought for the human race "By the blood of
the Lamb," and I feel assured that when this earthly race is over
that I will be taken home to glory, where I will be permitted to
sing the songs of the new Jerusalem, and my prayer is that this
little volume may march on down the ages after I am gone, to warn
the generations that are yet unborn of the damnable teachings of
Romanism, and be instrumental in wooing away from this human
viper those who have been taught to worship at the feet of this
hydra-headed monster, Roman Catholicism.

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