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

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

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

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

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