ed to identify the supposed body of Wm.
Morgan, which was found at the mouth of the Niagara River.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, if a monastery in Canada would be turned into a lie and a
deception in order that the Catholic Church might carry out her
diabolical and cunning scheme