able 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 only 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 the 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, 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 that 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 mayor, 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 t