t 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, of the countries mentioned. Read, in
United States senate document 190, the record of Rome's
'conversions' in the Philippines--a work which has made every
Filipino a bitter hater of the priests.

"'The Indians of the United States!' Have they ever 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.

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