ized on the outside, who will pledge themselves to the same and more. They will be pledged to take these boys by the hand as they come out of the reformatory and prisons and help them to keep their pledges, to secure for them employment, and not be ashamed to associate with them. And while I live and have a say in this boy organization, there will be no selfish grafter connected with it, and absolutely no salaries outside of those who work as employees. In the meantime, I want the opportunity to earn sufficient to keep my family pot boiling while I am helping the boys, and everyone who contributes any sum of money for my work among the boys, will be given an accounting of every date filled to his or her credit, and in this way I see the realization of my happiest and oldest

dream. For

"I'd rather find a wayward stray and

help him to his own

Than entertain the angels at a picnic round the throne."

Part of a LETTER FROM THE PRESIDING

ELDER LOUISVILLE DISTRICT.

Louisville, Ky., Mar. 1, 1911. DEAR CAPT. JACK: I appreciate very much the volume of poems with which you have honored me. The pathos of some brought tears to my eyes. You have the true gift of song and the true insight of poetic genius. It is a high, a divine gift, and you have used it well.

Remember that you are an honorary member of our Methodist ministers' meeting, and entitled to all its privileges. May God keep you in your journeyings and bless you abundantly. The "Sunshine Trail" is ahead of us if we are faithful. Your brother, FRANK M. THOMAS.

PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO.
Ladies Night.
September 21, 1910.
The fact that Capt. Jack Crawford,

but one he repeats wherever he talks to boys.

His poems are the songs of a man who believes in God, and whose faith in his fellowman is a religion.

In perfect physical condition, with a laugh as fresh as a boys, a voice deep and musical, a pair of legs as agile as a dancing-master and an eye as keen as an Indian's, the pity of it is we cannot look for a race of American

men to follow, when Captain Jack has been gathered to his fathers.

Temperance in all things, and the simple life in the open are the only two fads he has, and when one realizes that these two have given us a man past his sixtieth year, in a perfect physical model of the typical American man as we like to think of him, we hope Captain Jack's mission to win converts to his fad will be successful.

P

LACE, Baltimore, Md., date June 5, 1911, building Fifth Regiment Armory. Scene: Cardinal Gibbons, of the Romish Hierarchy, in red robes on the center of the stage; right and left, President Taft, Vice-President Fairbanks, ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, Chief Justice White, of the United States Supreme Court, exSpeaker Cannon, of the United States Senate and Speaker of the House, Champ Clark, of Missouri. All around are 600 notables, foreign ministers of State, Governor of Maryland, including 100 preachers of different denominations.

Act. I. Cardinal stands up while pages hold his scarlet robes. The vast audience of 15,000 rise and cheer Rome's representative. The 600 state and church dignitaries bowing low and reverently. The Cardinal speaks and every word is a glorification of Romanism.

Act II. President Taft, Vice-President Fairbanks, ex-President Roosevelt, ex-Speaker Cannon, Chief Justice White, and Speaker Clark, of the House, deliver eulogies on the Cardinal, interspersed with fan fares from

bands, wild cheering from the audience, while the Cardinal sits in scarlet robes, center front-forward on the

stage!

Simultaneously throughout the land appeared a two column article in the daily papers, a cut of the Cardinal and reports of the speeches of eulogy. Later a few days appeared another cut three columns wide, stage setting, Cardinal in the center and the high dignitaries before named arranged around.

And thus the Executive heads of the American Republic called "The United States of America," together with the representative of the Political and Ecclesiastical despotism known as the Roman Catholic Church, in an American city, on American soil, obsequiously bow down and unitedly lift up on the stage a Romish Cardinal, in his official red-robes, and unite to eulogize, extol, glorify him and through him that Romish hierarchy, that religio-political power whose fires of persecution drove our ancestry from the old world to the New that they might find a place in the wilderness to worship God without being flayed or burned by Rome's orders!

God of our Fathers!

In that medley of patrons and enlogists of Rome were the extreme antipodes of Republicans and Democrats. Ex-Speaker Cannon, the Champion of Stand-pat high tariff Republicanism was there to eulogize Rome. Champ Clark, present Speaker of the House, was there and joined Cannon and delivered his eulogy at the feet of Rome. They fight each other like devils, but when Rome waves her scarlet wand, they are falling in meek submission at a Cardinal's feet!

And Roosevelt, who the other day was killing lions in Africa and snubbing the Pope at Rome, was there and lay down at the Cardinal's feet and delivered his eulogy along with the other worshippers!

And that is not all. The report says: "More than 100 clergymen of all denominations were present!"

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And so Rome's representative stands forth, red-robed, clothed in the insignia of his office, while the representatives of our government and of religious denominations all gather about him, and when he stands up and waves a crucifix they bow together to do him honor!

Americans, what does this mean?

It can have but one meaning. This government, this Republic, is being delivered body and soul to Romanism by political demagogues, for votes.

Romanism is a political institution, and the sworn and eternal enemy of Republics. It teaches that all governments on earth must go to the Pope for authority; that God had vested in him both ecclesiastical and temporal power, and he has a divine right to make and unmake civil governments, crown and uncrown kings at his pleasure. Such has been the doctrine and practice of Romanism, and Rome boasts that it never changes. And so when Rome's official representative and diplomat stands forth in Baltimore, clothed in official robes, to represent ecclesiasti

cally and politically the Romish doctrine and claims, and the high officials of this government accept an invitation to meet him on that occasion, in that character and officially tender their eulogies, they are not only accepting and acknowledging Rome's claims, but they are doing so officially, and are betraying and so far as they can, delivering over to Rome that which our forefathers died in the fire to save from Rome, religious and political liberty.

No wonder the Cardinal felt the inflation and rushed into the press all over the land with cuts of the stage and quotations from the official eulogies. The whole matter was evidently prearranged. The object of the work through the press association is to glorify Rome, to use the occasion which was created for the purpose of being used, to glorify Rome and blazon to the world the fact that the Government officials of America, Republicans and Democrats were bowing down to Rome for-votes!

And when 100 preachers, of all denominations, from high-church Episcopalians to Baptists, gather there and bow and laud while a scarlet-robed Cardinal of Romanism is staged for honors, tell me, American Protestants and Baptists, what have we come to!

When and where was an Episcopal, a Lutheran, a Methodist, a Baptist or a preacher or official of any other religious denomination in America staged, groomed, robed, feted, eulogized and lionized by American officialdom?

Why is Romanism alone selected for this special display and honor?

Because Rome has votes! Because Rome is a political machine, and throws its vote to that party which in return gives power and property to Rome, that is why Romanism is thus honored.

It has been an open secret for forty years in this country, that any national party that opposed Romanism would be defeated-by Rome's vote. No man

This worship of Romanism by political parties has been heretofore largely secret, but now it has become open. Rome has whipped political aspirants one at a time and apart, making them to crawl at her feet. But now she has grown bold and erected her altar and led forward both Republicans and Democrats and ecclesiastics together, made them to do honor to her official representative by bowing down to her red-robed Cardinal and worshipping together.

Our political and ecclesiastical demagogues are selling and delivering us to Rome, long time privately, now publicly, and Rome herself has advertised the fact to the world.

Will the people accept it? Will political parties and religious denominations ratify the devilish bargain, when they sell us to Rome for her vote?

We have come to the parting of the ways. We must resist, repudiate the abominable compact, refuse to ratify, overthrow the vile combination and be free, or submit and be delivered to the political and religious control of an institution which has baptized the world in blood and made the blackest pages in human history!

We repudiate it with all the mind and soul we have! We denounce it as a betrayal of American Principles and religious liberty! We will vote for no American for any office who bows down at the feet of a Romish Cardinal when he stands forth in official robes as the representative of Rome political and ecclesiastical.

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Champ Clark claims to be a Democrat. He has been elected Speaker of

the House. He wants to be President. That is the reason he went to Baltimore and joined in with Taft, Cannon, Roosevelt and White in doing obeisance to Cardinal Gibbons.

Where is the cartoonist now? Let him get his brush. Here is a subject worthy of his skill, Cannon and Clark -political enemies, bowing together at the feet of Romanism, the lion and the lamb lying down together! And Roosevelt! "How have the mighty fallen!" We saw a picture of him the other day, on an African velt, gun in hand, teeth aglare, eyes defiant, head tilted back, chest pushed out, a monster lion lying dead at his feet. That was Roosevelt in Africa! Now give us his picture in Baltimore: Hat off, gun gone, back humped, knee bent, chest gone, teeth out of view, and as he bows to a scarlet-robed Cardinal of Rome, the slobber of eulogy runs in streams from the lips once so defiant! Roosevelt conquered the lion, but a red-robed Cardinal conquered him!

Now, who is the biggest man in the United States? According to Taft, Roosevelt, Cannon and Clark it is Cardinal Gibbons, Roman Catholic Diplomat of Baltimore! And surely "His Eminence, James Cardinal Gibbons" has a right to feel inflated and rush into the press with a stage scene like that; when he has Presidents and exPresidents, Speakers and ex-Speakers and the Chief Justice of the United States as his lackeys! Never king yet sat a throne who had a more distinguished company of servants and eulogists! Cæsar, Pompey, Nero, conquered kings and kingdoms and marched kings captive into the "Eternal City" in fetters, but neither of them ever had power to wave the wand and the great of earth would flock in, glad to do them homage; all they got they had to fight for. But here is a Romish prelate in America who can prearrange the program and bid the nobility of the realm come and do him hom