Show The Kea from the a. v. A. and Makes them Thomas Dear I have a personal message to deliver to believing that everyone should know what it is I propose to print it and to send you a marked you organized the American party in You have rightly claimed that honor in the Eastern You also advertised that the success of the American party in Utah was your personal you are a Roman You had the honor of entertaining the His Cardinal the greatest of American Now the American Party is your Utah branch if it is only a little anti-Mormon The Real American your American or A. P. A. party was first organized in Its object was to fight and destroy all Roman Catholics in The or A. P. A. grew very and in 1892 it well-attended councils in nearly every State in the The Utah branch or the A. P. A. party was organized along the same using the same except eliminated the word Catholic and put in its place the word Your your and Goodwin's copied from the American party papers of and The American party and its Utah branch are aided and abetted by 95 percent of the orthodox Catholic Apostates were the principal writers and lecturers for your in the early J and Mormon apostates appear to be your chief literary men W. J. president of the American in an open letter to the world stated that one reason why the American party was organized was as he Cardinal Manning of the Catholic Church made the following Cardinal Manning's Alleged acknowledge no civil I am the subject of no civil I am the subject of no and I claim to be more than I claim to be the supreme judge and director of the consciences of of the peasants that till the and the prince that sits on the of the household that sits in the shade of and the legislature that makes the laws for I am supreme judge of what is right and we define and pronounce it to be necessary to salvation to every human creature to be subject to the Roman doesn't that sound just take the name Cardinal Manning and supply that of Joseph P. and yon will have the key-note of innumerable anti-Mormon A. P. A. some Kearns-American please deny Alleged Encyclical from Leo Here is another encyclical that your American Party claimed Pope Leo the sent out in exhort all Catholics to devote careful attention to public and to take part in all municipal affairs and and all public and All Catholics make themselves felt as nc- tive elements in daily political life in countries where they All Catholics should exert power to cause the constitution of states to be modeled on the principles of the true how does the above strike you as a recent Tribune article T Just change the to Joseph P. and the A word to and you will have it You get it every day in your don't The American party published the following encyclical from Leo the to the papal clergy of America when he sent Francisco Satolli as an apostolic delegate to the United command all whom it concerns to recognize in you as an apostolic the supreme power of the delegating we command that they give you and obedience in all that they receive with reverence your salutary admonitions and Whatever sentence penalty you shall duly declare or inflict against those who oppose our we will with the authority given us by the will cause to he observed until condign satisfaction be notwithstanding constitutions an ordinances or others to the how do you like the It is a passage which the has You would better change it and have it printed at as you have had done with hundreds of others just like The Baltimore here is another tid- bit that the Party claimed the Catholics passed in Baltimore in 1886 glory that we are with God's shall continue lo not the American nor the church in the United nor a church in any other exclusive or but an pact of the one Catholic and Apostolic Church of Jesus your Tribune has stated many times that the Mormons claim all of the authority implied in the above The following is what your Tribune said Aug 31 be a Mormon one must admit the truth of the Smith that the priests of that church have received their powers and authorities direct from the who may not be gainsaid in any earthly or heavenly Admitting he has right oppose or disobey any command of these agents of no matter how unjust or how tyrannical that command may appear in his personal Blood your Tribune has intimated many that the Mormons made away with or exterminated Did you know that your or your C. C. or your Prank or your Charley stole all of that blood atonement thunder from the Do you know that a Jack-Mormon and a Catholic Heretic are hail fellows well The American party in the following language charged that the Catholics exterminated heretics heretics all who are not good must not be tolerated because they deserve we must bear with by a second they may be brought back to the faith of the But those after a second remain obstinate in their must not only be but they must be delivered over to the secular powers to be About Secret your Tribune has had much to say about the secret oaths of the The Tribune stole that oath from the A. P. A's anti-Catholic tirades and changed it to a Mormon Here is the party version of it are i bound to obey the laws of the slate when they are not contrary to the laws of oaths are to be kept if they are against the interest of the Church of how do you enjoy seeing your church and your people slandered and You think it is fun and that it shows great ability to hire writers to till the Tribune daily with that kind of I am simply writing this letter to let you know from what sources your steal and parody your A. P. A. in the next issue of the Utah Independent I will publish for your special benefit the general statement that your party made nearly twenty years Yours V. S. |