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OPEN LETTERS
Archbishop Ireland
Open Letters to Archbishop Ireland.
º NO. I.
DEAR SIR:
I have noticed the word “arch '' pre-
fixed to bishop when you are addressed
in print, and curiosity led me to look
into Webster, and he defines it thus:
* Arch — (properly) supreme, chief in
art and roguishness, sly, cunning, etc.”
Are we to take Webster as authority
(he is so considered) in your case and that
of the seventeen other archbishops of
your church in this country, who are
entitled to this prefix in accordance
with the rules of your church, and
whose number can be indefinitely in-
creased as your bishops advance in
“archness”? Will you please let us
, know how far a bishop must advance
on this line to be entitled to this pre-
fix P There must be a limit, and some
authority to decide when it is reached.
Then I opened my Bible to learn
what is said about bishops, but I do
not find the word “arch” prefixed; I find
this: “A bishop must be the husband
of one wife. One who rules well his
own house, having his children in sub-
jection with all gravity.” But you
and your church say, “no wife,” noth-
ing but a housekeeper, consequently
no children to “keep in subjection with
all gravity,” and yet, in that Senate
Document 190, endorsed by President
McKinley and sent out by Congress, we
have statements made under oath by
intelligent Filipinos and Americans,
that the bishops, priests, and friars of
your church have children by the score
running at large in all parts of the isl-
ands, but no wives.
Bishop, how is this 2 Can you ex-
plain 2 No; only by admitting that
where your church has entire control,
as it has had for the past three hun-
dred years in these islands, such is its
teachings that it results in the degraded
moral, social, and religious condition
of priests and people as we found them
there.
Thinking along on this line, it has
occurred to me, Bishop Ireland (not
wishing to give offense I shall omit the
prefix ‘‘arch,” and address you merely as
bishop), that as I have been requested
by THE CITIZEN to give a bit of history
as to what I saw and experienced dur-
ing three years spent in Mexico, the
only daughter of your church in North
America, and which at that time was
under the entire control of your church,
you, as a leader of that church, the
readers of THE CITIZEN, and all
who may chance to see this letter, may
possibly be interested in what I have .
to say.
It may seem presumptuous for an
humble citizen to address a great pre-
late of Rome as I presume to do; but,
bishop, you must remember that in
free America we are all sovereigns who
stand loyally by the flag. But there
are among us, and several millions of
them, including Cardinal Gibbons,
yourself, your fellow-archbishops, bish-
ops, priests, and members of your church,
those who hold allegiance to a foreign
power, Pope Pius, hence cannot stand
loyally by the flag (however boldly
they may assert they do), and are not
1
A 83R 33.
sovereigns, not free American citizens.
But to my letter.
Shortly after the Mexican War, which
closed in June, 1847, a Portuguese, a
convert from your church, and myself,
crossed the Rio Grande at Brownville,
Texas, and entered Matamoras. There,
in sight of the American flag, a large
package of our books was detained in
the Custom House condemned as heret-
ical, by the priest in charge of the
book department. In the name of the
American people and as their property,
held in trust by the American Bible &
Tract Society (which your master Pius
denounces as “most pernicious’’), we
demanded that they be returned to us,
that we might send them back to head-
quarters, but our demand was refused.
What disposal was made of them we
never learned ; no doubt they were
burned, as that is the usual way such
books are disposed of by your church.
From Matamoras we passed into the
interior, disposing of our books in the
towns by the way, finding ready sale
for them, as they were much cheaper
and of better style than Mexican books.
When we reached Monterey our stock
was about exhausted. My Portuguese
friend returned to the States, I remain-
ing in Monterey, teaching a class of
Mexican boys English, while awaiting
a new supply.
Our books were a puzzle to the
priests. On glancing through them
some would say. “Good books l very
good books l’’ others would say, “Bad
books l very bad books I’” but they
usually supplied themselves with a
copy of each.
Passing along the street in Monterey
I saw men, women, and children, drop
suddenly on their knees, cross them-
selves, and with closed hand smite their
breasts three times quite firmly, mak-
ing a very peculiar sound—thud! thud!
thud! I was taken by surprise, this
being the first performance of the kind
I had seen. I saw it many times after-
ward. As the street was blocked I
stood awaiting results with many a look
of mingled pity and contempt from
those around me. Presently I saw a
procession crossing the street bearing
the image of a saint on a platform .
borne on the shoulders of four men.
When the procession had passed all
went on their way. The moment a
Saint comes in sight all must drop and
remain on their knees while it is in
sight. The same matter of crossing and
Smiting the breast occurs frequently as
they sit or kneel on the floor of the
church while the priest is saying
In 3,88,
Passing along the street in company
With an acquaintance, an Englishman
named Glover, pointing to a room ad-
joining the street, he remarked, “There
was a man killed in that room shortly
before the Americans took the city; a
German shoemaker. There was a pro-
cession of one of the saints passing
along, and he kept on at work. The
soldiers who always accompany such
processions, marched in at the order of
the bishop in command, and put their
bayonets through him.” “Was that
the end of the matter P’’ ‘‘That was
the end. No man dare say a word in
his defence or question the right of the
church in the case. It is different now
since the Americans have been here.
No such order dare be given now.”
Bishop Ireland, the bishop who or.
dered the soldiers to put their bayonets
through that poor German shoemaker,
was no more solemnly sworn to obey
the orders of his church as given by
Pope Pius IX. than you are to obey the
orders of Pius X. 2
You may say Rome changes. Not so;
only as she is forced to accommodate
herself for the time to the condition of
things as she finds them under the
heretical government under whose flag
you are permitted to live while
seeking its destruction. You very well
know that Rome cannot change and
live. You know her boast “semper ea-
dam.” Bourke Cockran, in an address
made in New York, said, “The Catho-
lic church never changes. She is the
same to day as in the past; all we need
in this country is the power.” Power
to do what? Power to put bayonets
through all heretics who might refuse
to prostrate themselves as one of your
saint processions passed along.
In passing among the people in Mon-
terey, I found four different Bibles, the
Book of Isaiah, part of Revelation, and
the lives of two saints, all having the
endorsement of the Bishop of Mexico,
and, of course, believed to be the Bible
by those in possession. But few had
even these, and when told it was not
the Bible, and the Book described and
shown them, they were surprised and
incredulous. * -
Thus, bishop, you deceive the poor,
ignorant people when they press their
demand for the Bible, as some of the
more intelligent do in papal countries.
recall an incident that occurred on
my way. An intelligent Mexican wo-
man on seeing my books inquired,
“Have you the Bible?” “I have no
Bible; have disposed of all I had.”
“I am sorry; I have heard of that book
and have wanted one so much for years
past. I have asked the priest about it,
but he gives me no satisfaction. The
priest wants to keep us this way (plac-
ing her two finger 3 on her closed eyes).
I want you to be sure to bring me a Bi-
ble when you come this way again.” I
promised.
Having received a supply of books
and Bibles, and having supplied Mon-
terey, I passed to Saltillo and on to Par-
ras, near the end of Gen. Taylor's route.
While in Parras a young monk called
and bought a copy of each book, among
them the first volume of Daubigne's
History of the Reformation. He was a
bright young fellow from a monastery
in the town. He returned in a few :
days, and referring to the book said,
with much emphasis: “Luther was a
devil l’” I said, “No, Luther was a
man just like other men.” “No, Lu-
ther was a devil in human form. The
bishop says he was.” That young fel-
low believed the bishop—such is the
training of youth where Rome rules.
The young monk said, “The bishop
wants to buy all of Daubigne's histo-
riès you have.” I let him have them,
because to have refused might have
brought trouble. What did the bishop
want with those books? To stop their
circulation among his people (but I
had been among his people), and, no
doubt, to teach the young monk a les-
son on the liberty of the press and show
him how to dispose of heretical books
of making a bonfire of them.
It was a very dry time in Parras.
Vegetation was burning up. The saint
who presided over the rain “must be
asleep or, peradventure, he is on a
journey.” Something must be done.
He must be waked up. So he is
brought out and paraded through the
streets, borne on a platform with great
pomp, and noise of all kinds of instru-
ments, the bishops and priests and
monks and people all joining the pro-
cession, some shouting, others prostrat-
ing themselves. This was done for
three days, but no rain. Poor, igno-
3
rant people, taught to look to a dead
image for help in time of need, instead
of calling on the Lord, who “Sendeth
rain on the just and unjust.”
Having finished my work in Parras,
mounted on a Mexican pony I started
for Saltillo, 75 miles distant, traveling
by night, as foreigners do because of
the intense heat at that season of the
year. I had gone about three miles
when I heard a Mexican coming from
behind at a lope (they always ride at a
lope), and in a moment, whisk! came
his lasso, striking off my hat. I said,
“What do you want?” He answered,
“Let us go to the ranch.” I said “No,
I’m going to Saltillo.” By that time
he had gathered up his lasso, throwing
it again, encircling my body; but as I
felt it tightening around me the end at-
tached to his saddle came loose, and
my life was spared. The Lord's hand
was there and loosed the lasso. I was
unarmed and at his mercy, but having
lost his weapon he left me. I noticed
that his pony was much more active
than mine, and feeling that he would
secure another lasso and follow me, I
gathered up the lasso (now mine) and
my hat, and turned off some distance
into the woods, where I tied my pony,
placing my blanket for a bed and saddle
for a pillow. I laid down to rest, with
the intention of keeping watch till the
morning; but such a feeling of safety
came that I fell asleep, and when I
awoke the sun was shining brightly.
I returned to Parras fully satisfied to
wait the time of two Frenchmen who
were going down the country, and who
had promised several times to be ready,
warning me not to venture alone; but
becoming impatient I made the attempt
with the result given.
Now why did that man attempt to
take my life? I had but little money.
It took about all I made on my books
to meet expenses, and they knew it.
Erom the manner in which the bishop
denounced my books I am convinced
the man was under orders.
Bishop, the man was a loyal member
of your church, for all Mexicans were
then members of your church, and had
he succeeded it would have been all
right with his bishop. It would have
been a righteous act, deserving reward
in indulgences or in some other way,
for a heretic has no right to live.
The Frenchmen were unwilling I
should go with them, unless armed; so,
though a man of peace, I prepared for
war. We passed safely down the coun-
try, reaching Matamoras all right. Re-
turning to New Orleans I came north
to my country home in Clarion County,
Pa.
In the summer of 1850, in the interest
of the Bible society, I returned to Mex-
ico, entering at Vera Cruz, and on to the
City of Mexico, with books to be dis-
posed of and for the purpose of estab-
lishing a depository of these books
should the way be open. I called on
our then minister, Ex-Governor Fletch-
er of Ky., and handed him my letter of
introduction, and stated my business
and the purpose of making the work
permanent, and asked his advice. He
at once said, “Better let that matter
alone; you may get into trouble. Wait
until a change of administration.” This
was discouraging. My books were on
the way. What could I do? I called
on Colonel Ramsay, from Pennsylvania,
who had been much longer in the
country than Gen. Fletcher. Stated my
business and what had passed between
me and the governor, and asked his ad-
vice. “Go aheadl Just as good time as
you will have. The next administration
may be no better. You are here in a
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good work. We will take care of you.
If you get into trouble we will see you
through.”
I opened up my books in the best busi-
mess part of the city. The cheapness of
the books was a Surprise, and they found
ready sale. I had been at work but a
few days when the bishop came out in
the papers, stating that Some man in the
city was selling heretical books, and de-
manding that all who had bought them
must bring them to him to be burned.
During the stay of our army in and
around the city, many of the more intel-
ligent Mexicans had imbibed some new
ideas about the liberty of the pure and
the right to think, so they were somewhat
skeptical as to their church and priests.
This demand of the bishop advertised
my books, and there was a rush for them,
and I soon disposed of my Stock.
I recall the title of two, “The Life of
the Virgin” and “The Religion of Mon-
, ey.” This latter was in great demand.
Men would call for it, saying, “that is the
kind of religion we have. The priests
are after our money.”
I had made the acquaintance of a Mex-
ican in business near my stand. Passing
along the day after I had closed out, he
hailed me : “See here ! the Officers are
after you. They were along here this
morning looking for you and inquired of
me.” “What did you tell them?” “I
told them that you had sold out and had
left the city.”
Failing to stop the sale of my books
the bishop had ordered my arrest; but he
was too late; the mischief was done.
The people were in possession of my
books and Bibles. How many were
turned over to him to be burned is not
known, but that he did not get near all
of them is plain from the demand for
them after his Order to burn.
Bishop Ireland, here is a sample of
what your bishops will do when they have
priests l
the power—condemn a book that don’t
Suit you as heretical, and then burn it.
And you are still in the business, as seen
in the report from Rev. H. C. Tucker,
agent of the American Bible Society in
Brazil.
AUTO DA FE.
“Reciep 21.--Tomorrow the Capuchin
friar Celestino will burn in the public
Square 200 Bibles of the evangelical sect,
having previously invited the people to
be present at the auto da fe.”
“Reciep 22.-As was announced, there
was held to day in the public square the
auto da fe, being cast into the bonfire 200
Bibles of the evangelical sect.”
The above appeared in one of the daily
papers of Rio de Janiero, in February,
1903.
Bishop, here we have your church of
to-day where she has the power. This
friar was but obeying orders. Pope Leo
learned of this matter, but no censure
Was passed on the friar, or it would have
been announced. So Leo and his church
endorsed this burning.
But not contented with burning Bibles
in a civilized country, your church must
go among the heathen. We have it this
way: “Another Bible burning. This
time it is in Fiji under the direction of a
priest; New Testaments were gathered up
and burned by the Sisters of Mercy, to
whom the Bible is very distasteful and
abhorrent.”
How merciful these Sisters of Mercy!
and how honest under the training of the
Seizing the property of heathen
recently converted to true Christianity
and burning it; giving them a lesson in
practical Christianity as taught by Rome.
And how chaste these Sisters! Passing
along one of the principal streets of the
city with a friend, my attention was called
to two imposing buildings on opposite
sides of the Street. He said that one was,
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occupied by the monks and priests, and
the other by the Sisters of Charity, and
that the buildings were connected by a
tunnel passing under the street; but the
stench became so strong and the Scan-
dal so great that the authorities, Roman.
ists themselves, ordered the tunnel closed
up and the monks and prelates and sis"
ters driven Out.
Bishop, this is but one of the many
flowers you help to cultivate and are cul-
tivating in this free republic.
My work being finished, by waiting a
few days there were enough Americans
and other foreigners well armed, to make
it safe to go down the country to Vera
Cruz, so I escaped the clutches of the
bishop, and got safely out of the city and
the country.
On reporting the condition of things,
it was decided not to place a depository
of the society’s books in the city or to con-
tinue the work further at that time, but
await developments.
Our work at Matamoras and in the in-
terior, and this work in the City of Mex-
ico, was the first effort made to make
Mexico Protestant, and was several years
before Miss Rankin commenced her mis-
sion at Matamoras. What it accom -
plished in preparing the way for future
efforts cannot be known, but it was a be.
ginning.
Bishop, I have given you a brief state-
ment of the condition of things When
Mexico was under the control of your
church. Then, it was a perfectly safe and
legitimate business to put bayonets
through a man who paid no attention to a
church procession bearing one of your
saints as it passed along the Street. It
was a righteous act for one of your
church members to kill a man who was
circulating the Bible, and books that
taught its doctrines. It was the right
thing for the bishop of the capital city of
6
that country to order these books to be
brought to him that he might make a bon-
fire of them, and to arrest and punish the
man who had the audacity to circulate
them in his diocese. In closing, I call
attention to One of the beautiful
“flowers” you are so fond of cultivating.
Such was the condition of things them.
But what are they now? We shall see.
Bishop, permit me to go somewhat into
details, that you may know what is being
done and by whom :—
The Presbyterians have in the City of
Mexico Seven missionaries, a normal
School for girls, a printing press, and
publish four religious papers, beside
tracts. The output for 1902 was 3,068 554
pages of religious literature. Then they
have 17 other missionaries placed in six
of the larger cities, besides 55 native
preachers; 53 native helpers at work in
many towns and cities; 4558 church mem-
bers; 37 schools; 1162 pupils; 2491 Sab-
bath school scholars; at Monterey a large
and flourishing girls’ school; at Saltillo,
a normal school for both sexes, with 120
pupils; at Conception del Oro a girls’
boarding school of 93 pupils. These stu-
dents are in demand for the public schools,
but are needed chiefly for mission work
in the 7 stations and 148 out stations.
Of the Methodist Episcopal we have :
141 congregations; 31 missionaries; 53
native preachers; 6692 members; 10,786
adherents; 6 high schools; 51 day schools;
3548 scholars; 45 churches and chapels.
Of the Southern Presbyterians, Con-
gregationalists, Baptists, and others, we
have no report, but they are all there,
bishop, and doing a good (you would say
bad) work, bringing out your people from
the gross ignorance and superstition in
which they have been held by Rome for
centuries past.
Then we have 12 public schools (schools
which your friend Leo denounced as
“most pernicious things, born of the
pit”), run chiefly by money gotten by
conflscation of property taken by fraud
from the poor and the rich Mexican, pay.
ing them in indulgences and masses, par-
doming sins, and praying them out of pur-
gatory.
The word purgatory, bishop, recalls an
incident : A Protestant preacher in a talk
with a priest, put the inquiry: “How is
it that you priests can get so much more
money out of your people than we can?”
The priest replied with a twinkle in his
eye, “You ought to borrow our purga-
tory.”
As the Mexican people advanced in in-
telligence and views of right under Prot-
estant training, they discovered this ini-
quitous fraud, and through their Congress
deliberately passed laws confiscating this
property, which took in about one-half of
the landed property, and much in city
and town. It is now being used by its
rightful owners for the best of pur-
poses.
Here we have the Old and the New Mex-
ico. But, bishop, this change has not
come without blood. You know that
your church is fond of blood— delights in
seeing the blood of the heretic flow, as
shown by the jubilee proclaimed by one
of your popes for one year on hearing of
the slaying of 70,000 of the best blood of
France in the streets of Paris on Barthol-
omew’s eve and the three following days,
and of the 700,000 or more Protestants
slain among the mountains and in the
valleys of Piedmont and Switzerland in
the eight years of bloody persecution that
followed.
So right here at our door, in Mexico,
we have the same love for blood, the same
Satanic spirit shown that murdered the
Protestants of France. The same scenes
enacted, but on a limited sphere, in the
slaying of sixty-five native Mexicans,
once members of your church, in cold
blood, at the instigation of your priests,
because they had renounced the teach-
ings of Rome and the authority of her
priests.
For this they must die; not in the ex-
quisitely flendish way in which your
church took life under the reign of the
Inquisition, torturing its victims on the
rack or with hot iron, or clasped in the
arms of the smiling image of the Virgin
as the spring was touched, and cut in
pieces in her loving embrace, and in other
ways such as flendish ingenuity could in-
vent. These, our neighbors, were killed
with clubs and stones and guns and ma-
chetes, many wounded and driven from
their homes, their dwellings burned and
property destroyed; but all stood firm,
showing the true spirit of the martyr,
ready to die rather than deny their Sa-
viour. º
I might go into details, showing when
and how this killing was done, but time
and space forbid. As to time, however,
I may say that it occurred under Pope
Leo XIII. and with his knowledge and
approval, for “it was not done in a cor-
ner.” And yet, bishop, you say, “he has
no sin.” Of course not; being infallible,
how could he sin? You endorse him in
all his acts, hence you endorse this kill-
ing. You cannot do otherwise and be a
loyal papist.
Permit me to give a few samples of the
way in which this killing was done. In
Acapulco your people, incited by the
priest, with clubs and stones and knives
and machetes, killed six and wounded
mine. At Almayoa, led by an officer of
the law—a local judge—four men were
killed and many were wounded. Three
of the killed were native preachers, the
fourth the wife of one. So I could quote
from perfectly reliable sources, giving
names of places and numbers killed.
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But enough of this bloody work An
American missionary was killed, while
others narrowly escaped death, one hav-
ing to flee on board a vessel. The mis-
sionary, John L. Stephens, was attacked
in his house, the papists shouting, “Long
live the cura ! Down with the Protest"
ants l’’ Seeing some soldiers among the
crowd, he appealed to them for protection:
They replied by firing on him with the
others. He was instantly killed, and the
deed was crowned by ringing the bells of
the church. His body was buried that
night by his followers, secretly.
But the good work goes right on, bish
op. You and your church cannot stop
it. You cannot burn the truth. It Seems
strange that your church has not learned
this fact long since; but it has not; it
Still burns Bibles and books. There are
more Bibles, and books teaching its truths,
read in Mexico to-day than ever before,
and their circulation is rapidly increas-
ing; and so with missionaries, foreign
and native. Mexico Will be Protes tant
and that in a few years. The Lord’s
hand is there, and as you say “America
must be made Catholic,” so I say “Mex-
.CO must be made Protestant.”
In 1892, when addressing a convention
Of your people in New Jersey, you said,
“We now have such vantage-ground that
if we manage matters rightly, in ten
years America will be Catholic. America
must be made Catholic.”
You have not managed rightly, for your
prediction is not realized. You are too
fast. America is still Protestant, and
with the people informed as to what Rome
is, and her designs on this republic, will
ever remain Protestant; but if they are
not informed there is danger. You have
certainly] made encouraging progress
toward realizing your prediction, motwith-
standing the warnings coming to the
American people from Some of our truest
8
patriots and greatest statesmen, from a
few of whom I briefly quote.
George Washington : “The insidious
wiles of foreign influence is one of the
most baneful foes of Republican govern-
ment.” Such as we have coming from
Rome to-day.
Wm. E. Gladstone: “No more cunning
plot was ever designed against the intelli-
gence, the freedom, the happiness and
virtue of mankind, than Romanism.”
Henry Clay : “This government will
pass through two Wars, one on slav-
ery and the other with the Roman Cath-
Olics.” l
Gen. Grant : “If We are to have anoth-
er contest in the near future, I predict
that it will be between patriotism and
intelligence on the One Side, and Super-
stition, ambition, and ignorance on the
Other.”
Lafayette: “If the liberties of the
American people are ever destroyed, they
will fall by the hand of the Catholic
clergy.”
And yet, bishop, you claim him as one of
your men, and give us this bit of history
about him, as taught in your parochial
schools: “Gen. Fafayette, with the help
of George Washington, fought the bat-
tles of the Revolutionary War, delivered
us from British tyranny, and gave us this
free republic.” Such is a sample of the
history being taught to Some of our com.
ing Americans in your Schools. Degrad-
ing the Father of his Country'in the minds
of the children, and putting your man to
the front because he was a Roman Cath-
olic (as you incorrectly infer) *-
Abraham Lincoln: “I am no prophet,
nor do I profess to be, but I see a very
dark cloud on our horizon, and it is com-
ing from Rome. It is filled with tears
of blood. The moving power behind it
is the Vatican, the bishops, the priests
and the nuns, and the confessional boxes
Of Rome.”
Bishop, how do these words suit you,
coming from men whom you profess to
admire and endorse? They join issue
with you and your church Squarely, warm.
ing the American people against her plot-
tings and designs on their liberties and
institutions; while you say, “My church
is right; the pope must rule America,”
while professing to be a true patriot and
Republican I Why, bishop, Lincoln and
Grant, if they were here, would not rec-
ognize you as a patriot or a Republican,
Only as one made to order.
Here are your orders sent out by Leo
XIII. : “It is your duty to enter politics.
Go in and use your voice and vote for
me, for the Holy Father and the church.
Do your best, not only as churchmen but
as politicians, to make America a Roman
Catholic country.”
Lincoln and Grant understood such
men, and so do all intelligent Americans
and Republicans who are posted on
Rome. Their contention with you is not
as a church organization, but as a politi-
cal church organization the most Gom-
plete the world has ever known, and
whose basic principle is union of church
and state; the church to rule, suppress-
ing free speech, free press, and the right
to think.
While such men as Lincoln, Grant, and
Gladstone understood, it is evident that
the present leaders of the Republican
party, including the President, do not, or
else they are willing to place that party
and this country under the power of
Rome, that they may be retained in power
by her vote. But are not these leaders
making a very grave mistake? The
time may be near when the issue will be,
Shall Protestants or Romanists rule Amer-
ica?
Rome is uniting her forces. See the
confederation of all her societies, with
150,000 armed men training. Protest-
ants must and will combine. Rome has
made the challenge. We accept it. Rome
defles law when she has the power. The
battle must come. It may end in ballots;
but it may come to bullets, which God
forbid | But let it come The Lord
reigns ! Right must win Truth must
triumph 1
Farewell, bishop, tiil we meet again.
. J. G., JUNKIN.
Lowellville, Ohio.
AMERICAN CITH ZEN CO., 128 A, Tremont Street, Boston.
UNIVERSITY OF MISTEAN
3 9015 07499 3745

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