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VOL Ill.
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8ILVERTON, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1914.
PAPAL NOTES
(By L, D. Ratliff)
"Th« Primacy of the Pope is the
result of a Ion» development which
did not reach its completion until
Nichol uh (858-867) effected the papa!
scheme the aubjection of every aec-
ular power to the Church, and >f the
Church to the Pope. Under Inno
cent 111 (1198-1216) the Pope «'aimed
to be the reprcaentatlve of Cod nr
earth. All power waa c-mscquently
hie, not only in apirituai matter», but
alao in matters of the world.”
Schaff, Encyclopaedia.
e e e
■ Cardinal Manning, speaking for the
ope said, 1 acknowledge no civil pow
er. 1 claim to be the Supreme Judge
and Director of the consciences of
men: of the peasant that tills the
Held, and the prince that sits upon the
throne; of the householder that lives
in the shadow of privacy, and the leg
islator that make« laws for kingdoms.
I am the sol», last Supreme Judge of
what is right and wrong.”
Thia is the Catholic etaimate of
Joe Barto of Rome, a man who became
Vice-Deity by the accident of Ecclesi
astical politics.
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No Pope or Council has ever denied
^is purpose of the Roman Church to
Pisacsa the Temporal Power of the
nations of the world.
• • •
Cardinal Gibbons instructed his
congressional lobby to inform the
House Navy Committee what the
Hierarchy wanted in the way of an
increase of chaplains, and the creation
of a rank among them. The com
mittee attached the measure as a rider
to an appropriation bill, but it was
new business and one member could
stop it. It was stopped and stricken
out in the House, but was put back in
the Senate. Our Oregon Senators sat
like knots on a log and let it go
through. Not a voice was raised
against the order of the Cardinal.
• • •
Voters Protective leagues should be
organised everywhere.
In Toledo.
Ohio, Norfork, Va., Pittsburg, Pa., and
scores of other places the Romanites
have been routed by organisation.
We need it in Marion County. Rome
has her representative nominee fir
legislature, and there are other
^Bmincex who will be tools of the
Pope’s bunch.
• •
Nearly all the Democratic members
of congress from the west and north
are Roman Catholics.
s
• • •
The priest in the exercise of Con
fessor is Christ for the ttmc and can
not sin; hut he can ask the girl sug
gestive and passion-inspiring ques
tions preparatory to his final act of
seduction when not functioning as
priest. The Holy Confessional affords
the opportunity, and the introduction
for the rest of it.
• • •
Congressman Hawley voted for the
Catholics against
an educational
clause in the Immigration bill. A
Washington reporter said he wore a
Catholic collar.
A GOOD LETTER FROM BROTHER
LEON L. MYERS
La Grand, Oregon, 7-8 14
ilear Hosmer,—
I just received your paper dated Au
gust 7th and 1 read it with great in
terest. I was especially interested in
the letter written by Robt. Down con
cerning the Gamer family and the
I.iwenan case. Now while I did not
get the paper which contained the art
icle referred to by him, nevertheless in
the interest of justice and a square deal
I aesire to make a statement in regard
to this same matter. Since we have
located the sinister influence at work
In our own ranks and have discovered
the Jesuit, I can see where I was also
misled to believe many of the things
reported against the Gamer family. T
now see that they were right at heart
and always acted in the interest of the
cause and have cared for Mary Lasen-
an as probably no one could have done.
The many friends assisting in this
fight against Rome will rejoice to
know that Mary Lasenan is in good
hands and protected by the Lord in
her struggle for freedom. I write
^iis to correct as far as in my power
0hs any wrong impression now exist
ent derogatory to the character of the
Garner family and of Mrry Lasenan.
Leon L. Myers.
NO. 41.
The Dead Ex-Nun’s Affidavit
AWFUL CONDITION IN OREGON
A Peep into the Roman Catholic Holy of Holies. Fathers and Mothers Inferior
who Parade as Saints while Committing Crime
State of Washington, |
Thurston County
J
one mu»l go tv tue Jdulher ¿superior
and tell her and a»x Per lor a pen
ance. r or laiauig at tne lame or be
ing rate, one mu»l pro.irate oue-oeil
op tne Poor uulu a oeli tor rising is
rung, mere wa» a young »utter in
tue Gervaia convent tpat outwardly
aceineU very nappy, Pul it waa ouiy
proven»«, 1 luuna out ner name wa»
Smler Augtuune. Sue had taken the
uiai.'» van out not tor me. Lui could
nut leave tnc convent, sue Una u«
ape wa» very unuappy ana devoutly
wishaa »he ungni again nave lue
while van. W e «Pu pot converse mueb
except by notes written to each other.
Unce she told me »pe wan tea to le-ive
out that they would not let ner go.
one once wrote a letter to a menu and
gave it to tue to post a» 1 went daily
to the puslultice lor the mail. 1 waa
conscience stricken however, believing
«.hat »he waa doing wrong and after
concealing the «eller fur some time in
my trunk 1 linaiiy told S'sler Bernar-
ntm, tnc mother Superior, who com
manded me to deliver the letle to her
which X aid. She opened it and read
it ana alter again scaling it, gave it
to me to post which 1 did. A short
1, Rosa Anderson, being first duty
sworn on oath say, that my inaideu
name is Rosa Brandli, that 1 was bum
in Lucero«, Switzerland, on the eighth
«lay of September, 1869; and am uuw
aged forty-four years; that 1 attended
public schools, the principal of which
waa a Catholic priest, and was after
wards sent, while still a child, to a
convent child» school in Switzerland
under charge uf llie Benedictine sis
ters; 1 wanted to become a kinder
garten teacher; my mother sent me
to the sisters' school at ingenbohl tn
1886; my suiter had been there before
me; the mother suprior was a cousin
of my mother; there were children oi
rich people there, also orphans; all the
children of this school were placed in
classes: first, second and third c'asses;
those who paid money sat next to the
sisters at the table and were served
..rat; the other» sat at the second and
third tables, if there was not enough
food for all, these 'alter went without
food. They all had to work hard for
what they ale. There was a girl there,
a very nice girl, whose name was «ime allerward» while »inter Augus
Victor«. She wa» an orphan. She wa» tin« was away on a mission, an an
an adopted child and not being liked swer came to her letter contap'tig
by her parent» waa »«nt to thia money. The Staler Superior took the
school. They used to punish her by money and kept it. W hile at the Ger
beating her head against the wall and vais convent 1 had charge oí the Su-
other cruel punishments. Sometimes • penor’» room. Uue day as i was busy
the rest of us received cruel punish in the room a pnest came to see »is-
ments also. Sometimes they made us er liemardnia; he came into her
kneel before the crucifix for hours un room and she sent me on an erranu.
til some of us children fainted from ex- 1 returned, but there was no one in
hauslian. Sometimes the sisters made the Bister ¡superior's living room; 1
uh kneel before the crucifix with ai»
..ad some duties still to perform in
extended until we could say the rosary- ner bedroom and started to go in. The
over three times. Tiuy beat my slater isler was there '«nd also the priest,
.o long that her sight was impaired. lie was in bed with covers over him.
The sisters beat he* over the head. A11
She said the priest was unwell and
the orphan» were treated the same way. .hat she was taking care of him. Soon
They often punished us in theso wayj after this 1 decided 1 would not be
which they seemed to think were easy, come a Benedictine sister. 1 became
they told us that if we told any one acquainted with a lather Werner
of what was going on, they would
a Sublimity, Oregon. He was a
punish us severely. When 1 was sick Benedictine also. Father Adelhelm,
once, 1 sent home for some medicine; ■ no was the prior of Mt. Angel at
the sisters refused to let me post the this time, was his superior and the
letter. During this time I was re convent at Sublimity was under the
ceiving a Roman Catholic missionary control of the Benedictine Fathers at
paper from Oregon; it stated that on Mt. Angel. Sister Wilhelmina was
ly the priests and the sisters were superior of the convent of the order
civilized in Oregon; that the rest of of Precious Blood at Sublimity, where
the inhabitants were barbarians; this 1 became a candidate and after a few
paper also stated that the priests and weeks was made a novice. The Bishop
sisters were frequently slaughtered by could not come up, so Father Werner
Indians.
They desired all who gave me the vows in 1887; when 1
wished to suffer for Christ’s sake to came to Sublimity, the sisters were
come out as missionaries. 1 was will very poor; they had neither bedsteads
ing to suffer. When 1 was seventeen nor mattresses, but slept on sacks of
years old on September 7th, 1886, 1 straw on the floor. There was one
left my home to come to America. I .«edroom in the convent which was oc
came to New York city and from there cupied by Father Werner. Afterwards
went to Rochester with my aunt and when the dwelling was constructed
uncle and staid at the convent of the for Father Werner, the superior, sis
sisters of the Good Shepherd. They ter Wilhelmina, took this room. The
kept me behind screens and tried to sisters worked hard, but there was no
hold me; they would not let me go harmony in the community. When
outside to talk to my aunt when she ever the fathers would go away, the
came to visit me; I was virtual'y a sisters were called together by the su
prisoner. They had overall and suit perior, and they would talk among
factotries inside the convent; the girls themselves that the priests were not
were forced to do all the work; but loing right and whenever the superior
they received no pay whatever. When went to Stayton or anywhere, the
my aunt saw how I was held she took priests would tell the sister superior
me home with her. She had a letter was wrong in certain respects; the
from the sister superior at Gervais, trouble had been of long standing.
Oregon, whose name was Sister Ber- The sisters were mostly old sisters
nardina. While still in Switzerland, who ha«i formerly been a part of an
I had gone from house to house beg other community presided over by two
ging money to pay my way to Ameri priests. One of these priests was a
ca, to Gervais, where this Benedictine good man, the other one had com
convent was located. Nine of us came mitted a horrible crime so that the
from Engelberg, Switzerland, at the two had a falling out. The good
same time. I was the only one com prist appealed to the bishop to un
ing to the Gervais convent. After re frock the criminal, but he refused and
ceiving the letter from the sister su the good priest said he would no lon
perior I left my relatives in Rochester ger remain under the authority of the
and came to Gervais, where I arrived bishop. Some of the sisters followed
on the evening of Decembr 31st, 1886. the criminal priest and some of them
Two sisters met me at the train and adhered to the good priest, who re
took me to the convent. I ate-alone moved with them to Sublimity, where
in the visitors’ parlor. After two days he afterwards died.
I was accepted as a candidate and had
Father Werner was sent there. I did
to conform to the convent rules which not learn, where this other convent
were very utrict. Some of the rules was, hut it was some place in Oregon.
of the Benedictine order are: No ta'k While at Sublimity, I noticed the sis
ing in the sleeping room, in the hall ter superior, sister Wilhelmina, gave
or on the stairs; If one does anything her night dress each month to the
that is wrong or even thinks wrong, nov’ces; one day, as I and another of
i he uu vices were oulaide washing, 1
»aiu io ner,— 'Uoesu t toe »inter su
perior get tat X" bite »aid to me,—
t»«.-ep your mouth »nut.” -1 suppo»oa
»ue meant to »co'd me lor breaking
Ine rule» about talking, but 1 noliceu
she got latter ana latter, une uay
»be wg» » ck ana a doctor came lrom
mayion. one wan up in a lew days
however. Une evening we were going
upstair» alter night prayer, sister su
perior called me back and look me
into the vi» tor’» room and wanted me
to »wear that i wouldn't tell some
thing »he was about to tell me. 1
told ner 1 didnt know what it wax she
wanted me to »wear to, so 1 could not
tell what 1 would do. The next day
she caned me into her room and »aid
.he same tiling and we liad some dis
cussion. Finally 1 promised that 1
would not tell the sisters. Then she
told me she had milk in her breasts
and wanted me to nurse her. A few
mya later she drove to Stayton in the
ouggy. The buggy stood outside the
. ence. 1 stood inside as sister Wilhel-
n ina came down to get into the bug-
»y. ¿>be had a package wrapped up
in paper with her which she roughly
tossed into the buggy, so that the
cover broke exposing the contents. 1
did not realize what it was then and
«»aid,—“Aren’t you afraid of breaking
that pretty doll?’’ She said she was
going to town to get some material to
dress it, but she never brought it back.
The thing in the package was a dead
baby, i
Father Werner gave me lessons.
1 was teaching English and German.
One day as 1 went in to get my les-
.-on. Father Werner took me by the
nand and took me over to a chair. 1
iad a sister garb on at the time with
the red veil of the order. He said, “1
never knew your chaplet was lined,”
and put his hand on my bosom. He
wore one of the same kind. It was
very disgusting to me. I struck his
hand away and went out and never
took any more lessons from him. He
was very disgusting and indecent in
his remarks. He had a flute with
which he imitated vulgar sounds, hu
man and otherwise. Some sounds, he
said, were like those made by certain
of the sisters, others by certai* ani
mals. Once when I wanted to tell
Father Adelhelm about the goings on,
sister superior ran after me with a
horse whip. It did not make any dif
ference whether or not a sister was
sick, she had to work anyway. Once
they tried to make me eat acaterpiller
for being unpleasant to the mother
superior. Things we knew nothing
of, as care of the livestock, for in
stance, we were compelled to do as
penances for little misdoings. On sev
eral occasions my mother sent me
money from Europe, but they kept it
and wrote to my mother for more
for my keeping, when they were al
ready getting all my services free.
Finally I made up my mind that I
would leave the convent, and went and
changed my clothes and told the su
perior I was going. She found out
she coulu r.ot stop me and tried to get
me to promise to send any novices I
heard of who wanted to join a convent.
1 told her I would advise them to
drown themselves in the Wil'amette
river before I could advise anyone to
come to them. Then I went to Port
land and was placed in St. Vincent’s
Hospital where I worked several
months. Father Orth had a church on
Third and Sherman Streets, I think it
was. He got me a place near St.
Lawrence Church, I think it was. I
got sick and was sent back to St.
Vincent’s Hospital, where I was ill
from fever for eight weeks. After
I recovered I worked for three
months more to pay it hack. That Is a
sample of the so-called charity of the
Roman Catholic Sisters. From there
I went to work in the home of Mr.
Stephens, who lived on Fourteenth
and Everett Streets, I think. I was
there several weeks; they were non
Catholics and fine people. I gave n?ar-
1 • -ill the money I earned to the
priests. Mrs. Stevens found it out
and paid me afterwards on Monday
instead of on Saturday. After doing
some nursing in the country 1 went
back to St. Vincent’s Hospital and
worked a whi'e but received no pay.
I had been to see Father Summer
off and on and he knew I had had
convent experience. He did not want
this known publicly, so he got the
Dominican Sisters to try to get me
into their convent. There are two
branches or degrees among the Do-
minician Sisters: The regular choir
sister.« and the lay sisters. I told i
them I did not want to become a lay I
sister. They took me to California I
to their convent on Market Street in
San Francisco. I joined as a candi-1
date. The sisters were all served in
dividually at their meals. They had
either colored or white wine and drank
freely of it. 1 was always used to
water and asked for it, but they in
sisted that I drink wine. There was
a large landing on the stairs covered
with dry-goods boxes. As I passed
these boxes on the stairs I heard
shrieking and moaning, coming up
from under the stairs. There was a
secret passage from the boxes down
below. I was there a few weeks when
1 was told I could not become a choir
sister, because I did not bring the re- j
quired amount of money. I told the ,
-ister I would leave and go to Port
land. She said no, I must remain.
Finally I was determined to go, they
gave me a ticket on the steamer to
Portland and secured a position with
a family I had known in Gervais.
They had a niece who asked me to go
with her to visit the sisters of the
House of the Good Shepherd. At first
I said I did not want to go, finally
the lady of the house prevailed upon
me to go with her. When we got
there and rang the door bell, a sister
came to the door. We asked for the
mother superior. The attendant said
she could not be seen that day. My
companion said to her “tell the mother
superior it is Rosa Brandli.” In a short
time we were ushered into the parlor
and the mother superior soon came
in. I was very much surprised that
the mention of my name had caused
us to be received and was still greater
surprised when the mother superior
came up to me and put her arms
around my neck and said,—“so, you
have come at last?” I said, “No.” But
she began to talk and coaxed me and
after a while I thought to myself that
perhaps it is best that I be in a con
vent and was persuaded to join. I
watched them very closely however,
as I felt somehow that I had been
lured there. I was put in charge of
delinquent children and slept in the
same room with them. One night I
awoke suddenly and saw a sister go
ing away from my bed toward the
door. My face and pillow were wet.
It was chloroform. At that time I
was past nineteen years of age. They
had tried to stop my telling girls what
was going on to prevent them from
going to the convent.
Archbishop Gross spoke to me about
it, telling me to make no further men
tion about my «xpersn.-es in th' con
vent and to keep my mouth shut. I
have had myself insulted many limes
in the confeixion-d by being nske-l
questions concerning sexual matters.
A priest in Gervais always asked me
if I was with a certain young man
and if we touched each other and this
was after I had joined the convent.
I have also heard Father Werner
make fun of things told him in con
fessional, also the priesta pretend to
regard these as privileged. I heard
Father Orth say in Portland, Oregon,
that before many years the desire of
the Catholics to elect a president and
to rule America would be fulfilled and
that the Catholics could fight their
way, if necessary, that they had plen
ty of arms and ammunition. I have
seen the sisters weep bitterly who
had to go in to where the priest was.
One sister I know would cry when she
went in and again when she came
out. This sister had a small crown of
thorns which she wore under her veil.
Often in the school room I h»ve
seen her press this crown down on
STICKERS
If Jesuitism was out of the world,
there would be no war.
• • •
The priests are getting the long
green out of their short green dupe».
See the point, Charlie.
• • •
Are yuo afraid to say or do any
thing worth while for fear of a loss
of trade? If so you are just a com
mon coward. The woods are full of
»uch animals.
• • •
The wholesale House of Humbug is
situated at Rome. It has branches all
over the world. Samples of holy wa
ler, beads, talismans, holy fathers
and miraculous lies can be seen in the
monastic sample room at Mt. Angel.
Oregon.
• • •
No reasonable man or woman wants
to hurt the Catholic people or the “in-
•r c rcle” of the priesthood. All that
true Americans want is to stop the
confidence game of Catholicism and to
save our country from its demoraliz-
in ; influence.
• • •
The banks of Germany—Dutch
bank of Berlin, Dresdener Bank,
Schaffhausener Bank, the Darmstad-
ter Bank, the Disconto Gesellschaft»
Bank, and many others in Europe, are
all connected with the great arma
ment syndicates, so powerful and so
profitable, of Krupp, Schneider, Arm
strong, Vickers-Maxim and the rest.
War is Profit!
• • •
popes and the kings, with the
aid of their priests and their re
called nobles, have lived for ages in
luxury and ease while the producers
have struggled in poverty for a most
miserable and stultified existence.
And whenever the people have, in
spite of their over work and under
feeding, tried to throw off the yoke of
s’avery, the parasites have had the
gun already loaded and precipitated
war. Awake ! I!
Mr. Carnegie’s company was fined
$500,000 for putting off worthless ar
mor plate onto the government. The
battle ship Oregon had three plates
of this kind. Cleveland reduced the
fine to $120,000 and the government
went right on buying of the swindle«
who bad already awb *5.000,«'00 of
illegitimate profits on his armor plate
deals. Who pays for «va« Im-i«-css 7
crime in the world? Has Capitalism
and Catholicism anyth ig to do with
it?
her head until the blood trickled down.
I have seen sister Mary of St. Vincent
Hospital in Portland cry when she
had to go into the room where the
priest was when called by him. In
1900 I think it was, or possibly late
in 1899. We were living in Beaver
ton. I went to visit the home of the
Order of the Precious Blood at Beaver
ton. I inquired for sister Wilhelmina
who had been the Superior at Sub'imi-
ty. They told me she was no longer
Superior.
They said she had just gotten home
and had been very sick and was very
weak still. She looked very old in
deed. I spoke to her about an old
man who wanted work. She said I
would have to see the priest. She
took me into a back bedroom and
called the priest. He came in with
his clothes all open and part of his
person was exposed. I told him about
the old man. Then he asked Sister
Wilhelmina if she had taken me about
the building and the children’s nur
sery. Sister Wilhelmina looked at me
strangely knowing that I remembered
the Sublimity incident. She was or
dered to show me the children in the
nursery. There were ten or twelve
children in the nursery. They were
the children of the sisters. They took
in other children only to blind the
public as to what was going on. They
knew I was married and had children,
but persuaded me to stay in the home.
This sister stood between me and the
door when I was leaving to force me
to. stay. She was anxious to have me
return to Catholic faith to protect her
past record. I kn»w from the weak
ness of Sister Wilhelmina, when I saw
her at Beaverton, that she had been
■ gain confined, I knew this also from
her talk and from her anxiety toward
me.
(Signed) Mrs. Rosa Anderson.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 30th day of December, 1913.
A. J. LOVERIDGE
Thurston County, Wash.
Justice of the Peace for T ittle Rock