The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1911-09-02
Is Catholic Hierarchy The Deadliest
Menace To Our Liberties
and Civilization?
Written by the Editor of Brann's IconocIast.)
and Civilization?

the republic was free and every Roman
was a land owner. He had something
to live for, something to die for.
But there came a time when it was
written in blood and tears, that to
be a Roman citizen was to be the vas
sal of slave" Patriotism persisted.
Nobody cared to die for a plutocracy
for a government In which they had
no voice-a government under which
they had been robbed and plundered
by the privileged few. Eighteen hun
cred Of her citizens owned the then
known world, but the ship of state,
driven by the winds Of strife and
storms of war, struck the rock of CEN
tralized wealth and sank in sea Of
blood and fire.
Capitalization caused her banner to
fade from the sky and her eagles to
die upon her standards.
The law of cause and effect has not
but never created principle. The
eternal law of cause and effect oper-
ates with deadly precision whether in
the days Of Caesar or John D. Rookie
Teller.
If the Roman republic which stood
700. years could not survive the con-
centration of wealth in the hands of
the privileged few, how can the Amer
lean republic hope to escape, except
through the abolition Of private
monopoly. The cause must be re-
moved or destruction is inevitable.
1t required centuries for the Roman
republic to make the same progress in
Capitalization, that we have made in
the last dozen years.
We have a group of fifty financiers
who hold the fate of the republic in
their hands. Over these there are
three KINGS who hold the others at
their mercy. They are:
]. Pierpont Morgan.
John D. Rockefeller.
Thomas F. Ryan.
These men have exalted to high Of
flee great number OF trucking Pro-
testants. as we'll as Catholics. They
have made a number of Professionals
president, but not single Catholic.
Not that minions of monopoly care
about any mans religion who is will
ing to serve them, but they recognize
ind or
against electing Catholic president
of the United States.
When Catholics continually vote for
Protestant presidents without a mur-
muir. why should protestants hesitate
to vote for a Catholic? Can it be
that Catholics are more liberal than
Protestants? This fact alone shows
the absurdity Of Watson's contention
Is bigotry any worse in a Catholic
than 1T is in Protestant?
1t is always absurd and never just
Grafters and bribers recognize NO
distinction in religion or politics.
Capitalization OF wealth is the main
source of all political corruption.
When industries were owned in
general by individuals or partnerships
these could not afford to tamper with
courts, bride law makers, or dominate
: politics. Community of interest, COM
binations. trusts, resulting in central
= ization made these evils possible and
profitable.
In cutting the throat of legitimate
competition, who obtained rebates
from the railroads: Not the great
trusts in sugar, oil, iron and coal.
The question answers itself.
Who has been buying seats in the
United States senate. for their pup.
pets?
Who would like to corner the maya.
zines and subsldize the press?
The united forces of monopoly
whose tentacles, like a monster octo.
l. pus, coil about the dome of every stat,
i capital in the Union.
The panic of 1898 when the benen.
u Charles of Capitalization forced tn,
government to repeal the Sherman
law. exposed lot of dynamite tina,
had been worked into the foundation
of this government.
The panic of 1907. when instead O
paying the people good money OF
o their deposits, the banks gave then
certificates fresh from the printing
press that were not even thirty SECOND
cousins of a tifty-cent dollar, revealed
u the fact that beneath our republic
there was a smouldering volcano. NJ
u one who saw the long lines Of anxiou.
y faces lined up in front Of banks who's
u soundness had been questioned, will
doubt the truth here stated. Many O
these people stood night and day II
these lines. their brains racked witt
F. aROnv and their hearts 0Ilod