The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-08-17
the EDITOR OF
1hE n MENACE
A Preacher Without a Call Who
Makes a Living by Lying
About Catholics.
No Reputable Church Would Employ
Walker to Preach the Gospel
From the Pulpit.
A Sketch of the Filthy Fellow
by a Writer who Knows
His History.

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We have been asked so many times
'if The Menace is lying about the
Catholic Church, why doesn't that
Church deny the charges made?" that
we take this opportunity of telling
somewhat about that paper, and the
reason the Church hates to bother
with it, says the Marian, published
by the Congregation of the Mission
at Opelika, Ala.
The Church does not care to no.
tice such obscenities, blasphemies and
libels because it can hardly imagine
that men in our day, right here in
America, can believe such lies; be-
cause noticing them increases their
circulation; and because they are
short-lived. They lie too much, de-
feat their own purpose, disgust their
readers and bankrupt themselves.
The Catholic Church is used to
such attacks as The Menace makes.
In every generation they had their
little day and died. She has been at
the cradle and the coffin of legions
of such defamers. In 1856 the anti
Catholic Knownothings had twenty
eight congressman ranged with them.
The Church was not so we'll known
as it is today. They died away. and
the Church became better known.
About 1891 the American Protective
Association warned the country Of
the "menacing encroachment of the
Church." and substantiated state
ments with forged letters from eight
Catholic bishops instructing Catholics
to persecute Protestants and with
forged DEGREES from the Pope calling
upon the Catholics to massacre their
fellow countrymen around the feast
of ST. Ignatius, 1892. Like their pred
ecessors, these "Protectives" lied too
much. In 1894 there were seventy
weeklies like The Menace; they have
all gone to glory, save possibly one.
They barked themselves hoarse, curl
ed up and died.
Now come the Guardians of Lib
erty uttering their arnings through
such throats as Watsons Magazine
and The Menace. They will lie as
their fathers lied and will die as their
fathers died. One of our townsmen
said some time ago, Cali these things
about the Catholics are true: here it
Is printed in black and white.'' Let
US examine:
To you, in your honesty, it seems
incredible that minister of the gos-
pei could in public print lie constant
ly, Systematically, diabolically. "For,"
you say, what motives could induce
him to tell Of the precious political
activity, Jesuitical intriguery, wanton
cruelty and bestial obscenity of the
Catholic Church, if these things are
untrue?" Yet this is what Rev. r..
Walker is doing-lyng constantly,
systematically, diabolically. And the
motive? 1t is either hatred or hun
ger-maybe a little of both. He is a
minister who for years had no call
to any pulpit; yet he needed money,
and the churches were calling for
ministers. In Hampton's Magazine
for September, 1911, you will see that
in 1906 the Baptists had 6,3O2 more
churches than ministers; the Luther
ans, 1858; Presbyterians, 1855; the
Methodists of all sorts 20,253, etc.
Surely, If Mr.. Walker were man
fit mentally and morally he could
have filled a pulpit in some one Of
these 32.7s3 vacant charges. But no
one wished him. He does not show
in his paper so much lack of brains
as he does lack of morals; and we
| doubt not that it was because he was
morally unfit to preach the gospel
that no church called upon him. And
| the morals of his paper prove that
the churches were right. When the
| organizers of The Menace wished to
get someone to lie shamelessly and
| tirelessly about the Catholic Church,
they found this minister whom TO
| church would have. And now he
makes his living with his lies, and
lhe will lie so long. as he can get a
dime from his readers.