The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-04-06
ROMAN CATHOLIC POPULATION
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THE ohservant student has hardly
failed 20 notice the carsrncts
% tho Roman Catholics %
Haunt their Go-callsd church member,
ship IN the face of Americans n
NO mistake not the old hariot nou
claims some eighteen million dupea
Who bow az her beck and come a.
her call
But tho nrlIres are misleading In
more Ways than one.
II IL the rule of Protestant dcnomi.
nations TO cnumcratc In their church
census only those Who have arrived
AZ the age of conscious responsibility
and Who make a voluntary confession.
u Il quito different with the Romish
church. She counts church mcmbcra.
children of church members. and. In.
deed. mere infants ~ Catholic parent.
age.
Place the old harlot on the basis
naptists reckon from. aud her mum.
bcrs would be materially changed.
Furthermore. those OF Us who read
between the lines. and In dealing with
the Roman church u Is necessary 90
possess this faculty. well know that
Roman Catholicism is not on tho rapid
increase. on the contrary. we know
u 10 not Claims for remarkable In.
crease In America are common. but
mark you. the Jesuita. are occurring
foreign countries as with n hnctooth
comb. and sending 90 our shores the
drogs OF creation IN order 20 swell
the Roman vote In our American poll.
tics.
Did you ever think OF this7 Did
u ever occur % you that France. Ger.
many. Italy and some other countries
arc swinging out and away from the
Vatican? Did you know that these
countries are waking up and nc the
light breaks In upon them from tho
vest Romanlsm withdraws toward the
east? Don't you suppose she long ago
read the hand writing on the wall and
In reading saw her doom?
This is why she "a making her last
Erandstand play and concentrating her
forces In the United States. As a
forerunnor OF this last stand she has
sent millions OF Poles. Slavs. Irish.
Italians, Dagoes and whatnot 20 Ameri.
ca and we fool Americans prancc thcm
up TO the naturalization bureaus and
prepare them with fgnchises TO vote
In a few months. while our own sons
toll In the heat Of the day and after
twenty-cne years old permit them to
vote. provided there be no political
objections.
My charitable brother. do YOU get
the drift OF things? Can YOU now
see the sly and Shiny fnger.prEts OF
the Jesuit IN the move AS sure as
God reigns, so sure IS this going on
right under your eye and the shame OF
IL all Is, We strut about and boast that
We are Americans. We OF America:
VIC the sons OF revolutionary heroes;
we the descendants Of the Pilgrim
we OF the land OF liberty.
we OF the land OF the free and the
home of the brave.
While We boast and brar. the Jesuit
Is laughing at our credulity and writ. /
ing on the walls OF the Vatican these F.
words: Thou fool, this generation |
thy liberty and thy manhood will be .
required OF thee"
Not alarmed? Neither we're the moo.
pie alarmed at Noah's WARNINGS, and
yet they were overtaken i'm an evil .
hour. So II will be with him who.
when the Vatican Is moved to Wash. /
inFton, ID. C., shall be found not
Rome has forgotten moro politics
than all OF us in all our lives will ever
know. on Il she has fed for ten cen.
iuries and she digests her food as no
machine under the starry heavens d.
5ests things.
Her John the Baptists are among us.
permanent headquarters are estab.
lshed nigh unto the white house. yea,
nigh. too. While this Is
going on we sit back and sing,
MY country tits Of thee ]
Sweet land of liberty"