The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-05-18
BY LAWRENCE NELSON.


Again the Taft managers are look.
Ing around for some rcactionary to
take Tafts place in n last stand
against Roosevelt" reads the first
sentence OF an article In the Cleve.
land Press OF May 4.
II The Menace. with but 10000
subscribers, has already made Taft's
unhtness for his position apparent to
the voters, what will be our strength
with the half million we will line up
before election day next November?
The real American people. not those
who are exploiting the nation for per.
sonal gain, are beginning to see the
I terrible danger TO this country in
continuing the pro-papal policies OF
William u. Taft.
For several years he has not only
continued RoosCvelt's policy OF favor.
/ ing Roman Catholics over and above
all others In appointments under the
government but he has gone further
than Roosevelt would have gone.
Roosevelt calls no man master" and
/ Mr.. Taft presents the humiliating
spectacle OF acknowledging publicly
that Roosevelt WAS his monitor when
he put him into the presidential chair.
I Roosevelt cannot escape his Philip.
/ pine record nor the vast number Of
Appointments made by him without
other than political reasons in which
he gave Roman Catholics positions
which the dogmas OF that church make
at least Inconsistent n not unsafe for
a government employee.
But Mr.. Roosevelt did not abso-
lutely cater TO the hierarchy and Taft
he's. His last inane and disgraceful
act. which would put him in the posi-.
ton Of n fawning sycophant were he
not president, was shown when he
sent a wireless message TO the papal
delegate while yet many miles out on
the Atlantic, welcoming him to the
| United States.
Why our servant, our president.
whose every public act is supposed to
be representative Of the entire peo-
pie. should single out for special IA
yors the untrustworthy servants OF a
foreign potentate has never been quite
plain to the other five-sixths of the
American people, but why he should
extend greetings to a papal nuncio
representing an organization for cen.
turtles the object OF deserved antago-
nism in every country in the world and
detested by the majority OF the people
OF this country. on the eve OF election,
is worse than folly; IL Is unmanly. un.
American. uncalled for. Incompetent.
sible and disgraceful. The man who
so deies public sentiment can have
but one thing at the hands OF the
American people and that Is relega.
ton to the rear.
II is said by some men that Mr..
Taft. wearing the apron OF a Freema-
son should have the support Of Free
masons Just as freely as should any
OF the other candidates for the Office.
Those on the inside do not all agree
on this subject and when Il is known
that Mr.. Taft also sports a college de-
gree conferred upon him and accepted
by him from a Jesuit college, some OF
those who respect and emphasize the
former will now acknowledge their
error.
Who Is surgeon-general OF the
army? Who Is chief Justice of the
| United states supreme court? Who
took or rather gets General Grants
position? Who is at the head Of az.
fairs In the Philippines? WHO HAS
BEEN GETTING NINE OUT OF
TWELVE appolntive positions al the
hands OF our chief executive? WHO?
A ROMAN CATHOLIC.
Roman Catholics are. said 10 com
prise about one-siXth OF the popula.
ton OF this country and they get FIVE
sixths OF the desirable positions in
connection with its administration.
subordinate. Of course for even the
most hardened Roman would scarcely
dare 10 turn ever the heads OF all
departments and the cabinet Offices