The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-05-25


unccutrollable executives have been
shadowod By private secretaries WIS
are spies OF Rome. They have plaeel
their lawyers az prosecuting a;tor.
neys. their vasEalH and thugs a. Do
licemen. their servants as army and
navy ofhcers. until they shamelessly
and fearlessly proclaim the boycott.
prevent Investigation by lawful nu.
.thority. and control state leElsiail5n
They are without apparent fear of
the law being successfully invoked
against them.
The time has come for action. Ro.
man Catholic priests are reported 20
have boldly proclaimed from their
pulpits that TAFT Is a Roman Cath0-
lie" The public does not repudiate
the assertion for the simple reason
that the presidents recent actions are
indicative OF the strongest pro. papal
sympathy and sentiments.
Cardinal o'Connell says. president
Taft said 10 me last night. We ell
feel deeply that the work which you
and the members OF your church are
doing In this country rs A GREAT
SAFEGUARD FOR AMERICAN LIB.
.ERTY.'"
This frank and shameless dlcker.
ing for papal votes and this slcken.
ing debasement of American inde.
pendence which should be ever prom.
inent In our president. has cost the
president thousands Of votes. and that
Is not all.
Close upon the heels OF his unwar.
ranted interference (at the request OF
the Roman Catholic priest. Ketcham.
In Indian Commissioner Valentines
order requiring the absence Of rell.
Eious garb and paraphernalla In the
Indian schools owned by the govern.
menO came the ringing protest OF
various Protestant churches unani.
mously obiecting 10 the suspension OF
the Valentine order. Lutherans.
Methodists. Baptists. Presbyterians.
Congregationalists and others. viror.
ously insisting upon thN snirit OF our
constitution being strictly adhered TO.
opposed 10 these churches represent.
ing the majority OF American men and
women came the Roman Catholic
prelates and societies representing
one-slxth OF the population. and the
government, through It's accredited
representatives. has listened 20 the
one-sixth. 10 the exclusion OF the ive.
siyths. as far as real action is con.
cerned
Such complete surrender has finally
awakened the Protestant bodies OF
the land 10 the presence Of the Shiny
hand OF the Jesuit. not only in for.
etgn lands where Romanlsm Is ham,
percd by the progress OF christianity
but In America. where the papis's
endeavor 10 capture everything politl.
cal. educational. civil and rellgious
But the great Methodist body, true
TO its old.time christian duty. ever
on guard and fighting for what Il
considers right. has now publicly and
emphatically declared for aggressive
nction practically on the platform OF
The Menace. viz:
"For the preservation Of liberty, the
promotion OF progress aud the aa-
Nancement OF civilization. A. q means
separation OF church and state, the
taxation OF all church property aRd
the compulsory education OF all chill
dren mp Go the aEe OF fourteen years
=" NaN Ntunohs
Not hastily nor without great provo.
cation did this great convention
act. but only after careful delibera-
tion and after Archbishop Ireland had
exhausted his fund OF invective and
unholy sarcasm-because the Metho.
dists condemned the interference Of
papal law with the civil on the mar.
riage question. and said they were
not minding their own business ami
also condemned them for protesting
against the presence OF Secretary
Wilson at the Brewers congress Bit.
ter because OF thwarted ambition, dis.
appointed at not receiving the "red
hat" the man who at one time pos.
sessed the confidence, Of the Ameri.
can people voluntarily threw wisdom
and reputation to the winds and
stands now as the defender of the
liquor business for the simple reason
that a Protestant body has unaltera.
bly condemned L.
There was not one "scintilla OF
truth" in the archblshop's utterances
regarding the nolitical tendencies OF
Methodism, Who ever heard
Methodist bishop advise, by letter
or public utterance, the active partici.
patton Of Methodists as such. IN
politics? Nobody. But Archbishop
ireland himself. and the cardinals
themselves, and the priests and Ro.
njsh papers and MAGAZINES. have
AND DO advise THEIR followers to
do this very thing.
Archbishop ireland can, perhaps.
impress his subtle Jesuitry upon his
narrow co.religionists as facts. but
the world knows better than 20 &C.
cord further consideration to the man
who has not scrupled 10 attack with
devilish cunning our great public
school system and who has said. I'VE
are 20 make America Catholic" mean.
ing Roman Catholic. OF course. for
the papal church has no more righ:
70 the term catholic" exclusively
than has any other church. Catholic
means universal. and the Roman
church Is far from being the univer'
sal church.
Here is the voice OF the Methodist
Episcopal conference at Minneapolis.
where more than 500 delegates were in
II anaaka With M uncertafp votr,