The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1912-03-23

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49, That Idea of the unequal.
ity and infcriority OF
woman. which even after the French
revolution vas rcgarded AZ an indis.
putablo maxim % sociology. has been
shaken and h tottering TO its fan
The Catholic church. pcrcciving
that the enfranchiscmcnt Of woman
would free her from her slavery to
priestcraft and superstition. has
Tushed into the breach and has sought
In every way 10 crush the movement
The doctrine OF woman's rights can.
not but be antipriestly. otherwise Il
would be huge and ridiculous farce.
II We go back through the ages We
hnd that the priest has always juggled
with this doctrine. Claiming 10 be the
nfter-up OF woman TO human dignity
he has. instead. lowered her 10 the
very lowest steps OF degradation.
The condition Of woman today Is
nearly. with few exceptions. that which
was juridically established az Rome
BY the twelve tables several years
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The Catholic church has never un-
dertaken 10 break the thousand years
chain that has bound woman as a
slave TO man: rather Il has revealed
those links on her wrists through the
ages. knowing that so long as woman
Is an ignorant slave. the priest can
more casily cling 20 her and sway her,
and make OF her the necessary instru-
ment for yoking her husband and her
son 70 the slimey and loathsome car
OF superstition.
The witnesses Of history have
proven that the much vaunted story
OF the redemption OF woman. to which
the Catholic church puts forth the
claim. is usurped, deceitful and false.
Nothing has been more trampled on,
despised and maltreated by the Catho.
lie priest than woman. --..
With the priest. love is nearly nj.
ways crimo, marriage is tolerated,
but celibaCy is preferred, and woman
aud her person and all her charms are
called in butchers language the
flesh"
Woman by the Catholic church and
its priests is regarded as an inferior
creature, tolerated only in the same
way as we tolerate other ugly but
necessary things.
Ter Tulllan says that woman Is the
cause OF mankind's perdition and that
she is the very gate Of hell. To pun.
fish her the Catholic church condemns
her to perpetual subsection to man I:
"For the man is not OF the woman, but
the woman OF the man." And this al.
vine saying is justified because from
the woman Is derived sin and through
her fault we all die.
Tie priest has thrown all the filth
OF his calling on the woman. In order
to Luniliate her. to beastialize her
to dishonor her. be has sought every
where sneers, insIits, blasphemies
and innuendocS He mas broken the
holy dung.pot and poured It over his
mother and his sister.
Even the mouth oil the saints be
comes a pump, casting forth contlnu
ously vulgar insolence and filth against
woman.
Saint Anthony says that woman ie
the head OF crime. the weapon of the
devil: when you see a woman remem
ber you have not human being be
fore you but the devil in person. HeI
voice Is the kissing OF the serpent.
Saint Cyprian preferred to hear tho
Kissing OF basilisk rather than lister
TO the singing Of woman. He says
"far from US this pest, this cOntagion
this hidden ruin. She is the poison
Gus serpent OF which the devil made
use TO capture our souls" Gentle
manly and courteous fellow saint Cy
prian?D
Saint Jerome is convinced thai
woman is a dangerous creature, a pes
OF the worst kind, a sharp arrow o.
the enemy.
But there is more: This Is from
that gentlemanly saint, John Damas
Gene: just listen:
Woman Is a wicked she-ass, a hor
rible tape-worm, that has its habita
in the heart OF man; she is the daugh
ter Of .falsehood. the door-keeper o.
hell"
Have you enough, dear reader? No
Behold then a few more Catholic gal
lantries taken from Saint Augustine
that ex-debauchee who, being bap
tised when 80 years old, later on be
came a bishop and a fanatic; he says
woman is the increase OF sin, al
evil beast that gains strength by de
stroying others"
Saint John Cryeostom held that wo
man was a ferocious beast Wit
Catholic grace he writes: "Of all tn,
ferocious beasts there is none NOR
dangerous than a woman"
II can be afirmed. without fear o
erring. that II woman presents char
acteristics Of inferiority II is Romai
Catholicism that has caused H. Th'
vices OF slaves are copied from thei
masters: those Of the oppressed from