The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-06-07


cubins, and a. Priest Quinn Of Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently said, is "porss
ihaA a harriet or drunken Bomdh."
That the laws Of the Roman Cath
olic church are 10 be obeyed regard
less Of civil law
That the pope is 'fking Of earth,
heaven and help
That q priest can forgive sins
equally with Jesus Christ or God
himself
I say that Rome does not rant you
70 know these things. and q is not
strange hai she should oppose wiih
all tie poper al her command the
freedom Of speech and Of the Pressl
No other church in the world
claims and exercises the right TO die
tate what books and papers its mem
bers shall read.
No other church sends or receives
ambassadors.
No other church holds q court at
which royal ceremonial is observed,
embassies from foreign governments
received and international political
questions discussed and decided.
There is not q government Of the
civilized world at whose capital the
Roman Catholic church is not rep
resented.
No question Of national policy
which may directly or indirectly eff
feet the Catholic church, is decided
until the pope has been heard from.
And ia the name Of high heaven,
phdt has Roman Catholicism ever
done for the masses Of the psoplef
The echo answers nothing-dbsO-
lutely nothingl
When progress and reaction are in
conflict, she takes the side Of reac-
tion, and damns and mathematics
those who oppose her.
When tyranny and liberty are at
issue, inevitably she stands for tyr
amy, and her path is strewn with
dead mems bones.
To the very last the Catholic
church stood by the institution Of
human slavery, and she iraS last 10
girs up hsr slaves.
To the very last she opposed tile
freedom Of conscience and Of wor-
ship, and not until millions Of in.
nocents had been slain did she re-
ccde from her position.
To the very last she opposed the
public education of the masses and
is today the avowed, confessed and
mortal enemy Of the free school sys-
tenn.
To the very last she opposed self
government by the people and is to-
day the opposing champion Of suf-
frage, initiative and referendum, the
recall and every other piece Of pro-
gressive legislation.
The Catholic church wants its
converts to have faith-blind, un-
reasoning faith-in the priest, faith
in the church, and faith in her state
ment Of every case.
To reach this result the pope die
tates the books that shall be read,
the newspapers and magazines that
shall be patronized, and what pic
lures shall be displayed before the
gaze Of his miserable dupes and
blind followers.
When Pope Leo revised the list OF
forbidden" books he said that "the
new rules on the subject of forbid
den books arc so mildly formulated
that it win be easy for good Catholics
to obey the new rules"
What are those rules which a
"eood Catholic" must observe in Sc
lecting his reading matter?
/. "AH those writings Uhieh are
prohibited previous TO the year 1000
except Vhers special DEGREES have
since made exceptions, are prohibited
nog."
| 2. "AH books irritteH by dpostdteS
Ihereiics, schismGtics are forbidden.
Away 60 your Milton and your
Shakespeare, your Burns and your
Byron, your COwper and your Wads-
worth, your Tennyson and your
Scott! They we're all heretics
Macaulay must not be read, mol
Hume, nor Gibbon, nor Hallam, nor
Froude, nor Carlyle.
They were all heretics.
A good Catholic must not drink
the pure delight of Goldsmith's Ode
serted Village" nor must he ever
hang enraptured over the "Grecian
Urn" Of Keats, nor must his eyes
grow dim as he reads Byron's verses
] TO his sister. He must never wall