The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-12-20
DAVENPORT CATHO-
Lies WROUGHT UP
Daily Press "AbIy" Assisted BY Catholic Messenger
Bitterly DenOunce Crowley and Campbetes" --Nursing
Large and are Fools Liars "
"Bigois "Rascals" "Scandaizers, "Sanderers" ETC.

daring TO speak and that papal priest
aud his companions who dared tc
renounoe the holy mother church"
to a stake, piled the stove wood
nicely about their feet and up
around their body, set fire 10 Il and
as the flames roasted the victims
these "holy children Of the pope"
could have watched their writings
in glee and heard their screams OF
pain in perfect JOY, and after the
heretics were dead and the fire had
waned they could have repaired IA
the nearest saloon OF monastery and
reveled in spiritual bliss Just so long
as the spirits lasted!
But this didn't happen TO be the
twelfth century, and this poor, in
nooent papal angel J. II. A., V. G.,
was forced to chant his te deums
while strutting about that sacred
privacy Of the ecclesiastical palace
in his long petticoat with none pres
ent but his housekeeper and a wrathy
disposition. But after the first seri-
Gus spasm had passed Rev. j. II. A.,
V. G., hied himself to the offices Of
the local papers, or sent a note, we
would not say positively which, in
forming them Of the terrible calam-
ity-hence the putrid slush emanat-
ing from those offices, some Of which
We quoted last week.
But don't think for q moment
that Editor Fred was not busy while
Rev. J. Il. A., V. c., was at his de-
yotions, described above, for Fred
was pushing a pencil across the pa
per at lightning speed, ripping up
Crowley and the Protestants in gen
eral. We know Editor Fred was
going some, for it takes some push
ing TO turn out six and half col
umns Of "first class stuff, such as
Fred's was.
We reproduce a couple Of para
graphs of Editor Fred's "high class"
effusion just as a sample Of the six
and a half columns which appeared
in the same issue Of the Messenger:
We have no further condemnation
OF Mr. Crowley than 10 show what
he Is. He dli not appear under any
false pretenses. Catholics regard
him as they do any fallen priest. with
infinite sorrow. The fall OF Lucifer
from the glories OF heaven to the
agonies Of hell was no greater than
that OF a man who falls from the Al
tar OF God to wallow in the slime
and stencil OF the gutter. Even when
he prefers the gutter and uses the
education and training that the
church gave him TO throw mud and
mire at the church, we blame him
no more than the foul-ninded un.
Christian, Ignorant bloots who pay
him money for that mud and mlrs.
They are upon q level with their
progenltors, who gave silver to Judas
for betraying the Founder Of Chris.
tlanity. Judas had the decency TO be
sorry and kill himself Crowley is
not SO uecent as tnat.
II is Crowley's business, Il Is his
stock In trade. his means Of making
money, so long as the Ignorant and
the gullible and the bleoted are will.
Ing to pay him for u. He knows that
no falsehood can be too ridiculous, no
siander too blasphemous, no charge
to saerileaious, no lie too absurd, no
statement too obscene, to gain the
tremendous applause OF the people
whom the "Dlseiples Of Christ" Of the
"Flrst Christian Church" Of Daven.
port, got together TO hear him.
AS we said above, it is a shame
the Very Rev. J. Il. A., V. G., and
Editor Fred, with their "faithful"I
bunch could not have had the ex-
treme pleasure of tying this entire
"dirty set of heretics" to a stake
and burning theml 1t would
doubtless have caused great rejoic-
ing all over the papal world, because
in this gathering were such men as
Governor Clarke, of Iowa, Bishop
Quayle, of the great NJ. E. church
md a hundred other eminent
Protestant workers, such as Crow
ey, Vim. Lloyd Clark, DR.. W. H. |
Boles and others. If this outfit
,ould have been exterminated as
we're the Huguenots on st. Bartholo- |
news days, doubtless Pope Plus Y, |
would have issued another medal in |
of the joyful event as the
pope did on the occasion Of the Bar
.holomew massacre.
In speaking Of the local congrega-
ton in whose church this great