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W|LLFUL PEhl,'se g
Editor of "Brann's Iconoclast'
Proves Rev. Walker to be the
Limit-Liar of the Age.
Allegations Made by the Menace
Are Handled Without Gloves
by the Writer.
No Church or Society Should be
Condemned for the Acts of
q Bad Member.

Condemned for the Acts of
q Bad Member.
Following is from recent number
of "Braun's Iconoclast":
In The Menace for June 7th, 1 find
the following:
An Awful Record.
1S65-President Abraham Lin
coin murdered by j. Wilkes
Booth, Catholic.
1SS1-President James A. Gar
field assassinated by a Catholic,
Charles Guiteau.
l9O1-President William Nc
Kinley assassinated by Leon
Czolgosz, Catholic.
If each allegation here made were
true, it would not be just to hold the
Catholic Church responsible for the
criminal acts of some of it's bad men,
bers. Methodists, Baptists, Presby-
terians and members Of all churches
have committed murder, but nobody
but an idiot would think of condemn
ing these churches on that account.
The lawful record here recited was
not made by a single Catholic. The
allegations of The Menace contains
three lawful lies" each blacker than
the hinges of hell. AS a matter Of
fact, Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley
were assassfffia by ffote buf
/ man who would base his objections
to Professionalism on the crimson acts
of these bad men ought to be tapped
/ for the simples.
Ex-Priest Chiniquy invented the
canard about Lincoln's assassination
being due to a Catholic conspiracy.
He invented lot of other fakes which
he incorporated in his book. He also
invented a beautiful, scheme for rip
ping Protestants loose from their
coin to build homes for ex-priests
! and nuns.' He got the money but the
homes never materialized. Now and
then he would buy some cheap shack
and burn it down. He would then re-
y, port that the "rascally Romanists had
burned down his home for priests"
and hit the grit on another grating
+ peated his charge that ]. Wilkes
Booth was Catholic, it gave cur
rency to villainous lie solely for the
purpose of arousing bitterness, sus-
picion and hatred against Catholics.
Ever since that damnable lie crept
from Chiniquy's Shiny pen it has
wriggled and hissed it's hellish way
through the hopes and brains of men,
splitting it's vile venom in the face of
friendship and poisoning the springs
of good will. The time has come to
crush it's head where it lies snug]y
. coiled in the pages of The Menace.
j. Wilkes Booth was the son of j.
Brutus Booth, the great tragedian,
who was an admirer of all religions,
but not professor of any. He was
a prominent mason and his ancestors
were Jews. ]. Wilkes Booth was a
brother of Edwin Booth, who was a
loyal republican and cast his ballot in
1864 for Abraham Lincoln. J. Wilkes
Booth was southern sympathizer
and shot Lincoln to avenge the south.
His act could not have been inspired
by Catholics. Religion had nothing
to do with it. The south, then as
now, was strongly Protestant. For
to destroy the union, there were fifty
fighting under Grant to save it. The
logic of the situation, all known facts
forbid the conclusion that Lincoln died
as a result Of Catholic conspiracy
Further repetition of the charge of J.
Wilkes Booth was Catholic should
be taken as an evidence of willful
perfidy.
The charge that President Garfield
was assassinated by Catholic is
equally false. Menace readers who
accepted that statement as true be.
lieved lie.
Charles Guiteau, the murderer, was
Protestant, reared in the Oneida
Community, near Oneida, N. Y. AS q
young man he was member of thii
free-love cult. but afterward was con.
vsrted by Moody and became se'