The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-02-15
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ne city Is 10 sooner cut Of ons %
litioAl scandal thAa another is IN
earthed-
what party IL supruns In Pits
burEhf Tho clerical AZ q eonse-
ousnos. grsfi me = isooA. sucks the
Substaaee Of the city.
Who DO you sAy shapes the policy
and mAkes Pitisbursh What she isi
Rrieatcraft slr. and pollticA she has
charches with lofty spires with
ordsses on the plnAcie; she has pov.
erfy and rags priests In robes. red
l1ht digtricta, and saloons, a Cath
.bllc police fcrce. nunnories. Houses Of
Good Shepherd. and graft and de-
oeiI and fraud. and stealing undcr a
plor Of Law.
Councilman are IN the pen who
were convicted OF bribery. This hap
lpened when Rones rule was more
complete than Il IL now. Then the
city elected lie council BY wards. and
the under world and Rome Joined
hands and the council was papal
Now, since the council II chosen BY
eloctlng its members az large. dc.
cen'cy begins 10 have a chance. and
the brothels and saloon elements and
prikstcraft are shorn OF some Of
their influence.
Recently, By accident. a soab was
knocked on from an old city sore.
nursed and promoted By the police
and the dear sisters Of the House OF
Gbod Shepherd. OF course, the hier.
archy furnished the caustic 70 keep
the boil In a healthy state Of inflam-
alton.
Now comes the police chief into
the Pittsburgh council-one Mcouade
BY name, and when asked how Il camo
that the city was paying five dollars
apiece per week for the keeping Of
wpmen sent by the court 70 the dear
lahies OF the House OF Good Shepherd.
while the county paid about half as
much. made . face and dlssembled.
Then Il developed that between
eight and nine thousand dollars a
year had been expended by the city,
without any law for Il. 70 furnish
white slaves TO the holy fraud, run.
ming a laundry and sweat shop in the
uame OF religion.
My. how that boil aid stink as coun.
Gilman Garland probed the core.
Do you get the situation2
They had actually lied 20 get the
money. The vouchers pretended 10
be for the care and keeping OF In.
juned policemen" - other vouchers
said they were TO pay for witnesses
IN white slave suits. What did the
innocent sisters, the mother superior,
and the clerics say3
Oh guess they blushed because
they were found out. Some of the
council intimated that The Houses OF
Good Shepherd we're not TO be
blamed.
But the scab was on and the pus
ran all over the councils operating
table and there were not enough rags
In the laundry to staunch the blood
whom Garland slammed In the probe,
But who cares for 100000 a year
stolen-yes. stolen. by means OF low
down, contemplate lying? Money
Ia pot OF so much worth as honor and
the city's good name, and tax money
Is fasy.
DO you say that the good sisters
we're not at fault and that the private
laundry Of the Roman Catholic
church was doing a legitimate bus.
lndss In the city-tax free-non.uniou
--Thatever that may mean TO the
ma anngers7
let me tell you Just as plain as
language can make Il, that the whole
buhch knew without a shadow OF
doubt that they had no moral. legal
divine, human, state, or church right
TO work girls-in durance vile-when
their care and keeping was paid for
at Eve dollars a week by the city.
jwnl you tell The Menace that II
has lied about the good sisters
about the House OF Good Shepherd5 p
Lied. have we? The stencil OF that
rotten sore ills the nostrils Of the
whole city Of Pittsburgh and makes
the whole contemplate OUTFIT howl
with pain and shrink away from the
gaze OF an outraged people.
To steal money is easy-just q com.
mon porch climber, a pickpocket, does
that; but II takes the House OF Good
Shepherd to steal the labor from q
wretehed, helpless, forsaken woman,
BY the hand Of damnable police
foree-an oath-breaklna Judge and q
hoodwinked eounelL
What q retribution is coming to
these people when the brightness OF
Christ's coming breaks out from the
hearts Of honest men and women in
Pittsburgh.