The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-11-22
IA CATHOLIC MOB AT CARBONDALE
Knishh Of Mob and Murder Wreck Cweh-Ivo BOusand HOvfns
Rouish Demons Demand Lie Of Lecturer Robert Wil,On-
Dozen Men Seriously lnjwed-Popes Pious "Men-Anses"
Bent Murder in the Name ot Mother Church"

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" HE ABOVE is only the introduo.
ton Of the extended account In
~ The Scranton News. The en-
tire article from each OF the Scranton
papers would all three columns Of The
Menace.
In many ways, the oeiwein and
Nashville, the Athens and New Lex.
ington, the Pittsburgh and Warren af.
fairs pale into insignifcance compared
20 this latest exploit Of the "brave and
vaiorous defenders OF the holy (O
church"
Here is a case where an American
citizen, Robert Wilson, is invited to
address an audience: the meeting was
held In a church; admission was by
ucket; the audience was assembled
and peaccahly listening 20 the speaker;
those outside could not hear What was
being said, as the windows and blinds
were down; the meeting or what the
speaker said was no business OF any
one but those who were In the au.
dlence; II was what might be termed
a closed or private gathering. and in a
private place, something akin TO the
meetings OF any secret order or club
A meeting held under the above cir.
cumstances and surroundings would
ordinarily excite not even the curl
osity OF those not invited or admitted,
and there is not another class OF peo-
pie In civilized America who would
give the affair a second thought OF at
tempt 20 interfere In a matter which
did not OF should not In the least in
terest them; but here is a locality
where some thousands OF people from
foreign countries have been permitted
20 settle; a nice, prosperous little
mining town where work is plenty and
wages good Through the leniency OF
our immigration laws these people,
who were ground down by the Unequal.
tiles OF class and condition, were given
homes and privileges in a new land;
were accorded the rights and privi-
leges Of native Americans. surrounded
with all the blessings OF free schools,
4 free citizenship and all the liberties
s enjoyed by any native OF the country.
They are permitted, without question,
TO pursue their ways; practice their
religion and live in perfect harmony
with their peculiar racial and religious
Tendencies. Common reason would
dictate that these people ought to be
the last people on earth to rise up as
a mob and interfere with anyone in
their enjoyment Of the blessings and
privileges they themselves we're en-.
joying. Common decency would die
tate that q people situated as these
people are should show some apprecia.
ton OF what the new land. had 30
graciously given them.
But no, nothing Of the kind ever
Gems TO enter their minds. Here Is
~ instance where even the mobs and
[Iots OF the middle ages are all but
{hrown into the shade; and for down
<isht brutality and savagery. the raids
rf The ignorant Indian hardly compare
|@Ilh II.
Eight hundred men are peaceably
1ssembled in a church building quietly |
i<tening 70 an. American citizen de- |
IFering an address. when suddenly, |
rithout warning. stones begin 10 ny |
through the windows; the lights are |
extinguished; glass and sash arc |
hurled throughout the room; pande-
monium breaks loose upon the outside
and thousands Of iawless hoodlums at
tempt to gain admission TO the place
crying, Where is Wilson, lynch him,
hsng hint" And this kept up tn ev-
cry glass was broker: sash knocked
out; the doors wrenched from their
hinges; pews and furniture splintered; |
plaster and inside decorations ruined
and dozen people moro OF less in-
5ured.
The cruel, inhuman reyelings OF old
Nero, the mad, deviiish fIendishness
OF The holy priests" wreaking ven
Ecance on a damned hereto" during
IN inQuisitorial trial when the Romish /
ffstem was in its glory. could not sur
pass this incident The drunken
prsies Of the inQulsitorial priests and