The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-12-26

analysis Of all who are opposed 70 tho DO.
htical program Of popery.
That many outrages have been committed
IN Mexico no one can doubt That these
outrages are not all committed by The
parties to one side Is equally evident. Even
Mr.. Roosevelt admits as much when nc says,
There Is not evidence sufficient 20 decide
which OF the many factions behaved worst"
They all behaved atrociously because they
were at war. Il was war that brought out
the worst Of Mexico's Roman Catholic
culture.
ID UT Mr. Roosevelt complains because we.
ID too, haven't entered the melee; be-
cause Mr.. Wilson chit softly" in Mex
leo and didn't hit at all in Belgium. The
key 10 the complaint is 20 be found in the
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt hopes 20 make a
hit with the voting strength of the papal
corporation.
In a full-page syndicated broadside. run
in the Sunday editions of many daily pa.
pers, he devotes most of the space TO min
ute details Of sufferings endured by priests
and nuns, which he says cannot be read by
any American without feelings OF burning
indignation mixed with shame. And we
must feel this shame because our president
failed TO recognize q murderer and usurper
as the legal president of the Mexican
republic.
Should we not rather feel ashamed that
one so prominent in the public affairs of
this country would pose as the champion of
Huerta and the advocate OF the Catholic
party which has heaped one distress after
another upon the Mexican people until they
took up arms and the atrocious arts of war
as the only available means Of redress!
THOSE who have followed the history
i of Mexico from Hidago 10 Huerta
know that the priests Of Mexico have
always been the active and efficient allies Of
every oppressor, and the arch enemy of
every reform that the Mexican people have
tried TO establish. The hundred years from
Hidalgo TO Huerta was a century of strug-
gle on the part Of an oppressed people
against the graft OF a sO-called church and
its political puppets.
Mr.. Roosevelt passes very gently over the
century Of suffering endured by the people
to dissolve in tears Of wrath over the fate
that war has brought 20 the defeated op-
pressors. His plea is that Of a partisan who
doesn Z care so much about what happens
until 1t happens TO his side.
TNIME after time the priests and hier-
i archy of Mexico took up the sword
to keep miserable people in subjec-
ton. 1t was their scheming and their money
that defeated Hidalgo, the only priest who
ever tried to do anything for the Mexican
people. II was their scheming and political
efforts that set Macmillan, an Austrian
Catholic usurper, on a Mexican throne to
destroy the peoples constitutional govern
'ment and threaten all the republics of the
new world.
II was their scheming and their money
that backed Huerta when he murdered Ma
dero and tried to beat the people back into
subsection. Let they who take up the sword
abide by the consequences. II they perish
IN war that they have caused and culti-
waited it is no concern Of a nation that is
founded on the democratic principles Of
Professionalism and is now doing its best TO
remain peaceable in the midst Of a warning
world.
MR.. R0OSEVELT'S attitude is that Of
lNl a paid attorney, or of a prospecting
politician, who hopes to earn fee
or gain a following by tslking long and
loud for Rome. There is method IN his man
euvers; but whether there is profit in il re-
mains to be seen. If il induces the American
people TO 90 back over the Roosevelt record
and see how the gentleman always has
played to the papist politicians, it may not
be without value to the whole people.
Ii is the privilege of each who does so to
place his own Interpretation on the remark
able actions of Mr.. Roosevelt; but each will
be better qualified to judge when reminded
of how Theodore took up the cudgel in be-
half of Rome so far back as the days Of the
A. P. A. movement. In a lecture in Music
Hall, Boston, before an Irish papal meeting
in November, 1898. he said:
"of all the evil movements in our eoun-
try there is none like the A. p. A. While
was civil service commissioner I was in
. doubt as TO the selection between two men
for the chairmanship Of board Of town
Il have forgotten their names, but viii re-
fer to them as Donnelly and Jones. I re-
ceived letter purpOrting to be signed by