Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1914-07-25
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Georgia Protestant Says Menace
vilest sheet He Has Ever
Read.
Writes Judge III. w. Rives Let
ter Expressing Southern
Feeling.
Anti Christian, Abti-American,
Purveyor of Filth ana
Hatred.
LEBANON ENTERPRISE APPROVES


Rives, in Cuthbert, Ca, whom he has
never seen but with whom he has
occasionally corresponded regarding
family history and kindred subjects.
Like many others in parts of the
South where intolerance is thought
to be strong, Mr.. Rives was induced
to subscribe for the Menace, pub
lished, at Aurora, Mo-, believing it to
be an anti-Catholic paper, but not
understanding that it was anti
Christian and anti-American; a
fomenter of hate and a purveyor
of filth. In a recent letter to Judge
Rives, Mr.. Rives says:
After seeing three copies had
enough, and so to partly pay for my
mistake wrote the letter, copy Of
which / am enclosing, as | think it
is due your folks-I mean your
church organization - that they
should know how intelligent people
of the Protestant faith feel about
such things. You are at liberty to
make any use of it you please"
The letter referred to was turned
over to the Lebanon Enterprise by
Judge Rives and appeared in its last
weeks issue with the following
comment on the Menace and
other like publications: 1.-THE letter
which is published below should, and
the Enterprise believes does, express
the feeling O. every intelligent cit
izen. The paper is glad that it can
state that there are few
very few-in this community so
ignorant as to be led to encourage
such a publication, or to be influ-
enced by it in any way. Publications
of the kind really do little harm,
save among the densely ignorant and
but they should be
barred from the United States mails,
just as they are barred from the
mails in Canada" Here follows the
Georgian's letter:
Cuthbert, Ga, June "a, 1914.-
The Menace, Aurora, Mo.-Gentle-
men: Some weeks since | was induced
by friend to subscribe for my wife
to your paper. We have received
three copies-the three is sufficient
religious garbage to last the balance
of our days. You can discontinue
1t and place the balance of the sub
County House of Correction authori-
ties to aid in reforming those led by
your ungospel of hate into commits
sion of crimes against the peace and
good order of society. No man is
TOO high or too low for your venom
from the President of the United
States to the humblest worshiper of
Catholicism your hatred goes. Yet
all men know that this administra-
lion, If anything, is the very anti
.heisis of Catholicism. The Presby-
of Mr.. Wilson, Mr.. Mar
shall and Mr. Bryan are too we'll
known to admit of controversy, and
his stalwart Presbyterianism of
religious tolerance produced since
John Knox, is like that of Knox, the
ieadliest foe to Catholic domination;
but II does not have to descend into
billingsgate to express its views, nor
rake the sewers of hate for venom to
besmirch its enemies. AS President
Mr.. Wilson must need know no creed
when selecting his advisers and
such no doubt he
selected Mr.. Tumulty as Private
Secretary, looking not to his relig-
Ious creed, but to his probity and
capacity for service, just as President
Taft. himself Unitarian, the
farthest in belief from Catholicism,
IN looking for a Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court took Justice White,
Of New Orleans-looking not at his
Southern birth nor his Catholic re-
igious belief, but to his prominence
as a lawyer and his judicial leanings
as an interpreter of that constitution
for which your kind seem to feel
such contempt.
Now don't mistake me; am not
4 Catholic, nor Catholic SYM
Dathizer. Am descended on one side
rom the Friends, on the other side
rom the Primitive Baptists-neither
II which has ever affiliated with, and
both of which have suffered at mis-
guided churchmen's hands. There
are abuses in all valiant creeds-
always has been and always will be
privileges by ELS sons did not make
God do away with the Levitical
neither will the abuse by
ignorant fanatics like yourself for
the Protestant churches, nor the
abuses by ignorant priests make Him
shut off either agency which is being
used TO spread the gospel OF the
Son OF the Most High throughout the
length and breadth of the earth.
Such efforts as you are putting forth
retard and hinder the coming of the
day, but do not stop the coming OF
the time when THE kingdoms OF this
world shall become the kingdoms of
BUR God and his Amounted One"
Pardon me II have "cast pearls be-
fore swine" My business is not TO
look for swine shouts on men, but TO
speak my mind, even though II will
DO no good. May God help you TO
repent OF your sin against Him In at
to spread hatred among
those who, while not of the same
fold, yet belong TO the same Sbep-
herd-of your treason against the
under which you live In
holding up TO contumely our Chief
and OF your phasphemy Of
all that is good by claiming pure
as the rule OF your conduct.
am hoping for the best for the
viIest sheet. bar none. II has ever
been my misfortune TO try TO read