The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-02-07
Our Friends Defend Us

As we have stated in these columns
before THT MENACE u the most loved
and the most bitterly hated publication
ever issued.
Our enemies are the hittsrcst, most vio.
lent and unscrupulous that any one ever
had, while our friends are the most loyal
and stcadfast bunch Of men and women
the world has ever sen assembled 70.
gcihcr In one common cause.
Whenever THE MENACE Is abused in
the daily or weekly press throughout the
country, there are our friends with the
cver.rcady pen and word 10 defend our
cause and hold up our hands. And Il Is
this loyalty, and this patriotism and
spirit Of self sacrifice, friends, that
nerves ~ 20 the battle and helps Us 20
keep our hand on the throttle and our
face TO the foe.
Many papers will not aecept matter
from MENACE readers for publication,
desiring only 10 give the Catholic side
and stand with the bunch that fight with
the boycott and the assassin q bullet. but
now and then a paper can he found with
the courage 20 accommodate = friend and
subscriber. even though b. b. a Prot.
cstant As an example of this liberty
on the part of the press, aud the loyalty
Of the friends Of THE Menace, we re
produce herewith n letter from a sub.
scriber ~ THE MENACE 20 the passaic.
y. j., Daily Nc,rs Of Jan. 18th. IT'S
n good letter:
Editor Daily Neys:-ln your paper Of Jan.
.ppfared az article taken from the "Caih0lic
NuHiior' oi rcrnt date denouncing TH MrN.
Ach
You were Kind enough 10 give space 10 Il
Oi course YOU cannot b. blamed foF this We
treat coniroyeiSs 6s,ScrS is rcsdsr. without
Partially. An editor must wlrd the pen with.
out fear OF favor The people q Passaic b..
lieNe they have 10 The Daily Ncrs q paper viii.
ing % print b1h sidrs of anv question
Now 10 the article IN question The Camden
Itmes ot Dec. lntaincd an editorial against
Tug Menace This psu.splssh had the witticisn
oi MARI Twain and all the ioks-smiths q The
century beaten 20 a frault, Al MNxaCu read
ers are rradv tvhen thcv eet through lauehingl
SsSs No sSa9sEs ar, ihis So Sl@3a ,. S a. The ,9P
papordom. The writer must lrdcci have bren
crazy 10 crack this chestnut on nearly a million
ani quarter MtN,cE rcading American GU.
gems who love the stars and Strips, the Gag
% Washington, of jackson, Of lincoln. u Nc.
kinlsy. hf better than the hig Of the Pope
Of Rome
The GAG under which the hirrlings of Plus
TX. fought against Italian unity and frcedom
the flag oi Wallpnstoin; the Gag under which
the Arrh Duke MAMMALIAN kuclt 90 rcC0ive MS
commission from the HOLY Allimicv when he
sent over 10 bind the fetters Of mcdicyalism and
superstition around the Western continent; DC
hag II Santa Anna, the McNioan butcher the
flag of Cortrz, OF piEarro this willow Gag with
the keys Of s. Peter IL rank blaghemy on
the name II s.. Peter. liog much longer will
this institution drag the name Of that holy man
well many others IN the Inirc Of its man.
made doCtring-g Yes. this Gag was even carried
alongside of our own Stars and Stripes a little
over two years ago IN a parade with ug-timc
music on the sabbath day--uhanks 90 Mayor
Scrrr. This Is the flag THr MENACE wants 10
haul down, Il wants 70 disrupt the institution
this Gag rcpresguts-thc Institution that has
shed enough inn1trnt blood % Christian martyrs
70 float the nayies - the world
No. my dear Camden Pcnpusher, TuE MEN.
acE is not irving 10 undermine the Constitution
% the United States. Wake up ont Of your
deliFi1us pipe.drcam. For an efrupener ] would
suggest YOU 70 90 a MENACE reader and borrow
Constitution OF the United States and read Il,
aud while you are In bis holse ask him 10
show you his framed up "Declaration ot inde-
pendcncr." Oi course 20 you thfre will b. many
things about thcm you will not understand, at
first. but the MEEAcE reader Will gladly make
you Wis unto salvation.
Then | would advise you 10 get some boy or
girl irUm the public school 10 tfach you a little
history after school hours.
Again you say THE MESAcE is supported by
British interests who are antagonisiic 20 Amer
lea. Great guns man What an idea. Tue
Menace Is not financed by British interests, any
more than hy the natives Of Gucnland, or Terra
del Fuego, but by a million and quarter ordinary
patriotic American men and women.
JoHN NELSON.
Eat RuihufOrd. Jaa. 9.