The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-06-20

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awake At night, publicity is the most
abhorred Of all.
To tell the least biz Of truth
about the old bag Of Revelations
simply sets the papists going. They
dislike 10 see the least bit Of her
bloody garment exposed, and when a
man has the courage 10 do il, or
when he even does il incidentally
I, and unthoughtedly, they are up in
arms and ready to apply the Inquisi-
ton as IL Is At present modified in
the form Of q boycott.
A case in point recently happened
at Cannelton, Indiana. The editor
Of the Cannelton TslsphoHs printed
q news item from his Washington
correspondent on the Mexican situa-
tion. No one suspected that the
papists would get up in arms about
a little war story from Mexico,
since war stories are so common.
But the Telephone didn't know
Rome. The story happened to men,
tion the criminal relations existing
between the Catholic church and the
Huertn government. That you may
get an idea Of just how innocent il
was, however, we reprint the item
herewith:
uIHIclN SITUATION rs NERVOUS.
The public Il now In such a state OF
mind, that u IL not surprised at any.
thing that happens In Mexico One
thing is certain, and that is that Hueria
will not he the ruler Of Mexico for
many more days. Hucrta has been sus.
tained and supported largely by the
Roman Catholic Ohurrh and as General
villa has intimated that he expects 10
hang every Catholic Priest and Bishop
that is left when he takes the City Of
Mexico, and As Il appears that Villa
will be able 20 capture Mexico City in
short time, Il will be seen that IIuerta
and his Catholic machine arc in a des.
perate situation. The threat on the
part Of General Villa against the Catho.
lic dignitaries IL reported In the dis.
patches a. being based on the fact that
the Catholic church has furnished many
millions Of dollars 10 the Huerta govern.
ment. This is probably true, hut Gen.
eral Villa realizes that the Catholic priests
and bishops In Mexico have designedly
kept the working classes in ignorance and
poverty 90 that the few could own the
many ~ helpless slaves. All the revo
lutionists are particularly bitter against
the priests and bishops, very much like
the French peasants were when they
brought on the great French revolution
OF 1889 In which they hung n priest on
one side Of n lamp post and a feudal
lord or nobleman on the other side,
holding both equally responsible for the
poverty and misery existing at that
France in 1889 suffering from the same
identical causes, the corruption and
rottenness Of the church and state
But this story got the goat Of the
papes. IL was no sooner on the
streets than the Romans were
scurrying around in search Of kind
ling wood with which to burn the
editor. The Enquirer, evidently a
Romanized sheet, smothered into
submission by the petticoats Of the
priest, published an article signed
BY one F. J. George, in which THE
MENACE and the Telephone, as well
as all things Protestant in general,
were given a fearful lambasting.
George said too many nasty things
TO quote them all in a decent paper
like THE MENACE, but TO show the
venom Of the reptile we quote his
opening paragraph:
The citizens Of Perry Co. from lie
very beginning have been az peace and
friendliness with one another, regardless
Of nationality, political aniliation or
creed, until about year ago when q
certain so-called fellow "a self-eonsti-
tuted absolute monarchy came here 10
pat an end to their eontented neighborly
disposition by taking subscriptions for
that sinking, low-down, dirty, putres-
cent, rotten, lying sheet THE MENACE,
whose editor was fined by q Protestant
jury and q Protestant judge, (honor to
these men that they have had the courage
10 do the right thing) for having slanderel
the good Sisters o. s. B. Of Mount
Angel, Oregon. This same diabolieal
an. filthy sheet was used TO defeat some
of the best and most respected citizens
Of Cannelton at the city election. Fail.
ure WA the lot Of him and his elan.
Tho are enough sound-minded Protest
ante In Perry County, who know that
such q thing as stirring up strife is
detrimental to the welfare Of their re-
spective communities.
The fact that this man George is
90 ignorant of the facts that he
states that THE MENACE was sued
over the Mt. Angel, Oregon nun
story, when il was the Silyerton
Journal and not The MENACE at
al, has no weight with the editor Of
the Baquirer. He is so anxious 10
kiss the hands Of the priest that he
rushes into print with two columns
of lies and SANDER and expects the
good people Of Canrelton 10 accept
them at face value, notwithstanding
the fact that the leading citizens Of