Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-07-29
nssitpsionslists' alleged anti.
crusade. .ss ii

treligions. crusade.
And wsat atsssnae. other than
4 hostile, wokld Be consistent on
Z 1.-THE part Of the Constitutionalist6
We're not these arch bishops the
fslliss and backsrs Of Hnsrts7 Z
+ Did they not supply him with
monep with which to crush the
Conssitutionalists as long as he
had the least chance to sueceed2
How can they expect considera-
tlon or kindly treatment from q
people thye have oppressed for
centuries and whose enemies they
have aided and abetted from
Cortez to Huerta3
The Mexican people are fight
ing for freedom and the land of
their fathers. If they take their
lives in hand to oust the murder
sr, Huerta, and ere successful in
the undertaking, they would GER
talnly be chumps to leave his
allies in possession of the power
they have used for centuries to
oppress the M. loan people.
| 1t is keeping with Romish tao.
tics for the archbishops to ap-
peal to Washington. Interven-
sion has always been their long
suit. Huerts. their tool, tried to
effect the same by insulting the
flag. His scheme didn't work
for the simple reason that a Pres
ldent was on the job at Washing
ton who had no use for the mur-
ierer of Madero. It remains to
be seen whether he will be az firm
when it comes to dealing with
Huerta's ecclesiastical pals.
Newspaper Hypocrisy.
The average daily newspaper is
q lying, hypoorital fraud, taking
the peoples money and playing
to the galleries with the thing
shat will bring In the greatest
amounto f advertising patronage.
That they are two-faoed and
&C ntlnualiy try to carry water on
both shoulders can be discovered
by any reader who ia willing to
pursue any one of them closely
for as long IS a week and note the
Inconsistencies that appear.
Hearts desire are fair samples.
For instance. in the Chicago Am.
erican Of July 9th we find an
article written by Rev. Thomas
B. Gregory, in which the Ameri-
can editor allows the correspond
dent to use this language when
dealing with the public school
question and the separation of
church and state.
The men who made this nation
and established its institutions
we're wise. They knew history,
and they did not need to be told
that to mix up church and state
is to commit national suicide.
So they decided that the people
should have no official copariner.
ship with the churohes, and that
the peoples schools, like all the
other public institutions. should
be aecular-purely and simply
secular, rather than half secular
and half ecclesiastical.
And in this they did we'll. To
have done less would have been
in the end disastrous.
If the day ever comes when the
peoples money n. appropriated
for sectarian purposes, and the
sectsrisn shibboleths are permit
ed to invade the precincts of our
public school system, the great
experiment in democratic govern.
ment on this continent will have
failed and the curtain will have
fallen upon the attempt at free
and progressive government in
our beloved country.
What's the matter with that?
Nothing-absolutely nothing.
1t is the sentiment The Menace
has been trying TO disseminate all
these years. You might search
the files of The Menace from the
time and you wouldn't find q
clearer, more pigment or timely
statement on the separation of
church and state.
The point is simply this: Prob.
ably in less than thirty days the
American will come out iu a whole
front page with plcturss of priests
and other prelates and eulogy
on the Roman Catholic as long as
Jacobs ladder.
| The American is exactly like
the great majority of other daily
papers. Is has no policy. 1t has
no principal, and it has no other
object than to make money. 1t
breaches patriosim one day ana
lauds the enemies of patriosim
the next. 1t plays for suckers
and catches them in every stream.
The only hope for the people is
for the people to make plain to
the daily papers where they stand
on these great Questions. When
they print something worth while
write them and tell them abou :
it, and then when they print this
Roman slush tell them sbout
that, too, and tell them about
shat unmistakable terms. Thew n
soon get wise.
Bucklens' Arnica SaIve for cufs