The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-10-03

But IN free America the mnions Of the forces Of dark
will fail in their mission. The Menace working IN
cooperation with its oomparios scattered throughout
the length and breadth Of this great republic are going
Il that the pope fails in his efforts 70 make Amer
ioa Catholic There is room for any prince OF the
blood in the land Of Lincoln and Jefferson. We have
room for but one flag one constitution and free
secular public school system for the education OF all the
people This the dream in the brains Of our fore
fathers and this is the kind Of country we must pass
on 10 our children.
In this fight for the preservation Of liberty
facing desperate enemysn enemy that never forgets or
forgves. II succeeds 20 extent because II appeals 10
the avariee and the ambition Of man. subordinates
law and places the Of Rome above the consttu
tons Of nations, and the pope Of Rome above all the
rulers and governors Of the earth They brand our faith
ful and vrtuous wives as concubines, our sweet faced
children bastards and damn constitution and the
government Of fathers into he'll; and II we protest
their bloody and brazen pretensons are mobbed and
beaten and left TO die by the roadsidel
But want TO serve notice on Rome today that there
in the field who will fur the flag stack
until this continent has been rededcsted 10 civil
and religious liberty. So far Romes dogmas are con-
oerned she welcome TO them and the Catholic people
will be protected in their right 10 believe in all the strange
and absurd dogmas invented by in the darkest ages
Of the world and sustained today through ignorance
pRpal preenon and paroohal school education. Under
our form Of government Roman Catholics have just the
right to be papa that have to be free man. What
we do say and il by every Che brutal thugs
Of Rome have left body that the pope Of Rome and
his emissaries shall rule this nation politically
while we grant to the Roman Catholic the full and free
right to believe in all the strange and curious doctrines
Of his church. that this right Of his does not abrdge
right TO change his mind and 10 lead him 10 believe in
something infinitely higher and better we do it through
legitimate methods and the lawful exercise Of the right
Of free speech is the supreme glory Of our free ns
tuons that every American citizen must be protected in
his right Of free speech and that he has the privilege TO
change the minds of his fellow citizens any and every
question that pertains to the public good II lays within
his power TO do The Roman hierarchy understands
full well that free speech and free schools the de-
strucon Of the paps system for the simple reason that
q people literally educated cannot be made TO believe
in the monstrous dogmas born in the dwafed minds of
the middle ages. Therefore witness the brutal
saults public speakers and a nationwide conspiracy
for the destruction the Remaining Of public
school system
The public school was not established altogether for
the that education good thing for the
child but because the ignorance Of the citizen is dan
gerous thing for the state That truth is fully illustrated
in the situation today. The hope Of the Roman hier
arohy is in uneducated citizenship and the success
Of the Roman hierarchy the absolute destruction
Of our free institutions.
The parochial school exists simply opposition
institution to the public school, and if there pub
lie school there would be paroohia school, In the old
pspal states where there public schools there is
no parocha school system for the 1t is Rome s
policy to educate few to be leaders and leave the
in ignorance that they may be easily led 1t is safe