The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-02-07
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lnoHnfaHoF oALLs on TATf.

LnoHnuHoP sALLs on fATr.
ArchbishOp ireland. Of st. Paul Mlnn.. &C
companisd BY bishops o'GormAn and McGulHek.
called on President Taft today At the executive
ofocs.
/" HE foregoing news item ap-
peared in The Washington Times
~ Of February 4, 1913.
No other newspaper Of the ma.
tional capital published a word Of that
"call" Of the distinguished prelates Of
the Roman Catholic hierarchy upon the
president Of the republic. Ordinarily, col
umns Of advertisement of the Roman
Catholic church would have been given
to such an event. II was strange, then,
that only one newspaper noticed II, and
that one NTH only four lines, and those
four tucked array IN q corner on the last
page.
But the ways Of the Roman Catholic
Press Association are Jesuitical and ex.
eeedingly cunning, yet, in the end, are
sometimes seen, as the ways Of the Jes'
uits, themselves, are sometimes found out.
Why did those three eminent Romans
journey together silently and unan.
nounced all the way from st. Paul to
Washington, stealthily seek the presence
Of the President Of the United States,
and steal back to st. Paul with the seal
Of secreeyf Why, indeed. was that very
brief notice published at alli Was il a
leak, or an accident, or merely the Ro-
mish-Irish method Of recording their
reasonable acts Of political Romanism
for their "honorable" mention in Ro-
man Catholic historyf II Is a mystery,
indeed, viewed from every standpoint,
but il sheds some light upon President
Taft's veto Of the immigration bill q
few days later.
Congress had long been debating its
immigration bill. The senate passed II,
at last. The unwieldy house was the
storm center. On its floor a jail-bird
knight of Columbus was the champion
Of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and
fought that bin TO a stand-still sup
ported by all Of the other Columbuses in
congress. Notwithstanding, it was q
foregons conclusion that congress would
Romish-Irish Columbuses. II was public
opinion, too, that President Taft would
approve il and that il would become a
law against all opposition.
The Romanists were alarmed at the
turn Of affairs. The restrictions upon i'm.
migration proposed at last by a united
congress against political Romanism,
would be a deadly blow to the pope's
assumption 10 make america Cath.
olic {" The Romish.Irish were desperate.
They are a bad lot when desperate. Not
chance must be left untaken TO de-
feat that bill. The president must be
reachedi But howi BY the methods
of their MeNamaras, their Molly Ma
guires, their Fenians, their Tammany
gangsters, their A. o. H., their Column
buses, or their pussy.footing priestsi
That newspaper item explains it all.
Read it again, and again, and ponder
well its signifeanee-its significance not
only in its relation TO President Taft
veto Of the immigration bill, but In re-
lation to papal prelates and party poll
tieians striking at separation Of church
and state in government and menaeing
the free institutions Of the nation.
Congress fnally passed its immigra-
tion bill and transmitted it to the presi-
dent for executive approval Those three
distinguished Romaas Veaehsa- -tha presi,