The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-02-21
The Menace Exposed
Romanists Find Mares Nest---So- Called
Oath Gives 'En the Jnnmies!
III MARvIx bnowx.


n thsy are % beat en- vibaissslnr tAcm.
heirss why not ask hat they prc.cut In
ccurt ths obligations which they 90 tnka
This vould ee The Qnickesi uay 70 clear
the natief up In the minds of ths
people.
We are fiing yOur letter and wiIi BE- on
the Lookout for anythiug Which We think
win aid in the dsfcnss q thcss men.
Trusting that this wiz b saiisfAciory,
Ne beg 10 remain, Noun sincerely.
Tar MESAcE PuplzsHSs coA1AST.
AHrora, Nc
First, thcy wish 10 shake the con.
hdence Of our readers By making Il
appear that we have lied 10 them
about the oath in question. To do
this they cite our Oft repeated state
ment that The MENACE has never
printed the oath except in issue No.
80, and then as taken from the
Congressional Record in It's ac-
count OF the Butler Bonniwell con-
troyersy. That this statement is true
the files OF The MENACE will show,
and We know Of no better evidence
than the files themselves.
But they hope 10 have you con-
strue this statement 10 mean that
this is the only way we ever handled
the alleged oath, while, as a matter
Of fact, he statement doesn't eonrcy
any such idea and lprds not intended
10 conrey 70. Our superintendent
informs US that the Job department
printed numbers Of these for the
trade, just as our letter 10 M. KiHg
states. In fact Mr.. Megonegal, il
he has not DESTROYED IL. has in his
possession a letter from THE MES.
AcE dated as far back as September
25, 1919, in which prices are quoted
on this printed matter. Following
is this letter verbatim:
Aurora, No., sept. e5, 1912.
Mr.. Chas. Megonegal, s26l Brown ST.,
Philadelphia Pa.
The regular price of the Knights Of
Columbus oaths Is $3.50 per thousand,
but in lots OF 5000 20 10000 we will
make them to You at 600 per thousand.
Sincerely yours,
GSNS. The MENAcE, Auroro, No
Our carbon files contain other let.
tiers Of this character. conveying the
same information, and just how the
mites" Of mob anainurder can con.
strue this as an effort to deceive our
patrons is more thar we are able to
figure out. Many bf our constit-
uents have letters from us stating
that we "do not handle the X. G.
oath" These letters were written
before we had ever placed Il in leaf
let form or after We had disoontin-
ued il At the close Of the last nation.
al campaign, when the demand for
lie began TO slacken. suppose the
"Nites" will contend that we lied TO
these constituents.
Romaulsts Posing as Friends
AS evidence that the Romanists
are more than anxious to have us
feel bad over the publication Of this
letter, hundreds OF them are writ
ing letters to THE MENACE, assum-
ing to be Subscribers, telling ms that
II we have been libeling the X. O.'s
we have probably been libeling all
the way along, etc.
In the first place il would be well
70 remember that there is a great
deal OF difference between truth and
what is conveyed in the head lines
of the Catholic papers. II vds
Stage and Megohsqal wko plead
gully 10 "libeiing" TIE Mites ?
AND NOT TIE MENACE.
THE MENACE has never plead
guilty Of libeling anyone, and never
win. Why?
Because we win never libel any
one knowingly, and II we do so un-
knowingly We viii certainly defend
ourselves accordingly.
| In the second place we have a
man on the job reading letters who
can tell the dilfefence between a
letter from a friend and an enemy
At a glance. Ho can tell a letter
from . Rcmanist ss far as he can
zee Il, and we car state here and
nov that they are wasting q good
deal Of YAlnAhls ipk and white pa
per Il they expect to make THr
I1xsslcz fskl bad Tor t1ying to Be
frank and housst IN its statements.
They harp long md loud on the
statement that We were s'blufhne''
about the Knights " Columbus rit-
ual, then have little enough sense
10 set out the "hlufs which wns tax
en- from THE MESkCE Of March !.
1919. as follows
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