The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1914-11-28
PRISONS IN AMERICA? l.?
Neither Saey Nor Involuntary Ssrpud Ercept Punishment For Crime Whereof
Party Shall Haze Been Duly Connected Shall E Within the United States
Any Place Subject Article XIII Constitution OfthsUS

Any Place Subject 10 The
One Of the most defiant, dam
6ble, and deplorAble institutions
earth Is again brought 20 at
ention by a letter from an Iowa
mother who appeals 20 Us 70 get
her daughter out Of the clutches
OF Rome's slave drivers. Here is
the body Of the letter with names,
etc, left blank for obvious rea-
sons:
"-, Nov. 10, 1914
'Rsv. 7. Q. Walker, Editor,
"Aurora, No.
''Dear Sirs A friend gave me one
% your papers, The MESAcL i read
Il and saw how you had helped 10 get a
girl out Of a Catholic institution Nov,
have a girl in a Good shepherd home
90 --. They refuse 10 LEI her out
OF 10 say WHY abe is held there. This
girl was stolen from me when she was
two and a half years ~ age, and i tcok
me eleven years 20 hnd where she Ia She
IL now ls years Of acc, and they have no
right 10 her. Will you please get her
out for me, as l need her very much.
I have been sick for a long time, and
am unable 70 do my housework. have
written two letters there, and they do
not answer. The girls name Is -
-. - was my former husband .
name We are able 20 take care Of her.
Please advise me as soon as you hear
from her. --- -
And this is Free America, "
the great republic founded upon
a Constitution, the Thirteenth
Amendment of which provides
that; Neither slavery nor in.
voluntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime, whereof
the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the
United States or any place sub
ject 20 their jurisdiction"
Well may a thoughtful citizen
wonder what those words mean
or whether they mean anything
when he finds these papal prisons
insolently operating as sweat
shops in city after city through
out the length and breadth of III,
land.
An American mother has nc
rights which these popish slav,
drivers are bound TO respect
They have her daughter, and they
evidently intend TO keep heI
since they find il profitable tC
work young women for cheaI
board and keep. An eighteen
year-old slave is a valuable pos
session in an II. o. G. S. laundry
where cheap labor and water ar,
effectively used TO make money
for the papal system.
Not a week passes that we dC
not receive letters from mothers
sisters, sweethearts, or relatives
asking us TO help get some CIR
out of a Romish sweatshop. In |
few instances we have been abl,
to help, but what is the use o
working to get one out Will,
dozens are going inf The onl!
rational thing to do is to open VI
these places to official inspection
so that all the girls detained b!
force and fraud can get in toucl
with their friends on the outside
and appeal to the law.
The pope of Rome has no lega
or moral right TO run his privatI
penitentiaries on American soil
Let us open up the windows an'
doors of these dungeons and le
the light shine in. Let's rescu
all the unwilling prisoners a
once. If it happens that ther
are some therein who deserve i'm
prisonment, let the punishment
be applied legally and in state in
stitutions, under the direction o
responsible officials instead o
priests and their female kind.
Every few days a case of slav
cry in some of these II. o. G. S
comes 10 light. A few Of ther
get into the daily papers whicl
happen TO be unguarded b,
their Jesuit censors. Only las
April two young girls, Len
Oacha and Helena Powers, es
capped from st. Catherin's Cor
vent at Santa Barbara, Cal, an,
wandered about in the mountain
for four days and three nights
When exhausted they were cap
fured by a deputy sheriff an,
taken back.
The people who run thes
places tell the public how delight
full it is to live in them, safe an
free from the vain allurement
Of the world; but, strange {
say, the reports of inmates, an
Of those who try TO get away
are not so complimentary {
these happy home"
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