The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-04-17
lOlME,S TERRORIST TACTICS DEMONSTRATE
NECESSITY FOR PRESS DEFENSE LEAGUE

T~1HERE have come to the Free Press De-
N@I fense League number of letters sug-
gesting that while its cause is just, there
" is no real need of its services.
SS Doubtless" runs the usual argu-
ment, The Catholic hierarchy would be glad to
do in America what it has done in every country
in which it has obtained the upper hand, but the
Catholics are so much in the minority that there
is nothing to be feared from the Vaccinations of
the Romish politicians. America is freep
But, is America free?
Before you answer that question, read this
letter. 1t is more than likely that there will be
a mist in your eyes when you have finished it. 1t
is quite possible that you will remember with a
curdling of your blood that Rome makes war
upon women too. Is America free? Let this let
ter, mailed from one of the large cities of Penn
Sylvanla, answer:
withhold
name am the daughter Of an old p A. worker who was be-,
eve of the founders of that Has been dead for several
years but alive would be Of the strongest Firing Line
In remembrance Of him. sending $780, hoping will assist
in your good work"
Is America free, when woman, desirous of
helping to preserve to herself and her country
the privilege of free press, free schools and
freedom of religious opinion, dares not give her
own name?
We who are on the Firing Line know what
all this means. We know the danger; we know
the venom of Rome, how it is spewed alike upon
men, women, children-upon any and all who
dare defy its pretensions to universal civil power
as well as spiritual dominion.
But lest there be those in America who may
not understand who find it all but impossible to
comprehend the monstrous policies of oppression
which Rome has pursued, let the Free Press De-
fense League submit one other letter, this time
from Jersey City, N. j. 1t is brief, but it tells
the story:
take pleasure sending herewith a contribution of s3 will
send ask that and address be withheld from public
print"
This letter and hundreds like it, many of
them from Jersey City-created no surprise at
! the office of the Free Press Defense League. The
non-Romanists of Jersey City also know what
Rome can do when the political power of her
hierarchy is threatened. And the pleas of the
people of Jersey City for the protection of their
names that they may not fall victims to Rome
inspired mob, is more eloquent than volumes of
preachments upon human rights
Is America free?
Can we prate of freedom when men who live
in one of Americas greatest cities-a city with
courts and police and all the safeguards which
nation, state and municipality can throw about
their ctizens-must plead for protection of
anonymity when they wish to contribute few
dollars for the preservation of of their dearly
bought rights?
Is America free?
! Here is another letter:
"YOu enclosing SOO in currency without registering
Our postmaster class who oppose the
patriotic undertaking that you have in hand Ny position the
muny such publicly this matter so
send cash."
And this man goes on to tell an astonishing
but true story of how he has been spied upon by
those controlled by the hierarchy
Here is another letter that speaks eloquently
of the conditions that prevail in "the land of the
brave and theahome of the free:"
81 have been superintendent of Sunday for forty years
not rich in this worlds goods but spirit welfare
country for the preservation of American liberties schools the
free and the right worship according
Il A T
have been bOycOted much the past eighteen months because
OF out and out opposition Romans necessary that
take stand against this organization what may
{ And what have you to say, patriots, to this:
Enclosed viii find money order for So together with my