The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-03-06

prints a. an advertisement the eleven
lamentations Of ten Alleged Proiestants
Who are nightly grisved over what
they are pleased TO call "A campaign OF
vituperAtiOn against the Catholic
Church"
A careful pcrGsal Of the document
forces the coneission that II the pap
lists OF Little Rock are the victims Of
vituperation. they are not the only suf.
ferors Of the kind since these ten.
supposedly Protestant, Apologists for
popery refer 20 the non-Catholic op-
ponents OF political Romanism a.
"incendiarics", ''slanderers". "fanat.
les, mischief makers. enemies OF
the public welfare. etc.
Their immoderate solicitude for pap
lists and papist institutions is 30 great
as 10 suggest the probability that there
II some adequate reason for the sur.
passing love that they 20 publicly ex.
press for things with which real
Protestants can have little or no sym.
pathy.
Il Is possible that an analysis and a
review OF their round robin may reveal
the reDon and motives that impel
these ten gentlemen 10 20 strenuous an
effort az the additional expense OF hav.
/ ing II printed as an advertisement In
the columns Of a city daily.
II that does not disclose the African
/ in the fuel. perhaps a local investiga.
tion OF their family and commercial
relations may explain why they hire
80 much newspaper space in which to
express their ill-will toward non.Cath.
olics and their intense love for the
sanity" and patriotic" gentlemen"
and "sisterhoods" who labor In the
popes vineyard.
] For the latter purpose, the names
/ Of the ten pseudo-Protestants, who
| have immortalized themselves by
/ standing for the modern lnquisition.
and by giving their mite OF aid and
comfort TO the enemies OF the public
/ school, are here given. II the proposi-
tion that where a mans treasure Is.
there will his heart be also. 10 opera
i tive In this instance, as II usually r..
their motive can readily be discovered
by the people Of Little Rock who know
them. Their names are as follows:
w. +. Lemon, @. II. Rose, J. W. House,
J. NJ. Moore. ]. w. House, Jr., W. w.
Il Dickinson. w. l.. Hemingway, Chas. c.
Reid, Tom NJ Mehafy. and w. +.
Hemingway. And here is what they
say
awe regret that there are . number
Of persons IN cur midst now actively
engaged In . canPslgn of vituPera-
tlon against the Catholic church. ny
rearing and sympathy We are Protes-
attacks. snS hope tSst these miscsisf-
makers may be discountenanced In
every way: Our constitution EHaran-
tees 20 all men frssdSm ss,n ,Ir,i 81 IsLlEioT,
e. animated by q broad spirit OF toll
Grafton. It welcomes 60 cur shores
men OF every faithI and the spirit Of
our constitutions should animate our
people"
We also have regrets, chief among
which is the regret that these ten are
Protestants In rearing and sympathy
only. We prefer practical Protestants
TO any other variety: ProtestAnts with
the ability and disposition to protest
against the impossibilities OF popery
with the same wgor and consistency
as did Martin Luther and all the ori
ginal protesters against the papa
system.
There is something essentially weak
. II not essentially wrong, with the man
, who says, Il am Protestant, but
-. II am a Christian, but"
81 wish TO do right, but. "By
rearing and sympathy we are Protes
tants; but we sincerely reprobatC
those who protest against the activi
ties OF Rome In American affairs"
Are they sincere? Possibly they are
Their words have fair look, but they
don't have the right sound-they dom
ring true. Whatever may be the true
mission Of a Protestant, he is far from
. performing that mission when h,
breaks into print as the ally OF mon
I archial organization the sole purpos'
e of which Is to destroy, uproot anC
|. extirpate all that Protestantism wal
E created to preserve and defend.
4 What can such men know OF carr
? about the Constitution? Their asser
ton that the Constitution welcomes
TO our shores men of every faith
shows the righteousness Of thei
sweeping assertions. Does that Con
e stitution welcome TO our shores thos'
( outspoken anarchists whose faith Il
D that all governments are an evil ant
n should be abolished? The broad spiri
y of toleration is not much In evidenc,
when an anarchist knocks for admis
J. sion for the avowed purpose Of tearinI
!. down the structure that generations o
!, Americans have reared.
e And does or should that federation
extend to those who come disguised Il
7 the garb Of religion TO do away witt
I popular education, and 10 unite Churcl
and State under the rule Of a monarch
who calls himself pope? The spirit o
' federation, like all other virtues. ha
+ its proper limitations. There ar
e things that no individual and no natiol
e can be expected to tolerate, and papa
I meddling in American politics is one o
those things.
The spirit Of the Constitution doe
: animate the most Of the American pee
pie, and 1t Is that spirit which find
expression in determined resistance {
the efforts to make America Catholi
and supplant the principles Of Amer
canism with the monsrchial an
authoritarian traditions OF Romanism.
"NothinE r. nobIer or more pront
able than tolerancei nothing NOR
| pernicious than intolerance. The sptri
| / of tolerance unites all the members o
the eommunity. II kaDgs peace. har
mony, mutual connds nse and support
| \ n makes n nation powerful and hnpp,
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