The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-02-20
ROME SURPRISING FREE SPEECH BY BLOODSFiED
About Marshall
Cold Blood Column
Fatally WoundedRevva of Ter
orist That Rome Prefers War Peace

TIME news Of the tragedy
about which The Menace
IL going 20 speak was given
10 the world on the morning Of
the 4th instant by the Associated
Press in about the following
fashion,
MarshaIi, TeH., Feb. S-wiliam
nlack, travelling lecturer, and John
Rogers, a eontractor, are dead and John
Copeland. cashier Of . bahk here, is not
s1perted 10 live a. . result Of q shoot
ing affray here early tonight In Bach ;
room a. a hotel
This, in fact, was the dispatch
that attracted the attention Of
the writer early Thursday morn.
ing, and the dispatch that caused
hin 10 take the first train for
Marshall in order that the whole
truth in the case might be ascer,
tanned.
The press dispatch quoted
above tells the whole story so Far
a. the bare facts are con,
cerned. You can tell from
this dispatch that two men are
dead and another mortally
wounded. You even know who
the men are, and what their oc,
cupations are-but further than
that a waiting world must be left
In darkness.
Practically every daily news.
paper in the country carried thi'
dispatch. The managing editor
Of every paper that handled the
-disnstch knew the significance oI
ia knew the details-but h,
dj dare give them TO his
- rf's,
Ivy
lause he is in the same dan
CHAT William Black was in
wthe went to Marshall. Not
ble he is in a Roman Cath
o. Iommunity, necessarily, hut
hBe Roman Catholics ar,
Just as they were, and are
tirshall. Not many, but 1
enough to bluh, bullyrag
Jott and intimidats. A hal
IN Knights Of Columbus car
ke life miserable for q thou
q decent men who want Il
~ the law and do the right
ing.
The news Of this tragedy wa
Il on the wire by the Associated
ress (it should be the assinin,
RESI-, and the minute the tele
graph editor got il he knew tina
{ was loaded with dynamite
The telegraph editor sOothed j
and smoothed il and padded j
with cotton in every conceivabl,
phase, and passed it over to tn,
msnaging editor, and when III
-naging editor got through
Ihe tn il, it read something lik,
plac 8;
Hcs William Black, who is said I,
IL an ex-priest, and John Rogers
no Is supposed 10 be q contrac
Il br, are both supposed to b
Eiead, and John Copeland who
: bought to be cashier of som
hnk in the city Is alleged to b
IA Aortally wounded, as a result o
n little unpleasantness which
Il lleged to have occurred in q Ger
ii lain hotel in the city where Blacl
Us stopping. Il Is alleged tha
tdRogers and Copeland are Knight
TtDf Columbus, an organization
4 tthat only exists in the minds o
! I5igoted Protestants, and it
thoroughly believed that BlacI
1Jvas an Ex-Priest and was de
ssfaming the holy Catholic rel
sagion. We are not sure that any
S1thing happened at all, but we be
/ 1lieve II did, and IL il did, and IL
lis detrimental 10 the Protestan
Ipeople, and likely to boom bus
Z ness for the holy Catholi
Plchurch, and the mythical myster
ffknown as the Knights of Colun
q bus, we are willing to publish
and want the world 70 kno,
about It."
4 I didn't quote the above fror
any newspaper-plesse bear tha
in mind-but il sounds like
might have come from the avel
age daily. In fact, while it
my own Interpretation, il convey
1 just as much information abou
the Marshall tragedy as You hav