The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-05-22

four years last past they have been continually
engaged in publishing, at Aurora, Missouri, the
newspaper called The Menace; that the object
and purpose Of said defendants in publishing
said newspaper, was and is TO arouse people of
the United States TO grave dangers which
threatened the destruction Of our free institu-
tions through machination, intrigue, and con-
spiracy on the part OF the dignitaries and poll
ticians of the Roman Catholic church.
The defendants allege the fact to be that for
more than a thousand years it has been the un-
varying policy of the Roman Catholic church,
TO oppose free government and to keep the
masses Of the people uneduoated and in igno-
rance; that by vast system Of corruption, per-
secution, espionage, intimidation, boycott,
tyranny and oftimes even murder, this organ
ization has held sway, at one time or another,
in every civilized country on earth, TO the great
detriment Of the people
The defendants aver that by means Of
attacks made by fearless men and women
through the press in other countries, the grip
Of this monster Of iniquity, has been broken
and IL has become in many Of them an outlaw;
that 1t is only in our own country that IL has
been left free TO threaten, browbeat and bully
the people and their government; that most of
its evil practices and methods are as boldly
carried on in the United States now as they
were in the time Of the Spanish Inquisition.
The defendants allege that those who are in
control Of the Roman Catholic church are in
bitter opposition 10 the freedom Of the press
and TO freedom Of speech; that they oppose and
seek to destroy our public school system; that
they are opposed TO and seek to destroy all
other forms of religious worship than those
sanctioned by them, and that they declare and
insist that the civil power Of our government is
subordinate and inferior to the power Of the
Roman Catholic church, as manifested and or
dained by its chief dignitary, the Pope, and
that when questions of jurisdiction arise be-
tween our government and the authority Of the
Pope our government should yield the disputed
point or proposition.
The defendants further allege that all the
Cardinals, Bishops and Priests of the Roman
Catholic church in the United States take and
subscribe to oaths, at the time they assume
their duties for the church, which said oaths
are hostile and traitorous to the government of
the United States; and that these oaths so
taken, are on file in the Vatican at Rome, Italy,
and are under the control of Giacomo Della
Chiesa, known also as Pope Benedict XIV; that
there are in the files of the Vatican in Rome,
Italy, under control of said Giacomo Della
Chiesa and his secretary and his keeper OF
records, (whose names are to these defendants
unknown), the originals of various letters and
documents, known as Encyclicals and Bulls
which have been promulgated and issued by
the Popes of the Rowan Catholic church to the
officials of said church in the United States Of
America from time 20 time for more than one
hundred years; which said letters and docu
ments directed and advised the said Roman
Catholic officials, to teach and preach enmity
and disloyalty to the free institutions loved and
cherished by the American people.
These defendants were at all times men.
toned in the Indictment herein, publishing The
Menace and selling books and other literature
for the high purpose of challenging attention Il
great fragrant wrongs which were being com
mitted by the Roman Catholic Hierarchy
against our government and its people
The defendants further allege that 1t be
came necessary for them to do this, because our
law-making and laW-enforcing officers. sithe