The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1915-07-10

Egan Case Has Two Se Both BaTuh Repudated and Fehoods
Sworn to in Order to Dscred Patriotic Indifference of
Public Makes Facts Of No EHect--ROmsh Arrogance and
Protestant Indifference Double Danger to Nation

timidAted or led 70 make another
sworn statement utterly rcpudiaiiHg
his former dffidarit. One state
ment or the other must be untrue.
When and why did Egan evads
truthl
There Is a terrible truth trapped
up ia hS Bgan affair, and Thsn
IL is gotten at the world will know
that there is an insidious danger in
Rome's arrogant defiance Of
truth and common decency. An
organization which can and
does use coercion and false
hood 10 protect inhuman and illegal
institutions is q menace 10 society,
and every phase Of the Egan case
smaeks Of despotism and intrigue
too despicable TO countenance. Yet
the weak-kneed and indifferent
Protestants viii stand BY and swal-
low the bait Rome is throwing out
to the gullible public.
Can patriotic Americans calmly
submit TO open defiance Of law as
practiced by ROmei
Is Il safe OF sane TO listen 10 the
pleas and threats Of an organized
body which can command obedience
from its subjects TO the extent Of
swearing falsely7
Covering Tracks
The tenacity with which pape
sticks to pspe, regardless Of truth and
common decency, makes il doubly
hard for THE MENACE, or any 9TH
er patriotic or un-RomAniIed paper,
TO tell hs trutl and hare u do-
cspted ds the truth, but when q
sworn statement is repudiated by
another sworn statement, as seems
to have been the case in this in
stance, IL only adds to the smudge
Rome is smearing across her face
in America.
The first statement Of the Egans
has the greater appearance Of truth
because II is In perfect harmony
with past records Of papal practices.
Rome resorts readily to any subter-
fuge to save the church from scan
dal, when truth is uncovered, but
does little, il anything, 10 prevent
future disreputsble practices, or to
atone for past trescheries and
cruelties.
Rome is doing business without
license in the United States, in that
she is conducting her prisons, laun-
dries and other sweatshops in un-
taxed buildings, and is using ques-
tionable il not criminal methods to
recruit slave labor from the ranks
Of American childhood and hides
from the public their condition of
servitude by arrogantly denying the
state any rights whatever in the
matter Of supervision and inspec-
ton. Consequently when a disclo-
sure is made, such as the Egan case,
there is q swift running TO and fro
10 cover tracks OF soothe an enraged
or indignant public mind. Some
one must be the goat and OCCASION
ally the lot falls 10 one of their own
number.
Pspsl power Is strong on the use
Of pressure. II knows when, where
and how TO bring pressure to bear
to produce results favorable to the
papacy. The end justifies the means,
and the means are whatever will get
the goods, be tAsy bluff or boycott,
bullets or blows. What means were
used TO countenst the effects Of the
Egan case upon the public is a
question. That some means were
used is apparent, but the result is
hardly a credit to anyone concerned
on the Romish side Of the matter.
Falsehood, evasion, impudence and
arrogance flow from Romish minds
in defense Of pspal prisons and
papal perverts without considers
tion for established law or common
custom, and in our effort to pre-
sent facts forcibly to those who need
to be informed Of Rome's treachery
we meet effrontsry, abuse, villifca-
ton and see intimidations used to
dicredit our witnesses. The cum
ming, the inGds Dus vile, used BY
Rome in her determination to rule
or ruin set aside every law Of God,
man and nature which cannot be
bent twisted OF broken in defense
of papal institutions.
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