The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-04-22
Night Riders for the Pope


Night Riders for the Pope
Boston, Lawrence, Lowell, Newburyport and
Portsmouth, yielded their quotas. Freedom was
to receive a crushing blow, 50 from eight to ten
thousand subjects Of the sovereign on the Tiber
assembled TO SHOW AMERICA THE DIFF
FERENCE BETWEEN THE PAPAL THE
DRY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE De-
MOCRACH OF OUR FEDERAL CONSTITU-
TION.
THEY SUCCEEDED!
The mob Of Monday night was not content with
forclby breaking mp the meeting and attempting
the life Of the speaker. II proceeded 10 wreak
It's vengeance on public property.
Had not the city of lIaycrhill dared TO permit
an American citizen to exercise his constitutional
right 20 criticize Rome and institute a conf mpdri-
son betWesn her pdrOchdl schools and the free
schools Of the repubhc9 For this offense were
not the subjects Of the pope fully justified in
smashing windows, breaking doors and COM
mtting other depredatons on the city hall and
jag And since they could not find the speaker,
10 do personal violence TO him, they proceeded
forthwith TO brutally beat and murderously as
sault number Of law abiding citizens whose only
ofense was their loyalty 10 The constitution Of
this nation.
- Next, these upholders Of the ROMAN CATH.
AIllLENGtlI,
LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM, proceeded to
visit and wreck various patriotic club rooms, then
they remembered that Alderman Hoyt. commits
sioner of public safety, and DR.. Wales had dis
played an offensive interest in upholding the con-
stitutional right Of freedom of speech WHICH
ILL ACCORDED WITH THE THEORY AND
PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH OF THE IN
DEN AND THE INQUlSITlON, so they pro-
ceeded to break all the windows in their homes.
DR.. Wales piazza was wrecked and the windows
of his neighbors' houses were smashed in on every
hand. Defenseless women and children were
frightened into almost hysteria.
Not Local or Sporadic
The Hayerhil mob was but one example Of a
nationwide campaign of criminal lawlessness
and but one phase Of a many sided war which the
Roman Catholic hierarchy and its props, the
Knights of Columbus, the American Federation
of Catholic Societies, the Hibernians, the Jesuts
and other organizations are waging upon the
organic law of our land
Furthermore, let no one suppose that this
papal exhibition of intolerance and hatred Of lib
erty for those who lare to challenge Rome is
sporadic, OF that the tens Of thousands of knights
Of Columbus and other props of the hierarchy
who participated in the criminal lawlessness were
merely the ignorant and unrepresentative men,
bers of the Roman Catholic communion.
This was merely one example of exhibitions Of
intolerance religious bigotry and hatred Of our
constitutional guarantees that are constantly
finding expression in words and acts of the lead.
ers of political Romanism in all branches of gov
ernment.
Thus, for example, the Boston Globe Of March
%. less than ten days before the Haverhill papal
riot, published a columns report of an addres:
before the American Federation Of Catholic So
cieties by G. s. Sullivan, Of the municipal court
of Charlestown, in which Judge" Sullivan char.
acterized the "Masons, Knights of Pythias and
Odd Fellows" as organizations "to be combatted'
as "leading into darkness and error" lie sneered
at the Boy Scouts, declared that Catholics must
repel the energies of the Massachusetts, Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and
the Massachusetts, Children's Aid Society, be-
cause they had dared to oppose the appropriations
of public funds for sectarian institutions.
The Guardians of Liberty consisting OF al
most a million Of high minded patriotic citizens
under the leadership Of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
was cited by this Romsnist judge as evidence
that bigotry was rampant.
Mayor James NJ. Curley, Of Boston, is on rec
ord under his own signature, as declaring that
the Guardians Of Liberty ought not be permitted
10 erist on American Soil." while within the las
few weeks, Congressman james A Gallivan, oi
South Boston, Mass, has introduced into con
gress q bill which, if passed, would deal deadly
Blow through the legislative arm Of the nationa
government to the organic law Of our land, b!
an attempt to sbridge freedom Of religious dis
cussion and freedom Of the press. This militan
representative Of the paph system OF government