The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-10-21
Bishop in an Official Angment Sanders NonSectaian System of
Education While Laudng ParOcha TraningFts of Two Sys-
TENS Seen in the Prison and Vice Statistics Refe ROmes
CIamsMexiCO and Portugal Also Witness Against Rome's Claims

cial statistics Of the New York pcni- |
tcntiaries, hcrc Wcre 2.5O7 Cath |
0lic c0Hricts aud only 2.O4J con-
riois representing Protestant. he.
brcT, and al other classes. That Is
10 say, there were CG2 moro Cath
oiic coHricis than representatives. Of
al other faiths and those Of no
faith pat together. The Catholics
in the Empire state number far less
than oHc-ihiri Of the entire p0puld-
li0H. In a nutshell We have this
result a. shown by the official prison
statistics OF Bishop Grimes state:
Representative Of Catholic
training ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS itut
Representatives composing rest Of
population Of the Empire state. ., ,Oi5
Majority Of conylcts representing
Catholic training ............... 662
And this In state where representa-.
tiyes Of the Catholic training are less
than one-third the whole population.
Roman Influence and Vice
Again, in morals. Roman Cath
olic religious training has proved
no pdHdosd in checking rice and I'M
morality. Witness New Orleans,
(Which we treated at length in our
last issue, No. ESQ.
In the most Catholic ciiy iR
America" ," a city where it is claimed
81 per cent of the population IS
Roman Catholic. and which has
gloried in the fact that since its
very foundation. far back in colon
!al days, the Roman church has
dominated society, We find today in
New Orleans, after all these cen
turieS Of Roman Catholic religious
training the largest rice area Of
any city ia America.
Her houses Of evil fame il placed
side by side on a single street,
Tould hare a frontage of about
fire miles, aud this most Cath
oiic city Of America" not only
legalises prostitution, but has TIC
CrH distinction Of being the only
municipality Whcr" directory II
rice, called The Blue BOOK, is pub
iiShed for The convenience Of moral
degenerdtcS and psrrertS.
Mexico, an Object Lesson
Mexico's civilization grew up by
the side of our Protestant Demo-
cratic civilization. 1t was planted
by the Spanish when Spain. the
richest and most powerful nation Of
Europe, was industriously destroy
ing all freedom of thought at the
behest of the Roman Catholic church
and her so-called Holy Inquisi-
tion,"-was in fact opening her
veins and letting out all the best
blood Of the realm. For more than
three hundred and ffiy years Rome
not only had the religious and edu-
Cdtiondl training Of the Mericdas
completely in her hands. but until
the revolt of the people, during the
meridian period OF the last century,
her constitution prohibited any
other religion being taught or
preached in McTico. Today orer
% per cent Of the Mericdn populd.
ton is HOmiHalIy Roman Catholic.
Mexico affords an excellent ex-
ample of what untrammeled Roman
Catholic training has produced in
the New World.
In Mexico. the Roman church.
though fabulously rich and well
able to splendidly educate the peo-
pie, left the masses in dense ignor-
snce and superstition. What we
have witnessed in Mexico during the
past four years is not the fruit Of
Eon-Sectdridn education. but the re-
suit of centuries Of Roman Cath
oic religious training.
Portugal, an Object Lesson
In like manner Portugal, before
the recent revolt against kingcraft
and priestcraft afforded a similar
example of Roman educational train
ing in the Old World. At the time
Of the recent revolution in that
country western civilization was
amazed when the facts we're given
TO the public relating to the general