The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-06-10

hul 10 MS fellow members OF secret
oath bound politioo-rligious So
cietics, which have been recently
happily termed by a Massachusetts
Romanist politician a. "ihe props
Of the hierarchy"
Of course, the support Of Andy
by the secret papal societies and
the laity who were 80 cirrumstantial-
" informed by the Catholic paper
Of his fealty 10 Rome and her pa
rochial schools, was perfectly right
and proper and not an attempt to
bring the religious question into
politics or secure a solid cote Ubich
woUld tend 10 arouse religious
prejudice or bigoirv, this seems to
be taken for granted not only by
the Roman Catholic POLITICAL ma
chine, but By Us hdHdymsR IN The
censored press. while on the other
hand, when the upholders of the
fundamental democracy Of our con-
stitutiou-the democracy Of JeiTer-
son, Washington aud Lincoln, imi-
tate Rome by uniting and match
ing the Protestant vote against the
solid Roman vote that for years has
been ia cridencc an orer the land.
a wild vail is raised by the sub jecis
Of the pope. and their apologists.
because Protestants and democrats
dare to unite To uphold our magnifi-
cent non-sectarian school system
and the constitutional guarantees
Of absolute freedom Of speech. press.
religious discussion and assembly.
An that The patriots hare done
in 81. Louis. Kansas Ctr. 81. Paul,
Portland and elsewhere, Of late,
has been TO take leaf out of THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC BOOK OF
POLITICAL TACTICS. and imi-
tate political Romanism by uniting
at the polls. They have not stopped
to employ the m-Amcrican dcspotic
and contemplate weapon Of boycott,
and they have not violated the
spirit of our federal constitution by
seeking a censorship over the press.
What they have done. and all
that they have done is to make a
united stand for the election of men
pledged to support the basic prin-
ginlpe Of ,ur prr.,t -br,y.-g,,,t 1,I
eral democracy in the present war
which Rome is waging in govern
ment and out Of it, against free
press, free speech, free assembly
and free schools, against her at
tempt to substitute monarchial
bureaucratic power over the press
instead of democratic trial by jury,
and against her determined at
tempt TO secure public appropria-
tions for sectarian institutions in
open violation of the spirit Of our
constitution that provides for alb
solute divorce between church and
state, necessarily implying equal
rights TO all faiths and special priv
ilegeS to none.
All that the patriots seek to do,
or have sought to do is to protect
imperiled democracy from the polit-
ical aggressions Of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy. THEY HAVE
NOT INJECTED RELIGION
INTO POLITICS BUT ARE
SIMPLY STRIVING TO GET
SECTARIAN RELIGION OUT
OF POLITICS and prevent the
aggressive attempts of politico-ec-
clesiastical Romanism to substitute
the papal monarchial system of
government for our free democracy.
Before the Battle
While il is probable that the
archbishop and the most astute of
the knights and the Jesuits NAV
have sensed the disturbed condition
in the atmosphere and the keenest
watchers may have discerned a
cloud the size Of a mans hand ris-
ing on the political horizon. the
OregoHiaH and the rank and file Of
knights" and "Ancients" were in
as blissful ignorance Of the rising
tide of lofty patriotism in Oregon.
as was King George Ill, blind to
the temper Of the colonists at the
time Of the Boston Tea Party.
oregonian and Haverhill Riot
Some weeks ago something hap
pened in Massachusetts, which got
beyond the power Of the well trained
papal censors in Boston and New
England.
The Roman Catholic Knights Of
Columbus and other "props of the
hierarchy" in Cardinal 0'ConnelPs
archdiocese, relying on the past sue
cess Of the papal censorship over the
daily press in suppressing for the
most part. al news reports of the