The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-10-28
Distinguished Author and Lee.
turer Victim Of Boycott
Citizens Deprived Of News
atCommand of Hierarchy
MORE PAROCHIAL TRAINING
Ministers Of the Gospel at Silver
ton Are BrutaIlJ Assaulted
aud Later Kidnapped

"10ME has been again exhibit
N ing her age-long spirit Of re-
H. bellious bigotry and intol-
49, erance by employment OF the
boycott in a manner tantamount to
abridgement Of freedom Of The press,
and BY exhibiting mobocracy and
criminal lawlessness in her relent-
less war on other great and funda-
mental guarantees Of our ORGAN
&c LAW-frssdOm Of speech and
assembly.
This week we have two more typ
zeal exhibitions Of the legitimate
and inevitable result Of Roman
Catholic parochisl training in fos-
tering and keeping alive Rome's
age-long spirit Of religious preju-
dice, intolerance, and bigotry which
defy law and order-training which
is today blossoming into sinister
determined and defiant war on the
bedrock principles Of our FEEDER
AL NONO Il " Il AAOANs
The Blight Of Centuries
The curse and blight Of priestly
boycott which wherever Rome has
ruled has destroyed that freedom Of
thought and expression which is
absolutely essential 10 intellectual
development and full-orbed civili-
ration is today being employed in
our Protestant land.
One Of the striking illusHations
OF the fundamental antagonism be-
tween the Roman Catholic system
and that Of liberal Protestant de-
mocracy is found In the Index on
the one hand and in the guarantees
of freedom Of speech, press and as
sembly of our FEDERAL CON-
STITUTI0N on the other. Rome
prohibits wherever and whenever
she has the power that freedom Of
thought and expression which is the
handmade Of progress and the chief
glory Of liberal democracy. Thou
shalt not read criticisms Of the Ro-
man church or her teachings" is the
fundamental position held by the
Papal See in regard to her subjects.
The democratic system on the other
hand holds that an the erueibls Of
free discussion ps find the gold Of
truth" Rome's refusal to let her
children read or think for them
selves has continually checked
scientific advancement, intellectual
development, and broad culture in
Roman Catholic lands.
II the papacy confined her per-
nicious restrictions and prohibitions
to her own children it would be bad
enough, but when her priests, her
knights, and her ancients undertake
to prohibit the Protestant millions
Of our democracy from hearing in
public assembly, and reading in the
press the criticisms Of political &C.
clesiastical Romanism, as she did in
st. Louis when she prevented Gen.
eral Nelson A. Miles from obtain
ing a hall in which to address the
people; as she is doing all over the
land in censuring reports of ad-
dresses by brilliant and powerful
speakers when they point out the
political activity OF Rome; as she
did in the recent typical outrage
which we are about to describe
Then she becomes a deadly menace
10 fundamental democracy, and as
such must be sternly combatted by
every man and woman who cares
aught for that freedom that has
made the progressive, liberal lands
the greatest leaders and light-bear-
ers Of civilization.
Present Day Priestly Boycott
On September 26th, Augustus
Conrad Ekholm delivered a schol-
arly address entitled, "Despotism
Democracy and Destiny" at the
High School Auditorium at Sham
okin, Pennsylvania. Mr.. Ekholm is
the able author Of one Of the very
vital books Of the hour entitled,
"Christianity's Greatest Peril" He
is a high-minded Christian gentle
man, a writer and a speaker of
marked ability. On the following
day the Shamokin Daily Herald
published a favorable notice Of the
meeting from which we extract the
following:
Ths lecture given In the Auditorium