The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-10-28

served.
No influence in our public life
since the foundation Of this rspub-
lie has been or is more sinister than
the censorship Of the press which
has crowned the successful campaign
that has been carried on BY the Ro-
man Catholic political machine
during the past quarter Of q cen
tury as a result Of this censorship in
the interest Of Rome the press is
today gagged and silenoed by means
Of boycott and other threats Of in
timidation whenever and wherever il
has dared 20 point out the ritdl DIFF
ference betWssH The pdpdl theory Of
government and that Of liberal de-
mocracy. or where il has given the
facts in regard 10 the organized po-
litical activity Of Rome against our
free schools and other bulUdrks Of
our free institutions. Democracy
draws her life from freedom. 1t is
as vital TO liberal institutions and
progressive society as is Oxygen 10
human life. All abuses and the
various forms Of despotism whether
under czar, kaiser, king, or pope
ever seek 10 establish censorship, or
prevent that publicity that is the
distinguishing glory Of free democ-
racy. IL our government is to re-
main truly free the boycott which
has for years been one OF Rome's
chief weapons in her un-American
and despotic attempt to subvert free
government and that other blight
ing, blasting, misunderstanding
curse-the lndeI-must be de-
stroyed.
Rome's campaign to "make Amer
lea dominantly Roman Catholic" by
substituting the papal for the dem
ocratic theory OF government in
cludes war on freedom Of speech
and Of assembly no less than CEN
sorship Of the press. We have had
occasion to chronicle the numerous
exhibitions Of mobocracy and Grim
inal lawlessness that have stained
the fair name Of this republic dur
ing the past year. Month by month
/ the lawless children Of Rome give
startling illustrations Of the menace
Of parochial schools. One Of the
latest Of these typical examples OF
the spirit Of the church which after
blighting Europe and all but ex-
tinguishing civilization by the In.
QUESTION, boasts that she nersr
changes, was in evidence in Silver.
ton, Oregon, on September 18th of
the present year.
Minister Brutally Assaulted
On this occasion the victims OF
Roman Catholic mobocracy and
criminal lawlessness were two Chris
tian ministers, Rev. James E. Fray,
and Rev. Berry, his assistant. The
meetings were progressing in an or
derly manner as should be the case
in a republic, when a mob tres
passed on the premises, broke up the
meeting and brutally assaulted Rev
Berry who was knocked down and
struck in the face several times.
The ministers initiated Christ by
refusing to retaliate. They not
only declined to strike back but ut
tered no harsh words against the
assailants though they called on God
for help. In this they afforded a
bold contrast between the course OF
the true followers Of Christ and
that of the followers Of the great
hierarchy which is in so real a way
a re-embodiment OF pagan Rome
that hierarchy which is today seek.
ing to supplant our liberal democ.
racy with the political, ecclesiastical
despotism Of papal Rome.
This mob was led by a papal too
who recently circulated a petition
for the erection Of a Roman Cath.
olic church at Silverton. At about
five o'clock the two ministers were
kidnapped, taken out Of town to a
little station on the S. P. R.R., an1
left with a warning to keep away
from Silverton.
The Rev. Fray was arrested on a
trumped-up charge Of vagrancy
Attorney j. E. Hosmer, former
editor Of the Silverton Journal
who himself has suffered at the
hands of the Silverton papists was
retained by Rev. Fray, while friend:
Of the evangelist and a few patriotic
citizens are assisting. The locaI
court will have the opportunity tc
decide whether Silverton is ruled
BY the mob Of Rome, or the civil
law Of our republic.
The spirit of the Molly Mcguire.
is rampant in the church Of Rome
as this outrage again reminds us
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