The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-10-07
A ROMANIST STAGES
HIERARCHY'S BOGIE
Motion Picture Scheme Would Lead
10 inference Wilson !, ReIpOu-
ible for Alleged Persecution
Of Mexican Gerry
FILMS APPEALED TO PASSIONS
The Worlds Exposure Causes Fail
ure Of the Plan to Drag Re-
liE;On Into Politics

ig:On Into Politics
On September 18th, the New
York World with It's usual enter
prise aud keen scent for news SEN
cations laid bare a scheme that up
TO that hour had progressed smooth
IN and rapidly-a scheme that out
HerOds all previous contemplate
and disrcputable efforts 10 defeat a
president by uniustiiable inuen-
does, baseless inferencos and mis-
representations.
The scheme in its obviously In
tended ultimats result was worthy
Of the Jesuitical cunning that no
less than the moral obliquy shad-
owed forth in the doctrines OF
mental reservation" and the "end
justifies the meanI' has marked the
actions Of these incessant political
meddlers and trouble makers Of all
governments.
The facts as brought out, smack
Of political Romhnism at every step
as will be presently shown, but for
the moment we recur 10 the Worlds
exposures that cret ;ed consterna-
ton in the camp OF the plotters and
ultimately led to the discarding Of
the whole outrageous matter, but
nUs until enough had been dragged
into the light TO prove a boomerang
to all concerned. The film company
has dropped Hal Reid, and the
national committee, in view OF the
nationwide indignation expressed
by decent citizens, has decided in
the picturesque parlance OF the
street, to "can" the proposed pro-
duction.
A Story Of Shame
Briefly the facts are as follows
one Hal Reid, a Roman Catholic,
arranged with the Republican cam.
paign committee to produce q
scenario which would luridly por-
tray on the films the alleged out
RACES said to have been perpetrated
by bands Of revolutionary Mexican
soldiers during the past few years
These II was intended to connect
with the president Of the United
States, BY implication and with al
the subtle power Of illustrations un
iustifiably associated, with the OBJ
vious purpose Of appealing to th'
passions Of uniformed and un
thinking people in such q way as I,
lead them to regard President Will
son as responsible for alleged out
RACES such as too frequently occu
during revolutionary periods il
lands that have for centuries beer
under the iron heel Of hierarchica
or political despotisms.
To the thoughtful student Of his
tory the outrages alleged to hav
taken place are profoundly instruct
i've and suggestive, showing as the
DO the real trsitdgs Of four hundre
!. years of Roman Catholic despotiSm
Roman Catholic religious training
education and oppressive goperr
ment. Here is q land in which tn
Roman Catholic church, save dur
ing brief intervals, has completed
dominated the government and tn
people.
Until the adoption Of the Laws q
Reform no religion but the Roma
Catholic ras permitted BY the cor
s'itution 10 Be preached or tlugL
in Mcrico phils the education {
the people WdS Vholly IN the hand
Of e church. There are less tina
6 per cent OF Protestants in tn
alton Of Mexico; and vet v
i After four hundred years {
ic rule, the people in the m,
period Of the last centur
the opening years Of Ii
, -Oyent century evincing a hatre
for the hierarchy and the prizes
hood that finds no parallel in moe
ern Protestant lands, while the col
tempt for the persons Of the nur
)es well as the priests, il tiths Z
%the lurid stories which the HE
nrchy has been disseminating al
true, afford a startling illustratio
of the results Of paroehidl sohooliE
and Roman CGihoic religious ed
cdtiondl truining, that should not
lost upon the American public.
Rome's Bogie Revamped