The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-11-11

anoes OF the pope given in the Bos-
ton Plot in its issue Of December
25th, 1915.
When we have the fountain head
OF present day pspacy, the present
pope and his immediate predecessor
giving such vicious examples Of re-
ligious prejudice and intolerance, It
Is not strange that faithful sons Of
the church in America hold our laws
in such contempt that from week
10 week they give us impressive
lessons in what il would mean IL
Roman Catholics should succeed in
their campaign Of making America
"dominantly Catholic"
Fifty years ago the Molly Ma
guires all Of whom we're members
OF the Roman Catholic Ancient Or
der Of Hibernians terrorized a por-
tion Of Pennsylvania with a yerit-
able carnival Of cold-blooded mur-
der. This group or militant Ro-
man Catholics, however, confined
their criminality TO a comparative
ly small section Of the land.
In recent years the Knights Of
Columbus have been apparently
competing for evil eminence with
this criminal band Of earlier days
inAsmuch as they have been playing
most prominent part in the ma
tion-wide campaign Of criminal law
lessness, mobocracy, murderous as
sault, and murder which has marked
the Roman Catholic aggressive war
being waged against freedom Of
speech, press, and assembly. This
campaign Of criminal lawlessness
which has extended from ocean 20
ocean, and from the Lakes TO the
Gulf has been supplemented by the
American Federation Of Catholic
Societies pernicious activity in pro-
noting press censorship by boycott
and other well-known papal meth
DDS. Indeed, il it had not been for
the success Of this dastardly at
tempt to establish the Roman In
dex in the sanctum Of the American
secular press the systematic cam
paign Of mobocracy and murderous
assault INDUCED in by Roman
Catholics in recent years would
never have been possible in our re-
public.
THE MENACE through its i'm
mense circulation has happily been
able to bring before millions Of
Americans these persistent exhibi-
tions Of criminal lawlessness that
are in evidence from week TO week
and so great has been its influence
in this respect that in many OF lhe
more recent instances, notably the
Roman Catholic riots in Chicago,
Illinois and Haverhill, Massachu-
setts, last spring the secular press
was practically forced to take cog
nizance Of the outrages. 1t is our
duty and purpose from week to week
to furnish our readers with these
histories Of papal outrages against
law order and popular rights.
This week we have to report two
more typical examples of Roman
Catholic contempt for law and or
der and opposition TO our FEDER-
AL CONSTITUTIONS guaran-
tees.
' Democracy VS.. Romanism
In the city Of Cleveland, Ohio,
on October 9th, Rome gave a start
ling example Of the difference be-
tween the result Of our democratic
free school education and that Of
Roman Catholic parochial school
training. On this evening arrange
ments had been made for a debate
at the Baptist church on West 25th
street between Mrs. Slattery and
Miss Nelson, the latter a Roman
Catholic. According to the ar
rangement, Miss Nelson was to open
the debate. The audience seemed
to be very evenly divided between
loyal Americans and Romanists.
During Miss Nelson's address the
patriotic Americans in the audience
reflected the influence Of our public
schools and liberal democratic con-
stitution by giving the speaker their
respectful attention. On the other
hand, as soon as Mrs. Slattery COM
menced TO speak the children Of
Rome began to reflect the spirit Of
the infallible head Of their church
and the baleful result Of Roman
Catholic parochial training by re-
fusing to permit Mrs. Slattery to
reply TO Miss Nelson. They created
such an uproar that not only was
the meeting broken up but police
were compelled to arrest five Of the
leaders Of the Roman riot. The facts
OF this outrage were carefully sup
pressed by the daily press Of Cleve-
land, though no sane person ac-