The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1916-09-23
CRIME AND ROMAN CATHOLIC TRAINING
Startling FactsResus of ROmes Religious TranngRecOrds
New York Prisons Show Rome Represented by Overwhelming
Majority in Penal Institutions While Less Than One-Thrd
of States Population is Catholic

the tongue Of man frame an Indictment which
would more conyincingly indicate the appalling
influence Of the religious training and education
that flows from the papal system, than this sta
ustical data which shows that with a million less
than one-thlrd Of the population Of the state.
Rome furnishes twenty-seyen hundred and seven
convicts 10 where the non-Catholic population
numbering far more than two-thirds Of the whole
population is represented by two thousand one
hundred and forty-fve.
Catholic Influence In Old and New World
The population Of New York state has for
generations, been perceptibly swelled by immi-
grafton from various European lands During
recent years great numbers Of Russian, Polish
and Hungarian Jews have fed TO our shores As n
refuge from Old World religious persecution and
discrimination; while in conformity with the
Jesutical world plan Of making america domi-
nanty Roman Catholic" large influx Of immi-
grants have come from countries where for hum
dreds Of years the Roman Catholic religion has
dominated state and people, and where education
has for the most part been entirely under control
of the Roman church. These immigrants there
FORE reflect or represent the influence Of the Ro-
man church, for generations. They have come
TO our land bearing the heritage Of centuries Of
koman Catholic religious education and training.
The Legitimate fruitage of Roman Catholic in
luence. and in this respect differing from the
Hebrews, Scandinavians Protestant Germans
and other non-Roman Catholic immigrants who
Tor the most part quickly enter the melting pot
OF democracy and become loyal and enthusiastic
friends OF the fundamental principles Of our lib
eral government
True, large proportion Of the Catholics Of
the Empire State are Americans or have come
from liberal Protestant lands, but here again
they have had Roman Catholic training, and for
the most part, parochial schooling.
That the amazing prepOnderance of Roman
Catholics IN the state penitentiaries Of New York
is not In any degree due to the effect Of the pub
lie schools on the Catholic children who have at
tended them, as the hierarchy would have the
public believe, is clearly proven from the fact
that II such were the case the state prisons would
swarm with Protestants Hebrews and other nom
Catholics whose early years are practically all
spent at the public school and who come from
those who constitute considerably more than two
thirds of the population of the state. The prison
showing so far as education is concerned clearly
indicates that the public school, besides being the
melting pot Of democracy is one Of the most
potent Influences for the Development of char
acter and ciric responsibility in the common
UeaH.
These statistical facts furthermore clearly and
Sharply indicate that there must be a very close
between Roman Catholic religious
and educational training, and the overwhelming
proportion of Roman Catholics in the state
prisons.
Let your mind digest these facts and then ell
your neighbor's attention to them. There is more
than a million less than one-third Of the popula-
ton out Of jail in New York that is Roman Cath
olic, while the prison population is more than
one-fourth greater than that furnished by the
more than two-thirds non-Catholic population.
Meet Roman Pretense With Logic Of Facts
From now on an important work rests with all
upholders Of our liberal democracy. The sys-
tematic campaign Of false pretenses which po-
litical Romanism has been so long and 50 vigor-
ousy carrying forward, must be met by q per.
sistent array of facts which will prove the utter
falsity of every claim being advanced by the Ro-
man Catholic hierarchy and its representatives
with the object of discrediting and undermining
BUR great liberal democracy and our splendid
school system.
When cardinal, bishop. priest, knight or
ancient prates of the protection offered society by
the Roman church from the criminal classes, call
the attention of the public 70 such facts as are
shown in the prison statistics of the Empire
State. Even the most slow thinking citizen will
appreciate the worthleSSneSs Of such claims when
he finds that Rome with more than a million less
than One-third Of the population OF New York
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