The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-08-25

If1I bring the blush OF shame 70
1sIal the face Of every true Amer
E0I ican In the land; q story that
I---A should stir with righteous In
dignation the warm blood Of every
Methodist from ocean TO ocean;
story that should cause the sleeping
Protestant millions To shake OF the
deadly ietharRy thrown over them BY
the MunchhAussn-ltke lullaby Of the
Jesuiieal knights Of Columbus; .
story that every patriot should read
to his sons and daughters to show
them Just how the organised papal
hierarchy with the Judas hss upon
her lips 10 bstraying the republic TO
the arch enemy Of Christian liberty
and fundamental democracy. -
The True American Position
Before chronicling this latest out
rage In the more than monthly ex-
hibiticn Of the papal systems deter
mined war against our constitution
we would utter O word Of caution, or
warning to all true Americans. =.
Let US never allow righteous indig-
nation or our zeal for the sacred
cause of liberty and progress under
democracy to % blind our reason and
Judgment that we shall lose sight Of
the system, or the cause, and center
our indignation upon individuals who
are to Q greater or less degree merely
the victims Of the same uberty-de'
stroviny. Notwithstanding hier.
archal system; and above all Let VI
guard against the poison Of hate
which is as morally destructive ant
disintegrative in It's influence ovel
the higher nature % Is the niost
deadly gas destructive to physica
life. =,
Az love and liberty are at thu
zenith Of spiritual life and growth
30 hate and intolerance are at thu
nadir. Herein lies the master though
of the Sermon on the Mount, thu
most vitalizing spiritual rnessag.
that has been given to the world
Christ's summary Of the law Of LII
embodying the golden rule Is ant
ever must be the beacon light Of eve
moving progressi because 1t en-
thrones love and leaves no place To-
hate. The whole hearted acceptanc
of the fathsrhood Of God and tn
brotherhood Of man under the law o
liberty makes the individual at one
the embodiment Of moral strength
and courage and the manifeEtatio1
Of love and tolerance for others
which found It's most perfect expires
sion In the life and teachings Of tn
great Nazarene.
The Greater Glory Of the Re
public
The glory Of our gyeat Protestan
dernocracy--the one thing that ha
made It the most enlightened an
progressive liberal governmer
known to time ID found In the fac
that it, more than any other natiol
has embodied the spirit Of the Golde
Rule, or the Sermon on the Mount 2
against the monarchial and hierarcf
al despotic spirit that has animate
ali autocratic nations or hierarchie
So while we read the following stor'
and ali the stories Of shame whic
a, are marking Rome's hste-inspire
war against our Fundamental D.
nocracy, her index promoting cel
sorship, her cruel and un-America
boycotting and her exhibition
mobocracy and criminal lawlesSnei
let us, while dedicating our lives
the salvation and preservation Of OF
constitutional rights and the mo
vital principles Of our imperial IL
eral Democracy, resolutely deterniir
70 guard against imbibing the san
spirit Of hate 30 boldly In evidence
this entire campaign Of political X
manism against Fundamental D
mocracy and which we find 80 stril
ingly illustrated in the story we o.
about to relate. Let LOVE q
LIBERTY be our invincible battl
cry. We must be bold as truth d
nands and aggressive as justice :
ouires; yet let Us proceed with mail.
toward none and with charity for a
with these thoughts In mind '
turn TO the papal hierarchy's late
exhibition Of its age-long spirit OF
tolerance.
Politico-E ecclesiastical Romanisl
Again On Exhibition
In this latest chapter in Rome
iawless campaign to substitute q
papal for the democratic theory
- government we have a less spectac
lar exhibition Of mobocracy al
criminal lawlessness than was Civ
America by Cardinal 0'ConnelPs L
thousand Knights Of Columbus 81
parochial school products at Have
hill, Massachusetts, but In the pre-
bnt story we have perhaps the mo
comprehensive and Illuminating e
hibiticn Of the perfect working Of I
Roman Catholic system or the pol
W.. ..,laoia akinai Y,aaehiy,A n ho fan,