The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-03-03

In America
lanswerable array Of the highest au-
thorities on cannon law and interna-
tional law:
| (a) The pope occupies throne ideH-
tical IN all essentials scith those occupied
by other rnondrchs.
(O The pope toeGrs an Official croscn,
kMotOB a. tho Tiara, or tySpls oro1On, a. q
token Of his soverefgn posuer.
(c) The Itdlidn lao Of popdi CwordRtses
Of Mdy IS, 1871, expressly reseTvss and 40
cords to the pope the TGnk and prero0Gtives
OF O sovereign prince.
(d) The highest Roman Catholic au-
tkoTities, Including popss and oses,msnicaI
councils clGim for The pope si,prsms and
preeninent sovereignty throughout the
tpoYld.
(sJ Nearly an nations mairtais diple-
matte ENJOYS at the vGtieon, and the pope
sends ambassadors ktoscH az RHssoios to
many Of the nations.
| ID The pope makes treaties, knoapR az
| (g) Writers IN all languages on intsrna-
tional la,D declare that the pope Is stu
sovereign prince and potentGte.
He concluded his arguments ON this
greatest political issue in the world
by alleging and proving as a second
main proposition that:
EVERY PRELATE, PRIEST AND
MEMBER OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH IS A POLITICAL SUBJECT
OF THE POPE AND Is BOUND TO HIM
by TIES OF ALLEGIANCE WHICH
PRECLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF
TRUE ALLEGIANCE TO ANY CIVIL
GOVERNMENT.
The speaker concluded his address
with the following statement:
The Roman Catholic church is strictly
imperilm IN imperio. II is q mighty e.
cleGasical empire. For thirteen hundred
years it has been ruled by the most arhi-
trary, unblushing, cruel and red-handed
despots that have ever scomged, and
bhghted the human race.
A Unique Monster
II has stood since the seventh century a.
unique monster In the politics Of the
world. Its anathemAs and maledictiens
have sent the purest and nohlest Of Chris
tian heroes in vast thrungs 10 the stake,
and deluged the earth with the blood Of pa
triots and martyrs.
The ascendency Of tho pspal system has
uniformly brought ignorance. degradation
and ruin 10 the masses Of the peoplA For
hundreds Of years Il has retarded tha prog
ress Of southern Europe In science. htara-
ture and civil liberty and has shadowed
with the pail of its cruelty and supersti-
ton the fairest lands on that continent.
Some Of these peoples are now escaping
from the long nightmare Of oppression and
arc claiming for themselves the rights in
herent In every human creature.
Since the discovery Of the New World the
papacy has dominated and plundered the
major portion Of this hemisphere, Today
the lands are as fertile, the mines as rich,
the climate more salubrious and the aeenery
as picturesque south Of the Rio Grande as
north Of that stream; but public education,
civil and religious liberty and the aehisye-
ments Of the people In the highest and
purest and best elements Of modern eiviliza-
ton in the United States and Canada have
astonished and delighted the world, whila
in countries south Of the Rio Grande ffty
to ninety percent of the people can neither
read nor write. Under the sway Of the
popes, manhood has been perverted. wornan-
ruined as natural and inevitable rasults or
the political and social policy and instatn-
lions Of the papaey.
!, IAppeals To Red -Blooded Americans
By pouring its degraded Millions Of Inn
: migrants into our country, by fabulous vol
unes Of revenue swept into It's coffars frem
: our national, state and municipal treasures,
by seizing and strangling our public school
systems, usurping our public Offices, strik-
ing down freedom Of the press, and. BY riot,
terrorism and murder, and silencing public
discussion, the papal empire Is deliberately
extending into our country its political sys-
tenn that has 20 long scourged and devas-
tated the world. To resist this invasion !
appeal 10 the manhood Of the republic.
appeal to its wonanhood. ] appeal In de-
tense of its childhood. In defense Of our
Q schools, our churches, our homes and cur
0 liberties. OF the $4,000 900 votera In the
S United States, fully 16,0Q0,000 ara AmSri-
n cans at heart and should be actively pro
noting this great patriotic defensive up
8 rising.
A The circulation Of the distinctively Amer
y lean and patriotic newspaper press should
be augmented TO multiplied millions, The
churches from Maine to California must be
d aroused. Our Christian and patriotic cit
8 iZenship must be deeply stirred. We must
marshal the yeomanry Of the nation in such
1 numbers and determination as viii sweep
the political power Of the Roman system
! from this republic and leave our country
free to add to the marvellous record OF the