The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-03-03
Especial correspondence from Dstroit.l

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On Sunday February 18th, Detroit,
Michigan, witnessed the second great
patriotic mass meeting since The
Menace uncovered Rome's strangle-
hold upon the city, its press and its
public activities.
Hon. j. I. Sheppard at the Light
Guard Armory sounded the keynote
Of the New Reformation in power
full and compellingly convincing ad-
dress that will be long remembered in
this city; and on Sunday, February
18th, Judge Gilbert o. Nations, the
vice-president of The Free Press De-
fense League delivered another dis
tinctly great utterance in Arcadia,
Detroits most beautiful public hall
an address that thrilled to the high
est pitch of enthusiasm the great
audience that thronged the audi
torium.
Never before had the menace of
political Romanism been more i'm
pressively presented than in the mas
terly array Of sinister facts effective
ly marshalled by this eloquent orator,
author and publicist-when showing
what the Roman Catholic political
machine has already accomplished in
hefnational capital while the friends
of liberal democracy slept. And never
before was the meaning Of papal SOW.
ereignty and its deadly antagonism
to fundamental democracy more
clearly, impressively, or unanswer-
ably presented than in this mastery
and statesmanlike address.
The great audience commenced as
sembling an hour before the time for
the lecture and when the speaker was
introduced he faced more than ,2500
eager, serious, earnest and thought
full faces. Judge Nations was at his
best and his telling points called for
thunderous applause. At times the
enthusiasm Of the audience was un-
bounded, reminding one of great his
toric and political gatherings when
the deepest convictions Of thinking
thousands have been stirred to their
profoundest depth.
The feeling of those present who
had attended the two great meetings
was that such speeches as those OF
the Hon. ]. /. Sheppard and Judge
Gilbert 0. Nations will arouse our
sleeping nation and save the i'm
periled republic from the gravest
menace that has confronted the ma
ton since its birth. An abstract of
Judge Nations address follows:
nl EFORE stating papal claims to SOW
IYHI ereign power, / wish to consider
uy briefly some phases of Roman Cath
ESI olic activity in the politics Of the
United States. Citizens of this
country have no adequate conception of the
pernicious but insidious political ag.
gressions Of Rome at the capital of the ma
ton.
The very atmosphere Of the District Of
Columbia Is surcharged with Roman Cath
olic political ideals and purposes. Just
across the Potomac on Virginia hill near
the beautiful Arlington Cemetery fol
United States soldiers, stands the great
wireless telegraph station Of the United
States navy, said to be the greatest plant
Of the kind on earth. Beside this wonder.
\ full establishment is the country club of the
! Knights of Columbus. This militant army
Of papal fanatics, whose career has been 50
marked by riot, terrorism ana murder, il
thus fortified In strategical position from
which hostile artillery could reduce the cap.
ital city to ruins in few hours. Another
commanding elevation in the northwest part
of the District of Columbia is crowned with
the massive buildings of Roman Catholic
Georgetown University, while still more
picturesque group of hills to the northeast
Is covered by the still more imposing archi-
lecture of the great Catholic University OF
America. In the southeast division of the
y capital city, distant one block from the mar
Bile Office building Of the house of represen.
tatives, and two blocks from the capito
building, and covering city block, is the
Roman Catholic Providence Hospital. Tc
this hospital there have been appropriated
from time to time public funds out of the
treasury of the United States aggregatine
1892, ,699.50.
A Stronghold Of Citadels
So on each Of its four corners the capital
Of the nation is frowned upon by a power
ful Roman Catholic citadel. It. may bt
purely accidental that these institutions Of
The papal system occupy locations SO strate
hical, but the situation thus created vel
Deserves the serious consideration Of al