The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-10

the Reformation. II was only with dinieulty that
the police were able to prevent riot.
September IL, 1918, Rev. Jeremiah ]. Crovisy
Was prevented from speaking at the opera hsus. In
New Lexington. Ohio, BY Roman Catholic mob whose
prepa5auon M for riot was g giant-liLs e 70 over
In his inalienabls constitutional rights.
November 7, 1918. at Carbondals. PsnnsyIvania,
after 500 citizens had quietly assembled in the
maniSm. two thousand Roman Catholic enemies Of
free speech, attacked the building, hurlIng stones
through the windows and injuring numksr Of per.
sons notably the guard at the door. who knocked
down and brutaly beaten before the chief Of polIcs
was able to rescue him.
February q, 1914, Mr.. B. F. Daneey was billed
70 speak at Anoka, Minnesota, in answer 70 Bird 8.
Colers sttsek on the public schools. while enrouta
TO the hall, Mr. Dancey, and two friends were at
lacked lacked by Romanists. who installing one Of the
friends Tor the speaker. kidnapped him while Mr..
Dsneey was enabled to escape and gain police pro-
lection before the enemies Of the public schools ds
hall and tried to break down the door On February
10Th. when enroute to All another engagement at
the same place, Mr.; Danesy was waylad and kid
forcibly prevented him from delivering his address.
March %. 1914, the able Christian minister. Rev.
": II; Boes. while delivering q lecture In SPRING.
in the midst Of his Lecture and fisd ni 70 nSs Il. SoU.
1riss sustained were undoubtedly he saa.. q III.
able eiergyman's untimely death. The knights Of
Columbus had tried TO prevent Mr.. Boles from Sc
curing han In which to lecture. Falling In this.
tuc muIueFoub hbenuit followed.
March ~, 1914, the same night upon which the
outrage. was perpetrated on Mr.. Bolss the Rev.
BENJAMIN Clearmont while lecturina In Potsdan,
New York. was kidnapped on the way TO the hall,
and thrsstsn.d with ynehing and other bodily in
,nres nnls.s he swsrs % diueentnns his Lectures.
| " the epportnhe arrival Of the police.
April 5. 1914, Rev. Otis L. spurEecn, ven known
Baptist minister. while delivering q ssriss Of leo
lures on Romsnism. at Denver: Colorado. was Md
his room at the Pierce Hotel, dragged to waiting
automobile, taken about twenty miles into the coun-
sh'.s ' taken I The .: %sh, stripped
killed. The criminal ruiians after robbinK him. Ieft
him more dead than alive. When found By hia
death.
April 2, 1914. Rev. I; J. King. while delivering q
government at the First Baptist church. JaeLSoH.
Michigan; had his services interrupted By mob Of
Roman Catholics and was compelled to call on police
mob and his police escort was woundsdi much m
Jury ,ury was & zone 70 the property. Similar outrages
April rs, 1914, Rev. A. E. Barnett distin ruisb.d
Philadslphi, elsrEymsn. while lseturing at Grace
Methodist Episcopal church. at Buffalo, was at
tackled BY a mob Of Roman Catholics. after the
Columbus. The windows Of the building wsr. de- S
s ,rcysd Dy "'1rs and squad Of police found dif-
until b, essa Sc Sc escorted 70 sAs la1 place Of safety
May IL, 1914, Anna NJ. Lowry, ex-nun and pn-
triotie speaker was arrested at Wlnona Minnesota,
on complaint Of the Romanists and tried on the
charge Of using obscene language IN her speech The
Objectionable language verbatim quotations from
| the book OF instructions used In preparing Roman
Catholic prieats to examine women and girls In the
January -. 1915, Rev. w. L. Brandon was driven
| from one hall which he had rented In Appleton.
Wisconsin. and went with his audience to another
hall and was arrested without warrant at the In
stigaton Of Romanists put In prison and refused
February :. islS. Rev. william Black l.e.ursd on
Texas; On the evening Of the Sd. Mr. Black was
waited upon at his room in the hotel by Ave we'll
Ing that night and ordered him to leave town. On
his refusing to yield his rights as American etI-
Ty ,ssss q 'ss sS HE WAS BRu
September. 1915, when the delegates to the Amsrl-
can Federation Of Patriotic Societies arrived In
Dayton Ohio. where they had been invited to come
promised hall to hold their meetings in they found
every syailsbls hall In the city including the audi.
the instance and request Of the Roman Catholics.
Finally some patriotic MAsOns procured the use Of
November. 1915, after the Department Of Justics
Of the United States Of America had been practically
hlaekmailsd into securing Indictment against
the Federal Court at Augusta, Georgia. on the pre-
tended charge OF sending obscene literature through
the malls IN his mseazinss This alleged Obsesnity
Latin Of the questions which the greatest of All
Roman Catholic theoogians. st. Alphonsus Ligouri.
prescribed for priests TO ask girls and women in
the confessional The jury failed to agree. standing
ten to two In favor Of Mr.. Watson. ~
January, 1918, Marvin Brown. w. F. Phelps and
Theodore Walker, owners and publshers Of The
Menace and The Menace newspaper itself were nut
upon trial in the Federal Court at Joplin Missouri
on the rumped w charge Of sending obscene matter
through the mails. This indictment was procured
BY the bAckmailing tactics Of the Roman hierarchy
and all the principal Witnesses for the prosecution
for they had only published the truth about Rome.
March 1876 Dr.. Joseph Siattery, Of Boston, while
Guardians Of Liberty at the Boulevard Masonic Hail.
| Chicago. was the victim Of typical Roman Cath
Ollie mob. who with cries Of xiii hmi" kill hlml
broke up the meeting and assAiled prominent eth
gems. Among the wounded, Chas. r. Young, mem-
Der Of the board Of education was q victim Of Ro-
man Catholic who carried brass knucks. prizes.
| was prominent among this mob Of criminals wha
took this fayorte method Of the papal subjects "a
demonstrate their idea Of liberation and abhorrenee
/ Of religious prejudice.
Of ten thousand Knights Of Columbus and other
i props Of the hierarchy in Cardinal O'Connsll'r
archdiocese gave very typical exhibition Of Cath
ehe loyalty to the constitution Of the United Staten
while emphasizing anew iust what the members q
DR.. Pailons church and oath-bound organization
mean when they pirate about religious liberation and
Catholic loyalty to our government On this Oeca-
sion the Rev: Thsmas 3. Lsyden had been granted
n permit to lecture the public schools and plead
for the proposed constitutional amendment % pre.
vent the appropriation Of pablie funds for see
tartan inltitutiong. The knights Of C0lnmbus did
not ,rh Dr. Lsytsn T. b psrnited % dlacuaa these
vital dasstions before the electorate q Massaehussl
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