Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02

| the u. S. Next they ENDORSED the
pope's peace plans and sent him a
| telegram to that effect and then they
| passed resolution telling of their
| loyalty to the U. S. government.
Looks pretty much like carrying
| water on both shoulders to me but ii
may satisfy Mr.. Hummel. Finally
| this great convention adopted slo-
gan. What was this slogan--in view
of their expressions of undying 10y
atty it should have been America
First or some such thing, but was
it? While our country was in the
throes of a great world war what
was their slogan-why it was, "Ev-
cry Catholic child in a Catholic
school,! While we are concerned ov-
err war they strike at our great pub
lie school system. God help the
American people of every creed to
see the treachery of this act.
All Of us are more or less famil-
lar with the way in which the Ro-
man Catholic church gets money
from the public treasury for their
hospitals, homes and orphanages,
but it might surprise some to know
that their fingers are itching to get
hold of some of the money collected
for the Red Cross, SO / will quote
you an excerpt from the Kansas
City Star of Friday, Aug. "a. Cath
Ollie Women to Feed Soldiers" is the
heading of the article in large type.
Read down the column and see
where the joker comes in, my friend
Hummel. About the middle Of the
article it appears: "The women will
ask $4,000 from the Red Cross in
order to carry out their plans" Six
thousand dollars from the Red Cross
still it is a Catholic charity.
Wonder what the Red Cross will do
if the Methodist ladies and the Bap-
fist ladies and the Lutheran ladies
and the Mormon ladies and the
Christian Science ladies all try to
dip their fingers in the Red Cross
funds-or is this to be limited
strictly to Roman Catholic ladies?
Mr.. H. also tells of the war work
being done by the K. C.'s. Well, the
Knights should have given the Cath
Ollie ladies the $4,000 that they paid
Mr.. Peter Collins during the past
year and let the Red Cross funds
alone. AS for their work in the
camps, the Y M. c. A. was already
doing splendid work. They were
already trained and on the ground.
AS strictly non-sectarian agency,
why did not the X. c. give their
money through this organization in
stead of duplicating work that was
already being done? They also
made much of their purchase of lib
erty bonds. Well, all of the big or
CARNATIONS bought heavily of liberty
bonds. They are good investment
1t is not very patriotic thing to
make paying investment.
The Roman church once "dominat-
ed Italy. Where is Italy in the
scale of nations? She dominated"
Mexico. Her Cody schools were
the only schools that the Mexican
child had access to. My, what a par
agon of morality and progress it has
made him! She dominated the
Philippines, and anyone can find out
the percentage of illegitimacy in
that country by looking up Stats
tics.
Finally, apply this test in your
own community, Mr.. Hummel. You
doubtless patronize most of the
Catholic socials, etc. Do they pat
ronize yours? The Protestant
churches opened their doors and let
Mr.. Collins. Knight of Columbus
professional lecturer, in. Could you
get them to open their church doors
to any lecturer (other than Roman
Catholic) on any subject? Take it
in the matter of the prohibitory
campaign Their archbishop has
said he was in favor of it, but here
in our town. if we want the Cath
Ollie people to hear the message OF
prohibition, we have to pay for
hall, as they will not go into
Protestant church.
These are some of the reasons |
have for fearing Roman Catholic
domination" of the capital. fear
to have our land laid waste, NOR
ally, mentally and physically as
Mexico has been. j fear the power
of hierarchy that insists upon med
ding in world politics. Mayhap /
am only voice crying in the will
derness, nevertheless / cannot keep