The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-06-30
TOBEUNPOPULARWAR
SAY PR|EST-ED|TORS
Nations With Which America
Has Linked Her Destiny
Subjected to SnarIs Of
Popery's Scribes
ENGLISH GOVT ASSAILED
Says EngIand's Attitude on "HOme
Rule" viii Make This War Un-
popuIar---ItaIy and France
Also Slurred

- HILE the paplst press Is
Wl manufacturing history and
leXSI printing fiction in an endeayor
H1RI to establish the loyalty OF Ro-
@ man Catholics, 1t Is equally
busy traducing this country's allies.
When Viviani and Balfour visit this
country on business in which France,
England and the United States are
equally interested, they are roundly
abused by the priest-edited sheets.
The pope's local agents hate these
men largely because they hate the
countries Of which they are illustrious
and typical citizens. Down deep in
their Jesuitical hearts they are eager
for Germany to overrun France as a
punishment for that nations repudia-
ton Of popery. They would gladly
see the women and children Of London
done to death with Zeppelin bombs
and the British Empire dismembered
to injure England which dared defy
popery and which has been aggravat-
ingly prosperous under Protestant
teaching and leadership.
These priest editors are very indig.
nant when the facts Of past and cur.
rent history are invoked to prove
their dislike Of democracy and their
continuous enmity toward the free in
stitutions Of our own and other coun'
tries. They are now raking this coun
try from coast to coast to obtain item!
that may reinstate them in the con
fdence Of the people; but they cam
resist the impulse to calumniate th'
men and nations associated with u
in war even though in SO doing the!
give reasonable aid and comfort II
this nations enemy. Note the follow
ing from the Brooklyn Tablet, an or
gan Of popery, in its issue Of Jun
IS:
The truth ID that no war against German
or any ether country that brings Englsnt
with its injusties 70 Ireland, ~ our ally CO
be popular IN this country.
Read that paragraph again, and &c
the full force Of Especially tn
conclusion 1t states and maintains
This country is at war with Ger
many, and has England for an ally
Therefore, according to this papis
editor, this war in which we are no,
engaged cannot be popular in tia
country. II publishing and circulat
ing such statements as that Is nc
treason, 1t Is so close to 1t as to CIV
palpable aid and comfort to this ma
ton's avowed enemies.
It Is a typical instance Of the Wis
fathering the thought. France ha
officially repudiated popery, and Ems
land is officially Protestant. When on
country joins with them In q struggl
to make the world safe for demo'
racy, the pope's agents would deligf
In nothing 50 much as to see th
allies efforts come to naught, an
have our own country defeated in o.
der to punish Its allies. In fact, the
would be only too glad to see an
diversion or disaster in this countr
that would give them a stronger hol
Note these further religious" r.
marks from the same article:
II Lord Northeilns deesnt control 4
newspapers Of America, then some 9th
nineompoop with an English title does. r
have been printing iiss--mads In England.
{ Now, isn't that sweet? What
I favor Of sweet charity and religic
permeates all the political perpetr
! tons Of these pope-controlled sheet
How much worse would It be for Il
American papers to print lies ma,
In England than 1t Is for such papi
sheets as the Tablet to print lies /
vented in Italy and everywhere? No
this tid-bit from the same article:
The Irish Of ireland have transplantsd h,
their hate of England.
That ID, the Irish Of South Irelan
The Irish Of North ireland have