The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-08-11

claring their unwillingness to partici-
pate in religious controversies. But
Mr.. Lotus now walls the louder with
the declaration that at is not a re-
ligious question, but one of religious
persecution"
Please note, kind reader, that to the
mind of a papist politician 1t is re-
ligious persecution to hire others
when papists apply for employment.
If the pope's subjects are prosecuted
when others are hired to teach the
Steubenville schools, would not the
non-Catholics have been equally per-
secuted had the board hired the pa
pists? 1t is a sad state Of affairs
when for every successful applicant
for a job there are numerous per-
secuted applicants turned away. II
that is persecution, there is an i'm
mense amount Of persecution perpe-
trated every day by the gentlest and
most inoffensive people.
Says Mr.. Lotus, eve now put it
up to them again, and demand jus
tice." That is, he demands jobs for
papist applicants. Justice and jobs
seem to be synonymous in the gentle
mans conception Of their meaning.
And then Mr.. Lotus states the fact
which justifes the act he criticises.
He says that for fifty years the Ro-
man Catholics of that vicinity have
kept their children out of the public
schools. Why do you suppose it is
that the public schools Of Steubenville
are deemed unfit for the children Of
pGptsts to attend as pupils, but are
considered fit for popists to attend as
teachers?
Listenl Through all that fifty
years, the public school has been
available to papist pupils on the same
terms as to others. But the children
of papists are forbidden use Of these
schools by their parents, because the
parents are forbidden by their priests
and the priests are forbidden by their
pope. For fifty years senile series
Of aged Italians hare kept q consid-
cradle number Of Stenbenpille chill
dren fran the educational provisions
prepared for them BY the generous
laws Of a generous people. Do you
realize the force and incoming Of that
fact?
It is an insult To the public school,
studied and deliberate---an insult par.
ticipated In by every pope, priest, and
pGpist. However, no one feels any
disposition to quarrel with these who
denounce our schools as Goddess" as
"sinks of moral depravity," and
"Gates of He'll" We are content for
them to entertain that opinion II they
choose; but ho1o contemplate must
the Americcn people be tn their otVn
sight, and hoW lacking must they be
in self respect II they place those con-
demned schools In charge Of teachers
who so condemn them.
The least that can be required Of a
teacher Is TO believe In the t0ork and
in the Institution. The government
does not make military officers out Of
pacifsts or soldiers out of Quakers
We do not elect men to make laws
who are opposed TO law. We do moi
hire men to fight who are conscien.
tiously or religiously opposed to fight.
ing. Why should teachers be EN-.
ployed in the public school who are
religiously opposed to the public
school? Can Mr.. LOTUS or any of hi.
Jesuit friends compose a satisfactory
answer to that most pertinent ques.
tion?
All who patronize the public schools
wish them to be good schools; anc
what contributes more to that enc
than efficient tedchers--teddhers Dht
are efficient because enthusiastic onc
devoted TO their work? Here is 9
class Of people who pride themselve.
on the fact that for fifty years the,
4 have boycotted an institption, ant
that institution the master bulwarl
Of our free democracy, and yet arr
now indignant because the manage
inent and conduct of that trstitatio,
Is not placed In their keeping on dp
plicdtion. Is it not preposterous
Does Mr.. Lotus not make himseli
and his cult ridiculous by theil
Crouch?
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