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proportion and then there woulc
be no burden on any.
This is a work that is neces-
sary for the welfare of this ma
tion and it is going to be done.
You people to whom we direct
this communication are the only
ones upon whom we can call.
The other sleepy patriots
throughout the nation are
dreaming away their day of
grace and are saying, "The pa
pists can do nothing in America.
It is all folly, to talk about the
pope of Rome ever controlling
our government" So long as
there are people who say these
things, SO long will Romanism
continue to grow and SO long will
our free institutions be in dan
ger.
Our vice-president, Judge Gil
bert O. Nations, who, as you
know, is located in Washington,
D. c., wrote us q few days ago
that certain patriots who had
talked with him, believe it a bad
idea for us to publish each week
the Bulletin Board showing the
amount of the pledges and the
amounts paid upon them. II
must pe a short-sighted patriot
indeed who takes this view. Il
it possible that anyone can fee
that it would be right to keel
our people in ignorance of wha'
the actual state of our finances
is from time to time? If w
did not publish the Bulletin
Board, our folks would say
"Well, there are millions o
readers of The Menace and the,
must all be contributing and un
doubtedly the Million Dolla
Fund will be easily raised an
j therefore we need not exer
i Yourselves" twill be absolutel
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impossible for anyone to ever
say that we kept our members
in the dark ABOUT our financial
condition. What does it matter
that the Romanists know we
started out to secure a fund of
One Million Dollars by July 4th
and are only going to in fact
secure one-tenth of the sum or
less? They know full well, how
ever, that our determination to
fight them to the last ditch is as
y ed as the North Star and that
tnere will be no cessation of our
efforts until Romanism is driven
out of American politics.
Now is the time for the pa
triot who can do so, under the
terms and conditions hereinbe-
fore stated, to sign up and send
in his pledge. Rome can raise
millions of dollars every year in
America and it certainly should
be possible for the patriots Of
the nation to raise for their own
protection the small sum of One
Million Dollars.
We are sorry we have not the
space in which to publish the
splendid letters which we re-
ceive from our contributors,
From every quarter Of the ma.
tion, prayers and well wishes fol
our success are constantly being
made. We sincerely appreciate
the many good things oul
friends are saying of US. w
get curses enough from thu
enemy you may be sure, and 81
! the kind words of our friend
are as sweet music to our ears
Think over the matter and !
: you find that you can contribut
| without depriving yourself o
the necessities of life, we will b
! glad indeed to have you do so.
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clusion that the aggressive petitioner
was "prejudiced."
To tell the truth, this man who was
trying to get Daisy Scheiderer out of
the pope's Milwaukee prison, was in
deed prejudiced against the so-called
church which runs a prison and
sweatshop in pretense of charity.
There was some lively talk including
long lecture by Judge Karel on pref
udice, bigotry, etc. But Daisy's friend
held his ground, scoring heavily when
he reminded the present Roman Cath
olic knight of Columbus Judge how
he (the judge) had once belonged to
a nationalist or freethinkers' organi-
zation in Milwaukee, and had been
ousted from that organization when
he tried to induce the rationalists to
patronize the pope's parish schools.
That reminder acted as sedative,
and the judge quieted down sufficient
ly to refer the rescue committee to
W. H. Graebner Of the State Board
of Control which Is supposed to exer-
else some degree of supervision over
the H. 0, G. S. This supposition vas
found to be largely without founda'
tion when Mr.. Graebner was ap'
preached; for that gentleman assured
them that he could do no more
concerning the Milwaukee so-callec
House of the Good Shepherd than tt
proffer advice which might be heedec
or ignored by the nuns in charge.
Beyond American Law
When asked to conduct the part!
to the H. o. G. S., he protested hi
inability to do that or to take an!
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central powers. The limitations placed
upon the Italian government by rea-
son Of the peculiar and altogether un-
fortunate situation in which it finds
itself, may and probably will limit
the extent Of punishment to be ad-
ministered to Gerlach.
MENACE readers will recall our cita-
tion of the fact that the Italian gov
ernment with its Catholic king and
queen and its population, the vast ma
jority of which is nominally Catholic,
though determined to exercise its
every prerogative to prevent the pope
from ever becoming the temporal
ruler of the kingdom is constrained
from being overly drastic in measures
to be applied to prevent 1t, and it is
not unlikely that this situation will
exert its influence in determining the
punishment to be administered to
those dignitaries Of Rome who In
running counter to the Italian govern-
ment's program and in furthering the
interest of the Austro- German alli-
ance have consistently paid their hrst
allegiance to papal sovereignty.
We would have you note particulars
ly that Rear-Admiral Della Chiesa9
brother to the pope, is to testify ss Ia
the character Of Gerlach. What q
preposterous situation! The brother
to the pope a rear-admiral Of the
Italian military machine, to testify In.
an espionage trial in which Gerlach,
the pope's private chamberlain and
intimate friend is involved. Add to
this the further fact that three car>
dinals will also testify and you havG
at least presumptive evidence that the
! vatican and the hierarchy is consid-
erably interested in the outcome Of
the Gerlach trial, and indeed, why
should they not be?
y Discriminating readers can easily
! understand the delicate and em-
. barrassing situation in which the Ro-
: man hierarchy and even the pope him-
self would be placed in the event Of
conviction Of Gerlach as a result
= Of activities in which he has partici.
: pated since he left Austria to become
: not only a member of the vatican
e household, but the private chamber
!, \ lain to the pope as well--a position
. that necessarily placed him IN very
4. confidential relation to the pope.
. The benefits to Italy, however, ever
X in the event that the trial results in
y a public whitewashing Of the vatican
9 9 and this man who has been a favorite
IN with Benedict ever since he was Q
e. cardinal, are not to be denied.
N The one thing which the Italiar
Ie government has feared ever since th'
4. 4. overthrow Of papal rule IN Italy IL
m 1870 has been the Vaccinations of th'
ss vatican and papal zealots within an'
,s without the kingdom, who hav'
n exerted every influence In an effort t
r r, regain for the pope, temporal king
II dom. Indeed, in the beginning OF thi
r war It was insisted upon time and tim
g again by hierarchial journals IN an
ID out Of Italy that the restoration Q
T. the papal states to the pope must 3
one Of the conditions Of peace. i
20 uncovering this great plot Of intrigu
Sc Italy has at last fortified herself /
We a manner that will end these arrogar
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By Special Commissioners for The Menace.
-HE many Houses Of the Good
1911 Shepherd in the United
IHI States operate on the con-
lM. venient theory that they are
A- homes for wayward girls. 1t is
the popular supposition that the sis
ters of the Good Shepherd busy them
selves In the highways and hedges
gathering up those who have strayed
from the straight way into the depths
of sin.
1t is also believed by many that the
unfortunate girls, so gathered in, are
given such an industrial training to-
gether with such religious instruction
and educational advantages, as will
benefit them physically, mentally, and
morally, saving them and equipping
them for a useful and successful life.
That theory, taught so persistently
and believed SO generally, is of great
value to the management Of these
places. 1t satisfies the Indifferent and
thoughtless public. It gains conf
dence and allays just suspicion. 1t
wins liberation and even support from
the misinformed. It makes operation
of these prison workshops compara-
lively easy; and facilitates the money
making and proselyting which is the
real aim and object of all such Roman
Catholic institutions.
Instead of black-robed sisters Of
mercy, bent on seeking out the fallen
and guiding them to haven Of rest
it is usually a burly policeman who de-
livers the "penitents" at the gates Of
these walled-in retreats. If not O
policeman, then 1t is a parent who is
sometimes deceived by the popular
misconception or is sometimes so un
natural as to seek no more than rid
dance Of responsibility.
To the new inmate, who has cher
ished the hope Of happy refuge, th'
disillusionment Is rapidly thorough
She soon sees that her habitation Il
not home, but q prison; that 1t il
not school, but workhouse; that j
exploits more than 1t trains, stunt
more than it educates, slaves NOR
than it saves; and is, in reality,
cold-blooded commercial institution
The inmates learn these things, an,
learn them very thoroughly from tina
most competent teacher, experience.
Daisy Scheiderer has consented +
tell her story as a warning to the pub
lie in general and to young women il
particular. The details of her expert
ence in the Milwaukee H. o. G. s. con
firm the general charges already mad
and should help convince the careles
public that papal prisons in this cour
try should be abolished for the genel
( oil welfare and common defense Of tn
American people.
Daisy and her widowed mothe
lived in an unpretentious milwaukee
cottage that became crowded when a
/, elder sister and her husband move
In. In the friction that resulted frol
too many people and too little room
Daisy was scarcely able to take ht
part, being the youngest and sickl.
Whatever she might have done, {
might have failed to do. her eldel
were full of plans for increasing the
comfort by sending Daisy elsewhere.
Seeking Work
It was possibly with that purpoI
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5 The theory Of the Amer 5
ican government is that the !
: people are sovereign. The !
5 Office holders are the public
; servants. To attempt to
} stife criticism of their serv-
} ants by the sovereigns IS
5 TO sUBvERT THE WHOLE
x THEORY OF OUR coNsTITU-
Z TIoN II is q deliberate uio-
3 lation of one of the most
B sacred and most tundd-
B mental rights.
3 1t seems that we are
& asked through our congress
3 to enact legislation in sup
X port Of the ideals of democ-
x racy that mould defeat the
3 essential principles of de-
S mocracy.
Is Hon. Geo. W. wicksrsham form
" erly Attorney General Of the United
D States In the st. Louis Post-Dis-
% patch for June Q. 1917.
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tout out and mail this coupon with pledge TopAxl
ENDOWMENT FUND PLEDGE

TO THE FREE PRESS DEFENSE LEAGUE,
Fort Scott Kansas.
Gentlemen:-
Wishing to contribute to the One Million Dollar and
Sustaining Fund which asking the patriots Of the nuon %
vide for the protection Of American liberty hereby agree pay 70 the
Free Press Defense League before October 3D. 1917 the sum OF
TWELVE ($12.00) DOLLARS
understood and agreed that when this pledge due am for
unable the shall have such further time 70
make the payment as I desire
It also understood consideration Of this pledge shall
certificate membership when pledge paid and that shall
have all the rights and privileges guaranteed other members Of the or
ganzation
Name.
Postoice.
d7,E. afs checks and zsssy
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initiative that might be opposed or |
resented by the Sisters" 1t seems
that, while the Board Of Control has
power and authority in keeping with
It's name so far as the state institu-
tions are concerned, its authority
stops short at the gates of the pope's
penitentiaries and asylums.
Daisy's Milwaukee friend might
have been discouraged with SO many
rebuffs and disappointments, but he
wasn't. The next raid was directly
on the H. o. G. s. With lawyer, Mr..
Arnold Wangerin, Mrs. Scheiderer,
and Daisy's older sister, he proceeded
directly to the waiting room in the
basement Of the II. o. G. S. main
building.
1t was probably fortunate that the
Mother Superior was absent, and the
institution was then in charge Of one
less capable of dealing with a real
bad heretical bigot saturated with
prejudice"
This waiting room has latticed
openings In the side through which
inmates may converse with visitors
and yet remain fenced off from them.
On the side Of the wall away from the
waiting room, where the "penitent"
stood to converse, q nun sat to listen
and overhear all that was said. Near
each Of the latticed openings was a
door large enough for the passage Of
persons which was supposed to be
closed and locked while conversations
were in progress.
When asked who It was that wished
to see Daisy, her friend replied, 81 rep
resent her uncle from the West" In
the slight confusion Of shutting feet
and approach to the wicket, the rep
resentative of her uncle quickly opened
one of the doors slightly, placing his
foot so it could not be closed. Soon
as she approached the opening, which
was near the door, he said quickly
with that characteristic positivenes.
which commands obedience, "Daisy
come outl"
And Daisy came out, though sh,
was a stranger to the person wh'
/, called her. Before the astonishe,
, nun or her associates could interfere
, Daisy was hurried across the wait
ing room to Attorney Wangerin VIII
took her affidavit which precluded tn
.. possibility Of their holding her an,
, longer.
More Trickery
Daisy was told not to tell the othe
girls, and that she would be release
the next day. This promise of tn
exceedingly religious" bad sister O
I, the good shepherd was not kept. In
stead of freeing her, they took or sen
E her to the Emergency Hospital tw
days later with the apparent purpos
9 Of having her declared insane, and Q
d making her further trouble wit
charges against her character an
concerning her condition.
1t is pertinent to state that all tn
= |
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Finds Work Without Pay

Daisy was taken to the Milwaukee
H. o. G. S., and was Immediately put
to darning stockings. Next day she
was placed at foot-power sewing
machine, and was kept there until her
release from the institution. At five
a. m. the bell rang when all Of the
one hundred to two hundred "peni-
tents" arose and made their beds in
silence as well as in the dark. Then
they all went to mass and to prayer in
the chapel. 1t should be noted that
all the Protestant girls in the insti-
tuition were compelled to attend Ro-
man Catholic services the same as
our Lutheran girl, Daisy. This is
ordinarily denied by those who con-
duct the place; but the girl inmates
are unanimous in declaring that each
and all Of them Jared alike. After
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The LATEST ROMAN OUTRAGE


htmehhid fmrdro
stir the blood land The detailed the
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Clever Work of aIys Secret Service Shown in Opera
tions That Gained knowledge of Channels Through
Which ntriguers Were Operating --Vajcan's Power
May Succeed in flushing Up Facts Butltay Holds Anti
dote for Demand That PapaI States be Restored
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in mind Mrs. Scheiderer took Daisy
to visit relative in Nebraska in the
early part of December, 1915; and
left her there upon her own return
to Milwaukee q month later, 1t was
the understanding that the girl was
to secure work in Nebraska and make
her own way; but sickness interfered
with that, and she was compelled to
seek medical treatment.
When able to travel Daisy was sent
back to her mother together with a
cousin, aged thirteen, who went as
travelling companion, and with the
hope of securing a position Of some
kind in the city with the aid of the
Scheiderers. Two girls in the Mil
waukee cottage seemed to cause great
er unrest than ever; and the mother
told Daisy that she would have to
find work since there was no money
with which to support her.
Daisy took her companion with her
in search of work, and secured tenn
porary shelter with a Miss Perdu. II
was while going home from there to
get her clothes and few belongings
that Daisy and her cousin met de.
tective named Koehler, who seems tt
have been placed upon their trail BY
some person or interest since hi
wished them to go with him to the
police station. He permitted them
however, to visit Daisy's mother whit
caused her arrest, presumably on thu
charge of vagrancy.
The girls were taken to Jail, ant
appeared the next day, May rs, 1915
in court where a Miss Pearl Mice
was made Daisy's guardian. Severa
weeks were spent in Jail during whicl
time she was repeatedly in cour
without any hearing or action. /
seemed to be foregone conclusion
that she would have to go to some in
stitution; and, when Daisy's mothe
expressed a preference for the H. 9
G. s. the decision was instantly mad
by Judge Karel, the fourth-degre
Knight Of Columbus judge of the Mil
|, [waukee juvenile court.
Why Mrs. Scheiderer preferred tn
H. o. G. s., or why that preferenc
was allowed to prevail, is rathe
! strange since the Scheiderers are
Lutheran family; and it is the theor
, that all such commitments are to II
.. stitutions that most nearly agree wit
, the religion Of the individual or he
family.
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J. JUVENILE JUDGE ISSUED COMMITMENT

Minister and Patriots on Learning Details Of Case Attempt
to Procure ChiId's Release But Operators Of POpe's
Prison Laundry Resort to Trickery Even to Attempt al
Having Her Adjudged Insane---Reease Finally Pro-
cured With Restrictions on Freedom
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THREE CARDINALS AND BROTHER To POPE WITH
500 OTHERS, WITNESSES IN THE CERACH TRIAL

Summoning Of Witnesses Including Pope's
Own Brother and Cardinals as Character
Witnesses, in Trial Of Gerlach as Spy
Hardly Comedies With JesuiticaI Attempts Of
American Priests to Deny His Existence
EVERY POWER OF ROME BROUGHT into PLAY
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Total number Of Endowment and Sustaining
Fund PledISs received by The Free Press
Defense League. e......................... 1854
Amount of money paid on Endowment Fund
fleQges. ..................,.. .DooII.1o
Amount Of money unpaid on Endowment
Fund Pledges. s................... .$l3b54.fU
Largest amount contained in one pledge. 100000
Total Amount Pledged to date ........ .$22526.s5
AFFIDAVIT
State Of Kansas i
Bourbon County-ss.
]. l. Sheppard being duly sworn says, the fore
going statement in regard to the Endowment and
Sustaining Fund of The Free Press Defense League
is true and correct
il. SHEPPARD,
Secretary-Treasurer Free Press Defense League.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day
of June, 1917.
(Seal) &C. MITCHELL, +.
Notary Public. a
Ny commission expires January 18th. 1921. III
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Sicky Child Forced to Look for Work Procures
a Place But is Arrested on Vagrancy Charge
While Returning Home for Her CIothes---
Sentenced to the Milwaukee House Of the
Good Shepherd
Y nE r ,NIVENIlE ,lInCF IeeIIEn cnMMITMENT
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TIN bold contrast to the Jesuit
I1I ical attempts Of hierarchial
Il1 agents in this country to not
WSH only whitewash the vatican,
kSSSl k,ak In nn.,ao innknr rnnn o,tnr,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-25
Theatre Recruiting
Fills Depleted Ranks
of the 4th Company

The theatre recruiting campaign
conducted by Capt. Arthur Bennett, Of
the Fourth company, Coast Artillery
corp, to fill the ranks of his command,
and during which Miss Grace Murray,
Fairfield county organizer of the
State Suffrage association, appealed for
recruits from the theatres stages net
ted 81 men and filled the ranks of the
company.
Some Of Miss Murray's statements
were considered offensive by men in
the audience and were not correct.
Her remarks that men who were con-
scripted would not receive the same
treatment as the volunteer, that they
would not have as good a uniform and
would not have an opportunity of ad,
vancing like the volunteer, has since
been denied
| R.ing ignorant of military matters
| Miss Murray relied solely on ,informa-
| ton received from an overzea1ous re-
| cruiting OFFICER, and is innocent Of any
desire to offend the sensibilities Of the
public
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-25
Living leicies.

A problem Of the zoologist is the en-
durance Of freezing by many animals.
Collecting the records, Mile. France
and Paul PORTER, entomologists, of
Paris ind that fish have survived 8 de-
grees f., frogs 8 degrees below. mol
lusks 1874 degrees below and bacteria
have come out alive after exposure to
800 degrees below zero, The two
French experimenters froze certain
pillars ossus cossus-at tenn
perature just above zero. They be-
came quite solid and brittle and could
be broken like icicles. On warming,
however, even broken ones returned to
life. Several freezings and thawings
were endured, but recovery became
slower each time and ceased after the
sixth thawing. Other genera showed
like results. There seemed to be some
physiological preparation for the cold,
for caterpillars that survived the win
ter freezing ali succumbed to similar
temperatures in the spring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-25
The s!,oes.rins Repubiie.

Chile is as loAg as from New York to
San Francisco and as narrow az Lake
Erie. Truly a -shoestring republic =
She is squeezed tightly between the
mountain range and the coast. He's
cities look up to the hills and down to
the sea, with, as Arthur Ruhl puts 1t,
.4the Andes hanging like a beautiful
drop curtain at the eastern end OF
every street" Chile contains twenty.
four provinces, and the largest prov
ince is big enough to hold all Pennsyl.
wanna, Vermont, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts. The Chileans are the
Yankees OF South America, aggressive,
keen, making fortunes from nitrate,
erecting chain of wireless stations
from the near tropical north tip OF tho
Chilean shoestring to the Antarctic
south tip and preparing for Panama
trade by expanding $12,Oo0, 900 on port
and dock improvements. Chile Is Ell.
bowling her way In among the most
forward pushing nations OF the TWEEN.
tiefh century World Outlook
-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-25
ONLY CIVILIANS
MUST REGISTER
FOR ARMY DRAFT
Continued from Page y

tive service act of May % and procla-
maHcns an registration regulations OF
the same date do not require reglstra-
ton of members of any duly organ
lied and recognized force, military or
naval, subject unler other laws OF the
United States to be called, ordered or
drafted in the military or naval SER
vice of the United States, and in or
der that this construction may be
made plain he directs that sections 4
and 81 of registration regulations OF
May Is be construed as follows:
1.-THE only exceptions are persons in
the military or naval service of the
United States, which includes all off,
GERS and enlisted men Of the regular
army, the regular reserve, the officers
reserve corps, the enlisted reserve
corps, the national guard and ma
tional guard reserve, recognized by
the militia bureau Of the war depart
ment; the navy, the marine corps, the
coast guard; and the naval militia,
the naval reserve forces. the marine
corps reserve, and the national naval
volunteers. recognized by the navy
department.