The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-09-15

10 pleoge themselves as others have
done to escape the Romish boycott.
But, with the Universal Manu-
featuring and Stationery Company,
it was different. This corporation
was organized after Sullivan went
into office; after he had made L. J.
Powers, a papist and Knight Of CO.
lumbus, his chief clerk; and after
he had made James J. O'Connor,
another papiSt and Knight Of Co
lumbus, the head of the automobile
Licensing department in that same
office.
At the head Of the Universal
Manufacturing and Stationery Com
pany is Con. P. Curran, a papist
and Knight of Columbus, PRACTICAL
ly its owner with 81 out of 43 shares
of stock. Associated with him as
salesman, soliciting business at JEFF
ferson City, is Peter Gum, yet an
other papist and Knight of Column
bus.
The reader will readily appreciate
the fact that the corporation, which
suddenly came into existence with
Sullivan's Inauguration under the
pretentious title of Universal Man
ufacturing and Stationery Com
pany, is firm composed Of indi-
viduals who deserve well in the
Catholic cause" This may possibly
explain why they were thrifty
enough to enter into such timely
enterprise, and why their fellow
knight of popory, Mr.. John L. Sui
llvan, was so considerate as to pre-
sent them with a contract by which
they may receive that unearned
$4,000 belonging to the Common
wealth of Missouri.
This same Knights-of- Columbus
firm has tried to get contracts for
other state supplies, but those con-
tracts have gone to lower bidders for
the simple reason that in those in
stances the deal was closed by boards
Of which Sullivan is d member but
has only one vote among several
others.
As secretary Of state, he carried
the contract for license tags in his
pocket, and bestowed it in keeping
with his own will and his pope's
command. Sir Knight SulIiuan,
Sir Knight PowerS, Sir Knight
O'Connor, Sir Knight Curran, and
Sir Knight Gum seem 10 cooperate
beautifully in keeping good things
TO themselves, and in making them
better at tho expense of the state.
All of which makes an ordinary
"heretic and enemy of religionS
wonder what the honest taxpayers Of
Missouri will think of the deal by
which they stand to lose and the
pope's dutiful subjects stand to-
gether to profit,
Later advices from Jefferson City
are to the effect that The State Tax
Commission has already found that
the contract has been awarded at an
unreasonably high figure; that it
should be re-let; and that Attorney
General McAllister has been 70
quested by the commission to insti-
: tute proceedings to annul the pres
ent contract 50 it may be re-opened
to all prospective bidders.
To save the thousands Of tar
} money, placed in jeopardy by pa
{. pist trickery, the Tax Commission
: must now go to the considerable ex-
{ pense of undoing what Sullivan has
Q done. And this is the one case in
! which he has been caught red-handed
} by the enterprise of st. Louis great
est newspaper. Need we wonder
that the agents Of popery are per-
t petually peeved at the press, and
: insistently demand that it be placed
: under censorship?
!, 1t is such revelations Of its rascal
t ity that cut Rome to the quick, and
y make its managers long for those
. good old times in the noontide Of
the papacy when there was fraud Of