The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-03-03


Part Of the price paid for that vote.
Further Advantage Gained
Nearly three years ago the clerk Of the
supreme court died. Appointment to that
office Ia made by the justices of the court.
With two avowed Roman Catholics and
seven supposed Protestants on the bench,
James d. Maher, Roman Catholic, was
appointed clerk. Thus the proceedings of
this greatest tribunal in the world are
directed by Jesuit Roman Catholic chief
justice and the records are written and the
files handled by Roman Catholic clerk.
Frank K. Green, marshal Of the supreme
court, is also Roman Catholic and par
ticipated as such In the festivities Of the
Holy Name Society at Baltimore last 0cto-
Der.
Several months ago two Roman Catholic
men, one Of whom Is son Of the present
immigration commissioner Of the United
States, were convicted in California Of vio-
lating the criminal law of the United States
by taking two young women into an ad-
joining state for immoral purposes. The
supreme court of the United States quite
recently reviewed the conviction and af-
frmed it, but the two Roman Catholic jus
tees, White and McKenna, and Justice
Clark rendered dissenting opinion that
would acquit the defendants. The church
affiliation Of Justice Clark Is unknown to
the public, but his Irish name appears sig
nihcant In view Of his concurrence with
the known Roman Catholics on the bench
in the minority opinion favoring the Roman
Catholic defendants.
At the conclusion of the foregoing
remarks Judge Nations proceeded to
discuss the phase Of the Roman Cath
olic problem which transcends all
other phases in Importance, the po-
litical sovereignty of the pope as a
bar to the legal right of any Roman
Catholic to citizenship in this or any
country.
Having made thorough and ex-
haustive study and investigation Of
this issue, which is embodied in his
book, Constitution or Pope, and in the
Lindbergh Resolution now pending in
congress, Mr.. Nations is prominently
qualified to present the law and facts
touching papal sovereignty.
He is a rapid speaker and devoted
fully an hour to the statement of this
mighty issue. It will be impossible
therefore to set out in full his master
full array of the facts, law and au-
thorities. Only a brief outline of the
argument can be given. His first
main proposition is that-The pope is
a civil and political prince, potentate
and sovereign under the law Of ma
tons.
After stressing the truth that the
foregoing proposition and his whole
argument in its support is purely po-
litical and devoid of any relation to
the worship Of God or to religious
liberty, the speaker set out in orderly
sequence the proof of his main prop
osition under the following subordin-
ate averments:
I. During several centuries the pops
clainsed and enjoyed supreme authority AZ
the overlord Of all other potsntGtes.
During the darkness Of the middle ages
such ambitious Roman pontiffs az Gregory
VII, Innocent III and Boniface VIII
& C1hiAtlCu hilu cAcIC1oCV W C1VWA
and uncrown the greatest nnonarchs Of the
earth. Pepin and Charlemagne, the most
powerful sovereigns Of the middle ages, 10
ceived their crowns from papal hands ir
return for civil and military favors ran
dered to the popes, while Henry Nv Of Ger
many, Phillip Augustus Of France and Johr
Of England bowed In submission to thu
popes as their overlords.
q. For more than thousGnd years III,
pope ruled tho papol state AZ absolitt,
monarch, and all authorities agree that h,
;Ods then civd sovereign.
During the eighth century Pepin ant
Charlemagne expelled the Lombards b!
force Of arms from central Italy and dc
livered the territory thus conquered to tn
popes, who ruled that territory as absolute
monarchs eleven hundred years. Pope Piu
TX was finally divested Of this territory II
| 1870 by the military forces of the KIM
of italy. All governments and authoritie
recognised In the pope political sovereign
| during his long reign over this territor.
known as the State Of the Church.
8. Notwithstanding the lose Of his ter
| ritoridl domain, tho pope still claims an
enjoys the rights, powers and prero0dttve
Of a political sovereign prince.
In proof of the proposition las
stated, the speaker set forth the FOL
lowing allegations and establishe,
each with an overwhelming and I'm