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The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17
WANTED.

WANTED - One 6-shovel walking
corn cultivator Phone 80 J. 2. "a
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17

FOR SALE-Two good residence lots
close in, or will trade for auto.
Inquire this office. 33.
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TO EXCHANGE-An almost new sur
rey, cost S175, for good milk cows
or calves. Will pay any difference in
cash. Inquire at Index office, or
phone u. 31-tf.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17

FOR SALE-Vacuum cleaner, all at
tachments, cheap for cash. Call
Mrs. Hunter, R 4. 80.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17

FOR SALE-Cabbage and Tomato
plants. B. c. Bowers. 81.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17

FOR SALE-A fine work team,
weight 5000; 8 IA inch wagon and
harness. Also buggy. Mrs. Emma
c. Lingren. 80.
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Get Rid of Your Rheumatism.
Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. You will find Chamber
lain's Liniment a great help. The
relief which it affords is alone worth
many times its cost.
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FOR SALE-Shotes, inquire of w. R.
Williams, on the ditch line 1872.
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Peoples Column
LOST, FOUND

LOST-One buckshin horse with left
hip knocked down, fore top reached,
sore on the point of each shoulder.
Notify Ernest Kinzer, Eagle, Idaho.
Box II. "a.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17

FOR SALE-A bicycle, in good condi-
ton. Phone 76-J. 81
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-God house on acre of
ground, plenty of fruit, close to
sawmill. Inquire at this office. 1p.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17

LOST-Six red calves, from 2 to
weeks old. Please notify C. w. Els
worth, Emmett, if found.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-17
4 furniture Company
DtSE FURNISHERS

We are sorry that space will not allow to give you
prices all our Stock but you will find everything in
store marked down to the bottom The way merchandise
is advancing at the present time you will so per cent
during this sale and in 80 days time you will it do
We offering the best furniture money buy and
we have the goods In fact overstocked mis-
take in over buying is your gain. BUY NOW.
We certainly appreciate the nice business have re-
ceived from the Emmett people since opened store
here and will continue to give you the best value for
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

taken by relatives or friends. It
covers many a track that might other
wise be followed to the discomfort of
the jailers.
Priest Joseph Kroha, who is chap
lain of the Milwaukee House of the
Good Shepherd and attends every
Friday-morning session Of the juven-
lie court, frankly admitted to the rep
resentative of a Milwaukee paper
that the House Of the Good Shepherd
has large financial needs, and there
fore tries to get as many girls as
possible to work for it. And that
admission explains the whole H. o.
G. S. system in Milwaukee and in
every other city. This same Priest
Kroha also told a representative Of
the Milwaukee press that the House
of the Good Shepherd faced repeated
deficits until it installed and began
the operation Of the laundry which
Seems to PAY"
From Laundry That Pays TC
III. o. G. S. That Doesn't
The Kuryer Polski, the leading
Polish paper of Milwaukee, has done
excellent work in exposing the pro
cedure by which Polish girls art
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free from taxation simply because it
belongs to some so-called religious or
ganiZation.
There is no reason or precedent in
law or anywhere else for the existence
of religious prison houses, either in
dustrial or educational in their ma
ture, where offlceYs Of the law have
not the right TO enter as they enter
elsewhere, and the right to inspect
conditions that prevail there, the same
as they inspect conditions that pre-
vail in all other institutions of like
character.
Furthermore, there is no reason or
precedent for the imprisonment and
detention, in dungeons, of women and
children who have never been con-
victed of crime and whose voices cry
to deaf ears for the liberty and free
dom to which they are entitled.
Certainly there is no reason for
abrogating the constitution Of the
United States by denying her citizens
the right Of free speech, press and
assembly as has always been done and
as is being done 10 this good day by
followers of the pope Of Rome
throughout the length and breadth of
the naticn when clothed with civil
authority as Is the case in many To-
calities where the nom Catholic peo-
+ pie have too long slept on their rights.
To inaugurate a plan and build up
an organization that will correct all
of these evils (and you must admit
that they need correction) requires
the time and experience Of intelligent
men and women and the expenditure
Of great deal Of money.
No man, no matter what his capa-
bilities, can devote his life to any
movement without being compensated
at least to the extent Of his necessi'
ties. To hire comrAtent men we must
be able to pay them, then, too, thii
Is only small part Of the expense oi
shifting them from one part OF the
country to the other. There are {
! thousand and one little items Of ex
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

pense that enter into the conduct of
the League, and since it has no means
of making profit from its operation
it is compelled to ask the people who
appreciate what 1t is doing to con-
tribute its running expenses.
Not only that but it is the duty of
every citizen who prizes his liberties
to contribute to the expense OF this
work. The work we are doing is just
as necessary as is the work of those
who profit from the tax money you
contribute to the government from
year to year. The only difference is
you are compelled to pay your taxes
while we can only make a request for
your support of this work.
Think 1t over and see If you do not
conclude that you are making a mis-
take in not making a liberal donation
to the League. The blank in the right
hand corner of this page has been
running for several weeks now and
we have only secured pledges for an
infnitesimal per cent of the amount
we ask for. Will you not get busy
and swell this amount to more pre-
tentious proportions before we 20 to
press with the next issue?
Not only that, but see your friends
and take the matter up with them.
Many of them would contribute If it
wasn't for the work of writing a let
ter, buying a money order and getting
it to the post office. Relieve them Of
this work. Go among them and get
up good collection, send it In with
their names and addresses and they
will be sent a receipt at once. They
will receive membership card in the
League If their contribution amounts
to one dollar or more.
Do not wait to see If we are going
to get the necessary amount before
you contribute, but send yours In
then jog the other fellow up and SCI
that he sends his. There is only on,
way TO do anything SO far as thu
\ writer knows, and that Is to- do 1t.
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Helena, which was further compli-
Gated by the poverty of the family.
A probation officer laid all these
facts, together with implications, be-
fore the willing Judge; and Helena
was removed from the laundry where
she worked for wages to the "holy"
H. o. G. S. where she can work in a
laundry without wages and for the
further enrichment Of the papal sys'
TEN. Att latest advices Helena was
still Shaving in this sweatshop, with
three more years to serve, since her
mother is unable to hire attorneys or
any of the help necessary to effect her
release.
Work Early and Late
Another Polish mother does not
know and cannot learn why her girl
was sent to this place, though she has
been trying for two years unsuccess-
fully to get her out. She is permitted
to visit the girl once a month. AT
such times she is permitted to con-
verse with her for five minutes in the
presence Of a nun.
These nuns are German, and are
suspicious of conversations In Polish
breaking in upon them and often
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

trapped and tricked into slavery in
this religious penitentiary. 1t tells
the pathetic story of Helena Kowalew-
ska who was sentenced on Jan. 22,
1915, to five years labor (until she
reached the age Of 21) in the II. O.
G. s. ,i...-.s,. .
Helena's father is drunkard, and
the burden Of caring for six minor
children fell upon Helena and her
mother. Mrs. Kowalewska took in
washing, and Helena worked from
necessity in laundry. All evidence,
including that given at the time of
her hearing in court, was to the effect
that Helena was a good worker, that
she was honest, that she helped her
mother support the younger children,
and that her reputation was excellent.
But Helena attended dances-not
the swell balls given out on Grand
avenue where the archbishop and
such "good" men live, but the public
dances to which working girls are
admitted. This had a serious look to
the honorable court which consisted
of one Judge Eschweiler, papist, who
has since been promoted tothe Wis
consin supreme court. Moreover, the
drunken father made q bad case for
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

parents, sentenced the girl to two
years In the II. o. G. s. The par
ents' protests were In vain. The
mother visited Camilla on the days
when permitted; and. on the occasion
Of one visit, she complained that she
could not hear with her left ear. Be-
fore she had time to explain, the time
mad expired and the mother had to
leave.
In this case, as in others, the nuns
always guarded the conversations in
such way as to prevent complaints.
Once when Camilla began to complain
of harsh treatment, the ever-present
nun pushed the girl away and told her
mother to 90 home. The mother tried
to get the girl released, but without
success. The last time the mother saw
Camilla was on Dec. s. 1915. On Dec.
10 the mother was informed by a
parochial school-boy that he had been
sent by nun TO say that Camilla
had died the night before.
Not only had the parents been kept
in ignorance Of their daughters con-
dition: they could get no information
afterwards from the nuns, but heard
indirectly through the undertaken
that Camilla had died from haenor-
rhage Of the brain.
A woman who lives at present in
another part Of Wisconsin, read of
these cases and adds her testimony to
that given. She spent two years in
the Milwaukee II. o. G. s. wholly at
drudgery. Her regular work hours
were from s a. m. to 8 p. M, but tho
laundry workers seldom quit at that
time. For breakfast and supper sho
had bread and coffee; for dinner, .
potato, a small piece Of meat, bread
and apple sauce. When working
overtime, they were given some dry
} cake.
/, Dare Not Complain
They did not dare to complain.
They were permitted to write out-of-
town relatives once a month. Such
outgoing letters and the incoming re-
plies were read by the nuns. and COM
planning letters never went through.
This lady says that the place and
treatment amounted to slavery.
While the juvenile courts, and pro-
baton systems connected with them,
are splendid thing when properly
conducted by the right kind Of people,
they are curse when dominated BY
professionals or politicians with ul-
terror purposes In view. It Is proper
to state In this connection that no Ro-
man Catholic Is At to sit tn such q
court or to exercise any authority In
connection with It.
The juvenile court is a place from
, which fanaticism in all its forms
.. should be permanently banished. Here
, is a place where the offender needs
the benefit of every doubt, and where
the profits of professional charity
should have no influence; but, with .
!. Roman Catholic Judge on the juvenile
bench, with numerous Roman Cath
. olic probation officers working W
!, cases, and with the Roman Catholic
: chaplain of the H. o. G s. present al
every sitting of court and frankly
q stating that the Fl. o. G. 5. needs al
4 the girls to work for 1t that can b
: obtained, how much consideration is ;
. friendless, helpless, moneyless CIR
likely to get when she and her parent
are often unable to speak enougl
q English to make themselves under
stood?
] Next week we shall have some
e thing more TO say In regard b
e the operation Of the so-called Hous
9 Of the Good Shepherd in Milwaukee.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26
THE WAY TO GET RESULTS IS TO GET THEM!
By The Fres Press pefense Learue.

by 1ho free Press Defense League.
TlHE wonderful work being done
I'll in the lecture field in the East
~ by Judge Gilbert O. Nations,
O~ vice-president of the Free
Press Defense League, and
the brilliant Scotch-American, Billy
Parker, is directly the result Of the
Leagues effort to organize a speaking
campaign that will arouse the people
on the question of Romanism and give
the true facts In regard to the great
campaign which we are waging
against political Rome.
AS soon as the work is well in hand
and all concerned are placed in posi-
tions where they can be most effective
and serve the movement best, other
teams will be put to work and the
entire patriotic population of the ma
ton will have had an opportunity to
hear the greatest champions Of Lib
eral Democracy and free institutions
known to the platform of today.
One by one the large cities of the
nation are being visited by our special
commissioners and the rottenness of
Roman political rule laid bare before
the eyes Of the people. So silently
and stealthily do the leaders of the
Roman Catholic invasion Of America
carry on their work that the large
city Is completely within their grasp
before the great majority Of citizens
realize their plight.
To arouse them from their spell OF
lethargy, cause them to repudiate
Rome's program and break her polit-
ical power over the people, Is the OBJ
ject Of having speakers and writers in
the field, and is the reason for our
continual appeal for large circula.
ton Of The MENACE.
There is absolutely no reason fol
electing papist, who owes and shows
his first allegiance to foreign SOW
ereignty, to Office in single state II
the nation.
There Is no excuse whatever for
single piece Of property not used fol
strictly religious purposes remaining
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

cutting them short. The girl plead
to be taken away, and told some Of
the disagreeable things she had to
endure. She had to rise at 5 a. IN,
and work until late in the evening,
time unknown since no clock Is In
sight. No conversation Is allowed
while girls are at work; and talk
among inmates in Polish is absolutely
prohibited. Two girls guilty of break
ing that rule were placed in dark
cell for three days. And that rule
is arbitrarily enforced notwithstand-
ing the presence of forty or fifty
Polish girls almost continuously In
the institution.
How the fanatical nuns treat those
unfortunates that need the hndest
and most considerate attention is re-
vealed in the case Of two orphan girls
who we're seduced, their seducers sent
to prison, and themselves committed
to the II. 0. G. S.
A Milwaukee lady, who took a
kindly interest in the unfortunates,
visited the girls about month after
their commitment. To her surprise,
the good plain dresses with which
they had been supplied had been TAX
en- away and they were dressed in a
coarse prison garb made Of denim.
Taught Nothing
She also discovered that they
worked long hours in the laundry OF
at scrubbing, and that they were
taught nothing. The visitor urgeC
| the nuns to give the girls the simple
instruction they needed; and the nun:
so exhorted, promised that they woulc
do so.
On her second visit the milwaukee,
lady took dress goods to the place fol
the girls, requesting that they b.
made up for the girls use. The goods
were at first confscated, and 1t tool
repeated urging to have the dresses
made and secure their occasional us'
|, for the girls.
The visitor learned indirectly o.
!, bad treatment, and finally accom-
plished their release through the as
: sistance Of District Attorney Zabel
: When released these girls told Of hov
: they had been punished by the fanat
ical nuns by pinching, and showed tn
spots so made on their bodies. The!
also recalled the prevalence of quar-
reling and fighting among inmates
For lack of time and facilities TO
combing and caring for their haiI
: many were afflicted with vermin.
Though these two girls were In tn
so-called House Of the Good Shep
: herd for nearly five years, the
3 learned no reading, writing, or aritt
metic; could not tell time by tn
Q clock; had no idea whatever Of none
4 values. They are now grown up, pei
4 manently stunted in mind. One
. married, but deficient. The othe
works in a factory. Had these girl
been sent to the State Industris
School for Girls, they would undoubt
edly be in a far better condition
care for themselves and make thei
way in the world.
Most pathetic Of all is the story
( Camilla, the little girl who died
s the H. o. G.. S. without her parent
n knowing anything Of her ailmen
o Camilla, as she was named by I'll
+ nuns, was but thirteen when she mac
the mistake of playing truant. He
q parents were so alarmed that the
s notified the police.
S Took Their Daughter-Returne
It A Corpse
y Camilla was arrested with her 81
n chum and taken directly before Il
s papist Judge Eschweiler in iuveni
IS court; he, without consulting Il
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26
(cut out and mail this coupon with pledge ToDAN
ENDOWMENT FUND PLEDGE

TO THE FREE PRESS DEFENSE LEAGUE,
Fort Scott, Kansas.
Gentlemen- 80.
Wishing contribute to the One Million Dollar Endowment and
Sustaining Fund which asking the patriots OF the nation to pro-
vide the protection Of American liberty hereby pay to the
Free Press Defense League before October 81 1917 the sum OF
TWELVE ($120O) DOLLARS.
understood agreed that when this pledge due am for
unable to the shall have such further time to
make the payment as desire.
understood that consideration Of this pledge shall
certificate of membership when pledge paid and that shall
all the rights and privileges guaranteed other members of the or
ganzaion
Name
Postoce
0z drafts checks Defense LssEus
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

Mammoth PapaI Prison Passing as Chart
able institution, Free from Taxation, 0p-
crates Sweatshop Laundry and Sewing
Shop With Unpaid Labor Gained Through
Subservient and PapaIized Court--Pov-
erty-stricken Families, Unable to Defend
II Children In Higher Courts, the Victims
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26
BULLETIN BOARD

Total number of Endowment and Sustaining 70
Fund Pledges received by The Free Press
Defense League. &. .....................1 ,460
Amount of money paid on Endowment Fund
fleuReS .....'....,'.''...'..'.,S ,SoIoJo.oo
Amount of money unpaid on Endowment
FUND Pledges. ..E. ...........''.'. .$l1,lszfO
Largest amount contained in any one pledge 100000
Total Amount Pledged to date. e..........s17,8 ,8S6S5
AFFIDAVIT
State Of Kansas,
Bourbon County-ss.
j.. /. 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.
J. I. SHEPPARD,
Secretary-Treasurer Free Press Defense League.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day
of May, 1917
(Seal) l@a J.C, MITCHELL, y
Notary Public.
My commission expires January 10th. 1921.
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APPALLING FACTS ABOUT MILWAUKEE H. 0. 6. S.


Prisoner In PapaI Penitentlary Not Only
Suffers Harsh Treatment But Is Pre-
vented from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Learn
Cause of Her Death indirectly Through
Undertaker---0ther Cases Reveal Depl0r-
able Conditions Such as Are Fostered
Only by Greed, Graft and Lethargy
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-05-26

AMERICAS GREATEST EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL IN FURTHFRACF OF FUN
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
HOUSE NAMES PROBE BOARD
viii investigate Shipment Of Defec-
tive Ammunition To Troops
In France.

Washington.--The house OF repre-.
sentatiyes went into high gear on its
way to thorough and final probing
OF the defective ordnance scandal at
Frankford arsenal Speaker Clark
put a climax on It's action by appoint.
Gng committee OF nine representa-
tiyes to conduct the investigation. The
committee includes Dent of Alabama,
chairman; Fields of Kentucky. Quinn
OF Mississippi, Gordon OF Ohio and
Shalenberger OF Nebraska the FIVE
ranking Democrats, and Anthony Of
Kansas, Mckenzie of Illinois, Green
OF Vermont and NORM of Pennsylya-
MIA, four OF the ranking republicans,
all from the house committee on mil.
itary affairs. Representative Kahn OF
California was slated for a place on
the committee, being the ranking re.
publican on the military affairs com.
mittee but begged to be excused, as
he is leaving Washington for a
months rest
The committee was named after the
house committee on rules had favor.
ably reported on the resolution de
manding a probe
That the house probe will be much
more thorough than that conducted
by the senate committee on military
affairs was the declaration OF house
leaders.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
!. W. W. LEADER CONFESSES
Attempts To Gain immunity BY pI.
vulging Secrets to Federal
Agents.

Chicago.-lnner secrets Of the |. w.
w. fund for promoting strikes. de.
stroying crops and combating the gov
ernment were told in the first confes.
sion received by federal agents since
they opened war on antiwar radicals,
Carl Rothhsher, an associate editor
of Solidarity, the official weekly of the
!. w. w, diyulged the secrets in a
vain effort to effect his own release.
Names OF prominent pro-German
ChiCagoans are said to have been In
cluded in the long statement that
Rothtisher dictated to senographer
in the Offices of Walter L. Furbeshaw,
assistant chief of federal Investigators
here.
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
Reproof Not Effective.

The new maid would not rise early
enough Gentle reproof seemed vain
and finally the master and mistress
tried the inferential method of blame
and left the damsel asleep whilst
they prepared the breakfast for them
selves.
We'll shame her to it." said the
master.
Not word was said until nine
o'clock the same evening, when the
girl tapped at the door of the sitting
room.
rs there anything else l can do,
num-" she respectfully inquired.
There was nothing and she turned to
20 to bed, but at the door remembered
something.
IF you're down before me in the
morning, num-" she observed youth
find the eggs In the icebox in the pam
try"
Macon beacon., 1917-09-14
n n II - * & q s. y &s X q 4 x X Il )

London.-Bombs hurled from fleet
Of German aeroplanes snuffed out the
life of one American officer and
wounded more or less seriously eight
Americans in what is described as .
deliberate raid on the British.Amer-
ican hospitals in a French coast city.
The hospitals attacked are occupied
by ST. Louis and Harvard contingents,
which were among the first to arrive
in France after Americas entrance
into the war The Harvad unit was
the most severely hit by the raid.
Five of the wounded at the Harvard
units hospital were members of the
American field staff Ten were pa
tients. So far as is known one bomb
each fell into the hospitals.
The Daily Express, in an editorial
on the raid says:
There is something essentially re-
voting about Germany's latest form
OF organized frightfulness. The kali
ser has left few enormities unperpe-
trated. His evil genius has decreed
that he should in score of ways
throw eternal dishonor on German
arms, but the systematic bombing OF
hospitals at the front has reached the
point which may we'll be regarded as
the limit Of iniquity"