The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1917-02-10

CURED in recent months and years. Per-
init me to give you few samples of the
blessed Christian spirit (Which animdtes and
pervddes the Roman Catholic hierarchy in
our country and in our time First / will
( read you some Of their sayings.
Roman Catholicism VS.. Americanism
Archbishop Ireland recently said: "ou work 1.
system Protestantism 10 In hopeless dissolution in
me me United states utterly yaluelss. as dsetrinal
% Zoe with which we must count"
Archbishop Quigley speaking before the
German Catholic Central Verein of Chicago
on September 10, 1911, published in the
Chicago Record-Hera the following day) i,
said:
heres The question confronting the organization Is
what to do about the dangers threatening Chris.
tianity In this country In France and Portugal the
church was per'eeuted because the Catholics
/ Although there were thousands Of dsvOut and
loyal Catholics who would have given their lives
out leadership and were defeated.
want to say that when the time comes In this
country a. u surely will come, and the same forces
attack the church here they viii not and US unpre.
Rsred nor unorganized, and they shall not prevail
We have we'll ordered and efficient organizations,
to do what the church authorities tell them to do.
With these bodies Of Catholics ready to step into
the breach at any time and present an unbroken
front to the enemy we may feel secure.
Prediction By q Priest--A special to the New York
world, dated Washington, October 26, 1898, says
that the Rev. Father Stafford says that ''snsrTstic
% work vii place this country under Roman Catholic
Bishop Gilmour (aoman Cathole) Of Cleveland.
Ohio. In Lenten Letter QS73), wrote NationaIities
% that WE ARE CATHOLICS FIRST. AND CITIZENS
The Baltimore Catholic Council declared. ~ "ws
determine and decree, that hard by every church,
erected" q THAT the priest who Hind.rs - Or Or
and maintenance Of Il. sehO sn5 a., .hs nns sunS
tns repeated sdmSnltiSn, OF the bishop. deserves
authorities Of the entire government Of the public
school
'Ths Catholic church has the right to iu.srfsrs IN
the discipline OF the public schools and In the choice
OF the teachers for those schools.
Education outside Of the contreI Of the Catholic
church b dsmnabls hsrssy."-FrOm the Syllabus Of
Education must bs controlled BY Catholic author.
ies and under education the opinions Of individuals
ana ths 1ttsrsnsss Of the press are included and
arm under III. authority Of the church, even to wal
and d. bloodshsd."-Catho World. July. 1879.
'The children Of the public schools turn ont To b,
horethisves. scholastic eounterfesrs and Wen vsr.sd
In the schemes Of deviltry.
." frankly confess that Catholics stand before this
=. Wv ShSmAe1 VI the pubic bcn0oIn.-FntheK
Phelan At st. Louis Convention, as publshed N
Western Waterman, Oct, 1879
Protestantism ts not reliGion--nsver was a re.
ligion. The most that could ever be said Of Il was
that 1t was form Of rape and robbery masquerad.
ing as 4 rellgion."--Ths Western Waterman. Noyem.
Der Il, 1914, page 10.
aTsli Us. in the conflict between the church and
the civil government We take the aide Of the church
Of courIe we do. Why. II the government Of ths
United States were at with the church we would
say tomorrow, TO HE'LL WITH THE GOVERN.
MENT OF THE UNITED STATES; and IL the
church and all the governments Of the world were
q war, We would say, TO HE'LL WITH ALL THE
GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD."-Extraet from
sermon preached IN St. Louis, Mo-. June So 1912
By Priest d. 8. Phelan.
"By this time the world ought to realize that wha,
b most needed today ID not . new batch Of FAD
But A GLANCE BACKWARD 10 THE AGES or
EAIIH. WHAT Is RnALLY NEEDED IS A GOOD
STRONG DOSE OF VIGOROUS, GENUINE FER.
!, vID AND THOROUGH MEDIARvALisSi..-- From
(, speech Of Cardinal O'Connel In Boston, December
y. 1919 ss reported in Boston JeurnsL December
Now what will those weakened Protes-
tants and peace ct any price Masons sayl