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The menace., 1917-07-14
GAINING POLITICAL
CONTROL OF NATION
Professionalism Discredited-- Roman
ism Boosted Census Bureau
Unwittingly Helps Fool People
By Pennsylvania Correspondent.


In 1906 the government printing
office issued two volumes of statistics
and general information to the public
concerning the religious affairs of
the nation. These volumes were is
sued at the expense Of the govern
ment. AS a result of the 1906 religious
census the history of every sect, its
reported membership, number of its
ministers or priests, number of houses
OF worship, their seating capacity.
the number of adherents in propor-
tion to the population, the church his
tory, its beliefs and various other
matters were dwelt on in detail. These
two volumes contain about 14OO
pages and as usual the master hand
OF a Romanist, under cover, prepared
the statistics in such a manner as to
show up the Roman church in the
very light Rome desired. Fe,o peo.
pie are yet Glive to the fact that bv
Ronle's method of counting its popu-
lation as church members it gets
credit for one and one-kalf times as
many people as really ever were ad-
herents of the Roman church. Prot
estantism does not get credit for 40
percent of its people; as it loses in
comparison, Its children in arms, its
kindergarten children, its Sabbath
school scholars and all those persons
who claim to be Protestants but ,Uho
do not Wort at it--that is those who
are not actively connected with some
church.
In the two volumes referred to
printed as result Of the 1906 census
1t will be noted in volume one, pages
80 to So, which show the percentage
of each denominational membership in
each and every state in the Union:
Wisconsin 50 per cent Roman Catholic.
Rhode Island rs per cent Catholic, New Hamp.
shire 60 per cent. New York 60 Der cent,
Nevada es per cent. New Mexico 90 per cent,
New Jersey 50 per cent, Pennsylvania a.
per cent, Massaehusetts e5 per cent, Michigan
50 per cent. Minnesota IS per cent, Montana
The menace., 1917-07-14
Mixed Patriotism

We learn from the Boston Post of
June 18th, that, at a convention of
Irish Catholic patriots (?) at SYM
phony Hall, Boston, on the night of
June 17th that, 1.-TWO thousand men
and women of Irish blood and extrac-
tion adopted resolutions calling for
the immediate granting of independ-
ence to Ireland. A free Ireland with
the emphasis on the now, was what
the meeting called for and the speak
ers made it plain that they expected
the government Of the United States
to intercede with England to bring
this about. Lloyd George, the Eng
lish premier, was roundly Kissed
whenever his name was mentioned.
When Mayor Curley, in a speech
came to Sir John French, Admiral
Jellicoe and the Duke of Wellington
the crowd cut loose again 4pith hisses
evidsncin0 its impldcdble hatred OF
England and all connected with it."
OF course it was a patriotic crowd
that kind of people always are pa
tTiots When they expect fapors of the
government and this choice collection
The menace., 1917-07-14

There are more and better car
dinals in America than the few who
have been created by the Italian line
OF papal potentates. One of them
visits the trees near THE MENACE
plant occasionally, and sings a serv-
ice that puts pontifcial high mass in
a class with cat music. Our red
gowned cardinal is married, and
usually brings his lady who is a su-
perior mother mot a mother su-
perior) to assist him with the music.
There is a tradition to the effect that
an ancestor of our cardinal officiatea
at one time in the Garden of Eden
which seems to give his line prece-
dence over the unfeathered tribe
created by comparatively recent
popes.
The menace., 1917-07-14
PriestIy Editor on
Home of DeDraved''

lhere are people In this land Of the free"
land home of The dsprAyed) TO whom free love
seems perfectly reasonable; whereas fIes will
n' TO them' . proposition prepostsrous.
1he above quotation, punctuation
Identical, is taken from page AZ of the
April, 1917, number of the Extension
!hdgGztne published at Chicago, ILL.,,
by The Catholic Church Extension
Society Of the United States of Amer
lea, and ambitiously described on the
title page as "the worlds greatest
Catholic monthly" Its editor is
designated as "Rt. Rev. Mgr. Francis
c. Kelley, D.. D., L. L. D., and is
presumably devoted subject of the
pope of Rome and of Archbishop
Mundelein. Note the covert sneer at
this, the land of the free, involved in
the quotation marks and the plainly
intended insult to the national anthem
IN the preversion Of its noble senti-
ment from "Home of the Brave" to
Home of the Depraved."
Is this the kind of loyalty to our
country and flag so flamboyantly
promised by Roman prelates of late?
People have been numerously ar.
rested, rallied at, publicly admonished
and fined, and rightly so, we think,
for neglecting to stand when "The
Star Spangled Banner" has been
played or sung but it has remained
for Roman Catholic publication to
deliberately and so outrageously per-
vert its sentiment. This is not yet the
land of the depraved-and never will
be unless Protestants continue to
slumber until political Rome attains
the same ascendancy here that it has
had heretofore in Spain, Italy, Aus
tria and Mexico.
Of course, it cannot be denied that
there is depravity in this country and
all these years it has been the labor
Of The MENACE to demonstrate that
depravity most thrives where Roman
Catholics predominate. That is not
only a demonstrated, but a patent
fact to any observer.
Where do H. o. G. S. prison sweat
shops thrive and papal princelings
revel in sensuous luxury paid for
from the proceeds of laundry sweated
and illegally incarcerated young
girls? Go to Chicago, Milwaukee, De-
troit, Pittsburgh, Reading and dozens
Of other cities where Romanist-con-
trolled votes are numerous enough to
sometimes control elections and see.
Show US, in any of these great cities
priest-controlled ward or district
and there we will show you that por-
tion Of the city where vice and crime
Of every description are most ram
pant--there you will find the low
dives and tough saloons, the gambling
dens, the hopeless poverty, the traps
for the runaway, the haunts of
crime; and from them invariably
come the falsified and dishonest cleo
ton returns.
America, the land of the depraved? I?
Yes, if Rome could make her so. But
thank God, it is still necessary for
such as the Rt. Rev. Mgr. to 60 to a
completely dominated Roman Catholic
country to find what his paper de-
scribes.
And who are the "people to whom
free love seems perfectly reasonable 7"
Can it be that this is another slur at
the doctrine of celibacy? We trow
not. Perhaps some subsequent issue
of this remarkable magazine will ex-
plain. We commend the patent insult
to the national anthem to the atten-
ton of the federal authorities at
Chicago.
The menace., 1917-07-14

tue (which provides that on the de-
mand Of a certain proportion Of the
voters legislation can be introduced
by the people,, the Referendum Ia
provision by which on the demand Of
a certain part of the electorate the
voters have right to review and re-
ject by popular vote measure
passed by a legislature), and the
right Of Recall (which provides that
on the demand of a certain portion
of the electorate the voters can re-
call servant who has in their judg-
ment proved recreant to his pledge or
his trust). All Of these measures
had been fully tested in Switzerland
and had proved the wisdom Of De
Tocqueville's observation that the
cure for the evils of democracy is
more democracy.
The first great battle-ground and
scene of the first sweeping victory for
direct legislation was the common
wealth of Oregon. There the victory
was won before the combined forces
of reaction and corruption were
awake to the real vital significance Of
this important popular innovation.
In our next lesson we will
show how this innovation safeguards
and bulwarks democracy as does
nothing else in the field of govern
mental machinery, and how it has al
ready become the great lode-star Of
liberal democracy and we shall see
that in proportion as it is intro
duced it tends to neutralize the des-
potisms that are paralleling it from
bureaucracy, judicial usurpation and
militarism.
The menace., 1917-07-14

hierarchy organized It's ambitious
campaign to make America dominant.
ly Roman Catholic and at once set
out to destroy freedom Of religious
and religio-politico discussion that in
any way criticized or reflected upon
the papal plans; that is, the
first great step was the sys
tematic campaign to substitute the
Roman Catholic index for that full
freedom of discussion in press pro-
vided for In our constitution and
which is vital to liberal democracy.
Hand in hand with this vigorous or
ganized work for striking a deadly
blow at wholesome freedom Of press
went the infamous Roman Catholic
boycott as absolutely alien to the
genius of American government as 1t
is in perfect accord with the intoler-
ant spirit Of the inquisition.
In the early nineties the CONNER
cial feudalism and the great corrupt
political machines with their all
powerful bosses in our cities and in
many states were acting in unison.
In great centers like New York Citv.
Boston, Chicago and elsewhere Ro-
man Catholics gained control of one
or both Of the political machines and
became third sinister factor in this
powerful reactionary autocratic COM
bination which was in fact multiplying
true democracy at every turn.
To meet this crisis far-seeing pa
triots, jurists, publicists and states
men organized and systematically
carried forward a far-reaching edu-
cational campaign in the interest of
direct legislation through the Ir:itia-
The menace., 1917-07-14

10 per cent. Connecticut 50 per cent, Arizons
s5 per cent. California 60 per cent, Illinoil
~ per cent, and Maine 50 per cent Catholic
Those who live in these states know
that as compared with the actual
truth these statistics are surely Ro-
manized. These highly scolored state
charts favoring Romanism are fol-
lowed up on pages Sd and 85 by
charts Of the principal cities of the
country showing to those who know
no better, that Roman church men,
bers outnumber all others combined
in many important cities, therefore,
the political leaders, who get these
volumes naturally throw their sup
port and appointments TO the places
.ohere they think the most votes are.
In these charts they appear to be in
the Roman church.
Politicians who peddle their future
honor as officials for support at the
polls and whose mental condition pre-
cludes discovery of humbug or realiza-
tion that these statistics have been
loaded with babies and small children,
and alien, un-naturalized adults who
can not vote and that from the stand
point Of real percentage they are not
correct; are therefore easily fooled.
To give you an idea of the hoax
that has been perpetrated on the pol
itlcians we need only mention some
of the charts as they appear for the
large cities-on pages 81 and IS of
volume one, according to the. statistics
vouched for by some unmarried
father: g..
Boston 10 s5 per cent Roman Catholic,
Providence n per cent. St. Louis IS per cent.
Ban Francisco 81 per cent, St. Paul se per
cent, Pittsburgh SO per cent, Philadelphia 80
per cent. New Orleans 81 per cent. Milwaukes
IS per cent, New York 10 per cent, Louisville
SO per cent. Detroit e5 per cent, Denver "A
per cent, Buffalo IS per cent, Baltimore a
per cent, Jersey City u per cent, Newark,
n. J. 66 per cent. Cleveland u per cent. and
CAieago &c per cent.
The official Roman Catholic direct
ory itself gives the lie to these charts,
yet politicians swallow them complete
and accept the gold brick. The gov
eminent is just now at work taking
another religious census of the coun-
try--each denomination is preparing
its own statistics and unless some
one gets on the job quick Rome will
have ttoo more volumes printed at
government expense, paid for by tax
payers who are not Romanists, and
fool our political friends once more.
The point that l wish to emphasize
here is as follows:
The menace., 1917-07-14

six years Of age. By mentioning
only these two great bodies of Prot
estants it will be seen how ridiculous
" misleading the so-called charts are,
because, Romanism gets credit for ali
ages, all who attend church and all
who do not, while Professionalism gets
credit only for those who actually
have their names on,the roll, and the
worst part Of it all is the fact that
because Professionalism does not get q
square deal and show its adherents
instead of its bona fide church men,
bership, the atheist, the infdel, and
the Roman Catholic say that fifty
millions of Americans do not attend
or believe in the church.
The menace., 1917-07-14

of imported citizens were extremely
patriotic for they sang "The Star
Spangled Banner Justify at the
opening and the close of the meeting"
"But the mention of the name of
President Wilson brought no cheers
except when Russia was mentioned.
There was a political feature also of
this remarkable meeting for "inci-
dentally but not accidentally, three
cheers for the next mayor of Bos-
ton, (the present Catholic mayor)
was featured at the proper time in
the programme, just before the wind
up"
The majority of our American cit
liens are patriots of the old style and
action, but, unfortunately we have
among us an altogether too numerous
class whose patriotism always has an
Irish Catholic Home Rule land Rome
Rule, string attached to it) and who
have no conception Of the true spirit
Of either national or iUorld-1cide de-
mocracy.
The menace., 1917-07-14
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The menace., 1917-07-14
LITTLE LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY
THE RISE LEGISLATION THROUGH INITIATIVE REFERENDUM AND RECALL

We have outlined the rise and on
ward march Of bureaucracy in our
land and have shown how deadly are
the blows 1t deals to "the vital bal
ance,, or the integrity of the three
coordinate departments of govern
ment. The progressive development
OF this anti-democratic evil consti-
tutes another important lesson in this
series as does the equally startling
and menacing growth of Judicial ag-
gresslon in the sphere Of legislation
and the assumption Of power by the
judiciary never intended by the Con-
stitution or its trainers. But lest
our readers become discouraged and
depressed by the story of the sinister
onward march Of despotism fostering
aggression we will now point out
some inspiring counter movements
that are fundamentally democratic
and, more than ought else that has
happened in America in fifty years
has given courage and hope to friends
OF free institutions and liberal democ-
racy.
We refer to the advent in our
midst, or perhaps we should say the
recrudescence of the pure democracy
which marked the days of the Old
New England Town Meeting and
which long since has made the re-
public of Switzerland in many re-
spects the most truly democratic gov
ernment in the world.
After the Civil War great COM
mercial organizations dominated by a
spirit of Unsuitable avarice arose and
grew with tropical like luxuriance. A
quarter of century later the Roman
The menace., 1917-07-14

TTl ODAY is big with opportuni
III ties. 1t 10 also freighted with
IS tremendous peril. Rome il
L& bending all her energies Il
prevent a further uncovering Of he,
war against fundamental democracy
She hopes under cover Of the present
war to be able to further entrenct
herself, politically, economically ant
educationally.
The fact that the Free Press De.
fense League and The MENACE are
merely defending the Fundamental
Democracy prescribed by the found.
ers Of this nation, merely fighting 70,
the MOST VITAL GUARANTEES
OF OUR ORGANIC LAWS and the
master bulwarks of this free state
does not prevent Rome from assaiIing
the League, THE MENACE and the pa.
triotic workers on the ground that
we are fighting her.
II to defend freedom of speech
press and assembly, and freedom Of
religious discussion; If to demand the
absolute divorce of church an state
and if to uphold our magnificent non.
sectarian school system, is fighting
Rome, then 1t certainly should not b,
a matter of any concern to lovers oi
Fundamental Democracy and human
progress, what the flag may be under
which the enemies are warning OF
Fundamental Democracy.
True patriots must stand for the
distinguishing glories of Liberal De
mocracy; hence, now as never before
our duty is clear. Now as never be.
fore is it of vital Importance that
EVERY PATRIOT DO HIS BIT anc
in no vay can yoR so Effectively d.
this as BY subscribing for from on,
to four subscriptions to The MENACE
to be forwarded to your minister, 0,
the ministers Of tho churches of YOU,
to,Dn.
These subscriptions should be sem
wrapped, and 1t would also be q
gracious thing to send a note to eacl
minister stating that you had pre-
sented him with a subscription t,
The MENACE, and venture the hop,
that he, as a liberal thinking Amer
ican, a lover Of our nation, will care
fully read its contents each week.
Some readers will prefer to take +.
half a day to solicit subscrip
tions for the paper. Let every one d,
his part during the neat seven day.
and you ,oiu gladden. US Nth the lar
oest summer weeks work in the his
tory Of THE MENACE. More than thi.
you will have done a work Of ines
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stitutions-to the Fundamental De
mocracy Of Jefferson which we al
love so well.
The menace., 1917-07-14

AS each denomination prepares its
own statistics the great Methodist
church, for example, will report only
those who are actually on the church
roll as members, it will not count per
sons in Methodist families who have
not personally joined the church, nor
will It count it's 7,218,463 Sunday
School scholars, nor the children in
homes of Methodist families holding
church membership who are too
young to be Sabbath school scholars,
nor its babies in arms, etc.
The Baptists have 6,534132 adult
church members, 3,S85,837 Sunday
school scholars and two million under
The menace., 1917-07-14
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navy or army service. to enroll In IN,
Tels0rapher'S War Relief Corps, 70 take ths
places Of Thousands Of ahls hodIsd op--.t-r'
who will be called for duty on the signal
corps for active service. Regardless Of loca.
ton or present occupation. svery old tim,
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once for full particulars. Address, telegraph.
sr's War Relief Corps, l52 East seth Street
Seattle. Wash.
The menace., 1917-07-14

In celebrating the four-hundredth
anniversary of the Reformation, it is
we'll to mark the connection between
tho life and teachings of Luther and
the many free institutions that have
followed as a direct result. Read
Martin Luther, the Prophet of
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The menace., 1917-07-14

Count them, and add them up. How
many young people, to your knowl-
edge, have been injured by attendance
at the Goddess" public schools; and
how many young people have been in
spired or benefited by the example
or teachings Of the pope's black-robed
agents?
The menace., 1917-07-14

"What is the matter? What has
happened? Where are the howling
ianatics?" Shrieks Priest Foley's
Western Catholic. They seem to be
hou ling as usual from the sanctums
Of their pope's propaganda because
they can't run the Red Cross society,
because they can't keep the Y. M. G..
A. out of military camps, because
they can't fill all the chaplaincies in
army and navy with priests, because
the United States Is more Interested
in its allies than in ireland, and be-
cause official statistics discount their
extravagant claims to this, that, and
the other. They are easy to locate
sinca they make so much noise.
The menace., 1917-07-14

Initiative is the ability to start
something worth while without being
told and without asking someone's
permission. 1t is the virtue Of genu-
inc progressive Americans, and q
grievous sin among Roman Cath
olics. -
The menace., 1917-07-14

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The pope's editors are very indig-
nant because someone happened to
call Gerlach, who used the vatican as
a base Of operations against the
Italian navy, a cardinal. But they
have nothing to say concerning the
hostile operations against Italy by
that officer Of the pope's household.
1t looks like a violent attempt to
change the subject of conversation.
The menace., 1917-07-14

The camel Is said to 60 long time
without drink, but this has nothing to
DO with Grandfather Campbell of the
Texas Antidote.
The menace., 1917-07-14

Reading the papist press of the
past month affords an insight into
what is meant by the expression
"nigger talk"
The menace., 1917-07-14

The man who is up to date is
down on priestcraft.
The menace., 1917-07-14

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structed Irish who imagine that this
war is coalition for the annihila,
ton of England.
The menace., 1917-07-14
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The menace., 1917-07-14
Friends on the Firing
Line, a Word to You

rTloDAY is big with opportuni-
I'LL ties. 1t 10 also freighted with
lS tremendous peril. Rome is
L&L handina oil bar nnanc-;n. -
The menace., 1917-07-14

As church adherents