Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-02
In Reply to Mr.. Hummel.

In Reply to Mr.. Hummel.
Eds. Freman-Tribune: May
have the privilege of replying to Mr..
Hummel's recent article?
Mr.. Hummel takes exception to
Billie Parker's recent address in
your city and defends Roman Cath
Ollie domination of the national cap
ital on the grounds that the Catho-
lies are good people. Well most of
the Mormons are good people, but
when the Mormon church got grip
upon the national capital few years
ago, and publicity was given it, the
people took hand in it and loosened
the grip of the Mormon hierarchy
from the throat of the nation. Did
any one rise up with the whining
cry of bigot or anti-Mormon? The
Christian Scientists are fine people
but does Mr.. Fl. want their church
to Dominate the national capital?"
The Methodists are good people yet
look at the cry against their taking
a hand even in the politics of the
state during the late gubernatorial
election. We are allowed to criti-
else the Mormon church or the Meth
odist church or the Baptist church
as freely as we like, but criticize the
Roman Catholic church and her
henchmen will rise up and try to
blacken your character or take your
trade away from you. Any one is
free to talk of the narrow Puritanism
that burned witches at the stake,
and people praise your grasp of his
tory but intimate anything about
the church of Rome burning scien-
lists and marrow bigot" is hurled at
you.
We can mention the fact that the
Church of England has been a
staunch supporter and revenue taker
from the brewers but mention a case
of Roman Catholic priests owning
stock in breweries and there is a
howl that is heard clear to the vati-
can. We can talk by the hour about
the way the German people have
been fooled by the Hollenzerns, but
try to show how the Roman Catholic
hierarchy has fooled the mass of the
people all down the ages and you
get ostracism. The German military
machine has exalted war in the eyes
of tho common man of Germany-the
pope calls aloud for peace now that
the extinction OF the Central Powers
with Austria twhere church and
state are wedded) is threatened. He
does not cry aloud that war is muir
der, he does not condemn WAR as
war, he simply wants to save his
own interests and so he cries aloud
for peace. Had the Roman Catholic
Church taught the ten command
ments there could have been no
world war; had the Roman Catholic
party in the German Reighstag re-
fused to vote war credits to the Ger
man government they would be on
record before the world as wanting
peace. The Socialist leader Carl
Liebnecht refused to vote for the
war credits and he has been in a
dungeon ever since. Jaures, the So
cialist leader in the French cabinet
refused to vote for war credits and
was assasinated, but they are dis
tinctly on record as against war.
The Pope wants peace-but he dis
tinctly says that he is not against
war-wholesale murder is justified
if he can pull the string and have it
begin and end at his dictation. The
Roman Catholic church is loud in its
protestations of loyalty to this gov
eminent. yet it had a great conven-
tion in Kansas City, Mo-, the latter
part of August and let us see what
it did. First of all the papal dele
gate, the Most Rev. John Bozano,
fired his opening gun against one OF
our great political parties and urged
his people to fight that great party.