The menace., 1917-12-01
SWISS PAPER ON THE
MIASMA OF DEMOCRACY
Answered in Able Editorial That
Shows Connivance of Rome
Against DemOCracy's Hosts

Against DemoCracy's Hosts
Not since The great world war has
the "Hidden Hand" behind the con-
fiagration that has wrapped conti-
nent in fame, ruin and death, been
so clearly exposed by a great daily
paper as was done in the editorial
leader in The Christian Science Daiiy
Monitor Of Boston, Massachusetts,
In its issue of November 18th.
In this article which appears un-
der the title "The Miasma Of Democ-
racy," the editor also clearly shows
why Rome wars on popular sover-
eighty. He might have cited Leo
AlIl's condemnation of the very form
OF democracy which pe enjoy when
the pope condemned the French re-
public for initiating this government
In divorcing church and state. (Sea
Great Encyclical Letters of Leo
XIII, pages 120-123.) This condem-
nation was also cited with approval
and with added condemnation by
Plus x when on August 25th, 1910,
he issued his famous e1-cathedrG
letter against le Sillon.
The war which the Knights of Co.
lumbus and other Catholics have
been systematically waging during
recent years against the vital demo-
cratic constitutional guarantees of
freedom of press, speech and assem-
bly, and the absolute divorce of
church and state is a part of the ma
tion-wide organized effort of the Ro-
man hierarchy to substitute the pa
pal system for that of our liberal de-
mocracy which Leo and Plus so
sweepingly condemned. The recent
stand of Cardinal ,0'Connell in his
political campaign against the fun
damentally sound democratic amend
ment adopted so sweepingly in
Massachusetts affords a still further
illustration of Rome's real purpose
In opposing what the Roman Cath
olic Swiss journal terms "The Mas
ma of Democracy"
We earnestly urge every reader OF
THE MENACE to cali the attention of
his unawakened Protestant neighbors
to this masterly editorial from the
Christian Science Monitor which we
reproduce below:
| THE MLiSNIA OF DEMOCRACY"
"a certain Roman Catholic organ,
published in East Switzerland, has
made itself responsible for the
phrase the miasma of democracy.'
The argument by which it is sought
to make this good is curiously COM
posed diatribe, based on the postulate
that the theory that government
rests on the shoulders Of the people
is heresy. Because, the writer
argues, man Is not endowed with
authority over man, the election of
governments by the people is null
and void. Authority can rest only
with God, altl therefore cannot rest
in the people. Consequently, the
theory that democracy governs is
atheistic, is, in short, the work Of
Satan.' Now, there is Just one fact
which emerges from such reasoning,
and that fact is the demand for q
theocracy supported by the secular
arm. In plain English, the world is
asked to travel back to the days
when the pope was endowed with
temporal power, and attempted to
impose his spiritual fats on human-
ity by means Of the strong arm of a
secular lieutenant known as the EN-.
peror.
Rome and Romanists
"Such an outburst might be re-
garded as midsummer madness in
the Twentieth Century, were it not
one Of the innumerable straws which
show the way the ecclesiastical wind
is blowing Every day it is becom-
ing more and more evident that the
d weight of the vatican has been cast
entirely on the side Of the Central
Powers, and in saying this, it is nee
essary to make a distinction, to ex-
J plain, that Is to say, that the vatican
|, is not necessarily the same thing as
Roman Catholic. Just as the Eng
lish Catholics, Of the days Of the first
Prnmunire, and the English Catho-
lies, of the days of the Armada,
fought against and opposed the pa
. pal power in Rome, so, certain dis
tinction arises between the Roman
. Catholics Of Belgium and the Roman
Catholics Of Austria today, the first
being for the purpose of this distinc-
ton Belgian Catholics and the sec.
ond Roman Catholics. All this, how.
! ever, does not affect the weight in
!, the scale into which the influence Of
the Roman Catholic church is cast,
for the vatican represents the
rnouthpiece, the policy. and the driv-
ing force Of political Roman Cathol-
icism.
Manning's Prophecy
"Now the vatican, whatever any
one may think or whatever anyone
may say to the contrary, has never
for one moment renouncsd its claim
to temporal power. No man knew
this better than Mr.. Gladstone. him
self the very incarnation of Anglican
ism in England. Mr. Gladstone knew
, personally, as well as politically,
what Cardinal Manning stood for,
and on more than one occasion he re-
ferred publicly to that famous state
|, ment of Cardinal Manning's on the
: subject Of the temporal power of the
/. pRpacy, made in the year 1874, 70
! the effect that, there is only one So
! lution Of the difficulty, and that is
the terrible scourre Of continental
. war, a war which viii exceed the
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