The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-01-26

autOcracy and mihtariam were. saws
the correspondent "ClerieaIs. Nan.
tralists and Socialists."
They united to carry out a most
perndlous campaign for immediats
Peace, obviously In the intaresta a.
Germany and Austria. Here Ia the
brutal fact:
They agreed tacdtly In the mama
OF Standards, absolutely divergent
each from the other, 10 divide smonv
themselves the roles which each had
to play In breaking down the sniria
OF o. resistance to the enemy, both in
the army and among the people. The
socialists tackled the city popula-
tions; the clericals attacked the peas.
antry. The former tried to paraivz.
the moral and industrial effort of fhs
proletarians by invoking the specte,
Of capitalism; the latter tried 10 de.
o, ollitate the peasantry and incline
cee1a ceetn 70 =, msrtia inertia, by invoking the pre-
Milan, Italy, Ia q great industr,.I
center. II was the leading Geyu,sr
sphere Of influence when ths ,,,a..
opened II La also strong socialistie
center. With German gold and dana
gegical leaders to poison the minds
OF the none too Intelligent Socialistic
masses OF Italy with tho pcraistent
claim that England, France and
America were the embodiment ~
soulless capitalism and should ba On ~
posed by all Socialists, Il ia easv +
see how this poison of falsehoodS
spread among the toilers, reinforced
as y was by the sympathetic ureinS
OF Italian wives, mothers and gistars.
inc vast majority Of whom are Ro.
man Catholic and are merely echoe.
OF their priestly confessors, Il is nat
strange therefore, that consniraciss
prospered and seditions fiourishsI ir
Milan and other industrial centera'
wnllc In the country, the villages and
tns towns whore the bliThtinr spell
OF the Roman church II seen In fhe
ignorant and supersitious many. ths
priests, whom tho poor deludeJ
masses are taught 20 believe rtanS
In the place Of God himself. were ana
70 40 their evn work In becominr
powerfui instruments Of treason.
In this connection the speciai cor-
respondent to Premier ClomenessuT
journal observes;
1T IL almost Incredible unle..
one sees the documentary svidenea
OF their activity among civilians and
on the front, how much strategy. "a
thence, and cleverness they used Al
most to achieve their aim, which was
tho entire Gb1ndonmeat OF tks a.
tense from hs Alps to tAs sea n
their order Of the day were wurda
such as those Of Deputy Claude
Preyes: Meet winter toom1 % spsnt
N tie trenohes, or those Of the pcps.
The prolonoutson Of tAs tpor va -
only uselsas sl0N0hten' On thosA
themes these people have Aeen I'm.
broider.ng the most beautiful, mter.
national. Utopian, evangelical para-
phrases. Those guilty of tie Ockohar
detection are Socialism and Papac1
' The vOtiooA's aets hos dons ~.
fnsNss harm A. 10 the Nsutraiisk
party Of Ciolitd, ] could not Ae4tar
definO theaT action than compare n
with that ef CAiIlAnx, which saszna
10 preach FeefstaAes h appanswnaa.
but rcallv staAds fev dissslsit!on -
demoraliz0ti0M.s
The danger from Jsguitesl ana
vatican activities II hv no means
past "The pope has o lonR ars,a.S
was an old and fAvorits sayina a
the Romanists In the days when TIE
Temporal Power was greater than
1t Is today and whsn heretics were
pursued over land and sea by the
minions Of Rome, and this adage has
much force, even today. A fact read
lily realized when we remember that
the Jesuits boast that they hava
twenty-five million members sworn 70
implicitly obey their superior; hence
the present is no time for friends Of
fundamental democracy IN anS III
erdl land TO advocate any timid or
half-hearted measures In dealing with
"nea or copert treason or efforts TO
e',t The ground from under the allied
forces Of world drmoc-ucn
Tn speaking of this menace A It
so'"'sr to Itolv the correspondent for
"PHnwnle Lbre" saws:
he peace pron1ganNs has sharp
e0ed its weanNns for = .Nrust at the
e-st onnortpnitv, ard tha pope con-
'inues his wnneuve~s. Intentionally or
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