The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-03-09
WILL AMERICA SEND
ENVOY TO VATICAN?
Another Attempt to Inveigle U. S.
Into Recognition Of POpe's Sow
ereignty--War the Pretext


Is President Wilson going to sue
cumb to the Jesuit-inspired move
now afoat to land a representative
of this government in the vatican?
That is the question that confronts
every sincere patriot who has read
the Washington. dispatches giving
rather lengthy accounts Of just how
''weighty" discussions Of the ad-
visibility of such a move are be-
coming.
One Richard J. Beamish who is
the staff correspondent of The
Press of Philadelphia, Pa, had con-
siderable to say on the subject in a
recent issue of that publication, and
endeavored to give a good many
reasons why the United States
should favor having a representa-
tive at the vatican but he failed,
woefully, to give one single reason
that would appeal to any except the
simple-minded, or those whose
thinking is done by priests of Rome.
Mr.. Beamish says:
The proposition has been placed
before the president in such form
that serious and weighty discussion
has followed. Those who are urging
the idea are not Roman Catholics.
There may be those whosare soft
enough to believe that such a move
is not the result of careful schem-
ing on the part of Rome and her
crafty Jesuits but such persons are
, in need of considerable enlighten-
ment and will not be found among
persons at all familiar with how
Rome proceeds in such matters.
Mr.. Beamish himself says:
Heretofore when the question of
American representation in the vat
lean was considered, some of the
strongest opposition came from Ro-
man Catholic priests who contended
that this action would produce mis-
understanding and misjudgments
which would fan the flames of re-
ligious strife and prejudice. Opposi-
tion from this source has not devel-
oped to the present proposal.
No person connected with THE
MENACE can remember that ROM
ish priests ever came out in opposi-
tion to sending an American envoy
to the vatican, but the foregoing is
interesting, in, that it shows that ST.
lence is golden among priests and
prelates now, and if silence is con-
sent they seem to be unanimously for
it as they naturally would be were it
a deliberate plan emanating from
the hierarchy, as all Of the many
past efforts have.
1t is one of the vatican's pet
methods to have questions it is de-
sirous Of discussing brought to
light by persons other than those
known to be within the fold and it
knows that its hopes for the success
of this scheme cannot and will not
be blasted by Romanists in posi-
tion to know what is going On.
Before showing how utter has
been the failure to advance valid
reasons for thus recognizing the
vatican we wish to ask what this
country is coming to when the
agents of a system so diabolical be-
come so bold as to propose such ID
preposterous scheme? Does Rome
imagine for a minute that her
Jesuitical lullabys, so we'll timed
and advantageously applied, have
taken root in every nook and cor
ner of the nation and drugged the
whole people? AS well talk of this
country sending an envoy to the
Methodist Mission in Italy as of
sending one to the vatican. Though
it is political the vatican has not
been recognized as such, heretofore,
by this government, and in all
its dealings Herewith, especially
under Mr.. Wilson's guidance. has
studiously avoided dealing with it
as political. What now do we want
with a special representative in this
headquarters of Roman Catholic
sectarianism?
Is America concerned in any war
issue that will make special treat
ment with the papacy necessary? If
so this must be a religious war. Is
America going to depart from the
established customs and principles
laid down in and by its constitution
and send special envoy to an &C.
clesiastical court and set thereon
the mark of its approval of the tenn
poral aspirations SO long an out
standing characteristic of the vat
leans desires?
If such a thing is done by this
government what will Italy, Eng
land and France think about the