The menace., 1918-06-01
JUDGE ENCOUNTERS
RQMIsH CENSORSHIP
Judge Nations Holds Splendid
Series Of Meetings and Bests the
Enemy at PalnesvllIe, Ohio

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During the week of May 9
to 16, Judge Gilbert o. Nations
held three very successful meetings
and in addition again came into di-
rect contact with the hand Of Rome
as it works through city officials in
an endeavor to close halls to repre-
Sentatives of The Free Press De-
fense League.
A very successful meeting, marked
by unusual interest was held in
Staunton, Virginia, The meeting
at Akron, Ohio, for men only, and
held in the East-Side Christian
Church was also pleasingly received
and promises some good work in
the future.
Arriving in Painesville, Ohio, on
the afternoon Of May 18th the
judge learned that Mayor E. G..
Huntington and Samuel Haskell Of
the city service board had closed
the city hall against the meeting,
the mayor having admonished the
workers that he was in politics and
must be careful. He is lawyer
and justice of the peace in addition
to being mayor and, it seems, has
ambitions to represent his district
in congress. His remarks and &C.
tions indicate that he believes he
should take more or less priestly
counsel on the presumption that
this pleases papists and Americans
will endure any kind of mistreat
ment and support him just the
same. This is not the first time the
same hall has been closed to the
League by the same political Op-
portunists. !
An attempt to procure the Chris.
tan church, as before, was made,
and with the support Of the pastor
and many members; but, it seems
that some men in authority are in
business and were afraid Of the pa.
pal boycott. All these matters had
been disposed Of when the judge ar,
rived but the Finnish Temperance
Hall, at Fairport, three miles away
had been secured and this place
was crowded. to the doors. An ex-
cellent musical program was rem
dered by the choir of the Finnish
Lutheran church, after which the
judge, though somewhat indis-
| posed, seemed at his best in the
matter of speech and his thoughts
. and words poured forth in tor
, rents for almost two hours. His
, talk was one Of the best he has made
J in point Of general interest and
more extensively covered the facts
mentioned than the following ex.
tracts therefrom:
He stated that Rome has more
than 1000 hospitals, asylumns and
orphanages and H. o. G. S. in this
country, and that it was shown in
court not long since that the H. O.
G. S. at Detroit had received in one
year about $65,000 in cash, and that
we may reasonably suppose that is q
fair average of the income received
by each Of the institutions, which
would make an aggregate of $65,00O,
900 year flowing into papal hands
! in this country from that source
alone in addition to the funds col
! lected by the nuns and other papa
,, mendicants and those received for po
,, lice protection from saloons anC
: dives and other sourceH known anC
! unknown to the public.
. He next stated that the great serie.
Z of state papers published by thu
{ British government shows tha
8 treaties now in force accord Rom,
, the right to exact tithes from papa
r countries and to enforce paymen
\ thereof by execution issued from tn,
n civil courts, and that vast additiona
8 sums are derived from marriages
i funerals, dispensations, sale of dedi
O Gated burial lots, masses for the dead
: rent of pews, interest and profits OF
Il immense wealth and countless othe
G assets. .
o Reminding the audience that tn
most authentic historians say the vat
lean a few centuries ago was tn
richest institution on earth and tina
its income far surpassed that of an,
/ civil government, he said that tn
# pope has never maintained any grea
Il military or naval establishment o
IL other concerns on which the civil gov
s, ernments expend most of their rev
Z, enues. This led to the inquir
II whether the vatican Golfers at tn
IS beginning of the war contained fabu
n lous boards of spot cash?
i Interest in the question is er
.e CHANGED by the fact that other COY
ernments publish reports and STATE
mGnts of their fiscal affairs, but n
n such report has come from the va
N lean nor have its books been audite
4 in thousand years. Every know
e fact indicates that the papal vault
n have accumulated uncounted billion
q. of wealth. In view Of the active co
11s lusion of tho papal government wit
le the kaiser and the sultan and Of tn
T. unaccountable financial strength an
! ! endurance Of those tyrants in carr!