The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-10-12

"IlfC u LUCIu du luCu anu LlleJ IL
Vl take a mile" is an old saw
N0I that must have been coined
H2A with the Roman church es-
pecially in mind.
Rome succeeded in being in
cluded in a joint drive for funds
for the benefit of her work in army
cantonments. To make it clear We
will say that being admitted to the
camps as a sectarian organization
and then getting in on a joint drive
is what might be called getting "the
inch"
Rome now wants Roman Cath
olic division of the army and an
American White Cross society. She
is now appealing for support Of
both. Listen! Shall such a state
of affairs be allowed to come to
pass? Shall we be confronted with
a papal issue Of bonds that will vie
with our Liberty bonds? Shall we
be confronted with a demand for a
separated White Cross to be recog-
nized and given share of the ma
tion's money which now goes to the
Red Gross? These are questions
for the consideration of American
citizens. You know that at first
Rome only wanted permission ia
work in the cantonments through
her knights as fraternal organiza.
tion; a work that is now under the
direction of the Roman Catholic
war council and which has beer
granted a share in drive fol
funds for war relief work. Away:
Rome wants to do something pecu
liarly sectarian, strictly Roman
Catholic, absolutely independent o.
'fheretics" after she gets to doing
or gains permission to get busy
then comes the cry for funds.
Right now there is a White Cros'
society and a Polish army is being
organized in this country. Their,
is some dispute as to whether i
shall be a strictly Catholic army O.
whether Roman Catholic Poles ant
those who are not Catholics shal
enter the American army after tn,
custom of American citizens.
1t is a deep question. 1t is on
we would rather not discuss. W
regret that there is an element il
America that insists on setting it
self apart from Americans ant
while claiming the protection Of tn
country insists on fighting unde
the aegis of the pope instead Of un
der Old Glory. But such an ele
}ment exists and all the controvers
lover the organization or non-organ
Jization of such q unit of Roma
Catholic Poles to be known as tn
Roman Catholic army is the direc
result Of priestly meddling wit
people who would have been gla
to fight under the stars and stripe
had the pope's agents kept thei
hands off.
That Poles who are non-C -Catholi
resent being inducted into such
Roman Catholic unit is not to b
wondered at. That whole-soule
Americans knew nothing about tn
scheme until the thing was practi:
ally done, is due to the fact that til
agitation for it has been COT
Quoted through the Roman Catholi
papers that print their news i
Polish.
AS already intimated there al
two kinds of Polish people in tn
country. One kind is Roman Catl
olic, the other is composed Of Poll
/, who renounce the right OF popes an
priests to dictate every circun
\ stance Of their lives. All told thel
are 100000 Poles in this coul
, try. These 100000 have bee
wrangling through the Polls
press for many moons over wheth'
or not they should fight as Anne
leans or as Catholics.
The priestly Schemers for Il
Roman Catholic church seem
\ have the advantage, for their or
Of the game is called the Poli'
army movement. Nothing abo,
( It to reveal that i is strictly papa
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