The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-10-19


industries destroyed by an at
tempted reign Of incendiarism and
anarchy and sabotage within our
borders and the attempted denial OF
all Of our legal rights upon the high
seas through its unrestricted sub
marine warfare, we accepted the
challenge-the United States de-
clared war on the Hun.
The American Awakening
In our first year of the war, we
awoke to the fact that a German
victory would mean destruction to
liberty and freedom throughout the
world. Gradually we are determin-
ing that there shall be no peace with
the Hun until Prussian militarism
has been annihilated. The voice
of the United States is today de-
manding that nothing shall impede
the progress of those industries
supplying urgent war equipment.
The spirit of self-sacrifce is per-
meating the soul Of the nation. Not
only in Italy, in France and Great
Britain, but also in the United
States is the Imperial German Gov
ernment viewed in its true light
a frightful menace to all humanity,
Yet, there is one other deadly
peril now threatening world liberty,
freedom and civilization, no less
powerful, no less despotic and in
sidious than the Imperial German
Government; and its aims, its
plans, its purposes and its power
are as little known and as little
comprehended in the United States
today as were those of the Imperial
German Government in August,
1914.
That insidious, despotic power
is the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
Are not the aims and ambitions Of
pope and kaiser identical?
Do they not jointly struggle for
world dominion and world eccleS-
iastical supremacy?
Says the kaiser, ''There is only
one law, my law, the law which l
myself lay down" "0n me as Ger
man emperor the spirit Of God has
descended. I am his weapon, his
sword, his vice-gerent. Woe to the
disobedient! Death to towards
and unbelievers!"
The pope unalterably asserts the
dogma Of infallibility, maintains
that the civil power is subordinate
to the ecclesiastical power and de-
clares: "We hold upon this earth
the place of God Almighty" And
the extent to which these two i'm
perial autocrats have enforced their
claims depends entirely upon the
degree to which they have reduced
their subjects and adherents to abb
ject mental servitude.
To achieve this end the kaiser
employs "kultur," and the pope de-
crees that his followers shall read
only such publications as are ap-
proved by the hierarchy upon PEN
atty of eternal damnation Of the
soul {" and the hierarchy incessant-
ly labors to so censor or control the
secular press that the general read
ing public may be kept in ignorance
Of its aims and purposes.
Treason of the Papacy
For upon what other theory may
be reconciled the united public sup
port that all German representa-
tives Of the hierarchy have given
the kaiser; the secret reasonable
assistance that many Italian repre-
sentatives Of the hierarchy have
rendered the Central Powers in
Italy; the treacherous conspiracy Of
Bolo Pasha in France; the unpatri-
otic attitude of the representatives
of the hierarchy toward Great
Britain, in Australia, in Quebec and
in Ireland; and the universal ex-
preston Of approval of the entire
Catholic press of the pope's plea
for peace advanced at a time to
serve only our enemy; and the de-
termined effort of the vatican to
place a pro-German nuncio at Pc
kin. Does all this leave any doubt
that the Central Powers have
pledged the papacy the restoration
Of its temporal power?
How many citizens. statesmen. or