The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-01-05

WHICH ne also naQ TINS year. InlS
year DR.. keenan, retired from the
contest and Mr.. Corcoran had the
benefit Of Mayor Curley's rallies,
though he failed to reach the total of
Mr.. Lane"
The foregoing quotation shows con-
clusively that papal votes and papal
representatives on the school board
were able to work in the same polit-
ical harness but the feature of the
campaign that shows the lengths to
which the cardinal had to go is shown
in the women's vote of 10000 which
had never been more than 5000 in
the ten years preceding.
The non-Catholic forces accus-
toned to resting easy on the oars
and believing that whoever should
receive the endorsement of the Pub
lie School Association would un-
doubtedly be elected were not pre-
pared for the surprise the willy car,
dinal had arranged and, though fore
warned, the Protestant women did
not turn out for registration with any
unusual show of interest. Rome's
women had seldom ever voted before
for the Roman church is an enemy
Of woman suffrage and the women
have remained at home instead of
exercising their ballot. This, not
only because their church would
rather have it so in most instances
but, also, because they were mothers
Of children who attended parochial
schools and inasmuch as their privi-
lege to vote is confined to public
school questions they have been dis
interested until the cardinal in his
desperation, gave the word to vote.
1t should be said that one of the
papists elected has already promised
an administration based on mo other
lines than those Of whole-hearted
public service" but 1t Is a known fact
that as a rule papists sympathize
with the Roman hierarchy in its
enmity to the. public school and they
should not be elected to a position
having any authority over the schools
for that very reason.
The (Boston) Pilot, the official Or
gan Of Cardinal 0'Connell, which
was very jealous in its advocacy of
the two papal candidates is on rec
ord, against the public schools. We
mean by that that in addition to ar
ticles pointing out the weaknesses and
defects of public and goddess" edu-
cation as it believes them to be it
urges all papists to send their chill
dren to the parochial schools? This
occurred at no more distant date than
September 18th, when every parent
was thinking seriously on school
questions. In its issue for that date
The Pilot said:
"The most impossible person, is
the Catholic parent who can give his
children the advantages of the Cath
olic school yet deprives them of it.
He is to be pitied for he does not
know any better"
That shows that The Pilot urges
the attendance of Catholic children
at parochial schools and discourages
sending them to the public schools, by
saying the Catholic parent who does
so is "the most impossible" of all
persons.
Yet the official voice of the car
dinal naturally agreed with him in
wanting to see its papist brethren on
the directing board of an institution
that both urge Romanists to shun.
What fools we mortals bel Bos-
ton, watch your step, these papists on
the school board are in position to
serve their peculiarly inconsistent
over-lords and the aims of Rome and
they will suffer the displeasure of
those papists who put them in Office
II they fail to deserve well in the
Catholic cause" 1t is your duty to
see that they render public service
instead of sectarian service, but that
may require a deal more of your
time than would the more desirable
precautionary measure. Remember
"the big stick" is still in the hands of
the friends of the public school, even
though the papists elected should be
Of the most reactionary type for the
people can enforce their will-if thew
will, but it may take more Of inter-
est in the schools than was displayed
in the small amount of extra effort
put forth in the election.
The new board has the naming of
the superintendent. It may be that
the papal influences plan To elact a