The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-12-21
If THE MENACE or any
man or woman in this coun-
a., ,,.;o, ~ ~ d,,r;u0 tha

joint drive, had charged
hat the Catholic War Council
Fould spend any Of the funds it
light collect in the name OF war
1h American soil to make America
Netholic, or if we had said or you
bnd said what the Roman Catholic
4apers now print as a mere matter
d Catholic news twenty years in
L.eavenworth prison would have
Been considered a light sentence by
he knights Of Columbus in fed
Sral positions, and we would have
been languishing in Jail now wait
ing to 60 through the formalities
hat precede long terms in prison.
The secular dailies have been
giving us hints Of what is about to
Be- done by the Catholic War Coun-
icl, but it remains for detached ar
ticles appearing here and there
through the Catholic papers to fur
nish the real cue to the cleverly
devised scheme to whip the Prot
estant millions with scorpions they
themselves have doubtless placed
in the hands Of the would-be task
masters.
No person at all posted on Rom
ish propaganda and its promoters
as they are represented in the Gath
olic War Council would for a mo-
ment doubt that the council would
divert the uttermost fraction Of its
immense resources to unadulter-
ated papal propaganda, but it was
not expected that it would be SO
brazen as to enter into the days Of
reconstruction with its vast re-
sources made available, if not act
ually provided, by ProtestantS, and
use them to battle against free in
stitutions while trying to crowd the
whole fabric Of medievalism upon 9
nation struggling toward greater
unity and by a broader and more
meaningful application of demo.
cratic precepts to the problems
confronting us.
But such is the scheme Of thu
arch-enemy Of progress. Her de
mand is return to medievalism
her magazines and papers are full
Of it. Back! Back! Back is th'
cry of the priests and scribes; ant
popery's hirelings will soon b
shouting the glories Of medievalisn
into our ears in all manner Of vel
camoufaged phrases. Make Amer
lea the land Of the pope is inten
md nothing is to escape.
Her specially trained adherent
will enter all branches Of social wei
fare work. She will even assault th
laboring men with a propagand
Resigned to overturn their de
mands and turn them into channel
that comply with popery's ideal
bf what a laboring man should as
And receive. And, incidentally,
lis amusing to note that Our Sunda
Visitor has been running a serie
Of articles showing how well fan
4 lily might live on a deal less to es
than Just barely enough.
4 The archbishops' chief concern
however, is for papal institution
While they have fears for hospi
ais and other Romish institution
they are more particularly alarme
about the parochial school system
since it is becoming ever more al
parent that the people of this nj
ton are determined that if par,
chial schools are to continue at q
they must, at least, be subject
state supervision the same as pul
lie schools.
The most forward and progre
sive states realize that such prov
sion would only make papists mo
jealous and crafty in seeking p
litical preferment and 3 will e
deayor to pass legislation in Il
next few years, some Of them Pc
sibly within a year, making Il
English language and the publ
school the sole language and scho
for instruction up to and includil
the age uf fourteen years.
Michigan has already provid'
the necessary names to a petit,
which will, result in putting such
question up to the voters in t
form Of a constitutional amen
nent at the next state electic
But while our citizens are busyil
themselves with such problems
reconstruction, planning for mel
lEes that viii mean q united Ann