The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-02-23
WOULD JUDGE RILEY
LEAD A PAPAL MOB?
Letter Published Over Signature Of
Alleged Judge Suggests Usual
Method Of SiIencing Fearless

metnoo OF ollencIng fearless
Recently we gave our readers
some quotations credited to British
Attorney-General Smith, whose
amazingly frank utterances on the
Irish question astonished his inter-
viewers who were not accustomed to
talking with men who were out
spoken in voicing their convictions,
as to the derOgatory affect Of papal
influence against the allies in the
war.
His remarks as printed in various
newspapers doubtless aroused the
ire of a good many persons who
read the truth on this question for
the first time and therefore believe
it is a falsehood, Or who are ac-
customed to removing from their
vicinity, by force, persons who voice
convictions contrary to things pleas
ant to their ears.
One Judge Thomas P. Riley Of
Maiden, Massachusetts,, ventured
into print with letter deploring
the fact that Mr.. Smith had been
granted any space in the newspa-
perS which letter he closed as fol-
lows:
This man should be publicly or
dered to seek his earliest possible es-
cape from this country, whose hos
pitality is abused, whose people he
has aggravated, and whose democ-
racy he has insulted.
l shall be glad to head a counter
demonstration If any attempt is made
to welcome him in Boston.
We have o vivid recollection that
when Thomas E. Leyden was well
coined in Haverhill, ten thousand
Knights Of Columbus and other
props Of the hierarchy headed a
counter demonstration, destroyed
property, cried out for the blood Of
this man who was merely explain
ing the anti-sectarian amendment
and finally burned an effigy Of FREQ
speech.
We wonder II this Judge, if Judge
he be, had any such demonstration
in mind? If so, the title should be
taken from him at the earliest pos
sible moment; if not, he should
have refrained from making any
threats.
What the Judge failed to state
and what Mr.. Smith knows, but
which none of the papers have
printed, is that the Irish question,
crisis that it is, is nothing more,
nothing less, than the determine
ton Of papal Ireland to dominate
Ulster, and listers determination
not to be dominated from that
, source. Ulster, comprising one
, third Of the population Of Ireland,
pays two-thirds Of the tax. The
southern portion Of ireland as
opposite in ideals, views and
thrift from Ulster, as papalism can
, possibly be from Protestanism,
! wants home rule, meaning by that
that it wants to establish a local
government, with its two-thirds Of
r the voting strength, the expenses
E Of the said government to be paid,
by the one-third in Ulster.
Both papal Ireland and the Ro.
man curia have declined to sanction
' home rule for southern Ireland
conditioned upon leaving Ulster free
to choose its own course.
Hence the crafty papal politicians
i, Of southern Ireland felt no time
i was so propitious for gaining Their
d end as the present, and officials o.
the German government have ex'
3 pressed deep gratitude for the aid
I thus rendered the kaiser. Thil
!" propaganda has had no other afect
+ than to prove Q great hindrance d
England's prosecution Of the war
The home rule question has beer
: advocated for years, but never q
y voluminously as 1t has been sinc'
/ Easement left Germany 10 start tn
o Irish Revolution.
It Indeed it has been charged tha'
d ''home rule" agitation gained ii
= added impetus because Of mys
a teriously acquired financial support
T. These significant facts attended b.
h vast amount of other evidence o
IT which the British attorney-genera
If is cognizant, naturally make
l. friends Of the pope and kaise
lel rather indignant, If perchance the,
10 come to light through some authori
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