The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-05-18
ROMANISM PRESCRIBES
ITS ANCIENT REMEDY
Wants Censors to Guard her Against
UnfavorabIe Opinions and Facts
Submitted by Men Who Know

Does Rome favor censorship of
the press? The Ignorance Of a man
who asks such a question in dead
earnest in order to ascertain the
fact is pitiable indeed for it is well
known that one of the bulwarks of
all intolerant and autocratic systems
is censorship of the press.
But why does Rome want censor
ship? Does she want it for the
good Of the country or is it because
something in the ofing holds the
Roman church in the background as
liable to be benefited. TO show
that Rome really wants censorship,
that she faprs it as a policy ana
that she would like to enforce it for
her own selfish ends we need 60 no
further than The Boston Pilot, issue
for May 4th.
1t says:
War exigencies have apparently
released and accepted for service GER
tain newspaper correspondents that
are living arguments for a rigorous
censorship and they have twin
brothers in American newspaper of
fees. Here is a gem from darkest
Petrograd, via London, published in
the NeD York Times of April 9th:
"The late capital of the subverted
Russian empire will become more
cosmopolitan than ever, and in c6nse-
u quence Of Nikolai Linine's recent proc
lamation welcoming to the bosom of
the Soviet Republic the black sheep
: who have been prosecuted for religious
and political reasons abroad, we
shall soon witness a choice collection
of anarchists, Jesuits and Mormons
such as came here nbt long ago in
sealed train"
From what cave or back woods
, circuit was dragged the ignoramus
, who will charge his paper with
cable tolls for dispatch thai
!: brackets in one sentence anarchists
Jesuits and Mormons? But this i.
not all. This dispatch passed tn,
editorial pencils Of the London Dahl
t Express and finally of the NeW Yorl
: Times.
So, in the absence of these pa
pers' refusal to let Jesuits dominat
e their editorial rooms and delete dis
: patches that tell nothing but tn
4 truth, The Pilot wants censorship
+ Now so long as papers are printeC
S there will be Offices where the Jesu
its can gain no foothold or contrc
: and just so long there will be n
\ more effort to shield a Jesuit tina,
S an anarchist.
d But you see the point. Rome cor
It Siders it dangerous to her that tn
d truth is told which shows that tn
s Jesuits have been imprisoned an
n it doesn't like bracketing Jesuit
n with anarchists and Mormons. Cor
d seqnently, the fact that they were s
h bracketed reveals what The Ptlc
G believes and desires the world
II consider; that men who would 6
le bracket them are Giving argument
y for rigorous censorship"
, You see this rigorous censorshi
y is desired for the benefit of the RI
re man church. 1t is wanted to al
le the Jesuits and keep them ever b,
f fore the public in a favorable il
n stead of an unfayorable light. Yo
Is know the Jesuits have always bee
If the enemies Of free press and it WI
N because of their efforts to destroy
T. free. press, free speech and pI,
N against popular sovereignty that IL
le autocrats Of Europe in that doc,
J" ment called the Secret Treaty
lie Verona thanked the pope for agai
is turning them loose upon the worl
We Behind Rome's every argument #
ry censorship there is a motive direc
~ ly traceable to the interests Of Il
Mt Jesuits which in turn cannot fail
ly be to the interest of the papal auto
it racy that rules the Roman Cathol
tyI church. Remember this and watt
m these enemies Of free speech, fir
er press and ronular sorera;ontv