The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-08-10


g children between certain ages will
e be compelled to receive their Amer.
lcanism and their elemental ed,,ca.
e tlon-the same law, with some
modification, that Florida now has
/ and that Michigan is fighting for,
. and that every state in the Union
) will demand Immediately following
, the present pope-started stupendous
| cataclysm.
Reversing the shield, we find Rome
: working hand-in-glove with all-too-
wise Bill Brandon. BY pre-arranged
understanding, papalism knows that
J Slick-Duck Bill Brandon would al
low popery to remain undisturbed
to continue to Craze in her present
green pastures Of well-doing at the
states expense and to stand beside
the still waters of her present COM
placency. Here is a "plain" work
a-day trade between ''Plain Bilp
Brandon and this alleged "church," !"
and the people of Alabama, not
Bill Brandon, will have to foot the
pope's "bill," which certainly will
not be "plain," rather it will be
finely-wrought and subtle and in
sidious. In the beginning of the
present campaign, Hon. W. W.
Brandon struck some battering-ram
blows that made popery vince, but
both friends and opponents soon
observed that he had ceased his
anti-Catholic onslaughts. The rea-
son for such action on his part was
not Immediately apparent to all.
but is now made "plain" to the most
blunt.
His last anti-Catholic declaration
was made at Oak Grove, Jefferson
County, on Friday, July 10, but on
the ensuing night in Birmingham,
at Capitol Park, conscious of his
guilt in having STRUCK Al
TRADE WITH ROMAN CA
THOLICISM caused him to cover,
with much redness of face and
stammering of speech.
The day following Brandon's ad- |
dress at Capitol Park. a prominent
and exceptionally well-known doc
tor Of medicine, formerly a city
physician of Birmingham, and one
of the leading Roman Catholics of
the city, knowing himself to be ad-
dressing strong Brandon support
er, who is now shouting for Kilby
solely because of the incident here
related, let the cat out of the bag
with the declaration: "Judge
Brandon told US Catholics not to
attend his speaking at Capitol Park,
as our presence there might cause
many anti-Catholics to leave his
STANDARD, since many such are al
ready suspicious, and Brandon
knows we are all for him anyway"
Not-so-plain Bill Brandon, the peo-
pie of Alabama demand to know
NOW what is meant by all this sub
rosa and tete-a-tete trading of their
rights as a sovereign people to the
agents Of the beast of papalism-
for Prime Minister Clemenceau, of
France, declares to the world that
he is fighting the vatican as we'll as
the Wilhelmstrasse-that the en-
tente allied democratic people are
fighting so successfully and so
heroically on the battle-felds Of
Europe today-''for we are indom-
liable in our power of independent ;;
action, and can in no circumstances ,
consent to live in a world governed !
by (Papo-Hapsburg- -Hohenzollern) s
intrigue and force. Mr.. Brandon's g
noble Methodist-pastor father would t
turn over in his grave and groan if !;
he knew of his sons, action in this 3
matter, for the papacy received no
comfort from him in his day. t
In his address at Oak Grove, AT s
A MASONIC PICNIC, Brandon =
had said, "After this war, we are I
going to do away with popes, a
1aisers, czars, etc." and much else
n like vein. But the very next b
night in his Capitol Park speech, a
which was stunning disappoint- +
nent to his supporters, causing y
many to withdraw their support, he ),
aid, with quavering, apologetic II
,oice: "And I may lose your votes e e
" SO saying, but Pm going to say 81 81
t anyway don't believe in bring
ng a paper THE MENAoB1 into e
from another state" T
nay lose your votes by SO saying Sc .
here is a confession to the world Z:
+ guilty conscience Of having !,
truck trade with the Alabama so sS
gents of the papacy Of Rome. Il Il
tally. Did Brandon, not so "plain," Is
ow, come to an agreement with SSSs
he Roman Catholics Of Alabama as 0y 0v