The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-05-04

NVu DlesS you, my DOy, 20 dnedu,
will give you every help | can." But
| never dreamt he would get them.
The French lads who had gone to the
front did well, they were enthusias-
tic in the cause and did their level
best. Dozens of men besides Colonel
DeSalaberry tried to get the boys to
enlist, but some influence was at work
with them and they disappeared
few days after they came in.
There was nothing of this kind in
Ontario and there was no question of
Military Service Act. EVERYBODY
was loyal, and all were looking at the
front line trenches. Colonel White
came home and called a large num-
Der of his foremen together and said,
II want each of you to get me few
boys, and in few days we will have
battalion" Inside of two weeks
Colonel White came to me and said,
"The jig is up; we cannot raise the
men,"
am not going to turn a corner;
we may as well face the facts and
thresh it out and know where we
stand. Colonel White said: "These
foremen come to me and say the men
will not enlist; the clergy, these old
country clergymen, have disseminated
the teachings that this is a just judg-
ment on France for having expatri-
ated the church." and he could not
ret enough to form a corporal's guard
in the whole of the Ottawa Valley /
Pave Colonel White command of an
English-speaking battalion. In the
meantime Colonel White said: "They
say that the advice of the clergy to
them is to let the English-speaking
people go to the front; you can go
up into Ontario and get their jobs;
stav Mt home and earn good money,
and if they cet killed you will retain
their places"
RGme's Intrigue Worldwide
Here it is again. The same old
clergy in the same old way, In Ire
land they want self-determination
for small nations. In Canada, where
tthey have self-determination in the
fullest sense; where there. is moth
ing, one might say, left to ask for,
they preach the gospel of this war
being visitation of divine disfavor
upon France for having severed the
connection between the Roman
church and the French nation. In
Australia it is something else, while
in all nations there is that insidious
propaganda which, now that Rome
feels it safely can, demands, on the
floor of national legislative assem-
blics, a resembling of the clause in
the French, British, Russian and
Italian agreement excluding the
pope from the peace conference.
And this campaign be it remarked
is one which has been preceded the
world over by threats in the papal
press intended to coerce the allies
by stating that they will aleniatc
papal support if this insult to the
pope is allowed to stand.
The world can know, if it care;
to Investigate, that all this papa
propaganda in favor of Germany j;
not a coincidence. 1t is part Of q
deliberate and concerted plan, 1t il
just a small part of Rome's con
tribution to the Austro-Germar
cause. What the rest is can be as
certained by a search of hidder
channels through which aid nigh
be transmitted and a thorough un
covering Of the various financia
schemes that are enabling German,
to spend so large a proportion O
her war budgets for actual fighting
and materials.
To the American citizen VIII,
drinks in every bit of papal bluste
about what the Roman church is do
ing in the war we want to call at
tention to the fact that, even il
the United States, Rome is read,
to find fault with every movemen
!, (such as the Red Cross and Y. NJ
G. AZ the moment either gives he
the least pretext and to the furthe
fact that Rome was not expectin!
conscription in this country so soon
We verify believe she would hav
fought it to the last ditch had tn
passage been delayed sufficient,
long to give her time to get into ac
ton in a way that would not con
flict with her immediate blasts o
vociferous patriotism. But fnall,
to get back to the part Rome ha
been playing in the countries nameC
and particularly in the presen
crisis confronting England, what
contrast this hierarchal ukase agains
conscription for Ireland is whel
considered in the light of that othe
event SO closely following Presiden
Wilson's reply to the papal peac
note. In that case the vatican re
sent'd the presidents indictment 0
y Il n A.