The menace., 1918-06-01

10 ANI source OF perennial contro-
JIM versy, the question Of who
I|UJ1 atartedE Ethe war, has now been
SS9pn settled We have been told
It was Austria, then Ger
many, then France, sometimes Eng
land has bean held responsible, at
others Russia, but we learn that the
blame lies at none Of these doors.
The Buddpest Kepes Hirlap, the Or
gan of the Catholic party in Hun
gary, offers its readers this informa-
tion as to the real instigators of the
war:
"The cause for the present terri
BILE war must not be sought In the
murder Of the heir apparent; this
murder was only the final signal for
many other murders past and to
come. u" It has been proved that
the archduke and his wife were MUIR
dered at the instigation of the Free
masons. The murderers themselves
were Freemasons, and the Society of
Freemasons supplied them with ad-
vice, encouragement and arms. For
our present misery neither British
pride, nor Slav aims, nor Servian in
science, nor Grey, nor Pachitch are
responsible, but wholly and solely the
spirit, the conduct and the aims Of
the Freemasons. They have con-
quered the world with their diaboli-
cal power. Freemasons have kindled
the fire over our heads; Freemasons
are operating with knife and bombs ;
Freemasons are making the present
war as inhuman as it is."-Literdry
Digest.
An equally amusing statement
from q like source is reproduced in
the following from the London Free
mason:
ut has BEEN left to the VoLkszeit,rng,
a Roman Catholic organ published at
Cologne, to discover the real cause Of
the war. In a recent issue 1t con-
tanned an article Of which the fol-
lowing Is a translation:
"'The whole formidable array OF
sinister powers which, prior to the
war, were actively working behind
the scenes In order to plunge Europe
and o great part Of the world gen
orally Into such dread misery and
distress, has not yet been disclosed tc
the view and the exercration Of man.
kind. One Of the worst Of these
powers Of darkness 10 represented by
Freemasonry. 1t will one day be uni.
versally acknowledged that II was
Freemasonry that gave tho initial
impetus to the war by establishing
the Pan Servian secret society, known
as the Narodna Odbrana.
"'Later, when the conhagrator
was once started, the Freemasons-
the handy-men Of the Quadruple
Entente-concentrated all their ener-
gies on supporting their masters by
flooding neutral countries with lies
and calumnies against Germany anc
her allies. Hence it was among the
neutrals we beheld that remarkable
phenomena that Catholics in the
main were on the side of the Centra
Powers, while all those parties anc
groupings which are more or les:
closely connected with Freemasonry
are anti German In sentiment. Thus
it was that Portugal was dragged in
to the war, for England with hel
usual astuteness, knew best how tt
utilize the Freemasons in her serv'
ice. Exactly the same thing hap
pened In the Spanish and Portuguese
speaking states Of South America.
"'Freemasonry has proved itseli
one of the worst enemies Of the Cen
tral Powers. Prior to the war this
bitter enemy was, unfortunately, MOI
sufficiently recognized among US. Tht
world war, however, has torn the vel
from its hateful features, and there
fore, when at last the victory shal
have been won, the powers Of ligh'
that, happily, are still in being il
Germany, must strain every nerve Il
overcome and to render innocuous fol
ever, 80 far as the Central Powers
are involved, the venomous bite o.
this England-reared demon
The Daily Express, commentint
jocularly on this Illuminating dis
covery, says:
Passengers by the tube railway,
in the early afternoon may Otter
have noticed benign and innocent
looking gentlemen carrying blacl
cases Of peculiar contour. Mufflet
though they are, a small portion O
black neither garments, visible at on
end, and white tie at the other, be
tray the fact that they are in even
ing dress. Those who note thei
presence are apt to wonder why the,
should be 80 attired at such an hour
and to speculate idly as to whethe
they are musicians, and whether tn
black case with the peculiar contou
may not contain some mysteriou
kind of musical instrument wit
which the public at large is not ia
miliar. But these benign and innc
cent-looking gentlemen are, in fac
nothing so innocuous as musician!
They are members of dark and sir
lister organization which has jus
come under the ban Of the Cologn