The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-02-23
TODAY IS none TOO EARLY
AMERICAS GREATEST EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL IN FURTHERANCE OF

people, and the people, being under
the power Of itself alone is alone
its own ruler ."
page 1917 "Thus, ss is evi-
dent Q state becomes nothing but
Q multitude which Il its own mas
ter and ruler. And since the popu-
lace is declared to contain within
itself the springfield Of all rights
and Of all powers it follows that
the state does not consider itself
bound by any kind Of duty towards
God. Moreover, 1t believes that il
is not obliged to make public pro,
fession Of any religion; or to in
quire which of the very many re-
ligions is the only one true; or to
prefer one religion to all the rest ;
or to show to any form Of religion
special favor; but, on the contrary,
is bound to grant equal rights to
every creed, SO that public order
may not be disturbed by any par
ticular form Of religious belief"
The reason we have inducted the
above utterance into this article is
that Rome, in arguing against the
Maryland bills, refers to them as
hostile to religion, or the Roman
church if you will, though that is
more explicit than she has cared to
be in this particular matter. She
opposes the bills because they will
prove a hindrance to the Roman
Catholic church, but that does not
say the bills are undemocratic,
neither does it say they war on re-
ligion. Both are democratic and
any person knows that a truly dem
ocratic law does not discriminate
between religions, hence it follows,
if the Roman church is hit she is
enjoying and taking advantage of
certain liberties that should not
exist which, in the end, when taken
advantage of politically amount to
discrimination in favor of the Ro-
man Catholic church.
The fact that one Of the bills
mentions monasteries, converts, and
Houses of the Good Shepherd, as
some Of the many institutions
wherein involuntary servitude shall
be prohibited and where government
inspection shall be compulsory, is
merely an indication that involun-
tary servitude exists therein and
the bills themselves propose moth.
ing that would work as a discrim-
ination against the Roman Catholic
church; instead the same proposed
law would apply to all sects, and
merely serve to more distinctly draw
the line Of separation between
church and state. The other bill
addressed to the preservation of the
public school funds could not posi-
bly, have any affect on Rome unless
she anticipated, at some favorable
moment, making a raid on these
funds in the interest of parochia,
schools.
| The above paragraph contains
facts which, when studied in thu
light Of Leo XIIPs utterances al
quoted, will prove conclusively, II
any unbiased reader, that the editor
of the Baltimore Catholic Reuieu
is doing nothing more than reiterat
ing the position Of Pope Leo XIII
and in his zeal to obtain the per
feet chance for which the hierarchy
J longs, he SO far forgets himself as II
give visible expression to the papa
desire for the establishment of ,
Roman Index over law-makinI
bodies, for if this is not the kind O
an index the editor desires, VIII,
should he mention it in connection
with his TRADE against the Grea
Secret Order or Mr.. Waldron, ant
accompanying comment.
!, If the people Of Maryland fail +
} make themselves heard in favor o
r these two bills by writing to thei
legislators, urging their passage
, they will have no one to blame bu
5 themselves if, in the end, they ar
, confronted by a condition tina
5 works out equally as favorable 70
Rome as the suggested Index. An,
| once they express themselves in sue
a manner as to indicate that
/ makes no difference to them the
E may look for this same organ of tn
g papacy to recommend the bringing
on Of the iron virgin, the duckin,
stool, the wheel, the rack, AM
, other things peculiarly fitted to ad