The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-10-11

the present economic and political disturbance ana outlook
IN the United States and tho world Following is brief
outline Of the substance Of his great address.l
rTl HE GREATEST FA CTORS ii our impend.
III ing problems are neither local nor nations
lE.l al; their activities encirCle the earth. Two
stupend0us engines Of oppression one
hoary with the centuries and the other Of recent
origin are Jointly endeayoring to plumber and
enSlaye mankind.
While niasquerading under the guise Of re-
llglOn, the papal system is the most despotic po-
litical aut0cracy that ever encllrnbered The
world. 1t has degraded more peoples inipOver-
islied more communities, enslaved more men,
women and children and caused more sorrow
and suffering than all other tyrannies since tie
dawn Of history.
A thousand years before the Turkish and
Teutonic empires were born, the vast autocraey
OF the pope was ScCurging every known country
with ignorance, destitntion, slavery and massa,
ere. Through the long intellectual night Of the
Middle Ages greed and lust Of the papal clergy
swallowed up the wealth and virtue Of Europe
In the most cruel slavery known to the annals
of the world
The terrible devastation wrought by papal
hands during those hideous centuries can never
be effaced. Not until the living and dead stand
at the last day before the Supreme Judge Of the
universe can the wreckage be estimated. The
results yet hang as a pail over the New World
from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn in iTiiteracy
and deStitution all but universal. All southern
Europe and the islands Of the sea, as well as
large portions Of Asia and Africa, present rec
ord equally clear and eloquent.
Anticlerical parties have arisen to offer tenn
pOrary resistance in nearly all papal lands, but
Jesuitical cunning and intrigue quickly divided
their forces, crushed the movements and pun
ished the leaders with torture and massacre. Az
pOpery has poured Its degraded h0rdes into this
country, established its thrones in cur cities and
marshaled its forces under trained papaI pOliti.
clans to dispute the supremacy of the civil pow
er, the American people have not been Indifferent
to the alien aggression.
Three successive movements have arisen In
the United States to resist the growing power
and insolence Of the papal hierarchy. Two Ci
them have been terminated by other political
crises which plunged the nation into war. Only
war could divert the patriotism of the United
States from the old KnOw-nothing movement
which threatened to exterminate popery from
our politics, and the flower Of our young mar
hood was sacrificed on the battlefelds of the
Civil War. s4l
4. Thirty years later the A. p. A. movement
gathered into its ranks enough patriots to make
great impression upon national and state poli-
tics from Maine to California. War with Spain
came seasonably to the rescue Of Rome and
saved her hundred thrones In this country from
the annihilation they deserved.
Is it purely accidental that war has inter-
posed repeatedly in our history to save the polt-
ical face Of the papal hierarchy? Has the In
trigue of popery and its collusion with demons
both in the flesh and in the underworld contrib
uted to these timely interpretations Of civil and
international war to check the march Of patriot
ism in the United States?
The third great patriotical upheayal against
political Rome among us began eight years ago
with the birth Of The Menace. The growth az
that paper was the marvel of Journalism,
Nothing like 1t had ever been seen. In three
years, without financial support 1t attained more
than million circulation. The nation was cleo
trifed by the achievement
As the aroused millions Of people began to
organize in order to stem the growing papai In
vasion, the pope united his imperial autocratic
allies In Europe in the most stupendoys on
slaught against democratic peoples and institii-
tiOns ever undertaken. Into this titanic struggle
the United States, as the foremost democracy Of
the world, was presently drawn.
This appalling cataclysm was seized as q pre-
text for espionage and censorship measures is-
tended to kill The Menace and silence the voice
Of the people. 1t seemed as if Rome would es-
cape for the third tinie from the militant wrath
OF American patriotism. Much OF the patriotic
press was indeed destroyed, censorship compelled
the secular press to begliile the people and pot-
ical prisoners quickly filed our jas and penitc-
tiaries. But The Menace survived and its circu..
lation is now growing with marvellous rapiditys
This brief statement leads to the inquiry why
the papal system he's continued to march with
devastating tread down the centuries while OIL
position has repeatedly arisen, been overwhelmed
by wealth and power and disappeared from The
field. Answer to this inquiry rests IN the defni-
ton Of the papal fabric itself. The dual cspaeig
in which the vatican with its world-epcifcIinE
domini0ns has so long masqucraded renders sch
definition vtally important. Indeed it Is the t
root Of the greatest and most far-reaching Issue
before the world.
II canseasily be demonstrated that The pope
is the foremost political ant0crat, and as suth
he rules the vast organization known as the Ro-
man Catholic church with cruel and arbitrary
power that exacts paramount civil allegiance
from every prelate, priest and member Of that
organization and renders the organization ~