The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-07-12
PEACE and ITS PROBLEM


radical changes, but they. will be of national de-
termination in conformity with national needs
and ambitions. There will be new natiOnalism,
changed to be sure but more emphatic and more
pronounced than ever.
And how will this affect the United States?
The first effect is to enforce national conscious
ness. Citizens of the United States will have to
be. citizens Of the United States. The law of
public opinion, universally enforced, will make
hyphenated immigrants forget their origin or
shake the soil of America from their sandals.
Such decree may or may not become statutory,
but 1t will operate whether placed on the statute
books or left to popular execution.
Organized labor may be trusted, under the
new conditions, to see that immigration is more
limited than in the past. Refugees from foreign
lands may be respected as human beings, but
their welcome as competitors in the limited field
of national endeavOr is sure to be less generous
than heretofore.
But the principal check upon things foreign
will necessarily be upon foreign propaganda
upon the speciOus claims which foreign powers
propagate in this country to the cOuntry's detri-
ment and for alien benefit. Kaiserism has taught
its lesson and that lesson viii be applied to pop
cry. This is not a prophecy, but a prediction in
harmony with facts and needs.
America cannot maintain its pace as a nation
with its citizens asserting their Irish origin and
participating in plots inimical to another nation
with which we are and should be at peace. Con-
ditiOns here will afford no place for agitatOrs
stirring up strife in other countries. Intensified
natiOnalism in other countries will resent such
harbOring of trOuble-makers; and we must re-
spect their reasonable objection to such things
to earn desired reciprocity.
Moreover, the worst of all trOuble-makers,
the secret service of despots, chief among which
are the Jesuits and clerical agents of the power
hungry pope, must again be banished from all
nations as they have been so often in the past.
They are not harmonious with civilization, and
they are positively hostile to American civiliza-
tiOn.
1t is not because of religious or theological
considerations, but matter Of national self de.
fense that will make heroic measures necessary
if the people cannot otherwiseclearn the lesson
and apply gentle remedy. POpery has cursed
the world for many centuries, but that is no rea.
son why the blight should be endured forever.
The black plague used to sweep Europe and
Asia periodically, and yellow fever recurred with
deadly regularity until medical and sanitary
science realized the grim necessity of eaicacious
action. Many things have been endured in the
past that are no longer tolerated. The new earth
demands light, and cannot abide the shadow OF
priestcraft All the nations will press forward
and none Of them can afford to drag such bar.
nacles as priestcraft has fastened upon ciyiliza
tiOn for so many centuries.
The phenomena of war seems to have driven
the world not from loose nationalism into in
ternationalism but from an imperfect national
ism into nationalism more intense. The world
enters upon new phase of development in which
each national unit will be compelled by its self in
terest and as means Of self preservation to dis
card all that hinders its progress. Popery Is tn,
most unprogressive of surviving institutions. ant
the first problem Of restored peace is to becom,
rid of it. :"