The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-04-12


side and fought for their country had brother who at the
He told that the Catholic chapans right at the front
and have clipping from the K G. s. which am sending you
We take your paper and would like for you explain, you
will have lived in Catholic neghbohood and have nothing
but good honorable citizens
Yours truly,
J.F. BAUM
Mr. Baum is not clear in regard to what he wishes us
to explain If this paper had said, implied, or In
tended to convey the idea that Roman Catholics would
take advantage of the first to attack Protestans
if we had maintained that all members Of the Roman
Catholic cult necessarily evil dishonorabe then we
might be questioned concerning such statements.
But we are asked to explain What he has heard Our
correspondent surely realizes that he might hear million
things which neither able morally obliged to-
account for 1t is unquesonaby the duty of this paper
to explain itself and justify it's Statements but it is
in nowse bound to support explain exravagant rmors
from other sources
Catholics who better than the alleged church to which
they belong This is possible and practicable because the
millions OF Romes adherents the popes subjects-not
his ministers. Mr. Baums Roman Catholic eghbors
of the popes laty-not of his hierarchy They ch
dren Of the church fathers of the church. They
have nothing whatever to do with its management or con-
troll and therefore not responsible for the acts OF its
ruler and his arstocratic assistants.
What is commonly known as the Roman Catholic
church ruled exclusively by its monarch the pope who
claims the divine right to tell his subjects therein what
they shall believe and what they shall dsbeeve His
autocrac rulershp is administered by arstocracy OF
cardinals bishops priests and other clergy, who, with
him constitute the papa system and it is that ntoerant
imperial system, than the late imperial system Of
Germany which patriots oppose because it is the arch
enemy Of democracy and human freedom.
All this has been explained time and time again in
these columns; and yet there those who think with
apparent sincerity that attacking somebody's
hgion If there is such thing Roman Catholic
gion it is none of our business or concern We are not
against anybodys religion; but certainly opposed
to Roman Catholic politics the meddlng in this coun-
try's affairs by popes and their agents.
We are not against those people who are known as
Roman Catholics but we opposed to the papal sys-
tenn which uses those people to further its mschevous
ends How anybody can misunderstood this which has
been repeatedly explained often in these columns is
much mystery why Catholics believe that their pope
stands in the place Of God Almighty on this earth
What faults and foes the popes subjects are drawn
into are principally due to what taught them by their
priests and bishops with papal approval They hui
man beings with the inherent disposition to be led
astray led Alright according to the nature and purpose
of their leaders
Roman Catholic leadership is all wrong notwith-
standing the fact that its following may often be right
But no following should be subject to such influence
that which the papa system has held its dupes fo1
generations and centuries
Americans, who understand themselves and thei1
needs have no use for czar in Petrograd kaiser in
Berlin or pope in Rome who prattles about his partner
ship with God as an excuse for bossing all who will lei
him When the kaiser sends his agents to this country
TO make trouble he suddenly finds himself the troubled
one and we maintain that the trouble made in this coun
try by attacks the public school and like meddlng
which attacks made by agents of the pope of equa
concern to all who believe human liberty and the prn
ciples of American government.
IF this does not explain what Mr. Baum has upor
his mind, we should be glad to hear from him again,