The menace., 1919-05-17
Papal Princes vs.. American Schools
0HE PRESENT STRUGGLE between

TIME PRESENT STRUGGLE between the Roman
hierarchy and American citizens on the public
- school issue is far-reaching and determined. The
princes Of Rome are bitter and defiant The diocesan
newspaper organ of each prominent papa throne in this
country carries in every issue ponderous editorials de-
nouncing public schools and especially resisting the
Towner Smith bill pending in congress for their improve
ment by the help of the'federal government
Friends of education welcome the issue thus rendered
by the alien hierarchy Papal enmy to public education
is no new thing In country dominated by popery have
the masses ever been educated at ALL The MENACE cha
enges any papist to deny this statement Brazil with 85
per cent of iteracy Mexico with Il per cent and all
other papa lands with percentages ranging between those
figures convict the papa system Of leading the forces and
program of ignorance.
Why should the hierarchy with that universal record
of guilt and ruin into this great Protestant republic
and seek to destroy school system that has reduced IL
teracy exclusive Of the alien papa hordes to per
Why should permit the papal empire to fasten upon
the paroch school that has everywhere kept the peo
pie in the midnight Of gnoranceY Why let the schools
that have kept LanAmerca in foment of ceaseless rev.
ouon for hundred years oppose or suppan our schools
that have made this the foremost best poised and most
patriotic nation in all recorded history?
Shall we have the schools of the United States or
those Of Brazq That is the ISSUE Shall continue to
educate children or let IS per cent of them 60 through
life ilterate9 Shall we imbue them with patriotism in
the public schools divide their allegiance and feed them
treachey and superstition in the parocha schools that
have devastated Mexico with ceaseess and carnage
through four bloody centuries9
Rome is vigorously forcing this issue upon u.s. The
latest number of the Bulletin of Catholic Federation
which is the mouhpiece Of the fifty militant fraternites
of Rome in this country devoes than half Of all its
space to assaults school system. The diocesan
gans Of the enhroned Roman princes in New York, Chi
cago Boston, Baltimore and Philadelphia are constantly
Idoingthe like
They rail at the free schools for not teaching "re
Iigon" In their vocabulary religion" and popery are
Synonymous terms By treaty with the pope, schools in
a the iterate papal countries are controlled by en-
hroned bishops of Rome Do children study Gods word
in those schools7 Whoever places the Bible in Roman
Catholic hands is thereby automatically excommuncaed
from the Church. The Bulletin gives these objections
lin reply to those who urge the reading Of the Bible in
school:
% It would be in unsafe hands
(2) There is no guarantee that it would be
taught earnestly and with essential enthusiasm.
! (3) There would not be sufficient safeguards
for the delicate faith of child, divine gift so easily
tarnished.
The fath" of Roman Catholic pupils. must be deli
cate indeed if the study of the Bible would tarnsh" it.
1t is fatal heresy in papa judgment to teach the child
what the Bible says but essential to salvation to teach him
what Jesuits say it says But this issue is ripe We must
choose between public schools and intelligence on the one
hand and parochia schools and ignorance on the other
What say the sovereign peoplef