The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-11-29


stealing Of a letter from the files Of
a public Office, and other things Of
that magnitude to be considered |;
but Pittsfeld citizens who want to
think right and vote right should
remember that the one question
worth while Is whether their
schools shall be officered, taught
and controlled by people who be-
lieve in them, or whether those
schools shall be turned over to q
class Of people who religiously be-
lieve and teach that the public
school is Goddess and therefore un-
fit for their children to attend.
Rome's press and hierarchy have
long and persistently condemned
our American public school sys-
TEN; and the material proof Of
their hostility is in their own sys-
tenn Of parochial schools which they
maintain in competition with the
public school, Twenty thousand
Roman Catholic priests in the
United States are a unit in forbid
ding Catholic parents to patronize
the state schools.
Priests and papist editors have
declared and persist in declaring
that the public school is immoral
and unfit for Roman Catholic pu.
pills. II that is their honest belief
why do Romanists persist in seek.
ing positions as teachers and school
oficersf Why do they try to con.
troll that which they condemn II
not to further discredit it and final.
| ly destroy iti
But, do not be fooled with the
camoufage and specious argument
that Rome's nnti-public school at.
titude is due to religion, The fact
Is that the public schools do moi
teach the one thing which is Of i'm.
portance to the Roman Catholic
/ clergy and their emperor, the pope
Pope Leo XIII revealed the es
sence of what papal subjects mus,
believe when he declared in one Of
his encyclical letters that the pope.
stand in the place Of God Almighty
on this earth. The public sclloo
does not and cannot teach that
monstrous absurdity which is sc
necessary to Catholic faith.
That is why Rome sets up IL.
own school system--a system thai
is strong on Catholic catechism ailc
on the pope's claim to supreme au
thority concerning the rightnes,
and wrongness Of everything. Tht
citizens of Pittsfeld would do wei
to consider these important funda
mental facts before voting for Of
ficers to manage their public
schools.
If this man Cannon were other
wise the best qualified superintend
ent Of teachers OF, earth, his neces
sary lack Of regard for free un
lsectarian education should bar hin
or any Of his kind from considcra
ltion. 1t is not a personal matter
but a matter of pertinent princi
pie. 1t is safe conclusion tina
the non.Catholic population O
Pittsfcld wish their schools 10 b,
successful SO they can render tn,
best possible service to pupils o
the present and future.
/ Such being the ease, what ca,
they do and what else dare they d,
than to put friends and faithful
friends of the public school system
into such important positions a
members Of their board Of educa
tion, as superintendent Of thei
schools, and as teachersi
The little campaign in Pitts
field involves the big question o
. Americanism vs. Romanism-o
schools that teach Americanism v
those which teach popery and pa
pal supremacy. You may be as
sured that popery viii never Ie
Its opponents teach in or supcrin
tend its psrochial schools. Why
then, should earnest American
permit the corruption Of the pub