The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-03
,ntry Allegiance. One Flag, One Language One School
PoperY and Woman's Rights

II ESS THAN THREE YEARS AGO, on Dec. z, 1915
to be exact, the National Association Opposed to
- Womans Suffrage held one OF its conventions at
Washington, d. G.
Though that convention or the issue which brought
it into existence was wholly Of political nature find
papa dgnitary, Monsgnor Russell participating by
reading letter condemnatory of womans suffrage by
Archbishop Gibbons who and is the chief admlnls-
traitor of popery in the United States
1t is evident that the popes chief agent in America
embraced the opportunity to register his masters pon
cal dsapprova in the most public and authoritative man
ner possible We quote the following from Gibbons u
rade against feminine progress and equal suffrage from
Church Progress Roman Catholic publication OF St.
Louis dated Dec a. 1916:
regard rights and the school Of female
progress as the worst enemies the female If
desires the dual empire public private life then like the tabled
dog bhog his image the water she will lose both She Will fall
from the lofty pedestal where % nature and @ Il. nave PLACED sn
of her male competitor.
And so progressive women are declared by official
popery to be the worst enemies Of their Women who
are so iblled with the ideals of democracy to desire
participation in government, and voice in making the
laws under which they live contemptuousy compared
to greedy dog grasping for everything in sight
Ecclesiastical eoquence goes the limit of language to
express its denuncation OF practical democracy Women
are scornfuy exposed to the reproach OF desiring dual
empire because they seek the full rights OF American
citizenship.
But women shouldn't worry. 1t is not so long ago
that Just such nabobs Gibbons offering substan-
italy the same argument against MANHOOD suffrage
Whenever an autocrat has desired to separate humanity
from its just rights and voice in public affairs his first
stunt was to set mankind pedestal of some kind and
start some sort of about possible fall therefrom
That "lofty PEDESTAL prepared for women by popery
lis exceedingly poetic when used for rhetorical purposes
They used to set her male companion the same pedestal
to keep him out Of politics Men, we'll as women were
advised by ecclesiastical authority to leave political mat
ers and public affairs to those whom God in His infinite
wisdom had placed over them with divine right to
dictate
They used to preach the divine right Of kings They
are now cngng to the divine right of popes and lest
woman suffrage may upset the latter women should climb
up on their imaginary pedesas hold on desperately and
not reach out for what due the lest perchance they
4 slip and lose something.
Behold woman on the lofty pedestal prepared for her
by pope1y-a drudge in some Fl. O. g. S. laundry slave
for life in nunnery; begging in pairs to further en-
rich the papal system so priests live like lords from
the proceeds Of their unpaid labor.
Thousands Of women could fall off that pedestal with
! out the least injury to person or prospects.
Woman must not put forth her hand TO grasp the
political scepter lest she drop the sceper already IN her
hands Behold that scepter which popery has given her
"a mop, charity box" begging basket 1T she were
to drop those magic wands and scepters the priests might
! go hungry--or thirsty, which is worse.