The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-09-27
Greeting to the Great Convention

either in the usual modes OF railway travel In special
Pullman coaches chartered in distant states and cities
The MENACE delights to welcome these champions of
constitutional liberty to it's home Their coming fraught
with extraordinary moment to the nation and the world
Before this issue Of the paper reaches the millions of pa
triotc citizens who could not to Aurora the
ton will have passed into history But It's power for good
will be felt around the world.
The tragic alliance of popery with imperial autoeras
during their joint efforts to blot out popular government
the recent has laid every throne of the papa empire
In America and abroad under renewed dstrust and
demnaton Righteous indignation Of the people is fore
ing the issue of popery into congressional and para
mentary debates In Washington London Paris and Rome.
The world is aroused as never before Humanity is
determined that the papa cancer shall disappear from the
earth Too long has it easted upon the blood Of helpless
land destitute peoples Too long has it blghted the arest
lands with universal iteracy degradation and punder.
Too long has the vatican boarded the wealth of the world
in it's groaning Golfers while masqueradng In ecclesiastical
robes.
Delegates coming to Aurora and the unnumbered mil
lions for whom they speak facing the morning. They
see the dawn of better day. Their hearts beat unison
with the manhood the womanhood and the childhood of
the world They deeply resolved that papa imperial
and economic etters shall longer degrade and ensaye
mankind
They favor the independence of the United States
They unwilling to the Revolutionary War and
return this country to control by European coalition
headed by the pope They believe with Washington JEFF
ferson, Jackson and Lincoln that we should avoid
tanging alliances with the selfish intriguing powers of the
Old World.
They favor telling all the truth to all the people every
where all the time They opposed to letting the gov
ernment spend their money in exravagant propaganda
to deceive them into supporting unwse policies They be-
eve any honest and patriotic government will take the
people into its confidence They believe the whole people
trustworthy the servants whom they have elected
to Office
They are for open international covenants openly
rived at They believe the president should confde to the
senate and the people the whole typewriter record of his
secret negotiation for seven months with executive heads
Of other governments at Versailles They demand that
the American people know the whole truth
They are utterly opposed to all censorship of speech
and press They know sovereignty Of the people entities
the entire citizenship of the nation to discuss with prefect
freedom all public affairs They believe the espionage and
censorship laws with which the people have been repressed
during the past two years are at variance with the first
amendment to the national constitution.
They believe with intense fervor in the American free
school They demand speedy enactment Of the Smith
Towner bill pending in congress to reinforce those
schools with the resources Of the United States govern
ment They unaeraby opposed to the alien parochal
schools of Rome and urge legislation to remove them for
ever from our midst
They demand the overthrow of the thrones occupied
by all papa preates in this country public inspection and
closing OF all Roman prisons and legislation making it
treason to urge the alien law of Rome binding
upon people domiced within our borders.
They believe every prelate and priest of Rome is
tirey disqualified for American citizenship long their
sovereign pon sends and receives ambassadors makes
international treaties concordas and otherwise partici
pates in the politics of the world member of the fam
lilly of nations
They are opposed to vast plans now being operated
by enssares Of Rome and the money trust to dpete our
markets and send the prices of food clothing and e to
the stars to enrich the most sordd puocrats that
robbed and pundered the people They do not favor lend
ing credit to the Old World and keeping food adj
nistration for months beyond that country may
be drained of the necessares of life to further the inter-
ests of sordd and predatory economic combinations
They demand that existing political parties honestly
favor and espouse the principles herein set forth If
those parties prove themselves unable unworthy to
the independence and glory Of the United States
these patriots will form American party and invite all
friends of homes churches schools and our
constitutional liberty to the country by their ballots
next year.
All honor to the patriots now gathering at Aurora.
God and they rout the hosts of sin and oppression
The future their side. The MENACE proud to be
numbered among them Its thanks rendered to the
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