The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-01-25
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
REVIVE TERRORISM
Attempt to Mob Rev. [, J. King at
FOstOria, Ohio, at Close Of
Big Patriotic Meeting

From June, 1917, to January,
1919, is a long time for knights Of
mob and murder to lie dormant,
but the venom with which they
WELD clubs, hurl bricks and engage
in knife PLAYS has lost none of its
effectiveness during the recess as
was demonstrated to the entire
satisfaction Of Evangelists L. j.
King and Ford Hendrickson at
Fostoria, Ohio, after lecture on
the night Of January 7th.
The last issue Of The MENACE
told of the wonderful success Of
meetings being held at Fostoria by
King and Hendrickson. In that
issue we briefly related the fact
that a Knight Of Columbus had
been arrested and fined for dis
turbing a meeting and stated that
several Catholics as well as many
Protestants were attending the
meetings and showing much inter
est in the truths being expounded
by the eyangelists.
That Catholics should take q
sincere interest in the meetings at
all was enough, but that d real,
sure enough Knight Of Columbus,
a member of the fighting right
arm of the old church, should be
hailed before a civil tribunal and
fined for disturbing a 'heretic"
meeting was more than enough.
For favorite sons to be treated
thus in their attempts to defend
the papal system gets under the
skin of the true blue inhabitants
Of st. Patricks settlement. It is
too much. What's the use Of hay-
ing st. Patrick settlements If you
can't run the town and especially
the police force and courts?
When the courts thus ignore the
demands Of the hierarchy and ar
rogantly fine real Knight Of Co
lumbus for ungentlemanly ccn-
duct in a house Of worship; there
ia only one thing left to do and
that is, rid the community Of all
who dare to speak in public
against Catholicism and scare the
balance half to death.
This much was already decided
upon when the papists began to
take notes at the meeting on the
night Of January seventh. The
speakers were growing bolder, it
seemed, with every meeting and
Evangelist King made 30 bold as to
announce that he would bring six
ex-nuns into the town to testify,
not only to the truth Of things he
had said, but to speak for them
selves on topics which gentlemen
don't mention before ladies.
Folks, that had the same effect
on the inaamed passions Of the
papists of Fostoria that Zeppelin
raids produced in London. Ths
objects were different and the in
terests Of humanity In this case
were being championed by the
speaker instead Of the pspists but
that made no difference in the ef-
feet it had on them.
After the meeting they Just
simply grabbed clubs, bricks and
knives and started pounding,
throwing and slashing In q wild
effort to get the vile hereto who
dared to assert that anything
wrong could be attributed to, OF
/; found within, the papal church.
, 'Iynching," read the display
; headline Of news dispatches telling
: Of the affair. The lower decks Of
the heads explained that lynching
! Of former priest had been pre-
| vented by Fostoria police who took
the evangelist to Jail to save him
from a mob enraged by ''his at.
tack" on Catholicism. Two thou
: sand persons were in the mob ac.
J cording to news dispatches. Tho
: evangelist was bailed out as soor
E as it was safe and appeared in
: court next day. He Will have al
: ready appeared before q grand jurJ
E Investigating the affair when thii
y paper reaches you.
The county has been stirred fol
miles around. Protestants are nov
4 really awakened. The meeting
i will 60 on for thirty days. Rom,
has simply overstepped the mari
again.
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