The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-06-07

Such sentiment is prompted and propa-
gated by agents of the intOlerant papacy
with purpose to disarm, emasculate, and
anaesthetize an already Over-tOlerant people.
We might, for time, live in harmony with
the children Of an aggressive enemy; but not
perpetually. To ignore the inevitable is put
off till tomorrow what can better be done
today.
Our only means of paying for the civili-
ZatiOn which preceding generations have Civ
en- us is to preserve that civilization and pass
it on untarnished to the future-imprOved if
possible, but not corrupted. 1t is our duty
to challenge It's adversaries and resist their
attacks upon such distinctively American in
stitutiOns as the non-sectarian public school.
The sO-caIIed Roman Catholic church con-
sists of two distinct elements-its children"
and its fathers" its vast body of support
ing laymen on the one hand, and its select
body Of aristOcratic rulers and directors on
the other. Differentiation between these
two elements is as necessary to correct un-
derstanding as distinction between honest
and simple German peasants who would pre-
fer peace but go to war when ordered, and
their imperial and aristOcratic war lords who
use peasants as pawns in military aggression
for conquest.
Rome consists of some millions of men,
bers whose business it is to obey orders, and
Of some thousands of priests and preIates
whose business it is to administer that huge
body under imperial direction Of their pope
There are the clergy, with the pope at their
head, who rule Rome, who dictate its perma-
nent policies and temporary expedients; and
there are the laity who have no part in its
rulership but function solely as believers and
doers of what they are told.
It is reasonable conclusion that if the
Roman Catholic laity were fully conscious of
their relation to clerical masters, they would
not consent to it. They are tricked into con-
fOrmity just as Protestant preachers are
tricked into liberation when they become
susceptible to Jesuit sOphistry.
Over all is the pope, monarch by "divine
right" of world empire which is trying to
recOnquer with its persuasive propaganda
what it has lost by righteous rebellion of its
former Subjects-wOrld dominion and su.
premacy over all other authority on earth.
It may be difficult to grasp that stupen-
dOus fact which religious pretense is utilized
to cover and conceal. The real nature of the
papal system is monster Of such hideous
mien that to be hated needs only to be seen; /;
but how can the people see unless they look,
and how can the Indifferent be induced to
look unless their attention Is directed?
The nature Of popery is revealed in every
page OF history, ancient, medieval, modern,
and current; but not all are students or fa-
miliar with history. The uniformed many
are dependent to a degree upon the better
informed few. ROmes activity prOclaims its
nature today as during the Spanish Inquisi-
ton and as in those days when triumphant
ing its authority felt by releasing its sub.
jects from allegiance to their lawful but
pOpe-cOndemned sovereigns.
Our Roman Catholic neighbors may be
exemplary persons in the everyday affairs Of
private life, but they are nevertheless the
subjects of their papal monarch and re.
ligiOusly obliged to religiously regard as good
whatever their "infallible" pope says is good
also to treat as bad whatever that same
authority on faith and morals" condemns.
1t is therefore patent that popery has 9
unique hold upon the allegiance of its people
"a hold enhanced by its artful appeal to re-
ASlOuS Sentlhlent NY TIE CONFUSION OF relglOr
with politics, philosophy and secular affairs
Above all things do not be deceived with thu
notion that papal approval or disapproval is
limited to matters Of religious faith. Its
mischief lies in the fact that it knows nj
limit, and extends as readily to temporal as
to spiritual affairs when such use of his au
thority suits pOpe's purpose.
Popery touches the immediate secular in
terest Of every American citizen when popes
condemn our public school,, In so doing they
exercise the right they claim to say that th,
public school is bad and to make that thu
opinion of all Roman Catholics. Leavint
other considerations aside, one must be very
stupid not to view with alarm the claim o.
foreign ruler of millions to condemn oul
educational system, and to enlist ten o.
twelve million citizens of the United State.
as parties to that condemnation.
The pretended reason for that hostile at
titude toward the public school is given il
the flimsy plea that the public schools d,
not teach religion. The real reason is tha
the public school cannot be used for papa
purposes--to teach that the pope Stands il
the place of God Almighty on This earth