The menace., 1919-06-21
THREATENTNGS FROM
ARAGING ROMANIST
Menace Publicity Blamed for
Criminal Act by Someone
Nutty as Himself

Nutly do TllIIlS6Il
800 N. B7th st.
New York, Juns 3, 1919.
Editor THE MrrAcE,
6iri II must be q source Of great
satisfaction to you to hear that your
campaign Of years has at last borne
fruit. Ono Of your gallant comrades
destroyed the rectory Of Catholic
church In Pittsbnrg, Pa, last evening.
Feel Bure that the worst devil In he'll
must look upon himself as = piker when
he compares his record with yours.
Keep up your gallant work, and you
will find some Of your gallant comrades
{" decorating" the trees and lampposts
from one end Of this country to the
other.
(signed) J. O. CRAWFORD.
FTIHIS is THE sorriest screech
l&1 we have been favored with
ISl for several weeks. We think
L2 that Mr.. Crawford must
have been over-excited when he
wrote that fevered communication
or he would have told US what par
ticular comrade Of our editor COM
mitted the depreciation referred to.
Mr.. Crawford's communication
is wholly superfuous without more
definite information, for we had
read Of the series Of outrages com.
mitted by bomb-bugs not only at
Pittsburg but in other places
Such crimes are usually the work
Of persons who have wrought
themselves into the condition dis
closed by Mr.. Crawford's letter.
Crawford is now writing about
decorating" trees with persons HI
dislikes. His next move will prob
ably be In the direction Of realiz
ing that desire. He will then be al
criminal as the, nut who bombed
the rectory at Pittsburg.
He is in excellent mental condi
ton to take part in one of thos,
papist mobs who believe in "mus
cular Christianity" and who fee
called upon from time to time t,
discipline heretics with fire ant
sword.
The best thing for such papist
as Crawford, when they get int,
his lamentable condition, is to soal
their interiors with less whiske,
and soak some Of the fever out O
their heads with applications O
cold water.
As q matter Of fact, Crawforc
(if that Is his true name) doesn
know who made that cowardly as
sault on the Pittsburg rectory. Fl
accuses some unspecified friend O
this paper Of perpetrating the &C
because he hates THE MENAC
worse than the real culprit; an,
hates this papers exposure Of pop
lery. worse than he dislikes the Grim
committed at Pittsburg.
When a fool gets hot in the heac
his acts, talk and writing betra
his condition; and we verify bcliev
that this fellow who signs the nam
Of j. G. Crawford to his screamin
outburst and prophecy is one G
those weaklings whose religious
feeling has run away with wha
little intelligence he might at on
time have possessed.
If he imagines that such driv'
has any deterrent or frightenin
effect on this paper, he had bette
guess again and forget it. W
have hit Rome before and we hay
heard its dupes howl. Crawfor
is not the first nut to crack his ow
head on account Of Romish rasca
Iity and its exposure in this pape
So far as the worst devils in he
are concerned, they have an incel
tive to high carnival when a h,
man being makes himself as ridi
] ulous as the writer of the abo,
letter. So far as the editor Of TT
, MENACE is concerned, he h
! diagnosed so many cases like GRAY
ford's as to know about what al
the gentleman who is supposed
| reside on 57th St., New York.
4 And it is q hopeful sign, +
( whom the gods would destroy tn