The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-06-21
Beware. the Professional Beggar

abroad looking for something green; and promi-
nent among them is the Romsh beast searching for
green ProestanS who may be separated from their sur
plus coin. Romes beggars afeld begging for money
with every excuse and plea imaginable.
AT this moment the campaign for funds is going for
ward in hundreds of American towns and cities. Each
local effort to touch the public for donations IS quite ap
propriately called "drive And drive is the word to
express the true nature of the enterprise which is drlv
ing of heretic dollars into Catholic" corras-a force
u driving Of the driven to further enrich the weathiest
Evaporation on earth.
Each of these drives is for large sum though there
81 variation Of amount according to the possibilities and
corresponding variation of plea and preex At place
purports to be for the building OF hospital at another
for the erection of alleged school, at another for re-
pairs and alterations and very often huge sums are sought
With the pretense of paying off large debt.
As instance Of the latter the Jeslits of San Fran
cisco are asking for million dollars to pay the debts
Of their Ignats College. Ten hundred thousand dollars
is nice fat sum to be abstraced by alien cult from
Aercan people for anti American purposes And this is
but one of several hundred attempts to get such money
by the million The combined drives upon dupes to further
enrich Rome undoubtedly total billions, and Americans
fall for it since they dearly love to be humbugged
If it were only matter of throwing their billions
away it would not be bad; but to give Jesus money
by the million is to capitalize the worst enemy OF democ
racy and Protestant civilization 1t is to supply the
papacy with funds with which to carry its monarchia
program and perfect its plans for making America
Catholic which is to bring America under the control of
Roman kaiser.
Of course the pope's beggars tell their prospects
different story They experts who coached in the
game and the details of their drive laid out by artists
who specialists Long before the public has any nt
nation of what is afoot unsuspectng prospects in
vestgated and carded with record of their financial
dton and the by which they may be most effectively
] approached.
The beggars are organized because they profes-
sionas who make gathering business. Practical
psychologists prepare their speeches. argument persua
sion and the covert insinuatons suggestive In
tidatons which fghten if they do not persuade those
who do not understand the game Caolery and blacma
are udciousy mixed with reference to effect and their
effectiveness may be determined by recurrence of the at
tack with monotonous regularity every spring and
summer.
It is very successful game and accounts for the
nous wealth accumulated by Rome while keeping its own
people impoverished And of course it is the right and
ncontestbe privilege of Americans to spend their own
money in their way. It is their inahenabe right tc
make Rome richer if such is their desire but it is
less unaccontable when there many worthy objects
of generosity which would gifts of the generous fol
M benefcent purposes and the common good.
Americans who are burdened with more money thar
they need would make far better Of their surplus
they to bundle up carefully and consgn it to the flames
or attach to good heavy stone and sink to the bottom
of some inaccessible rver-bed Judicous giving to thu
needy is virtue that needs approving argument bu
gifts to an already overrch corporation which has
civilization for centuries and which continues to bocl
world progress with hostility toward national and persona
freedom, is worse than waste.