The menace., 1919-04-19
Open Season for Suckers

7HE OPEN SEASON FOR AMERICAN SUCK
ERS is here; and the pope's financial agents are
after them with the usual blue-sky bait AT Bill
ngs Mont and Kearney Neb and too many other places
to MENTION the pope managers plan building hospitals
of their with money wheeded from the said suckers
There is reason to suppose that the graft will be
less successful than in the past Years ago it was
declared that an easy mark is born every minute Later
lit declared that half Of them twins And now,
with the slick panhanders of popery raking in the coin
from Portland Maine to Portland Oregon it is hard to
deny that they are coming in triplets and litters.
1t would be just as consistent for John d. Rocke-
feer to beg money for benevolent charitable purposes
as for the papal system to do it. Rome has far more
wealth than Rockefeer and has larger income as well
as reader means of increasing it.
If the much beabored Johndee were to ask contribu
tons to build him hospital for him to and operate
and make money out Of he would be told to spend little
of his surplus in the private promang enterprise.
But when one of the popes slick spreaders of soft
soap gets after the loose change in American commun
ity he always enlist Of our best people" to
decoys and thereby befudde the population into
parting with money that any of them could spend to ar
better advantage.
Just ask yourselves this question: Do I need Ro1
man Catholic hospital than anything that money
buy7 If you do then spend your money to further
enrich the richest corporation EARTH but unless you
find after careful consideration that you have better
for your money, why not it to encourage fellow
citizens who are thrifty but lacking capital9
If is hospital you want why not help the phys-
clans of your town to build physicians who Amer
icans who pay taxes the property they own and who
are unreservedy identified with your town. county state
and nations
There are plenty of people who need help well as
seek it. Why not show your liberahty in their behalf
instead Of casting your coin before the monster that has
cursed the earth for centuries7
Those who imagine that they can buy popularity with
such Of their money worst deceived of ALL Rome
has card index of all such suckers and levies backma
on them to the limit.
The poor chump who thinks he can buy the favor Of
that Unsuitable beggar finds later that he has to
buy it anew with every change Of the Build hos
pital for popery today and you will be asked to help
large it equip it redecorae it pay its debts or
repair it put up money for it just long your
bad investment stands and refusal to respond to each m
vitation leaves your popularity with papists worse dis
figured than if you said no in the beginning.
If your city needs hospital, be man enough to de-
and that your city build it and it and operate it
just as every city does that gets reasonable hospital
service Don't be soft enough to depend for such
modatons corporation which has its headquarters in
Italy Have enough local and national pride to uphold
home enterprise. Be patriotic enough to patronze
American hospital in preference to Romish graft.
Be sane enough to spend your surplus where it will
do you and your neghbors and your countrmen good
stead of pouring it into the biggest and most damaging
corruption fund raised by monarch for conquest
of the earth.