The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-08-23
WHY THERE is NO PEACE

Is pitting nation against nation, class against
class, and interest against interest to keep up
the strife that defeats final peace settlement.
OF course these things are not clear to those
who have given them no thought or cOnsidera-
ton. The popular Illusion persists that the pope
and his priestly following have no political ends
to serve and that they are engrossed In matters
religious. They have played the part so well as
to deceive wise statesmen as well as the unin-
formed masses.
In fact, the success of this papal plan for
world conquest depends on its indirectiOn and
cOncealment of its purpose. 1t wears the dis
guise of religion which is perhaps the most ef-
fective as well as the oldest form of camouhage
known to man. When employed by the design
ing to effect selfish purposes it is smoother than
the snake that deceived Mother Eve. But Rome
Is essentially, fundamentally, Intentionally pO-
htical a fact which no amount of pretense can
hide from those who take the trouble to look.
That is why papal pretentiOns SO closely re-
semble those Of the late kaiser. Both assert di-
vine right and partnership with divinity. Both
clamOr for safeguards while attacking the safety
of others. Both are dissatisfied with the pros
pect of peace settlement that ignores their
extravagant claims. Both insist that the world
can do nothing unless in conformity with their
own plans and demands.
Before the fates of war discounted the
kaisers claims 1t was his persistent assertion
that the world could do nothing until 1t guaran-
teed his place in the sun. Now his fellow auto
crat, who has played his game smoothly enough
TO survive the upheaval makes the same asser-
tion through his priest-editOr, Foley, that the
world can do nOthing-cannOt establish peace
without papal assistance.
He does not say it in exactly those words.
He says it with characteristic craft. He says
Atnk L. Asna ,.k I'll ~. .g-ln
which it is useless to deny; but he is equally in
sistent on the papal dogma that the pope is
Gods yicegerent on earth which MEANS in con.
RectiOn with papist teaching, that the nations
must have the pOpe's assistance as supreme
authority on earth.
The fact that fools are unable to grasp the
meaning of such world Juggling is the reason
for the following which pOpery succeeds in at
tracing to itself from the ignorant victims of
n; own OppressiGfis.
The plain unvarnished truth about the situa-
don is that the Roman kaiser, commonly known
is pope, is still clamOring for place in the sun
On the plea that he Is the exclusive end supreme
representative of deity. He makes the demand
IA religious verbiage that Is confusing and de-
eeptiye. He makes the demand through all his
agents and subjects. Priest Foley's inspired ar
Gcie Is but one statement of that demand.
And what are you going to do about it? Will
3Ou conform to the demands Of popery and SUBJ
NIT to the papal yoke? viii you dodge the issue
which popery forces and wink at the continual
iOn Of Sim Fein treason and Jesuit plotting
against civilization? Or will you rally in opposi-
Zion to Roman kaiserism as you did against
Prussian kaiserism?
Can you longer deny the danger to civili-
cation, to the nation and to the common welfare
which popery Is forcing upon you with relentless
persistence? Or win you defend the civilization
fhe liberal institutions, and the popular govern.
Sients that have arisen and Hourished in OppOsi-
Eon to this thing which would now overthrow
them2
These mOmentous questions will not wait in.
definitely for an answer. The time has come
when America, in self defense, must outlaw
popery and discredit its meddling just as other
nations have, from time to time, banished the
Jesuits as heroic necessity for self-preserva.
ton.
The world can be made safe for democracy
only by a speedy establishment of lasting peace
and it can't be done SO long as republics harbol
the agents Of autocracy whose business 1t is tC
prevent peace. Peace long deferred is suicide
Since the supreme obstacle to that desired end Is
the horde of priests and Jesuits who are operat
ing here for papal ends, the first care of every
loyal American should be to discredit and dispose
Of the whole reasonable aggregation.