The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-05-24

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- intrigue with the enemies of popular gov
ernment? Will the next administration take the
people into its confidence, or punish them for
Tnthfuly discussing their own public affairs?
| Will it spend fabulous sums Of money for po-
litical propaganda, or permit the people to know
VI the truth and to form their own opinions? Will
It heed and understand the social and industrial
unrest and commotion so nightly agitating the
world, or stupidity provoke greater disorder and
violence by linking its fortunes with the forces
Of reaction?
Will it unfetter the markets, lift the arbitrary
burdens of the people and renew acquaintance
with national economy and frugality, or stagger
the public with expenditures every year in ex-
cess Of the whole cost of our Civil War?
Will it studiously place Irish Roman Catholics
I in charge of our national and public-service in.
dustries to lower the service and multiply the
cost to the people, to fOment strikes and to bur-
den the United States treasury with deficits ag-
gregating billions of dollars year?
viii it fill the White House with Knights Of
Columbus and place them in charge of the post
offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland
and most of the other great cities? WILL 1T
SINGLE OUT THAT RIOTOUS FIGHTING
RIGHT ARM OF POPERY AND PLACE 1T IN
EVERY MILITARY POST AND IN FULL POS
SESSION OF THE MOST VITAL NATIONAL
SECRETS WHILE EXCLUDING EVERY
OTHER CHRISTIAN SECT AND EVERY
OTHER SECRET FRATERNAL ORDER FROM
EQUAL TREATMENT?
Will it give Roman priests the freedom of our
army posts while excluding all Protestant min
isters from conducting there divine services of
their respective denominations? Will the next
president, while advocating democracy, pay Sc
cret visit to the pope on terms dictated by that
supreme political tyrant for the purpose of en-
listing his support in world politics?
Will he commit the White House and large
executive powers to an Irish fourth-degree
Knight of Columbus, neither elected by the peO-
pie nor confirmed by the Senate, and permit him
to exercise functions of virtual acting president
during the prOtracted absence Of the real presi-
dent? Will he require all the people to hand
over to Roman bishops and Knights of Columbus
many millions of dollars for expenditure without
audit in their strictly sectarian Roman Catholic
activities?
Will he permit the issue by his administra-
ton Of official bulletins reeking with deliberate
and mOnstrOus falsehOOds for the purpose of de-
ceiving the public? Will such official bulletins
\ denOunce as traitors and secret agents of our
national enemies those who patriOtically voice
the popular fear and distrust of Knights of Co
lumbus in the White House and in military
posts?
Answer to the foregoing and kindred ques-
tiOns rests with the sovereign people Of this
mighty republic. The future of America and Of
\ democratic government is in their hands. Before
the transcendent issues here presented, thread
bare party traditions and platforms pale into
secondary Importance. 1t is far more vital to the
cause Of liberty to nominate and elect to the
presidency militant patriot whose heart beats
in unison with the people than to elect strad-
ding coward or hypOcrite on the platform of any
existing party.
While public attention is fixed upon thread
bare party issues, enthrOned cardinals and bish-
ops of Rome in the cities secretly intrigued with
emissaries Of the political underworld for control
of state and municipal primaries and delegations
to national conventions. With both leading tick
cts thus securely in their hands from president
to constable, they will plunder and debauch the
country and laugh at patriotism and civic right
eousness. 1T rs TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO
4 VINDICATE THEIR RIGHTS.
The papal hierarchy and corrupt politicians
are pOwerless to carry any state or city when
the American forces are awake and militant.
\ This has been repeatedly demonstrated.
President Taft served Rome so well that all
N patriotic citizens felt deeply outraged. Conf
4 dent in the power of hundred enthrOned pre-
lates and twenty thousand priests with their
army of Jesuits, Knights of Columbus, Hiber-
nians and other political henchmen to re-eIect
him, he scorned every remonstrance of the peo-
pie. But with the great power of the presidency
in his hands and the machinery of party fifty
years triumphant added to that of the Roman
hierarchy at his disposal, he suffered in 1912
& the most crushing defeat ever administered to
president seeking reelection. He lost every
3 Roman Catholic state and city, carrying only
Protestant Vef ont and Mormon Utah.
In 1916 Michael ]. Curley procurator of the
pope at st. Augustine, Florida, decided to take
over the Democratic party in that balmy state
and make the commonwealth satrapy in the
papal empire. But Billy Parker and other in
trepid champions Of free schools and representa-
tive government stirred the people in cam
b paign that challenged attention from Maine to
Oregon; and militant Baptist minister was
elected governor, patriotic Baptist layman was