The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-03-22
THREATEN TO DEFEAT PROGRAM FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS

so the public can get a true mea-
surement of their quantity and
quality, and their ability to bull
doze or command undeServed con-
cessions from political parties and
the public would end as suddenly
as it would be satisfactory.
But there is no danger Of their
doing a thing so generally desir-
able. A party of papists in this
country will get no further than
the threat, for they know that any
division which would reveal the
true strength and weakness of the
pope's political following would
be a revelation as distressing to
them, and as destructive Of their
pretentions, as the rebukes admin
iStered from time to time by Pres
ident Wilson to such disturbers as
Cohalan and Jeremiah 0'Leary.
Why DiSturberS Are At Large
Speaking of the Cohalan Incl
dent, the following query from the
editorial columns Of the Provi-
dence (R. I.) Journal of March 6
sheds a faint though directive
light on matter that seems to be
obscure because consideration of it
is persistently avoided. The Jour
nal says:
Mr.. Wilson'S histrionic refusal to
meet Justice Daniel F. Cohalan on Tues
day night needs some additional ex.
PLANTATION. When the president Of the
United States publicly administers 9
stinging rebuke Of this character to q
judge Of the supreme court Of New
York, he must presumably base bis &C
ton on exact knowledge. If this as
sumption is correct, why has CohalaI
been allowed to remain at Target WhGl
Influence Is IL that has protected hiD
from punishment Vp to tho present
tinteF
The Journal knows, as well as
many know, that the noisy, self.
important and overestimated
Irish Catholic vote is the power
that protects and even magnifiei
all who are antagonistic to Eng
land. Previous to participation ot
the United States in the war, thai
power was boosting the kaiser al
the friend and prospective deliv
erer of Ireland; and nothing 81
much embarrassed the United
States government in its earlier
war work as the trouble occasionet
by Sim Fein propagandists il
their efforts to help Germany ant
hinder England by divers ant
devious activities in America.
That England was PRACTICAL!
the ally, and most assuredly tn
, associate Of the United States il
the effort to check kaiserism, haC
little or no effect on such charac
, ters as jeremiah 0Leary who, a
, president Of the so-called Ameri
can Truth society which was real
i ly a papist misinformation societ,
made himself a nuisance and
. menace to the nation. Here
, some later news of 0 Ieary whic.
shows how one leader Of the Sim
Fein element went so far as to &c
, into serious trouble and int
court:
A Typical Case
: NEW YORK-By two Of his formt
friends, a German and German-Ame
] lean, jeremiah A. 0'Leary, head of Il
e American Truth society and editor {
t Bull, was linked up with Count Johan
! Won Bernstorff, DR.. Heinrich Albert ar
i others who, in the days prior to our el
trance into the war, acted as Germs
y agents in tho United States.
Q 1t was asserted at O'Leary's tri
5 that when he sought to establish a pei
odical to foster the cause Of Gamer
canism'' he asked the German ambass
, dor for funds; that OLeary's "pr
: American propaganda was promott
by $4,000 contribution received by Il
Q American Truth society through DR..
9 bert; and that "public forum" co
Quoted by O'Leary and the Truth 6
Q ciety in 1915, was arranged and
> naneed at meeting of Germans al
o German Americans.
: In the news columns Of Il
same issue Of the Providence Jou
d nal is dispatch from BostC
y which shows how the propagand
: that was suppressed as a milital
. necessity is again in full swim
!. It's object now is to obstruct pea,
4 while its former efforts were d
! rected, so long as endured, towal
9 the obstruction Of the wars su
cessful prosecution. Here is Il
e clipping which shows the trer
/ and purpose Of like work since o
IS GRAFTON Of the armistice:i
Q Boston, March 5.-Delhgates Of 70
r Irish societies at meeting here
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