The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-04-26
AN EXAMPLE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CULTURE
Papst Mayor Of Oklahoma Village Tells What is On His
Mlnd---Consigns Country 10 HeII'' That Deprves
Him Of Wine and Beer---a Good Catholicp---
Is He Good American?

townsmen and constituents are
proud of him.
OF course he is unable to under
stand THE MENACE. The corruga-
tions in his brain have lost all that
Elasticity which makes nervous
tissue susceptible to impression.
In short, he is a "good Cath
olic;" and, for that same reason,
a 1amentably deficient American.
And he is so because Of what he
has been taught. Papal propagan-
da has gone to seed under his hat.
II our readers admire the mayor
of Okarche, and would like to see
generations of his kind in this
country, all they need do is to boost
the pope's parochial schools where
the children Of foreign parents are
crammed with the pope's catechisn
in the words Of a foreign language.
If the mayor Of 0karche is a
model citizen, we can have miEdons
more like him by neglecting and
discouraging the public school, by
teaching youth the languages Of
Europe instead of this country, by
intoxicating the tenets of popery,
by complimenting monarchism in
comparisons with democracy, and
by teaching youth that God wears
a triple crown patterned after the
pope's tiara.
1t is perhaps useless to tell him
that we do not hate the pope and
Germany--that what we hate or
oppose with feeling is popery and
kaiserism. 1t is our wish and hope
that the world may soon be free
from both; and it is satisfactory
to see progress made and making
in that direction.
We use papal chronology be-
cause that crude system of time
measurement was fastened upon
the race in its intellectual infancy;
and, like other crude customs Of
long standing, can be but slowly
eliminated. 1t is merely a ques-
tion Of time when papal clrronoA-
ogy will 60 to the scrap heap with
papal philosophy, papal pretense,
and so much else Of papal origin
that the world has discarded and
will repudiate.
Mayor Hoebing seems to think
that THE MENACE is printed from
movable types such as were in.
vented by Gutenberg or some other,
German Of his day. He is mistak-,
en- in that, as in SO many other no.
tions. THE MENACE ia printed.
from plates cast by machine in-i
vented by an American; and it's
matter is set up in lines-of-typa
cast by another machine Of Amer.
lean invention and manufacture.
1t is perhaps natural that Mr..
Hoebing does not wish to 20 to
heaven unless heretics are ex-
cluded; but a sojourn in purgatory
might afford him some relief from
such contamination. II the pande-
monium Of a pope-invented purga-
tory is more to his taste, we sha11
not quarrel with him shout it.
1t is the living present that con-
Germs us mostly at this particular
time. We have just passed through
the pandemonium caused by one
potentate who prattled about his !
partnership with God, and tried to
conquer the earth with pretense Of
divine right; and we should like
to see his fellow monarch, the Ital-
ian pope, disposed Of without re-
sort to the same distressing rem
edy.
The late war was fought to mako
the world safe for democracy which
is too dry to please Mayor Hoeb-
ing: THE MENACE is printed to
further safeguard the world for
democracy; and drouth and de-
mocracy seem equally abhorrent to
our Roman Catholic correspond
ent.
It is our hope that he may live
long enough to learn better; and
that others may learn the lesson
which he affords as horrible ex-
ample Of Roman Catholic culture.