The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-07-05

of safety and secrecy in exchange for services
rendered clandestney to ROme-by all these MEANS and
land its body of adherents, who must implicitly obey
while they hate her. Nor honour patriOtism or
even family affection, intervene. Conscience is gOaded
and Oaths compel them to discard the laws and the well
fare of their nation with the love of kindred the en-
treaties of wife, the paternal instincts of father for
his Children in order to submit to and obey the mandates
of the pope
"The system of the Church of Rome is a wonderful
mechanism Its centre is the pope. Yet it is ndepend
ent of the pope. Many pope has beer dOtard very
many have been debauchees. Yet the machine works
on respecvely of his idOsyncrasies 1t is the cabinet
the privy council the college of cardinals that governs
That body never dies. One old and another falls
away, like and yellow leaf but the tree remains;
the traditions and the knowledge of centuries still
there. The records of the past added to the daily
experience of the present. and that experience is being
there is priest missioner. From every race from
every land from every people, nay, from every family
there stretches teegraphc wire of secret intelligence
to the central station of the vatican.
"There the intelligence is used by free minds who
destitute of family without all the affections which
are natural to man, without country or home with
out patriotism; without restraint of obligations Oaths
moral principles Divine laws; because the word Of the
pope supposed to tear those holy fetters away gOs
webs and prestly absOuOn is held to wash out
the slightest taint of SIM That is right which is
done to advance the power of the pope That is true
which the pope may please to assert cathedra That
which favOrs the interest of the church is good Even
crime is c0mmendabe if it be done for the church.
"Colerdge, the poet and philosopher said that there
are two kinds OF strong persons who must always prevail
over men that vary in their aims and sometimes move
in one direction and sometimes in another; he is strong
who acts always in accordance with the will of God and
allows no consideration no passion and interest to
make him deviate from the path Of recttude and simple
justices and he, OO is strong who puts before himself
one end to which he constantly aims without swerving
to side the other allowing no considerations of
M 0r Lent
no natural affection to intervene deter. FOrt nih
difce. The latter succeeds in this world the former
lives for eternity Hence the success for centuries Of
the vatican EperOrs have resisted it. and fallen Min
listers have framed their policies to curb the preensiOns
of the pope, and have been overcome The devices of
premers are weak in opposition to the ntrgues Of the
Curia.
"The advance of the papacy has always been as the
advance of the plague irresistible unsparing remorse-
less and deadly Its myriads of secret agents Overatch
armies and dispose Of their generals Its purposes are
fathOmess the sea- and silent the grave It's ac-
tiOn is in every state, setting nation to hamper nation
and exciting one statesman against another; breaking
up, dividing, crmblng its enemies; while its party
is always united c0nsprng everywhere towards one OBJ
ject Ever victorious, it will triumph until the great
hour for the doom of the haOt which sits upon the ma
ti0ns of the earth has struck"
Such is the pen picture Lord MOntagu has given of
the papal court and its meddng with the affairs of the
nations Let us now consider its operations and their ef-
feet upon our own cOuntry-upOn the peculiar institu-
justice insure domestic tranquility, and provide for the
common defense and welfare
ROMAN ECCLESIASTTCS IN AMERICA
rTl HE LATEST EDITION of the Official Catholic Di-
I'll rectOry which is issued annually in the United
ISl States, declares that there are two Roman Cath
olic cardinals, fourteen Roman Catholic archbsh-
ops, ninetyseven Roman Catholic bishops 20588 Roman
Catholic priests, 1902 secular clergymen, and 1886
fathers" belonging to Roman Catholic orders in the
United States not to mention the apostolic delegate who
resides at Washington, D. c., deputy pope and the
sixty thousand distributed here and there to do
their peculiar work under the direction of the ubiquitous
priesthood. #4
It should be remembered that this array of preates
fathers Sisters Jesuits and hordes unmentioned is
the creation and the agency Of the papacy and it's cura
These cardinals, bishops priests and are the local
agents commissioned emissaries Of the power which
Lord MOntagu has described mot body Of theological
doctrine and belief but huge and intricate system Of
government" They are part of the papal empire the
administrators in the United States of the pope abso-
lutte monarchy.
And what are they doing here? To be sure, they
are playing the part necessary to the success Of their
mission. Outwardy, their activities may seem to be as
legitimate as those of the kaisers ambassador before
the truth about his dOngs revealed Their appear
ance is religious but their principal interest is financial
political, and in the propaganda they are created and
commissioned to carry One cannot probe their every
day business to precisely what each is doing but the
Roman Catholic press may be relied upon as faithful
mirror Of their plans and procedure.