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The menace., 1919-06-28
NUMBER III

TT@TtAYAGUEZ where this letter
MI is written, is ON the west
ESl3l end of the island, on the
IS4sA Mona Passage which is 70
miles wide and is between San
Domingo and Porto Rico. On clear
days the mountains of San Domln-
90 may be plainly seen.
About half way across the pas
SAGE is Mona Island, circular IN
shane and about five miles in diam
eter. Its sole inhabitants are
coats which fatten on a liberal
Growth Of grass, and which yield
hides and meat by forced contrib
ution--an instance Of taxation
without representation as well as q
notable exception to "self deter
mination" and related doctrines.
Mayaguez suffered more from the
earthquake than any other town on
the island. The principal Catholic
church building, the cathedral or u
the main plaza is in ruins; ana
with one exception, other Catholic
church buildings suffered the same
are out of use, and their congre
cations are compelled to use TEN
porary quarters.
The Presbyterian chapel, at tn
corner Of Post and Main streets
though built of brick and havin|
a steeple of the same material, wa
but slightly injured. It's brick stee
DIE is one of but two bell towers o
that material left standing; In
earthquake seems to have had
kindlier feeling for the heretl
Protestant church than for tn
orthodox Roman buildings.
A few days before the writln
Of this letter there were rumblln
sounds to the north, and q piece q
land, about 140 feet square, cave
i'm four miles from the city limit
Last night there was a slight ten
blor" or trembling sufficient
shake the bed in which | was sleel
ing and to awaken me.
As an example of how some
the working people feel toward IL
church Of Rome and its represel
: tatives: | was watching the wol
Of some carpenters when two blac
robed nuns passed. l asked one
them how he felt and what
thought about the nuns. He I
|. piled: "Son una peSte, son PIE
! jos." (They are pest, they a
J, vermin.) The other workm
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K. C. BUILDING COLLAPsES
One Hundred Soldiers Injured,
Two Dying and One Killed

BREST, June 17.-One American sol
dier was killed, two are dying and more
than 100 others were injured as the re-
suit of the collapse of Knights Of Co.
lumbus hut at Pontanezen last night
while boxing match was in progress.
Do you suppose the Masonic
fraternity could have done any
worse than this, had they been per-
mitted to go on with their elabor-
ate preparations for relief work in
France? Wouldn't a little more
Masonry and a little more carpen-
try made it safer for the soldier
boys at Pontanezen than SO much
boxing in such an ill-constructed
ltrap9
The papist press has made much
of alleged Y. M. G. A. incompe-
tency; but of the 1856 points Of
operation credited to the American
~ in France at the time of signing
the armistice, as compared with
but 60 points of operation by the
Knights Of Columbus, not one such
piece of deadly building can b.
charged to the papist-condemned
'1Y.
Quiet facts may not be so elo
quent as noisy words; but theil
. revelations are more worthy O
consideration and trust.
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Rome Would Reform to Save
Pope's Waning Authority
lContinued from Page I


is the only way to preserve the
pope's authority, which is Of para
mount importance.
'Gasparri has sent investigators
abroad-priests who are alive to
the changes the war has brought
about; priests who understand pol
itics. They find the provincial
bishops less progressive than any
body in the vatican, which is quite
natural since they have received
their opinions ready-made from
Rome and have not yet absorbed
the new idea. The pope and his
secretary Of state are working hard
to prevent the ruin which threat
ens-that is, the collapse Of papal
authority.
The situation should prove IL
Illuminating to the many who have
insisted that the pope's sole cart
was for the preservation of th'
faith unchanged, unamended, anC
unabridged. The war brings abou
condition under which papa
dogma must undergo revision o
papal authority fade; and the frs
care of the pope is to save his au
thority at the expense of the Ro
man Catholic faith.
If lay members Of the Romal
Catholic organization ever conside
or take any interest in such mat
ters, it would be interesting t
! know how they will take to thi
arrangement which exceeds all il
! novations Of this experimental ag
I So far as the liberal elements {
: humanity are concerned, it is
i victory by which popery is force
!, from one untenable position to al
other that viii become equally {
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PRIEST TRIED TO BROWBEAT THE
VICTIM Of ALLEGED CRIMINAL
"Had a PULP and Did 1t on Account OF
the Church---Said Religion Came
Before the Law

the only interest he had IN tne
matter was on account OF the
wife and baby.
The deputy encouragement
questioned Father Quigley as to a
conversation he had with the Laps
ley girl, in which he said to the
girl, "We ought to forgive; the
church comes first, ahead Of the
state and she should have recog-
nized him as the head of the
church. I" Father Quigley admitted
that he had made such a statement.
Deputy Green also asked Father
Quigley if he had not said to the
Lapsley girl that if she did not
sign the paper, she would not have
any luck. Father Quigley replied
that he had said, she couldn't have
the grace Of God with her.
Deputy Attorney-G General Green
called Mary Lapsley, who told a
remarkable story concerning the as
sault and the efforts made to get
her to sign paper to secure the
freedom of Greece, and also Of
promises made to her in other
ways. She said she was told that
Sergeant King and Mr.. Green and
Mr.. Reinhardt were Protestants
that she was a good Catholic, and
that religion came before the law
and the law had nothing to do with
religion. That we must forget and
forgive. That if she did not dc
what her pastor, Father Quigley
says, she would have no luck a
long as she lived. That he woulC
get a pardon for Greece whether
she signed the paper or not. i.
Miss Lapsley said that she tolC
Father Quigley she would go ant
see Bishop Monaghan about th'
matter, to which he replied yol
can go and see Bishop Monaghan
if you desire.
Turning to Father Quigley, Mis-
Lapsley pointed her finger towarC
, him and said, "You have no rea
, son to say that | am impure o
s immoral. If you were as pure a
/ am you could not say anything.
y, She denied ever signing any paper
| When asked if she had ever tol
0 the story as she had related it'bt
: fore the board, Miss Lapsley rt
0 piled that only to Sergeant Kin
r had she ever repeated it.
Q William H. Schamb Of 109 We:
o Twenty-ninth street, Wilmington
o with whom Miss Lapsley reside
n told of conversation Father Quiz
4 ley had at his home in the presenc
d of Mrs. Schamb and Miss Lapsle
e over the Greece matter, in whic
I he said that Father Quigley, sal
It he was doing it on account Of Il
o church. That the church came b
fore the courts and that eff W
10 don't forgive this man you w
RI never have any luck" Schan
Il also stated that he could testi.
lie that Mary Lapsley was pure al
le moral girl. He also testified Faith
ID Quigley had said he could go doy
W to Dover without the girl and G
at the pardon, as he had a pull.
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Tx! tried to silence wronged
kJSI witness, and thereby OBJ
struct the administration Of
justice, is told in, and copied from
Every Evening, a newspaper OF
Wilmington, Delaware.
In the issue of that paper, dated
June 6, 1919, is an article Of
Especial correspondence" from
Dover dealing with a session of the
state board Of pardons which is,
in part, as follows:
The Greece case followed. He
was convicted in the New Castle
county court Of General Sessions
on a charge of assault with intent
to commit rape on Mary Lapsley,
young white girl of Wilmington
near Brandywine Springs Park in
November, 1917. He was repre-
sented by j. Frank Ball, who pre-
sented a petition in which it was
alleged that he was not the man
who committed the assault and that
he was not at the place of the as
sault on that day. Further, that
Mary Lapsley while having testi-
fed that Greece was the man who
committed the assault, had said
later that she was not certain he
was the guilty man.
Judge Ball stated that there was
another man or boy named Bris-
coe, who was alleged to have made
attempts to hold up young women
and assault them, and that because
Of the similarity of Briscoe and
Greece, advanced the theory that
: Briscoe might have been the man
who had committed the assault and
, not Greece.
Rev. j. P. Quigley Of Whining
ton, a priest of the Catholic church
who has taken an interest in thu
case at the instance of Greece
: mother, wife and small baby, wa
called and sworn by Chancello
Curtis after which he testified a
: follows:
"Mary Lapsley, whom I knew
!, being one of my parishioners, toll
me when 1 asked her relative t
n Greece, that she was almost pos
> tive that Greece was the man VIII
a had assaulted her, but later, afte
9 further questioning her, said sh
was not quite so positive, She ais
= said she would sign a statement t
y that effect and time was set whe
she was to come to my house an
sign the statement. l was amaze
when the girl did not come, as 81
; had consented to do, and when
, made inquiry, I was informed thi
MT she said she had been told not
40 say anything to anybody"
y, Father Quigley further said !
% bs had inquired more about the gi
and declared that she couldn't te
IL the truth if she wanted to that 81
'er has created trouble wherever 81
os % has been, that he knew no goc
'SS 1s of her. He said he did not nc
90 Greece, never saw him, and tn
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The list of new priests with Irish
names, who have recently gradu-
ated from a priest mill in Philadel.
phia, looks so much like roster OF
the bartenders' union that a CORE
spondent suggests the bartenders,
who will soon be out of employ
ment as a source Of recruiting for
the pope's clergy. 1t is said that
Archbishop Gibbons got his start
in q white apron.
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One Who Had 1t

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If it were possible to separate
the alleged religion Of Rome from
Rome's financial and political op-
erations, we might be able to set
the religion to one side and bid it
go in peace; but the whole scheme
Of popery is SO shot through with
graft that to attack its manifest
evils is to sometimes strike its faith
and superstitions.
The menace., 1919-06-28

The Citizens Union Of New
York laments the lapse in morale
of the New York police force. At
the same time a story is going the
rounds of the papist press telling
how many thousands Of New
York's police force recently at
tended Roman mass and COM
munion in a body. How can these
things be?
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by preaching tradition and the
commandments Of men rather than
the religion of the prophets.
Then, too, the people here, as in
all countries Rome has dominated,
have been taught the lives Of the
saints" who preached to fishes;
and who, carrying the Roman
cracker god in pocket, convinced
unbelievers by causing a jackass to
leave his food and kneel in adora-
tion, together with like stupid
fables. They have never read the
Bible or learned any Of the genu-
inc religious history which is the
foundation Of Christian faith; so
they have come to rate all organ
lied religion as a fake factory--as
the fabricator Of something not
worth talking about. Rome's gift
to them is a disgust for creeds, doc
trines, dogmas, and theology.
Denominationalism among Prot
estants is the most unfortunate
thing in the mission field where the
grain, instead of ripening for the
harvest has been soured by super
stition to the extent OF repudlating
all that comes in the name OF re-
ligion.
I have tried, as best l can by the
use of broad illustration, to give
MENACE readers a true perspective
of the situation. Probably an in.
} stance in point may further clarity
what | am trying to communicate
In Chile, S. A., the Methodists and
Presbyterians were competing
without dividing the field as they
have here in Porto Rico. A native
Chilean preacher, Mr.. Vidaurip plef
the Presbyterian mission, went In
to the most difficult district, Tara
paca, and, unlike the salaried work
!, ers at the mission, he built up sew
l eral churches which were self-Sup
2 porting in a field where the regu
lar missionaries had utterly faileC
> to effect anything.
His success was due largely t
the fact that he preached no sec
tartan theology, but emphasize
5 the words which are printed in re,
I in our red-letter testaments-tha
!. is, he preached Christ rather tha
l Calvin or Wesley; and practice
Q what he preached.
= % That incident may probably cor
:" . vey to the reader what | have see
V and what | feel concerning thes
people and what reaches them.
}, not, you will have to come and Sc
q for yourselves. / will close with
IL quotation from the Rev. Re
10 Thompson, the Presbyterian mi
!; sionary here: 81 know one prie
a who said, in the house where h
Il nephew had died two days befor
O. and in presence Of the father ar
y mother: There is no God, nor low
L nor patriotism, save money
e. And this was not said by a Spani'
n priest, for those money-grabbe
es left after the American occupatit
at in 1899. So the reader can S
that Rome is crumbling here.
ey --A-----------------------
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Knights of Columbus are still
worried over their alleged oath
which was printed several years
ago in the Congressional Record at
the instigation of disgruntled
papist politician. They have sued
the editor of an Italian paper for
republishing it in San Francisco.
The menace., 1919-06-28

even if the whole retreat does not
result in a rout and collapse Of
papal power.
AS Father jeremiah j. Crowley
used to say: "We have got them
going" not in the United States
alone, but throughout the world.
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the name of religion, is as mischiev-
GUS as, and more corrupting than,
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Pulaski, at Savannah, 10
Give Way to New Hotel
J. J. Lannin. Of This City. Has
Bought the Property rs Site
for a l6-Storv Building

Joseph j. Lannin, who i planning
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Seventh Avenue south Of Central Park.
and who s the proprietor Of the Gar
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Hotel site at Savannah, Ca. from j.
+. Parchali. through Frank r Malone,
of THIS city. The land measures 1S0xi 90.
On 1T Mr.. Lannin viii build "a sly
teen-story hotel containing Geo rooms.
Laurence Bernard. OF TINS city. is plan
ming the structure.
The Hotel Pulaski is a landmark of
the Southern city. Il was built in
1s4S and was the headquarters Of
Charles Dickens during his stay IN
Savannah
The same broker has sold to Nh
Lannin 4 winter residence at Tarpon
Springs. Fla. consisting o. a house and
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