The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1919-04-26
lTOIUT IN CENTRAL Okla
lI.XI homa, on the Rock Island
lIT railway between Kingfsher
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ana I'll Reno, is the llttS
village Of Okarche with a popula
ton Of about four hundred souls
] Okarche is somewhat citifed il
lthe possession Of a mayor who il
a loyal subject Of Pope Benedict
and its mayor has the letter-writ
ling habit to a marked degree.
If all he has laboriously penneC
and forwarded to this office hat
been preserved, THE MENACE plan
would be worse crowded than it is
As correspondent, Mayor Johr
H. Hoebing, of Okarche, is posi-
lively voluminous.
However, as is usually the cast
with persons Of his mental bias
all he has written to this office
might be stated on a single sheet
without crowding; for it is mostly
q mass Of repetitions-the same
thing over and over again as he
has absorbed it from the papal bu
reau Of misinformation.
But Mayor Hoebing's latest let.
ter Of admonition to The MENACE
is such a jewel that we feel con.
strained to pass it on as an ex,
ample Of what Hgood Catholic
thinks and writes under present
conditions. Here are its closing
paragraphs:
What Is this democracy--this Ameri
can freedomi We shall have no wine
no beer, no tobacco; we shall not teach
religion; we shall not talk German; the
wine shall be shut off so we cannot cele
brate holy mass and the last supper
and hundreds Of sumptuary laws we shall
obey unjustly.
To h. with such q free country
Nothing but rebellion in Europe now
Democracy is often worse than monarchy
Why do you use papal chronology and
German invented type, powder, and Tho
German shifting Of time, one hour be
fore meridian time, il you hate the pope
and Germanyi
You are simply inconsistent, If you
want to dethrone all monarchs and kings
be consistent IL you are not q fool
dethrone God also, and make the King.
dom of God democracy; and you be
the first democratic president with sump.
tuary unjust laws If the editors OF
those malicious, depraved, hbelous, anti
Christian papers 60 to heaven, oh God
spare me: / do not want to be in such
satanic pandemonium.
Yours in all candor,
JOHN II. HoEBINa.
What is democracy without
wine, or freedom without beer
What is home without pictures Of
Kaiser Bill and Pope Ben side by
side on the mantelf What is the
use to talk unless you can talk in
German : Sumptuary laws produc-
tive of sobriety are as distressing
as the language Of Washington,
Lincoln, and American literature.
Some years ago a priest-editor
preached and printed his senti-
ments in st. Louis of "To hell with
the United States government. =
We now see it echoed by the papist
mayor Of an Oklahoma hamlet.
Democracy is often worse than
monarchy" Which is to say that
a wet monarchy is preferable to
a dry democracy.
The essence of freedom is to
soak at will. Lack Of booze begets
rebellion in Europe now-in AM
erica later. Anti-monarchism is
anti Christian. To dethrone kai-
sers and popes is to dethrone God.
Such are the sentiments Of our
correspondent whose fundamental
faith is in the mangod Of popery.
One need not wonder at those SEN
timents when their source is con-
sidered. They are what rummy
Romanism has preached for cen
turies, and continues to preach.
This papist mayor Of an Amer
can town would evidently have
German taught in American
schools by Roman Catholic teach
ers if his preferences were to pre-
vail. He would have alcoholic
poison peddled in public if he
could have his choice.
Wine, beer, and tobacco are
more to him than o freedom which
excludes them. Qualification of
sensuous appetite is more to him
than spiritual liberty. What are
other liberties compared with the
right to soak and sousei
There is no mistaking what is
held in highest esteem by this
,"chisd Of the only. church" He
has absorbed its preachments and
asSimilated its teaching. He is the
logical product Of its propaganda,
He is a sample Of what this
country would be il there were
many more like him. And he is
the mayor of an American village